Bloomington Courier, Bloomington, Monroe County, 28 June 1895 — Page 2

HISTOEY 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 cldeat Record. Natural gas has been struck at Heyworth, near Bloomington, 111. Samuel Gompers ridicules the story that he will be a candidate for president on the Populist ticket. Over 20,000 people attended the Beatrice, Neb.. Chautauqua, Sunday, to hear Dr. Talmage, who preached both morning: and evening. New York Central Railroad employes at Paughkeepsie, N. T., tore up the tracks of an electric line laid on Central property. Federation of Labor delegates at Duluth, Minn., denounced the supreme court for the Debs decision and tabled afree silver resolution. Alleged lynchers of Barrett Scott are to be heard in their own defense in the trial at Butte, Neb. They are expected to establish a complete alibi. While in the shaftroom of the steamer Oscar Flint, W. J. Stirling, the second engineer, was struck on the head by the rocker arm and killed. Government officials visited Newark. N. J., to test a new system of lighting railroad and street cars by electricity. The device consists of two storage batteries for each car. Bishop Bonacum confirms the order of Monsignor Satolli, dispensing with the services of Father Fitzgerald of South Auburn, and Father Murphy, of Tecumseh, Neb., for insubordination. William Anderson, aged 10, was drowned in Hamilton, Ont., through falling out of a boat. Gowan Herdman and Liewis McCarthy were drowned while watering their horses at Tunkhannock, Pa. Business men of Norfolk, Va., passed a resolution favoring the granting a lease of the river front to the Southern railroad. Disappointed because her sister had not bought her a shirt waist, 14-year-old Katie McCoy, committed suieidte at her home in Uhiladelphla. Anti-Gorman Democrats in Baltimore-have bolted and put up a municipal ticket. Mandamus proceedings have been brought In Erie, Pa., to compel Select Councilmen to meet with Common Council men to choose a new City Solicitor. They refuse because a Republican would be chosen on joint ballot to succeed a Democrat. W. W. Doolittle, at Marshalltown, la., general merchant, failed for $15,000. Assets, ?34,00.' The' Logansport. Ind.. street railway has gone into the hands of a receiver. $3,500 judgment for Mrs. Katherine Dear for damages. Express Messenger F. E. Cunningham was found dead in his car at Dallas. Cabell and Wyoming counties. W. Va., Saturday voted $100,000 bonds for a new railroad. Tom Smith, the Lexington, Ky.. mur derer, who will be hanged Friday wants to make a confession. Frank West, whose parents live in Chicago, was killed while stealing a ride near Trinidad, Colo., Saturday night. At Omaha the defaulting City Treas urer Bolln will probably be removed from office by the City Council. Emmett Chester, of Montgomery, Tex., killed C. F. Wilson. Wilson's father is a member of the New York Co. Lord Rosebery has resigned the pre miership of England and the Marquis of Salisbury, the Conservative leader, has undertaken to form a cabinet. C. R. Birch, cashier of the West Chicago Street Railroad company, was shot and killed in his office by a robber. The murderer escaped. It is the impression in government circles at Washington that Spain will at once pay the Mora claim. President Dole, in a speech at the opening of the Hawaiian congress, said annexation to the United States was still sought for by his cabinet. At New Bedford, Mass., a broken wheel on an electric car caused a smashup, and thirty people were injured, many seriously, The Wolverine mills at Cairo, Ills., owned by H. Paepecke & Co. of Chicago, and the Chicago Milling and Lumber Company's plant were destroyed by fire. The loss is $150,000: insurance, $65,000. John O. Dunbar, editor of the Phoenix (Ari.) Gazette, was fined $6,000 for criminal libel. The libel consisted of an editorial paragraph two years ago directed at Gov. Hughes, Secretary Bruce. United States Marshal Meade, and Attorney General Heney, calling them assassins and treasury looters. John Fasbender was convicted in the recorder's court at Detroit of manslaughter for killing Emil J. Noseck during a drunken row Dec. 23 last. Dangerous forest fires are raging in the vicinity of Cole Harbor. Nova Scotia. The houses and barns of several settlers have been consumed, with all their contents. Ex-President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor is in St. Louis and is in better health than for several weeks past. He intends to pass a few weeks among the local labor organizations and will endeavor to secure for them an increase in wages. The cutter Wolcott sailed from Mare island for Behring sea. Forest fires have destroyed 2,500 cords of wood near Bradford, Pa. Mahlow Williamson of Monument City, Ind., was seized with nose bleed and died before physicians could aid him. William Pickler is held at Carson, Nev., to answer the charge of stealing bullion from the United States mint. Children playing with matches started a fire that caused damages of $150 to the furniture in Mrs. Annie Ward's house at Chicago. Desperadoes who attempted to rob a bank at Colorado Springs were cleverly trapped by the bank officials, and surrendered without firing a shot. Will Chandler, colored, was lynched at Abbeyville, Miss., for attempted assault on Miss Johns. James Doyle of Chicago was held up at La Porte, Ind., by tramps. Officers captured them after a running fight. The Ballard creamery at Niles, Mich., was destroyed by fire. The loss is $5,000, with small insurance.

