Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1895 — Page 2

SlKlkttioctatic&ntiiiel J. W. McEWEIC, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA

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OFFICIALS PUZZLED TO GET NEEDED SUPPLIES. Alleged Bank Wrecker Arrested—St. Louis Business Man Mulcted—Big Steamer Goes Down in an Ice FloeLeather Is Higher. Must Have Cash. In order to secure supplies for the city and county, now destitute, the Supervisors of San Francisco have announced their intention of providing a tax levy for the next fiscal year for the payment of supplies from now until July 1. The Supreme Court is to be asked to restrain the Supervisors from carrying out their intentions, and a speedy decision will be asked. But this will take time, and it is necessary that funds be supplied at once, so that contractors may be prevailed upon to furnish supplies. The heads of departments are trying to come to an agreement to postpone their claims for May and June salaries. If this were done, the current income would tide the city over.

BIG RISE IN LEATHER. Said to Result from Shortage in Live Cattle. Leather has risen in price and shoes will be dearer in consequence as much as 25 per cent., jobbers and manufacturers believe. Prices of certain grades have gone up from 6 to 9 cents a pound, a rise amounting to over GO per cent, in some instances. Lower grades of shoes have advanced in some cases 15 per.cent., and Boston agents of the manufacturers are notifying customers that they cannot duplicate orders at prices recently quoted. All this results from the shortage in the receipts of live cattle and consequent shortage in the supply of hides, though there is a suspicion that the leather trust has helped the matter along. One of the heaviest manufacturing houses in Chicago telegraphed for quotations and got. the following: No. 2 leather at 17 to 18 cents a pound, an advance of 4 to 6 cents since the rise began: on grain leather at 14 to 1G cents, against 8 to 9 cents three months ago, and on other grades in projection. »

FOLSOM UNDER ARREST. The Alleged Bank-Wrecker in Custody at Albuquerque Under Indictments. When S. M. Folsom, now of Chicago, the banker who is charged with wrecking the Albuquerque National Bank and the New Mexico Savings Bank and Trust Company, stepped from a passenger train at Albuquerque, N. M., Monday night from the east, Deputy United States Marshal Knight placed him under arrest on indictments recently found here by a United States grand jury. Folsom was tried and convicted Inst year and sentenced to the territorial penitentiary for five years, but owing to the persistent efforts of his lawyers he has never served his sentence. Folsom will have no trouble to give a bond. Lost on Lake Huron. The steamer A. Everett, Chicago to Ogdensburg with grain, was sunk by the ice on Lake Huron, twenty miles above Point Au Barques, Monday night. The crew were all successful in escaping from the wreck and were picked up by the steamer Eber Ward. The steamer was valued at $50,000, and is supposed to have been insured for about $38,000. She was owned by the Minch estate, of Cleveland. Two years ago the Everett came pear meeting her fate with ice on Lake Superior. Flour Mills Combine. Five large flouring milling plants ot Milwaukee were Tuesday merged into a ■combination or trust with the object of reducing expenses by doing away with eastern representatives ami traveling agents. The mills in the combine are the Sanderson Milling Company, Phoenix Mill, the Daisy Mill, owned by the Allis Company, Manegold Milling Company, B. Stern & Co.’s Jupiter Mills and the Magdeburg Company. Pottery Combine Shattered. The pottery combination known as the Akron-Canton stoneware agency, which has sold more than two-thirds of the pottery goods of the United States for the last ten years, has been broken. There has been considerable dissatisfaction among the thirteen members of the pool for several months past. It is said the immediate result of the disruption will be a sharp decline in prices on all kinds of pottery gtods. Chandler Is Convicted. At St. Louis, Judge Murphy, in the case against P. W. Chandler, a former well-knotyn member of the Merchants’ Exchange, charged by James F. Coyle, a prominent business man, with alienating his wife’s affections, sentenced the defendant to pay a fine of SSOO and serve six months in the workhouse.

