Bloomington Progress, Bloomington, Monroe County, 12 January 1900 — Page 2

Republican Progress. BLOOMINGTON, I NO. DENNIS B. HAUNC.S, - Proprietor. 1900. JANUARY. 1900.

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HISTORY OE A WEEK.

people, plaqes and things of The world.

News of Crimes and Criminals, Accidents, Fires, Etc, from North, South, XSast and West Sandwiched With Minor Affairs.

Six People Hurt. Six people were injured five miles south of Mt. Clemens, Mich., by the derailment of car No 17, of the Rapid Railway of the Detroit & Mfc Clemens line. The ear was whizzing toward Mt. Clemens at a rapid rate when it struck an open switch and the car went 200 feet into a field, where it fell over on its side. The same crew that had charge of this car had earlier in the evening ejected a man from their car and he left vowing vengeance. As another car passed down safely six minutes before the accident, it is supposed that some one maliciously opened the switch, and suspicion points to the man who was ejected. Death of a Heroic Woman. Miss Johanna Lynch, 28 years old, who lived with her brother-in-law, George Wilson, in a three-room apartment on Madison street, New York, was burned to death there recently. Aroused by the explosion of a lamp, which set fire to the place. Miss Lynch had gotten safely out of the apartment, carrying in her arms her 6-year-old nephew. But in the mistaken belief that her sister's baby had been left behind she went back into the rooms in which the fire was raging. Overcome as she searched she fell to the floor and was burned to death. All other members of the family had gotten to the roof of the building in safety. Bad Time for Invasion. The New York Evening Post quotes a general officer of the Clan-na- Gael, a man w ho has a good record as a fighter in the United States Army, as saying: "It would be folly to send men into Canada this tiSae of the year. They Would have more to fear from the, snow and intense cold than from any forces that the Canadians could send against them. Invasion of Canada just now is out of the question, but there will be preparations all along the line to take advantage of the break up of the winter. I do not expect that war will have ended by that time in South Africa." Germans Against Britain. The Berlin correspondent of the London Daily News, in a dispatch dealing at some length with the question of the seizures of German vessels by British warships, says: Vlt cannot be denied that the idea of an "anti-British coalition is very popular here. Hopes are now placed in Russia. W ithout being pessimistic, I must say that the present juncture is extremely critical. As matters stand, only the fact that no power wishes to take the initiative prevents such a, coalition from being brought about." Fire Damages an Oil Town. Prairie Depot, Ohio, an oil village, was visited-by a disastrous fire, entailing a loss of from $100,000 to $150,000. Eleven business houses and one dwelling were destroyed and a number of other buildings more or less scorched. The fire broke out in the oil well supply store and spread rapidly. The insurance will not cover one-third of the loss. The place was provided with only an old hand engine for fighting fire. ' ' Dr. McGlynn Dead. The Rev. Dr. Edward McGlynn, the famous Catholic priest of St. Mary's Church, died at the rectory at New burgh, N. Y., after an illness of about seven weeks, of heart failure, superinduced by Bright's disease. A minor surgical operation was performed on Dr. McGlynn, but this did not effect the patient or contribute materially to his death. Refuse Blind Man a License. The Commissioners of Elkhart County, Indiana, made a curious decision in the application of Edward August of Nappanee, for license to sell liquor. August is blind and has lost one arm, and the board refused to consider his application on the ground that he was physically disqualified under the law for conducting a saloon. He will appeal to the Circuit Court. Ohio's New Governor. Columbus special: Judge Nash was inaugurated as Governor of Ohio with great pomp. There was an immense parade of 10,000 men immediately after the ceremonies. The new Governor in his address, advocated severe restrictions on all corporations, with the utmost publicity. .Murder at Battle Creek. The body of Sherman Church, a prominent young miller of Battle Creek, Mich., was found lying under the water wheel of the Augusta Mills, both hands tied behind him and a heavy weight attached to his left leg. Church had been missing for sometime. Death in the Flames. A tenement house fire on East Eightyninth street, New York, resulted in three deaths and several persons being injured.

