Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1898 — Page 2

■JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. IENSSELAER, * INDIANA.

WEEK'S NEWS RECORD

At Roekport. Mo.. Lloyd and Joseph Henderson and Frank Dorst, farmers, were buried in a sandbank in which they were digging, and were dead when taken out. The annual pageant <>f the Veiled Prophet at St. Louis was a grand success. After the march the coronation of Miss Marie Theresa Scanlon as queen took place. The Rev. Dr. Briggs of Austin, Texas, has been acquitted of immorality, though found guilty- of falsifying in minor matters. by.the-jury of the Methodist Church South. Ilatry Goldberg, a 12-year-old lad, who disnj>p<-ared from La Porte, Ind., two years apo and who was said to have been murdered, has been found in Chicago, where he is at work. New York’s State superintendent of public instruction, Charles It. Skinner, ha a issued a statement disapproving of the various movements started to raise money in the public schools for patriotic purjioses. .1 tulson Crossman died in the Eastern Hospital. Williamsburg. N. V.. from the effects of a dental operation. A postmortem examination revealed the fact that his jaw- -hud been broken and a main artery ruptured.

The four-masted schooner Surnli E. Palmer, Captain Whittier, with phosphate rook from Charlotte harbor to Carteret, N. J., was lost off Stone Inlet, seven miles south of Charleston, S. C. The entire erew of eight men was drowned. Dr. L. C. Morgan, while on his way home home from visiting a jiatient in the eouutry. was decoyed into si house near HarroiLsbiirg, Ky., by three negroes, who tried to rob him. He resisted and they shot him, injuring him so badly that he died a few hours later. A collective note of Croat Britain, France, Italy and Russia, demanding the withdrawal of the Turkish troops from the island of Crete, has been presented to the Turkish Government. It insists that the Turkish troops must evacuate the island of Crete within a month. Queen Victoria and her daughter, the ex-Enipress Frederick of (lermany, had a narrow eseii|>e from death while driving at Balmoral. Scotland. The eouehtuan lost control of the horses and a serious accident was only avert«j}J>y the horses turning into the woods, where the carriage stuck between the trees. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Bostou .....1)7 45 Philadelphia. 70 OS Baltimore .. .1)1 DO Pittsburg ....Oil 711 Cincinnati ..DO 58 Louisville ...05 7!) Cleveland ...77 01 Brooklyn ....51 85 Chicago ....Ml 05 Washington. 50 93 New York.. .73 09St. Louis. ... .37 105 More and more distressing are the hourly rejHirts from fever-infected towns in Mississippi. Ten counties and thirteen towns are infected. All travel from point to point inside State limits is forbidden. Thousands of laborers and wage-earners have been thrown out of work and must depend upon charily for support until after frost. Owing to the controversy that has ensued over the succession to the title of “Daughter of the Confederacy,” Mrs, Jefferson Ihivis has determined, it is said, not to have the inscription placed on the gravestone of her daughter. Miss Winnie Davis, who died Sept. 18. at Narragansett Pier, and who now rests lieside her father, the former President of the Confederacy, in Hollywood, Richmond. Ya. A fatal boiler explosion occurred at the sawmill of Laherty & Lee. located six miles from Verdi, N’ev.. in which two lives were lost and three persons seriously injured. The entire plant was completely destroyed and not a fragment of the boiler was to be found. The explosion was caused by tile engineer allowing the boiler to run dry ami attempting to till it with cold water.

BREVITIES.

