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SHOT A POSTMASTER POSSE OF CITIZENS AND BLOODHOUNDS AFTER THE CRIMINAL. ♦- Joe llorton Provoked the Amity Ofli.lhl to Strike and Then Shot Him Down In Cold Blood. A JACKSON COUNTY MURDER A MHS. HOLME BANKS’S LOVER KILLS HER WITH A SHOTGUN. Law Fiilna Connty Treasurer*' Term Held l ueon*tltutlonnl hy Judge Dnvi*, of Nobleaville. Bl>ec!al to the Indianapolis Journal. FRANKLIN, Ind., Oct. o.—At .Amity, five miles south of this city, Albert Dinn, postmaster and merchant, was shot and fatally wounded at 7 o’clock this evening by Joe Horton, a Kentuckian, who has been in this county the past two years. The wounded man cannot live until morning. The men had not been on the best of terms for some time, and to-night Horton went to Dlnn’s *md asked the latter to sell him some pigs. They went to the barn to look at the stock and a price was quoted,by Dinn. It was thought exorbitant by Horton and he began cursing the merchant and finally drew his knife, whereupon Dinn struck him twice. Horton left, but In a short time returned and began cursing Dinn once more and daring him to defend himself. Dinn finally, in defense, struck him again, and Horton drew his revolver and fired. Dinn eank to the ground, blood spurting from a w’ound in his side. Several men were present, but either thinking they had no right to arrest the murderer or fearing him, as he was armed and known to be desperate, allowed him to escape. He went home, got his overcoat and took to the woods. Officers in this city were notified and a posse left for the scene at once. Bloodhounds were also sent for, and with these the woods are being scoured. Trains are being stopped and searched at Edinburg and Franklin. There is a dense thicket in the neighborhood of Amity and the murderer is probably hiding there and will likely be run down before morning. There Is great excitement in Amity and vicinity. Horton is said to have figured in ugly •crapes in Kentucky.

FRANK CORYELL’S CRIME. Murdered Mr*. Ellen Hunk* in the ‘‘Heathen Nation.*’ (Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR, Ind., Oct. 9.—Frank Coryell, a notorious character, called Mrs. Ellen Banks to her door last night and emptied the contents of a shotgun into her abdomen. The scene of the crime is in tjie southwest corner of this township, about seven miles from this city. Coryell has been a frequent visitor at the Banks house, and the neighbors say that he was “sparking” Mrs. Banks, whose husband has been, an inmate of the Insane Asylum at Indianapolis for the past ten years. Last Tuesday night Coryell called at the house and remained all night. Wednesday morning he became offended at Mrs. Banks and, before leaving the house, cursed her and slapped her in the face. Last night Mrs. Banks and her thirteen-year-old daughter Viola, who resided with her on the farm, were awakened at 9 o’clock by a rapping on the door. Mrs. Banks got up and inquired who was there, hut received r.o answer. She opened the door and was shot by Coryell, the gun being held so near that her clothing was set on tire. After the shooting Coryell picked up his victim and assisted her to bed. He sent the little girl t,o the neighbors and afterwards sent for a physician. Mrs. Banks lived until 7 o’clock this morning. She was conscious until her death and told those surrounding her bed that Coryell had purposely shot her. Coryell remained in the house until Mrs. Banks died, when he left to go to his home, four miles distant. He told Robert Carpenter the gun was accidentally discharged and that he had brought it home with him for the purpose of killing a mess of squirrels for Mrs. Banks. Viola, the daughter of Mrs. Banks, says that Coryell came to the house two weeks ago. intoxicated, and attempted to kill her with a revolver, but his aim was bad and the ball could be seen imbedded in the rough board* of the ceiling. The house where the crime was committed is a onestory log cabin with two rooms, with no carpets on the floor, and the furniture. consisting of but two old beds, a table and an old bureau. Mrs. Banks was thirty-two years of age and her slayer thirty-five. The crime was committed near what is known as the "Heathen Nation,” a country district which has become notorious on account of the many crimes committed there. Several years ago Sam Coryell, a brother of the man who shot Mrs. Banks, shot and instantly killed his brother-in-law, Arthur Beadle, In the church after the services. A worthless character named Jordan committed a quadruple murder, killing a whole family named Foster, after which he committed suicide. Dollie Belknap placed “Rough on Rats” in the coffee pot and poisoned her foster parents, Fleming Sarver and wife, a few years ago. All of the above crimes were committed near the scene of last night's murder. Before Mrs. Banks died this morning Coryell attempted to have Viola take the gun with which the deed was committed and hide It. He also requests her to go and ask her mother if he (Coryell) could have her (Viola) after she died, and he also tried to wash the blood stains off the floor, but in this he failed. Coryell was arrested by Marshal Thieksten this evening and lodged in jail here. Tonight Coroner James H. Green held the murderer without bail. Coryell was arraigned in his cell and waived examination. Judge Hoover ordered the marshal to take him to the Brownstown jail at once for safety. JACKSON CO I'NT Y CIVIL WAR. History of the Lour Straggle to Remove the County Seat. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR. Ind., Oct. 9.—There is much excitement in this county over the approaching election, to be held Oct. 19, to decide the question of removing the county seat from Brownstown to Seymour. Most of the people are under the impression that Brownstown has always been the county seat, but such is not the case. Jackson county was named in honor of General Jackson, and was cut off from Washington county in 1813. The first courthouse was located at Vallonia, four miles west of Brownstown, and consisted of a one-story* log structure, which was completed in 1815 and demolished in 181(1. The second courthouse was located at Brownstown in ISIG, and was built by John Ketchuin. grandfather of the present attorney general of this State. It was a two-story* building, part frame and part log, and was only used three years. Mr. Ivetchum, after building the courthouse, sold to John Milroy, agent for Brownstown and Jacason county, 153 acres of land for $1,230.80. The story afloat that in case of the removal of the county seat the present buildings and grounds would revert to the Ketchum heirs is false, as the county has a warranty deed for the land, and Brownstown is located on the grounds purchased at the same time that the courthouse grounds were bought. The third courthouse was built in 1823 and the fourth In 1834. During all of these years the land now occupied by Seymour was a dense forest, and not a resident of the little county scat dreamed that it was soon to have a rival. Seymour was laid out my Meedy W. Shields in the year 1832, and the first settlement of the place began In the spring of 1853. The town grew rapidly, and i'l 1869 It had a population of 2,810, while Brownstown had only 582 inhabitants. In Urn fall of the same year Seymour made lta

