Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1895 — Page 2

SbtgkniorratitStntintl J. W. McEWEW, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA

SLAIN BY THE TURKS.

AGAIN MURDERING HELPLESS ARMENIANS. Rumor that Cleveland’s Message Will Make a Prodigious Sensation—lmports Yet Exceed Exports —Fixing Alaskan Boundary—Burned at Sea. Fifty Armenians Slain, A dispatch to the London Daily News from Constantinople says: "Reliable news has been received here that fifty Armenians were killed and a number wounded at Akhissar in the villayet of Adin on the by a Moslem mob. The slaughter occurred on Oct. 9, which was market day, when many Armenians had gathered from adjacent villages. Early in the morning a Turkish rough, finding that the Armenians were not armed, picked a quarrel and shot one of them. There was then raised on all sides the cry: “Why hesitate to massacre the infidels?” A mob of Turks, armed with revolvers and knives, then looted the market and massacred the helpless Armenians. Their bodies were thrown into the wells.” The panic is reviving in Constantinople on account of the continued isolated attacks and the Armenians are again flocking into the churches. The police disregard the safe conduct cards given to the Armenians by the foreign embassies, and they insult and maltreat lhe holders of them. AGGRESSIVE FOREIGN POLICY. President Cleveland’s Message to Make the Suggestion. A Washington dispatch says: President Cleveland’s annual message to Congress, the preparation of which will soon .engage his attention, will be a most noteworthy state paper. It will be more sensational and perhaps of far greater importance than the famous tariff message of 1887, which many observers think changed the history of parties in this country. The principal feature of the forthcoming message will be the discussion of the foreign relations. It is well known that the President is eager for a reply from Great Britain concerning this country’s vigorous representation in favor of arbitration in Venezuela, and he wants this reply before the meeting of Congress if he can get it. More important even than these immediate questions, considering the future of the United States, is the policy of over-sea enterprise which the President is expected to foreshadow in his message. If the expectations of certain of Mr. Cleveland's confidential friends are realized, he will say to Congress and the country that the time has come for a new American polit’y. a policy of aggressiveness, both political and commercial, beyond this country’s own coast lines.

EXCESS OF IMPORTS. Current of Foreign Trude Still Against United States. Latest official statistics show* that the foreign trade current is still running against this country. The report of imports and exports for September and the nine months Adding with September will reveal a condition of affair's decidedly unfavorable in many particulars, although the drift is full of promise of. better things. Statistician Ford’s figures will show merchandise imports for September $6,993,000 in excess of exports and $116,081,000 in excess of exports for the first nine months of the calendar year. The excess of 1894 was $15,282,000 and the average for the expired portion of 1895 about $13,600,000 a month. VOLCANOES IN ACTION. Smoke and Steam Reflect Fires Deep Beneathed the Craters. The revenue cutter Commodore Perry has just returned to San Francisco from the Northern Sea, where she has been confronted, each night for weeks by a gigantic line of tire. As, Captain Smith expresses it, “The devil's stokers have been stirring up the subterranean sea of flames that is supposed to lie thousands of feet under the Bering’s bed, and as a consequence fully twenty of the forty volcanoes in the Aleutian chain are now active.” The line of islands lying between the Bering Sea and the Pacific ocean belong to the United States, and on them are probably the only active volcanoes lying within American territory. England Claims Too Much. There have been five parties from the coast survey in Alaska during the summer. Their principal work has consisted in fixing the point where the Portland Canal crosses the fifty-sixth parallel of latitude. England claims much more than the United States concedes. The surveys so far tend to confirm the contentions of this country. General Duffield says there is no longer any doubt that all of the Yukon River basin below the mouth of Forty-Mile Creek is American territory, which includes the gold fields of that stream as far as opened. r American Ship Parthia Burned, An American vessel, the Parthia. Captain Carter, Bath, Me., bound from Liver-' pool for San Francisco with a cargo of coal, was burned at sea four hundred miles off the south coast of Chili. The’ crew took refuge in the boats, one of which, that under the charge of the second mate, with seven men on board, reached Valparaiso, Chili. The other boats have not yet been heard from. Miraculously Escape Death. A block of granite weighing three and a half tons fell Tuesday into Liberty street, New York. The stone was being raised to the third story of a building. It was a miracle that no one was hurt, as the street was thronged. Gping to Chicago. The resignation of Rev. J. B. Thomas, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., took effect Tuesday. Rev. Mr. Thomas will go to Chicago to accept the position, of superintendent of Baptists home missions for the Chicago disPrehistoric Cemetery Found. A prehistoric cemetery containing thousands of graves has been discovered on upper Stone Lick Creek, near Milford, Ohio. Men are now digging and relies are being uncovered every hour. Pays Tribute to the North. Gov. John M. Stone, who has just returned to Jackson, Miss., from a trip through the North, is enthusiastic over his reception at cities where he and his party were entertained. He paid a high tribute to the enterprise and solid prosperity of the country. Margeret Mather Pabst 111. Margaret Mather, wife of Gustav Pabst, the Milwaukee brewer’s son, is seriously ill as a result of nervous prostration, resulting from the recent street episode, in which the former actress horsewhipped her husband. Mr. Pabst is in the Cast, it is said. I t

