St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 23, Number 10, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 25 September 1897 — Page 2

®l)£ Jn^tpcnlicnL SV. A. ENDLEY, I»ul>lisliex-. WALKERTON, - • - INDIANA. TOO COOL FOR GERMS~ NEW ORLEANS ENCOURGED BY LOW TEMPERATURE. Little Danger of Epidemic-Story oi & h an Ultimatum to Spain Was a Fake MB —Dispatcher Blamed for a M reck— News in Brief. Dr. Touatre Is Reassuring. The New Orleans fever situation was greatly improved Tuesday morning by a J® materially lower temperature, the thermometer at 6 o’clock being 62. Incubation of yellow fever germs requires a sustained temperature of 70 Fahrenheit, and if the present cool spell continues conditions promise steadily to grow better. Dr. Touatre. an experienced yellow fever physician and a member of the board of experts, says in an interview: “The records since 185.3 show that yellow fever has never been declared epidemic. I hat ■was the case in 185.3, '67. and '7B. The ■ history of the epidemics of the last halt century proves that all epidemics waned L with the first cold of October, disappeart ing almost entirely in November. It we p; add a month and a half more to the period * i of incubation for infectious foci to establish themselves, we are brought almost to the end of October to have an epidemic. An epidemic at that late date is out of the question.” Dr. Touatre produces a number of instances where fever broke out in August, September and October, only to be quickly stamped out by the frost before it had assumed the proportions of an epidemic. Story Was a Fake. There is high authority for the statement that the dispatch from San Sebastian to the Paris Temps, representing that the United States, through Minister Woodford, has submitted to Spain an ultimatum to the effect that the war in Cuba must cease by October or the United States will intervene, is a gross exaggeration. No ultimatum to Spain has been issued by this government, and no crisis now exists or is likely to come for a long time. Officials of the State Department emphatically deny the accuracy of the dispatch. It is true that Minister Woodford has, in accordance with the President’s instructions, presented to the Spanish minister of foreign affairs the first of his notes of instruction, and represented the earnest desire of the United States that the war in Cuba be brought to a close. Ample justification for the effort of the United States to interpose its good offices to this end is set forth in the note which Minister II oodford read to the Duke of Tetuan. But there is no suggestion of an ultimatum in the correspondence. State Department officials say it Is absurd to suppose the President of the United States would go at Spain in such undiplomatic fashion as to issue an ultimatum before politely sounding the Madrid Government as to its inten^ious. Athletes of the Dinmond. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: IV. L. W. L. Baltimore ~ .87 35 Brooklyn . ...57 68 Boston 88 37 Pittsburg ... .55 67 New York. ..78 45 Chicago 55 69 Cincinnati . .69 53 Philadelphia .53 72 Cleveland ...64 60 Louisville ...51 74 Washington .57 65 St. Louis 27 96 The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. L. Minneapolis .98 37 Detroit 72 66 Columbus . ..89 47 Minneapolis ..44 96 St. Paul 86 51 Kansas City.4o 100 Milwaukee ..85 52 Gr’nd Rapids.3s 100 BREVITIES, Two cases of leprosy have been reported in Walsh County, North Dakota. Fuller & Wilson, bullion and specie dealers of New York, have assigned. Editor Charles A. Dana is still very sick at his summer name, West Island, Glen Cove. Christopher Merts, of Elwood. Ind., Ims returned from a two years’ stay in Alaska with $230,000.