first attempt to have the county seat relocated. and men were sent into every* neighborhood to secure signatures to a petition for its removal, the county then having a population of 19,413. The removalists secured a majority of the voters of the county to their petition, and the same was presented by W. K. Marshall and E. C. Devore, attorneys for the petitioners, to the Board of County Commissioners at their December term. The members of the board at the time were Dr. J. C. Wells, Abraham Findley and Garrett F. Roelker. Before action on the petition was taken by the commissioners men favorable to Brownstown had access to the petition, copied the names and sent runners into every part of the county, and, by threats, had men who had previously signed the petition for removal sign a paper asking that their names be taken oif the petition. Things now began to look desperate. •Brownstown people were determined at any cost that the county seat should not be removed any further east. One of the commissioners, Mr. Roelker, was favorable to relocating the county seat. Roelker resided on a farm not far from this city, and, it is said that one night a mob surrounded his house, fired off their guns, killing his dog, and before leaving left a jope with a noose hanging on his front gate. The action of the mob so frightened Roelker that he went to Brownstown next morning and resigned. doing just the thing that the Brownstown people desired, as it gave them an opportunity to fill the vacancy. Dr. James H. Green was appointed to the office and the removal was dead as a door nail. The board ignored the petition for removal, and at the same session made arrangements for the building of the present courthouse. After Seymour's defeat in 18G9 she joined hands with Ripley, Jennings and Lake counties in trying to have a bill passed giving the various counties named a right to vote on the removal of the county seats in their respective counties. Osgood wanted to wrest the title from Versailles in Ripley. North Vernon from Vernon in Jennings, Hammond from Crown Point in Lake and Seymour from Brownstown in Jackson. The four counties were not successful in having a joint bill passed, and in 2Sf5 Seymour presented a bill of its own to the Legislature, drawn up by ex-Congress-mun Jason B. Brown, which was fought during the entire session, and was only passed over the Governor’s veto by a constitutional majority on the last working day of the session. The bill provides that a GO per cent, vote shall decide the relocation of the county seat; that Jackson township. in which the city of Seymour is located. shall pay the entire cost of constructing the new courthouse and jail necessary; that the petitioners shall pay the cost of the election, and it is made mandatory on the county commissioners to carry out the provisions of the act, and the Governor, thirty days previous to the election, shall appoint three nonresident property owners to appraise the courthouse and jail buildings. At the June meeting of the commissioners following the passage of the bill a petition asking for an election was presented to the board. They refused to comply with the request of the petitioners, and declared the law unconstitutional. Mandamus proceedings were instituted, which, on a change of venue, were tiled in Scott county and decided in favor of Seymour. Brownstown carried the case to < the Supreme Court, which sustained the legality of the law in all its important features. Before the Supreme Court papers were served on the commissioners they called an election to be held on Aug. 3. The call was illegal, and Seymour refused to participate in the election, anti the board finally rescinded the order and set Oct. 19 as the day. Seymour now has a population of about *9.000 and Brownstown about 2.000. Seymour and Jackson township pay onethird of the entire taxes of the county, have about one-third of the voters and furnish about two-thirds of the cases before the court. The campaign is waxing hotter daily, no political campaign of the past being any comparison whatever for local excitement. Each side is confident of success, and the outcome is anxiously awaited by both factions.

PERL FIELD BROADENS. Oil Well Drilled In n Mile South of Any Other Hole. Special to the Indianapolir, Journal. PERU, Ind., Oct. 9.—The developments In the Peru oil field to-day show that the oil is not confined to the pool where it was first struck. The Valley Oil Company drilled in a well on the Swift lease, between the canal and river, one mile south of any other well in the field. The sand was found at 857 feet, which is high for this field, and at twenty feet in the sand a fine showing of oil was struck. The indications are for a splendid well and oil men are jubilant. Three other good wells were drilled in today. Oil City's No. 2 on the Holland lot, People’s No. 7. on the Kilgore lot, and Peru No. 1, on the Brownell lot. On Monday several other outside wells will be drilled in, and, should they develop as well as the others, there will be no confining the excitement. LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Legislature Had No Authority to Fix the Treasurer’* Term. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Oct. 9.—Judge Theodore P. Davis, who was selected as special judge to try the case of A. J. Gibbs against George W. Scott, rendered his decision this morning, declaring the law of 1897, fixing the time that the term of county treasurers shall begin, unconstitutional. George W. Scott's term of office expired Sept. 8 and Treasurer-elect Gibbs demanded the office. Scott refused to turn it over and suit was brought. Judge Davis based his decision on a long line of decisions of the Indiana Supreme Court, where it was decided “that the Legislature cannot extend or abridge the term of an office, the term of which is fixed by the Constitution; nor can It enact a law which in its effect would create a vacancy. The judge concluded his opinion in the following language: “The Supreme Court has decided that the defendant is estopped from denying that his term has expired. It has decided that the Legislature has no power to extend his term of office. It has decided that the Legislature has no power to enact a law which in its effect would create a vacancy in the office; also that the term of the officer-elect begins on the expiration of the term of his predecessor, and also that no uniformity can exist in the several counties of the State as to the time at which persons elected to county offices cf the same class shall be entitled to enter on their duties. Giving force and effect to the rules announced by the Supreme Court in these cases, it is elearlv impossible to uphold the act of 1897.” The judge further stated that the net of 1855, which was declared unconstitutional, was in substance and effect the same as the act of 1897. The case will probably be appealed.

