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with the previous year it shows a decrease of 3.298 original homestead entries, aggregating ,378,625 acres. In the entire disposals of public lands there was a falling off of 5,37M.4<t6 acres. The area sold for cash reached 419,062 acres, and miscellaneous entries aggregated 7,334,554 acres. The receipts from the disposal of public lauds amounted to *1,596,380. and from tho disposal of Indian lar is, $438,77d. There were 37,078 agricultural patents issued, approximating 5,733,920 acres. There wore patented for the benefit of railroad companies under congressional grants. 5.101.969 acres, a decrease of over 10,000,0i< acres from the previous year. Lists of lands selected by the several States and Territories under the grant for educational purposes aggregated V 39.417 acres. At the close of the year there were pending railtoad selections embracing 11,436,809 acres. Approximate estimate of the number of acres of vacant public lands in the several States and Territories at the close of the it-cal year is as follows: Alabama, 532,339; ‘Arltona, 54,400.21?; Arkansas, 3.922,042; California. 43.841,*M4; Colorado, 4.63'..2>)4; Florida, 1,797,662, Idaho, 45,962,855; Kansas, 1,046,589; Louisiana, 845,020: Michigan. 522,431; Minnesota, 6,240,049; Mississippi. 441.220; Missouri, 497,764; Montana. 71.432,017; Nebraska, 10,609.353; Nevada, 61,578,a6; New Mexico, 56,983,047; North Dakota. 21.385,293; Oklahoma. 8,105,238; Oregon, 35,892,318; South Dakota, 13,250,718; Utah, 44,207,270; Washington, 17,958,536; Wisconsin, 454.107; Wyoming, 49,341.688; Alaska, 369,529,600 acres. These ligures do not Include the vacant land embraced in military, timber and Indian reservations, reservoir sites, tracts covered by selections, filings, railroad grants, etc. The mining industry reached its lowest point during the past year, but is now on the increase. In view of ttr3 expected filing of many locations Incident to the opening of the upper Yukon district, the commissioner favors the establishment of another land district in Alaska. Noting the fact that numerous mining syndicates are already in the field competing for the title to the many indiviuai locations now being made on the rich mineral discoveries in Alaska, it is recommended that the law be bo amended as to prohibit the including of more than one lode claim, >r more than 160 acres of placer ground in a single application or entry. There were 370 cases of depredations on public timber reported, Involving a value of $635,064 recoverable to the government. Nearly three hundred permits have been issued to cut public timuer since the passage of the permit law, with an estimated amount of timber thus allowed to be cut of 3(0,000,060 feet. Commissioner Hermann Bays: “Large corporations and companies have secured permits at different times to cut many millions of feet of timber, notably the Big Blackfoot Milling Company, Bitter Hoot Developing Company, and a mining company, all of Montana. Since my induction 1 have refused to allow any license or use to exceed one quarter section and any further quantity only upon showing of tne real necessity. “At present timber dealers yearly sweep vast quantities of timber from the public lands in the interests of speculations without paying a dollar to the government, and conllagrations continually rage through the public forests without government cllort to check their destruction. The timber loss yearly from these sources, conservatively, runs up into tho millions of dollars. It is Impracticable to protect the forests upon the public domain without provision for the maintenance of a full local force to supervise the timbered lands and execute these laws.” Among the recommendations are for prompt action by Congress to terminate the Buspension of Arkansas land claims; a change in the course ot proceedings for the adjustment, of mineral lands; modification of the law imposing penalties for depredations on public timber, and ample appropriations for protecting and aministering existing and prospective forest reservations.

NAVAL. ENGINEERING. Report of George W. Melville—Liquid Fuel Instead of Coal. WASHINGTON, Oet. 26.—The gradual replacement on war vessels of t’.io familiar cylindrical boiler by various ferms of the water tube boiler constitutes the most important fact in marine engineering at this time, according to Engineer in Chief George W. Melville, who has just published his annual report to the secretary of the navy. For torpedo boats, he says, the advantage of these hollers were so evident that they quickly displaced the old types and have now been used for several years exclusively for this kind o? craft. Touching liquid fuel, with which many nations are experimenting, as a substitute for coal, the report gives an Interesting history of those made in this country. Included in the list is the test made by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company about ten years ago, which, while proving the practicability of using crude coal oil for fuel for boilers, demonstrated that the Pennsylvania Railroad itself would consume more than one-third of tho entire output of coal oil at that time, if it were used for fuel Instead of coal. Nevertheless, the balances of advantage are so greatly in favor of the liquid fuel for small craft that the bureau expresses the intention of making use of coal oil on torpedo boats. Commodore Melville makes a strong argument in favor of building our ships in future in classes, so as to secure the great advantages that follow the training of men for whole classes of ships instead of tof one vessel, and also the ability to use duplicate parts of machinery, it is recommended that the machinery of ships laid up in reserve with skeleton crews be subjected every six months to it dock trial with full steam pressure to make sure they are ready for use at short notice. The bureau ha3 been making some inquiries as to the possibility of procuring large merchant ships in an emergency to servo as machine shops for fleets, and having secured a list of some suitable vessels now submits an estimate of $2;>,000 for machine tools to be laid aside for fitting one of them out when needed. The engineer in chief has a good deal to say iri his report on the subject of personnel, and ho insists that he is warranted in urging, after many years of careful observation and study, two things as necessary to the highest efficiency of the engineer corps. First, an Increase of numbers of the corps from 195 officers of all grades to about three hundred, so divided as to the various grades as to give fair promotion; second. the conferring of actual rank and titles (with the names of the corps attached) as Is the case for the staff officers of the army. STATI’S OF ALASKA INDIANS. Question Tlmt \ ilk i*rolnl*l> Have to He Decided by Con;re**. WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—The status of the Indians in Alaska, and their right to take up or hold a mining claim, according to the United States mining laws or pursuant to any treaty with Russia at the time of Alaskan purchase, Is discussed in an interesting decision made to-day by Commissioner Hermann, of the General Land Office. It is held that the right to prospect, locate, enter and receive patent for mineral lands Is conferred on citizens of the United Elates and to those who have declared their intention to become such and this right is based