FOREIGN; It Is rumored in Vienna Premier Windischgratz has tendered the Emperor the resignations of the Cabinet. The Mexican Cabinet is discussing the question of transferring the control of the Navy Department to the Treasury Department. The crew of the Swedish bark Ponemah, abandoned at sea March 26, has arrived at Falmouth, Eng., having been picked up by the Norwegian bark Volo. The last stone of the Kiel car.al was laid by Emperor William Friday. The emperor's speech at the banquet in the evening was most pacific in tone and made a good impression. In consequence of the defeat in the English house of commons of a government bill relating to army estimates, Mr. Campbell-Banerman, secretary of war, has resigned, and a general election eems to be assured. It is reported Mexico is having five torpedo boats built in England. The Hungarian grain crops have been slightly injured by rust. It is said a squadron of Japanese cruisers will soon visit the Pacific coast under Admiral Ito. United States Minister Luther F. McKinney has lodged with the Colombian government a protest against the imprisonment at Carthagena of two American employes of the railroad. The Colombian press proposes the abrogation of the treaty of 1S46 between the United States and New Grenada, Colombia. Their argument is the United States violated this treaty by proclaiming a discriminating tariff on Colombian products under the reciprocity clause of the McKinley act.

LABOR NOTES. The officers of the National Labor Federation in Indianapolis, Ind., are preparing a call for a meeting to be held in every city in the United States this coming Sunday, the purpose being to denounce the Debs decision. Miners' wages have been cut from 70 to 60 cents a ton in the Southern Iowa district, the socalled minority operators having surrendered. It is said no strike will result. Furnace men at the Clinton Rolling mills, Pittsburg, struck because they ;'VL::rr; " t,l- v, ..ik... .v me suiada jjiaicn. -me unci iiauuna.1 mining r ,c;:ii.n a union, in session at Philadelphia, re ferred to a committee the proposition touching a union with typesetters and bookbinders. The iron and steel manufacturers signed the Amalgamated association wage scale, to run to Jane 30, 1896. The sacle is a sliding one, based on the selling price of sheets, the workers to get 2 per cent increase on every 10 per cent advance in the price of sheets. CRIME. The case of C. Ashley Mears, charged with fraud at Fargo, N. D., is in the hands of the jury. The full amount of the shortage of City Treasurer Bolin, of Omaha, Neb , though not yet known, will, it is thought, exceed $25,000. The district attorney at Los Angples, Cal., filed an information for murder against Detective Kennet, the slayer of A. B. Lawson. Judge Simonton of Charleston, S. C, has sentenced three dispensary constables to one and two months" imprisonment in jail for seizing liquors imported into the state for private consumption. J. C. Davis of Rochester, N. Y.. arrested for obtaining money from San Francisco, Cal., merchants under false pretenses, was held to answer in the Superior Court on two additional charges. James Sanders (colored) was hung by a mob near Jackson, Miss. He murdered his wife. Anthony Johnson (colored) was hanged at Dumas, Ark. He killed Howard, another negro. Jealousy was the cause. Horace Cooper (colored) was hanged at Elkton, Md. He murdered his sweetheart, Maggie Pitts. Masked robbers rode into Rainy Lake City, Minn., Thursday afternoon and looted the bank, securing $30,000. The cashier of the bank was badly hurt. The robbers made their escape. An organized gang of firebugs has been exposed in New York. Losses amounting to over $1,000,000 are ascribed to their operations. Walter E. Plumley, manager of the Security bank, a small concern at Superior, Wis., is missing, CASUALTIES. The walls of the old city hall at San Francisco, Cal., caved in. One man was killed and three wounded. Robert Quinn was killed and two others badly hurt by an acident to an elevator in the Swift packing house at Omaha, Neb. Lightning struck the Orphans' Home building at Galveston, Tex., killing Fred Seifert, a young man employed on the building. By the collision of two trolley cars on the Waiden and Orange Lake road, seven miles west of Newburg, N. Y., nine men were severely injured. Ovid Lorrain, of Montreal, Can., aged 16, was stabbbed during the progress of a dramatic entertainment by Champlain Scholl. The jugular vein was severed. Lightning killed James Vochaska, aged 26, at Montgomery, Minn., and a three-year-old girl named Martin at Glendive, Mont. The girl's mother and two children were injured. Four tramps were killed in a wreck on the Baltimore & Ohio, near Bedford, Ind. William E. Decker, aged 27, from Port Jervis, N. Y.. a brakeman on the Wa bash, was killed at Danville, 111., by the cars. A car on the Lookout Mountain in cline railroad ai Chattanooga, Tenn., jumped the track and W. B. Mitchell, president of the Third National bank of Chattanooga, and M. M. Henderson re ceived probably fatal wounds. Fire In a bowling alley on Franktown avenue, east end, 1'ittsburg, destroyed two hotels, two residences and a stable. Loss is $15,000. A gun shed at the Presedio reserva tion, California, containing eight 4-im:h rifle guns and some valuable stores, was destroyed by fire. Loss $30,000. The stables, hoist works and office of the Los Pinos Altos Mining company of Chihuahua, Texas, were burned. The office, all the books and $16,000 Mexican paper money were destroyed.

al ISCELL AN EOUS.

