Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1893 — Page 2

Stye fcmocrottcScntiitcl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. w. McEWEN, - - Publisher.

CAST UP BY THE WAVES

FOUR BODIES AFLOAT IN THE MISSOURI. Mayor 'Wash’burne Wants M >re Holidays —An lowa Saw-Mill Boiler Lets Go with Terrible Effect—The Litchfield Mill Wrecked—Bombs In Rome. Five Murders Brought to Light. A terrible tragedy was tossed to light by the muddy waters of the Missouri at Lowell Station, fifty miles north of Kansas City and only ten miles south of St. Joseph, when a big dry goods box was found containing the bodies of four men and one woman, all of whom had been murdered. The crime must have been coinnvitfed weeks ago, for the bodies, despite the Icy waters, were in a badly decomposed state, 'they ate supposed to be the remains of a party which was camped near Rulo, Neb, forty miles above, for somo time, but which disappeared several mouths.

INDULGES IN SARCASM. Somewhat Remarkable from the Mayor of Chicago. Mayor Wnshhurne, of Chicago, sent an order to the heads of departments in the City Hall calling their attention to the Council order declaring a holiday in honor of Emperor William’s birthday, and at the same time giving expression to some rather cutting sarcasm. The order reads: To the heads of departments: Gentlemen—Bv an order of the City Council • passed Monday night the City Hall is ordered closed to-morrow, for the transaction of public business in order to properly commemorate the birth of his august majesty Emperor William of Germany. Pursuant to this order of the honorable the City Council you are hereby instructed to carefully observe the order In question by closing your department to the transaction of all business excepting the routine business pertaining to your department. This - will require the retention during that day in vour department of such employes as come in contact with the public at large visiting your department for the transaction of necessary business, and it will also include all those city employes who transact city business outside the City Hall. I desire to here commend the spirit which dictated the setting apart of this day and the setting apart of March 17 by the city council as American holidays, and 1 trnst that the council In its wisdom, having recognized the cosmopolitan character of our population by granting holidays to the different nationalities whose blood here commingles in the production of the American citizen, will not deprive the city employes of other nationalities of opportunity to properly commemorate the birth of all dead saints and heroes, as well as the birth of all reigning monarchs. If the catalogue of dead and living saints and monarchs be not sufficient to exhaust the scoular days of the year, I wbuld suggest that the council as a change appropriate the few remaining days by closing the City Hall in order that we may commemorate the birth of some American hero. I have the honor to remain, yonrs very truly, Hemi-stead Washbuune, Mayor.

BLOWN TO ATOMS. Four Men Killed and Several Seriously Wounded at a Sawmill. A terrible accident is just reported to have occurred at a sawmill on the Skunk River, three miles north of Lockridge, lowa, whereby four men .lost their lives and several were injured seriously. The ■engineer had become neglectful of his business and allowed one of the boilors of the engine to run out of water. A workman, noticing the danger, and thinking to avert a calamity, sealed ills own doom and those Of his fellow workmon by injecting a lot of cold water into the boiler, causing it to oxplod3 with a fearful report, tearing the building to pieces and blowing him to atoms. The dead are; John Adam*, saw tendqr; Gates, engineer; Hnldozier, assistant engineer; Eshelman, a boy. The scene of tho accident is iu a backwoods country, but hundreds of people gathered to view the ruins, The remains of the dead men were all horribly mangled, and in some cases ouly recognized by their clothes. WHISKY WAR IN A NEW SPOT. Thirty Fort Scott Saloon-keepers Arrested Despite Municipal License. At Fort Scott, Kan., great excitement was created when it was leurned that Gov. Lewelllng had commissioned J. I Shephard to arrest all violators of prohibition laws. Shirty saloon-keepers were behind the bars of tho county jail, arrested on counts ranging In number from ten to thir-ty-five. and if the minimum penalty is applied for each count it will require a small fortune for each man to obtain his liberty. It is a move Induced by the temperance people of Fort Sco.t to suppress the sale of liquor, which has been legalized by the municipal authorities, notwithstanding the prohibitive law, for the last mouth.

