Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1898 — Page 2

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. |F. E. BABCOCK. PubHslar. Irensselaer. inoiana.

MURDER BY SOLDIER.

REGIMENT’S BAD I RECORD AT SAN FRANCISCO. \ An Inoffeiisi.vc Clerk Is Shot Head by I a Drunken Trooper-Murderer Well Connected in the South-Great Gain j for Kansas Farmers. Drink Causes.a Crime. [ When Walter Rosser, the Tennessee i volunteer who murdered Henry Hildebrand, a clerk in the Spreekeis tua.rkvt, [during a drunken spree, was booked at i the San Francis' o city prison lie began ' to sober up. He handed in a lady’s gold i Match and SOS in coin and asked that the. [' valuables he cared for. Rosser was walking up Market street, and seeing some confections exposed to view, it is alleged, started to help himself, and was told by Hildebrand to move on. Rosser, instead Of complying, drewTlis revolver and tired, killing Hildebrand instantly. "My father and mother are alive,” he said, “and are living in Stevenson, Ala. My father is superintendent of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad.” Lyewit nessev, of the affair state that Rosser fired the fatal shot without lie fought against arrest and almost succeeded in escaping in the excitement, having slipped one band through the steel handcuffs. Col. Smith of the Tennessee regiment deeply regrets the odium whieh the crime has cast upon his command. He •will compel all the men to surrender their weapons, and may restrict their liberty in the future. The regiment has achieved at) unenviable reputation since its arrival in San Francisco, some of the members having been concerned in a recent brutal assault on a negro near the l’residio, and others having been arrested for various, offenses.

Volne of Kansas' Live t tock Products Secretary Coburn of the Kansas Board of Agriculture has completed the compilation of Kansas’ live stock statistics from the returns of the tnwn-sliip assessors, and the result shows a marked increase of products over the returns of last year. For 3897 the value of animals slaughtered or Bold for slaughter was #57,781,078, and for this year it is $49,125,517. The increase in value of poultry and eggs sold is $294,750. A decline in the wool clip from 782,404 to 054,708 pounds brings down its value from #91,495 to #75.112. These values, together with those of the cheese, butter and ntilk sold, comprise the year's income for tin- products of live stock and aggregate #59,595,915. us against #40.985,922 the previous year. Standing of the Clubs. Following is tin* standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. 1.. W. L. Boston 81 45 Philadelphia. <ll 59 Baltimore .. .70 40Pittsburg .. . .05 05 Cinoinnulj -. 79 48 Louisville , . .54 75 Cleveland ...71 51 Brooklyn .. .40 71 Chicago .... .70 58 Washington. 41 85 New York .. .00 58 St. L0ui5....,54 89 Following is the standing of the clubs iu the Western League: W. L. W. L. Kansas City.B4 50St. Pau1.,,.-, .72 58 India tin polls. 80 48 Detroit. 49 81 Milwaukee ..79 5.4 Minneapolis. 45 89 Columbus ...72 52 St. Joseph... .41 89

NEWS NUGGETS.