Another Wreck on the Interocean ic. Another wreck on the Interoeeanic Railroad is reported at Temematla, Mex., the scene of the disaster by which nearly one hundred passengers lost their lives. A freight train jumped the track, and it is said the number killed is fourteen, with several more injured. jT Will Be a Royal Gift. King Humbert and Queen Margharita have given an order to a Turin jeweler for a magnificent diadem in pearls and diamonds to cost 110,000 francs. This will be their joint present to the Princess, d’Orleans on the occasion of her comin marriage with the Due d'Aosta. Three Americans Killed in Mexico. Word has reached Sierra Mojada, Mex., .of the killing of three Americans in a fight in the Carmen mining district, near the- Texas border, one of them being John F. Lemon, superintendent of one of the new mines At that place.. The cause of the trouble is not known. Terrible Double Tragedy. James Young, janitor of the Brazil, Ind., court house, shot and killed bis wife st Hoosierville. He then drove to Brazil, went to the court house and shot himself dead. i Suicide of a Painter. i At Springfield, Ohio, Robert Duszynski, a fresco painter, shot.himself while in bed and died instantly. He was well-to-do, having $3,000. in the bank, but was addicted to morphine and had a horror of death by Bright’s disease, of which he Was a sufferer. Belva Lockwood Again Defeated. The Supreme Court of Appeals of the State of Virginia has refused to grant the application of Belva Lockwood for permission to practice law in that State. Her application came up on appeal from the lower court, which decided against Iter several months ago.

FIFTY DAYS OF TERROR. British Garrison in Chitral Suffers Terrible Loss. Calcutta dispatch: A dispatch from Simla announce! that the contents of the diary of Dr. Robertson, the British political agent at Chitral, who was besieged in the fort there, and who was relieved on Saturday by the flying column commanded by Cot Kelly, has been received there, and gives an account of the siege. He says that on March 3 the British garrison made a reconhoisance in force and lost twenty-two officers and men killed*and had thirty-one wounded. The siege proper began oa March 4. On the Bth the enemy tried th set fire to the water tower, and on the besiegers attacked the east side fsftij but were repulsed. The enemy on ApV>,s -attempted to set fire to the citadgßJfc on the 11th the fort was attacfesSOeuU sides. The garrison made a «ril 17, recaptured the summer l b®W up th o enemy’s mine. The By. sortie was eight killed ano wounded. The enemy lost they es whom thirty-five were bayonet^o west ptroops engaged in the sortie. On .Asual ccthe siege was raised. NEW JERSEY BANK ROBBED. Thieves Make a Good Haul from a Plainfield Institution. The First National Bank of Plainfield, N. J., was robbed of $22,765 Monday. It is thought the theft was committed while there were but two clerks in the bank, when a stranger entered and engaged them in conversation while a confederate reached the vault through the directors’ room. The robbery was discovered when the cashier, Frank S. Runyon, was preparing to close the bank for the day. The money was in two packages. One contained $20,000 in new bills, ranging in value from $lO to SI,OOO. The other contained $2,705 in mutilated bills. AU of the bank employes were immediately questioned, and it was found that at the noon hour only two clerks had been at their posts. The bank officers believe that the robbery was the work of professionals. The affair was kept from the public for several days.

WANT THE STRIKE KEPT UP. Coal Mine Operators Think It Holds Up Prices. It is generally believed in Pittsburg that the operators will combine to tight the miners of the Wheeling division of the Baltimore and Ohio road. Non-union men have been brought in to take the places of the strikers and more are coming. This is expensive and the operators of the district will help bear the expense, believing that if the mines along that division are once put in operation at the reduced rate the backbone of the strike will be broken. An operator admitted that this was the plan decided upon. The report is also current that the benefits that are paid regularly to the strikers do not come wholly from the miners Who are employed. In fact, the Ohio operators are credited with liberal contributions to keep the strike going.

DENOUNCE SECRETARY MORTON. East St. Louis Live Stock Men Grow Indignant. The members of the East St. Louis Live Stock Exchange held an indignation meeting at the National Stock Exchange and denounced Secretary Morton. The proceedings were opened by a discussion of the advisability of replying to his statements in which he charged that the rise in the price of beef was extortion and the result of a beef ring or pool or combine. Resolutions were adopted calling upon him to appoint a commission for the purpose of making an investigation under oath as to the truth or falsity of his charges, the exchange to pay all expenses. BLESSING IN DISGUISE. December Cold Snap Saved Florida Orange Trees. First Assistant Secretary Sims of the Interior Department has returned to Washington from Florida, where he owns an orange grove. He says that the first cold snap of the past winter, which came in December, destroyed 2,500,000 of unpacked fruit. In spite of the great damage done this storm was a blessing in disguise, as it checked the growth of the trees and kept them from being in blossom when the second -cold snap came. Hundreds of trees escaped that would have been killed had it not been for the first cold wave. Of Value to Mail Men. N. M. Brooks, superintendent of the foreign mail service in Washington, has received copies of the universal postal guide, issued by the International Bureau of the Postal Union. This work was first projected at the World’s Postal Congress held in Vienna, in July, 1891, which instructed the international bureau under Director Hohn to carry out the work. Preliminary arrangements were made, and in October, 1891, requests were sent to all the countries of the world for lists of their post offices and information in regard to them. Responses were general, every country in and out of the postal union, except Colombia, Hayti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Dominica, Jamaica, the Virgin Islands and the Portuguese colonies, sending all that was asked. These countries were not omitted, however, from the guide, as the bureau obtained the information desired from other sources. The present volume is a huge one, printed in large, handsome type, containing the names of over 200,000 post offices. One third of the whole number are in this country. The guide is brought up to Oct. 1, 1894. Supplements will be issued each July and January hereafter, showing additions and changes. The volume is printed in French, but the names of the post offices are given in the language of the country in which they are located, except where the domestic and foreign names of a well-known city are different. Then both are given.

