Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1899 — Page 6

8801 DEMOCRAT. MF- E- BABCOCK, Publisher. fcnrru» 2 - ~ INDIANA.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

B'Ktamutt A. Ayres. under conviction for ■Buster in the second degree. and James ■jfonkey.. a cartie thief.* escaped from the Karety jail st Denver by sawing their ■ra® tritrough the bars of a window and jumping to the ground. fc Tan steamships which left American ■BEto fi»r Europe (hiring the latter part KtJfamary are still missing, and the inKjMBHF gteminnis have been advanced to ■B.gmneas. the “obituary rate,” as it is ■Bawm. among insurance men. p-.3fcak. Mary Jane Waits, aged 100 years ■bnumths and Kt days, died in W'illiams■BOK. •Mliu. She was born in Chillicothe, ftfco, April 30. 1798. She had twelve dWlifrwi thirty*three grandchildren and ■Kty-une I'Tsifrr ifiplomatic pressure Persia has fttli the claim of Dr. E. G. WisBbeA. nn American missionary at ShinehMM. whose house, with the connivance of BUfifiers. was- robbed in June, 1898. of bfmdb- trained at 2JHI tomans (about $350). k The syndicate known as the InternaVsnui Tbwer Company, in which Joseph K»ter of Chteago is interested, has secur«C I*o Rhode Island locomotive works ac Ftwditenre. R. I. The locomotive huve been idle several years, but ifiey will start up very soon. > Prilminary steps have been taken at t&f Waldorf-Astoria. New York, to form :a fßiymww knit-goods trust. A comifcdtwe was named to visit all the factories ijw *Be country and report on the capacity aniEwalnurion ami the basis on which each VwilF should be admitted to the trust. | Alter a trial lasting nearly two months. *WB&'t fo* in favor of the plain•■tats hies been rendered by U jury in the Etaperioc Court nt San Francisco in the «Kie of the Pacific- Steam Whaling Com■■ugt against the Alaska Packers’ Assoswhun The suit was for SIOO,OOO damr Ateoir sixty Senators and KepresentaAfoes- have accepted invitations for a trip fojßßtvt the routes of the proposes! Niclagpta ahd Panama canals, coming home Byway of Santiago and other points of in- ■ Iteßest. in. the West Indies. .They will go as the guests of the Panama Canal f ’omThe Cuban assembly at Havana has wtttef to send a committee to present to hTtenfont »• Kinley resolutions which titamlt rhe- Tinted States for its interest ftn Chinn but declare that $3,000,000 is Mtoimffnir'rt to perform the work to which tfte-muuey promised Gomez is to be iqr : WE Worn, at Reton. Texas, drove wifi» from their home through the prin- ' agaE street of the town at daylight, shot In rim. anil then killed himself. He . BmE stolen a shotgun from the hardware store off Wilson A Austin and tired the , «un>* befitre leaving it. The store burned; •thelites is- $25,000. with $5,000 insurance. I Ite®.merchants of Houston, Texas, Auigmu. and Colby Cleveland, who ' Kbvh Bi ok held a grievance against each elite r. fought an arranged duel in a most frifcupuriiiini and sensational style. The ifoeagens used were shotguns loaded with ; Budtateit. Cleveland was shot and badly wounded in rhe body. Osborn was not . Inrt. Bl order to pnrtwt themselves against tfiu alleged aggression of the tobacco teusr. the tebaevo jobbers of New York Itivo On-rued the Independent Jobbers’ jMws-uHion of New York. The purpose fete-fight rhe recently formed Metropolitan Tobacco Chtnpany. which has been mode the sole New York agent of the American; Tobaevo Company. Thrasher hfood. rhe notorious negro Anin rwihher. safe blower ami bandit, was sail to ailed he rhe federal penitentiary*on ■ fin* mail schedule in the United States Cutrt at Meridian. Miss. Mead was indfatted ar it in the morning for Bihwiiii; up and robbing the post office at Khtferpriso, Miss. He was arraigned and Bsetfc at EG s’clovk. ami at 3 o’clock was •m his way to the penitentiary under a 3hyear sentence and a tine of $5,000. Sv Cl Elton of ♦'hi»>ago, representing an Xhgthdi syndicate, claims that he has obAtehe«E an option on !♦>»►,♦•**> acres of land Bn tite Cherokee nation in the northern Rare rhe Endian territory, in the re•wriy Aieuvered oil fields. Mr. Rutan .AHs** the present company, of which he is ;• am atfohnl. has men back of it whose ■Wealth, would, easily aggregate $250,000,•WW* Bt is independent of the Standard ®ffi Company, and expects to compete | with that company, mg only in the mar- ■. Iwtß- of America, but of Europe.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Unlit- EMsxminn. the French novelist, *F »fita»L Be was in his seventy-seventh I jwnr. Buafihrs entered the Bank of Blackhum, Bte. blew open the safe and se- I I Wilde, brother of l>war Wilde m£ tenner husband of Mrs. Frank LesBfc. to«fi*mi. | JtaSpj EE. IM-Uenbansh and Senator Ytomm H. Bhrke have been formally disBaesHfi Stem, practice at Cleveland. At Ufaftwa,Ky.. Pute Jones was shot ad Bdteß ami Will Gray was wounded -fai a <■*> Between Jones, his son, Charlie, ■al Wh* Crag, three countrymen, and the | BBbw Btemetta Ss-hniidt. a professional |taMM was biund dead in her room in 3L T- The police found a bank Bmfc wteh. toons that she had at least *WIMt an to point. f Iwaßomodit the War Department Watt ttof wmaina of all soldier dead Boncgfat hnto tea Cob* win be sent for IteWMtoE teany pfae* which the relatives atf towtewj tosinmate. ' JHm T, West, proprietor of the West Ofajha* MfanMptofe, »tul one of the best IhMto hnto men fin the United States, toMWHltomCto therotunda of his hotel. WhMMF Of Wowcster. Mass., will refannon Agtol 3 to tor scale trf wages bete toe «wk toMBK off January, 1808. fejfcyt A, tor Chicago wife W» tor ptotom. Ba a tottoM statement he toptoMto •* w Wfc * *■» wif * with a 'W tattle ■BE'• ■

