Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1898 — Page 2

JASPER com DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA.

RICHES OF EL DORADO

RETURNED KLONDIKER TAKES ROSEATE VIEW. Has Been a Team Laden with a Ton of Gold—Ten Pounds Washed Out in One Day—Pears, Peaches and Apricots Short in Californio. Bonanza Creek a Failure. William Ewing of Tacoma returned from St. Michael's, having come down the river in a rowboat from Dawson. He aays: “Were I to tell you all I have seen of riches of El Dorado I am afraid my veracity would be impeached and what little value my story lias would be lost. I will say, however, I have seen eight mules and as many men in one team heavily laden with the precious metal. Each mule carried 250 pounds and each man from 50 to 80. I have seen ten pounds of gold taken in a day from one claim on French Hill. This gold was washed in a rocker and I saw it weighed myself. A friend of mine sunk a shaft on his claim and took sixty-four ounces before he struck bedrock. He bonded his claim for $75,000 before he drifted a foot. He was allowed to reserve all he could take out himself during the winter. Now he prays the option may be forfeited. Lest these statements seem to roseate for strict impartiality I will admit there is another side. Bonanza creek has proved a failure. There is no definite pay streak, and the few strikes have been from isolated packets, which are extremely irregular. I do not look for a prosperous coming year in the Klondike district. If much work is done it will be on the American side. The reason for the depression around the Klondike is the increasing oppression of the Dominion Government, which has made it almost impossible for a man to work even a rich claim successfully. As a result mine owners are resting on their oars, hoping that matters will be adjusted. Those who cannot afford to be idle will transfer their operations to the American side, where they will be at least allowed to keep what they find. The Dominion postoffice is in unscrupulous hands, and it is frequently impossible to get any attention without bribing the officials. They look over the mail in a perfunctory way, and announce that there is nothing for you, but later, out of office hours, you are given to understand that if you make it worth while they will look again, and usually successfully.” Race for the Pennant. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Cincinnati ..57 30 New York... .44 40 Boston 55 30Philadelphia. 37 42 Cleveland ...51 32Brooklyn ... .33 49 Baltimore .. .50 32 Washington. 31 51 Chicago 47 40 Louisville ..31 55 Pittsburg .. .45 40 St. Louis.... .23 63 Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. 53 30 Columbus ...42,37 St. Paul 51 34 Detroit 39 50 Kansas City.sl 36 St. Joseph... .28 49 Milwaukee ..50 39 Minneapolis. 27 60 Shortage in Frnit Crop. Notwithstanding the fact that thejje is a shortage in the deciduous fruit crop of California this year, the shipments of green fruits so far this season exceed those for the same period of last year by 175 car loads. Freight Traffic Manager William Sproule of the Southern Pacific company, who has made a thorough study of the supply of green fruit in all parts of the State, estimates that about 4,000 car loads will be shipped this year, against 5,300 last year. The shortage is chiefly in pears, peaches and apricots. There will be an increase, however, in the shipments of prunes and raisins. Killed In an Explosion. An explosion took place in the nitroglycerin house of the Hercules Powder Company at Pinole, Cal. No one was in the building at the time. Later a crew was sent to clear away the debris and extinguish the flames, and a second terrific explosion took place, killing five men and fatally injuring many others. That some unknown miscreant caused the first explosion has been definitely established by the finding of a piece of fuse, five feet long, under the mixing house.

NEWS NUGGETS.

The Aurora Vapor Stove Company of Cleveland, Ohio, has assigned. Assets and liabilities, $40,000 each. The Hicks Wholesale Grocery Company and J. A. Stephenson, furniture, were burned out at Shreveport, La. Loss, 145,000, Li Houi, the King of Corea, desires to abdicate and take refuge at Shanghai with the British consul, but the latter de- ■ clines to receive him. Prospero Scheaffino, Italian consul at Baltimore, has been knighted by King Humbert and made a chevalier of the Order of the Crown of Italy. A, E. Grant, the railroad contractor, has arrived in Duluth after having been all over North Dakota. He says the crops in the northern half of that State are ruined by drought and hail. The first day of the annual regatta of the Interlake Yachting Association at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, was made sad by an accident to the yacht Clipper of Toledo.The boat was upset in a heavy squall and the owner, William Arbuckle, and one of his guests, Marcus Ba telle, were drowned. Three others were rescued. The boat was on its w’ay to the regatta from Toledo and capsized within thirty rods of the dock at Green Island. The report of the Brussels sugar conference shows that it failed through the refusal of France and Russia to join the other powers in the suppression of the export bounties. The British delegates recommended < that the other Governments nullify the French and Russian bounties by the imposition of countervailing duties, as done by the United States. The arrival of the Coptic at Honolulu bringing news that the Hawaiian Islands Had been annexed to the United States was the signal for great rejoicing. Many United States flags were hoisted in honor of the event.