Tin* Spanish Government lias sanctioned the‘sale, tn South American republics, of the Spanish guubonts lying in Cuban waters. The Ite nine rats elected all State- officers in Georgia by majorities approximating 70,600. Allen I*. Chandler was chosen Governor. A Berlin special to the St. Louis GlobeDemocrat declares that the German Goyernnteut will resist the possession of the Philippines by the Cnited States at nil costs. It is semi-otticialiy asserted at Paris that M. Manutt. the proenrntor general, has sent a report to the court of cassation which assures a revision of the Prey fits case. The Winnipeg branch of Molson's Bank of Canada has boon robbed of $62,00(1 in a mysterious way and there is no direct clew to the manner in which the /honey was stolen. Oliver \V. Trnpp. said to lie the son of an officer of high rank in the British army, was found dead in a bathtub at the West End Hotel in >*t. Louis. It has not been ascertained what caused the man's death. Flames swept over ten acres of ground tu Clarksville, Tenn., destroying a tobacco warehouse and contents, storage and coal sheds. Jxiuisville and Nashville depot and six freight cars. The loss is estimated at $500,000. While standing in u skiff at Tarryfown, N’. Y.. John Kelly fell oyfirltonrd. He was chewing tobacco. This lodged in his throut and prevented him from swallowing water. was rescued and relieved of the quid, (after having gone down twice. Brunswick, Gg.. has been inundated by a tidal wave. A thousand houses and stores are flooded and conservative estimates place the property loss at $500,000. Private I>. Phillips of the Second «CShEta regiment, while iu the guard bottse at Atlanta, tin., shot and dangerously wounded Claude Love, another prisoner. I>r. George S. Gagnon, horseman, wing shot and dentist, formerly of Chicago, has filed a petition in bankruptcy, with liabilities of SBO,OOO and assets which consist of the fnrpiture of dental parlors in Philadelphia, __ _

EASTERN.

At a meeting of the Chicago platform Democrats in New York. Henry George, the son of the single tax advocate, was nominated to head an independent Democratic ticket. Judge Henry T. Snmpsei, of Centerville, Pa., while engaged in arranging some gearing at one of the circular saws while, it was in motion, was caught by a saw and cut in two. Kate Phillips. 23 years old, a variety actress, tried to kill herself at New York by taking laudanum. She comes from Illinois, ran away from her husband, and fears be means her injury. Peter Crick. Peter Corwnl. John Loronski and Martin Siraotociteh, miners, were burned to death by a gas explosion in the Lehigh shops of the Lehigh VnlJey Colil Company in Midvale, Pa. A special from Dover, N. 11., says: N. A. & J. Sawyer, woolen manufacturers have assigned. Liabilities are estimated at $1,000,900. Ex-Governor Charles 11. Sawyer is {’resident of the corporation. Scott liiglis, 35 years old. an actor until recently in Miss Julia Arthur’s company, shot and killed himself in a New York theatrical boarding house. Inglis had lieen dismissed by Miss Arthur’s manager. Robert Covcney. 15 years of age. died at the Boston city hospital as a result of injuries sustained while playing football on Franklin field, that city. Three players fell upon him and caused an injury to his spine, which resulted in total paralysis. A sad accident, resulting in the drowning of a small child, occurred at the home of Emanuel Noll, at Heilefontaine, Pa. The cistern, containing nine feet of water, had been left uncovered by an inmate of the house, and Anna Lamb, 5 years old. toddled to the reservoir and fell in. William Eagan, a noted baseball player who has at different periods in the last several years boon a member of the St. Louis, Syracuse, Pittsburg and other professional clubs, tried to kill bis wife and hud also planned to kill himself at Camden, N. .1. While intoxicated lit' tired three shots at his wife, none of which took effect, and tried to shoot himself, but was prevented by a policeman. Richard Smith, a young lumberman, ha’s come down from the Adirondaeks to New York to have his nose doctored. It lias been growing all his life and shows no signs of stopping. Four months before Smith was born his mother was.struck on the nose bv her husband in a lit of anger. She tried to stop the flow of blood by pressing the nostrils tightly with her thumb and forefinger. I’pon the nose of the child when it was born was a mark on each side resembling a linger print. Smith’s nose lias enlarged from where it joins the forehead to the tip. now below his chin and hiding his mouth. It is as large as the two double lists of a mail.