EASTERN.

Robert S. Gardiner, aged 57 years, is dead at Boston, Mass. Miss Caroline Hazard of Peacedale, R. 1., has been elected president of Wellesley College. George Newberger. 82 years old, was crushed to death in New York by a hook and ladder truck. Mrs. Margaret E. Cody has been convicted of attempting to blackmail George and Helen Gould. The loss is reported nt Newport News of the-tug Janies Bowen with all on board, numbering twelvy. 1 William Noble, builder of many wellknown hotels in New York, has failed, with liabilities of $1,027,400. The American Missionary Association, with headquarters in New York, has voted to establish Christian schools in Porto Rico. Frank N. Sheldon, on trial at Auburn, N. Y., for the second time for the murder of his wife. Eva M. Sheldon, committed suicide in the jail. Edward C. Andre, Belgian consul general at Manila, is in Neiv Y’ork trying to organize a SIOIOOO,OOO syndicate to develop the Philippines. James Lindsay Murray, dean of the faculty of Princeton University and a very well known educator, has resigned because of failing health. Eckley, a small mining village about ten miles northeast of Hazleton, Pa., was struck by a cyclone. Considerable damage was done, but no lives were lost. The Manhattan Railroad Company of New Y’ork has/lefinitely adopted the electric third-rail system for the operating equipment of the elevated railroad. Frank Gilfort, one of the Gilfort brothers. well-known circus gympasts, died at Orange, N. J., the result of blood poisoning preceding the amputation of a leg. The fourth annual convention of the National Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, held in Pittsburg, elected John T. Butler of Buffalo, N. Y., its president. Andrew’ C. Fowle died of heart failure at his home in Newark, N. J., aged 70 years. In 1802 he constructed for the government the first geometrical lathe for banke note engraving.