Congressman Ben Butterworth was held up and robbed by a gang of thugs at Atlantic City. Five persons were injured by a collision between passenger trains near the St. Louis union station. Miss Linn Huston stole a horse and buggy at Charleston, 111., and drove to Terre Haute, Ind., where she was arrested. The color line has been drawn in Alton. 111., and negro children are now taught in schools separate from those for white children. The coroner’s jury in the inquest on the Santa Fe wreck near Emporia, Kan., has placed the blame on Tram Dispatcher King of Topeka. Edward Bellamy, the economical writer, has gone to Denver to recover his health’ which is said to have broken 4nwu while । he was writing his latest book, "Equal- I ity.” 1

A Rock Island passenger train and I Union Pacifice stock train collided near Muncie, Kan., and Engineers .1. IV. Scarf of Kansas City and Charles Goodall of Chicago were badly injured. It is said a bomb was exploded at the Budapest railway station just after the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hun-gary had met there. No one was injured and officials tried to suppress all news of the occurrence. The British steamer Yucantan, Captain Jinks, which has arrived at Liverpool from New Orleans, reports that when seventy miles west of Fastnet, Ireland, she passed a steamer of the Chesapeake Line towing a Red Star Line steamer. Chief of Police Velasquez and four other members of the police force, of the City of Mexico have been arrested for complicity in the lynching of Arroyo. Joseph B. Jackson, a dangerous crank from Meriden. Conn., was arrested at the White House door. He carried a revolver and it was feared he intended to kill President McKinley. IVilliam Tri ft, employed on the government tug boat Alpha, from Cairo, 111., was taken to the Marine hospital in St. Louis as a yellow fever suspect. The Alpha bad been employed in taking yellow fever patients to Cairo.

EASTERN. A company of New York and Philadelphia capitalists, headed by Major C. O. Godfry, late president of the Tennessee Central Railway, has been formed with a capital stock of $500,000 to develop the extensive kaolin bed at Kaolin, Ala. The excursion steamer Catskill was struck and sunk by the steaim^St. John in the North River at New York. 'The boat went to the bottom in seven minutes, but her forty-seven passengers and crew of thirty were all saved by tug-boats. In Hartford, Conn., is a young African negro, deaf and dumb, who claims to be a Hebrew. He says he conies from a town in Africa where there is a tribe of 20,000 colored Hebrews who speak Loschen Khodish, the language of the books of Moses. The strike against the De Arniits will continue indefinitely, arrangements having been made to assess the working miners 5 per cent, of their wages to defray the expenses of keeping up the fight until the 65-cent rate is made uniform throughout the district. The cage in which ten men were being lowered into shaft No. 2 of the Alden Coai Company at Nanticoke, Pa., suddenly dropped to the bottom of the shaft. Eight of the men were severely injured, and the injuries of four may prove fatal. The mine is 580 feet deep. The cage had started down the shaft, and, the engineer losing control of the machinery, it dropped to the bottom at terrific speed. After nearly three months' idleness, between 15,000 and 18,000 coal miners in I the Pittsburg district returned to work Thursday in accordance with the action taken at Wednesday's convention, authorizing the men to resume work in .all mines complying with the provisions of the scale of 65 cents adopted at Columbus, 'i he remainder of the 23.000 mines of the district will be at work before the close of the week. It is estimated that the strike, which lasted sixty-five working days, cost the people of the Pittsburg district from $5,000,000 to $7,000,000. Os this amount the miners lost about $2,250,000 in wages. The Hazleton, Pa„ strike situation may be summarized thus: Over 10.008 men are still out, with no apparent prospect of settlement: sporadic outbreaks of viol"ace are occurring near the outlying collet ies and the withdrawal of troops is not only without consideration, but the guard lines of several of the camps are being constantly strengthened, and the wisdom of bringing more cavalry is being discussed. It was said that if the soldiers are kept there much longer the Sheridan troop of Tyrone, attached to the Second brigade, will be ordered out. A captain of General Gobin’s staff is authority 'for the statement that an uneasy feeling prevails at headquarters in consequence of the iit tie outbreaks of the past few days and the indication they hold of the underlying disturbance. The brigade commander admitted that the action of the raiding women was giving him much perplexity. He does not care to use force against them and has instructed the soldiers in case of necessity to use only the flats of their sabers upon the amazons. Ihe story reached the general that many men were in the attacking crowds disguised as women.

