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DEPMIMESI OF MINES GOLD NUGGETS AND METEOR ITES AT THE FAIR. Fac-Slmiles of Huge Chunks of th Precious Metal Worth Many Thou sands of Dollars?A Collection o Meteorites From Various Quar ters of the World. For tho benefit of the uninitiated Chie 8klff, of the Mining Department at tho World' Fair, has on exhibition a collection of lac si mi I os of great nuggets. Tho case contain ing them is in the southost corner of the gal jorj. When the people come past and see th( shining ohnnks of what seems to be puregoh they stop to investigate, says the Chicag< Record. Most of them overlook the can "Fac-Similes" that shows the nature of th< display. When they see the small signs rending "Value $20,000," they gasp at th< thought of such wealth concentrated in on< spot. Then they get out note-books and tak< tno full description of every rich piece in th< case. And the descriptions tell very inter eetlng stories of valuable discoveries. Apparently the department was unable tc secure data from which to illustrate the his tory of the American gold fields in this par tlcular line. Most of the specimens showr are from Victoria, Austria. Australia ant from the Siberian mines. One of the largcsl pieces is called the "Welcome" nugget, and ia from Ballarat, Victoria, one of the greal centers of gold production in Australia. It Is a huge, rugged mass, reminding one ol the cypress trees in a Southern swamp. Looking at it and picturing the feelings of the man who found it one can imagine the name given the And expressed the whole situation. The miner had been working for months, probably, and making little more than the ordinary wages. Then came the wonderful stroke that unveiled gold worth just $41,883, nd weighing 2166 ounces. It is not difficult lo suDDose that it was a "welcome" nuesret. Close by this is another mass, weighing 1717 ounces, worth ?31,577 and willed the "Precious." It also came from Victoria, in Ibe Berlin district, where fortunes innumerJ 4jg|g| mC-SIMILES OF GlOi able were turned up along in the '70s. Another Berlin treasure came in the famous John's paddook and was fouad October 3, 1870. It weighed 1121 ounces and brought #17,450. It looks like the rolls of putty that glaziers take when- they have a big job on hand. Russia's gold mines are me property 01 me Czar, and that monarch sees to it that the big discoveries are preserved either in the original form or in measurements and facsimiles that make valuable historic momentous. One of the greatest of the Russian disoo'veries is shown in duplicate. It was found tn the valley of Taschkee Targanka, Ural mountains, Siberia, and the nugget itself is part of the collection in the Royal School of nines at St. Petersburg. Its weight is put at n even hundred pounds, with a cash value of $22,000. It is very different in form from the Australian nuggets. They all tako the ?o!id outline, while this is rather thin and 1st, afterthe fashion of a huge pancake, with warty protuberances. These are the best of the exhibits. Others Ihcre are with values ranging from $500 up, and varying in shape irom the likeness to a molar tooth to fantastic copies of toadstools. Just back of the array of gold is another collection of considerable value, though it might be hard to realize much from it in a financial emergency. That is because the value is scientific rather than coin current. It is a collection of meteorites and fac-similes of meteorites from the Ward museum. After a man has seen them he is inclined to think ?~?- 1 FALLEN METEORITES. that shooting stars are good things to dodge. Ono of these aerial wanderers from Chupaderos, in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico, id '* ' is big as one of the Java summer homes on tk> Dlniaanna Attt rnilO>h tTllfiSB it mlffht weight two or three tons. Its outer surface / is seamed and punctured with holes such as one sees in bread when it "rises" very rapidly. The holes doubtless owe their existence to just such an escape of gas from the inside us marks the process of bread-making. If a timid man had been in the neighborhood of that Mexican meteor when it broke loose and started for the earth he would have thought some heavenly farmer had tipped over a load of hay that had caught Are on the way down. San Gregorio, which is also in Chihuahua, sends a contribution that draws astronomers and mineralogists as a molasses barrel draw-) flies on a hot summer day.-. It is an almost perfect cone, and could eqsiiy be mistaken for n gigantic sugar-loaf panted black. Like the other meteorites it shows Where the gas has bubbled out of the moflten mass, leaving the irregular holes that Ipok like miniature volcano craters. It weighs about a ton. Its shape is attributed to t)Je crushing effect of contact with the earth when it came hurling out of the sky. It struck on rooky formation. flattening the joase and driving down the apex into the shape of a cone, just as bullets sometimes spread at the base and take :?i a I'Uunai uuuiuc. Mexico has plenty oT company in the meteor business. Cases are rantjed all ubout the jjiants of th<? southern republic and represent numerous States of this country, as well a* widely *ep:irated regions on old conIjnent*. Chile sends a small specimen ; New Mexico. Kentucky, Arkansis, East Tennessee, Colorado ar?'m company with Greenland, East India iind Continental Europe. In some rases art* cross-section exhibits, showing the peculiar ste:?l-like stratification of tlie meteorite. Some of tho sections have been polished, bringing out the il^urinc on tho metal which in some instances looks very much like Damascus work and in others is almost exactly identical with the markings shown on laminated steei, sucn as is useo lor gun barrels. The contribution from Babb's Mill, Green County. T?na., u a grotesque imitation of ;i muskallonge fish, while the one from Wichita County, in the Rio Brazos region of Texas, hears a card