Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 7, Plymouth, Marshall County, 4 December 1895 — Page 2

SIc 3nöcpcnbcitt ZII.MEIt.MA V SMITH, Publishers and Proprietors

PLYMOUTH. INDIANA. KENTUCKY TRAGEDY. THREE PEOPLE KILLED, TWO FATALLY HURT. Casualties on Railroads for the Yeai in Pennsylvania-Further Slight Shrinkage in Prices Fears for a ' Pacific Steamship. . . A Tosse Ilunts Down a Murderer. -Near Cynthiana, Ky.. Orville Eals. a farmer, killed John Fields. With his vife Eals escaped and took refuge in a cabin. A iosse was organized and located him Saturday night. Sunday morning an attack was müde upon I ccbio. Kais resisted the aftsck by a fusillade of shots, which was returned. 'A man earned McCombs, of drowningsTille, was killed, and two others, Herl.ert and Wells, fatally shot. hen the firing from within ceased the posse forced I ll a 1 1 hon I on entrance and found the dead body of iChls and the murdered Wdy of his wif. who had Wen butchered with a hatchet, Irobably before the arrival of the posse. ft 3Iay Be Lost with All on Board. t the Xorlhern Pacific kteamKliin Aflif' -it Tiienma. Wash, reveals that no tidings have been received from the m:inBt.T.iPrstr:ithi.Mi.whi-hdc.irol Twi-nl........ n..t 1 nnd left Victoria the next dv. Second Officer Smith, of 1 1 1 TT rlVUUiri .A. II, j Ai r m" " - jrivm up hope that the Strathnevis will yet turn up all right- It must have run short of coal and put in some port in the Aleutian Islands. There is plenty of condensed milk and flour on board. If Cant. Pattie did put his vessel in there it an be nicked ud all right by a British man-of-war sent out from either Victo ria or Yokohama, but if the Strathnevis is disabled ami drifts much south of the track followed bv Oriental steamships nnd other sailing vessels the men are liable to die of starvation before being pkked up. If the steamer finds a snug anchorage in th Aleutian Islands it is llkelv to lie there all winter, making .Yokohama in the spring. With passen gers and crew the number of persons ou board was about 1ÖO." Rally to the Aid of Clark. t People of the North are sending money nr.d letters to the noted octoroon. Lewis leorge Clark. he hero of Mrs. Stowe's "Uncle Tom's ( abin." She portrayed him as George Harris. Dispatches were sent out saving he was in a destitute condition at Lexington. Ky. He has received let ters containing contributions from Dwight. III.; Albany, X. Y.; New York City; Baltimore; Winchester, Ind.; and Pittsburg, Pa. All the writers express treat svnipathv for him. His little cot tage was about to be sold for taxes and the money he received was paid over to the Sheriff to keep a roof above Iiis head. A movement is on foot, started by a young lawyer of lexington, to give him h benefit at the opera house in the near future. Trade Still Waiting. i R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review cf Trade fays: "Business has not improved, though there is little change ex cept in the shrinkage of prices, which a Teriod of inaction naturally causes. Af ter the extraordinary buying of the sum mer and early fall a marked decrease was inevitable, and it is yet too early in most branches of business to judge how far the future was anticipated in pur chases. Retail stocks are still reported full in nearly all .branches, with delayed distribution in many on account of un favorable weather. The movement of crops is only fair, both cotton and wheat Wing largely kept back hi the hope of higher prices, and there is a prevalent feeling that foreign imports will fall off l Slaughter of the Steam Roads. The returns to the department of in ternal affairs of the steam railroads operating in Pennsylvania show that 3..iS persons were killed and 10,j05 in jure! by them during the fiscal year end--d June 0, 1895. Of those kille! twentynine were passengers, 447 employes, and 1,107 other persons. The passengers in jured numbered 012; employ-, S,34G; others persons, l.t40. From the returns of all roads to the department it is found that to every 4'.l'2 employes there is one killed, and to every twenty-three one in jured. Among passengers tue ratio is one killed out of 4..'Ur,7lN, and one in jured out of J07.201. BREVITIES. ' The Rev. Dr. I. M. Wise, the senior Tabbi of the Plum Street Temple, Cincinnati, Ohio, is responsible for this statement. He has been oflici iting for jtlmost forty-two yiars. Not fewer