Frank \V. Hollins of Concord was tioin inalcd for Governor of Now Hampshire li.v the Republicans, F. W. Lincoln, who served seven terms ns Mayor of Boston, Mass., is deaO at his home in I toivliester. The revenue cutter Bear has returned to St. Michael's after rescuing tViore than three hundred ice-imprisoned whalers. Newspapers in Holland and (Jermuny still insist that the life of Queen Willie!htiiia recently was threatened hy an anarchist. It is reported that •advices to tite French Government confirm the rumors that Mnyon has captured Fashoiht, on the White Nile. Peter Sehamui. a Fhiladelphiir brewer, jumped from the Goat Island bridge at Niagara Falls and his body was swept over the American falls. in a family feud duel at Erlutiger, K.v., James McCray and Joseph Michael*, Jr., Mere killed and Beit Michaels, Sr„ and Joseph \V. Watson were fatally wounded-. Colonel Oliver 11. l’ayne has given Cornel! University #1.500.009. This princely donation is to be used in founding and endowing the greatest medical college in the world. A daring robbery was committed at Wilkesbarre, Pa. Two men (uttered the office of Beal Estate Agent Boeder, gagged his clerk and took $450 from the safe. There is no trace of tile thieves, jfc At a special meeting of the council of apostles held in Salt Lake Loruizo Snow was chosen president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, to till the vacancy caused by the death or President Woodruff. Former Judge Thomas F. McCormick, who for twenty years presided over the T’nion County, New Jersey, court of common pleas, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head while in St. Mary’s Itomau Catholic cemetery in Elizabeth. *’ Detective Gortmm of the Santa Fc sei <ret service has arrested Albert Phillips, a 12-year-ohl Emporia, Kan., boy, for attempting to wreck the Santa Fe Denver train near there a few days ago by placing iron fish {dates across the rails.' The lad will he sent to the State reform school. ;p A fire iu the crowded downtown portion of Ciucinuuti broke out in the Kush building iu the portion occupied hy the Kenton Baking Powder Company. Valuable es- > tahlislußcnts were all around it in close ; proxinWiyrbut the fire department was so prompt in responding that the tire was confined to its original limits. The loss is estimated at $75,000. The United States, it is announced, has replied to a recent note of the Turkish Government, declining to accept .Turkey's repudiation of the responsibility for | American losses during the Armenian HHHKkL£:-$£

EASTERN. •'•if I— f; r >|j£ . |g||? Captain Hippcdffe Nk-oli*, a York fencing master, died suddenly while fencing with Captain C. Thiereelin. Nms olas was a veteran of the Franco-Prus-sinn and Crimean wars. The State election in Maine resulted in the success of the full Republican ticket. Speaker Reed’s margin over McKinney, who ran on the Democratic ticket, was about 4,000 less than that of 181*4. Thirteen car loads of watermelons from California were given away in the Erie Railroad yards in Jersey City because no one could be found to pay the transportation charge of S2OO a ear upon them. f Fire did $50,000 damage in the fivestory brick building at 54 Beckman street. New York, occupied by I.eeburger Bros. Fourteen firemen were overcome bv the fumes of burning essential oil in the basement and had to be carried to the street.

By thg explosion of forty gallons of gasoline in the cellar of a grocery store at 1444 South street, Philadelphia, four and possibly a down uihre lives were lost. The building where the explosion occurred and those adjoining it on either side collapsed.

Grand View Hotel, the largest hostelry it Highland Lake, a Pennsylvania summer resort, was, totally 1 destroyed by fire. The hotel was practically closed-for the season, and it is believed the fire was of incendiary origin. The loss is about $40,000. The, Ocean House, in Bellevue avenue, one ofiNewport’s fashionable summer hotels, is a mass of smoldering ruins. Fire started in the servants’ uuarters in the sixth floor of one of the wings, and the great structure was reduced to a pile of ashes. No lives wore lost.

The Delaware Supreme Court sustained the sentence of death upon Rev. W. If. Fisher of Wilmington, charged with breaking into the house of Mrs.Maria Hunt of that city at night for the purpose of committing a felonious assault. Fisher is to he hanged oil ,Oct. 7.

Three workmen were burned to death in u tire in Max Stiner iV Co.’s whisky house tit 30 Vesey street. New York. The tire was started by the explosion of a barrel of spirits of alcohol. The lire spread with great rapidity, and it was with difficulty that the other employes made their escape. The loss is SIO,OOO. The entire plant of the Waumbeek woolen mills at Milton. X. 11., was burned. Loss, SIOO,OOO. The mills have been idle since 18110, but arrangements recently were completed for resuming work, and they were to start again, giving employment to .’SOO hands. While the origin of the fire is unknown, it is supposed to have been caused by spontaneous combustion in the picker-room.

WESTERN.