Friday at Hazleton, Pa., opened with commotion at the headquarters of the Third Brigade and in the various camps. At an early hou^ a message reached General Gobin that there was more trouble at Audenreid. The attack made by the women Thursday, which resulted in driving the miners at those collieries out, was repeated when another attempt to start up the collieries was made Friday. Over one hundred men reported for work at the Monarch washery, when the band of amazons, armed with sticks and stones, swooped down upon them. Some of their number again stationed themselves on top of a culm bank, ready to pelt the men, but violence was avoided by the men promptly going out. At the Star washery about one hundred of the 135 men returned to work, but the women deteimined to drive them out. No attempt was made to resume at the Carson washcry. As soon as the reports of the disturbance reached General Gobin he sent a squad of the Governor's Troop to the scene. IVhen the cavalry •.■eached there all attempts of violence had ceased, but the women followed the troops about the street, hooting and cursing them. A storekeeper at Audenreid declared that his entire stock of revolvers had been sold during the last few days. Reports from Cranberry confirmed the news that the powder-house of Edward Tuenbach had been broken into by strikers, who had stolen a quantity of dynamite.

WESTERN. At Moorhead, N. D.. fire destroyed half a block of buildings, doing SBO,OOO damage. The Michigan Salt Association has again raised the price of salt 10 cents a barrel. Dr. Felix Regnier, of Monmouth. 111., who killed Simon Frandsen, was exonerated by the coroner’s jury. Edward Sampson, an Omaha live stockbroker, was blinded und disfigured bv vitriol thrown by his wife, who was jealous. Several factories were destroyed by fire in North Manchester. Ind., the total loss being $60,000, with but SI2.DUO in<n a nee. Two section men were killed run! two I others fatally hurt in a collision l>etw> on I . a Midland passenger- engine and a hand | I car near Basalt, fifty miles west, of Leadville.

Reports received at the Denver weather bureau indicate a general snow fa'd in the mountains. The snow is several inches deep at Cripple Creek and at Central City. William Buckley, of Kokomo, Ind., who was found apparently dead on the street, came to life ‘again just us the coroner was beginning to perform an autopsy on him. The largest and finest turn noise ever taken from American soil has been received in Santa Fe from Southern New Mexico. It weighs, uncut, 17G carats and is valued at $6,000. Three convicts made a futile attempt to escape from the Ohio Slate prison at Columbus. Guard A. 11. Dunean was fatally shot in the head and Guard James was wounded in the groin and shoulder. With the exception of the two big companies, the Consolidated and the Madison Coal Company, all the coal mines in the Mascoutah. 111., district have resumed work, having reached an agreement with the men. Five were killed and three injured hi a head-end collision which occurred on the Wisconsin Central Railway at Howard, Wis. The west-bound freight was de- ' layed somewhat and passed Irvine con-

siderably behind time. It is sunposed th the engineer, being behind, forgot that Z was tc pass No. 24 near that point a , was consequently running through -h*. usual speed. 1 Ul e After many months of effort and peated experiments, a cure for cattle f 6 ver has been found. Dr. V. A. y e ' guards, of Denver, is the discoverer plan for dealing with the fever j 8 . c marily to exterminate theinseet as the "tick,” which abounds on fev" U stricken cattle, and by means of v v D r the disease is communicated. To J o J . the cattle are forced to swim in a , s through a solution in which crude Vat troleum is used. ® e '

