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public, for they arc misleading and in the main untrue." said Dolan. "Let me tell lwmethtng concerning what passed between us at that conference. When Ratchford had given his ultimatum, and the operators were excited and some of them very much out of humor. I took the tloor. I told them that I looked into the faces of many of the operators who had repeatedly told me that If the miners’ officials succeeded in bringing about a suspension in certain mines that were paying a lower rate, they would agree not only to pay 69 cents, but $1 a ton. I told them that we had brought about the suspension they asked for and they know I referred to the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company’s mines. It seemed absurd to them to accept our proposition to go to work at the 69cent rate pending arbitration. I explained to them that we had brought about a sus--1>• ■ r:s•.n in tlii- min* s that seemed to bother them so much and wanted them to keep their promises. "Os course, it is well known that they would not listen to our proposiyon. I then appealed to them to use their efforts to bring about a conference of operators and miners in all the States involved. I told them that everyone present should dnake an honest effort to bring about such a conference, and assured them that the miners' officials would do all in their power to bring the parties interested together. Jf, after every effort had been exhausted to bring about such a conference and had failed I toid them that 1 would be willing to cut loose and act independently for the Pittsburg district and have the support of the local organization. Now, if this was not fair, 1 would like to know of an argument against it. They refused to he as good as their word on the first proposition, and on the second did not even exhibit a desire to bring about a conference of the various •States, and. as I suggested, we are in favor of bringing the question to an honorable and fair settlement and on a just basis. This effort to put the odium on the miners on the arbitration question is as unfair as it is unjust and the public should know it.” it has been decided to start a campaign among the miners on the Wheeling division of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The miners formerly employed in the Anderson, Jlackett, Germania, Nottingham, Snowden, Gastonville and First Pool mines will hold a mass meeting at Finleyville Wednesday morning. It was learned to-day that the Gastonville miners, who were served by an official of the Pittsburg and Chicago Gas Coal Company with notices to vacate their houses, w'iil resist the eviction. Nearly ail of them forfeited wages aggregating $9,000 when they went out on strike, under conditions imposed on them by the ironclad contracts they had signed. They claim the money is due them, and they intend to remain in the houses until the accounts are squared. The meeting Wednesday is to be addressed by M. P. Garrick, Cameron Miller and others. MORE I.NSKTTLEI). Strike Spreading in tiie I’eiumylvnnia Anthracite Region. HAZELTON, Pa., Aug. 29.—The strike situation here is more unsettled tonight than it ■dias been for some days and rumors of a general shutdown was current. These have excited no little apprehension among the people who were just beginning to feel the effects of the improved condition of the anthracite coal trade and the activity at the mines due to the increased demand created by the depleted stock of bituminous. The foreigners control mining matters hbre and this fact is coming home to the operators with greater force now that when they imported them for hard coal production. The Mllnesville collieries alone have furnished steady ■work for miners during the past few years and the native workers who found employmen' there considered themselves very fortunat . They naturally chafe under the dictation of the foreigners now who prevent them from working. No attempt will be rnado by the operators to start Van Wiekle’a collieries to-morrow. Should the English-speaking miners attempt to do so Independently, the foreigners openly say, violence will follow. Meetings were held in different places to-day and the decision was ‘’strike.” The Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Company’s Tnen, who went back to work last Monday, declare that another strike will be ordered If the company do not give positive evidence by Tuesday of keeping faith with them on the wage and investigation basis.

Robinson Offers nn Advance. DUBOIS, Pa., Aug. 29.—General Manager Robinson to-day issued a circular to the Rochester and London striking miners, in which he grants an advance to forty cents pet net ton and gives th’e company’s side of the controversy. On Tuesday, after the committee notified Mr. Robinson that the miners here had decided to strike, notwithstanding his request for them to work unitil Saturday, when he would reply to their 1 demand for an advance, he told them he would hav*e to further communicate with Dubois. In his circular to-day he says he deems it his duty to send them a communication, as they have been misled and misinformed. After explaining the position of the company and its efforts to obtain contracts. Mr. Robinson says: “Th’e effect of the lost tonnage you will feel long after these agitators with incorrect and careless .statements of facts have disappeared.” The circular also contains the statement that the Pittsburg miners are working under this scale of 54 cents for screened coal. The 40-cent rate here is in the sam’e proportion as the 69-cent in the Pittsburg region. The granting of the advance asked should logically result in immediate resumption. Nothing deiinite can be stated until the miners have received the communication and acted on it. Walston, Adrian and Helvetia mines worked yesterday, while six hundred striking miners from Reynoldsvllle and Eleanora camped on the fair grounds at Punxsutawney. Meetings were held at each of thesv places this afternoon and addressed by agitators. A vote taken resulted in favor of continuing work. Starvation at Nelsonvllle. NELSONVILLB, 0., Aug. 29.—The destitution among miners here is very great. Mayor Buckley says 1,260 persons, the entire mining population of the town, have absolutely nothing to eat, and one hundred of these aro sick. In this immediate vicinity there are one thousand destitute people, a large number of whom are children. Local charity has helped them till its nrjea are gone. Gardens supplied the wants of these people until recently, but that resource is now exhausted. Relief corr.rnittces have been appointed for the entire district, but they are powerless on account of lack of supplies. Nothing in ,:ash or supplies has been received here this week except $25 in money. A citizens’ special committee is exerting itseir to secure temporary relief by to-morrow. If outside help does not come soon the consequences will be appalling. • At (lie Re Armftt Mines. PITTSBURG, Aug. 29.