At Springfield. Ohio, Frank Miller, a contractor, shot himself to death. Stephen Rowland was killed at Lima. Ohio, by Levi Clevenger in a quarrel. Simon Guggenheim'was named for Governor of Colorado by the Wolcott Republicans. Dr. E.,1. Scuggs of Montserrat, Mo., atk eidentnlly poisoned hiuiself by taking aconite instead of quinine. Mrs. M. A. Fowler, of Youngstown, Ohio, while under Niagara Falls, found a diamond valued at #l5O. At St. Joseph, Mo., L. E. Purcell of Bedford, lowa, attempted to commit suicide because his betrothed refused to marry him. t Congressman Norfhway of Ohio is critically ill at his home in Jefferson, Ohio. Mrs. Northway is also thought to be beyond recovery. Dovid It. Rice, aged 48 years, son of Gen. .1. li. Rice, editor of the. Sedaliu (Mo.) Capital, and brother of the United States consul at Vancouver, is dead. A yawl with fifteen men in it, employed on Government Work at Liberty Lauding. Mo., capsized in the Missouri river and William Stockholm was drowned. At Duluth, Minn., one man Mas killed and three others lmdly hurt in a collision between a trolley car and hook and ladder No. 5 while the latter was on its way to a lire. W. 11. Lawrence, of Cleveland. Ohio, was shot and fatally wounded in Denver, Colo., by Miss Florence Richardson, of Denver, wijh whom he had taken rooms in a hotel. The woman then killed herself. The town of Jerome, Am., was completely wiped out by tire, entailing a lossof over $1,000,600 in property. Eleven bodies have been recovered, while a score or more are said to he in the ruins or missing. The St. Louis limited passenger on the Missouri Pacific crashed into the rear end of a freight train near Independence, wrecking the caboose and killing It. J. Thompson, a telegraph lineman, and seriously injuring A. Bechtel, brake man. None of the passengers was hurt. At Indianapolis, William 11. Tucker, of the firm of Tucker & Dorsey, manufacturers, committed suicide at his home by shooting himself. Mr. Tucker had been despondent since the death of his wife two years ago. He had been a prominent citizen for many years, was wealthy and conspicuous in Grand Army circles. At Walla Walla, Wash., the plant of the Hunt Manufacturing Company, which supplies a large portion of the harvesting machinery used in Walla Walla and Pa-, louse valley, together with Roberts' foundry. two dwellings and a warehouse, were completely destroyed hy fire. One hundred men are thrown out of employment.

Miss Ritryl Hope, the loading lady of the Salisbury stock company, which is playing at the Davidson Theater at Milwaukee. assaulted Arthur Weld, the critic of the Journal, in the lobby of the theater. Miss Hope took exception to the criticisms of her work by Mr. Weld and attacked him, using her lists until she was restrained by other members of the company. The cattle and sheep question is becoming a serious problem in northwest Nebraska. John Eekmati. a sheepman of C'hadron, has sacrificed his life before the problem lias been solved. Ho died from the bullet wound inflicted upon him when a band of cattlemen living in Fall River County. South Dakota, called upon him and ordered him to remove his tlock of sheep, which he was inspecting, and met with a refusal. i A warrant issued and served on Benjamin Hardin charges him with having sought and found a fortune left by Louis Bermoud, a hermit, who lived and died in a, hovel near Amity, Mo. Hardin was a section baud', but a few months ago be began.loaning and spending money like a rich man. He is charged with haying searched the hovel after the hermit’s death, finding the money and appropriatb 1 ' ■

jf r t in* ft to hi* own use, Bome attorney* jwiy ba is entitled to the money. The priaecullng attorney contends tlfat it belongs to the Btate. Hardin denies that he got the money frem the miser’s cabin, but says it was left him by a Virginia relative. Mrs. Wilhelmina Liusenback, aged 45 years, with her daughter, aged 6 years, lived at 333 Spitler avenue, Dayton, 'LI. Mrs. Linsenbaek quarreled with Ber husband and he dfd not speak to her for three days. Despondent because of this, it is supposed she barred the doors of ber home, gave the child chloroform, took some of the drug herself and retired. The husband, being angry, 1 * did not look for

them. The following day the neighbors broke the door down and discovered mother and child dead. The woman bad given 25 cents to a neighbor and told her to feed the chickens, for she was going away. The little girl told her playmate that she was going to die, and accordingly gave her little friend her doll, flowers and pet bird. The coroner claims <botb deaths were caused by chloroform.