HALF THE TOWN WRECKED. Many Persons Are Killed by an Explosion at Lltchtleld, Hi. Fully ono-half of Litchfield. IIL, was wrecked by an explosion of one of the big "boilers in the Kehlor fiourlng-mllls. Many persons were killed, 'i he entire milling plant, which was one of tha biggest in the United States, was entirely destroyed. The walls and machinery woro scattered for blocks in every direction. Hundreds of houses and business blocks were completely shattered and crushed and many of those who were Snsido instaotly killed. Terrorized by Hombs. Tuesday evening an attempt was rnado to.blow up the Marignoll palace in the suburb of Rome, and would have succeeded had the bomb been heavily charged. As it was, the stairs were torn away and a great hole was made in the ■earth. The damage to the building was Immaterial, wbilp windows in all buildings within 200 yards of the palace were broken. This attempt was not the only one made, for later in the evening two other/ were made. Vice Consul Svanoe Dead. Peter Svanoe. Swedish and Norwegian Consul at Chtcago, died at his borne, 20 Evergreen avenue, of pneumonia. He had been ill a week. Sailed for Hawaii. Ex - Congressman Blount, President Cleveland’s special commissioner, sailed for Hawaii on the revenue cutter Rush. Schaefer Hag a Fall. Jake Schaefer, the world-famous bilhardist. may never be able to handle a cue with his old-time skill again. As It is, his two matches with George F. Slosson have been indefinitely postponed and may never be played. The “wizard” fell down stairs and broke his arm. Made Chief Justice of Delaware. Governor Reynolds, of Delaware, appointed Charles B. Lore Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of ti e State to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Chief Justice Rob'n-o.i. He was Attorney General of the State for five years from 1563. Mysterious Robbery of Malls. A mysterious mail robbery has just been llscovered In Akron, dhla The sums involved are placed at about 125,000. This amount, was placed in a special mall pouch at the Akron, Postofflca. Nothing has been seen of that bag since It was taken from the mall wagon at the Union depot. To Entertain Veterans. - CHy Attorney Jones, of Indianapolis, has submitted an opinion declaring the proposed ordinance raising $75,000 by taxation for the entertainment of the Grand Army encampment in September constituU °raie citizens’ committee pwm

HARD AFTER THE COMBINE. Neither Court Orders Nor Threats Alarm the Minnesota Legislators. The Minnesota Legislative committee having in charge the Investigation of the coal combine Is being assisted in its efforts materially from outside and unknown 'ourees, and while the coal dealers say the combine is dead tho committee is unearthing startling evidence. The letter files wnich were seized from Mr. Rhodes, the local St. Paul manager, show conclusively tho existence of the combine. Many of the letters seized, as well as somo which were sent in anonymously, wero made public. One of them shows the steps taken at the time Minneapolis advertised for coal supplies for the use of the city, as follows: Deab Sib—At a meeting of the board of managers of the Minnesita coal association held this day, at which each of the shipping Companies was represented, tho following resolution was unanimously adopted: “It is hereby resolved that we will not furnish coal governed by this association to any retail dealers iu Minneapolis who have put in bids for coal to be furnished tho city of Minneapolis at Jess than the prices authorized by this association (should their bids be accepted), except at the regular retail prices. ” Yours respectfully, John I*. Rhodes. Senator Donnelly received a letter from a coal mine owner in Pennsylvania, and, being asked about its contents, made the following statement: “I had a letter from a coal baron in Pennsylvania notifying me that the coal dealers in that State have heard of the legislative investigation now under way. and givo us timely v. arnins that unless wo stop it tills entiro State will he shut out from tbe hard coal market foi the season of 1893 and 1894. I have not answered the letter, but when 1 do I think I shall be able to satisfy tho gentleman that "e in Minnesota are not accustomed to being scarel by throats like that"

WINTER WHEAT SHORT. Elevator Agents In North Dakota Shipping All the Cereals Possible. It is learned that every elevator agent n North Dakota lias within a few days received secret orders to ship at onco out of the State to Minneapolis and Duluth all the wheat possible. A big elovutor syndicate centering in Minneapolis and Duluth controls all the wheat In store in the State not nowin farmers’ hands The annual movement of most of the wheat In elevators out of the State is always made, but not earlier than the middle of April, in order to avoid the May assessment of taxation, The hurried preparations for the removal of tho wheat this year at this time are not understood unless it is to hear the market by swelling the ostensible receipts. It is believed that most of the grain in sight in both Dakotas will he on the market in a very short time The winter has been long and severe, and farmers bavo not been able to haul grain to market oven if they would. The price of No. 2 northern, the average grade, as given at the elevator is 42 cents at Jamestown, and will run about that price all over the Stato, Farmers refuse to sell what they havo left at this prlco and decline to deal witli merchants and dealors with a persistency never known.

