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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-06-24
Uncle sam IL the Loser.

Ellis Island is mass of black ruins All
the huge buildings which, since 1892. have
housed hundreds of thousands Of immi-
grants were demolished in a confagration
during Monday night which constituted
one of the most brilliant spectacles ever
seen in New York harbor and which
threatened the lives of 200 immigrants
who were on the island. AS far as eau
be learned there was no loss of life. IL
is said that the loss on buildings will
amount to something like 100000, while
hundreds of volumes of valuable records
have been destroyed. Night Waterman
Christian tells the story of the fire graph
ically. II did not know anything about
it," he says, until l found myself in a
cloud of smoke. / rushed to the north
west end, where the flames seemed to
come from, and shouted fire! Six men
slept there, and they barely got out Then
somebody rang the alarms which commu-
nicate with all the departments. The ini-
migrants seemed dazed, and we had to
almost force them out. Some of them ran
back for some bit of trinket or bundle OF
clothing. We thought we had lost fifteen
Italians for certain until we found them
huddled together at the far end of the ISL
and. 1t was few minutes before O. clock
when the fire started in one of the towers
in one of the main buildings. Everybody
but the Waterman was asleep. How they
all got out nobody knows. The fireboats
and police poured water on the blaze for
all they were worth, but for all the good it
did it might have been oil. 1t was Won
der that the immigrants in the main build
ing got out at all; it was still more OF q
wonder that the sixty odd patients in the
hospital were saved. The nurses and doc
tors worked as coolly and calmly as any
trained fremen. Some of the sick shrek
ed and shouted. But the nurses did not
mind. They hauled them out on stretch
ers and laid them down where they would
not get scorched. II was good work."
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-06-24
Torture and ieath.

Wednesday dawned upon the North
west with continuation of the awful
heat Of the day before, and in country,
villages and cities the excessive humidity
and high temperature combined caused
many deaths and prostrations. But after
noon series of thunder showers brought
relief. In Chicago heat caused three
deaths and many prostrations, and light
ming claimed two more victims, while
twenty-one persons were severely
shocked
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-06-24
Hurt by a Lamp ExpIosiou.

A lamp explosion IN the residence Of
Stephen Welsh, near Sharpsburg, Pa,
four occupants. Welsh and one of the
children may die.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-06-24

cial appropriations aggregate $1,2S4,-
TT % for 1897, and $966, 95202 for 1898
BY adding the levy for general purposes
of the State government and the fixed
charges provided for by previous Legisla
tures. The total amount of the State tax
for the years named is found to be $2,a
379. 0O7 % for 1897, as compared with So,
O13.919.52 for 1895. For 1893 it will be
2.O12 .227.02. as compared with $2,O6S,-
ms. CD for 1896. The total for the two
current years is 81, 392, 134.25, as against
Sc. OS2, 45S.14 for the previous biennial pc
Rod.
Marshall has won the appellation Of
ssrhe Patent Medicine City" Many pat
emit medicines of national fame are put up
in the town, and several of the citizens
have become rich in the manufacture and
sale of remedies.
There has been more hard wood lumber
sold in this State the last month than was
sold during the entire year Of 1896. The
quantity of hard wood logs put In last
winter was not large on account of the
open weather and lack of snow as well as
hard times, but the improvement in the
trade conditions in tlrat commodity is very
encouraging.
Vos and Osterhert, charged with burg
larry, and Will Bell, an all around hard
case, attempted a Jail delivery at Grand
Haven, but were discovered by Deputy
Sheriff Van Rye. They are now in bail
and chain, and the sheriff says they will
have to wear them until their trial In
August.
M. G.. Sundgren, bomestcader living
near Norway. has embarked In the bust
ness of making tar. He used to follow
that occupation in the old coehtry. Re
Gently he built a furnace in which the
wood is cremated, with an iron pan at the
bottom into which the tar exudes. He
has been very successful in experimenting
and will make about 400 ehllous this year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-30
THE CROP DEFICIT.
Figures Showing Extent of Shortage
of Worlds Grain.