In Philadelphia, Pa., John H. Evans, arrested while in the act of robbing an uptown dwelling, was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment within twenty-four hours of the time of his arrest. At Hazletou, Pa., orders were received for an indefinite suspension of work at the Jeunesville collieries of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company. Over 500 men and boys were thrown out of employment. Samuel Hudnut of Philadelphia, conductor of Blue Line express No. 514, from Philadelphia for CommunipaW, was beheaded at Bayonne, N. Y'. A bridge support threw him under the wheels. Mrs. Maggie wife of Homer Smith, aged 33 years, was found dead in Sharon, Pa., with two wounds on her head ami her clothes burned from her body. Her husband was arrested. During a fire in Philadelphia Mrs. Catherine Marlin, aged 58, was suffocated by smoke; William Marlin, her son, was badly injured by falling from a window, and Frank Levy, aged 5, was overcome by smoke.

WESTERN.

E. C. Babb, former Mayor of Minneapolis, died, aged 65. Mrs. J. Warren Keifer, wife of Maj. Gen. Keifer, died at Springfield, Ohio. Charles C. Kiefer, a distinguished Free Mason of Ohio, is dead at Urbana, aged 73. Fire in Wymore, Neb., did damage to the amount of S2O,(MM) in the business section. Insurance, about SIO,OOO. The American National Bank, Lima, Ohio, which was robbed of SIB,OOO Christmas night, 1808, has decided to go into liquidation. An explosion of several hundred pounds of powder in tunnel No. 3 of the Commodore mine, at Creede, Colo., killed “Scotty” Watson, Frank Heas, John Sarner and one other. The United States land office in Colorado has decided against the Hosanna Gold Mining Company in its attempts to patent mineral land claimed by the Isabella Mining Company. Citizens of Tacoma, Wash., indignant at the many recent robberies and holdups. held a public meeting in the Chamber of Commerce rooms and decided to form a vigilance committee. Officials of the National Metal Polishers, Platers and Brass Workers’ Union, with headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio, state that they will demand an advance of from 15 to 20 per cent, within a short time. John Barton, a member of the North Dakota Legislature, dropped dead on the street in St. Joseph, Mo., of hemorrhage of the lungs. He lived at Devil's Lake, N. D., and was on his way home from La Salle, 111. A blinding storm of snow and wind was the cause of a collision on the Burlington road two miles west of Lincoln, Neb., resulting in the death of three trainmen and the injury of four others. The injured men will recover. Madison Copus, aged 45. a farmer residing near Lucas, Ohio, shot and killed his wife as she lay sleeping on a lounge in the sitting-room. She died instantly. Copus then shot himself. Family troubles, it is supposed, caused the deed. Thomas Officer, of the banking firm of Officer & Pusey, of Council Bluffs, lost a roll of bills on the streets of Omaha. The roll contained $5,000, which he had just drawn from the First National Bank and placed in an overcoat pocket. The money dipped through a hole in his pocket. ft is announced that the Santa Fe Railroad will run its first train into Stockton, Cal., on July 1 next over the Tehachapi section of the Southern Pacific. From that time on a regular service will be maintained between Stockton and all eastern points until the company's entrance into Point Richmond nnd San Francisco is perfected. , ,

At Boidlers, Ohio, John Saif as was constructing a pigeon box and made several holes in the structure by means of a hot poker. A spark from the burning wood ignited powder in a can and a terrific explosion occurred, fatally burning Salsas, throwing bis wife a distance of fifty feet, injuring two spectators of the work and wrecking the house. F. W. Reeder shot and killed “Buff” Shine at the Haigs mission, at Columbus, Ohio, where small-pox suspects have been detained. The men, the former of whom ia clerk at the mission and the latter a

•aspect, got into an altercation, when Shine threatened Reeder, who pulled a gun and shot Shine in the abdomen. Shine died almost immediately. A co-operative colony hns been established in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. There are 1,000 members. J. M. Powell is president of the association and Dr. Dean is secretary. The constitution provides for the division of labor, the holding of all property by the association, the setting aside of a plat of land for each family for the building of a home, and the issuing of scrip to the members for value of their produce. The colony is to lie known as the Oklahoma Co-operative Industrial Association. The Illinois Central is at work running a survey through Clay County, S. D., with the intention of extending its line to the Black Hills. Its first objective point is Wheeler, Charles Mix County, via Yankton, Tabor and Tyndall. At Wheeler the line w’ill cross the Missouri river and extend in ns nearly an air line as possible clear to the Black Hills. The grounds for a station at Vermillion have already been surveyed and staked out and the right of way is now’ being secured. Positive assurances have been received that the line will be built this season.

