Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 August 1885 — Page 1

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WASHXN€»TON, August 10.—Major CM: P. Goult,f# the Pay department of the Armv, has&een placed on .list."

and Alabama exceedfcfi tbeir present figures. The .state averages are as fol-j^ •••'••••iijAis. Sows: Virginia 95, Nor& Carolica 92,

South CaOTi'a 96, GwwfteiOO, BoridifcfitaSff *19, Alabama$5, Missisi^pi 101, Louisi-I rata 100. Texas 91, Arkansas 97, TetJieseee 87, Sout& 'Carolina, 'Louisiana, and •v Tennessee here made ao (flhangej Florida (has gained !four pointe Georgia and

Alabama thnae Mississippi two, and Arkansas onet North Ca®o«tia has fcoet one, Virginia Shree. The erop has a sligfet di?.advantage it is «. few days lateiftfct"^uiJ.. ... !'io Atlsatic states. There hr.s boeaa iittle daaaage froaa drou^it, rain orsnsects. A few reports from Texas and occasionally one from more eastern states indicate a lack of rain a larger nuedber in the&failf states including a few iia Texas mention an excess of moisture which is injuring flat lands. Shedding of forms aod bolls with rust and bligh& are much less prevalent than usual, l&e caterpillar has as yet done BO damage though reported in several counties in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas. It is rare i& Missiesppi and is not reported in Arkansas and Tennessee.

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FAVORITISM ENDED.

Our Army At Last Resurrected. WASHINGTON, August 10.—The recent general army order sending officers back to their regiments after a period of four years on dftfcached duty is provoking jsmch discnssion among officers in "Washington. But two officers now on duty here will fee comjsellei to join their regiments gt once. They ere •Captains (Gregory and Davis of Gen. Sheridaste staff. Captain Davis was ireceutly assigned to Btaff service "but he FEAS been OTI detaciied duty for a number *of year®. Offioere who favor the order «y that favoritism, is now ended that officers wfll not be allowed to remain away from their commands ten '®r fifteea years foat captains who haw never seen their companies will have sn opportunity te look at them aud that men who have'been on the fr©otier ®1most a score *df years -will now toe permitted to tadfhe the swsets of army Me. "That order*' said an officer today. "means the cresurreefcien of the army.""

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WASHWSTON, Aug. 10.—The IB8U» of sfitandardifiollars from the miute during •the year ending August 8 was $285j998. 'The issue during the corresponding jperiod laat year was .fR221,498.

KING COTTON.

Y'-\ The Biggest CKD in Years. & WAsmaKTON, Aug. SiOs—The «turns«^ the department of agriculture make a '&r>flight improvement of the condition of fe te -cotton oniihe first of &ag., the general average being 96^, a jsoint onljy once •exceeded in the August returns of ten years in 1880. The average in August 1882 was and only South Carolina

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Nww YORK, Aug. 10.—The firni" of Enmons & Roach, iron, at 230 and 134 Cedar street, made an assignment today for tbe benefit of creditors to Francis li. Tobin without preferences, A representative of the assignee state 1 today that the failure was due to tbe generd depreciation in the iron trade that the creditors of the firm had been pressing their claims threatening to sue the firm and that attachments had been placed on the firm's mill property in Pennsylvania. It was said also that the junior member of the firm was a grandson of John Roach, the shipbuilder, whose failure had greatly excited the firm's creditors. Messrs. Emmons & Roach consulted counsel and acting upon their lawyers advice, decided to make a general assignment for the protection of all the creditors. The books will have to be thoroughly examined before the liabilities and assets can be determined..

CHARLEY FLA1D.

The Story of That Illinois Trouble. Detective Chas. D. ilaid returned Saturday night from Illinois. He went over to arrest George Kilbourne, who is wanted here for forgery on a charge preferred by Griffith & Hedges. While trying to arrest Kilbourne last Wednesday Mr. Flaid shot him. Kilbourne was running at break-neck speed through acorn field. The affair was not understood in its right light by the officious officials in charge of affairs at Lovington and the result was that Mr. Flaid was placed in custody, but he was not put in jail as reported. He consented to the payment of a nominal fine for shooting fire arms rather than test the case, which he could have beaten, but of course at considerable expense to himself. In the meantime Kilbourne got away.

MATTHEW BRYANT, who cut Wie^ins, has compromised the case against him by the payment of a small sum of money to Wiggins,

AT THE TOMB.

