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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-04
WOODBRTDGE.

Mrs. Beisiegel Very IlI-Not Expected to
Recoverable Late ID. Il. ToIIes.
March 3.-Mrs. Grace j. Beisiegel is
very low and slight hopes of her recov-
cry are entertained.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-04

Daniel b. Tolles died suddenly Friday,
February %. The funeral took place
from his late residence Sunday after
noon March l.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-09-04
The Republic. Statue Burned.

At an early hour Friday morning
the statue Of the Republic, which
stood at the head of the Grand Basin
in jackson Park during the Columbian
Exposition, in Chicago, was burned by
order of the South Side park commits
sioners. The figure cost about $685.
600 and,was sixty feet high. standing
on pedestal forty feet in height. The
cost of guiding the figure, which.
was made Of staff, was about $3, 900.
When the fair grounds were scourged
by fire, which destroyed some Of the
huge buildings and swept away In 9
night those features most familiar to
sightseers, with the exception Of ere
public" it stood as If defying that
element Of ruin. The decree Of final
destruction was long in coming, for the
heroic emblem was landmark around
which clustered host Of memories.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-09-04
workman KILLED.

James Long. who resides on Con-
stance street, between Poeyfarre and
Delord, New Orleans, vas instantly
killed while at work in the Whitney
Iron Works Monday afternoon at 2:S0
O'Clock. Long was at work bolting a
spur wheel, and in doing SO he must
have raised his head. AS he did an
other piece of machinery struck him
on the back ofsthe head, crushing his
skull and killing him instantly. No
one saw the accident and. it was some
time before the unfortunate man was
discovered. Some of the yorkpen
found Long and covered the body.
The coroner was notified After view
ing the body Coroner LeMonnier gave
a certificate of death from accidental
killing, and The body was removed to
the deceased s. late home.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-09-04
powder Plant Blown Up.

Part of the Equitable Powder Com
pany's plant, four and half miles.
east of Alton, ILL.,. blew uF shortly
before 8 O'Clock Tuesday morning.
It is known three persons lost their
lives. The works took fire and big
storehouse was in imminent danger
for time. The shock OF the explosion
was felt for twenty miles and East
Alton and Upper Alton buildings were
damaged. In Alton many fancied an
earthquake had come. The names Of
the men killed are: Henry Ricket,
Thomas Pepple, Henry Rogers. A
second explosion of less intensity fol-
lowed the first one.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-09-04
wheeImen Collide.

Nat Butler, J. P. Bliss and G. r.
Newton had collision in the bicycle
races at Springfield, Mass, Tuesday.
Buffers collar-bone was broken and be
was bruised. The others were slightly
injured. Butler is heldresponsible for
the accident. Eddy Bald failed TO pro-
cure q place in the one mile profess
sional record. Sanger also failed to
draw a place in the handicap events.
No final heats we're run Tuesday.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-09-04
A ThrilIing Accident.

: A most thrilling race-track runaway,
in which it seems simply miraculous
that several were not killed, occurred
at the fair grounds Friday in Rush
vile, Ind. As it is eight persons are
injured, two very seriously. They are
Won Phul, George B. .Greensburg, two
ribs broken, shoulder dislocated and
two toes of left foot broken; Mrs.
Thomas two ribs broken; Mrs Frank
Winslow, cut on head; Mrs. aep. E.
Moore, badly bruised on body; No
Clellan Maple, back injured; Miss Bsr-
tie King, prostration from fear; two,
children, trampled under horses fe ct.
1t was the last half of the second
heat Of the $50 pace. Mamie Wool,
colored with the sulky of Czar. The:
latter tore down the home stretch
withouta driver. Mamie Wood, rae
ing at gallop, started toward gap
at the end of the track. Fully 1000.
persons were crowded near this gap.
Into this crowd, at fearful pace,
dashed the terrified race horse, tramp
ling under foot women and children
for two hundred feet through the crowd.
The horse dashed on until it became
entangled among seats and fell. The,
sulky was broken into hundred
pieces. The greatest excitement was
caused by the runaway and the crowd
stampeded,, women and. children maxi
ing frantic rush to get away Many
wara knocked down and bruised. but
not seriously.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-09-04
s ST. JOSEPH La, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER A. 1885,.

