Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1897 — Page 2

atjeJJrniotratic Sentinel ============================ J. W. McEWEX, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA

RIGHT OF WAY WAR.

SANTA RETRAIN GOES THROUGH • A KANSAS FENCE. Not Checked by Leg; al Red Tap;— Youth Inflates His Baby BrotherBig; Blaze in a Texas Town—Women Drawn for Jurors. Lesal Squabble in Sicht. Judge Myers of the Kansas District Court, having declared that the Leavenworth, Topeka and Southwestern Railway Company has forfeited its right of way. is having no little trouble in his efforts to restore the realty involved to the previous owners. This line of road, though in the hands of a receiver, is now operated by the Santa Fe system. In 1896 traffic on the line was abandoned for two months, and, owing to this fact, Judge Myers decided that J. G. Stone, a farmer, was entitled to possession and title to the right of way which was taken from him in the building of the line. Accordingly Judge Myers directed Sheriff Kothenberfter to place Mr. Stone in possession of the land. The sheriff sent out a number of deputies hnd fenced in the roadbed. At the same time the Santa Fe officials were notified that the right of way was closed and the postmaster of Leavenworth was notified to send his mails by another route. When the Topeka train went out from Leavenworth .Monday night a gang of thirty men went along to tear down the sheriff’s fence. This they did, standing by until the train hail passed, but the sheriff’s men stood by and took the names of the men, who were arrested. Later at night the Santa Fe agent at Topeka swore out a warrant charging Fanner Stone with the criminal offense of obstructing United States mails. lie is under arrest. All parties to the dispute declare that the matter will be fought to a finish. WOMEN DRAWN FOR JURORS. Newest Phase of Suffrage Movement in Kansas. In the drawing of the regular and additional jury panels for the September term of the District Court for Fort Scott, Kan., the names of three prominent women were among the list of jurors. The women are Mrs. A. Kaufman, Mrs. A. M. Douglass and Mrs. M. E. Ross. The women own property and pay taxes and the names were drawn in the same manner as men are drawn. The State law provides that ail taxpayers who are electors are eligible for jury service, and as women are electors in municipal elections they are no doubt eligible. Several prominent attorneys are of the opinion they will have to serve unless excused by the court.

KID FILLED WITH WIND. Boy Makes a Pneumatic Tire Out of Hi» Brother’s Stomach. Mrs. George Ruthman of Beaver Falls, l’a., heard a peculiar noise on the back porch of her residence. She found her two sons, one aged 7 and the other 1 year old, in a corner. The babe was on his back. The elder brother had inserted the tube of a bicycle pump in the baby’s, mouth and was tilling him full of wind as fast as he could work the pump handle. The infant was unconscious and its little stomach was inflated like a balloon. The mother pulled the tube from the child’s mouth and the air followed with a sharp sound like the exhaust of an air brake on a railway train. The baby recovered consciousness. PEARLS IN ARKANSAS LAKE. Property Near Bald Kttob Leased to Memphis Syndicate. For a month or more people living near Bald Knob, Ark., have been finding valuable pearls in a lake near that place. Hundreds of people have been opening mussel shells and many rare gems have been found, some being sold for as much as S3OO. A special from Bald Knob says that a syndicate of Memphis parties has leased the lake for five years for SIO,OOO. They will build a fence around the lake and begin work with a steam dredger. They will also erect an elegant clubhouse. The lake is said to be the richest pearl producer in the United States. Ftandinc of the Clubs. Following is the standing of the clubs >n the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston 01 28 Philadelphia. 42 49 Cincinnati ..57 30 Pittsburgh. .41 49 Baltimore .. .55 30 Brooklyn ... .38 49 New York.. .52 33 Louisville .. .41 53 Cleveland .. .40 43 Washington. 33 55 Chicago ... .45 48 St. Louis. .. .25 09 Th* showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. G 4 27 Detroit 49 50 Columbus .. .00 31 Minneapolis. 32 07 St. Paul 00 38 G’nd Rapids.3o 04 Milwaukee ..00 40 Kansas City.3o 08 Chicago's Fire Loes. Chicago’s loss by fire during the first six mouths of the present year was $359,749 greater than for the corresponding period of 1896. The loss on buildings was $445,198 and on contents $530,850. Total loss above insurance, $70,185. During the six months the department answered 2,915 alarms, or 28 more than for the same period of 1896.

