Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1898 — Page 2

ppER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. atF. t£. BABCOCK, Publisher. EnSSEUUR. INDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

HL. N. Prescott died at his summer home Joseph. Mich. He was formerly of the Chronicle at Farmington, Hfc., and for many years was connected H(th the Treasury department at WiishHgton. Bperrific storms have swept over MaeeHonia. doing an enormous amount of d«mH|e and causing considerable loss of life. Bom l instance a caravan consisting of Btrty-seven people and I<H* horses were Kguifcd iii the River Galice and all were Browned. ■ A wedding of international importance. Hud one of the greatest social events of the occurred at St. Thomas’ Church, tn Kew York, when Miss Marie Churchill Became Mrs. Harold Raring. Harold Bar Bkf is one of the great English hanking Bnn. Baring Brothers. BJames Wentworth Osgood is dead at his Home in New York, aged HI! years. When H young man he worked on the Boston Hranscript. Later lie moved to Columbus, Bpio, and published books, and afterward H) Vandulia. 111., where he set up the tirst Bower press in Illinois. ■ Oil application of United States District ■Literacy Dodge Judge Kicks of the Suited States Circuit Court has granted Ktftaporary injunction restraining the city Bf Cleveland from dumping river dredgBps or other refuse in the lake, except by ■permission of the War Department. H[Tlie American Association of Fairs and ■Expositions lias fixed the following dates Hor Stute fairs to be held in 1899: New ■York and lowa. Aug. 28 to Sept. 2: MinBesota and Nebraska, Sept. 4 to 0; Wis■consin, Sept. 11 to It!; Indiana. Sept. 18, n> 23: Illinois. Sept. 2a to 30; St. Louis, ■Oct. 2 to 7. B Bids for extending the north and south ■jetties at Yaqnina 1 Bay were opened by ■Major W. L. Fisk at the United States ■engineers’ office in Portland. Ore. ChrisItie, Lowe & Heywooth of Chicago were ■the lowest bidders, their bid being $511,■945. There were eight other bids, rungling from $008,790 to $847,(188. I M rs. ('lara Kluge, who claims to have ■been the contract wife of the late Adolph ISutro, has commenced a legal tight at San (Francisco for some of the Sutro millions Iby filing an application /or letters for gtuirdiansliip over her two children, who ■renamed in the application Adolph Newton Sutro and Adolphine Charlotte Sutro. f. A rear-end collision on the Union Pacific at Omaha. Neb., resulted in the death of three men and the serious injury of one other. Au extra freight train standing on the side track and the switch being left often, freight No. 27, going at a good rate of speed, crashed into the rear end of the extra. The ■ugine was badly wrecked and four freight ears reduced almost to spfin‘ters. I‘ The striking women's tailors in New .York announce that some of the richest and most aristocratic women of New York had organized to aid them. Mrs. F. W. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Seth Low and others are named as members of a league which will demand on all gowns a guaranty label that union wages were paid for their making and that the work was done in sanitary quarters. : At St. Lou is, Ramon Basail. teller of the Mexi can National Bank, City of Mexico, was robbed of $4,300 in drafts on American banks, a SI,OOO Mexican bill. SBO in American money and a number of railroad tickets by a negress of whom he inquired the direction to the Union station. Mr. Basail is making a tour of the United ■ States inspecting (he banking system. He was left without a cent. At St. Paul, Minn., Daniel Coughlin, a blind retired railroad engineer, shot and killed his young sister-in-law, Miss Katie Marriuan, and then fatally wounded himselw. Mrs. Coughlin discovered the dead bodies and became nearly crazed over the tragedy. The mother of the two women receutly died, leaving SI,OOO to the unmarried daughter. Coughlin quarreled with his wife's sister over the bequest. When the regular night express train arrived at Susquehanna. Pa., the engineer, Henry Kingsley of Susquehanna, was foutid dead in the cab with his head badly crushed. Train bands had noticed he had answered no signals since leaving Binghamton, and the train had run at a terrific speed twenty miles without an engi-'* neer. There were over 200 passengers on board. It is supposed the engineer was hit by a water crane at a point just east of Binghamton.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Pierre l’uvix lie ('havaiuies, the French painter, in <lea<l at Paris. Mmc. Sofia Scalchi and her husband. Count Lolli, have separated and have been legally divorced in Italy. A San F raneiseu physician proposes to cure drunkards and render children immune against drink by inoculation. I The Duke de Litta. Viscount liurez, aud Miss Jane Johnston Ferry of Charleston, 8. C., were married in Switzerland. Stock breeders from every section of the country attended Armour's sale of Hereford cattle at Kansas City. Many head were disposed of and high prices were realized. ' Charles Morton, keeper of the Holland, Mich., life-saving station, has been appointed superintendent of the eleventh life-saving district, in which is comprised all of Lake Michigan. Fire broke out at the Hastings sawmill at Vancouver, B. C., and entirely destroyed it. Two hundred and fifty men are thrown out of employment. The mill was one of the moat complete on the Pacific coast, having a capacity of 300,000 feet per day. —— Thomas M. Marshall, for many years one of the most promineut criminal lawyers in Allegheny County, died in Pittsburg. Pa., aged 79 years. A dynamite bomb of the fireworks sort exploded at a Democratic meeting in New York City, and Peter Bowen, 03 years of age. employed in the department of highways, was instantly killed. Two American Protestant tract distributor* have been arrested ut Arequipn, capital of the Peruvian province of the same name, charged with distributing papers ry to the Stale religion. The State