CONTESTS FOR SEATS. Thirty Cases to Be Decided by ths New Congress. Not one of the contests filed against the members of the new House of Representatives is complete, says a Washington correspondent. In most of them the testimony furnished on behalf of both the contestant and the contestee has been dejiosited with the clerk, but in none have the contestants filed their testimony in rebuttal In the Belknap-McGann case, from the Third Illinois District, Mr. McGann has not yet furnished his testimony, which, according to law, he should have done within forty days after that of the contestant. Although this is the law, the House is not always guided by the statute if satisfactory explanations for the delay are furnished. It is understood at the clerk’s office that R. A. Chesborough, who filed notice of contest against George B. McClellan, of the Twelfth New York, has abandoned his contest. In the other two New York cases (Mitchell against Walsh, in the eighth, and Campbell against Miner, in the ninth) the contestees have not filed their testimony, owing to some local hitch, and Mitchell, it is understood, charges Walsh with attempting to delay the case. Al) of the contestants in the thirty cases are Republicans except Goodrich, who is contesting Cobb’s seat in the Fifth Alabama, and Campbell, who is contesting Miner's seat. Goodrich is a Populist who had the Republican indorsement and Campbell ran as an independent Democratic candidate. LA FAZ IS DESTROYED. Capital of Lower California Reported to Be in Ruins. Private dispatches received at San Francisco say that La Paz, Mexico, has been completely destroyed by a hurricane. The storm was followed by a tidal wave, the waters in the bay rising to an unprecedented height, invading that portion of the city fronting on the bay and carrying out to sea men, animals and debris of wrecked buildings as the tide subsided. Mexicans in San Francisco say that they had dispatches about a severe storm which prevailed all along the coast early in the week. The loss of life is reported heavy, but details of the disaster are meager. Ln I’az is the capital of Lower California and situated on a bay of the same name. The port is well sheltered and easily defensible against attack from the sea. The city had a population of 3,000, a cathedral, a government house and a town house and the place was once the abode of luxury, as evidenced by the handsome dwellings of the wealthy class. The city was also once the seat of extensive pearl fisheries, silver mining was extensively engaged in and the commerce of the port was not inconsiderable.

