Brown County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 32, Nashville, Brown County, 4 August 1899 — Page 2

ed ythe death of Corporal Leonard F Hayes, America’s only traitor in the Phil, ippines, was witnessed by Sergeant Geo, A. Lamarsh, of Company H, Twentieth Kansas Volunteers, now in this city. Sergeant Lamarsh went to the Philippines with the Second Oregon Regiment £our> teem months ago. Corporal Hayes, he says, became enamored of a Filipino beauty and, deserting his comrades, was placed in charge of a Filipino battery with the rank of lieutenant. He met his death almost in the first engagement in which he fought against his country. Speaking of this battle, Sei’geant Lamarsh said: “We had charged the Filipinos, driving them back and killing and wounding many. Among the wounded left on the field we found Hayes. He was recognized by several of the boys. One of the soldiers of the Second Oregon drove his bayonet through the body of the w-ounded traitor and lifted him above his head and held him there while the soldiers shot him. The body was thrown iptO a trench and buried with several dead Filipinos. We would have treated him worse if we had known how.” Hayes was a corporal in Company I, First Colorado Volunteers. NEBRASKA HAS PAYED HER SHARE, Her Regiment Reduced, from 1,100 to 388 Men. Omaha special: German Towle, a noncommissioned officer who has arrived in San Francisco, telegraphed this Tuesday: “Nebraska has paid her share—how much people at home will never know until their sons come back. Many have given thoir lives, many escaped with lives which will burden their days until the last Pour comes, and not a man but has sacrificed years that outraged nature will deduct with compound interest from his declining age. “Once the excitement of the campaign was over, a dangerous relaxation followed. The sick report increased appallingly; doctors -were in despair. Nearly every man in the regiment was afflicted. Malaria, dysentery, typhoid, acute indigestion, dhobie itch, tropical ulcers, plant poisoning added their burden to spirits on the ebb and constitutions rUn down. -“Among the officers and privates One may find a feeling Of general disgust at the manner in which the campaign has been conducted. They say that upon these lines the war may drag along for ten years. “Frcm 1,100 men the regiment has heed reduced to 280 men,”

A SERIOUS EPIDEMIC. YELLOW FEVER BREAKS OUT IN HAMPTON SOLtHERS’ HOME. Thirty Cases ami Three Deaths Before any Report Was Made,to Washington—4,000 Veterans Exposed. Newport News, Va., special: There are thirty cases, of what is believed to be genuine yellow fever at the National Soldiers’ Home, near Hampton, and three deaths from the disease were reported Sunday. There w r ere several other deaths at the institution Saturday, but it can not be stated that all of them were caused by yellow fever. Newport News and Hampton will quarantine against the soldiers’ home. The government authorities at Old Point have already adopted this step and no strangers are allowed to enter the reservation. Quarantine Officer Hobson, of this port, went to the soldiers’ home and verified the statement that there are r.o», thirty cases of the disease at the home and that there were three deaths from the malady Saturday. While no one outside of the soldiers’ home knew anything - about the existence of yellow fever until Sunday, A is said that the disease made its appearance three days ago. The most rigid quarantine regulations w r ill be enforced to prevent the spread of the malady. T-ho news has created great excitement in Newport. News, Old Point and Hampton, and the most vigorous measures wdll b« resorted to to prevent its spread. Thera are 4,000 old veterans at the home and several large excursion parties went last w r eck, i ■. $