on tho act of Congress, approved May 17, 1884. As to whether a native-born Indian of Alaska is a citizen of the United States, the commissioner cites the case of Waters vs. Campbell In the United States Supreme Court, which held Alaska is not Indian country in the usual sense of that term, except so far as the introduction and disposition of spirituous liquors is concerned and subject to this restraint is open to occupation and trade generally, A former secretary of the interior held that under the treaty of March 30. ISS7. the uncivilized native tribes of Alaska will be subJect to such laws and regulations as the United States may, from time to time, adopt. The status of the natives as a race, the commissioner says, has never been defined bv statute, nor has their political status been fixed. The office of the Indian affairs has never exercised any Jurisdiction over any portion of the inhabitants of Alaska. All laws referring to Alaska and Its aboriginal inhabitants bore no reference to it as “InilhWi country," nor to them as ••Indians,” and the conclusion, therefore, is that contracts with these people are not required to be approved by any officer of the government, as is essential in other cases between a white man and Indians. This subject is likely to prove an interesting issue in the next session of Congress. Though similar legislation was defeated at the last session the recent developments are held to have brought Alaska into conditions ripe for representation by a delegate, government will not lose. The gfHMNHI Worth of Dognit Creek WurrnnU Not Yet I’nlti. WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Government officials are at a loss to know on whom will fall the loss by the $90,600 worth of bogus warrants on account of the Creek Indian payment which are now out. The government will not lose anything, for the money on all these warrants has been paid out In an Intermediary way. Whether the Creek Nation, which is said to have paid some of the money on the warrants, or outside par-

ties, who are known to have cashed at least a part of them on a premium as brokers, or others, will be the ones tc stand the loss Is not known. Secretary Bliss stated today that while there were about $90,600 worth of bogus warrants out for the Creek payment they had not been paid. Who holds the warrants cannot be learned, he said, but the government would not lose a cent. Further than this officials refuse to talk. Plans for the payment of the indebtedness were about consummated and the snipment of the money about to be made to the Territory when the discrepancy was discovered. The warrants were on the United States subtreasury at Si. Louis and the arrangements for the payment were immt'diately suspended pending the investigation. Special Agent Zev* rly, who practically worked up the case, is expected here before the end of the week. He will then confer with Secretary Bliss, laying before him all the facts gained in the investigation which has been on during the past three weeks and submit his report. The advices so far received have been of a preliminary character. Pending his arrival the d* finite facts as to many points in the case will not be known. Reception to Dr. Nmnen. WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, the Arctic explorer, was given a reception to-night at the Arlington Hotel by the. National Geographic Society. The parlors and banquet room of the hotel were appropriately decorated with plants and flowers, and the Norwegian ar.d American flags. The guests were introduced to Dr. Nansen by Dr. David T. Day, of the geological survey, and Hon. Gardiner Hubbard, and assisting the explorer in receiving were General Greely, of the army, and Engineer Melville, of the navy. Those who called included Secretaries Long and Alger, Assistant Secretaries Vandenip and Roosevelt, Associate Justice Harlan, of the Supreme Court, Hon. John W. Foster and Secretary to Qie President Porter and other distinguished public men. After the reception General Greely made a few remarks complimentary of Nansen and his work. Engineer Melville introduced Nansen as the grandest hero who ever went into the Arctic sea, and the latter briefly responded. Dinner to Karl Decker. WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Karl Decker, who rescued Miss Cisneros from a prison in Havana, was the guest of honor at a dinner given in his honor to-night by his fel-low-newspaper workers of Washington. The decorations of the banquet room were of a most elaborate character, in which chrysanthemums and palms predominated. Nearly one hundred guests were present, among them being a number of Mr. Decker s intimate friends not engaged in newspaper work. The guest of honor sat at the head of the table and Mr. Angus MeSween introduced Mr. Harry L. Merrick, who acted as toastmaster. Representative Amos J. Cummings, of New York, Mr. Decker and others made speeches. Piiteatn Grunted Imlin n inns. WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. —Patents were issued to Indianians to-day as follows: James D. Adams, Wabash, bushing for pulley journals; Stephen J. Austin, Terre Haute, railway crossing; George M. Beck, Lebanon, w’ashing machine; Henry J. Burt, Liberty, gas generators; Emil F. Cazalet, Kentland, grain purifier and drier; William T. Keefer, Bedford, animal trap; Irene P. Kimball, Owensville, hook and eye; Jeremiah Lockwood, Sullivan, pump; William H. Saladee and J. Cathcr, Bedford, dancing toy; George C. Toner and J. W. McCollum, West Indiai apolis, discharger for pneumatic straiv stackers, also, pneumatic straw stacker; William H. Tucker, Indianapolis, caster; Albert E. Whitney, Munele, clamp for holding shoes while being stretched. Appointments by the President. WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—The President has made the following appointments: William B. Sorsby, of Mississippi, consul at San Juan del Norte (Greytown), Nicaragua: William K. Van Reypen, surgeon general and chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, United States navy; Wilson R. Gay, United Statts attorney for the District of Washington; Keneda IL Thompson, of Oklahoma, marshal for the District of Oklahoma. Dr. Godfrey Hunter, of Kentucky, it is understood, has accepted the mission to Guatemala, and will be appointed soon after the election in Kentucky. American Silverlte* In China. WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—United States Consul Reed, at Tien-Tsin, reports to the State Department that Senators Pettigrew and Cannon and ex-Senator Dubois arrived in Tien-Tsin Oct. 11 and proceeded to Peking the following day. They will also go over the imperial railway and visit ths mining and railroad works at Tong-Shan. Secretary Gnac’i* Report Discussed. WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.-Tho session of the Cabinet to-day was devoted to the forthcoming report of Secretary Gage. The secretary went over the entire scope and character of his report, giving in considerable detail the subjects which would be treated and something of the manner in which t}hey would be discussed. Marine Hand Hurred from Chicairo. WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Because of the protests of the labor unions, which fear the competition of tho Marine Band, the secretary of yie navy has revoked the permission w'hich he gave the organization some time ago to go to Chicago to furnish music for the horse show next week.

