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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30

buildings In ceaseless volleys. The
defenders appeared to have no end Of
ammunition, and had, indeed, stored
up sulphur and saltpetre enough to
manufacture all the powder they need
cd. They also improvised howitzers,
and every now and then a gang Of
youngsters would emerge from some
attic trap upon the top of fiat roof,
blaze bushel of stones from strange
looking carronade and vanish the way
they had come. These volleys had
limited range, but fired squarely into a
crowd OF trench digging soldiers they
did terrible execution, IT, the French
devised plan to checkmate that game,
and kept cannister-shotted guns of their
own ready aimed, to be fired the mo-
ment a group of amateur cannoneers
ventured to show themselves on the
housctops.
Inccssant night alarms wore out the
advance corps OF the besiegers. For
the first few weeks hostile surprise par
ties were foiled by the plan OF keeping
up blazing watch fires, but that expe-
dent. too, had its disadvantages, since
the glare OF the flames revealed the
whereabouts of sentries and patrols and
made them an easy prey to sharpshoot-
ers prowling in the dusk Of surround
ing ruins. Besides the woodwork Of
the captured buildings had all been
consumed, and the inclemency OF the
weather was aggravated by fuel fam
inc. In the fourth week Of the siege
the French ut last pushed their out
works to the threshold OF the Cosso,
and coupled their summons OF surren-
der with the threat of blowing up the
principal buildings Of the city. WAR
10 the knife and to the last shanty
WALL was the reply Of Gen. Palafos.
Many of the hopelessly wounded
slammed paralysis, and on being car
rled to the improvised hospitals sudden
" rose upon their knees 10 attack the
French surgeons with dagger knives.
In the beginning of February the
French sapeurs discovered the srbter-
ranean galleries of the defenders. and
to the havoc of the siege were now ad-
ded the horrors of an underground war;
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30
VESTS START in Lire
His Joke ON = Crowd of Poker Players
Drove Him West.

us joke On = &ToW0 Oh EOkcE IidySHe
Drove Him West.
One of the conspicuous figures In the
Chicago convention was Senator Vest.
Of Missouri. Vest, says correspond
ent, Is a Kentuckian. He began dife
by monkeylng with poker game that
was foreign to him. 1t was at little
village on the Ohio River. Vest was n
poor boy and did not play poker. Draw
poker Is only for very wealthy men.
That night a game was raging In the
cabin OF fiatboat, which was moored
to the levee. The temper of the town
was fitful and they indicted folk who
played poker. SO the Judge and the
Prosecuting Attorney and others who
desired relaxation went down to this
tlatboat SO that the town would not
get onto their sinful curves and put
crimp In them Vest came strolling
along about 10 p. m. where the fiatboat
rose and fell on the sobblng tide. He
perceived the poker game In its Grim.
inal progress. Vest loved good jest,
so heoquietly made loose the lines Of
the fiatboat and cast the poker game
adrlft on the dark, shimmering bosom
Of the river. The malefactors played
On, little needing that they were now
afioat. At o'clock a. m. old man Tay-
lor had won $40 In Mexican silver
money. Then he got cold feet. Old
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30

TT is said to be noticeable fact all
along the course of memorable MS
i torical sieges that about the second
month several legions OF demons get
into the besieged, as well as the be-
siegers. And when the latter happen
to be barbarians, the result Is often
ultra internal. as after the capture or
Khcrson, where Cougar Khan, the lead
or Of the Mongol Invaders, ordered the
survivors to be flung into pit that had
been loaded with explosives, aud then
put fire to the fuse.
Hence also the sensation OF horror
that thrilled the civilized world at the
report that the mining town OF Bulu-
,wayo had been surrounded by the vim
dlctive race of the Dark Continent. Sir
Sampel Baker mentions a case where
that same tribe of savages disdained
TO make use Of their spears, but leaped
upon their prisoners like wild beasts
to tear them with their claws and
teeth.
The trouble is that tsrotractcd sieges
are always apt to rouse the beast under
the skin of every male human being.
The loss of relatives and friends turns
political adversaries into personal ene-
mics. The besiegers feel that every
day of unsuccessful effort Increases the
slur upon their prowess, and long to be
revengcd. Alexander the Great was in
sober, moods anything but n savage, but
the seven months siege Of Tyre ex-
hausted his reserve funds OF gener-
osity. and when the city had been taken
by storm he answered the appeals for
mercy by showing the spokesman OF the
dcputation list Of his own loss in dead
and wounded, and then ordered an
equal number of the captives to be
crucificd The yells Of the thousands
of victims writing on crosses and trees
could he heard at .SadurbaL at n dis
lance of league and half. Another
instance of barbarian severity attended
the last siege of Carthage. The Ro-
mans were not satisfied with the COM
pletc demolition of the city. but en-
ployed several thousand carts for
week to scatter the many ruins, and
then plowed up the site Of the main
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30