saying it was once regarded and cherished by the Comanches as an object o! worehip. The Indians thought that since ii oaino out of tjfcio sky and got Into their camp I I it must li.ive been sent to thorn direct ny , | their doity to servo as a warning aadl token li ; of divine guidance. MODEL SCXDAY SCrtOOE. B0ILDINO. The model Sunday School Buildlns? " erected in connection with the World's Fair t0 th is thus described b)- tho Chicago Record ton? Hi?h in the air floats n flag with an in- peris scription stransre to Stony Island avenue. Bt Beneath it on the dust-clad sidewalks drift expli e the restless crowd that ceaselessly moves ("Pen - back and forth outside the Fair grounds, and i f From the south come the sharp cries of fakirs and "barkers" who stand before the sout] * parasitical sideshows which have fastened tomr themselves to the great Exposition. It is a WXp], common thing for some one in the endless her c if column that is ever marching on Stony ( 3 Island avrxvue to stop abruptly and look up . at the flair. Usually he reads the inscrip- . tion aloud, domethinc: of ;istonishment and n " something af reverence in his voice : "Jesus f ^ - flhrist the Vifirri." Tho words stand out prominently. They catch the eye first, and hold the attention longest, so that a second Joi 9 glance 13 needed to grasp the significance ingtc i of the strange flag. Another line of words hlms > over the first pives its full meaning. This xlied i line reads: "Sunday School Building." oaus 0 The parliament of religions has given Th , greater prominenco than usual to the build- Cana 9 ing which stands on Stony Island avenue payii ) just opposite the north end of the California Wee< J Building. All last week D. L. Moody's A j presence filled the building with thousands, York - drawn from the big hotels which are u grouped around it. . Every, day Sunday- matt > school workers and church people from all ja? , - over the world pass through the doors, for 'c the building is u working exhibit of a Sun1 day-scbool. although it is not inside the 1 fence. The "model Sunday-school buildi ing" as it is called, is the result of a moetlug Th I of the Executive Committee of the Interna- train t tlonal Sunday-school Convention and a con- taine t ferenco of the Sunday-school workers held at train I Chautauqua. N. Y., in August, 1891. It was confe there decided to request the Sunday-school th i workers of America to unite in erecting a porte i model Sundav-school building in connection q with thB World's Fair, first, as an illustration of Sunday-school work and as a speci- aS?a ) men to be copied : second, to show the pres- Ni: 1 ent condition of the Sunday-school work in Ala., , the different parts of the world, and third, Cresc : to illustrate the growth and progress of Sun- perse day-schools. engir ; When the proposition was made before the molis i Sunday-school workera of Chicago they Waiti . greeted it enthusiastically, and voted to Baile raise $10,000 as Chicago's contribution, none i ? aboai ? At TTii bUlia sSSrqft I ' r* P. 1A signe Si JoS I 11 homa \\ 1 A \ i is boi \\ , is illu ' Sec rC*l \ to Atl / that curre Gean I.STIC GOLD N0QOBT0. ip^O " "~~?~~~?~~~??~~~~?Depa Four prizes were offered to architects for the * best four plans, the first prize going to H. r, Curtiss Hoffman and Frank Upman, ot CM- uuaP cago. Thi 8unday-schools throughout the country been responded to the request sent out from terior Chautauqua, Illinois, oursiae 01 unicago, gX4 giving 31800, Massachusetts $1000, Pennsyl- t^iat f vania 81364, New York $886. New Jersey r.cn g< 8541, Ohio 8263, Michigan 8267, Rhode Isl- state! and 8122 and otner States more or less sume amounts. Quebec sent 8100, Ontario 8122, Natio and 82 came from little Prince Edward Isl- resun and. The total amount required to bpild, equip and carry the enterprise to a success- ? ', ful end was 830,000. and of this 820,000 was ? f raised, leaving 810,000 to be gathered. This t/on81 deflclency is beinfe gradually taken up. Vic The building combines an ornamental ex- ton ft terior with a remarkably well-arranged in- along terior. Architecturally it is a handsome Govei structure, although there is Httle about it to suggest a Sunday-school or church, for, in reality, the building is a church which can . bo thrown open for a Sunday-school in a V few minutes. On either side of the main j auditorium are polygonal wings divided from H J it by sliding partitions. Extending under the rear gallery is another section separated Eoi from the main room by sliding partitions, striki Thus, when all the partitions are down, the Gui auditorium is of the conventional oblong shock shape, with a spaciou" gallery extending ties a: around three sides. rpH] In use, the partitions are raised. They Ham! slide up and under the gallery seats, giving from the main floor three times the seating capac- jQ ?n ity it had before the partitions were raised. ' QnnrlQv.onhnAl wnrL* H.a Aiiriitnrhim is xHl used for the intermediate department, the wovei junior and senior departments are in the Wh polygonal wings, and the primaiy depart- Barce ment is under the rear gallery. All these bomb departments can be subdivided into class- Camp rooms by curtains hung on brass rods sus- eoldie pended from the gallery. The gallery itself five si can be used for class-rooms if desired. This gI3C flexible arrangement throws the entire Sun- Russi day-school into one body or divides it into classes, each class having its own individual ^ 1 room when desired, the changes being made cover in a few minutes. arrosl Every Sunday aftprnoon, beginning at 3 Thi o'clock, a Sunday-school is held in the eaptu building. The pupils are adults, lor the Natio Sunday-school is something of a normal- a.di school order. It teaches teachers. The les- bardn son for the day is taught by some noted ous d worker, and is printed on leaflets, upon which are also printed something which is to make people think. an exhibition" of