Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1892 — Page 2

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ANARCHISTS AT WORK.

PARIS POLICEMEN KILLED BY A DYNAMITE BOMB. Plght of the London Anti-Popery Society Against Lord Mayor Knill—lts Proposition—The Chilian Cabinet ResignsSchultz Must Die. Death by Dynamite. ' A dispatch from Paris says two policemen found on the Avenue Opera, outside oi the office of the Carmaux Mining Company, an iron vessel which bad a suspicious appearance. Thinking it might contain dynamite and that the intention was tc blow up the Carmaux Company's office on account of the recent trouble with their miners, the policemen took the vessel uj carefully and carried it to the police station. On arrival there they proceeded to examine it, whereupon it exploded with terrible effect The two policemen examining the machine wore instantly killed and another was severely wounded. The interior of the station is a wreck. The -woodwork is demolished and the windows shattered, and fragments were blown oul Into the street. The explosion was produced by dynamite. A large force ol police immediately started to investigate the origin of the outrage, which is believed to have been committed by some anarchists who wished to injure officials of the Curmaux Company, on account of their course during the recent strike. • SCHULTZ MUST DIE, When His Death Sentence Was Bead to Him He Weakened. Peter Schultz, the 16-year-old boy who was convicted of the murder of a 8-year-old child, Mary Wertheimer, in New York last week, has been sentenced to death. Judge Moore sail in sentencing him: “Schultz, you are tried and fairly convicted by a Jury selected mostly by your own counsel, and nothing remains now but for the court to pass the only sentence willed the law provides for murder in the first degree. You will be taken hence to the county Jail, whence within ten days you w'iii be removed to the State prison at Sing Sing, and there be put todoath in the mode and manner prescribe! by law, during the week beginning Dec. 19, next ensu-i ing. ” The death warrant was signed and handed to the sheriff while the prisoner was ,■ led trembling back to his cell. He begged piteously with tears streaming down his face, that his council Interfere In his behalf. Schultz will be the youngest victim to suffer death by means of the electric chair,, unless he Is granted clemency by Gov. Flower,

FIGHT AGAINST KNILL. What Members of tire Anti-Popery Association Propose Doing. The London Antl-Popory Association has ■waged a most bitter warfare against Lord Mayor-elect Knill because of his religious belief, and they intend, if allowed to do so by the pollcJ, to make a display of their bigotry on the occasion of the Lord Mayor's Show. They requested the police, to allow them to have car.; follow the Turd Uuyo.-’s procession, upon which they proposed to illustrate the methods employed by Catholics to convert heretics, scenes from tho Inquisition, the Huguenot massapre, etc. The police promptly refused to allow the association to carry their doiign Into effect BRAKEMAN WAS ASLEEP. Gravel Cars Telescoped by a Passenger Train Near Greenville, Ohio. The north-bound passenger train on the Mackinaw Railroad telescoped a gravel train about a mile south of Greenville, Ohio. The engine pulling the gravel train ran out of coal and cut loose from the train and ran into town and coaled up, John Daugherty, the brakeman of the gravel train, was asleep in the caboose, instead of bolng back flagging tho passenger train, which was nearly due. The passenger came along at a rate of forty miles an hour, and the gravel train was not seen in time to stop. Great Cave Found in Virginia. A cave has been discovered about six miles east of Harrisonburg, near Village of Keeseltown, Va. It has not been fully explored yet. but it is said to rival the Luray caverns in size and beauty. It is situated on the land of Augustin Armentroul and was discovered while blasting rock. Twenty-four rooms have been found ■without the aid of pick or shovel. Persons from the neighborhood are flocking to see it. Specimens of stalactite were brought into town.