Eight years ago J. F. Taylor Was gaged in business in California vithy C. New. Business was dull and mJ were compelled to give up. Without dL solving partnership, the men decided ♦ part and made an agreement that shot i t fortune smile on either side they would divide. Taylor bought a ran<T ue; lr Q e _ dar creek, Idaho, where he now resides New went to Alaska, aud was on > O f the first to make a strike in the m tv g o u fields, securing three claims. He bunted up Taylor last Sunday near Kent rick, in Latah County, and gave him a itle to a half-interest in the claims. T^®,also received $27,000 as his share ings of the claims. He has been^, Cll SIOO,OOO for the claims. 4-1 rase The prosecution has closed' IJul'l in against Adolph L. Luetgert, on t’tafo Chicago for wife murder. All the^ert has to say in proof that Mrs. Lu> the i was murdered in the sausage factor . I night of May 1 and that her husbnir. the murderer has been said. TII®K* S< ' moved for acqnil ta 1. on the grou^Mhat the corpus delicti has not been lished; that it has not been provtyfhat Mrs. Luetgert has been murdered, <X‘ that she is even dead. and. therefore, nojPrime of murder has been proved. That potion was overruled, and the plans of defense will be revealed as its testimctv is adduced. The thory that a wtuan s body was destroyed in the vat as Sieged will be attacked by expert testimow. the idem ideation of the bones will be availed and ii may be the defense will tfoduee witnesses who will swear they f'W the woman alive since midnight of NL.’- 1- It will be sufficient for the defens^O raise a doubt over tin* proof offered ’3y the State. Attorneys Vincent and|Phalen say they have a complete defense^ SOUTHERN. | The assassination of Isaac H.Loftin, the colored postmaster of Hogtnsville, Ga., is said to be the first move fy in organization formed to kill all the colored officeholders. The farmers along Taylor’s Biyoti in Jefferson County. Texas, are the Waviest losers from the terrible storm oOSundoy evening. The rice crop was tht largest in years and was ready for hiWsting, but hundreds of acres were totjlly destroyed, the loss being estimated t $150,000.' Eight United States marshall bad an encounter with striking miner* in the Jellico district in Tennessee. Nonunion miners were put to work. cB a mob came marching toward the c&many's store. The marshals took refal? in a blacksmith shop and tired upaOpe mob. The miners retreated, but the fire with their Winchesters. The Great Dismal Swamp ® Virginia j and North Carolina, covering® area of j perhaps 400 square miles, is®i'<> from one end to the other, the resuli of an unprecedented drought and eXWstfvely hot weather. No one inhabits th? swamp but wild animals, therefore n* attempt was made to check the tlmms. Rear, wildcats. deer and reptiles fled N'l’ tre the flames, and their cries as they were cremated tilled the hearts of railroad passengers with terror. The smoke is so douse that the crew and passengers <u a train were nearly stifled, Uolunm* of flame from thirty to fifty feet in heigit extend for miles. When the great swamps get afire, which is about once in evtry seven years, the tire generally burns itself out. Forest tires are also raging in adjoining counties, and unless rain couvs soon crops will be burned up, the lossand suffering great, and perhaps may result in the death of many rural inhabi^nts. WASHINGTON. The government has decided to change the color of the 2-eent posl.tgt stamps from carmine to green. Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague has succeeded in saving the old Salmon I*. Chase homestead near Washington by refunding the debt on the place. Secretary Gage's order that post ige stamps shall hereafter be green, n."t with oudden death upon the discovery that the rules of the International Postal Congress forbid any change in the color of the stamps. Chairman H. 11. Hanna has completed the monetary reform commission. the eleven members being Professor ,|. 1., Laughlin. Chicago: Louis A. Ga® < Franctseo; George F. Edmun^k I mont; Charles S. Fairchild, Nd® ' Stuyvcsant Fish. New York; ' Patterson. Pennsylvania; T. G. ro fj,, Louisiana; J. W. Fries. North f’ it c I'--ll'. B. Dean. Minn esota; Geo’'^ TayLeighton. Missouri, and Robe t > °r- Indiana. fusions rmo Ose -'r.'n’’' 'i"'o ■ be so -v at as the paynu-nt of s4(».nt^i,Uoo for The quarter ending this month WSuld indicate. said t ommissioner of Pensions Evans. “I estimate that the total payments for the year will not exceed $147.500,000. That is not an appalling excess l>y any means, the appropriation f or j year being $141,203,880. There are I something like 200.000 old claims pending before the bureau, which will bp a,.ted upon as rapidly as we can get to them. There has been and still continn es remarkable increase in the number ,>f ne w applications.”