totems. Thi One of the rarest and be3t of the ethnolog- b*que ical displays at the Fair comes from Illth- childi Cah-Geetla, a village on Queen Charlotte's n Island, north of Alaska. The exhibit is sit- ~011 uated In the>Anthropological Building, west -19 "e j of the main aisle and near the north en- Most < I trance. The exhibit consists of a collection caK? 1 of totems made by the lnilians 01 me isiana. i dm They typify in grotesque carving and vivid | cabin coloring many of the most important events at ab in tribal history. portei The display telU its own story to the Dc>c learned, but scarcely one visitor in 10,000 the ol knows the significance of the oddly shaped fled > poles and miniature housos. A kindly faoed same old man with a small cap set loosely on the atone, $>aok of his head, wearing a gnow-whitw, full T ' beard, his keen blue eyes twinkling with good ., t nature, is on hand, ready to translate for ppnnf curious visitors the ?i<?ns of the totems. . The totems on exhibition in the Anthropo- * 5j[? logical Building are reproductions in miniature of the thirty-foot ornaments that stand M. in front of the Indian houses on Charlotte's Arm^ Island. An Indian's rank is denoted by his who i totem. Its carved llgures indicate to a de- can st uroe his wealth and social standing. The where Bear tribe or family is the highest in rank t>way in the village of Illth-Cah-Geetla. Bears'ears fio^ carved on a totem are the insignia of this Govei mighty clan. Then in lower grades come the celebr wolf, eagl^ and raven. home Funerals in the village are conducted in aa one st original manner. Such a thin>* as burial is flow*; unknown. Instead of this some of the rela tives Of tf!R'Jeeeaieil go to trie nearest iuipjl wr'toi and cut down a goo 1 sized tree. This is sul ' brought with infinite l;il?or to the home oJ the departed and there hollowed out. It is s-rint then stood on end and sunk into the ground. fr jV The body is inclosed in a box and slid into _ the hollow trunk. To protect it from tho Hi elements the top of the shell is covered with '"1:4 r boards nailed on securely. Then to ward of! dead. 1 evil spirits a fantastic figurehead is nailed to burg, the tree. I".09.1 J - o birth] k I Gixxers in the northern part of Waller Tm l County, Texas, received notice to discon- bearii , tinue ginning cotton until th? price for the eyes. I staple was advanced under the penalty of jn p'u f being burned out. No heed was given to the a m||| t notice, and as a result seven gins were Bgeg ' burned within the pa9t tea days. gracii peoi>l 'EE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. tE steamer Palentino reached Boston three men who had clung for nine days e capsized schooner Windermere's bot; the five other persons on the schooner thed. the carelessness of a mino foreman an aslon of gas was caused in a Plymouth n.) mine, by which flvo men were killed six injured. is. David Dowden, living six miles a west of West Elizabeth, Penn., ntited to light the fire with kerosene. An jsion resulted and Mrs. Dowden and ;hild were burned to death. The house contents were destroyed. New York City, Christian Meeso, duri quarrel, threw a screwdriver at Jacob nenberger and made a doop hole in the m's brain, from which he died. Meess tried to kill himself. hn H. simanson, a merchant at Wash>n, N. J., committed suicide by shooting elf in the head. The loss of a child, who a few days before, is supposed to be the 9. ere is great excitement around New ^an, Conn., ovor the discovory of gold in ag quantitife on the farm of Beth C. 1. number of prominent citizens of New : City met Mayor Gilroy in his office by est, and after a full discussion of the er. it wao decided to have a Manhattan it the Chicago Fair. October 21 was lay agreod on. South and West. ree men held up an Illinois Central just outside of Centralia, III., but obd no booty; one of the robbers and throe men were shot; the three bandits and u iderato are in custody. rez new cases of yellow fever wero re- | id at Brunswick, Ga. pzrai. World's Fair buildings were damby a sudden storm of wind and rain. *eteex miles north of Birmingham, limited express train No. 1, Queen and :ent route, was wrecked by unknown ins removing a rail from the track. Tho le, baggage car and mail cars were dothod. Engineer Frawley, Fireman s, Postal Clerk Stockton, Flagman vand Porter Howell wero all hurt, but fatally. Two hundred passengers were rd, but few were Injured. Chicago, 111., Frank Ives, the American rd champion, defoated John Roberto, he English champion, in the GOOO-point h. ieeting was held at Wayoross, Ga., by eentative colored citizens to organize an iation for the suppression of outrages ynchings. A. Ott, nominee for Lieutenant-Govern the Populist ticket in Iowa, has Tori, his age, twenty-eight year#, making neligible for the office. The vacancy >e filled by the committee. 'iiie in the business part of St. Joseph, did damage estimated at $1,000,000. Washington. e Navy Department has practically ac'ledged that it made a mistake in doag Captain F. J. Higginson from the land of the Atlanta several months ago. Jecretary of the Navy thought that CapHigglnson was responsible for the dein getting her under way for Nicaragua kccordingly detached him. [use bouquet of flowers, accompanied . elegantly bound address, was recelvod e President and Mrs. Cleveland from Blegates of France and Algiers to the d's Fair, who sent it "with respectful ,ge ' to commemorate their arrival upon ican soil on September 10. The album ind in white seal skin and the address tminated. retary Carlisle has written a letter torney-General Olney, saying, in effect, the Treasury will pay all expenses ind for deporting Chinese under the f law rs far as its means will permit, execution of the law is thrown on the rtment of Justice. D. Root, United States Viee-Consul at amaa. Mexico, has committed suicide. e report of the Utah Commission has received by the Secrotary of the InTiSTicB compiled from official data show rom January to September, this year, iate and private banks in the United i failed and tnat seventy-two have reel business. In the same time 155 nal banks failed, seventy of which have led. e President has nominated Charles N. hey, of Maryland, to be United States al at Messina, Italy. e-Pbeside.vt Stevenson left Washing>r Allentown, Penn., to spend the woek, with other persons, as the guost of exrnor Black. Foreign. uprising has taken place in the Argentepublic, and thirty radical leaders have nrrested for conspiring to overthrow overnment. jtheb rioting has occurred among the ng miners in England. i.vT volcanic eruptions and earthquake :s have visited Ecuador. Many casualad deaths are reported in the interior. '.be were nine new cases of cholera in mrg. with two doaths; eight deaths the disease occurrad at Brest and one gland. . 