dence shows that the woman tried to disi pose of some of his notes. Her son, Otto, and Mrs. Sarah Kr are retained, pend* ing further investigation, A Patent Medicine Expert. Elkhart special: A. C. Orr, an old widower, who lived with Emmanuel Eddermant, died Monday, reading a glaring medicine “ad.” Patent medicine w r as hii hobby and he had been in correspondence with nearly all the different firms over the country and had taken their medicine. To the Monument Top. The Epworth Leaguers have succeeded in giving the monument the fourth largest w'eek jn its attendance. The attends ance during the week just closed was 3,102. The largest number of visitors during any one week wars during the encampment of the Knights of Pythias, when 4,366 went to the top. During two fair weeks the number of visitors exceeded those of the last week, and the Epworth League comes in forth. Thursday’s visitors numbered nearly 500, and many of them were members of the League. The lai-gest number on any one day was Saturday, when 1,027 went to the top.—-In-dianapolis Journal. Women Blow Horns. Evansville special: Tuesday afternoon women and children marched around tne shaft of the Ingle mine, beating tin cans, blowing horns and yelling. The negro miners came out and were prepared for trouble. When the negroes started to the tug they were followed by the crowd and several union miners. Operator Ingle and Frank B. Posey, his attorney, boarded a car and were immediately surrounded by the mob, but police dispersed it. Stabbed His Wife. Anderson special: The investigation into the death of William E. Poor, who fell from a second-s.ory window Sunday night and was instantly killed, brought out the fact that just before he fell he attempted to kill his w r ife. He stabbed her, but for some reason the blade did not reach her heart. The investigation had almost been closed before this feature of the mystery came out. Ate Poisoned Meat. Decatur special: As a result of eating poisoned moat, the four-year-old son of John Burke is dead and Mrs. Burke and an eight-year-old son are dying. Mr. Burke bought beef at a butcher shop Monday, and it was served for dinner. Mr. Burke and a six-year-old daughter did not eat it, and escaped. An investigation is being made. The Destructive Trust. Kokomo special: The Greentown Glass Factory, which went into the tableware trust, closed down Saturday. This is its first stop in ten years. Before the sale to the trust it was a model co-operative industry with 300 operative stockholders. The factory has increased the population of Greentown from 400 in 1890 to 2,500. Ball Players Fined. Ft. Wayne special: The first cases against the Sunday baseball players were tried Tuesday afternoon, and each offend-

thrown off the scent. Reduced rates to those I have married before. A red lantern hangs in front of my dooti on Prairie street at night. No dog kept. Night bell directly under the lantern. MOSES DODO, J. P.” Kaiser Wilhelm’s restlessness ha 3 brought about the retirement in disgrace of the chief magistrate of the Metz district. When the Kaiser visited Metz lately a program was arranged according to which he was tl be entertained at lunch at a ceitaii hour and was then to make a triumphal progress through a number of villages, where school children and societies of all kinds were to be arrayed on either side to greet him. Tha Kaiser insisted on getting up from the lunch an hour before the appointed time, which upset the arrangements, so that lie found the streets deserted on his journey. The magistrate had to pay for the fizzle. A company has been formed in Te’emarken, eastern Norway, for breeding and raising reindeer on a large scale. The company has already bought 2,403 deer for 28,000 kroner ($7,504), and by degrees it will increase the herd to between 3,000 and 4,000 deer. When this number has been reached, the company will be enabled to kill 1,000 deer a, year without diminishing the herd. When slaughtered, a deer is worth about 20 kroner ($7.36), and there are good markets for this meat, especially in France and Belgium. The company also hopes to induce England to purchase it. In order to prevent the glutting of the market during the winter season a canning plant will be attached to the farm for the purpose of preserving the meat. A CORN BREAD PROPAGANDA. The Richmond (Va.) Dispatch votes a general tender of congratulation to the Washington authorities on their purpose to make “a grand exhibit of American corn and corn breads” ail the Paris Exposition, and adds; “That’s all right. It shows good business sense. Our exports of corn are steadily increasing, though the demand for it is chiefly for food for stock. Corn is not making much headway as a table food. The European practice of cooking bread only once a week is against corn bread, since it is not as appetizing when cold as when warm. “It seems to us, too, that our own people arc not the great corn-bread eaters they used to be. Batter or egg bread and certain cakes are still in vogue, but the honest and homely corn pone, the corn-dodger and the hoecake are not as popular as they used to be. As for the ashcake, the cooking of it has become a lost art almost, ‘Wf charge change,_*'iu part afe IUU Ii.uiuua» i, l‘Vcu most country homes, of the modern cooking 'stbv£ tifid range; Ft takes a' great big opeu fire-place and a Southern negress, with a red bandana on her head, to make prime corn bread. Nor will any meal but water-ground meal serve the best purpose. Steam power meal is tabooed. “Let the Washington officials see what can be done to restore corn bread to the tables of the American people.” '