PROBATE COI'RT 9CAXDAL. Professional Administrator* Who Fatten Off Estate* of Dead Men. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. Oct. 9.—Judge Piety, of the Circuit Court, who has been after delinquent guardians and administrators with a sharp stick since he went on the bench last January, has made anew rule to the effect that no person is to be appointed to one of the places of trust in the Probate Court who has been delinquent in a former trust. The judge caused an investigation to be made of the probate docket, and found hundreds of cases in which guardians had lever made so much as a partial report. The new’ rule is aimed at a set of professional guardians and administrators, who have been fattening off the estates of the dead. It is said that so loosely has this branch of the court’s business been administered in the past that there are men who have had probate trusts for twenty years, and who are not on record as having made a tinal report in any one case. Since Judge Piety inaugurated the new policy he has received letters from a number of Circuit Court judges in the State asking for information as to his method of straightening out this part of the court's business. ILLINOIS MIXERS’ CONFERENCE. Secretary Kennedy Sent to Strentor by President Itatchford. Special t. the Indtanapolls Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Oct. I*.—State Secretary Kennedy, of the Indiana miners’ organization, went to Streator, Hi., yesterday on telegraphic order from National President Ratchford to attend a joint meeting of operators and miners as a representative of the national organization. It is expected to reach an agreement at this meeting that will go far toward establishing a permanent understanding between the miners’ organization and the operators in that State, where heretofore the operators have ignored the miners’ organization. Steps are being taken also to bring about a joint conference between the operators and miners of Illinois and Indiana to the end that the two States may be in readiness to join in the interstate conference to be held in December in accordance with the terms of the strike settlement at Columbus, for the purpose of agreeing on a scale of wages for the calendar year of 1898 with fixed differentials for the several States. At present the miners t>f Indiana are working at 5 cents temporarily, because there has been no set-

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tlement in the eastern Illinois district, but where the men are receiving what they asked. 37 cents for mine-run coal, which is supposed to be the equivalent of 56 cents for screened coal in this State. The demand for coal is increasing, and so long as this is the fact there will be plenty of work and no controversy over wages, and far this reason the miners and those operators who arc sincerely ih favor of united action are trying to arrange for a joint conference of both parties in the two States. Thursday the Indiana block-coal operators advanced the price of coal at the mine from $1.40 to $1.60 a ton. Situation in Northern Illinois. BTREATOR, 111., Oct. 9.-The strike of miners in northern Illinois is still on, no agreement being reached by the convention of operators and miners held here. The delegates voted unanimously not to accept a less scale than the price adopted at the Springfield convention. The operators positively declined to consider that scale but offered an advance of 4 cents over the scale adopted here last May, which would be 56%c for screened coal. They argued they could not pay the price asked and retain business. The decision means apparently that none of the large shafts in the northern Illinois district will be worked this winter and 10,000 miners will remain idle. First Pay Day Since the Strike. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CLINTON, Ind., Oct. 9.—To-night Clinton is the lievliest town in all Hoosierdom, the result of the miners receiving their first pay since the end of the big strike. The several mines that paid off to-night distributed about $15,000 among their employes. The miners and their families, who have so long been living on short rations, are crowding the stores laying in provisions. The streets are thronged with men, women and children and the town has not had such a businesslike appearance in years. CHEAP INSURANCE. Interesting Report of the Ru*h County Farmer*’ Company. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RUSHVILLE, Ind., Oct. 9.—The Rush County Farmers’ Insurance Company, said to be the oldest and biggest mutual farmers’ insurance company in the State, held its annual meeting to-day. The report of the actuary, Fred A. Capp, of this city, shows the company to be prosperous. The membership is 1,207. an increase of over 100 above last year. The amount of property insured is $1,825,070, an increase of nearly $300,000. The losses for the year amount to $4,152.12 and to pay these and all running expenses the members were taxed only 20 cents on the SIOO ol' insurance carried. This is a rate of one-fifth of 1 per cent per annum for insurance on farm property, which is rated high in old-line companies and not accepted at all by some companies. The average rate per annum for the twentytwo years the company has been in existence is 23% cents. The following officers were elected: W. C. Mauzy. president; W. R. Newkirk, vice president; F. A. Capp, actuary. Mr. Capp is beginning his third year as manager of the company’s affairs. Letter from 111-Fateil Cliicorn. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VALPARAISO, Ind., Oct. 9.—E. G. Miller, of Chrisman, this county, found a bottle on the beach of Lake Michigan west of Chesterton, containing a note which was apparently written by one of the men on the ill-fated Chicora, which was lost on tho lake3 three years ago. The note was signed Ed Mason, and directed to Ids brother, Robert Mason. No. 52 Dearborn street, Chicago. It was dated: “Chicora, January, 1895,” and said that the ship had gone to pieces off the coast of Michigan. The rest was concerning private business and will be held till it is known whether Robert can be found. The bottle is a common wine bottle, and shows evidence of having been in the water a long time. A Bakery War Threatened. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 9.—There is prospect of a bakery war between the American Baking Company’s big bakery and the thirty or forty independent bakeries in the city. The trust bakery wants tho number of loaves sold to grocers for a dollar reduced from twenty-eight to twentyfive, but the smaller bakers will not agree to it. The trust bakery has made a reduction on its own account and threatens to bring the independent bakers to terms by slashing the price, intimating that bread may be sold at two cents a ioaf in a few days. The independent bakers say that when wheat was much lower there' was no cut in the price of bread, and that now* the bakers should give their customers the benefit of the situation.