3 jjritisn jL'aruamoai uujwuruou uum nber 2. ile the troops were being reviewed in ilona, 8pain, Anarchists threw two s at Captain-General Martinez de os ; the latterwas slightly injured ; one ir was killed and the Chief of Staff and jldiers were wounded. ( ty lives were lost by the burning of the an steamer. Alphonse Zeevecke. formidable Anarchist plot was di?ed by the Austrian polioe, and many :s wero made. s insurgents in the Argentine Republic rod the city of Kosario and forced the nal troops to retreat. iiiral Mello'b fleet renewed the bomnent of Bio Janeiro, Brazil, doing seriamage. 1 PROMINENT PEOPLE. : will of Frederick L. Ames, oT Boston, >aths the entire estate to the widow and en. rebkor Altoeld, of Illinois, is reputed worth from f3.000.000 to 35,000,000. j of it was made in speculation in Chireal estate. ator Terkixs, of California, was a 1 -boy at twelve, a sailor before the mast i cteen, a gold prospector, and then i : in a store which he afterward owned. | ' "A" ^"rrn Wovnwr r Unr vpfl la nnW 1 dest living mkn conspicuously identivitt literature. He was born In the yeAr a$ Tennyson, Darwin and Gladi oldest college graduate in America^ is >y the authorities of the University "of sylvanla to be Doctor James Kitchen, iladelphiu, who was graduated at that ution in 181'J. McHooh, Member of Parliament for f?h. Ireland, is the daring innovator s credited with introducing the Ameriraw hat into tb? House of Commons, ! the "plug" had he'd undisputed lor years. ernor Thor.vton". recently appoinfel nor of New Mexico, and his wife have ated their silver wedding ut their , in Santa Fe, an old adobe dwelling ot ory. sot in a profusion ot vines and ring plants. *. Julia Ward How.-: is a laborious r, elaborating her worlc with great care. 1 v;is ten years writing and rewriting >r Lyrics." She submits her manuto halt a dozen intimate literary is for criticism. : last surviving pensioner of the War oi >:i the records of the Chicago agency is Hi- was Benjamin Churchill, ot GalesIll., and was nearly 100 years old. He i private in the New York militia, his pla^e being Alexis, N. Y. r. Sultan of Turkey is a man of kingly ag, but with a thin face and colorless keen as a falcon'9. When he appears Mie on ceremonious occasions he rides k-white Arabian horse, which he mank-ery skilfully, and hia manner is most sus as he bows right aad left to the o. LATER NEWS. J. W. Washbubn, of Boston, Mass., Treas urer of the Old Colony Railroad, has defaulted in the sum of $96,000. John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil magnate, has bought land on the Hudson near Tarrytown, N. Y., aggregating about seven hundred acres. Mr. Rockefeller will lay out the grounds in a public park and will erect there a mansion costing a million dollars. Thirty thousand Odd Fellows celobratod their order's day at the World's Fair: There were two new cases of yellow fever and one death from the disease at Brunswick, Ga. Consdl-Genebal Edwards, of Berlin, reports to the State Department that the German Minister of War has ordered the military authorities to use Indian corn mixed with oats in making up the rations of the army horses. This will lead to heavy importations of American corn. The Prcsidont has determined to discon tinue his public receptions. William Doxohoe, a laborer in the United States Treasury, susceeded a few days ago in abstracting a roll of bills amounting to $840. They were cancelled notes and ho is thought to be insane. The people of St. Pauli, a suburb of Hamburg, Germany, attacked a sanitary corps and killed a policeman; there were five new cases of cholera, with one death, at Hamburg ; a death was reported in England; cholera is ravaging the Eastern shore of tho Persian Gulf. The Massachusetts Democratic Convention at Boston nominated John E. Russell for Governor and James B. Carroll for Lieutenant Governor. Geoboe Walkek, aged forty-two, died at Rockland, R. I.f of typhoid fever. He weighed 500 pounds, was Ave feet eleven inches tall, and his waist measurement was aeventy-two inches. The twelve-year-old son of Farmer Phillip Bolts, of Oakland, 111., after being chastised by his father hanged himself. Two persons were killed and Ave injured in a collision on the Chicago and Grand Trunk Railroad in Bellevue, Mich. White Caps are forcing up tho price of cotton in Tennessee by burning gins. The President has nominated Robert E. Preston of the District of Columbia to be Director of the Mint. The Kearsarge has been despatched by the government to destroy derelict vessels which now render navigation dangerous. Pbesident Cleveland wrote to the Governor of Georgia expressing his surprise at the delay of the Senate in repealing tho Sherman law. He says he wants a safe und staple currency, and does not want to be re- ' sponsible to any laborer or farmer for a shrinkage in purchasing power. Within the limits of sound currency he is a friend of silver. The Treasury Department is redeeming United States paper money and National bank notes at the rate of about $1,250,000 a day. The Senate confirmed the following nominations