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CURRENT TOPICS.
London had a million dollar fire the oth
er d*y.
Tvino Kalakaua is writing a book. Re
venge is sweet.
A steam freight wagon is a success in
(Ban JDiogo, Cal.
Baltimore is agitating whipping-posts
for wife-beaters.
Boston police claim to have routed every
opium joint in that city.
Simon Cameron, the veteran Senator, is
being lionized in London.
Coffee ice cream is s a novelty; brown
bread ice cream is another.
There are twenty murderers in the New
York Tombs awaiting trial.
A New York miss teaches the art ol
walking, for sl, at Ocean Grove.
Potatoes are baked in the ground at Al
bion, Mich,, so intense is the heat.
Judge Gaslin, of Lincoln, Neb., has pre
sided over thirty-three murder trials.
Test examinations show that 8,000 out of
the 20,000 Alabama engineers are color
blind.
A failure to vaccinate is punished at
I hoenix, Ariz., by SBOO line or six months
in jail.
Martin Dexheimer, of Hillsdale, N. Y ,
has a pig two years old that weighs 900
pounds.
The Kansas corn crop will not be as
large as Yvas anticipated on account of the
drought.
Boodler McGarigle has sailed from
Quebec to Gibraltar. He took passage as
an invalid.
The Post-office Department has sensibly
refused to name a Nebraska Post-ofllee
'•‘Old Maid.” '
The W. C. T. U., of Chicago, will erect a
¥600,000 building in that city for a National
headquarters.
N. Goldsmith, of Maplewood, Sullivan
County, N. Y., has found a petrified potato
in his garden.
A pavement has been laid around the
Washington Monument and the grading is
nearly completed.
Cincinnati has subscribed sufficient
money to celebrate her centennial anni
versary next year.
It is a strange epidemic of great fires
which has marked this heated term. Even
the grass is burned up.
The travel to Alaska is greater than
ever before known, and it is likely to in
crease from year to year.
There are in Minnesota 1,501 licensed
physicians and 10 unlicensed. Of the
licensed 1,268 are regulars.
A Washington butcher has invented a
canvas hat for horses to keep off the sun’s
heat and prevent sunstroke.
There is a church in the east end of Lon
don where parties so desiring can be mar
ried for seven pence ha’ penny.
Mrs. Henry Baldwin, sixty-six, Birming
ham, Conn., is suing for a divorce from
her twenty-two-year-old husband.
The sugar crop of the Sandwich Islands
is estimated between 90,000 and 100,000
tons, as against 180,000 tons last year.
The 175 grandchildren of a noted Utah
apostle of polygamy are all under twenty
nine years of age, says the Pioche (Nev.)
Ufcord.
The salmon pack of the Columbia river
is over 200,000 cases short of last year’s
yield and an advance in price may be
looked for.
Mrs. Crawford, the Paris correspondent,
is said to esyn *IO,OOO a year by her pen—
the largest sum made by any woman out
of journalism.
Savannah has a company of female
militia. The company is composed of
thirty-two young women, Captained by
Miss Annie Goeble.
In 1884 Great Britain sent 602,828 gallons
of spirits to Western Africa, and Germany
7,136,263 gallons. At the same time America
sent 921,412 gallons.
Brooklyn has a horse-jockey whb is
said to be worth $200,000. This appears as
if horse-jockeying was almost as good as
running a newspaper.
A sydicate of New York and Pittsburgh
capitalists have purchased one hundred
thousand acres of pine forest in (South
Carolina and Georgia
Is t.iere anything a syndicate won’t un
dertake? One of these is just now' offer
ing husbands to one hundred young
women if they will go into Northwestern
Texas.
The doctors have discovered that a per
son who attempts to commit suicide by
taking laudanum can be saved by opening
the windpipe and pumping air artificially
into the lungs.
The oldest bank note in existence is in
the Asiatic Museum, in St. Petersburg. It
is Chinese, and is 1,320 years old. It was
issued by the Imperial Bank, and was
written by hand.
A “frofessor of swimming” who tulvor
t ses to.toacli the art ta six lessons was
rescued from drowning at a seaside resort
a few days ago. It is surmised that he got
beyond his depth.
A crystal of alum twelve feet high and
six feet in diameter was shown at the
royal jubilee exhibition in Mam hester. I
is of the finest quality and is l he larges
crystal ever made.
A file of snow was dumped in Fran fort
street, New York, the other day, from a
ware-house under the Brooklyn bridge
arches, and the small boys engaged iu
regular snowball fight.