Oil is reported from Findlay, Ohio advanced two cents for the second time in a week. Physicians report Gov. Atkinson, of Georgia, is holding his own, and are hopeful of his recovery. Mrs. D. F. Holman, of Aurora Ind., wife of the ex-congressmg.n, was stricken with paralysis and is not ex pected to live. A jury at Tucson, Ariz., in the suit against the Arizona Star, Gov. Hughes' paper, for $25,000 for libel, awarded $1 damages. Farmers of Frontier and Perkins coun ties held a meeting at Curtis, Neb., and denounced the stories of destruction that have been sent east concerning them. The Creek Supreme Court of Indian Territory has decided the recent called sesion Council had no power to pass an act suspending the chief .treasurer and auditor, and these officers are still in office. Col. William Wlnthrop, Assistant Judge Advocate General of the army, will retire in August. His retirement will promote Lieut.-Col. Thomas Barr to be Colonel and Maj. George B. Davis to be Lieutenant-Colonel. The convention of the National League of Republican Clubs at Cleve land adjourned without adopting reso lutions. The construction of a platform is left to the national convention. Trade reports for the week are most encouraging. Business is in an emi nently satisfactory condition all over the country. The American Society of Civil Eng neers is in convention at Hull. Mass. Wisconsin supreme court decided that the city council cannot appeal in the case of Health Commissioner Kempster. The sixty-seventh commencement of Kenyon college was held at Gambler, O. Therj were ten in the graduating class. Scott Nesbit, present chief clerk of the internal revenue bureau, is to be made appointment clerk of the treasury department. The barks Sally and Sillicon, returned to Philadelphia from Greenland, report the loss there of the Spanish bark Ice Bear, but bring no tidings of Perry. The case of the Continental National bank against Peter McGeoch and Dani ie wells- sr., was sent back by the wis. I -J- - e CCv.ll 10 the lower court fC!, argument. Upon request of the Italian consul at i Denver, Secretary Olney telegraphed I the governor of Arizona to protect Ital ian miners in the congress mine, and received an answer that there is no trouble and only a few Italians are employed there, Gen. McAlpin of New York was elected president of the National League of Republican clubs, at Cleveland, Ohio, Thursday. Miss Shepard, granddaughter of the late William H. Vanderbilt. and D. H. Morris, son of the noted turfman and lottery king, John A. Morris, eloped and were married at New York. Commodore Bunce has been appointed to succeed Admiral Meade in the command of the North Atlantic squadron. The contract for the completion of the Saiina (Kas.) public building was awarded to O. J. King of Omaha, Neb., at $42,051. Assistant Attorney Genera? Dodge of the department of justice, sayy the dispatch stating that he will resign his present position is without the slightest foundation. Secretary of State Olney, replying to an inquiry from a Waco (Tex.) national bank as to its right to act as a depository for Cuban sympathizers, has addressed a strong letter in reply, stating that the moral duty of the bank officers to refuse to act in such a capacity did not admit of the least question. The West Virginia Transportation company, of Parkersburg, W. Va., brought suit for $100,000 against the Standard Oil company and for $50,000 against the Eureka Pipe Line company for malicious conspiracy to destroy its property. Natural gas was struck in paying quantities at Belleville. Ark. German Catholic societies at Wilkesharre passed resolutions eulogizing Monsignore Satolli. Five trustees of the new eastern Illinois normal school visited Charleston and were offered a site and a bonus. Houghton. Mich., saloon-keepers will not be prosecuted for keeping open Sundays, provided they close at 11 p. m. every day. The populist party of Virginia has decided to call a convention, irrespective of political affiliations, to make a canvass on a platform of honest elections. The Missouri Chickamauga-Chatta-nooga National Military Park Commission has completed the work of locating the position of the Missouri troops on the battlefield of Chickamauga and Mis sionary Ridge. LATEST MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle Common to prime.$1.75 6.00 Hogs 300 4.90 Sheep Good to choice 1.25 4.40 Wheat No. 2 71 .74 Corn No. 2 49 .55 Oats 28 .2874 Rye 61 .62 Eggs 10 .111,4 Potatoes Per bu 30 .40 BUFFALO. Wheat No. 2 red .' .77 .81 Corn No. 2 yellow 53 .53 Oats No. 2 white 3i- .35 PEORIA. Rye No. 2 61 .62 Corn No. 3 white 50 .50 Oats No. 2 white 30 .30 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 2.40 4.75 Hogs 4.40 4.75 Sheep 2.00 5.00 Wheat No. 2 red .75 .75 Corn No. 2 46 .46 Oats No. 2 2S .29 MILWAUKEE. Wheat No. 2 spring 74 .74 Corn No. 3 50 .50 Oats No. 2 white 32 .32' i Barley No. 2 50 .50 Rye No. 1 62 .62 KANSAS CITY. Cattle 1.90 5.65 Hogs 3.80 4.65 Sheep 3. CO 5.75 NEW YORK. Wheat No. 2 red 75 .77 Corn No. 2 55 .55; Oats No. 2 3l .31& Butter 11 .is TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 75 .7.". Corn No. 2 mixed .50 .50 Oats No. 2 mixed 20 .30

LIKE THE OLD TIMES.

