Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1892 — Celestials tn College. [ARTICLE]

Celestials tn College.

Michigan University is the first among American colleges, if not among colleges of the western world, to enroll among its students feminine representatives of the Chinese empire. Two young women have come from the heart of China to pursue their studies at Ann Arbor. They are pioneers in the reform of foot beuding, being the first to go without bandages. They will take a medical course, after which they will return to their homes to do mission work.

Preferred Death to the GaUows. Albert Foster, one of the murderers of er-Congressman John B. Morgan, who was assassinated on an Illinois Central passenger train while on his way to the Democratic national convention last June, died In jail at Holly Springs, Miss. Foster’s physician aDd relatives assert that he died from slow fever, but it 19 generally believed that he committed suicide to escape the gallows. Shot by Moonshiners. In a desperate fight with moonshiners In Lincoln county, Tenn., S. D. Mather, deputy Internal revenue collector, was shot and instantly killed. Joe Spurrier, special deputy collector, and G R Caswell, general deputy collector, was mortally woanded. ’’ Disaster on Puget Sound. The Canadian Navigation Company's steamer Premier was run down and cut nearly In two by the Oregon Improvement Company’* big steel collier Willamette in Puget Sound, fifty mile* north of Seattle, during a dense fog Saturday afternoon. Four of the Premier’* passengers and

crew were killed outright one drowned and seventeen badly wounded. The Premier was impaled across the bows; of the col Ker like a piece of toast across a fork. This kept the boat from sinking.The Willamette steamed ahead, carrying the wrecked steamer with her across the sound to Bush Point where both were beached in twenty-four feet of water. Sunday two powerful tugs succeeded In pulling the Willamette free from the Premier. The Premier then sank In twenty-four feet of water. I* will cost $50,000 to raise her. The steamship Premier was an old and well-known boat of the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company. It was built at San Francisco in 1887, was of 1.080 gross and 602 net tonnage. 200 feet long 42 feet team and 12 feet 0 inches depth. It was a rgew propeller and was driven by a fore and aft compound engine. It had done good service and was a very popular boat. MONEY FOR DALTONS’ SLAYERS. Six Thousand Dollars Sent tho Exterminators of the Gang. San Francisco dispatch; The Southern Pacific Company and Wells, Fargo & Ca have telegraphed $6,000 to their agent in in Coffeyvllle, Kan., to be distributed among the exterminators of the Daltons. This represents the standing reward of $2,000 per head for the Daltons offered by them since the Pixley train robbery. The Southern Pacific managers declare that there are five members of the Dalton family still living. These are George, Charles, and William, who are living with their mother at Kingfisher, O. T., and Cole Dalton, a rancher, and Lytton Dalton, saloonkeeper, both living near Fresno. The latter two have always borne good reputations. The total rewards offered for each of the Daltons killed at Coffeyvllle amount to SO,OOO.

AVAILABLE STOCKS OF WHEAT. In the States and Canada They Amount to 67,900,084 Bushels. The total available stocks of wheat in the United States and Canada, east of the Rocky mountains, as given by Bradstreet’s, were 59,845,134 bushels. The Pacific coast stocks were 8,153,950 bushela Exports of wheat (and of flour as wheat) from New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Bultlmore, Newport News, New Orleans, Galveston, San Francisco, Portland, Ore., Portland, Me.. Tacoma, and Seattle, ns reported by mall and wire to Bradstreet’s, were for the week 4,017,059 bushels. SUDDEN FLIGHT OF A PROFESSOR. Creditors and Young Ladies Mourn the Departure of a Nebraska Educator. Prof. W. P. Rogers, who had charge of the commercial department of the Wesleyan University at Lincoln, Neb., left for Kansas City, saying he was going there to attend a wedding. Saturday a note was received frx>m him saying he had gone to Alaska. Rogers left dobts of SI,OOO besides being short in bis accounts with the university S3OO. He was also engaged to be married to two of the young lady students under liis care. A CTIVITY IN TRADE. Business In the South Good, with Advance in Cotton. R. G. Dun & Ca say in their weekly review of trade; The first week of October shows more activity, in spite of the near approach of the Presidential election. Business is distinctly better at the South, on account of the improvement In the price of cotton, more active at the West, with improved crop prospects, and only slightly retarded In the East. In general, speculation has disturbed legitimate lines of trade much less during the past quarter than is usual at this season, although the transactions in cotton have been exceedingly heavy.

Disastrous Storm at Cape May. At C'ape May, N. J., there was a heavy electrical and hail storm Saturday night. Trees were uprooted, roofs blown off, the ocean pier badly damaged, and the fishing fldJt sustained a loss of several thousand dollars. The Presidential yacht Clover was blown over on the Meadows. It Is thought that she will be got off without material damage. Two Persons Killed by tho Cars. Near Excelsior Springs, Mo., the local freight on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad struck a buggy in which were George S. McCullagh, aged 71 years, and his 8-year-old grandson, James McCullagb. Both the occupants of the buggy and the horses were killed. Suicide of a Real Estate Man. Frank P. Beale, a well-known Philadelphia real estate agent, committed suicide by hanging. His affairs are in good shape, and no cause can be assigned for his action. He leaves a widow and several chtldrea Fireman Killed In a Wreck. Near Port Gibson, Miss., in a wreck on the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railroad, the fireman was killed and Engineer Coma and a negro passenger were seriously Injured. Jumped from a Third-Story Window. Anton Nevalle, a patient In St Francis’ Hospital, New York, while in a fit of delirium, jumped from a third-story window. He was picked up in a dying condition. Scarlet-Fever Epidemic. An epidemic of scarlet-fever is prevailing at St Clairsvllle, Ohio, and the public schools have been closed by order of the Board of Education. Several deaths are reported. Lotta Is Much Improved. Lotta, the actress, who has been critically ill from a surgical operation for an intestinal trouble, is decidedly better.