Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1897 — Page 2

gfttgcmotrflticStniinel J. W. MoEWEN, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA

TO OUST THE FARMERS

EVIDENT DESIGN OF BIG KANSAS STOCKMEN. Would Depopulate a Whole County —When the Scheme Becomes Known to the Smaller Herders They Object and a Riot Nearly Results. Cattle Barons' Plan. News of a stupendous scheme to depopulate Clark County, Kansas, and convert its broad acres into a vast cattle ranch for the benefit of “Barbecue” Campbell and a few other cattle barons has reached Wichita. A few years ago Clark County was thickly settled, and in the boom times a majority of the settlers mortgaged their claims to the limit. Subsequently the greater part of the land passed into the hands of the mortgage holders and was largely appropriated by a few big cattlemen and syndicates. The county is now mostly fenced into great pastures, no attention being paid to leaving out unoccupied claims, farms, government lands and school lands, but all being taken in and utilized for pasture by the big cattlemen. A meeting of all the cattlemen of the county was recently held at Ashland, the county seat, and an association was formed ostensibly for mutual protection, but in reality to prevent anybody from settling in the county. The constitution presented for adoption provided that the members of the association bind themselves to not permit any person to settle upon a claim or to purchase or lease any school land belonging to another person or any school land within any fenced pasture occupies! by any member of the association. This unwarranted usurpation of power in the interest of the few big cattle barons met spirited opposition from the stockmen of small means who desire to see the county better settled and a riot resulted. Finally, a division of the house was called on a vote upon the constitution. Nine cattle barons stood up in favor and eleven stockmen voted against its provisions. The few settlers of Clark County are greatly excited over the question, which is still being agitated by the barons.

AVOID THE KLONDIKE. Surveyor Ogilvie Advises Against Going to That Country. In speaking of the Klondike gold fields, William Ogilvie, dominion surveyor fcr the Northwest Territory, discourage* all strangers from going into that bleu!, country. He denies that any difference regard ing the boundary line exists between Canada and the I'nited States. He says: "Gold has been found in a certain zone in British Columbia, running through the Cariboo and Cassiar districts. Project the axis of this zone northwesterly, and we touch the Teslin Lake, Hootalinqua River. Stewart River, Indians Creek, T roandike, Sixty Mile, Forty Mile, American Creek, Seventy Mile and Birch Creek. Now it is highly improbable that, gold being found at all these points, the intervening spaces are barren, and will do no more than say generally that we have a zone of upwards of 500 miles in length, some of it in Alaska, more of it in the Northwest Territory, and much of it in British Columbia, which will yet be the scene of numerous mining enterprises, both on the quartz and placer, the former practically inexhaustible. The conditions, however, are most, unfavorable. There is a niue-months' winter, barrenness is almost total, so far as vegetation and food is concerned, the earth is bound in eternal frost, and the thermometer often reaches BO and 70 degrees below zero.”

hard blows for wetgebt. Mrs. Toseh Proves to Be a Very Effective Witness for Prosecution. Mrs. Agatha Toseh, to whom Adolph Luetgert was wont to confide his business and marital troubles, took the stand for the prosecution when the famous murder case was resumed in Chicago Tuesday, and gave damaging testimony against the prisoner. According to her evidence, the day after Mrs. Luetgert disappeared Mrs. Toseh had a long conversation with the sausagemaker, who, she asserts, was pale and laboring under excitement he vainly endeavored to suppress. In the course of their talk she boldly told him she believed him guilty of making away with his wife and that he thereupon manifested much excitement and begged her to help him, as he was in great trouble. Mrs. Toseh dilated on Luetgert’s disturbed condition of mind as much as the rules of evidence would permit and finally swore that the man, in the extremity of his distress, declared he was tempted to shoot himself and escape the trouble that hung over his head. Before she left the stand Mrs. Toseh also testifies! to the hatred felt by Luetgert for his wife and his significant threats to crush her.