LITTLE GIRL HANGED. Fannin fcounly Texas, Arroiisetl drei 1 A Shocking Crime, ' Dallas, Tex., special: Fannin county's seventy-live miles north of Dallas, is In a state of indignation over a terrible crimo» An eleven-year-old white girl, the daughter of Alonzo Newton, a farmer, -was found hanging lifeless from a tree near the family home by her father. The child was left alone in the morning, when hot father went to his work. As sooii as Mr. Newton discovered the murder of hi4 child he aroused the neighborhood. News was sent tt> Bonham, the county seat, seven miles distant, and Sheriff Kibbling’a forces, the police of the city, headed by Chief Jackson, and the citizens hava searched diligently for a clew to tha crime. The search Was continued all day and Justice Steele, acting coroner, has been holding an official investigation. The people of Fannin county are terribly aroused and a lynching, perhaps two of them, tnay be the outcome. Sheriff Kibbling said to-night: “We can not safely arrest the suspected persons because of the excited -condition of the people. All 1 can do is to watch and prevent escape,*’ ONE MORE KENTUCKY TRAGEDY. Benjamin Fiimell Sjhofc Ry His Son-In-Law Morning View, Ky.’,_ special:. Benjamin Finnell was shot and killed ' son-in-law, Austin ’Tfem "Sunday, Stephens and wife separated-.abot/f eight months ago. She ‘entered is If and got, a .divorce. Stephens blamed Flnn'm as m author ofr hks.Juoubles. A- jfear Finhbt Stephens through the arm j g S.tcplv hk IB m Aji . therj^ighborhood and called for Filmed. A son of the latter gave him *a beating. Then' Stephens went to an adjoining where- Finnell was feeding hogs. He pulled a revolver and shot Finnell twice through the shoulder and once through the heart. In spite of his wounds Finnell grappled the murderer and would have killed him had he not been pulled off.. He died in a few seconds afterward. Stephens escaped, but bloodhounds are on his trail. Finnell was an ex-deputy sheriff of Kenton county, and once was the opponent of Senator Goebel for a seat in the Legislature,

MAKES HIM TIRED. ADMIRAL DEWEY ALLEGED TO HAVE PREDICTED WAR WITH GERMANY. When Seen Eater Regarding Reported Prophecy the Hero of Manila Would Neither Affirm or Deny. A dispatch to the New York Herald from Trieste says: Your correspondent had a conversation with Admiral Dewey. In reply to my remark that Germany had intended to interfere at Manila, he said: “Yes; Prince Henry of Prussia is a man of the type of his brother, the German Emperor.” “And Admiral Von Diedrichs?” he was asked. “He was relieved from his Manila post in accordance with an arrangement of long standing and because his time was up, not as a concession made in friendliness to the American government. Germany’s policy is to prevent other powers from obtaining what she can not acquire herself.” After we had spoken of Samoa as evidence of her policy, the Admiral said: “We need a large and thoroughly equipped navy that can cope with any other power. England is our natural ally and differences such as those about the (Venezuelan boundary and the fisheries do inpt interfere with a friendly understanding existing between the two nations. Our next war will be with Germans’-” Dewey Gives Up. Trieste cable: Admiral Dewej r , When seen by a representative of the Associated Press regarding the report of an interview published in a New York paper in the course of which the Admiral is quoted as saying; “Our next war will be with Germanj r ,” said: “I long ago gave up denying or affirming newspaper reports.” Not Believed at Washington. Washington special: No one in this city appears to put the least belief in the accuracy of the interview with Admiral Dewey in which he was made to declare that America’s next war will be with Germany and to reflect somewhat severely on German policies. While Germany was undoubtedly hostile to the United States at the beginning of the war, and while Admiral Diedrich apparently went out of his way to he unpleasant to Dewey, the Americans’ extraordinary success brushed these vexations and threats away. Diedrich has been recalled and Germany is trying - in every way to secure the United States’ friendship. Even if Dewey did expect war with Germany his friends say that his unvarying discreetness is a guarantee that he did not say so. GREAT EXPECTATIONS. Railroads Estimate That 3,000,000 People Will Go to New York in October to See Dewey. New York special: Over two million persons w r ill come to New York in October to help celebrate Admiral Dewey’s home coming, if the estimate of the railroad officials is anywhere near correct. The transportation lines leading into this city are making arrangements to bring at least 2,500,000 persons to the celebration, and the officials say that they can bring more who want to come. A very low rate be ’;ed by the roads to those who went to honor Dewey. This rate has not yet been fixed, but that it will be as cheap as the roads can possibly give is certain, so the various passenger agents say.