—Incidents around the camps at the De Armitt mines were not exciting to-day. The strikers Entertained the usual number of Sunday visitors, attended church and quietly made preparation for the weVk’s work, which is expected to be fullof active operations. In the morning Captain Bellingham with twenty-live men will go to the Peterson mine, where the m’en at work, the strikers say, are filling New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company's contracts. The other members of the camp will make the usual morning demonstration against the Plum Creek miners If they can evade the deputies. Plum Creek Agitators. BEAVER FALLS, Pa., Aug. 29.—A representative fiom the Plum Creek coal mining district has been here since yesterday morning interviewing the miners of the Beaver valley district and trying to induce them to join the strike. It is believed that the agitation started by the Plum Creek representative will end by a general going out of the miners in this district, and it may be brought about this week. Notice of Ten-Per-Onl. Cut. RATON, N. M., Aug. 29.—Notice has been posted at the Blossburg coal mines, operated by the Raton Coal and Coke Company, of a reduction of 10 per cent, in wages, to take effect Sept. 1. The price now' paid for mining is 65 cents per ton, but as the men are employed only part of the time they claim they cannot live at the reduced rate. I’niiin Meeting to Help Strikers. §i- vial to the Indianapolis Journal. LEBANON, Ind., Aug. 29.—A union meeting of ail the churches and the citizens generally was held to-night in the opera house In the interest of the Indiana coal miners. Judge T. J. Terhune, who served on Governor Mount’s commission which investigated the condition of the miners, made th*- principal speech. Messrs. T. P. Lewis and Henry Develln, block coal miners of Clay county, and lion. B. S. Higgins, judge of the Boone Circuit Court, also spoke. At the close of the speeches a collection of $65 was taken up. Besides this large donations of food and clothing were made by merchants and others. Earning* of Indiuna Miners*. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: A city paper of the 28th inst. contains Ihe following by Mr. J. JLi. Conner, who is

one of the committee the Governor appointed to look after the interests of the striking miners of Indiana: “The people of the State should understand that the miners are being ground betw-een the mine ojierators of the East and West. I have a statement from a miner at Washington, in which he itemizes his earnings between Jan. 24, 1896, and May 10, 1897. Three months of the time he was not at work, but for the fifteen months when he was employed he averaged 36 cents a day. The net amount for the fifteen months was $190.02.” Now. this statement must have been made by Mr. Conner with the intention of leading the people of Indiana to believe that the coal miners of the State during the period mentioned could only earn 36 cents per day, and that their employers, the operators, were responsible for this condition. Asa coal operator of Indiana, having under my management one of the largest coal properties in the State, I wish to say to you and to the public that either Mr. Conner has failed signally to inform himself of the true condition of the coal miners of the State or else he is, for some reason best known to himself, trying to deceive the public. If the miner to whom Mr. Conner refers only earned 36 cents per day during the time mentioned it w r as because he either would not work or could not w'ork, for the reason that the work was not there for him or any one else. During this period the price of day labor inside the mines was SI.BO per day of nine hours, and no practical miner will work at day labor when he can get regular mining. The price of mining at this time was 60 cents per ton of screened coal in the locality where this man lived, as well as in a large part of the State, and three to five tons is a common day’s work. Even at the reduced price of 51 cents, which tvas in effect when the strike was begun, miners in the employ of our company could make from SI.BO to $2.50 per day every day they worked, and though it was the dull season for mining they had work for fully onehalf the time. The present difficulties of the miners are not due to the fact that the scale is too low for those who work regularly to make a fair living, but to many other conditions, for some of which they are themselves responsible. Our pay rolls are open for Mr. Conner's investigation at any time that may suit his convenience. A. M. OGLE. President Island Coal Company. Indianapolis, Aug. 28. THE CROP'DEFICIT. Figure* Showing Extent of Shortage of World’s Grain. BUDA-PESTH, Aug. 29. —The world’s deficits are estimated as follows: Rye, 69,000,000 hectolitres; barley, 38.000,000; oats. 58,000,000; corn, 59,000,000. The report says that many exporting countries, such as European Turkey, Egypt, Australia, and Aus-tria-Hungary will either be unable to export grain or will be compelled to import, while others, including British India, Argentina and Chile will have their w'heat export considerably reduced. The favored countries are the United States and Canada, the latter of which will soon be one of the most important of the 'exporting countries, its excess over last year's production being several million bushels of wheat and 20,000.000 of oats, its output of all sorts of grain was 270,000,000 bushels. The yield of wheat in Great Britain this season is 50,000,OX) bushels, against 63,000,u00 bushels last year. The wheat area of British India is reduced from 23,000,000 acres to 18,000.000 acres and the wheat yield from 234,000,000 bush’els to 202,000,000 bushels. The United States, which has reduced its area sown in oats by 2,000,000 acres, that sown in corn by 1,000.000 acres, wdiile that in other grain remains nearly unchanged, will nevertheless, dispose of 534,000,000 bushels of wheat, against 434.000,0(X) bushels last year, allowing the exportation of 160,000,000 bushels of wheat, while th’e exports of corn will possibly be 50,000,000 greater than those of last year. The prospects for oats and barley are less favorable than in 1896. The price of bread in Austria hafe already risen 30 per cent.