Athletes of the Iliamon l. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Baltimore .. .72 32 Pittsburg ....46 59 Boston 74 34 Philadelphia .48 61 New York ..G 6 38 Louisville ...48 62 Cincinnati . .64 42 Brooklyn ... .46 61 Cleveland .. .54 50 Washington .45 60 Chicago 50 58 St. Louis ... .27 81 .The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. 80 2!) Detroit 60 56 Columbus ... 70 41 Minneapolis ..40 80 St. Paul ... .73 43 Kansas City .36 84 Milwaukee -.68 48 Gra’d Rapids. 34 80 Great Tidal Wave. Earthquake shocks in China and Japan, followed by a tidal wave, caused great loss of life and enormous damage to property. • Dentist Atwood Is Sued. Mrs. Annie Kirk and her husband, W. S. Kirk, have sued W. A. Atwnpd, a dentfast at San Francisco, for $250 damages alleged to have been sustained because he positively refused to examine the woman’s teeth because she came to his office on her bicycle and wore bloomers. Ruled Off the Lake. As a result of the recent collision of the steamer Virginia with the Christopher Columbus at Milwaukee the captains of both boats have been indefinitely suspended by the marine inspectors. Boom in Hog Marker. 4, boom is under way in the Kansas City hog market. Friday’s prices were the highest reached within nearly two years, going up 10 cents to 15 cents a hundred weight, on top of a similar advance Thursday. Prices advanced 70 cents since Aug. 1, and near a dollar higher than in the middle of July. France May Float a Loan. The Lond lon Financial News says the French cabinet is considering the floating of a loan of £60,000,000 in per cent bonds, partly for the redemption of the floating debt and partly for the recon•traction of the French navy.

PAGEANT OF PEACE.

FIFTY THOUSANDOLD SOLDIERS PASS IN REVIEW. President McKinley Leads the Veteran* in the Grand Array Parade at Buffalo—Martial Columns Are Cheered by Half a Million. Touch Elbows Again. Nearly 50,000 war-worn veterans, with the President of the United States at their bead, made the triumphal march of the Grand Army of the Republic in Buffalo Wednesday. For more than six hours the grizzled but undaunted remnants of the armies of the republic poured through the streets in lines of undulating blue, amid the martini crash of bands and the frenzied huzzas of a patriotic populace. Nearly half a million spectators watched the glorious pageant and bombarded the marching legions with the roar of their ceaseless cheering. For two hours President McKinley stood in the reviewing stand, with Com-mander-in-Chief Clarkson ami Gov. Frank 8. Black of New York at his side, and acknowledged the greetings of the battle-scarred hosts passing before him. The President was deluged with cheers and songs, shouts and flowers, and through all the riot of noise and adulation bowed and smiled and moved his comrades to renewed ecstasies of enthusiasm. Buffalo wps in fitting mood and garb for the inspiring spectacle. Its people, re-en-forced by 2<IO,(MMJ from outside, choked the walks and lawns from the brick walls to the wire stretched along the line of march at the curbstone. They filled 10,000 windows ami roofs, packed a score of big stands, took to the trees in flocks and squeezed into every nook that afforded a view of the procession. The martial columns moved for miles between two solid, shouting walls of humanity, such a living mass as had never been seen before in the Empire State outside the metropolis. The city was swathed in red, white and blue. Public and private buildings were smothered in the Stars and Stripes. The trudging battalions were hemmed in on both sides with fluttering flags, and floating streamers hung from every window and pmnacle. The decorations were on a lavish scale ami included many gorgeous designs. Noble arches spanned the

streets to typify the triumph of the army in blue. A living shield of 2,000 children stirred the hearts of the veterans to responsive cheers by singing “Marching Through Georgia,” . “Rally Round the Flag” and other songs of happy memory. A band of pretty maidens in tri-colored costumes strewed the pathway of the President with flowers and ferns, and were rewarded with his kindliest smiles. Paeans of Joy at I very Step. Through such scenes, with the glories of the flag on every hand and paeans of joy at every step, moved this pageant of peace, this relic of war. The heavens, too, smiled benignantly. The day was perfect. A shower during the night freshened the atmosphere. During the parade the sun shone brilliantly, but there was a pleasant breeze, and the weather was not uncomfortably hot. The myriad of proud banners glinted in old Sol’s rays in their brightest luster, and the faded, tattered battle flags, many of them furled to save their wasting remnants; were kissed into new radiance and glory. The day was ushered in with a sunrise salute of forty-five guns. At 8 o’clock

TYPES OF OLD SOLDIERS.