Drifting on the Kocks. A large three-masted schooner is drifting on Lake Michigan apparently helpless between Au Train Island and Sucker Bay Point, dangerously near Sucker Bay, where the schooner Wesley now lies on the rocks, blown there by the last gale. No sails are visible bn the schooner, and she shows evidence of hard usage. it was thought that she was caught by the great gale which has prevailed (herd since Monday morning,' and Is wep nigh a total wreck. : Thirty-four Sailors Perish. News of one of the worst disasters that have happened in the Arctic for years was brought to San Francisco by the steam whaler Beluga It told of the loss of the whaler Helen Mar and the drowning of thirty-four men. One of ths four survivors is now In the Marine Hospital for treatment The story which this survivor, named Koshan. told through an interpreter. illustrates the perils of whaling in the far North. Chill’s Cabinet Resigns. —A dispatch from Santiago says that the Chilian Cabinet has resigned, as the result of the troubles that have been for some time brewing between the Clericals and the Liberals. Blizzard at Minneapolis. A snowstorm set in at Minneapolis Monday and increased in violence until a regular blizzard had developed. Six Inches of •now fell at Sleepy Eye. Ask for an Extension. The Dominion Government has asked lhe imperial authorities for an extension of time in which live cattle may be shipped to England, pointing out the serious ioss to which cattle expor.ers will be exposed, owing to breaches of contract, if such extension is not granted. No reply has been received as yet. Beaten by Strikers. At Homestead, Gulseppe Ancola, an Italian non-unionist, was attacked and beaten in a most brutal manner by two men. presumably strikers. By the time a deputy appeared the Italian’s assailant’s had fled. How They Caught the Boodlers. In the boodle trial at Toledo of Alderman W. J. Gill, ex-Postmaster Lorenz, and ex-Assistant Postmaster Machen repeated how they had set the trap for the Councilmen to fall into, and Stenographer Bassett told how he had bidden under the take register and taken the evidence. Congressman Morse’s Property Attached. Thera was filed in the Norfolk, Mass., registry an attachment on the property of Congraumn Elijah A. Morse, of Canton. *• the sum of 125,000 by Mrs. Helen M. GouW, of Lafayette, Ind., the well-known ywohiblitau speaker, pending an action of ***• < •• ; UliWlWi*? - ■?. -1 -

COULDN’T HIT THE CLOUD. Keebj/Washlngton People ' < Awake but Rain. The people* Jt Washington have it in for the rainmakers. For the last two weeks they have been attempting to blow a hole in the sky to let the rain through, but without success- Though trying on weak nerves, no special complaint was made, but at sundown Wednesday the rainmakers spied a cloud coming up from the horizon, and they “layed for it” Darkness shut the cloud- from view before it got within range, but the rainmakers had its . course, and by gauging its speed estimated that it would get witbin range a little after midnight. It was an unseemly hour and everybody, from the President down, was sure to be aroused from slumber; but in the cause of science everything goes, and so. a little after the witching hour the first shot was fired. It split the night with a terrific roar and brought everybody in bed to a sitting posture. Hardly had the echoes died away before another night splitter was let loose. The windows in houses mile; away rattled and teeth chattered like rain on the roof. The nervous were frightened, tho sick made worse, while the strong simply swore at Dyrenforth and all of his ilk; but the rain-makers bad evidently not hit the cloud, for no rain fell, and fearful les£ the cloud should get away they kept up a cannonade all along the line until daylight came, when the cloud, untouched, was seen gayly sailing over the horizon. The result was a heavy dew, a city full of wrath, and more protests in the afternoon papers than can be published in a fortnight The President isn’t saying anything. but it is understood that the next appropriation bill for rain-making will bo vetoed with red ink.

GONE TO THE BOTTOM. The Steamer W. H. Gllcher Given Up for Lost by Her Owners. There is now little doubt that the steamer W. H. Gilcher has gone down with all all hands, and that the wreckage found floating near North Manitou Island in Luke Michigan is all that is left of the once magnificent vessel. J. C. Gilchrist, of Cleveland, one of the principal owners of the Gllcher, has given her up for lost He said: “I am now convinced that the reason we have not heard from the Gllcher is because there is none of the crew alive to tell the tale. There were eighteen mon aboard, with Captain L. 0. Weeks, of Vermont in command. His first mate was Captain Ed Porter, of Lorain. Sydney Jones, of Marine City, Mich., was chief engineer. * Formerly nearly the entire crew wore from Vermillion, but about a. month ago while In Buffalo, discharged most of his old men and shipped new sailors, whoso names have never been reported to the general office.” The Gllcher was put into service a year ago last May. She was valued at $200,000 and was Insured for SIBO,OOO. She had a cargo of 3,020 tons of coal and was bound from Buffalo to Milwaukee. She was last heard from when she passed Mackinaw. It is tho general supposition that she must have struck upon the South Fox reef during the storm and had a hole knocked in her bottom. The builders of tho Gllcher claim that the wreckage washed ashore does not tally with any part of the work on this boat. Her owners are convinced, however, that she has gone down with all on board. She was provided with a large metallic life-boat and enough small boats to carry about thirty men. As far as is known there were no passengers on tho (Jllcber when she left Buffalo. CANADIAn""cATTLE SHUT OUT. Their Importation into Great Britain Forbidden by the Government. The British Government has issued an order prohibiting the importation of live Canadian cattle. The slaughter at Edinburgh of 1,209 bead of cattle, brought from Canada to Scotland on the steamships Huron and Monskeaton, and supposed to be infected with pleuropneumonia, has caused many protests from tho farmers ot Flfeshlre, Forthshlre, and Forfarshire. The Board of Agriculture undoubtedly proceeded without sufficient investigation, and thereby has caused severe losses among the men who accepted deliveries of the suspected cattle. The board was confident that the cuttie which had died had pleuro-pneumonia, but the examination of the lungs of two of them by eminent veterinary surgeons shows that tho disease was broncho-pneumonia. Ihe farmers of the three counties in question will make a formal protest against the board’s summary action.