EASTERN.

John H. Dialogue, aged 08, a Camden, N. J., shipbuilder, Is dead. Brig. Gen. Joseph Roberts is dead at bis borne in Philadelphia, aged 84 years* Ilenry F. Naphen was nominated for Gongress by the Democrats in the Tenth Massachusetts district on the 116th ballot. Rev. Charles Heath, a colored preneherof New York City, is dead. He was 101 years of age, and a veteran of the civil war. At Montpelier, Vt., (he Senate and House met in joint convention and reelected Redfield Proctor United States Senator. At Middletown, N. Y., two little daughters of William Meyer, the proprietor of a fertilizer factory, fell iut.o an acid vat and were destroyed. The towboat Rescue, belonging to Jutte & Co. of Pittsburg, was blown up at dock No. 3, near Elizabeth. The captain was killed and nine of the crew were injured. The woman claiming to be Helen Mnxiin has withdrawn the bigamy proceedings against Inventor, Hiram Maxim at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and will sue for damages on the ground of betrayal. Soldiers from the Fourteenth Pennsylvania and Two Hundred and Third New York regiments became involved in a riot in Harrisburg. Pa., which ended only when the fighters were placed under arrest. A majority of the Fall River, Mass., cotton manufacturers have ratified the pooling agreement and the policy of curtailing production. The agreement calls for four weeks’ curtailment of production in the next three months. The directors of the Mechanics and Traders’ Bank of New York have deposed President Fernando Baltes and elected Vice-President Schlesiuger to succeed him. There was a slight run on the bank, but all demands were met. Fire at pier 39, East river. Brooklyn, did damage to the amount of $500,000. Among the heaviest losses is that of George L. Hammond, owner of the naval stores, which is placed at SIOO,OOO, the Andorenha, owned by F. W. Roberts of Liverpool, England, and valued at S3OO,(MH). She was consigned to Rail! Brothers, commission merchants. The blazing vessel was towed down to the Gownnus flats and probably will prove n total loss. The Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Company, according to the best estimates, will lose $150,000.

WESTERN.