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sha ncrthyest rer f aect;Sn f,e st a,t -
the Tensss -iyer and ali ~ ssct;o, 90 e,.,t ~
iving betwsen chootsw Rsvov anS Nc srssssas s,,s
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tanning about one insndreS and -ast. ss,,as r,.s-
iTotaj saveu hundrad /. ri sr,ants .a.y eSAo'-
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Unknown owner.
Tullis, Hugh, last known owner.
Taxes 1892, $40. 0S, taxes 1898, s10.08, taxes
1894, al0.0s, taxes 1895, s10.0s; total taxes,
The southwest quarter Of section seven
teen, township eleven. range ten, east, con-
tanning one hundred and sixty acres.
rr,t, -
oHAuEwn wv o"neI p..,
soaa sar "a iase Anvme soo l oMnea'
,oas ssx ioS1 az 80 90 s aoSS, taAes
800 81 S'.Ao 'aAes i0''' e1''1'i so'ai 'aAes,
styyoo Tho g.. ~, "a .ha 90. h.,s :, a..
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Unknown owner. -
Wheeler, Josiah, last known owner.
Taxes 1892, S64. 46. taxes 1898, s64. 46, taxes
1884. s6I.46, taxes 1895, s64 AZ; total taxes.
e257.8z.
All Of section fourteen east OF the Tensas
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-09-04

- = - = - = - -
aren ana Commits suicide.
Neighbors who broke into the, house
Of O. w. Green. travelling passsb ger
agent Of the Big Four railway, ct
Kansas City, Friday afternoon, found
the three children, two boys, aged re-
spectively thirteen and four years. and
girl; aged nine, lying in bed. They
had been shot and instantly killed as
they slept. In another part of the
house, Mrs. Green, also dead, lay up
on the floor weltering in her own
blood. The woman, supposedly while
temporarily insane, had apparently
fred on and killed her three children
and then dispatched herself. Mrs.
Green had apparently suddenly be.
come insane during the night, arisen
and committed the crime. She is said
to have been addicted to morphine.
She was 35 years old. Mr.. Green left
the city week ago last Tuesday for
trip to Salt Lake City with Mr.. Lynch,
assistant passenger agent of that road.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-09-04

An outing club was. spending the
Sunday in grove near the suburb OF
College Hill, near Cincinnati, o., Sun
day, when Edward Melons, an amateur
pugilist. and his friends started 6 game
of chuck on the grounds. Adam Pratb,
Of the outing party, ordered them to
qnit playing there. In the melee that
followed Prsth was fatally shot by
Melons.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-09-04
Shot HI. wife Three Tlme..

James Williams shot his wife, Mary
Williams, three time with pistol at
Waxahatchie. Tex, Thursday. Two
of the balls entered the woman's breast
and one passed through the. feshy part
of ofaiower limb. Depuf5 Sims arrested
Williams while trying to make his es-
cape. While the shooting was going
on Alderman Williams appeared on the
scene and shot James Williams with .
gun loaded with birdshot. Physicians
say that the woman WIN recover.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-09-04
Roller Explosion.

The boiler furnishing motive power
for Level & Smiths mills at English,
Ind, exploded Thursday morning at
8 o'clock, instantly killing Tolbert
Doodey, engineer, and Samuel Doods,
sawyer. William Cummings, fireman,
was badly scalded about the body and
face. Low water caused the explo-
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-09-04
Pike. Peak Train Narrowly escapes

Pixies Peak Train Narrowly Escapes
The first accident on the Pixies
Peak fColorado) cog-wheel railroad
since il was opened five years ago, oc-
Cured last Sunday, and but for the
safety brakes used on all the cars OF
this line, tsainload OF passengers
would have been hurled down tho
mountain to destruction. Coming down
the mountain the side-bars on the
driving wheels on both sides OF the
engine broke apart, rendering the
compressed air brakes on the engine
useless. Conductor Guyman applied
the automatic brakes besides IN the
passenger coach and soon stopped tue
train. The engineer and fireman were
compelled to abandon the engine,
which was beyond control, and 1t went
down the twenty-five per cent. grade
at terrific speed for nearly nan
mile. where it struck curve, jumped
the track and shot through the air for
fully 15O feet, going clear over a
boulder fifteen feet high upon the
mountain side of the track. IL
ploughed immense holes in the noun
tain and the tender and engine sepa-
rated Just as the engine exploded,
hurting iron and steel in all directions
The train was special carrying Man,
ager Frederick Harrison and party OF
the LONDON 4 Northwestern railway
and Major S. X. Hooper, OF the Den
YER a. Rio Grande road.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-09-04
Coal Exchange once Damaged.