PALMY DAYS OF THE JAMES GANG RECALLED. Masked Bandits Ride Into Rainy 'Lake City, Minn., and Loot a Hank 830,OOO Carried On" Citizens Too Terrorized to Offer Resistance. A messenger came in from Rainy Lake City, Minn., last week and told of the robbery of the Bank of Rainy Lake City on the Canadian border, late Thursday afternoon. Two masked men, after holding up and knocking senseless the cashier, bound him and robbed the bank of some $30,000, after which they made made their escape. Cashier Johnson was alone inthe bank just before closing time. Suddenly two masked men appeared, and rushed behind the counter with revolvers in their hands. The cashier made a Jump for his gun, but before he could reach St one of the robbers was upon him. Then followed a desperate struggle, during which the masked men shot twice at Cashier Johnson, who was ail the time struggling to get where he could reach his revolver. Just as he was within a foot of the drawer where it lay, the second robber came to the aid of his companion, and dealt the cashier several blows on the head with his gun. Mr. Johnson struggled for a few mo ments longer, and then, becoming weak from the blows, and seeing that it would only be courting death to make any more fight, gave up. As he sank to the floor one of the men struck him a heavy blow in the face, rendering him unconscious. When Johnson regained his senses, shortly afterward, he found himself bound hand and foot and lying under the counter. THE Tut 3?ieser'2me-SMip

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The robbers, who still wore their masks, locked the door, as several peo ple had been attracted by the gun shots, and proceeded to go through the vault, the inner door of which wa3 locked. They demanded that Mr. Johnson open this. He refused, hoping to gain time, in order that the citizens might come to the rescue. His refusal angered the robbers, and one of them kicked him in the side several times as he lay on- the floor. By this time there was a large crowd outside the bank. The robbers hurriedly filled the front part of the safe with powder and touched it off, blowing the safe to pieces, and scattering the silver coins all over the place. The packages of bills were all wrapped up in paper, and for that reason were not injured. These packages, the contents, amounting in all to almost $30,000, the robbers hurriedly stowed away in their pockets, and with drawn guns made a dash for the street. The bluff the bandits put up staggered the spectators and for a moment no one was capable of making a move. By the time the people regained their nerve the robbers had escaped, and when search for them was made no trace could be found. A pesse was at once formed and is now scouring the whole country for them. Telegrams have been sent in every direction to arrest the men, whose description has been given. It is believed that the men have headed for the Lake Superior country in order to get on some passing steamer. Mr. Johnson, while badly bruised up, is not dangerously hurt. Opinion of French Newspapers. Paris, June 22. The newspapers generally regard Emperor William's speech at Hamburg a; inspired by a desire to bo agreeable rather dan expressive of his real ser.t: (

