Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — Page 2

WER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. I F. E. BaBCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - . INDIANA.

WEEK'S NEWS RECORD

1 • Wilmer Stone. the chairman of the ■Committee on Bird Protection, addressed ■ the American Ornithological Union in ■ Washington. Traffic in American birds M has been reduced to a minimum, but the ■Mae of imported species goes on unabated. K'The engagement is announced of Miss f Fannie Halbert Mills, daughter of I’nited ■ States Senator Koger (>. Mills of Texas, ■jto. First Lieutenant George Richards, I United States marine corps, who served ■in the war with Spain on the cruiser ■ Newark. - ‘ John Shanley, of South Bond. Ind., was ■murdered in a St, Paul billiard saloon. BBhanlcy. who had been on a prolonged ■ Spree. knocked against the cue of James ■ Bose, spoiling his shot, and the latter Krtrnek Shanley over the head with the ■ cue, fracturing his skull. I 111 11 general row in the colored quarters ■of Cheyene. Wyo,. three soldiers were ■ Shot. They are L. Fontenough. 11. Mitch- ' ell and William Saumb-rs. All will rei cover. The shooting was done by t'or-t-poral Seott of Company E of the San Juan heroes, who was arrested. te A private letter received in Terre ’Haute, Ind., from Jacksonville, Fla., states that Major B. !•'. II vens is to be named as resident paymaster in Cuba, with headquarters in Havana, and Major Russell B. Harrison is booked for the position of provost marshal of Havana. The bill providing for a treaty commis- • uion was lost in the Cherokee Senate at Tahlequah, I. T., by a tie vote. The Cherokees will now be governed by the ■ Curtis bill. By the terms of |he bill the were given theirchoice of treating r with the Dawes commission or accepting the provisions of the Curtis bill. William Murray. 70 years old, was ■ found dead on the floor of his house in the outskirts of the village of Beaverton, Ont. His head was terribly crushed and a piece of wood and a poker found in the : house‘were covered with blood and gray hair. Edward Elliott, aged 13, and James Mcllattie. aged Hi, were arrested, fecharged with the crime and also with robbing the place. Eliott confessed. Mrs. Barnes, who has figured much in ■the courts and afterward married ex- > Mayor Magowan of Trenton, N. J., came to Cleveland with her husband and kidnaped her 7-year-old daughter from the legal custody of her grandmother. Mrs. Barnes had got away on a Lajte Shore train before the child’s abduction was discovered. The abductors were intercepted on a Lake Shore train nt Erie, I’a., and placed under arrest. I In his annual report State Department Consul General Bittinger, at Montreal, says’that Canada is about to make an important change in her postage rates. On the 25th of December there ! will be three rates of postage on letters, : 2 cents for Great Britain and her colonies, 3 cents for Canada and the United States, and 5 cents for foreign countries. If the experiment proves satisfactory the , postmaster general, it is understood, will then reduce letter postage for Canada ; and to the I’nited States to 2 cents. After Jan. 1 next the newspaper rate will be l-i Of n cent a pound, but after July 1 this will be increased to >/, cent a pound. - At the instanc e of the Governor of Ari- | Bona the State Department at WashingE ton has instructed I’nited States Minister t Clayton at the City of Mexico to demand ’ the surrender, under extradition proceedI Ings, of Temple, the American railroad conductor who is held under arrest by the i Mexicans near Nogales on the charge of E killing a Mexican in the I’nited States. If the Mexican Government concedes the justice of this demand, which is not p doubted. Temple will be tried in the F United States, and once more the principle of extra-territorial jurisdiction claimed by Mexico will have escaped a test I’ issue, although our government is on rec- : ord as having, by its demand for Temple's ■’ release, repudiated that principle. ■ . Secretary Alger, after a conference with Adjutant General Corbin and Major Shaler, of the ordnance bureau, has de- | elded that the I’nited States armories have progressed with the manufacture of Krag-Jorgensen rifles to a point where ’ he could undertake to arm the entire “ army with this weapon. At the outbreak of the war only the regular soldiers had the small bore rifles and the volunteers were necessarily armed with the Springs' field, except in a few cases, such as that of the rough riders. The armories have been running steadily ever since, turning out the small bore rille at the rate of 9,000 per month, until the stock on hand : warrants the undertaking which the see--5 retary has ordered.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Another revolution haij broken out in Salvador. Russia has ordered twenty-three new torpedo boat destroyers. The national relief commission at Philadelphia has decided to discontinue relief work in Porto Rico Dec. 1. James S. Richardson, the largest cotton planter in the world, is dead at Benoit, Miss. He was 40 years old. Commander McCalla reports that it will be impossible to save the Spanish cruiser Maria Teresa, ashore on Cat Islands. , Joseph Chamberlain, in a speech at i, Manchester last night, said British control of the Nile’would not be discussed. : The British steamer Bede of London, from Norfolk for Hamburg, grounded off Mittelruecken. at the mouth of the River Elbe and broke in two. Fumes of burning sugar on board the . American ship Kenilworth, from Valparaiso, caused the death of three men, and nearly that of a fourth. It is said Miss Sarah Bonnell, an Abilene, Kan., young woman, has received a legacy of $500,000 from a friend in New York interested in her musical education. Andrew Peterson, who murdered an Indian woman about two months ago, was sentences it Port To.wnsend, Wash., to two years’ imprisonment in the State penitentiary. The announcement in Paris that two advocates will be sent to Cayenne, capital of French Guiana, to assist Dreyfus , in the preparation of his defense, gives rise to the belief that he will not, after All, be brought back.