Main street was choked. An hour later drums were beating and a hundred bands were playing, echoing and jarring each ’ other’s accents. Mounted officers were dashing hither and thither, giving their 1 sharp orders. Sabers and burnished 7 shieldsflashed in the sunlight. There was everywhere what seemed to the civilian’s -eye confusion and consternation, but not so to the stuidy old soldiers in the blue 1 ' coats. It was all orderly and beautiful 1 to them. They loved it. It was a taste ' of the old life. It was shortly after 10 o’clock when a squad of mounted police left the terrace, 1 a square in the business part of the city, and the crowd announced the beginning of the parade with shouts of “Here they come.” It was nearly 5 o’clock when the last weary veterans trudged by the reviewing stand, two miles from the terrace. The line of march was up Main street to Chippewa, thence to. Delaware avenue, and north on that aristocratic thoroughfare, lined with the homes of the old families of the city. The column turn-

ed west in North street, passing beautiful residences of a later generation, nnd marched through the circle to disband in the parks of the lake shore. President McKinley rode at the head of the parade as far as the reviewing stand, which was at the end of the twomile march. Two hundred young women scattered along the route, attired in gowns of red, white and blue, scattered flowers before his carriage. When the President, standing on the reviewing stand, caught sight of the tattered war flags of the armies of Illinois he put down his hat and clapped his hands, exploding a demonstration which rolled down the line like the booming of cannon. The whole route was over smooth asphalt pavements, the first march of the kind, Gen. Alger said, he had ever beheld. The President's reviewing stand

MAIN STREET ILLUMINATED ARCH.

was at the intersection of North street and Richmond avenue. Approaching the stand the army moved west in North street. Double rows of trees, whose branches met overhead, made a green canopy above the last half-mile of the march. It looked as if the army wits coming out of a fairy-book forest. To the west, the situation was the same. The foliage heightened the colors of the flattering flags as the army wound past the stand. Railroad officials say that 300,000 is a low estimate of the number of visitors in

THOUSANDS OF VETERANS IN LINE.

Buffalo. The police arrangements were admirable. Persons having grand stand tickets found their seats readily, and the 500,000 persons who wanted to see the parade were kept well in hand. Receptions of the Evening. Despite the fact that President McKinley was exceedingly weary, he met the local committee at night just after dinner, and accompanied by Gov. Black, went to Music Hall to meet the general public. The strain of the day was, however, too much for flesh and blood, and after he had greeted about 3,000 persons individually he was compelled to leave the hall. Fully 20,000 persons blocked the streets in the vicinity of the hall and expressed their disappointment at not being permitted to shake the President’s hand. Leaving Music Hall, the President was driven to the Buffalo Club, where he received the Loyal Legion. At 10:45 he went to the Niagara Hotel for the night.

DOLAN ARRESTED.

Miners’ Leader Is Charged with Violating Anti-Marching Injunction. Patrick Dolan, district president of the United Mine Workers of America, was arrested in Washington County, Pa., while leading a body of marchers on a public highway past the Allison mine of Cook & Sons, near McGovern station. Ever since the strike started the miners have been making daily marches from their camp to the mine. From the nrr.e to the railroad there is a tramway, under which runs the public road known as the Washington pike. Wednesday morning, with a band at their head, about 400 marchers tramped along the pike and passed under the tramway. On their return they were stopped by deputy sheriffs and told they could not pass under the tramway, but must return to their camp by crossing a field and coming down the railroad. The marchers decided to remain where they were and communicated with President Dolan by telegraph. He arrived shortly after 4 o’clock and made a speech to the strikers. He said the deputy sheriffs had no right to stop them from marching on the public thoroughfare as long as their mission was a peaceful one and told them he would lead the procession. The band, with Dolan at its head, and the marchers following, then started down the road to go under the tramway and on to the camp. W’hen Dolan reached the tramway he was told by the deputy sheriffs that he could go no farther. When he wanted to know the reason why he was told that such a move was a violation of the law and the injunction. This Dolan denied and the arrest followed. He was taken to Washington on the first train, while the marchers returned to their camp.

SHORTAGE IN EUROPE.