Freckles, the 'Mnttific A men an says,
can not be entirely banished, hut a wash
made by dissolving three grains of borax
in five drachms each of rose water and
orange flower water is said to be excel
lent for them.
Ike Weir, the pugilist known to fame as
the “Belfast Spider,” acquired glory in
Boston the other night by thrashing two
men who had insulted a colored woman,
which shows that even pugilists may be
useful some times.
Mrs. Lena Hall, a wrinkled colored wo
man, recently applied to the health com
missioner of St. Louis for a burial per
mit. She said that she was 107 years old,
and could not live much longer. Sh«
wanted to atteud to her own funeral.
MIONSGHT HORROR.
Unparalleled Railway Disas
ter Near Chatsworth, 111.
An Excursion Train Crashes Through
a Burning Bridge,
With 1)60 Persons on Board; 'lore Than
'Half of Them Killed or Wounded—The
Roster of I lie Bead Kxeeeds lOO—Heart
rending and Sickening Scenes at the
Wreck—Robbing the Dead and Dying.
Chicago, Aug. li.—The Timex' special from
Forest, 111,, says: Alt the railway horrors In the
history of this country were surpassed three
miles east of Chatsworth last night When an
excursion traift on the Toledo, Peoria and
Western road dropped through a burning bridge
and over one hundred people were killed, and
four times that number more or less badly in
jured. The train was composed of six sleeping
cars, day coaches and chair cars and three bag
gage. It was carrying nine hun
dred and sixty passengers, all excursion
ists, and was bound for Niagara Falls. The
train had been made up all along the line of the
Toledo, Peoria and Western road, and the ex
cursionists hailed from various points in Cen
tral Illinois, the bulk of them, however, com
ing from Peoria. Some of the passengers came
from Canton, from El Paso, Washington, and,
In fact, all stations along the line; some from
a-far west as Burlington arid Keokuk, lowa.
A special and cheap rate had been made for
the excursion, and all sorts of people took ad
vantage of it.
When the train drew out of Peoria at 8 o'clock
last evening, it was loaded to its utmost capac
ity. Every berth in the six sleepers was taken,
and Vie day cars carried sixty people each. The
train was so heavy that two engines were hitch
ed to it, and when it passed this place it was an
hour and a half behind time. Chatsworth, the
next station east of here, is six miles off, and
the run there was made in seven minutes, so the
terrible momentum of those fifteen coaches and
two heavy engines, shooting through space at
the rate of a mile a minute, can be understood.
No stop was made at Chatsworth, and on and
on the heavy train, with its living freight, sped
through the darkness, of the night. Three
tniles east of Chatsworth is a little -slough and
there the railroad track crosses a dry run about
ten feet deep and fifteen wide. Over this was
stretched an ordinary wooden trestle bridge,
and as the excursion train came thundering
down on it, what was the horror of the engineer
on the front engine when he saw that this
bridge was afire. Right up before his eyes
leaped the bright flames, and The next instant
he was among them. There was no chance to
stop. Had there been warning, it would have
taken half a mile to stop that on-rushing mass
of wood, iron and human lives, and the train
was within one hundred yards of the red
tongued messengers ol death before they flashed
their fatal signals into the engineer’s face. But
he passed over in safety, the first engine keep
ing the rails.
As it went over th* bridge fell beneath it,
and it could only have been the terrific speed
of the train which saved the lives of the engi
neer and his fireman. But the next engine went
down and instantly the deed of death was
done. Car crushed into car, coaches piled one
on top of another, and in the twinkling of an
eye nearly one hundred people found instant
death and fifty more were so hurt they could
not live. As for the wounded, they were
everywhere. Only the sleeping coaches
escaped, and as the startled and half-dressed
passengers came tumbling out pi them they
found shell a scene of death as is rarely wit
nessed. and such work to do that it seemed as
If human hands were utterly incapable. It
lacked btu five minutes of midnight. Down
In the ditch lay the second engine—Engineer
McClintock dead and Fireman Applegate
badly injured. On top were piled
the three baggage cars, one on top of another,
like a child's carfi-hoqse after he had swept it
with his hand. Then came the six day coaches.