EASTERN. Maj. Gen. Zenas It. Bliss, retired, died at Washington. Ex-Congressman Edwin T. Osborne of Pennsylvania, died at Washington. Edward Todd, manufacturer of gold pens and pencil cases, is dead at New York. William II. Putnam, the? undertaker who conducted the funerals of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, is dead at New York, aged SI years. Col. W. A. Elderkin, U. S. A., retired, died at Middletowu, N. Y. He was formerly assistant commissary general hi the department of the lakes. The International Fire Engine Company has been incorporated under the laws of New Jersey. It is capitalized at $9,000,000. The combination embraces ten companies. Ckiara Cignarale, who murdered her husband in New York City April 20, 1880, and who was serving n life sentence in Auburn prison, was pardoned by Gov. Roosevelt. Jerome Descio, a jeweler of Washington, D. C, went to Pittsburg and identified Charles E. Hoyt as a member of the gaug which robbed his store of a tray of diamonds valued at $3,000 on March G, 1897. The grand jury at Concord, N. Y failed to find an indictment against Senator Gallinger, charged with violating the civil service laws in soliciting subscriptions for campaign purposes from federal office holders. The Torrens laud act, the validity of which was questioned, was declared to be constitutional by the Supreme Judicial Court at Boston in a test case brought agaiust the judges of the court of registration. The court was divided on the question, however. One man is dead and three injured as the result of an accident at the Homestead steel works at Pittsburg. The men were changing the rolls in the 28-inch mill when the chain with which they raised the rolls into place broke, letting the heavy mass of iron down on them. Rev. Jonathan K. Peck of Kingston, Pa., fell dead before a large congregation at the Kingston Methodist Episcopal Church. Those who were watching him saw him hesitate as if to take a breath; he raised his hand to his head as if dazed, staggered and fell across the pulpit rail. Five persons were hurt by the collapse of a reviewing stand in the grounds of the Consumers' Park Brewing Company at Brooklyn, N. Y. The brewery had just been finished and a throng of guests were invited to the opening. A railing gave way and more than a score of persons fell fifteen feet to the ground.

WESTERN.

Minnie Seligman Cutting, the actress, has begun suit at St. Louis for a divorce from her husband, Robert Cutting of New.York. Ross Raymond, formerly a well-known journalist, has been sentenced to the Milwaukee house of correction for sixty days for vagrancy. At Wellsville, Mo., a Wabash passenger west-bound struck a cow. The engine was ditched and Fireman John Robinson was killed. The People's Bank of Wabasha, Miun., closed its doors and is now in the hands of the bank examiner. Depositors, it is claimed, will lose nothing. The town of Hill City, S. D was nearly destroyed by fire. Seven stores and one hotel were burned. The loss is $10,000, with very little insurance. Three men were killed by the falling of an elevator in the furnace room of the brass foundry in the branch works of the Illinois Steel Company in Chicago. The boiler house of the oil works on the Kisler farm, northwest of Lima, O., was blown up by an explosion of natural gas. Fnank Trembly, the plumber, was killed. At Belief on taine, Ernest Austin was sentenced to the Ohio penitentiary for life for the murder of his brother, William. Ernest was a volunteer in the AmericanrSpanish war. Two wagon loads of powder, each consisting of 4,375 pounds of the explosive, were blown up near Eagle River, Wis. Twp teamsters, Alex. Hammerstrom and Joseph St. Louis, were killed. Three men "blew open the safe in the Lucky Bank at Wolf Lake, Ind., and robbed it of its contents. The amount secured is not known. It is believed a robbery at' Noblesville the night before was committed by the same men. Suit was filed in the District Court of Dallas, Texas, for the ownership of the land upon which Oak Cliff, a suburb of Dallas with 5,000 inhabitants, is located. An alleged missing heir has been found. The property involved is worth millions. A passenger train on the Chicago Great Western Railroad crashed into the rear of a Northern Pacific stock train near the Mississippi street bridge in the eastern portion of St. Paul, Miun., splitting the caboose in two and injuring seven men. J. F. Croniian, manager of the Topeka, Kan., branch of the Standard Oil Company, was run over and killed by a Santa Fe switch engine. Crennan was on bis way to his office in the railroad yards and it is thought his foot caught in a "frog." At 9 o'clock Tuesday morning water was turned into the $33,000,000 drainage canal at Chicago and began to flow toward Loekport, where it falls into the Desplaines river, and thence, through the Illinois and Mississippi rivers, to the Gulf of Mexico. Rev.' J. H Morely of Minneapolis, has been elected president of the Fargo, N. D., College, to succeed P. C. Simmons, who recently dropped dead. Morely has been superintendent of home missions for the Congregational Church in Minnesota for fifteen years. James L. Moore, aged Go years, shot and killed his wife, aged 22 years, near Manes, Mo., then blew his head off. Mrs.