WESTERN.

The T actinia. Wash,, woolen mills were destroyed by (ire, the loss reaching SIOO,000.

The entire business portion of Ipswich, S. I)., was destroyed by tire, with the exception of one block. Ex-State Senator .1. C. Kichurdsoii of Cincinnati, who was recently shot by his brother-in law, is dead. Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Siefras, has built a funeral pyre for his own cremation on the hills hack of Fruit vale. Cal. Help cannot ho secured to handle it anti thousands of bushels of fruit iu the Ottawa belt of Ohio is being allowed to go to waste. At Atlanta. Cal., Mrs. Edith Pavourst was killed by electricity. She touched a wire which was hanging from a light pole over a vacant lot. Fire swept away the Central Maine Railway station and many adjoining buildings at Clinton, Me., and for a time the town was threatened. Loss $50,000. Superintendent W. ,1. Parks of the Union elevator at Toledo, Ohio, died at !he hospital after suffering for three weeks with burns. He is the fourteenth victim of the Union elevator tire. Grace Barnes, -4 years old, fell from a Bock Island train between Mitlliusville and Pratt, Kuii., and was picked up some time later uninjured. The babe was found lying in high grass, where it had fallen. Over 200 people narrowly escaped death Uy the collision of the steamer Santa Rosa with one of the derelict log rafts now afloat in the Pacific Ocean. The collision occurred off Pigeon Point. Cal. Near Guthrie. Ok., a negro attempted to take the daughter of Monday Cat. an ild Creek Indian, to a duuce and when the old man attempted to interfere shot him through the heart and escaped with the girl. It is estimated that the total hop crop of Washington State this season will be between 27,000 and 50,000 bales. A considerable portion of the crop has already been contracted for on a basis of 10 and 12 cents a pound. The Koseburg-Myrtle Point (Oregon) stage was robbed about one mile of the latter place by a highwu.vniau at 4 o'clock the other morning. The robber secured the registered mail sack, containing between SBOO and SI,OOO. Edward Bidding, a well-known nssnyer, committed suicide at San Francisco by inhaling gas. lluhllng some months ago married a Chicago widow and recently began suit for a divorce. He was tit! years of age, while she was 35, Fire originating from burning forests iestroyed half of Cumberland, Wis.. a city or 1.500 people, causing a property loss estimated at $225,000. About twentyfive families are homeless. Five children are reported burned to death. Fred G. Huntington assigned at Cincinnati. Liabilities and assets. SIOO,OOO. He is one of the three brothers who built up the Mount Auburn addition. He was also general agent of the New England Mutual Accident Association. 1 Two hundred striking miners oi Pana, 111., captured a trainload of negroes from Washington, lad., who were being imported to work iu the Pana mines. The capture was made at Tower Hill and the negroes returned whence they came. The A. Booth Packing Company has absorbed the Sandusky. Uhio, firm of Chas. G. Nielsen & Brothers, makers of caviar. The deal includes the business of the firm in Algonac, Mich., and Hamburg. Germany, as well as the Sandusky property. Frank Stevens, a middle-aged tnan, has been arrested in St. Louis by Postoffice Inspector Mayer of Chicago on a charge of stealing postage stamps. Steveua had sent $604.65 worth of stamps to a Chicago firm as payment for goods he bad ordered. Captain Thomas Young, who wan atab-

bed at Sedallh, Mo., by J. 11. MeManigal, while the two were talking In a saloon, is dead. MeManigal is in jail under a heavy guard, ns threats of violence have been made against film by friends of the dead man. W. M. Thompson, president, and .T. C. Van Blancon, cashier, of the Commercial Bank of St. Louis, have bought the Whittaker packing plant of Wichita. Kan. It has beep idle several years, but has a daily capacity of rjtore than 1,000" hogs and 300 cattle. Packing operations will be resumed. One hundred and fifty coal miners from Pans, 111., went to Washington, Ind., assembled at the fnir grounds with the home union miners and organized. They got together, all masked, and visited the shacks where the colored miners lived, and about fifty of the negroes were corraled and at tlie’ point of pistols run out of town. An authentic report regarding the pelagic sealing fleet has just been received in Sau Francisco. Among the poachers that have made the largest catches were the following: Enterprise, 553 skins; Minnie, 400; San Diego, 073; Theresa, 320, and Otto, 727. These skins, being excluded from the United States, are shipped to England, where they are disposed of at red need rates.