EASTERN.

The Ellicott cycle works at Tonawanda, N. Y, burned. Loss, $70,000. Fire did $95,000 damage at the Atlantic White Lead Company’s storehouse in Brooklyn, N. Y. Congressman William 11. Fleming of Augusta, Ga., who was operated on at the Massachusetts Hospital in Boston for appendicitis, is resting comfortably, and there is strong hope of his recovery. Mr. Fleming went to Boston to participate in the congressional postal inquiry. Lewis Warner, the defaulting president and treasurer respectively of the Hampshire County National Bank and the Hampshire Savings Bank of Northampton, Mass., and for whose capture a reward of SI,OOO is offered, was arrested in Louisville, Ky. Warner embezzled upward of $640,000 three months ago and has been at large since, although he has been tracked by countless detectives.

WESTERN.

Three men were killed and another seriously injured by the caving in of the Verde mine at Prescott, Ariz. At Dayton, Ohio, Louis and Herman Nicklas, brothers, aged 14 and 8 years, respectively, were drowned in the river. Fred Fancher, who has been insurance commissioner for two years, has been nominated for Governor by the Republicans of North Dakota. Prince, the largest elephant of the Wallace shows, died of lockjaw at Wabasha, Minn. This is the same animal that recently killed his keeper at Racine, Wis. Nat White and James Yarbough were both kille«l in a duel with knives near El Reno, O. T. They fought over a woman who had become engaged to both of them. Walter Bush, a St. Louis boy, who was visiting bin grandfather in Philadelphia, was instantly killed by grasping a live wire which was hanging above the window. While bathing in the Minnesota river at Morton, Minn., Barbara and Rachel Galle, Martha Lorenz and Alvina Reisall Under 20—were drowned. The bodies were recovered. A strike was declared at the Cleveland Shipbuilding Company’s yards at Lorain, Uhio. Between 200 and 300 laborers who were drawing $1.25 per day went out on strike for $1.50 per day. Ed L. Mcßride of Louisiana, Mo., shot and instantly killed Richard Wilson, a negro from Quincy, 111., who formerly lived in Louisiana. It is said that the negro had insulted Mcßride’s wife. A double tragedy occurred near Thurman, Colo. Henry Beiue, a farmer, shot and stabbed his wife, inflicting wounds from which she died. After fatally wounding his wife, Beinetook his own life with his pistol. Trains in eastern Colorado and western Kansas are delayed by swarms of grass-’ hoppers that settle on the rails. The crushing of their bodies renders the rails so slippery that the driving wheels of the engines simply spin around. J. Cunningham was shot and killed and Daniel Mills was seriously wounded by two masked men in Cunningham’s saloon in Gold Field, Colo. The murderers fled without looking for booty. It is believed that murder, and not robbery, was their object. One man was killed and several were injured while at work on a sewer near Edgewater Park, Cleveland, Ohio. The men were down in the sewer trench, when the trestle on which the car hauls away the dirt fell, crashing down upon the workmen. In the town of New Holland, Ohio, fire destroyed one block, comprising the business houses on the principal streets and a hotel. The only protection against fire was a chemical engine, which became disabled when put to use. The loss will be close to $75,000. Richard Kind, Herman and Arthur Klauser and others are interested in some gold quartz discoveries at Toledo, Ohio. They were made in a deep sewer excavation not long ago. A company is being organized and the promoters declare they hare no stock to sell. Reports from the throngs of thrashers of wheat in Kansas state that the crop will be 15,000,000 bushels short of the estimates of a month ago, which placed the total yield at 70,000,000 bushels. Much of the wheat was prematurely ripened and the grain is badly shriveled. At Zanesville, Ohio, the flint glass workers of the United States and Canada elected the following officers: President, William J. Smith, Pittsburg; secretary, John Kunzler, Pittsburg; assistant secretary, W. J. Clare, Pittsburg; vice-presi-dent, Thomas Smith, Alton, Ill.; agent and organizer, T. W. Roe, Toledo. An American named Reed, a civil engineer from Nashua, N. H., and another American named Wing, Connected with a banking firm in New York, were attacked by rabbets in a plantation house at Tlacotapam, in the State of Vera Cruz, Mexice. The former was killed and the other mortally wounded. They had a large amount of money in the house. The steamer Edward Smith No. 2 was run into and sunk in Lake St. Clair near the Flats, north of Detroit, Mich., by the schooner Auranla, in tow of the propeller Aurora. The Smith was bound up loaded and without a consort, while the Aurora and Aurania were bound down. The crew and a pleasure party on board the Smith were rescued without accident. The Smith is owned by John Mitchell of Cleveland, and valued at $150,000. A tornado struck Minot. N. D., the other night, demolished seventeen buildings and injured a number of people. No one was killed. The county hospital was destroyed and several of the inmates badly injured. Six loaded box cars on the Soo tracks were blown one hundred feet from the rails and demolished. A heavy hailstorm following seriously damaged the crops. A Casselton. N. D„ special says the same storm destroyed 20,009 acres of wheat.