The six story coal exchange Office aod
store building at Scranton, Pa, caught
fire Sunday and before the flames
could be controlled the building and
contents were damaged 10 the extent of
$3.50, 900 Insurance sl00, 900. Cause
Of Are unknown.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-09-04
IMMovABLE PROPERTY.
site Gt Louisiana VS.. Delinquent Ta Deb
tors---Parish Of Tensas.

BY virtue OF authority vested In me, by the
constittItion and laws OF the State OF Louis
lana. L will sell, at the principal front door of
the Court House in which the Civil District
Court Of said parish is held, within the legal
hours for judicial sales, beginning at 10
O'Clock am, on SATURDAY, the 10TH DAY
OF SEPTEMBER, 1896, and continuing on
each succeeding day until said sales are com
pleted, oil immoHable property on which
taxes are now due to the State Of Louisiana
and parish Of Tensas, to enforce collection Of
taxes assessed in the years 1894 and 1895, tor
gether with interest thereon from the 3lst
dayof December. 1894, and from the 31st
day OF December, 1895, at the rate of two
per cent. per month until paid, and all
costs
The names Of the said delinquent tax-pay-
ers and the amount Of taxes due by each on
the assessment Of said year and the immova-
BILE property assessed to each to bc offered
for.sale,- as follows:
Nn.. - No re
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-09-04
1904, $3.50. taxes. 1895, s25,2oi total taxes

1894, $3.50, taxes 1895, t25,2oi total taxes
s100.60.
The south east quarter and the west half
of the north east quarter Of section eight,
township twelve, range eleven, east, contain
ing two hundred and forty acres, and the
east half of the west half Of section nine,
township thirteen, range eleven, east, con-
tanning ONE hundred and sixty acres, con-
tanning In all four hundred acres.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-09-04
Unknown owner.

Chamberry, Robert, last known owner.
Taxes 1892, $50. 90, taxes 1898, $500, taxes
1894, sS2.OO, taxes 1895, $500; total taxes,
s12S.00.
Lot three, or the fractional south half OF
the southwest quarter Of section nineteen,
and also the south half Of the north hall OF
section seventeen. and the south half Oh the
north half and lot three OF section eignteen'
and the fractional northwest quarter OF sec-
tion thirty. all in township thirteen, range
ten, east, containing Ave hundred and ten
acres
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-09-04
State Tax Sales

:
or
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-09-04

Curtain, Josh. T., last known owner.
Taxes 1891. $3.50, taxes 1898, $500, taxes
1894. s25, 20, taxes 1895, $3.50; total taxss'
An undivided one-half Of the following, to-
Wit: All of section six. and all OF sectlon
seyen. township twelve, range ten. east any anu
the east half Of the east half and the SOUTH
west quarter Of the northeast quarter OF So
tion one. township twelve, range ninss sss@'
containing four hundred acres.
Unknown owner.
Dahiqren, John L., last known owper.
ysxY 5s22. e2t.2o tsxess 1seS SzaP'sAts
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-25
AN INSANE FIRE BUG
A PYROMANIACs EFFORTS TO BURN
THE MATTEAWAN ASYLUM.
Heroic Work of the Other Male Pa
tients to Subdue the Flames-Panfc
I'm a Chicago Building.