than 30,000 Jewish weddings have occurred in the city during that time; among all theso only three divorce suits were tiled. In all, jvives sued the husbands. Four persons were drowned in the Monongahela Rivei below Brownsville, Pa., Saturday night. They were return ing from Brownsville to Wood Run in a ikiff. Thej' got too close to the steamer James G. Blaine, which was coming upstream, and the waves upset the skiff. throwing them all into deep water. Noth Jug i-ould be done to help them in the darkness. The men's bodies have been recovered. On Thanksgiving Day morning the pexton of Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio, discovered that the grave of Mrs Mary Malloy had been robbed and the Wly taken, lie placed the case ia tho hands of the police and Friday two de tectives found the ImmIv in the dissoctiug room of Wooster .Medical I ollegc. 1 hey arrested Henry Griffin, the janitor of the college. button, apparently from his oven-oat. having been found beside the j;rave. The history of crime in St. Iui. Mo., last week was an unusual one, an arcrag-i of one murder a day ami several stab Mugs and shooting of a b-xs dangerous nature leinir the record. The latest vic tim was Harry Porter, colored, who died of a wound inflicted by Gorge Crawford, also colored, who shot Porter for re fusing to buy a can of beer. II. C. Balwock. president of the Chero kee Manufacturing Company, was found In his oflice at Dalton. Ca.. with a bullet wound through his heart. N cause is known for s licide. as his family relations were entirely happy.

EASTERN. Rc Julius Uewke. of Jersey City, has

ieft the pulpit and opened a saloon. Russia has ordered 1.12 KJ tons of Harveyizd armor-plate from a Bethlehem, Pa., iron firm. Worry over involve! financial affairs caused .Taines B. Skelian. a Neu lurk broker, to commit suicide. The remains of (General Winfieid S. Hancock are to he removed from Norristown. Pa., to Arlington Cemetery, Wash ington. Bv the breaking of an axle on a car tf a cable train in the Cambria Iron Company's mine at Johnstown. I'a.. eleven miners were seriously injured and one fatally. The Colt divorce case at Providence, It. I., is said to have been settled outside of court. It is also reported that Colonel Colt's prosecution of Van Alen will be dropped. Bv the bursting ot a steam pipe in Ilammersteiu's Olympia Works at New York eleven men were badly scalded. 1-V.xl Witifirr u-ii. instaiitlv killed mid Andrew Huggius will die. t..,'. t i-.,rm,.i ..w,,,! ..,,1 tl,o eommnnion ; " , . , R , . .,mmvU,, Tllisl ,vas i(,rtunatelv discovered at mass. Ilyman Ilettenliost, a well-known pugil ist and trainer, of lwooklyn. shot ami killed his two children and himself Sunda v afternoon. Ilettenliost was the pro prietor of a college of physical instruc tion in Brooklyn. In view of the statement from the deptity collector of customs at Lewes, Del to the effect that a thorough search had fflil"! to discover arms, ammunition or men on board the Joseph W. Poster, the secretary of tie treasury ordered the TCSWESTERN. A- TT. Fuchs' millinery store at St. Louis was damaged J?JCK,(MX) by fire. Vice President Stevenson and his fain ily left Bloomington for Washington. The Nebraska Savings ami Exchange Bank at Omaha has closed its doors and will go out of business. At Cleveland, Ohio, arrangements have been completed by which .".KM Christian Enden vorers are to unitedly pray for Iugersoll's conversion. Silver Democrats of Ohio are preparing to enter the Presidential fight next year, It is projosed to nominate Congressman Sibley, of Pennsylvania, far President. What is supposed to be the skeleton of Joseph Fromnicl. of Nelson, Wis., was found in the woods near the mouth of the Chippewa River. Fromme! left home last January in a despondent mood. By a decision of the Montana Supreme Court Andrew J. Davis. Jr.. of Butte. gets a clear title to Sl.OoO.OiKj worth of stock in the First National Bank of Butte left by his uncle, the late A. J. Davis. William I. Royce when arraigned at Sioux City. Iowa, for the murder of Con stant Roiish. alias Nellie Patton. former ly of Van Meter. Iowa, whom he shot, en tered a plea of insanity due to cigaret habit. Forty-six people killed; three hundred and thirty-six wounded. This is a part of the price in human life and limb the citv of Chicago has paid in eighteen months for the privilege of rapid transit bv the trolle