Cereal and Potato Crops Are Smail and the Situation la Grave. An extensive inquiry into European crop conditions conducted by the Orange Judd syndicate of agricultural papers indicates that the food crop situation abroad is very grave. Estimates of the needs of

wheat imports for Europe, including England, range all the way from 300,000,000 to 400,000,000 bushels. Europe’s wheat crops for 1895, 1894 and 1893 averaged about 1,500,000,00 b bushels. In the famine year of 1891 it was only 1,200,000,000. The impression is gaining ground that Europe's wheat crop this year is even less than in 1891. But this is not the worst of it. Europe usually produces as much rye as she does wheat. It is the bread grain of the masses. The rye crop of the principal European countries (Russia, Germany, France, Austria, Bulgaria, Routnania and Italy and the low countries and Sweden) has averaged about 1,300,000,000 bushels annually for 1896, 1895, 1894 and 1893. This season the rye crop of these countries cannot much exceed 875,000,000 bushels. Quite as bad is the potato prospect. Only about 1,850,000,000 bushels of potatoes will be harvested in these countries this year. Without regard to the United Kingdom or other European countries, there is a shortage of some 1,000,000,000 bushels of potatoes. European shortage in bushels compared with the average follows: Wheat 300,000,000 Rye 325,000,000 Potatoes 1,000,000,000 Total 1,625,000,000

MINE OWNERS AT SEA.

Combine of the Big Coal Operators Is Badly Shattered. At Pittsburg Wednesday, the coal operators practically split and went home. They held a session in the forenoon and gave out a statement that they would “continue the struggle along the lines that may appear to be the most productive of the results desired in the interests of miner and operator alike.” None of them could explain what this meant. In the afternoon, after a conference of some of the leading shippers to the lakes, another statement was given out by Operator J. C. Dysart. It contained the information that another committee had been appointed to continue the work of getting the mines in operation, which had been started last week in Cleveland. As the statement issued in the forenoon said that all committees had been discharged, the conflict of statements caused some inquiry as to what the operators really meant. Inquiry failed to bring any result except the impression that they are trying to find “where they are at.” At the forenoon meeting some of the anti-lake shippers proposed that the operators pay the C9-cent rate pending ar-

bitration. This was opposed by the representatives of the big companies, who have been running the meetings. The meeting adjourned without either side coming to any conclusion.

BORDA IS ASSASSINATED.

President of Uruguay la Shot Down at Montevideo. During a national fete which was held in Montevideo President J. Idiarte Borda of Uruguay was shot and killed by an assassin. The weapon used was a revolver. The assassin was arrested. Senor J. Idiarte Borda was elected president of Uruguay for the term extending from March, 1894, to 1898. The fete at which he was assassinated was being held in celebration of the independence of Uruguay, which was achieved on Aug. 25, 1825. The assassination of President Idiarte Borda of Uruguay was not altogether a surprise to officials in Washington who have watched the recent outbreaks in Uruguay. This was the second attempt on the president's life, the former being

PRESIDENT JUAN IDIARTE BORDA.

made April 21 last by a crazy student named Revecca. The last issue of the Montevideo Times, received in Washington, states that the president remained away from the state house in evident fear of his life. At the time a junta of those seeking to overthrow the government had established active operations at the capitol. The assassination of the president doubtless will bring the country to a revolutionary crisis, which has been long impending. The revolution thus far had been confined to the country districts, where several extensive engagements had been fought, the Government forces securing the advantage. There is no Uruguayan representative in Washington. At the time of Senor Borda’s election he belonged to the official party, and was elected by a narrow majority. The people, it was said, were sadly disappointed at the result, but order and quiet was maintained. The leading papers of Uruguay deplored the election of Senor Borda and declared that it marked a reaction in the country's progress.

LABOR LEADERS MEET.