POUGHKEEPSIE, n. Y, Jan. &C. s.
MitchslI. a patient at the Matteawan Hos
pital for the State Insane, this afternoon set
fire the institution in five different places,
ard for a few hours the buildings were
threatened with destruction. Fire was at
first discovered in the cellar under the
kitchen, Which is some distance from where
the patients are confined. No sooner was
the effort made to extinguish the flames
than il was discovered that the north wing
was also ablaze directly under where over
4 hundred patients were located in the
wards. Smoke was fast filing the build
.nas, lid the patients were terror stricken,
especially the women. The pyromaniac had
made the most careful preparations for the
destruction of the building, as large piles
of shavings were found distributed through
out one building. Meanwhile several scat
tering blazes were discovered in various
sections of the asylum, and soon the fires
were beyond the control OF the hospital at
tendants, even with their excellent facili-
ties in an emergency of that kind, and help
was summoned from Forkhill Landing,
about two miles distant. The Beacon and
Tompkins hose companies arrived in short
time, and il took the combined forces of the
hospital attaches until o'clock this even
ing to control the fire beyond the danger
ooint.
TIE men patients. dozen o. more of
whom had every opportunity of escaping
worked heroically. DIR. Allison, the superin-
tendent, says the men patients throughout
the building acted in manner so cool as to
astontsh the doctors who at first feared
panic among the insane. with all of its
terrible consequences. The building under
which Mitchell started the first blaze. near
where he was captured soon afterwards In
a high state of excitement, was not dam
aged to any great extent 1t was a fire.
proof building. Immediately after having
performed this work he started off TO an
other wing. which he had encircled with
infammable material and applied the
match as he went. 1t was the fact of hav-
ing to combat fires that seemed to spring
uD in every direction that caused the hos
pital people some anxiety and alarm.
DIR. Allison late tonight estimated the loss
at about 81 600. Mitchell was committed 10
the Auburn state prison twelve years ago
from Oneida county for burglary in the
first degree About Pix years ago he started
a fire in the Auburn prison and shortly
ho crlIrr
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-25
FIRE CAUSES A PANIC.
Occupants of an Office building
Eorced to Use the "Escapes."

CHIC GO, Jan. 24.-F.re which broke out
In the old Stock Exchange Building, at the
northeast corner OF Dearborn and Monroe
streets, to-day caused a panic among the
occupants. The building is a six-story
structure, and the location is one the most
crowded street corners in the city The peo-
pie on the fifth floor, when the flames were
first discovered, found their way TO the
staircases barred by smoke and resorted to
the fire escapes. One woman, completely
unnerved. appeared at a window on the
Monroe-stree; side and endeavored to leap
TO the street. She was seized by a man
who held her until the firemen raised a lad
der and rescued her. The scenes attending
the efforts OF the people in the building 10
escape were witnessed by throng of tnou-
sands. which quickly gathered. All the oc-
cupants were finally rescued by the firemen
The loss on the building was comparatively
trifng. J. ;. Robinson. who has an Office
in the building, was quite seriously burned
in the face and hands while making his way
out. III. Barton Lindley. enploye OF the
Chicago Tribune, was loudly cheered by the
crowd when he emerged from the smoke
safely carrying his father in his arms. Mr.
Lindley. sr., Is seventy-five years old, and
lives at Chillicothe, o. Miss Mabel Fin
nerty had arm broken and ". A Bard
well was burned about the face and hands.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-25
THE NEW
CIGAR STORE,
BILLIARD PARLOR
- AND
BOWLING ALLEY,
Will open soon at
90 North Pennsylvania Street.
p. l.. CHAMBERS.
INTERIOR DEFENSES.
General MandersOn Thinks Large
GarrisOns Should BE Maintained.

OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 2i-Congressman
Hainer. of this State, who has been re-
Gently appointed a member cf the commit
tee on. national defenses, has written to
General Manderson asking for information
and advice on the coast defenses and other
military matters. The latter, while In Con-
gress, was a member of the Senate COM
mittee on military affairs and has given
much study to the matter. After directing
the committee TO original secondary sources
of information onsthe subject and dwell
ing at some length on the need or stronger
coast defenses and especially along the
Pacific coast, General Manderson, in his
reply, writes as follows:
while you are at work on this line, the
interior of the country should not be neg
lected. In the event of war, with
small army and comparatively Insignificant
national guard. IL would take months of
preparation In the way OF drill and disci-
pline 10 put sufficient force on our borders
TO resist invasion. We must not only when
war comes. have a column to resist attack
but we must have troops at all salient
points on the border and scattered wher-
ever the government has military property
or great interests. Places removed from
danger of attack. because well away from
the border, like Atlanta, CHATTANOOGA.
Louisville. Cincinnati. st. Louis. Denver
and Omaha. should be made points where
large garrisons can be maintained"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-25