SOUTHERN.

Capt. Morton L. Phillips, commander of the revenue cutter Boutwell, is dead at Newberne, N. C., aged 61. The date of the opening of the Port Arthur, Texas, ship canal has been fixed definitely as Saturday, March 25. The design for the statue to be erected in Richmond, Va., over the grave of Miss Winnie Davis, is by Zolvey of New York. It is the figure of a sitting angel. It is to be of Italian marble, and will be erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy. Almost the entire plant of the Cummer Lumber Company, situated on the St. John’s river, four miles north of Jacksonville, Fla., was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of over $250,000, with 80 per cent of insurance. The mill was the most modern in the South, as well as one of the largest. -< News of a catastrophe in which twelve lives were lost was brought to Norfolk, Va., by the survivors of the steam barge Admiral of Philadelphia. In the storm the tug James Bow’en of Philadelphia, which was towing a dredge from Norfolk to her home port, went down four miles off Hog Island with all on board. There were eleven men in her crew and to this list is added the mate of the German steamer Albano, which picked up the men from the Admiral. William J. Bryan evidently wants it understood that he disapproves of “Hobsonism.” The distinguished Nebraskan passed through Brenham, Texas, recently on his way to Houston. At the station he was greeted by hundreds.of citizens, nearly all of whom shook hands with him. A popular young woman of the city wanted to change the method of saluting the silver champion. Edging up to him in a moment when she thought he might be disposed to grant her request, she said: “Mr. Bryan, will you kiss me?” ‘’Encase me, my dear young woman,” he replied; “but I am not Hobson.”

WASHINGTON.

Herbert Putnam of Boston has been appointed congressional librarian by President McKinley. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage has resigned the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington, D. C., in order to devote himself to literary work. Secretary Wilson is making arrangements for letting the government seed contracts in the spring instead of in the autumn, as has been done heretofore. Judge Advocate General Leiber, asked for an opinion as to the authority of the President to enlist general volunteer officers for service in the Philippines, said he thought the President has that authority. The following statement has been issued, showing the total number of deaths reported to the adjutant general’s office between May 1, 1898. and Feb. 28, 1899: Killed in action, 329; died of wounds, 125; died of disease, 5,277; total, 5,731. Washington, D. C., authorities are bending every effort to prevent a threatened smallpox epidemic. There were thir-ty-five eases of the disease in the smallpox hospital the other day, with an aggregate of fifty-two that have been reported since the outbreak.

FOREIGN.

In Peking it is officially denied that the Italians have seized San Mun bay. It is announced that Emperor William will go to Cowes July 29 for the yachting weak. The German navy is to be reorganized, with the Emperor himself in supreme command. The Hamburg-American line will, it is announced, make Plymouth its English port this year. The American troops under Gen. Wheaton have captured the city of Pasig, east of Manila. Gen. Castellanos, the last governor general of Cuba, has been made captain general of Madrid. Three tugs for use in Manila Bay among the Philippines have been purchased by the United States Government in Hongkong. They will be used to transport troops from point to point. The peace conference, otherwise the congress of representatives of the powers, called by the Czar to discuss the possibility of taking steps toward a general disarmament, will meet at The Hague on May 18. Minister Sampson of Quito has reported to the State Department at Washington that in the battle which ended the revolution in Ecuador, 600 were killed and several hundred mortally wounded and also 400 prisoners taken. After numerous conferences between Secretary Hay, the British ambassador and the German ambassador a satisfactory understanding has been reached between the three powers interested in Samoa as to the conditions there. A movement is on foot in Santiago de Cuba to persuade the United States Government to purchase San Juan Hill to be used as a public park. General Leonard Wood, military governor, and other prominent Americans favor the project. a' Gen. Maximo Gomez has accepted his dismissal by the assembly from the command of the Cuban army in a dignified, open letter. The gray chief declares his intention of withdrawing from politics and retiring to his Dominican home. The Paris Eclair confirms the report that the government inquiry regarding the explosion of the haval powder maga-