Peter’s Pence in Canada. Archbishop Cleary, of Kingston, Ont, has issued a pastoral calling for Peter’s pence or tribute to the Pope. The clergy of the archdiocese have contributed 81,140, the archbishop leading off with 841 In this diocese collections are being made every four years. The pastoral exhorts the faithful “to give at each quadrennial collection four times the amount they 1 would think fit to give from year to year were annual collection demanded of them. This method seems to have given universal satisfaction and a comparison of the amount of Peter’s pence contributed under this new system with that derived from the annual collections made heretofore shows the result to ba largely Jn favor of our Holy Father’s Canadian Banks Prosperous. The Canadian banks during "the past two months have been enjoying a degree of prosperity unknown for years. Not only has money been actively employed in the mercantile pursuits at home, but there has been an unprecedented demand from Chicago. St Paul, Minneapolis, and Western States, where excessive rates prevail The Canadian banks at the close of September had on public discounts in Canada 8188,157,139. In addition to this they employed on call loans in the United States $22.810,000, of which sum the Bank of Montreal had $13,184,262. The total Call loans in Canada was $10,828,270. Female Burglar Breaks Jail. Mrs. Ella Pierce, awaiting trial in Wayne County, Ohio, under an indictment for burglary, escaped from the Wooster Jail by sawing off the bars of her cell window, climbing out on the roof of a porch and clearing the wall with a leap from a height of eighteen feet She had been gone more than an hour before her escape was discovered. Hunting for Fleuro-Pneumonla. In order to ascertain whether or not pleuro-pneumonla has any existence in Canada the Dominion Government has dispatched veterinary inspectors to every district where cattle for the British market are collected. Complete reports have not yet been received, but interior reports fall to establish the slightest trace of the disease Killed In a Freight Wreck. There was a big wreck cn the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, eight miles from Chillicothe, Ohio, 'the third car from the engine on a freight broke down, and twenty-one cars were piled on top of it. William Chambers, front brakeman, was buried under three cars and crushed to death. Croton Oil in the Soup. At a meeting of Dunkards in Phillipsburg, Ohio, 200 of those present were made seriously ill by eating soup into which croton oil had been maliciously poured. Fatal Collision in New Orleans. A train on the Northeastern Railroad collided with a stock car at New Orleans. Three men were injured, one probably fatally. One Man Killed and Two Injured. A most disastrous wreck occurred on the ' Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad about 3 o’clock Sunday morning, near

Mazie Station, in Indian Territory, resulting in the ditching of the engine and seventeen loaded cars. Six of the cars were filled with stock. Engineer Tom Stanton was killed and Fred Bly, the fireman, and Logan Dyers, the head brakeman, were dangerously injured. The accident was due to the engine striking a cow on a small bridge. The Joss to the company will be very heavy. ' '-’y > THANKSGIVING. President Harrison Proclaims Thursday, Nov. 24, as a Season of Rejoicing. President Harrison has issued the annual Thanksgiving Day proclamation. It follows: The gifts ot God to our people during the last year have been sc abundant and so special that the spirit of devout thanksgiving awaits not a call, but only the appointment of a day when It may have a common expression. He has staged the pestilence at our doors; He has given us more love for the free clvlj Institutions in the creation of which His directing providence was so conspicuous; He has awakened a deeper reverence for law; He has widened our philanthropy by a call to succor the distress in other lands; He has blessed our schools, and is bringing forward a patriotic and God-fearing generation to execute His great and benevolent designs for cur country; He has given us great increase in material wealth, and a wide diffusion of contentment and comfort in the homes of our people; He has given His grace to the sorrowing. Wherefore. I, Benjamin Harriscn, President of the United States, do call upon all our people to observe, as we have been wont. Thursday, the 24th day of this month of November, as a day of thanksgiving to God for His mercies and of supplication for His continued care and grace. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done nt the city of Washington this 4th day of November. 1892. and of the independence of the United States tho one hundred and seventeenth. Benjamin Harrison. By the President. John W. Poster. Secretary of State. BUSINESS ACTIVE. Better than Ever Before in a Freiidentlal Campaign. R. G. Dun & Company’s weekly review of trade says: Even in the last week before a Presidential election business continued active; indeed tho volume is far beyond any precedent fora similar period. The election has plainly diminished business in two ways; multitudes have been diverted from trade to political activity, and many more have chosen to postpone transactions until tho political uncertainty has been removed. The fact that even under such circumstances trade has been of enormous volume shows how powerful is the impetus toward activity and expansion. The people are clearly buying more good; than ever before. and in some branches manufacturers are realizing a slight advance in prices. Money is closer at some Western points, but nowhere is stringency seen, and there is no apprehension us to the Immediate future.