Von Thielniann le Promoted. The appointment of Baron von Thielman, the retiring German ambassador to the United States, as secretary of the imperial treasury, in succession to Count Posadowsky-Wehner, is gazetted at Berlin. Planing Mill in a Blaze. At Barnum,. Tex., fire destroyed the planing mill and dry kiln, luniber yard, lumber store and a number of tenement houses belonging to W. T. Carter & Bro., and a number of cars and three small bridges belonging to the Kansas and Texas Railroad. Loss, $250,000, Where Canovaa Met Death. The baths of Santa Agueda, where Senor Canovas was assassinated, arc well known to American travelers, as they are situated in one of the most attractive regions of Spain. Poisoned by a Mosquito Bite. Dorothy Dodworth is lying critically ill In the house of Mrs. M. F. Lyon of Elmhurst. L. 1., suffering from blood poisoning, caused by a mosquito bite received. It is feared that it may be necessary to amputate her right leg. She is delirious ind suffer* excruciating pain. Four Months' Grace Given. The Madrid Heraldo say* it underhand* tha t the United States Governnent ba* to wait four months '•rerfatJjH pacification of Cuba, and ® accomplished by that time , > Awili undertake the pro-

BIG GAME OF BULLS In Two Months They Netted a Profit of SOOO,OOO. ' Narratives of fabulous wealth taken from Kloudyke soil are eclipsed by stories of recent manipulations in the July wheat market. For two months a bull clique of New York, St. Ixiuis and Chicago brokers has been playing a fast and loose gaine with the wheat shorts, demauding tribute and creating fallacious hopes. George R. French, a brilliant young speculator, who was sent to Chicago from New York to guard the earthworks of the clique, affirms unhesitatingly the current statements that his backers have divided not less than $600,000 net profit during the last month. Thus it follows that the taeit impression on ’Change that July wheat was being manipulated is bolstered up by facts. Joseph Leiter, the Chicago dark horse, is oue of the men who have pocketed a part of the big “rake off." According to Mr. French the combine with which he figures controlled not less than 4,500,000 bushels of July wheat. An effort was male by certain Chicago commission merchants in June to run a tight corner in the wheat market at that time when the visible supply revealed only 4.000.000 bushels available wheat. The same firms identified with this attempt, which did not succeed, transferred their holdings to September. The final day for fulfilling July wheat contracts for delivery saw the Gotham shorts desperately scrambling for the clique's offerings, pushing the price up 4 cents within two hours and showering $400,000 worth of coin into the coffers of the bull combine. The manipulators again put their heads together, snatched 7,000,000 bushels of wheat at ebb-tide price and in three days sold out the line at a profit of $200,000, DEATH ENDS A FROLIC. Wedding Ends in the Suffocation of Three Men and a Woman. In Cincinnati, three men and a woman were suffocated and thirteen others slightly hurt by a fire Thursday morning. Seventeen men and women were gathered in the second story of a building occupied on the first floor by Otto Adler's all-night saloon. It seems that it was a wedding frolic, in which Guth, one of the dead men, was the bridegroom and the daughter of Landlord Adler was the bride. Still, there is some doubt about who was the bride, as there is about nearly all the particulars in the case, tlie occupants of the building refusing all information. None of the dead were burned. All were suffocated by smoke from the fire in adjacent rooms. The only exit for escape was blocked by a bathtub set up on end at the head of the stairway. The smoke came from an adjacent room, where .he fire was soon extinguished. Tn-j celebrants of the wedding used beer and cigarettes very freely, and it is now supposed cigarettes started the fire ami that beer caused the somnolence which, with the up-ended bathtub, were the indirect causes of so many fatalities.