town and covered the ground with
coarse salt, to diminish its attractive
ness to future settlers.
The barbarty of those ages has been
equalled, If not excelled, by some OF the
horrors Of modern sieges. The storm
ing of Bagdad was an instance where
ahe fierce onslaught Of ravenous Huns
was met by all the obstacles. missiles
and projectiles that desperation could
suggest. and later at the storming OF
the bastile, in Paris, X semecd as IL
brute frenzy had taken the place Of
human instincts. driving the outside
participants to rend stone from stone,
and crush, mutilate and dislgure every
enemy. OF all the sieges Of late times,
however, none can show such marvel
Gus endurance. such ferocious deter
nninat.on as that attending the ten
months siege and inch-by-inch capture
OF Saragossa. In December, 1908, Nor
tier and Monsey invested the city with
an army of $4,000 regulars, 5000 auxil-
iaries, besides teamsters and sappers
and an artillery train Of hundreds of
nnortars and siege guns. The outside
walls crumbled like brick, but thou
sands of volunteers closed every breach
with hlllock of rubbish, even when the
French shotted their advanced batter
les with grape and canister. Gravel
or bones, it's all the same" rs long as
the gaps get promptly closed. yelled the
defenders. Cannon balls showered in
10 these ramparts Of debris, but could
never demolish them altogether. Like
sthe sand bulwarks OF Fort Fisher In our
civil war, rubbish heaps proved more
dnexpugnable than granite. The col
lapse of some lofty buildings like the
convent Of San Jose opened, however,
a gate Of access, and the division OF
Gen. Dujardin rushed up, dragging
! their cannon across stones and corpses
and then opened fire into the gathering
mob with such effect that the ground
could be held till two additional bri-
gades entered the city and instantly
entrenched themselves among the
smoking ruins. But all that they had
thus gained was the change Of opera
lions to close range fight. Missiles Of
all sorts descended from the windows,
balconies and doors Of the next street
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30
Auroras in the Arctic Regions.

The light was lessening day by day,
though the beauty of this ice world
did not wane. / think 1 never felt
the strength, the glory, of silence so
wildly as on the Goth Of the month.
standing on a rocky height above the
bay. Across the heaven beautiful au-
roras streamed at frequent intervals
In colors of faint orange, green, aud
blue, scarcely dimming the myriads
Of brilliant stars that glittered In the
deep blue vault, which lightened to tur-
quoise at the horizon. Majestic cliffs
swept away across the bay, with its
shadowy, greenish-blue bergs, all bath
ed In one shimmering veil Of trans.
parent gold from the light Of the moon.
In a silence that made the beating Of
the heart and the pulsation Of the
blood In the veins seem almost audible,
was suddenly attracted by pecu-
liar, occasional cracking sound. Pres
emily the sound came very near. and,
turning, I perceived yellowish-w white
object, about three feet In length,
steadily approaching. The little crca.
ture gradually cIrcled about, until 1t
paused about fifteen feet away. As
l had remained motionless. Its curios-
ity led II to sit down upon It's haunch-
cs and deliberately stare at me. Twice
1t seated Itself, and then, running be-
hind n boulder, peeped over the edge.
until, satisfied or alarmed, 1t dlsap-
pcared. 1t was an Arctic fox.-Ccn-
fury.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30
New PROCESS of Making Maps.