They were telescoped as cars never were bo
fore, si* d three of them were pressed into just
space enough for one. The second car had
mounted off its trucks, crashed through the car
ahead of it, crushing the woodwork aside like
tinder, and lay there resting on the tops of the
seats, while every passenger in the front car
was lying dead or dying underneath. Out of
that ear but four people came alive. On top of
the second car lay the third, and although the
latter did not cover its bearer as completely, its
bottom was smeared with the blood of its vic
tims. The other three cars were not so badly
crushed, but they were broken and twisted in
every conceivable way, and every crushed tim
ber and beam represented a crushed human
frame and a broken bone.
instantly the air was filled with the cries of
the wounded and the shrieks of those about to
die. The groans of men, the screams of women
united to make an appalling sound, and above
all could be heard tfcc agonizing cries of little
children, as In some instances they lay pinned
alongside of their dead parents. And there was
another terrible danger yet to he met. The
bridge was still burning, and the wrecked
ears were lying on and around the fteroely
burning embers. Everywhere in the wreck
were wounded and unhurt men, women and
children whose lives could he saved if they
could be gotten out- but whose death, and death
in a most horrible form, was certain if the
twisted wood of the broken cars caught fire.
And to fight the fire there was not a drop of
water, and only some fifty able-bodied men who
had still presence of mind and nerve enough to
do their duty.
The only light was the light of the burning
bridge. And with so much of its aid the fifty
men went to work to subdue it. For four hours
they fought like fiends, and for four hours the
victory hung in the balance. Earth was the
only weapon with which the fire could he fought,
and so the attempt -was- made to smother
it out. There was no pick or shovel to
dig it up, no basket or barrows to carry it in,
and so desperate they dug their lingers down
into the earth, which a long drought had baked
almost as hard as stone, and heaped the prec
ious handfuls thus lardly won, upon the en
croaching flames, and with this earthwork
built, handful by handful, kept back the foe.
While this was going on other brave men
crept underneath the wrecked cars, beneath
the fire and the wooden bars which hold pris
oners so many precious lives, arid with pieces
of board and sometimes their hands, heat back
the flames when they flashed up alongside
some unfortunate wretch who. pinned down by
a heavy beam, looked on helplessly while it
seemed as if his death by fire was certain, and
while the fight was thus going on the ears of
the " orkers were filled with the grnaDs of dy
ing men, the anguished entreaties of those
whose dgstb seemed certain, unless the terrible
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 19. 1887.
blaze could be extinguished, and the cries of
those too badly hurt to care in what manner the
end were brought about, so only it would bo
quick. So they dug up the earth with their
hands, reckless of the blood streaming out from
broken finger-nails, and heaping it up in little
mounds, while all the while came the heart
rending cries, “For God’s sake, don't let us
bum to death!”
But finally the victory was won, the fire was
put out after four hours of endeavor, and as its
last spark died away a light came up in the east
to take its place, and dawn came upon a scene
of horror.
While the fight had been going on, men had
been dying, and there was not so many wound
ed to take out of the wreck as there had been
four hours before, hut in the meantime, the
country had been aroused; help had come from
Chatsworth, Forest and Piper City, and as the
dead were laid reverently alongside of each
other, out in the cornfield, there were ready
hands to take them Into Chatsworth, while
some of the wounded were carried to Piper
City.
One hundred and eighteen was the awful poll
of the dead, while the wounded numbered four
t mes that number. The full tale of the dead
can not, however, be told yet for days.
Chatsworth was turned into a morgue to-day.
The town hall, the engine house, the depot
were all full of dead bodies, while every house
in the little village had its quota of the
wounded. There were over one hundred
corpses lying In the extemporized dead-houses,
and every man and woman was turned into an
amateur but zealous nurse. Over in a lumber
yard the noise of hammers and saws rang out
in the air, and in it busy carpenters were mak
ing rough coffins to carry to their homes the
dead bodies of the excursionists who, twelve
hours before, had left their homes, full of
pleasurable expectations of the enjoyment they
were going to have during the vacation which
had begun.
When the news of the disaster was first
flashed over the wires prompt aid was at once
sent. Dr. Steele, chief surgeon of the Toledo,
Peoria and Western railroad, had come on at
once in a special train, and with him were two
other surgeons and their assistants. From
Peoria also came Drs. Martin, Baker. Flagloere
and Johnson, and from every city whence the
unfortunate excursionists had come from their
physicians and friends hurried on to help
them. From Peoria had also come delegations
of the Red Men and the Ancient Order of
United Workmen,’ numbers of both societies
being on the ill-fated train, and so after 8
o'clock in the morning there were plenty of
people to do the work that needed such prompt
attention.
In the Town Hall was the main hospital, and
in it anxious relatives aud sorrowing friends sat,
and fanning gently the sufferers’ faces, queried
the attending surgeons as they bound up the
wounds, and insisted that there must
be hope. Down in the dead-houses fathers,
husbands, brothers, sisters, wives and
children tearfully inspected each face as It was
uncovered, and sighed as the featm-es were up
known. or cried out In anguish when the well
known face, sometimes fearfully mangled, but
yet recognizable, was uncovered. The entire
capacity of the little village was taxed, and
kind-hearted women drove in from miles to
give their gentle ministrations to the sufferers.