DEATH AT THE CROSSING, "agon and Occupants Thrown Down Embankment by a Train. , Two children killed aud six persons injured, several piobably fatally, is the record of an accident on the New York, Ontario and Western Railroad just north of Rockland, Sullivan County, N. Y'. A combined observation car and locomotive, bearing B. Canfield, the general superintendent, and Charles 11. Hopkins, superintendent of the southern division of the road, struck a wagon containing John Maulick and his wife and six children. The accident occurred at the Hollywood highway crossing. The wagon and occupants were hurled forty feet down an embankmem into the rocky bed of the Willowsmoe river. One of the children was instantly killed, another died soon after the accident, and other members of the family are not expected to survive. Crew Is Rescued. Twenty-one men, comprising the officers and crew of the British steamer Furtor, were brought to Boston by the steamer Sagamore. Their vessel bad become waterlogged through collision with an iceberg and was burned at sea, and they were picked up by Capt. Alexander Fenton and his crew after they had been forty-nine hours in open boats. The Furtor, under command of Capt. D. J. Jenkins, sailed from West Bay, N. S., on June 23, with a cargo of 1,000 standard of deals, consigned to parties in Barry, Wales. The Sagamore left Liverpool ou July 24, and when off Cape Race, N. F., about 1 a. m., July 29, the lookouts discerned rockets denoting that some vessel was in distiess. First Officer Tamliu ordered cne of the lifeboats launched and, manned by himself and five men, they rowed as rapidly as possible toward the scenj. Arriving near where the rockets were sent up the rescuers discovered four lifeboats, in which was the entire crew of the Furtor, which was lying close by, in a waterlogged condition and on fire. Reaching the Sagamore’s side the five boats were quickly hoisted on board and every attention was given to the suffering men, who had been adrift forty-nine hours with but a scanty supply of provisions and water. The day previous to the rescue the men suffered considerable hardship from the cold and rain, a heavy westerly gale with high seas having raged for nearly twenty-four hours. The Furtor ran into a towering iceberg, which stove in her boits, and it was necessary to take to the boats. A fire was built on the deck to attract the attention of steamers and this set fire to the ship and she burned to the water’s edge.

K. V. Debs Enjoined. Upon the application of James Sloan Jr., of Baltimore, a stockholder in the Monongah Coal and Coke Company, made by ex-Governor Fleming, bis counsel, Judge Jackson, in the United States court at Parkersburg, W. Va., Wednesday afternoon gianted a sweeping injunction restraining Eugene V. Debs and bis associates from in any way interfering with or molesting the management or the conducting of the property of the Monongah Coke and Coal Company or its employes. No Funds in the Bank. John Madden, treasurer of Modoc County, Cal., disappeared two weeks ago and District Attorney Baker, believing Madden to be a defaulter for at least $35,000, has asked the Board of Supervisors to declare the office vacant and appoint a new treasurer. Chemicals in a Blaze. In Philadelphia, fire broke out in the extensive chemical works of D. Jayne & Son. One of the assistant engineers or the fire department aud several of the firemen were injured by falling walls. The damage is estimated at $200,000. Spain’s Premier Killed. Senor Antonio Canovas del Castillo, prime minister of Spain, was assassinated by Michele Angiuo Golli, a Neapolitan anarchist, at Santa Agueda, Sunday afternoon. He was shot three times, and fell dying at his wife’s feet. To Keep Out American Wheels. Consul General de Kay at Berlin writes to the State Department at some length concerning the effort*'that are being made in Germany to prevent the importation and sale of American bicycles in that country. Cheering Commercial Outlook. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: ‘‘Four years ago failures in July amounted to over $00,000,000, while In last month failure* have been ouly

$7,117,727. tfie smallest in any rpgnth since 1892. The statement of failures by classes of business for July aud for forty - six months shows that in manufacturing failures tevc been smaller than in any other mc-nth except one. and in many branches of each department smaller thau in most mouths of which records exist. Last month was the first for four years of which the volume of business reported by clearing houses was larger than in the same month of 1892. and the telegraphic dispatches from ail parts of the country given this week show a gratifying improvement. This is partly due to a large yield of wheat and good prices, though the crop is probably not as large nor are prices thus fains high as in 1892. but of cotton the price is higher, and the yield probably larger, than in that year. Other farm products are realizing good prices, and the possible decrease in yield cf corn may help to market the enormous surplus brought over from’ last year. It is the wrong season to expect much from industries, and yet there has been materia! increase in the number of hands employed in the iron manufacture because of the satisfactory adjustment of wages dispute; while the coal miners’ strike seems each day more likely to end in a permanent settlement beneficial to both parties. Meanwhile the demand for most finished products is steadily increasing. Manufacturers are buying but little, though they are rapidly increasing the output, and are able to obtain an advance of about 10 per cent in prices of goods with rapidly increasing orders.”