AVarm Reception for Robbers. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PLAINFIELD, Ind., Oct. 9.—Last night about 10 o’clock an attempt was made to hold up a huckster about a half mile west of this place. The man had disposed of his load in Indianapolis and was en route to his home in the western part of the county. The highw’aymen intercepted him on the road, but he refused to stop and opened fire on the three men. They ran west, only' to meet another huckster going to Indianapolis. He also opened fire on the men, who took to a cornfield. One of the attacking party is said to have been badly wounded. Since the recent hold-ups in the vicinity of Indianapolis and Mickleyville nearly every one who has occasion to be on the National road after night goes armed. Ii It. Pratt’s Stranse Story. Special to the Journal. ELWOOl), Ind., Oct. 9.—R. B. Pratt, a traveling man, representing a suspender company of Aurora, 111., arrived in Elwood yesterday on a bicycle and asked for the services of a physician. He had a long, deep gash across his head, a dislocated shoulder and a badly damaged knee. Pratt has no idea how he received the injuries. He says the last recollection he has he was in Atlanta. Hamilton county, on Thursday morning. His mind from then on until he arrived in this city, he says, was a total blank, and he does not know whether he was assaulted and robbed or what happened him. He is at a hotel here recovering from his injuries and trying to remember how it all occurred. Howard’s Body Brought Home. Special to tVie Indianapolis Journal. SALEM, Ind., Oct. 9.—N. B. McAlister, father of Joseph Howard, who was murdered it Louisville three weeks ago and his body thrown in the river, went to New Albany, where the remains were recovered Friday, identified the body and brought it to his home, at South Boston, eight miles east of Salem, yesterday. The burial will take place to-morrow. Howard went to Louisville three weeks ago, sold some cattle and Intended to visit in Jeffersonville for a while. Howard was from Kentucky and had only lived in this county two years, where he married a daughter of .Mr. McAlister, who is one of the leading citizens of the village. Fires in Howard County. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Oet. 9.—Field fires are causing great destruction in this vicinity. The prolonged drought has made the earth and vegetation so dry that a spark means a dangerous fire. The farms of W. M. Sander, Otto Elson, W. C. Purdum, A. C. Overton. Charles Walker and Joel Overholser have been devastated in the past few days. On the Overton farm forty acres, including fences, trees and crops, house and barn, were burned over, and thirty acres on the Sander place were swept with flames. The farmers resist the flames by dragging sacks of water around their fields, the escaping water saturating the stubble. Paralyzed His Victim. Special to (he Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 9.—John Bell has been placed under arrest In this city and is being held on what may be the charge of murder. Two wteks ago Bell and other Daleville characters assaulted a glass worker named Jack Reed. They boat him up terribly and left him for dead. He was found by passers-by and taken care of. It was found that the blows they dealt left him paralyzed. The victim was brought to this city and is now at St. John's Hospital, a hopeless wreck. He has lost control, of his body and his mind is even affected. It is doubtful if he will live. McCullough ns Acting Judge. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RUSHVILLE. Ind., Oct. 9.—Ex-Senator James E. McCullough, of Indianapolis, will act as judge during the October term of the Rush Circuit Court. His selection was made by Judge John D. Miller, who is ill at his home, in Greensburg, and unable to hold court. licntli in n Gravel Pit. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW CASTLE, Ind., Oct. 9.—Alva Wilkinson, the nineteen-year-old son of John J. Wilkinson, was crushed to death in a gravel pit near Blountsville yesterday. In

company with a ten-year-old boy he was engaged In loading a' wagon with gravel. Suddenly the bank fell, covering WPkinson, his wagon and one of his horses. Help was soon summoned and the body ot the unfortunate young man rescued. It was found ..hut hd had been thrown against a wagon *v he< and nis neck and back broken and his skull crushed. He was to have been married yesterday evening. Young' HooMler Sculptor Honored. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MADISON, Ind., Oct. 9.—George G. Barnard, the young sculptor, son of the Rev. J. H. Barnard, of the Second Presbyterian Church at Madison, has received the order for two large figures, twice life size, to lie executed in marble, for the new Singer building in New York. The building is to be erected on Broadway, and of Indiana stone. The figures are to be placed over the main entrance. Mr. Barnard has also been elected a member of the jury for the Philadelphia Academy. Four Prisoner* Break Jail. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PAOLI, Ind., Oct. 9.—lra Cox and Ed Dale, charged with assault and battery, Amos Parret, colored, charged with larceny, and Ed Williams, charged with horse stealing, broke jail here last night and made good their escape. McCoy’s bloodhounds, of Orleans, were brought here and put on the trail, but could not do any good, as the escaped prisoners evidently waded up or down the stream of water which skins the town. Not the First Life Sentence. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARTINSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 9.—The Journal was in error in to-day’s paper in the statement that the sentence of life imprisonment for John Ferriter was the first sentence of the kind. Sebastian Price, who murdered Fred Weemer, a blacksmith at Morgantown, this county, was tried before Judge J. H. Jordan at the February term of court in 1880, found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced for life. About ten years later he was pardoned. Wreck on the Big: Four. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., Oct. 9.—The Michigan division of the Big Four had a serious freight wreck to-day at Sodus. A north-bound freight train, running at a high rate of speed, struck a frog which section men who had taken it out and replaced it had not fully secured and twelve loaded cars were piled up in the ditch. The wreck train cleared the track, so there was little delay to traffic. Women Help Fight the Fires. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VALPARAISO, Ind., Oct. B—The heavy winds of yesterday and last night started the fire again in the Kankakee valley east ol’ this city, destroying a great quantity of hay. Farmers and their women folks from all the surrounding country turned out to fight the flames. The work train crew of this city on the Fort Wayne road w*as called out last night to help the farmers, who plowed all night. The fire is still burning. Well’* Warehonse Burned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., ’ Oct. 9.-Weil Brothers’ warehouse, on East Columbia street, was badly damaged by fire to-day. The large building was filled with rags and other inflammable material. Loss on building, $4,000; insured for $i2,000; loss on contents, $2,000; insured for SI,OOO. Scarlet Fever Close* Churche*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RL T SHVILLE, Ind., Oct. 9.—Four new cases of scarlet fever were reported to-day. On account of the Health Board's edict no church services will be held here tomorrow.