system. Judge J. D. Rose, president of tin Currvville. Mo., bank, has been hic coughing constant'y for the last week. Although several doctors have attended him, they can do nothing for his relief Jlis death is hourly expt-cted. The storm of Monday night in Frank lin. Ind.. developed into ji regular tornado. which spread destruction on all sides The new city hall, the pride of the city, was the worst sufferer from the gale. The damage will amount to Sl.".tHM. Many other buildings were partly wrecked, out houses blown down, trees prostrated and fences and signs torn away. During the funeral of Philip Smith at the Milledgeville, Ohio. Church a heavy piece of plaster molding from the ceiling fell and cut the head of one of the mourners severeiv. i'anie seizeu me mourn ers. They rushed to the door, but were cnecKea ny nie liev. ir. ens. v nose 1 1 1 t - . T 11 11 . I oolness prevented many accidents. The lndv was taken outdoors and the ser vice finished. The steamer J. Emory Owen and her consorts, the schooners Michigan and Nicholson, were driven ashore a few miles above Chicago during the frightful gale of Monday night. J lie crews were all rescued by the life-savers, but the boats, valine! at $70.000, will probably prove total losses. A large steamer went ashore near Mhjuou. Wis. The tug Wei come and the life-saving crew rescued the ineu. Peter McGcoch. one of Milwaukee's oldest and best-known citizens, shot and fatally injured himself at his home Wednesday at noon. His wife had only a few days before brought suit for di vorce, incompatibility of temper being the ground stated in the complaint. It is su--posed that brooding over this led McGcoeh to take- his life. His eonneetioii with the famous lard deal several years ago made his name a familiar one all over the country. He was married eight years ago to a Mrs. Libby, of Kenwood, a sub urb of Chicago. Twenty-live prisoners in the State prison at Jackson. Mich., among them being some of the most dangerous convicts behind its walls, revolted Tuesday, attacking their keepers with bars of iron and hammers. Superintendent Coffey, of the shirt fac tory, in which the men were employed, was terribly beaten. Foreman Mueller, of the factory, was fatally hurt, ami Deputy Northrup, who ran to their as sistance, was knocked senseless with a bar of iron. He also is fatally hurt. Eight of the ringleaders are confined in dungeons, while the others are under strict guard in their cells. There are reports of trouble in the vicinity of Huttou. Mont., where the Cheynne Indians are said to be creating alarm among stockmen and ranchers by killing and running off cattle and other wise terrorizing the inhabitants of the place. A number have been killed, it in not stated by whom, but It is probable the Indians nre resjKUisible for the kill ings. The place infested by them is on the Rosebud in tho Wolf Mountains, an out-of-the-way place seldom heard from. The settlers are greatly alarmed over the appearance of the Cheyennes and their boldness in killing the stock. nre completely nurneu out the in terior of the five-story building nt the southwest corner of Wabash avenue and Randolph street, Chicago, Monday night shortly after 11 o'clock. Eight linns occupied the building, which is owned by

A. S. Trude. The loss will aggregate SloO.000. Though the blaze was con

fined to the Trude building, the firemen had to make one of the stubborn battles for which the Chicago department is famous. The gale was blowing fifty miles an hour, and in et ery direction were enormous stocks of goods stored in inllaniniable buildings. A second tire in Ilavmarket Square at the same time did several thousand dollars' damage. Chicago staggered all day Tuesday from the shock of Monday night'. storm. Wreck and ruin were on every hand. Death hung in the air from a thousand broken wires, but luckily passed humanity by. From the lake came reports of disaster after disaster, but here again fortune favored life and only vessels suffered in the general destruction. For hours the city was cut off from the outside world. At a breath old Boreas humbled its pride in the snow. The imperial city of a mighty empire. Chicago was reduced in an hour to a pitiful dominion thirty miles square. Every telegraph wire leading out of the city was down or disabled, and Chicago sat in the midst of isolation as well as ruin. Three hundred delegates were