Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 28 August 1897 — Page 3
WASHINGTON NOTES.
WAL
ICIOUSLY MENDACIOUS AND SBNSATIONALI CORRESPONDENTS CRUSADE AGAINST
SECRETARY SHERMAN.
gtatlntics From Keport of Commissioner
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Education—Secretary Sherman's Answer to Japan's Protest
Agsinst Hawaiian Annoxatlon—Notes.
his
of
In regard to the recent rumors concerning the alleged decline of the mental powers of Secretary Sherman a Washington correspondent says that It has become ve clear that the public is not in sympathy with the recent unfriendly crusade that has been carried on In certain
I newspapers against
Url-th.-. IJJjfil (till jfl
the
his
Secretary,
lull inn in IN
Mr Sherman is a
Ji'irU""" very old man, and
memory may be and probably is, at
times,
treacherous, but even with that
hundirap
he is still a large-sized man, anil
will continue to command the respect of
the
country. He has been in public life for more than forty years, and has done
country distinguished service. The
American
people, do not forget these
things, and they do not indorse attacks miide upon tried and trusted servants ann upon their representatives in positions of trust. For that reason those who have been lending themselves to unfriendly newspaper assaults upon the secretary of state lind themselves in rather an unpleasant situation at present, and on the defensive. Many Washington newspaper correspondents have not treated Secretary Sherman fairly, and in sending out statements and interviews designed to call attention to the secretary's alleged indiscretions of speech and to his forgetfulness about certain matters they have departed from their usual habit of treating public men with whom they come in personal contact at the Capitol. They have been, in a sense, violating the ethics of the profession, as understood in Washington. If the correspondents would treat ail public officials they meet and talk with as they have Secretary Sherman of late they would very soon find all avenues for obtaining confidential news closed against them. If newspaper writers at the Capitol made a practice of going about trying to trap public men into
milking
indiscreet
remarks and then quoting them literally it would not b" long before officials would learn to fear and shun them and deny them confidences.
The report of the United States Commissioner of education. Dr. AVilliam T. Harris, for the year ended July 1. 1S%, lias just been completed. It brings the educational progress of the country up to that date and embraces the latest statistics the bureau had gathered. The report shows a total enrollment in that year in the schools and colleges, both public, and private, of in.9y7.197 pupils. This was an increase of 308,575. The number in public institutions was 14,40"),371 and in private institutions 1,531.826. In addition to all these there were 41S.000 pupils in the various special schools and institutions, including business colleges, music conservatories. Indian and reform schools, making the grand total enrollment for the whole country 10,415,197. The report says the ITS schools for secondary and higher education of the colored race had slightly over •40,000 students1 enrolled, an increase of over 3.0i)0 for the year. The schools increased by It in number, mostly high schools. There were 25.0A2 pupils in the elementary grades. 13.5G3 in the secondary grades and 1,455 in the collegiate departments. There were 4,(72 colored students studying for teachers. Industrial training is a prominent feature in nearly all of these schools.
Secretary Sherman has submitted to the Japanese government an answer to Japan's last note relating to the annexation of Hawaii to the United States. The answer was delivered to Mr. Hoshi, the Japanese minister, last Saturday. It is in reply to Japan's note of July 10, which, up to that time, had not been acknowledged. Mr. Sherman's answer is marked by its friendly expressions toward Japan, which Kive special satisfaction in view of the somewhat strained relations resulting from the previous correspondence. Two features are brought out by the answer, reiterates the position heretofore taken l).v the secertary of state as to the right and propriety of annexing Hawaii to the nited States. With this, however, is coupled an assurance that the interests
Japan in Hawaii will be fully safeguarded. it also expresses satisfaction at plan of arbitration between Japan and •iwaii, on the question of Japanese im"ilfcration to Hawaii. The .answer is argeiy an
elaboration of Mr. Sherman's
.oim '''tier, and the policies expressed no way differ from those previously 'aid down by him.
There were presented to the Treasury J^ent last week for redemption two
isr "-30
notes of the lssue of JlInG
y-
|.,i"nly
disoovered
S t0
10
a
that they had been
tnizod when the notes were thrown by the authorities at Washington, thi"
1,an'tcrs
!ln1
dealers through
eounterfeit amounted probably to e\eral hundred thousand dollars. ori '|C
on'y marked
red
difference between the
aiKl
counterfeit
ln ,Soa''
l'10
is found in the
P°'nts surrounding the seal
genuine being broader, more clear-
"|fin(,rl nnd not so long. There is also flight difference In the signature of 0*"*. Spinner, -who was the treasurer sue "f States at the time of the ls-
0 thc
the
original notes. In the genuine
IS
a'S°
a s,na11
EPot
^ust below
ane between the baskets of the baleusn *bo .Igure of America holds
6n5ed.