CONDITION OF TREASURY.

The Deficit May Be Met by Increased Tax on Malt Liquors. Washington, June 22. According to the treasury statement the excess of expenditures over receipts for the current year up to date has been $48,429,428, and the deficit will probably exceed $50,000,000 by the end of this month, which finishes the fiscal year. Notwithstanding the heavy payments on whisky withdrawn in Juiy and August of last year the receipts from internal revenue up to date, deducting the income tax, are $8,870,233 less than for the last fiscal year. As there are only eight business days remaining of this fiscal year, it Is evident there will be a falling off from internal revenue alone of over five millions. As a matter of fact. Commissioner Miller estimated the internal revenue receipts for the year at $171,000,000. Th actual figures will be $30,000.000 less than that, which is about the average estimate made for the Income tax proceeds. An increased tax on malt liquors will likely be proposed to meet the emergency. FIGHT WITH GIANT POWDER. Unique Battle Hetwef i Miners at Rico Colo., Still Continues. Rico, Col., June 22. The war between the miners of the Rico-Aspen and Enterprise mines still continues. It began Tuesday, when the men were drifting on a vein and the miners from both mines met on disputed territory. The Enterprise people tried to smoke the oihers out by exploding giant powder and dynamite. Several men were overcome by the smoke and one was badly cut about the face. Guards have been placed on duty, but the fighting with explosives goes on as at first. The RicoAspen men are taking out the ore and the Enterprise men are smoking them. NAVAL DEMONSTRATIONS AT 7e .AfteH The ore in the disputed territory is worth $300 a ton. CRY FROM ARMENIA. How Turkish Officials Terrorize Possible Witnesses Against Them. Boston, Mass., June 22. A copy of a petition from Sassoun sufferers in Erzeroum, eastern Turkey, which has been addressed to the British, French, and Russian consuls in that city, has been received here. It is as follows: "The officials have brought women and imprisoned them, naked, under the surveillance of a wild and fanatical people, trying to force them, as they did other prisoners, to give testimony contrary to truth, to the effect that the massacre occurred in a quarrel between Kurds and Armenians and that the Turkish soldiers did no evil, but on the contrary defended them against the Kurds. And because these poor people were unable to bear witness to such barefaced falsehood they were tortured, abused, and subjected to the misery of imprisonment for many days." Shooting at South Bend, Ind. South Bend, Ind., June 21. Jonathan Creed, an old citizen and one of South Bend's most prominent attorneys, was shot several times about 8:15 o'clock this morning by Daniel L. Mease, proprietor of a cider mill. The wounds are not believed to be serious. The men had business relations and were about to discuss matters, when Mease covered Creed and began firing from a distance of a few feet. After the revolver was emptied Creed ran. Mease then picked up a bar of iron and would probably have murdered Creed had not the latter been more fleet of foot. Measo will be arrestee! ::s n.i:;n as Sound.