TO REPRESENT VENEZUELA. Crespo Sends a New Consul to New York and a Minister to Washington. Among the passengers of the steamship Venezuela, which arrived at New York from La Guayra, are the following representatives of General Crespo's Government in Venezuela to this country: Gustavo Mlchelena, Secretary of Legation, Washington; H. Rivero Saldivla. Consul at New York, and Rufeno Blanco Fombona, Consul at Philadelphia. Mlchelena is about 29 years old. was an aid-de-camp to General Crespo, and passed through all the recent campaigns with hi; ebljf. The new Minister to it aihlngton is Dr. Francis Bustomente, who was exiled from hl; country by Dictator Palacio last May. Dr. Bustomente was one of the congress which refused to recognize Palacio when he usurped the presidency. Found a Bomb on the Track. Near Corfu. N. Y., Saturday night Track Walker John Stoddard discovered a dynamite bomb under one of the rails ol the Lehigh Valley track. The next train was due at that point at 9:5& It was a through express and the express car is said to have contained $15,000, which the miscreants engaged in the dastardly attempt to wreck the train were thought to be after. To tho bomb was attached a slow match, which was burning when Stoddard found it Must Be Published Week Days. An opinion has just been given by the Supreme Court at Jefferson City, Mo„ to the effect that official notices published in a Sunday paper are not legal The decision grew out of u casa In which a taxpayer of St Louis refused to pay a benefit assessment for the openipg of a street the official notice of which was published the required four days, one of which, however. was a Sunday. A Southern Editor Missing. Claude Wilson, editor of the Advance, at Wilson, N. C.. has disappeared most mysteriously from hl; home there, and so far all efforts to trace him have failed. Wllsau was to have left Wilson on the 3:20 o’clock train last Monday morning for Greenville. He did not go to Greenville, and no trace whatever of his whereabouts has been obtained, though the telegraph wires ...tyYjl . diligently used. Fou) play is suspected. Behring Sea Arbitration Casos. The counter cases in the Behring Sea arbitration are to be exchanged by the two governments February 1. 1893. The work on that to be presented by the United States is progressing satisfactorily, but is not yet complete. Snow in Vermont. Vermont has had its first snowstorm ot the season. On the mountains the snow is from two to three inches deep.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3.50 & 5.75 Hous—Shipping Grades 3.50 @ 5.75 Shbep—Fair to Choice 4.00 & s.fto Wheat—No. 2 Spring 70 & .71 Cobs—No. 2 .• ;.. .41 @ .42 Oats—No. 2 30 ©' .31 Rye—No. 2 49 @ si Buttes—Choice Creamery 27 @ .29 Egos—Fresh 21 @ .22 Potatoes—New, per bu & .it INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.25 @ 5.00 Hogs—Choice Light 330 ® o.no Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 @4.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red m @ .66 Coen—No. 2 White 39 @ .40 Oats—No. 2 White 34 @ .35 ST. LOUIS. Cattle .* 3.C0 @ 5.00 Hogs 3.r0 & 6.60 Wheat—No. 2 Red .65 & .60 Cobn—No. 2 SB34@ Oats —No. 2 29 @ .30 Rye—No. 2 52 & .58 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.76 Hogs 3.00 @ 5.75 Sheep 3.00 & 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red cc & .6634 Cobn—No. 2 43 & .43?* Oats—No. 2 Mixed 32 @ .82*3 Rye—No. 2 55 .ti DETROIT. Cattle s.oo @ 4.50 Hogs 3.00 5.25 Sheep... ... 3.00 @4.50 It heat—No. 2 Red ' .70 <<fi .-71 COBN—No. 2 Yellow 433-l@ .4436 Oats—No. 2 White 36 @ .37 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 70 @ .n Cobn—No. 2 White 41 @ .41’6 Oats—No. 2 White 3134® .823 s Rye. <aj .53;,, BUFFALO. * Cattle—Common to Prime.... 3.00 @5.26 Hogs—Best Grades 4.00 @6.25 Wheat—No. 1 Hard. si <<? ,82 Corn—Na 2 45 @ .47 MILWAUKEE. WHE AT—No. 2 5pring......... 65 @ .6534 Corn—No. a 40 @ .41 Oats—No. 2 White .35 @ .30 Rye—No. 1 52 @ .53 Barley—No. 2 66 @ .68 Pore—Mess 13.00 @13.60 NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 @ 5.75 hogs 3.00 @ 6.00 Sheep. 3,00 @ 6.26 Wheat— No 2 Red 7« @ .77 Coer—Na 2 .so @ .61 OATS—Mixed Western .33 @ 37 BUTTEB-Creamery 19 @ 30 Fobs— New Mew.'. 1.. U3O §U3O

