Bloomington Progress, Bloomington, Monroe County, 23 February 1900 — Page 6

Republican Progress. BLOOM IN CTON, IND. DENNIS B. HAUNGS, - -proprietor.

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HISTOBY OF A WEEK

PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS OF THE WORLD.

Hews- of Crime and Criminals Ac cidents, Fires, Jtttc, from North, 8onth, Bast and Weatf Sandwiched with Minor Affairs.

Cronje Escaped. London special: It is now amply confirmed that Gen. Cronje escaped. Every detail received, however, proves how admirably Lord Roberts' plans were conceived and were succeeding. But for the unexpected delay at Dekiels Drift, which was almost impassable for wagons, the whole Boer force would have been surrounded. The delay of one, day there gave them their chance for a hasty retreat. All the other movements of Lord Roberts were executed exactly to time. Apparently Gen. Cronje is retreating with the main army, and even if he escapes altogether he will probably lose all his baggage. . Clark Is Heard, Senator-elect Clark of Montana, testified himself before the Senate committee investigating his case, Monday. He declared that he neither directly nor indirectly offered money to any . man to vote for him. He said he knew of no corruption in his interest. He said he spent $75,000 during the year 1898 in the Democratic campaign fund, but it was to break up the Daly faction's rule and was for legitimate expenses. At that time he was not a candidate for the Senate, he said.

Troops Will Be Withdrawn. Secretary Root has determined to continue the policy begun by Gen. Leonard Wood of reducing the force of United States troops in Cuba, and during the coming spring there will be a heavy reduction of the existing force, unless there should be some untoward change in the present highly satisfactory condition there. It is estimated that it will be possible to manage all of the military remaining in Cuba through one general officer, acting under the direction of Gen. Wood.

Seward Offered for White. Lansing (Mich.) special: Secretary of State Stearns, as Chairman of the State Board of Auditors, has authorized Sheriff Porter to offer a reward of $1,000. for the apprehension of ex-Quartermaster General William L. White, who is wanted on a charge alleging embezzlement of State funds while a member of the Michigan Military Board, and who disappeared several weeks ago. Shatter Says It's Over. Gen. William R. Shafter was at Fort Porter, If. Y., while returning to San Franciseo. Interviewed on the Philippine situation, he said: "I regard the insurrection as broken. So f ar as the Tagals are concerned, the insurrection is practically ended. As to what may occur among the other tribes of people over there I can't say." Stock Train Hit a Freight. A bad rear-end collision occurred on the Lake Shore at Swanton, Ohio. A stock train drawn by two engines crashed into a freight ahead, demolishing both engines and perhaps fatally injuring Engineers ' Fred Neidhardt of Toledo, and Henry Chaffee of Elkhart, lnd. The damage to property amounts to $45,000. j c Negro Soldiers and Police Fight. A mob of negro soldiers from Fort Bliss attacked the city police station at El Paso, Texas, with the object of releasing two of their comrades, who had been arrested. In the fight which ensued Police Officer Stewart and one negro soldier were killed. It is believed one of the soldiers was wounded. Looks Bad for Clark. A Washington dispatch to the New York Herald says: The impression is growing in the Senate that the report of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, now investigating the right of W. A. Clark to his seat as a Senator from Montana, will be adverse to the Senator.

A Negro Lynched. Will Burts, colored, was lynched near Baskett Mills, eight miles north of Aiken, S. C. Burts was hanged to a tree and riddled with bullets. He was captured after having attempted to assault Mrs. C. L. Weeks, a planter's wife. Burts confessed ibis guilt. Sentenced to Be Electrocnted. Roland B Molineux was sentenced to die in Sing Sing prison during the week of March 26 for the murder of Mrs. Katherine J. Adams. He made a statement that he had not been fairly convicted and that "yellow journalism" had put a price upon his head. Perished in the Flames Rev. Bainbridge, an elderly retired minister, lost his life in a fire which completely destroyed his residence southeast of Antwerp, Ohio. Other occupants of the house barely escaped with their lives.

REVENGE OF A JEALOUS LOVER

Saws the Supports of a Porch and a

Woman Receives a Fatal Fall.

