Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1898 — Page 6

mm COUNTY DEMOCRAT. ~F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. • RENSSELAER, * INDIANA.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

■ Quwn Louise of Denmark died at Copenhagen. She had been ill for several -weeks and the event was not unexpected. She was 81 years of age. Thomas Bayard died at Karlsteln. the summer resideiu-e of his daughter. Mrs. Samuel D. Warren, at Dedham, Mass., after an illness of six weeks. Ilis death was without pain. The Plant steamship Olivette was successfully raised at Fernandinn, Fla., and work will lu> commenced at onee to put her in shape t<s he placed iu the dry docks. The Olivette sunk at the quarantine station some time ago while-taking on coal. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston 1)2 45Philadelphia. 89 64 Baltimore .. .87 48Pittsburg ... .67 '72 Cincinnati . .85 56 Louisville ...63 75 Cleveland ...76 60Brooklyn ....50 79 Chicago 77 04 Washington. 44 91 ••New Y0rk...72 65St. Louis 35 98 While Gov. Smith of the Pacific branch of the National Soldiers’ Home near Santa Monica, Oftl., was coming to his headquarters, Albert G. Bradley, who has been an inmate of the home for live years, came up behind him and shot at him five times,, one hall taking effect under the right shoulder blade, one above the right hip and one through the right arm. The Surgeons think the wounds are not fatal. It is thought Unit Bradley is mentally imbalanced. An explosion of powder in the basement of a four-story building at 410 North, Fourth street, St. Louis, occupied by C. & W. McClain, fishing tackle and sporting goods, blew out the front of the structure and set it on tire. Three women jumped from the third window and received fatal injuries. They were badly cut and burned, in addition to being badly hurt by falling on the pavement- Fireman Bohlly of Company No. 15 was cut about the head by falling glass. Edward Pfeistcr. ft well-known politician of Poseyville, Ind., was sandbagged and robbed in front of the Fifth Wurd Republican Club headquarters T in St. Louis, Pfeister was about-to enter the club headquarters when he was accosted by two well-dressed young men. Suddenly they seized him, Pfeister threw his assailants off, when three other men ran across the street, one of whom struck him with a sandbag. He sank unconscious, and the highwaymen rifled his pockets and fled. A gold watch and SSO were taken. A prairie fire, probably started by a spark from a locomotive, has burned over thousands of acres of grazing lands between Kiowa and Bijou creeks in Morgan County, Colo., and destroyed thousands of tons of hay. Ranchman \V. C. Miller and his wife and child had a narrow* escape from being burned to death. One large bunch of about 5,000 head of cattle was entirely surrounded by fire and every chance for them to escape was cut off. Red Cliff the tires advanced to within ten nut's of the town and citizens organized to fight their advance. Chief Postoffice Inspector Baird, in charge of the Southern division, has received a telegram from Inspector Reason stating lie has Jfljadc an important arrest which will put tfn end to stealing which has been going on in the Jacksonville, Fla., pQstoffiee for several years. The man arrested is Thomas Miller, a mailing clerk, who has been employed in the Jacksonville office seven years. A large amount of mail was found in Miller’s possession and considerable money was recovered. Miller- made a full confession soon after being arrested.

In pursuance of the ultimatum issued by the blasters’ Protective Union at Brocton, Mass., that if the lasting machine companies did not withdraw agents whom they had put into factories there to take the places of strikers all the lusters in that section would be ordered out the strike has been extended' in all directions. Men abandoned lasting machines in shops nil over southeastern Massachusetts. Even concerns that hud settled on the price list trouble were not exempt and the operatives went out with the rest. This is the most general and united strike of shoe testers that has been known in many years.

NEWS NUGGETS.