A Joliet, Chicago and Cleveland steel syndicate, of which John W. Gates, president of the Illinois Steel Company, is said to he the head, has finally closed a contract with the Alabama Steel Ship-build-ing Company to erect at Easley City, near Birmingham. Ala., steel and wire nail and rod mills. The new syndicate is thought to be in control of the Federal Steel Company, and it is believed the output for the Ensley plant will bo shipped abroad. The proposed plants will cost between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000. Another step has been taken by the Illinois Central in its effort to enter the Alabama coal fields. First Vice President John C, Welling, General Manager T. Harahan and Engineer G. B. Fitzhugli of the Illinois Central have been authorized by the Secretary of State to secure-subscriptions to the Canton, Aberdeen and Ashville Railroad.

John Boyd's little granddaughter rau almost fainting into the residence of her uncle four miles east of Cambridge, Ohio, saying that robbers had entered her grandfather’s house near by in the night and killed her grandfather, a prominent and wealthy farmer, aged 70; her aunt, Mrs. Nancy Wyriek, and her father, Orrin Law, aged 30, Investigation showed that only the first two were dead. When the police entered the premises they found Bovd clad in his nightshirt lying dead on the floor of his bedroom, with bullet holes in his head and breast. Six feet away lay his dead daughter, Mrs. Wyriek, partly dressed. Her breast bad been pierced, the bullet being found in the bed. The room was in great confusion, showing evidence of a terrific struggle. Law was found in an adjoining room, apparently drugged, hut he was aroused, and became indignant when arrested. The theory of (lie officers is that Boyd and Law fought; that Boyd was shot, and that his daughter ran into the room to assist him, only to meet a like fate.

SOUTHERN.

Charles McLaughlin, 23 years old, a glass-blower, was shot dead and his brother seriously injured in a street duel on Market street, Wheeling, W. Ya. Gen. Cassius M. Clay, the sage of Whitehall, has been granted a divorce from his girl wife, Dora Richardson Clay, h.v Judge Scott of the Madison County, Kentucky, Circuit Court. The decree restores the defendant to her maiden name, Dora Richardson.

(Edward Alexander Callaghan, a private in First United States Volunteers (.immune's), was shot to death at Galveston, Texas, and his companion, Jack Elliott, a civilian, was wounded in the abdomen. Harry Owens, a supernumerary policeman, surrendered himself. He says he attempted to arrest the men who had imposed upon a little boy, and they threw him down, kicked him and began knifing him.

\ passenger train on the Texas and Pacific Railroad, consisting of an engine and four coaches, plunged through a bridge twelve miles south of Texarkana. Four persons tire reported killed outright and a number of others more or less seriously Mounded. The accident Was due to high water. A bridge had been weakened by the heavy rains.- When the train struck the bridge the structure collapsed, precipitating tltc engine and four ears into the Maters beneath. Texarkana, Ark., is in a state of alarm over the large number of idle negroes who throng the .town, and the citizens are organizing vigilance committees for the protection of their property. The unusual influx of negroes recently is due to the operations of bands of M’hiteenps in Titus, Cass. Red River. Hopkins, and other counties in the cotton districts of North Texas, whence thousands of negroes have lied on account ot notices being posted, and in some eases violence being used, to run them out. These people, being run out of the cotton fields, have sought refuge in the towns, and Texarkana has been the refuge of a large number. A trustworthy colored man from Titus County says thqt while a number of his race tvece at wort in a field' a mob of whitecaps, .;opcealeti in a fence corner, opened fire un them.. The negroes fled, leaving three of their number behind, wounded, and, perilous, killed. They had been Marued tt> leave the county, and had paid no attention to the warning. Other similar incidents are reported by incoming negroes: Iu some localities in Titus Comity, which were formerly densely populated by undoes, not a colored man, unman or chilq remains, according to the Stories told by those M’ho have reached Texarkana.

FOREIGN.