Moore was the daughter of John Hunter, who recently killed C. C. Wiuningham. She was Moore's second wife and had left home after a quarrel. W. II. Curtis, manager of the Butler, Ind., Canning Company, has mysteriously disappeared. He went to Chicago to collect several thousand dollars due the company and, after collecting $1,200, he vanished and no trace can foe found of him. His family fears foul play. As the result of a supposed quarrel Charles Hoot, a farmer 40 years of age of Texas township, Mich., and his wife are dead. The crime was committed by Mr. Root, who first cut his wife's throat with a razor and then killed himself in the same way. Two small boys survive. A serious landslide occurred on the wafer front of Mare Island, Cal. As a result 150 feet of the sea wall slid into the bay, carrying with it tons of granite work, cement and earth and loosening up fully 100 feet more of the wall. The break is believed to be due to heavy rains. Christian scientists of Lead, S. D., have rebelled against the orders of the school board that children attending public schools must, be vaccinated. The orders of the board are that each pupil after reasonable time must be vaccinated or not attend. They threaten to take the case into court. Reports received from the back country show that the recent earthquake in California was the cause of a number of strange happenings. The mud volcanoes on the desert near the Colorado river have become active after a long rest, and the natural gas wells near Yuma are in working order since the heavy quake. A 10,000,000 cubic feet gas well was struck four miles east of Findlay, Ohio, by operators who are "wildcatting" in new territory. All tools, casing and tubing were blown out of the well, and the roar of escaping gas could be heard for five miles. This is the greatest gas well in Ohio since the famous Karg well of ten years ago. Fire at an early hour on a recent morning destroyed more than half the business district of Massena, Iowa, involving a loss of about $25,000. As there was no fire protection the fire practically had its own way and burned out everything east of the public square. Eight: business houses, including the postoflice, were destroyed. The Pioneer Steel Elevator Company has been organized for the construction of a very large grain elevator at Duluth., Minn. The men back of the enterprise' are Walter Douglas, G. P. Piper, W. S. Archer and C. E. Thayer, all but the last named being formerly linseed oil men, who sold out to the American Linseed Oil Company lately.

. A burst water maiu at the corner of

Harney and Sixteenth streets, in the heart of the business district of Omaha, did damage amounting to $20,000 before the water could be turned off. The main was a large one and the water rushed down the street's in a stream from six inches to a foot in depth, overflowing the curbs and running into basements. The power house of the Cudahy Oil Company, located north of Mtincie, Ind., in the Blackford County oil. field, was demolished by an explosion, causing a loss of $10,000, in addition to the fact that forty producing oil wells must lie idle until repairs arc made in the machinery. The fire originated from an attempt of an employe to thaw out a frozen gas pipe.

The coroner's jury that investigated the death of Winfield Randleman, the express messenger who was killed in the wreck on the Union Pacific Railroad at Brighton, Colo., has found that the col

lision was caused by the criminal carelessness of Conductor E. W. McAllister. This man lost his reason at the scene of the accident, but is slowly recovering his mental balance. A bill has been filed in the United States Circuit Court at Detroit by the Mercantile Trust Company of New York as trustee, to foreclose the senior mortgage of the Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway Company for the principal of the bonded debt of the company $6,000,000 which matured Jan. 1. E. W. Meddaugh and Henry B. Joy of Detroit have been appointed receivers of the road. At a meeting of the St. Paul stock exchange at South St. Paul, Minn., a formal protest was drawn up and forwarded to Washington against the passage of the Tawney bill for taxing oleomargarine. If is claimed that the passage of this bill would damage live stock interests, certain classes of stock being of value especially for the fat, which is used in manufacturing oleomargarine.

tioned at Luebo, Congo Free State, Af rica, giving accounts of the burning ol fourteen villages and the killing of ninety or more natives by State troops. The? report that some of the victims wer eaten by cannibals.

FOREIGN. The high court (senate) in Paris, ten dering its verdict in the conspiracy cases not previously disposed of, decided, by vote of 130 to 37, that M. Derouiedf was guilty, and by a vote of 200 to 1 decided on extenuating circumstances. News has reached Canton, China, thaf a battle occurred between natives nea? Wang Chaum and the French forces stationed there. It is said that the Chin ese routed the French and pursued their for some distance. The French loss was thirty killed. The Chinese losses are no1 stated. One of the animal keepers at the Vi enua zoological gardens entered the cage of lions in a spirit of bravado and sis lions rushed upon him and tore him to pieces. The attendants sought in vain, with flamuig torches and streams of water, to drive the wild beasts frcm theii victim. , Ambassador Choate has been directed to inform the British Government that the United States holds that the seizure and detention of American cargoes iii South African waters cannot be justified by Great Britain He is also directed to insist that American commercial rights shall be respected. The Hamburg-American Line steamer Patria, which caught fire in the English channel Nov. 15, while on her way from New York to Hamburg, and was abandoned, going ashore on the Kentish coast, was raised the other day. She subsequently foundered, however, and two persons were drowned. The Journal de St. Petersburg, the organ of the Russian foreign office, expresses the gratification of the Russian Government that all the powers have signed the acts of the peace conference at The Hague within the stipulated1 time, and expresses the opinion also that rati fications will speedily follow.