FOREIGN. General Andrade, former V enp p ,. in minister to the I nited States, | la , elected president of Venzuela. S >tCU Louise Michel, the French ana ,• t who contemplates coining to Ameri c ' , „ be barred out because of a felony ’ King Christian of Denmark, . years old, fell down a spiral staK.' S ‘i’ Middelgrunde fortress and pains, n Se111 jured his face. in " A sharp conflict took place with;. , of Managua, a suburb of Hava n . S ’ K the Spanish are said to havebeen a/ ,n ‘ ed by the Cubans. 'Sgt “^featThrough the overflowing of Jabelon in Spain many houses w< n - , cr ed and a number of lives lost, n to property is about SIOO,OOO. la >age The ambassadors of the powers at stantinople have agreed to terms m Jr Peace

between Turkey and Greece on the basis of Lord Salisbury’s propositions. Guatemala rebels are attacking the City of Quezaltenango and probably will capture it. The rebellion is led by men of wealth and influence aud is gaining strength daily. A Paris paper says M. Patenotre French ambassador at Washington, has been transferred to Madrid and Count Montholon, minister at Brussels, will succeed him here. It is said in Berlin that Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, Ims married Fraulein Hussman, formerly housekeeper for Herr Krupp, the great gunmaker. The cablegram announcing the recall of Baron Fava, the Italian ambassador to the I nited States, has been verified. He is to be retired from active service, and the Italian Government has granted him a pension of 30,000 lire per annum. The Austrian consul at Philadelphia has written to his secretary m Hazleton, Pa.. Dr. Theodorovitch. Legal proceedings, the communication says, will be instituted against the United States in $50.000 damages for each life lost in the Lattimer shooting.

A tremendous explosion occurred at the camp close by tbe Chinese arsenal at wore .!!!<" ' ><> i. Korty bodies j- 1,1 of the UeßriM. 'l'wo t'.ne Krupp .iehl guns, 1,000 new pattern single fire and magazine rifles, with 120,000 cartridges, were destroyed. It is reported that the text of the revised treaty of peace fixes the indemnity to be paid by Greece to Turkey at 14.fK'O.COO. It is provided that the state of war shall cease as soon as the preliminary act is signed and that the evacuation of Ihessaly by Turkish troops shall take place a month after the powers shall have recognized the treaty. 1 he Spanish war department is concentrating 6,000 troops with the intention of immediately dispatching them as re-en-forcements to Spain's army in Cuba. This sudden activity indicates that the government means to have men enough on the island to repel an American invasion if war between Spain and the I'nih.l States grows out of President McKinley's uegotiations lor peace in Cuba. The Lon lon limes correspondent at San Sebastian comments upon the "almost complete indifference displayed by representative men regarding the extremely critical political situation.” Continuing, he says: l-.xperience forces the conviction that < tlba will never bo pacified by military operations. The question arises whether the I nited States could be induced to stop American supplies to the insurgents. If so. there is no doubt the rebellion would soon collapse." Recent Havana advices say that the inhabitants of the city are without meat. Milk also is xery scarce. Only the sick iu the hospitals are supplied regularly with either article. In accordance with his: .•tgreement made when Victoria de '.as I’unas was captured. Gen. Calixto Gar-| c:a Las delivered up 79 prim>ners it Hol- J guin, 12 at Canto Embareadero, 76 at 1 Puerto Principe, and about 10U sick and wounded near Puerto Padre. At daybreak on Monday Col. Lacoste with a body of Spanish fell suddenly upon the camp of the insurgent Gen. Castillos, at Santo Cristobal, province of Havana, simultaneously attacking the front and rear. I’he insurgents wen- overpowere<l and nLtindor.cd their position, losing sixteen killed and eleven seriously wounded. The Spanish losses were six killed and thirteen wounded. The insurgent genral. Perico Diaz, ami Leander Gallo, have 1 mad.- a successful raid in Wex ler's valley in southeast Pinar del Rio. destr »ving the tobacco plants and houses, maehet^ng ten, wounding seventeen, and capturing eighteen and lynching two merchants.

