Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1898 — Page 6

jasper, county democrat. {' F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER. - • INDIANA,

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

As far as new discoveries went the expedition sent out by the University of Pennsylvania to study northern Alaska from a scientific standpoint has been a failure. The threi men of the party, in Charge of E. A.'Mcllhenny, returned to Seattle on the Excelsior. Ten persons cremated, eight more fatal- , ly burned and eight seriously injured is the record of the most disastrous fire that ever occurred In Toledo. The spontaneous combustion of dust in the grain elevator owned by Paddock, Hodge & Co. caused this terrible destruction of life. | AM local cattle records were broken at the Kansas City stock yards the other day, when 18,085 head of cattle were received. Fully 11,000 head of those received were stockers and feedera from the Western ranges. The previous record was 17,477 head, received Aug. 3, 1897. George E. Green, president of the Commercial Travelers’ Home Association of America, has started a 10-cent endless chain of letters for the purpose of raisiug money to complete the home, the corner stone of which was laid on South Mountain, in Binghamton, N. Y., Oct. 9, 1894. A deal was consummated in St. Louis, Mo., whereby the Brown tobacco plant becomes the property of the American Tobacco Company. The price paid was $1,250,000. Paul Brown, president of the Brown Tobacco Company, will become manager of the business there for the American Tobacco Company. Following is the stnuding of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston 87 44 Philadelphia. 65 62 Baltimore .. .83 46 Pittsburg ... .67 67 Cincinnati ..82 53 Louisville .. .57 75 Cleveland ...73 56 Brooklyn ....48 76 Chicago 74 6(1 Washington. 42 88 New Y0rk...70 61 St. Louis 35 94 A deal was closest at Irvine. Ky., by which 25,000 acres of valuable timber land, a large part of which is virgin forest in Knott and Perry counties, were transferred to an English syndicate. Includes! in the deal was the Ingles sawmill at: Irvine, one of the largest along the Kentucky river, which will be utilised in turning timbe'r into lumber to supidy the mammoth furniture factories which the syndicate will erect in Cincinnati. George Bowman of Bridge-port, Conn., was murdered last winter near Dawson, Alaska, by a companion named Johnson of Springfield, Mass. He was almost in sight of the* golden Mecca when his strength failed him and lie sank in the soft snow. Johnson, who was the lea (hoof the* party, won't bete*k to him and with an oath blew- out the unfortunate man’s brains with a revolver. 'Phis is the terrible* story that is te»lel for the first time by J. C. Sachs, who lias just returned, from Alaska.

Five men were injured at. the new Government tlain at Neville IsQund, near Coraopolls, Pa., by the broking of a large traveling crane. The accident wag caused by the breaking of n steel guy line of the crane, which precipitated a largo derrick from sixty feet above the crane to the ground. In its descent the derrick ton* away the support of the crane,which crashed down upon the workmen. A huge block of stone which was being raised whtm the guy line broke fell a distance of forty-five feet among a group of workmen, but fortunately the men ran for their lives ami ail but five escap'd injury.

BREVITIES.

An entire square in Wadsworth village, Ohio, was swept clean by fire. The boundary dispute between San Domingo and Hayti has been settled. Dr. Henry Otto Clauss, a wealthy physician. kiljed himself at New York. S. Dow Ehvood, president of the Wayne County Savings Hank, is drad at Detroit. (Jen. Merriatn declares that there is no suitable camping ground for American troops in Hawaii. The infant daughter of Commander and Consul Booth-Tucker of the Salvation army died at New York. A package of jewelry valued at 10,000, belonging Jo Pugilist Jin) Corbett, is missing from Un Anbury Park hotel. Rev. H. H. Schnclledraessler died at Muhlenberg hospital, in Plainfield. N. J., from hiccoughs. He was (IS years of age. At Glasgow, l\y., Mrs. William Holes, a widow. Was murdered by John Franklin, her son-in-law, owing to family troubles. Colorado Prohibitionists have declared for free silver and nominated a State ticket headed by Uev. C. B. Spencer for -Governor. St. Patrick's Church, at Audenried, Pa., is slowly sinking into the mines, and nbandomnent of the property probably will be necessary. Lieut. Col. Nicholas Seim, chief surgi'ou, United Stab 1 * volunteers, has been honorably dmdiurged from the service of the United States. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. in session in Toronto, ailowinl $25,000 iu beneficiaries’ claims, making $4,101,147 paid out on death or disability insurance this year. 1 A rear end collision between freight trains occurred on the Union Pacific near Grand Island, Neb. Engineer Roddy was fatally scalded, his engine demolished and several cars wrecked. By the explosion of a toiler on the farm of John Pollock, near Hnderlin, N. I)„ Eugene Shields, engineer, was killed mid Charles Everson, firemnn, and Bert Dingman, tankman, ware badly scalded. The engine belonged to a threshing outfit. Michigan Republicans have renominaU'd Gov. H. 8. Pitigreo. The Democratic ticket in Connecticut Is headed by Daniel 4 N. .Morgan for Governor. The Fourth Street and Arsenal Street Railway of St. Louis was sold at auction on a mortgage foreclosure, the purchaser ben# Johu H. Oyurall, who paid $191,0T). • The Bolua Valley State Bank at Hastirgtvlowa, was robbed the other .night by . l-ackmaen. who blear the safe to pieces. The robbers, of wtom than* were probably three,' secured $2,135 and escaped with Caeir booty. : *4W 4. sm, m*