No sooner had the wreck occurred than a
scene of robbery commenced. Some band of
unspeakable miscreants, heartless and with
only criminal instincts, was on hand, and.
like the guerrillas who throng a battle-field of
the night after the conflict and filch from the
dead the money which they received for their
meager pay, stealing- even the bronze medals
and robbing the children of heroes of the
other worthless emblems of their fathers’
bravery, so last night did these human hyenas
plunder the dead from this terrible accident,
and take even the shoes which covered their
feet. Who these wretches are is not now
known. Whether they were a hand of pick
pockets who accompanied the train or some rob
ber gang who were lurking in the vicinity, can
not he said. The horrible suspicion, however,
exists, and there are many who give it credit,
that the accident was a deliberately planned
case of train-wrecking; that the bridge was
set on fire by miscreants, who hoped to seize
the opportunity offered; and the fact that
the bridge was so far consumed at the time the
train came along, and the added fact that the
train was an hour and a half late, are pointed
out as evidence of a careful conspiracy. It
seems hardly possible that man could be so
lost to all the ordinary feeling which anim ates
the basest of the human race; but still men
who will rob. dead men, who will steal from
the dying and will plunder the wounded held
down by broken beams of a wrecked car,
wounded whose death by the fire seemed immi
nent, can do most any thing which is base, and
that is what these fiends in human form did.
They went into the cars when the fire was burn
ing fiercely underneath, and when the. poor
wretches who were pinned there begged them
“for God’s sake to help them out, " stripped
them of their watches and jewelry and
searched tholr pockets for money. When the
dead bodies were laid out in the corn-field these
hyenas turned them over in their search for
valuables, and that the plunder was done by an
organized gang, was proved by the fact that this
morning out in the corn-field sixteen purses, all
empty, were found in one heap. It was a
ghastly plundering, and had the plunderers
been caught this afternoon they would surely
have been lynched.
THE DEAD.
Chatsworth, 111.. Aug. 11.—Following is a
list of the dead so far as known:
R. E. Stock. Peoria; Miss Stephens and
father: Mike Regan, Ringhampton, N. Y.: Wro.
Craig. Cuba, IU.; Henry Hicken, Pekin 111.',
Noah Bavermer, Canton. 111.; M. Smith. Mata
more, 111.; George A. Smith. Peoria;
Mrs. Zimmerman, Peoria; Rosa and
Maggie Murphy and mother, ’ Peoria;
Miss Maggie Malvoa, Peoria; Miss Neal, Moss
ville, 111.; Emiline Carrithers. Evans. 111.; Jess
Meek, Eureka, 111.: Sherman, Brimfield,
111.; McClintock, engineer, Peoria; Eliza
beth Cross. Washington. IU.; Mrs. E. D. Stod
dard, West Point, la.; Mrs. Pearl Adams. Peo
ria; Pearl French, Peoria; W. 11. Potter.
BushneU, 111.; Mrs. J. M. Clay, Eureka, 111.;
J. D. Richards and Mrs. Breeze, Peoria;
W. Gerretson, Peoria; E. F. Adams. Fatrbury;
W. H. Lot, Kllwood; Addio Webster, Peoria;
Mrs. Wm. Allen. Peoria: Mr. W. Valejo, Peoria;
Mrs. H. B. McClure and daughter, Peoria: Mrs.
Miller, Peoria; Mr. Wright. Peoria:Mrs. James
Dale, Peoria; Mrs. Wm. Ball and daughter,
Peoria; Mr. F. B. Wymette, Peoria; Mr. E. God
dell and son and Dr. Wm. Collins, Galesburg. IU.,
J. S. Kaler, Breed Station, IU.; Mr. John Mur
phy. Peoria. IU ; Henry Siegleson, Keokuk, la.;
Oney Spaith, Green Valley, 111.; John A.
Moore. Jacksonville, IU.; J. D. McFadden,
Peoria; Captain Ahlke: A. Martin, Blooming
ton; J. A. Green, Breed's Station, and about
twenty dead at Piper City.
PARTIAL LIST OF WOUNDED.