Lily Latcher, an ebony-hued Juliet, lies at the St. Louis city hospital with a frac

tured skull, as a result of woman s hckle-

fcess and man's jealousy. Henry Richard-

sou was Lily's accepted lover until recently, when he was supplanted by a darker-hued son of Ham, a purveyor of black diamonds. Lily used to get up out

of her warm bt.d before daybreak and

whisper sweet nothings to her Romeo

from a balcony upon which her bedroom opened. When Richardson discovered that he had been deserted he burned for revenge. With fiendish ingenuity he made

no complaint, but at dead of night quiet

ly sawed through the supports of the porch. When Juliet stepped out of her chamber and softly whispered something

akin to "Romeo, where art thou the porch gave way beneath her weight of 180 pounds, lauding the fascinating Lily head first upon the bricks with which the

yard is paved. She was picked up un conscious and taken to the hospital.

FIND WEALTH IN HIS RAGS. Charity Patieat at an Hospital Dies and Leaves $5,000. After the death of Sam Besick, an old

and well-known character on the Chicago open board of trade, attendants at the

Baptist hospital found money and securi

ties valued at $5,000 sewed in his clothing. The old man was a charity patient

and was believed to be penniless. Be-

sick's tattered coat and waistcoat were literally lined with currency and gold

and silver coin. There were fifteen $100

bills sewed in an inner pocket and a leath

er purse containing $200 was found under his coat collar. The money had been there so long that the coins were worn smooth and the purse was half full of gold dust. Money was found all through

-the lining of the coat". Besick was about

60 years old. He was never known to spend money unless it was absolutely necessary, and it is said that the open board threatened to evict him unless he bought a new suit of clothes.

ONCE RICH MAN IN POORHOUSE. Alexander Maley of Findlay, Ohio, Received in Marysvllle infirmary. At' Marysville, Ohio, Alexander Maley, a tramp giving Findlay as his home, had been to the county infirmary suffering from congestion of the lungs. Maley was at one time a prominent citizen of Findlay and was lately plaintiff in a suit for the division of the Hyatt estate, of which he was an heir, involving $250,000. He disappeared. His attorneys fought the case a while, but it was decided against him. Maley has led a wayward life, having been a soldier or sailor under the American, German, Russian and English flags. At one time he was in the tea business in China. His people were among the foremost families of Findlay, and he has been wealthy several times in his life. ODD FELLOWS' HOME BURNED. The State Institution at Liberty, Mo.. Is Wholly Destroyed. The State Odd Fellows' home at Liberty, Mo., was destroyed by fire. It was of wood and burned rapidly, but all the fifty-one inmates escaped. The fire was

started by a plumber thawing out a water

pipe. The building was three stories

high, with 140 rooms, and cost $70,000 in 188S. It was then a hotel, but proved

a failure. The Odd Fellows bought it in 1S94 for $30,000. W. H. Woodward, president of the trustees, wired from St. Louis that it will be rebuilt at once.

Joke Ends in a Sad Tragedy. Near Kirby Creek, Ala., while a party of young men and women were returning from a dance, it was determined to frighten Tom Davis. Several of the

number hid behind trees on the roadside and hurled rocks at Davis as he came up. DaviSi who was badly frightened, drew his revolver and began shooting. When the shooting was over it was discovered that Davis had killed his own brother, Matthew Davis, agedllS years.

i Missionaries Die In Liberia. News has been received by the Lutheran Publication Society of the death at Monrovia, Liberia, of Mrs. Leanna T Simon, wife of Rev. J. D. Simon, and Mrs. Emma D. Beck, wife of Rev. Will M.

Beck, both of whom were doing missionary work at the Muhlenberg mission in Africa. Mrs. Simon was born near Fairview, Ohio. Mrs. Beck was born near Princeton, 111.

Attempt to Enjoin Cupid. Relatives of John Kndylor, 80 years

old, went into court at Omaha to secure an injunction to restrain him from marrying 15-year-old Josephine Narnowski. When they discovered such a proceeding was unlikely to have the desired effect they changed the application to one for a guardian and the proposed wedding was suspended for the time.

Women Witness Whippings. Five negroes and four white men were whipped at Newcastle, Del., for various offenses, and one negro stood for an hour in the pillory. There were between two and three hundred persons present, an unusual number for the winter whippings. Two New Islands Are Taken. It is reported that the United States gunboat Princeton visited the Tatanes and Calagan Islands, which were omitted from the Paris treaty of peace, being north of 20 degrees of latitude, raised American flags and appointed native governors. Three Big Potteries Unite. The combination of three large potteries was perfected at Akron, Ohio. It includes the Whitmore-Robinson Company, Markle & Son and the E. H. Merrill Company. Deeds transferring the plants to the Robinson-Merrill Company have been filed. Floods Close New England Mills. As a result of excessively heavy raintall in New England the rivers rose rapidly, causing the shutdown of many mills and flooding basements of business ouses in cities along their banks.