Manuel Estrada Cabrera has been elect od to the presidency of Guatemala. “Blanche Roosevelt,” the noted singer, composer and author, died in London. Li Hung Chang's dismissal from the Chinese foreign office has been confirmed. The Spanish Senate has adopted the Ilispano-Ameriean protocol by a sitting and, standing vote. The Stars and Stripes were raised with the British union jack at a review of British soldiers in London. Three hundred followers of the dead rebel lender Prospero Morales were shot during election riots in Guatemala. . Continued fierce fighting is reported in Candio, Nearly oue hundred British subjects fire among those killed and wounded.. If any effort is made in the revised Dreyfus ease to implicate Emperor William the Germen ambassador will be called home. Elizabeth, Empress of Austria, was stabbed to the heart at Geneva, Switzerland, by an Italian anarchist named Lucehiul. She died almost immediately. Prince August Wilhelm, fourth son of Emperor William, is suffering from diphtheria at Berlin. The younger children

t: . , •> ♦' The perils Lokel Anzeiger says that a ; fortltlpt ago an AtteittpLWKs made to assassinate Queen Wilhelmina near Amersfort, province of Utrecht, on the road between Castle Soostdyt ard Baara. A man emerged from behind a tree and fired a revolver at her majesty. The bullet missed the queen, but plowed the cheek of a lady in attendance. The would-be assassin was arrested. He is supposed to be an English anarchist.

IN GENERAL.

Colonel James A. Sexton was elected commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. New Westminster, B. C., was aimost literally wiped off the map, by fire. The loss to property is estimated at $2,500,000. Several lives were lost.

A special committee has vindicated Dr. J. D. Barbee, book agent of the publishing house of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, on charges of immorality. W. Treadford, who was sent to the Alaskan gold fields by the London Mining Journal, has returned to Vancouver, B. C., and makes the statement that all the recent rich strikes have been made on the American side.

The promoters of the movement for bringing about the annexation of Jamaica to the United States, having failed to secure popular support because t)f the color prejudice, are now agitating for admission into the Canadian dominion. Their efforts in this direction promise to prove more successful.

While the exports from tin?' United States to the United Kingdom have increased 12 per cent, during the past year, the imports from the United Kingdom have fallen off 35 per cent., the figures of the bureau of statistics being: Imports from the United Kingdom, $109,138,3d5: exports to the United States, $540,589,152. x

Admiral Walker, president of the Nicaragua Canal Commission, has returned to Washington and is again devoting his attention to the collation and compilation of the material which will form the substance of the report of the commission. The admiral says the commission has now about two hundred and fifty men at work along the lino of the proposed canal aad they will stay there throughout the rainy season. They nre making borings and ascertaining the character of the soil at every point where it is proposed to locate dams, locks or other heavy masonry structures. In addition to this, the field parties arc taking accurate measurements of the rainfall and the flow of the various streams lying within the limits of the canal concession. This information was particularly desired by the commission owing to the fact that up to this point all the calculations made have been based upon the conditions as existing in the dry season, the time when Nicaragua has always been visited by commissions. Admiral Walker is confident that the commsision will be able to report to Congress at the approaching session, and while he says the necessary data has not been obtained to accurately determine the cost of the canal, he feels confident that the project will be shown to be entirely practicable and worthy of execution.