EASTERN.

The organisation of a tinplate combine has been completed at Pittsburg. William F. Burroughs, once a prominent actor, is dead in New York from accidental asphyxiation, aged 58 years. The Tioga National Bank, of which Senator Thomas C. Platt, of New York, is president, has reopened its doors for business. Gus Enz. night clerk, and John Moore, waiter, in the New York kitchen at IV allace, Idaho, were suffocated in a tire in the Idaho hotel. Harvey Lutz, aged If?, of Reading, Pa., came home drunk and shot his father because the latter reprimanded him. The boy then cut his own throat. A head-on collision occurred between two passenger trains on the Lehigh Valley Railroad near Wilkesbarre, Pa. Five trainmen were killed and four others injured. .Edward N. Smith has been appointed receiver of the suspended First National Bank of Carthage, N. Y., and the concern will not reopen, efforts to reorganize having failed. Fire wiped out fully a third of the business portion of Canonsburg, Pa., two of the principal hotels, many dwellings and did damage estimated at .$115,000. No lives were lost. Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, formerly president of Wellesley College and now connected with the University of Chicago, was run down by a bicyclist at Cambridge, Mass., and badly injured. Edward Beilstein, brother of Bertha Beilstcin, who recently killed her mother and then tried to kill herself in Pittsburg a short time ago, committed suicide with poison on the grave of his mother. Thomas Dickenson was killed on the railroad near Buffalo. He was the senior member of the firm of Dickenson A Nicholson, of London, Ont. He fell off the cars while passing from one to another. Dr. John S. White, head master of Berkeley School, has purchased, as the representative of a syndicate, the old site of Columbia University. The site was considered one of the most valuable of the Manhattan uptown realty and was valued at $1,000,000. At Mauch Chunk, Pa., when about to start on a rabbit hunt, Harry Weaver, aged 20, stopped to talk to his mother through a window of his home. His gun was accidentally discharged, and the young man fell dead, the left side of his head being blown away. It has been decided by the special committee appointed by the New York Chamber of Commerce to provide a fitting memorial of Col. George E. Waring that an endowment fund of SIOO,OOO shall be raised with which to establish in Columbia College the Waring chair of municipal affairs. Lieut. Herman G. Dresel, of the United States navy, committed suicide in the Carrollton Hotel in Baltimore by shooting himself in the head. From papers found on his body it is surmised that he killed himself because he had been ordered to Manilla to join the United States steamer Zafiro.

