The Syracuse Register, Volume 5, Number 44, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 6 September 1894 — Page 2

Syracuse ill cgister. SYRACUSE.' t : INDIANA “~ * — , Pahagvat is governed under a constitution whlchiastrikinglvsimilar to that of the United States. Phii.adkl.phiA has hin organized charity which supplies-to the poor at actual cost ice, sterilized milk and prepared infants’food.. If you want to see the highest light? house on the American coast go to Cape Henry, Va. The structure is 163! feet In height, built wholly of iron. California has one of th*.moat remarkable timber belts in the world, embracing 4,125 square miles and containing 132,000.000.000 feet of lumber. The edible dogs in China arc known by their bluish tongues. They never l ark and are very tacittira. Four arid - a half millions are slaughtered an- • nually to titillate the palates of the celestials. ’ • a As ambitious engineer in Pittsburgh to lay a pi pe line from that city the nearest point on the Atlantic ■ coast for the purpose of’ supplying thii people of western Pennsylvania w:th sea water for bathing purp-w’S. Sexatoh Ransom, of North Carolina, has niudc but one speech’during hiji ‘ fifteen years ~.f ffervide'.in "the '>enutei. ! Before he was sent .to Washington he ; had the reputation in his own state of being a tine orator He gave up being eloquent. he says, on account of a 'tendency to heart disease. . A MtAHC advertiser, who offered for | * small aum to supply womeia with I , '4F- ’ bectrarrested in Boston; j for misusing .the mail*'. He sent two rubber bands to each inquirer with the ■.advice':;" "-.Sew-1 ( t>n'e epd to the hat ana .fasten’' the I other end behind one of youfe ears . ” | " ■ ■ Wonder' is somet uses expressed as io where 'all the bicycles made each; year are - id To answer this <po s. ’ t.on Hardware says that in a certain little 'town in 'Ohio, which { »m *scs a■ • p.".[at..f all ■tit I,..there hJ’cS s,\'\ bicvcles o« ned. Then multiply t.ovti wi. ?le I : "tatev. 1N a patent cassr .in. New York recent- ' 7y one of -.'lie lawyers consumed tv.o days'ln •!■.-■■: i g the differences te- I ’tween two scientific appliance*. When ■ he had finished |he piAjte quietly sa. l to ■ hili'; "Now, Mr. ——.you wilt . please tel’, us what- is the diffcrvtw. " i ... law • er ;t :s sa hasii t re\owry«d jet I Tin, three W interbrptl .er*. Berk*. Pa . «’>.».• <• mb tied ages make lit 0.. wars. are outdone. in 'this respect |by three js Mrs Margaret l.wipg. aged Mrs Elizabeth Zell. a*>. and Mrs Mart a Lancaster, tn -the same slater i!>> ir ebml iiied ages amount to thirteen y ears u;. t.sii the agg-.gateof the Winter brother* age* ■ • ’ ■ ' .. I. s-s.j a j -of. twenty-five.!, years, there have been but Jw divor.-. - granted' in t'anada. The ex-plaiiatton . ■given is t at t:>e'v cost too much.. I In’’ all 'hut.’- two \‘>r three of thy provijtofcs I [parliament passes on Ihu quest: po eourt Is-O'o authorized t > grant legal separations, and only the wealthier cap afford '.th,, e.ipehse of a 'par-'' liamvutary hearing They are;,how clamoring for roa<U to legaljiteps j aratiou. ■ !- Ul.v.'E' 1‘ litoJiH.t:r.f. -of Greenwich. Mask., said to'lwi the oldest pastor, in | P"'iHtj>f service li; the United State:*,■ with,i>ne except>. n. preached his fare; w • . - > ■ ■ s ■ re n recently He has been past r of the (irernwich chprsch. for fifty -one year*.’ I>urii.,g ■ forty-three' year- of his pas ternate he ’was a).sent from his piilpit only once Herbas .offtuiatCsl nt; the’ funeral* of persou*. over liMUmore ';■ than . the present ■ population of the - ■ 1 . ■. " 1 ’" -" Tur gentle. IJresldent Madison was lie sp rt-iiian H:s ways were those', of a student, ami he lived the 'lmple ! life of a country gentleman without engaging in any of the sports that in- i tercsted his neighbor*. HisTriend and : mentor. Jeffenkm. Who lived twenty- [ five miles away, was more versatile. He nsle a great .'deal and much of his I riding was for; pleasure:. It’is pr.d.a- • ide that Jeffet’s >n did aome sbo|>ting. but it is not recorded that he was a sportsman. , Monroe was a constant I horaeback rider, and few horyemen; ever passed him on the road. He kept I good stock * , ! In the opinion of the St. l*aul-Globe the baseball season this year ha* been th®-’ poorest ever known. In none of the western cities has the attcndan.ce paid while in the east, al- ! though greater interest is maintained, th* returns have been far less than heretofore. It is very evident that the <Jays when fortunes tvere made out of a season s work by a ball club arc over, and that the public' demands either better playing or a change of game. Baseball is no longer the national game, for the natioti- has repudiated it and wilt never r again take it back into favor. The Indian of this country is in danger of t>ecoming too much American-, ized. according to the meaning which a certain element in this country gets out of that word. In its attempt to contribute to the comfort of its red wards the government furnished them with baking powder and other articles in use by the white*. A few days ago the head cook of one of the Indian homes mistook arsenic for baking powder and used it in th* bread. Fifteen imarders partook of the bread and are no more'. In consequence the order has gone forth to boycott all baking powder on the reservation. A niscovKHY of great scientific interest has beep made in excavations being earned on in the district of Tiaxiaco. state of Oaxaca. Mexico. A number of small images, formed in metal, were uncovered by workmen digging in one of the oldest ruins. These images are said to represent people of Oriental appearance—in Chinese or Japanese dress—some of them resembling Buddhist priests in their robes of sacrifice. They bear hieroglyphics of unknown characters, ami are elaborately wrought with fine art lines shown in every curve. They are to be -ent.to the of Mexico