A CURIOUS FREAK. STRICTLY TEMPERANCE STORY FROM THE CLARK COUNTY KNOBS. Removing a Dangerous Reef—Sure-Enough Romance—Wealthy Parmer Poisoned —Patent Medicine Expert—State Notes. A Curious Freak. Jeffersonville special: George Sloan, a farmer living on the knobs in Monroe township, brought to the city a snake, four feet in length, that is a curious freak of nature. It is hard to tell whether Mr. Sloan s catch should be called snakes or snake. It has two heads and two tails and is of two different species of snakedorn. One head and one tail are those of an ordinary, harmless blacksnake, while the other head and tail are of the variety known as a cowsnake. Back from the head of each reptile there is a growth of body about a foot long and an Inch and a quarter in diameter. Then comes a single body, somewhat larger than the forward part, and about two feet long. This part belongs to the cowsnake, and out of this grow the two tails, each about a foot long, one belonging to the cowsnake and the other to the blacksnake. The reptile is harmless. It was captured by Mr. Sloan in a novel way. He had been missing newly hatched chickens, and supposed rats were at fault. Wednesday morning he heard a noise among his fowls and he ran to the chicken house, where he found the strange creature writhing on the floor and the chickens huddled in a state of terror. The two heads had gone after the same chicken and each mouth was clamped on either end of the chick and neither would let go. A battle royal was on for possession, and Mr. Sloan called his family to witness the affray. Up to this time he had given no thought of capture, but on a son’s suggestion he procured a two-tiued hayfork and pinned the warring blacksnake-cov-snake combination to the earth. This caused both heads to let go, and the chicken, dead, of course, dropped ou the floor. A box was procured and in this the double header was placed until a cage could be made. Removing a Dangexams Reef. Jeffersonville special: Several hundred men, employed by the government, began Monday morning to remove with dynamite one of the most famous and dangerous reefs on the Ohio river. The place Is known as Georgetown Point, and is the western extremity of Corn Island, a spot made famous by Gen. George Rogers Clark, whose home for a time was just across the channel on the Indiana shore. Millions of dollars have been lost at treacherous Georgetown Point, and valuables aggregating vast sums are said to be at the bottom of the river where the water sweeps around the jutting rocks. It will require months to remove the tons of rock that form the point, and an army of men w ill be employed all summer. The acres of stone extend out into what is known as the whirlpool in the form of a shelf, beneath which the -water sweeps with a roar to the depth of several feet. In 1851 the Niles, one of the finest boa's

THE DEMOCRAT.! By AIOXZO ADDISON. NASHVILLE, - INDIANA I This year’s production of beet sugar lit the United States is estimated at 122,000 tons from 144,100 acres, a fourfold increase in one year. Chicago police announce that the murderers of Martin Meiers, who was killed there recently secured $40,000 after getting him out of the tvay. Promoters who offer a prospectus in these times for anything capitalized at less than $10,000,000 are classed as cheap men. Even the peanut trust can beat those figures. Sandy Hook’s new 16-inch gun is a fraction over 49 feet long and throws a projectile weighing 2,400 pounds. A battleship would not care to get within five miles of such an implement in the hands of American marksmen. Lord Rosebery claims that the rich man has an advantage over the poor man in being able to command the best medical attention. Lord Rosebery speaks from the standpoint of a rich man, and overlooks the fact that a poor man has no time to be sick. An examination of a sample of roasted coffee berries seized in Paris showed them to be entirely artificial; chemical analysis disclosed ash, gum, dextrine, etc., and the microscope showing grains of wheat, starch, vegetable debris and animal hairs. The berries were beautifully molded. The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria has just directed the administrator of his private fortune to purchase a plot of ground in Budapest and erect on it a large block of flats suitable for well-to-do middle-class persons. He expressed the opinion that he could not And a better investment for bis money. By a recent decision of the Supreme t!oiirt of Arkansas all the contentious against the erection of a new capital were disposed of in favor of the State. This settles the controversy and insures the people of Arkansas a State capitol of modern build and of magnitude commensurate with the growth and advancement of the State. In France’s navy there are 45 admirals to 1.760 officers and 41,536 men. In the army there are 330 generals to 21,488 officers and 540,000 men, white the marines have 17 generals to 2,105 officers and 52,305 men. The marines complain of the inequality in the proportion of generals, they having but one to about 124 officers, while the army has one to 65.