•ine in La Goubran has shown cut * was not of accidental origin, anfl snudh credence is now given to the rumor lYust it was an anarchist outrage. Advices by the steamship Victoria trom the Orient say that Spanish avarice and misrule have again stirred up a reirtdlimi. The insurgent Moros of Palawan Inland, one of the insurgent group north «f Borneo, murdered the Spanish Governor of Palawan, residing at Port Royalist, and killed his assistant. Minister Bellamy Storer reports Jrmn Belgium that in order to prevent the early destruction of the forest of iudig rubber trees in the Congo Free State a royal decree has been promulgated -providing that for every ton of india rubber yielded each year there shall be planted during the same period not leas' than 150 trees or vines producing india rubber. Maj. Edward Wilson of the Third immune regiment at Santiago de Cuba, wftio was recently tried by court martial on charges of forgery, falsifying records und conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, has been convicted and sentenced to dismissal from the service, forfeiture off pay and allowances and confinement for one year at hard labor in the penitentimy.

IN GENERAL.

Martin J. Carter of Pennsylvania has Iteen appointed consul. of the United States at St. Johns, N. F. The Brunswick Hotel at Sorel, Quebec, was destroyed by fire, the loss Wing OUO. The guests and employes had narrow escapes. Capt. Stetson, master of the bark Carondelet, from New Castle, N. S. W-, reports passing an uncharted reef in the South Pacific ocean. The reef as it showed above the water was about a quarter off a mile long. It was in latitude 5.33 south and longitude 173.58 west. The steamer Alameda brings the news of the finding of a gold nugget in western Australia weighing twenty and a half pounds avoirdupois. The massive slug, together with over 200 ounces of smaller size, was uncovered just two miles north of where the Pantomime nugget was found. At St. Scholastique, Quebec, Mrs. Cornelia Poirier and Samuel Parslow were hanged. The crime for which they were executed was the murder of Isidore Poirier, the woman’s husband, Nov. 21, ISfRZ. They killed him with a butcher knife while he was sleeping. Both confessed the crime, each laying the blame on the other. W. C. Johnson, senior vice-commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, has issued a call for the executrve committee of the national Itoard of administration of the Grand Army to meet in the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, Wednesday, April 12, to select a commandor-in-chief to succeed the late Gen. J times A_ Sexton. Transportation arrangements made with the Great Northern road give evidence that the colonization movement of liunkers to the Bed River valley will be even greater this year than it was last year. The largest colony will start west from St. Paul March 28, being made up of between 3,000 and 4,000 Hunkers tram Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio and Indiana. The United States consul at Dawson, J. C. McCook, informs the Department of State at YVashington concerning the condition of the people there as fallows: “The situation as to persons who will be out of food in a couple of months is becoming very serious. Many hundreds will have to be helped out when navigation opens. Many have gone out over the ice and are going out daily. The relief committee at this place is unable to extend any more aid, as all funds collected have been exhausted and it is some $2,000 in debt.”

Bradstreet’s says: “Industrial and trade activity is still a pre-eminent feature at the general business sitnation. Price strength, too, is notable, especially in view of the midwinter rise of February, except in the case of the leading cereals and wool. In manufacturing lines the situation is one of great activity. The iron and steel trade is still excited by reports of feverish demand, inadequate supplies and further advanced quotations. An easier tendency in wool is one of the disappohrting features of the week. The demand for cotton goods is very active and nearly nil classes are firmly held. Cotton remains steady. Lumber is active at most markets and prices are firm. Raw and refined sugar have alike moved upward this week. Wheat is weaker, notwithstanding crop damage reports, and other cereals are in sympathy therewith. Wheat (including flour) shipments for the week aggregate 4,398,821 bushels, against 5.815,585 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 3,736.586 bushels, against 5,794,863 bushels last week.”