Texas Ranchers Suffer. The terrific hail storm which swept through Wilson, Bexar and Medina Counties, Texas, Wednesday night did much damage. The hail stones were the size of goose eggs and covered the ground to the depth of two feet. The towns of Lytle, Benton City and Castroville were greatly devastated by the storm, the houses being riddled like a sieve by the hail stones. The damages to residences and business houses in Lytle alone amount to about $50,000. Hundreds of head of live stock were killed. The track of the International and Great Northern Railroad was blockaded with hail stone A-and they had to be removed before •• trains could proceed. The cotton and corn crops in the path of the storm were completely destroyed. Two hundred thousand dollars, it is estimated, will hardly cover the amount of damage to crops and other property. A subscription was started for the relief of sufferers from the storm.I f Gold Mine in Tennessee. Gold has been discovered in the neighborhood of Raleigh, a suburb of Memphis. The examination has extended sufficiently far to give the assurance of gold being present in paying quantity, and the presence of platinum being even more strongly marked. Killed by the Recoil. The death of Coxswain John Johnson of the cruiser Olympia was not caused by the blowing of the breech plug of the five-inch rifle, as first reported, but by the recoil of the rifle itself, which struck the coxswain full in the face.

GOOD TONE TO TRADE. Fewer Signa of Hesitation in Productive Industries. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: Neither the rising speculative markets nor tjie steady gain in industries has ceased, and it is wholesome that there are fewer signs of hesitation in the productive industries than in speculative prices. Wage strikes grow more numerous and cause some trouble, and retail demand lags behind wholesale and jobbing purchases behind production in some branches, but through many conflicting reports the fact shines out that the industries are gaining, not with a rush and a whirl but more safely. It is less clear that railroads are increasing their earnings. But revival of activity in other directions helps confidence to take the throne so long held by distrust.

CIVIL WAR LIKELY. Opposition Attempt the Overthrow of the Administration in Nicaragua. Corinto, Nicaragua, dispatch: Taking advantage of the uneasiness that is manifesting itself throughout the Nicaraguan republic in consequence of England’s occupation of Corinto, the opposition party is making an attempt to overthrow the present administration by force of arms. The Government is aware of the scheme and is adopting measures to nip it in the bud. Martial law has been proclaimed and recruits are being enrolled. It is said that the British consul has been handed his passports.

Largest Ever Known. Reports from all sections of Kansas show that the condition of the wheat crop is in a perilous condition in the eastern and southern section. In central Kansas the ground is very dry and thousands of acres of wheat has been plowed up and the fields planted in corn. Unless rain comes soon the corn crop in this section will also be a failure. With the most favorable condition there will not be over a half crop of wheat harvested in the State. Farmers are planting corn in the southern half of the State and in the southeastern sections it is growing rapidly. The fruit crop, peaches, apples and berries, will be the largest in the history of the State.

Matthews Would Accept. In an interview Gov. Matthews of Indiana was asked if he would take the Democratic nomination for President if it were offered him. His reply was: “Of course I would. So would any citizen. If the Governor of a State says he would refuse to be so honored, you can put it down that his statement is pure and simple affectation. But 1 am not a candidate, not a candidate for anything—that is, in the sense of seeking the nomination.”