CAPT. ARMES WINS HIS CASE. Is Ordered Discharged from Custody —Schofield Scored by the Court. Judge Bradley of the District Supreme Court in Washington ordered the discharge from custody of Captain George A. Armes, who was arrested on the order of Lieutenant General Schofield just prior to the latter’s retirement from command of the army for having written him an insulting letter. Judge Bradley scored the action of the late general of the army, characterizing it as unlawful, tyrannical and capricious. In discharging Captain Armes, whose arrest and confinement General Schofield had ordered by virtue of his position as acting secretary of war, Judge Bradley said: “The arrest - and taking away of Armes into custody, carrying him away from his home to barracks and holding him in close arrest without any antecedent charge of crime preferred in any way against him, was and is unjust, unlawful, arbitrary, tyrannical and capricious on the part of General Schofield, in whatever capacity he acted, whether acting as lieutenant gen'ernl or acting secretary of war. The petitioner is discharged.” VAN BOKKELEN IN THE TOILS. Defaulting Chicago Bank Employe Captured in Mexico. City of Mexico dispatch: It became known Friday that Vanßokkelen, the Chicago bank employe, who decamped with $30,000 in cash, came to this city. He was traced by a Pinkerton detective and has been caught in Guadalajara. Acting on the advice of Consul General Crittenden, he goes back with the detective, making no attempt to defend himself. Van Bokkelen was receiving teller of the Merchants’ Loan and Trust Company’s Bank at Chicago. He disappeared Sept. 24. taking, it was said, $33,000 of the bank’s funds. The McCormicks, Who had deposited $35,000 in the bank, were instrumental in the discovery that Van Bokkelen was an embezzler. Routed by Rebels. Spanish newspapers report an engagement near the city of Santa Clara Oct. 2. Fifteen hundred regulars under Gen. Valdez were attacked by the insurgents and routed. La Quinta, in Remedios, ' was attacked by the insurgents, who took the fort and set it on fire. Two thousand Spanish troops were quartered there. When the fire reached them they retired from the city. At Buecito the Spanish forces were surprised while CommanderLieutenant Francisco Lujan was absent. In trying to rejoin his companions they mistook and killed him. In Vuelta Aba jo several small bands have appeared. The Spanish column, under Lieut. Tovar, was surprised near Eloerajo while crossing the Bayamo River on Sept. 24. The Spanish loss was considerable. Many were drowned.

Stenmer and Crew Lost. Reports indicate that the steamer Africa, of Owen Sound, Ont., is lost, with a erew of eleven. The Africa and the schooner Severn, of Toronto, were on Lake Huron, bound up with coal from Owen Sound Monday night. When twenty miles off Cove Island light both boats were making bad weather in the heavy northwester raging, and the steamer let go of her consort. When last seen from the Severn the Africa was rolling heavily and suddenly disapeared from view. The Severn finally drove up on the beach five miles north of Loyal Island. She became a total loss. The crew were saved by some fishermen after being in the rigging twenty hours. • The Africa’s lifeboats and life preservers were picked up on the island. ->»-■ -aForty Workmen Burlfed. A spinning factory at Bocholt, fortyfive miles from Munster, 'Westphalia, collapsed and buried forty .workmen in--the ruins. Of this number ten were killed outright and nine were seriously injured. The remaining workmen escaped .with slight injuries. Severe Blow for Cadets. ! Sixty Cincinnati citizens effected a permanent organization for the purpose of agitating against military training in the public schools. At present each high school has a cadet corps, uniformed and drilled regularly by one of the professors. Granted a Chance of Venue. Dr. J. C. Hearne and wife, charged with the murder of the latter’s husband, Stillwell, a well-known Hannibal, Mo., pork packer, asked for a change of venue to Bowling Green, and it was granted. Condemned as Traitors. Guayaquil, Ecuador, telegraphs that Generals Bowen and Trivinio, who were tried by court martial, were condemned to death, as traitors to Ecuador and for attempting the life of Gen. Alfaro.

DOWN HILL TO DEATH. Three Killed, Nine Injnred, Four Probably Fatally. At Pittsburg three persons were killed •and nine injured, four probably 'fatally, by an accident Sunday evening on the Carnegie branch of the West End Traction Company, caused by the breaking of a brake bar on trolley car No. 56. The brake bar broke while the car was going down a steep hill just inside the city limits, and the car tore down the hill for a quarter of a mile without being under the slightest control. At the foot of the hill is a sharp, curve, and here the car jumped the track and turned over, making a complete somersault. The shock splintered the car into kindling wood. When the brake bar broke the conductor told the passengers to lie down on the bottom of the car, which they did, the women shrieking and praying. The motorman stuck bravely to his post. On the way down the hill Mrs; Foley threw her 3-year-old daughter out of the- ear window. The child was bruised by the fall, bur not seriously hurt. Conductor McGuire, despite probably fatal injuries, was the first from under the wreck and got axes from the coal mine house and began to cut away the wreckage. The road has been in operation only a few months, but several accidents have occurred on it, owing to steep grades and sodden curves at the foot of hills. During the first few weeks of the road’s operation u car went down an embankment and several people were injured. PLENTY OF TRAjJE. But It Is Invested with a Tantalizing Uncertainty. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “The price barometer gives indications that are not entirely favorable. Cotton goods go up, with increasing evidence that the crop of cotton is short. Prices of other manufactured products, of wool, hides, and leather, all show some decline, a general abatement in new orders being the principal cause. With an immense volume of business, not much exceeded in the largest month ol the exceptional year 1592 and with evidence that in several important branches the volume has surpassed that of any previous year, tliere is a growing uncertainty about the near future of industries. Money markets are neither strained nor threatening, foreign exchanges no longer raise apprehension, and fears for the great Northwestern crops are past. There have been few advances of wages of labor during the last month and only a few works have been closed by strikers for an advance.” ROGERS WENT ON STRIKE. Refused to Read Testimony in Durrant Cuse to His Wife. Mrs. Susie Rogers, wife of Philip Rogers, has disappeared from San Francisco. Her husband has been searching for her for three weeks, and now believes that he has located her in Wisconsin. Mr. Rogers is certain that the Durrant case had something to do with the wreck of his home. Mrs. Rogers was very much interested in the case, and compelled Irer husband to sit down every morning and read to her the full report of the trial. Rogers finally went on strike, there was a disagreement and his wife left home. He says that if she wants to return she can do so, and can spend her whole time in reading the report of the Durrant trial if she desires.