THE MAREJETS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3:00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 71c; corn, No. 2,35 cto 36c; oats, Na. 2,26 c to 27c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 55c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, choice, 70c to 80c per bushel. ’ . Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.80 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $425; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $425; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 72c; corn. So. 2 white, 34c to 36c; oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 32c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50: wheat, No. 2,72 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2,28 cto 30c; rye. No. 2,58 cto 59c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $425; sheep, $2.50 to $450; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; rye, No. 2,59 cto 61c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.56 te $450; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 84c; rye, 61c to 63c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 71c to 73c; com, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 36c; oats. No. 2 27c to 29c; rye. No. 2,55 c to 57c; clover seed, new, $3.70 to $3.75. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 87c to 69c; corn, No. 3,32 cto 34c; oats. No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye. No. 1,55 ctos7 c; barley. No. 2,40 cto 49c; pork, mess, $9.00 to $9.50. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping toeews, $3.00 to $5.75; bogs, common to tooooe, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice toothers, $3.50 to $525; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.75. New York—Cattle, $325 to $5.75.; bags, $3.00 to $430; sheep, $3.00 to MA wheat, No. 2 red, 81c to 83c; corn. No. 2,42 cto 44c; oats. No. 2 wtote, »e to 86c; batter, creamery, 15c to 21c; «MN Western, 13c to 14c.

BECKER TELLS AĹ

BGfota Kfo WBfe wßfo * Wratettert and ■amtei Ker Amgtelt A_ Beatas. Gfar Cfiijragv* wflte , mnrdtwffl:. unade a semindi uonfosmim to ttbe ipuliee Tuesday niidin. Um a detailed -tttatemran tto JhafHcmmr Hunt he told of a .crime sub nuouftimg nfinc Str- some time swen the 3»rib<w> n«Cln«»d to believe at. ( In The juusunne off Chief off Pbliite Kiphy. tiHgeettirr Bimit. Chpttaihi Lavin and Asshttam Sbam«~s; Annmnu’F Fkimson. the ‘hnrty saususe miriletr ami said S»e had killed ibis wdifte Bgr stnrikmg her uu rihe Brand wiiifii < ttrUMiten ih> the ftiix’hen of his home.. Be tthem «utt tfot brafe to- pieces omd ’bulled iit iin ;a Hinge tatUdte. After w.atthing aftra -Ibshcegratanu. off rhe remains Str sttoenud htttnsi. amfi wh-u nothing w as Ihfftt UhHI mtsemiillttli ;n Human, botiy RedhHr says he n-tolk whut m-mainedi and ■burned it B» a med-lb<n stozun. the tire huv ing Steen ffnepuuiefi by him The bones, which wfitilfi mtn hmm. hi- ilinhetl om the jmiinie near his Junin: Redker OHeeirts nhe «nime was not premeditated. linn ohitt lie qjnmreh-tl' with his wife., amd iin nhe hem off puramm; he- struck her -on the head wiitfti the- htoefiet. Only -one hbtw w.as mue&td to- canse -leath and •nfttr that had hetm stnruifik ttlie sausage maher ssgys he- nhtughi off the- way n»- disptoseoff She awsmiinsoff his w.ifo iin order to dewtrfp- afll ohtmtte off tOetettriom Augnffl A_ Bbwhen kiiheii Uis- wife Jian. 2a. shirt was mrtt amnesnell Ben the murder uirr.il oifhur he had mimriirii » BT-yetm-edd girl named hila shriUeniliiL. JKliem Shelter lirougifl his ruiiffie- heme- it aunseed gossip; whirh aeuKhed tribe eurrs off tile poilire.. anil tonify Jed to Efirttaris ostrnsti. At first Beckeir detuied hirimc hllhdi his stating uhot she- had Ihffli him amli same- to- IEI- - Tmhu pnessune- Be- finally made I a ffrilee -cimSeewiini. iiu whvli. he- said that he had piwhad his wi'ffie iim»- the Ihlie at the foot off nhe Bhmfidbh srawet pier: This •was mm heiltoedl. amd muni: TkesdUy night ' nhe true stony off hiw Bbulier Hilled. His wife wns mm kmtwni.