Epitome of the Week. A- . — ’ -■■■ INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. UFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Kegular ScwionJ , Monday, Aug. 3?.—The senate held a short session Mid « mijourned without transacting any important business. In the bouse a resolution was offered to print the tariff bill, and Mr. Wilson said the senate bill, which is now a law, would increase the basis of taxation $63,000,000 over the McKinley law. Th® death of Congressman Shaw, of Wisconsin, was annonneed, and a committee was ap-' pointed to attend the funeral. Tuesday, Aug. 21—The last day of the second session of the Fifty-third congress was attended by just a score of senators. The committee appointed to call upon the president announced he had no further communication to make to congress. Resolutions of thanks .were tendered Vice lYesident Stevenson - and the senate adjourned sine die. In the house the resignation of Representative Oates, recently elected gov- ! ernor of Alabama, to take effect December ’3, > was presented. The com-; mitt, e ,app'>int«-' to wait upon the pres’..lent reported that the president had no further cominufiicatioH.to make to congress, and the speaker declare/! the second session of the Fifft-Urinl ' congress adjourned. ■ '• ■ ■ ■ - .' ■<■’ 1■ ' FROM WASHINGTON. Statisticfrom the? census office sL- w that nearlv one-half the families [ln the Uniteii States! own their own; homes, < . , „■ E.mhxnof* at the leading clearing houses >n the United States during the week ended on the 31st ult. aggregated $741.25e.'.'41. against sslS.4i>'.<kilj the previous week The decrease,.compa red with the' correspdrid ing week ’ ia. : .w as 14." - ■ I. In the United States there were I't/ -business-failures in the seven .days . ■:-oi, the -o.st ult.. against iJSS'ttte week previous and-356 in the -corresponding time in l-'.'S. j ThS suprirme assembly of the Pythihood in obnclave at Washr I • ,i■ I Mrs. George . Bemis, <w | . r- ;.-Mass., .as supreme clia:?celkrri? The Pythian Sisters elected o Mrs Ida M. Wea'<r, of l*es M-vne*. ■’ ■’.i., as supreme chief. ■ . ■ ! >, T“; a: ireceipts from ail Sources: ait.,' 'ilc-trea'sury during August amounted t- s-, . and the disbu’rsjementai I • $ ' leaving a surplusjfor tweT in >nt A opt-.*. [ j? The east. \ i;i liiaiiised baseball player,Uhariie ; i;. \ ■ • ,-r a- a result of a fit gamejplayed in lioston., .| i In b, « Je.-s, y the first direct steamship I i.e l-etween America and tlje west c.sist of Africa has In eu char--, tcred. .. , . i Um - ..Ms in state e nvenpon at ls>ver. !>«•]» nominate i Ebe W. Tuil- i ne!.. of Sussex county, for governor, p At the depot at Erie. Pa., tramps entered two Lake Shore. trains and r ‘ ,d tile passengers. Five were cap-; 1 u.r Brooklyn N Y. • biscuit works! were burned, the loss being over $200.row ■’ < ■ . A?, I'everiy Farms, near Boston,/ ilhver Wendell Holmes celebrated bisf *sth uirthday. , _ -| ’n a tenemepf bon.-,’ lire in New j A • ,rk etty ''l,-re;o l.yvine aged 53; J.o? i., v ;c> .uo-.; I?, and Elias Levine, 1 aged ' • ' - Ar East Nori ..Mass.., William Revell M<Hs!y.e! test -on of tiie revival-’; . w a- m.irr.ed t > M is- Marv A' hittie. [. , Ide.st .laughter,of Maj I>. W. Whit- . tic " ' The i-r • arrive! at Buzzard’s Bay: Ma'*, w here lie w ill spenda byiyf j X aca t ■ ’ ■' . . k 1 nr east ward and westward At’an- j tie records were broken, the. former! .! ■ ■:!•-.A p c.: A ivii'di tiia s*’ the trip from New ViTk to; Queenstowni in 5 days Iri.hours aud 47 iniiiut s.:th> latt. r by the - l.ueania, which made- the ' ■tr p from Queenstown to New : York in I a ' s New Ca~'TT.-e. Pa,- was' literally; d- ssied, with oonnterfeit ’juarters and I dimes. I.x Vice Piusiiiunt Monros in an’ . - .er to the republican* of New gubernatorial notu.nation. 1 WEST AND SOUTH. Thk * follow ,ng congressional nomination* were imported: lowa, Tenth ; district. Ji F. Babcock (dem.), lllindi*. Ninth • di-tiiet. I>, F. Thompson .I, , Thirteenth, W I t . Barnes 'yp.i. Michigan. Fifth distriet, W. A smith rep ? Sixth. It ~t. Kil- , bourne idem ■; Eighth, P. O- L rosby : p • Mmt'.es.-ta, First district. JI A. Tawney rep. renominated \Vest Virginia', Second district William L. ! Wilson . Idem?) renominated; Fourth, James u apehart ydem.l. Maryland, First district,, A. S. Dryden lrep.l. North Uarolina, Third district Cyrus Tfii’iiip'on [*>p I; Tenth. T. G, Milliken rep ' Mississippi, First district J. M. Allen idem.) renominated. Texas, J. O. Abbott (dem. i on the S,39Sth ballot Pennsylvania, jTwelfth district, W. H. Hine* idem.) renominated. 1X Iknver Gov. Waite, of Colorado, ai d t hree p-dice'officials were arrested, charged with opening letter* addressad to an ex-poliCe matron. • >; En Oijvkk fatally wounded Anna Carlock, and then killed nimself at an old settlers’ reunion at Chandlerville, 111. Nkak Fairmont. Minn., the house of C. J. Freeberg. • farmer,. was burned, and his wife and child perished in the flames. Fl wks wiped out the business portion f Elliston, a railroad afid-logging camp near Helena. Mont. Eirk destroyed the business portion ’irdiek. Ind. Freioht and passenger trains collided at Tower Hill. 111., doing damage to the extent of SIOO,OOO. No one was injured. 55 An International Migration society at Birmingham, Ala., has arranged for the transportation of 5.000 negroes to Lil’eria prior to November !. Whii.k going at full speed,the steamer Northwest ran on Bar point. Lake Erie, and a panic was created among her 150 passengers. She was in no danger. The state of Tennessee was said to have been defrauded out of $4,000,000 in taxes by derelict officials, and suits would be entered. A, vetkran railroad man, John C. Gault, died in Chicago from paralysis, aged to year* At Bonham, Tex., E D. McNitt, minus both legs arid one arm, killed Mrs. Martin, who had left her husband in Arkafisas, .because she refused to marry him, and Q»en took hj* Qw« lif*.