present Monday at the opening session of the transunssissippi congress at Omaha, which was presided over by ex-Delegate to Congress George Q. Canuon, of Utah, who was elected president of tlw? coii-i gress at tue m. i.ouis garnering iasi year. The general object of the congress is the promotion of the welfare of the West, and under this head a vast number of questions have been scheduled for discussion and action. Among those are the irrigation of arid lands, the improvement of waterways and deep-water harbors, the construction and maintenance of levees on the Mississippi and its tributaries, discriminations in transmissistsippi freight rates, the necessity for a national bankrupt law, the restriction of immigration, methods fr the relief of agricultural depression, the project for cable communication with ilonolulu and the admission of territories to Statehood. At noon Thursday the ears of Col. Rob ert G. Ingersoll must have burned and his heart must have palpitated. If the great agnostic were a believer in mental telegraphy he must certainly have re ceived numerous messages from people whom he had never had the pleasure of meeting. At 12 o clock TURM supplica tions went up from the Cleveland Chris tian Endeavorers to the throne of grace1 in behalf of the salvation of the soul of Col. Ingersoll. There was no general meeting of those interested in the Col onel's salvation, but the effort was an individual one on the part of the nieiii bers of the Christian Endeavor societies of Cleveland. At the meeting of the Salvation army a fervent prayer was offered for "Pagan Bob," ami each mem ber of the great army decided to send the Colonel a personal appeal to see the error of his way and to embrace tin faith of the Christian church. This action was taken amidst great enthusiasm, and it is likely mat the mail of Col. Ingersoll will be materially increased by several thousand letters from his new friends in the Forest City. The Chris tian Endeavor societies of Canada have been requested to unite upon a day in prayer to God for the conversion of Col Ingersoll. One of the most disagreeable storms in the annals of weather bureaus descended on Chicago late Monday afternoon. It rained, it snowed, and between times sleet pelted down pitilessly. Untold damage was caused by the elements. When iiig. Lit came the downpour ui ttie mixture of snow and rain and sleet came heavier and the wind, which was gusty in the afternoon, rose to a gale. The streets the pavements and sidewalks were Hood ed to a depth of three inches with slush The storm made the pavements almost impassable; street car tratlie was seri ously interfered with; trolley lines wen broken with the weight of the snow; telephono and telegraph wires were borne down, broken and crossed until half the wires in the city were made useless by midnight, and communication with the outside world was entirely cut oil e cept at long intervals. Ends of broken trollev and other electrically chargt'1 wires dropped into the streets to the po.i tive danger of passers. Numbers of acci dents of this sort were reiwrted from various parts of the city, and the opeu. lion of trolley lines in the outskirts of the city suspended early in the evening on many streets. Then, too. the lake was lashed to a seething caldron, and it seems a miracle that many boats were not not lost at the harbor entrance, as a twodays' storm had driven them all to that end of the lake, and snow obscured the harbor lights. "southern." Ex-Congressman Bland did not deliver his lecture at Savannah, Ga., only one ticket having Iwcn sold. George Phealan, son of the late Con gressman Phcalan, of Memphis. Tenu.. died at the University of Virginia. Charlottesville, from injuries received in a foot-ball game. Four people were found murdered on a boat adrift in Red River near Paris. Texas. A dog stood guard over one of the bodies. Federal officers are now in vestigating the ghastly details of the mysterious affair. A negro tramp was caught trying to wreck a train near Calvert City, Ky.. and pursued to the woods, where he was overtaken and riddled with bullets and then hanged to a tree. The locality is surrounded by a wilderness. The name of the victim is unknown. WASHINGTON. According to I'. C. Benedict, President Cleveland would not accept a third nomi nation for the Presidency under any cir cumstances. Mrs. Jenness Miller, the dress