May Turn Convicts Loose. A peculiar situation has developed in the Nebraska State finances by which it may be necessary to close the penitentiary. The last Legislature abolished the contract system in vogue, but failed to appropriate funds to pay the institution’s expenses. No money is available. The Governor must call an extra session of the Legislature to have the appropriation made or make the penitentiary self-sup-porting. He will try the latter. Emigrants Steal a Child. Three emigrants encamped near Abilene, Kan., seized Mabel Clark, tho 14-year-old niece of a Rock Island engineer named Brunson, of Herington, Kan., knocked her senseless and took her several miles west. A searching party followed in a few hours and found her the following morning bruised and badly injured on the prairie. She had escaped after a hard struggle. Bicycles Hurt Street Cars. The Denver tramway cut wages from 25 cents an hour to 20. This is the result of the presence of the bicycle, which has made great inroads into the revenue of the company, receipts falling off 50 per cent, in fine weather, when the traffic was supposed to be heaviest. It is estimated that there are 10,000 wheels in Denver, an increase of 4,000 this spring. Cuban Rebels Are Beaten. The Spanish Government has received an official dispatch from Havana confirming the announcement that Gen. Bosch had defeated the insurgents near Guayabel, killing ten men and wounding many and capturing a quantity of arms and ammunition.

Stanford University Will Not Close. The financial strain on Stanford University has been fixed up so that it will continue to run as usual for at least one year. When the Federal Government filed its $15,000,000 railroad claim against the Stanford estate the university received a heavy blow. Time Was Extended. Upon representations that citizens of Nicaragua were making an honest effort to raise $75,000 to pay the Hatch indemnity, Great Britain granted art extension of time to make up the account. Drouth Broken in Oklahoma. The first rain in Oklahoma since Oct. 1 fell Wednesday morning. It is too late to help wheat, but will be invaluable to corn and oats. Big Booty for Thieves. The store of Noah Hertzler at Port Royal. Pa., was robbed of stocks, bonds and cash amounting to about $35,000.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago Cattle, common to prime, to $3.75 to $6.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3 to 5.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 61c to 62c; corn, No. 2,47 cto 48c; oats, No. 2,28 c to 29c; rye, No. 2,65 cto 67c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 19%c; eggs, fresh 12c to 12%c; potatoes, car lots, per bushel, 70c to 85c; broom corn, per lb, common growth to fine brush. 4c to 7c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3 to $6.00; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, common to prime, $2 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 60c to 60%; com, No. 1 white, 46c to 46%c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 33%c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3 to 6.25; hogs, $4 to $5; wheat, No. 2 red, 62c to 62%c; corn, No. 2,45 cto 46c; oats, No. 2,29 cto 30c; rye, No. 2,63 cto 69c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $6, hogs, $3 to $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, Ko. 2, 65%c to 67%c; corn, No. 2 mixed, vßc to 48%e; oats, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 31%c; rye, No. 2,69 cto 71c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to,s6; hogs, $4 to $5; sheep, $2 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 64c to 64%c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 47c to 47%c; oats, No. 2 white, 34c to 34%c. • Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 64c to 65c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 47c to 48c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 33%e; rye, No. 2,66 c to 68c. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3 to $5.50; sheep, $3 to $5; wheat, No. 1 hard, 69c to 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 52c to 52%c; oats, No. 2 w*hite, 35c to 36c. 1 Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 62c to 63e; corn. No. 3,47 cto 48c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; barley, No. 2, 52c to 54c; rye, No. 4,67 c to 69c; pork, mess, sl2 to $12.50. New York—Cattle, $3 to $6.50; hogs, $4 to $5.75; sheep, $3 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 70c; corn, No. 2,53 cto 60c; oats, white Western, 37c to 41c; butter, creamery, 14c to 20c; eggs, Western, 13c to 14c. »•

ALLIES OF THE JAPS.

ENGLAND AND UNCLE SAM WITH THE MIKADO. With Tw<rP«w«rfut Friend! the Demands of the Russian Bear Are Laughed to Ecorn Montreal the Scene of a Terrible Accident. Defies Her Big Foe. London advices say that England will give JapaS open support in the ratification of the treaty of peace with China. A friendly understanding exists between the mikado add Lord Rosebery’s government. But this is not all. This tacit alliance is a triple one and the United States is the third party to it. Japanese diplomats, with WDjiderful astuteness, have been, for weeks preparing for the situation which now confronts the nations. They recognized that if they could secure even the moral support of England and America in settling the terms of peace with their conquered foe Japan could afford to ignore or defy the rest of the world. England entered heartily into the arrangement and representatives of both Japan and England are now using the most strenuous efforts to induce the United States to stand by its tacit agreement and join in protecting Japan against foreign interference. Such an attitude, it is represented, would not be repugnant to the American policy, but it is a peculiarly unusual and strange one for Great Britain to assume. Japan watches with keen interest the course of the European powers regarding the Shimoneseki treaty. Japanese diplomats are not particularly apprehensive of the outcome. The refusal of England to act in concert with Russia, Germany and France has encouraged the Japanes/to believe that no strong single policy can be agreed on by the countries that feel their interests in the East are threatened by the terms of the peace. Germany is thought to be but half-hearted in her cooperation with France and Russia, if such co-operation has been assured. Much confidence is felt in the assurances of good