I). L. Snyder, the aged millionaire and philanthropist, is dead at Springfield, O. Ex-Gov. Charles 11. Sheldon died at Deadwood, S. D., of pneumonia, aged 57. George Clark, the St. Helena fratricide, died on the gallows at San Quentin prison, California. Three men were killed by an explosion of dynamite on the Government canal at Duluth, Minn. W. 11. P. Lee, a highly esteemed pioneer of Mexico, Mo., drowned himself in a creek near town. John B. Corliss has been renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the First Michigan district. The First National Bank of Lisbon, 0., has closed its doors and the cashier has left for parts unknown. The Mathias & Michael Planing Mill Company at Dayton, Ohio, has assigned for the benefit of creditors. Assets, $6,000; liabilities, $14,000. Michael Timlin and Philip Vergallito, fillers at the furnace of the Youngstown, Ohio, Steel Company, were suffocated by gas. Both leave families. D. C. Bowers & Co., a big dry goods firm of Lisbon, Ohio, has assigned, as a result of the suspension of the First National Bank of that city. By an explosion in the mixing room of the Judson dynamite and powder works, North Berkeley, Cal., two mbn were killed and the building totally wrecked. The case of yellow fever in Paris township, Ohio resulted in the death of the victim, Miss Blanche Beck, aged 28. Miss Beck recently fled from Mississippi. John Melchert, an expert photographer, blew out the brains of bis sweetheart, Lillian Morris, while the two were posing before a camera. Jealousy caused the deed. Excitement following the discovery of gold at Malvern, Ohio, and tfie extensive plans made for mining it continue unabated. The gold quartz vein has been probed for ninety feet. Alpbeus Arter, one of the heaviest depositors of the failed First National Bank of Lisbon, Ohio has been forced to close bis harness manufacturing establishment as a result of his losses. Frederick Furth, secretary of the Vulcan works at Seattle, Wash., dropped dead in the street from heart disease, aged 00. He was a brother of Leopold and Solomon Furth of Richardson, 111. The big tug L. P. Smith was sunk in the harbor entrance at Cleveland, as a result of a collision with the steamer Olympiu. C. McCarthy, the fireman, went down with the tug and was drowwed. Chat Roberts’ hotel in Clairville, Cal., burned, and these lost their lives: P. Pedrina, Carson Barney, Mrs. Coraado, Florence Roberts, 7 years old, and a woman whose name has not been ascertained. A disagreement which has existed for some time between the proprietors of the breweries of Denver aud their employes has culminated in a lockout in which about 250 workmen are thrown out of work. The charred remains of Samuel Alexander and portions of another body, believed to be that of the son of Superintendent Parks, were found in the ruins of the recently burned Union elevator in Toledo, Ohio. ' The torpedo boat Davis, in its preliminary trial of three-quarters of an hour, under the supervision of the naval board at Portland, Ore., averaged twenty-four knqts, one and one-half knots above the required speed. J. Franklin Brown, a hypnotist, died at San Francisco from blood poisoning contracted several months ago when he attempted to put a cub lion under the spell of his power. The cub rebelled and bit Brown’s hand. , ' ' While walkiug on the tracks of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad on their way home from church, Mrs. Cornelius Shea and her daughter Margaret were struck by a passenger train at Leadville, Colo. Both were killed. Billy Walker, the pugilist who Was knocked out by Andy Dupont, died at fen I *!til Omaha \ph after hsTiiiff lippii

wa eon scions fifty-six hours. The charge against Dupont will be ehanged (com prise fighting to murder. John Stewart of Bosworth, Mo., left (or a short trip several days ago and did not return. He was found dead by a small stream seventy miles south of there. .The Supposition is he became lost in the severe storn and froze to death. By a unanimous vote at a meeting of the striking wire-drawers, held in Cleveland, the strike was declared off. Superintendent Nye announced that all the old employes who desired to return to work could do so as far as there were vacancies. The Comptroller of the Currency was advised that the First National Bank of Lisbon, Ohio, capital $50,000, had closed the doors. The dispatch from the bank examiner said the failure of the bank appeared to have been caused by mismanagement. A south-bound passenger train on the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf road was thrown from the track by a broken rail near Maryville, Mo. B. F. Frye of Pittsburg, Kan., was fatally hurt. Brakeman Callicut of Stanberry, Mo., sustained a broken arm. Joe Ott, who pleaded guilty to killing his wife, was hanged iu the jail yard at Granite Falls, Minn. Ott made u statement from the gallows expressing sorrow' for the crime. He killed his wife on the evening of May 18, 1898. by beating her brains out with a "billy.” W. R. Ilearst, proprietor of the New York Journal and San Francisco Examiner, is under bail at San Francisco to answer to a charge of criminal libel brought by Claus Spreckels. Spreckels lias also brought two civil suits against Ilearst for $1,000,000 damages each. No freight trains ran on the east division of the Colorado Midland Railroad a few (lays ago iu consequence of a strike. The trouble originated when a crew was called Upon to take out a three-engine train. The men claimed that the company made an agreement some time ago not to run threeengine trains and no crew would respond to the call.

SOUTHERN.