At the Secret Service Office It that the plate from which these
notes were printed was captured Nov. 21, 1SG7, from W. 13. Brockway, who Is now serving a term of ten years in the Trenton (N. J.) penitentiary for counterfeiting $500 gold certificates.
In speaking of the boundary line between Alaska and the British possessions General Duffield, of the coast and geodetic survey, said: "I do not believe that when the matter of the boundary line between the two countries is definitely settled there will be any appreciable change from what is down on the map at present. There certainly will not be as far as regards the Klondike region, which is beyond all manner of dispute in the British Northwest Territory. Dawson City is a hundred miles or more east of the 141st meridian, which is the boundary line. Mount St. Klias is near the intersection of the ten marine league line with the 141st meridian. To be exact, the summit is 140 degrees and 55 minutes, or 5 minutes on the Canadian side, which in that latitude represents two and one-half miies. Hut on the southern side it is only twen-ty-eiglu and one-half miles from the coast, which brings it inside of the tenleague lino, nr thirty-mile limit, and ono and one-half miles on American soil,
The board convened by Acting Secretary Roosevelt to consider the project for dry docks have been in session and will continue to examine into the matter as long as Admiral Bunce can be absent from the New York navy yard. The bure.au of yards and docks is now having condemnation proceedings made at Port I Royal S. C., preparatory to dredging a I channel to the dock at that place. This dock is large enough for the Indiana or any of the battleships, but cannot be I reached owing to the shallow channel.
Work of dredging the channel would have been begun before, but it was necessary for the government to acquire a strip or land upon which to deposit the dredging and to make a channel which would not be filled up as soon as it was completed. Early next month a contract wil be let for dredging a channel deep enough for the large ships.
Advices to the Agricultural Department from private and indirectly from official sources confirm the predictions of considerable deficiency in the European wheat crop, while rye, which is the chief bread, grain of eastern Europe, is also short. This fact, a special report of Statistician Hyde, of the department, says, as well as the wheat deficiency, will tend to restrict the exportation of the latter from those European countries which usually have a surplus of that grain. As to non-European countries other than the United States, their aggregate contribution to the European supply will be materially affected by the fact that India, denuded by the famine, will have practically no wheat to export.
Mint Director Preston is of the Opinion that the production of silver in this country and other parts of the world will not decrease, in spite of the fall in value of thc white metal. 11c explains that silver is a bi-produet of a great majority of gold, copper and lea mines, and that the yield from those sources alone will keep up the production to nearly Its present aggregate. In his opinion, the mining of silver will return a large profit to producers at 50 cents an .ounce, and even at a lower figure than that. Of course, many silver mines will have to close down as the price of bullion depreciates, but the supply in other quarters will hold up and even Increase.
LIKE OLIVER TWIST.
Tile Yauderbilt Millionaires Are Hungry
and Want "More."
Tacoma .Vash., special: The Vanderbilts are said to be members of the syndicate which sent John and Frank Malone, prominent Tacoma men, to the Klondike district on the steamer Humboldt this week. The arrangements at the New York end were made by Truman W. Enos, the vice president of the Metropolitan savings bank of Tacoma, which the Vanderbilts control.
The night before the steamer sancd Mr. Enos wired John Malone that ample capital was forthcoming in New York for the syndicate's purpose. The next day Malone was given final instructions by Jacob Vanderbllt, the cashier, and P. V. Caesar, president of the bank, cousins o£ the Vanderbilts. The bank also furnished to him letters of credit for a large amount, payable at Dawson City. As Mr. Enos is in direct touch wi.h the Vanderbilts In New York and the Van-erbllt family at this end, the conclusion is drawn that thc New York members of the Vanderbllt family also are Uerjsted. John Malone is an "old-timer.' He has been ln every mini ig and real estate boom in the
-st
15'
The persons making the presentaon were .a business firm of Louisville,
1 pon examination the notes were ^°und
to
be counterfeits, being a part of
whT!?