FROM DAWSON CITY. Hetnrn of Six Gold Seeker* with About $12,000 In Nugget*. SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 9.-The steamer Rosalie arrived here to-night from Skaguay and Dyea, Alaska. The Rosalie brought down 139 passengers, most of them coming from Skaguay. Among the passengers were six from Dawson City, who came out over the Dalton trail. They were Patrick Galvin and wife, Charles Thebo, C. E. Garrish, C. H. Davis and a man named Bede. They had about $12,000 in nuggets between them. They left Dawson Aug.* 29 and'strived at Paine’s Mission Sept. 23. They reported that rich strikes have been made on Hunker creek, which is as rich as Bonanza or Eldorado. The total output this year will exceed any estimate ever made. The Rosalie reports everything quiet at Skaguay. Many of the miners have completed cabins in which to winter, and others are caching their supplies, preparatory to leaving till next spring, w r hen they will again try the pass. Will Sail Around the Horn. NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—The first regular expedition to leave this city for the Klondike will depart to-morrow, w'hen the schooner Nellie G. Thurston, formerly a Cape Cod fisherman, will sail away from the Erie basin with a small army of gold fevered hunters. There are twenty passengers in all, two of whom are women. The mining expedition is under the auspices of a Brooklyn concern. The passengers pay s3ut> each for the privilege of making the trip. Bunks for the men have been erected between the forecastle and cabin bulkhead. The two women have the exclusive use of the cabin. The Thurston is only eighty-seven feet long, and her twenty passengers will find little room for exercise. Run on n Rig Canadian Bank. MONTREAL, Oct. 9—The run which begun on the City and District Savings Bank was resumed this morning, when a crowd of small depositors gathered around the bank and withdrew their deposits. Yesterday the bank paid out over SOOO,OOO. but no large deposits were withdrawn. The capital stock of the bank is $2,000,000, of which $600,000 is paid up. The August report to the Finance Department at Ottawa shows that the deposits payable after notice to or on a fixed day are $9,947,532, not including $18,0(4), representing a charity fund trust. The total liabilities are $10,252,979 and assets $11,434,423. Mayor Wilson has offered to pay $30.) for every SIOO share of the bank stock offered to him. Marquette Club Banqueted. CHICAGO, Oct. 9.—The annual banquet of the Marquette Club on “Chicago day” was held at the Auditorium to-night, Senator Mark A. Hanna being the guest of honor. Mr. Hanna was down for a speech on “Ohio—the Modern Virginia.” His speech had no political significance. The other speakers of the evening were Edgar A. Bancroft, who responded to the toast. “The Marquette Club." J. K. Burton, of Kansas, spoke on “An Epoch and Its Lesson;” Frank O. Lowden. of Chicago, on "Chicago;” Fernando Jones, of Chicago, on “Old Chicago,” and Congressman John L. Lacey, on "Politics and Prosperity." Method Ist Laymen Organize. CHICAGO, Oct. 9.—Laymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church have organized and will go before the Rock River Conference to ask the ministers to vote on the question of equal representation in the General Conference. The committee of five appointed will present a resolution urging the conference to propose to other conferences the modification of the restrictive rules that prevent equal representation. It is believed that a majority of the ministers in the Rock River Conference will vote in favor of equal representation when it comes up before them on Monday. Not Gultenu’a Revolver. WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—The whereabouts of the long-lost revolver used by Guiteau in the assassination of President Garfield, the police authorities several days ago announced had been found and turned over to them, are apparently still a mystery. The weapon which the police hold and which is said to have been in the possession of the late Judge Advocate General Swaim, U. S. A., has a wooden handle, while the newspaper records examined to-day uniformly describe the weapon as having a w hite bone or ivory handle. Deb* Speak* at New York. NEW YORK. Oot. 9.—Eugene V. Debs spoke to an audience of one thousand men and women, among them many prominent Socialists, in the Grand Central Palace tonight, on "How to Remedy the Social Problems.” He used the same arguments he has . dvanced on other occasions. Colonel Richard Hinton, a member of the colonization commission of the Social Democracy, outlined the plan of the commission arid stated that within a month they would be able to colonize five thousand families in one of the great Western States. FM(lier Kearney Honored. SOMERSET. 0., Oct. 9.-Rev. Father L. E. Kearney, of St. Thomas’s Church. Zanesville, was elected to-day provincial of the Dominican Order in the c nlted States. This is the highest dignity that can be conferred In the order.