IN GENERAL Window glass jobbers bar* made another advance of 5 per cent, in prices. Dr. Andrews has withdrawn his re^’gnation and consented to remain at the head of Brown University. Seemingly he has decided not to be president of John Brisben Walker's Cosmopolit in University. Hope for those who have friends n the Klondike is held out by Frank CryibT, who c; me down on the steamer Humboldt, after having spent five years in the Yukon. He does not believe there will be any deaths from starvation, although he admits that food will be scarce. Cryder says that lack of shelter is a more serious condition confronting the miners in the gold belt than starvation. It costs SIJHNI for a fair log cabin already built, and the time and labor in constructing a new one would amount to about the same. He states that the closing of the company stores at Daws n was a temporary expedient merely, to prevent speculators from cornering all the provisions in the country and thereafter holding supplies at fabulous prices.

MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle e,.mw m to prime, $3.«10 to *5.50; h- v-. 'Lipping grades. SO.oo I,- SI..Dr sheep, fair O, . S <-. S- OO t,, 'LDc wheat. - r.d, t)_’e to ‘J3e; corn. No. 2. 2Sc to 2m ; oats. No. 2. ISe to 20. : rye. No. 2. -lite to 50e; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh. 12c to lie; new poptatoes, 45e to 60c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, common to choice. $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2. 93c to 94c; corn. No. 2 white. 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c. St. Louis—Cattle, >»..00 to $5.50; hogs. $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2. 96c to 98c; corn, No. 2 vellow, 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye. No. 2. 47c to 48c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wlieat. No. 2,93 cto 95c; corn. No. 2 mixed.’3lc to 32c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 21c; rye. No. 2,48 cto 49c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,93 cto 94c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye. 47c to 49c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 94c to 96c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white. 19c to 20c; rye. No. 2,52 cto 54c; clover seed. $3.55 to $3.60. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring, 90c to 92c; corn. No. 3,29 cto 30e; oats. No. » white, 22c to 24c; rye. No. 1.49 cto .>oc; barley. No. 2,40 cto 43c; pork, mess, SB.OO to $8.50. Buffalo-Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3(10 to $4.75; sheep. $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2 winter. 97c to 98c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, o4e to 26c. " New York—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $350 to $4.75; sheep. $3.00 to s4.uo; wheat, No. 2 red, 99c to $1.01; corn No. 2,33 cto 34c; oats, No. - white, 21c to 26c; butter, creamery, 13c to 19c; eggs, Western. 16c to 17c.

INDIANA LYNCH LAW. DETAILS of the RIPLEY COUNTY AFFAIR. Summary Punishment Visited Upon a Ganji of Evil Characters—People lire of a n Extended Series of Criminal Acts-Gov. Mount Indi C nant. Deed of Infuriated Mob. The lynching of the five Osgood men at V ersailles, the county seat of Ripley County, has, perhaps, no parallel in the history of Indiana. The prisoners were confined in the county jail on the charge of burglary. They all resided in the town of Osgoodj and were supposed to belong to an organized band of thieves and highwaymen which has been robbing and terrorizing the citizens of Ripley County for a number of years. They were awaiting trial for having attempted to break into the general store of Wooley Bros, at Correct Saturday night. Gordon and Andrews were captured at the time after a running fight, and after each had been severely wounded. The other prisoners were detained on the charge of having WBHiHtea in tile attempted burßlmr, and whose mult seemed evident. Public feeling had been aroused against the prisoners because they had so often escaped the penalties of the law. Sheriff Henry Bushing and wife were away from home. He had been badly wounded while trying to capture the men Saturday night, and the jail was in charge of his brother-in-law, IV. T. Kennen. turnkey, and William Black. At 12:45 o clock they were aroused by the ringing of the door bell. Kennen and Black went down and opened the door. Three masked men with a revolver in each hand confronted them. The leader said: "Hold up your hands! We dtmiand the keys of the jail." Kennen looked into the muzzles of six revolvers, and after some resistance was taken to the kitchen and found the keys. Kennen and Black xvere locked in a cell and three men with revolvers made their way through the grating and others went to find the prisoners, who had all retired. In the lower cellroonis were confined Levi, Shuler and Jenkins, and there the visitors proceeded first. Levi was first awakened, and, refusing to throw up his hands at the command of the leader, two pistol shots were heard, and he fell to the floor pierced to the heart. Shuler, lying on his cot, refused to get up. but begged for his life. A stroke upon the head from a heavy stick silenced him. and he rolled to the floor. Jenkins' fate was similar, and the three bodies were carried to the main corridor, and the lynchers made their way upstairs, where Gordon and Andrews were found. They, being wounded, submitted without much effort. Their hands were tied behind them, ropes were placed around their necks and they were dragged down the stairway where their companions lay. Ropes being placed around the necks of all the order was given, “Full on the ropes, boys, and hurry up.” Hnnged to an Elm Tree.