AFTER THE BATTLE.

MILWAUKEE PLUC’KILY BEGINS REBUILDING. Devastation More Terrible than at First Reported Acres of Smoldering Heaps Where Once Was prosperous Activity— Relief, of the Sufferers. . '■ ..r' * , The Fire as It Was. Milwaukee correspondence. No one had a real not'on of the havoc created by our terrific fire till the following Sunday morning. The wind had died down and the day broke under a clear sky. Miles away tho billows ot smoke could be seen rising above the city, and while they did not sweep the business streets, they gave to a distant view the appearance of a heavy fog, rolling under the wind and streaking out in long, 'thin tanners from the heart of the city. Near the Northwestern depot the extensive destruction worked by the fire became seriously prominent From the railway tracks as far as the eye could see through the smoke almost the entire warehouse part of the town was a mass of ashes and broken brick and stone, with here and there the skeleton of a wall or a chimney rising dimly out of it through the clouds. The lake was rolling viciously, and the line of scorched breakwater showed where the fire had bitten down to the edge of the water. For a while during the fire even the piling Ot this breakwater was aflame. From the railroad tracks for blocks a prosperous part of the town lay smoking. At the limits of the fire-swept district thousands of people had gathered and were kept from crowding in by the policemen and four companies of militiamen armed with rifles. Inside this line the tired firemen were still working. Some of them had been fighting the fire for a day and a half. They were grimy from the smoke, and their rubber coats were cased in cinders. A few of them were sitting on piles of brick with the nozzles of the hose in their blackened hands. Many of them were so worn out by the work of the night that they slept beside the engines while men who owned offices in the district and boys

THE BURNED DISTRICT FROM THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Who volunteered for the fun of the thing played on the embers. Sight; Among the Ruing. At every corner a flattened mass of half-burned wood and brick was pointed out as the site of a big warehouse. Nothing except the brick corners of Iteideburg’s. vinegar factory was left. A lot of galvanized iron sheets and a big hill of malt and grain was a monument to Hansen's malthouse. The folk who saw that building burn thought It was finer than fireworks. For a moment the windows flared like the isinglass front of a parlor stove. Then the lire died out there and a ring of green gaseous flame ran around the building. In another minute the elevator walls parted and the mass of flaming grain tumbled down in a.tremendous cataract. The Weisel Vilter machine shop, where a falling wall killed two of the firemen, was only a lot of brick and plaster, and Bubb <t Kip’s factory,which gave the second start to the tire, had been absolutely shelled. At the gas works the ruins of one end of the holders was still blazing in spite of the flood of water poured in by the firemen, and the machinery was tangled and broken beyond repair. In nearly every mass of ruins men were groping for valuable papers and books and at every corner employes could be seen pouring water on a smoking safe. On the skirts of the burned district the scenes are sometimes pathetic. Little unprotected plies of bed clothing, pictures, and small household belongings had been left by fleeing thousands. Once in a while a shivering boy was seen standing beside the wreckage pt a home—a broken clock, batteied image, a bag ot tableware and some poor clothing. In the middle of Buffalo street a deserted truck stood loaded with one trunk and a little rocking chair decorated with a neat “tidy.” These things were the wreckage ot small homes burned out in the Third Ward, where hundreds of cottages of workingmen were swept away by the fire. The Distressing Feature. The burning of these poor houses was the distressing feature of the fire. Milwaukee can stand well enough the destruction of big warehouses, for the r e are many big warehouses there and many rich men able to put up buildings in the place of those ruined. The cottages destroyed belonged to the poor laboring men. Some of these men squatted along the lake shore years ago, and nearly all the houses represent hard saving and long work. They went like tallow before the Are and left no monumental ruins to mark their site. Family after family applied to the relief organizations or crowded into St. John’s Cathedral and the Northwestern depot. Prompt relief was given to them as soon as the excitement of the night was settled, and there was as little suffering as ever followed a big fire. The hotels fed hundreds of hungry men. Pabst's Hotel loaded up the Chicago firemen with coffee and steaks, and with the other houses sent a patrol wagon load of foed down to the smoke-stained men who were slugging the fire near the lake. The people of Milwaukee had hardly turned out of bed to see the fog of the fire rising before men were hustling around to raise money for the unfortunate folks. Telegrams came in from roundabout towns, from Oshkosh and Madison and Janesville and Racine, all of which are tributary for Milwaukee’s business. These little towns all offered to help as far as they could. A telegram came in from Mayor Washburne, of Chicago. The Mayor evidently thought Milwaukee had teen shoveled clean off the earth, for he telegraphed in a goodhearted way about Chicago rising from Its ashes and hoping Milwaukee would rise from Milwaukee ashes. These telegrams and letters were taken thankfully but Milwaukee went about helping its own people with its own hands. MUwaukec Raises *BI,OOO. Hundreds of business men poured into the chamber of commerce building and