PEACE RESTORED IN THE ORIENT.

feeling given by Great Britain and the United States. The Russian Prince Uchtomoky, who accompanied the present czar on his tour in the East, has written a long communication to the Moscow Viedomosti explaining the threatening features of the situation in the Orient. He declares that Russian intervention is inevitable. It would be criminal neglect, he thinks, if Russia were to allow Japan to menace Russia’s interests in east Asia, as is contemplated in the Shimoneseki treaty. He expresses the fear that bloodshed will be necessary before Japan’s aggressive spirit can be checked. He regards the Japanese as intoxicated with the completeness of their victory and determined to force upon the rest of the world a policy which all nations having interests in east Asia must frustrate, by peaceful means if possible, but otherwise by the sword. Washington Diplomats Secretive. A 'Washington dispatch says the report by cable that England and Japan were making strenuous efforts to secure the cooperation of the United States to prevent other powers from interfering in the making of the treaty of peace between Japan and China and control certain of its terms, was referred-to the Japanese Legation. Minister Kurino is sick, but questions as to the truth of the story were answered to the effect that nothing was known of it at the Japanese Legation. If efforts were being made to bring the United States into the affair on the side of Japan they were not being participated in by Minister Kurino. There is high authority for the statement that nothing of the kind had been urged at the State Department by either the English or Japanese diplomats. So far, at least, no invitation to the United States to interfere in any way in the treaty making between China and Japan had come from any source. It was stated emphatically that no attitude of interference would be assumed by the United States now or hereafter, no matter who issued the invitation or who urged it.

MANY GIRLS MANGLED.

Pinned in a Montreal Fire-Trap by Iron-Barred Windows. W. C. McDonald’s extensive tobacco factory in Montreal, Que., was partially destroyed by tire Thursday evening. The loss will reach half a million dollars, on which there was no insurance. There was not a fire escape on the outside nor any appliances on the inside of the building for the fighting of the fire. Even the windows were guarded by heavy iron screens, presumably to prevent theft. The fire started at 5 o’clock in the drying room, aud for a while smoldered. Then suddenly the flames burst through and a most awful panic ensued. There tVere 900 employes in the building, and more than half this number were women and girls. The shrieks of the women as they beat against the iron screens, praying the crowd so do something to save them, were most heartrending. As the flames burst out three firemen were on the roof, and for fully twenty minutes their lives were despaired of, till finally ladders were found to bring them down. They were badly burned. The girls were nearly all on the fourth floor, and frantic with fear. With much trouble one of the ih>n lattices was knocked off, when one of the girls jumped and was almost shattered to pieces when she struck the j-oof of an adjoining warehouse. In a similar manner the others followed to the number of thirty. The ambulances were kept busy carrying the women .and girls to the hospitals, and some were driven in cabs to their homes. From inquiries at the hospitals concerning the condition of the girls injured by jumping from the windows of the burning building, it was learned that but little hope is entertained for the recovery of at least five. The first girl to make the ’ terrible leap from the fourth floor to the

warehouse roof was Marie Gagnon, who was picked op in an insensible condition, with her back broken.

TOO BIG FOR JAIL.

A Kentucky Giant Who Wouldn't Stoop to Enter a Prison Door. James McDowell, a man of herculean build and standing seven feet and one inch in his bare feet, treated Grayson, Ky., to a regular picnic a few days ago’ Jailer Brown had a warrant issued for him, the charge being that McDowell had smuggled liquor to prisoners in jail McDowell was easily found and went to the jail door, which was only six and onehalf feet high. But he refused to stoop to enter the jail. The jailer begged, then threatened, but the giant stood immovable. Brown tried to bend McDowell’s legs at the knee. He got up twenty feet away. Help was called for, but McDowell stood at the door, grim, but steadfast. A crowd began to gather. Soon all the town was attracted to the giant at the jail door. He was good-natured, and laughed and jested with the crowd. Toward evening McDowell announced that he was getting weary and would go home, promising to appear in court the next day, adding that if the door was enlarged he would go into the jail, but he would never bow to any jail door. Brown let him go. McDowell came back as he had promised, ’ pleaded guilty and paid his fine.