USX OF FATALITIES. Death’s Fearful Harvest In the Far Off Philippines. Seattle, Wash., special: The Times prints what purports to be a full list of fatalities in the American army in the Philippines up to June 2. The list was furnished by Fred F. Fitell, a representative of the Manila Freedom, who claims to have obtained it from the records of the surgeon general’s office at Manila. The total number of fatalities is 736, including twenty-three officers, 699 privates and fourteen civilians, attached to the army. A remarkable feature of the record is found in the statement that the number of officers killed in battle is out of 'all proportion to the number of privates killed. On the other hand, fewer officers died from disease proportionately than privates. Out of the twenty-three Officers dead, sixteen were killed in action, two were drowned and five died of disease, as follows: Typhoid, one; menengitis, two; rheumatism of heart, one; paralysis, one. Of the 699 privates, 294 died of wounds received in action, nine w'ere killed accidentally, twenty-three were drowned and seven committed suicide; 106 died of typhoid fever, eighty-nine of smallpox, for-ty-seven of dysentery, twenty-eight of pneumonia, nineteen of malarial fever and fourteen of meningitis. The remaining seventeen died from various diseases. Of the fourteen deaths among civilians seven were from smallpox and three from gunshot wounds received in action. OTIS’S REPORT. War Department Officially Notified of the Capture of Calamba. Washington special: The War Department Saturday morning received Its first official report of the capture of Calamba in the following cablegram from General Otis: “Hall, 1,000 men, captured Calamba, important strategic position. Laguna dc Bay, yesterday, driving out 300 insurgents. Command composed of portions of tiro Fourth Cavalry, Twenty-first Infantry. Washington Volunteers, transported In launches and cascoes, gunboat accompanying. Casualties: ‘‘Prlvaets - Charles Gleesupp, of the Fourth Cavalry, and McDuffy, Company H, of the Twenty-first Infantry, killed. - “Corporal Thomas Totten, Company C-, Fourth Cavalry, mortally, wounded. “Privates Michael Sheridan, Herbert Tracey, Napoleon White, Company K. Twenty-first Infantry, seriously wounded. “Privates Hinds and Plummer, Company G, and Sanson, Company C, Fourth Cavalry; Phillips, Company H, Christie and Hollister, Company D, and Ashland, Company I, Twenty-first Infantry, slightly wounded. “Insurgent casualties unknown. Forty Spanish prisoners released. Spanish gunboat in good condition, long sought for in bay, captured. This town was the direct objective of Lawton when he captured Santa Cruz and launches in April, but he was unable to reach town by boats on account of shoal water.” TRAITOR HAYES. Enamored of a Filipino Beauty He Deserts and Joins Insurgents and is Killed. Kansas City special: The Star Thursday says: The tragic jscepe which attend-

NEED OF THE PHILIPPINES. Gen, Anderson Says OfcU Should Have a Statesman Over Him Chicago special: “The greatest statesman in this country should be made governor general of the Philippine Islands and the military authorities in the islands subordinate to him.” Brig. Gen. Thomas M. Anderson, commanding the Department of the Lakes, Tuesday outlined in the foregoing words what he believed to be the best course to pursue in the far Fast. General Anderson expressed himself as follows when asked his opinion of the results likely to follow the installation of the new Secretary of War: “The greatest exigency with which we have to deal at present exists in the Philippines, and to it we should bring the best talerjJ ligTp, ,XhP governor general should bo, first pan. He shot o' ii*k a five should carry-Jtltffyvrpavf of governor general implicitly" but preferably in his own way. “As it is, General Otis is both civil and military governor in the islands. Exercising both of these functions, he Is the most absolute and arbitrary ruler on earth, the Czar of Russia not excepted. The military power should, in my opinion, be merely a means of carrying out the policy of the civil administration. Understand that I do not mean this as a criticism of General Otis, for he is vested with this dual power and must do the best lie can. I believe that the task which he is trying to perform is too great for any one man, no matter how Capable he may be. “The man at the head of the War Department at Washington should be one of good business executive ability and sound common sense. The statesmanship is required on the scene of action, I have no intimation of any change in the administration of the department under Mr. Root. One thing is certain, however, so long as General Otis is allowed to remain in command he should receive the support of the administration at Washington. An incorrect policy carried out with determination is usually productive of better re-sults-than, a policy which, on the whole, might be better, but the execution of which is wavering - . Whether or not General Otis acted wisely in the matter of press censorship, I am too far away to tell. Personally, I have a great deal of respect for the correspondents in, the Philippines and believe them to be men of truth and honor. There may be other elements entering into the-case, however, which would justify General Otis in that which he is said to have done.”