OBITUARY. Capt. J. n. Donnnlly, Well-Known Louisiana, Ilepuhlicnn. NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 29.—Capt. J. B. Donnally, who conducted the last campaign in this State for the Sugar Republicans and was the leading opponent to Wimberly’s appointment as collector of customs, died today at Pass Christian, Miss., a summer resort near this city. He arrived there last Tuesday in apparently good health, but ws attacked by a complication of diseases, which rapidly destroyed his magnificent constitution. He was a native of Ohio, fiftyone years old, and formerly United States marshal here. August Mayer. NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—August Mayer, formerly sheriff of Milwaukee, and for many years a lawyer of this city, is dead at his home here, aged sixty-eight. Other Deaths. HARWICH. Mass., Aug. 29.—P. L. Underwood, a prominent and wealthy resident of Chicago, who was summering here as the guest of William Underwood, died surdenly of heart failure Saturday morning. The remains will be taken to Chicago, leaving here to-morrow. LONDON, Aug. 29.—The d’eath is announced of E. J. Miliken, a contributor to Punch. Candidate for a Lynching. MACON. G:i„ Aug. 29.—Mrs. J. Melvin Couch, wife of an engineer at Manchester cotton mill, was assaulted by an unknown man at 2:30 o’clock this morning. She was choked Into insensibility before being able to sVe whether her assailant was white or black, but thinks he was black. Her wrist was bitten badly, presumably in the brute’s effort to find whether she was dead after his villainous assault. She was in the house alone and the front door was l*eft unlocked, as her husband was at a neighbor’s across the street. In the struggle Mrs. Couch managed to bite a piece out of the man’s face and this will b’e the means nf identifying Him. Lynching is highly probable if the man be captured. Mnrtlnelll’* Anniversary. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29. Archhishop Martlnelli, the papal delegate, participated In a double celebration at St. Augustine's Church to-day. It was the one-hundred-and-first anniversary of the founding of the church and the first anniversary of the consecration of Mgr. Martinelli as archbishop of Ephesus. In the evening pontifical mass was celebrated, the distinguished prelate having the assistance of Archbishop Ryan and Bishop Prendergast, with twenty pastors of city churches. Rev. Dr. Rooker, secretary of the papal legation, preached a sermon on the life and achievements of St. Augustine. There was an elaborate service of music. Confessed to nn Old Murder. CHARLESTON, W. Ya„ Aug. 29.—Christopher Slack, now serving a term in the penitentiary for burglary, confesses that about two years ago he and a half dozen others met a peddler. John Wiseman, cn the road, and killed him for his money, getting in all SBS In cash and other valuables. They burned the flesh off the bones and then buried them. Slack made ’he confession under the Impression that the murder was about to get out and he would be hanged. He turned state’s evidence to save his neck. Officers have gone up ihc liver to arrest the persons named by Slack as accomplices. Rook Seller Wilson'* Murderer. BALTIMORE. Aug. 29. —James T. Kane was arrested here to-night and held on suspicion of being implicated in the murder of William C. Wilson, the old bookseller, at his place. 1117 Walnut street, Philadelphia, on the night of Aug. 16. The man makes no statement. He was picked up on the street on a description issued by Superintendent R. J. Linden, of the Philadelphia police. Movement* of Steamer I **. QUEENSTOWN. Aug. 29.—Sailed: Etruria, from Liverpool, for New York. NEW YORK. Aug. 29.—Arrived: La Champagne, from Havre. ANTWERP. Aug. 2*3.—Arrived: Westernland, from New York. HAVRE, Aug. 29.—Arrived: La Bretagne, from New York. Matched, to Knee Michael. POSTON, Aug. 29.—Luciene Lesna, the French rider, who cut down the twenty-five-mile paced record at Charles River Park on Saturday, has been matched for a twenty-ftve-mile race with Jimmy Michael on Labor day. Sept. 6. at Charles River Park. Janitor Murdered in Church. NEW YORK. Aug. 30.—George Stulz. aged sixty-five, assitant janitor of Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Brooklyn, was found dead in the vestibule of the church last night. He was lying in a pool of blood. His head wan crushed in. his watch was missing and it u supposed he was murdered.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1897.

WORK OF WHITE CAPS JOHN BF.ESOM’S CLOVER FIELD LAID WITH WIKES AND SPIKES. .Mowing Machine WVecKcd When It Regan Work—Gov. Mount Give* Good Advice to Farmer*. * Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Aug. 29.—WhP.ecapism in Madison county has not been stamped out by any means, and determined steps are now' being taken to procure a large number of arrests on grand jury warrants. The men who were most prominent in the prosecution of alleged White Caps two years ago have been victims of some daring work during the summer. The latest is Mr. John Beesom, one of the most progressive and well-to-do farmers in the county. Last week Mr. Beesom attempted to harvest a large crop of clover, but it was a week’s job before his task w’as completed. When the mower was started in his field but a few rods of clover was cut till the machine was practically wrecked by running into iron spikes and barbed wire that had been tied below the clover tops. An investigation was then made and wire was found sticking up in the clover in all parts of the field, while barbed wire and bowlders w*ere secreted in places most likely to do most damage. Several men were put to work and cleared the entire field. The work is no doubt that of members of the famous gang w'hieh has been working mischief in this county. The most determined effort will now be made to apprehend the guilty parties. A petition is now pending before Governor Mount asking the parole of the two men sentenced from that neighborhood, but a representative committee of citizens will visit the Governor this week and enter a vigorous protest. + ■■■■-■ - GOV. MOUNT SPOKE. Advice to Farmers at tlie Old Settler*’ Meeting Saturday. SjXcial to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Aug. 29.—Over five thousand people attended the annual meeting of the Delaware and Randolph Counties Old Settlers' Association yesterday at Oak Grove, twelve miles east of this city, on the farm of Walter Jones. The big drawing feature w'as the prestmee of Governor Mount. The Governor and Hon. W. A. Thompson, of this city, were the principal speakers of the day. Harvey M. Koontz, of Yorktown, presided at the meeting, and at noon dinner was served to all. Before and after the principal addresses anecdotes and reminiscences were recited by John A. Morman. Robert Starbuck, L. Morris. Robert Meeks, W. N. Botkin, Rev. Pittenger, Dr. J. M. Harris and others who helped clear the forest where beautiful cities now abound in eastern Indiana. The address of the Governor was listened to very attentively by the great throng, and he took occasion to give some good advice to the young farmers. In part he said: ’’The farmers of to-day should be the best patrons of the daily newspaper, and they should keep thoroughly posted on the markets. Watch them carefully, and thereby learn when to dispose of your stock and grain to the best advantage.” Continuing, he said: ”1 consider these old settlers with the same regard as I do the veterans of the last two wars. It was they wdio entered the wilderness, chopped down the forests, drove off the wild beasts and savages and made possible these luxuries of to-day. Their hardships are not to be classed with that of the soldier, being much more severe.”