General Kote. WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—T0-day’s statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $210,588,142; gold reserve, $152,174,084. The postmaster general to-day appointed John P. Clum, of California, chief of the mail depredations division in the postoffice. The joint congressional committee, appointed during the Fifty-fourth Congress to investigate the question for the United States of alcohol in the arts, will meet at the Auditorium Hotel in Chicago to-morrow for the purpose of resuming the work. REALISM ON THE STAGE. John Fay Palmer (Richard III) Madly Hurt in a Sword Fight. BUTTE, Mont., Oct. 26.—During a performance of “Richard III” at Maguire’s Opera House last night John Fay Palmer, who played Richmond, had a narrow escape from fatal injury at the hands of John Griffith, who attempted to play Richard. In the sword fight on Bosworth field Palmer accidentally drew blood from Griffith's hand and suggested that the curtain be rung down, but Griffith told him to continue the fight. He did so, and a moment later Griffith made a terrific downward cut and caught Palmer across the face, cutting a frightful gash down from the right eyebrow' over the nose and breaking the nasal bone. , . _ . The curtain was rung down and Palmer was removed to a doctor’s office, where a piece of bone was removed from his nose and the wound sewed up. Griffith is very much broken up over the affair. Obituary. CHICAGO, Oct. 26.—Michael Brand, exmember of the Illinois State Legislature an d the Chicago City Council, and prominently connected with the brewery interests of the West, died to-day after a long illness. aged forty-nine years. SYRACUSE. N. Y., Oct. 26.—Thomas Gold Alvord died to-day of old age. He was speaker in the Assembly in 1858 and was elected lieutenant governor In 1365. Consul Booth Tucker Faint". MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., Oct. 26.—Consul Booth Tucker, of the Salvation Army, arrived here tills afternoon from Ishpt ming, Mich., and was greeted by several hundred officers and privates of the army. To-night, while addressing a mass meeting at the First Baptist Church, she fainted and had to be carried from the platfcy in. Physicians' do not anticipate serious results, but order a season of rest. Three Men Fatally Shot. GORHAM, N. J., Oct. 26.—Thomas Monahan. while crazed with drink to-day. shot Joseph Gautheir. an employe of the Grand Trunk Railroad, killing him instantly. Monahan also shot Seligman Gales, of Gorham, probably fatally injuring him. Later another body was found which, it is believed. Is that of the third victim of Monahan’s fury. The murderer was arrested. Pine Foret Ablaze. CORRY. Pa., Oct. 26.—The immense pine tracts in the vicinity of Blue Eye, Warren eounty. six miles from here, are in flames to-night. Two hundred men are fighting the fire, assisted by women and children. The fire threatens the villages of Blue Eye and Garland. The loss is now placed at $25,000, and is growing heavier every hour. TO CURE A COLD IS ONE DAY Take Lajcative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c

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GLASS PRICES BOOMING BELIEVED THAT WINDOW-GLASS FAMINE CANNOT BE AVOIDED. Wife Murderer Newton Kempfer CuuKht on a Brazil Street Car— Block Coal Miners’ Trouble. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 26.—The window glass situation has reached a crisis. In order to keep up with the manufacturers’ advances the Jobbers’ Association announces that it will put another advance of 5 per cent, into effect next Monday. There was an advance last week which amounted to about 5 per cent. They have seen fit to appoint a standing committee to advance prices during the next two months to keep on an equal footing with the manufacturers. In the last twenty years stocks have never been reduced to such a point as they are to-day. Nothing short of a glass famine is on. Tho Commoner and Glassworker and the Budget, the two great papers of the industry, estimate that there aro not to exceed aOO.OOO boxes of window glass in the country, while the monthly demand Is 440,000 boxes. This glass, as a general thing, is being held for still higher prices, and probably 50 per cent, of it is not desirable size or grade. If the glass were all put on an open market at prices which prevail now it would be cleared off in a week. Seven small plants have been able to start in a meager way by the blowers and gatherers getting men to fill the cutters’ and fiatteners places, but their ability to do this is about to its limit. These seven plants have only about sixty pots out of 1,819 in the country, and their product is hardly a drop in the bucket. Window glass is 33 per cent, higher than it was fifteen months ago. Indications are not flattering that plants will be put into operation before December, and prices are bound to go higher. ♦ DRUGGIST RINKER’S TRIAL. It Concern* the Plot to Blow Up Redkey Odd Fello'iv*’ Hull. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTLAND, Ind., Oct. 26.—This afternoon ore of the most important criminal cases in the annals of the local Circuit Court was put on trial. It is that of John Rinker, who is charged with conspiring to blow up the Odd Fellow's’ Block at Redkey with the view of procuring the insurance on a stock of goods. The calamity would have Involved the destruction of thousands of dollars’ worth of property and the loss of several lives had it been successfully carried through. Rinker, who has been in the Decatur jaii for several weeks, was brought here this morning. He will make a strong fight. His father, from Mariog, 0., was here some time ago, but refused to go on his bond. The accused was part owner in a drug store at Eteckey, and a few months previous to his arrest fire was discovered in the back room, but was extinguished with only a trifling loss. Three nights previous to his arrest on the morning of Sept. 4, It is alleged that he planned to blow up the Odd Fellow's’ Block, in which his store was situated, with the expectation that It would take fire Immediately after the explosion. The next day, the story goes, he talked to Charles Crandall about the matter, and it is alleged that the latter agreed with Rinker that he would do the job for SSO and sls was paid. When the time came Crandall was on hand, but Rinker is said to have been unable to raise the money. Crandall will turn state’s evidence. Both men are in jai!