Fire destroyed the St. Denis hotel, two livery stables and three residences at Columbus; Ind., the loss being nearly SIOO,OOO. , By the death of an uncle in Wales, i John Jones, an Elwood (Ind. I tin-plate worker, has fallen heir to StiOOD.OOO. , 1 lx northern Wisconsin and Michi-’ gan forest fires continued to rage and, in the former state several’towns were endangered. Flames that originated- in Brooks’ Bros.’ lumber yard at St. Paul caused a loss of $110,000: Congressional nominations were re- ’ ported as follows: lowa. Seventh dis- [ trict, J. R. Bancroft (dem.). Illinois, Sixth district, James' j. Linehan,! (pop:); Tenth. John Olsen <dem.). In- ; diana. Twelfth district. Freeman Kelley (pop ). Wisconsin, Third district, C. M. Bullett (pop);. Fifth, 8. S. Harney (rep). Mississippi, first district. ■ L. A. Brown, (pop); John C. Kyle (dem.) renozninate.fi. Tennessee, I ..Eighth district, J. A. McCamm (rep). ‘Texas, Thirteenth district, B- B- Kenyon (rep.). i The firm of Pprke &. Lacey, dealers in machinery at Portland, Ore., failed ! f'mr 9135,000. Rei‘V»licans of North Carolina met in state convention at Raleigh and indorsed the populikt state’ ticket The congressional labor conimissiimf ’ after devoting fourteen days in Chicago to the investigation Os tbe’ recent [strike, adjourned to meet again in Washington September 26. Ix Detroit, , Mich., over 30,000 Sun-[ day school children marched in the annual rally day parade. It was Stated that an English syndi- .! .cate had purchased thirty-four paper mills in Wl-consin. The deal Involves ; 914.000,00a ‘ . ’ . . At Dayton, 0., Lord Clinton trotted a mile iu 3:12, breaking the, world's [ record for time over a half-mile track. The Diamotjd Match coinpany lost 005,000.000 feet of lumber by the forest ’ fires in Michigan in the Trout creek ■ district, and the Nester estate 20.000,- [ 000 feet. ' GeoK’.:: Thomas and-Richard McAvoy [ were killed at llartford, Kan..', in a quarrel over some chickens. On a charge of stealing horses Mary . lb pkins. once a society leader in Lawrence, Kam. whs in jail at Guthrie,, 'll r. - ‘ ;■ J At Fort Wayne. Ind;, Robert J,, owned by C. J. Hamlin, of Buffalo, N. A . broke the world’s pacing.record, making,a mile t-n'2:.O3’*,. While bathing |in Silver lake- at j Akron. 0.. Prof. 1): E. Conant, instruc'tor in the gymnasium of the'.' Univer- , sity of Chicago, was drowned. W ill MgGkite, of Geneva; .Ind., arid Ila .ar-k. M;-'>i :T. >f Deerfield, in !., culebrate i their HOth birthday. .They , are-said- to bie 4 the oldest twin*fin th® [ United StatesI'iri: swept away the business portion of the village of Roberts. The oldest practicing lawyer in ' Ohi'i. Judge John E Hanna, azed :90, his home in McConnellsville. |. Tin: town of Uvalde, Tex., was inundated by the bursting of an artesian weL ajul it was thoifght 200 persons owere drowned. The property loss was j estimated at SL-Wl.uOO. iTlik prohibitionists ”■ nominated a lull ticket for state officers in Colorado, headed bv George Rieha.rdsou for governor* NDMiNELS for congress were selected . as follows: Virginia. Eighth district.,. J. G. Mas-’tiipop. i. Texas. Fourth dis- [ trict. D. B Culberson (jlein.) retiomi- j lotted. , North Carolina. Third district, j [ Cvrus Thompson (pop . Sixth, <.l. li. | I, jkcry <repj. - ( The death Chaney Matthews, a Regress’llo' years of age. occurred at | Little Rock. Site' was the oldest real- f dent of Arkansas as far as known-

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. ■The king of Maori, Tawhlao I 1., died from influenza. - Police: iu X! Ilan arrested art anarchist In whose .possession. were papers detailing the plans of a conspiracy to stab the king of Greece. , Vaqui Indians afhbushed Mexican troops near Los, Guesim.es. and twelve o>j Gers a'nd one Woimili.'were killed. 1H i. ><, a fire among»the ibpver boats on the Canton river 1,000 Chinese were burned or.drowned. ■ LATER .'NEWS. 1 ■ Forest tires w iped out th towns of Hlnckley, Mission Greek. Milaea and Standstone in Minnesota. Bashaw, Bai r->r.< it. .Benoit, * art wrighto Fifiefd, Granite Luke. -Grantsburg. Glidden, Man ’ go, Mtiscado, Shell Lake South flange in Wisconsin, and Sidnaw, L.s eii and Trout Creek in Michigan. The total'less of life as far as known was placed at 404 and the loss to. property at 312.000.006.. llf.xky Loesche shot his wife four times at St. Louis and then cut his own ithroat.Guv Nathaxibl P. Basks, "famous as both soldier and statesman, diet! Waltham, Mass., after a long illness, aged J* years. ... Heavy wind and rainstorms wrecked several buildings at Indianapolis and destroyed hundreds of shade trees. Samvel J. Kirkwood, lowa's Avar governor and secretary of the interior in the Garfield cabinet, died at lowa <-ity. aged years. Smoke from forest fires became so dense in the city of Boston that artificial light was necessary at noon. Six negroes who had been arrested on a charge of l>arn-burning were shot to death by a mob while being taken to the jail at Millington. Tenn. A sew counterfeit two-dpllar bank note was discovered by the redemption agency of the treasury, department ton the. Commercial national bank of Providence. K.L * Mbs. ‘Thomas McEmeßy and her child were run down on a bridge and killed by a train near Fulton, 111. S. Bakos A Co., knit goods manufavti’rers of New York, were forced to? assign through the speculating of ajuuior partner Liabilities. $150,000. • Jons Kavffmas. a wealthy brewer in Cincinnati, 0., was fatally wounded by bis -wife, whom he had left. • Masked robbers tortured an aged couple near Warren, O:. and secured seventy cents. The old people would probably die of their injuries. • ThE first ocean cable ever laid in New Y’ork bay was put down by the Commercial Cable company. AvcoKDtXG to the treasury statement the public debt decreased 31,718.654 dur mg August. TnL percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league tor the week ended on the Ist were: Baltimore. .600; Boston, .63#; New' York, .636; Philadelphia. .561; Brooklyn, .542; Cleveland. .524; Pittsburgh, .491; Chicago, .463, Cincinnati. .435; St. Louis, .413; Washington, ,345; Louis’ ▼ills,