almost before President Bacon could make a talk $31,231 had been subscribed. It was headed by a whaling big cheek for $5,000 sent in by the Democratic candidates for county offices, who are not rich men; Phil Armour give $5,000 and said he would give a lot more for his old home; the Brewers’ Association subscribed $5,0Q(1; Henry C. Payne, the Republican committeeman, handed in SI,OOO, and the same amount was contributed by Captain Fred Pabst, the ‘Wisconsin Fire and Marine Insurance Bank, John L. Mitchell, Banker Ilsley, Cudahy Bros., August Uihlein, E. P. Bacon and Mr. Bosseanu. Pong after the meeting money was rolling in and at 5 o’clock

NEAR THE GASHOUSE.

the fund was estimated at near $50,000. It continued to grow until the SIOO,OOO mark was passed. That’s not enough to build up one of the ruined warehouses, but it will make comfortable hundreds of homeless Third Ward people. None of these was permitted to undergo hardship. Every burned-out family was taken care of somewhere and by somebody. Probably no town was ever so badly cut by a Are to come out so cheerful and happy as Milwaukee. The real estate board, which raised a considerable sum in addition to its first donation of $5,000, turned the entire amount over to the relief committee.

concluding not to -distribute the money on its own account. One of the most substantial contributions for the relief of the poor came from Frank A. Lappen & Co. The firm had sold furniture on the installment plan to many of those who were burned out and had over $2,500 still due and secured by notes. In spite of the fact that he was a heavy loser by the fire, having had a quantity of furniture burned in Bub & Kipp's factory, Mr. Lappen announced that he would give rece pts in full to those of the sufferers who still owed him anything. The work of searching for the safes of the -various firms was commenced early. In nearly every case the papers, which alone would enable the losers to estimate correctly the amount of their loss, were in the burning buildings. To get at these a force of several hundred workmen armed with pickaxes and shovels was turned loose. Several safes were found, but it was impossible to open them, as the locks had become so warped and twisted that the bolts could not be turned. Rebuilding the Freip hthouses. The enterprise shown by the big sufferers is exemplified by the work of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. Both the outgoing and incoming freight

REMAINS OF REIDEBURG VINEGAR WORKS, WHICH OCCUPIED NEARLY A BLOCK.

houses were burned. Nothing but the bare walls were standing, while inside of them was a mass of smoldering wreckage which occasionally broke out into bright flames. By night of Monday the buildings were nearly all roofed. At one time they were forced to quit, owing to a blaze which broke out in the south end of one of the buildings while they were putting a roof on the north end. An engine was called and the blaze was soon extinguished. Insurance men are doing their best to settle the trouble for the poorer of the sufferers. They are anxious that all small losses be adjusted as soon as possible and accordingly a special committee will have such claims in charge. One incident which has received no attention owing to the excitement caused by the big Are was the burning of seven cottages in the southwestern part of the city Friday evening. The people who were burned out lost everything they possessed, and they will be included in the list of those to be given relief.