reformer, has arranged to build a magnificent home in Columbia Heights, a fashionable sub urb of Washington. Secretary Hoke Smith says that under the competitive bid sysiem the cost c.f printing the Patent Office Gazette has been reduced from $150,tXJO to JfSÖ.OOO a year. Investigation throughout the executive' departments at Washington as to stamp thefts has resulted in mi ending even worse than was first expected in the Treasury. Autograph fiends, too, have been at work among the files. The signatures of many great men, long since dead, especially Presidents of the United States, a tlixed to papers in the land office, have been stolen. The papers have been in many instances rendered practically valulcss by this mutilation, which is a very serious matter. Among the bills recently presented for redemption at the United States Treasury nt Washington were ten of $100 denomination, on? of $r"i00y out? iff $1,000 Aiul five of $.")0. They were nibbled mound the edges, but enough remained to ren-

der them good. This $2.700 constituted

a mouse's nest. The bills had been laid away in a trunk, and when the owner went to look for tltem they were gone. Search was instituted, but no trace of i hem could be found. Finally a househole was notice! through the bottom of the trunk, leading under the floor. The boards were taken up and a mouse scampered away, leaving live Ii tie pink and white creatures too young to walk lying on the pile of greenbacks. The office of road inquiry of the Depart ment of Agriculture has completed an interesting investigation relating to the common roads of the United States. Re turns have been received from about 1.1!'H counties, showing the average length of haul from farms to markets or shipping points to be twelve miles, the average weight of load for two horses 2.002 pounds, the average cost per ton per mile 20 cents and $ for the enfire haul. Estimating the farm products at 210,824.227 tons in weight and making estimates o-i other articles carried over the public roads, it is calculated that the aggregate expense of this transportation in tho United States is .Stt4i5.414.tHi." per annum. Reports have been asked from the United States consuls alfoad of the expense of hauling win-re the roads nre good, so as to render possible a calculation which will show how much of this vast outlay is due to bad roads. The estimate is ventured, however, upon information in the office concerning the loss of time in reaching markets, the enforced idleness and the wear and tear to the live stock and hauling mi-hinery caused by Ioor roads, that two-thirds of the cost might be saved by an improvement of the roads. foreignT" The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough have arrived at (Gibraltar. It is rejiorted that Chili is about to raise a loan of .?:. m Mt,0 0. General Ma ceo. the Cuban insurgent lender, is reported to have been killed in battle. Alexandre Dumas, the French writer ami author of "La Dame Aus Camelias," is dangerously ill at Paris. Sharp earthquake shocks were felt Tuesday morning at Athens. Greece, and also at Chalcis, Livadia, Thebes, and Corinth. Hawaiian sugar planters are trying to break the agreement by which they contracted to sell their entire product to the sugar trust for the next two years. The sugar and peanut crops of Zambesia have proved almost total failures because of the ravages of locusts. There is great distress among the natives. Instructions, is is announced, have been sent to the British minister at Rio Janeiro to invite Brazil to submit the question of the ownership of the Island of Trinidad to arbitration. Armenians at Constantinople who claim to be well informed estimate the property losses by the disturbances in Anatolia ahme at $.":O.0 lO.OOO. while the number of people massacred is said to reach forty thousand. A special London dispatch from Shanghai says that the French mission at Luihsiang has been destroyed by the natives of that vicinity during the absence of the French gunboat which is usually stationed in those waters. Honolulu advices say: The Hawaiian Government will make a strong effort to bring the annexation question before the next Congress. Another commission will be sent to Washington. It is probable that President Dole, W. C. Wilder, president of the senate, anil Cecil Brown will be members of the commission. They expect to sail from Honolulu Dec. it. IN GENERAL Canadian students at a Toronto college tore down an American flag hoisted by the American students, and a pitched battle followed. Obituary At New Orleans. Solon Knight, of Kankakee, III.. tl."l; at Milan Mo., Dr. J. F. Nelson; at Klkhart, Ind., Harrison Zeigler, 74. Obituary At London. Barihlemy SaintHilaire and Lord de Tabley; at Springfield, 111., General 1. B. Currau, 71; at Joliet, 111., John Pickering. 