HEMMED IN BY FIRE A-veful Destruction of Li .3 in Northern Forests. 1. nineteen Town* In Minnesota and Wisconsin Totally or Partially Destroyed —Over 400 Live* Lost —Terrinle Scenes at Hinckley, Alina. DETAILS OF THE CArAsTHOfiUE. Chicago, Sept B.—Reports from the portions of Minnesota. Michigan and I ! Wisconsin iulwhieh the forest.fire* are | now raging show that the condition of affairs, there is mftre than terrible. The fioss of property, at a low estimate, has already reached $12,(HW,(XWj not Including the standing timber that has been? destroyed, But even worse is the loss of life which, it is feared, will reach as ; high as Nearly 400 case* of persons having perished hava alreadybeen received, While the reports as they continue to e >uw in are increasing the list The best information is tl.ut about twenty towns have already I been destroyed, driving thousan :.s of families from their home* in the face of the flames. The Loss of Life. Up to last reports the estimates of the lives lost in the tires at different points in the two states are as given in the following list, and it is feared the list is far below the actual destruction'/ of human life: • Hinckley Nt'.n'n. Sandstone, Min 1 : ........... ............... 4J Sandstone Junction - ... •> Fokei-ama, M’.r.n...'. ... .'••• ■ Skunk Lake. Mian .., .i. .......a - —' Shell Lake. M. u . . ...ts... 1 Miscellaneous jioiats. _ 4D r Total-.. .......0.0,... 4« . The pabljeation of a list of the dead is deferre I until fuller reports are received. Besides those who perished there are scores who were severely burned or otherwise badly injured . while trying to escape. List ot Towns Destroyed., The following towns ate reported either wlioily or-.jJa-rtiali-y. destroyed: lluhaw.’ Burnett county. WG : I .county. Wis ; Ewen, ; Midi: Fl&ekL I:-- C unty. Wia; Gran latke. IJam n cent" . W-is. Grw-tn-y. Bur- j nett.county. WLsl? *-.' ! ■ ? .'.... Wis.; Hinckfcy., Pine county, Minh M! (ro . 1'::.- c ■ tnty. M ■ . M c- vrity. V. ~ , M..a,-a.- Fine COUICJ V M '.raut W- s’? .. i. 4 W>.»L; urn cctinly. W’s South liangi i’ county. M’K: Sldna*-. K.-ugiitoacvii’.’.y. Mich. ■ Sandstone. Minn.; Troull. CTeeit. Mlcli 1 ■ ' The .Losse*. The losses at Hinckley and* Bar-. Yonett were each over Sl.e >, while the losses at the other towns reported destroyed, range from - to s.’• 1 - Ohi), according to latest; advices. The Ips* in Washburn- was esf mated', at $i?do,ooo. .. . . . j THE DESTKI < TION <>t’ liINCwLF-Y. | Terror-Stricken Hrsideiit* Perish While i I leo'.tiß From tin- I Pine i :i‘y. Mhiu . ' 'lU'.twn ; of Hinckley has Been v. ;p» 7 out ' v i.re an ! not less than 2()0 people . peris bed in'the flames. The walls of the ■ »!- house, the iron fence? aUuit t’l ■ town hail jprbperfy, the barfk vault and ' ■one absolutely uninjured-,' out-' are fill th.it is* left | to mark - the site whefc on Saturday staled -a score of storel buildirij - and a dozet' tin”’ many dwellinghouses. The story of the catastrophe is a short one. The town wa- bu.lt of wood. The sch ■ :;->e . e’-eclcd la.-t Year at a cost of S’Olpik). arid one-half ; the Duluth-round house were the only brick strnritires in the city. The’fire first struck Hii . " the ’ c;. -,’ s: a ... . - • - brave jfife-flgliters for the first . < ■ ready too .late :.?':'? i 1 . 1 !. ir ■: t- "at ! " t”" ■ . ?r-o'.:-

| 'lll safety. . ‘ Ea s ■ ! train from the' souths' .had just 4 come in Qnd itlhe- pcop: • of the piinicBt ' to ■ it safety. -A number of e box ears were coupled oy and tilled aril e v-. ered/with'men, wtomeii and children. Some were bareheaded, . :e Acre I coatless, spmpfew clut led a; t I bundle of. preeii iis f th r i porta-de p'svps->us. i am. es w a , separated. Children joined the throng and left pure pts. Iu a|l taive wa> a--motley crowd of about AjWtor more 'peoi pie, The tra in pul led on t j usT a head ■ -vfthe fire and succeeded in ultimately ■reaching Duluth. . » : The people who were left in the city ) were in what seemed to. be aii a.m -st I hop,-less condition: Egress by the only I means- Os transportation that could '■ hope to distance the swiftly advancing flames, was out of the questi . Horses were harnessed. to buggies and. wa.'ons Y»omen an I eh.i---j dren were hurriedly loaded; in some I cases attempts were, made .to carry out s. me hvusgWa goods, but in nwfct ijjp I stances the pgop! ‘ htful no thought for angnt but their l.iv<Jk I’. them left town on f<r r or in. vehicles, j plunging into the d’ood.s to the north, i across the Grindstone river, which ! skirts' the town on the north They 1 were literally flying before the pursui ing demon of fire. Over the hill that rises beyond the Grindstone is-a swamp, and to this most of the people with teams headed, but it proved no protection. The tire gave them uoMpportunftj' to go farther. >ome abandoned their team> au I ran into the ns of t;ic morass, but the fire sought-theip out. Xot one was left to tell Vic tale, .aid tliere. in a spue? of little more than four or five acres were' counted over 130 corpses. 