CONDITION OF TRADE. It. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Business. , R. G. Dun & Ca’s weekly jevlew of trade says: Distribution of goods continues large for the season in spite of extraordinary weather, some failures, and a tight money market Storms and sevore cold have retarded trading and collections throughout a largo part of tho country, and doubtless cause much of the monetary pressure, though a larger part Is duo to tho groat excess of imports over exports. Europe is not shipping products from tho country as usual nor lending money as much as usual to carry products horo until they aro needed, und accumulated stocks at commercial centers, with slow collections in the country, make the demand for money unusually large. Tho natural results of the great Reuding collapse are seen in somo failures at Philadelphia and a more cautious spirit among lenders. Money is not, as usual, tight only ou call or for speculation, but tboro has been greater difficulty horo than for muny years past in effecting commercial loans In spite of all these things confidence is unabated and business is remarkably large, with somo signs of improvement Collision on the Erie. The east-bound Erie passenger train No. 12 was run into by No. 10, another passenger train, at Lackawnxen, twenty-three miles westof Port Jervis. N. Y., at so’clock in tho morning. The rear Pullman sleeper was demolished, and ten passengers, the occupants of the coach, were injured, some of them seriously. Na 12 was waiting at the station for a locomotivo to replace one which was disabled. The other cars were uninjured und no passengers in them were hurt Surgeons and physicians were sent to the scene of the wreck cn a special train from Port Jervis.

Kept Off American Soil. Twenty-three Chinese coolies, consigned to Cuba and legally and literally in bond, occupiod a car of an east-bound train that passed Cheyenne, Wyo. An agent of the Southern Pacific Railway was in charge of the shipment Ho said the Chinese wero not allowed on American soil while crossing the continent On this account a board walk was built for them between the pior at San Francisco and the railway track. These laborers go under contract to remain on the sugar plantation three years. Fatal Collision, An east-bound Union Pacific express train ran into an open switch near Evanston, Wyo., and the result was a bad wreck, in which B. F. Gay, a postal clerk, was killed and Engineer Lethbridge seriously scalded.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3.25 3 6.25 Hoos—ShiDDing Grades 3.50 ® 7.76 Sheep—Fair to Choice 4.00 3 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 7315(3 .7414 Cohn—No 2.. ji 3 .42 Oats—No.'2 .30 3 .31 Rye—No. 2 49 3 .51 Butteb—Choice Creamery 27)43 .28)4 Eggs—Fresh 15 3 .16 Potatoes—New, per bn 70 3 .80 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.25 @ 5.50 Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 3 7.76 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 @4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red. 05 3 .66)4 Cobn—No. 2 White 41)43 .42)3 OATS—No. 2 White .35 3 .36 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.00 @ 5.00 Hogs 3.00 3 7.30 Wheat—No. 2 Red 65 3 .66 COBN—No. 2 .37 3 .38 Oats—No. 2 .31 3 .32 Rye—No. 2 60 3 52 CINCINNATL Cattle 3.00 ® f.oo Hogs. .3.00 3 8.00 Sheep 3.00 3 5.60 Wheat—No. 2 Red 69 @ ,70 Cobh—No. 2 .42 3 .4214 Oats—No. 2 Mixed .34)43 .35)4 Rye—No. 2 .65 3 .57 DETROIT. Cattle 8.00 @ 6.00 Hogs 8.00 3 7.73 Sheep S.OO 3 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 69 3 .70 Cobh—No. 2 Yellow 43 3 .44 Oats—No. 2 White 38 3 .38)4 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 70 @ .70)4 Cobn—No. 2 Yellow 42 3 .43 Oats—No. 2 White .34 3 .35 Rye 64 3 .55 BUFFALO. Cattle—Common to Prime 3.50 3 5.50 Hogs—Best Grades 4.00 3 7.75 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 81 3 .81)4 No. 2 Red 73 3 .74 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring. 65 @ .65)4 Cobh—No. 3 40 3 .41 Oats—No. 2 White 35 3 .36 Bye—No. 1 63 3 .55 Babley—No. 62 @ .64 Pobk—Mess 17.60 318.00 NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 <3 5.60 Hogs *.OO 3 8.35 Sheep... 8.00 @6.73 Wheat—No. 2 RecL » 17 3 .73 COBN—No. 2 54 3 .65 OATS-Mlxed Western <3 •« Butteb—Best 26 3 .t» Posx-Kew Mess 19.25 «is.«

CATTLE AT THE FAIR.

BIG\ EXHIBIT OF HIGH-GRADE JERSEYS. Milkers Valued at IS IS,OOO that Produce 1,047 Pounds of Butter Annually—Calves from Which a Veal Cutlet Would Cost 917,500. Costly Cotvs. Chicago correspondence: Trudging away down in tho southeast corner of Jackson Park, visitors to the grounds occasionally meet a man in top boots, with milk spattered on them, and with a milk-pail of greater or less capacity in one hand. There is a suggestiveness of the country about him not in keeping with the World’s Columbian Exposition, Visitors who have drunk Chicago milk down-town can’t reconcile the man to the scheme of metropolitan life. It looks like a mistake. It is not, however. Down in cattle house No. 1 are the most famous of America’s Jersey milch cows and every morning the milkman squeezes the udder of a cow valued at $15,000. There are forty-four of these animals

