Bloomington Courier, Bloomington, Monroe County, 24 May 1895 — Page 2

HISTORY OF A WEEK.

THE NEWS OF SEVEN DAYS UP TO DATE. Political, Religions, Social and Criminal Doings of the Whole World Carefully Condensed For Oar Headers. The Ac cident Record. The Norwegian bark Ceylon, Capt. Olsen, has been wrecked near Dover, Eng. Six of the crew were drowned. Baron Dzanowicz shot and killed Count Ostorog, a rich land-owner of Hisak, Russia. The shooting is supposed to have been done for revenge. The baron was arrested. The Princess Waldemar of Denmark, formerly Princess Marie of Orleans, whose eccentricities have long harassed her husband, has been interned in a private asylum near Vienna. The Supreme court of the United States will adjourn for the term June 3. The Idaho republican state league has elected delegates to tne cieveiana convention. Monday's statement of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $182,694,978; gold reserve, $97,153,249. The "peace convention" of Elks is in session at Buffalo, N. Y., and it is thought will patch up all troubles. The sensational divorce case of Bullet vs. Bullet at Louisville, Ky., was ended by Mrs. Bullet being given a decree. The Piedmont Marble company, the largest in the south, was placed in the hands of a receiver at Atlanta, Ga. The Tamarack Mining company directors at Boston declared a dividend of $4 a share, payable June 25 to stockholders of record. It has been agreed to try the government's $15,000,000 suit against the Iceland Stanford estate early in June at San Francisco, Cal. Charles Aiester, a teamster at Grant's Pass, Ore., threw his wife into a pool of water and held her head under until she was drowned. Civil service examinations for clerks, storekeepers, and gaugers will be held in sixty-three of the principal cities and towns the latter part of June. A federal jury acquitted Druggist Wilson, at St. Louis, Mo., of the charge of selling liquor without a license, he having sold a patent medicine which contained whisky. A monument to Confederate dead was unveiled with great ceremony at Raleigh, N. C, the anniversary of the Mecklenburg declaration of independence in 1775. The Metropolitan Grain and Stock exchange, a bucket-shop in Kansas City, succumbed to the bull market. It was reported the company had lost $25,000. "Gen." C. E. Kelly has left Oakland, Cal., for Washington, accompanied by his wife and two children, in a prairie schooner. He will deliver lectures on the way and obtain signatures to a memorial to congress. The income tax was declared unconstitutional by the supreme court at Washington. Justices Harlan, Brown, Jackson and White dissented from the majority opinion, the court standing 5 to 4. Secretary Carlisle opened his campaign for. "sound" money at Covington, Ky., Monday night. He is to deliver a series of speeches on the subject through the south. The general assembly of the Presbyterian church, by a vote of 432 to 93, has vested the control pf the seminaries of the church, in the hands of the general assembly. . , Gov. Altgeld addressed the meeting of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainuieu, in session ai uaiesmirg, ill. W. N. Harvey, author of "Coin's Financial School," has been invited to a joint debate on the question of silver coinage by Roswell Horr of New York. ! T'Wheat touched 74c on the Chicago board of trade Monday and closed at 73c. The French steamer La Gascogne Js Bixty hours overdue at the port of New York. Her agents are not alarmed. It was rumored in London Monday that Lord Rosebery, the British premier, had resigned, but the rumor could net be confirmed. Cyclist Johnson has been declared a professional. President Cleveland has granted !lmiral Meade'srequest for retirement. In doing so the President administered a rebuke to Meade for his criticism of the administration. The threatened trouble over the school question in the province of Manitoba, Canada, has been settled.by a compromise, through the friendly offices of Governor-General Aberdeen. For the murder of eight British sailIK) At IT n-M a villages and killed many natives of an island off the coast of New Zealand. The German reichstag has