During the progress of a bloody race war at Ilarpersville, Miss., nine negroes and one white man Were killed. The Mississippi State Board of Health has removed the quarantine. Mississippi is now open to the world and all refugees inny return. Edmond Souchon, president of the Louisiana State Board of Health, has issued a proclamation removing all quarantine restrictions ou traffic. A furious storm that swept southern Texas demolished houses and wrecked freight cars. Engineer George Johnson was killed in a collision at Missouri City. Captain Thomas B. Carter, chief of the secret service bureau for Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee, was found dead in bed in his room in Selbach’s Hotel at Louisville, Ky. Charles G. Ilenniug, individual bookkeeper at the Bank of Louisville at Louisville, Ky., is a defaulter in a sum ranging between SB,OOO and SIO,OOO, and has fled from the city. Arch Battr, a negro, charged with an attempt to murder Annie Morrison, a farmer's daughter, was lynelied by a mob at Tomkinsville, Ky. Miss Morrison was frightfully beaten by Baur. At Dallas, Texas, a four-story brick building, owned by J. C. Dargan of Atlanta, Gn., aud occupied by the Texas Dnig Company, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $150,000. Private B. Arnstein’, First West Virginia, was sentenced at Camp Poland, Knoxville, Tenn., to six months’ imprisonment in Fort Sheridan and to pay a fine of S6O for having been absent without leave for nearly a month. At Houston, Texas, M. Pareira, a drummer, whose home was at Albany, N. Y’., wna shot and instantly killed by George De Moss. Pareira is alleged to have offered a gross insult to Mrs. De Moss and she told her husband on her return hr-me.

WASHINGTON.

The Postoffice Department lias arranged with the postal department of Japan for the indirect exchange of money orders between this country and Corea on and after Jan. 1. 1899. The Postoffice Department has ordered the establishment of a military postoffice station in Cavite, Philippine Islands, near Manila. It will lie known as military station No. 2 of the San Francisco postoffice. There was a daring robbery at the Arlington Hotel, Washington, D. C., several days ago, by which ex-Gov. Bullock of Georgia and his wife lost diamonds and jewelry valued at several thousand dollars. Secretary Wilson has awarded to the New York Gardeners’ Association the contract for furnishing all the seeds to the Agricultural Department for the current fiscal year. The contract price is $70,978 and 14,238,1(38 packages of seeds are to be furnished. A late statement from the general land office in Washington shows that there are still 579,368,274 acres of unappropriated nnd unreserved public land in the United Btates, exclusive of Alaska. More than 94 per cent of this land is in the so-called desert States. Washington has a sensational story of a plot alleged to have been formed by Blanco and others to proclaim an independent Spaniah-American republic in Cuba, which would eventually revert to Spain, thus securing and retaining the sovereignty of that country. The plan is said to Jh«ve been defeated by the capture of Cervera’k fleet.

FOREIGN.

Captain Dreyfus is reported to be confined in n Paris prison. Corea’s cabinet has resigned because of dissatisfaction ove'r the refusal of the ministers to accept a proposition to form, a parliament. Disastrous typhoons, sand storms and floods are said to have destroyed hundreds of villages and caused the death of thousands of persons in the orient. The British .steatswr 1 ” Waterloo sailed from San Francisco for London with 59,695 cases of sahnon nnd 34,430 cases of canned fruit. The cargo is valued at $351,000. Germany is about to have an apple crop smaller in quantity and poorer in quality than hab been gathered in recent years, according to United States Consul General Frank Mason at Frankfort. r The death of Barisch, the employe in the bacteriological department of Prof. Nethr nagle's establishment at Vienna, who

contracted the bubonic plague them while assisting in cultivating the plague bacilli for purposes of scientific investigation, haa almost created a plague panic in Vienna. When Ferdinand W. Peck, the United States commissioner to the exhibition of 1900, arrived in Paris the space allotted In’ the United States at the exposition grounds was 175,000 feet. Mr. Peck’s first gain was 0,000 square feet, and be has just secured 22,000 square feet more. Captain Abercrombie’s government exploring party, in the interior of the Copper river country, lost au employe named Archer while attempting to cross the Tonsina river on a raft. Archer was swept off the raft by overhanging brush and whirled away, and nearly all the supplies went into the river. Great havoc has been caused by floods in the low-lying quarter! of Fiume, Aus-tria-Hungary, which have been submerged. The flooded parts of the city Include a large portion of the business section of Fiume. Large numbers of animals have perished. The damage done is estimate# at 2,000,000 florins. Natives recently massacred a Lutheran missionary and his family at the town of Zoutpansberg aud the Transvaal Government sent an expedition to punish them. The affair has now assumed serious proportions. Chief Opefu, with 20,000 followers, fully armed, and four cannons supplied by white traders, attacked the laager. Heavy fighting followed.

IN GENERAL.