A south-bound Santa Fe passenger train was held up near Saginaw, eight miles north of Fort Worth, Texas, by masked men. Six men did the work. Two boarded the engine at Saginaw and covered the engineer. They made him stop in a deep cut. Engineer Joe Williams was probably fatally wounded. The fireman cannot be found, but is thought to be also wounded. While their companions on the bank were firing the two robbers on the engine jumped off. The whole party escaped. A strike of nearly 300 workmen affiliated with the St. Louis Building Trades’ Council was called against the AnheuserBusch Brewing Association. Nine unions went out. They were the carpenters, gaslitters, stonemasons, stonecutters, laborers, electrical workers, and engineers. The reason stated by the officers of the

combined trades is that the brewery refused In certain cases to pay the onion Seale of wages. The Anheuser-Busch company has been regarded as very friendly to union labor. It employs a host of union brewery workers. The men who quit were employed on many different buildings. Mr. Kauffman of the brewery says the trouble was not caused by the attitude of the firm; the trouble was between the firms that had contracts on new buildings. These firms hired nonunion men and the strike followed. L. Calhoun of Kansas City,? representing a St. Louis detective agency, after twenty days’ traveling through Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri, located Mrs. Edna Beaman, a grass widow, in Sedalia, Mo., and obtained from her a confession that clears up the mysterious murder of Gaylord Fish, son of a banker at Georgetown, Cal., Dec. 6, 1897. Three years ago young Fish, then aged 27 years, left Georgetown and proceeded to Kansas City, where he met Jane Armbrust, a member of the Salvation army, aged 55 years, and married her, to the surprise of all who knew him. Fish carried $2,000 insurance in the Woodmen of the World and was the only son of a wealthy father. A year ago Fish, senior, died and then Mrs. Fish, the son’s wife, began planning to gain possession of the elder Fish’s estate. In Kansas City young Fish was taken suddenly ill and it was believed that an effort was made to poison him, but nothing could be proved. Mrs. Beaman, the witness, knew Mrs. Fish in Kansas City, and when the latter removed to Georgetown she sent Mrs. Beaman the money to join her in the centennial State. On arrival there a proposition was made to Mrs. Beaman to get Fish out of the way, but she declined, and then, Mrs. Beaman alleges, Mrs. Fish did the job herself administering chloroform, the victim being found dead in bed the 1 morning of Dec. 6 last by Mrs. Beaman. Suspicion of foul play was not entertained at the time, but finally the Woodmen of the World began to investigate the case, with the result that it was placed in the hands of the detective agency.

SOUTHERN.