Conference in Aid of Miner* la Held m St. .Louis. In a speech at the conference yt labor leaders in St. Louis M. D. Ratchford, president of the United Mine Workers of America, advocated a great sympathetic strike of all branches of organized labor unless Congress met at once and gave the laborers relief and wiped out the laws which empowered the judiciary “to conduct government by injunction.” The forces of labor met at Masonic Temple at 10 o’clock Monday morning. H. W. Steinbiss, secretary of the Trades and Labor Union, occupied the chair. No business was done at this session, a recess being taken until 11 o’clock. About' 200 men composed the convention. At* 11 o’clock Sheridan Webster nominated W. B. Prescott, president of the International Typographical Union, for temporary chairman. His election was unanimously adopted and was greeted with applause. Chairman Prescott then appointed a committee composed of M. D. Ratchford, James O’Connell, Grant Luce, J. R. Sovereign and W. D. Mahon. The Committee on Credentials made its rei>ort immediately upon the assembling of the conference for its afternoon session. It was shown that eighty-eight' delegates, representing the following organizations, were represented: United Mine Workers of America, the Social Democracy, the American Federation of Labor, the Stonemakers International Union, Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators, Brotherhood of Bot-tle-Blowers, Building Trades Council of St. Louis, the Patriots of America, International Brotherhood of Track Foremen, the Single-Tax League of America, Central Labor Council of Cincinnati, the International Typographical Union, the People’s party of Kansas and the Industrial Order of Freedmen. Mr. Ratchford took the floor and went over the miners' strike from its inception to the present day, dwelling particularly upon “government by injunction.” He pleaded for prompt action, and, coming to the point of his argument, advocated a special session of Congress as the best and in fact the only relief. “In ease of a refusal to convene Congress,” said Mr. Ratchford, “it will then be time to consider more extreme measures. 1 am in favor, if the President refuses to call Congress together, of a complete paralysis of business. I believe then in a sympathetic strike.”

Patrick O’Neill of Rich Hill, Mo., who said he represented 1,500 unorganized “picks,” favored a labor revolution. He was a Socialist, he said, and believed in the miners taking things in their own hands if necessary. Mr. Sovereign put himself on record as opposed to Mr. Ratchford’s plan. He believed that the crucial test now confronted organized labor. Mr. Mahon of Detroit said a resolutions committee was useless. The convention should vote on Ratchford’s porposition, and then go home. The power of the nation, he said, was in the courts, and if anybody was to be convened let it be the courts. He was oposed to Mr. Ratchford’s proposition. James M. Carson, president of the Illinois miners, then recited at great length the conditions confronting the miners of his State, and said he believed his men would be beaten in two weeks. Mr. Ratchford took exception to Mr. Carson’s statement that the Illinois miners lad lost their strike. He said the miners were winning their strike, and, furthetmore, his men were not asking this convention for aid. At 5 o’clock the convention adjourned until Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock.

KILLED FROM AMBUSH.

Arizona Moonshiners Waylay a Posse of United States Deputies. Six men were probably massacred in the wilds of the mountains of Pope County, Ark. Two were killed outright, two were fatally wounded and left for dead and two have mysteriously disappeared and aie either dead or being held captive by the bloodthirsty bandits who committed the awful crime. The victims were all officers, United States deputy marshals and deputy sheriffs, and the men who did the awful work of carnage are moonshiners of the boldest and most desperate class. The scene of the bloody crime was a gulch or ravine in the mountains of Pope County at an isolated spot thirty-five miles from Russellville, the nearest telegraph office, and ten miles from Will Springs. The region has for yea rs been the favorite rendezvous for counterfeiters and moonshiners and a district in which no lawabiding citizen could live.

Marshal Taylor, with his posse, located a large moonshine outfit Saturdiy night and decided to make the raid Sunday in daylight. Proceeding slightly in advance of his men, Taylor was within thirty feet of the distillery when he was suddenlyfired upon from ambush and instantly killed. As Dodson ran up to Taylor he was also shot dead in his tracks. Rifles began to crack in all directions and a terrific volley was fired into the officers. Two fell mortally wounded and lay by the roadside until later in the day, when a traveler named Pack chanced by. All traces of the bandits had disappeared, as well as two of the deputy sheriffs. The United States marshal will make a determined effort to capture the murderers.

BIG HAUL OF GRAIN.

Railroads Fring Chicago Over 5,000 Cars in One Day. The roads running to Chicago from the West and Northwest are doing the largest business they have ever done before at this season of the year. Monday was a record breaker. Over 5,000 carloads of grain were brought in by the Western roads. This means over 100,000 tons of grain in one day, or more than three times trs much as the ten east-bound roads took from the city during the whole of last week. Of the above mentioned 5,000 carloads of grain, 3,500 carloads were corn. The Burlington brought in 1,100 cars and the Rock Island over 900 cars, and they ran short of rolling stock. While the lake lines took out of Chicago last week nearly 200,000 tons of freight—the largest amount on record--the Chicago east-bound roads are carrying no more through freight than they did at this time last year. The reason is the rates charged by the railroads are higher than the traffic will bear. Total shipments of flour, grain, and provisions from Chicago through to seaboard points and for export by the ten eastbound roads last week amounted to 44,349 tons, against 40,153 tons for the week previous and 41,117 tons for the corresponding week last year. Flour shipments last Meek were 2,510 tons,’ against 5,328 tons last year; grain, 30,488 tons, against 20,<851 tons; provisions, 11,351 tons, against 14,938 tons.