voted that that country take the lead in a movement for bimetallism. Serious complications are looked for between Great Britain and Hawaii if the former country persists in its determination to regard rebels as British subjects. Report of a big battle, in which the insurgents were worsted, comes from Cuba. Hundreds are said to have been slain. Twenty-five farmers, who were harassed by claim contesters in Woods founty, Ok., and organized for safe protection, using White Cap methods, have been arrested for conspiracy. The steamer Teutonic arrived at Queenstown, the Britannia at Marseilles, and the Havel at Southampton. Nicaragua has paid England the indemnity demanded. Chinese troops at Shan Hai Rwan revolted and looted the city. Foreign residents got away in safety. Albert Hall, who murdered his cousin. Volney Baird, for the latter's attentions to his (Hall's) wife, was acquitted at Lexington, Ky. At Vincennes, Ind.. Larkin Laffkfort. 60 years old, has .- been- sentence! to seven years' imprisonment fetr a criminal assault upon his niece, a child of 11. "Preparations, which have been ;n progress for the last two years, are now complete for the celebration of ;h? centennial anniversary o" Mission college, fijehenectady. N. Y. William Anderson stabbed John Lorton in a fight at Ramsey, 111., and Lorten is not expected to live. Delegates to the Southern Baptist convention occupied the pulpits of churches in Washington, Baltimore and Richmond. A large audience attended the memorial meeting for Rev: John A. Broadus.

FOREIGN. Earthquakes in Italy have been attended nfrith loss of life and much destruction to property. Mexican natives attacked a surveying party of which an American engineer was the head, killing twenty. Government troops sent to punish the murderers were ambushed and defeated. Japan anticipates an immense trade With China as soon as the country is somewhat quieted down. The case of ex-Consul Waller, alleged to haveto have been mistreated by the French in Madagascar, is to be vigorously taken up by our government. Capt. Trench, commander of the British troops landed in Nicaragua, died at sea. Congress of Mexico has passed the bill making train robbery punishable by death. Several earthquakes occurred on the Greek Island of Zante. The people were panic-stricken, but the damage was slight. The Spanish steamer Gravina, bound from Antwerp for Lisbon, was lost off Capones during a typhoon, and only two of those on board were saved. A number of warehouses and factories near the Leather Market, Bermondsey, London, covering one and one-half acres of ground, have been burned. The loss is estimated at $1,000,000. A mysterious explosion took place in London in a carriage of the London, Chatham and Dover railroad. An occupant was badly injured. Near him was found a brass cylinder nine inches long. , LABOR NOTES. The Falls Rivet and Ma-mine Company of Cuyahoga Falls, O., has advanced wages throughout the establish, ment 10 per cent. The company employs 500 men. The annual convention of the Order of Railway Telegraphers is on in St. Louis. The strike at the rolling mills nt Joliet, III., is nearly at an end. It is expected the entire plant will start up June i. The miners near Alliance, Ohio, have resumed work at the old scale. At Dicksonton destitute men are beggging of farmers and killing cattle and sheep. The 100 striking miners of the Cantreil Coal company, in the Springfield (111.) district,, have returned to work at the company's terms 35 cents. The Woodside company's men have also returned. The miners of Wadsworth and Rogue's Hollow, O., have voted to sustain the suspension and remain out until a national settlement is effected. Three hundred men at East Palestine have been ordered out. Several hundred striking miners at the Loorais mines, Silver Creek, Ohio, have returned to work. Twelve hundred miners at -the Excelsior mines have quit work in aid of miners who are not getting 60 cents. The group of mines of the Buffalo Mining company at Negaunee. Mich., have been closed down, making idle over 250 men. It is expected work will be resumed within a few days with a force of eighty men. The Salem (O.) Wire Nail