BOVINE AVENUE—AMONG THE STOCK BARNS.

gathered by the American .Jersey Cattie Club, of New York, from twenty-two States. They are entered in the great; dairy competition, by which Is to be determined the best grade of dairy cows. Haltered by twos in double rows ■ of stalls separated by a passageway twptttyxieet wide, these- animals enjoy a uniform temperature of 00 degrees. They are, bedded knee deep in straw, and an air of tidiness prevails ■ qultoi in keopingwith animals valued at sls a pound, Among the States represented in this stable are; Alabama, ;{; Connecticut,

THE $15,000 COW.

6; lowa, 3; Illinois, 2; Kentucky, 6; New York, 7; New Jersey, 4; Massachusetts, 3; Michigan, 1; Minnesota, 1; Ohio, 1; Missouri, 2; Wisconsin, 2; Pennsylvania, 3; Vermont, 1. Alabama leads with the champion butter-maker of America. This cow is Signal’s Lily Flag, with a rocord of 1,047 pounds of butter in one year. She is tho property of W. E. Matthews, of Huntsville. Ala., and she is valued at $16,000. Massachusetts comes next in order with Euro-

tlsslma, an ex-champion, with a record of 947 pounds of butter in a year. This animal is owned by D. F. Appleton, of the Waltham Watch Company. Islip Lonx, with a record of 700 pounds, ranks next. She is owned by Judge Foster, of Minnesota. Little Goldy, belonging to Mr. Matthews, of Huntsville, Ala., has a record of 34 pounds ounces of butter In one week. Alteration, of the same herd, has a record of 34 pounds and 4 an ounce for. the same period. Taking the past records of the forty-four cows, their average, per head, is 19 pounds of butter each week. Separated from Ihe cows in little pens arc four calves, the oldest but three weeks old, and yet it was chowing hay, wh -n your correspondent made his visit, with the gravity of a pine-woods ox. As a general thing kind-hearted people who sec these little animals quit eating veal. They are of a beautiful fawn color, slender in limb, and out of their great black eyes is a look of innocence that might well make a butcher falter. However, veal cutlets are seldom made out of these animals. Assistant Superintendent Goodell estimates that an average cutlet from one of these calves—breaded, of course, with potatoes on the sidp-?-would come to about $17.50. Tiie iirst of the calves born on the Ex] osition grounds is the property of Frederick bionson, president of the New York Coaching Club. Chief Buchanan has asked the privilege of naming the little aristocrat, but while he is searching for a title, John, the colored attendant, has dubbed her "Baby Bronson.” John watches over the baby in hes crated bex as solicitously as a nurse would watch a princess, and he declares his ward has as much sense as most babies. The whole herd of Jerseys is in charge of V. E. Fuller, Superintendent for the American Jersey Cattle Club, which makes the exhibit. They wo< <» selected from 30,000 standard-bred cows. The roster of the exhibitors includes the three Vanderbilts, John D. Rockefeller,

Theodore A. Havemever, C. I. Hooa, H. M. Flagler, all New York millionaires; John Boyd, of Chicago; Ayes and McKinney, of Philadelphia; and J. J. Richardson, of lowa. It Is said the club membership represents more

wealth than any other organization in the country. With such wealth to back'the management the cows are treated like royal beings. They are bedded as luxuriously as can be with straw, the floors ara

scrubbed dally with a solut’on of lime and water, the drains aro purified with dilute sulphuric acid, and their diet is as hygienic as if they were patients in a hospital. Milk from Ihe Jerseys is sold to people who call for it, and the demand Is much greater than the supply. “There are not less than ten babies, ” said Assistant Superintendent Goodoll, “whose lives depend on these eows. Physicians had given them up to die, prescribing as a last resort tho milk of theso Jerseys. You can imagine with what eagerness tho parents of these children applied lor the privilege of purchasing. In nearly every case the babes improved from the first.” A shipment of Guernsey cows waß received the othor day and the animals installed in shed 2. There are twelve of these cows from the States of Massachusetts and Connecticut, but keepers in charge aro under instructions not to give out information. The shipment is the first sent out by the American Guernsey Cattle Club, with headquarters at Farmington, Conn. Other shipments are expected in a few days. Currencies Condensed. The Missouri Scnato killed the antipool selling bill. The Ann Arbor railway strike is practically ended. The free fold in the United States Treasury now amounts to over $5,000,000. The Whisky Trust passed its dividend. It is said none will be declared for a year. Warden Brown, of Sing Sing prison, has tendered his resignation, which Will be accepted. It is said ex-Congressman Blount, of Georgia, will head the Commission to be sent to Huwaii. Burglars secured so,ooo in a raid on the Farmers A Tradtrs’ Bank at Montgomery City, Mo. The Maryland courts have decided that the Henry George s;ngle-tax scheme is unconstitutional. The National Convention of Republican Clubs will be held at Louisville, Ky., May 10 and 11. George Winn, a vagrant negro, was sold under (lie Missouri vagrancy law