MORE OUTRAGES IN CHINA. Aggressions Against Missions in Central Provinces. A Paris dispatch to the London Times reports that the Roman Catholic mission agency at Lyons has received letters reporting aggressions against the Europeans and Christians of the central provinces of China. The mission stations at Nan Ching have been destroyed and some of the converts killed and others wounded. The Russian Consul, in the absence of the French Consul, was appealed to. He insisted that a telegram be sent to the local authorities ordering stringent measures for the restoration of order. Nevertheless the disturbances continue. TO OUST FLOURNOY LESSEES. Indian Agent Heck Expected to Evict Settlers from Omaha Lands. It is expected at the Indian office that Agent Beck, at the Omaha and Winnebago reservation in Nebraska, will take steps at once to remove settlers on the lands leased from the Flournoy Company. Acting Commissioner Smith says that the men occupying the lands are not entitled to sympathy on account of their crops, as they were notified to get off or make new leases before the crops were planted. It is possible they will be given an opportunity to make new leases now in cases where the lands have not been leased to other parties. Silver Freely Demanded. The shipments of stiver coin from the United States subtreasury at Philadelphia to banks throughout Pennsylvania show a decided increase. The shipments to outside banks for six months were: April .. .$269,697,701 July ... .$332,399.80 May ... 311,149.00|August . 444,146.80 June ... 300,569.40] Sept. ... 402,840.60 Millions to Fight Cuba. The Spanish Cabinet has signed a loan of $15,000,000 with the Banque de Paris et du Pay Bas, wholly for Cuban expenses.

MARKET QUOTATION?.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 59c to 61c; corn, No. 2,28 cto 29c; oats, No. 2,17 c to 18c; rye, No. 2,41 e to' 42c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, fresh. 16c to 18c; potatoes, per bushel. 20c to 30c; broom corn, common growth to fine brush. to 4c per pound. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,61 cto 63e; corp, No. 1 white, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 62c to 63c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 25c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2,36 c tpwßßc. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4,50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,67 cto 69c; corn, No. 2 to 32fe; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to. 22c; rye, No. 2,44 cto 46c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 64c to 65c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22e; rye, 42c to 43c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 65c to 67c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2,43 cto 44c. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 36c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c. , Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 58e to 59c; corn, No. 3,31 cto 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; barley, No. 2,39 cto 41c; rye, No. 1,40 cto 42c; pork, mess, SB.OO to $8.50. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 69c; corn, No. 2, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; butter, creamery, 16c to 24c; eggs, Western, 17c to 20«.

MAHONE IS NO MORE.

FAMOUS SOLDIER AND STATESMAN DEAD AT WASHINGTON. Waaa Favorite in the Southern Army and Saved Petersburg When Apparently Defenseless After the Great Mine Explosion. Picturesque Figure Gone. General William Mahone died at his home in Washington Tuesday afternoon. He had been failing steadily since he was stricken with paralysis nearly a week ago, and it was known that death was only a question of time. The veteran, however, showed remarkable vitality and made a strong fight against the grim angel. The country will long remember Gen. William Mahone as one of the most picturesque characters in public life during the last thirty years. Exceptionally slight in stature and frame, he has been a marked man in great assemblages. His peculiar style of dress, and especially his hat, attracted attention to him. This broad-brimmed, soft felt headgear seemed out of proportion to the tiny form beneath it. But beneath this shade sparkled a pair of the keenest eyes ever possessed by man. Gen. Mahone marks an epoch in the history of the United States since the late war. He has been during the last