The Pope favors the annexation of dip Philippines to the United States. Claremont, Minn., was wiped out by fire the other night; twenty-two buildings being destroyed. An explosion of a wagon load of dynamite near New Whatcom, Wash., Killed two men and one boy. Several others are Injured. For a few days the heat wag so great in Kansas that the rails of the Union Pacific were warped out of shape at Bellevue and Silver Lake. By the overwhelming vote of 210 to 1 ♦he Illinois Methodist conference at Charleston, 11!.. declared in favor of equal lay representation for future conferences. Imported negro miners and strikers met In deadly conflict in the streets of Pann, 111. Two hundred" shots were fired and a wild riot ensued, in which several persons were wounded. A special excursion train on the way to the Halifax exhibition front Pictou, X. 8., crashed into a working train near Btellertou. Five persons were killed and one was injured. The Secretary of the Interior has ordered that the lands in the abandoned Fort Hartsuff. Xeb., military reservation, comprising 712 acres, be sold on Dec. 17 next at not less than their appraised value. The Kansas City Auditorium, destroyed by fire last winter, is to he rebuilt at an early day and run as a popular price house. Col. J. M. Wood of Chicago lias arrived with plans for the new building, which will be rebuilt at the instigation of Alexander Frazer, its manager, and leased to Burgess & Woodward, the Omaha theatrical firm. , J, West Goodwill, old-time editor, has been arrested at Sodalia, Mo., on the charge of using the typographical union label without authority. The local typographical union proposes to push tne prosecution in the State and Federal courts.

EASTERN.

William T. Ryle, the Paterson, N. J., ■ilk manufacturer, died at Cape May. The Arena, New York’s free silver magazine, has been forced by lack of support to suspend. / Richatd Malcolm Johnston, the lecturer and novelist, died in Baltimore, after an illnegs of several months. Marquis Roberto Asnaridi San Marzano, brother of the Italian minister of war, is dead at New York. Acting Governor Foster W. Voorhees has been nominated for Governor by the Republicans.of New Jersey. Harvey Petzinger of Tarentum, Pa., shot his wife three times and then killed himself. Mrs. Petzinger may recover. Davis’ livery stable at Gloucester, Mass., was burned, thirty-five horses perishing in the flames. The loss is $28,000. David Yninst, aged 60 years, salesman for the whisky house of Kalbach & Co„ Richland, Pa., blew out his brains in Baltimore.

At Philadelphia, Sutherland Law, the champion cricket player, committed suicide by leaping from the fourth story of the Colonnade Hotel, John McLean Hazen, son of the late General William B. Hazen, U. S. A., who was thrown frohi his horse while riding iu Staten Island, is dead. A man registered as M. Putze on the steamer La Gascogne, from Havre for New York, was found dead in his cabin, having committed suicide by hanging. • At Manchester, Conn., fire destroyed the bakery of Frank Goetz. John I beetles and a man known as “Rob,” German bakers, about 30 years bid, were burned to death. John Hazen. aged 21, was thrown from his horse near Tompkinsville, N. Y., aiiitl fatally hurt. lie is a son of the late Gen. W. B. Hazen/md a nephew of Maj. Gen. William Ludlow. Fanny Davenport Melbourne Max-Dowel)),- the actress, died at Doxbury, Mass. She had been ill for several monlhs. Her death was caused by enlargement of the heart. While resisting an eviction in Garrett, Md., Frank P. Myers shot and killed Constable John Lenhart and Michael Kerns, a spectator. A few moments later an unknown man shot and killed Myers. Stanley E. George, son of one of the wealthiest bankers of Meridian, Miss., was arrested at Denver while in the act of breaking open the poor box of St. Mary's Cathedral. He claims to be under hypnotic influence. While Isidor Widman, a Long Branch. N. J., hoy, was fishing under a railroad bridge several largo stones fell -from a passing flat car, overturned the boat and fatally injured the lad. His father, who was with him, escaped injury. The Bessemer Furnace Company will erect n $2,000,000 steel works at Sharon, Ph. The plant will be Inrge enough to utilize the product of the eighteen furnaces in the Mahoning and Shenaugo valleys owned by the company. Relatives have fully identified the body found in the pond near Bridgeport, Conn., as that of Emma Gill of Southington. Charles A. Plumb of Stratford and Harry Guilford of Bridgeport are under arrest on suspicion of complicity in her murder. An explosion in the Fieischmann distillery at Long Island City wrecked the building and resulted in tlie death of Patrick McCaffrey. Three other workmen in the distillery were seriously injured. The explosion set fire to the ruins of the building and it was consumed. The loss on the distilling plant is about SIOO,OOO. The cause of the explosion is not known.