■WORRY FOR WILHELM OPPOSED BOTH BY HIS CHANCELLOR AS D THE REICHSTAG. ♦ —- Prince Hohenlohe'* Relation* with the Emperor So Strained that He Ii Anxious to Resign. FATE OF AN ALLEGED TRAITOR ■ ♦ CAPT. DREYFUS IS A BIG CAGE OX THE ISLAND OF THE DEVIL. Barbarous Methods Adopted to Prevent a. Frenchman Escaping—-Ten-nyson and Americans. i t (Copyright, 1897, by the Associated Press.) BERLIN, Oct. 9.—ln spite of the semiofficial denials, the relations between the imperial chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe. and Emperor William are very strained. The prince has made his remaining in office for another brief spell contingent on two things—the presentation to the Richstag of the military-trial reform bill and no new taxes for purposes of larger naval appropriations. The bill for reform and unification of the military penal code is still hanging fire, in spite of the chancellor’s declaration in the Reichstag in 1895 that he would stand or fall with that measure, and the Emperor’s strong objection to publicity in the case of military trials remains unchanged. As to new taxes for increasing the strength of the fleet, the North German Gazette points out that it is significant that the government and all of the Conservative newspapers are dwelling on the absolute necessity for such taxes. The Post affirms that beer will be taxed higher, and that the import duty on cereals will be raised to 50 marks per ton, which, together, would yield the government an extra revenue of at least 50,000,000 marks. The Volks Zeitung says that the chancellor this week offered to resign for the fourth time, and tnat the chancellorship crisis is now in an acute state. The Cologne Gazette corroborates this and adds: “It is certain that if Prince Hohenlohe is in office at the opening of the Reichstag he has to confess his inability to keep his promise to present the military-reform bill, the Reichstag will at once vote want of confidence In the government. An agreement to this effect was made during the present week by the leaders of the parties constituting the majority.” The Frankfurter Zeitung asserts positively that no understanding has been reached with the Emperor regarding the militaryreform bill, and it is aiso said that his Majesty has been trying for months to find a suitable successor to Prince Hohenlohe. It appears, however, that all his attempts in this direction, especially among the princes of reigning houses and other men of similar rank with Prince Hohenlohe, have been fruitless. Prince Bismarck has repeatedly been appealed to to express himself on the subject of the government’s naval plans, but the only opinion which he has vouchsafed was the statement wnich he made Oct. 4 in the course of an interview with a representative of the Sehlessiche Zeitung, that he approved the strengthening of the navy by an increase in the number of cruisers and by a replacement of the obsolete battle ships, but as deprecating a course calculated to alarm the taxpayers by what the prince , termed a “gigantic scheme.” CAPT. DREYFUS'S FATE. Imprisoned In n Gigantic Iron Cage on the Island of the Devil. PARIS, Oct. 9.—Attention has been attracted once again to the unfortunate exCaptain Dreyfus, now undergoing lifelong captivity on the desolate and fever-stricken Island of the Devil, off the coast of French Guiana, by the announcement in the pfficial organ of the Colonial Department here that in the presence of the Governor of French Guiana and a number of the personages from Cayenne the unhappy prisoner was removed to a gigantic sort of iron cage, which has been constructed at the expenditure of some $20,000 or $30,000 by a couple of hundred convict laborers, who have worked in relays day and night for the past six months in order to get it ready. It consists of a double line of lofty iron railings about twenty feet high, with a sort of frieze or barbed arrangement at the top to prevent any one from climbing over, a distance of several feet intervening between the two lines of railing. It is inside the spot thus caged in that his hut is placed, and from now on whatever exercise he takes will necessarily be within the circumscribed limit of those iron bars. This will effectually prevent him from committing suicide by casting himself into the sea, which he has had lots of opportunity of doing until now, his one pastime having been to sit at the water’s edge and gaze toward the horizon. From henceforth he wilt be debarred even from this, and it is difficult to conceive anything more horrible than this punishment. For he has no books, no writing material, and no labor to perform, while a wife and children, to whom he is passionately attached, have remained behind in France, and are not permitted to communicate with him in any shape or fashion. The object of the cage is to prevent clandestine intercourse between the prisoner and his many powerful friends on both sides of the Atlantic who are firmly convinced of his innocence; and, at the same time, to guard against the possibility of his escape, which appears to be the one nightmare, not only of the colonial officials in Guiana, but also of the government here. Indeed there are many people who do not hesitate to assert that the reason the government is adopting such elaborate and downright barbarous precautions to prevent the escape of this man, wno was tried and convicted behind closed doors upon evidence so secret that it was not even communicated to his counsel, is because it is afraid of what he might reveal concerning people in high places were he to recover his liberty. There has always been a very strong impression that he was convicted merely for the sake of shielding someone infinitely higher in rank and authority, who was the real author of the alleged theft and sale to the Italian government of the secret plans of mobilization of the French army in the event of war.

GERMAN SOCIALISTS. Hereafter Tliey May Participate in Election* for Member*' of the Diet. (Copyright, 1897, by the Associated Press.) BERLIN, Oct. 9.—The Socialist convention, just ended at Hamburg, was a most important gathering. There were over two hundred delegates present, and they represented 2,250,000 votes. The proceedings have been widely criticised, and the Conservative press claims that now the Socialists remain strictly within their legal rights they have become much more dangerous. The Hamburger Nachrichten, in an editorial article, urges the adoption of violent measures to suppress socialism. It advocates the abrogation of the general franchise at Reichstag elections as being the best means of curtailing the political influence of the Socialists, and concludes: “If they should then try to reach their aims by illegal ways the opportunity would not be wholly undesirable. as It would offer a shorter mode of warfare against them.” On the other hand, the Liberal press claims that the convention has shown the Socialists to be rapidly becoming purely a radical reform party. The Social Democratic congress to-day, by a vote of 100 to 50, abrogated the prohibition against participation in elections for members of the Diet. The congress also passed the resolution which was Introduced on Wednesday by Herr Bebel, the Socialist leader, providing that in case of second ballots in elections to the Reichstag, instead of abstaining from voting w here their candidates are defeated on the first ballot, Socialists shall support w hichever candidate pledges himself to vote against every sort of septennate or quinquennate. against the introduction of new taxes or the raising of existing ones, against exceptional laws and all measures involving encroachment upon universal suffrage or, laws of association or press laws. The resolution also provides

that if neither candidate will pledge himself to these demands. Socialists must abstain from voting as they have done hitherto. Finally it was decided that no compromise or agreement should be concluded with other parties. The action of the congress in passing Herr Rebel’s resolution is most important. Under the recent electoral system it is almost impossible for the Socialists to elect a representative to the Diet. Their participation in the elections, therefore, may result in a Conservative majority in the Diet. it was resolved to retransfer the headquarters of the party to Berlin, and to hold the next congress at Stuttgart. Herr Bueb, a Socialist member of the Reichstag, representing Mulhausen, has been sentenced to ten months’ Imprisonment for publicly criticising a state institution. *. TENNYSON LIKED AMERICAN'S. But They Sent Him Too Many Pipe* nnl the Wrong; Tohaeeo. LONDON, Oct. 9.—The biography of the late Lord Tennyson, the poet laureate, which is attracting so much attention just now, is contained in two thick volumes full of interest, and repeatedly emphasize the poet’s regard for the United States and his earnest desire that the parent country and its offshoot shall ever dwell in unity. Writing to Longfellow Tennyson says: “We English and Amer.cans should all be brothers as none other among nations can be, and soma of us, come what may, will always be, so I trust.” Tennyson’s biographer writes that Emerson, Whittier, Walt Whitman, Lowell and Oliver 'Wendell Holmes were counted among his friends, and through them he kept alive a sprit of kinship with their countrymen. Americans, the biographer further says, not only loaded him with appreciation, but also loaded him with pipes. Writing to the Duke of Argyll in 1867, Tennyson said: “I am sorry I did not see the Marquis of Lome, nut I'll call for the calumet sent by Longfellow. It is odd that Americans always send me pipes and tobacco, as if I cared for nothing else in the world, and their tobacco is not my tobacco, nor are their pipes my pipes, bird’s-eye and cutty being more to my fancy than the costlier things. But, however, I do not mean to undervalue i<ongfellow’s gift.” Letters to and from the Queen are full of Interest. They occasionally touch upon politics, hut are more frequently personal. Writing to Tennyson regarding the peerage conferred on him. the Queen said it was a "mark of my recognition of the great service you have rendered to literature, which has had so great an influence on the world at large.” Her Majesty added: “How I wish you could suggest means for crushing the horrible publications whose object is to promulgate scandal and calumny which they invent themselves.” After a visit to Queen Victoria, Tennyson wrote to her: “During our conversation I felt a touch of that true friendship which binds human beings together, whether they be kings or cobblers.”