GEN. MAHONE.

quarter of a century the central figure in Virginia politics, and at one time he waa in the center of one of the most violent political storms ever waged in Congress. Ho was in his 69th year. His favorite sobriquet was ’“Hero of the Crater,” won by his wonderful courage in the attack on Petersburg, when the Federal forces sprung a mine beneath the Confederate defense. He fought like a tiger, and later historians give to him almost alone the credit of keeping Petersburg from the Union hands by repairing before sunset the shattered Confederate lines. He had joined the Confederate army at once after the secession, participated in the capture of the Norfolk navy yard in 1861, and raised and commanded the Sixth Regiment of Virginia. He was commissioned a brigadier general in March, 1864, and six months later became a major general. At the close of the war he returned to his original work of engineering, and became president of the Norfolk and Tennessee Railroad. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1879. He was like a firebrand cast into a mass of dry tinder, and from the peculiar attitude that he at once assumed he caused one of the most bitter controversies and stubborn deadlocks ever known in the history of that body. Mahone at last acted with the Republicans and gave them the organization of the Senate. His course brought down upon his head the wrath of the Democrats, but the Republicans received him with open arms, and the Federal patronage in Virginia was turned over to him. Since that time he has been the Republican leader in Virginia. He served in the Senate until 1887, when he was defeated.

MARIA BARBERI’S APPEAL.

Alleged Discovery of Evidence Which May Turn Sympathy Against Her. Among the cases which the New York Court of Appeals will be called upon to decide is that of Maria Barberi, recently convicted of the murder of her lover. Owing to the great provocation 'under which the crime was committed unusual sympathy has been enlisted in behalf of the prisoner, who is an ignorant Italian girl of nineteen years, unable to speak the

MARIA BARBERI.

English language. Over fifty thousand names have been affixed to a petition for executive clemency, but Governor Morton cannot legally interfere in the proceedings until after the Court of Appeals has taken action. Although public sentiment is almost unanimously in favor of mitigating the severity of the decision of the lower court Assistant District Attorney John F. McIntyre claims to be in possession of evidence which, if well founded, would plac the girl beyond the pale of sympathy.

The Comic Side of The News

Holmes has just finished his life—one of them; will justice finish the other? Holmes says that the suspense is killing him. He probably will be killed that way. It strikes us that the bidding on the Duke of Marlborough is altogether too slow. Look him over, girls. Yachting costs Willie K. Vanderbilt $160,000 a year, and it is said that the yacht isn’t his aeoet expensive pliything, either. i /

CROPS IN BAD SHAPE.

Agricultural Department Report* General Decline in Condition. Report* to the Agricultural Department show a decline in the condition* of all the principal crops, except oat*, rye and barley. The detailed summary shows a wide-spread reduction in the condition of potatoes, duh largely to drought. Complaints of potato rot come from the Northern and more Southern New England States, New York, several of the States adjoining the great lakes and Missouri and Kansas. The losses from leaf blight and insects appear to have been exceptionally light. The most serious complaint of the potatogrower this year is the low price of the product, particularly in the Northwest. The report from the department’s agent for Wisconsin and Minnesota represents that in the latter State the tubers “do not pay for digging.” lie says that the yield is enormous. Sweet potatoes have suffered quite seriously from lack of rain and their condition has been materially reduced in many States. In seven States it has fallen from 10 to 22 points. The condition of tobacco declined over 2 points. In Ohio, where condition is the lowest, something over half a crop is expected, and the same may be said of Maryland and Virginia. Continued drought, hot weather and high winds of September, causing premature ripening and dropping, have resulted in a loss of over 2 points in the average condition of apples. The greatest loss occurred in the central West, where the crop was abundant. It is thought both the eating and keeping quality of the fruit has been much impaired, and in many sections a tendency to rot is already noted. The average condition now stands at 70.0. The general conclusion in the British cereal trade that the wheat harvest of the world for 1805 is about 100.000,000 bushels less than that of 1804 is announced in the report of the European agent of the Agricultural Department for October. The estimates of this season’s wheat crop in the United Kingdom vary from 23 to 27 bushels an acre. Both in Great Britain and on the continent the wheat was harvested in such favorable condition as to assure a high percentage of Hour. Duluth reports say that there is no doubt that Northwestern farmers are holding back their wheat on account of low prices prevailing and marketing their coarse grain instead. For several days past the receipts of wheat have fallen below those of last yedr. Receivers say that offerings are daily growing lighter, and the daily sales there support the statement. On the other hand, there has been a more than corresponding increase in coarse grains, though of course the daily reports of car inspection do not show as large a total for all grain receipts.