WESTERN.

At Harrison, Neb., the jury acquitted Irving Gilmore of the charge of murdering Frank Miller. C. 11. Ebett of Uhriesville, Ohio, a traveling man, was asphyxiated at a boarding house at Elyria. Col. William Edwards, honorary president of the National Trotting Association, dropped dead at Cleveland. Danford & Ilpagland, dry goads merchants of Barberton, Ohio, have assigned. Assets and liabilities each about $12,000. Robert Young of Knox County, 111., had his pocket picked of $2,000 in cash and notes while attending the Kansas State fair at Wichita. William Shaw, aged 10, fell under the wheels of a Chicago Great Western passenger train near ltaveuwood, Mo., and was instantly killed. W. H. Riehl, of Cleveland, was arrested at Niagara Falls while on his way to commit suicide. The police had been warned by his son to watch for him.

A block of stores at Edgemont, S. D., was burned, causing a loss of $150,000, partially insured. The buildings belonged largely to eastern capitalists. The body of Roy Sink, a wealthy land owner of Wasco, Ore., was found in the river. He had been murdered and robbed of a considerable sum of money. The total receipts of the Omaha Exposition to date have been nearly $700,000. Its cash balance in the bank is $120,000, or more than $50,000 above its liabilities. At the Haldemun paper mills, at Lockland, Ohio, ex-St&te Senator J. C. Richardson, aged 84,.was shot by his brother-in-law, William J. Haldentan. Richardson died instantly. Governor Holcomb, of Xebraska, has received a treasury warrant for $19,312, dim the State of Nebraska as a refund of the direct taxes paid by that State during the war of the rebellion. As the result of a sawmill explosion at Baker Brothers’ mill, thirty miles northwest<of Milan, Mo., two men, the engineer and a sawyer, were killed and three others probably fatally scalded. Julius Bates has been appointed co-re-ceiver of the Detroit and Lima Northern Railroad at Toledo. The Detroit and Lima Northern has filed a suit against the receives for $12,307 for use of its tracks. By mistake Mrs. Tally Thompson killed her infant child at HicksvilkvObio, by giving it morphine tablets intended for her own use. They looked like tablets containing sublimate of bismuth for the babe. ' Florence, the 12-year-old daughter of Mrs. Alexander Carmen, died at Liverpool, Ohio, of hydrophobia. The child was bitten two weeks before by a pet dog. Boon afterward the animal displayed signs of rabies and was killed. <f©v. Bushuell of Ohio hss issued a proclamation setting apart Oct. 19 as Lafayette day, when voluntary contributions will be received for the fund for the

erection of the Laflyette monumfet la Paris to unveiled July, 4, 1900. • A receiver has been asked in Cleveland •for the United States Wire and Nail Company, upon whose property there are attachments aggregating SIB,OOO. This is the concern which recently announced it intended to fight the wire and- nail trust. At Topeka, Kan., four flour mills'liave ceased grinding ior wont ot wbegt. It is estimated that at least fifty mills at other points in the State are idle from the same eauso. The Kappas farmers are generally holding their wheat for better prices. At Hutchinson, Kan., E. C. Clark, a prominent member of the Reno County bar and known as a writer on economic question*, has been found guilty of manslaughter in the second degree. This is the first trial id the sensational Boyd murder case. A tornado swept over Lima, Ohio, and vicinity, doing an immense amount of damage. Elmer Baty of Beaver Dam was crushed to death beneath a barn. Fully fifty people were injured, two. It is thought, fatally. The damage will aggregate $200,000. h The body of Oscar Osborne, a farmer living near Akron, 0., was discovered in his barn. It was evident that he had been murdered for his money. He was 80 years old and known to be very wealthy. There is no clew to the perpetrators of the murder.