William Kornmacher, a druggist In
South Scranton. Pa. has discovered a
process Of relief map-msking which
marks new era In that art. They
are made by chemical process, and
the largest country can he done II,
three hours. and, no cut being used,
the cheapness Of the process Is easily
understood. The negative is done in
plaster-of-paris, and from 1t the relief
can be finished In one hour. Tho coun-
tries are accurately represented. the
mountain ranges elevated in proper.
ton to one another, and.the river cours.
es are shown in depression, anh Ill.
maps can be colored and names i'm.
printed thereon. This process can be
used in the manufacture of innumer
able other articles.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30

man Taylor said he had promised his
wife that he would come home early.
The others jeered. This did not daunt
old man Taylor. He sinkered his spoil
about his honest old frame and saying
''adois" left the cabin Of the flatboat
and carefully picked his way overheard
into about twenty feet of water. He
was fished out and rolled on a barrel
by the other players to get the water
aud the money out of him. When they
at last were towed back to town and
found the entire village awaiting them
at the levee, they began to hate Vest
for the jocose role he had played.
They at once laid for the coming Sem
ator with slxshooters. Now, II there
is one thing about Vest more than an
other, 1t Is the fact that he's what they
call out West ''gun-shy." Vest won't
stand for artillery a moment. So he
fled westward and went so fast he
simply burned up the region lying be-
tween Kentucky and Missouri. After.
ward Vest grew up with the country.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30
JOHN r. M'LEAN.
Man Who Came Near Being a Vice
Presidential Candidate.

Man Who Came Near Being a Vice
Presidential Candidate.
John Il. Mclean, who was second in
the race for the Vice Presidential NOM
ination In Chicago, Is plucky in every
thing he undertakes. He was base
ball catcher one time, and n more deter
mined one never faced a pitcher. Harry
Wright was one of the men he caught
for. and that was before the days OF
masks and stomach pads. After his
baseball enthusiasm was partially
knocked out by foul tip, which took
him to dark room for two months TO
repair an impaired eye, his next ambi-
ton was to print the best newspaper in
Ohio.
He inherited the Cincinnati Enquirer
from his father, and while there may
be some question as to the realization
Of his efforts he has certainly succeed
ed in building up an extremely inuen-
tial and profitable newspaper. Then he
fell victim to the wiles of Cupid and
married Miss Mary L. Beale, daughter
Of General Edward Il. Beale, of Wash
ington. The bride was about % years
old at that time and the groom ten
years her senior. He has one Of the
SWEETEST OF the swell houses in Wash
ington. entertains handsomely and has
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30

Each man came down from the TOP
of the ladder upon which he had stood.
and snap went three hooks upon the
round of the ladder. The ladder at the
top was as a wisp OF hay In the pow
erful arms OF the man at the third door
window. He took 1t from Its place and
quickly lowered 1t TO the man below.
This one passed 1t on with the same
rapid movement, and In second more
II was on the ground and resting
against the building Down ran the
three men. The one who had removed
the ladder stepped aside. and his place
was taken by the next to dismount.
The same course was taken until the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30

among his guests the biggest men of
both the Republican and Democratic
parties. Two or three years ago he said
he would not accept any political posi-
ton. but preferred the life Of private
citizen. Mr.. Mclean Is very wealthy.
Some people estimate he is worth $2O,-
100000. He Is a large holder of real
estate In Cincinnati, heavy owner of
street railway stock in Washington
and the chief stakeholder in the princi-
pal gas plant of that city. He Is about
As years Of age. handsome, practical
and far-seeing in a business sense.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30

DER DRILL. A l t h GU g this
drill usually takes place at every hook
and ladder house on some day of
every week, 1t never ceases to be an
interesting sight to the ncighbors and
passersby. Men and boys are never
too busy to stop and watch the blue
shirted men as they nimbly run up the
ladder, and then pass it on to the win
dow above.
When Marshal Koran and Capt.
Thomas O'Connor, of hook and ladder
No. 6, at Chicago, gave the order for
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30
A New Reaector