EASTERN.

The Her. Dr.*Johu Hall of New York died at Bangor, County Doa n, Ireland. Dr. Hall was on his annual visit to Europe. He died at his sister’s residence, of heart failure. Miss “Winnie” Davis, daughter of the late Jefferson Davis, died at the Hotel Rockingham, Narragansett Pier, R. 1., frbm sub-acute gastritis, after an illness of nearly two months. The corpse of the wonftn found in Yellow Mill pond, Bridgeport, Conn., was identified by Frank W. Perkins, 376 Center street, Middlcboro, Mass., as the body of his daughter, Marion Grace Perkins. The citizens’ committee appointed by Mayor Warwick of Philadelphia for the purpose of arranging a peace jubilee in that city has selected Oct. 26 and 27 ns the dates upon which the celebration wili be held.

The storage anil grain warehouse of O’Rourke & Co., 2229, 2231 and 2233 American street, Philadelphia, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $60,000; insurance, $25,000. There was but little stock in the building. Origin of fire nnknown. The New York building, a three-story brick structure on West Park street, Butte, Mont., collapsed about 10:30 o’clock the other, morning, carrying down sixteen persons, burying some, but killing no one. The lower floor was beiug remodeled.

During a test of Cunningham torpedos in Priest's cove, near New Bedford, Mass., the experiment schooner Freeman was blown up uud sunk by the explosion of a projectile. A dozen men were on board of her at the time, but all escaped serious Injury. Vice-President Dodd of the miners’ nnion and forty-one strikers have been arrested in Monongnhela City, Pa., on a charge of inciting the miners to riot. Among the prisoners are -the members of the miners’ band, who played while the strikers were marching. The Spaulding Machine Screw Company of Biflfiilo, N. Y„ went into the hands of a receiver preparatory to voluntary dissolution. The attorney for the company stated that the assets were about $150,000 and the liabilities, outside of the capital stock, $200,000. The steamship Gloucester of the Merchants and'Miners’ Transportation Company, which arrived nt Boston from Baltimore, reports that she collided with the Gloucester schooner Alice Jordan off Marthas Vineyard, and that nine of the Jordan’s crew were drowned. Seven of the crew were saved.

WESTERN.

Farmers in the vicinity of Crary. N. D., are alarmed over the prevalence of hydrophobia among stock. James Ilarlin, living near Scotch Ridge, Ohio, was killed iu a runaway. His wife and daughter were fatally injured. The social democracy of America has selected a body of land in western Washington and will establish its first colony within thirty days. N. L. Sylvester and John Krause, who live twenty miles from Alliance, Neb., quarreled over boundary *liueß, and Krause killed Sylvester. Mrs. Nellie Labile and her 13-year-old daughter were drowned iu Brush creek, near Clinton, Mo. They were driving to their home in Camden County. Chevalier Maximilian de Proskowetz, consul general of Austria-Hungary in Chicago, lost his life in Fort Wayne, while en route to New York.