The Milburn-Bass wagon factory at Chattanooga*. Tenn., was burned, and is a total loss. The plant, stock, etc., was valued at $125,000; insurance, $65,000. Two distinct earthquake shocks passed over East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia and Eastern Kentucky,‘lasting four and seven seconds respectively. No damage resulted. The Wbite-Howard-Baker feud in Clay County. Kentucky, has broken out again. John Baker and Charles Clarke were ambushed by twenty members of the opposing faction and shot to death. An infuriated mob stormed the Simpson County jail at Westville, Miss., killing W. T. Patterson, who was confined therein under the charge of murdering Lawrence Brinson. The jail was set on fire, and the buildings and the body of the prisoner were burned. At Galveston, Texas, the Beach Hotel, out of the leading summer and winter resorts in the South, was burned, entailing a loss estimated at from $200,000 to $250,000; insurance only partial. The building and contents are a total loss. The Are was caused by a defective electric light wire. A soldier of flattery A, Sixth artillery, committed suicide at Fort Clinch, Fernandina, Fla., by jumping overboard and swimming out in the sound so far that he could not possibly get back. He had all his clothes on as Well as shoes. The suicide’s name is Bigar from Albany, N. Y. He was recruited and taken to that fort a month ago, since which time he has been desperately ill. The Kentucky State Board of Health issued a proclamation placing the whole of Jackson County and each of its inhabitants under rigid quarantine from the outside world. The board found that there have been more than 100 cases of smallpox in the county. The facts were laid before the county authorities, and an effort was made to have an appropriation made by the County Court, as designated by law. The court declined, although there is money in the treasury. The State board now calls on the adjoining counties to enforce strict quarantine against Jackson County along its entire boundary. Evasion of the quarantine incurs heavy penalties. Dr. McCormack, secretary of the board, said: “The State Board of Health was reluctant to take this action, because it is the first time in sixteen years that an absolute quarantine has been declared. But the danger was so great and involved so many people and so great interests to the State that we concluded only rigorous measures would meet the emergency."

FOREIGN.

Emperor William is to be “personally conducted” by an agent of the Cook Tourist Company during hfs visit to the holy land. Jt is reported that the Grand Duke George of Russia is dangerously sick. The dowager empress has gone to the Crimea to nurse him. ' . . A dispatch from San Juan de Porto Rico to Madrid says a new insular cabinet has been formed Under the presidency of Senor Nules Riveira. A wealthy American named Riegel has been killed while attempting to ascend Mont Blanc without a guide. His corpse Was found on a glacier. Admiral Canavaro, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Argentine Minister to Italy, .Enrique Merino, have signed a general arbitration treaty between Italy and Argentina. President Alfaro of the republic of Ecuador has issued a decree granting a general amnesty to his political enemies, many of whom are in the United States and in Europe. The only exceptions made are Bishops Schumacher and Massia, for their prominent attempts to incite a revolution. A violent shock of earthquake lasting a minute was felt at Concepcion, capital of the Chilian province of that name, and at Talcahuano, on the Bay of Concepcion, eight miles distant from Concepcion City. Many houses were destroyed and the telegraph and electric light wires were severed. The inhabitants were terrified and fled from their homes, spending the night in the open. Nineteen Austrian sailors who arrived at Havre by La Bretagne were taken before a magistrate and confronted by four second-class passengers, survivors of La Bourgogne, on charges of cruelty and brutality at the time of the collision between La Bourgogne and the British ship Cromartyshire off Sable Island July 4. Although the evidence offered against them was very slight, six of the accused were held on remand. ( Mail advices received in San Francisco