SCARED BY A HAG.

Sad Case of a Foolish Bride Who Is Dying in Florida. As a result of what some folks claim is witchcraft, Mrs. W. R. Langford, a bride of but a few weeks, who lives about twelve miles from Bartow, Fla., Is on her deathbed. Some time ago Mrs. Langford came to Bartow to attend the Normal Institute, hoping to pass her examination and afterward get an appointment as school teacher. Mrs. Langford was in high spirits, and soon became noted as one of the jol-l liest of the Normal students. One day as she was walking alone in the suburbs of the town she was accosted by an old woman of the Meg Merrilies type, whom Mrs. Langford had never seen before.

The hag surprised Mrs. Langford by addressing her by name and by telling her that she had been married only a few days, and that she was the second wife of her husband; all of which was true. Mrs. Langford wondered how the old wonjan should be so familiar with the circumstances of her life, but her astonishment increased when the hag, pointing a skinny finger at her, said: “Enjoy yourself while you may, dearie, for in three months from to-day you will be a corpse.” The old woman disappeared, and has not been seen since, nor has any clue to her identity been discovered. Mrs. Langford returned from her walk and told her companions what had occurred. Her friends attempted to laugh the matter off, but the young bride seemed convinced that the hag’s prophecy would prove true. She returned to her home, told her husband of the old woman’s prediction and then took to her bed. She has been growing weaker over since, nnd it is believed she will die before the date fixed. Mrs. Langford complains of no pain, but is simply wasting away. She takes medicines prescribed by doctors, but says it is useless, as she is doomed.

An Inexact Man.

Rent day in Paris is a very important occasion. The landlord is king in a realm where exactitude is not only encouraged but enforced. An Englishman says he -once went to see a landlord about some matter connected with the house he had hired. The French man proved to be a suspicious and inquisitive old gentleman, who had made his fortune in the candle trade. “What do you sell?” he inquired. The Englishman acknowledged that he made his bread by writing for the magazines. The landlord shrugged his shoulders. “I am afraid,” said he, “that you will not be exact with your rent, on the 15th of the month.” He evidently had old-fashioned notions of literature as well as the other arts, and preferred that his tenants should be, like himself, comfortable in trade. So, in order to vindicate his vocation, the Englishman went to call upon him in person»on the 14th, with rent in hand. “I told you so!” exclaimed the precise old merchant. “I knew you would not be exact, at the day and hour fixed. You have brought your rent twenty-’* four hours too soon!”

No Pope Joan.

Though the story has been refuted over and over again, there is still a widespread belief that there existed in the middle ages a female pope. Pope Joan, as she is called, has even given her name to a game of cards which is mentioned in Sheridan’s “School for Scandal.” The tradition with regard to the female pope has been traced back to the eleventh century, but she is said to have lived much earlier, her pontificate having taken place in the ninth century and having lasted for more than two years. The name she is alleged to have assumed is John VII. At the last meeting of the Academy of Inscriptions, in Paris, M. Muntz dealt another blow at the story, which he characterizes as a vulgar fable invented in the middle ages. Never, he declares, after a careful study of the question, has a woman worn the tiara; and, moreover, there was no interregnum at the period when the pretended John VII. governed the church.

Made Fifty Millions.

By the advance in petroleum the Standard Oil Company has pocketed $50,000,000 within the past two weeks.

TROOPS ARE LANDED.