DISHONEST GERMANS. American Machined Counterfeited by Manufacturer* and Dealer*. (Copyright. 1897, by the Associated Press.) BERLIN, Oct. 9.—Representatives in Germany of American manufacturers and the United States consuls in this country have noticed lately a great deal of dishonesty on the part of German manufacturers, especially at Chemnitz, Frankfort, Sonneberg and in the Rhine districts. Consul Monaghan, of Chemnitz, has just sent a report to Washington giving the facts and names, not only in regard to imitating United States goods and patent infringements, but also regarding incorrect invoices. Mr. Parker, a patent lawyer of Chicago, has begun suits in the German courts against a number of the worst offenders. Robert Grimshaw, representing a number of American iron and machine concerns, joins in the complaints. The favorite methods of these dishonest German manufacturers and dealers is to obtain, first, by contract, the exclusive representation of valuable American machines and then secure specimens of these machines. Next, they abandon all effort to sell any of them, but instead they imitate them closely and place machines on the market at two-thirdi of the American prices. Some of thesJ manufacturers have even had the boldness*to enter the counterfeited articles and even the American articles themselves, enameled over at exhibitions here and elsewhere. One case is recorded where some Bridgeport locks’ stenciling was removed or enameled afresh and they were entered in a competition for a prize. * PRINCESS IN BLOOMERS, ft Wife of the Heir of the Saxon Throne Fond of Bicycling. (Copyright, 1897, by the associated Press.) BERLIN, Oct. 9.—Princess Louise, wife of the heir to the Saxon throne, has taken to publicly bicycling in bloomers in the Dresden parks, accompanied by Prince Frederick Augustus, her eldest son. Prince George of Oldenburg, an elderly but enthusiastic bicyclist, was knocked down by a coach and his knee so badly injured that he is obliged to remain in bed. Princess Frederick Leopold of Prussia, Emperor William’s sister, recently met with a severe accident while wheeling near Potsdam. Prince Bismarck, it appears, Is now an enthusiastic admirer of the bicycle. He approves of women riding, and regrets that he is too old and stiff to take part in the sport himself. Recently Prince Bismarck began to amuse himself in the evenings by card playing. His favorite game is skat, for quarters-pfenning points. Agrarian* Want Retaliation. BERLIN, Oct. 9.—The Agrarian newspapers continue to demand vigorous measures of retaliation against the United States on account of the passage of the Dingley bill, but the majority of the press is losing interest in the matter. The government has asked the advice of the Commercial Chamber as to whether a freight reduction on the railroads in the case of sugar for export would be beneficial. The decrease In the exports of sugar for the quarter just ended is even larger than was feared when the new United States tariff went into effect. The exports from Hamburg have dropped from $5,352,566, in 1896, to $879,569, almost all oi it being sugar from the consular districts of Stettin, including Dantzic and Koenigberg. The figures for the last quarter were $275,654, a decrease of ,$644,405, nearly all sugar.

Social Triumph for Mrs. Langtry. LONDON, Oct. 9.—lt has just leaked out that at Newmarket last week Mrs. Langtry won a social triumph under interesting circumstances. The Prince of Wales, according to the report, noticing her absence from the jockey club inclosure, asked for an explanation from the stewards. On this being forthcoming the prince dismissed it as being quite inadequate, in view' of Mrs. Langtry’s position as a horse owner and as a generous supporter of the turf. The upshot was, still according to the story, that Mrs. Langtry was invited to resume her usage of the inclosure, but Mrs. Langtry, it appears, was angry at the manner in which the invitation was conveyed to her and she refused to re-enter the inclosure unless personally invited by one of the stewards. This, it would seem, was finally done. The Kaiser to the Sultan. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oet. 9.—The Sultan has received an autograph letter from the Emperor of Germany, conveying his thanks for the gift of a number of cannon captured from the Greeks during the recent war. The Emperor, in his letter, praises the "wdse moderation” exhibited during Turkey's negotiations for the conclusion of peace wdth Greece, and assures the Sultan that he enjoys the faithful friendship of Emperor William. RuHNO-Corenn Relation* Strained. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9.—Reports from the Orient indicate strongly that the relations between Russia and Japan over Corea are greatly strained. A protest has been entered at Seoul, the capital of Corea, against the engagement of Ruslan drill instructors. hut at Yokohama it is expected that the Russians will carry their point. Will Ine Onr Gold Coin. , SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9.—Advices state that Nicaragua is endeavoring to establish a gold standard and will use temporarily the gold coin of the United States until its own coins can be substituted. The government will discontinue the use of silver temporarily to induce importation of gold. A Foretaste of Winter. LONDON. Oct. 9.—The past week has been a foretaste of winter, with frost and fogs. The majority of the smart world remain in the country, while the Duchess of York has been the only member of the

