Bloomington Progress, Bloomington, Monroe County, 3 November 1899 — Page 2

Republican Progress. BLOOMINGTON, IND. DENNIS B. HATINGS, - Proprietor. 1899. NOVEMBER. 1899.

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CIRCLING THE GLOBE

CONCISE HISTORY OF SEVEN DAYS' OOINQS.

Intelligence by Electric Wire from Every Quarter of the Civilized World Embracing Foreign Affairs ad Home Happenin.es.

Review of Trade. Bradstreet's New York Trades Review says: A quieting down of distributive trade, more particularly in retail, is reported this week, growing out of the unseasonable warm weather now being experienced in some sections of the country. Reflection of this is found in less urgent orders received by jobbers and in somewhat impaired collections a t many points. As regards prices, however, there isnoappre ciable loss of strength, the great majority of quotations remaining steady, and among those making changes, advances are still most numerous. That the business condition of the country remains at an unprecedented volume is testified to by the heavy gains noted in bank clearings over a year ago and by the immense increase in railway earnings over exceptionally good returns last October. Awful Holocaust. Mobile (Ala.) special: The startling news has been received in this city that fourteen people had been burned to death at a place known as Faires, in Baldwin County, about thirty miles northeast of Mobile. The information was brought to this city by Gapt. Joseph E. Jordan, who resides in the locality of the fatality. It appears that some time during Wednesday night last, fire destroyed the residences of Harry Goodlow and Samuel Smithson, cremating all the occupants of both houses. The Goodlow family consisted of father, mother and six children. There were six persons residing in the Smithson home, the husband, wife, three children and a sister of Mr. Smithson.

Waging War on Mormons. Miss Helen Miller Gould has given $6,000 to the League for the Social Service, to be used in a crusade against Mormon ism. The league has issued 1,000,000 pamphlets in pursuance of Miss Gould's directions. They are aimed directly at Mormonism and Brigham H. Roberts as Congressman, and will be distributed all over the country. When they are exhausted millions more will follow them. The pamphlets and the blank petitions will be sent to 50,000 clergymen and to hundreds of clubs and societies.

The New York Sun. The New York Sun has begun a legal battle against organized labor. The members of Typographical Union, No. 6, struck August 6, and a very strong boycott has been in force ever since. The Sun now seeks an injunction against the boycott. Its counsel declared to the court that the boycott had caused the Sun to lose 60,000 of its morning circulation, and 40,000 of its afternoon circulation, and the Sunday Sun has lost 60,000 subscribers. There is also a loss of $300,000 in advertising since the strike. Government Lands. A Washington, D. C, dispatch says: The annual report of Commissioner Hermann of the General Land Office, just made public, shows a grand total of 929,803,068 acres of unappropriated and unreserved public lands in the United States. The disposals of public land during the fiscal year show an increase of 728,516 acres, as compared with the aggregate of the previous year.

; Deny an Alliance. An authoritative statement was issued recently in Paris formally denying the rumors of intended Franco -Russian intervention in the Transvaal war and declaring that France has nd ground and no desire for any such intervention at present and that Russia is most likely placed in the same position, adding that Germany is the only power directly concerned in the matter. Old Deed Recorded. A dispatch from Middletown, O., says: The copy of an old deed has been filed in this county, in which the United States, by Thomas Jefferson, President, sells to William McClellan of Hamilton County, Section 19 of St. Clair Township. The original deed was issued in Washington, December 10, 1808. Emperor William to Visit England. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail says: "All the arrangements have been completed for Emperor William's visit to Queen Victoria. His Majesty will arrive in England on Nov. 20 and remain at Windsor Castle five days." Three Men Killed. Three men were killed in an explosion in the Cundy mine, near Iron Mountain, Mich. They are Charles Kelson, Richard Stone and Albin Forsterison. The causa is believed to be the driving home of a dy nanke charge with an iron scraper.

CANADA'S FINAL PROPOSITION. Will Arbitrate Boundary Dispute but Must Be Assured of Pyramid Harbor. Canada's final proposition for a permanent settlement of the Alaska dispute is very different from her former demauds and was delivered to United States Ambassador Choate by the Canadian minister of marine and fisheries, Sir Louis Henry Davies, and dispatched to Washington by the officials of the United States embassy. It is as follows: That the boundary line be arbitrated upon terms similar to those imposed by the United States and Great Britain over Venezuela, particularly those provisions making fifty years' occupancy by either side conclusive evidence of title, occupancy of less than that period to be taken as equity allows under international law. That, as a condition precedent to and absolutely preliminary to arbitration, Skaguay and Dyea would be conceded to the United States without further claim if Canada received Pyramid Harbor. In other words, Canada gives up much of the disputed gold country in return for a seaport, but stipulates that she must get the liftter before she agrees to arbitrate the boundary line.