Hurricane Destroys a Town.

Advices state that a severe hurricane visited the gulf of California and lower’ Mexican coast. At Das Guaoimas, near the mouth of the Yaqua river, the region for miles around was inundated and the town swept away. Three lives are reported to have been lost and great damage was done to crops. With prospective trouble in India, and the United States holding the surplus wheat of the world, arbitration is the policy of Great Britain.— Indianapolia Journal. . <

IS THE WOMAN DEAD?

LUETGERT'S LAWYERS CLAIM IT CANNOT BE PROVEN. Upon that Point Hinges the Fate of Chicago’s Rich Sausage Maker, Who Is Being Triel for a Most Hideous Crime. Case of Great Interest. Not since the celebrated Cronin case has Chicago had a trial which promised so much in the line of sensation as that of Adolpn Luetgert, the rich sausagemaker who is accused of murdering his wife. The trial, which is now on, will probably continue two months. The long trial and the extraordinary features involved will give the case a place among the most famous crimes of the century. The theory of the prosecution, represented by State Attorney Charles S. Deneen, is that Luetgert, who was not on good terms with his wife, murdered her and disposed of her body by dissolving it in a sausage vat tilled with caustic soda and crude potash. The defense will set up the claim that Mrs. Luetgert is not dead, that she wandered away from home while demented and is still alive. The strength of the prosecutor's case depends upon the ability of the attorneys and police to prove that Mrs. Luetgert is dead. The difficulties involved in establishing the corpus delicti gives the case a resemblance to the Park-man-Webster murder in Boston half a century ago.

Luetgert is about 50 years old. He used to be a saloonkeeper, but after his marriage to 18-year-old Louise Bickner

ADOLPH L. LUETGERT.

about twenty years ago he went into the sausage manufacturing business. He had a knowledge of chemistry, and by using it in his business produced a superior article and rapidly accumulated money. He was once worth $300,000, but his fortune has dwindled somewhat. During the last few years he and his wife lived unhappily, and though he ate at home he spent his nights in the sausage factory, which stood in the rear of the house. At 10 o’clock Saturday evening, May 1, little Louis Luetgert bade his mother good-night and left her sitting in the back parlor of their splendid home.

LUETGERT’S BIG SAUSAGE FACTORY.

Her’husband was, as usual, spending the night in the factory. When Louis and the other children came down to breakfast the following morning their mother was missing. Luetgert -was informed, but remarked that she would turn up all right. Days passed, but Mrs. Luetgert did not return and finally her brother notified the police. Luetgert suggested suicide. The river was dragged and the country round about searched, but no trace of her could be found. Accused of Murder. Finally Inspector Schaack grew suspicious and when the night watchman and engineer at the sausage factory told him that the night Mrs. Luetgert disappeared, Luetgert had been doing unusual things at the factory his suspicion grew into a belief that Luetgert had murdered his wife. The engineer said that, contrary to the usual order of affairs, Luetgert had him keep the tires at the factory going that night and that he saw Luetgert moving around the place mysteriously until 3 o'clock Sunday morning. Luetgert was arrested and his factory was searched, One of the sausage vats showed evidence of recent use. At the bottom was found, in a very much diluted form, a solution of potash and caustic soda. There were also found two of Mrs. Luetgert’s rings, several pieces of bone, an artificial tooth which a dentist identified as one he had made for Mrs. Luetgert, and, in the

MRS. LUETGERT.