from Guatemala contain information te the effect that the pending revolution in tjie southern republic has reached alarming proportions. Prospero Morales, one of the leaders of the last uprising against the late dictator, tleype Barrios, has again shown his hand, and has boldly issued a proclamation palpably directed against President Cabriera, the present executive of Guatemala. Morales is planning a grand coup, his intention being to carry the forthcoming elections, and, if possible assume the reins of government. Morales is gathering an army about him and collecting arms and ammunition. He is now at Margrues del Suchiate, not having dared enter the city of Quesaltenango, notwithstanding President Cabriera’s decree of amnesty to all political refugees. Backed by Cecil Rhodes and Earl Grey, members of the board of directors of the British South Africa Company, Bishop Joseph C. Hartzell qf the Methodist Episcopal Church, whose diocese includes the continent of Africa, has succeeded in obtaining an appropriation from the board of missions, which will enable him to plant the public school system of the United States in Africa. When seen about the matter. Bishop Hartzell said: “I am commencing this work in the little republic of Liberia. Already, under the fostering care of our church, a college has been established at Monrovia, in West Africa, which has 1,000 scholars enrolled under the control of a faculty of five. Prof. A. P. Camphor, a black man-edu-cated in this country, is at the head of this institution. It is my purpose to begin at the foundation, establishing first the primary school, and in a short time I hope to have 2,000 pupils under the charge of competent teachers sent from the United States. To assist me to carry out this idea I have been authorized to secure five teachers from among the educated young colored people of the State, and our church has pledged itself to pay one-half the expenses incurred for salary and transportation. The salary to be allowed these teachers, besides their keep, will be only S2OO. I am looking for some one who is interested enough in Africa to foot the other half of the bill incident to the extension of this work. My project also includes the establishment of industrial schools in Liberia.”

IN GENERAL

The Earl of Minto has been appointed governor general of Canada in succession of the Earl of Aberdeen. He is a liberal and retired from the army in 1870. Lieut. John Lind, quartermaster of the Twelfth Minnesota volunteers, now at Chickamauga, has formally accepted the nomination for Governor tendered him by the Democrats, silver Republicans and Populists. Travel to the Klondike by the so-called all-Canadian route, via Stickine river and Lake Teslin, has collapsed to such an extent that the Canadian Pacific Railway has abandoned Alaska transportation business and withdrawn its two ocean and four Stickine river steamers. The steamers Athelian and Tartar are tied up at Victoria and the river steamers at Wrangle. This marks the end of the efforts of the Canadian Pacific and the Dominion Government to establish an all-Canadian route, and leaves as the only successful Klondike routes those across the passes and via St. Michael, in American control. Bradstreet’s commercial report says: “Midsummer conditions still govern most lines of trade and manufacture, but the volume of business as indicated by bank clearings shows little decrease, and is evidently considerably in advance of previous years at this time. A feature in trade this week is the better demand reported for wool east and west, largely confined, it is true, to a few grades of wool. This appearance of activity has given a decidedly more hopeful tone to this business, which, however, is not yet reflected in the manufacturing branch. Indications that important developments may shortly be witnessed in the iron trade accumulate. This is partly the result of expected good orders from railroads for rails, of a large export business and of a good volume of small orders for various classes of steel. The statistical position of pig iron has been strengthened by the curtailment of production of an average of nearly 1,000,000 tons a month/since Jan. 1, but some shading, especially of southern iron prices, imparts an air of irregularity to the trade. Effects of the reported advance in prices by the Bessemer iron combination have not yet been measured, and the result of this announcement is awaited with interest. Dullness has been a feature of the cereal markets. Old w’heat supplies are rapidly decreasing, and the new crop movement, while in excess of last year, -does not reach the proportions expected. Another feature of the business situation is the active preparation making in the coast shipping trade for the large business with West Indian points w’hich is expected to develop as a result of military and naval operations.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.40; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice. $2.5u to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to 77c; corn, No. 2,33 cto 35c; oats, No. 2,23 c to 24c; rye, Nor. 2,46 c to 4 48c; butter, choice creamery, 16c to 17c; eggs, fresh. 11c to 12c; potatoes, choice, 40c to 48c; per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. white, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.30; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.75 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 76c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2,24 cto 26c; rye, No. 2, "47c to 49c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.15; wheat. No. 2,73 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 27c; rye, No. 2,41 cto 42c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c rye, 46c to 47c. Toledo— Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 77c to 79c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2,46 c to 48c; clover seed, $3.20 to S3JK>. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 88C to 90c; corn, No. 8,33 cto 35c; oats. No. 2 white, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 4Vc; barley, No. 2,43 cto 44c; pork, mess, $9.75 to $10.25. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice wethets, $3.50 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $6.50. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 81c to 82c; corn, No. 2,88 cto 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c; butter, creamery, 14c to 18c; eggs, Western, 18c to 15c.

WAR HISTORY OF A WEEK.