1 here were many families of fivej six and seven, and there they lay. the men generally a little in advance, the mother surrounded by her little ones, cut off by the most horrible of deatlys. Nearly all the bodies were nude, the i fire bavins-'burned every vestige of | their cloqiing ami blackened and I charred . many of the corpses be-, s yond n ‘l*, and. Hies were wiped out as they were and some of the bpdies-com-pletely incinerated. Identification is absolutely out of the question. 1 nose I who fled to the north on foot foilowed I the Duluth track, and so rapid wa-Jiie progress of the flames that many of i themwere actually burned as they fled, falling on the right of way for a distance of miles or tpofe. Nearly thirty bodies were recovered along here. . ! Soon- Were llrownsd. . Just east of the city limits of ' j ley is an immense gravel pit. covering ‘ at least ten acres. In its center was a pool of stagnant water 3 feet in depth--1 ' Into this rushed many,citizens, there were probably a hundred of them, 1 I and in addition to the human 1 j beings quite a number of <i <mes- ' | tie animals, horses, cows, oxent p‘gs. ! chickens, etc., sought safety here. It ' | was really the. safest place about * Hinckley, The people went in here

as the eastern train palled out a few minutes after 4 o’clock and here they remained until after ! M, while the j smoke and flames from the burning’’ city rolled- over their heads. They dashed water over each other and covered their heads with, cloths to prevent suffocation. One unknown man succumbed to the smoke or the terrible strain and fell tn the w%ter and was drowned. T . Others of the citizens sought refuge lln the Grindetonla river, under the abuttmeuts of the two railway bridges ■ and the foot bridge. The exact num- ■ her cannot be known, as thev were scattered along a considerable stretch of the little stream. I i That many ‘ rbscaped add some were drowned is well known. Mrs. ■ j Martin Martinson and her four flaxen- “■ haired little - babes were taken from tlie water’s edge Saturday morning, ,as pitiful a sight.as man’s eye ever witnessed. They were upt touched by flames, blit suffered 5 the piore merciful death by water. Hinckley Destroyed. | ’’ In the .nieuntimb- Hinckley was burn-- ! Ing. The flames leaped from building to building w ith almost the rapidity of an electric spark. .Everything was tinder dry. Thferewas not even one ’-brick wall to stay for a. moment the I work of destruction, and all went, up I in, Smoke. . About two hundred and , fifty dwellings'with ajl their household treasures, twenty stores and all ' their stocks of goods, including the immense genv.-nl v<... ■ : t .e Brennan Lumber company, two hotels, the Central and Morrison: the railway depots, ami the new brick school, the town hall, the Duluth roundhouse,, the three bridges and at last the plant of the Brennan Lumber company, sawmill. planing mill stables, lumber yard and all. This institution was the j pride of Hinckley, and tiie.‘backbone . of its prosperity. CoHrcting the.DeajL I As night closed in the people began to come out from their, hiding places .an i made Their way over the hot embers, of their ci.tw They were absolutely da.'.’.l.by the catastrophe' and the night was spent ih-un endeavor to 1 find relatives or ascertain their where-' rAbouts. When the nj f ng ■i few energetic .spirits - began ‘to ! organise tn - work tor recovery of the bodies. The , searchers itcre dh .de 1 into parti/-. Between tiie river and Skunk laite furty-one were. • I up.the available vehicles save?! in .the [gravel pit a:i..l went out to the swamp i across the Grindstone. They brought ■in ninety i six 'todies; which .were carried . out I to the- d.~>-. 'late burying ground. 1 riiile ea-t of t. .vn. There w;:s neither I time’ nor opportunity to observe the j death. The excitement of the occasion,- ’. the horrible experience ’Trough .which the living had .passed,-.ami the more hoi> rip iti whii h < ath; had c,nne > I the 1* st ha i temporarily I luhted the • liner Seh^klities, and the dead’were i heaped bightoti thd wagons and laid in i piles in the cemetery. -The ninety—-ix | bodies brought into thi point were ex-, am in cd by many of the (surviving re-si- : dents .of, Hinckley, and- 1 at four could be ideniitud. Those-who 'd’oiftrlit in i the bpdu - from ttie swamp’reported that there were at leupst thirty-live I otherlaxiiesouvthere. Whole 1 ainOn's. i’erlshe.L Out ■ 1 to the east was-found the Best- family of , six pef*. o s in-;’. -t io - .’ au ' ur eh ■ f. it nit of t ■•• ' Here, alt .vere re.-■ - red ’ ; ■ ties - d hie. t ■fee e-.i.... -und a fondly ' er and seven . chiioi’e:.. (I. an- tner L.’ito;. of which there -were ‘five. ti: . ■ . t-.-r There wo'.a ,-et: •e-:.— i't of about t-hiriy tH'vipld near, tli.is lake and but two :tre known to b ■ i.l.ve. 1:: the w«><ids north of town was found a teiim of :: agriiticent gray horses harncH'd to the remains- of a th'-bodies <>{ a woman ami three-cl’.ti-but the hors -- were not 'harmed' .1 in the least, .and Were brought buck into town, ■ The totad 100 of life w-ill never be d-Cfinitely known, .There' w cw . uttered. • .through..’ the w<-"d-- -, tt . r-. clearings' and lumber eaarp.