At Akron, Ohio, the hank of the hydraulic canal was washed out by a heavy rain and a freight train was thrown to the foot of the bluff. No one was hurt. One hundred and twenty-five weavers and printers employed by Stinson Bros., carpet manufacturers iu Philadelphia, struck on account of a threatened reduction of wages. An curthqunke of unusunl strength and duration aroused the people at Hurley, S. D. It caused houses to tremble and dishes to rattle on the shelves for about thirty seconds. It seemed to travel eastward. George E. Cheney, a well-known banker of Crete, Neb., walked into the elevator shaft at the Drexel Hotel at Omaha and was killed by the fall. The elevator conductor had gone up, neglecting to close the door. A special train of an engine and four cars on the Chicago and Northwestern Railway has established a new record between Chicago anti Omaha, making the run of 493 miles in nine hours and twentynine minutes. The single tux congress, held at Omaha under the auspices of the Transmississippi exposition, opened with addresses by Franklin H. Wentworth and John Z. White of Chicago and Frank Stevens of Philadelphia. The Michigan conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church ndopted without debate a resolution declaring for a constitutional amendment providing equal lay and ministerial representation in the general conference. The vote was 199 to 9. The Boston bark Lapland. 524 tons, on her way home from 4he west const of Africa, was wrecked on St. Vincent during the hurricane. Captain Cates and crew had a miraculous escape, landing in their own boats during the height of the storm. Isaac Fitz and James McClellan, farmers near Y'ale, lowa, quarreled over a line fence. As McClellan mounted his horse to return home, Fitz shot him with 9 shotgun and killed him instantly. Fitz was arrested and spirited away to avoid lynching. An accident occurred at Rockland, Cal., to the oYerland train. Three cars from a freight tram broke loose and ran down grade, crashing into the overland, which was being pulled up the grade by two engines. No one was killed, but five persons were seriously injured. The following appointments have been announced by the President: George H. Pickerell of Ohio, to be consul in St. Nicholas; Fred Page Tustin of Oregon, to be commissioner for the district of Alaska, to reside in Wrangel; Thomas Ling, interpreter to the United States consulate in Fuchnn, China. The dead body of Fred Langsdorff, aged 40 years, a bookbinder and spiritualist, was found on the bank of the Haw at a point near Armourdale. Ka». He had committed suicide after takings, dram of morphine and a dram of pjussie aaid, in small quantities, covering & period hf four days, then opening the vqius of his arm. Deputy United States Matshpl Morrb son created Pug Ouary Koihing and Shabon Dash King, at the Level}

to* Walker, Minn., they were rescued by their baud. The Indian* refused to give up the criminals and are much excited. Dispatches from Chicago .state that P. D. Armour, Marshall Field and Norman B. Ream have secured control of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Ten million dollars is said to be the price paid. They have gained for Chicago and tfie Northwest practically a trunk line from ocean to ocean by way of the Great Northern, and it will be cojtrolled by Chicago capital. A communication from Supia, Arizopa, asking for aid for the destitute Indians there has been received by Mrs. John Merrill, president of the Red Cross Society of San' Francisco. It was immediately forwarded to the Secretary of the Interior. A recent storm destroyed all the crops at Supia, and left the Indians to face starvation in the winter. Supplies to the amount of from $3,000 to $5,000 are asked for. As the result of an attempt of a party of twenty-two non-union men to enter the works of the American Wire Company at Cleveland, where a strike has been on for some time past, a pitched battle took place between the strikers and the non-union workmen. Clubs, stones and slungshots were freely used, and while no one was seriously hurt, a number of men were severely bruised or cut. C. C. Cunningham of Milton, Ore., shot and killed O. Young and seriously wounded Mrs. Jniins J. Worcester at the 0., It. & N. at Pendleton. Cunningham. with a' cocked revolver, chased Miss Elbe Worcester for a block, firing three shots at her, but the young woman ran into a saloon and eluded the murderer. He ran "through the saloon into the Great Eastern Hotel, where he snapped his revolver twice at Mrs. Johnson, the proprietor’s wife. Cunningham was crazed by drink. Striking plasterers precipitated a riot at De Hodiamont, at the western limits of St. Louis, in which William Kane, a non-union worker, was fatally wounded and three others seriously hurt. Mounted police responded to a riot call and were met by a fusillade of ballets from the strikers. The police replied with a number of shots and a charge ou the crowds, dispersing them and resulting in the arrest of Nat Brown and Joe Lee, who are thought to be the ringleaders. For some time there has been n strike on among the plasterers of that city and vicinity for higher wages, but no serious trouble had resulted. About 1 a. m. strikers gathered in considerable force near Geri.v’s saloon in De Hodiamont to prevent nin-union men from going to work on some buildings near by. Derisive and abusive words led to the throwing of missiles, and finally one of the strikers drew his revolver and fired into the crowd of non-union men. This was followed immediately by a volley from the strikers and Kane fell, mortally wounded. When the mounted police appeared on the scene they were met, in their efforts to disperse the rioters, by a volley of bullets. The strikers fled, and Capt. McNamee at once called out all the policemen available to chase and capture them. The chase developed into a running fight between the police and some of the strikers, in which several were reported to have been injured. , ■

SOUTHERN.