,nrBC
'ssuo of counterfeit notes
'eh appeared in the principal bond
t|arkp(s
about 3865 and 1SG7. The imita°n of the genuine is so complete that *'10 I^'ieipal dealers in United an °S
sH
lIr't'os
purchased them freely,
s.nce 1860, Including
George Francis Try ,n' Omaha boom ill 1SGG. Malone go*1'. 10 T/awon *.o buy or lease mines, open vulini pos,s or engage in any other p.ofi'ah]' business. He hopes to ibtaii some good pla or and quartz claims. He will send reports out to New York .piialists through the Vanderbllt bank here.
CARRIED OVKR NIAGARA FALLS.
Three Young Men Unable to Munage Boat, iu Heavy Current.
Frank Webbc-r of Buffalo. Warren Bush, twenty-one years old of Chicago, a former employe of the United States express company, and Charles Glasner, twenty-nine years of age, of Chicago, employed by the United States Express company. who have been camplhg on the banks of the Niagara river for the past week with several companions, Sunday hired a small boat at La Salle and started to row across the Niagara river to the Canadian shore. In the heavy current their boat became unmanageable and upset. The men were seen by a number of people on shore struggling in the water, but no assistance could reach them. All three were carried over the falls on the Canadian side. There is llttlo probability of the bodies being recovered for soma weltes.
Five Children Drowned.
Twenty-three children at Toronto, Canada, Sunday, embarked on a raft used for transporting workmen from tho shore to tlio new breakwater of tho harbor, intending to go bathing. The float was worked by chains attached to the bank on one side and the breakwater on the other. Enroute to tho breakwater the raft capsized and all were thrown into the water. Ail of tht children were rescued except Ave.
SERIOUS SITUATION.
PITTSBURG OPERATORS DETERMINED TO RESUME WORK REGARDLESS OP CONSE
QUENCES.
Injunction Against Miners' Camps Mads
Permanent—Strike Notes From Fenn•ylTaniu, West Virginia, Ohio, Indl-
untt, Illinois and Kcutacky.
PENNSYLVANIA.
A special dispatch from Turtle Creek eays that the campers did not march, Monday morning. There are no signs of disorder, notwithstanding all the leaders are attending the injunction proceedings in Pittsburg. It is said that there was a noticeable falling off in the number of diggers who went to work at Oakhill mine, Monday morning. All told, not more than .5 ment and boys are reported to be in the mine. Valuable allies have gone to the assistance of the strikers in closing the mine, in the persons of two women, wives of striking De Armitt miners.
No injunctions have yet been issued against the women and these two took their stations on the public road, leading 'O the mine, Monday morning. To the deputies these women said they were there for the purpose of doing what the strikers had been denied the right to do. When a party of 14 Italians left their boarding house for the mine, the women gave them probably a worse tongue-lash-ing than they had ever before received. Tho women spoke French and Belgian and managed to make themselves so well understood that seven of the party returned to their homes to escape the volleys of abuse fired at them. The Belgian women say they will collect 25 of their country women, Tuesday morning, and station them along the public road with plenty of rocks for use in case any of the miners attempt to work after Monday. The eviction of miners at Center has aroused the Dc. Armitt strikers here to thc height of indignation.
Pittsburg special, Aug. IS: This was operators' day, and from present appearances. they have made a most effective move and have nearly, if not quite, checkmated their opponents, the striking coal miners. The court's decree today in making permanent the preliminary injunction restraining the strikers Trom camping, marching or in any manner interfering with the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company's miners has had the effect of almost depleting the camps about those mines and apparently a general demoralization among the campers exists. In order to follow up their advantage tho operators held a meeting and arranged for starting their mines, with or without force. If force seems to be unavoidable, it is the intention to start: a few mines at once under the protection of deputies. This scheme to stjrt the mines was adopted to break the national strike in 1S94. The operators then agreed to bear the expense and two mines were! put in operation and the men were guarded by deputies. The mines selected wprej thc Manown, of the Youghiogheny Gas Coal Company, and the Durr mine, of'Osborne, Saeger & Co. At tho former mine eighteen railroad cars were loaded the first day. It was expensive coal, but when tho bills wore settled no operator could be found to tell what that coal cost. Various estimates were given, and it was conceded by some that it did not cost a cent less than $5 a ton. ISut it had the desired effect. A similar successful effort was made by the operators several years ajo when a number of colored men were brought in from the South. President Dolan. of the miners' organization, does not believe the movement will be a success this time, as th"* strikers are more in earnest than in any former struggle.