Db. James Richabd Cooke, who has just graduated from the Boston University as a physician, is a blind man, but has a record of 96 per cent, in his three years’ study, and on his final examination obtained 98 per cent, in anatomy. He will devote himself especially to diseases of the heart and lungs.

HOME AND THE FARM.

A DEPARTMENT MADE UP FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. - To Make Money at a Dull Season—A Cheap and Handy Feed Cutter—Arrangement for Sorting Potatoes—Should Have a Good Lawn, Etc. A Good Sheep Shelter. A successful sheep raiser shelters his flock in the convenient shed shown in our illustration. The only bought lumber is for the ends. The frame is

A CONVENIENT SHED FOR SHEEP.

made of posts mid poles, hewed only near the mortises and tenons, and sloping gently hack to a low and tight stone wall. The forward pitch is steeper and shorter, reaching to within four and a half feet of the ground, lhe roof is made of slabs and poles covered with long swail grass, two feet deep at the eaves and eight feet at the ridge, and built like a stack to shed rain. The posts stand on flat stones to prevent decay. Board eaves troughs carry the water to the sides to prevent a mudhole in front, and the ground slopes away from the shelter. The shed opens to the south, allowing the sun to shine in, but excluding the prevailing winds, fluring lambing time, one part of the shed is boarded up close and warm for ewes and young lambs. Movable feed racks extend from the front to within three feet of the: back wall. The manure is not cleaned out until spring. Abundant bedding is used, and the dry compost thus made is a rich fertilizer. This shed is twentyfive by sixty feet, and will easily hold 100 sheep.—American Agriculturists.

Sorting Potatoes Made Easy. Make a box 12 feet long and 4 feet wide, like the illustration, with three

partitions, the back piece shoulu be about 4 feet high, the next 3 feet, and the next 1| feet ‘high. Nail pickets on for screens. Put them rather close together on the first incline, and further apart on the second. This sorts them in three grades. Shovel them on the top or first incline and poke them down,’ and you have them sorted in three grades.— Practical Farmer.

Money at a Dull Season. If one has a shop, hen-house, tarn or tight shed with a southern exposure and glass, he can put in a secondhand stove at a cost of $1 or $2, keep the place warm with waste wood, which abounds On most farms, and start plants for the gardens of his. neighbors and of those in the surrounding villages. These will include cabbage, tomato, pepper, egg, celery, and other plants. If the room is not the warmest it makes no difference, and if the plants grow slowly thev will be hardier and give better satisfaction in transplanting. At 6in high these seddings will be ready for sale and should command 25c per dozen at least, if sold in little boxes filled with earth. The boxes of thrifty plants can be readily sold from house to house or left at the stores on commission. The grower will be astonished bv a neat little sum from no apparent outlay. A room 10x12 is large enough for a starter. If it is dark, insert some sashes, which many be made cheaply. Have the sashes 3x6ft and let the middle supports for the glass run lengthwise only. When setting the glass let it lap, but be sure that it does not extend over the next pane more than | in. To make these plants the best for looks and growth, sow the seeds in fine, rich soil and transplant them an inch apart at 1 inch high. They will not be retarded long and will grow more rapidly than ever. Before being finally placed in the boxes for sale, they should be transplanted a second time into boxes and beds and 2x3in apart, Nothing is more important for their appearance and after-growth than two or three transplantings.

Protect the Sheep. w The tendencies at present are for more sheep on the farms, and more should be kept, especially on dairy farms. The great drawback has been the cur dogs, and if it were not for these a great many more sheep would have been kept. The Legislature should zlve us a good fair dog law, but until we have it we must devise some means to protect ourselves. One good way of protection ■’ is to fence in small fields with chicken wire or woven wire fences. Another Is by the use of portable hurdles which may be moved every day or two. Still another way is by the use of bells on the sheep’s neck, using one to every eight sheep. These will not only scare the dogs wheir they get in with the sheep, but will give alarm, owners should have a good rifle handy and send all dogs that are found in the flock “over the river.”— Farm ane Home. Wintering Geraniums. For the last five years, says a correspondent, I have kept my bedding geraniums in the cellar over winter, and the plan has proved a very successful one. The plants are left in their beds, covering them at night to protect from frost till the approach of severely cold weather; then they are dug carefulllv to preserve the roots. At least two-thirds of the tops are cut off and the plants closely packed in strong, deep boxes with the roots well covered with earth which is sifted and packed among them. After being thoroughly watered the boxes are placed in the shade for afewdays, and stored in a dry cellar till spring. They require no further attention than an occasional watering. When remov ed from the cellar in the following April or May the plants are co«*