Final Services at Riverside Park. A special to the St. Louis Republican gives an interesting account of the final services at the tomb at Riverside Park, which occured at 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon, after the GAZETTE had gone to press. "The car stopped abreast the tomb, the guard of honor ascended to bear down the casket Col. Beck formed his two companies of escort into a hollow square between the tomb and the hearse. The family carriages had drawn near. Their occupants alighted and took positions near the foot of the steps of the car. So they stood while the oasket was being removed from the car. and when.it was borne into the the hollow square toward the vault the relatives followed in this order: Col. Fred and wife, Mrs. Sartoris and the colonel's children, Julia and U. S. Grant, U. S. Grant, Jr., and wife leading little Nellie, the daughter of Jfesse Grant, Jesse Grant and wife, TJ. S.

Grant second son of Orville Grant, Mr. Fred Dent and Mrs. Dent, Dr. Cramer and wife, Potter Palmer wad wife, Hon. Jffihn A. Creswell and'wife.

The oedar case rested on supports ai the doosr of the sepalchre. The casket was deposited therein. Meal© po6t 1, of Philadelphia, represented by fifteen men, dirded the«ssket ThecommaaSer toofe post at ttoJ head vith omoecs and post.commanders at tho foot chaplain stood the fodb Mid #ie colons were pl»o®d front. The serwees were*then perfosened aoo«rding to the ritual of the G. A. R. Atthere OOBBIUsion, Rev. J. W. Sayers. chaplaiu in chief of the dqpartment»af Pennsylvania G. *. R., deidrrered an address, utter which Rev. H. Clay Tffimbull offered prayer. Thefeugle call'•"rest" wac then sounded. Dr. INewman cnd Bishop Harris (tben readtthe ritual«3ervice for burial.of the M.iE. chrfrdi. Direct^* behind the buwal party stood Gen. Hencadk. At his elbow was President Cleveland, i'ice-Presiflent Healricks and membeze of the odbinet. N«tr the head of the easket on £he right Shermau. and Sheridan inifall unifornc. were una:A'ered dcring the eo tire servioe. At their aides were Presidents Arthur and

Hayes and "Senator Sherman. 4)n the other side df the casket opposite were Admiral Porter, Eitohugh Lee, Gen. Gordon and Gen. Backkner. When the religions service had endtd, the trumpeter eff Co. A Fifth artilley, stepped aip to the closed casket and sounded the tattoo. Little Julit then laid OBI the coffin a wreath, "To ©randpapa." The guard af honor bore the remaifts within the tomb at 5:03 clock and pUce^tjtom•with^Utgg

iflbOVde "'i The family «vntered tinso tomb, resaaining only a few minwies. They ifchen sought Vbeir oBrriages uod, when e«terjqg, the iSevewth and Twenty-seaond xttgimente in line on fcbe bluff feed tkreee volleys "toward tie river, after M&uch Battery F, Fifth artillery, fis?ed three salvos fross the knob, toward the hotel. The £amily carriages drove awxy, tout were iMt oat. of sight icSben pereoBs attempted to defaee the tomb by writing names upon iL A guard ®f regulaxa was mounted at once, tbe military marched, the dignitaries rode away aid tbe long chapter was ended."

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The Tomb Closed And a Military Left in Charge. NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—A thousand men and women lingered around the tcmb at 6:30 o'clock, when, the young undertaker, Stephen W. .Merritt, unlocked and swung open the great iron and oaken doors to allow Patrick Cregan, of Pittsburg, to seal the great solid steel outer case which inclosed the coffin and its cedar box, seven men from Troy descended into the tomb, and by the tight of flickering candles held aloft by a boy drove fifty-six bolts of steel into the front wall of the steel case, making it absolutely air-tight and water-proof. Park policemen and citizens who had got through the lines somehow, crept down toward the weirdly lighted tomb and begged and tried to buy bits of coal from the furnace at which the bolts were heated, pieces of burnt candle, rings of rubber from the bolts and even splinters of wood in which the bolts were packed. They wanted them for relics.

Some of the bolts were found to be imperfect and were drawn out of the steel case again. Park policemen and the workmen eagerly seized them as souvenirs. The last bolt was driven at 8:48 clock and then tbe case was fastened down in place upon the packing of plumbago, inserted beneath it to prevent possible damage to the marble slabs by reason of the great weight of the steel case. It turns the Scale at 3,850 pounds. The whole case was next painted with dark water-proof paint to remove the work of two vandals who had scratched their names on the case while it was on exhibition. Last of all young Mr. Merritt screwed upon the western face of the case, a solid copper plate. It bore the inscription: "U. S. Grant, died July 23,1885."