Bradstreet’s says: “Heat and holidays have imparted an irregular appearance to speculative and general distributive trade this u-eek, and therefore to* bank clearing returns, more particularly at the East, but with the arrival of cooler temperatures some improvement is reported at those markets. Generally speaking, favorable basic features already noted still continue'most in evidence, and the attitude of quiet confidence in future good trade is unabating. Conditions in many leading industries, but particularly in iron and steel and its various products, are of continued and in some cases growing strength. The’general level of prices of staples is the highest reached for five years past; railway earnings, favored by the enlarged movement of wheat to market, are showing larger gains than have been recently reported, a good export demand for agricultural and manufactured products is reported, failures remain at a minimum and reports of poor trade are conspicuous by their infrequency. Less favorable crop reports from abroad and good export inquiry are reflected in(a rather steadier tone in udieat and in advanced quotations for ocean freights. Corn continues to experience a weather market, but prospects of yield are still regarded as favorable. Unabated activity is reported at Chicago and dry goods shipments cannot be made fast enough. Railroads are reported buying two to three months ahead of time. Business is active at Kansas City, Omaha. Cleveland, Louisville and throughout the entire Northwest.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75;. hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice. $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 03c to 04c; corn, No. 2,20 cto 31c; oats, No. 2,20 c to 21c; rye, No.- 2,44 eto 40c; butter, choice creamery, ISc to 19c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, choice, 40c to 55c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to ■?S.SO; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, SB.OO to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, GOe to 02c; corn, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 1-4.?. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.50 to $4.25; sheep, $3.50 to $4.25: Wheat, No. 2,00 cto 08c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2,20 cto 22c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 48c. Cincinnati —Cattle. s2«sft to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 Q $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, ’so. 2,04 ctp 00c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 50c to 32d; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 28c; rye, No. 2,45 cto 47c. Detroit—-Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25‘, hogs, *3.25 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25: wheat, No. 2,04 cto 65c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye, 45c to 40c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 05c to 00c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 30e to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21e; rye, No. 2,44 c to 40cp clover seed, $3.35 to $3.45. 1 Milwaukee —Wheat. No. 2 spring, 62e to 64c; corn, No. 3,31 cto 32c: oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2. 45c to 47c; barley, No. 2', 42c to 44c; pork, mess, $8.25 to $8.75. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to $4.50; sheep, fnir to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $0.75. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; bogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 09c; corn, No. 2,35 cto 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; batter, creamery, 15c to 2ic; eggs, Western, 16c to 17c.

EMPRESS IS SLAIN.

MAO ANARCHIST STABS ELIZABETH OF AUSTRIA. Assassin Met His Victim ati She Was Walking to a Steamboat at Geneva —Emperor Prostrated and Europe Alarmed at tfie Crime. r ■ The Empress Elizabeth of Austria Was assassinated at Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday, as her majesty was leaving for Montreaux, where she intended to stay for some time. She left her hotel for the steamboat at 12:45 o’clock in the afternoon. On her way from the hotel to the pier she was assailed by a man wio rushed up to her and struck her. The Empress fell, but staggered to'her fegt and started on again for the boat, believing herself unhurt. She reached the steamboat, which the captain, after

EMPRESS ELIZABETH.

some hesitation, ordered to proceed, only doing so, however, at the command of her majesty. Shortly after the boat put off the Empress fainted and the steamer returned to the pier. Her majesty n-as taken ashore at once and carried to licr hotel, where she expired a little later without regaining consciousness. It was then found she had been stabbed and that the assassin’s stiletto had reached her heart. The assassin was arrested, and proved to be an Italian anarchist,-named Luchheni, who said that he was born in Paris. The Empress bad been sojourning in Switzerland since the last u-eek of August. The assassination of the Empress Elizabeth paralyzed all classes throughout the Austrian empire. To court and people it is a stunning blou- that has driven into the background all perplexing political questions. The news of the murder caused numerous anti-Italian demonstrations in Vienna, especially ou the Franzcnplatz in the hofburg. “Italians take away our bread and then murder our Empress!” was a cry frequently heard. A court servant attached to the service of the Empress at Sehoenbrunn wont mad on hearing the tragic news, aud arming herself with a knife rushed out into the

EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH.

cronded park, screaming: “Where is the murderer of our beloved Empress?” General Adjutant Count Paab carried the news of the tragedy to Emperor: Franz Joseph at Sehoenbrunn. The latter, whom he found in his study, turned white and stood speechless at the announcement. Then sinking into his chair the Emperor burst into a paroxysm of grief. Locking himself in, he denied himself to all members of his household until the arrival of the heir apparent, liis nephew, Franz Ferdinand, and his sole surviving brother, Archduke Ludwig Victor.