company has given notice to its employes of a voluntary advance of 10 per cent in wages to take effect June 1. The same advance will be made at the mills in Salem and the increase will affect COO men. CASUALTIES. Killing frosts are reported in fifteuj states. Much wheat and corn is being plowed up and-the ground replanted. Many persons were seriously injured by a collision of trolley cars at Brooklyn. , In a game of ball at English, Ind., Harry Weil was struck on ' he head with the ball, crushing his skull. A cyclone struck near Luling. Tex., unroofing severa.1 houses and killing a small negro boy, Crops in the track of the storm were blown out of the ground. J. S. Sullivan was killed in a runaway at Springfield. 111. James Fulton, a farmer, was Jiilied by the kick of a horse at Fairbury, 111. Boyd Lambert, son of I. E. Lambert, member of the Kansas Legislature, accidentally shot and killed himself at Emporia. One man was killed and two injured by the collapse of the walls of a burned building at Chicago, The barkentine Josephine, Capt. McLean, which sailed from Rio Janeiro, April 14, with a $200,000 cargo of coffee for Baltimore, went ashore on Little Island shore, eighteen miles south of Cape Henry. The crew was rescued. The San Juan and Kinss rivers in California are overflowing immense areas and doing much damage. CRIME. In a quarrel at East Greenville. Ohio, John Garger stabbed August Bitty, who will die. In a fight at a country dance at Reynoldsville, 111., C. A. Spann- was killed by Adam and Tom Horton. They are held for murder. James Ayres, a restaurant proprietor, was shot by a burglar at Atchison, Kas. Ayres retaliated and hit his assailant, but he escaped. Ayres will recover. The town of St. Albans in Vermont was visited by a fire Sunday afternoon and night which caused a loss of $500.000. Five hundred people are homeless. Three negroes were lynched near Ellaville, Fla., for assault oir a white girl.; It , is reported that .they were flayed alive and then burned. J. P. Foley, traveling salesman for the Laidlaw, Dunn, Gordon Company, killed himself with a revolver in a Cincinnati hotel. " - Patrick Carmody, sentenced to be hanged in Sorocco county, New Mexico,, in 1888, has been captured at Salomon Valley, Ari., and brought to Sorocco. Mike King was hanged at Helenwood, Tenn., for the murder of W. A. Beck. Henry' Bier, a leading financier, was convicted of perjury at New Orleans in a municipal investigation. - While his nurse was absent from his bedside for a moment, William Rusberg, of Davenport, Iowa, an invalid, shot himself and died instantly. George Floyd, a detective employed by the Valley Railroad Company, was shot and probably mortally wounded by his wife at Cleveland. Floyd was formerly an officer at the world's fair. Burglars robbed the Anderson. W. Va., bank of $5,000 and are uncaught. A mob lynched John W. Howerton in Cullerton county, Ky., for assaulting a farmer's daughter. W. H. Thompson, alias "Kid," was sentenced to be hanged at San Quentin, Cal., for the Roscoe train robbery.

POLITICAL. Prof. Lnughlin, professor of politica! economy in the University of Chicago, and W. PI. Harvey, author of "Coin," debated on the subject of free coinage of silver before an audience of Chicago business men. The silver convention at Salt Laks City decided on a campaign of education. Large sums of money are promised for the cause. Senator Hill of New York and Secretsry of State Hinrichsen of Illinois deny that any correspondence oft the subject of free silver has passed between them. The Democratic convention to nominate a railroad commissioner for the First Kentucky district, comprising ISO counties of the state, unanimously adopted free coinage resolutions. A Franklin county (Ohio) mass-convention indorsed George K. Nash of Columbus as a republican candidate for governor. McKinley was indorsed for President and Foraker for Senator. MISCELLANEOUS. The Bell telephone patent has been declared valid. The Evangelical Synod of Southern Illinois, in session at Mascoutah, has closed its convention. The Detroit garden plan is working successfully in Omaha, Neb., and there are 500 plats in cultivation. A Civic