M. Henry. French savant OF the
school Of higher studies, has revealed
the power OF sulphatc or zinc to absorb
sunlight and give 1t back In the dark.
A powder produced from this mineral
gives a soft luminosity to fair young
face. A cyclist busted all over with the
same material Is In himself n lamp on
pitch dark night. Damp will not spoil
the effect. Rain is incapable of dimin-
ishing its brightness.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30

ly In the duties OF
a hook and ladder
company. Not only
the men serving on
the hook and lad
ders know how to
lower a man or wo-
man by means of a
rope from n burn
In g building, b u I
when a pipeman or
englneman Is need
ed he Is as well
trimmed as any 10
take an active part
I'm saving life, and
can do 1t as well as
he can handle an
engine or turn a
hose where 1t does
the most effective
work.
a..
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30
whole blocks of buildings were shat.

whole blocks Of buildings were shat.
tered by the forces of volcano-like ex.
blossoms that often hurled mangled
corpses to the top of the highest stee-
Piles. When finally surrender was made
the dead list had reached the porten-
tious total Of SO, 727, and the work Of
murder never ceased till the skull bones
of the last infant had been shattered
on the breast of the last woman-as an
eternal and eternally unanswerable
argument against the Notifications of
large cities.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30
A Giant or. the Sea.

A monster iceberg stranded near
Hampden Beach, N. H., few days
ago, but fioated away the following
day. 1t was as big as a church. and It
had marked effect on the tempera-
ture In the vicinity.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30

Palmer-"You can never convince me
that women will succeed In politics"
Polk-"whyw Palmcr-"How are you
ever going to keep them from talkingr
PHILADELPHIA North American.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30

three others were safely on the ground
once more and the four ladders stand
ing against the firehouse.
The two men drill is very similar,
except that only two ladders are used,
one man passing up the lower ladder
to the man above him. and then run
ring up the two ladders and in turn
receiving the lower one from his com
rade. The zone man drill' is performs.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30

Brown-Have you read this article
upon "How to Tell Bad Egg?" Jones
No. but II you have anything to tell
bad egg, my advice is to break 1t
gertly.-Up-to-Date
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30

Brown-Confound 1t! There's that
mosquito again. Smith-Well. don't
slap your face like that. He'll take II
for an encore.-Pucx.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30
MEN WHO FIGHT FIRE
Drilled In the Art OF Sealing High
buildings = Handle Long Ladders
with Wonderful Ease and Celebrity
No Time IL Lost.

Powerful and Agile Athletes.
Every : pipeman, cngineman, and
truckman in the service of the fire de-
partment of large cities Is drilled week
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30

How times changed A few years ago
to speak Of nit implied that the
speaker must have them.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30

A mans sins will not find him out al
soon as his wife.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-04
MINERS CONFERENCE TO-DAY.
Operators Decide to Meet with the
Block Coal Diggers.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL. Ind, April 3-Operators in the
block coal field OF this district met in the
parlors of the First National Bank here yes
terday to discuss the mining scale and APP
point committee to confer with a committee
Of the block coal miners Saturday. Colonel
Zimmerman, H. NJ. Johnson and ]. A. Nc
Clelland were chosen. The joint meeting Of
operators and miners tomorrow is for the
purpose of arranging a scale for the mining
of block coal for the year, beginning May /.
The miners in delegate meeting held last
Saturday arranged scale which demands IL
cents advance from operators owning COM
pany stores and cents advance from opera
tors who have no stores. This, the miners
claim, is in keeping with the scale recently
made in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The opera
tors here claim that they have for the past
few years been paying the miners more than
was paid in competing fields, and, as a con-
sequence, have been working at great disad-
vantage. being unable to compete with Ohio
and Pennsylvania in the sale of coal, as the
freight rates are as cheap from either OF
these points to Chicago as it is from this
civ to Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-04

BaIIington Booth Names the Organ Of
His Army the Volunteer Gnzette-

NEW YORK, April 3--Bailington Booth
has decided to name his paper the Volunteer
Gazette. II Is TO contain sixteen pages OF
three wide columns. and viii make It's first
appearance on Saturday, April H. The lead
ing editorial in the first issue viii give de-
tailed account OF the Volunteer movement
over the signatures of Ballington and Mrs.
Booth. Among other things 1t will say: THE
Volunteers warfare is not 10 DE looked on In
any sense as a split or an effort 10 disrupt
the forces OF the old movement. TO which un-
III recently we belonged. Our silence IN re-
gard TO many accusations and questions now
raised is from no inability 10 vindscafe our
selves. but frcm desire 10 let the matter
drop and leave In Gods hands the ordering
directing and indicating OF our lives In The
future. We have no thought TO cali 10 our
side any OF the associates stiil standing ana
believing in the international organizatioo-
IL has not been our policy 10 bring influence
or suasion TO bear on them. and those who
are now with Us have come naturally. On
their own responsibility and their own per-
sonal convictions. formed quite apart from
n
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-04

