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T, A, HAVRON. Publisher, 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.