The Federal Steel Company has acquired possession of the Lorain and Wheeling Railway. Wardy Wolfe, un insane man of Charchvilie, W. Va., shot his father and his brother and then killed himself. At Wheeling, W. Va., tire destroyed the large factory building of John Arbenz, occupied by the Acme Box Company and tomato catsup works of Exley, Watkins & Co. Loss, $50,000. The grand jury indicted every coal merchant in Frankfort, Ky., charging conspiracy. The coal men combined aud have l>een supplying the trade at prices agreed on by the combination. In a clash between the First Georgia soldiers and the Third North Carolina regiment, colored, at Camp .Holland, Knoxville, Tenn., 100 shots were fired. Several men are reported wounded. At Durant, .Miss., the Commercial Hotel, owned by the Illinois Central Railroad, has been destroyed by fire. The loss on contents is $7,000 and insurance $2,(XXI. The loss on building is unknown. Miss Eflie McKibbon was probably fatally wounded by a pistol shot from a negro while riding home from a negro camp meeting near Birmingham, Ala., with George Noble. The negro was caught and lynched. Gov. Bloxham of Florida has issued a call for a national harbor defense convention in Tampa, Fla., Feb. 8, 1809. The Governors of the various States are requested to name delegates. A call for a convention for the same date and place was also issued to discuss reorganization of the militia service of the States.

FOREIGN.

It is said Zola will soon return to France and continue his championship of Dreyfus. It is reported that King Menelek of Abyssinia is helping the French in an- , occupation of Faskoda. The Italian Government has proposed to the powers that international action be taken against anarchists. It is announced that diplomatic relations between Italy and the republic of Colombia have been severed. Premier Sagasta of Spain cut off discussion of the peace proposition iu the Cortes by proroguing that body. Forty-three of the ringleaders in the recent Cretan riots have been surrendered to the British admiral nt Candia. McDougall’s flour mills and other factories in Mill Dock, London, have been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at $325,000. At Bradford, England, an electric street car was derailed while descending a hill. Fifty persons were seriously injured, several of them fatally. A high Russian official says the famine in the Volga district Will necessitate the importation by Russia of 80,000,000 bushels of wheat this year, ;. x , , TJie Argentine minister at I’aria says that the boundary dispute between Chili and Argentine will be submitted to the arbitration of Queen Victoria, A commercial panic in San Domingo threatens to make serious trouble. Exchange has risen 100 per cent within a month. The situation of the present Government is unsafe. Tile imperial Chinese Government has Emitted to the Peking syndicate of London, England, the right to open and work fninea and to construct and operate ratl-

roads la the empire free from Chines* control. This is the first concession ever granted by the Chinese Government to s foreign’ syndicate. Mail advices from Japan state that another formidable rebellion against Japanese rule has broken out in Formosa, this time in the southern part of the island. Two battles have been fought, one near Taiehu, the other near Taihoku. The tribes were defeated by the Japanese troops and the police, v As a result of the French cabinet’s decision to appoint a special commission to, review the documents in the Dreyfus case, Minister for War Zurlinden and Minister of Public Works Tiliaye hnvc resigned. Gen. Chanoine Was appointed to succeed the former and Senator Godin was given the place vacated by the latter. J. W. Jago, formerly chief officer of the White Star line steamer Britannic, and John Ivynaston, third officer of the same steamer, both of whom have been convicted of robbing the mails on board the Britannic, were sentenced in London, the former to eight and the latter to one year’s imprisonment at hard labor. <l’he Fekin correspondent of the London Times says: “Despite Lord Salisbury’s declaration that he would brook no interference from any other power in the NiuChwung railway loan contract, he has now yielded to all the conditions Russia imposed. As a result the negotiations with the English syndicate have been broken off and those with the Russo-Chin-ese bank have been resumed.” At Seoul, Corea, it is reported that a high official of the palace, named Ivo, has made a coufession that he ordered the cook of the royal household to poison food intended for the king and crown prince, both of whom became seriously ill, The official further confessed that the poisoning plot was instigated by a former interpreter attached to the Russian legation there. The Turkish Government has sent a circular to the powers, alleging that the British provoked the disorders at Candia, claiming that the present situation is due to the measures adopted by the powers in Crete and protesting against the bombardmeut of Candia. The Porte announces its refusal to withdraw the Turkish troops from Crete, in spite of the decision of the admirals that such a step is absolutely necessary.