Federation fashioned after that in Chicago has been formed InGalena, HI. David Shehan is president. Commissioner Lockhart at Pierre, S. D., has about decided to drop, the Yankton land cases, fearing costly litigation. Thirty cases and three deaths from diphtheria at Akron, O., have been traced to a dog which had symptoms similar to those of human beings. The scalp and skull of a woman, many pieces of flesh, and body of a small child were found on the beach of Lake Michigan, near Valparaiso, Ind. The price of corn jumped 5 cents in five minutes on the Chicago board of trade Saturday. "Gail Hamilton" is dying at Washingtcn at the home of Mrs. James G. Blaine. Secretary Carlisle has started on his southern trip. A call has been issued for a meeting at Des Moines Thursday of all the coal operators in Iova to effect an organization, and, if possible, place business on a better basis for all concerned. The rise In the price of crackers is credited by the trust officers at St. Louis as in sympathy with the rise in flour. The story that Minister Thurston favors the restoration of the Hawaiian monarchy is ridiculed at Washington. Five miles of nets, said to belong to E. R. Edson of Cleveland, were seized by the Canadian government cruiser near Rondeau, Ont. Prof. Dyche of the Kansas State university has sailed in the fishing schooner Golden Hope for Greenland for specimens of mammalia and birds. Henry R. Thurber, President Cleveland's private secretary, will occupy the new Waters' cottage at Silver Shell Beach, near Marion, Mass., with his family this summer. Business men in Chicago report a gratifying increase in trade. .Wheat closed at 70ys cents on tl-s Chicago board of trade Friday. Presbyterian seminaries are reported in a sound condition. .... Dun's Review of Trade says the cold weather over the country retards business. The city of Chicago has a deceit tf nearly $7,000,000. It is rumored that a decision adverse to the income tax has been prepared, by the supreme court. The conference of the German Methodist ministers of Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, which has been in session at Bay City, Mich., has adjourned to meet next year in Delhi, Mich. The window glass manufacturers have decided not to form a trust. The San- Francisco police are said to have found several new witnesses who will testify against Durrant at his murder trial in the superior court. , Prof. Edward Lee Greene, professor of botany at the University of California, has resigned to take a similar position in the Catholic university, at Washington, D. C. Great damage is said to have been done to Illinois and Indiana wheat fields by the Hessian fly. Ex-Postmaster General Wanamaker proposes to establish a hotel in Philadelphia at which any deserving person may be housed and fed free of cost. Wages are being advanced all over the country. The business situation is improving daily. Dr. Robert Russell Booth was chosen moderator by the Presbyterian general assembly. He is an anti-Briggs man. Ex-President Harrison was presented with a gold medal by the New Jersey Historical society. The report of the Canadian superintendent of immigration shows the total immigration for 1894 to have been 27.911. against 63,447 in 1893. Of these 850 wero from the United States. LATEST MARKET REPORTS.

CHICAGO. Cattle Common to prime. $1.73 6, Hogs 3.25 4. Sheep Good to choice 4.00 4. 80 50 69 siy2 28i 64 ,12 54 7i 56 V4 35 65 51 k 31 Vs 25 60 69 49V. 29 4 70y4 52 32Vj ,4Sj 66Vs 80 60 75 73 5sy4 31 IS 73VA 52 U. Wheat No. 2 May 67 . Corn-iMo. 2 50 . Oats 28 . Rye .63 . Eggs . Potatoes Per bu 45 . BUFFALO. Wheat No. 2 72 . Corn No- 2 yellow 56 . Oats No. 2 white 35U . PEORIA. Rye No. 2 64 . Com No. 2 white .51 . Oats No. 2 white 31 V ST. LOUIS. Cattle 2.25 6. Hogs 4.20 4. Wheat No. 2 red 69 . Corn No. 2 .49 . Oats No. 2 29 . MILWAUKEE. Wheat No. 2 spring 70 . Corn No. 3 .52 . Oats No. 2 white.... 32 g . Barley No. 2 48 . Rye No. 1.. .. 66 . KANSAS CITY. Cattle 2.00 5. Hogs 4.05 4. Sheep ; 3.60 5. NEW YORK. Wheat May 72 . Corn No. 2 55 . Oats . .31Vfe . Butter 7 . TOLEDO. Wheat 73 . Corn No. 2 mixed.!..!... ".5269 . Oats No. 2 mixed 29?6 . 0

WERE FLAYED ALIVE.