AGAINST FATHER MAIION. Snlt to Prevent (he lrle*t from Wasting Ga*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Aug. 29.—State Gas Inspector J. C. Leach is making no discrimination in prosecuting the violators of the new gas law. Friday he appeared here unexpectedly and filed an affidavit against Father Mahon, a Catholic priest of Cleveland, who had allowed the gas in his oil well, near Mollie, this county, to blow off in the air. The Manhattan Oil Company’s oil well on the Huffman farm, three miles north of this city, is eighty feet in trenton rock. It is flowing quantities of gas. but there is no showing of either oil or water. Yesterday the Manhattan Company canceled its tease on 2,500 acres of land in Jackson township. The leases were taken with the provision that if the two first test wells were failures the leases should be void. The test wells were failures. Ulimige* In I. U. Faculty. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Aug. 29.—The election of H. L. Prescott to a position in Harvard has necessitated a change in the department of English for next year. E. E. Griffith, associate professor of English, will have charge of the work in public speaking for the coming year. The course in debating will be conducted as usual. A new course in oratory will be offered. This course will consist of a critical study of the modern British and American orations and of individual practice on the part of students in public addresses. The chief object of the course is to give skill in selecting and arranging materials and in testing the validity of argument. Professor Griffith will also present a course in literature. Edward Payson'Morton, of Harvard ’93, and recent professor of English in Blackburn University, has been secured to take the other work of Messrs. Griffith and Prescott. The French department for the present will be in charge of Assistant Professor George D. Morris. He will be assisted by Charles Alfred Mosemiller and a second instructor whose name is not yet announced. C. Norman Hassler, who so successfully trained the glee club last year, will have charge of the music for the coming year. An Elwond Story Denied. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PENDLETON, Ind., Aug. 29.—A special from Elwood in this morning’s Journal, which says that Simon Burns, president of the Window-glass Workers’ Association, had arranged a wage scale satisfactory to the window-glass companies at Elwood, Pendleton and Greenfield, is news to glass workers here and is denied by the managers of the Indiana Window-glass Company. It is not credited by the managers of the Pendleton Window-glass Company. In fact, the manufacturers here say the factories will hardly start before Sept. 15 and that the Indiana Company, whicn is a member of the Manufacturers’ Association, will not start then unless the wage scale with the association is settled. Current Family Reunion. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. REDKEY, Ind., Aug. 29.—The Current family met yesterday in annual reunion two miles south of town in the George Luzaddo grove. After a handshake all around and a song by the choir, Rev. Falkner, of Redkey, offered prayer, aftVr which Attorney Thomas Dragoo, of this city, made the address. The minutvs showed 260 of the Current family present a year ago and 20S this year, witn an equal number of fn'ends and citizens. After a fine dinner, it was further decided to hold the next reunion on the .third Saturday of August, on the farm of Abraham Current, three miiVs west of Blountsvilie, in Henry county. Benjamin Current was again elected president and secretary. Fish Seiner* Quote Scripture. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KU&OMO, Ind., Aug. 29.—Fish Commissioner Welty urrested another batch of dynamiters and seiners at the Jerome dam near here to-day, among the number apprehended being another preacher, Rev. Erie Tharpe, of Jerome. Tharpe is the third minister of the gospel that has been arrested for violation of the fish laws at that place within a month. Rev. Isaac Newhouse and Rev. John Veal were arraigned before Justice Moreland, of this city. They admitted they were seining, but contended they had a good example in the Savior, who instructed His disciples to cast their nets in a certain place. Heail-Eud Fire-Engine Colli*lon. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Aug 29.—1n responding to an alarm of fire last night the team attached to the hose wagon collided with the chemical. One of the horses was cut on the legs with splinters from a broken tongue ami both machines were damaged.

Fireman Buchanan, standing on the chemical. was knocked off and had a narrow escape. The station is in the city building, on a street corner. One team leaves the building on one street and the other comes from a door on the other street, and they met on the crossing under full headway. Petition to Dredge Lick, (.reek, Sreciai to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY. Ind.. Aug. 29.-S. M. Briscoe and others have prepared a petition to the commissioners to dredge Lick creek from the Delaware county line to the L. E & W. Railroad bridge in this county, and Little Lick creek from its source to the month. It is expected to give an additional fall of at least six feet at this city and render tillable thousands of acres of valuable land. The estimated cost of the work is $65,000, and 40,000 acres of farm land, as well as every town in Hartford City, will be assessed. Kokomo Industrie* Booming. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Aug. 29.—The Opalescent glass works of this city started to-day and will be in full operation again within a week, after an eight weeks' suspension. The Rockford bit and tool works began last week working full time for the first time in four years. Under the new tariff Kokomo is shipping pottery to England, safes anti ranges to South Africa anti Honolulu, and telephone instruments and fence machines to South America. All factories are working increased forces. Part of n Cattle Train Burns. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Aug. 29.—This morning a cattle train on the Clover Leaf took fire from a hot box at Russiaville, and before the flames could be extinguished three cars were burned and a number of others damaged. The train was loaded with Texas cattle en route to Buffalo. Several perished in the flames. The others were turned loose in the streets of the village, creating a panic among the inhabitants. All trains were delayed several hours. Big' Swamp Land* Burning. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VALPARAISO, Ind., Aug. 29. —The large marsh in this county belonging to the Lyman Blair estate, of Chicago, was set on fire by some boys while hunting frogs. The fire spread over several hundred acres and is still raging, causing a great deal of damage to tne land. Nearly fifty cows were badly burned and many of them will have to be killed. A number of men have been fighting the lire since yesterday* Two Holihcrs Lacked Nerve. Si*cial to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Aug. 29.—Last night after 12 o’clock two robbers entered Carey’s livery barn, called out Manager William Vinson, placed a revolver to his face and ordered his hands up. Vinson remarked, “You’re not game,” and knocked the man with the gun down. As the gun was pointed one of the men turned off the gas, but both were glad to make their escape. Big Reunion at Went Baden. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WEST BADEN, Ind., Aug. 29.—A reunion of the veterans of the late war will be held by Basil B. Deckee Post, No. 234, G. A. R., at West Baden Sept. 15, 16 and 17. The following prominent speakers are expected to be present: Governor J. A. Mount, Capt. J. S. Dodge, of Elkhart: Gen. Lew Wallace, of Crawfordsville; Gen. Jasper Packard. of New Albany, and Col. I. N. Brinkworth. Couldn’t Whip the Light Weight. S|*eeial to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Aug. 29.—Charles Burns, light-weight pugilist of Cincinnati, spent all of last week in Muncie at the Maple Grove Athletic Club, where he faced two men nightly, offering a purse to any one of them who could stand his jabs for three rounds. The dozen men represented the best boxers in the city, but none stayed the limit. Tin-Plate Employe Sealded. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind., Aug. 29.—Peter Cary, a tin plate employe, fell backwards into a vat of boiling oil to-day and was fearfully scalded. DARING JAIL DELIVERY.