IN GENERAL.

A severe wind and hail storm passed over Montreal. Quebec, doing much damage. A trolley wire was broken and struck James McKenzie, instantly killing liiiii. The Traveling Passenger Agents’ Association aud the Ticket Agents’ Association have decided to amalgamated Committees anil soon meet to arrange the details. Gold dust aggregating in value between $150,000 and $200,000 was brought to Seattle by the steamer City of Seattle; which also had on board 150 Klondikers who left Dawson City Sept. 2. Word was received at Victoria, B. C., from Ottawa that checks had been issued to individual beneficiaries under the sealing award. The total amount is $300,188 damages and $172,908 interest. The Cripple Creek mining companies have already declared S2SO,(XX) September dividends. Total dividends for 1898 thus far aggregate $1.325;525, against $1,202,925 for 1897 complete. Prior to 1897 $3,340,024 dividends were paid. It. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “Business is passing through the difficulties that attend the winding up of a war, which are generally greater than those involved while war is iu progress. The rush of orders kept back while war lasted by those who thought it shrewd not to take any chances has lifted prices a little and caused a larger demand for the time than can continue, but though it has passed there is an evidence that the consuming demand is very large. Wheat has come forward much more freely, and the price has advanced 2 cents. It is supposed that the advance is largely due to milling demand coming upon a narrow supply. Exports are large—3,oo7,970 bushels, flour included, from Atlantic, and 201,052 bushels from Pacific ports, aud for two weeks 5,697.320 bushels from hoth coasts, against 10,796,853 last year. Receipts of wheat for two weeks of September have been 14,663,895 bushels, against 14,697,106 last year. Tin is quiet nt 16.05 cents and lead at 4 cents, with copper strong at 12% cents and spelter at 4.80 cents, iu spite of a sensational rise at London. Heavy sales ahead have blocked the project for a tinplate trust nt present. Failures for the week have been 174 in the United States, against 204 Inst year, aud 23 in Canada, against 40 last year.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25: sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 64c to 66c; corn, No. 2,29 cto 30c; oats, No. 2,20 c to 22c; rye, No. 2,46 cto 48c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; potatoes, choice, 40c to 50c per bushel, Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 65c; corn, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c.

St, Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.50 to $4.25; sheep, $3.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,68 cto 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 28e to 30c; oats, No. 2,22 cto 24c; rye, No. 2,44 cto 46c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,66 cto 68c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c: oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2,46 cto 48e. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,66 cto 68c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye, 47c to 48c. Toledo—Whent, No. 2 mixed, 67c to 69c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 30c to Sic; oats. No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; rye, No. 2,48 c to 49c; clover seed, $3.45 to $3.55. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 65c to 67c; corn, No. 3,30 cto 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye, No. 1,47 cto 48c; barley, No. 2,42 cto 45c; pork, mess, SB.OO to $8.50. Buffalo—Cottle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.60 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra,..ss.oo to $6.50. New Y’ork—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; bogs. $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, *No. 2 red, 70c to 71c ;*cornj N*. 2,36 cto 86c; oats, No. 2 white. 27c to 28c; batter, creamery, 15c to 22c; eggs, Western, 16c to 18c.

HUNDREDS DIE IN A HURRICANE.

Terrific Storm and Tidal Ware Sweep# Over the West Indies. A summary of the work of the hurricane that swept the West India island* Includes the following losses: Persons {tilled, 531; persons rendered homeless, 60,000; buildings destroyed, 12,000; ships wrecked, 3; small vessels stranded and missing, about 15. The hurricane-swept islands are in the Windward group of the Lesser Antilles, 'l4»e storm was accompanied by a tidal wave, and the islands of San Lucia, Barbados and Guadeloupe also suffered loss of life and property from the heavy weather. Kingston, the capital of St. Vincent, is totally destroyed. It is estimated that 300 lives were lost on that island, and thnt the homes of 20,000 people were destroyed. Bodies were buried in trenches. Thousands are starving or being fed at the public expense. Every small house on the Island of St. Vincent is down and many large ones, including churches and public buildings, were razed. Three large ships were blown ashore on the coast, and many smaller vessels are stranded in shoals and on rocks where they were either blown by the hurricnn***or washed by the tidal wave. An estimate places the number killed on the Island of Barbados at 200. Tremendous rains aad the tidal wave caused numerous landslides, in which houses, bridges and cocoa estates were destroyed. The total estimated loss of life on all the islands is 531, and the loss of property aggregates millions.