Ministers ut Urbana Decide to Meet
Next Year I'm wabash.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
WABASH, Ind, April 3.-The second days.
session of the Indiana Conference of the
Evangelical Conference opened at Urbana
this morning. Bishop Breyfogle presiding.
Rev. r. Thiersch was granted credentials to
the Erie Conference. Rev. c. ID. Rarey, of
the United Brethren Church. was received
as a minister into the Evangelical Church.
and Rev. c. f. Hansing was appointed pre-
siding cider. Elders were stationed as fol-
lows: Elkhart district, ID. S. Cakes; Ken
dailville, d. Martz; Fort Wayne, j. NJ.
Evans; Indianapolis. j. NJ. Haug; Louisville,
G. +. Hansing. Devotionals were conducted
by the bishop and Revs Braeckiey and
Martz- Rev. Migrant was chosen TO preach
tonight Rochester. Kendallville, Portland.
Wabash and Wolcottville asked for the next
conference and Wabash was successful. The
conference will meet here next April. The
resolution favorng lay representation In the
General Conference was defeated. Addresses
were made by ministers representing the
various church publications. The bishop con-
ferred elders orders on n. r. Jameson.
B. Schuermeier. c. Shargler and c. Pierce,
and deacons' orders on s. Ezekiel, j. Wise,
w. Snyder and ID. Koenig. Rev. Hernberg
was received an advisory member.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-04

Said to Have been Followed by q Man
Bent on Killing Him.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
ELWOOD Ind, April 3.-The mystery sur
rounding the disappearance of Charles F.
Lispenard has taken new turn, and II is
now stated that for several months Lispen-
ard has been closely followed and watched
by person connected with the Cox-Myers
mystery. whose name is not given. This
man is alleged to have closely followed Lis
penard for some purpose, and it is believed
with the intention of putting him out Of the
way, as Lispenard is said to have been pos
sessed of Information which would have in
eliminated this man had 1t been used. He is
alleged to have followed Lispenard to Vim
cennes. and from thsre to Cairo, ILL.,, where
Lispenard had gone on the track Of the
murderer of young Latta. When Lispenard
left Cairo in skiff for Memphis, Tenn, this
man is alleged to have followed half an hour
later in another skiff, and Lispenard's friends
fear foul play. Lispenard organized the For
esters here, and was here when the famous
Cox-Nyers empty coffin mystery came up.
He was detailed to clear up the mystery, and
had warrants sworn out charging DIR. Cox
and four others with the murder OF young
Thomas Myers, but they were not served
Myers was found to be alive. When Cox
died. at Marietta, o., on Dec. 8, 1895, Thomas
days later, and Lispenard left vincennes for
Cairo few days prior to the event. He left
the impression here and at Logansport that
he was going to sift the Cox-Myers mystery
to the bottom, and. being detective, he en-
gagged on the Latta murder mystery and be-
gan working It up. Mrs. Lispenard Is firm
in the belief that some one who feared his
investigations in one Of these cases has muir
dered him, and she never expects to see him
alive again. Meanwhile the Foresters are
conducting a searching investigation by
means of the courts of Foresters all over the
country, and the failure to find any trace of
him lends color to the belief that he has been
murdered. His many friends in this city will
not believe that it is simply a case of wife
desertion, as his home relations were of the
most pleasant nature.
When Lispenard was two years old he was
abducted from his parents at Troy, n. Y,
and not until he was a man did he find trace
Of his parents or relatives. He has been con-
nected with the Foresters since the start of
that order in this State, and his prominence
renders his disappearance a matter of more
than ordinary interest. The search for Lis
penard will continue until the matter has
been cleared up, and should Ii appear that he
has been the Victim Of foul play some sem
sational developments that have something
to do with the 'Cox-Myers case may be ex-
pected. sa