THREE NEGROES LYNCHED IN FLORIDA. Assault on a White Girl Is Amply Avenged by Her Friends Chit-ago Man Handy with His Revolver Criminal News. Ellaville, Fla., May 20. Three negroes were lynched Saturday night in a dense swamp on the Suwanee river by whit men for assaulting Mamie Armstrong, a white girl. It is reported they were flayed alive and then burned after being subjected to frightful tortures. Sam Echols was suspected and threatened with instant death unless he confessed. He did so, and implied Sim Crowley and John Brooks. Having secured the negroes implicated by Echols the white men proceeded with them to a dense swamp on the Suwanee river, where they wore made to suffer torture similar to that they had inflicted on the girl. As soon as the girl was missed a searching party was organized. After proceeding for a mile the corpse of Miss Armstrong was found in a thick clump of bushes. The body of the girl was in a horrible condition. Every shred of clothing had been torn from it, and she had been assaulted. The body was mutilated in a shocking manner, the head crushed and the throat crushed. Echols said that they kept the girl for twentyfour hours before killing her, forcing her in the meanwhile to repeatedly submit to the most horrible indignities. For the greater part of the time, the negro said, Miss Armstrong was unconscious. The white people are terribly aroused and swear that they will exterminate the negroes if the outrages are continued. THE STORM ON ."tLake Michigan was lashed to fury by last week's storm and several sailing vessels were lost with all on board. It fs estimated that fifty lives were lost in addition to the sailors who perished on the schooner Kelley. The big steamer Puritan, which plies between Chicago Handy with Bis Kevolver. Aspen, Colo., May 20. James MeDonaugh, formerly of Chicago, shot and ikilled William Leonard in a fight that occurred In a saloon where he was visiting. Three others were serl.' usly wounded, and McDonaugh is . in the county jail. Witnesses say Leonard, McCauley, and two associates attacked McDonaugh, who .opened fire on the quartet with the above result. McDonaugh is said to be of a prominent family in Richmond, Va. For the Cripple Creek Holdup, Cripple Creek, Colo., May 20. Sherman Crumley, Kid Wallace, and Sam Wilder have been arrested on warrants charging them with participating in the Florence and Cripple Creek train robbery last March. The detectives claim to have positive evidence of the prisoners' guilt. ROBERTS IS PRESIDENT. Elected at Denver by the Western Federation of Miners. Denver, Colo., May 20. The convention of the Western Federation of Miners concluded Its session yesterday. The election of officers resulted ars follows: President, Samuel Roberts, Butte, Mont.; vice presidents, James Leonard, Cripple Cree, and John Bevin, Granite Mountain, Mont.; executive committee, Thomas Graham, Samuel Colull, James Maher and Richard Thomas, all of Montana, and Charles Alexander, of South Dakota. Britons Hold a Corner. Tacoma, Wash., May 20. Grain rnen here say that English ship-owners have cornered the wheat ships of the Pacific coast. "There is a scheme to hold wheat ships in port," said Phil R. Kershaw, of the West Coast Grain Company, today, "until charters are run up to an outrageous figure and then get the fair wheat to load at fancy prices. I- have already advised all my clients to get together and arrange at once with the railroads to give a reasonable rate on wheat shipment by rail to Chicago. If this is done it will break the back of the coiner on ships. As it is, we are bound hand and foot and are at the mercy of a lot of English ship-owners who have clubbed together to take advantage of the advance in the pricv of wheat."

SILVERITES ADJOURN.