Thursday. Gen. Miles left Guantanamo for Porto Rico. The converted yacht Mayflower captured the British steamer Newfoundland, from Halifax, which attempted to run. the blockade at Havana. Spanish troops at Manila defeated the insurgents with considerable loss on being attacked. The second expedition from San Francisco has arrived. Madrid advices say there is no indication of peace proposals. The Government continues inactive, while the people are demanding peace at any price. \ Announced by Secretary Long that the expedition to Spain has not been abandoned, but has been deferred until the Porto Rico campaign permits the withdrawal of the ships. As the result of the ill feeling between our troops at Santiago and the Cubans, Gens. Garcia and Castillo have determined to cease co-operation with our troops, and will conduct an independent campaign against the Spaniards, first attacking Holguin. Friday. Blanco expressed bitter opposition to pegee negotiations. Maj. Gen. Chaffee in the field hospital at Santiago suffering from dysentery. The first detachment of troops from Chickamauga left for Newport News to embark for Porto Rico. Aguinaldo has proclaimed dictatorship over the Philippines and_refuses to subordinate himself to American authority. Debarkation of American troops rapidly continues hear Manila. Reported that 5,000 Spaniards included in Toral’s capitulation, while marching to Santiago to surrender to Shafter, were ambushed by 4.000 Cubans under Garcia, but put the latter to rout after hot fighting. 'Lieut. Hobson, hero of the Merrimac episode, arrived in New York on the cruiser St. Paul and proceeded to Washington. He was sent to confer with the Government regarding raising Cervera’s ships. Saturday. Five transports tailed f> r Porto Rice from Tampa. Gen. Brooke and his staff left Chickamauga for Newport News. Details of the naval victory at Nipe show it to have been one if the most spirited sea battles of the war. Advices from Santiago say the letter alleged to have been written by Gen. Garcia to Gen. Shafter was written by a newspaper man, probably without the knowledge or consent of Gen. Garcia. Gen. Shafter reports that a colonel of Spanish engineers from Guantanamo arrived at Santiago to (earn of the surrender, and declared that the garrison at Guantanamo will gladly accept the terms of surrender.

Sunday. Admiral Sampson’s report on the naval battle at Santiago which ended in the destruction of Cervera’s fleet has been received in Washington, but not made public. The Spanish troops in Havana, together with the residents, have strongly fortified the city, say Spanish reports, and are eager for an opportunity to measure arms with the American forces. Lieut. Hobson’s plans for raising the sunken Cristobal Colon, the Spanish war ship, have been approved by the Navy Department, and arrangements have been made to begin the work. Monday. > Seven thousand Spanish troops at Guantanamo laid down their arms. Gen. Miles has begun to land his expedition near Ponce, Porto Rico. Gen. Shafter reports 500 now cases of fever among our troops at Santiago. Gen. Brooke has arrived at Newport News, preparatory to sailing for Porto Rico.

Cubans at Cienfuegos sent to Admiral Sampson a pitiful appeal-that he take the city, as they are starving. Tuesday. Details received of the landing of, Gen. Miles’ expedition at Guanica, Porto Rico, and the hoisting of the Stars and Stripes. Gen. Shafter sternly rebuked Scnor Ros, the civil governor of Santiago, for unauthorized dismissal of Spanish officials. Reports of Admiral Sampson and Commodore Schley on the destruction of CerVera's fleet at Santiago made public by the Navy Department. Spain sued for peace through M. Cambon, the French ambassador in Washington, who formally asked President McKinley in behalf of Spain if he would consent to negotiations to end the war. Gen. Shafter, while regretting any clash with the Cubans, said their claims to Santiago were untenable. resent a letter to Gen. Garcia explaining the position of responsibility which the United States occupies before the world. Wednesday. Announced on authority that no armistice will be grunted Spain. Arrival off Porto Rico of the transports Mobile, Grand Duchess and No. 30, with re-enforcements for Gen. Miles. Spanish advices Jo Madrid alleged the repulse of the advance of Gen. Miles upon Yauco, after fighting lasting all night. Spanish troops in Porto Rico reported to be concentrating in San Juan, the capital, for defense agairist Gen. Miles’ troops. Gen. Shafter pleased the native Cubans by permitting them to occupy and rule over the town of Songo, near Santiago, surrendered by the Spanish.

News of Minor Note.