AMONG THE JERSEY COWS.

at Fayette, Mo., to Charles McCampbell, of Glen Eden Springs, for S2O. Two Indians were killed in a row with soldiers at the Mount Vernon Barracks, near Mobile, Ala. Baron Fava, Italian Minister at "Washington, gave a dinner in honor of King Humbert’s birthday. The Union Loan A Trust Company’s building at Ogden, Utah, burned. Loss, $125,000; insurance, $55,000. The pressure of rising water in the Mississippi lUver caused the levee which protects the lands of the Illinois

bottoms in Lime Lake district, opposite Canton, Mo., to bieak, and the lands are being overflowed. A cemetery vault at Denver was broken open and two coffins demolished. The body of an infant was stolen, rings and other jewelry were taken from the body of a woman, and the silver handles and plate of a casket were broken off and carried away.

“EUROTISSIMA.”

"BABY BRONSON.”

WINTER WHEAT CROP.

ITS CONDITION IN MANY WESTERN STATES-Ap;>ca-anees Decidedly Against a Foil Crop in Illinois—The Outlook in Ohio Better than in Illinois or Indiana—Reported Good in Michigan. Condition ot me Wheat Crop. Reports from the principal wheatgrowing States in the West, as gathered by the Farmers’ Review, show that the crop is at that stage when not niu< h can be told by appearances, but a lew weeks will show the true situation. In Illinois the appearances are decidedly against a full crop, but it is pro: able that a few weeks will improve the outloo.it. At present on many fields the tops of the wheat plants have been killed, but the roots seem to be all right. In Indiana the general condition is reported as fair, which means a little below an average. In Ohio the present condition is much ahead of that in Illinois and Indiana. More than half of the correspondents report the outlook as good and that the crop appears to have come through the winter In line shape. Most oi' the others report fair. In Michigan the condition is similar to that in Ohio, half .of the counties reporting the outlook a? good. In some localities the wheat is still covered with snow. In a few localities it is believed that the wheat has. been greatly injured, but there is he certainty of ihis, as the ice still remains. In other localities the snow ir. rapidly disappearing and wheat looks quite as well as it did last fall. . In a lew counties it is small from the effects of the liy and drouth. On low ground some wheat is known to have been smothered out by ice. In Kentucky the general condition is fair. It has been damaged in some counties by frees ng and thawing, and has been lifted out of the ground, but is again taking root and promising a fair crop. In Missouri the condition is hardly fair. Only one-fourth report the condition as a full average. Some correspondents report the wheat frozen out in places and that the fields will have to be plowed up. In some of the Helds the crop cannot be over one-half the average. Gen-, erally speaking the early sown fields are good. Late sown fields are of doubtful condition. In Kansas and Nebraska the condition is fair to good. The plant in some counties is starting to grow and has a good color at the, roo'.s. In lowa the condition is nearly' an average. Snow is going rapidly. In Wisconsin the snow came early and kept the plant covered all winter. In some places where the snow has melted the condition appears to be fair.

THE MISSOURI BOND TRAGEDY. A Deplorable State of Affoirs the Outcome of Voting R. R. Bonds. Another chapter of misery is opened up in the history of the bond cases in Missouri, says a dispatch. One of the St. Clair County Judges, who had been in prison for several months for contempt of the Federal Court, was released on parole to-attend the funeral of his daughter, who had died at a lunatic asylum, to which she had been driven by the imprisonment of her father. Before he could arrange for the removal of the body he was called to the bedside of his wife, who was not expected to recover from the shock caused by the death of the daughter under such cruel circumstances. And the husband is so much prostrated that, it is feared he may not long survive the death of his wife, and may not even live long enough to be taken back to jail. The people voted bonds for the construction of a railroad which was expected to benefit them. The corporation to which the bonds were delivered 'did not complete the line, and the counties repudiated the debt, interest on which had been piling up over since about 1870. The bondholders obtained judgments In the United States Circuit Court, and the County Judges have steadily refused to order a tax levy for the purpose of paying the debt. Judges were elected only to go to jail. Two months ago the people of Cass County agreed to a compromise of 70 per cent, which was acceptable to the bondholders, the fines of the Judges were remitted, and they were freed irom imprisonment, one of them going direct from the jail to be sworn In as a member of -the General Assembly. It is probable that the wave of sympathy aroused by the affliction of Judge Copenhaver will cause the people of St. Clair County to demand a similar compromise. It is said that both of the Judges are in favor or submitting the question to a vote of the people. But such a vote may not be ordered for some months to come, aud during that time one or both of the Judges will have to lie in jail. The situation is not a pleasant one to be contemplated by the fell .ws who misapplied the proceeds of the bonds.