After eight years of litigation the Fluwkeye and Pluma mining companies of Deadwood, S, D., have settled their grievances, and the two companies have been consolidated and incorporated under the Jaws of South Dakota and named the liawkeye-PJuma Free Gold Minimg Company. At Oskaloosa, lowa, James Raymond was stabbed and almost instantly killed by Jacob N. Moyers at the latter’s boarding house. Moyers was insanely jealous of Raymond, who had been attentive to Mrs. Moyers. The husband found the two talking in his wife’s room and the fatftl encounter ensiled. There is much suffering among the miners in Hocking County, Ohio. Three thousand five hundred people are in dire need of the necessaries of life. In many localities families are reported to be starving. The children are living skeletons. The miners have had but twenty-two days’ work since April 1. Gov. Bushnell contributed $2,500. Five men were drowned in St. Mary’s River by the foundering of the lighter Monitor* The Monitor was in tow of the tug Bruce and was loaded with iron ore taken from the schoouer Carrington, which was stranded in the river. In turning the red range light on the way to Pointe Aux Pius' the lighter foundered The bodies were taken to Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. The Nebraska Methodist conference, after a three days' trial, found Rev>. C. M. Ellenwood, late treasurer and acting chancellor of the Wesleyan university, guilty of misappropriation of funds of the university in the sum of $20,000. The verdict of the jury is that he be deposed from the ministry and. expelled from the church. No criminal suit has yet been begun. George Charlton, living two miles east of Kenton, 0., will probably lose his life through a strange accident. About midnight, hearing a noise in his chicken coop, he went out to investigate. Soon his sister heard a scuffle, and. grabbing an ax, she ran to her brother’s assistance. Finding, as she supposed, the thief an top. she struck him a fearful blow with the ax, but soon discovered It was her brother she had hit. His skull was crush-' ed iu, and the doctors have but little hope* of his recovery. The burglar proved to‘ be a junk peddler. He was arrested.

SOUTHERN.

At Denison. Texas, Mrs. Mary Joslyn, while attempting to light a fire with kerosene, was burned so badly that she will die. *o •,The Forepaugh circus train was wrecked nnd two employes were killed at Wilsondale, on the Norfolk & Western road, fifty-six miles south of Kenova, W. Ya. An attempt was made to murder Dr. W: A. Mason, a dentist of Fort Worth, Texas, by poisoned candy sent through the mails. The doctor is now- critically ill. A special from Mountain City, Tenn., says: About 2 o’clock the other morning a mob of 100 men overpowered the Johnson County jailer and lynched John Williams, the negro who seriously stabbed Sherman Dunn. A sleeper and a chair ear in a train on the Houston and Texas Central plunged through a fifteen-foot trestle over Chambers creek, forty-seven miles from Dallas, Texas. Twenty people were injured and Judge G. W. Davis of Oak Cliff was killed. A tornado wrecked several buildings at Mount Airy, S. C., and tore up railway tracks. There was a cloudburst in the western part of North Carolina that drove families from their homes and ruined river bottom crops along the Yadkin and the Catawba. Miss Winnie Davis, the “daughter of the Confederacy,” lies at rest in Hollywood cemetery, Richmond, Va. Business in the city was practically suspended and more than 70,000 people either took part in or gathered on the streets to look, upon the procession. At Auburn, Ky., Mrs. Rainey Johnson, aged 32, committed suicide in a horrible manner, while insane. She saturated her clothes with kerosene and then applied a lighted match to them. Enveloped in flames, she ran screaming from the house to the street, and did not stop until burned to death.