GREAT GAINS IN VALUES. • Secretary Wilson fays It Reaches Millions of Dollars. “The increase during the last year in the price of farm products, wheat and other cereals, vegetables and cattle for dairy use and slaughter, has amounted to hundreds of milii ■us of dollars, and may be as great as $500,000,000, as has been roughly estimated,” says James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, in an interview published in the Manufacturers’ Record, referring to the condition of American farm interests. “The increase in the value of the wheat crop alone is estimated at from $75,060,000 to SIOO,000.000 or more, as compared with last year.” , Not Standing nt the front. “The church of to-day has dagenerr.ted into a sort of a family social club.” This is the utterance with which Rev. G. J. Fowler, D. D., president of the Nation'll Association for the I’rojnotioh of Holiness, staitled the congregation assembled in the big tabernacle tent at the Desplaines, 111., camp meeting. Continuing, he said: “We are not standing at the front. We do not preach vital truth so necessary tor the spiritual salvition of the world. I know of a church in Chicago. a Methodist church, too, with a membership of 990 persons, and not a Single soul brought to the altar in three years. If the church had attended to her business there would be no need of the Salvation army. Shall not God avenge His own elect speedily? Shall there not be a day of reckoifing?” “God help them. God have njercy on them.” moaned the congregation, appalled by the fate which they conceived to await those who are careless of their responsibility. Then followed one of the most I'tmarkable revival services of the season. Stirred to the depths of their feeling by the sermon to which, they had listened and the sentiments which they had so fervently applauded, the assembled hundreds advanced in a body to the altar, imploring the mercy of their God upon their fellow-men and praying that any among them who were unconverted might see the light.

Ulis Is Rather a Damper. News from Dawson City tends to contradict seme of the boom reports sent from the gold flefcis or the Northwest. A dispatch from the Kloudyke metropolis says: “The reports sent out from here that claims have been sold for firtnilous sums is erroneous. Only five claims have changed hands recently. One claim did bring SIOO,OOO, but the others brought from $2,000 to SIO,OOO each.” Fait Trust to Invade Kansas. The Michigan Salt' Association, commonly known as the salt trust, has decided to invade the Kansas field, and will construct a manufacturing plant at Hutchinson with a capacity of 1,000 barrels daily. This move means a bitter fight between the salt trust and the Kansas manufacturers for supremacy in the territory west of the Missouri river. Blockade of Grain at Kansas City. The unusually heavy receipts of wheat from the West threaten a blockade at Kansas City, Mo. Thursday uight there werff 1,800 cars loaded with wheat ou side tracks in Kansas City. About half of these cars are billed through to Galveston, and the gulf roads are said to be unable to move the product as fast as it comes in from the West. Bailey Shoots Wife. H. A, Bailey, a well-to-do Jenison, Mich., man, shot his wife at midnight Thursday. In the morning he took poison and died while in charge of the officers. The woman may possibly recover. Umpire Under Arrest. Umpire Tin. Hurst was arrested in St. Louis after the ball game Thursday on a telegraphic request from Cincinnati asking that he be held on a charge for assault with intent to kill.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 78e; cons, No. 2,26 cto 27c; oats, No. 2,16 c to 17c; rye, No. 2,41 cto 43c; butter, choice creamery, 14c to 15c; eggs, fresh, 9c to 11c; new potatoes, 40c to 60c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2,77 cto 79c; corn, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00wheat, No. 2,81 cto 83c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 25c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 16c to 18c; rye, No. 2,41 cto 42c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 78c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 16c to 18c; rye, No. 2,37 cto 39c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00wheat, No. 2,81 cto 83c; corn, No 2 yellow, 29c to 30c;.oats, No. 2 while, 21c to 23c; rye, 42c to 44c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red. 81c to 83c; corn, No._2 mixed, 27c to 28c; oats, No.’ 2 white. 17c to 19c; rye. No. 2,42 cto 43eclover seed, $4.30 to $4.40. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring. 82c to 84 c; corn, No. 3,27 cto 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 1. 40c to4°c' barley, No. 2,34 cto 38c; pork. mes*; s7.ao to $8.25. Buffalo—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.25; ho"s, $3.00 wheat, N0..2 red, 83c to 84c; corn, No yellow. 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs. $3.50 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 89c to 90c; corn. No. 2, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; butter, creamery, 12c to 16c; eggs, Western, 12c to 14c.