FALLING OFF IN WHEAT CROP. Estimated to Be 375,000,000 Bushsis Shart or Last Year. Bradstreet's says: "Touching the wheat situation it may be said that while present statistics of stocks of domestic and European wheat are bearish, estimates of the year's crop continue to afford strength to the bulls' position. An average of five leading European estimates points to a world's crop this year not far from 2,500,000,000 bushels, and a falling off of 325,000,000 to 375,000,000 bushels from last year is indicated. Corn is not as depressed as wheat, mainly because of lighter receipts. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 4.160,618 bushels, against 5,-

263,(534 bushels last week and 4,282,778 bushels in the corresponding week of 1S08. Corn exports aggregate 5,058,697 bushels, against 3,830,793 bushels last week and 2,597,191 bushels in this week a year ago." DESPERADOES KILL AND R03. Robbers HoIJ Up a Kansas Store-One Spectator Shot Dead. Two robbers entered the store of Chas. Kuchs at Doniphan, Kan., and, leveling revolvers at the proprietor and other occupants of the store, made them hold up their hands. One of the robbers $tar.ted for the money drawer, whereupon Kuchs and John Brown, son of the postmaster of Doniphan, made a movement to resist. Both robbers opened fire, killing Brown almost instantly and wounding Kuchs in the arm. Kuchs and the other occupants of the store fled, after which the robbers

looted the money drawer and left. Kuchs is one of the most widely known residents of eastern Kansas.

COFrlN SENT INSTEAD OF CASH. Oh loan's Novel Scheme to Obtain $10 , Lands Him in a Cell. Joseph A. Taylor, a St. Louis lithographic artist, and his wife are charged with resorting to grewsome methods to obtain money. The scheme failed, and now both are detained by Chief of Detectives Desmond. H. T. Graufell of Dayton, Ohio, Taylor's half-brother, received a message saying Taylor was dead and asking for $10 to send the body home. The wife signed the dispatch. Instead of the money an undertaker and a casket came from Dayton for the removal of the supposed corpse. Taylor himself answered the undertaker's call and the scheme was unearthed.

Gen. Castro Assumes Contro'. Gen. Cipranio Castro, the insurgent commander, has assumed control of the Venezuelan Government and has formed the following cabinet: Minister of the interior, Francisco Castillo; minister of the exterior, Andujsa Palacio; minister of finance, Telio Mendoza; minister of war, Ignacio Pulido; minister of commerce, Manuel Hernandez Mocho; minister of public works, Victor Rodriguez; minister Of instruction, Clemente Urbaneja; governor, Julio Sarria.

Park Gift by Roclcefsllsr. John D. Rockefeller will make another magnificent gift to the city of Cleveland for park purposes. J. G. W. Cowles, his Cleveland agent, announced that Mr. Rockefeller, who is in New York, will give $225,000 to the city to be expended for the construction of arches underneath the railroad crossings in the parks and boulevards, and for building roadways under Superior and St. Clair streets along the boulevard.

Grugin Not Guilty of Murder. At Macon, Mo., the jury in the case of S. Grugin, indicted for murder in the first degree for killing Jeff Hadley in May, 1896. brought in a verdict of not guilty. Hadley had wronged Grugin's 16-year-old daughter Alma and Grugin admitted that he had killed Hadley. Jsst&r lnd:cted for Murder. At Paris, Mo., Alexander Jester was indicted on a charge' of murder in the first degree. His alleged victim was Gilbert Gates, brother of John W. Gates of Chicago, who disappeared twenty miles west of Paris in 1871 while in company with Jester. Murder or Suicide. The dead body of Rupert Hoffman, aged 70, was found in a shed at Pleasant Run, Ohio. He had been dead several days. There were two large gashes in the throat. Hoffman was by common report a miser, and it is thought he was murdered for his money.

MAT THANK AN EER0R

BANKER BOOKER OF FARGO,

N. D., ACQUITTED.

Indictment Erroneously Charged Him with Making False Keturns to the Comptroller of the Currency To

Build Paper Mill at Niagara.

A Fargo, N. D., special says:: "The

Booker case came to a sudden termina

tion in the United States Court by Judge Amidon directing the jury to bring in a verdict of acquittal. An error in the in

dictment drawn by Former United States

District Attorney Bangs was the cause

of Judge Amidon's action. The indict

ment charged Booker with making false

returns to the Comptroller of tie Cur

rency, as to the amount of money on

hand on certain davs while he was presi

dent of the Grand Forks National Bank.