BUDA-PESTH, Aug. 29.-The worlds def
icits are estimated as follows: Rye, 50 600 =
600 hectoltres; barley, IS, 900 900; oats, S.
100000; corn, SO, 100000. The report says that
many exporting countries, such as Eu-
ropean Turkey, Egypt, Australia, and Aus
tria- Hungary will either be unable to ex-
port grain or will be compelled to import
while others. including British India, Ar
gentine and Chile will have their wheat ex-
port considerably reduced The favored
countries are the United States and Cana
da, the latter of which will soon be one
of the most important of the exporting
countries, its excess over last years pro-
duction being several million bushels of
wheat and 20, 900 of oats. its output of
all sorts of grain was 270, 600 900 bushels
The yield of wheat in Great Britain this
season is 5O,OOO,0 600 bushels, against 63 600, 600
bushels last year. The wheat area of Brit
ish India is reduced from % 600 900 acres to
8,000.OO0 acres and the wheat yield from
234 coo, 600 bushels to 202, 900, 900 bushels The
United States, which has reduced it's area
sown in oats by 1900 900 acres that sown
in corn by 100000 acres, while that in other
grain remains nearly unchanged, will never
theleSS, dispose of 534 900, 900 bushels of
wheat, against 434 600 600 bushels last year
allowing the expectation of 160, 900 900 bush
els of wheat, while the exports of corn will
last year. The prospects for oats and bar
ley are less favorable than in 1896.
The price of bread in Austria has already
risen 80 per cent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-30

and some others are on their way there In
this connection the stories told of Klondike
whisky are interesting.
STEAMER DAY" IN SEATTLE.
Gold seekers are pouring into Seattle from
every quarter of the country and new local
enterprises are being opened. all due to the
northern gold fever and occasioned by the
fact that Seattle IS the natural outhtting
center for Klondike-b bound prospectors. Not
the least interesting part of the Klondike
excitement is steamer day" which is al
most every day. This is when the steamers
pull out for Dyea or Skaguay loaded to
the guards with prospectors bound for the
diggingS.
Every available steamer in the Northwest
has been pressed into the service. Some of
them are tirst-class passenger boats and
others are vessels that don't look strong
enough TO hold together, but the north
! bound proSpectOrS are too much occupied
to be alarmed; they fight and quarrel TO
snare the same pile of straw with a pack
horse or an OK, as the case may be.
An old-timer said that steamers with gold
hunters never went down, and in support of
this assertion cited the alleged fact that in
lSi9-oO scores of condemned vessels Sneaked
into San Francisco harbOr with their pumps
continually manned TO keep the hulks from
sinking, yet out Of 1O6 vessels that came
around the horn from Atlantic ports, not
one was lost.
u. to Aug s. $15O prospectors left Seat
tie for the north, the rest going via
i
the Yukon to the Klondike. 1t is estimated
that by Sept. / 1928 prospectors will have
! left for the diggings from Seattle This
does not include the exodus from Califor-
MIA leaving San Francisco and other Call
fornia points, which will easily run the to
tai number of gold hunters drawn north
ward to more than 10000 men.
The greatest interest is manifested as to
the various routes that may be taken to the
gold fields of the Klondike. The distance
from Seattle to st. MchaelS is 400 miles
From St MichaeIs to Circle City the dis
lance is 1850 miles, and go miles down the
river toward the mines is Forty-mile Post.
The klondike appears at the end of fifty
miles more. 1t is this route that the steam
ers take with their supplies for the pros
pectorS.
The perils of the Dyea route to the mines
have prompted the suggestion of other
road is practically unknown, although
many have traVersed it. Surveyors have
not travelled its entire length, and distances
can only be Appropriated. The authorities
give the distance from Dyea 10 the Klon-
dixie as 67S miles. The miners say that it is
the longest 800 miles they ever Travelled.
| These facts have been called to the atten-
ton of the British government at London
and representatives of British Columbia
have been promised that steps Will be taken
to more thoroughly open the way to the
mines. An effort will be made without de-
lay to secure an appropriation for the work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-30
WORK OF WHITE CAPS
JOHN BEEsoMs CLOVER FIELD LAID
WITH WIRES AND SPIKES.
Moving Machine Wrecked when 1t
Began WOri&-Gov. Mount Gives
Good Advice to Farmers.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind, Aug. 29.-Whitecapi sm
in Madison county has not been stamped
out by any means. and determined steps are
now being taken to procure a large number
of arrests on grand jury warrants The
men who were most prominent in the prose-
cution of alleged White Caps two years ago
have been victims of some daring work
during the summer. The latest is Mr. John
Beesom, one of the most progressive and
well-to-do farmers in the county. Last
week Mr. Beesom attempted to harvest
large crop of clover, but it was a week s
the mower was started in his field but
few rods of clover was cut till the machine
was practically wrecked by running into
iron spikes and barbed wire that had been
tied below the clover tops. An inVestiga-
ton was then made and wire was found
sticking up in the clover in all parts of the
field, while barbed wire and powders were
secreted in places most likely to do most
damage. Several men were put to work
and cleared the entire field. The work is
no doubt that of members of the famous
gang which has been working mischief in
this county. The most determined effort
will now be made to apprehend the guilty
Governor Mount asking the parole of the
two men sentenced from that neighborhood,
but a representative committee of citizens
will visit the Governor this week and enter
a vigorous protest
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-30
GOV. MOUNT SPOKE.
Advice 10 Farmers at the Old Set
tiers Meeting Saturday.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
MUNCIE, Ind, Aug. 29.-OVer five thou
sand people attended the annual meeting
of the Delaware and Randolph Counties
Old Settlers Association yesterday st Oak
Grove twelve miles east of this city, on
the farm of Walter Jones The big draw
ing feature was the presence of Governor
Mount. The Governor and Hon. w. A.
Thompson, of this city, were the principal
speakers of the day. Harvey M. Koontz of
Yorktown, presided at the meeting, and at
noon dinner was served to all. Before and
after the principal addresses anecdotes and
"reminiscences were recited by John A. Nor
man, Robert Starbuck, L. Morris. Robert
Meeks, w. N. Botkin, Rev. Pittenger, Dr.
j. M. Harris and others who helped clear
the forest where beautiful cities now
abound in eastern Indiana. The address
of the Governor was listened to very at
tentively by the great throng, and ne took
occasion to give some good advice to the
young farmers. In part he said: The
farmers of to-day should be the best pa
irons of the daily newspaper and they
should keep thoroughly posted on the mar
kets. Watch them carefully, and thereby
learn when to dispose of your stock and
grain to the best advantage"
Continuing, he said: Il consider these old
settlers with the same regard as [ do the
veterans of the last two wars. 1t was
they who entered the wilderness, chopped
and savages and made possible these lux
ures of to-day. Their hardships are not to
be classed with that of the soldier, Icing
much more severe"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-30