BRAVE FIREMEN DIE.

chicagodepartmentsuffers fearful LOSS. Explosion of Dust in the Burning Elevator o; Railway Terminal Company Hurls Brick Walls and Burning Timbers Upon the Firefighters Died at Posts of Duty. Explosion in the midst of a terrific fire brought to a hero's deatli four of Chicago's tiremen Thursday afternoon and stretched on beds of pain more than a score of officers and pipemen, who sought to keep in check a seething furnace of 300,000 bushels of grain in the Chicago Railway Terminal Elevator Company’s elevator at Indiana and Jefferson streets. Not since the cold storage disaster at the World's Fair have so many of the city's fire fighters been laid low, and only twice in the history of Chicago has the list of casualties in the department been more appalling. Oue unknown man dead and many spectators, railroad employes, elevator hands and others injured further mark the record of the disaster. The dead: John J. Coogan, pipeman of engine company 3. William Hanley, of engine company 5. Jacob Stlinur, pipeman of engine company 3. Jacob F. Stiameu pipeman of engine company 3. Unknown man, thrown into the river by the force of the explosion and drowued. Thomas Monohan, a driver for Chief Swenie, is missing, and it is feared he is dead; drove the chief to the fire and has not been seen since. Of the score hurt, three will die, and several will be disfigured for life aud laid up for months. Swen e'e Life in Peril. Chief Swenie’s life nearly paid the pen l alty of years of peril, lie was close to the elevator when an avalanche of red hot bricks, burning timbers and sizzling grain was pitched on the heads of the fire fighters and with severe bruises and burns.

FIREBOAT PLAYING ON THE BURNING ELEVATOR.

Not a single premonition of disaster warned the men of their impending doom. There was a brighter glow of the heavens for an instant, a rumbling as if the interior, of the earth was lending its heat to the flames, and then the east wall was precipitated on the heads of the firemen and a few spectators who had escaped the fire lines hurriedly established by the police. The noise was different from the ear-piercing roar of dynamite or gunpowder, but its effects were as deadly. There was a mulH-.’d boom, a crash, and the firemen were buried. Edward Westlake, a newspaper man, was standing with Chief Swenie when the wall collapsed. Both were covered with the fallen material and rushed blindly to the nearest shelter. “My God! That was the nearest 1 have come to it,” said the intrepid leader, and turned back, in the face of flying embers, to aid in the work of rescue. Start Work of Rescue. After the walls went toppling over, Chief Swenie, hurt, blinded aud bleeding, staggered forward and.shouted to his men to follow him. Lying on the ground were a score cf injured men, crying for help. Beneath the mass of white-heat bricks and iron sheeting were two men, burned until nothing but the bones were left. In an instant half a dozen streams of water were turned on the blazing mtrss. As the water struck the red hot debris a cloud of steam hid the ruins from view. The injured were first assisted to a place of safety. Three patrol wagons and two ambulances were soon in service. The men were put on stretchers, and Lieut. McDonald directed that the wagons be driven at once to the different hospitals. As the last victim was hurried away from the scene of death and destruction the work of removing the charred bodies of the three filemen from the ruins was taken up. By this time the flood of water had cooled off the ruins sufficiently to allow the firemen and sixty policemen to start their search for the dead. Sergeant Decker was the first man to find a body. He used a long pole in lifting the iron sheeting to one side, when he discovered the remains of Coogan. The body was in a Crouching position and showed that Coogan was running when the mass of bricks felled him to the earth. He was identified by his helmet, which lay within a foot of his head. It was impossible to distinguish the burned bodies of Sehnur and Stramen apart. They lay side by side, and a heavy beam had fallen across the neck of one of the bodies. Chief Swenie directed the men to continue their work, and not until the entire pile had been gone over was the chief satisfied that all the bodies had been found.