When court opened this morning Judges Stowe and Collier handed down a decision in the Injunction proceedings of the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company against the United Mine Workers of America, Patrick Dolan, AVilliam Warner and others. The preliminary injunction was made permanent and the plaintiff was ordered to file a bond of $5,000 to answer for such damages as may he sustained by the defendants by reason of the injunction.
ILLINOIS
Hillsboro special: Six hundred striking coal miners, eight abreast, invaded Coffeen at 3:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, throwing aside the deputy sheriffs doing guard duty and going through the town pel! mell. The officials ordered the guards not to shoot, but they began making arrests as fast as possible. Gen. Bradley was tho first man placed under arrest, and three guards came to this city with him as fast as horses could travel. He is now in the county jail. Other prisoners are r.ow on the way here. No shots were fired and no blood was shed.
Thc invasion was for the purpose of Inducing the men at work at the,mine there to coase and join the strike. The sheriff will increase his force of deputies an* the invaders will be compelled to leave tho town or there will be a conflict.
The strikers are in possession of tho town and Sheriff Randle has mustered his handful of men at the coal company's shaft which ho says ho will protect at all hazards.
The town authorities say they are utterly powerless as the strikers can do as they wish. The strikers appointed a commutes of twelve to arrange a meeting, bi't the Coffeen miners refused to attend! The marchers threaten to make trouble if the mln(y3 attempt to work.
OHIO,
Cleveland special: The decision rcached by tho operators of the Pittsburg district at their conference to open their mines regardless of tho consequences will probably cause serious trouble. According to local coal men It is the intention of the Pittsburg operators to engage Pinkerton men to protect their non-union men. This action on their part will prebably precipitate a terrible climax to the groat strike, and the operators admit that blood will probably flow. In speaking of the probable result of the operators' decision, Uoftus Cuddy, of the Cuddy-Mullen Coal Company, said: "If It is found necessary to do so a whole army of detectives Will be employed to protect our men, and if tho worst comes they will be supplied with Gatllng guns and other equipments to convince the strikers that we mean business. There will be no delay ln inaugurating this movement, and the "first step was taken Thursday, although I do not care to state what the first action was."
KliNTlCKY.
About 600 miners have struck in th« I-aurel district, around Pittsburg, Ky., and 'trong efforts are being made to get those at work to come out. The minen in this district made a contract wttn th» operators in May for 62% cents and one pay day, the agreement to be in effect for ono year, but now they insist on 6! cents and two pay days. The tie-up, however, is more out of sympathy wltt the general strike than because of any local, grievances.
ILLINOIS—INDIANA.
A conference of Illinois and Indiana coa' operators, at which all the principal ones were present, was held at Chicago, ot Wednesday. The opinion seemed to unanimous that there would be no resOmptton of work at prices higher thar those paid when the strike was ordered. It was stated that any other coursc was impossible, owing to outstanding contrails which do not expire until Maj next. A large proportion of the output of the mines is under contract and in many districts there are formal contracts signed by the operators and miners fixing definite wages.
WKST VIRGINIA.
Fairmount, W. Va„ special: One hundred and ninety of the campers were arrested Thursday morning for marching, which Judge Jackson claims is a violation of his injunction. They were taker to the depot and guarded for •ve hours, when a special train took twenty-four ol them to Clarksburg. The organizers claim that their men did not know they were violating the injunction and that according to its terms it should have beer read to them. They say there will be no trouble in securing the liberty of the men and that while one man looks after them the other thre will organize the remainder of thc men. Organizer Rea refuses to disclose his plans, but says the miners will be ably represented at tho hearing at Clarksburg. When the men were taken beforo Judge Nathan Goff, at Clarksburg, he remanded them to jail as they could not give bond and Friday was set as the time of their hearing.
Squad after squad of men from the mines of the region have joined the men at Camp O'Donnell. The wivea of the Monongah men also joined them. There are 500 or more in camp, and the tents have been turned over to the women, the men sleeping on the ground.
A CRAZY CALIFORNIA^.
Tries to Itlll His Wife Rccause She Op-
I'.orteU Ills Going to Klondike and Is Himself Killed Ky a Hired Hoy.