i Consul-General. J. J. Barolay, at Tangier; Consuls?Thomas B. O'Neill, of New York, at Stockholm ; R. P. HcDaniel, at Bahia ; Frank A. Johnston, at Chihuahua; Charles N. Daly, of Bayonne City, N. J.. at Guelph, Canada ; George Tate, atBarbadoes ; John Maguire, at Tampico; Thomas Keefe, at St. John's, Quebec; J. Courtney Hiison, at Fuchau. Reports of damage done by the floods at Gifu, Japan, state that 682 houses were Bwept away, 14,025 houses were flooded, 238 people were killed and 30,203 rendered home 1aq3 Anotheb advance in the price of coal was made in London; 20,000 women and children are on the verge of starvation as a result of the miners' strike. Mb. Gladstone made a speeoh at Edinburgh, attacking the Brltssh House of Lords i for rejecting the Home Rule bill. 1 The officers and crews of two torpedo I boats which attacked the Argentine Government naval squadron off the coast and which \ were captured were incited to revolt by Col- | onel Espina. Colonel Espina was taken into 1 custody, and the probabilities are that he will be shot as a traitor. , SHOT AT THE BROKERS. I A Lunatic Got the Drop on 2000 I Speculators. Cassius Belden, a carriaga painter, entered the men's gallery of the Chicago Board of ' Trade at 11.45o'olooka. m., took a deliberate ! survey of the crowded scene below him, | drew a revolver, and began shooting. Before he was overpowered he had very seriously ' wounded Ammi Bennett, Secretary of the i Board of Trade Mutual Benefit Associa- { tlon, and shattered the faoe of C. W. Kos- 1 well, one of the chief assistant operators of the Western Union Telegraph Company, who ' happened to bo crossing the floor at the time i the shots were flred. Mrs. W. W. Lewis, of r Titusville, Penn., was seated beside her hus- 1 band in the north gallery when Belden began 1 to shoot, and one of the shots entered the a middle of her back, inflicting a severe flesh i wound. The bullet which struck Bennett i passed through the back of his neck and re- t mained embedded in the tissues at the base a of the cerebellum. The shot which struck Roswell hit him on the right side of the jaw, \ shattering it and knocking out several of his e teeth. It was a terrible wound, and ap- \ parently from a weapon or large catiDre. a The crank's weapon seemed to be directed toward the gallery, which eversince the rush fl of. World's Fair visitors has been specially set I apart for the use of women and children. At t the third shot the man lowered his weapon toward the floor, which was crowded with r brokers and Bennett staggered and fell. The v fourth shot, by a miracle, found a resting s place in the pine floor, but the fifth struck t Roswell full on the side of the face. When the brokers realized that they were t targets they threw themselves behind any li shelter they could And. Some flung them- d selves headlong through the doorway into the broad passages, which speedily became a L-hocked with the struggling mass of men. n Others hurled themselves at full length on r the floor and sought thus to escape the bul- b lets which were flying overhead. A multitude of panic-stricken men jumped over the o telegraph counters and the tumult was in- t tense. o Suddenly a cool-headed man was seen to r leap from the startled throng and make his way to the gallery where the maniac stood with his revolver defying the panic-stricken crowd below him. It was young Tom Barrett, of tho firm ot Boyden A Co., and a noted I amateur boxer and athlete. Ho rushed into the gallery and confronted the assassin. The man raised tho pistol. H?* had only one shot left. It was a case oflife and death with Bar- / rett. but he did not hesitate. His big right B hand shot out, and the man fell half stunned in a corner. Before he could rise Barrett " (lung himself upon him and wrested away \ his pistol. < Thnn frr\m fhfl n.inflnrnftniimi hftlnw IirOfJPf 1 ft cry from tho throat? of 2000 excited men i thirsting for vengeance. i Lynch him! Lynch him! Throw him < over!" was the cry. Up the heavy iron stair- f case men swarmed by the hundred. If tho 1 mob could get at him he was sure to be torn f to pieces, and it looked for five minutes as if i that would be his fate. A squad of police soon hurried the lunatic off to the station house. There it was learned that he was turned loose from an 1 insane asylam a faw months ago. ' 1 / TRAIN ROBBERS TRAPPED. TWO OF A BAND KILLED AND FOUB IN CUSTODY. A Dummy Train Sent Out From St. Joseph, Mo., With a Force of Men Inside?A Battle in the Express Car?One Bandit Betrays His Fellows.. The Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Road foiled a night attempt to rob one of its passenger trains, killed two of its robbers and captured four others at Francis, one and a half miles from St. Joseph, Mo. The dead are Fred Kohler and Hugo Engel. The nameu of those captured are Charles Frederlok, N. A. Hurst, Henry Gleitze and William Carver. Train No. 3 left Kansas City at 9.05 o'clock p. m.. and arrived at 12.30 a. m. The officials of the road had been notified that the robbery had been planned, and informed the police. When the train arrived a dummy train was made up and sixteen police officers, under command of the Chief of Police, were put aboard. In order thoroughly to deceive the robbers the train was made an exact duplicate of train No. 3, consisting of an engine and tender. an express and baggage car and the usual coach and Pullman. When the dummy train reach a point two miles north of St. Joseph, the engineer's attention was arrested by a lighted lantern moving to and fro between the rails. He obeyed the signal, and bix masked men surrounded the engine. One of the six mounted the engine and presenting one revolver at the engineer's head and another at the fireman's held them in subjection while the other five hastened to rob the express car. They ordered the messenger to open the door, which he did forthwith. Three of the robbers at once entered the car, leaving the two outside to keep guard. The policemen who were guarding the train were distributed in the various care, the majority of them being concealed in the express car. As soon as the three bandits who had undertaken the work' of robbing the car entered the door, the police ordered them to surrender. The robbers were taken completely by surprise, but they opened fire at once upon the police. The latter returned the fire, and a general fusilado followed. About twenty-five shots were fired on both sides. When the smoke cleared away, the lifeless bodies of Kohler and Engel were found on the floor of the car. Both had besn shot through the head. The bullet which struck Kohler produced instant death. Engel was still breathing, but he died soon afterfho thirH rnhhflp f>no>;icf?rl n at u< a; l %?