one of the committee the Governor APP
pointed to look after the interests of the
striking miners of Indiana:
The people of the State should under
stand that the miners are being ground
between the mine operators Of the East
at Washington, in which he itemizes his
earnings between Jan. a, 1896, and May 10,
1897 Three months of the time he was not
at work, but for the fifteen months when
he was employed he averaged SO cents a
day. The net amount for the fifteen months
was $1e0.02"
Now, this statement must have been made
by Mr.. Conner with the intention of leading
the people of Indiana to believe that the
coal miners of the State during the period
mentioned could only earn SO cents per day,
and that their employers, the operators,
were responsible for this condition. AS a
coal operator of Indiana having under my
management one of the largest coal proper
ties in the State, l wish to say to you and
to the public that either Mr.. Conner has
failed signally to inform himself of the true
condition of the coal miners of the State
or else he is, for some reason best known to
himself, trying to deceive the public II
the miner to whom Mr.. Conner refers only
earned 50 cents per day during the time
mentioned it was because he either would
not work or could not work, for the reason
one else. During this period the price of
day labor inside the mines was $3.50 per
day of nine hours, and no practical miner
will work at day labor when he can get reg
ular mining. The price of mining at this
time was SO cents per ton of screened coal
in the locality where this man lived as well
as in d large part of the State, and three
to five tons is a common days work Even
at the reduced price of 81 cents. which was
in effect when the strike was begun, miners
in the employ of our company could make
from $3.50 to $3.50 per day every day they
worked, and though it was the dull sea-
son for mining they had work for fully one
half the time
The present difficulties of the miners are
not due to the fact that the scale is too low
for those who work regularly to make a
fair living, but to many other conditions,
for some of which they are themselves re-
sponsible. Our pay rolls are open for Mr.
Corners investigation at any time that
may suit his convenience. A NJ. OGLE
President Island Coal Company.
Indianapolis, Aug. 2S.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-30