Origin of the Fire. The origin of the fire is indefinite. Recently furnace driers were introduced into the structure and these may have been in an overheated condition. High in the bins are hung big lanterns to guide the workmen in their labors and the presence of these has given rise to the theory that a red hot chimney came in contact with the dry dust and set the place on fire. The age of the building and the amount of dust which bad congregated in every crack and eo’ner supports the hitter opinion. Many of the firemen are of the belief that the blaze and subsequent explosion were due to spontaneous combustion. Insurance Inspector Gillan gave the following statement as his opinion ns to how the tire originated: “It was surely an explosion of dry dust. In the majority of cases in fires of this kind they all start from the same cause. The dust from the

grain collect! and when It is heated to the right point it is like powder. It is just as dangerous 'as any explosive. If this elevator had been constructed as grain elevators should be, the chances are the fire would have been put out with a loss of less than fl,000.” Loss Will Reach $300,000. Before the insurance underwriters complete the Ijst of buildings wrecked or damaged and property destroyed the total financial loss will reach $500,000. The tabulated statement of the loss, as nearly as can be learned, is: The Chicago Railway Terminal Elevator Company, on buildings 90,000 Loss to grain In structure...'2lo,ooo Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. loss to frelghthouae and cars 20,000 Engine and machinery in elevator.. 23,000 Loss to Chicago and Northwestern Railroad freight, including valuable teas and spices 25,000 Damage to Hathaway & Co.’s coal yard. Indiana and Kingsbury sts.. • 2,500 Damage to building occupied by the Qrockerand Milwaukee Chair Companies. contents, windows and beams 20,000 Damage to Jung Brewing Company’s plant, 0 Grand avenue 15,000 Damage to building occupied by Wisconsin Dairy Company. Austin avenue and Jefferson street 3,000 Damage to Indiana street bridge, abutments and planking scorched. 1,000 Damage to dock warehouse in Indiana street 1,000 Damage to building occupied by the Star Box and Barrel Company.... 2.000 Damage to tugs and shipping, estimated 3,000 Minor losses to stores, houses and other buildings, estimated aggregate 30,000 Total $507,500 Insurance on the contents of the elevator was placed by D. M. Rodgers, while Fred James had the building in charge. Mr. Rodgers said he was not in a position to give the exact figures. He declared, however, that the losses were fully covered by insurance. The officials of the Chicago Railway Terminal Elevator Company, that owned the elevator, are: • President—C. A. Weare. Secretary—Edward W. Thompson. Treasurer—Charles C. Rubins.

PREACHER SHOOTS A GIRL.

Sleeping Child Suffers in a Fight with Indiana Ruffians. Rev. John Wolstein, who has been holding revival services at Concord Christian

Church, near Washington, Ind., received word the other night that he would be .egged if he preached again. He went prepared, and when he opened services laid a pistol on each side of his Bible, announcing that he would defend himself if necessary. It was not long before a disturbance was raised at one of the windows. In an instant the minister commenced firing toward the window. He scattered the roughs, but one bullet passed through the abdomen of the 3-year-old daughter of John Standiford, who was sleeping on one of the seats. The little girl is dead. Standiford refuses to jjrosecute Walstein.

Told In a Few Lines.

The letter carriers of the City of Mexico are now using bicycles in delivering mail. The Metropolitan Electric Company of Chicago has failed. The liabilities amount to about $35,000. Poor collections are said to have caused the assignment. James Gerah, a well-known sporting man from the Pacific coast, was instantly killed at Chickasaw, I. T., by Willis Day, a stranger, in a quarrel over cards. At Philadelphia, Daniel Mehan, aged 19 years,’accidentally ran his bicycle against a low stone fence, plunged headlong over it into Wissahiekou creek, and was drowned. Two Ohio firms, the Canton Rolling Mill Company of Canton, 0., and the P. Hayden Saddlery and Hardware Company of Columbus, have signed the Amalgamated Association scale. The last of the summer conferences at East Northfield, Mass., the general conference for Christian workers, will continue until Sept. 16. D. L. Moody will have charge of the meetings. John M. Forbin and Lorenzo Semple have been appointed receivers of the property in New York State of the American Publishing Corporation. The liabilities are $403,000; assets about $150,000. Mifyor Phelan has telegraphed an invitation to President McKinley to visit San Francisco. The Mayor has also wired Congressman. Loud, requesting him personally to see the President and get from him, if possible, a favorable reply to the invitation. The blow of a hammer upon a noil caused a $40,000 fire at Olean, N Y and eleven men narrowly escaped beins burned to death. The men were roofinr a 35,000-barrel oil tank when it was dis’ covered that the oil had ignited from a spark caused as above.* Representatives of Eastern hop-buving firms have been in Chehalis, Wash sev eral days and displayed great eagerness to make contracts for the 1897 crop Recently the best quality sold for 7 cents but now 8% cents and even 10 cents" a pound is offered, and the latter figure has been refused by several parties. The prospects for the growing crop are exceedingly good. A beautiful spectacle, never witnessed before at Tacofna, "Wash., was the signal lights of the club of mountain climbers known as the Mazamas, from the snowcapped summit of Mount Tacoma, sixty miles away. The night was clear and favorable, and for an hour before the flash appeared thousands of eyes and hundreds of field glasses were trained on the mountain, searching for the signal. At length a large red light, apparently like a ball of fire over a foot in diameter, appeared, burning steadily for nearly five minutes. It was distinctly visible to the naked eye.