Two squares north of the jail on the bluff near the famous “Gordon's Leap” was found an old elm tree, and to its toughened limbs were hanged the maimed ami bruised bodies of the five prisoners, naked and ghastly, The scene was appalling, and the bodies were soon cut down and covered under the shad* of the tree. Hundreds visited the scene the following day, ami hardly a twig of the old elm ri mains, having been carried away by the curious throng. A man named Hostetter a couple of weeks ago had given a tip to the county officials, ami through him the men were caught. He said they met and planned at Jeakins' house, and he (Jenkins) said he would help them out at any time, but how much, if any. they were implicated w II never be known, as they were given no chance to deny or defend themselves. Osgood had grown notorious the last two years on account of the many highway roblwries and hold-ups committed there. Hist winter an aged couple—Mr. and Mrs. Rineking-living north if town were tortured and robbed while alone at their home. The night of April 1 Mr. and Mrs. Baulkman, living six miles from Osgood. were tortured by three masked men, who demanded their money. They made the old lady, who was quite infirm, walk over red-hot coals to tell where her money was. They got nothing but a gun and a few trifles. The latter part of the same month Mr. and Mrs. Kammon of Milan were treated in a similar manner by masked men. The two Dr. Josephs of Osgood place were arrested, charged with the robbery, but proved an alibi and were acquitted without trouble. Men have been held up on the streets and houses without number broken into the last two vears, but it seemed as though the guilty ones could never be caught. How much or how little these m-u wore implicated Largest Number Ever l.ynclied. The hanging is a blot on the narue of Kipley County. It is the largest number ever hanged at a lynching in the State and only the second rope execution ever in the county. Twenty years ago Tim Boyd of Moore’s Hill, who was in jail for committing an assault, was visited by a mob and seventeen bullets shot into him, but nothing has ever aroused the people like this tragedy. People drove into Versailles from ail over the county and groups stood around discussing it. Schools were dismissed and business is at a standstill. The families of the men are almost insane from the shock. The bodies were taken to Osgood and delivered to their several homes. The sheriff received a message from the Governor to use all means in his power to apprehend the men composing the mob. However, it seems that the sheriff is powerless, as no moans of identification of a single man has been obtained. The Governor, realizing this and also that the sympathies of the community seemed with the lynchers, sent Merrill Moores, deputy attorney general, to the scene of the lynching, with instructions to make a full investigation and spare no expense in bringing the lynchers to justice. Miss Cornelia Barnden Wright, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll D. Wright, was married at Marblehead, Mass., to John Bruce McPherson of Gettysburg, Pa., a son of Edward McPherson, for many years clerk of the National House of Representatives. Capt. Samuel McConihe, of the Fourteenth Infantry, died at St. Luke's hospital, New York City, from Bright's disease. Capt. McConihe was one of the heroes of the civil war and received six brevets for gallant and meritorious service-