WESTERN.

Rev. J. 11. Brown, residing at Evenly, Mo., was killed by a fast mail train. He was deaf and did not hear the train approaching. Bloomville, Ohio, was the victim of a SIO,OOO fire, and one entire business block in the village is in ruins. The fire started from a defective chimney. Mayor Colwell at Granville, Ohio, discharged six Denison University students arrested for damaging the cemetery in a fraternity initiation proceeding. Two ships were lost on Lake Michigan during the recent sever# storm. The schooner S. Thai foundered off Glencoe, 111., and four sailors lost their lives. A fire which originated in the Elkhorn Hotel at Canyon City, Ore., within two hours destroyed the entire business portion of the town and a number of residences. The loss will exceed SIOO,OOO. Tenor Francisco Collenz became so imbued with his part in “I Pagliacci” at a performance in St. Louis that he stabbed the prima donna, Miss Nedda Morrison, in the arm. Fishermen from Green Island report at Toledo that Lightkeeper Gibeaut, of the Turtle light, saw a small schooner with a crow of six men and one woman go down during the recent gale. Ockley C. Johnson, the professional golfer, was chloroformed in a hotel on the Natural Bridge road near St. Louis and robbed of SIOO in cash, a gold watch and chain and other valuables. James J. Hill is to begin work at once on his hew British Columbia railroad from Bonner’s Ferry, Idaho, to Nelson. This will give the Great Northern a second artery into British Columbia. John C. Roth, County Treasurer, and millionaire pork packer, was found on the third floor of his packing-house at Cincinnati dead, with his head crushed between the floor of the room and the freight elevator. The last company of the Fifth Missouri volunteers lias been mustered out and the men have left for their homes. With the exception of a few soldiers, all at the Kansas City hospitals, all of the Third and Fifth are now out. Prairie fires have been burning along the South Canadian river, in the Chickasaw nation, I. T., devastating scores of farms and ranches of crops and buildings. Many cattle perished, but no lives were lost. The loss exceeds $50,000. An extensive body of ore was struck in the Golden Crest mine in Two Bit, S. D. The foreman was reticent about the value •f the ore, but it is the same character of ore that was recently struck in the Union Hill that ran $6,000 per ton. John Nickles shot and killed both his wife and his mother-in-law with a rifle near Shingle Springs, Cal. Afterward he removed the shoe from his right foot and with his toes discharged the rifle at his own breast, killing himself instantly. A report from Perry, O. T., says that there was a brilliant as well as fatal shower of meteors near that place, causing much consternation among the people. Two children named Henderson are reported as having been killed by a large meteor. John T. Veney, n colored Baptist preacher of Topeka, Kan., has organized a colony of colored people to go to Cuba. They will start in about twenty days, and expect to found a town on the high land above Santiago, which they will call Topeka. Thomas Hagens, 30 years old, a wellknown and eccentric character, who lived about seven miles west of Columbia, Mo., iru found dead by Rippe. He