At Joplin, Mo., an old murder mystery that has puzzled the police for mouths has been solved by the confession of the murderer. The many old abandoned mining shafts in Joplin and Galenu have enabled murderers to quickly dispose of their victims I>k, dropping them down into the shafts. Last February an old miner known as “Lengthy Bill” Smith suddenly disappeared. A few days later his body was found in an old shaft with indications of foul play, but the murder remained a mystery until a dispatch from La Grande. Ore., stated that a man named Weed had confessed to murdering Bill Smith at Joplin last spring. Weed will be brought to Joplin for trial.

SOUTHERN.

At Fori Worth, Texas, Jiin Garlington was convicted of train robbery and murder and given the death penalty. * Three others will he tried for complicity in’the same affair. Joseph P. Russell and James W. Russell of Trenton, Kv.. formerly tobacco merchants, who failed in 1890, filed petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities. $43,000; assets, nothing. For eighteen hours Savannah. Ga., was in the grasp of a West India tornado. The damage in the city was slight, but the rice growers of the vicinity suffered heavily. Their loss will undoubtedly reach $200,000. United States Secret Service Agent William 11. Forsyth unearthed in El Paso, Texas, a gang of counterfeiters, and after arresting the supposed leader of the gang captured upward of SIO,OOO in spurious United States treasury notes of $5, $lO, S2O and SSO denominations. Rev. IL M. Dubose of Nashville. Tenn.. general secretary of the Epworth League, reports to the conference of the Methodist Church South, at Oakland, Cal., that the present membership of the league is 252,725. The board of missions received sl,077,388 during the last four years. ,

WASHINGTON.

Colonel John Hay has been sworn into office as Secretary of State. The ceremony took place in the President's room at the White House, and the oath was administered by Justice Harlan of the Supreme Court. The comparative statement of the government receipts and expenditures for September shows the total receipts to have been $311,778,070 and the expenditures $54,223,921. This statement takes no account of the receipts from the war loan. A plan has been effected between the pension bureau and the Postoffice ntul Treasury Departments by which pensioners will hereafter be permitted to have their checks cashed at all money order postoffiees free of charge. It is estimated that this will result in it saving to pensioners of $250,000 per annum. The Postoffice Department has made an important change in the money order laws, whereby the postoftieo can be used by patrons as a savings bank in places where there are no banks. The change is made by amending section 1246 of the postal laws and regulations so as to read as follows: "A money order may be drawn upon the office at which it is issued, provided such office lie not a ‘limited money order office.’ The advice of a money order so drawn, until payment is made or until the order has become invalidated by age (more than one? year having elapsed since the last day of the month of issue), should be filed among the unpaid advices, the same as if received from another postoffice.

FOREIGN.