"Bob" Fitzsimmons is the father of a 12-i>ound girl. The steamship Roanoke arrived at Seattle from St. Michael's with $3,500,000 in gold. There are ample stores of provisions at St. Michael's. Alaska, and it is believed the winter will be passed without any destitution. * A vessel thought to be the harkentine Irma of Liverpool has gone ashore on Thrumcap Shoals, off Halifax, N. S., and the crew is believed to have been drowned. At Toronto, Ont., Eliza Burrill. wife of a mechanic, became demented aud strangled her three children. She says her reason was that she did not want them to grow up wicked. The const survey steamer Blake, unde* command of D. B. Wainwright, brother Of the commander of the Gloucester, has been ordered to Porto Rico to map the coast of that island. Dawson City, in the Yukon district, will have a weekly mail service almost immediately. It -is announced that the Canadian postoffiee department has decided to establish at least a weekly mail by dog trains. Of an estimated yield of from 26,000.000 to 30.000,000 bushels of wheat in Manitoba. it is now calculated that only about 8,000,000 will be thrashed, and the remainder, standing in stacks and stocks, is threatened with total destruction. The outlook is exceedingly gloomy. Adrian Tappney of New York, who arrived in Seattle from St. Miehael’s on the last trip of the steamer Roanoke, reports the probable loss of the schooner Annie Rowe in the north sound and the drowning of eleven passengers. When the Roanoke St. Michael’s a party was preparing to go in search of the missing vessel. Orders countermanding the order to the Fourth and Seventeenth infantry regiments, Cnited States army, to be in readiness for field service iu connection with the Indian troubles in Minnesota, have been issued by Col. Thomas F. Barr," acting commander of the department of tke lakes, after the receipt of the following telegram from Gen. Bacon: "Indian trouble about ended by surrender of men wanted. Services of Seventeenth and Fourth infantry will not be required.” Bradstreet’s says: "The dominant feature of the general business situation is, unquestionably the active foreign demand for wheat, wheat flour, and indeed all our cereal products, and the business reported on this account during the last ten days seems worthy of rank with the best recorded in any corresponding period. Prices were quite strong, notable iu this respect being all the cereals, lard, pork, cotton, print cloth and raw' sugar. Little change is noted iu the iron and steel market. The general industrial situation continues favorable, employment being quite general, particularly in the West, except in the glass industry, where a shut-down pending a wage scale settlement exists. Wheat (including flour) shipments for the week aggregate 4,485,583 bushels, against 4,729,995 bushels last week. Since July 1 this year the Reports of wheat aggre-; gate 61,210,889 bushels, against 72,472,203 bushels last year. Corn exports foi) the week aggregate 2,397,191 bushels, against 2,790.292 bushels last week.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice. $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn. No. 2,32 cto 33c; oats. No. 2,23 a to 25c; rye, No. 2,50 eto 51c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, fresh,! 17c to 19c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40q per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; bogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, CBc to 09c; corn. No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c! to 27c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.50 to $4.00; sheep, $3.50 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2,72 cto 74c; corn. No. 2 yellow*, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2,25 cto 27c: rye. No. 2,51 cto 52c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c: corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats. No. 2 mixed. 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2. 53c to 55c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs. $3.25 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 73c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye. 52c to 54c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, S2c to 34c; oats. No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; rye. No. 2,52 t to 53c; clover seed, $4.70 to $4.85. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, C9e to 70c; corn, No. 3,31 cto 33c; oats. No. 2 white, 25c to„27e; rye, No. 1,51 cto 58c; barley, No. 2,45 cto 47c; pork, mean, SB.OO to $8.50. Buffalo—Qpttle, 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 SO.OO. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, SB.OO to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 80c to 81c; corn, No. 2,39 cto 41c; oats. No. 2,29 cto 30c. butter, creamery, 10c to 24c; eggs, West era. 19c to 21c. ~ .. --■ v \ . - > , ' !- ,■■ -■ ■ ..Jr,-