LANDING OF MARINES.

Great Britain Also Reported to Have Interfered in Korea. Information of the formidable uprising in Korea, resulting in the disappearance and probable death of the Queen, and the landing of military forces by the United States and European powers, has been received by Minister Kurino of Japan from the foreign office at Tokyo. It is quite sensational, indicating the landing of marines by Russian, the United States end probably Great Britain. The latest dispatch to Minister Kurino states that a force of Russian marines, forty in number, has been landed. Thus far they have confined themselves to guarding the Russian legation at Seoul. United States marines were landed from the Yorktown to the number of sixteen. It is believed also that British marines have been landed. Besides these the Japanese have a considerable force of soldiers at Seoul who have been preserving order. The dispatches come from Tokyo and communicate the substance of dispatches received from Gen. Muira, the Japanese envoy at Seuol. It appears from these dispatches that the trouble had its inception through the Queen’s dislike of the newly organized soldiers of Korea. The old soldiers had the primitive equipment of the far East, but with the progress of Japanese influence in Korea two battalions of Korean troops were organized on modern methods. Each battalion numbered GOO men, armed with modern weapons. ■ They were well drilled and officered. When the Queen showed her disfa'vor toward these new troops they appealed to the Tai Won Kun, a powerful chief, who has long been at enmity with the Queen. He accepted the leadership of the new troops, and at the head of one battalion entered the Queen’s palace. The native soldiers fled from the palace. The Tokyo dispatches do not state specifically what became of the Queen, further than that she has disappeared and cannot be located.

Notes of Current Events.

At Glenville, Ohio, Carl Tonquietz is under arrest on suspicion of having caused the death of his infant child by starvation. Patrick Grant, father of Robert Grant, the novelist, a successful merchant at Boston, Mass., died at the age of Sli years. Rhode Island’s Grand Army men will erect a monument to the Roman Catholic soldiers of the Stale who fell in the civil jwar. •Tames A. Jordan, indicted at Grand Rapids for making false affidavits on mileage and expenses as pension examiner, has disappeared. The New York Court of Appeals has affirmed the conviction of Bat Shea for the murder of Robert Ross at the Troy spring elections of 1894. Floods in the Agua Fria and Gila Rivers have caused serious breaks in the bridges of the Santa Fe Railroad and Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad. Why does the bloomer girl still persist in currying her purse in her hand? She hasn’t yet learned one of the principal advantages of bifurated externals. Near Twohig Station, Texas, ,T. Shaw, a ranchman, two Mexican men and, a Mexican child were shot dead by thieves who had stolen a yearling steer from Shaw. Two men who tried to work the “threecard monte” game on Benjamin Wilson, a well-to-do farmer living near Peru, Ind., were driven off at the point of a revolver. At Jasper, Ind., Andrew Cumings was fined for breaking the-leg of John Burton while trying to separate the latter and his wife, who were engaged in a family fight. George B. Holmes and Ella May Ferris eloped from Lexington, Ky., and were married by Magistrate Hause at Jeffersonville, Ind. The bride was a pupil of Hampton College. Richard W. Cardwell, bookkeeper of the State Bank of Virginia at Richmond, has been indicted for making false entries and allowing Samuel B. Nelson to overdraw his account $20,000. An old negro, convicted in the United States Court at Fort Smith. Ark., of stealing horses, said he had been a slave of President AndrOw Jackson ahd that he was born at the Hermitage eighty-six years ago. Evalina Bliss, a wealthy lady, died at New York, and immediately after the funeral the daughter of the dead woman, Mrs. Alice Fleming, was arrested at the Colonial Hotel on the charge that she murdered her mother by poison.