40. In the foot-ball games Thursday at Chicago, Ann Arbor defeated the University of ('hie-ago by a score of 1 to O. The Boston and Chi- ago Athletic clubs played a tie game. 4 to 4. At Philadelphia, Pennsylvania b-at Cornell. 4(5 to 11. At Providern, K. 1.. Brown University defentel Dartmouth !Oto4. At Washington, Columbia Athletic won from Columbia University. 14 to 1'J. At Juiisvilh, IMiisville Athletic defeated DePanw University V2 to 10. At Lafayette. Iml.. I Hinein University hst to Purdue, Ij t 2. MARKET REPORTS, Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $.'t.50 to $.V-.": hogs, shipping grades, $..00 to ?o7ö; sheep, fair t choice, $'2.Jt0 to $3.7."; wheat. No. 1! rel. ."tie to 57c; corn, N. J. -7e to L'S,-; oats. N. 2. 17c to ISo; rye. No. L 'Mr to ÖSe; butter, choice creamery, L"J- to lM-; eggs, fresh, ll)c to potatos. per bushel. 2te to .'toe: broom corn, common growth to choi-e green hurl. "2'jc to 4- per pound. InlianaMdis -Cattle, shipping, $.'.00 to $5.00; hogs, choice light. .$.'?.O0 to $400 sheep, common t prime. U.OO to $."t..Vh Wheat. No. ''. (Xe to 5.V; corn. No. I white, LToV to .Sc; oats, No. 1 white, 'Jle to 1TV. St. Louis-Cuttle. $o00 to .$.".00; hogs, $;.00 t. $..7Ö; wheat. N. J red. (50c ti til.-: crn. No. " yellow, 21- to 'J.V: oats. No. 2 white, 17c t ISc; rye, No. 2, to :$4e. Cincinnati Cattle, ..o to $r.00: hogs. $.'.00 to $4.00: sheep. $2.00 to $."5.7."; wheat. N. 2, 'tle to (7c; corn. No. 2 mixed, .'51c to VuW; oats. No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye. No. 2. .'.0-1 41c. Detroit-Cattle. $-J.r,( to $.".20: lmgs. $,'.00 to $4.00; sheep. $2.fK to $3.70; wheat, No. 2 rel, ." to 0i'-: eorn. No. 2 yellow. 2! to :tlc; oats. N. 2 white, Ulc to 22c; rye. :iSe to 40-. Toledo Wheat, N. 2 red. ft'e to CV; corn. No. 2 yellow, 2Se t 20-: ont, No. 2 white. 20-1 22c; rye, No. 2, oSc to 40-; clover si'el. $ l.r0 to $l.o.". Buffalo Cattle, $2.00 to $.".00: hogr. $.".00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.00 0 $.".7S; wheat. No. 2 rl. (IS- to 70-: torn. No. 2 vcllow, ööc to ode; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 21e. Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 spring. ."7c to rSc; corn. No. .". 27c to 2S-; oats. No 2 white, ISc to 20c; barley. No. 2, .Vie to ,H5-; rye. N. 1, o7e to oNc; pork, mess, $7.7."i to $S.2.". New York Cattle, $.1.00 to $.".00: hogs, $o00 to $4.2."; sheep, $2.00 to $:t.75; wheat, No. 2 red: fiSc to ;); eorn. No. 2, 35c to :57c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; butter, creamery, B5c to 24c; eggs, Westem, 21c to 21c.

BABBERS GO TO JAIL.

TRYING TO ENFORCE THE ILLI NOIS SUNDAY LAW. Twelve or More Miners Dead Nebras ka Farmers Caiißht Running Secret Stills with Rich Results-Report of the Director of the Mint. A Rough Scrape. Manager IMen. f the Great Northern lIoO'l, Chicago, and twenty-eight barbers were ordered ommitted to jail Friday evening by J u -dice Lee becr.use they refused to satisfy the Court with proper bonds in the caes where they had been onvicted of violating th' Sunday law. Bonds were furnished by ea h d'feudant to the amount of $:5im, but the f - of $1 in each -ase was refusel on the ground Judge Windes had ordered the Justice to collect no further fees until the question of the writ of prohibition whi-h had been asked for had been passed on. The defendants also demurred to what they ailed extortionate fees, claiming Justice Lee had no authority to exa t more than V cents in each case. Justh-o Lee deelaretl if the fees were not paid he would commit them all to jaij. ami n theiv persisting in their refusal mitimuses were issued. New York's Mining Horror. An accident, resulting in the loss of thirteen or fourteen lives, oceurrod nt the mines at Tilly Foster, near Carmel, N. Y.. Friday afternoon. Foreman Murtha was descending into the pit to take the time of tv gangs of laborers, num bering thirty-five men, who were working at the bottm, when a vast wigVit of earth and r-k slid with the force of an avalanche from the mouth f the pit to the bottom, a distance .f :'.O0 feet. The earth crashed ver the men with tremen dous for-e. Out of one gang of eleven iin-n only five came out alve, and three of the men employed in another gang were taken out dad. Our Gold and Silver. The Director of the Mint nqiorts SS7, 4S2.0S2 of gold deposited at the mint. and assay offices luring the last fis-al year, of which $22.o2o,o22 consisted of redeiosits. The value of the silver deposited hiring the same jorid was $1,714.."