Two severe earthquakes wore felt at Fortunn, sixteen miles from Murcia, capital of the province of that name, in Spain. Edhem Pasha, the Turkish military governor of Crete, hits been recalled and Cheika has been appointed to succeed him. A late dispatch from Shanghai says it is semiottieiqlly announced there that the Emperor of China committed suicide on Sept. 21. • - Turkish advices from Van say fighting has occurred at Alashgorb between the Turks and a number of Armenians from Russia. About fifty Armenians were killed. The British Government has privately advised the colonial ministry of the appointment of Lieut. Col. Sir Henry McCallum of the Royal Engineers to the governorship of Newfoundland. Sir John V. Moore, an alderman of the city of Jmndon and senior partner of Moore Brothers, leather merchants, has been elected lord mayor of London, England, to succeed Horatio David Davies, the incumbent of that office. A dispatch received* at Madrid from the Visayas Islands says the Tegales have landed in the Autiqna province and have been completely defeated by the Spanish column after a sharp fight in which nine-ty-four of the insurgeuts were killed. The house and furniture at Paris of Emile Zola arc abont to be sold to satisfy a judgment of 30,000 franca obtained against him by three handwriting experts who recently won a libel auit growing out of the Dreyfus case against the author. The rebels have attacked the Government offices ou the island of Formosa and set tire to a building in which tliey were located. however, ou the approach of the troops, and the utter attackcd the rebels in that district, burning a number of villages. A man hna been arrested at Orttva, ..a- ’*■. . . •

I charged with complicity in a plot to assassinate the King of Roumania. The police received timely warning and the attempt was frustrated. A phial of poison, a dagger and several other weapons were found in the man’s possession. 'j'he British steamer Iliilcruig, Captain Gibson, from Fernnndina, via Norfolk, for Hamburg, has been in collision with the Dutch steamer De Reuyter, bound from Cronstndt for Dordreicht. The collision occurred near Helvoet. The Hilleraig proceeded and the extent of damage to her is as yet unknown, but De Reuyter was badly damaged. . A terrific storm swept over Japan recently. The wind did great damage to shipping. Rivers soon became torrents, flooding many sections. A summary of the loss of fife and property follows: Deaths, 250; houses swept, 164; houses overthrown, 1,195; partially wrecked, 11,4(50; houses inundated, 15,597; river banks broken, 78. The latest advices frojp Japan bring news of the death of Rev. Thaddeus S. K. Freeman, chaplain of the United States steamship Baltimore, at Nagasaki. From ail accounts Freeman committed suicide while in a condition of mental depression consequent upon his failing health. He jumped overboard from the Zealandia and was drowned before any assistance could be rendered him.

IN GENERAL.

The insane wife of Joseph Clothier, a farmer of St. Severin, Quebec, killed her four children by cutting their throats. James R. Keene is reported to have made $1,500,000 during the last few days siH'culatiug in Tobacco stock in Wall street. * The American Public Health Association elected officers at Ottawa, Out., and adjourned. The president is Dr. George H. Ross of Baltimore. There is a project on foot to consolidate all the leading flour milling concerns in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Duluth, West {Superior and New York. The combined capital of the different milling companies said to be interested in the move amounts to about $60,000,000. By popular vote the Dominion of Canada lias declared for prohibition. Quebec is the only province enrolled on the side of liquof. She has given an estimated majority of 35,000 against the proposed law. Prohibition received a net majority ranging between 12,000 and 18,000. The steam schooner Discovery arrived at Seattle from Alaska with 100 passengers and about $50,000 in gold dust. The treasure was owned by a few men. A. Heilworth is credited with $15,000; Geo. McCord, $10,000; Dan McDonald, a brother of Alex. McDonald, the mining king, is said to have brought out SIO,OOO. Henry Athey, an American locomotive engineer,, who was locked up in a Mexican prison without trial or hearing for injuring a Mexican, succeeded in securing a release through Gov. Culberson of Texas after being confined eleven months. He says 200 other Americans are locked up in the City of Mexico prison under similar conditions.