The screws were driven with the ebonhandled, silver-plated screw-driver with which all the screws of the ooffin have been fastened. It was made expressly for the purpose, and will be preserved as a memorial and never used again. Upon the handle is a silver plate inscribed 'Gen. Grant" The work was over at 10 o'clock exactly. Undertaker Merritt locked the great doors with a huge brazen key and handed it over to Police Captain Beattie. Then the police formed in double ranks and marched away in the faint moonlight, leaving Uie tomb under the guard of Capt. FesUnden, with the sentinel pacing to and fro under the hemlocks that cluster just above the tomb.

ESTABLISHED 1869. TERKE HAUTE, IND., THURSDAY, AUGUST 13,1885.-TWO PARTS,-PART FIRST. $1.50 PER YEAR.

At midnight the desolate little knoll was deserted by all save th« soldier watchers. The cross above the tombstood out in glistening outline against the emerald back-ground of the mooniit grass. The echoing tramp of the sentinel sounded faintly on the night air, and just under the bluff overlooking the river the little camp of the Fifth artillery had gone to sleep under its white tents. The encampment has been christened Camp Grant, in memory of the dead General. Its members fought with him at Shiloh under Captain, afterward General, Terrill. The camp remain on guard for thirty days.

THE GRANT FAMILY.

Their Plans for the Future.

NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—In an interview yesterday Col. Grant said: "I think that father's book will appear before ong. We do not yet know exactly what or how much manuscript there is. The last pages my fatiter wrote have not been looked orn nad there is an amount oC matter not i« form for publication. On my retura. to Mount MoGregor, I shall devote the next four weeks to looking over the mamuoripts. I shall make oopies all his papers and preserve tke orifinals. I aim not yet sere whether or not there 'will be enough matter for two volumes or ndt, but what there is will be puhtjfthed witfh as little reviling as possible. 'The stay will be {brought down to my father's death and when thi* has been done whatever there is will be printed.

In "regard to his motherte health Tie saift: "My mother is physically very strong, and I hare no k»bt thdfc tine she will regain her usual henlth. Sba has been coriSned unmmittingtr for aikng time to mf father's feck room. If sba had net been very strong, she would hove broken down long sago. I think that with a change of Surftnmdinw, she w&l recover rapidly. As tto the fnture plans Of he faix£ly, I cannot speak verydefinitely. We shall ge back VD Mt' McGregor andramain utffcil fall, 'When tbe family unust separata. Mrs. '©rartt wfil doubtless occupy tthe homo on Socty-sisik stredfc."

Col. Feed Grant'siPlans.

3$EW 3SOBK, Aug. 10L—The Worid pnoits the tfollomng special from :6aratoga: I was shown a dispatch yesterday w&tsh saysithat CoL Fred Grant has accepted the position of eegineer «cf railsoad company which IE backed by the ataltimore & (Ohio railcaad and 'the Wisaonsifr flstrtt# fctf -th*. purpo«b of makisg anew entrance isrto Chie^go. Cal.i3~rant will,g©Ao Chiengo to 4tke charge of thictnew work as moon as Ihe hasttime to gsrtheft together Shis father's papers and the jooso threads of his affairs. Col. Grant has bad a very thorough education as an engineer «t We«t iPoint an4 Aoald do very well the r&ilroad business. There no doubt that President Cleveland would give him aiooaimissionin tbe army but Col. Grant, ait is said, has ifSualy resolved to take bus tdnances ineivil life."

A PICNIC'S SAP ENDlNfc

A Judgment on Going Picknicking on Sunday. CHICAGO, Aug. 10.—Three wagons full off people rertaarning from a picnic, came abreast near the suburban town of Jefferson late last night.. A race ensued and the horses were lashed into a ma Suddenly a drunken man in one of the wagons arose and snatched the lines from the driver. The wagon was overturned and the occupants thrown out. The driver was instantly lolled, falling under one of the horses, while a baby was knocked out of its mother's arms and mangled to death. Several other people were badly injured. The locality is remote from telephone^ connections and the names of the victims have not yet been learned.

One of Grant's Horses Dead. CHARLESTON, WT Ya., Aug. 10.—John Baker, of Eagle, Fayette county, a soldier, who fought with Grant at Yicksburg was the possessor of a horse which was shot under Gen. Grant the day before Yicksburg fell. Though oM, the animal was without a blemish except the scar received at Yicksburg. Last. Thursday he refused food and in spite of medical treatment died on Saturday.