CANOVAS MURDERED.

SPAIN’S PRIME MINISTER SHOT BY AN ANARCHIST. Dies Crying “Long Live Spain”—M eets His Fate at a Bathing Resort—As in the Case of Carnot of France, Assassin la an Alien. Spain Mourns Her Premier. Senor Antonio Canovas del Castillo, prime minister of Spain, was assassinated by Michele Angino Golli, a Neapolitan anarchist, at Santa Agueda, Spain, at 1 o’clock Sunday afternoon. He was shot to death. The murderer fired three times at the aged Spanish minister. Two bullets passed through his forehead and another penetrated his chest. He fell dying at the feet of his wife, who was with him. For two hours he lingered in terrible agony, struggling against the rapid approach of death. With the cry of “Long live Spain” on his lips, the grim old patriot, the fierce monarchist and leader of the Alfonsist party, and the head of the

SENOR CANOVAS.

government that tried to crush the Cuban rebellion by a policy of extermination, passed away. Spain was his love and his life. His country was his idol and its progress his pride. He fought for the monarchy that now rules Spain. He fell by the hand of one to whom all monarchies are detestable and all men in power are tyrants fit only for the knife or the bullet. Assassinated by an Alien. Like President Carnot of France, he was assassinated by an alien. In each case the murderer came from Italy, and followed the victim from the seat of the government to a spot where the crime would be made easier by the absence of guards. In each case the crime was committed on Sunday. “I killed him in accomplishment of a just vengeance,” exclaimed the assassin of Cnnovas, boastingly, when arrested. Golli declared his deed was the outcome of a vast conspiracy to assassinate the rulers of Europe. He spoke of Cesare Santo, the Italian assassin of President Carnot, as a hero who belonged to a band of similar “heroes devoted to the work of destroying tyrants.” Europe Shaken by the News, The terrible news swept over Spain and the people went into mourning for the victim of the awful crime. Europe was shaken by the story of the assassination, and words of sorrow and sympathy were flashed from every court. The revolutionists in Spain were silenced and the liber-

|Uls, who had fought the monarchist leadier, were horrified at the crime. Senor Canovas passed through the storm and stress of a ministerial crisis only two months ago. His cabinet was again in the saddle. He had won a victory over his political opponents. His plans for the suppression of the rebellion in Cuba and the re-establishment of Spanish supremacy in the Philippine Islands were strengthened. Sought Rest and Met Death. The Spanish premier determined to take a rest and a three weeks’ course of the baths at Santa Agueda. He was to return to the sumn'jcr residence of the Spanish court at San Sebastian to meet United States Minister Woodford, who was to be presented and officially received by Maria Christina, the queen regent. He sought rest at this time so that he would be able to take up the Cuban problem with the minister from the United States and learn the attitude of the latter country toward Spain and the Cuban struggle for independence. The murderer was well dressed and did not attract particular attention. It is remembered now that he often wandered about the passages and corridors in the bathing establishment. His actions were suspicious, but, as he was attired like the fashionable frequenters of the Santa Agueda baths, nothing was ever said to him. The Neapolitan had wandered around the establishment on his usual search for the Spanish prime minister. He saw him in the gallery, and,, walking slowly so as not to attract notice from the attendants, he stepped up to the premier. WithonJ n word he fired at Senor Canovas when only one pace from him. The