It is stated on good authority that a deal has been concluded by the Delaware Indiuus for the purchase of 550,000 acres of land in Mexico, and that as soon as they secure n settlement with the United States and the Cherokees they will remove there. It is thought that many of the fulf-blood Cherokees will accompany them. The tract purchased is on the Yagin river, State of Sonora, and is said to be fine land. The steamer Alice Blanchard, from Clipperfou Island, brought among other passengers a Japanese named T. Matsu, who had a remarkable escape from death just before leaving the island. There are about seventy-five Japanese at Clipperton. Recently part of them went on strike. Matsu, whose duty it was to furnish fish for the colony, declined to join the strikers. and they tried to kill him, when he jumped into the sea and swam for the Blanchard. Just as he was hauled from the water a shark snapped at him, just grazing his leg. R. G. Dun & Co., in their weekly review of trade, say: •‘Failures in September have been about $6,700,000, and for the quarter about $22,875,000. The returns indicate a smaller aggregate of failures than in any other month in many years, except in August of this year, and smuller for the quarter than in any other quarter since 1592. In fact, excepting one quarter in that year, no other appears to have shown a smaller aggregate unless, more than ten years ago, when the Tolume of solvent business was very much smaller than it is now. Evidently the complete returns will show that the state of business is in that respect more satisfactory that it has ever been, unless in one quarter of 1892.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 lo $0.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 03c to 64c; corn, No. 2,29 cto 30c; oats, No. 2,20 c to 22c: rye, No. 2,44 cto 40c; butter, choice'creamery. Ilk- to 20c; eggs, fresh, 13e to 15c; potatoes, choice, 25c to 85c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice. $3,00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 65c to 67c; 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 $4.00; sheep. $3.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,05 cto 67c; corn, No. 2 yellow. 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2,22 cto 24c; rye. No. 2,47 cto 49c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4215; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,66 cto 68c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; rye. No. 2,47 cto 49c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.25 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 so $4.25; wheat. No. 2,67 cto 69c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c: rye. 49c to 50c. ff Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 66c to 68c: corn, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 31c: oats, No. 2 white, 20e to 22c; rye. No. 2,46 c to 47c; clever seed, $3.70 to $3.80. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 63c to 64c; corn. No. 3,29 cto 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 1,46 cto 47c; barley, No. 2,43 cto 45c; pork, mess, $7.75 to $8.25. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $5.75. , . New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn. No. 2,34 cto 35c; oat*. No. 2,25 cto 26c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, Western, 17c to 18c. v,-: . .. ;• .. ■ .1 •. •

SLAIN BY THE REDS

General Bacon and His Troops Said to Be Massacred. BEAR ISLAND BATTLE. . j —. - ■ i' • V Minnesota Indians Begin Attack by Firing Volleys from A abash. Leech Lake District Is the Scene of the Worst Conflict with Redskins in Recent Years Soldiers Returned from Cuba Among Ihose Reported Massacred-Genersl Slaughter of White Residents Feared—Secretory of War Ordera Re-enforcement* and Artillery to the Scene.

Word received in Duluth. Minn.. Tuesday night from Brainerd was to the effect that the entire force of soldiers sent to Bear Lake Island under command of Gen. Bacon had been wiped out of existence. There were 100 men in the force of regulars, most of them veterans of the battle of Santiago. The fighting, it was said, began early in the morning, when the troops under Gen. Bacon landed on Bear Island. While the tug Flora was after re-enforcements Gen. Bacon, it is understood. took steps to entrench himself and hold his position until more men could arrive. It is believed that while engaged in the work of entrenching the .Indians wiped out the gallant little band. It is feared that the Indians will attack the settlers on and around the reservation. If a general uprising takes place 3.000 fighting braves will be in the field. The message to Brainerd came with a request to wire Washington for 5,000 troops. A Bt. ■ Paul, Minn., dispatch reported disbelief there that a general massacre of troops had taken place at Bear Island, although the situation was acknowledged to be one of extreme gravity. Secretary Bliss received a telegram in Washington from Inspector Tinker announcing a fight with the Bear Lake Indians. It did not say how many were killed. Marshal O'Connor wired Attorney General Griggs that a general Indian uprising was imminent. On receipt of these advices Secretary Alger ordered reenforcements sent to the scene at once on a special train, and with a Gatling gun if needed.