connected with ii. Any attempt of any Leg
isiature 20 levy assessments on property
not compensated by special benefits or In
excess of such benefits. or not proportionate
to them for the purpose of constructing
local public Improvement for the general
public welfare was therefore an excess OF
legislative power and a violation Of the
fourteenth amendment. II had been ar
gued, they contended, as a reason why the
Wright act should be sustained that il had
been re-enacted in other States. But the
radical changes from the Wright act which
had been made in the States referred to,
which were framed in the light OF expert
ence with the practical operations of the
Wright act, strongly supported the argu-
ment that the unconstitutional features or
the act made IL impossible for any such
law to operate successfully, and showed that
these later statutes had sought to eliminate
those unconstitutional features of the
Wright act which had given rise TO it's most
grievous expressions. and which would work
the practical destruction of any law en-
bodying such provisions. 1t also
serted that the Supreme Court of Califor-
MIA had held that by susceptible was in
tended susceptible in their natural state.
and that was the only mode Of construction
unuer which tney couiu justify the iiiCiu-
sion of cities and towns and property in
capable of irrigation. And the supervisors
under that construction could not exclude
any lands which. in their natural state.
were susceptible of irrigation if such lands
had been included within the district by
the petitions in its foundation.
Several times while the ex-President was
laying down a proposition or citing a case
Mr.. Choate, who sat at his right, shook his
head in protest. Mr.. Harrison summed up
his argument briefly and concluded at
o'clock, having spoken almost an hour. The
crowd in the court rapidly thinned out az
the other counsel proceeded.
All the members of the Indiana delega-
tion, save Mr.. Johnson, in the House were
in the Supreme Court chamber while ex-
President Harrison spoke. After his ad-
dress they waited on him, congratulating
him. Later in the afternoon Representa-
tives Henry and Watson, accompanied by
Mr.. Charles Lane, Representative Henry's
private secretary, called on General Harri-
son at his hotel and spent a half hour in
pleasant conversation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-25
AT THE WHITE HOUSE. ;.
General Harrison Pays His Respects
to President Cleveland.

WASHINGTON, Jan. "a. - Ex-President
Harrison called at the White House about 8
O'Clock this afternoon TO pay his respects
TO President Cleveland. thus returning a
similar call made by the latter on him
while he was the occupant of the White
House. The ex-President was accompanied
by his private secretary, Mr.. Tibbott, but
the latter remained in the waiting room
during the interview between the President
and Mr.. Harrison. which lasted about ten
minutes.
The ex-President. accompanied by his pri-
vate secretary. left the city at 7:l0 o'clock
this evening for his home in indianapolis
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-25
HEALY COURT-MARTIAL.


SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 24-At the court
martial to-day OF Captain Healy, of the
revenue cutter Bear, charged with drunk
eness and unofficial-like conduct, Lieutenant
Ross. of the Corwin. told how the crews OF
the different cutters at Unaiaska we're in
vited TO a whisky and tobacco soiree" on
board the British ship Pheasant. Accord
ing TO Ross, Healy was returning home
from the festivity he was so overcome that
he walked over the edge of the wharf think
ing IL was his bunk After his mishap was
known witness said il caused great rejoic-
ing throughout the fleet. The defense tried
to prove. through engineer Jones and Lieu
tenant Daniels. that Healy was the victim
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-25
Family Drowned I'm Prairie Dog River

FORT WORTH, Tex, Jan. A.-News was
received here this morning of the drowning
of an entire family In Prairie Dog fork of
the Red river, in Randall county. Joseph
Wicker, wife and two children attempted to
ford the stream in a covered wagon and
team. The father attempted 10 swim ashore
with one child on his BACK, but he sank to
drowned. The mother and other child re-
mained in the wagon until ii was over
turned and both were also drowned. An
back in time to save themselves, but could
give no assistance to the Wickers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-25
Motor Car Wrecked.

KNOXVILLE. Tenn, Jan. 24.-An electric
car on the Knoxville street railway and a
switch engine on the Southern railway COL
lided at the Asylum-street crossing at noon
to-day. Several persons were injured, two
perhaps fatally. The injured are: Mrs T.
Il. Davis, Mrs Girton Mrs. Gettys. Miss
Anderson. conductor Branch and motormen
Monday and Keasel. The car was going
down steep grade and the motorman was
unable to stop IL.