GOOD CROP REPORTS.

FIFTY THOUSAND CORRESPONDENTS BEING ORGANIZED. Thi A K r cultural Department Engages in a Gigantic Undertaking— The Agent Receive* Only Department Document* in Compensation. Improving the Service. Washington conespondence:

Henry a. robinson. the chief statistician of the Agricultural Department, is engaged in the gigantic task of organizing a corps of 50.000 correspondents throughout the jfSSr agricultural di s - tricts, particularly in " est au, i South. WStT/j This corps will be twice as great as the . standing army cf the TOTnrp- United States, neariWt'yJ.v one-half as great ’ rp |f,-as the militia force ! ;• in all of the States and Territories, one-

twelfth of 1 per cent, of the population of the United States, fifteen times as great as the whole corps of first, second and third class postmasters in the government service, to whom nearly §G,OOO,(XX> is paid every year. And the work of this corps of correspondents will be performed without any cost to the government, ex- ’ cept what is represented by the value of some crop pamphlets which are distributed by the Secretary of Agriculture every month. This work of organizing is the result of the meeting at Washington last spring of the representatives of commercial bodies from all parts of the United States to protest against the system under which the information about the crops was collected. The chief occupation of the statistician of the Agricultural Department is the preparation of statistics showing the condition of the growing crops. Bulletins containing this information are published every month. They are awaited anxiously by all the people who arc interested in cotton or cereals. They are of chief interest to the speculators in grain and cotton, because if the government report shows a good condition of the growing crops, the price sos grain for future delivery are likely to go down: and if the government report shows a bad condition of the crops, or a decrease in the acreage planted, the price is likely to go up. Whatever the character of the report, there is one class of men dissatisfied with it; and never a month passes that the statistican is not denounced by the speculators as unfair or stupid or corrupt. Mr. Robinson’s predecessor. Prof. had this experience, and it was the persistent attacks of the speculators and the dealers in grain in the large cities that brought about his retirement from the department. Mr. Robinson is having a similar experience, and it is making his hair gray. Weakness of the Old System. Under the old system of making up the monthly crop report, returns were received at the statistician’s office from each agricultural county. In each of these counties were four correspondents. One of these was designated the chief correspondent, and to this one the other three sent their reports of the crop conditions on a day fixed. These three reports the chief correspondent combined with his own, and he made a report to the Department of Agriculture on the crop conditions of his county. There were (and there are now, for that matter) 10,000 of these correspondents, of whom 2.500 sent reports to the department. In addition to these correspondents, there is another corps which is intended to be just as large, which is organized in each State under the supervision of a State agent, who receives a salary from the government. This salary may be anything from S4OO to $1,200 a year. The amount is supposed to be proportioned to the work. Mr. Robinson tells me that the division of salaries has not been entirely fair in the past, and that there is to be a reorganization of these State agencies some time in the near future.

These State agents appoint their correspondents in each county, who are independent of the agents reporting direct to the department. The reports of their agents are made to them direct, and then each State agent assembles the reports which come to him and makes up a general report of crop conditions in the State to send to Washington. The two sets of correspondents are expected to be a check on each other. If there is any discrepancy between the reports of one and the reports of the other, the statistician investigates through a special agent, and learns which set of correspondents is wrong. When the representatives of the commercial bodies met here the statistician went over the subject of the reports with them very thoroughly, and after some consideration he came to the conclusion that he was not raking the country carefully enough for his crop facts. So he determined to- multiply the number of the department’s direct correspondents by five. Instead of having four correspondents to a county, he determined to have one to each township. The question was how to get at the right men. Mr. Robinson decided to write to the county clerks, as men likely to know the most available correspondents. So he selected twenty-one States, in which from twothirds to nine-tenths of the grain crops are raised, and sent circular letters to the county clerks, asking them to send the names of men, two in each township, who might be willing to act as the department’s correspondents, and who would be competent to make crop estimates. With each circular was inclosed a franked envelope for reply. This correspondence has involved no little labor. Most of the county clerks have replied promptly, but a great many have not replied at all, and it has been necessary to address these again. In all, there are about 2,500 county clerks to hear from, but the department has not entered into correspondence with all of them at once. For, when the county clerk replies, it is necessary for the statistician to address circular letters to twenty men more or less in the county: and when thegfe twenty men have replied, to send circulars to the alternates, in case the men first addressed refuse to serve.