Address Issued to the People of America. Salt Lake City, Utah, May 20. The bimetallic convention has adjourned. An address was issued to the people of the country, setting forth the claims Of the states represented, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming, and the territories of New Mexico and Utah. The claim is made that the people of these states, irrespective of party affiliations, present themselves almost as a unit demanding the free coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of sixteen ounces of silver to one ounce of gold, with full legal tender functions accorded to each and no discrimination against either. The address continues: "The monetary system of the country was founded not upon gold alone, not upon silver alone, but upon both silver and gold, at a certain ratio to efich other, with no limitation upon the coinage of either and each standing upon an equal footing before the law. The system was founded by Hamilton, sanctioned by Washington and Jefferson, its wisdom and justice questioned by no one until the year 1873. In that year, without notice to the people, the standard silver dollar was dropped from the coinage system of the country, and every debt therein existing, public and private, aggregating thousands of millions of dollars, was made payable in gold alone. Against this monstrous injustice the members of the new party are pledged to labor." REBELS ARE SANGUINE. Confident the Uprising in Cuba Will Be Successful. New York, May 20. A special from Santiago de Cuba says: "The insurrection grows with tremendous strides. General Martinez Campos has changed his opinion about ending the trouble LAKE MICHIGAN. . , , . Vr4 ' ' I i and Benton Harbor had a narrow escape in midlake, having been almost capsized by the breakers. She had fiftypassengers on board. The illustration shows the Puritan trying to make the entrance to the harbor. It is drawn from a spectator's sketch. in three months. The chiefs are greatly elated over the progress of the revolution. They say that mere has been accomplished this month than during the first five years of the last war. They declare that this war will not last more than two years, and may be terminated in a very much shorter time if the people of the other provinces do what is expected of them. "The original plan for a simultaneous rising in all parts of the island failed, and the plan now Is to extend the wave of revolution westward, sweeping the Spaniards before it, until all Cuba is in arms. For this purpose Gomea and Marti have gone to Puerto Principe, and already comes news of encounters between government troops and ba.ids of Cubans formed in anticipation of their arrival." WILL REDUCE ASSESSMENTS. Catholic Knights Will No Conger Contribute to the Sinking Fund. Omaha, Neb., May 20. The last day's session of the Catholic Knights of America was taken up largely in the discussion of new rules. The proposition of the Cincinnati members to increase the salary of the president to $3,000 a year was rejected. One of the most important acts of the session was the resolution to stop contributing to the sinking fund, which is now $250,000. It was determined that this fund is already too large, and that no r;ason exists for its increase. Hence, after July 1, 1S96, no more money w:.ll be added to It. Permission was given for the organization of a woman's society, to be known as the Daughters of Josephine, which will have no real connection with the Knights but will be a sort of a social complement of the Kn ghts. Three Men Ilurned to Death. Gate City, Ala., May 20. At 3 o'd ck yesterday fire broke out in MitcltU's grocery store, which was quickly c mmunicated to Fane's boarding house adjoining. On the second floor fifteen rolling mill men occupied one room. The rescuers experienced the greatest difficulty in dragging twelve of them out. Of the three missing the ch:;;-red corpse of one, John Smithson, was recovered from the debris late in the afternoon. The other two, who -,-e-re undoubU-dly burned to death also, wore strangers and their nam-s are uni.nown. A block of buildings was l.-urn-d. The lo::s is fl'.O'JJ; ine-'.-a:v:e. Si.OCO.

CONDITION OF TRADE.