ered with new shoots, and are gradually exposed to the sun till the time to again transplant their beds on the lawn. The stocks being large and strong, in a few weeks the beds are beautiful with foliage, and soon present a mass of flowers. Experiments With Potatoes In experiments at the Utah Station for various purposes, it was found that depth of planting did not materially affect the total yield of the crop. Also that when they were planted near the surface the tuberscontained 23.1 per cent more starch than when planted deep, and were therefore worth 33.5 per cent more for eating purposes besides being more palatable. Shallow tillage, and even no tillage was better than deep tillage, a fact which we hope will not lead to careless culture. Eight inches apart in the rows was found to be the limit of greatest production, as the yield of a greater or less distance diminished. Increasing the distance between the rows did not appear to decrease the yield. Close planting resulted in an Increase of moisture and a decrease of starch in the tubers. Planting nearer than one foot in rows three feet apart is not recommended. In the production of potatoes, quality should be one of the prime considerations, since they hold such an important position In family use.

Cheap Feed Cutter. The handy feed cutter shown in the engraving, has a steel knife made the shape of the old-fashioned grain sickle

but with wider blade. Two pieces of one -1 fourth b y one inch iron are bent in the same shape, and bolted t o pieces fastened to feed room wall. The irons should b e just far

enough apart, homemade feed cutter to allow the knife to pass down between them. The knife is raised, the sheaf placed under, and the cut made. The sickle must be kept very sharp to do good work. Care must be taken that the Angers are not caught and wounded while slicing the feed. Turnips and sugar beets may be sliced with this contrivance. The chief advantage in cutting hay is that grain may be mixed with the food. Sliced roots are much easier eaten by cows and sheep than the compact large roots. It is well to moisten chopped hay before feeding.—American Agriculturist.

Poultry Pickings. Give the chickens fine gravel and let them help themselves. If poultry are confined, if they are not,given a good variety they eat much that had hetter be let alone. In very hot weather see that the chickens have some chance to get into the shade. TooKotasun is not good. The nests and roosts should always be easy of access in order to make the work of keeping down the lice much easier. While chickens thrive best in small numbers or flocks, ducks seem to do better when a large number are kept tog ether. One advantage with geese is that they are hardy, easily raised and require less care and expensive food than any other class of fowls. On large farms there is no reason why the chickens’ runs should not be very large, as the ground can be put to few uses that will pay better. Working and Packing Butter. Butter for immediate use need not be worked as clean as that which is to be kept for some time. The nutty flavor of butter is caused by the formation of a volatile oil known as butyric acid and by the action of a ferment in the cheesy matter of the butter. If this takes place too quickly and there is too much of it present, the butter becomes rancid, while if the butter is washed very clean and all the buttermilk taken out, the action is delayed. To pack butter for keeping it should be salted (1 oz to the pound) after washing thoroughly, and packed in clean or new tubs. First scald the tub, rinse it with cold water, then with cold brine, and rub the inside lightly with fine salt. Pack the butter firmly to exclude the air, and to within a half inch at the topi Sprinkle with salt and cover with cloth a little larger than the top. Press this down and cover with salt, then put on the cover and fasten down tigntly. Keep the tubs in a clean, dry and cold cellar.

Hints To Housekeepers. A slice of tomato rubbed over the hands will remove berry stains. Carpets if well sprinkled with salt and then wiped with cloth squeezed out of warm water containing' a spoonful of spirits of turpentine to every quart, will look brightand new, and will not be troubled with moths and buffalo bugs To avoid duplicating wedding gifts in silver, it would be wiser to give a friend fine linen. Really fine linen to be used on special occasions will last a long time, and the happv bride who receives it will always bless you for aiding her in making her table handsome. For the distruction of the mosquito Prof. Riley, in his Lowell Institute lecture, recommends pyrethrum powder moistened, made into litt.econes, then allowed to dry, and burned in a close room. The effect is to stupefy or kill the mosquito. The professor does not think it is true that mosquito bites sometimes inoculate the body with malarial poison. To cook asparagus cut in half-inch pieces a large bunch of asparagus; begin at the top and cut till you reach the hard butts. Put these aside to flavor soup with, and put the tender pieces in a stewpan, with a little water. Cook for 15 or4o minutes, when the water should ibef nearly boiled away. Add a quart of milk, butter the size of an egg, bring to a boil, season with salt and pepper, have two eggs well beaten; let it just stop boiling; stir in the eggs, which must be eriy scolded, not cooked hard.