ASSAULTED AN EDITOR. B presentative Sheridan Uses His Fists in the Nebraska Capitol. Lincoln, Neb., special: The Nebrasha Legislature has given evidence of its ability to furnish sensations and many a hostile meeting, but the first actual knock-down and drag-out of the session occurred Thursday, when Representative Snerdian, of Red Willow County, took it upon himself to ohastise Editor E. Rosewater, of the Omaha Bee. The Bee has been criticising Sherdian, who is a Populist member. The two men met in the corridor just outside Representative Hall and the editor was taken to task by the lawmaker. Following a heated argument Sheridan struck Rosewater in the breast and followed it up with a vigorous shaking. E. P. Boggen, ex-Secretary of State, an employe of Rosewater in the Bee office, who was in the corridor, ran up to the combattants and struck Sheridan a stinging blow on the forehead. It brought blood, but. apparently did not feazo the belligerent lawmaker, for his right hand went out like a flash, caught Roggen full on the jaw and he went down in a heap. Not satisfied with this, Sheridan pounced on him and began belaboring him vigorously in the face. News of the conflict reached the home and the members rushed out pellmell, without the formality of an adjournment. Half a dozen pulled Sheridan off his foe and helped Roggen to his feet. The latter, the* blood streaming from his nose and mouth, jerked away from the men holding him and reached for his hip pocket Sheridan, divining that he was searching for a weapon, again sprang toward him, but was held back, and the two men were taken to separate rooms and locked up. The men are well matched physicially, both weighing over 200 pounds. BOY FIRE-BUG CAUGHT. Lewis A. Wright Confesses to Starting the Boston Blazes. Lewis A. Wright, a 17-vear-old youth, ,was arrested by Pinkerton authorities for lighting five successive fires in the business district of Boston. Although young in years, he has shown himself a master-hand in hiding the evidences of his guilty work. On being confronted with the evidence he broke down and made a full confession. Within two months there have been more than a dozen fires in the business distriot, ono entailing a loss of one life and $3,000,000, another the loss of five lives and $1,500,000 of property. In each case there was a suspicion of incendiarism.

MORE TROUBLE WITH TURKEY. Missionaries Claim that Official Correspondence Is Tampered With. Beveral representatives of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions visited Washington last week. They came from the Boston headquarters of the body, with which they are connected, t and had several interviews w.thMr. Josiah Quincy, the First Assistant Secretary of State. The visitors were Dr. S. Judson Smith, Jr., secretary for' foreign missions; Dr. Edwin Webb of the prudential committee, the governing body of the board, and the Rev. C. C. Tracey, a missionary, whose station is at Marsovan, Turkey. They told Mr. Quincy that Turkish officials interfered with the correspondence of the American mis3'onaries in t.hat country; that the missionaries were subject to much ill-treat-ment by the natives who were not restra ned by the authorities, and that messages irom United States Minister Thompson to the State department in Wash ngton had never reached their destination, from which he (Thompson) inferred that his mail was tampered with. Their statements were so positive that investigation of the records of the department was ordered to determine Whether or not the correspondence on file substantiated the assertions. This investigation is nor yet completed, but it is understood that the allegations of Messrs. Smith, Tracey and Webb will be fully sustained. This question of deuling with the relations growing out of the presence of missionaries in Turkey has always been a vexing and perplexing one to the officials of the State Department. The missionaries have a right of domicile in the Ottoman empire, but it is evident they are unwelcome guests. Their relations with the Armenians, who are more or less engaged in political movements against existing authority, do not tend to commend them to the good graces of the Turks. The consequence is that the correspondence between the governments of the two countries is to a great extent devoted to a discussion of complaints by missionaries of assault and other ill-treatment.