-. wit a their watchmen,f and ' :.i it.iy p- -p.e \ dies Were completi ly iesu never Ims found. ■ Less <if Life :.t Kar.lgCone. Fr'n:''umi't-'c ik::.g re- , ports. The town ha.- ’ - cii ah. .; >'t eompietely'destroyed. ■ fifty or sixty p. rsdns hav. !• en burned to death. r -:-r. i.r - A- bare been ■found- rviv r- ar sugerlm-gi-eat.ly for !’-“i .;<’■ I shelter. The town of I‘artr: Ige. u ro - tne river, was also bur:.cd. ’ Iv .e-. Elsewhere. I ’ In addition to forty-seven bodi< •- at Sa:idst*me there are : -.ve:.ty .s’ Kettle . River J unction. family is living in a root.lv s;~ a:.-I tn ■ lather is missing. All the: settlers, in the vica.ity are probably irnriie Ito dpath. O Neill Bros, had t . ' -near: Sandstone and all these are • burned. Most of the insnates, however. are believed t - have escaped’with ; their lives. .. There are about eleven homeless d hafe provisions for about t v.-i.t . -f-mr Vbourss Br -•< i - miles west .of ■ Hinckley. -- burned, arid there are .'.about I. ■ : ■■■ many of whom i are in need of immediate relief. J In VVjM-onsln an.l Michigan. I Mh.wai KKK. Sept. 3.—Forest fires are ■ raging in northern \t iSeonsin. W hole towns have been wiwd out and al: (.telegraphic communication with A-n---land” Bayfield and that region is cut off. Terrible forest fires ate raging in the vicinity of Rice Lake-and the town of Bashaw.’ 15 milesmorth q£ here, is ' entirely destroyed. No loss of life is i reported Barronett. 8 miles north of Cumber- ( land, and Granite Lake, a small town I 4 miles north of Cumberland, were I both completely , vviped out of existence. The people barely escaped with their dives and have dt'eo brougnt tc Cumberland. Four families are still m.ssing and it is thought they may have perished in the flames. Fire-completely destroyed the tow n of Ashland county. --’OJ families being left homeless. A less o! ■ about SSO,WJ was .sustained by fire at , Muscoda. i Isiti-EMIXO, Mich.. Sept. S. I orest - fires-are raging at various places ijj ■he . upper peuuinsnla. At Ewen s’.s : buildings bnruea Suny.-y. lin t town is threatened and high winds , prevail. Two hundred men an

fighting the flames A large amount of timber have been consumed. Nestorm is also ‘ threatened. Bridges on the South s;hore line near Marengo are all burned i and trains abandoned. . J ' THROUGH A SEA OF FLAME. ; ! Awful Flight of a’ Train Loaded With j I Passengers—A Brave Engineer. I 1 Pi.xe City, Minn., Sept. 3.—The St. ! ! Paul & Duluth train No. 4, south ’ bound with eighty passengers, ran ! > into HinckleJ- at 2 o’clock Saturday ’ ■j afternoon and proceeded thence to j I Mission Creek, 2 miles further south,- | only to -nd that village in ashes, j Conductor Sullivan issued immedi- ! ate orders to his ,crew io : back into Hinckley, but before the j train, running at 20 miles an hour, could reach-Hinckley the plac/ was in flames. The train stopped at the depot one fatal minute, during which the woodwork of the engine and the baggage car caught fire. TheArain qjuickjly resumed its backwanl journey | toward Duluth, and the very motion of the ears' fanned the flames, to a fury and they soon enveloped -the sleepers, passenger coaches and the smoker. ~ A Train on Fire. While the train was stopping at Hinckley nearly 200 panic-stricken .people of the place- rushed ~upon the platforms ami into the cars. -When they discovered the. train on fire they began | to moan, shout and, pray, which, with the awful rear of the .flames, made a I horrible picture. A milt out of Hinckley people,on the platforms, rendered franticTunatics by | the heat and their terror, began to I jump from the ears and plunge ..into J streams, into ■ sand heaps or into the j sm >ko-theompassed forest. A little | farther on those in the cars, stifled with ' smoke.began to smash ;the windows of the coaches in a frantic attempt to get a breath of fresh air. Driven buck by I the flames 'eating their way up the sides pf the freshly varnished coaches. . ; they stood in baffled amazement for a -’moment, when dozens of them in • i sheer desperation tumbled .theniselvds .'out through the open spaces tojt'ie’ ■ ground' ,some being instkutly - killed by the fall and others ’Lingering ■ i In the horrible heat and smoke unt I > -.suffocated. Took Kefugre in the lake; . In spite of -.he fact that the train wus on tire from engine to rear end ■ the crew bravely stood at their ;• >-1-. .. 1 ran the train back 6 miles .to .'■ku>nk 6 lake, whete the passengers . rushed out and , into the water: -Some of th'eidk were u . such a state of exhaustion that they were uuable to walk, and half a dozen A ■ were entirely unconscious -All of t • -these latter were rolled in the mud and ■ ’. laid on th#iir backs just far .enough Ont ■ into the lake |to Keep the w ater froitf | . ! running into their mouthsi All around the lake the forests were ■ roaring, like the furnace of aii imary 1,0 ■ ,bOO hprse-powet engine.- ■ Many of the people in the water stood • ami offered pray, vs in a loud voice for i oeliyerence The scene wa> one of the : most-remarkable ever witnessed. 1 flsT<> of fJi<* Thrt>it.lv. Engineer James. Root, who bad sb I bravely piloted the train through that i ' awful (J miles of fire, was found to be Lfatally burneiL Ha stixxi'faithfuliy at ■ ! his/post with his clothes/afire, and ■ manfully, battled to lavehe lives of, . i those on.lt/' train. ' Coilductor Sall’tvun,, enol and coi- . lecte.l -all through the awful journey, -.•’•er ■: '.'