ARE ORDERED TO ACT

INSTRUCTIONS TO AMERICAN PEACE COMMISSIONERS. United States Positively Declines to Tolerate Any More Jockeying—Spaniards Mast Marry Ont of Cuba and Pay Cuban Debt-Debate to Stop. Spanish sovereignty iu Cuba must end forever with the advent of the new year,' and all Spanish soldiers must be out of the island by Jan. 1, according to an ultimatum that was cabled to Madrid Tuesday, All of the Spanish troops that remain iq Cuba after the date named will, be subject to the regulation of the American army. This question and several others of equal importance were finally decided at an informal cabinet meeting, which was attended by President McKinley, Secretaries Long. Alger and Hay. and Attorney General Griggs, which was followed by the dispatch of warm messages to Madrid and Paris. The United States will take possession of Cuba on Dec. 1, aud will assume control of the custom houses aud direct the civil government. Gen. Blanco will cease to be chief of the island, and must busy himself with the deportation of his troops. Spain asked to be given until Feb. 1 to evacuate, but the cabinet decided not to extend the time beyond this year. The American peace commissioners at Paris were directed to inform their Spanish colleagues in unmistakable terms that it is useless to discuss the Cuban debt, which will not be assumed by either this country or Cuba. They are to take up questioue that are open to discussion, of which the disposal of the Philippines is the most important. It is reported that Spain has agreed to the cession of the island of Guam in the latdrones.

MERRITT IS MARRIED.

Ceremony la in Private on Account of the Illness of the Bride. Maj. Gen. Wesley Merritt. United States army, and Miss Laura Williams of Chicago were married in London Monday. Elaborate p!*ns had been made for the wedding, which was to have taken place at St. Andrew’s Church in the presence of Gen. Merritt’s staff nnd a large gathering

of British nobility and army officers, both the bride and groom being well known in the London exclusive set. But the serious illness of Miss Williams disarranged all the plans aud the wedding was a quiet and most unostentatious ceremony, according to London dispatches, performed in the apartments of the bride’s mother in the Savoy Hotel.

TRAFFIC POOL ILLEGAL

Supreme Court Gives Railroads’ Combination a Death lilovr. The Supreme Court on Monday render ed an opinion on the so-called Joint Traffic Association case, which has been pending over a year. The court by a vote of five to three (Justices Gray, Shiras and White) reversed the findings of the court below and held against the Joint Traffic Association.- Incidentally the court affirmed the.constitutionality of the anti-trust law. The court also decided two other cases brought under the anti-trust law. These were the Kansas City Live Stock Association cases, which the court below decided were in restraint of trade. This judgment was reversed. The Supreme Court’s decision holding that the Joint Traffic Association was a combination in restraint of trade and commerce. and that the association was illegal, means that organization must stop transacting the business for which it was formed or else must operate on entirely new lines. The case is considered one of the most important that has ever come before the Supreme Court. The association was formed Nov. 19, 1895, by thirtyone railways, representing the great trunk lines and their network of branches. The punpose of the association, as stated in the articles of agreement, was “to establish and maintain reasonable and just rates, fares and regulations on State and interstate traffic.”

PULLMAN COMPANY HIT.

Conrt Declares Corporation Has Exceeded Its Limitations. The ‘Pullman Palace Car Company w hard hit by a decision of the Illinois Supreme Court, which has declared that the corporation usurped power not granted in its charter when it bought real estate and built thereon the town of Pullman. Charter violation is also held in the company’s owning stock in the Pullman Iron and Steel Company and the land it owns neai the Belt Line. Stripped of sll legal technicalities the important ports of the decision affecting the company are as follows: The court holds that the charter of the company did not clothe it with power to purchase the real estate upon which the town or city ol Pullman Is built, or to construct the buildings in said town or city, or to engage in the business of renting dwellings, storerooms, market places, etc. It holds thgt it may not own stock in the Pullman l[rpE. and Steel Company, but that it may’ iel' liquors to the passengers on its cars/* 10 11

Winston, N. C.. claims the distinction oi selling more pounds of leaf tobacco direct from the hands of the farmer than any other loose market in the world. Th* present tobacco year the market will sek 2,000,000 more pounds of tobacco than it has ever sold before, the sales reaching tc more than 18,000,000 pounds. Geological specimens lately discovered at Mount Poole, iu the far west of New South Wales, are considered to show that in a distant age the sea divided Australis Into two or more portions. They consisi of fossil shells, etc. -

PULSE of the PRESS

Some of the army critics of the navy hint that the Spanish phantom fleet had its origin in spirits rather than spooks.— Philadelphia Ledger. “They should send a regiment of immunes against those Ghippewa Indians.” “Immuues?” “Yes; baldheaded men.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer. Now that the Spaniards are leaving the island, it appears that Cuba would be a habitable place if it were not for the Cubans.—Philadelphia Ledger. An exchange says: “Admiral Dewey is still an deck.” Well, by the blessing of God, that’s just where we want to keep him. —Atlanta Constitution. One complaint of the redskins is that big game is disappearing. And with an end put to their scalping chances they can’t even go hunt the hair.— Philadelphia Timea. It is understood that in case the peace negotiations are broken off, Admiral Camara is in readiness to make' 4 ariother round trip dash through the Suez canal. — Kansas City Journal.