HOME FOR RED CROSS SOCIETY Prasident Clara Barton Gratefully Accepts Dr. Gardner’s OU’er. Miss Clara Barton, President of the American National Red Cross Society, has sent the following letter to Dr. Joseph Gardner, of Bedford, Ind., in accepting the gift of land tendered by himself and wife: This land, as the property of the American National Red Cross, will be the one piece of neutral ground on the western hemisphere protected by international treaty against the tread of hostile feet. It is a perpetual sanctuary against invading armies, and will bo so respected and be!d sacred by the military powers of the world. Foity nations are pledged to hold all material and stores of the Red Cross, aud all its followers, neutral in war, and free to go and come as their duties require. While its business headquarters will remain, as before, at the capital of the nation, this gift still forms a realization of the hope so long cherished—that the National Red Cross may have a place to accumulate and produce material and stores for sudden emergencies and great calamities: and if war should come upon our land, which may God avert, we may be ready to fulfill the mission that our adhesion to the Geneva, treaty has mado binding upon us. I wii direct that monuments be erected defining the boundaries of this domain, dedicated to eternal peace and humanity, upon which shall be inscribed the insignia of the treaty of Geneva, which insignia all the nations of the earth are bound by solemn covenant to respect. Not only qur own people but the peoples of all civilized nations will have published to their knowledge that the American National Red Cross lias a home and a recognized abiding place through all generations. For this I have striven for years, mainly misunderztood, often misinterpreted, and it is through your clear intuition and humane thought that the clouds have been swept away and my hopes have been realized. In accordance with views expressed by you in your letter of gift, I appoint an adviser, which I insist shall be yourself, leaving you free to appoint another to work jointly with you. knowing that in the future, as in the past, yoftr heart will be in the work. KANSAS HAS A WHISKY WAR. Destruction of a Car Load of Liquor at Osage City Begins the Hattie. A great whisky war is on in Osage County, Kansas. The people are up in arms rgainst the Kansas City houses that are running joints in several towns. Rev. D. C. Milner. President of the State Temper, ncu Union, was called to Osage County two weeks ago, and has lectured at several towns. The people are dividod and bid blood is shown on all sides. At Osage City a car load of liquors was seize ! and destroyed in the presence of a great ihrong. The liquors were hauled out of town lo an abandoned coal shat, where the bottles and demijohns were broken by the hundted and the contents poured into the hole in the ground. Beer kegs and whisky barrels were piled on a bonfire and thousands of gallons of red liquor were lapped up by the flames. Mr. Milner stood by and glorified over the proceedings, assisting in smashing the bottles containing the “liquid damnation.” The State Temperance Union will wage a vigorous war on “joints” all over the Sta e. Feeling is running high and a genuine whisky war is imminent.

CONSULSHIPS ARE IN DEMAND Many Applicants for the Highly Lucrative Posts in Great Britain. There is said to be an unprecedented rush of appli ants for the various consulships, especially those which are reported to be desirable from a financial point of view. The best of these are are in Great Britain, where, under the operations of a peculiar law governing the administration of oaths, the consuls are enabled to retain the greatest part of the fees received on that account. That is what makes London, Liverpool, Manchester, Bradford. Birmingham, Belfast, Glasgow and'several others such highly attractive posts. On the continent, and indeed in all other countries, these fees are part of the official receipts of the office and almost wholly go to the government. Paris, for this reason, is said to pay not more than SIO,OOO or $12,000 per year, and it is the best consulate on the continent, while London is credited with being worth four or five times as much. Brieflets. The bill appropriating $2,000,000 fora new capital passed the Minnesota Assembly. A story that the new war ship Monterey is a failure is vigorously denied in naval circles. The Cleveland Cliff Company will build a furnace at Presque Isle, Mich., to cost $250,000. David Hill will visit Tacoma,Wash., In the fall, and address the Democratic Society of Washington. B. F. Tracy,ex-Secretary of the Navy, was elected president of the Brooklyn Club, succeeding Gen. Slocum. Mr. Gladstone has recovered from his recent indisposition and is again giving his attention to government affairs. A movement Is on foot,with the sanction of Private Secretary Thurber, to uniform the attendants at the White House. Father James T. Coffee has been appointed vicar-general of the Catholic Diocese of St. Louis.vice Father Brady, deceased. Nels Nelson, of Huntington, Neb., was found dead on a railway track at Sioux City, la. He had "apparently beon killed by falling off a train.

CHILDREN’S COLUMN.