FOREIGN.

Herr Theodore Fontane, the German writer and poet, is dead. He was born in 1819. The Frepeh vessel Ville de Fecamp foundered off Fecamp and her crew of thirty-six was drowned. Dr. William P. Martin, an American missionary, has been appointed president of the Imperial University of Chino. An agreement between Chili and Argentina to submit the boundary disputes between the two countries to arbitration has been signed. - Heidelbach, lekelheimer & Co. have engaged at London $600,000 gold and Kountze Brothers $250,000 for import to the United States. i ; Heavy storms have prevailed ift the Baltic sea, and 120 fishermen have been drowned between Polaugen and Libnu,

■eaport towns of fee province of Gourland, Russia. Tbeßritish steamer Huelira was sunk in collision .with the .Spanish steamer Carthagena. ' Alt hut one seaman and fee captain of the Huelva, who were landed at Gibraltar, were drowned. The French wheat crop is estimated at 123.000,000 hectoliters, the largest since 1874, when the yield was 136,000,000 hectoliters. This will render France independent of foreign importations of wheat.’ Lord Mayor Davies paid a visit of cercmony to the American peace commissioners at London for the purpose, he said, of testifying “to the good will and affection i of the people of London to the United States.” An imperial edict just issued at Pekin definitely announces 4hnt the Emperor of China has resigned his power to the dowager empress, who has ordered the ministers to deliver to her in future their official reports. It is officially announced in London that the Hon. George N. Curzon, until recently parliamentary secretary for the foreign office, who is to succeed the Earl of Elgin as viceroy of India, has been elevated to the peerage ns Baron Curzon of Kedelston. Floods and typhoons wrought great damage along eastern and northern shores of Formosa. Five thousand buildings destroyed or rendered unhabitable and 400 people killed and injured is the record of the ruin in the northern district about Taipeh, Formosa’s capital. According to an article in. the Fortnightly Review, the Anglo-German agreement provides in detail for England and Germany to become joint heirs by purchase of all the Portnguses possession in Africa. The first outcome of this, the paper says, will be the leasing of Delagoa Bay to England. Australian papers report the wreck of tlie schooner C. C. Funk, at Blinder's Island, with ten of her crew. Only two seamen, Albert Krough and John Peterson, were saved, aiid but one body had been recovered when the Alameda sailed. It was that of Peter Xeilson. The vessel was driven ashore by a gale and went to pieces in the surf. M. Ollivier, one of the editors of La Lauterne at Paris, was shot by Mme. Paulmier, wife of a deputy. After being arrested she explained that La Lauterne had slandered herself and hhr husband because her husband had written the letter to Gen. Cbanoine, the minister of war, with reference to putting a stop to the attacks upon the army provoked by the Dreyfus affair.

IN GENERAL.

A tornado struck Merriton, Out,, with terrible violence, killing five persons and injuring many. A satisfactory test of the armor plate manufactured by the Carnegie company has been made at Indian Head, practically establishing the superiority of the lvrupp process over any other yet tested. Parties who arrived at Seattle from Alaska report a hold-up and murder on the Dalton trail. H. Fraser and B. L. Tolner, both of Seattle, were held up by two men near Haines’ Mission and robbed of $4,800 in gold. The first railroad built in Alaska is now operating between Skagnay and Lake Lindeman, a distance of twenty miles. The promoters of the road are confident that by next spring the road will be extended to Lake Bennett, twenty-five miles farther. Methodist women have for some time been trying to get a standing in the courts of the Methodist Church of Canada, but the clergy will not permit it. . The matter came before the Methodist general conference at Toronto and a motion to admit women to the courts of the ghurch was almost unanimously defeated. President E. S. Converse, of the Boston Rubber Shoe Company, made the following statement: “Terms have been arranged between the Boston Rubber Shoe Company and the United States Rubber Company, whereby the latter acquiree control of a majority of the $5,000,000 capital stock of the Boston Rubber Shoe Company. Bradstreet’s commercial report says: “Favorable trade developments manifest themselves chiefly along the lines previously noted. The importance of a large export demand to the country’s domestic interests is illustrated by the tone and prices of wheat and flour this week, growing out of the better foreign buying induced by less favorable Russian crop reports, smaller shipments from that country and apparently continued careful selling by American producers.”