E. W. Parker and wife. Peoria, wounded In
head and limbs: Mrs. Emma Regon and son,
Peoria, slightly injured; John Fry. Peoria, leg
wroken, back injured; H. L. Ogden, Grorton
IU., head and foot injured; Florence Bow /her
Bayerd. la., arm hurt; Pat Brady, Gtm» ~ IU.,
foot and head; Sophia Pauline, Peoria, Ilk.
head; C. W. Young, West Jersey, hands; W.
S. Seank, West Jersey, foot and shoulder;
G. A Soott, Toloana, 111., ankle; Tho
mans Trimms, Parkeridge, IU., arms and legs;
Theo. Godel, Peoria, head and legs; Mrs. Edith
Chellew, Glasford, IU., leg broken and ankle
bruised; Mr. Cneliew, Glasford, Hi., leg dislo
cated; Joe Neal, Mossville, head and limbs;
Mrs. Joe Neal, Mossville, arm and leg broken.
Baby killed; Miss Julia Valdejo, Peoria, 111., in
ternally; Abbl Edmonds. Discoil, ankle; Dr. E.
P. Hazen and wife, Fort Madison. la.,
heads hurt; Miss Emma Y. ITltera, West
Point, lowa, heads and limbs; Mrs.
H. G. Thorr.e, Risk, lowa, internally;
H. H. Bond, Colchester, IU., internally; Mrs.
Thomas McVoy, Peocia, internally; Mrs. 1. W.
Grant, Peoria, internally; Mary Morries, Peo
ria, bruised; Mr. Robert S. Zimmerman, Peo
ria, head and spine; E. F. French, Peoria, hips
and body; Eaton Waters, Peoria, hips and body;
Otto Johnson, Burlington, la., legs; Mrs. R. H.
Clark, Riotstown, la., legs; G. W.
Cress, Washington, IU., head and
chest; J. E. Dcchman, Peoria, ankle;
Madge T. Harris, Peoria; Arthur McCarty,
Eureka, IU., both eyes gone; David Crawford,
Pitton, IU., head, limbs and hips; A. F. McGee,
Laharp, 111., leg and shin; Mrs. R. S. Rorden,
Tonia, 111., foot: Wm. W. Ford, Elmwood, 111.,
chest and head; Elizabeth Sellers, Lahnrp,
limbs; Mrs. Lydia Walters, Peoria, nose, jaw
and leg; H. Abraham, Peoria. Internally; Wm.
Smith, Peoria, head crushed; Frank
Taylor, MeC’omb, IU., internally;
John Steer, Rushville, 111., leg;
,T. W. Stearns, Green Valley, 111., legs; Adam
Shombcrgor. Peoria, hip. side and heel; S. L.
Belsley, Deer Creek, 111., head and ankle; Pet
ton Cross, Washington, IU., leg; J. B. Kelley,
Reeds, 111., hip, leg broken; Frank Snadieker,
Abington, 111., head, leg broken: Daniel Rock,
Rosefield, IU., head, leg and hands; A. C. Jor
don. Danville, la., leg; C. A. Gregg, Dan
ville, la., leg; Mrs. C. E. Ollen, Galesburg,
111., head; W. F,. Ellis, Peoria, head;
Minnie Vaughsdale. Peoria, leg broken; Calvin
Davis, Peoria, arms; Conductor Stillwell, head,
arm and leg; C. H. Carter, jr., Burlington, la.,
body; Harold B. Lawrence, Burlington. la.,
body; John McMaster, Peoria, body; Frank
Brown, Peoria, head; Mrs. Kellogg, Tremont,
body; Mrs. K. J. Wells, Peoria, body; Mrs.
Isaac Whiteside, IU., body; Catherine Lot,
Peoria, IU., body; Blanche Allen, Peoria, body.
AN AWFUL SCENE.
There was one incident of the accident which
stood out more horrible than all of those horri
ble scenes. In the second coach was a man, his
wife and little child. His name could not be
learned to-day, hut it is said he got on at Peoria.
When the accident occurred the entire family
of three was caught and held down by broken
wood work. Finally, when relief cutno, the man
turned to the friendly aid and feebly said:
“Take out my wife first; I’m afraid the chilli
is dead.”
So they carried out the mother, and as B
broken seat was taken off her crushed breast,
the blood which welled from her lips told how
badly she was hurt. They carried the child, a
fair-haired, blue-eyed girl of three, and laid
her in the cornfield, dead, alongside of her
‘dying mother. Then they wont hack for the
father and brought him out. Both his legs
were broken, but he crawled through the
corn to the side of his w ife anu feeling
her loved features in the darkness, pressed
some brandy to her lips and asked her how she
felt. A feeble groan was the only answer, and
the next instant she died. The man felt the
forms of his dead and child, and cried out:
‘My God, there
for now,’ and (Arcing a pistolom of his pocket
pulled the trigger. The bullet went surely
through his brain and the three dead bodies of
that little family are now lying side by side in
Chatsworth waiting to he identified.