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Suit For False Imprisonment. Louis' Tucker and Isaac Winfrey, both colored, have commenced suit in the Circuit court against Superintendent of Police Lawlor and Officers Taerwilier and Yort for false imprisonment, asking damage in the sum of $1,000 each. Tucker and Winfrey were arrested on suspicion of house breaking. There were sufficient grounds for their arrest on suspicion and the same will be shown on the trial if it ever comes to a trial, as it probably will not. There is absolutely nothing in the suit.

MAN KILLED

In the Mine at .Minshall.

ROSED ALE, Ind., Aug. 10.—(Special) Pat Marshall, one of the negroes lately imported from Yirginia by the Park County Coal Company, was killed in mine 3 at Minshall Saturday.

He was struck by the cage which broke his neck. He Was buried yesterday in a new graveyard dedicated on the Coal Co.farm for the colored peoples benefit. Everything quiet between the negroes and strikers.

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He is Apparently Unconcerned About •Hi* Capture.

Partfciilars of His Arrest and Arrival Taken From a Special Dispatch.

SAN FRANCISCO Aug. 11.—Maxwell was escorted to the gangway, and, with onb St. Louis detective preceding and one following him, he went down to the boat oAr a swinging ladder. It would have bifcn impossible for him to have descentted safely had he been manacled. On tile passage from New Zealand, he was manaoled at night and the two detectives stood six-hour watches over him day and night. He caused the detectives no inconvenience and throughout the pass age ww

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as nMbh as at any time since he was arrested in New Zealand on the requisition of President Cleveland* Maxwell, as loo descended the ship's side and took a-seat in the cabin of the Hartley, surrounded by the St. Louis and San Francisco officers, looked like a smaller man than the one which was described te the San Franoisoo police and for mtiom thqy searched in this city. His faceha| a little color in it. There were dark riQijp under his eyes. His appear ance indicated negieot, but 1 HIS MANNER WAS TDHEMBAMASSDU When he was first accosted in his stateroom on the Ze*limdia by year correspondent he said ihe IMS a frenobman and a native of Paris, aged 34, and that his name was Dimguier, and viien reminded that &e had been known un•der other names, he said that mattered nothing for other mea had known to have mere than one name. He said -only th*t he had known C. Arthur Prel ler, andfceyondthis be would not say anything-whidh'mightiin the most remote decree bear upenthe crime

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.-and for which tie is to be Med in St. Xouis. "I haf« been advisei by rny attorney in New Zealand to say uotlmg whatever aboct the case," was his invariable response (to allguestions ashed him by either n^porters or officials. To Chief CrowtoMttd Cant. Lee ihe said that hod taken Abe advice of bis attorney, and to this Ihe should adhere. No fear of .anything shonld make flxon speak before be was 'brought to tried. He satitl this fimly.

SURPASSED AT HIS ABBBSC. "I was of eonrse, surprised at New Zealand to be arrested." he said. "I had gone there partly for pleasure. I intended to have remained there two or three *veeks and then to have visited Melboarn and Sidney. I can say concerning tbe detectives that they have treated me throughout with the greatest eonrtesy. My health, I am happy ta say, was never better than it is now. So you heard it reported that I had been a clergyman? Well, I don't think that I look like a clergyman, and certainly do not feel like one." As to what his line of defense would be, he would say nothing. When, also, it was told him that the insurance companies had broached a theory that Preller was not dead, he made no reply and his ex-

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iression was unchanged. Chief Crowwho talked with him, said Maxwell APPEARED TO BB VERT SHARP. and that there was, in his opinion, little doubt that a discreet silence woald be maintained by him throughout The St. Louis detectives were non-communica-tive. They have with them the warrant of extradition signed by President Cleveland and the warrant by which he was committed by Wm. F. Drummond Jervois, the Governor of New Zealand, to the custody of the officers. In court in New Zealand, Maxwell appeared, so Detective Badger says, perfectly calm. He made no defense to the testimony furnished by the detectives from St. Louis. To them he has always said that he should follow the advice of his attorney and refused to talk about the offense with which he is charged.

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technical or otherwise, were placed in the way of the detectives, and they had only to go to New Zealand present what proof they had tending to show a cofiection between Maxwell and the cril~L and return on the same steamer whici&carried them out. They had no troubENyith Maxwell. He was seasick on the home trip, as was Detective Badger.