Keeper I.ockcd in a Cell niwl Despcrniloes Easily Ksenpe. I LEADVILLE, Col., Aug. 29. A daring break from the county jail occurred at 9 o’clock to-night. Five prisoners made their escape, and the night jailer at a late hour is still locked up in the jail, while the prisoners who escaped made away with the keys to both the outer and inner doors. The prisoners who escaped are the two Bohannon brothers, charged with the murder of Deputy Sheriff Fahey; J. D. Spann, charged with rape; James Bristol, charged with forgery, and Jim Dawson, charged with assault with intent to kill. When Night Jailer Martin entered the corridor to make his rounds to-niglxt Spann, who was walking in the corridor, jumped on him and clapped his hands back of him. He was at once joined by the two Bohannon brothers, who dragged the jailor to the rear of the cells, where they bound him. A big posse has started in pursuit. Fatal Crossing Accident. BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 29.—An Erie passenger train, moving slxty-flve miles an hour, struck a wagon containing five people at a crossing near Ch’eektowaga, to-night. Melville H. Valentine, aged thirty-eight, was instantly killed and M. O. Weider, Mrs. Weider, Eddfe Weider. aged four years, and George Cole, aged thirtyseven years, were severely injured. Mrs. Weider and George Cole may die. The party was returning from a day's outing in the country, and started to cross the tracks just after a freight train had passed. They did not hear nor see the passenger train coming in an opposite direction. THE I'NITED STATES TREASURY. A Financial Institution with u Vast Business. Harper’s Round Table. It costs annually about 1350,000,000 to maintain the United States government (exclusive of over $90,000,000 for the postal s'ervice, much of which is paid back from postal receipts.) We expend annually for the civil establishment (that is, the salaries of public officials and employes of the ’executive departments, care of public buildings, etc.) about $68,000,000; for the military establishment, $50,000,000; for the naval establishment, $27,000.C00; for the Indian service, $12,000,000; for p’ensions, $140,000,000, and for interest on the public debt, s3s,ooo,ooo—making a total of $352,000,000. To mett these the United States government has to raise th’e necessary funds by taxation. The greater amount is raised by customs duties and by the internal revenue tax upon whiskey, tobacco. beer, playing cards, oleomargarine, etc. For the yvar ending June 30, 1896, there was collected $160,000,000 from customs taxes and $147,000,000 from internal revenue taxes, th’e balance consisting of miscellaneous receipts from sales of public lands, revenues of the District of Columbia, consular fees, fees on letters patent, national bank circulation, profits on coinage, etc. One can easily realize the immense work of collecting this vast sum of money. In addition, however, the treasury, through its accounting officers, has to supervise the expenditure of every dollar paid, out for the support of th’e government, and to adjust the accounts of every officer spending the public money. Not a dollar can be paid into the treasury of the United States nor paid out without an order from the secretary addressed to the officer known as the treasurer of the United States, directing him to receive the money, which is technically termed “covering it into the treasury.” or to pay out money to the person entitled, as the case may be. This order of the secretary is called a “warrant;” if it orders the treasurer to receive money into the treasury it is called a "covering warrant;” if to pay out money it is called either a “settlement” warrant (when the money is paid to some person entitled to it of his own right), or an "accountable” warrant (if the money is paid to somv officer of the government whose duty it is to expend it for the purposes of the government. This latter officer has to give bond to properly apply said money. Better than a Oolil Mine. Kansas City Journal. It is not an exuberant faney to say that the golden wheat fields of Kansas are richer by far than the golden sands of Alaska. It is reported that the entire output of gold from the Klondike region has so far reached only $2,000,000. The wheat fields of Ellis county alone this year produced an equal sum. Nor is this all of it. The expense in money, toll and privation in Ellis county was not a tithe of that required in securing the same results in Klondike. And in Ellis county the wealth produced was divided among all the people, while In Klondike it w r as reserved for a fortunate few.

KLONDIKE TREASURES. << iiiK'lmlnl from Flrat l’nsi*.t The Portland lost several of her crew, but was able to obtain new men by paying nigh wages. * EXPECT GREAT SIFFERING. Food Already ltunniiiK Short nt Dawson and on the Klondike. SAX FRANCISCO,,-Aug. 29.—W. A. Ryan, one of the special tjßrresponder.ts of the Associated Press, fflProute to Yukon gold fields, writes from St. Michael's, under date of Aug. 15. to the effect that there is grave danger of a famine on the Klondike* this winter. According to all reports received from the upper country it will be impossible to land sufficient food at Dawson City to support the population already dependent on that base of supplies B. T. Lyng, local agent of the Alaska Commercial Company at St. Michael’s, declares that there are already over two thousand idle men in Dawson and new parties arriving every day via Chilkat pass, while the total amount of freight landed there this year will not exceed four thousand tons, of which not more than three-fourths is provisions. Miners returning from Klondike who loft there in July report that the food was running very low then, and it was disposed of as fast as discharged from the steamers. Old timers realize the situation and predict distress and death as a result of the Klondike craze. William Ogilvie, dominion land surveyor, who has been making topographical surveys of British possessions along the Klondike has been recalled by the government lor consultation as to important matters affecting new gold fields, and is now en route to Ottawa via San Francisco. He will make a report embodying suggestions for new mining laws, governing the sale of liquor and taking wood for fuel, etc. He made a census of the production of the new tields and finds twenty-three claims produced $826,000 and says that $70,000,000 is no exaggerated estimate of the amount that will be produced by 180 claims on Bonanza, Hunker’s and Eldorado creeks in three years. There -were twenty persons at St. Micheal’s when the Excelsior arrived, who had come down the river from the diggings. fifteen of whom were miners. They are said to have all the way from SIOO,COO to $400,000 among them. Few care to say exactly how much they have, preferring to remain silent on that point, giving as their reasons the fact that they have too little money, compared to what those who went out earlier took away with them. C. B. and Z. B. Patrick, father and son, brought out SIO,OOO. They took passage on a sailing vessel which left port two days after they arrived. F. W. Cobb, of Boston, is credited with SIB,(MX) and C. K. Zilly with a like amount. Thomas Rowan, of Sitka, is SIO,OOO better off. W. W. Caldwell, of Denver, has $20,000. Timothy C. Bell, of Vancouver, has $31,000 in Canadian money, the result of the sale of his holdings. M. S. Lansing, of Bozeman, Mont., has $lO,000. The others refuse to say how much they have. The remaining members of the party are W. Oler. of Baltimore; William Zahn. of Minneapolis; B. H. Farman, of Goodell, la.; A. Buckley, of St. Joseph, Mo.; H. N. Goeler, of Winnipeg; Thomas R. Dunkesley, of Tacoma, and W. W. Power, of Tucson. Ariz. Each has won what is called in this region a "home stake,” namely, the amount which he believes sufficient to take home to remain. Very few intend to come back. The hardships they have endured make them dread the country in which they won their stakes. Orrin Gray r , of Grand Rapids, Mich., went into the country this spring to try to save some remnant of the fortune his son Albert had won. The boy had made $25,000. and, according to reports that came to the father, was spending thousands in drink and gambling. So the old man came in over the pass, hut the boy was gone, and he is coming out in hopes that the boy has not spent it all, but has taken some of it home to his mother. M. H. Melndoo and F. X. Gervais went into the country to prospect, but were discouraged, and did not stop.