HARDSHIPS OP TUB KLONDIKE, The return of Alaskan gold-seekers enriched by their findings is shadowed by the stories of the misadventures of unfortunate prospectors. If statistics were obtainable it is probable that for each one who wins a fortune another one meets death. The great mass of gold-seekers fail of success, hut escape calamity. There is no means of learning how many men have gone to Alaska seeking gold, but the number approximates 50,000. The output of gold since the Klondike discovery up to the opening of last spring was not over $25,000,000. It is probable that more money has been taken to Alaska by gold-seekers than has come out of it. But against this is the fact that the discoveries that have been made will now carry themselves and yield in many cases enormous profits. The impression that hardship and danger are unavoidable coneomitants of goldseeking in Alaska is not justifiable, though life life is hard and can not safely be pursued by those who lack physical fitness, courage and proper equipment. Winter journeys such as that In which a dozen persons are reported to have lost their lives are not Wisely or necessarily a part of any prospector’s well-ordered program. The work of prospecting Is limited to summer, and consists of finding the bed of some unprospected stream. The miner thaws his way down to bedrock through twenty feet of frozen earth. If he falls to find gold he goes elsewhere, repeating the operation. If he finds gold he claims the piece of river bed, and/goes to work tunneling, by thawing with fire, the frozen earth. His claim is from “rim rock to rim rock” of the river and of varying widths as the authorities permit and is called “discovery” and is the monument or base for surveying all other claims. Prospectors have not only claimed all the Klondike, but all its tributaries and many streams notflowing info it for hundreds of miles about Dawson. On most of these no discoveries have been made after frequent prospecting. At the time of tker Klondike craze it was believed thafci all the tributaries of the Yukon were like the Klondike, but prospecting has proved the contrary. Men who go to Alaska now to prospect must not only find new placers, but they must find' new rivers in which to seek for them,

The old log building shown in the cut was constructed at Charlestown, Ind., in 1808, and was the first Methodist church in the State. In the earlier daj's Peter Cartright lined out hymns from its high box pulpit. The building has been moved several times and now stands in the center of a blackberry patch. Fabulous prices have been offered for

the old structure, but the owner positively refuses to part with it. The logs are poplar, oak and walnut, and many people want the building to be torn down and canes and souvenirs made out of the timber. Considerable vandalism has been practiced, but the owner will not allow any part removed now. Some Charlestown people want the building moved into town and preserved. •