BUSINESS SOMEWHAT HURT BY THE COLD SNAP. Increase of Wages by Big Employers of Labor the Most Encouraging Feature of the Week Failures Slightly LessThan Last Year. New York, May 20. R. G. Dun & Co.' weekly review of trade, says: "The severe cold snap, with extensive frosts, and in some states snow, has fortunately done little damage to the great crops, though much to fruit, but has considerably rearded retail trade. The best news of the week is the advance of 10 per cent in wages by the Carnegie works, followed by the Jones Laughlln establishment, and evidently implying a similar advance by many other concerns. No advance has been found practicable in the woolen mitls, where conditions as to prices and foreign competition are very different and about 10,000 workers are still idle at Olneyville, where the works should consume600,000 pounds per week. In other departments of labor troubles are not serious, and the demand for manufactured products increases. "With material and steady enlargement in domestic trade there is still great want of employment in the interior for money which comes hither $3,500,000 during the last week and with the millions distributed by the syndicate on bond account stimulates speculation. Accordingly wheat has risen five cents, although the reports of injury by frost don't appear, upon sifting, to concern any considerable proportion of the growing grain. Western receipts for two weeks of May have been 2,917,305 bushels, against 2,600,298 last year, and Atlantic exports 3,059,484, against 4,565,101 last year, being reduced by the advance in price less than would be expected because of generally current reports of decrease of acreage. With only six weeks of the crop year left the stocks in sight constitute a heavy surplus, if not as large as some western statisticians estimate. Corn has advanced only 4 cent, being apparently -injured more than wheat, but the acreage give? promise of a yield of 2,000,000,CwO Cushels. "Cotton is an eighth stronger, in spite of the fact that 9,618,081 bales had come into sight last Friday, which is over 400,000 bales more than the largest cropever recorded. Goods are in fair demand for the season and the advance in prices is maintained. "Wool was remarkably heavy for the last week at the three chief markets, the sales being 5,536,750 pounds, and for two weeks of May 11,059,750 pounds, against 11,767,750 in the same week of 1892, the last year of full demand. In that year the sales of domestic were 5,962,000 and this year 5,681,750 pounds. "Failures during the last week have been 2;i in the United States, against 219 last year, and 37 in Canada, aglnst 24 last year." UNDER FALLING WALLS. One 3Ian Killed and Two Injured at Chicago. Chicago, May 20. One man was killed and two others seriously, perhaps, fatally, injured by the falling of a ruined wall at Henry and Brown streets yesterday afternoon. -The three victims of the accident belonged to a gang of men engaged in tearing down the walla of the building formerly occupied by the Globe Molding company, which was destroyed by fire March 2. Twenty-two men had been working on the job before 12 o'clock, and had vainly tried to pull down the section of wall which subsequently fell. This wall had been undermined, and though all the men tugged at it with a rope, they failed to pull it down. When the men resumed work at 1 o'clock in the afternoon orders were given to remove more brick from under the wall, and scarcely had the men started tfi obey when the whole wall, 40 feet high and 125 feet long, came down about their ears. Some of the men perceived their d-ager in time to get out of the way, but three of them were caught among the falling brick. Mores Segfll, the subcontractor in charge of the' work of demolition, was arrested. He said he had no doubt the accident was caused by a sudden gust of wind. He was confident not a single brick had been removed after the men resumed work in the afternoon before the wall fell. Charged with House-Wrecking. Indianapolis, Ind., May 20. John Hewitt and his son have been arrested, charged with blowing up with dynamite the boarding house kept by hia wife, who secured a divorce from her husband some months ago. The house was almost totally wrecked by a dynamite explosion early yesterday morning. Mrs. Hewitt and her daughter, Susie, were burled in the ruins and probably fatally injured. Four other occupants escaped death almost miracuously. Hewitt is said to have sent threatening letters to his wife since their separation. By some he is thought to be insane. ; " Gas Trust for Brooklyn. New York, May 18. A local paper says a transaction involving the consolidation of all the gas companies of Brooklyn has just been completed. The alliance includes the seven companies in Brooklyn and is formed by H. H. Rogers of the Standard Oil company, e.olUs P. Huntington, Gen. James Jourdan, of the Fulton Municipal Gas company, Camille Weidenfeld of the Citizens .Gaslight company and Moore and Schley. The value of the combined plant is estimated at $20,000,000. Chicago's National Hanks. Washington, May 18. The comptroller of the currency has given out an abstract of the reports of the condition of the twenty-one national banks in Chicago on May 7. The total resources were $168,219,071; of this the loairts and discounts were $9S,851.418, and the reserve in banks- $33,560,230. of which $20,631,343 was in gold. The deposits .were: $74,506,314. Average reserve Held was 21.26 per cent. - . Big Cotton Mill Burns. Mcthuen, Mass., May 20. Fire broke cut in Clous' cotton mill at about 1:30 this morning, and in spite of the efforts of the departments of both Methuen and Lawrence, from where aid haT been sent, the building was burned to the ground. The loss will be heavy.