,g\ i the undertakers' and in the engine-house
and station, wherever the bodies were put in
nie hastily-constructed coffins, the saddest in
cidents were of constant occurrence. One of
the most touching cases was that of a man
and child were both among the
dead into the room where the woman
and babe were lying together, and laughingly
talked up close to them, pointed to the child,
‘ proudly: “That's my baby' ' There
jis a cry of horror in the room at the man's
supposed unutterable coarseness and hard
heartedness, but the feeling was changed a mo
ment later. His reason had given way undei
the shock. At the same moment, in anothei
part of the room, a man was lying across a
rough w ooden coffin, saying no word and appar
eutly lifeless. He was uninjured, hut his wife
was in the coffin over which he hung.
J. M. Penhery. a Peoria attorney, who was lu
the first sleeper, and unhurt, gives a vivid ao
count of the disaster. He says: “I felt thre<
distinct shocks, and then heard a grinding
sound, and looking out saw that the car in which
we were was directly over the lire, which wai
slowly blazing on the stringers of the bridge.
I got out In safety, and the scene presented
to my eye was one I wish I could forever
efface from my memory, but I know I
never can. The shrieks of the dying
and the glaring faces of the dead will always
remain with me. Toaddtothohorror.it was
pitch dark, save i .e fitful light of the fire under
the sleeper which lighted the faces of those
about, only to make their fear and anguish vis
ible. On the, mouths of most of the corpses
could be seen foam, which showed that they
died in agony. At last we secured some feeble
lights, hut the wind blew them out, and about
two o'clock the rain poured down in
torrents on the unprotected dead and dy
ing in the hedges and corn fields adjacent. Our
\ efforts were divided between trying to put out
' the tire and rescuing the dying, whose cries for
! help were heartrending indeed. Mothers ran
w ildly about crying for lost children and wives
[ for husbands. Men were weeping over the
forms of their wives. Prayers, entreaties and
groans tilled the air until daylight, when relief
parties got to work and removed the dead and
wounded from the scene. The bridge was on
tire before the train struck".”
A Cheap Cabinet.
A handsome. and inexpensive taoinet
may be made by-having a frame of or
dinary pine, which ran be made by any
young man or boy who knows how to
handle a hammer, plane aud saw. Give
it a coating of black enamel paint.
Then varnish with elear varnish. Be
fore this is quite dry place on the panels
small dried ferns tastefully arranged,
which will adhere to the still damp
varnish. When thoroughly dry paint
the ferns very carefully with gold paint-
The result will be a good imitation of a
Japanese cabinet, with very little ex
pense. —Detroit Tribune.
♦♦-
—A Houston, Tex., womana pet
! alligator that wags his tail when his
I name is called. Owing to the long
! carvers he carries in his jaw his name
I is Bowie.
HEMMED IN
By Indians and Deserted by a Part
of His Command.
Sheriff Kendall ami llie Remnant of His
Command Closely Pressed —Recruits
for Colorado.
Denver, Col., Aug. 16.—Sheriff Kendall
has finally been heard from through Van
Cleef, the courier sent out by Adjutant-
General West. He found Kendall near
the Thornburg battle-ground, where ho
had been deserted by part of his men,
leaving him only fifteen. His horses
are worn out with hard riding. He sends
for reinforcements, and shows no signs of
falling back. None of his men were killed
in this skirmish with the Utes, although
one had his horse shot from under
him. The settlers about Meeker are
flocking in there in large numbers. The
Utes are reported coming from their res
ervation in large numbers, and a messen
ger has been sent to Fort Duchesne for
cavalry. There are none but colored
troops there, for whom the Indians ha% r e
the utmost contempt. General West is
urging the Governor to forward troops
at once, and one company of cavalry left
Denver to-night for Gypsum by rail
within twenty miles of Glenwood
Springs. Cavalry from Aspen, Colorado
Springs, Canon City and Leadville have
also been ordered to get to Glenwood
Springs as quickly as possible. These
troops have orders to assist the sheriff in
serving his warrants, but as the Indians
are inclined to resist this with force of
arms it is equivalent to a declaration of
war against Colorow’s band. Governor
Adams to-day telegraphed General Crook
at Omaha that the situation is serious, and
he urged that steps be taken by the War
Department to protect settlers, and arms
aud ammunition were shipped in quantity
from here to-day for Meeker. Much appre
hension is felt for State Senator Eddy,
who is on his ranch in the disturbed dis
trict. Late advices affirm the report of a
skirmish between Sheriff Kendall and the
Indians, in which four of the latter wero
hit. One full company of infantry will be
sent to Meeker at once to protect the
women and children, and their presence
will relieve the settlers, who will doubt
less be enrolled as State troops and
reinforce the sheriff’s party. Later. —
A Meeker dispatch to-night says: Sheriff
Kendall and 'seventeen men arrived
here safely to-night. The settlers and
cowboys continue to come in with their
families. The Indians are divided into
three bands and are attempting to join
forces. Colorovv will have about two hun
dred bucks when the junction is effected.