SEATTLE FULL OF CRAZY MES. Ordinary Run of Business Entirely l isset by Klondike Gold. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 29.—The arrival of the gold-laden Portland means more intense Klondike excitement, if such be possible. Ever since the Portland came down from the north on her previous trip six weeks ago, with sixty-two prospectors having in their possession over $700,000 in gold, Seattle has been excited. When this gold done up in burlap sacks, was carried to the express offices for shipment to the mint, men stood about in wide-eyed wonderment, absorbed, pulseless, paralyzed. It took but a day, however, to recover from this lethargic state, and since then every one has been running about thinking and acting quicker. Men who all their lives never moved out of a walk, and who never tried to think but that the exertion brought out the perspiration in beads, are excited. Every one who is not going north |ias raised money to send someone. The prevailing "gold fever” is like the plague, for it attacks one wdthout warning and carries him off suddenly. Men in Seattle have done so many strange things within the past three weeks that one may almost doubt the sanity of the race in general. Ten days ago a man of means stood up in his office calling down maledictions on the heads of his fellows who were rushing northward. Two days later a friend chanced into his office and asked for him. His associate said sadly: “Mr. Blank is out. 1 do not know w’here. He leaves on the steamer in the morning for the Klondike." The previous morning’s newspapers caused the man to lose his head and he decided before breakfast to go north. A dentist who has been enjoying a lucrative and general practice in Seattle remarked: "It is amazing what fools men make of themselves. Here are hundreds of ordinarily sensible fellows giving up good places and good business for what? To chase an elusive rainbow in the shape of a mythical gold camp, located in a region so cold that a man's ideas freeze before they are thought.” , . ... days later this same dentist quietly closed up his office and sailed for the north, to be gone a year at least—perhaps two years and perhaps forever. Occurrences of a similar nature, are getting so common people cease to be surprised. The tone of the populace has changed, and every one, in order to appear agreeable, and at the same time sensible, enjoys saying: "No, I’m not going out, but I’ll leave in the spring.” DREAM OF THE KLONDIKE. A well-known conservative business man was engaged the other morning about 2 o’clock in pushing a twelve-hundred-pound nugget of pure gold down the Klondike basin toward Dawson City. Os course, he could not carry the nugget, so he pried it along in the spongy soil, an inch at a time, using as a levee a young sapling found by the riverside. When he finally stopped to rest and sat down on the nugget to mop his heated temples he woke up. He was so wearied he could scarcely raise his head from his pillow’, but that dream did the work. Inside of a week this dignified business man, arrayed in jeans and a sombrero, bade adieu to his family and left for the Klondike. ”1 need a rest," he said to his friends, “and I think the trip north will do me good. I haven’t the fever or anything like that; just taking a little trip.” There is no denying the fact that the Klondike excitement is all absorbing, pervading the air like an aroma native to its zone. The gold strike on the Klondike has drawn more than ten thousand men to the north, but the existence of the railroads and the presence of dozens of steamers has lessened the hardships of travel and enabled all these men, hailing from every quarter of the country, north, south and east, to be dumped into Alaska within thirty days following the news of the rich finds near Dawson City. With all this talk of Alaska rivers running gold it is not surprising that energetic Canadians should now be developing a scheme for the ultimate connection of Dawson City with Juneau l>y telegraph. If this is done it will be but a short time until Juneau and Seattle will be enjoying telegraphic communication. Nor is it strange that another Canadian company, anticipating government aid, has incorporated for the construction of six hundred miles of railway and the establishment of 5,500 miles of steamer lines connecting Toronto and the Klondike via Hudson’s bay and the McKenzie river. It is the impression that the railroad and the telegraph will be established realities if the next steamer from the gold fields via St. Michael’s brings corrolo---rative evidence of the remarkable wealth of the Klondike and its tributaries. The Canadian authorities have arranged for increased police facilities on the Yukon and along the trails. If reports that come from the north are true, the officers will have much work to do. and it will not all be along the line of enforcing mining laws. There are some "bad” men in that country

and some others are on their way there. In this connection stories told of Klondike whisky are interesting. "STEAMER DAY" IN SEATTLE. Gold seekers are pouring into Seattl’e from every quarter of the country and new local enterprises are being opened, all due to the northern gold fever and occasioned by the fact that Seattle is the natural outfitting center for Klondike-bound prospectors. Not the least interesting part of the Klondike excitement is "steamer day.” which is almost every day. This is w hen the steamers pull out for Dyea or Skaguay loaded to the guards with prospectors bound for the diggings. Every available steamer in the Northw’est has been pressed into the service. Some of them are first-class passenger boats and others are vessels that don't look strong enough to hold together, but the northbound prospectors are too much occupied to be alarmed; they fight and quarrel 10 share the same pile of straw with a pack horse or an ox. as the ease may be. An old-timer said that steamers with gold hunters n'ever went down, and in support of this assertion cited the alleged fact that in 1849-50 scores of condemned vessels sneaked into San Francisco harbor with their pumps continually manned to keep the hulks from sinking, yet out of 706 vessels that came around the horn from Atlantic ports, not one was lost. Lip to Aug. 8. 3.150 prospectors left Seattle for the north, th’e rest going via Dyea or Skaguay, ovVr the pass and down the Yukon to the Klondike. It is estimated that by Sept. 1 7.928 prospectors will have left for the diggings from Seattle. This do'cs not include the exodus from California, leaving San Francisco and other Cab fornia points, which will easily run the to tal number of gold hunters drawn northward to more than 10,000 men. The greatest interest is manifested as to the various routes that may be taken to the gold fields of the Klondike. Th’e distance from Seattle to St. Michael’s is 2,400 miles. From St. Michael’s to Circle City th'e distance is 1,5u0 miles, and 250 miles down the river toward the mines is Forty-mile Post. The Klondike appears at th'e end of fifty miles more. It is this route that the steamers take with their supplies for the prospectors. The perils of the Dyea route to the mines have prompted the suggestion of other routes that may b’e made possible. The road is practically unknown, although many have traversed it. Surveyors have not traveled its entire length, and distances can only be approximatVd. The authoriti s give the distance from Dyea to the Klondike as 678 miles. The miners say that it is the longest 800 miles th’ey ever traveled. These tacts have been called to the attention of the British government at Ixmdon and representatives of British Columbia have been promised that steps will be taken to more thoroughly open the way to the mines. An effort will be made without delay to secure an appropriation for the work. WOMEN TRAVERSE WHITE PASS, Eilltli Crofton Telia of Hep Severe Experience* in AlßNkn. SKAGAWAY, Aug. 17, via San Francisco, Aug. 29.