(T. all original deposits except. $470.GT. The mints co'uhhI during tin year $4;.Wi;t.47." gold; $:UirJ.0n in silver dol lars: Jfo.l M. HfO subsnliary silver -oins; $712,!V.)4 minor 'ins: total. $r.'.71.".r40 Gold bars to the value of $10.:;41.."Vir were manufactured. Sugar Beets Mnkc Good Whisky. The vast yield of sugar beets in Ne biaska and the inability of farm-rs to lispose f them as rapidly as convenient has provk'd some peculiar violations t the revenue laws. A still has been -ap1urel in Slu-rman County from which whisky was hing inale from the beets It was wned by Charles Beidil. a farmer. The quality was good, and fears are entertainc! bv rey-!)!! dlicials that oth--rs will engage in the business. Two Nccrocs Lynched by a Mob. At 8 o'clock Friday night Joe liobinson and Ozias M Gahev. negroes, were taken from the iail at Favetteville. Tenn.. by a mob 'omposod f p-ople from Lincoln and .Marshall t ouuties and Hanged, i ni negres hail Wen taken from Nashville to Lewisburg. Marshall County, tri-! for assault, envicted, and sentenced to the full penalty of the law. NEWS NUGGETS. John J. Overton, aged OS. of Fort Smith. Ark., has be-n -onvictd of frging affidavits in support f his appli-a tioii for a pension. At Berlin Dr. Ferstr has Wen sent en-el to lhnv months imprisonment for leze majesty in the publication o an attu le in his paper, the Fthische-Kultur. General Charles H. T. Collis, an active nnti-Platt Kepub!i-an. was apiM.inu-d omniissioin-r of public works of New York. vi e Wiliiam Brooktield. resign'!. Jabez S. Balfour, the Liberator Society swhnller, has been sentence! to fourtei-n years' imprisonment. The two men -onvicted with him get nine and four months each. Judge 1). D. llosf. pr'sident of the Curryville, Mo.. Bank, has been hi oughing -onstantly for the last week. and although sveral lo.-tors have at lendetl him Ihey can lo nothing for him His death is hourly expet-eI. A San Francisco local paper prints a letter from Arizona signed John Doe. in which the writ-r says he committed the murder for which Garland Steinler and Isolds Mureno were lyn hel by a und at Yreka. Cal.. last August. Two other men were lynched at the same time. The suit of n-gro rvsidents f the Cherokee nation to establish th-ir rights as citizens has been compromised. The settlement makes the negro 's citizens of the Cherokee nation and entitles th-m to $1.:(Hl.lHH of the money re-eiveI foin the strip and their interest in unsold lands. Nti-e has he'ii s-rvil upon the Central Trust Company of New York by counsel for a Cnn-ti-ut Wmlholder d the Chicago gas companies to show cause before the attorney general f New Yrk why suit should not ho brought against that institution to prevent the attempted consolidation tf Chicago gas properties. IJev. A. Henrich ami his wife were usphyxiatcd at Platte Center. Neb., by gas from tlH-ir hard-coal stov Mr. Henrich was found dead and his wife was dying when neighWrs for-el thedooii, They came from Louisville. Ky.. several years ago ami are well known in many States. Their -hildr-ii reside in Denver and have been notified. A formidable expedition against llayti is being organized at Kingston. Jamaica, by Boissond Canal, it is reported on trustworthy authority. Canal is Wing nssistctl by a well-known Philadelphia firm. The exp'dition is to sail curly in December. Tin plan is to scalier munitions of war at various points in the black republic during the oming clct ions. Senr Cyrill Ma-halo has been appointetl Portuguese minister to the United States. Count v)u Taafe. the .-Vustrian statesman, died at I'llishau. Bohemia, Friday morning. Edmund C. Steadman has declineil nn offer of the new Billings chair f Fnglish literature at Yale ('liege brause he is too old. William McGerron, of Chicago, private secretary t the State treasurer, was dangerously hurt in a foot ball game at Decatur.