The Klon--.^e craze has led to murder in California. Last week George W. Schofleld, a farmer near San Jose, was found murdered. His widow, his stepson, Irving Mann, and a hired boy, Daniel Dutcher, were arrested. Irving Mann has told thc story of the crime and Dutcher Vns confirmed it. Mann said: "Dutcher killed him, but he killed him to sava mother's life and mine. They had been having trouble during the evening. It began by his saying that he would sell the ranch to get money to go to the Klondike. My mother said he could not do that, as it was homesteaded and she hadn't agreed to it. He became angry and made a rush for the shotgun. Dutcher grabbed the rifle and got out of the house. Schoflel^ had choked my mother on tho floor. My mother ran out on the porch in the excitement, Schouc-- had tho shotgun in his hands. Dutcher saw him and fired at him. It went through the window, but It didn't hit him. Schofield tried to make it up with mother. They seemed to agree, and we a., went to beet. When we got up in the morning the quarrel broke out again. Schofield was chasing my mother with the shotgun. I was out at the barn when I saw this. Mother screamed and ran out to the barn, butcher then came out with tho rule and went to assist her. They were in the corral when Dutcher fired. My stepfather leaped Into the air and fell. .When we reached him he was dead."
CABLli NOTES.
Dr. James B. Angell, the new United States minister to Turkey, arrived at Constantinople Thursday.
The popular enthusiasm over the visit of tho Duke and Duchess of Y'ork to Ireland is unabated. Their royal highnesses were again the recipients of a warm ovation at DUbHn Thursday at the opening of the exhibition of Irish textile industries and during their visit to the horticultural show.
A dispatch to the London Daily News from Tabrccz, capital of the province of Azerbaijan, Persia, says that Thursday the Kurds raided the district of Salmas, on the Turko-Uusslan frontier. They sacked and completely destroyed two Armenian villages and massacred two hundred persons, Christians and Mussulmans indiscriminately. The Persian government has decided to send more troops to the scene of the invasion.
A burglar known as Edward Simpson, now serving a term at Wormwood Scrubs prison, England, has been identified as J. B. Ford, one of the most notorious criminals in the United States, and wanted in several -»mcrican cities for a great variety of crimes. He will be extradited to Cincinnati, where he is known as C.iarles Fisher.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, of the United States army, was present Thursday at the Russian military maneuvers which took place beforo Emperor Nicholas and the Empress, at Camp ICrasnoe Selo.
The greater part of Silesia has been visited by severe storms and several persons have been killed by lightning. Typhus fever is rampant at Rogan. in consequence of the water used for drinking there having become infected by the refuse accumulated by tho floods.
Plngrce fr Smith's shoe factory, the only union shoe shop in Detroit, was tied up at noon Thursday by a strike of the bottomers. About seven hundred hands are affected. The firm is willing to arbitrate the differences, but the men claim they have always got the worst of arbitration and demand an .increase in the price of certain grades of shoes.
RevV7: II. .Houghton, pastor of Si. Jameses Epi^oVal Church, at Huntington, Pa., was found dead in bed at his residence. Rev. Iloyghton was a native I of Salt I ak.. C'i'.i". Utah.
STARVING TO DEATH.
DESPERATE DEEDS BY DESPERATE MEN EN ROUTE TO KLONDIKE.
Young Man Steals a Side of Bacon and Is Shot For the Offense— 5,000
People Camped at Dyeu
and Skajfuay.
San Francisco special: In the mad rush for Klondike gold men are already starving to death. Of the thousands now hastening to Alaska many will never return. Their bones will bleach under the snows of the deadly passes. Gold there Is in plenty. But it is not easily obtained, and this is not all. Starvation, disease, treacherous Indians, desperadoes who will commit murder for a biscuit, frightful storms and all the perils of an unknown, ftihospitable and barren country await the inexperienced. Men who are abandoning their homes to join the mad scramble for the new Eldorado should remember that opee they have passed over the gang plank of the Alaskan steamer there is no way of getting back unless they turn about immediately while they have money for transportation and strength to clamber Into the boat. Over the entrances to White and Chiicat passes there might well be strung the legend, "Who enters here leaves hope behind," for it is the sheerest luck if a fair percentage of those going in ever return to civilization or live to see fruition of their wild hopes.