found Hagens seated at a table dead, with a buUet wotind in the back of the head. It is supposed he’ was murdered. In a quarrel over the delivery of mail at the Lamonte, Mo., postoffice Postmaster JaM. O’Bapnon shot W. H. Hull, agent and operator for the Missouri Pacific Railway, twice. One shot took effect in the groin and the other in the arm, but it is believed Hull will recover. A Great Northern through train was held up and robbed about fifty miles west of Fergus Falls, Minn., by a gang of eight men. The local express safe was blown open and considerable money secured, but the robbers failed to get into the through safe, though they worked two hours over it. Thomas Moore, aged 7 years, died at Sedalia, Mo., of hydrophobia, after having suffered for nearly a week. He was bitten by a dog a month before. He had convulsion after convulsion, during which he barked like a dog and frothed at the mouth, it requiring the efforts of two men to hold him. A shooting affray took place in the Trilby mine, at Prescott, Ariz., in which Supt. Murphy, a man named Bruner and two others participated. Murphy was mortally wounded, Bruner was killed and the two others were slightly wounded. Tie trouble was over the boundary lines of two mining claims. The Kirksville, Mo., Savings Bank was entered by burglars and robbed of $14,000 in Government bonds, belonging to Samuel Reed, president, and SIB,OOO in gold and greenbacks. Two thousand dollars in silver was left, evidently being too heavy, and $2,400 in the vault was overlooked by the robbers. The officers and men of Companies I, G, K and E, Twelfth United States Infantry, who assisted in therassault on El Caney during the Santiago campaign, had a narrow escape from being burned to death by a fire that started in a Pullman coach while they were being transported from St. Louis to Fort Riley, Kan. The steamer Australia has arrived at San Francisco seven days from Honolulu. Among her passengers were thirty soldiers afflicted with malarial fever. The majority of the sick men are members of the cavalry who were detailed on garrison duty in the islands. The voyage improved the condition of most of the men.

SOUTHERN.

Four negroes were lynched by a mob of 100 white men near Phoenix, S. C. The negroes were charged with being implicated in the shooting of whites during the election troubles. Raible, Smith & Co., tin plate manufacturers of Loqjsville, Ky., have assigned. Liabilities, $70,000; assets about the same. One hundred men are thrown #ut of work by the closing of the plant. Near Little Rock, Ark., Mrs. J. B. Cuneo shot her husband and a lady, Mrs. Fannie G. Howell, who was in his company. Jealousy was the cause of the deed. Both victims are dangerously injured. Mrs. Cuneo escaped. B. F. Johnston, of St. Elmo, HL, and J. H. McCarthy, of Little Rock, Ark., have secured the contract for building the Choctaw and Memphis Railroad extension from Little Rock to Wister Junction, 164 miles. The contract price is $2,000,000. At Little Rock, Ark., E. C. Bruce, operator for the Iron Mountain Railroad, shot Mrs. Fred B. Day because she ordered him to leave her house, where he had been boarding. Bruce then committed suicide. The woman will recover. The lines of the Consolidated Electric Street Car Company in Dallas, Texas, are tied up by a strike. Several motormen were discharged by the new superintendent and other men were put in their places. The employes demanded the reinstatement of the discharged men. Private Jackson, Troop H, was instantly killed and Corporal Garrett, Troop 11, Tenth Cavalry, was mortally wounded by “Horse” Douglass, a negro of Huntsville, Ala. No one saw the killing. Douglass was seen with the t"’° soldiers in the city and his pistol had three empty shells. John Haley of Nashville, Tenn., was arrested in New Orleans, charged with being a fugitive from justice. He is wanted on five warrants charging him with concealing stolen property. Haley is alleged to be the confederate of John Leonard, who systematically robbed the Cudahy Packing Company.

WASHINGTON.

The Navy Department is rushing supplies to Admiral Dewey. Twenty thousand six-pounder shells were shipped from Norfolk the other day. ( The State Department has received informal notification that Austria-Hungary is about to raise its legation in Washington to the rank of an embassy. This Government will reciprocate by advancing the rank of the American legation at Vienna. The American reply to Spain’s refusal to give up the Philippines sets forth that the demand for the island is in lieu of partial indemnity for the cost of the war to the United States, estimated at $165,000,000, and that Porto Rico was not enough. Admiral Schley, having asked again for sea service, has been promised the command of the European squadron, which will be re-established in a short time with some of the finest cruisers in the navy, to exhibit the American flag creditably .to the European nations. Gen. Miles’ report, now made public, covers his connection with the war from its inception to its close. His story is told in great part by dispatches, consecutively arranged. A large part of the report, however, is made up of an account of the movements of Gen. Miles at Tampa, at Santiago and in Porto Rico.

FOREIGN.