BUSINESS KEEPS UP.

CONTINUED GAINS REPORTED FROM ALL POINTS. The Weekly Trade Review Shows a Moat Satisfactory Condition Encouraging Crop News Failures of tbe Past Week. The latest issue of R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: "From all parts of the United States the best advices obtainable tell of a rising tide of trade and industry which threatens here and there to mount too far and too fast. The volume of ail business is by no means equal to that of 1892 as yet, though in some Important branches, larger than in that or any other year. Two influences of tremendous power contribute to the rise encouraging crop news and confident reolenishinjr of stocks, which have been for two years depleted to the utmost. "Excepting too heavy rains In Texas, crop reports this week have been highly encouraging. Future injury to cotton cannot be predicted, but as yet nothing: indicates a yield below 7,500,000 bales, which is not supposed to threaten famine if the commercial and mill stocks are remembered, now exceeding by 2,500,000bales a full consumption until September 1. Receipts continue small and consumption close to the maximum here and abroad, though the marketing of British goods is not entirely encouraging. Liberal purchases of all products by the south do not indicate belief that any serious misfortune impends. "Reports from spring wheat states and from the Pacific coast are cheering, although the loss of winter wheat was large there, and those whose estimates have been most accurate in recent years now vary in predictions from 430,000,000 to 470,000,000 bushels. AtlanKIEL. Bnseire EAT BALTIC SEA CANAL AT KIEL. tic exports for three weeks, flour included, have been only 3,758,718 bushels, against 6,006,232 last year, indicating no urgent demand at current prices. Therehas been a fall of 6 cents in wheat, with heavier sales for three weeks. "The rush for supplies in iron and steel resembles a 'bear panic' in thestock market. Because prices aremounting higher, everybody rushes tobuy, so that they mount higher. It is undeniable that works in operation are crowded with orders, and others who have been idle for years are preparing to resume. "Failures for the week have been 22 in the United States, against 214 last year, and thirty-one in Canada, against thirty-five last year." To Reorganize Mexican Army. Mexico City, Mexico. June 22. TheMexican military commission that is sitting at present in Berltn, presided over by Gen. Francisco Zlmena. will soon complete its labors and return to this city. There will be recommended a reorganization of the Mexican army, with Gen. Perez in charge of the artillery bureau and Gen. Delgado intrusted with that of the army and navy engineering bureau. The cavalry is tobe raised to the rank of that of European armies, with a competent tactician at its hejd. Wichita Free? Stiver I.ontjne. Wichita, Kan., June 22. Fifteen hundred people met In the Auditorium here last night and organized a nonpartisan 13 to 1 Free Silver League. The featureof the meeting was the declaration of Colonel Hollowell that the platform adopted at the recent reputllcan county convention was written and Font here by the enemies of free silver for adoption. Colonel H ollowell is a rep-:bTlcan and was the nominee for congress four -jars ago.