royal family in town. She has been ax assiduous visitor to the theaters. Cable Note*. The United States embassador, Andrew D. White, has gone away from Berlin on leave for an indefinite period. The new Hamburg-American lino steamship Praetoria. a sister ship to the Pennsylvania. was successfully launched at London yesterday. Spain’s Queen Regent has ordered that assistance be given to the families of the Anarchists executed at Barcelona soma time ago. and that their children be educated at her expense. In the military writings of Emperor William I of Germany, issued by order hf the present Emperor, there are many evidences that the old Emperor severely condemned dueling in the army. The merchants of Berlin have resolved to follow the advice received from the German embassy at Washington and establish a commercial museum in Berlin, modeled after the Commercial Museum of Philadelphia. A special session of the Evangelical Consistory of the province of East Prussia has passed an almost unanimous vote of censure against the Emperor because he has broken the Sunday rest law' by hunting in the forest of Rominten. MORE RECORDS BROKEN *_ ANOTHER GREAT FEAT BY JIMMY MICHAEL. Covered 32 Miles, 52 Yard* in an Hoar, and Made Many New Mark* for Bicycle Riders. ♦ PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 9. To-day was record-breaking day at the Willow Grove bicycle track in the trials made by Jimmy Michael, the Welsh wheelman, for all records from one mile to one hour against time, paced. From eleven miles until he crossed the line at thirty-two miles his time w r as faster than any other world's records for the same distances, and from the twen-ty-sixth mile until he crossed the tape in the thirty-second mile he excelled the American competition records held by himself. It w’as announced by the track officials that “Michael will try to beat Stocks’s record for one hour of 32 miles 448 yards.” This he did, making 32 miles 652 yards in the sixty minutes, but another record of 32 miles 1,088 yards made by Stocks.still stands. Michael was in the best of form and demonstrated, as ever, his ability to hold the strongest kind of a pace. In all there were thirty-six pacemakers to urge the little fellow along. They were composed of two sextet teams, two quintets and four quads. The track was in splendid condition and there was scarcely a breath of air when Michael came out for his preliminary spins. After scoring several times the signal was given and with one more lap to get up speed the time was caught just as Michael crossed. After the first mile he gradually rode close to the world’s record and in the tenth mile w r as seven and one-fifth seconds behind. In the next mile be began to break records. This he kept up until the nineteenth mile, when he began overhauling his own records in the American competition class, and when he passed the timers at the end of the twenty-sixth mile he was ahead of his own time in the competition class and away ahead of Stocks's record against time. The little Welshman kept at it and crossed the tape at the thirty-second mile in 59:20, making that mile in 1:57 1-5. He then rode like mad to top Stocks’s announced time, and when the pistol cracked at the sixty minutes he had ridden 32 miles 652 yards, beating the record he was trying for by 204 yards. After resting a wdille Michael made an effort to lower his record of 1:36 for one mile, made on last Thursday, but could not do better than 1:43 1-5. Bald Goes a Mile In lt4 4-5. RACINE, Wis., Oct. 9.—The National Circuit bicycle races came to a close here today at Association Park with an attendance of less than 2,000. Eddie Bald, paced by a sextet, made a mile in 1:49 4-5. Earl Peabody won the mile open for amateurs, making his eightieth first for the year. Summaries: Professional, one mile, open: Eddie Bald, Buffalo, won; Nat Butler, Boston, second; W. E. Becker, Minneapolis, third. Time, 2:17 4-5. Amateur two-mile handicap: Joe Dollister, Burlington (135 yard?), won; A. H. Barnickle, Milwaukee (150 yards), second- C. H. Gruis, Kenosha (100 yards), third; A. R. taumann, Racine (85 yards), fourth. Time, 4:42 3-5. „ „ Professional, two-mile handicap: F. C. Hoyt, Bridgeport, Conn. (35 yards), won; Charles Weils. San Francisco (60 yards), second; A J. Weilep, Milwaukee (165 yards), third; Owen Kimble, Louisville (25 yards), fourth. Time, 4:44 1-5.

LITTLE GIRLS WRONGED. Arrest of Florida. Mail Carrier on a Serious Charge. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 9.—George Barker, wjffte, who has been employed as a mail carrier for several years, is under arrest charged with having wronged no less than a dozen little girls ranging from six to twelve years of age. The charge against Barker was brought by E. C. Bettelini, w r hose ten-year-old girl was one of the victims. A warrant was sworn out for Barker last night, but when the officers went to arrest him he had flown. Telegrams were sent all over the State this morning and he was caught near Gainesville. He admits taking improper liberties with the child, but denies assaulting her. Barker wiil be brought back here for trial and ’.he penalty is death. Great excitement prevails, but it is believed that the law will be allowed to take its course. HE FAVORS HANGING. Governor Leeily, of Kanuni, Unlike 111* Predecessor* in Office. TOPEKA, Kan., Oct. 9.—ln an interview to-day Governor Leedy advocates capital punishment for murder In the first degree. The present Kansas law provides that a person convicted of murder In the first degree shall remain in the penitentiary one year at least, and then shall not be hung until the Governor signs the' death warrant. There are about fifty persons in the penitentiary sentenced to be hanged, but who are permitted to live because no Governor has signed their death warrants. Governor Leedy says he will not sign their warrants, as it was the, duty of preceding Governors, but he intimates that he will sign the warrants for the execution of all murderers sentenced to hang during his term of office. “80-PEEP" IS STRANDED. George Bowie*’* Big K.vtruv*n*a RuitM at Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, Oct. 9.—The “80-Peep” Extravaganza Company, with sixty members, of w hich J. It. Stirling, manager of the Star Theater, of Buffalo, and George Bowles, formerly of the Chicago Opera House forces, are the managers, broke up here to-night after filling a week’s engagement at the Walnut-street Theater. The managers are back two weeks in their payments. “80-Peep” was written by Mr. Bowles, who had long experience in the extravaganza business during his connection with David Henderson, of the Chicago Opera House. “80-Peep” was staged and costumed at an enormous expense, and produced about a month ago in the Star Theater, Buffalo. Mr. Stirling was supposed to be backing the enterprise. About $25,000 was Invested in the production. Dewertcd by licit*. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 9.—Eugene V. Debß has refused to assist Walter G. Worden, accused of wrecking a Southern Pacific train, causing loss of lire* during the strike of 1894. Assistance was asked of Dehs’s American Railway Union to defray the expenses of Worden's trial. Debs replied. regretting the inability of the organization to assist, owing to its bail financial state and its consolidation with the American Federation of Labor. Worden, however, wrote Debs asking the sympathy of the union. Victim* of Prairie Fire*. WINNIPEG, Manitoba. Oet. 9.—lt waa learned to-day that Mrs. Breenin, a half breed, and her six children, and a man ramed Teneau lost their U\e In the prairie fires near St. Anna.