* ? ? 0?0 ? in the fight in the car, waa uninjured and was placed under arrest. None of tho policemen was injured. While the fight was going on in the car, those of the police not engaged in it were looking after the two robbers who had been left outsideto keep watch. The police quickly placed them under arrest. The bandit who had been detailed to guard the engineer and firemen quickly realized the situation w-hen he heard the shooting in the express car, anil made his escape . His name is Henry Gleltze. Several policemen were promptly put on his track and he was caught. A remarkable feature of the fight in the express car was the escape of all the policemen from injury. The three robbers in the car were each armed with a braco of revolvers and used them freely, but they did no damage. Kohler's body was pierced by forty-three bullets, yet wnile he lay on the ground he managed to fire four shots before he died. Engel was struck by fourteen bullets, yet lived a short time. The coaches were riddled with bullets and all of the windows were shot out. 1 Kohler married an estimable young woman about three weeks ago. The robbers had two stioks of dynamite, to each of which was attached a fuse about three feet long. It was known to the offloers on the train that dynamite might be used and it was at first proposed to let the robbers explode some of It before firing on them. Before leaving 8t. Joseph, however, Chief Broder decided It would be a dangerous risk and he instructed the messenger to open the door before the robbers had a chance to exDiode it STUDENT THIEF KILLED. Foiled in an Attempt to Rob an Indiana College. Two men attempted to rob the safe in the banking department of the Northern Indiana Normal College, at Valparaiso, a few afternoons ago. As a result one of them, C. F. Robinson, is dead, and his companion, C. >1. Moody, is behind the bars of the county jail wounded. It was about o'clock p. m. when two masked men, armed, came into the banking office of the college. Tho only occupants of the room were the Secretary. Miss Kate C'orboy, and her assistant. Miss Emma Jones. The latter had entered the room only a moment before, and was covered with a revolver by one of the men. By a quick movement she knocked the weapon from his hand to the floor, and with a scream both young women started from the room. Picking up the revolver the first man fired Wiffu Ta? net fKn Kiilluf m iaa i n r? VitiT* KtrAnlv 11 iTHOJ WJJGOj LUXJ VUllUk Uiwom^ ii/j wuy i few inchas. As the girls cume tumbling iown the biff front stoop of the college buildng a class of young men in a reading room overhead were attracted by the noise. At he same time Mail Carrier Arnold, who was In front of the building, started toward the iteps. Seeing that their plans were frustrated anil hat any effort to force the hu?e safe would low be useless, the robbers walked out of the )fflce and down the step3, revolvers in each land. The}* were confronted by Carrier Arnold, vhom they frightened with their weapons. Lrnold begad to yell loudly. The students joured out of the college buildings and the jig boarding houses and dormitories. At the first shout the robbers wheeled vithout firing and ran to the fence, over vhich they leaped. They ran through the campus and straight down the track of the ?"ort Wayne road toward the east, while belind them followed a yelling mob of itudents. This crowd of pursuers must have lumbered 1000. The students ware generally inarmed, but carried clubs and stones, which hey haa picked up on the way. The robbers inswered a volley of stones with shots. Nathan 0. Howe, of Michigan City, Ind., rho is a son of the famous old Frank Howe, ix-detoctive, was driving along tii? road nth a wagon load of peaches, and was nred it by one of the robbers. He alighted from his wagon, deliberately ighted his rifl9 across the fence, and brought IaVImham MMAKMal nf 11- K <> UTAim^ in h Ij feuuiusuil i\j mn I^iuuuu nnu ? nvuuu ? ? ireaat. He died instantly. His companion knelt over him ami took hi* evolver. throwing away his own empty weapon, but before he could 1130 it he waS hot by Howe from the roadside. He was hen captured and quickly put in jail. Moody, the wounded mun.fs about twentywo year* old, the son of a furniture dealer n Kalamazoo and a student oT the Department of Stenography. His dead companion was about th? sums ge and a graduate of the same department nd now enrolled in the scientific class. He egistered last year as from Versailles, Ind., lit this year he gave his home as Cincinnati. Howe was released on bail, and is the her > f the hour at Valparaiso. That night th<> Ion. CleinJ. K^rn sold flows entire load f peaches on the streets, and over $1000 was ealized. TERRIBLE PRAIRIE FIRES, Many Lives Lost in the Xcwiy Opened Cherokee Strip. The scene of the recent- terrible prairie ires in the Cherokee Strip, just opened to lettlement, is one of devastation. Scattered ill over the prairie are partially burned vugous, wrecked camp outlits and the iharred remains of household goods, and lere and there the body of a horse. For nilesand miles, as far as the eye can reach, t is a black waste, and, to add to the horror >f it all, in a number of places have beeu J LI--I 1 1 I I.