.as a 1 ost. became a raving*’ ■ t maniac. A ’. dt;< luUr .was pu-. • ' and I.to a I>U- . ' luth hospital. SIX htGRCTS SHOT. " > Arrestrd lor liarn-liurnliiß, They-Are to UeatJh by h 1 ' NAsmr.r.!-:. Tenn.. Sept.'tL —’A mob ■ .ar:-., ! nuisked farmers inter- - i eepted an officer oirhis way toMilling--‘I ton wilh/si’x ueigro .prisoners. .at.11 .’clock l-’.iday night and shot be ' handcuffed dead in the wagon in which they were being liatned to jail i r ’: ' Recently there have boefi a r,umb< r ’I of tire.- .in the vicifiity of Mi'lirigtou ’ , r stieli circumstances as: to ihdi—ere the work of ap'or-, I guhized .rang of incendiaries. Cotton ; gins, numerous barns and other outbeuses, and one. or two -dwell- • • itigs have been burned and the • diabolical work culminated in the ’(destruction of the buildings • on S' the fair gr. unds'ut M-iillugtorn’is, v--1 .d. were charged with: cpm- . es: •■ r. I-a yev■tn i ng I>epu ty S herifl kic h- " iirdsori arrestied Dan Hawkins, Glenn ■ White.AVarn tr Williams. John Hughes, • E-: Hall and Robert Haines, all col j ored. on w arrants charging them with 1 the crime. f The arrests Were made at. KeeviHe, - I which is a station on the Chesapeake ■IA Ohio, below Millington, The prisonw. re to haye had a preliminar.i “ ! hearing before a justice of the peage 1 ' at Millington. The deputy and one s ' guard, a white man named. Atkins lETtcd for that point with the prispp- - ters, who were chained together in a ■ ' wagon. As the party neared big 1 . creek bridge, a very Icmely spot in’ a - | de,nse forest and cane braae. almost a ' jungle, a voice from out the thicket - i was heard to say: ’•Tfirn to the right 1 ! —the bridge is down.” The deputy, who was on horseback, s ordered Atkins, who drove the wagon f ■ cpntain'iug the prisoners, to turn into .-.M r- a-l leading to the forks. As f thev did so a band of ‘about fifty •‘ armed men appeared and demanded i I the prisoners. The deputy remonstrated with those who seemed to be the ! leaders of the mob and protested ’’ ■ against any violence, but to no pure I pose. While the officer was being held I under cover of revolvers the rest of - | the mob drew their weapons and opened t a murderous fusilade on the defenseit ' less prisoners, . f' II , One of the prisoners, Hawkins, threw ' t his , arms, about the whi\e driver, ims ploring protection, when one of the mob. placing a revolver close to his head, blew the top of nis skull off! 11 The men w'ere not masked, but tieie ! ther the deputy nor the driver, Atkins, 1- recognizeil any of them. None of them k lives in that commuhitygand it was ° quite dark where the murderpus work 11 was done. y Deputy Richardson immediately apprised the justice of the peace of 11 what had been dond- A jury was sum- - mpned. consisting of four uegroesand d eight white men, and an inquest held, t The verdiet was in accordance wit! the 4acts as derailed by the only two ’t witnesses. * .. c — ■j Public Iri'pt Decreases. e Washisgtox. Sept Bw—According to ■ Is the treasury statement the public debt : e decreased during Auffust V

Cheap Excursion* to the West: An exceptionally favorable opportunity 1 for visiting the rjenest and most productive sections of the west and northwest will be afforded by the Home-Seekers’ low-rate excursions which have been arranged by.the North-Western Line. Tickets for these ex< cuysions will be sold on Sept. 11th and 2. r th, and Oct. Vth, to pointe in. northwestern lowa, western Minnesota. North Dakota, South Dakota, Manitoba, Nebraska. Cob ra* do, Wvoming, Utah, Montana and Idaho, and will be good for return passage xvithinj twenty days from date of sale, btop-ovew privileges will be allowed on going trip in, territory t > tViiteh the tickets are sold. ■ For further iuforination. call oner address Ticket Agpnts of connecting lines. Cireu* lars giving rates and detailed information will be mailed, free, upon application to W, A. Thrall. General Passenger and Ticket Agent Chicago & North-Westeru Railway, Chicago. - Doctor—“ Did you use the powders a_s I directed, every hourP’ Mrs. Giddy—“Yesa. but I put on a "little paint with them and in was a great improvement.” ” Three Home Seekers’ Excursions To all parts of the West and Northwest via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway at practically half rates. Round trip tickits, good for return passage within twenty* davs from date of sale, will be sold on Sep-> tember 11 and 25 tad October 9,1894. ■ For further infoHnatjon apply to the nearest coupon ticket agent or address G. H. .HeafforS. General Passenger and Ticket! Agent, Chicago, 111. The First Ark Light.— Noah was the first electrician. He made the ary light on Ajount Ararat.—Philadelphia Record. — * —? Home Seekers’ Excursions. The Missouri, Kansas A Texas Railway will sell tickets on Sept. 11. Sept. 25 and Oct. 9. at greatly reduced rates to all points in Texas', to "Eddy, New Mexico, and Lake Charles, La., gOod returning twenty days from date of sale.' For further information address H A. Cbenice, 12 Rookerv Building, Chicago. 111.; T. B. Cookerly, V 3 l,oeust st. Des Moines, la., or James Barker,G. P. and T. Ag't, St- Louis. Mo. No man is good who has come to the conclusion that he is good enough.-Ram 3 Horn. ' ■ Freshness and purity arc imparted to the complexion by Glenn's Sulphur Soap. Hill's Hair and WTiisker Dye, 50c? Bright people don't spend all their time reflecting.—Syracuse Courier. —: ■ — Ball's Catarrh Cure Is takeri in[grnally. Price 750.