BRITISH SOLDIERS IN POSSESSION OF CORINTO. ■ ■ f . Serious Complications Are Likely to Grow Out of the Affair-Corinto Is Declared a Closed Port—City Practically Deserted. Nicaragua’s Sharp Move. The occupation of Corinto by English forces was peaceably accomplished and, according to late Nicaragua advices, the British flag is floating over the public buildings in the town. Twelve boat loads of marines and blue jackets, numbering between 350 and 400 men. left the ships. They met no resistance whatever on landing, and took peaceful possession of the town, making their headquarters at the barracks. Proclamations announcing the occupation were posted at the corners of the streets. The town is deserted, three-fourths of the population having withdrawn to the interior. The local officials locked all the public buildings, and took the keys with them. All was quiet, the marines ami blue jackets returned to their ships, leaving behind a guard of about fifty men. Later on some excitement was visible. In concluding his communication to the commander of the port, Rear Admiral Stephenson wrote as follows: “In the event of its being your intention to offer resistance to my occupying the town.. I give you this timely notice to remove albAomen and children to a place of safety, uTll away from the town, as I intend my ships to open fire on the principal buildings.” Nicaragua’s reply to the ultimatum of Great Britain is ill substance as follows: “The Government of Nicaragua regrets Its inability to comply with your wishes. There cannot be a doubt that justice bids it refuse to comply with the ultimatum, and it considers the proposed method of carrying the ultimatum into effect as contrary to sound principles and the rights of persons. In virtue of this the Government solemnly protests against the military occupation of the port of Corinto, against all acts of jurisdiction which you or any of your subordinates may exercise IlflNicaraguan territory, and against any 'violent melius that may be used to force Nicaragua to comply with the ultimatum as being contrary to the sovereignty of the republic and highly offensive to its dignity and independence. The Government persists in proposing arbitration or any other means recognized by the laws of nations for the settlement of the questions in dispute.” The reply means that the Government of Nicaragua declines to accept any responsibility for consequences which may follow the occupation of Corinto. The President has ordered that no Pacific mail steamers shall call at Corinto. The Nicaraguan Government is sending out a circular note to the European and other nations justifying its conduct during the present incident. Uses Uncle Sam to Secure Delay. It is said that the Central American Republics. Guatemala, San Salvador and Costa Rica, strongly urged Nicaragua to pay the $75,000 indemnity to Great Britain. President Yglesias even went so far as to offer to contribute one-fifth of the amount, but popular sentiment in Nicaragua was so set against England that the administration decided not to yield, and the only response received by President Yglesias to his offer was a copy of Nicaragua’s answer to Admiral Stephenson’s ultimatum.

The United States attempted to adjust the pending dispute between Great Britain and Nicaragua. Ambassador Bayard, acting under instructions from Washington, represented to the British foreign office that Nicaragua, if given two weeks’ additional time from the expiration of the three days fixed in the ultimatum, would meet Great Britain’s demand for the payment of £15,000 indemnity for the expulsion of Proconsul Hatch. Lord Kimberly acceded to this, and, as it was presumed that the State Department at Washington was acting for Nicaragua, it was thought that the incident would be closed without any further complications. But, as Nicaragua refused at the last moment to acquiesce in this arrangement, the original plan of occupying Corinto was carried out. It is now’ believed here that Nicaragua secured the intermediation of the United States for the sole purpose of delay.

HOUSE-CLEANING TIME.

The Spring Poet Muses on Things Now Uppermost in Our Minds,

FATHER, dear father, come home with me now, For ma has some carpets to beat; She’s got all the furniture out in the road, From the front porch clear down to the street.

The stove must come down and be put in the shed, And the yard must be cleared of dry grass, For it’s time to clean house and the devil’s to pay, And the front window needs a new glass. Father, dear father, come home with me now, And bring some bologna and cheese, It s most twelve o’clock and there is nothing to eat, I’m so hungry I'm weak in my knees. All the dinner we’ll have will be scraps and such And we'll have to eat standing up, too. For the table and chairs are out in the yard: Oh, I wish spring house cleaning was through! Father, dear father, come home with me now, For ma is as mad as a Turk:

She says you’re a lazy old thing. And that she proposes to put you to work: T h e r e’s painting to do, and paper to hang, And windows and casings to scrub, For it’s house cleaning time,'

and you’ve got to come home. And revel in suds and eold grub.

HOMAGE TO GRANT.

Impressive Memorial Exercises Heid at Galena, Illinois. Galena, 111., paid honV.ge to the memory of her great soldier-citizen, Grant, on the anniversary of his birth. The city was in gala attire. Flags floated from ail public buildings and every private house and business block was decked in flags and bunting. The exercises of the day began at 2 o'clock, when a special train arrived from Chicago bearing 11. D. Estabrook, of Omaha, orator of the day; H. H. Kohlsaat, Thomas Nast, Melville E. Stone and others. A parade formed at the Illinois,Central station and moved to Turner Hall. The column was headed by Dr. B. F. Fowler, the grand marshal, with forty mounted aides, and members of the Grand Army of the Republic, Uniyn Veteran Legion, Co. M, Illinois National Guard, and civic organizations were in line.

BIG CORNER IN WHEAT.