It is reported that a buck killed in the
first skirmish was Colorow’s son, and it
is expected when the old man learns this
he will attempt a massacre. There are
four hundred women and children h“
now.
BATTLE OF BENNINGTON.
Noteworthy Celebration of the Memorable
Day—A Great Outpouring.
Bennington, Vt., Aug. 16.—The corner
stone of the monument commemorating
the battle of Bennington, fought August
16, 1777, is uow being laid w ith appropriate
ceremonies. Congressman John W. Stew
art, in a stirring a hlress, recounted the
trials of the heroes of the Revolution and
the victory of General Stark and troops
over the British and Hessian Generals
Baum aud Breyman on that memorable
day. Grand Master Hall, with members
of the Grand Lodge of Vermont, Grand
Master of North Carolina and Grand Mas
ters of Grand Lodges of other States were
appropriately received last evening by the
Ait- Anthony Lodge. Ex-Governor Pres
cott, Governor Sawyer, of New Hamp
shire. with his staff, and Governor Ames,
of Massachusetts, with Governor Crms
bee, Senator Edmunds and B. B. Smaller,
represent the Government. Large bodies
of State troops, with tens of thousands of
people, with hundreds of veterans of the
late war, make this old town lively with a
touch of warlike times.
Arrested for Counterfeiting Nickels.
Dayton, 0., Aug. 16. —Ed Conway, re
cently from lie penitentiary, and nowon
bail for a man, was bound over to
day to S. Court by Commissioner
Kennedy, charged with counterfeiting
nickels, lie is said to have been found
with the bogus stuff on his person, and
to have attempted to pass some at several
places.
Four Persons Killed at a Crossing.
New Haven, Ct., Aug. 16.—The Newport
express train, leaving here at 4 p. m. for
Now York, struck a carriage at Five Milo
river containing a man, two ladies and a
boy, all of whom were killed. The names
can not be learned to-night from the rail
road officials, who are the only ones hav
ing knowledge of the particulars.
Faiher and Son Suffocated in a Well.
Logan, 0., Aug. 16.—Mr. Poling and his
son had been dig.-.nig a well. This morn
ing the old man went down into the well
and was overcome by fire-damp. The son
went to his rescue and was also overcome,
and before assistance couid be rendered
both lives had been lost.
The Sulfan and the Prince.
•'ihnova. Aug. 16.—M. Vulkoviteh tele
graphs to the Government from Constan
tinople that the Sultan recognizes Prince
Ferdinand’s election, but that as the
Prince did not at first obtain the Sultan’s
consent the latter will maintain his p res
eat attitude for a certain period.
Killed by a Gas Explosion.
Austin, Akk., Aug. 16.—Du ley and Os
car Adams, brothers, were digging a well
and to-day gas aecumuated in the well.
Men outside threw a shovel of fire in«o it,
when itexploued. killing both hr >thors in
stantly.
VOL. IV.—NO. 26.
A ROMANTIC TALE
About a Blood Successor to Joseph Smith,
of the Mormon Church.
St. Louis, Aug. 15. —The Globe-Democrat.
prints a sensational story about the blood
successor of Joseph Smith, of the Mor
mon Church, that has the marks of a
romance, but lacks confirmation. About
twenty-five years ago the little town of
Nauvoo, 111., the headquarters of the Mor
mon Church of the Mississippi Valley,was
startled by a story, in which Joseph Smith,
in 1842, figured as the lover of a dashing
English maiden of a wealthy family, be
lievers in Mormonism and who were trav
eling in America. The prophet wished to
take the girl as his spiritual wife, and she
consented with the condition that if she
boro a son he, in the fullness of time,
should become the head of the Mormon
Church. The child was born, and
for fear of foul play from other
children ef the Smith family, the
mother and child hastened to England,
and there educated the child in Cambridge
University, proper credentials having
been given to secure all rights. The story
is now being published by Le Baron Havin
ton, a man of note in the Mormon Church
at Salt Lake City, for the purpose, it is
thought, of injuring the prospects
of ambitious Smith of the present
day, and perhaps with the intention
of springing the central figure of the
story, who would now be forty-five years
old, before the Church as a claimant to the
head. Dr. Geo. Hall, of St. Louis, and
Mr. Crawford, of Hancock, 111., claim to be
the only ones to known of the origin of
the story, and they pronounce it a myth,
It is reported that the story was concocted
twenty-five years ago in Dr. Hall’s office,
to his knowledge, but not by him. He
claims to have ample evidence in his pos
session to prove the whole thing a myth.