IN GENERAL.

SOUTHERN.

Fire destroyed three business buildings at Miami, Fla. Loss $00,000. At Rome, Ga., Bud Harris was hanged for the murder of David Irwin, another negro. Four men on the Tennessee Ueatral Railroad, eight miles from Rockwood, Tenn., were killed in a dynamite explosion. They were unloading dynamite when a quantity of it exploded. News has been received of a fatal fight which occurred at a turkey shooting match on Lost creek, about sixteen miles from Jackson, Ky. Jim Noble and Irvin Fugate were killed, while Jerry Noble was shot in the mouth and seriously wounded. As a result of a family feud Jerome Henson and Thomas Jones, both promi; nent citizens of Walker County, Georgia, engaged in a quarrel at Cedar Grove. Jones knocked Henson down with a weight, crushing his skull. Henson managed to rise, get his pistol and kill Jones. The first lynching in the history of Newport News, Va occurred the other morning at' an early hour when W. W. Watts, a white gambler of Lynchburg, was taken from the station house, carried across the corporate line, tied to an oak sapling and shot to death. Only seven men went to the jail. The Southern Presbyterian Board of Missions in Nashville has received letters from Rev. L. C. Vass and Rev. H. P. Hawkins, missionaries of the church sta-

As a result of a three days' convention of the Canadian Furniture Manufacturers' Association at Stratford, a combination of furniture manufacturers to be known as the British-American Furniture Company has been organized with a capitalization of $3,000,000. The National Association of Rod Mill Workers has made a demand on the American Steel and Wire Company for an increase in wages of from 3 to 21 per cent. The" men ask for the restoration of the wages of 1893 and a uniform scale. The company has twelve mills, five of which are in Cleveland. The Davenport, Rock Island andj Northwestern road has been opened for! freight traffic, and a passenger service1 established. John W. Gates, president of the Federal Steel Company, is presi dent of the road, which has a bridge across the Mississippi at Davenport, Iowa, and owns forty-one miles of track. A man about 30 years old registered at the Rossin House, Toronto, as A Finberg of Chicago, and was assigned to a room. Nothing was seen of him the next day, and the day following the bedroom door was forced. Finberg was found dead. He had shot himself twice, once in the mouth and once in the neck. He left nothing to explain his action. A complete revision and codification of the postal laws has been completed by Acting Assistant Attorney General Barrett. The most important changes are to prohibit the establishment or maintenance of a postoflice for the benefit of any person or company where they are enabled to obtain their postage at a nominal figure, a legislative confirmation of the official practice where irregularities are discovered of relieving a postmaster from duty and transferring the office of the bond sureties and authority for the Postmaster General to fix the compensation of fourth-class postmasters in cases of boycott.

MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4,75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 65c to 66c; corn, No. 2, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2, 53c to 54c; butter, choice creamery, 28c to 30c; eggs, fresh, 20c to 22c; potatoes, choice, 45c to 55c per bushel. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.75; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.75j sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 69c to 70c; corn, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 whtte, 26c to 27c. St. Louis Cattle, $3.25 to $7.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 71c to 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2, 24c to 26c; rye, No. 2, 52c to 54c. Cincinnati Cattle, $2.50 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 70c to 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 27c; rye, No. 2. 59c to 61c. Detroit Cattle, $2.50 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 70c to 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c tg 27c; rye. 57c to 59c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed 69c to 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 56c to 58c; clover seed, $4.80 to $4.90. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, 04c to 66c; corn, No. 3, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 20e; rye, No. 1, 54e to 56c; barley, No. 2, 44c to 46c; pork, mess, $10.25 to $10.75. Buffalo Cattle, good shipping steefs, $3.00 to $6.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $6.50, New York Cattle, $3.25 to $7.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 76c; corn, No. 2, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; butter, creamery, 24c to 31c; eggs, western, 16c to 25c.