THEIR EARLY HOME.

PRESIDENT AND WIFE AGAIN TO OCCUPY IT.

Mr. McKinley Buys the House in Which He and Mrs. McKinley Began Their Married Life Russia Is Forwarding Troops to the Frontier.

President and Mrs. McKinley will soon have a Canton, Ohio, home ready for them. After the death of the President's mother the McKinleys were without a residence there. Some seven months ago the President acquired the property in which he and Mrs. McKinley began married life. The contractor has begun to remodel it. The front rooms are to be unchanged at present. The dining room and kitchen are to be replaced by more commodious apartments. Other rooms will be added, including a library and oflice for the President. The home will be ready not later than July 1. The McKinleys are expected to spend several weeks in it the coming summer.

TORTURED BY INSURGENTS. Three Massachusetts Soldiers Put to Death by Filipinos. A special cablegram, dated Iloilo, Philippine Islands, tells of the brutal slaughter by the Filipinos of three privates of Company F, Twenty-sixth U. S. V. All were Massachusetts men. Here is the terrible story: "It has just been discovered, as the result of an investigation, that three Massachusetts soldiers of the Twenty-sixth regiment, U. S. V., have been tortured to death by insurgents. The men were Dennis Hayes, William pugan and Michael Tracy, privates of Company F, under Capt. William M. Tutherly. They remained behind the column at Calinag last November to get a tuba, and refused to accompany the corporal sent by Capt. Tutherly to bring them along. They were captured by the insurgents hanging on the rear of the column, and were cruelly tortured and murdered by the rebels in the public plaza of Calinag, the action being countenanced by the padre (Spanish priest). RUSSIA FORWARDING TROOPS. Asserted that the Movement Will Result In the Taking of Herat. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Times, remarking that "it will not do to place overmuch reliance upon Russia's official assurances that nothing will be done to embarrass England in the present situation of affairs," gives additional details showing that the delays in the ordinary traffic on the Central Asian railway are not caused, as has been officially stated, by snowfalls, but are due to the passage of Russian troops, estimated at 20,000, who are be

ing concentrated in the vicinity of Kushk.

The correspondent adds that "most Russians are convinced that Russia intends, soon or late, to take Herat."

Doctor Breaks Quarantine. Dr. S. Gardner, a member of the Board of Health of Massillon, Ohio, was taken ill, and the health officer pronounced it diphtheria. Dr. Gardner was quarantined. After two days' confinement Dr. Gardner decided he did not have diphtheria and made a round of calls on his patients. Two policemen were sent after him and Jie was taken back to his resi

dence and ordered to remain there.

Mad Leap to Death. After freeing himself from two govern

ment officers in Chicago, Paul F. Dogge, who had been arrested for using the mails to defraud, leaped from the Dearborn avenue viaduct to the Chicago and Northwestern Railway tracks below and sustained such severe injuries that he died three hours later.

BANK IN NEW MEXICO ROBBED. Cashier Forced to Open the Safe by Two Men, Who Take $3,000. B. C. Bowman, banker at Las Cruces. N. M., telephoned to El Paso, Texas, that his bank had been held up by two unknown men at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and robbed of $3,000. The robbers rode into town and hitched their horses at the Rio Grande Hotel, on the opposite side of the street. Then they entered the bank. Cashier Freeman was forced to open the safe and the men took all the available cash, amounting to $3,000. They then quietly left the building with the warning to those within to keep quiet. Mounting their horses, they rode toward the Organ mountains fifteen miles away. MADE INSANE IN PHILIPPINES. Outpost Duty Causes Dementia Among American Soldiers. Eleven insane soldiers have been sent itrom San Francisco to the Government hospital at Washington, and it is probable that about thirty, more will go East soon. During the last three months nearly 250 demented soldiers have been sent across the continent, and it is said that over 200 more will soon arrive from Manila. In nearly all cases the men are vu lently insane, and the reputed cause of their trouble is the ceaseless vigilance required by outpost duty in the Philippines. PHYSICAL TEST FOR EMPLOYES. New Order Soon to Be Issued at the Union Pacific Headquarters. Physical examinations for employes at Union Pacific headquarters, in Omaha, will soon be ordered, The system as proposed is that each employe, present or prospective, shall be examined by the chief surgeon as to his or her condition of health, of which a record will be preserved for use to determine the employe's physical condition for retention in service, or for promotion. The examination and registration fee for the health certificate is to be fixed at $1.