Porto Rico ( U. 8. A. The Stars and Stripes hare been properly raised and saluted, and Spain’s occupation—of Porto Rico —is gone.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. The acquisition of Porto Rico is the first substantial evidence before the world that in the hundred days’ war between this country and the kingdom of Spain not only did the victory rest with our arms, but that there are fruits of victory - Boston Globe. The annexation of Porto Rico takes place under favorable auspices. The people of the island have not been distressed by civil war, and yet they welcome the American troops and have changed their nationiftlity willingly. Some of the old Spanish families may return to their native land, but the great body of the people will fraternize with the Americans who will flock to Porto Rico to give it u new character.—Philadelphia Ledger. The flag of the United States is flying oner Hawaii aud Porto Rico in undisputed possession. No one challenges our sovereignty there for all time. It is an important etep in (he development of the great republic. Both Hawaii and Porto Itico are geographically American territory. In one we kept out and in the other removed a European flag. The righteousness of both acts will be admitted in history.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Settling with Spain. We take it Spain’s attempt to collect a war debt of $600,000,000 of the United States is a waste of time.—Syracuse Standard. Sagasta should take something for his nerves. Hardly a day passes on which he is not troubled with visions of “new alliances.” —Baltimore Herald. What is more natural than that Dewey should bean expansionist? His judgment is as good on this question as his fighting was on'May day.—Springfield Union. If our peace commissioners in Paris are at all uncertain in their plans they might read President McKinley’s addresses on h:s Western trip as a bracer.—Syracuse Post. The Spaniards are ju»t now profuse in their advice to the United States to keep out of the colonial business. It may be good advice, but it has the appearance of being dictated by self-interest.—Bingham-ton Republic.

MR. DOOLEY.

Describes tbe Philippines. “I've been re-readin’ about th’ eounthry. ’Tis over beyant ye’er left shoulder whin ye’er facin’ cast. Jus’ throw ye'er thumb back an’ ye have it as ac-rate as anuy man in town. ’Tis further tliin Boohlgauya an’ not so far as Blewchooehoo. It's near Chiny, an’ it’s not so near, an’ if a man was to bore n well through Trim Goshen, Indiany, he might sthrike it, an’ thin ag'iu he might not. It’s a pov-erty-sthrifkeu counthry, full in goold an* precious sthones, where the people can pick dinner off th’ threes an’ ar-re starvin’ because they have no step-ladders. Th’ inhabitbnts is mostly naggurs an’ Chinymon, peaceful, industhrus an’ law-abidiu', but savage an’ blood-thirsty in their method*. They wear no clothes, except what they have on, an’ each woman has five husbands an’ each man ha* five wives. Th’ r-rest goes into the discard, th’ same as here. Th’ Islands has been owned by Spain since before th’ fire, au* she’s throated thlm so well they’re now up in ar-rms ag’in her except a majority !▼ thim, which is thruly loyal. The natives seldom fight, but whin they get mad at wan another they r-run-a-tnuck. Whin a man sometimes they hang him an’ sometimes they discharge him an’ hire a new mptormnn. Th’ women ar-re beautiful, with languishin’ black eyes, an’ they smoke seegars, but ar-re hurried an*: incomplete in their dhress. We import juke, hemp, cigar-wrappers, sugar an* fairy tales fr’m th’ Ph’iippeens, and export stx-ineb' hhelW an’- th’ Hke. - !*• late th’ ‘ hwaSenea-lo* tH‘ fart" ithiaia tbey’rfi -behind; ft? baa ; Jijk , J-outiTai: '

Bis[?]rck's Brain.

rrlnte Bishiurck’s brain, according to the estimate of the anthropologist. Otto Ammon, was probably the heaviest known to anatomical science. Herr Amnion, in consultation with Prof. Schafer, the sculptor, concludes from the measurements taken for Schafer’s bust that tbe brain of the old statesman weighed 1,807 grattuncs, or over 05 4-5 ounces, and consequently exceeded in weight that of any known genius.

Robber bands infest Porto Rico and pit. (age and bum plantations.