TO BE MADE A CARDINAL.

This Signal Honor Will Be Conferred on Archbishop Ireland. The announcement that Archbishop Ireland is to bb made a cardinal directs attention anew to the gifted and aggressive churchman. The archbishop is thoroughly American. Born in Ireland in 1838, he early emigsated to this country and settled with his parents in the Northwest. Even as a boy his ability was so great that he was sent to France to be educated, after he had decided to choose the profession of the priesthood. He refused to take orders in France and returned to St. Paul to be confirmed. The outbreak of the civil war found the young priest filled with patriotic ardor sad eager to go to the front. He went M chaplain of the Fifth Minnesota regi-

JOHN IRELAND.

ment and soon had gained the love of all the soldiers with him. In battle, however, he laid aside the clerical whenever he could help the fighters on the tiring line, and did not resume it till the wounded and dying needed his ministrations. Home from the war, he became rector of St Paul’s Cathedral. In 1875 Dr. Ireland, was appointed a bishop and assigned to the vicarate of Nebraska, but this assignment was changed and he was made coadjutor bishop of St. Paul. Nine years later he succeeded to the see of St. Paul, and in 1888 he was elevated to the archbishopric.

WALKED SIX HUNDRED MILES.

Lon# Journey of a Veteran Wjto Attended Cincinnati encampment. At the Grand Army of the Republic encampment in Giueinuati one of the most interesting figures was Comrade J.

J. A. RAPPE.

aid of glasses. He covered the 600 miles in twenty-eight and a half days. He declares that he never felt better than when he reached Cincinnati. Mr. Itappe was a guest of T. A. Wilkinson of Avondale, with whom he served in the Thirty-second Wisconsin infantry throughout the civil war.

GAGS THE CORTES.

Premier Sngasta’s Darin# Suppresses Spanish Agitators. By proroguing the Spanish Cortes in the midst of a heated and violent discussion over the war, Premier Sagasta ended a stormy session of the senate and probably saved hie queen nnd country. Gen. Primo de Rivera and Count Ajmenas were the leaders of the turmoil, aud while it lasted the chamber was a wild scene oi uproar and disgraceful disorder. Sagasta, with the decree of th? suspension of the session of the Cortes, ascended the tribune. He mounted the rostrum and read a decree proroguing the Cortes t and the law forbids any one speaking after the queen’s decree has been read. His pluck saved the country and his queen.

Telegraphic Brevities.

Along the entire Atlantic coast the reed bird and oyster season opened Sept. 1. Mrs. Mary Mnzique, who died recently in Little Rock, Ark., at one time weighed over 700 pounds. The National W. C. T. U. has asked Miss Leiter of Chicago to christen the battleship Illinois with water. Li Hung Chang’s dismissal from the Chinese foreign office does not divest him entirely of his official powers. A perfect model of the battleship Maine, cut from a block of anthracite coal, by a patriotic miner, is on exhibition at Hazleton, Pa. The daughter of President Faure o, Franee recently expressed herself publicly in favor of a revision of the Dreyfus court martial. The memorial monument to Lafayette to be erected by Americans at the Paris exposition will be unveiled on United States day, July 4. ----- *-• *'•’*

R. Rappe of Marinette, Wis., a veteran of three wars and aged 83, who walked all the way from his Wisconsin home to Cincinnati. Comrade Ilappe saw service in the Mexican, )Seminole and civil wars, and despite his advanced years reads a newspaper easily without the