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first bullet passed through the body und came out behind under the left shoulder. The prime minister uttered a cry of •gony and clutched at the wound in his

side. He reeled, but before he fell the assassin fired two more shots, both bullets lodging in the head. The roar of the revolver was heard in every part of the establishment, and the attendants rushed to the scene of the tragedy. Senora Canovas flung open the door of her dressing room and caught her husband as he fell. The horror of it all overcame her and she swooned and fell over him. For a few minutes only did the prime minister recover consciousness. Then he opened his eyes, dulled with agony, and murmured the words: "Long live Spain!” The assassin offered no resistance to arrest. He is a Neopolitan, and gave his name as Rinaldi. It is believed this is an assumed name and that his real name U Michele Angino Golli.

BIG WHEEL MEET.

Quaker City Thoroughly Awakened by Thousands of Pedalera. The opening race meet of the eighteenth annual meet of the L. A. W. was held at Willow Grove Park, Philadelphia, before 15,000 spectators. It was the most successful in the history of the organization, in attendance, enthWgsm and good racing. Several State records were smashed and Arthur Gardiner of Chicago, the crack, came within 2-5 of a second of breaking Hamilton’s world's record for a mile paced. He succeeded in lowering the fast mile made by Johnson at Chicago last year by 4-5 of a second. Gardiner, paced by quads, crossed the line like a flash and the time was caught. He never ceased his pace until the finish was made in 1:39 3-5, breaking the State record of 1:45 3-5, held by Kiser. Starbuck also took a trial at the record, paced by a quad and triplet. His time was 1:44%, also breaking Kiser’s record. Both these events followed the scheduled races for the day. In the latter the honors among the professionals were won by Longhead of Sarnia, Ont., who crossed the tape a winner in three trials, two finals, and second man in a third final. In one of these finals, the mile professionaL he broke the State competition record of 2:05 4-5, by covering the distance in 2:03 3-5. He captured the quarter-mile championship in 32 seconds. Among the amateurs honors were more more evenly divided, with the best racing done by Peabody, Johnson, Middendorff, Shrade, Krick and Miller. During the

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entire day there were but two or three spills, and nobody was hurt by these. At night Willow Grove Park was given over to the wheelmen and the visitors saw exhibitions of trick and fancy riding, * display of fireworks and a general good time.

BICYCLE TAX IS VOID.

Judge Tuley Holds the Chicago Meal" ure to Be Unconstitutional. Judge Tuley has decided the new Chicago city ordinance establishing a vehicle tax .to be void. The ordinance permitted the city to collect $1 a year license from each bicycle owner and for other vehicle* proportionately. The court held that the city had no right to license bicycles, but only an occupation, and could not impose a license upon specific property when not used in business or in an occupation. Counsel for the city took an appeal and the case will be heard in higher court*. The ordinance was passed for the ostensible purpose of raising a permanent *treet repairing fund. The new law aroused much opposition, especially among wheelmen. An injunction suit was brought against the city and the enjoining bill wa* sustained in Judge Tuley’s decision.

BUST OF M’KINLEY.

To Be Placed in the Capitol at Colum* bus, Ohio. The State House in Columbus, f)hio, is soon to have n bust in marble of President

NEW BUST OF M’KINLEY.

McKinley. It is a very strong work of art by a noted Italian sculptor and is chiseled from white marble taken from the Carrara quarries of S. A. McFarland. The bust was brought from Europe by th* Anchor Line steanjer Hesperia. It is said to be n duplicate of the bust which is to be presented to Mrs. McKinley by th* women of Ohio. It is presented to th* i ommouwealth by the people of the State. The likeness is good. I he year 1991 Is now set for the abolition of the twelve club league and th* division of the major body into two eight club organizations, one composed of Sunday playing clubs and the other to be made up of those against playing ball on that day. The ten-year agreement among the magnates terminates at the end of the season of 1900. Advices from every wheat growing county in Oiegon show that the wheat crop will be the largest in the history of the State. The total crop will amount to about 18,000,000 bushels. The wheat appears to be of excellent quality. Samuel Blair, one of Chattanooga's oldest nnd wealthiest citizens, was found dead in a bath tub at his residence with his thront cut. Business troubles ar* supposed to have caused him to take hl* life.