INDIANA OBITUARY’. Elder Matliins Mount Van Cleave, Once Daniel Boone’s Friend. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 26.—Elder Mathias Mount Van Cleave, one of the best-known ministers of the old-school Baptist Church, died here this morning after an extended illness. He was born in Kentucky in ISIO, but lived in Crawfordsville since 1824. He claimed to have married nearly a thousand couples. In connection with the demise of Elder Van Cleave a little incident is told w'hich Is suggestive of the story of “Grandfather’s Clock.” In the aged man’s possession was a clock which he had owned since early life and which, until yesterday afternoon, was a most reliable chronometer. A few moments before the elder's death the clock stopped, and all efforts to start it have been unsuccessful. Elder Van Cleave was a personal friend of Daniel Boone, they having been raised together near Shelbyville, Ky. He also laid out the town site of Brown’s Valley, in Brown township, this State. Peter Lamb. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CLINTON, Ind., Oct, 26.—Mr. Peter Lamb, aged seventy, and one of the oldest residents of Clinton, died this afternoon after an illness of several months. Mr. Lamb’ came to Clinton during the construction of the E., T. H. & C. Railroad, now the Chicago & Erie Railroad, being the first laborer employed when work .on the road through Vermillion county was begun. He was separated from his wife for twenty years. During the blue ribbon movement, twenty years ago, he reformed and after a probation of a few years his wife returned to him. Since his reform Mr. Lamb has been a model citizen. He accumulated, a comfortable fortune, which, with the Insurance, leaves his widow 1 in good circumstances. Other Deaths in the State. HARTFORD CITY. Ind., Oct. 26.-Martln Pierre, aged sixty-eight, one of this city’s highly respected citizens, died yesterday afternoon at his home, on South Jefferson street. The funeral will take p tee at the Catholic Church, at 10 o’clock to-morrow morning. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Oct. 26.—Pleasant Stacey, aged seventy, one of the most prominent men of Utica township, died this morning. Softening of the brain was the cause. JURY MAY DISAGREE. George Skelton Tried Y’esterdny, t hurged with Assaulting Mrs. llanta. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RUSHVILLE, Ind., Oct. 26.—George Skelton, the negro charged with assaulting Mrs. May Banta, a respectable white woman, a week ago last night, had his trial in court to-day and to-night the jury is wrestling with the case. The sheriff announced at 10:39 o’clock that there would be no verdict to-night and a disagreement is now expected. Mrs. Banta on the stand said Skelton was the man who grabbed her. Six eolond witnesses declared that Skelton was at his boarding house from before 4 o’clock on the afternoon of the ISth until 7:30 o’clock the next morning. Others testified that he was there as late as 5 o’clock and three other witnesses said he was at the boarding house from 6 o’clock until bedtime. The assault of Mrs. Banta took place a few minutes before 6 o’clock. Several white witnesses also testified for Skelton. A neighbor woman said he carried a pail of water from her house about 5:30 o’clock. Another saw Skelton at Uis boarding house after supper. Mary Bromley said Mrs. Banta toltl her soon after the trouble that she did not know who attacked her or whether he was white or black. Mrs. Banta went on the stand and denied saying this. W. F. Coats, of Columbus, one of the courthouse contractors, said he saw r Skelton at the courthouse between 4 and 5 o’clock. Mrs. Emma Mitchell, Skelton's main witness, said Skelton read his Bible from 6 o’clock to 7 o’clock and played cards the rest of the evening. The case w’as submitted to the jury without argument. Judge McCullough’s instructions were brief. At 1:30 this afternoon the jury retired. PATENT SAFE LOCK. Two Ha;cr*town Men Have an Interest in a Invention. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HAGERSTOWN. Ind., Oct. 26.-A. patent for a pneumatic lock has just been granted to Daniel W. Deardorff anu Charles N. Teetor, of Hagerstown, Ind. This lock is designed for express safes in transit. The bolts in the lock are hold in position by air pressure from the train pipe. If the pressure Is suddenly reduced a spring valve releases the bolts, pulls the door shut and instantly locks the safe. The combination is sot at one end of the run. and the secret transmitted by mall or telegraph to the agent who will receive the safe at the terminus of the run. Under no circumstances will the messenger be given the secret of the combination that unlocks the safe after

It has been locked by the air pressure. The combination is set, the safe locked and then it is carried to the car. Th% air is turned on and a turn of the dial sets the tumblers w'hich are held In position by the air pressure, whereupon the lock will respond to a combination in the possession of the messenger. From the safe a cord runs throughout the entire length of the train. In case the train is attacked by robbers the engineer, conductor or any person on the train can immediately and securely lock the safe from their place in tho train. When the safe is so locked it cannot be opened by any one except the agent at the end of the run, who has received the secret of the combination. In case of wreck or derailment the safe will be locked by the withdrawal of the air and danger from robbery and fire will be removed. OFFER A COMPROMISE. Operators Concede Only Part of the Block Coal Miners’ Request. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL, Ind., Oct. 26.—The block coal operators held a long session here to-day to consider the demand made by the miners for the operators to check off the fees and dues of the miners belonging to the union. The operators generally are opposed to the system. The by-laws adopted by the 'miners’ union here threaten to cause much trouble, especially the clauses prohibiting nonunion men from working in the mines and forcing persons who are not practical miners to pay S2O before they can work in tho mines. The result of the operators’ meeting is stated in the following resolution adopted: “Resolved, That the operators agree to collect such dues for the organization as the employes shall personally authorize in writing, but no employe shall be subject to any intimidation or coercion that refused to join the organization. When not authorized in writing such collections shall not be made. It shall be understood and agreed that in case of any intimidation or coercion to force men into the organization collections for dues shall stop by all the operators.” - It is understood that these collections shall be made by all the companies at the offices of the company, and not by the check weighman. This is in direct opposition to a clause in the by-laws of the organization, which states that no nonunion men shall work in the mines; consequently the difficulty remains unsettled. ORDER OF UNITED WORKMEN. Twenty-Ninth Anniversary Celebrated at Tei-re Haute To-Day. Special to the IndianaixMifi Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oet. 26.—The committees having in charge the celebration of the twenty-ninth anniversary of the Ancient Order of United Workmen to be held here to-morrow, are confident there will be not less than five thousand members of the order from different parts of the State in the city. Evansville, which has the largest member* hip of cities, w ill send between one thousand and twelve hundred on special trains, one of which will carry a cannon to salute the towns along the way. Indianapolis is counted on for a large delegation and two bands of music. Eastern Illinois towns also will send delegations. There will be a parade in the afternoon, ending at the courthouse, where an address of welcome will be delivered by Mayor Ross, with responses by Grand Master Workman Neal, of Frankfort, Congressman Robinson, of Fort Wayne, Hon. Leory Wade, of Mount Vernon, and Hon. Peter Luther, of Brazil. In the evening there will be an address by Mrs. Genevra Miller, of St. Louis, past superior chief of the Degree of Honor, the women’s auxiliary. There will be dancing at Germania Hall until the time for the special trains to leave tho city. Dinner and supper will be served to all visiting members.