THE OFFICERS BBFUSB TO TALK. "When you ask me if I have any ad ditional evidence," said Detective Badg. er, '*1 decline to answer that that wil1 only appear at the trial. Maxwell's face is fringed with a brown beard, side whiskers and mustache. He was dressed in a black diagonal frock coat, a light oolored broad-brimmed felt hat. His face seems almost womanly in the delicacy of the color. Much of this is due to the fact that during the trip he has been kept out of the sun in his stateroom. He was found by the detectives at Mt. Eden Jail, the Government prison. The steamer sailed from New. Zealand for San Francisco July 21. Two hours before the Zealandia sailed the detectives wero given the warrant, from the Governor of New Zealand, which was addressed to "The keeper of her Majesty's prison, at Auckland," and to "James Tracy, a detective, of St Louis," etc.

SHERIFF CLEARY yesterday took Jno Downey to the insane asylum.

PETITIONS.

heir Worthlessness Shown in Court by Lawyer Duncan

Who Showed a Petition Asking for the Hanging of a Reputable Citizen. GALVESTON, Aug. 11.—In a suit at Longview, Hon. John W. Duncan, one of the attorneys in the case, vehemently argued that no value or reliance could be placed upon petitions promiscuously signed by citizens. Opposing counsel refuted Duncan's argument scathingly and characterized it as absurd and idiotic. The court and the jury were also against Duncan. They believed petitions in any cause, if signed by good men, were entitled to respectful consideration. Chagrined and defeated, but not convinced that he was in the wrong, Duncan quietly went to work to prove that the petihons were of no value. Ingenious zeal was rewarded yesterday, when in open court he read a solemn petition praying that the court would hang their fellowtownsman, Lttke Howard, who is one of the most respectable and enterprising citizens of the place. Duncan displayed the names of all the county officers and fifty business men signed to fhin ludicrous petition. Among the signers were the brother-in-law and the father-in-law of Howard. Every signature was proven genuin, and it was conceded last night that "Lawyer

Duncan is just a little the smartest man in Longview.

Enriched by Grant's Deaih. NEW YOBK, Aug. 11.—The man heavily enriched by Grant's death is Mark Twain. He is the principal of the firm of Webster & Co., the publishers of Grant's biography. He has already received orders from the army of canvassers for 300,000, and he expecte to finally sell half a million here and in Europe. The retail price is $5.00, the share to agents and middlemen $2.00, the royalty to the "Grant family seventy-five center the cost of manufacturing and delivery $1.50, leaving seventy-five cents dear to Twain and his partner. The shrewd humorist had to risk his entire fortune in the enterprise, but he

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refused to shirk the chances of by dividing the possible profits, and the net result to him and his partner will be a quarter to a third of a million dollars. Mark waa a very solemq and a decorous attendant at the funeraL

Death of a Texas Millionaire. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., August 10.— Moro Phillips died at the Monouth House, Spring Lake, yesterday afternoon, aged 75 years. He was one of the largest real estate owners in Texas. Many years ago he was shipwrecked on theooast of Texas and was so delighted with the country that he bought a large tract of land and erected the first house upon the ground where the city of Galveston now stands. His fortune is estimated at $10,000,000.

i-f Cloverland Cinders. John M. Lucas has returned from Dayton, Ohio, where he has been on a visit to the Soldiers National home.-— Our town was visited by Sam'l B. Riley, editor of the Brazil Minor, and afire insurance agent What need has an editor with a "fire" insurance agent? School commences here September 14th, G. W. McBride teacher.' Services at the U. B. church as follows: By Rev. Branson, Saturday night, August 15th, and on the morning and evening of the 16th. By Rev. Penny' Sunday morning and evening, August 23d, and by Rev. E. J. Jenkins, on Sunday the 90th. The infant child of James T. Jackson died on the 9th inst. Sunday evening our little town witnessed quite a scene the minister in the pulpit preaching, and two men quarreling in the streets.

Mr. Reynolds, the cooper, of Terre Haute, visited Gyrus Reeves on the 7th. Chas. McNeely was in Brazil on the sixth. ..

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PIERSON TOWNSHIP.

A township Fair Ptooosedto be Held This Fall. A general desire has been expressed by the farmers of Pierson township to hold a township fair this fall, at some time after the oounty fair. With this object in view it is thought advisable to hold a meeting at Centre School House on Saturday, August S2nd, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. This meeting will be held for the purpose of consultation and arrangeing a plan of proceedings fixing the time and place of holding the fair and making other necessary arrangements. AJ1 citizens of Piersbn township who can attend the preliminary meeting are earnestly invited to do so. It is to be hoped there will be a full attendance.