YELLOW FEVER IS SPREADING.

Disease Is Now Epidemic in the State of Mississippi. Yellow fever is now epidemic in the State of Mississippi. The disease was officially reported in three new towns Monday night, namely. Madison Station. Port Gibson and Woodville. an inland town in Wilkinson County. In addition to these, there is suspicious fever in Starkville. and at Fayette, Jefferson County. I>r. Hurnell, the expert, has been investigating Madison Station. He held an autopsy over a man who died and found that he died of yellow fever. The whole community of about 300 people had been exposed. The people in a number of towns are almost wild. Nine counties are now infected aud thirteen towns, with much sickness generally prevailing.

CASUALTIES DURING THE WAR.

Complete List of Victims Reaches 2,5110 Deaths Adjutant General Corbin has furnished the War Department investigating commission with the following complete statement of the casualties during the war, which is officially accurate: Deaths from all causes between May 1 and Sept. 30, inclusive, as reported to tie Adjutant General’s office up to date. Oct. 3, 1898. were: Killed, 23 offi(*m. 257 enlisted men; died of wounds. 4 officers and 61 enlisted men; died of disease. 80 officers and 2,485 enlisted men: total. 107 officers and 2,803 enlisted men. An aggregate of 2,910 deaths out of a total force of 274,717 officers and men, or a percentage of 1.059.

IN A NUTSHELL

The American adviser to the King of Corea has been dismissed. Marqons in Jamaica are seizing valuable property owned by Et<glishuicu. There is an agitation in Japan iu favor of the State purchase and operation of all railroads in that country. Special Treasury Agent Murry, in charge of the seal islands, reports a general decrease of the sea! herd. It has cost Spain nearly $400,000,000 to get whipped by Uncle Sam. This does not include the loss of her fleets and her colonies. The trial of Lucchini, the Italian anarchist who assassinated the Empress of Austria, will liegin at Geneva. Switzerland, Nov. 3. At Cincinnati. Edward Kritzinger waa arrested for trying to sell at the stock yards Kentucky <*attle afflicted with the black tongue. Ministers at Pittsburg, Pa., hare entered n protest against the layihg of corner stones of new public school buildings by the Masonic fraternity. According to the statement of Commander Sebill of the United States gunboat Wheeling, there is no danger of starvation iU Alaska this winter. Owing to ruinous competition with Southern cotton mills. New England manufacturers contemplate substituting machinery for the production of silk fabrics exclusively. Stir Herbert Kitchener does not seem to believe that Friday is an unlucky day. for twice in the last six months he has upon that day attacked and defeated the dervishes in the Soudan. Owing to a more fraternal feeling, engendered by the late war, the Forty-first Ohio volunteers will re tern a Confederate flag to the Thirtieth Louisiana Confederate regiment survivors.

MINERS IN A RIOT.

Rcgnm and Striker* fat Conflict at Pans,lU. Imported negro miners and strikers met In deadly conflict in the streets of Pane, yn , the other night. Two hundred shots were flred and a wild riot ensued, in which several persons were wounded. The affray occurred in the business section of the town, where many of the negro miners had congregated, meet of them being armed. The onion miner* were in session in their hall, being addressed by a ChicaH, labor lender. A negro appeared at tw stairway leading to the hail and engaged in n quarrel with the doorkeeper. Policeman Smith arrested the negro and wan taking him to jail when tk' crowd of colored men on the street closed in and threatened to shoot if the prisoner was not released. Smith continued on bis way to the jail, mid miners and others went to bin assistance and took the negro to Operator Pennell's store. There David Me Garic, leader of the nnioa miners, forced the negroes to retreat, and a few scattering shots were fired. Retreating to the stockades around the mines, the negroes armed themselves with rifles and returned to the scene, lining up against the striking miners. With the first Tolley fired all business houses were closed and the non-combatants fled to their homes. The firing continued for five minutes, the blacks firing first, but at Hie end they were compelled to retreat. Twenty minutes later a second encounter occurred ltesr the Pen well stockade. None of the strikers was injured, bnt William Baldwin, chief depmy sheriff, and H. E. Bishop, a special deputy, received bad bullet wounds. Several of the negroes were hit, and one is reported to have died.