PULSE of the PRESS

The domestic coaling station is beginning to attract renewed attention.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. We coll our navy heroes sons of Mars. The Spanish say they fight like sons of guns.—Boston Globe. The Czar might suggest as a preliminary that the Austrian reicharath should disarm.—'Memphis Commercial-Appeal. When it comes to wheat this country refuses to hide its light under hundreds of millions of bushels. —Philadelphia Times. Miss Clara Barton was able to get into Cuba when she had nobody but the Spanish to reckon with.—Philadelphia Ledger. The question is no longer open to argument as to who is the Wizard of the Nile —Kitchener or the khalifa.— Washington Post. There are 2,000,000 more bachelors than old maids in the United States. Get a sprint on yep, girls.—Memphis Commer-cial-Appeal. Admiral Dewey’s signature may be awful, but he is able to make his mark just the same, so that all nations understand. 4-Washington Post. The international disarmament idea ia growing rapidly. Ea<& nation is now will* ing for the others to lay down their arms. —Kansas City Journal. It Is believed that if Aguinaldo were made dram major of a military hand he would cease to be a source of trouble.— Kansas CHy Journal. Gen. Jauderez advises Madrid that it would take 60,000 men to reconquer the Philippines for Spain. We really believe it would.—Boston Globe.

France Reaps the Whirlwind. The bell which tolls for the funeral of Lieut. Col. Henry of the French army will toll at the same thne the deathknell of French military honor.—New York Mail and Express. France has written her own name in the book of doom, and unless she uses strong, prompt measures to erase it she must stand self-recorded before the world as a decadent nation.—Brooklyn Eagle. It can readily be believed that Henry was forced to kill himself that his tongue might be silenced. But he told enough to sbhke forever the idolatrous faith of the French in their army leaders.—Buffalo Express. Well may Esterhazy have exclaimed: “This is terrible!” on hearing the Henry’s arrest and confession. It would be surprising if the sensational exit of the wretched Henry should not produce a grand shake-up in the French war office. —Philadelphia Record. We Bpoke of the confession and suicide of Col. Henry, the resignation of Gen. Boisdeffre, and the almost or quite unavoidable reopening of the Dreyfus case, as a shock. Lighter shocks have sufficed to topple down more solidly founded Governments than the third French republic. —Hartford Courant.

Assassination of Elizabeth, The sympathy of the world is extended to Emperor Francis Joseph in this last and overwhelming sorrow.—Des Moines Leader. As a matter of fact, these anarchist fanatics are the worst enemies of those whom, they pretend to serve.—Pittsburg Dispatch. The death of the Empress may have no immediate effect upon the political affairs of the empire, but it will hasten the dreaded end when it will be necessary to find a successor for Francis Joseph.—Kansas City Journal. The assassination of the Empress Elizabeth of Austria at Geneva ia an atrocious crime for which there is no parallel in history and an event which cannot fail to shock and amaze the entire civilized world. —Buffalo Courier. Three attempts to assassinate European monarchs within as many weeks—the last a successful one —indicate forcibly a concerted movement on the part of the anarchists toward some fell purpose of their own.—Minneapolis Tribune. Her sad taking off is but the climax to a career which, all in all, has been anything but a happy one. It is hard to see how the contemptible act of this assassin has advanced one whit the coming of the millennium, when the universal brotherhood of man is to prevail,—Washington Post. Ultimatum to the Sultan. It is time for all powers concerned to make it quite clear to the Porte that indemnity mast be paid, and must be paid promptly.—New York Tribune. Our ultimatum may mean “business.” Certainly we have been most reasonable and patient in attempting to persuade Turkey to settle our just claims.—New York World. The Sultan’s unrivaled collection of xltimatums has been enriched by a note from Mr. McKinley warning him frankly that he cannot repudiate any part of the responsibility for the American losses in the Armenian butcheries.—New York World. President McKinley will be supported by the entire country infcis determination to insist upon payment by the Turkish Government for the property of American missionaries destroyed by the Turks during the Armenian massacre.—Chicago Tribune. The heavy losses and grievous outrages to which American merchants and missionaries were subjected while the Sultan’s myrmidons were ravagihg Armenia must be atoned for so far as atonement can be made in compensatory damages. The American navy is at liberty, and it would find little difficulty in enforcing out* just claims upon the Porte should due redress be stubbornly denied.—Philadelphia Record. < The Trouble In Crete. If England has another Kitchener hie i»lace is in Crete.—Syracuse Standard. It is the old, old question of the “Sick Man of Europe.”—Brooklyn StandardUnion. , The American method of pacifying Cuba is more successful than that of the concert of Europe in quieting Crete, —St, Louis Globe-Democrat. The religious passions of men in whom religion means more of hatred than love ■re thoroughly inflamed, and they are making a conscience of slaughter and a*» eon.-—Syracuse PpaL...,. :