HERBS WBYIiEB AGAIN, The Former Captain General Sneerlngly Censured by Spanish Minister of Interior. Madrid cable: Tire discussion of the army bill in the senate Thursday led to an exciting scene. General Weyler, arguing against any reduction of the strength of the army, warned the government that the present situation made a revolution highly probable, since it had never been so easy for the army and the people to make common cause. He himself, he said, had never thought of heeding a rising, but it must be confessed that revolutions sometimes cleared the political atmosphere and accomplished the work of legeneration. Senor halo, minister of the interior, replying, severely censured General \Seylsi-, declaring that a general who, with 300,*)IQ men, had failed to suppress the Cuban rebellion had no right to make such threats and that any attempt at revolution, no matter by whom, would be proceeded against with the utmost rigor of the law. The senators warmly applauded Senor Date’s speech. The army bill was adopted. England and the Transvaal. ■ Pretoria cable; State Secretary F. W. Peitz, in tbs course of an interview, said that if the inquiry proposed by the British government was to embrace all matters in dispute of late years, between Great Britain and the Transvaal, including the convention of 1884, it might be acceptable, but if the franchise only was to be considered the volksraad had passed on that and. further consideration of the question %vas regarded as tantamount to legislating through a commission, thus depriving the country of its independence, THE MARKETS. INDIANA!’ OEIS. WHEAT, No. 2 red ?.6S CORN, No. 1 -white .33’i OATS, No. 2 white .27fc HAY - 8.00 @ 9.50 POULTRY—Hens .08 Cocks • • ■ • -03 Hen turkeys .07 Toms .05 Butter ; 05 @ .lOljj Eggs, candled AO Vi Wool AS @ .25 Hides 071 /4,@ .0S ! ,4 CATTLE— Expert steers ... 4.90 @ 5.40 Stockers 3.50 @ 4.50 HOGS—Heavies 4.55 @ 4.621a Roughs •»•••• 3.75 @ 4.20 SHEEP—Good to Choice — 0.85 @ 4.50 Spring lambs, 30 lbs. up.... 5.25 @ 6.25 , CHICAGO WHEAT, No. 2 red .,71 VS CORN, No. 2 yellow ,32& OATS, No, 3 White 4¥ j

A GLOOMY VIEW. A Private Letter From a War Correspondent Says End of War Is Not in Sight —Otis Censured. London cable: A private letter received here Tuesday from a war correspondent at Manila and dated June 17, says:. “There seems to be no end of the war in sight. The censorship is constantly becoming more troublesome. General Otis recently established a rule that any matter relating to the navy must be taken to the commander of the fleet for his approval, and afterward submitted to the military censor, thus adding to our difficulties, For some reason which the censor would not explain, General Otis refused to allow us to send the death of the Monadnock’s captain (Nichols) for two days after its occurrence. The general also refused to let us send news cf the disappearance of Captain Rockefeller (April 2S) on the ground that it would worry his family, or the killing of Captain Tilly, of the-Signal Corps, until the next day. The correspondents are all very t : red of this arrangement, which simply means that they must go out and run large chances of getting shot several times a week with no chance of making reputations, because their stories must always reflect Otis’s views. It is impossible to write the truth about the situation.” A Double Railroad Wreck. Elinira, N. Y., special; At 11 o’clock Saturday night the Erie passenger vestihuled train No. 7. for Buffalo and Cleveland, was wrecked and burned at Lackawanna, only two cars escaping the flames. The train consisted of a buffet car, jrwo passenger coaches and two Pullman cars. The wreck occurred during a storm, •which caused a landslide. A freight train was first wrecked and the passenger train plunged into the freight wreck. Both engineers were killed. Two passengers were Killed and about twenty seriously injured*

what ever plied the river, was wrecked at Georgetown Point. She w T as bound for New Orleans with a valuable cargo of freight and a cabin full of passengers. In rounding the point her pilot, Capt. David M. Dryden, allowed the Niles to sheer on him and she struck the rock head-on. The force was so great that her battery of boilers was shifted overboard. The current caught them and wafted them under the rock, where they were pinned so fast that they could never be removed. What remained of the steamer soon went to pieces and without the loss of a life. The boat aftd cargo were ah entire loss. Sure Enough Romance. Mr. Will Brown, of Manson, la., a prosperous business man, and Miss Stella Fonts, daughter of Col. and Mrs. John C. Fonts, of New- Washington, thirty miles north of New Albany, will be married soon. Their engagement is the result of a correspondence conducted for months before they Daw each other. In a spirit of fun, Miss Fouts answered an advertisement of Mr. Brown’s for a lady correspondent. and there the romance began. The letters exchanged w - ere mutually interesting, and photographs were sent. Arrangements -were soon made for Mr. Brown to visit at New Washington. He arrived two or three weeks ago, and the pleasant impressions made by the exchange of letters and photographs were deepened by the meeting - . The parents of the young woman were consulted and given satisfactory evidence of the standing of the supplicant for their daughter's band. The engagement quickly followed. The exact date for the w r edding has not been decided upon. Wealthy Farmer Poisoned. Ft. Wayne special: Mrs. Martha Hassenfus, her soil Otto and Mrs. Sarah Ann Kreig were arrested Monday, charged with being implicated in the poisoning of Karl Westenfleld, a retired farmer. Mrs. Massenfus was his housekeeper and Mrs. Kreig his nurse. The coroner found seventeen grains of arsenic in his stomach. He was wealthy, and his will had been tampered with. A later dispatch from Ft. Wayne says: Mrs. Martha Hassenfus is now held without bail on a charge of poisoning William Westenfleld, a retired farmer. New evjl-