eateh basin of the sewer which drained the vat, several pieces of bone and a small tangle of hair. It was the theory of the police that Luetgert had enticed his wife to the factory, killed her, possibly by strangulation, and that he then immersed her body in the diabolical solution in the vat, turned on the steam until the solution boiled, and calmly watched and stirred the contents until disintegration was complete. To this awful charge Luetgert entered a calm and complete denial.' He maintained that his wife was still alive, that she would eventually appear, and that the alleged evidence of the police was a mass of fabrication. Nevt rt be less he was held for murder. A few days later a young

man said that be had met a demented woman in Kenosha, Wis., who answered Mm. Luetgert’s description and who said that she had a sister in Chicago named Muelkr. Mrs. Luetgert has a sister by that name. Subsequently it was reported that Mrs. Luetgert was seen in New York and that she had sailed for Europe. Luetgert’s lawyers claim that these reports are true and that the murder theory is an outrage. In the course of preparation for the

THE LUETGERT HOME.

trial, and for the purpose’of demonstrating that it is actually possible for a human body to have been entirely disintegrated within the time limit set by the police in their theory of the crime, an experiment was made at Rush Medical College a few weeks ago under the supervision of Profs. Haines and Delafontaine, and in the presence of State’s Attorney Deneen and representatives of the police department. The body of a pauper who had died at the hospital, weighing about 130 pounds, was dismembered, placed in a boiler containing a strong solution of caustic soda and potash and boiled for three hours. At the end of that time practically nothing was left except a few pieces of bone, which easily crumbled under pressure, and the bottom of the boiler was found to contain a thick brown ooze, similar in composition to that in the bottom of the sausage factory vat. To offset this experiment the defense ask to be permitted to make an experiment in court. The cadaver used by the State, say the attorneys for the defense, was several days old. In it there was not the resisting power of nerves and ihuscles that a body from which life has just passed would offer to the action of the solution. Acting upon this belief the defense wants to conduct experiments with ,a fresh body.

EXTRA DUTY MAY BE IMPOSED.

Question as to* the Meaning of the Discriminating Tax Clause. Involved in the question of the interpretation of section 22 of the new tariff law with regard to the 10 per cent discriminating duty on foreign goods coming into the United States from Canada or Mexico, which is now before the attorney general for decision, is another question of equal if not greater magnitude. This other

question has almost entirely escaped publie notice, but it is giving the treasury great concern. It was referred to the attorney general by Secretary Gage for interpretation along with the other features of section 22 which are in controversy. It involves the question of whether this discriminating duty of 10 per cent does not apply to all goods imported in foreign vessels lauding at United States ports which are not exempt from discriminating tonnage taxes by express treaty stipulation. The question arises from another slight deviation in section 22, which, if made intentionally, would seem to indi-cate-that it was designed to discriminate against three-fourths of all the big transatlantic and transpacific steamship lines, as well as many of the South American lines.

SAFE IS ROBBED OF $32,000.

Burglars Loot the Dominion Bank in the Ontario Town of Napanee. Burglars entered the Dominion Bank at Napanee, near Kingston, Ont., and knowing the combination of the vault, opened it and stole $32,000. When the officials reached the bank in the morning they found the vault locked. The burglars changed the combination, and the manager of the bank thought that one of the clerks had made a mistake in locking the vault. An expert was brought from Toronto to open the vault and he occupied the whole day. In the meantime the burglars got a good start. In the evening about 7 o’clock the doors were opened and the bank officials missed the money. Where the burglars got the information concerning the combination of the vault is a mystery.

Manitoba Wheat Crop.

Ail of the 25,000,000 bushels of wheat in Manitoba is cut. There has been no frost sufficient to damage the wheat. The crop will be the largest in the history of the'Canadian northwest. The yield will run as high ns thirty-five bushels to the acre, while in Ontario it is as high as forty. The total wheat crop of Canada this year will be fully 00,000,000 bushels of prime wheat.

Notes of Current Events.

The National Liquor Dealers’ Association has decided to meet next year at Detroit. Albert Voiers. one of the notorious Lewis gang of murderers, under sentence to be hanged at Fayetteville, W. Va., broke jail and escaped. Of the twenty-six Senators who served terms in the lower house before coming to the Senate, Senator Mills of Texas served longest, his term being from 1873 to 1892. Rev. J. 11. Houghton, pastor of St James’ Episcopal Church at Huntington,' Pa,, was found dead in bed at his resid»Mjce. Rev. Houghton was a native of Salt Lake City, Utah. The popular enthusiasm over the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York to Ireland is unabated. Their royal highnesses were again the recipients of a warm ovation at Dublin at the opening of the exhibition of Irish textile industries aiid during their visit to the horticultural show.