Chicago Packer Said to Have Secured All Available Stocks. Wheat made another long stride upward in Chicago Saturday, the July ops tion closing at 64% cents, which is 1%, cents higher than it closed Friday night. Numerous causes for the day’s advance were given, the most prominent of which’ was the hitch' in the Japan-China peace. The Post prints a story that P. D. Armour has practically cornered the market, controlling all available wheat. It is said that William H. Wallace, who is reported to control all the available stock of contract grade of wheat in New York*' is closely connected with the latter on the, deal. Armour’s holdings are said to be, enormous and his control of the stock i» said to be the real cause of the late advance in prices. The features in corn were the covering by Phillips in the pit and the big cash! sales, 350,000 byehels at least. Ln oat« there was.simply changing with the May. rather weajs considering the surround-' ings. Provisions were helped slightly by, wheat. The trade was not large. There was not much excitement accom-l panying the advance,' blit it took evident, straining to repress it. The usual statistical news of'the day was bearish and'the, weather was favorable for the growing crop, but everything had to yield to the confidence of thp bulls in what they con-' sidered the smallness of the country resources. The • week’s clearances from both coasts amounted to 700,000 bushels less than on the week before. The Minneapolis and Duluth receipts aggregated. 334 carloads, compared witji 137 a year ago, and the total at the primary West-; ern markets was 277,000 bushels as; against 170,(KM) bushels on the corresponding day of the year before. The Atlantic port clearances of wheat and flour fori twenty-four hours were equal to 373,■000? bushels. Those figures were all in favor of the bears, but were utterly ed in the trading, which latter was ruled; as already indicated by a scarcity of, wheat believed in by the bulls. The bears; refused to seek information beyond what: they could see, and they refused to seek information beyond what was given bn the blackboard regarding the details ofi 68,000,000 bushels in the visible supply.

A SOLDIER FORTY-EIGHT YEARS.

Gen. McCook Retires from the Service of Uncle Sam. After a long and honorable career as a soldier, extending over a period of fortyeight years, Maj. Gen. Alexander McD. McCook has retired from the service of Uncle Sam. He is. the last survivor of a gallant family which gave a father and every son to the military service in defense of the country and of whom four laid down their lives on the battle field. Gen. McCook entered the United States Military Academy in 1847 and was grad-

MAJ. GEN. M’COOK.

uated from there. He was appointed lieutenant in the Third Infantry in 1852.! At the outbreak of the late war he became, colonel of the First Ohio Volunteers and breveted major for bravery at the first battle of Bull Run. He received the rank of colonel for his gallantry at the battle of Shiloh. In 1862 he became major gen- 1 oral of volunteers and was later trans-, ferred to the command of the Corps, Army of the Cumberland, where he distinguished himself in several important battles. For gallant and meritorious services during the war he was breveted major general. In 1867 Gen. McCook was appointed lieutenant colonel of the Twenty-sixth Infantry and two years later was trans-, ferred to the Tenth Infantry. In 1873 he was appointed aide-de-camp to Gen. Sherman and was promoted to be colonel of the Sixth Infantry in 1880. He was appointed brigadier general in 1890 and assigned to the command of the Department of Arizona. He was promoted to be major general Nov. 9, 1894.

The Comic Side of The News

Will the czar and the mikado permit the Chinese emperor to sit on the fence and see them go by? Now it is Texas that has had hail stones as large as goose eggs. Isn’t it nearly time to tackle some other kind of egg? The economical young man is beginning to “clean” his last summer’s straw hat and make it look worse than it did a year ago. An lowa farmer has been swindled out of $1,200 by sharpers. Let us hope that he has saved enough to subscribe for his home paper. The poets of land are fighting shy of the financial question, probably because they have had such limited experience with the subject. The chief opponents of Canada’s annexation to this country are the men who used to feel at home here, but would not feel that way now. The Missouri Pacific officials were warned about an attack of train robbers the other day. The modern train robber has his advance agent, it appears. The Wagner season is on in St. Louis and a Chicago paper says there hasn’t been so much noise in the old town since the interstate brass band contest of 1871. Let us hope that although Commander Ballington Booth, of the Salvation army, has renounced Queen Victoria, he will still keep a watchful eye on her boy, Albert Edward. < A polite stranger chatted pleasantly with the cashier of a New Jersey bank, the other day and a confederate stole over $20,000. The cashier now refuses to believe that talk is cheap. The girls of the University of Michigan will graduate in calico gowns in order to be able to subscribe more liberally to the gymnasium fund. There's a new-woman idea that is likely to make the new man do some hard thinking. No parental care ever falls to the lot of a single member of the insect tribe. In general, the eggs of an insect are destined to be hatched long after the parents are dead. Haste makes waste maybe; yet somehow you seldom see an ex-hustler in the almshouse