WIFE MURDERER CAUGHT. Newton Kempfer Killed His Wife and Shot His Child. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL, Ind., Oct. 26.—Newton Kempfer, residing at Donaldsonville, shot his wife through the left breast, Inflicting a fatal wound, this morning and then sent a bullet through his four-year-old daughter’s right arm. Kempfer was greatly wrought up over his wife’s affections for a young man named Peter Burns. He accused her of loving Burns better than she did him, and brooded over the loss of his wife’s affections until he determined to kill the entire family. It is believed he would have committed suicide had not neighbors interfered. He fled to the woods and could not be found all day until this afternoon. He cut off his mustache and endeavored to disguise himself in hopes ol’ eluding the officers. He boldly left his hiding place in the woods and boarded a street car for the Vandalia depot to catch a train, but the conductor knew him and caused his arrest. He insisted that he was a stranger in the city, but was subsequently identified. Mrs. Kempfer died this afternoon. MUNCIE BADLY FOOLED. Tuppun Shoe Company Stealing- Out of Town ut Night. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Oct. 26.—The Tappan Shoe Company is one of the industries located in Munele |l few years ago by the Citizens’ Enterprise Company, and for four years past has employed two hundred hands making ladies’ and misses’ shoes. Some time ago the citizens of Coldwater, Mich., donated a building and a snug bonus for the removal of the factory to that city, but the company disclaimed that they intended to move tho machinery from Muncie, saying that the Coldwater plant would simply be an addition to the Muncie factory. Recently the Enterprise Company officials discovered that the entire plant was to be moved from Muncie, and steps were begun to enjoin the removal of the machinery, claiming that it would be a violation of contract. To-night it was discovered that the w'ork of loading the machinery on cars was being carried on under the cover of darkness. Steps will be taken to prevent the removal. BARGE BOILER LET GO. One Mnn Killed und Five Injured on the River Near Evansville. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Cct. 26.—The boiler on Bedford, Weikel & Nugent’s gravel-dig-ging barge blew up this morning, killing one man and wounding five others. The dead man is Jacob Macer, superintendent of the boat. James O’Conner, William Bender, Henry Close, Jacob Beeler and Charles Jones were the injured. The body of Macer was blown into the river and has not been recovered. Os the injured Jones’s condition is most serious. He is badly scalded and can neither sit nor lie down. The force of the explosion broke the boat in two, and it sank where it was anchored in about six feet of water. The steamer James L. White was half a mile up stream and the explosion was in full view. Officers and passengers on the White say the explosion made a terrific noise and the boat seemed enveloped in steam for several minutes. All haste was made to reach the wreck and the five injured men were brought to the city on the White, where they have been given attention. Elwood’it Big Engine W orks. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind., Oct. 26.—The newly organized Elwocd Manufacturing and Mining Company met here to-day and elected officers as follows: W. R. Covert, of New York, president; J. H. Taylor, of St. Louis, vice president; C. C. Andrews, of St. Louis, secretary; H. D. Seymour, of El wood, treasurer; Frank J. Korte, of Roanoke, Va., general manager. The company is composed of capitalists of Missouri, Indiana, Virginia and West Virginia, and has a paid-up capital stock ot $2,500,0jt1, bt ing incorporated under the laws of West Virginia. The company received large concessions of city lots and has already turned many of them into revenue to bear the expenses of building. The big factory will be located in the north part of the city, and will consist of five large iron and steel buildings and many smaller ones. Air. Korte, who owns the Roanoke (Va.) engine works, will move the plant here. The company will manufacture the famous Duvall engine, the peerless Culver boiler, the standard nut-lock engines of all kinds, various kinds of boilers ar.d all kinds of castings. This factory was i/st established at Zanesville, 0., in 1830 and was removed to Roanoke in lSf-2. All arrangements had previously been made to move the plant here, but the late Democratic panic prevented. The ground is being prepared for the buildings, and many men will at once be put to work constructing the plant. During the past tw'enty years this factory has turned out over ten thousand engines. Tho establishment of this big industry here means much for Elwood. Lather League Officer*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Oct. 26.—The meeting of the Luther League of Indiana and Kentucky came to an end this evening and will

be held next year at Whitestown, Ind., Sept. 20 and 21. The election of officers occurred to-day with the following result: President, Rev. J. A. M. Ziegler, Louisville; vice president. Rev. L. W. Gennan, Louisville; recording secretary. Rev. J. W. Finch, of Anderson; corresponding secretary. Miss Daisy L. Ray, Camden, Ind.; executive committee. Rev. H. K. Fenner, Louisville, Rev. B. F. Grennoble, Camden, Ind., and Rev. F. M. Porch, Louisville. Rev. Grennoble was appointed reporter for the Luther League Review'. Attempted Dank Robbery. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Oct. 26.—Night Watchman Worley discovered burglars at work on the safe at the Citizens' Bank about 4 o’clock this morning. He ran to the rear of the building, thinking to entrap the men. The door was open and two shots were/fired at him from within. The men ran out and Worley fired, without effect. They soon disappeared in the darkness and all clew was lost. The safe contained many thousands of dollars in cash and valuable papers, but was not hurt, the robbers having evidently just entered the building. Southern Indiana Deanery. Special tc the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Oct. 26.—The convocation of the Southern Deanery of Indiana began to-night at St. Paul’s Church in this city. Bishop White arrived this evening. Besides Dean C. G. Adams and Secretary W. H. Bamford the following clergymen will be present. Revs. Northy Jones, F. I. Collins, Otway Colvin, John Brartn, M. B. Nash, It. H. Peters, J. R. Holst, Palin Saxby, E. R. Earle, G. T. Griffith and A. R. Davis. Bridge*’* Ilrlok Work* Burn. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH. Ind., Oct. 26.—Last night the large brick works of Bridges & Sons were burned. There were three hundred thousand brick in the kilns at the time, but they were not injured. The sheds and all of the expensive machinery for making brick are a total loss. The estimate on this property is $6,000, and there was insurance of $1,500 in the Lancashire and $1,500 in the German-American, New York. The fire started in the engine room. Fireman Berger Killed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. V\ ARSAVV, Ind., Oct. 26.—Herman Berger, a fireman on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, fell from his engine this morning while it was running thirty miles an hour and was instantly killed. He was in the act of stooping down to get a scoopl’ul of coal when a sudden jar of the locomotive threw him out. He alighted on his head on a pile of ties. Pigeon-Shooting Contest. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MORRISTOWN, Ind., Oct. 26.—Indianapolis, Shelbyville and Connersville were represented in the pigeon-shooting matches near here to-day. Six hundred birds were used, aid first, second and third moneys awarded. Eleven matches were shot off. The best scores were made by Gordon, Nuckles, Thomas, Bass, Roots, Desprez, Duncan, Fair and Campbell. Democrat and News Combined. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR, Ind., Oct. 26.—The Seymour Evening News is a thing of the past. W. T. Roach, who last week purchased the Seymour Daily Democrat, last night purchased the News’s subscription list and the two papers ha.e been merged into one. C. W. Burkhart, former proprietor of the News, will publish a weekly. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENFIELD, Ind.. Oct. 26.—Mrs. Dr. M. Ely died at New Palestine, in the southwest part of this county, to-day, of paralysis, aged seventy-three. She is a sister of Dr. M. M. Adams, of this city, and has lived at New Palestine for fifty years, having married Dr. Ely the year after he settled there. The funeral will be held Thursday at 1 p. m. Suicide Caused by Delayed Pension. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CICERO, Ind., Oct. 26.—Daniel Farren, a veteran, aged sixty-two, committed suicide here to-night by jumping into a neighbor’s well. His mind had become unbalanced by sickness and a delayed pension, lie leaves a wife and four children.