Sir Robert Herron is dead at Honolulu, at the age of 61. Chakir Pasha and the last Turkish soldiers have left Crete. A new cabinet has been formed to assist Premier Yamagata in administering the affairs of Japan. * The semi-official papers announce that the German army will be gradually increased by about 15,000 men. Gen. Blanco has ordered the arrest of two Spanish editors at Havana who wrote insulting articles against Americans. Lottie Collins, the music ball singer, attempted suicide at London because of domestic troubles. Her condition is not serious. -i- ■ '] ■ Zainis, whose cabinet recently resigned at Athens, and who was intrusted by King George with its reconstitution, has completed his task. Great Britain, France and Italy have

accepted Russia’s proposal to appoint Prince George of Greece high commissioner of the powers In Crete. President Masso and .the secretaries representing the so-called Cuban republic since October, 1897, have presented their resignations to the Cuban assembly, and they were accepted. The Government of the United States of Central America is removing its capital from Amalpala. Honduras, to Chinandega, Nicaragua, which will be the permanent sent of government. ' At Geneva, Switzerland, the Italian anarchist, Luigi Luccheuni, who stabbed and killed Empress Elizabeth of Austria in September last, was placed on trial. The prisoner was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for life. The steamship Belgic brings news of a murder in Corea. George Leake, an American, was a storekeeper at Chemulpo. He was found dead with Un ugly hole in his skull. A long blade with a heavy weight at the end of it was found beside the body. Li Hung Chang has been ordered to proceed to Tsi-Nan, capital of the province of Shan-Tung, to" concert measures with the Viceroy of Shan-Tung to prevent future inundations of the Yellow river (Hoang-ho). This appointment is regarded as virtually shelving Prince Li. A sensational murder was committed in a North London (England) bakery. A homeless Pole of tip* name of Schneider was given lodging in the bake-house, and he murdered the baker's German assistant, throwing the victim inside the oven. The baker, aroused by the stench of the burning body, descended, to the bakehouse and Schneider tried to murder him also, clubbing him over the head and stabbing him in the chest. The shrieks of the baker brought the police anti Schneider was overpowered.

IN GENERAL

Now Nikola Tesla declares that he intends to run the machinery of the Paris exposition with electric (tower sent instantly across the ocean from Niagara Falls without the use of wires. Dawson has again been swept by fire and forty of the principal buildings are in ashes. As was the case before, a drunken and infuriated woman and a lamp were the cause of the fire. The loss is estimated at half a million. The mails from Sierra Leone, West Africa, bring news of the hanging at Kwellu of thirteen murderers of American missionaries, members of the United Brotherhood of Christ, in the Sherbroo district of Sierra Leone, last May. The miners employed in the vicinity of Silverton, B. have rounded up all the Chinese laborers in the various camps and shipped them out of the district. The Mongolians are expected to return to China by the next steamer. Wreckers who have arrived at Nassau brought with them stores from the stranded vessel off Cat Island which establishes beyond a doubt that she is the Infanta Maria Teresa. They report that the water is in her between decks, that she has a list to starlioard, which side is damaged, and that she is dismantled. The condition of affairs in the American consulate general at the City of Mexico attracts much attention. Vice-Consul Benett has been suspended and forbidden entrance to the consulate by Consul General Barlow, who has not made known the grounds for his action. Col. Bennett's friends assert.that he has been unjustly treated. The steamer Wolcott, from Copper River, Alaska, brings news of the drowning of a young woman unified Crossop and a man named Tankerson in Controller Bay. They were rowing from the month of the Chilkat river to Kayak Island and their boat capsized. The body of the young woman was recovered. On it was found $114,000. She formerly lived in Minneapolis. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “The country has safely passed the trial of off-year elections. Before this election everything, except political uncertainties favored business enlargement. The volume of trade has been the greatest ev£r known in October, and the greatest ever known in any month except December, 1892. The record on November thus far shows clearings 10.4 per cent larger than last year and 9.3 per cent larger than in 1892. The railroad earnings in October have been 5.2 per cent larger than last year and 9 per cent larger than in 1892. Foreign trade shows au increase of 20 pet cent in October in exports, while imports showed a gain of only 22 per cent in October, and credits against foreign bankers were piling up at an inconvenient rate. Failures for the week were 211 in the United States, against 291 last year, and 26 in Canada, against 24 last year.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; coni, No. 2,31 cto 33c; oats. No. 2,23 c to 25c; rye, No. 2,50 cto 52c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 19c to 21c; potatoes, choice, 28c to 35c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep and lambs, common to choice, $3.50 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 68c; corn, No. 2 white, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c. e fit. Louis —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $3.75; sheep, $3.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 71c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2,26 cto 27c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 53c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,68 cto 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 36c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 26c to 28c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 57c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.25 to $3.75; sheep and lambs, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; rye, 54c to 55c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 71c to 73c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; rye. No. 2,52 c to 58c; clover seed, new. $4.85 to $4.95. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 66c to 68c; corn. No. 3,32 cto 33c; oats. No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; rye, No. 1,51 cto 53c; barley. No, 2,40 cto 49c; pork, mess, $7.50 to SB.OO. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, SB.OO to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $8.50 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $5.75. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 77c to w 7Bc; corn. No. 2,89 cto 40c; oats, No. 2,28 cto 80c; butter, creamery, ♦* 24c; eggs, Western, 22c to 24c.