Judge Amidon held that Booker should have been indicted for aiding and abet

ting in making false returns, as he merely signed the statement as prepared and

submitted by employes of the bank and

did not direct the false statements. Mr

Booker was formerly State treasurer,

and when first indicted left the country,

but later came home to stand trial."

BRIDE MISSING, MOTHER CRAZY.

Complications FoHow Wedding Without

Consent of Girl's Parents.

There is a queer matrimonial imx-up in

Manchester, N. H., in which. Charles

Rainey, aged 22 years, and Miss Delba

C. Harland, 20 years old, are the par

ties most interested. Young Rainey says

that he and Miss Harland ..were married several days ago. The couple secured a license, but there is no .record of the ceremony having taken place and it is believed Rainey, who is a Russian, has mis

taken the license for the marriage certifi

cate. The marriage of the two was bitterly objected to by the girl's parents, but the young woman would not be denied her lover and left home, supposedly

to marry Rainey, and since, that time she

has not been seen and the young man

declares he does not know her where

abouts. He told the parents that they had been married and supposing the girl was at her home, demanded to be allowed to see her. When the mother heard the news she was driven frantic. She could not be controlled and in an hour was raving crazy. TO BUILD PAPER MILL. mm w Englishman Propose to Erect Big Plant at Nfagara Falls. It has just been learned that a number of Englishmen recently came to this country for the purpose of establishing a mill for the manufacture of paper to be used in the printing of newspepers, and that they are still here. The party includes S. Charles Phillips, Frank Lloyd and several other prominent men. Mr. Phillips is the publisher of a number of English trade journals. He is the head of S. a Phillips & Co. of England. Frank Lloyd is a well-known publisher of London. It is understood that they are going to put up a big plant in the neighborhood of Niagara Falls. John C. Morgan, who, prior to the organization of the International Paper Company, was the general manager of the Niagara Falls Paper Company, will be the manager of this plant. ALASKANS WAN f NEW LAWS. Hold a Convention and Elect a Man to Represent Ihem In Congress. The steamer Cottage City reached Victoria, B. C, with news of a convention of delegates from the different parts of Alaska. The convention closed after a session of nine days .shortly before the steamer left Juneau, having resolved to send to Congress a representative to urge the "passage of such laws as are deemed by the convention to be urgently demanded by the conditions in Alaska." John G. Price of Skaguay, an Iowa lawyer, was chosen to appeal to Congress.

Jgalousy Results in Tragedy. Murray Gilbert, a well-known musician, shot and killed Jauie Hall, aged 25, and then blew out his own brains in a saloon at Paducah, Ky. Jealousy prompted the tragedy. Thanksgiving Day November 30. " President McKinley has issued a proclamation designating Nov. 30 as Thanksgiving day.

Nsphjw of McKinley K'lied. Philip Stambaugh of Youngstown, O., nephew of President McKinley, was instantly killed at Venita, Pa., where he was superintendent of the coal mines of Osborn Saeiger, While replacing a belt on a pulley an iron bar he was using was hurled with terrific force, striking him directly over the heart. New Torpsdo Boat Is Fast. By obtaining a speed of thirty-one knots during several hours' trial at sea off Bath, Me., the new torpedo boat Dahlgren exceeded her contract requirements. At the some time she made better time over a mile course than has ever been reached by a torpedo boat of her size in the world. Would Make Oklahoma a State. Sidney Clarke, chairman, has issued a call for a meeting in Oklahoma City Nov. 17 of the Oklahoma statehood executive committee, "for the purpose of taking such action as may be deemed best to secure the passage of an enabling act by Congress providing for the admission of Oklahoma into the Union as a State."

Bicycle Prices Are Fixed. According to the statement given out by the American Bicycle Company, generally referred to as the "trust," the 1900 prices for wheels will remain at the same figure as this year. Chainless machines will sell at $75 and $00, with chain-driven ones listing from $50 down to $25. Are Robb id by Masked Men. Five masked men, armed with a heavy plank, broke in the door of Warren Irvin's residence in Harris township, Ind., bound all the occupants, and then robbed the house of several hundred dollars in money, watches and jewelry. Arbitration for Sealing Cases. Russia, it has been learned, has at last agreed to arbitrate with the United States the claim resulting from the seizure of sealers in the Bering Sea, which has been pending for about eight years.