A new metliOi? of illumination (U’ ocean consists of’ using dor of steel tubing, charged with calcium carbide. This shell is to be shot from a gun to a distance of two miles. When it strikes the water Is generates acetylene gas and gives 1,000-caudle power, which burns from the end which floats. This light can not be extinguished by water. The Iron Age sees in the manufacture of automobiles *‘a promising new industry,” which is destined to assume large proportions. Large contracts are being placed. Bicycle makers are adding the construction of automobile carriages to their usual output. The propelling portion of the vehicle is often made elsewhere and ‘''assembled” at the bicycle works. Queen Victoria has revived the ex. tinct barony of Dorchester in the person of the elder daughter of the third baron, who died id 1875. The barony was first granted to General Sir Guy Carleton for his services against the Americans in the Revolutionary war. It became extinct two years ago by the death of his last male descendant, a cousin of the present baroness. There are only seven ambassadors representing England abroad. The seven great powers entitled to receive them are France, Austria, Germany, Italy, Russia, the United States and Turkey, Their salaries range from $35,000 to $50,000, the British ambassador at Paris receiving the highest sum, and holding the most coveted post in the diplomatic service abroad. Lord Charles Beresford, in citing illustrations of the causes which have contributed to the decadence of China, tells of a Chinese general who is sup. posed to have 10,000 soldiers under his command, but who keeps only eight hundred in service. On inspection day thousands of coolies are hired at 11 cents each, so that full lists may be returned to Peking and a year’s pay obtained for the larger number. The government of the United States has appropriated $34,278,027 since the year 1870 for the improvement of the Mississippi river. In addition to this a large sum, amounting to several millions, has been expended by the States of Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas to build levees aud protect the bottom lauds in the valley from the annual overflows. Added to the amount expended by the government this would bring the total to $45,000,000 or more. This is said to be an advertisement of a Dakota magistrate: "Lovers, Take Notice.—On aud after this date I will present an elegant chromo, a parlor lamp, or a glass water set to all bridal couples married by me. All marrying done in the most artistic way, either in private or public. Runaway couples married at any hour of the day or night, and pursuers

er was fined 25 cents and costs, which were light, as most of the officers threw off their fees. : Several new eases were filed by the detective employed by the preachers. Terrible If True. Hartford City special: Cliff Haskins, Orville and Richard Bowman, Herbert and Edward Payne and Mrs. Lethia Payne, have been arrested for the murder of Ralph Shelly, a nine-year-old boy, of Montpelier, July 11., It is alleged that Mrs. Payne urged the. boy on. STATE NOTES. South Bend and Elkhart are now connected by trolley. Gilbert Earl is, near Vevay, was drowned while bathing in the Ohio river, Miss Mary Bradford, of Kokomo, was terribly crippled in a runaway accident. Miss Ida Stocker, a well-known teacher in the Kokomo schools, is dead of consumption. William Sells, of Cincinnati, was found dead under a water tank at Seymour, due to heart trouble. Tramps burned two barns in Bartholomew county belonging to Henry Hartman, causing $3,000 loss. Mrs. Stephen Patton, near Mifflin, in Crawford county, was bitten by a copperbead snake on the ankle, and after three days she died. A new plague and the worst that has ever befallen the inhabitants *<of the gas belt since the discovery of natural gas, is baldheadedness. It is said to be caused directly by gas. The Salem Democrat claims to have a subscriber who Insists on paying for a year’s subscription every time he gets drunk. As the books now stand his time will not be out until 1927. Louis H. Friedmann, Evansville, has sued Isaac and Moses Gans for $100,000 damages. The Ganses had Friedmann arrested on a charge of embezzlement, and he was afterward released. Lizzie Nelson, fifteen, Madison, who married Elijah Lockridge, thirty, recently, was taken home by her father, ostensibly to see her sick mother, two days after her marriage, and she has decided to jStay there, .1, .