One of the clearest accounts of tho situation at Dyea and Skaguay, where several thousand prospectors are now camped waiting to get over the divide, was given by George L. Fish, a prominent grocer of Oakland, who made the trip in order to see whether there was any chance for rushing supplies into the Klondike this fall. He found the outlook hopeless. He said: "If you want to do a service to humanity advise men and women to stay away from Dyea and Skaguay. The day I left Dyea there were three funerals. Two were those of young men who had attempted to cross Dyea river. The last funeral was that of a young man who had reached the summit of Chilcat pass. He was entirely out of provisions, and, goaded to desperation by starvation, he stole a side of bacon. He was detected by two of the party from whoso outfit he stole, and was shot to death. An inquest was held and the verdict was justifiable homicide. least 5,000 people are camped at Dyea and fckaguay, and the majority will remain there through the winter. Starvation and death will stalk among them.
There are many lawless adventurers in the two littJe towns on the bleak coast men and women of a stripe who will not hesitate at the commission of any crime when money and food become scarce. I was ashore for nearly throe days, during which time I made close observations. People who had arrived at Dyea two weeks before had been unable to move owing to lack of transportation. There were 1,500 people between Dyea and thc summit, and this included many women. There were about 3,500 from Skaguay road to Dawson through White pass and down to Lake Bennett. It is Impossible to get through tho pass and there is a swamp of seven or eight miles to cross before reaching Lake Bennett." He said few of the prospectors hid the courage to advance, and many had no money to return.
STARTLING DISCOVERIES.
Great Excitement in California Over Recent Gold Finds In Trinity County.
A Redding, Cal., special to the Chicago Record says that Instead of quietingdown as had been predicted, the Trinity coun gold excitement is steadily and rapidly Increasing. Ono hundred men left Redding for Trinity Center and the Coffee Creek country. It is estimated that there are at least 1,000 newcomcrs ln the district. News of rich strikes is constantly coming in and tends to increase the excitement. One of tho latest is the find of M. Carroll, who is said to have discovered! a fabulously rlcn quartz mine two miles from the famous Blue Jay of the Graves brothers. A report has just reached this town of a rich strike about the headwaters of Coffee Creek, where, it is said, $28,000 was taken out in twelve hours.
A Carrville, Trinity County, special says: A party of prospectors arrived at the Nash mine on their way to a part of the county between Union and Coffee Creek to hunt for a lodge of fabulous richness discovered by an Ifidian years ago. Tho Indian was following a wounded deer when ho found the ledge, and, attracted by the gold, broke off a piece of the stone. Going Into Etna he showed the rock, which is still to bo seen In that town and which assays over $1,000 to the ton. The town of Etna wen w-.u over the news. At the end of a week the Indian was shot and killed in a quarrel, and the mystery of the golden ledge has never been solved.
TELEGRAPHIC IIREVITIES.
Gold to the amount of $150,000 was withdrawn from the subtreasury at Now York for shipment to Canada.
D. T. Davis was appointed receiver for thc Peerless Oil Refining Company, of Flndlay, O., and Cleveland.
The National Council of the Daughters of America,- in session at Nashville, has selected Washington, D. C., as the place of meeting in 189S.
A raco riot is feared at Leonard, Tex., where negroes, it is said, threaten tho town.
Albert Voiers. one i.f the notorious Lewis gang of murderers, under sentence to be hanged at Fayetteville, W. Va., broke jail Thursday just before daylight. The sheriff and posse are after him.
A Modern Bluebeard.
Mr. David E. Bates of Chicago has "achieved greatness" in the matrimonial line. Ho has at last come to grief and Is under arrest for bigamy. He has been managing a sort of contimaous performance and from the returns at hand it appears that he has married at least seven women.
Tramp Shot to Death.
At Schiller Park, a Chicago -suburb, Thursday, an unknown man attempted tv assault Mrs. Pailllna Feuske, the wife of a German farmer, and was shot to de.-uu by the enraged husband and a posse of farmers.
•BANKERS' ASSOCIATION.
'Iwe.. -Third Annual Convention Detroit Largely Attended.
at
The twenty-third annual convention of tho American Bankers' Association which convened at Detroit, August 17, was the most successful in point of attendance in the history of the organization. Delegates to the number of 600 were present and there were an equal number of visiting financiers. The convention was notable for the speech of Gov. Pingree, setting forth the evils charged by the free-silver men to the demonetization of silver, but proposing a different remedy. Gov. Pingree urged the bankers to favor a tax on gold used in the arts in order to Increase the supply of gold available for redemption money, if that metal is to be the only standard. The delegates showed their fftith in gold by wearing buttons the color of the yellow metal. Robert J. Lowry of Atlanta spoke approvingly of the Indianapolis monetary convention and of tho currency commission message of President McKinley. He is very much opposed, on general principles, to the government being in "tho banking business," but ho feels that an exception ought to be made in favor of postal savings banks designed to protect the savings of persons of small means.