—The White pass is no longer ambition, but rather a thing accomplished, and the dangers, exaggerated or belittled, according to the idea of the raconteur, are not beyond the ability of a woman, for four women have so far crossed the pass. The trail from Skagaway to the foot of the hills, as they call the mountains here, is a very passable wagon road, seven to ten feet wide, smooth and dry, and about four miles in length. Ail along it men are camped, and for a mile from the town you see every fifty feet a tree blazed and with this inscription on the exposed side; "The undersigned hereby claim this lot, 50 by 100 feet. ’ Great piles of flour and other provisions are cached on the side, and one wonders at the blind enthusiasm which leads every one of the men, whose labor has but just commenced, to believe that they will winter this year in the Klondike. Alas! alas! at the foot of the hills the trail changes and thenceforth winds its sinuous course through what was recently a virgin forest, along the sides of the mountains that rise sheer from the bed of the river that foams beneath. Climbing this zizzag trail I was obliged to stop several times to sit down. After twenty minutes of it I grew dizzy and my heart beat so loudly and rapidly that X semed to hear the pulsation. To pass each other in the White trail one man must step aside into the bushes while the other passes, and it is not easy to step aside. In several places one may see canned goods, Hour or bacon heaped up by the w’ayside and surmounted by a sign which reads: "Help yourself,” the original owners preferring to go to Dawson short of provisions ratner than to winter on the trail with a full outfit. They are shooting horses daily here, as the poor beasts are plunging wildly at the steep inclines and frequently break their legs. 1 saw three dead horses on the trail and heard of many more. The horses also cut themselves badly, and the great spats of blood on the stones tell the awful tales of the suffering the wretched beasts endure. The trail leads over the mountains on the left hand side about eight miles, and then crosses to the other side of the river, enormous rocks and precipices making further progress on the original side impossible. The path from here on is a little wider, possibly owing to the forest growing less dense as the elevation increases. , „ . . Six miles further on the trail takes to the river bed, and men have to leap from rock to rock, while animals must wade in the rushing torrent, and a woman can neither hop nor wade, and just scrambles along, scratching her hands and bruising her feet while she bew’ails the intc thrit forbids her trousers. Those who have no boats must follow the trail to Lake Bennett, a distance of twenty miles, there being no timber at this elevation suitable for boatbuilding. I did not go to Lake Bennett, the trail being reliably reported to be uninteresting and fairly good Boats were selling at Lake Bennett for SIOO each, and last week they were even with their orders. The entire trip to the summit and back occupies a little over three days. The distance has never been surveyed, but it Is estimated to be twenty-two miles to Summit lake. That is as the crow files hut over the circuitous route that the trail follows it must be considerably further. To-morrow I go to Dyea and over the Chilkat pass to the CROFTON.

CANADA WILL CLAIM. DYEA. Senator Mill" Say* the Boundary Doe" Not Follow the Shore. OTTAWA, Ont., Au. 29.—David Mills, Q. C„ ex-minister of the interior, whose thorough knowledge of constitutional and international law and the treaty history of Canada is widely recognized in Canada, has in an interview made a lengthy argument upon the subject of the Alaska boundary question. Senator Mills contends that when the Alaskan boundary is properly drawn Canadians will have plenty of access over their own territory to the Klondike via the Pacific ocean and the Yukon. He claims that Dyea. at the head of the Lynn canal, is in Canadian territory, and he strongly advocates the route through Lynn canal, which, he argues, lies wholly within the Canadian boundary. The basis of his contention is that the boundary does not properly follow all the windings of the shore, but only does so when no "coast line" intervenes. He entered very fully into the question, from the days of Russian possession down. The treaty makes the "summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast” the boundary line from the point where it strikes the fifty-sixth degree of north latitude on the mainland until it intersects the 141st degree of west longitude, which it follows to the Arctic. Now Senator Mills argues that it was clearly the intention of the treaty to adhere to the coast line, wherever there was such a thing, no matter whether it crossed inlets or not. The Russians only wanted fishing rights on the coast, and so were not at all likely to stand out for the right to go behind the coast line at any place. Lynn canal is crossed by a range of mountains, near the coast, known as St. Elias Alps, which contain a number of peaks ranging from 19,000 to 16,000 feet high. There are a number of other inlets in the same position, and he insists that they are all "Canadian waters lying within the Canadian boundaries." Senator Mills has the reputation for caution and accuracy, and is seldom suspected of rashness. His opinion as to the meaning of a treaty is regarded as that of an expert. Now that the discoveries at Klondike have made the Alaskan boundary of far more importance than hitherto, a flat statement such as this, coming from a man like Senator Mills, will not be passed over in silence. Harry Ash’s tlrent Strike. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., Aug. 29.—William Van Leuven, foreman of the meat market of Frank I/nke, this city, received intelligence last evening that his brother-in-law, Harry Ash, who went to Alaska seven years ago, has returned to Port Townsend with SIOO,000 in gold dust and nuggets mined on the Klondike, Ash came down from Juneau on the schooner Fred Saunders and says he is now on his way to Michigan, where he will enjoy his fortune. He asserts that the

stories of fabulous strikes on the Klondike are nut exaggerated, but declares that he has all he wants of miningLIFE PROLONGED BY A DREAM. Why Governor Taylor Granted a ReI*ite to a Condemned Man. Memphis Commercial Appeal. People may laugh at the idea of “visions ami ureams' in the last days of the nineteenth century, but it was a dream that caused Governor Taylor to grant the thirty days respite to Harvey D(* Berry. Governor Taylor did not dream the dream, but a Memphis man did. He is a man of influence, a man who has weight with the powers that be. He does not believe in dreams. But he is a just man, which may to ow. Inasmuch as at one time, before he followed Ills present calling, his name was written at the head of the fist of the Memphis bar. and. had he continued therein, ho might now occupy a seat In congressional halls, if not in the executive chair. This gentleman was out of the city on business while the De Berry trial was going on, and returned after the sentence had been passed, but knew nothing of the occurrence. He was verj; tired, and. after he had slept for some hours on the night of his return, he awoke with a start, for it