Saved from Sinking Vessel. The French freight steamer Fournel, which arrived at New York from Bordeaux and Havre, rescued at sea the captain and crew of the Italian steamer Francesco Grasso, bound from Liverpool for Genoa, coal laden, in a sinking condition. All hands, consisting of nineteen men, including the Liverpool pilot, were saved and brought into port.

New York Congressman Found Dead. Cougressman Charles A. Checkering of Copenhagen, N. Y., was found dead outside of the Grand Union Hotel in New York City. He had either fallen or jumped from a fourth-story window of the hotel. Chickering was afflicted with melancholia following an attack of typhoid fever. Disaster in a Fog. The three-masted schooner C. A. White was wrecked in a fog on the Virginia coast. A storm arose and forced the crew to abandon the schooner, which was driven high upon the beach.

White Man Hanged by a Mob. James Sweeney (white) was lynched at Port Arthur, Texas. Sweeney was a cotton screw foreman and had killed Charles Crumbach, a laborer, by jamming a bayonei: through his neck. Dewey's Son in Chicago. George Dewey, Jr., son of the admiral,, has accepted a position in Chicago as western representative of a New York firm of dry goods commission merchants, and has opened an office. Killed by an Express Train. Four well-to-do residents of Mont Carmel, Quebec, were killed by the Quebec express on the Canadian Pacific at a crossing near Three Rivers.

Telrgraph Line to Dawson. Construction work on the all-Canadian

telegraph lines to Dawson City has been commenced. J. B. Charleson, superin

tendent, sent seventy men to Quesnelle,

B, C, to begin building the line to Hazelton, and twenty-five men and supplies to Bennett to begin building from Atlin to Telegraph Creek.

Want Sophomore Societies Abolished. Yale seniors have petitioned the faculty to abolish the sophomore secret societies in the interest of democratic spirit.

Decision in Kentucky Cases. United States Circuit Court Judge W.

H. Taft at Cincinnati decided that the Republican officials of Kentucky must seek relief in the courts of that State. He found that his court had no jurisdic

tion, and denied the motions for preliminary injunctions in both the cases from

Kentucky.

Murdered at a Dance. Arthur Wolford shot and killed Her

man Schultz at the home of Jacob Har

ness, south of Kokonio, lnd. The shoot

ing occurred during a dance at the Harness home and was witnessed by many

persons. The cause of the shooting is

unknown.

Inheritance Tax Law Invalid. At St. Paul the Supreme Coort declar

ed the Minnesota inheritance tax law to be unconstitutional, being contrary to the constitutional provision requiring equal

taxation. The law was passed in 1897, after the adoption of a constitutional amendment permitting such a law. Robber Severely Punished. At Kansas City, a jury in the criminal court gave Edward Simnis, a colored footpad, a forty-year sentence in the penitentiary for snatching a white woman's pocketbook. Two jurors wanted to give him a life sentence.

Lived Almost a Century. John V. Storm, 99 years and 2 months old, died at Fishkill village, N. Y.

Church Wrecked by Fire. Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the most beautiful houses of divine worship in Chicago, was destroyed by fire. Nothing is left but the blackened walls. The loss is more than $100,000. Killed by a Former Sweetheart. Gus Pryor, a young negro, was murdered on the streets of Huntsville, Ala., 1 his former sweetheart, Ellen Gorflc Pryor was shot four times over the heart and died in a few seconds. .

THE MARKETS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $0.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 68c; corn, No. 2, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 54c to 56c; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 26c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; potatoes, choice, 40c to 50c per bushel. Indianapolis Cattle, shippjng, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2 white, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c. St. Louis Cattle, $3.25 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $6.00; wheat, No. 2, 71c to 73c; corn, No. 2 yeilow, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2, 24c to 26c; rye, No. 2, 53c to 55c. Cincinnati Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; rye. No. 2, 61c to 63c. Detroit Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $6.00; wheat, No. 2, 73c to 75c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats. No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, 58c to 60c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 58c to 60c; clover seed, new, $5.60 to $5.65. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, 65c to 67c; corn, No. 2, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 1, 58c to 59c; barley, No. 2, 46c to 47c; pork, mess, $10.75 to $11.25. Buffalo Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $6.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $7.25. New York Cattle, $3.25 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 78c to 80c; corn, No. 2, 42c to 44c: oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 33c; butter, creamery, 19c to 24c; eggs, western, 14c to 17e.