PLANS FOR PAN. AM ERIC AN ROAD. Steps Taken for Beginning Work on the Intercontinental Railway. P. O. Saunders, a prominent American capitalist living in the City of Mexico, is at Austin, Texas, to consult with ex-Gov. Hogg relative to the immediate inauguration of work on the Intercontinental railway, which is better known as the PanAmerican road. Mr. Saunders is looking after the Mexico end of the big transaction and Gov. Hogg is one of those interested from this end as the representative of large interests in the East. The present visit is with a view of summoning all possible financial aid to the scheme at once. The proposed road will have a capitalization of $25,000,000 and will be constructed from Matamoras, on the Rio Grande border, along the gulf coast to Guatemala, thence along the border and down through the South American States, to the Pacific slope, thence along said coast, making a thread line through from North to South America 5,000 miles long. REFORM SCHOOL BOYS ESCAPE. Cslls Unlocked and Four Lads Missing from Kansas Institution. Four inmates of the Kansas State reformatory, located at Hutchinson, made a sensational escape. They are William A. Casey, Frank Wheeler, Jack Burns and C. Criswell. It seems that the boy3 were all locked in their cells and the night cell house man was on duty, but early in the morning the prisoners were missing from the cells. A search was made and it was found that their cell doors were unlocked and that the barred door of the cell block was open. The cell house man locked the door and reported the escape to the superintendent and the guards were at once started in pursuit of the fugitives. The management is greatly puzzled over the escape.

GO TO LAW FOR FIVE CENTS. Ok'ahoma Court Orders Both Parties to Pay $32 Costs. In the court of Judge Perry at Box, Ok., the celebrated case of John Futrell vs. E. W. Depew for the sum of 5 cents was tried and decided. The suit grew out of a difference of 5 cents in the price of ginning some cotton, and the jury gave a verdict of the full amount claimed, 5 cents, to the plaintiff, but divided the costs equally between the parties, each having a bill of $32 to pay.

Indian Elopss with a White Girl. Jacob Joker, an educated Cherokee Indian, graduate of an Eastern college, who has been employed at the Cantonment Indian school, Guthrie, Ok., by the Government for some time, eloped with pretty Lettie Plimlee, a 14-year-old white girl, living in the vicinitj', and no trace of them can be found by either the girl's parents or the officials. Su'cide Does Not Void Policy. The United States Court of Appeals at St. Louis decided that suicide cannot be urged by an insurance company or other organization as its reason for refusing to pay on a policy unless it can be shown that the individual at the time of subscribing for the policy contemplated suicide. Horace L. Hastings Is read. Horace L. Hastings of Boston, editor and publisher of The Christian, the AntiInfidel Library and of an unknown number of papers, books, tracts and pamphlets, died in Goshen of typhoid fever. Storm Kills Ten. Dispatches from Sagua la Grande, Cuba, report that a tornado and cloudburst struck that town. Many houses were destroyed. In the city six persons were killed and nineteen injured. Car Causes D?ath and Injury. One man was killed and one probably fatally injured by the collision of a Chicago General Electric car with a lumber wagon in Chicago.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD.

Deserted Husband Commits Suicide at Crawfordsville Charged with an Old Murder Statue of War Governor Unveiled Wholesale Robbery.

James B. Leffew, a discharged Philippine volunteer, returned home to Crawfordsville to find his wife had just instituted divorce proceedings. ' He used every means to dissuade her, but she absolutely refused to dismiss the case, whereupon Leffew procured and swallowed Morphine with fatal results. The wife relented when too late and was crazed with grief. Charged with Wife Murder. Thomas Skelton, who, it is alleged, murdered his wife fifteen years ago at their home west of Owensville by splitting her head open with an ax, has been, arrested and is now in jail at Princeton. The grand jury had the case for several days before a true bill was found.

Unveil a Statue of Morton. A statue of Oliver P. Morton, Indiana's war governor, was unveiled at Anderson, under the auspices of the public schools. The address was made by Mr. Foulke, the biographer of Gov. Morton. Mrs. Morton, the widow, was present.

Use Wagon to Steal Goods. On a recent night at Windfall robbers looted the general store of J. H. Sellmer, hauling away more than $1,000 worth of merchandise, including 200 pairs of shoes. A team and wagon was used.

Big Gotham Building Burns. The five-story building at 300 Broadway, New York, and its contents, the property of several firms, were destroyed by fire. The loss will exceed $100,000.