A DEPARTMENT FOR LITTLE: BOYS AND GIRLS. Something that Will Interest the Juvenile Members of Every Household Quaint Actions and Bright Sayings at Cute Children. The Grammutlc Parade. Here is a tale of a queer parade. And a fine commotion Us coming made. The gins and boys all opene l their eyas, in ulter amazement and surprise, tor the Parts of speech in grand array Mere out for a glorious holiday. First marched the Nouns of everv kini. Not even the commonest left behind; Proper, collective, ail were there. In the great lenlvlty tj share. Then came the Verbs In their solid strength. Mawlng a line of marvelous length; Ana noble they were to see. Led by the hurdy veteran To Be. The regulars line won every eye, As gallantly they wont marching by; The naughty irregulars, sad t) say. Behaved In their usual lawless way; But the ranks held many a stunch old! duffer, Who knew both how to do and to suffer. Every one felt, as he viewed the host. That Vejbs bad iruly a right 10 boast. The Pronouns followed, and not a few. For, of course, they brought their relatives, too. Now, magnificent* proud, and grand. The Adjectives carin', a countless band; They were lovely und beautiful to behold. They were flue, impressive, courageous, und bold; A brilliant, glittering, shimmering muss, ’Twas a dazdlng sight to see them pass. Just here. I think. Adverbs came in; The / made, I assure you. a terrible diu, Quarrelling, in a disgraceful manner. About who should march with the Adverbbanner. Now catae the Conjunctions, a plodding set. But helpful In whatever company mol. Notseeaing tuelr own, but others befriending. For union their influence constantly tending. But what shall be said of the neat Pieposition. Small, but so handy in composition? They marched in time and kept the pace. Though each one carried an objective case. The bold lnterjectlonsbrougbt up the lean Arousing the echoes with cheer after,, cheer; Hurrah! Hip hurrah! What a noise they. did make— Enough, you might say, the dead to awake! The Nouns and Verbs were mortified qui e,By such behavior and thought it not righti Indeed. I heard one proper old Noun. Who is known and respected all over town, Say, “I’m thaukful those fellows whp make such a fuss Bear no relation to any of tis.» The paraclo being over, back to school Went the Paris of Speech andsubmitiel ferule. Ak overy good boy and girl should do. Who likes to bo counted honest and true. —Helen A. Walker, in Golden Days.

A Day with a King. The little King of Spain is said tc be the most powerful ruler in the world. The sight of him in his little cradle has made the Spaniards cease their cruel quarrels with one another, and Spain has not been so peaceful and prosperous for many years. Would J’oiT riot like to peep at thisroyal, little jnah in his home—to know just how he*spends the day? His home is in Madrid, the capitalof Spain. The little fellow, only 3 years old, has the second story of the royal palace all to himself and his attendants. His own rooms are directly over the. Queen’s. The Queen loves her little boy dearly.. She has had a small winding staircase built from her own bedroom up into his chamber. The least sound, a cough, a sigh, in the silence awakens her. A dozen times in the night, sometimes, she goes to stand upon .the little stairs, and listen to see that all is right. The little King’s bedroom is bright anu pretty. The carpet is red. His. bedstead is of bronze; its curtains and spreads are blue. A pretty fairy lamp burns at night on the table. When he was ill, not long ago, the Queen slept on a sofa by his side seven nights without undressing. His little majesty rises at seven. lifs nurse and his governess come then to dress him. The first thing he does is to kneel on his little bed and repeat word by word after his governess, the Countess of Peralta, his morning prayer, for his dead papa’s memory, for his mother’s health, and for the happiness and peace of hi? kingdom. Then comes his bath—splash! In cold water, with a quick rubbing. , Now a train of stately servitors comein. very solemnly, to bring his chocolate on a silver tray engraved with the arms of the Spanish crown. At nine the Queen comes up hei staircase to embrace her little boy. She takes him on her lap, laughs with him, sings little songs with him, talks with him as mothers do, and. both forget the kingdom of Spain. At ten comes the great event of the little King’s day—the changing of the guard before the palace. The guard parade of soldiers is a gorgeous sight. Everybody comes to look on. and to hear the gay military music. There is the infantry, the cavalry, the artillery. The marching is superb. This little boy stands at the window and claps his hands to see the soldiers keep step and the sunshine flash on the sabres. There he is every day at that time, with liis nurse and governess, applauding, singing and shouting like a little madman.—Little Men and Women.

Combing Dolly's Hair. Mabel's mother went into the nursery one day, and overheard her litt.e girl saying: “Now, Dolly, ’ou mus'n’t be cwoss, or twy to get away or cwy. If ’ou don’t let me fix ’ou up, folks won’t say ’ou is nice and kiss ’ou. Be still, now.” “Why, child! What are you doing?” her mother asked, when she came up close to Mabel, and noticed she waspulling out the doll’s hair in handfuls. “Combin’ Dolly’s hair.” the littletot replied.—Puck. What Flossie Thought. Flossie was enjoying herself out ia the cool gre'en grass with two or three of her playmates when her mother called her. “Come in, Flossie,” she said, “the grass is too damp for you to be playing in it” “’Tisn't wet, mamma,”" pouted Flossie. “It’s justas dry as it can be.” “No, it isn’t. I know better than you do what is best. Come on in the house.” And the mother led the way. Flossie rose slowly. “Well, I guess I must,” she said toothers. “Mamma thinks I don’t know anything about anything I know about, and there's no good in telling her anything about anything.” And Flossie followed.