In the Senate on Saturday, when there!

were only a dozen Senators present, a

Boer sympathy resolution introduced byMr. Allen was passed before its purport was realized. A minute later the votewas reconsidered and the resolution went over. The financial debate was contin

ued by Mr. Chandler, who opposed the;

gold standard and strongly urged

double standard. Mr. Chilton and Mfi

Money also spoke. The House was dw

In session.

Speeches were made in the Senate

Monday on the financial bill by Mi

Wolcott, Elkins and Butler. Mr. Allen'

solution introduced Saturday express'

ing sympathy with the Boers went over .; without losing its place. A large number of unimportant bills were passed. The House passed the bill to permit transit through the United States of goods in. ; bond without the payment' of duties; also-

private pension bills favorably acted upon

at Friday night's session, and in District of Columbia legislation. On Tuesday the Senate heard Mr, Allison in support of the financial bin, and Mr. Jones of Nevada in opposition thereto. Passed bill appropriating $150,-' 000 to enlarge public building at Portland, Ore. The House passed bill increasing limit of cost of new Government printing office by $429,000 on account of rise in prices of building material. The Senate on Wednesday by a voteof 45 to 25 rejected an amendment to the financial bill, offeredby Mr. Chandler, authorizing the President to appoint com-

metallic conference. Devoted the rest of the day to debate on the Aldrich amendment providing that the provisionsof the bill are not intended to place any obstacles in the way of international bimetallism. The House debated the legist lative, executive and judicial appropriar

tion bill, the arguments assuming a po- . litical tinge. The feature was a sharpcolloquy between Messrs. Bartholdt, Ben-, ton and Pearce, all of Missouri, on theNesbitt election law in that State. On Thursday the Senate passed the Senate substitute for the House currency bill by a vote of 46 to 29. Made theHawaiian bill unfinished business, giving:

it right of way. The House completed

wenty-six of the 124 pages of the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill without amendment. During the--enerai debate Mr. Boutell (111.), Mr. Miers (lnd.) and Mr. Showalter (Pa.) disci ssed the Philippine question; Mr. Grosrenor (Ohio) and Mr. Gillette (Mass ) civil service reform. Mr. Driees (N. Y.) oen-

SJons, and Mr. Underwood (Ala.) his reso

lution to repeal the fifteenth amendment

to tne constitution.

The Senate on Friday resumed discussion of the Philippine question. Mr. Mc-j, Enery strongly opposed permanent acquisition of the islands and believed United: States ought to relinquish them as soon as authority of this country had been asserted. Mr. Stewart took, pronounced position in favor of admission of the products of any of the island possessions of the United States free of duty. Hawaiian bill was read, but nothing was

done with it. The House by a vote of 75 to 67, in committee of the whole,

struck out from legislative appropriation bill all provision for civil servivce commission. Action regarded as annual joke, as item will probably be restored in open session when members have to go on record on roll call. Rest of the time devoted to assertions by Mr. Sims'(Dem., Tenn.) that northern volunteer soldiersIn Spanish war were much more clamorous for pensions than the southern ones, and attributing this to the debauching of public sentiment in the North on the pension question. Mr. Pearre (Rep., Md. raised the storm by stating that hundredsof Massachusetts soldiers who neveremelled powder had applied for pensions. This brought out an indignant reply front; Mr. Fitzgerald (Dem., Mass.), who de-'"" tailed the record of the Massachusetts volunteers. He was followed by others, who defended the soldiers from their several States. Mr. Hepburn (Iowa) espe- f daily assailed Mr. Sims.

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Brief News Items. Canada may send 10,000 more troops to the Cape. Nicaraguans favor Americans controlling the canal. Russia will build a railroad across Persia, 1,300 miles long. Chicago Board of Trade has abolisheoV "put" and "calf trading. Plague is about over in Honolulu. City has been thoroughly cleansed. George Barrow, abductor of baby Marion Clark, New York, is insane. A Liverpool physician has discovered the bacillus of pink-eye in horses. Dr. Lapponi, the papal physician, says Pope Leo may live to be 100 years old. Preston Hurlburt, prominent stockman,. Buffalo, N. Y., killed by a street car. G. W. Cross and Gus Le.ach were killed by a dynamite explosion, Hillsworth, Ga. Porch climbers secured $1,000 woiJth of iwelry from Mrs. A. S. Sturm, Chicago. , A system of government inspection of nursery stock is expected to be enacted soon. The world is calling for American manufactures at the rate of over $1,000,000 a day. Nearly $200,000,000 will be appropriate ed by this Congress for the support of the United States army and navy during the next year. The Ohio House of Representatives hs passed a bill prohibiting the desecration of the American Sag by its use for advertising purposes

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