THE MARKETS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2, 31c to 32c; oats, "No. 2, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 54c to 5Gc; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 16e to 18c; potatoes, choice, 25c to 35cper bushel. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.50; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.50; sheep, common to prime, $3.25 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 09c; corn, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c. St. Louis Cattle, $3.25 to $6.50; hogs,

$3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25;

wheat, No. 2, 70c to 72c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 23c to

25c; rye, No. 2, 55c to 57c.

Cincinaati Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25;

wheat, No. 2, 70c to 72c; corn, Jo. 2 mixed, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 26c; rye, No. 2, 63c to 65e.

Detroit Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs,

$3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25;

wheat, No. 2, 70c to 72c; cora, No. 2

yellow, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c

to 28c; rye. 61c to 63c.

Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats,

No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; rye. No. 2, 58c to 60c; clover seed, $5.45 to $5.55.

Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 Northern,

07c to 60c; corn, No. 3, 32c to 33c; oats,

No. 2 white, 2-lc to 26c; rye, No. 1, 57c to 58c; barley, No. 2, 45c to 47c; pork,

mess, $7.75 to $8.25.

Buffalo Cattle, good shipping steers,

$3.00 to $6.50; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.00 to $4.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.50.

New York Cattle, $3.25 to $6.75; hogs,

$3.00 to $5.00; sheep. $3.00 to $4.50;

wheat, Ao. 2 red, 3c to 75c; corn. No. 2,

40c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c;

butter, creamery, lie to 25c; eggs, west

ern, 14c to 19c.

Within Our BorCera. x Salem had a shower of grasshoppers. Marion will have another opera house. Goshen has a manual training school. Anderson and Elwood are preparing to burn wood. A Laporte preacher says the world will last -until Nov. 11. Anderson Davis, Hope, was killed by a train at Greensburg. John Goodin, wealthy farmer near Brazil, has disappeared. No clew to the robbers who blew up the Reynolds bank. A $25,000 addition will be added to the Marion normal school. Muncie's court has decided that piano

playing in saloons is legal.

Thieves are averaging about one horse a day in northern Indiana. South Bend sold $10,000 worth oZ wat

er works bonds for $541 premium.

Eastern capitalists are making heavy investments in the Indiana oil field. Frankfort is flooded with Mexican half dollars. They pass for only 25 cents. Muneie druggists say they sold 250,000 glasses of ice cream soda last summer.

J Tipton County canning factories are j canning pumpkins. There is a large crop.

Chas. Altvater's family, Terre Haute, had a close call by eating poisoned meat. Kids destroyed fifty trees in the school yard at Montomery, just for devilishness. William Gibson had his knee cap busted in a fight in the soldiers' home at Lafayette. John Michaels, 14, Greenfield, accidentally shot and killed himself while hunting. S. F. and A. H. Lockridge, Greencastle, sold 260 head of fat cattle that brought them $25,960. Treasurer of Hamilton County sold $12,000 worth of gravel road bonds at a premium of $625. Burglars blew a safe in a general store near Logansport, but citizens chased them away before they secured booty. Henry Bell, Ripley County, claims to have an apple tree that is bearing blossoms, green and ripe apples. Mrs. Ellen S. Richardson, Osgood, an invalid for three years, who lost her voice, claims to have been cured since she joined a magnetic healing class, -nine days ago. Indiana Brick Company has let a contract for the largest brick plant in, the State, to be built at Anderson. It will burn coal and will have a capacity of 70,000 brick a day. A farmer named John Winmill went insane on the streets of Laporte the other day and had to be forcibly removed from a corner where he had fixed his gaze on a telegraph pole. William Killion, Washington, mistreated his wife, and when his father-in-law, William Buckley, upbraided him for it, Killion shot him four times in the stomach. Buckley died and Killion was arrested. It was reported at Muncie that the differences between the American Window Glass Manufacturers' Association and the Workers' Association have been settled, the men to receive an advance of 7 per cent. Farmers in Grant County are combining to keep hunters off of their farms, and agree not to shoot birds themselves. It is said they will control 6,000 acres. They say it is the only way to protect game birds. William Marmiu, alias Jones, of Louisville, stole a horse and buggy from a hitch rack at Marion. He drove to Muncie, where he contracted with a glass blower to soli the rig for $40, and went into police headquarters to draw up the papers. The police superintendent became suspicious and locked Marmin up until he telephoned to Marion. Miss Edna Osborn, Kokomo, has walked on crutches for twelve years, and for the last three months has been helpless. The other day the family gathered around the bed, thinking she was going' to die, and, after prayers were offered, the girl raised up ond stood on her feet. She then walked across the floor, and is still improving. They thiuk it is a case f faith cure.