That Tired Feeling Is due to an impoverished condition of tlie blood. It should be overcome without delay, and the best way to accomplish this result is to take Hood's Sarsaparilla, which Mood’s ' Siss-sc ' I will purify and vital-i-e the -blood, give/ OIVD strength and apne- yK, J tito and produce sweet a - . I refijeshing sleep. Be S’ re t get ■ Hood’* Sarsaparilla, and only Hood's! I Hood’3 PUIS rtirenausea, andb s. “WALTERBAKER&COr A, The Largest Manufacturers of pure, high grade cocoas and cram ‘ ’ n Continent, Hpvc n SPECIAL AHD HIGHEST AWARDS gU their (hi/iis at the f CALIFORNIA // MIDWINTER. EXPOSITION. I I ‘(lt -trBREAKFAST COGOA, | ‘ Which, unhke the Dutch I’*' •”*«•» . .» * i-.v* * »’til .• f 1 ' •. '’ - cr <-• ' •' - . j iy. pupe au*l •av 1 u bit., .ju. d twit* ittixa. one certt cup. 1 SOLD 3*f GROCERS i WALTER BASER & G 3. DORCHESTER. MASS. - —;k . ’ Florence | Silk Mosaic, Hand Embroidery on fC* 1 " ==a ** sSk Wtviif.ide >»vckt! sh rv'p ~ V ,r u.vtlivT.rT A X' *\v Ml f r t?:i3Ubc is called I"lorci./e ■ Mosaic-evtors. vreara- ‘ I w't : laa. nsvj blue, ’ ■ • «p* *• *>! ?.,ti uvk A Ihe < ml n id ‘ry i • ‘ 'h » w ;• 'UL .cyt'.’.v'li (EE< WashSi.k. ag-« t < : v :ch k p It' avoiding wasu.tbu< • and money ThoM« ‘ • ■ hi pat:eni3 cut the riiilr. h/x-rh ; ’fra tie. w ';i work! i; j .di- if -..i; : ' XvuticHjj and many n- w <•’. >’**tia ‘•i’lurrircv Home Needlewtrli” for i ■ »: v cortkvih- hcHL-z • L“2 D’.-.v Knitting : Or - Chet and Correct Colors for Fl A ‘ U ’ € it*. e:; tro idervd \vt tixCv Ft leel 1 p q XVi.>n # > i.d tt cents mentioning year, an-fy.-? w*4 1 I yqn the I - m AvsollCik SILK €O., • FLViIEM E, JAM, ifeO Fcr Durability,lconomy and for General blacking is unequalled. HasAn annual Sale of 3.000 tons. WE also FOR AN AFTER DINNER SHINE, OR TO TOUCH UP SPOTS.? WITH A CLOTH MAKES'NO DUST, IN 5& 10 CENTTiN BOXES. ? THE ONLY PERFECT PASTS. Morse Bro strop’s. Canton,Mas/ “aandl FERTILE—CHEAP—HEALTHY AMQsNOT TOO FAR FROM GOOD MARKETS. The JICHIGAX CESTRIL will run a M’ECHL HOME-SEEKERS’ EXCURSION SEPT. 18 to points north of Lanvin-, Saginaw and Bay City at one faro for the round trip. -Tickeia good twenty days and to stop over. For particulars address, O. M. BAKKES, or O. W. RUGGLES. < Laa«i n>n:mivM>n*r. Gen'l Pa»‘r ± TSckr.t A Lansing, mich. Chicago,“lll gffH Drilling Machines vVILL for any depth. I3Bg ii DEEP Best line of Portable and Semi-Portable Machines ever made. Drill 2to 12 ir.chea in diameter. all depths. Mounted and Do-ati Machines. Steam and Horse Power. Self Pumpine Tools for shallow well*. Rope tools for lr.rg*> and deep wells- State size and depth you want to drill. LOOMIS & NYMAN, Tiffin, Ohio. SALESiEMWANTED To sell Hardy Northern Grown Nursery Stock.. I-arge assortment finest roods rruwn. Cash every week. THE JEWELL NL’KFERY Co, N 0.514 Nursery Ave.. Lake City. Minnesota. S2EBS WANTED to sell hardy Nursery MS Is rS Slock, our own growing. W<»-pay saiary or commission. Address with references L. U. &MA6C * CO., Prep., Talon Xrra*>rtah Kaiawaioo, Miek. rK{3 PAPKR erwy tiriM yw Write. IS Best ciiugb Good. Um la tic-.a. Sold by druggists- Sjra