(....nL-c oueh1 u1hckkuwu ttu?l uulu^u uumau uuur.". Nearly a dozen of these bodies have been ound. There i3 no clue whatever to the dentity oI thesa unfortunates. The Wisconsin forest fires have covered an irea of about two hundred square miles, a ivrface cae-flfth as large a<j Khode l3laad. THE YACHT BACK jy American and English Contestant* " for the America's Cup. After a series of trial races on both sides of A the water, the American yacht Vigilant and -> the British yacht Valkyrie were chosen as THE VIOILANT. pre : bra contestants in an international race for the sec America's cup. The Vigilant is owned by a syndicate of New York yachtsmen, and the ?ac Valkyrie by Lord Duarayen.. . Forty-two years ago the famous old * schooner America won the cup that is now the emblem of the yachting ohampionship of the the world. The cup is now held by the New 808 York Yacht' Club, and since the-America's 1 victory has been successfully defended by oI(i American yachts in sixteen races. The last race for the cup was in 1887, when the " Thistle, now called the Meteor, and owned the by the Emperor of Germany, came over only Th to be defeated by General Paino's yacht, an< the Volunteer. i hUi wo - the XK. I THE VALKY&rE. ^ The much-coveted oup was originally 5?oi offered as a prize for a race around the Iale of Wight, open to yachts of all Nations. Jr? The prize was offered by the Royal Yacht ."r Squadron. The cup is of solid silver. It is ^5 ewer-shaped and elaborately ornamented. It stands a little over two feet>in'height.and VSigbs one hundred ounces. Around the centre, the broadest part, are medallions i, bearing different inscriptions. The first G reads as follows t . "One hundred guinea cup, won August 22 J 1851, at Cowcs, England, by Yacht 'America,' ZlT at Royal Yacht Squadron regatta, open to all B Nations, beating Beatrice, Yolante, Arrow, ? THE AJIKBICA'S CUP. M. ( g Coh Wyvern, lone, Constance, Gypsy Queen, ico. Alarm, Mona, Brilliant, Bacchante, Freak, to a Eclipse and Aurora." beti Another medallion bears this inscription: T "Schooner America, 170 tons, Commodore ors, | John C. SteveDH; built by George Steera, mat New York, 1851." mor On other spaces are inscriptions record- kno ing the results of the races with the schoon- was ere Cambria, Livonia and Countess of Duf- into ferin, and the sloops Atalanta, Genesta, Gal- jj atea and Thistle. dlin ant accc SUSfENDED PENSIONEKS. SS all t Seventy-five Per Cent, of Them May fey[ Be Ketained on tho Rolls. exTj The annual report of the Commissioner of ^sa' Pensions states that the Board of Revision 8 ma is now disposing of an average of about 1000 cases per week of those suspanded unier the recent orders of the bureau. At this rate it was estimated that practically all of those heretofore suspended would be disposed of by October 10. It is also estimated that at least seventy-five per cent, of those suspended will be retained on the rolls. a though not all of thorn at their old rates of jQgt pensions. Tho estimates for the year 1893 are given ninf as follows For pensions, $160.000.000: for Woi surgeons' fees $2,000,000, for salaries of erai pension agents, $72,000:. for clerk hire at con pension agencies, 8500.000 , for contingent maD expenses, $59,570. Total, $162,631,570. forv The Commissioner enumerates the various an(j reforms entered upon, the abandonment of and the completed flies system, and the modifl- 0fg cation of order 164 of October 15, 1890. as to ated disability pensions, etc. Me says on tuis wae latter point "It is perfectly clear that under this order 164 in granting pensions under the Act of June 27, 1890, the act itself was set aside and V disregarded, with the result of granting pension not authorized by any law." ' The Precedence is no longer given to case9 underthe Act of June 27, 1890, but claims for pensions undef the prior laws, for disabilities Th of service origin, ara now adjudicated in pajr their order where the evidence is complete. .. So far from holding back this class of claims, <*aec the Commissioner thinks they should have othei precedence as being older aal mora mer- the b itorious. 8eve, dere< I?l it wl ARMY MARKSMANSHIP. St' ttoci The World's Record Beaten in the Infantry Competition. p The Infantry competition of the United Slates Army at Fort Sheridan, Chicago, has Miss closed. The total scores were not only the highest ever mad9 by the riflemen of this Ne! country, but they led the world's high- while est record. Sergeant R. . N. Davidson, of 6w-ee| the Sixteenth Infantry, made 621. which * *" * -1-- 4 ? * ' "* a/>nrrt nil "fll IS rniny-iwo minau m iuc uiSuw. - the records of the best marksmanship in the a sho world. Second Lieutenant J. C. Gre^g of etant the Sixteenth Infantry made a score of 603. Thi find Sergeant Thomas O'Rourke, Fifteenth next Infantry, 600. The officials in charge of the perie competition announced that they oponlv :hallenge any Nation to compete with the m\ te am. ^ rae "Vol Austin Cobbin is th<? loading spirit anil mad chief promoter of the proposed underground railway system for New York City. His plans involve the expenditure of about $100,000,090. Otne . | WjgmaEEiBaMBlMHMI [ED AT AN OPEN SWITCH. , ?? \ FATAL COLLISION CAUSED 1Y A BBAKEMAN'S EEBOB. te Second Section of a Wabash Train Dashes Into a Freight on a Siding at Kingsbury, Ind.?Haif a Score of Passengers Killed and Many Severely Injured. Sleven persons w^re killed and eighteen ured, four of them fatally, in an end-on liflion on the Niagara Falls Short Line of ?Wabash Railroad vritbin sight of King?ry Station, Ind., a few minutes before 8 look a. m. The accident was caused by i carelessness of Herbert Thompson, head ikeman of a fast freight train, who threw >n the switch of a siding almost in front the approaching passenger train. Thornpl made his escape. ?he freight train had orders to let the ex - * A.m 4k. H8 iram pna? it ?t aw^uuij, ao