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X Jl 1j li O A JS If UUAUO, BIG THANKSGIVING DAY FOOT BALL GAMES. Micljit:'"1 lieats Cliicaso in tle An nual Battle-Chicago Athletic Play n Tie with Boston Athletics-ltig Attendance ut All the Games. Kcsults of Battles. H J.-11AI.I. game nre over, the st-as.,u having ended with the contests o f Thanksgiving day. It has Wen by far the greatest yeartin college game ha.-. known in the Yet. University of Mich igan went Fast ami lost to Harvard by the narrowest of margins. Then th' wolv'r;.nes returned West ami found teams that worried thenv almost as much as had the crimson. Tliionly goes to show that the Fast ami West are coining p:ikly to a bvel h: foot ball matters. As a result of lu-i decisive defeat of Chicago, says a Chicago correspondent. Mi-higan can. wi'L much justi-e, claim the champion-do- - of the West. She has not played t hestrong teams west of the Mississippi -- Missouri. Nebraska, and Kansas - but there is l ot good reason for believing t liar she loos not x-el them, improved as they are along with the other teams of th West. Purdue's defeat of IHii;"is aftei the hitter's W-'c-ive victory over Northwestern and the lose score betwen tiie Indiana. men and Ann Arbor 1'J to In -- places Purdue high in the Western plane The sc res at the lose of Thursday'sgames stood as follows: University of Michigan, 12; University of Chicago. C . Chicago Athh'tie Association. 4: Bs--ton Athletic Association, 4. Purdue. (I; University of Illinois. 2. University of Pennsylvania, 4; (Vrmll, 2. University of Nebraska, 0; Iowa University, . Missouri University, 10; Kan-ci University. 0. Brown Univ rsity. 10; Dartmo-.-.th. 4. Stanford. 0; University of California. L . OF INTEREST TO FARMERSReports on Winter Wheat, HessiauFly, nnd Hoc Cliolora. Reports have been received from tho correspondents of th Farmers lievit-w in twelve States relative to the condition d winter what. ravages of tin -Hessian fiy, and the prevalence of h..cholera. Winter Wheat. In Iiiinols some of thu-late-sown wheat is not yet" up. Dry weather int-rfercl with both the sow i riband development, of the seed. S.-ne j the early-sow n that, has come v.p is weak, ami small in size. Although th conditio;;, is at prsent. hardly fair, yet there is u. probability that gr"t improvement wiii take place. In Indiana the present -m ditiou is not good, drought having Wer. the great retarding factor. In Ghidrought has had very harmful effe-t. Some of th -irrcsponhrts report the sed rotted in the ground. Ill other caseit has made small growth. Late rains ha ve done sonn good. F;:rly sown wdiea-i Is doing well in localities. I:i Michigan it is in bad condition, in som !..alitic-. the worst for mar," y-ars. K'-ntu-ky reports very jKior outlook, the drouth having hurt tin crop ev ry wl re. The saiu causes have operated to the etriiii"nt the crop in Missouri. Kansas rcprtindicate that the late rains have donsome good, but tho fl"--ts of the dry fa!i are such that the general -oinlition ipoor. In Nebraska little has been sow::, and the utlook is poor to fair. The Iii tie sown in Iowa is in fair o liditi.m. hi Wisconsin the condition is very pcr. Hessian Fly. In Illinois, lb-ssiau fly is reported in only a few -ountis. Very little injury from this source is hard of in Indiana. In Ohio a little is reports! in the early sown wheat, but little h.iru . has been done. In a few localities i;Michigan the, lly i working, bit most of the counties are free. Almost no damage is report d from Kentucky. The fiy is present here and there in Missouri, but seems to be of no partk-ular queneo. Kansas report s small ravages, of this insect, and the same is gem-rally true of Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin. Hog Cholera. -!n Illinois the ravages of hog hoh ra are causing immense lo-s to the farmers. In some of th count ie-,. half of the hogs have liel. and tin iiease continues. In a large number f localities it is the worst for several earu California strawberries nre in the local market, but they are not in Mir midst. Ah, that man Tampos is a tighter! Spain has just sent l.im ;U ,tH0 :n r m-u. The IiwlianapolC Sentinel says that "Ihe big tlie.''tr hat Cs going out." Don'i" give it a return pass chek. Philadelphia roiort'd a slight earthquake shock recently. Probs.bly the saiu one we had several weeks ago. Something i- the matter with NellieBly. We don't know what it is; but ski hasn't broken out in print lor nearly : week. A Washington paper annunvs that that twn is now overrun with tramo. The new crop of Congrcssunn eviduUy is beginning t arrive. Two New York thieves have been orrestiil for stealing a copper nnd' ff :t lofty building. Some of these lays thofellws will st-il a well, cut it up and sell it for post holes. A Kentucky father took his pun to n train the thr day ami intTeepted hi eloping daughter. It begins to look as if Cupil woubl ltter swap his bow and arrows fr a revlver. During a xditieal debate the other day. Kentucky's Secretary of State indulgel in some Utting remarks and made a fewincisive arguments with a lirk knife. They think the other fellow will live. In a lc-ture Wfre a New Yrk audience the other night Lieutenant Pear frankly admitted that he failed t discover the i?ole. So it will le Kiuwen kary to throw him down and search him.

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