public, for they are misleading and in the
main untrue" said Dolan. Let me tell
something concerning what passed between
as at that conference When Ratchford
We're excited and some of them very much
out of humor, l took the floor. |
faces of many of the operators
who had repeatedly told me that
II the miners officials succeeded In
bringing about a suspension in GER
tain mines that were paying a lower rate,
they would agree not only 10 pay % cents,
but 81 "a ton. l told them that we had
brought about the suspension they asked
for and they knew | referred TO the New
York and Cleveland Gas Coal Companys
mines. 1t seemed absurd to them TO accept
our proposition to go TO work at the o.
cent rate pending arbitration. explained
TO them that we had brought about a sus-
pension in the mines that seemed TO bother
them so much and wanted them TO keep
''Of course. it is well known that they
would not listen 10 our proposition. then
appealed to them to use their efforts 10
bring about a conference of operators ana
miners in all the States involved. Told
them that everyone present should make
an honest effort to bring ABOUT such con-
ference, and assured them that the miners
officials would do ali in their power to
bring the parties interested together If,
after every effort had been exhausted TO
bring about such a conference and had failed
] tod them that / would be willing TO cut
loose and act Independently for the Pitts
burg district and have the support or the
local organization. Now. IL this was not
fair, ! would like to know of an argument
against il. They refused to be as good as
their word on the first proposition, and on
the second did not even exhibit desire to
bring about a conference of the various
States, and. as ] suggested. we are in favor
OF bringing the question to an honorable
and fair settlement and on Just basis.
This effort to put the odium on the miners
on the arbitration question is as unfair
as it is unjust and the public should
know it,"
1t has been decided to start a campaign
among the miners on the Wheeling DIVISION
OF the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The
miners formerly employed in the Anderson,
Hackett Germania, Nottingham Snowden,
Gastonville and First Pool mines Will hoid
a mass meeting at Finleyville Wednesday
morning. 1t was learned to-day that tie
GastonVile miners, who were served by an
official of the Pittsburg and Chicago Gas
Coal Company with notices to vacate their
houses, will resist the eviction. Nearly all
of them forfeited wages aggregating $9OW
when they went out on strike, under con-
ditons imposed on them by the ironclad
contracts they had signed. They claim the
money is due them, and they intend to re-
main in the houses until the accounts are
squared. The meeting Wednesday is to be
addressed by M. =. Garrick, Cameron Mill
3 M others
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-30
DARING JAIL DELIVERY.
Keeper Locked i'm a Cell and Despera-
does Easily Escape.

LEADVILLE Col, Aug. 20. - A daring
break from the county Jail occurred at s
o'clock tonight. Five prisoners made their
escape, and the night jailer at late hour
is still locked up in the Jail, while the pris-
oners who escaped made away with the
keys to both the outer and inner doors.
The prisoners who escaped are the two
Bohannon brothers, charged with the muir
der of Deputy Sheriff Fahey; j. D. Spann,
charged with rape; James Bristol, charged
with forgery. and Jim Dawson. charged
with assault with intent to kill.
When Night Jailer Martin entered the
corridor to make his rounds tonight Spann,
who was walking in the corridor, jumped
on him and clapped his hands back of HIM.
He was at once joined by the two Bohan-
rear of the cells, where they bound him. A
big posse has started in pursuit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-30
THE UNITED STATES TREASURY.
A Financial Institution with a Vast
Business.
Harpers Round Table.