At Irvine, Ky., Picas Hill was acquitted of the murder of Ambrose Christopher. The negroes in the United States represent about 12 per cent of the entire population. A man was killed in a fight at Salisaw, I. T., and a bystander and the mother of the victim fell dead from fright. Mrs. E. B. Ten Eyke has recovered $8,500 from the Long Island Railroad Company for the loss of both legs in an accident just before her marriage recently. The prospects of a food shortage in the Klondike next winter are being seriously discussed, as, transportation companies are not taking any •precautions to preventit. ■ Switzerland has entered a protest against the advantages given lo France by the reciprocity treaty with the United States, and demands that the same advantages be accorded to Swiss goods.

PLOWING MADE EASY.

A New Invention—A “Stone Dodger** Plow. (From the Farm Implement News.) The Faller & Johnson Mfg. Co. of Madison, Wisconsin, have brought out a new implement, namely, a riding plow, that is attracting much attention wherever it is seen. Heretofore there has been very serious objection to the riding plow where there is stone. In striking a stone not only has there been danger of breaking the plow and harness, but the blow on the shoulders of the horses was very injurious, and worse than all, the driver wasin danger of being thrown off and injured. These objections are in. this appropriately named “stone dodger” plow. When it strikes a stone the plow part only is raised up and slides over the stone a»d pulls itself into the ground again without any action on the part of the driver. The sulky part is not raised; at all. A boy or an old man who can handle the team can thus readily do theplowing. So much interest has been taken in thisplow wherever it has been shown that the manufacturers have adopted a novel plan, to aid in presenting its manifest advantages to the farming community. They are having a large number of models; made and in any section where there is no sample plow that can readily be seen, any reputable farmer can, by writing to the company, have a model sent to him by express for inspection, without expense to him, the company paying expressage both ways. The farmer, after examination, simply returns it to the express office. The model is a nice piece of work. It weighs only ten pounds. The plow is made as a: single plow for three horses and as a double or gang for four horses. A very effective potato planting attachment can be had with these plows at small extra cost.

Queer Custom of the Ancients.

The ancients, in order to enjoy the scent of roses at meals, had an abundance of the fragrant petals rained down upon the guests. Heliogabalus, In his folly, carried the matter so far that the cloud of blossoms he ordered shaken down over one of his banquets actually suffocated some of. his friends. The Romans, during their meals, reclined on cushions stuffed with rose leaves, or made a couch of the leaves themselves. The floor, too, was strewn with the lovely blossoms. Cleopatra, at an enormous expense, procured roses for a feast which she prepared for Antony. They were laid t#o cubits thick on the floor of the banquet-room and nets were then spread over the fragrant bed to give an elastic footing.— Glasgow Mail. The receivers of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad have purchased forty miles of 85-lb. sixty-foot steel rails and will experiment with them on the Pittsburg division and in the Baltimore tunnel. These rails were originally bought for the Columbia and Maryland Electric Railroad, which was designed to parallel the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Baltimore and Washington and to become an important factor in business between those points. The project failed and the material which was purchased has been sold. These are the first sixty-foot rails to be used on the B. & O.

Division of Labor.

“What makes you worry so about our housekeeping, Julia?” “I want to do my share; you pay the bills.”

Coughing Leads to Consumption.

Kemp’s Balsam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dangerous. It is said that there are, 'oetween Madagascar and the coast of India, about 10,000 Islands w’hlch are not inhabited.

Hdocs Your cud Ache? Are your nerves weak? Can’t you sleep well? Pain in your back? Lack energy? Appetite poor? Digestion bad? Bolls or pimples? These are sure signs of poisoning. From wbat poisons? From poisons that are always found in constipated bowels. If the contents of the bowels are not removed from the body each day, as nature intended, these poisonous substances are sure to be absorbed into the blood, always causing suffering and frequently causing severe disease. There Is a common sense cure. AYER’S PILLS They daily Insure an easy and natural movement of the bowels. You will findthattheuseof c Ager’s oarsaparllla with the pills will hasten recovery. It cleanses the blood from all impurities and is a great tonic to the nerves. WMo fee Dooto Our Medical Department has OM of the moot eminent phyelciane in the United Statei. Tell the doctor Just how you are suffering. Ton will receive the beet modLcai advise