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, 67c to 68c; corn, No. 2,29 cto 31c; oats, No. 2,21 c to 23c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 48c; butter, choice creamery, lJJie to 21c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis—C&ttle, 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, 66c to 68c; corn, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c. 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 69e; corn, No. 2 yellow, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2,22 cto 24c; rye. No. 2,47 cto 48c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 80c to 32c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 49c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.25 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,68 cto 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c; rye, 49c to 51c. J Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 69c to 71c; corn, NO. 2 mixed, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2,47 c to 48c; dovei seed, $3.85 to $3.90. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 64c to 66c; corn, No. 8,29 cto 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye, No. 1,47 cto 49c; barley, No. 2,43 cto !44c; pork, mess, SB.OO to $8.50. Bnffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to $4.60; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.00; lambs, common to e*trs, $5.00 to fOXXk f *H*w Y<wk-CflUle, $3,00 to $5.75; ho«, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, S3.OCL|j9 §4.jß; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 79c; corn, no. 2,86 cto 37c; oats, No. 2 white* 28c to 29c; hotter, creamery, 15c to 22c; eggs, Western, 16c to 18c.

BIG FORCE JOB CUBA.

PREPARING FOR OCCUPATION OF THE ISLAND. - t - • ■»- Three Thousand Troops Are to fall October 30, and' ’Other Detachments Will Follow from Time to Time—Re* enforcement* for Dewey. The. War and Navy departments are perfecting plans for a demonstration in force at and the powerful re-en-forcementsof Admiral Dewey. In Cuba a strong miliary demonstration is to be made to any disturbances that may follow the evacuation of the island, and the re-enforcements for Admiral Dewey arejnade as a precaution against any trouble in the Philippines with Germany. Three brigades are under orders to be ready Oct. 20 to sail for Cuba. The intention of Gen. Miles is to make the first detachment 3,000. His plans are that the three brigades shall compose the First division of the army of occupation. The brigades designated are made up as follows: The Seventh and Eighth United States cavalry, to be commanded by Brig. Gen. L. H. Carpenter; the Fifteenth United States infantry and the Fourth United States volunteer infantry, to be commanded by Brig. Gen. Snyder; the First United States infantry, by Brig. Gen. E. B. Wllliston. These will be followed from time to time by detachments to fill out the 50,000 intended for the garrison of the island. This early announcement of the destination of troops for Cuba is due to the fact, not heretofore stated, that the President has sent the Spanish commission an ultimatum that the authorities in Washington would not tolerate a delay in evacuating the island , to Feb.. 28, as had been contemplated by the Spaniards. Tlie Presconsiders Oct. 20 a reasonable time and will begin the peaceable occupation then, and will occupy it by force if he is resisted.

COMMISSION BEGINS WORK. Men Who Will Investigate the Conduct of the War. The commission that is to investigate the conduct of the war hits organized, received its instructions and started upon its work. As finally made up the commission is composed of the following men: GeD. Granville M. Dodge of New Y'ork, president, one of the major generals of the Union army in the civil war. Col. James A. Sexton, business man of Chicago and the commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. Charles Denby of Indiana, appointed minister to China in 1885, for thirteen years served the country in that capacity. Capt. Evan P. Howell of Atlanta, Ga., a Confederate soldier in the civil war and one of the leading Democrats of the South since the war. His connection with the Atlanta Constitution has given him a reputation throughout the country. Gen. John M. Wilson, chief of engineers of the United States army. Gen. Alexander McDowell McCook of New York, one of the famous “fighting McCooks” of the civil war, and a New York business man. James A. Beaver of Pennsylvania, the one-legged veteran who was Governor of the Keystone State at the time of the Johnstown flood and investigated the complaints in reference to the distribution of the relief fund contributed by the whole world. Ex-Gov. Urban A. Woodbury of Vermont, Yankee business man. Dr. Pbineas S. Cromer of Cincinnati, prominent physician of the Buckeye State.