TWO GIANTS AT WAR.

Coffee King and Snarer King Engage * in a Bitter Struggle. A fight between the Arhackles, the coffee kings, and the Havemeyers, the sugar kings, is becoming so active that the effect will soon be felt throughout the country, and particularly by the grocery trade. They have already commenced cutting prices, and the apprehension of the investors is shown by the rapid decline in the price of sugar stocks. Brokers calculate that the vahie of the stock of the American Sugar Refining Company has suffered

ARBUCKLE.

several years the largest coffee dealers in the world, was formerly composed of John and Charles Arbuckle, two Scotchmen, who began a small business of coffee roasting in Pittsburg fifty years ago, and having made a success and accumulated capital sought a wider field in New York early in the ’7os. They were men of little education, but understood their business thoroughly, and possessed the traditional Scotch thrift and economy which has swollen their pennies into dollars. For fifteen years after they began business in Pittsburg John Arbuckle roasted and ground coffee with his own hands, and bis. brother packed it and sold it over the counter. The quarrel with the sugar trust began in a curious way. The success of the Arbuckle coffee business has been due in a

large measure to the use of a certain kind of bag used in wrapping. These bags are made, filled, closed ami sealed by machinery which John buckle himself invent-J ed, and a few years J ago it occurred to him that it would be a good scheme to put up

sugar in the same way. Therefore the shrewd old Scotchman made au arrangement with the sugar trust to furnish him a certain quantity of sugar daily, which he put up in bags with the same machines that he used for coffee. The scheme Was a gretit Success, and the Arbuckle sugar sprang into popularity throughout the country. In 1896, however, when the price of raw sugar went down, Mr. Arbuckle demanded a reduction in his bills, but the Havemeyers laughed at him. This made the old man angry and he resolved to put up refineries of his own and enjoy the profit that is now going to the sugar trust. Mr. Arbuckle started at once to build a sugar refinery and coaxed Mr. Stillman, the sugar trust manager at Boston, to become his superintendent. He put up a refinery In Brooklyn that is now turning out 1,000 barrels of sugar a day, and every ounce Of it is packed in little Arbuckle bags nnd sold in that form. Mr. Havemeyer hired a fellow countryman named Herman Sielcken, from the Arbuckle factory, for his manager, and bought out an establishment at Toledo, which now has an output of 8,000 bags of eoffee a day, and fitted up several idle sugar factories with ma l chinery for roasting and grinding coffee, which he is selling as near a's possible in the Arbuckle market. Mutual friends have tried to effect a reconciliation, but it has been impossible. The German is just as stubborn and determined as the Scotchman, and each is beut upon ruining the other.

APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT.

Filipinos Say They Are Isnored by American Commanders. The Filipino Junta, representatives of Gen. Aguinaldo and the Filipino Government in Hong Kong, have drawn up what they designate as an "appeal to President McKinley and the American people.” The memorial says: "While the fate of the islands is still undecided and we are doing all in our power to prevent a conflict between the Americans and Filipinos—awaiting patiently the conclusion of the Paris conference —we implore the intervention of the President, supported by the will of the people, to end the slights shown our leaders, soldiers and people by some of the American military and naval officers, although wq do not wish to wrong Admirhl Dewey or Gen. Otis. “From the commencement of the hostilities,” continues the memorial, “the Filipinos acceded to all the American requests, but, after bottling up the Spaniards in Manila, the Filipinos were completely igqored when the Americans advanced. and thus deprived of the fruits of victory. All our launches have been seized because of foolish rumors that we would attack the Americans, and when we asked explanations we were not even answered.”

SPANISH TROOPS IN MUTINY.

Refuse to Leave Cuba Until They Have Been Paid. Information has reached the War Department that 9,800 Spanish officers and men who were to return to Spain openly declare that they will not leave the Cuban soil until they have received their pay. Although the situation will not be allowed to affect the plans of the Americans for the control of that part of the island, it is realized that if these soldiers persist in their refusal to return to Spain they may become a menace to the good government of Cuba. Disaffection has spread to the troops brought in from the country by Gen. Blanco, and these men now also demand their pay at once. Gen. Blanco has lost confidence in the very guard placed in and around the palace. Up to the present time the uprising continues to be a pure military mutiny, but the people generally are apprehensive that the troops will break out at any moment and attack property and civilians. *

Told in a Few Linen.

Chicago’s registration of voters aggregates 326,748 names. Captain General Blanco proposes to prevent all anti-American meetings in Cuba. A rich gold ledge'is said to have been discovered on the Colville reservation In the State of Washington. London Newspapers believe that Germany will seek a pacific understanding, if not an alliance, with England. France is terribly excited over the report that England proposes to proclaim a protectorate over the whole of Egypt.

a shrinkage of nearly $14,000,000 during the last thirty days, ami that the cut already made in prices, if continued through the year, will dimmish the earnings of the trust by more than $6,000,000. The firm of Arbuckle Bros., for

HAVEMEYER.

TEMPLE IS GIVEN UP.

Thd-W. C. T. U. Abandons the Chicago Building by a Vote of 285 to 71. By a vote of 285 to 71 the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, in session at St. Paul, dropped the Chicago Temple as an affiliated interest and disclaimed all connection with the building, which was intended to be a memorial to the late Frances E. Willard. Absolute action wad not taken until after a debate of six hours, which at times was very much heated. Mrs. Carse’s methods came in for a great deal of criticism. It was shown that she in issuing $300,000 worth of bonds. The debate abounded in accusations, insinuations and recriminations. Mrs. Carse read the report of the 'J em-., pie trustees. She also read a letter from Marshall Field, dated Nov. 2, in which he said if the friends of the cause would subscribe a sufficient amount to cancel the remainder of the issue of $300,000 of bonds he would give $50,000 of stock and $50,000 in cash, the latter to be applied toward the payment of a $20,000 floating debt and $30,000 interest on the first mortgage bonds. "* Mrs. Carse showed that $173,500 of the amount asked for had been provided, leaving $12(5,500 yet to be secured. Mrs. Clara H. Hoffman of Missouri, national recording secretary, said that pledges were getting cheap. The W. C. T. U.’had heard nothing but pledges for ten years. “I wish to add,” she continued. “that the donations received from young people’s societies and philanthropic organizations, which have been pouring a perfect avalanche of telegrams upon us demanding we shall stand by the Temple, have amounted to only a few hundred dollars in spite of some rainbow promises.” Miss Anna Gordon* Miss Willard's companion for twenty-one years, read from memoranda to show that Miss Willardhad begged Mrs. Carse to be content with a SIOO,OOO to $200,000 buiflling. She intimated that worry over the Temple hastened Miss Willard’s death. A resolution of thanks to Mrs. Carse for her efforts on behalf of the Temple was adopted. An adjournment was then taken. At the Session Tuesday Mrs. Stevens of Maine was elected president of the National W. C. T. U., she receiving 317 of the 356 votes cast.