Both houses of Congress reconvened on Wednesday, after the holiday recess." In the Senate Mr. Chandler offered bimetallic amendment to financial bill, and Republican finance committeemen agreed on changes affecting greenbacks and gold reserve. Mr. Hoar indicated purpose to demand consideration of Mr. Pettigrew's Philippine war resolution, even at expense of financial bill. Jan. 10 set apart for eulogies of the late Vice-President Hobart. Mr. Allen offered resolution calling on Secretary Gage for correspond dence with National City Bank and Hanover National Bank of New York concerning deposits of government funds. Mr. Aldrich objected and resolution went over to Thursday. Like disposition was made of resolution by Mr. Pettigrew calling upon the Secretary of War for information concerning Gen. Otis' negotiations with heads of Philippine insurrection. Mr. Foraker offered bill providing a civil government for Porto Rico. In the House Mr. Sulzer offered resolution calling on Secretary Gage for correspondence with National City Bank and Hanover National Bank of New York; resolution referred. Joint resolutions were offered: By Mr. Shafroth, for return of captured Mexican cannons, flags and banners; by Mr. Bromwell, for a constitutional amendment authorizing Congress to define apd reguiate trusts;

oy air. Mcitae, declaring tne purpose or the United States to give Philippines independent government and guaranteeing against foreign invasion. Mr. Lewis offered a bill to repeal the stamp tax. On Thursday the Senate received resolution from Mr. Beveridge declaring for American retention of Philippines, with notice that he would speak thereon the following Tuesday. Received from committee on foreign relations amended bill for government of Hawaiian Islands. Received from President McKinley copy of testimony before and findings by war investigating commission. Adopted resolution by Mr. Hoar reducing fees of witnesses in Senate cases to actual traveling expenses and $3 a day while in attendance at hearings. Adopted modified Allen resolution calling upon Secretary. Gage for information on government deposits in banks. Postponed consideration f Mr. Pettigrew's Philippine resolution to the following Monday. Adjourned to that day after listening to speech by Mr. Aldrich opening debate on currency reform bill. The House adopted Sulzer

for information regarding treasury deposits in New York banks, after making it general in its scope. Listened to 1 . 1 . -r y-n - v .

speecn inereon Dy jar. j-ievy xjem., x. Y.). Received resolution on same sub--ject from Mr. Lentz (Dem., N. Y.), and then adjourned to the following Monday.

Odds and Ends. John Fagin killed Joe Elkins, Picker

ing, La. Sydney, N. S. W., was recently visited by a hot wave. Almost 3,000,000 persons are receiving famine relief in India. The prospects for the Australian wheat crop are most favorable. A great avalanche has done considera-. ble damage at Glacier, B. C. Great Britain estimates that the war will cost at least $300,000,000. A bloody civil war is raging among the natives of Kerewani, New Guinea. An attempt was made to assassinate all the missionaries in the New Hebrides." Smallpox has broken out among toe ftiriiflns nf fh Oolvllle reservation. Wash

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auxiliary cruiser Dixie for a cruise round the world. ThA Lilwrtv Alliance: a nro-Boer ax? "

ganization, has been formed in Chicago

with oUU members.

Prussian public teachers have been forbidden to tro hunting, on the ground that ..

it is immoral pastime. Nearly 2,800 residents of Minnesota shared in 1890 in the tree-planting bounty, receiving $2.40 an acre. Inmates of the House, of Correction in Chicago are to be put to work cultivating flowers for the market, A twenty-two-story building, to cost $4,000,000, is to be erected at Nos. 25-33 Broad street, New York. In Texas a locomotive was recently decorated with 100 incandescent lights

for use as an excursion engine. t Cracksmen's tools, found on the scenes of recent Paris burglaries, indicate the work of slick American crooks. While playing near a fire in Rockwood, Tenn., a little son of Mr. and Mrs. Connor of Chicago burned to death. The London paperssay that the health of Florence Nightingale is so enfeebled that she cannot live much longer. The plague was reported tq be raging in New Caledonia. The government's of Australia have taken elaborate precautions. i Charlton T. Lewis of New York, who has investigated the prisons of Cuba, says they are in a deplorably disgrace; ful condition. Under a liberal interpretation of the poace treaty we will transport to Spain all Spanish soldiers and their families in the Philippines. The two great material conquests which mark the nineteenth century are thu building of the Pacific railroads and the digging of the Suez canal, . Lord Bonnet, evangelist, who married Miss Leonora van Marfer, of Tacoma, Wash., succeeds to the title and estate of the late British Earl of Tankerville.