Burned to Death with Gasoline. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DANVILLE, 111., Oct. 26.—Olive Rose, aged five, was burned to death, and her sister, Everett Rose, aged seven, w’as badly injured by an explosion of a defective gasoline stove. Indiana Notes. The Ingalls Zinc Company opened a gas well yesterday that is one of the very best drilled in that section. The Matthews Land Company has located a factory there for the manufacture of beer bottles that will employ twenty-four blowers. Buck Stanley, the temperance orator, has just closed a series of meetings at Paragon. While there he organized a Good Templars’ lodge with one hundred members. A Wayne county jury last evening In the case of John Evans, of Greensfork, charged with assault on Erastus Stackhouse with intent to kill returned a verdict fining Evans $5 for assault. The fly wheel on the engine that drives the machinery in the John Knife grist mill at Hartford City burst last evening and went crashing through the roof and walls. Mr. Knife and son. had a narrow escape. William Abbott felled, near Madison, a poplar tree measuring eight feet across the stump. It was cut iifto four logs, from which 10,000 feet of lumber was sawed. It is believed to have been the largest tree in Indiana. Henry Easton, the twelve-year-old son of Andrew Easton, a farmer living near Clinton, was fatally injured yesterday by falling from the limb of a walnut tree a distance of twenty feet. He was unconscious several hours. John Koestring, a laborer, had the life crushed out of him at Evansville yesterday while digging a trench for a water main. It took twenty minutes to uncover him and he was then dead. A widow and seven children survive. Cassius Reese has resigned as captain of tho Earlham football team and has been succeeded by Oriel Binford. Lister, the coach who spent three weeks at Earlham helping the team, has returned to his work in the Indianapolis University. Delaware Camp, of the National Chieftains’ League, in the order of Red Men, was instituted in Muncie Monday night by National Organizer Neal, of Terre Haute, with forty charter members. This is the second lodge of the new order. John Larkens, aged sixty-eight, was in-, stantly killed last evening by a Muncie street car. It is believed to be a case of suicide. The man walked directly in front of the car. Larkens abandoned his family in Ireland many years ago and nothing is known of them. Beginning to-day the annual convention of the Episcopal ministers of Southern Indiana will be held at St. Paul’s Church, in Jeffersonville. The session will lain three days and the matter of establishing a southern Indiana episcopate will be brought up. In that case the official residence of the bishop will be at Jeffersonville. Harvard’* Cercle Franco!*. At a meeting of the Cercle Francais de l’lJnlversitie Harvard it was decided that “Le Medecin Malgre Lui,” of Moliere, should be the play given this year. The time arranged for its production is shortly after the midyear examination. This year the cercle has secured a most attractive list of lecturers for its regular meetings. Among the lecturers from outside the cercle are Jules Luquins, head of the French department at Yale, who will lecture on Nov. 24; Prof. George M. Harper, Ph. D.. professor of romance languages at Princeton, who will lecture early in December; Prof. Adolph Cohn, of Columbia, and Prof. Van Dael, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. M. Rene Doumlc, literary critic of the Revue des Deux Mondes, who is to give eight lectures during the first part of March in Sanders Theater under the auspices of the cerele, will take as Ills subject “The French Romantic Movement During this Century, in Poetry, the Novel, the Theater and Other Literary Manifestations.” lowa’* Bicycle Law. DES MOINES. la.. Oct. 26.—The State Supreme Court declares that while no law compels bicyclists to uso lanterns or bells at night, wheelmen without them are guilty of contributory negligence in case of accident. Re*ponlt>le (or Exce** BnKsnite. COLUMBUS. Oct. 26.—The Supreme Court to-day decided that railroads In Ohio are responsible for excess baggage if destroyed in any way. A commercial traveler lost the baggage.

BIG STEAMER STRANDED RAN ASHORE AT CAPE HENRY DURING A SEVERE GALE. 1 Damage at Cape May anil Other Atlantic Coast Summer Reaorta —Schooner* Wrecked. 1 . CAPE HENRY. Va„ Oct. 26.-A large steamer stranded at 10:20 this evening at Cape Henry immediately in front of the weather bureau office. The vessel is well in shore and resting easily. There is a very heavy sea running which prevents the life saving crew from launching their boat. She is thought to be a passenger steamer. The weather is heavy with a light rain and wind northeast thirty-six miles. No particulars can be obtained till daylight. Havoc at Cupe May. CAPE MAY. N. J., Oct. 26.—The northeast storm continued here and the tide this morning was within three inches of being as high as that of yesterday. The wind continued to blow all through the night at the rate of thirty-six miles an hour, and shows no sign of abatement. The tide at 9 o’clock, high water, covered as much territory as yesteraay, excepting that it did not reach the front of the Stockton Hotel W'hile covering the land on the other three sides of the structure. The tide about 6:30 o'clock broke over Madison venue in three places, and a half hour later covered that thoroughfare at every point. The tide has eaten away a portion of the drive in front of the Pennsylvania Railroad excursion house and washed over Poverty beach, north of Madison avenue, for a stretch of three-quarters of a mile. The waves are washing across the meadow’ for a mile and breaking within two hunured yards of Washington street, on the north part of the town. At Cape May Point the waves are still eating away the bluff, and at South Cape May the only places left are the main parts of the houses themselves. The amount of damage done cannot be told until the tide lowers. No word has been heard as to the damage at Holly beach or Anglesea, but the tide can be seen through strong glasses washing across that beach. High Tide* on the Count. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26.—While the northeast hurricane on the middle Atlantic coast has abated in fury to-night, sharp squalls are still blowing around the Delaaware capes and enormous tides are reported a.ll along the bay and river. The list of maritime casualties grows larger as further details of the gale’s havoc are received. The Italian bark Francesco R., which sailed from this port Oct. IS for Oporto, went to pieces at Fourteen-foot bank, eighty miles below the city. The vessel's master, Captain Calivano, and eleven of the crew of twelve men men reached the city to-night after a day and night of thrilling escapes from death. The twelfth man of the crew, Marion Castenallo, seaman, refused to leave the ship and in all probability is lost. Movement* of Steamers. NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—Arrived: Deutschland, from Hamburg; Idaho, from London; Mohawk, from London Sailed: Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, for Bremen; Georglc, for Liverpool. ANTWERP, Oct. 26.—Arrived: Pennsylvania, from Philadelphia. MOVILLE, Oct. 26.—Arrived: State of California, from Montreal. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 26.—Arrived: Amsterdam, from New York. CHRISTIANA, Oct. 26.—Sailed: Thingvalla, for New York. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26.—Arrived: Illinois, from Antwerp. GLASGOW, Oct. 26.—Arrived: Ethiopia, from New York.