WORTH $no,ooo,uoo,
American Claims Clipporton Island,' It* Guano and Pearl Oysters.
Oakland, Cal., special: Captain F. W. Permlen, of this city, lays claim to CHpperton island, with its beds of guano and of pearl oysters. Ifc states that on May 21, 1891, while bound to Costa .n.ica in his brig, the Eliza, he first visited tho Island, and that on July 4, 1SA2. he visited it again, and hoisting the stars and stripes, took formal possession of it in the name of the United States. Documentary evidence on file at Washington, copies ot which Captain Permlen possesses, seems to substantiate his claim and also to prove that the island is United States territory. Captain Permlen states that ha has made known the nature of his claim to the agents of the British company now negotiating with tho men to whom he gave a bill of sale for three-tenths of the island. If the Englishmen are willing to pay a fair price the captain and his wife, who has taken a keen interest in the affair from the beginning, will sell. If not they intend to work thc deposits of guano, which Prof. Shaw has estimated to be worth $50,000,000.
JOSErn LADUE'S ROMANCE.
Picture of Himself and nil Indian Wife Lost Him a White lirldo.
San Francisco special: Joseph Laduo, owner of Dawson, while on one of his visits to San Francisco, about two years ago, took his fiancee to a storcoptlcon pnow where views of Alaska were shown. Tho lecturer flashed upon the canvas a view of a rough-looking man ln tattered garments, unshaven and with a straw hat upon his head. "This, ladies and gentlemen," said the lecturer, "Is Joo Ladue, one of tho odd' characters in Alaska. And this," —as ho flashed another view—"is Ladue and hi3j squaw wife. Tou will observo that Ladue. has his pick and shovel and is about to start on a prospecting tour."
Ladue, who had been growing uneasy while the first view was being sliown^ jumped up at sight of the second and de-t nptjnced the lecturer as a fraud. Then, with his flancefe, he left tho hall: In consequence of the picture, however, Ladue and the young woman uecamo estranged, and, though he afterward succeeded in' convincing her that he did not have an: Indian wife, she insisted upon returning with him to Alaska to Investigate for herself. There she met G. H. Bowker, a' young Englishman, who afterward be-'-' came one of the Klondike kings. The
Murdered By Robbers.
William C. Wilson, proprietor of a circulating library at 111!) Walnut street. Philadelphia, was murdered by robbers in his place of business, Monday night. The weapon used was a heavy hammer which crashed through Wilson's skull. Mr. Wilson was flfty-two years of age. It posed tho robbers secured a cop- ^r«.ble sum of money. There is no to their identity.
THE MARKETS.
1
young woman Is now Mrs. Bokwer. ,'
DOLLAR WHEAT.
Great Excitement On the Hoards of Trade in Chicago and Now York.
The wheat market was greatly excited. Friday, Aug. 20, and sold for $1 per'/ bushel at Minneapolis, $1.02 at Philadelphia and 98c at New York. Traders were riotous in their efforts to secure* I grain at these prices.
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INDIANAPOLIS.
WHEAT, No. 2, red $ ,S5 CORN, No. 2, yellow .28% OATS, No. 2, white .18% HAY—Choice Timothy $6.50 7.50 CATTLE Shippers 3.00 4.60
Stockers 3.00 48 4.25 Heifers 2.75 4.25 Cows 1.25 3.50 Bulls 3.20 3.40 HOGS 3.S5 4.10 POULTRY Hens .06%
Springs .07% Cocks .03 Young Turkeys •!••%. Toms bl' '.08 Old Hen Turkeys jfj Ducks .06% 'fy Geese 33 .40 BUTTER, Choice Country..
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Tubwashed ...... CC51. BEESWAX 25
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EGGS .07% FEATHERS—Geeso, per lb. .30 Duck ........ j.'x .11 WOOL—Unwashed Medium .15.^
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HONEY .12 9 '.14 HILES KVii .08% CHICAGO. WHEAT .............. 1 ,&1% CORN '. .28% OATS J........ ...us vS.Uulg''i I'OHK, per barrel 8.50 8.55 LARD, per 100 .lbs*. .- 4/^7 '4^50"
NEW YORK.
WHEAT .96% CORN k33% OATS
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