seemed to him that someone said to him in a very emphatic tone, "That nigger must not hang.” He sat up in bed. turned on the light, and when he found every one asleep he awakened his wife and asked her if she had called him or if the children had called When assured in the negative he turned out the light and lay down. He could think of no one in his knowledge who was under sentence of hanging or who was in danger of lynching. After a long time lit' dropped asleep, but only to have a dream that was so horrible that its tortures were akin to a nightmare. He thought he was under sentence of death, but for what he did not know, and that one of his dearest friends was to be the hangman. He suffered untold agony in his sleep. He was in the condemned cell, and none of his friends appeared to be doing anything to rescue him, and he was to die, he knew not for what, but for some crime of which he was innocent. Finally, when it was but ten minutes to 2 o clock, he called to his friend, the hangman, and said, as he took out his watch, “It is only ten minutes now until I am to be hanged. You know I am innocent, and won't you please go out and see someone and see if you can't save me?" The hangman left the jail, but the prisoner stood, w’atch in hand, counting the minutes as they sited by. Each one seemed an interminable age. Then the appointed Dqui - , 2 o’clock, passed, and after a while trm hangman returned with heavy steps and apparently a heavier heart. As soon as he was inside the grating ,the prisoner called to him, "It is all right now. The hour is past, and you cannot legally hang me now'. At this point the dreamer awoke to find himself in a cold perspiration, holding his watch in his hand. He tried in vain to dispel the horrible feeling, but could not, and was afraid to go to sleep again, lest he dreum it a third time. He said o himsell: es, you would know how to got out if you were to be hanged, hut this poor negro does not know what to do.” He got up and went downstairs and sat on the gallery and smoked until his morning paper came, and hti opened it eagerly to see if any one was to be hanged, and then he saw how De Berry was under sentence of death, and that all appeals to the Governor for a respite fell on deaf ears. The article also stated that the reason of his counsel for asking this was some important evidence that had been Introduced. He read on through the paper, trying to wear off the bad effects of the night’s dreams, but in vain. They haunted him throughout the entire day until he almost dreaded to go to bed and to sleep. He thought the matter over carefully and calmly and came to the conclusion that if there was a 3hadow of a doubt of the negro's guilt, in all justice he ought to have the thirty days’ respite, that the matter might be thoroughly investigated. Having made up his mind to this, he stepped o the telephone and dictated the following message to Governor Taylor: "Grant De Berry thirty days’ respite for good reasons,” and signed his name. A few hours afterw'ard the respite came; but no one, not even De Berry or his attorney, knew why it came after all the delay.

MINING IN CALIFORNIA. A BiiHinesM That Goes Steadily on Without Excitement. San Francisco Chronicle. While due allowance should be made for the stories that come from anv mining district, there is enough gold in from Trinity to prove the richness of the pockets for which that, county has become renow'ned. As one result a great many people are going there to try their luck, and the likelihood that thorough prospecting will be done before snow flies in November gives ground for the hope that other discoveries will be made In Trinity and a general revival of mining in the State stimulated and set in motion. It is remarkable, on the whole, that there should be the need of such a revival, for the gold yield of the State has been continuous and large since 184S, when it started with an ouput of $5,(100,000. Those five millions crazed the East and aroused the cupidity of the world; yet over $17,030,000 in yellow l/ieta! was taken out of California, last year without drawing more than cursory notice. Three or four millons on the Klondike have sufficed to make the greatest gold excitement this country has seen for years. A find there equal to the average annual yield of California would draw a quarter of a million people to the frozen Northwest within twelve months. How remarkable It seems that California’s showing is hardly heard of in the East nor appreciated at home, but in mining, as in other things, ’tis distance lends enchantment to the view’. A few more nuggets may be relied upon, however, to set thousands in motion toward the Sierra, where there are hundreds now. That of itself will he a good thing, especially if the heglra includes the ambitious tenderfeet who are waiting for spring to open their way to Klondike. These men know nothing of hardship, and they cannot now tell gold from iron pyrites. Everything that has to do with actual mining is unfamiliar to them. To these worthies “roughing it” is an iridescent dream of sylvan glades and well-cooked trout, and they need most of all to have 'ts romance taken out of them. Three months in Trinity would winnow the chaff from the wheat among these treasure hunters, and, while teaching the weak and visionary that mining is not for them, it might be the means of developing some practical mining men, whose labors in Trinity and elsewhere would be profitable to themselves and advantageous to the country. Pednnrogte Grnde-I p In linnsns. Abilene Reflector. It is understood that Superintendent Stryker. In order to "grade up” the teachers, has prepared an entirely new set of questions for the next examination. Among them are the.se: "You can frequently see a white horse; why do you never see a white colt?” "Why does a horse eat grass backward and a cow’ forward?” "Why does a hop vine wind one way and a bean another? Explain fully.” "Why doe* a horse tethered with a rope always unravel it. while a cow twists It into knots?” "What is the length of a flour barrel?” "What animals have no upper teeth, and why?” "Why did Abdul Hamid delay acceptance of Xhe proffered mediation of the powers?” “After the Omaha platform, what Is the greatest American document written since the Declaration of Independence?” "Give a historical fact of the following great men: William Stryker. George Washington. William Shakspeare, Jerry Simpson, Napoleon.” The parochial schools at St. John's, the boys In charge of the Brothers of the Haered Heart, and the girls in charge of the Sisters of Providence, will be greatly improved this year. The best teachers of these orders will he stationed here and new studies will be added to the courses now being taught. The Catholic schools of the city will open Wednesday of this week. NATIONAL |||jk Tube Works : Wrougbt-iron Pipe for Gas, Ji Steam and Water. KKf,.‘'’GSE’nlK Boiler Tubes, Cast and Malieaide Iron Kitting*(black and galvanised). Valve*. Stop MriW Sr Cock*. engine Trimming, fNxSfl Hr Steam Gauge*, Pipe Tonga, I&3 Pipe Cutters, Vises, Screw ■M cfl Plates and Ifies, Wrenches, K 9 Steam Traps. Pumps, HitchKn£9 en Sinks, Hose. Betting, Bab- ?•% y 4| bit Metal. Solder, White and Ls > fe *3 Colored Wiping Waste, and EX In all other Supplies used in Sf jl wfrg connection with Gas. Steam Jv.j L T and Water Natural Gas |U Supplies a specialty. SteamKjtf (t&a heating Apparatus for Public Building*, Stole-room* Mills,Shops.Factories. Laundries, Lumber Dry-Houses, ' Ja E3J etc. Cut and Thread to or- & IP? wii dcr any sire Wrought-Iron IE H| Pipe, from M Inch to it ■■ Inches diameter. 1 W !■ a. fjcnnsuaanu. am