Division of the Sexes.

One of the most remarkable churches is to be found at Freudenthal, in the Black Forest. It is built on such a plan that the men are unable to see the women, and vice versa, for it Is composed of two wings, which meet at an angle where the pulpit stands. The right wing is allotted to men and the left one to the women of the congregation.—Schwabischer Merkur. Harvard University began its 258th year with increased attendance in all departments and the prospects of another prosperous year. The students have been pouring into Cambridge during the past week and the old college yard has shaken off its summer lethargy and become all bustle and activity once more. Owing to the great drouth farmers of Ohio are not sowing much wheat. Dry weather is injuring the young clover.

CURIOUS CREATURES.

The Hedgehog of Great Britain and: the Mataco of South America. A very interesting creature, which,' however, is not found in America, is the hedgehog, which is very common in

MATACO BOLLED UP.

it does when alarmed or threatened, they present an almost insuperable obstacle to any predaceous enemy that might at-

THE MATACO.

tack it. The hedgehog is very readily tamed and not infrequently may It be found in kitchens in England, where It destroys cockroaches and other ougs. It readily kills snakes and eats them, commencing with the tail end first. Its spines are very elastic and rolling Itself into a ball the creature often throws itself down steep precipices without sustaining any injury. Allied to the hedgehog in the sense of being capable of rolling into a ball is the mataco, an armadillo found everywhere in South America. This creature is covered with a bony coat of mail, hard yet flexible, and when attacked it curls into a ball, thereby resisting the attacks of its enemies. Unlike other species of armadillos, it does not burrow and has little powers of

THE HEDGEHOG.

speed. Most of the armadillos in South America can outrun a man and are rapid and deep burrowers.

A NEW MEASURING DEVICE.

—v . It Is Adapted Especially to the Use of Practical Tailors. The man with these standards and straps all around him is not a recaptured lunatic, whose freedom of action the, other man is seeking to restrain, but he! looks like it. On the contrary, the illustration is intended to set forth the peculiar merits of a new and harmless device, by means of which a tailor may make accurate notes of your physical proportions and produce a coat that shall fit you like a glove. If we may judge by the appearance of the thing, the ordeal must be a trying one, but then, what will a man not undergo to have his coat ift well? The honor of the invention belongs to a Philadelphian. It is illustrated In the Scientific American, which thus describes it: It consists of two upright telescopic standards, one to be placed at each side of the person to be. measured, and forming supports for several other pliable measuring attachments

FOR THE USE OF TAILORS.

adjustable on the standards, and conveniently arranged for taking the different measurements required. A sleeve hole measuring device is carried by one of the standards, there being a strip projecting horizontally therefrom, while also supported by the standards is a breast strip, a back strip being secured to the neck plate, breast strip, and the strip carried by the sleeve hold device. A shoulder tape is secured to the breast strip at the front and rear, the attachment at the rear being at the point where the back strip unites with the breast strip, and a shoulder strip is secured to the shoulder tape at the front and to the breast strip at the rear.

The Advice Was Late.

John F. Leighton, a prosperous farmer of Franklin, N. H., fell in with two apparently guileless innocents last week who turned out to be clever bunco men. They managed to relieve him of $3,500, and in return they gave him a box containing nothing more satisfactory than a long letter of advice. The letter said: “Keep the affair to yourself. If you tell any one they will laugh at you and say it served you right for trying to take advantage of a man you thought was a greenhorn, and your friends and'-neighbors, and also your enemies, will say that you are not the honest man you were always supposed to be. You know you told a lie to get the money and.no banker will ever let you have money again, for they will think you want to take it and gamble again and lose it.' Your credit will be ruined; so keep quiet, pocket the loss and never gamble again. As for my partner and I, we are going to reform and you will never see us again. You cannot make any excuse to your neighbors and acquaintances, for you gambled at cards and 16st, and no honest man ever gambles.” Mr. Leighton did not follow the advice. He at once notified the police and the Boston bureau of criminal investigation has already begun to trace the men from a point between Nashua and Worcester, where , they mailed the letter to Mr. Leighton.—Boston Transcript.

Great Britain and Ireland and' on the European . continent. Its body is covered with sharp spines so that when the animal rolls itself into a ball, which