TRIES TO KILL DIAZ. President of Mexico Is Assaulted by an Anarchist. President Diaz was assaulted with deadly intent during the ceremonies in the City of Mexico attending the celebratioix of the declaration of independence. Ignacio Arroyo, a violent anarchist, broke through the line of soldiers that marked the line of the procession to the Alameda and attempted to brain the president with a heavy cane as he was walking to the national palace. The blow, which he aimed at the president’s head, fell short and the would-be murderer was immediately seized ami handed over to the police. Intense excitement prevailed when it became known that an attempt had been made upon the life of President Diaz. President Diaz was the coolest man of all who witnessed the assault. He turned around as his assailant was seized, and looked at him somewhat curiously, and PRESIDEXT PIAZ. then resumed his march, bowing right and left to the people. The effect upon the crowd that saw Die affair was instantanoeus and awakened the greatest excitement. Ihe police started away with the prisoner by a side street, hoping to avoid any further disturbance. Hundreds of men ran after the police shouting for vengeance upon the man. "Give him to us.” they cried, "and we will hang him.” But the gendarmes succeeded in keeping their prisoner, being re-enforced by cavalrymen, the great crowd shouting and running behind. The man was taken to the palace and stripped, but no weapon was found on his person. He was taken away to the city hall, securely bound and placed in solitary confinement. At night a great mob of common people broke into the jail by forcing the doors with huge timbers handled by 100 men. They overpowered the guards and surrounded them, while a detail of men ran down the corridor, dragged out the trembling Arroyo and lynched him. The mob had apparently no organization, but it was directed in some mysterious way. About twenty of the lynchers were arrested. WILD TIME IN PRISON. Convict Assaults a Guard, Seizes His Revolver and Escapes. A sensational escape and a quick capture caused much excitement at the Ohio penitentiary Thursday night. Just be-"' ” fore the hour when the prisoners wash for supper and the guards^are shifted for the night turn. William Clark, a Cuyahoga County murderer doing a life sentence and employed in the broomshop, called Guard Duncan of Mount Gilead, ostensibly to show him a hole in the floor. Duncan leaned over and was struck a vicious blow in the back of the neck with a piece of gas pipe. Bert Spriggs, a Delaware County convict, started to assist the guard, when Clark, advancing with Duncan’s revolver, which had fallen from his pocket, threatened to shoot. Clark ran to the guardroom at the front gates and gave the guard's signal with the iron handle. Capt. Saxbe. as usual, opened the gate. As soon as Clark passed the gate be opened fire on the crowd of guards and spectators. His aim was wild. In the guardroom he pulled the trigger again and shot Benjamin F. James, a Delaware County colored sub-guard, in the chin. Clark was closely followed in his attempt to escape by William Dempsey, jointly convicted with him of murder. Clark ran through the guardroom, fired at the guard in the ceception room, aud escaped into the street. A federal prisoner named Sorter, employed as a "trusty” in the prison yard, seized a rifle which a guard had dropped in the excitement and ran past the guardhouse close on the heels of Clark. When the fugitive reached the bank of the Sc’Oto River he paused a minute. Sorter quickly leveled the rifle and commanded Cork to surrender on pain of death. The convict obeyed, his revolver being empty, and was recaptured by the guards, who had recovered their presence of mind by ' that time. Cycling has caused a decrease in the number of cabs in Berlin. Madrid lias a club composed entirely of children, none of whom is over 8 years old. In Bremen drivers of vehicles and horsemen are prohibited to use the street cycle paths. Cyclin o Is greatly on the increase in Genoa, according to the British consul iu that city. The Cyclists’ Touring Club has recently added Rudyard Kipling’s name to its list of membership. The sultan of Lahore, it is stated, possesses a bicycle of pure gold, set with precious stones. In the great pilgrimage recently made in Hungary to the shrine of Maria-Tadax there were over fifty cyclists. It has been stated that policemen m Present walk about in plain clothes with hooked sticks to stop cyclists. A Scotchman has constructed a bicycle which can be taken apart, and folded within the space occupied by three umbrellas. A Philadelphia firm proposes haring something unique at the great exhibition, in Paris in 1900, namely, a bicycle made in solid gold about 8 or 9 feet high, with k handle-bar studded with diamonds.