LIFE IN’ SKAGI'AY. Wild Scene* and a Rough Life Where Everything Goes. Harper’s Weekly. There is no shady side of life at Skaguay; everything goes on in broad daylight or candle light. After supper every tent is lighted up, and the streets are crowded with muddy men In from the trail. The "pack train” is filled with people, among whom I recognized several of my friends, who are drawn hither, like myself, by the spectacle. The tent of this, the biggest saloon in town, is thirty by fifty feet. Entering through a single door in front, on the right hand is a rough board bar some ten or twelve feet long, with some shelves against the rear wall, on which there are a few glasses and bottles. The bartender, who is evidently new to his business, apoligizes for the whisky, which is very poor and two-thirds water, and sells for twentyfive cents. Cigars of a two-for-five or iivecent sort that strain one’s suction powers to the limit are sold for fifteen to twentyfive cents each. They keep beer also on tap. After the lecture we received on the steamer from the United States customs officer, we are at a loss to understand how w’liisky can be sold openly under the very eyes of the officers. But that is a story in itself. Along each side of the tent are three-card monte, rouge et noir, and other lay-outs, but not a faro lay-out in the place, nor in the town. The gamblers are doing big business. A big straping fellow in a yellow Mackinaw jacket trying his luck at craps is pointed out as having just come in over the trail from Klondike. Whether he had any dust with him I cannot learn, but he was In fine health and spirits. Every man whom I have seen from Klondike has had a splendid complexion and seems strong and robust. This fellow has a voice like a lion’s, deep and resonant. Surely the Yukon cannot be so terrible If it does this to men, or else its tale of death Is that of the weak and sickly. As they used to say of the Kanakas, they were all strong and healthy because they were thrown into the water by their mothers almost the day they were born—consequently none but the strong survived. Across the street the sound of a piano and the moving figures of men and women through the windows remind one that there is a dance to-night, as on every night. This piano is the only one in town, and Its arrival is said to have been an event. The four women in the place are not even of the painted sort; even paint might have covered up some of the marks of dissipation. Clumsy boots beat time on a dirty floor, but not with much enthusiasm. The dance house of a mining town! Such a thing as shame is not even thought of. A PENNY’S WORTH OF GAS. Sncceß* of tbe Slot Machine* in South London llonMcliold*. London Letter In New York Sun. The introduction of the “penny-in-the-slot” gas meters in the households of South London seems to be an unqualified success. Under the slot system the consumer can obtain 27% feet of gas for a penny. An ordinary burner consumes about five and onehalf feet per hour, so that a pennyworth of gas will light up a room lust five and a half hours. The number or “coin-meter" consumers has now reached 61,000, and the average takings from each are sls per annum. By Christmas the company’s total receipts from this source are expected to reach some $1,000,000 a year. Some curious lesults of the system have been noted by the engineer of this gas company. Occasionally there has been an actual dearth of copper money in South London. This can readily be understood, for though the money is collected about once in three weeks, as much as ten tons weight in coppers have been removed from the machines at one collection. Then again, prior to the introduction of the “coin-meter,” Sunday was an extremely slack day for gas. But now the demand betwen 12 and 2 o’clock, when thousands of dinners are being cooked on the gas stoves, is enormous—so great, In fact, that at times it has been a problem to get sufficient gas through the mains. Another excellent result from the company’s point of view has been the equalizing of the summer and winter consumption. Formerly there was a great disparity, but the consumption of gas for cooking in summer months has worked a marked change. It is not surprising to learn that there have been attempts to cheat the penny-in-the-slot meter. In the meters first supplied the weight of the penny set the mechanism) in motion, but with the pattern now in vogue it is necessary to turn a handle after dropping in the coin, and if a penny with a piece of twine attached is introduced by any person of felonious purpose, the knowing machine simply cuts the cord and annexes the coin with the coolness of a living gas collector. It is, of course, out of the question for the evil disposed to effectively cheat a pei.ny-in-thc-siot machine which is put qp in their own abode by meani of disks of metal or spurious coins, since the imposition is detected the first time the collector calls, and restitution is promptly demanded. But as a matter of fact the gas company’s collectors declare that they have siarcely any trouble. They are on the best of terms with their customers, and the dishonest are few. Frequently when no penny is at hand the consumer will use a token or a two-shilling piece, and then when the

collector calls they will tell him of the fact and hand over the pennies, or receive change, as the cas<> may be. RESULT Of'a BANTER. Recklessne** Cnu*e* the Death of as lonji Merchant. CEDAR RAPIDS, la.. Oct. 26.—At Covington, yesterday morning, while a number of young men were gathered in the store of James H. Usher, Usher picked up a pouch filled with silver and told W. I. Rowdand. the night operator of the Milwaukee road at that place, that he could knock him down with it quicker than the latter could shoot him with a revolver. Rowland had just been showing a revolver he carried, from which he had removed the cartridges, but had reloaded it a second before. On the impulse of the moment Rowland lowered the revolver and pulltd the trigger. The bullet passed through the heart and Usher died in thirty minutes. The coroner’s jury found that Lsher came to his death through the carelessness of both, but Coroner Turner arrested Rowland and to-day he was’ held to' await the action of the grand jury in the sum of SI,OOO on a charge, of manslaughter. PEItE HYACHINTHE. He Reject* Overture* Looking to a Return to the Human Church. London Letter in New York Sun. It is declared upon the authority of Pere Hyacinthe himself that overtures have recently been made to him with a view to Ilia return to the Church of Rome He explains that these advances have been dictated by the kindest motives, but he has courteously