. CLEARING MANILA HARBOR. United States Officers Removing the Wrecks of Spanish Ships. The work of setting the wheels of business in the harbor of Manila in motion has been intrusted to Capt. Henry Glass of the United States cruiser Charleston. One of his first duties was that of taking an inventory of all the shipping that fell into Admiral Dewey’s hands at the time of the surrender. This includes everything afloat, either on the bay or river, which means a radius of forty miles, and its value is about $1,500,000. To aid Capt. Glass and Lieut. Braunersrettther in the work, five officers were detailed from Admiral Dewey’s fleet. Ensign Moffet has been busy with gun cotton and dynamite blowing up the wrecks that were sunk in the Pasig river and the outer harbor, and of the twenty or thirty wrecks in the river nearly all have been destroyed, so that 'ships drawing fifteen feet of water may now enter and go to the wharves.

MUST HOLD THE PHILIPPINES. Spain Instructs Commissioners to Resist Any Severe Demands. Duke Almodovar De Rio, the Spanish minister of foreign affairs, states that the Spanish peace commissioners have been instructed to contend strongly for the integrity of Spanish sovereignty in the Philippines, oir the ground that the protocol between Spain and the United States was signed before Manila capitulated, and also to make a firm stand regarding the Cuban debt and the Philippine loan of 1896, if Luzon is ceded to America. They are instructed to resist to the utmost any attempt of the United States to claim the right of preference over other powers should Spain desire to sell or cede'the remainder of the islands. Columbus’ Dust. Exhumed. Gen. Blanco’s order for the disinterment Of tho ashes of Columbus has been carried out at Havana. The captain general’s almost invariable military escort, band and flag were conspicuously absent, but there were many guards in the approaches to the cathedral. The work was done with the doors closed. Refuse to Live Under Atnerlcan Plgg. It is announced in Madrid that 10,000 Spaniards, residing in the Island of Pofto Rico, have refused to live in the island under the American flag, ,

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.

Admiral Schley has notified the Navy Department that all the Spanish war vessels have left Porto Rice. After being repaired at Mare Island navy yard, San Francisco, the gunboat Mohican wifi be sent to Samoa.. -« The Spanish authorities in Cate have givedborders to collect their troops pseF para they t* the* embarkation for Spain. The United States collier Susquehanna has sailed from Newport News for Manila with coal for Admiral Dewey's fleet.

TEN DIE IN A FIRE.

Union Rnlfitoad Yian»porta4ion Company's To'edO Buena. 4 Ten menTremated, eight more fatally burned and many more seriously injured are fee renfißa o' fee most disastrous fir* feat ever occurred in Toledo. The spontaneous eombifstidh of dust in fee grain elevator owned by Paddock, Hodge & Co. caused this ‘terrible destruction oT life, and none .of those taken oat after the fire started was far enough from death’s door to tell any of the horrible details. Those in the vicinity at fee Union elevator soon noticed flames bursting (roan all sides ot the building. It was but | a few minutes till the fiiP deportment of the city began fee work of rescue, which was rendered difficult by the terrific beat of fee fine. The river cut off escape on one side and there the flames scented to be less fierce. The families of a dozen men who were known to be at work within rushed to the scene, and women calling for feeir imprisoned husbands, brothers and fathers made a scene indescribable. It was learned that fee force of twenty men expected to load 80,000 bushels of grain during fee night. Not one of the entire number cowld be seen in any part of fee building and it was impossible to reach them. Fireman David Kemp and Charles Keifer, the engineer, were found at their places in fee engine rooms. They were wounded by falling timbers and their faces charred to a crisp by the flames. The heat became so intense that twenty ears standing on sidings near fee burning building were added to the loss. The tire department had a hard struggle to save other elevators and property. The property and the grain is an* entire loss and wall reach $450,000. The insurance is $135,000 on fee building and the grain is covered wife $258,000 insurance.