i*? ikeman threw the switch the second tioa ot the express train came along at.a [h rate of speed. Bafore the brakeman l time to throw back the switch th^ ivy engine had dashed into the siding, i moment Inter thn trains met with terriflo ? je. To add to the horror? of the collision i boiler of the passenger engine blew up, ttering human bodies and oar wreckage ill directions. Ten minutes after the aoent had occurred the most frightful scene* re transpiring. ?he citizens of Kinspburv carried away i dead and injured wao could be reached. b Masonic Hall was turned Into a morgue, 1 drays a*d farmers wagona were kept jy for two hours hauling the dead aad unded to the village, u mile distant from i depot, where medical help and nursea resummoned. ?here were two sleepers on the train, the Hon and Kansas City. The former es>ed injury, but the front half of the nsas City was converted into kindling od by the day coach, which smashed >r it. Two dead bodies were taken m the sleeper, those of Harry French 1 Charles Berbo. The smoking car was >.. sted into a heap of splinters, and few of i passengers escaped death 9r injury. The r coaoh which followed was also wrecked being hurled against the sleeper Kansas 'yyi r. ? 'he passengers in the sleeping cars were in their berths when the shock oama. ? ny of them were thrown from their beds I severely hurt. The horrent of deaths i reap ?a in tne smoiuiig car ana aay ,ohee composing the forjrwd part of the in. 'be passengers who wero not hart worked oicaily In their efforts to take the dead L wounded from the wreck a3 quiekly it could be do^e. The broken ms and twisted irons of the tela-.. , ped "Are were pulled apart, and 31 beneath them the victims of the istrophe were lifted. Within a short e many bodies, mangled and dead, were tg on the browned grass near the wreck, [ a score or more of injured had been eatv l to the nearest farm hooses, where they- e attended to by surgeons and the counpeople. he engineer of the passenger train, John.' len, met an awful death. He had no time ump and was thrown from his cab for d clear over the freight engine, a dJsce of several "-or lengths. [is conductor. James Coulter, was taken Y n beneath the wrecked smoking car. Hi* . is W3S broken. He died as soon as he was en into the depot. James B. Woakly and iry Aaron, with a company of boys from tor Barnardo's orphanage" In London, ' jland, were alA aboard the traln^bound Chicago. One or the lads, Harry JPrancn. i killed and several others were badly Injd. One of'theai, William. Adams, was Lily injured. . W; he depot looked like a hospital, after a tie. Men, women and children with inds of all sorts laid on hastily improvised i. The platform south of the track was led, and there on car cushions were " itched several of the wounded waiting for ".i arrival of another special train. A GUNBOAT SINKS,' ' M . / \ vJVjj Haytian Vessel Lost With All OB Board. he Alexander Petion, one of the new goats of the Haytian Navy, foundered on tember 6 near Cape Tlburon and only one lercrewof ninety men survived to tell story. he Alexandre Petlon was the last of the .boats constructed for the Haytian navy; was built in Havre, France, for the Govment of Hayti only a few months ago,and Port-au-Prince on September 4 bound the city of San Domingo. She had on rd as passengers General Moliner, cial Dominican Plenipotentiary to Hayti; le Jean, Consul to San Domingo, and Mr. en, formerly Haytian Minister to MexThe party were going to San Domingo rrange the final terms of an agreement Teen Hayti and San Domingo. he Alexandre Petion carried ninety sailmarines and, o_?lcsrs, besides the diploic party. She sank at four o'clock in the ning. Why it was that she sank nobody ws. Her sole survivor, a colored sailor, pioked up a few miles from Porto Pim-' on September 3. e was upon a heavy plank and was pad K Willi a pair Ul uurs. an w?x9 au Iguviiman and could not <?ive an intelligible >unt of bow the accident took place. He that it was in the early morning. The boat began to go down bow first. .Nearly hose on board sank with the vessel. A jumped and kept up until they were too ousted to struggle longer. 3e survivor found the plank and two oars : the vessel. He floated about for a day a half, when he was picked up ; by a 11 sailing vessel. t'.j A FISHERIES CONGRESS., Be Held In Chicago Under the Auspices of the World's Fair. fisheries congress will be held at the Art itute, Chicago, during the week beginf October 16, under the auspices of the Id's Columbian Exposition. The GenCommittee. of which the United States imissloner of Fish and Fisheries is Chairi, has issued an address, which has been rarded to persons interested in fisheries fish culture. Matters relating to fish fisheries will be discussed. A convention tate Fish Commissioners will be aasoeli with the fisheries congress daring the It of the meeting. * STILL CLOSE OCTOBER 31. v _______ m r World's Fair Not To Remain Open Beyond That Date. . ( e Executive Committee of the Wotfd'a Directory, at a meeting In ;Chicago^ deI to close the Fair on 0<rtoi>er3^-" Aar twenty per cent, was or^rfcTpald on ionded Indebtedness, maklntr a total of lty per cent, of the $4,430,00} now orI paid. The committee estimates that II nave 8500,000 surplus on November 1, payment of the bonded and floating This will be applied on the $11,000,000 * : and bonds of the city of Chicago. EIGHTENED TO "HEATH. icd the Girl But Killed Himself? C*-- LVUkf OUC wira ui t'Kgun Ison Kuney, aged twenty-two yearg, t out driving at Adrian, Mich., with his :heart, Miss Maud Brainard, attempted oot her, and failing in the attempt, fired t into his own head and died almost inly a girl was so frightened that she died day, it is said from the result of her exnce. Vell, Mollle," said her papa, is a militia colonel, "did you see marching up Broadway to-day?" Lh," said Mollle, "and I was real , papa. They might have let have a drum to playoa like those rs had.?Harper's Barar."