Marshall County independent., 1895-09-27

ing two sleeping ears were in demoral-
lied state. The cannonading in the ex-
press car made fri1htful noise
With a maximum temperature of 81
degrees at ) o'clock p. m. joined to bale
full and persistent excess of humidity. the
weather Thursday was perhaps. the most
extraordinary that has been inflicted upon
the city of Chicago this season. 1t was
deadly weather. but the list of deaths and
prostrations gives no adequate idea of its
effects. The health departma ant's reports
of child mortality will also be Il factor
The list of victims Thursday numbers six
One of the paradOXical features of the
continental weather report was Il tele-
gram announcing that two inches of snow
fell at Calgary. in the British Northwest
Territory. 1t was the first snowstorm Of
the season. and yet small consolation to
the baked citizens of this country. weary
of paying tribute TO bandit atmospheric
low that seems TO hang continually over
the uninhabited region around Montana.
occasionally coming little farther east.
and sucking all the hot air of the tropics
into its yawning NAV. letting it szze and
broil mankind rs it rushes on its way.
Close on the heels of Receiving Teller
Van Bokkelen's $:;J000 defalcatiOn from
the Merchants Loan and Trust Company
of Chicago. comes the discovery that two
trusted employees of the National Bank of
Illinois have disappeared. leaving Il short
age variously estimated from $50 900 10
$4,000. Who the guilty men are Presi-
dent George Schneider and Cashier Carl
Moll refuse to disclose. All they will say
concerning the identity of the absconders
is that one was receiving teller the other
a paying teller. and that the amount they
have stolen is $4,000. They entered the
bank : service at the foot of the ladder
and reached their positions step by step,
as their merit warranted. The receiving
teller had been with the bank seventeen
years. The other had worked there twelve
when the shortage was discovered.
Whether he intended to return or not is
not known. He was trusted implicitly
by his superiors. and it was only when
glaring irregularities were discovered in
his accounts during his absence that the
officials of the bank grew suspicious.
Half a million dollars in buildings and
merchandise went up in flames and smoke
W edneSday morning as the result of one
of the most disastrous and stubborn fires
in the history of indianapolis, and parts
of several blocks, including some of the
finest buildings in the city. are in ruins.
or badly damaged. Valuable stocks had
to be flooded with water, to an enormous
loss, to prevent their total destruction
and wider spread of the fire. Two mill
ion dollars in cash stored in the vaults of
the Indiana National Bank. whose build
ing was totally destroyed. was in danger.
but the vaults withstood the flames in
tact. The fire started at o'clock on the
third floor of the fye-story stone and
brick building on Washington street. be-
tween Meridian and Pennsylvania streets.
owned by A. Il. Pettis and occupied by
Eastman. Schleichcr x Co. 1t soon had
great headway. and all the resources of
the city FIRE department were at once
called into play To combat what was GER
tain to prove Il disastrous blaze. In spite
of the quick work and hard fighting of
the tiremen the flames spread rapidly. and
it was several hours befC. g they were suf-
ficiently under control TO quiet fears that
the entire business district might be
burned