ODDS & ENDS OF SPORT

Jack Taylor lias pitched in thirty games for St. .Louis this year and won fifteen. The success that is attending the pitching of veteran A 1 Maul, who has been resurrected by Baltimore, has fired the enthusiasm of Galvin. The possibility of another fight for the heavyweight championship is remote. Fitzsimmons continues to hold himself aloof from any of the men who are anxious to meet him. "N Anson has applied to Ferd W. Peck, United States Commissioner at the Paris exposition, for permission to establish a department of athletics as a feature of the American exhibit. Eddie Bald is showing that form which liis friends have constantly predicted Since the opening of the season. His decisive win at Indianapolis, when he lowered the colors of his old-time rival, Cooper, shows that he still has the speed. This season has been one of the poorest the cycle manufacturers have yet experienced and as a result many failures have occurred that a year or two ago could not possibly be dreamed of. Tom O’Rourke, who is managing Sharkey, is moving heaven and earth to get on a match between the sailor-pugilist and Fitzsimmons. He says that the Lenox Club will give $15,000 for the match. A redaction of the price of chhinless wheels may be looked for in 1899. Some gucssers Who think themselves shrewd predict that in the sprihg the best chainless wheels will be obtainable for $75.

WOMAN’S HEROISM.

From Ike negisUr-Oozettr, Kockford, 111 I nation as by the brave soldiers. Many * woman, weeping for her dead son, bound on the wounds of his suffering comrades, rejoicing

famed organization known as the Woman’s Relief Corps. -e One of the most earnest members of the corps at Byron, 111., is Mrs. James Houseweart, but illness once put a stop to her active work. A year or so ago, when she was nearly fifty years of age, the time when women must be more careful of their strength, Mrs. Houseweart was taken seriously, ill. The family physician told her that the had reached a critical period of her life, and must be very careful. His prescriptions and treatment did not benefit her, and other treatment proved unavailing. At last Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People were brought to her notice, with indisputable evidence that they were helpful in cases such as hers, and with renewed hope she tried the remedy. Last March she took the first box of the pijls, which gave much relief. She was determined to be cured, and kept on with the medicine, until now eight boxes have been consumed, and she feels like a new woman. Mrs. said: “I have taken only eight boxes, but I have been improving since I took the first dose. Ido not believe I could have lived without the pills. They certainly have done tile more good than any physician or any medicine I have ever tried." Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are sold in boxes (never in loose bulk) at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists, or direct by mail from Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Sehnectady, N. Y.

Gallant Pipers.

There have been several instances of bravery similar to that of the gallant Gordon piper at Dargai, who continued to play after both his legs had been shot off, says the London Chronicle. One of these which occurred during the Peninsular ware, was almost Imlentical with that of the capture of the Dargai ridge. It was at Vimlera, when (he then Seventy-first Highlanders hurled themselves against the French as a couniteT-stroke to the attempt of Kellermau to recover six captured guns, and drove back their assailants In headlong rout. When the Highlanders were advancing Piper Stewart of the Grenadier company, fell, his thigh being broken by a musket shot. Yet he refused to quit the field, and sitting on a knapsack, continued to inspire his comrades with a pibroch, saying, “De’ll ha’e me, lads, if ye shall want for music!” For this he received a handsome stand of pipes from the Highland Society o? Loncfcn.

Again, there is the historical incident of Piper Major Maekay, who, when his reghnunt bad formed square to receive a charge of French savalry at Waterloo, stopped outside the square and strode round the bayonet-bristling ranks playing his most inspiring pibroeh in the presence of his comrades—an incident which forms the subject of one of Mr. Bogie's finest battle pictures exhibited at the academy a year or two ago.

Censorious People.

The most conspicuous peculiarity in the censorious mind is that it never makes any allowance for conditions or circumstances which a humane and liberal mind would feel to be somewhat palliative of tibe error. It is itself the standard for all moral actions. What it feels it would not or should not do, no other person should do. The ardent and thoughtless impulses of yourth—the misfortune of an education wanrtdng In control and guidanceare never taken into account. It would be quite in min to put in as a defense that, for example, poverty was greatly the cause of the offense. In their own comforts, they cannot Imagine what it Is to be . pressed by want and temptation; nor, if they could would they be willing to admit any such excess. If they reason at all upon the matter, It appears to them that admitting such excuses is only an encouragement to others to go and do likewise. But the fact Is they have it not In their natures to so far pity a fellow creature as to allow for extenuating consideration of any kind.

Improvements in Flying Machines.

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