INCREASE IN POSTOFFICES.

Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow Makes a Report. The annual report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow shows that there were at the close of the fiscal year 73,550 postoflices in the United States, 3,816 presidential and (59,754 fourth class. The net increase in the number of postoffices for the fiscal year was 2,548. The largest number of presidential postoffices is in New York, with 330, followed by Pennsylvania with 284; Illinois, 257; lowa, 212, and Ohio, 208. The greatest number of fourth-class pOntoffices are in Pennsylvania, 4,871; New Jork, 3,394; Virginia, 3,297; Ohio, 3,175, and North Carolina. 2,898. In compensation Massachusetts heads the list, showing an average compensation for her fourth-class postmasters of $336 per annum, followed by Rhode Island, $319, and Connecticut, $283. In the amount expended per capiyi in the use of the mails by the people of the various States Massachusetts stands first, with $2.30 i>er capita, New York second, expending $2.27; District of Columbia third, $2.16; Colorado fourth, $1.93, and Connecticut fifth, SI.BO. Lowest in this table are South Carolina, 25 cents, and Mississippi, 34 cents. The total number of appointments made during the fiscal year was 25,653. Au interesting feature of the report relates to the postal facilities for Alaska. Inspectors were detailed to reorganize the mifil service in this territory, which resulted in the establishment of a line of postoffices from the Canadian borders to the Bering Sea, a distance of about 2,000 miles, and many other needed improvements were made in the mail service in Alaska upon the recommendation of these inspectors. Among the recommendations are that a severe penalty be provided for employes embezzling or destroying newspaper mail, covering the transmission of "green goods” and obscene matter through the mails, and that a special strong stamped 10-cent envelope of superior material be adopted in lieu of the present system ofl registered letters. Many losses occur in the mails because of the poor quality of the envelopes in which the articles are inclosed. It is also recommended that all money order offices be inspected annually, which would be a radical extension of the inspection system, and it is stated would doubtless be of great advantage to the service.

TESLA’S NEW DISCOVERIES.

Electrical Magician’s Inventions Will Revolutionize the World. ■ , A . Scientific circles are ngog over two new discoveries in the field of electricity which the wonderful inventor Nikola Tesla has just sprung simultaneously. Though widely differing as to the field of operation, wireless telegraphy, the evolution of which has made the name of Tesla famous throughout the world, is the main principle of both inventions. The first and perhaps most important is a proposed new torpedo craft which can be launched, steered and operated beneath the surface of the sea, without wire, key or switchboard. If Tesla’s new invention can be brought into practical use it will undoubtedly revolutionize naval warfare. It is a submarine torpedo carrying eight fourteen-foot Whitehead torpedoes. It can be launched from shore or from the side of a ship and steered through channels into harbors and under the keels of floating war vessels miles away with absolute accuracy. It can explode any number or all of the torpedoes on board of it under the bottom of any vessel chosen, and having done its work returns to the hand that sent it. All this will be done by means of automatic contrivances operated by eje<<icity applied through the principle of wireless telegraphy. . Admiral Sampson is rapidly earning the distinction of being “a man of blood and iron.” During a joint meeting of the American and Spanish evacuation commissioners at Havana, a Spanish commissioner pleaded that it would be impossible to evacuate Cuba before February or March. Sampson interrupted him bluntly, saying in a cold, firm voice: “Spain can get out of Cuba within forty day*, and it must bo done.” ■’ The beet sugar production of Europa this year will be 375,000 tons below the raw sugar production of last season.