SPACE AT PARIS EXPOSITION.

Picard Pays Americans Can Have No More, but Peck la Still Hopeful. Commissioner General Peck has been in Paris only a short time, but the result of his presence is already felt. His present magnificent offices were newly taken and unfurnished. Now they are completely fitted out, flags are flying and the commissioner's staff has been installed. It is viewed as a wonderful example of “Chicago hustle.” The offices are in the Avenue Rapp, southwest of fee exposition grounds, and two or three minutes’ walk. Director General Picard says it is impossible to give fee United States any more space in the exposition. B’or all feat, Mr. Peck does not despair of obtaining what is needed. The minister of foreign affairs was exceedingly cordial in his reception ot Mr. Peck, ealting him “a friend of France.” The minister of commerce likewise received him warmly, inviting him to visit fee exposition grounds under his own especial guidance. Mr. Peck expects to have the business of his office in such good condition feat he can return to the United States by the latter part of October.

Disorder In San Domingo.

Hie commercial panic in San Domingo caused by fee peculiar financial system of the Government has caused serious trouble in fee northwestern section of the country. Public peace has been disturbed in Monte Oristi and troops have been dispatched there to restore order. Merchants and farmera are united in their determination not to risk anything further to uphold fee credit of fee Government. They refuse to sell their goods for bank notes. Exchange is now at $3 iu notes for $1 in gold.

Telephone Companies Pool.

Negotiations which have been pending some time closed at Minneapolis whereby the Northwestern Telephone Company, the Western Electric system, the Western Electric Telephone Company, the Minnesota Mutual Telephone and Telegraph Company apd all of the dependent fnaaTßeaeOshponies operating in between 500 and 600 tbtf os in southern and western Minnesota, northern lowa and South Dakota will pool issues and operate their lines in direct connection.

Japan Is Also Willing.

The Japanese Government has replied to the circular of Count Muravicff, the Russian foreign minister, suggesting international disarmament. The reply supports the Oxer’s proposal.

Alger Did Not Resign.

Secretary Alger, when esked by the Associated Press about his reported resignation, said: “There’s not a word of truth in it; that’s all.”

OLD WORLD NOTABLES

Prince Victor Napoleon has just attained the age of 36. Prince Henry of Prussia has presented a Siberian bear cub to the crew of the warship Konig William for a pet. The Earl of Leicester has given SIO,OOO toward the fund to rebuild the Jenny Lind infirmary at Norwich, Eng., one of the royal jubilee projects. The German Emperor’s imperial train cost $830,000, and took three years to construct. There are altogether twelve cars. Including two nursery carriages. M. Vollon, the painter of still life, hae been elected to the Paris Academie den Beaux Arts in place of the late M. Francois. His nearest competitor was M. Harpignies. Art for womefi’ in England is taking & practical form. The late Lord de Tabley's niece has been painting signs for twoNorthwich taverns, “The Smoker” and “The Windmill.” Henry Irving will have an easier task in “Peter the Great,” where he must raise his suture to 6 feet 8 to be historically correct, than he had in making himself look small as Napoleon in “Madame Sana Gene.” •m The King of Greece, when conversing with hie family, uses the English language. He seldom speaks French or Greek. Mme. Leo Delbes, widow of the distinguished French composer, has founded an asylum and school at Clichy-la-Garenne, near Paris, Intended for the children of poor families. , . ’ Elsa Eechelssohn was recently appointed profeasor of civil law at the University of Bpstlfc. She is the first woman to receive an appointment as a Uni varsity professor in Swede®, • > v . ‘ , I