1t costs annually about $3.50 900 to main
tain the United States government (eXclu-
sive of over $50, 000,0 600 for the postal serv-
ice, much of which is paid back from pos
tai receipts) We eXpend annually for the
civil establishment Chat is, the salaries of
public officials and employees of the execu-
tive departments. care of public buildings
etc) about $4,000 600; for the military es-
tablishment, $50 600 COO for the naval estab-
$12 600, 600; for pensions $40 100000 and for
interest on the public debt, $35 600, 0O0-mak-
ing total of 1852 000,0 00
To meet these expenditures the United
States government has to raise the neces-
sary funds by taxation. The greater
amount is raised by customs duties
and by the internal revenue tax
upon whiskey, tobacco, beer. play
ing cards, oleomargarine, etc. For the year
ending June &c. 1896, there was collected
$3.50. 000 900 from customs taxes and $147 000,
900 from internal revenue taxes the balance
consisting of miscellaneous receipts from
sales of public lands, revenues of the Dis
trict of Columbia. consular fees, fees on
letters patent. national bank circulation
profits coinage, etc.
One can easily realize the immense work
of collecting this vast sum of money. In
addition, however, the treasury. through its
accounting officers, has to supervise the ex-
penditure of every dollar paid out for the
support of the government, and to adjust
the accounts of every officer spending the
public money. Not dollar can be paid in
to the treasury of the United States nor
paid out without an order from the secre-
tary addressed to the officer known as the
treasurer of the United States. directing
him to receive the money, which is tech
nically termed covering it into the treas
ury" or to pay out money TO the person
entitled as the case may be. This order of
the secretary is called a warrant" if it
orders the treasurer to receive money into
the treasury it is called a covering war
rant" if to pay out money it is called
either settlement" warrant Cwhen the
money is paid to some person entitled to
it of his own right, or an accountable"
warrant Of the money is paid to some Off
Ger of the government whose duty it is to
expend It for the purposes of the govern
ment. This latter officer has to give bond
TO properly apply said money.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-30
MINING IN CALIFORNIA.
A Business That Goes Steadily on
without Excitement.
San Francisco Chronicle.


While due allowance should be made for
the stories that come from any mining
district, there is enough gold in from Trim
ity to prove the richness of the pockets for
which that county has become renowned.
AS one result a great many people are going
there to try their luck, and the likelihood
that thorough prospecting will be done be-
fore snow flies in November gives ground
for the hope that other discoveries will be
made in Trinity and a general revival of
mining in the State stimulated and set in
motion.
1t is remarkable, on the whole. that there
should be the need of such revival, for the
gold yield of the State has been continu-
Gus and large since 1S4S, when it started
with an output of $5000,000. Those five mill
ions crazed the East and aroused the Gu
pidity of the world; yet over $17,0900O0 in
last year without drawing more than cur
sorry notice. Three four Millions on the
klondike have suffced TO make the great
est gold excitement this country has seen
for years. A find there equal to the average
annual yield of California would draw d
quarter of million people to the frozen
Northwest within twelve months How re-
markable it seems that CALIFORNIA; showing
is hardly heard of in the East nor appre-
ciated al home, but in mining in other
things, tits distance lends enchantment to
the view.
A few more nuggets may be relied upon,
however, to set thousands in motion toward
the Sierra, where there are hundreds now
That of itself will be a good thing, es-
pecially If the hegira includes the ambi-
tiOuS tenderfeet who are waiting for spring
to open their way to Klondike. These men
know nothing of hardship, and they cannot
now tell gold from iron pyrites. Every
thing that has to do with actual mining
is unfamiliar to them To these worthless
''roughng it, is an iridescent dream Of
sylvan glades and well-cooked trout. and
they need most of all to have its romance
taken out of them. Three months in Trim
ity would winnow the chaff from the wheat
among these treasure hunters. and, while
teaching the weak and visionary that min
ing is not for them, it might he the means
of developing some practical mining men,
whose labors in Trinity and elsewhere
would be profitable to themselves and ad-
Vantageous to the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-30
Current Family Reunion.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
REDKEY, Ind. Aug. 29.-The Current
family met yesterday in annual re-
union two miles south of town
in the George Luzaddo grove. After
a handshake all around and a song
by the choir Rev. Falkner, of Redkey, Of
fered prayer after which Attorney Thomas
Dragoo, of this city, made the address. The
minutes showed 200 of the Current family
present a year ago and POS this year with
an equal number of friends and citizens.
After a fine dinner, it was further decided
to hold the next reunion on the third Sat
urday of August on the farm of Abraham
Current three mites west of Brownsville,
in Henry county. Benjamin Current was
again elected president and secretary.