THOMAS F. BAYARD DIES.

StatcMia* and Diplomat Passe* A way After a Long Illness. Thomas F. Bayard, former Secretary of State and ambassador to England, died at Karktein, the home of bis son-in-law, S. D. Warren, two miles from Dedham, Maas. The cause of death was arterial sclerosis, which affected the kidneys, heart and brain. Death came to the noted statesman peacefully after a host of relatives bad assembled at his bedside to await the end. The illness to which he succumbed was the result of a general breaking down, incident to old age. Mr. Bayard suffered no pain to any noticeable degree, and his chief tendency was to sleep. During the first few weeks o's his illness Mr. Bayard was able to sit up. bnt as the days passed he became gradually weaker, and three weeks ago he laid himself on his bed and never again rose from it. At times he would rally to some extent, bnt the relapse carried him always nearer the end. His wonderful constitution resisted the ravages of disease for a surprising period. Mach of the time he was in « semiconscious condition, seldom recognizing any member of the family, and at intervals having sinking spells, accompanied by choking. It was after one of these apells that he passed away. In October, 1856, Senator Bayard was married to Louisa, daughter of Joseph 1-ee, a Baltimore banker. Twelve children were the result of the union. Mr. Bayard's first wife died during the first year of his term as Secretary of State. Fonr years later he was married to Mary W. Cljrmer of Washington, who survives him. Seven of the children are living.

BRITAIN SEIZES FASHODA.

General Kitchener Report* He Found the French in Posaession. Gen. Kitchener found the French at Fashodm. He notified Major Marchand that he had express instructions that the territory was British and that the French most retire, and offered them passage to Cairo. Major Marchand absolutely declined to retire unless ordered to do so by his Government. No fighting occurred. Major Marchand was given clearly to unlerstand that the British insisted upon their claims, and the rest has been left to be settled by diplomacy between the respective Governments. Den. Kitchener sent a loag official dispatch to London, hoisted the anion jack and the Egyptian ensign, and left as a garrison the Eleventh and Thirteenth Sndanese battalions and the Cameron Highlanders to protect the British flag. The only organized remnant of the khalifa’s army was defeated and its last stronghold, Gedarif. captured after three boars' hard fighting, when an Egyptian force anmbering 1,300 under command at Col. Parsons rooted 3,000 dervishes, of whom 500 were killed.

The Comic Side of The News

This is a good time for Crete to be discreet Crete seems to be having a regular Cubs of a time. The "starving roceoren! ratio” seems to have chewed np his tag. The khalifa's sad but glorious days seem to come early in the fall. Zola is wise in launching his lecture tour before Dreyfus begins his. It looks now as if €eL Paty du Clam had been caught between bases. Fog once the Earl Li bird in China seems have got tile worst of it. In time of war the army needs more"red cross” and not quite so much "red. tape.” Lovers of oysters are practicing the bivalve yell: “Oysters! Oysters! ’Raw. 'Raw, Haw!" Cecil Rhodes has been suspiciously quiets of late. Who is behind this latest goo or Rhodes movement? None of the Spanish ships sank at Manila can be raised. Dewey’s work never has to be done twice. When Panda gad Toral and Sagasta meet in Madrid the kinetoscope privilegewill be worth a small fortune. Unde Sam’s soldiers st Manila will not suffer from homesickness. They have, made themselves right at home there. The war in Cuba baa developed a pretty big bill, bid Gen. Shatter knows one big Bill which it reduced. about sixty) pounds. Carl Schurx is a good advocate for tho eanae of the aati-iaaperialiata. Therefore. those people weald do wall to keep that*