rejected them for reasons which he gives. If his marriage had been the only question, he says, his reconciliation with 'he Church of Rome would have been accomplished. Some of the Oriental branches of Roman Catholicism in which the marriage of priests is recognized by the Pope would have opened to him an honorable door through which lie would not have been the first to pass. With a more elastic conscience h'e might also have turned the question of the infallibility of the Pope. He acknowledges the primacy of th< Set of Rome, as constituted by the ecclesiastical law of the early centuries, out ut. rejects, as tfid the theologians and bishops of old France, the absolute and infallible authority of the Bishop of Rome, Patriarch of the West, and first among his equals. But, adds M. Loyson (Pere Hyaeinthe), it is not an isolated dogma, however important it may be, whi -a i revents him from returning to the Church of Rome. It is the. general condition of the Latin Church, and especially of the Church of Fiance.which is being more ar.d more abandoned to superstitions of which it formerly left the melancholy privilege to Italy and Spain, ultramontane countries, and which has totally surrendered its ancient Galilean liberty. M. Loyson, who seems to take a very gloomy view of tilings, says that he long ago predicted the advent of the clerical republic as the heir of the positivist republic, and that his prophecy is being gradually fulfilled, as the government, through ignorance, puts up with proceedings inspired by the Vatican, which no monarchical government would have tolerated for a moment, it i.- a great humiliation, he exc aims, lor a republican lika himself to mv; to regret lor the independence of the state the ecclesiastical policy of Charles X and Napoleon 111. Therefore, in, spite of the dear friends which he still has in the bosom of the church, and in spite of very tempting overtures he will not, standing as he does on the brink of the grave, submit to monk£ and prelates who govern with impunity the France of St. Louis, of Louis XIV, and of the revolution of 1789. MR- WYCKOFF AS A FARM HAND. Experience of a. Young; Man Trying Different Kind* us Work. Scribner’s Magazine. I wait for a pause in the work, and try to screw my courage to the sticking point, and then J tell Mr. Hill that the landlord at the tavern has sent me to him in the belief that he needs a man, and I add that I should be glad of the job. Without preliminary questions Mr. Hill engages me on the spot, and makes me an otter of board and lodging and seventy-five cents a day, which, he says is the usual rate on the farms at that reason. I close with the bargain, and ask to be set to work immediately. A minute later I am walking up the lane with a message for Mrs. Hill, to the effect that I am the new “hired man,” and that she will please give me, to take to the pond, a certain "broad hoe” from the wagon house. Mrs. Hill understands the situation at once; she makes no comment, however, but goes with me to the wagon house, where she points out the hoe among the other tools in a corner. She has said nothing so far, and I feel a little uncomfortable, but now’ she turns to me with a frank directness of manner that is very reassuring: “I ain’t got room for you in the house, but I guess you'll be comfortable sleeping out here. You can fetch your grip, and I’ll show you your bod.” Pack in hand, I follow her up the steps to the loft of the wagon house, and she points to a cot near the farther window, and a wooden chair beside it. “Some time to-day I’ll make up your bed. and if there’s anything you want you can tell me.” This is her final word, as she leaves me to return to the house. I slip on my overalls, and take note of rny new quarters. Windows at both ends of the loft provide ample ventilation. The cot is covered with a corn-husk mattress, as clean and fresh as a cock of new hay. The very floor is free from dust. The rafters hang thick with bunches of seed corn on tho cob, with their outer husks removed and the Inner husks drawn back and neatly interwoven, the whole effect suggesting stalactites in a cave. The air is fragrant with the perfume from slices of apples, that ara closely threaded and hung up to dry in graceful festoons from rafter to rafter.

Doctors’ Registration Law Valid. COLUMBUS, 0.. Oct. 26—The Suoreme Court to-day sustained the law creating the State Board of Medical Examination and Registration. Dr. Edson France.having been arrested for practicing without examination or registration, carried the case up and lost it. McCormick Was Not Killed. CINCINNATI, 0., Oct. 26.-Ncws comes to-day denying wholly the story told yesterday of the killing of W. T. McCormick at Rome, 0., by- his clerk named Metz, rt is not known at Rome how the incorrect story originated. Knitting Mill llurned. HUDSON. N. Y., Oct. 26.—The Union knitting mill in this city was destroyed by fire to-day and many of the 300 persons employed in the mill had narrow escap—J from death. The loss is over $200,000 and the insurance is 5100,000. No Exception. Chicago Tribune. “Everything on earth has its use.” “How about the California peach?” “It has its use. It's good to sell.” ■MM I I in ■ * Thousands are Trying It. In order to prove the great merit of Ely’s Cream Balm, the most effective cure for Catarrh and Cold in Head, we have prepared a generous trial size for 10 cents. Get it of your druggist or send 10c to ELY BROS., 56 Warren St., N. Y. City. Rev. John Reid, Jr., of Great Falls, Mont., recommended Ely’s Cream Balm to me. I can emphasize his statement, “It is a positive cure for catarrh if used as directed.” —Rev. Francis W. Poole, Pastor Central Pres. Church, Helena, Mont. Ely’s Cream Balm is the acknowledged cure for catarrh and contains no cocaine, mercury nor any injurious drug. Price, 60 Cents. At druggists or by mail. adfk NATIONAL Tube Works Wrought-iron Pipe for Go, Steam and Water. Br '■ '"TV Boiler Tubes,Oast and Mail** BjfY .l Able Iron Kitting* t black and IRK'<■?,. _ galvanized). Valv,-*, Stop W Cocks. Engine Trimming, Caß’Ji 1/ Steam Gauges, Pipe Tong*, ■k * ML,, a ” Pipe Cutters, Vitas. Scrs# k j flat*-* and Dies, Wrem-hes, Wr 31 Steam Trans. Pnmps, Kiicta* a ti Si s h'>*. Ho e. helling. liab--4 bit Metal. Solder, White and i-Sj Ifd Adored Wiping Wants, and jw all oiber Supplies used in U r and connection with Gaa, steam feS lj and Water Natural . ; 9 pJ Stippiies a specialty. Steambeamg Apparatus for Pub1J t 2 tic UuUdluga, Mota-roow* M HU, .Shops. Fact one*, tana. £3 kam dries. Lumber Dry-Housea, etc. Cut and Thread to orWiM der any size Wrmigbt-tron !# t'J Pipe, from H Inch to 1$ - inches diameter. 11 V y ft. MUUUO(i.VAMIA MN