A HERO AT SEVEN.
Dannie Wilcox Succeed* In Reaming; a Lit
tle Girl From Drowning.
Cincinnati, Aug. 15.—Dannie Wilcox,
aged but seven years, son of a well-kowg
boatman of that name, who was br*ught
up on the river, to-day invited Tillie
Reiner, little daughter of a saloon-keeper
at Second and Lawrence street, to take a
ride in his ooat, which was accepted. The
water was smooth, and they sped along
gayly until they noticed the Guiding Star
hearing down upon them. The boy realized
that the swell of the steamer would
probably swamp his frail little craft,
and he began pulling for the boatrhouse
with might and main, but he was too late.
The swell caught them when opposite a
lot of coal barges and about thirty yards
out, aud the little boat was capsized in an
instant. Both children went into the
water, which is fully ten feet deep at that
point. As soon a,s the brave little fellow
came to the surface, instead of trying to
save himself, he swam to the girl, who
was struggling violently in the wa
ter, and in some way managed
to swim with her to the barges,
where he caught a rope hanging down,
to which he clung with his heavy burden
until his cries for assistance attracted the
attention of his grandmother, Mrs. Dwyer,
an old lady seventy years of age. She,
realizing the danger of the children, there
being no one else about, jumped into a
skiff and succeeded in bringing both the
girl and her courageous little rescuer to
dry land. The boy was almost exhausted
by his efforts and could not have held on
many minutes longer. The first words
Tillie uttered af er she had recovered from
her fright were: “Danniesaved my life.”
Glad Gladstonians.
London, Aug. 15.—The election of the
Gladstonian, J. T. Brunner, in Cheshire, is
a crushing blow to the Conservatives,
who were confident they would retain the
seat. Mr. Brunner received 5,112 votes
against 3,893 cast for Lord Henry Gros
venor, the Unionist candidate. In the
previous election for this seat Mr. Brun
ner was defeated by Robert Verdin, the
Liberal Unionist candidate, who received
4,416 votes, against 3,758 cast for Mr. Brun
ner.
Rabies From a Cat Bite.
Council Grove, Kas., Aug. 15.—J. P.
Cody a boilermaker in the Missouri Paciflo
shops at this place, was bitten by a mad
cat about six weeks ago. He was to-day
taken with hydrophobia. Drs. Bradford
and Harvey, of this city, pronounced the
case a genuine case of the rabies. Mr.
Cody was taken to the company’s hospital,
at Sedalia, for treatment. He is a nephew
of the celebrated Buffalo Bill.
A Man Baked in an Oven.
Albany, N. Y., Aug. 15.—John J. Reilly,
aged twenty-two, an employe of Rathbun,
Bard & Co.’s stove foundry, disappeared
Saturday morning. To-day his body was
found in an oven for baking ladles. It
is presumed ho went in there, and laying
down, fell asleep. Fire was started Sat
urday aud the door ot the oven was then
locked. His presence not being noticed,
he was baked for about forty hours.
Terrible Flames.
Constantinople, Aug. 15.—A great con
flagration in Scutari has been controlled
after destroying two thousand buildings,
including two of the largest churches.
Two women and a child were burned to
death and many persons were injured.
Thousands of people are left without
■.he iter.
Power of fhe Press.
Providence, R. 1., Aug. 15.—Albert
Smith, a well-known horse-rtiief, who was
lying in the Johnstown lockup awaiting
trial, made his escape this morning. Ha
twisted a newspaper into a long roll, stuck
•\ bent pin in the end, and reached through
the cell-door drew a hunch of keys off a
hook where they were hanging, and open
ing his cell-door made his escape.
A Long Sentence.
New York, Aug. 15. Burglar John
Joyce, one of the most notorious criminals
in the profession, was sentenced to-day
to twenty-five years in Sing Sing. His
case has occupied the courts loi two years.