LOUIS RIEL'S WIFE.

Loses Her Reason upon Hearing of Her Husband's Sentence. WINNEPEG, Aug. 12.—When Mrs. Riel, who resides a few miles outside of the city, heard of her husband's sentence she became frantic and rushed from the house to the woods, where she hid. She was only partially clothed and in her barefeet, and .was nearly dead when found by her friends. So terrible is the shock that she may never recover her reason. A great deal of sympathy is felt for her and her children, and a subscription list has been started for them, as they are penniless.

MINE DISASTER

the Fresh Air Fan in a PeBnsylvania Mine

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GAS EXPLOSION.

Ten Men Killed and Many Wounded. WILKBSBARBE, Pa., Aug. 11.—Reliable information has just reached here that a terrible explosion of gas toot, place in the West End coal company twinfta this morning at Mocauqua, fif teen from here. As far as can be learned ten miners were instantly irin«t1 and several others dangerously injured.

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I WILKESBABKE, Pa., Aug. 11.—Further intelligence of the disaster says: The fan engine that supplies fresh air to the west end mine at Mocanaque, broke, depriving the miners of air. Four men ave been brought to the surface dead, and four or five more are yet in the mina and cannot be reached owing to impure air.

Just before the mght shift went off duty the fan broke. The boss knew of this and so did the men of the day shift before they entered the mine but notwithstanding this they went into the mine taking a great risk. There were about 80 men in all who were supplied With safe lamps as it was well known that the gas would accumulate.

About 75 men were in the mine at the time when the work began. The workmen repairing the fan were the first who were overcome with gas and in about an hour later the same fate happened to many more in the mine. Before th^ men fairly realized the dgnp^r ttOre than 20 were uncoilficlous. Those who* could then escape, did so. Superintendent John Teasdale and several of his men became unconscious and were with difficulty rescued. Others went down and in the face of immense difficulties and in spite of being continually overpowered witingas got out all but 10 men. Three of those brought out were dead and the* other 6 are beyond doubt dead. The dead as far as can be learned are James Whalen, Wm. Veneby, Peter Bernitzski, John Dilday and Hiram Mead.

Among those who are seriously overcome with gas and badly injured are Burt Tromer, Thos. Hutchinson. Jotn Andrews, John Teasdale jr., Henry Croup, John Eastby, Wm. Good, Fred Home fide whose names cannot be®learii!xi prebcut

Dr. Hughes, a prominent physician of Shickshinney, went down into the mine to assist the injured men, and was overcome by gas. He was rescued with difficulty and was brought to the surface

214 M.—Six hours after the accident Superintendent Trusdale, who is also part owner of the mine, is still unconscious.

COL THOMPSON.

Something About the "Old Man Eloquent." Commenting on an absurd item to the effect that Col. Thompson's address in this city last Saturday would be the last he would ever deliver in public the Indianapolis Times very appropriately says: "We hope this is not trne. Mr. Thompson is now Beventy-six years old, but his meutal faculties are exceedingly well preserved, and he writes aud speaks with unabated freshness and vigor. He is one of the oldest surviving ex-congressmen, having boon first elected in 1841 as a Whig. He has probably addressed more audiences on political topics than any other Americao-living, and always with charming eloquence. We trust he will address many more before he quits the public stage. He is a veteran, bat he does not 'lag superfluous.'"

How this story, that it was to be his last public address was* started the GAZETTE does not know but at any rate it is without foundation Col. Thompsons health is excellent despite his advancing years, thanks to a strong constitution and exemption all, his life from the vices which undermine the strength, and is capable today. of doing more hard work than many men greatly his juniors. No public occasion is complete without him, for he touches no subject he does not adorn and makes no speeches which are not models in matter and manner. Terre Haute since it was a village in its times of joy and' soi row has always had him as the chief interpreter of its public opinion and it hopes to have him for many years to come. His mind is as active as ever, his voice has the same clarion ring to it as of old and the GAZETTE has no doubt that when the people call upon him, as they always will while he is among them, he will respond, as he has always done, to their call.

NEVINS TOWNSHIP.

Report of S. P. Webster, the Trustee. RECEIVED. DISBURSED. $ 501 20 Tuition $225 50 1354 10 Common School 272 95 502 28 Road 333 54 296 17—Township 238 46 504 24 Special School 660 94 228 50 Dogtax 6 00

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