TOOK 400 PRISONERS.

gieiutnnfl JCttmatara liWteirtts. Bruy laws <na ffß&nnMKi. Gen. Ul»wd WUitutom. «'«nimnmlimg the rutted fiurtes tuning acwdteif ami defeated a tonrae off 2!HMi Fiilpimis- at Pasig W-etoisdhis afftemuoma inffiirring: a ffieawy Boss Ttjimi mhtnn. TBir Anutcunm buss was slight. 'Hbf Amatriiiums eupnirwl: 35W> iFilipineK. Minty tho Hies off nettels- killed, in the imgHgitnetm tfitutotli ifisrem trite river. •Gen. WllHwtoms bniignfie soniunnes the wradk >eff «fttunting •«« trite- neitelis aawnd Pasig. Tile Watetiimgnun, wiihnceens tnrefl amd tinrrmed Puhoimh. mwvrimg with a shinji fire Srsm tribe enittnu white I'rrasung the river.. TUit- tfiginimg wms lllte that of the last wraik.. trite- ihaongautts oinoitsiinally making a -SHnid. Hint uveurnitiilj tteeing. The tprugness off trite- Amaateams aifivamre has ibeen etow. Three ttousimd imsunatnlt-s tmiveil down Tuesday might to uoiwms off Pasig ami! Pateros, mi share off Hisptumbn hwy,, fronting Wheitom”-* treqps oni Pasig niivwr line. iieawy ’fighting Kite atom dite'teigral ami drove them Ihadk. nofidiug -WWi prisoner* and inflicting Itewwv- Bess iiu Ihllteli anil wounded. Bis Boss wots very nentero-te. Be mow uiteiQiies ttitese- ttowms with, siifieieirt Horae So ihiilfi ttitemi. ttffidißls axt trite- Warr EteptHrttnent aregratified own- tribe viiitionibs off MJem. Wheaton. mid pmefiidt ffimtriien- smtiressCui: ai£wanaes in the mtiun- ffttntne:. fin iis tiniierstood thin the jpdtey off Ghm. Otriis its to drive the insurgituts wriiriteun eessutiHm into the imeuhnwated mcgim befionw trite- rainy seasim sets in. Ttene tritey will tiaive miching to subsist om. amfi ih os tritoingu- tritey will lay flown tteiir inruns. TRlis has been jHHwentefl Shrawtotone- By ui gvnenal! belief among thtnn tritac tritey wouilii be shut or inqirisimefl iff tritey susneni&mrad

WASHINGTON COSSIP

Il has Wen <fl*fltHitnihudl &♦. wuinfiihraiw all the v»duirHe<r flfrmn (Cliiiis with, alt powdliie dugundh. ontßnrs Be nhis- effibet ing been ihsmefl By nfie- SSwEettwry off War. There awe Owes nwunoms Stir ttfiis- •Betision, one iteiup the treatgsnmtfttifni off the army, mid the other BeMause nttw iuu+uniiEwry drtiims -wixidh wiill ftsuwt ihi at! tflbe be--ghmiug -off Tlhe main? - In ns espeeC■efl to haw all nftir wilimneerrs ontt off the island ■wiuhin a nitnfihi until oeirttainifer by May 1. ffhtw ;iwe naw aftitnfl vobnuteers unifl wihtm nftew awe wihlblhaiwn regulars wtill nirtt the swm tt»t nwOeve- them fft •as rtfbe ffhwHifiuM wishms to. gurrbwnn •Cuba wtttbatsamdllui num&Hroff tnuops as {possible om a«cu>uilT off nihe lieuitii «ouditMnis. This miiwumein wiill Begin! aC ■once aufl hll rtthe wdhnfluews wiill be netnnmi•efl as semi uss ffiMnrqjentts earn Be- snppliedl When ilffie tlnmqps nwiaihi thus wwunrry they will the annftkmffi outt att rhe- poet ax wthiidh Ties' nwnw. amfl gswm nw<a rnitncW extxa pay, logfUthetr wirtih nftaiir Sane- Ibtnu--..

The 'OUfftoms awdivOs off She gnmemunen* awe •Clinfiiing Aidby., <ii wtnfihjr tw> tfi>r tmvu»tny 'bureau <eff JtttomacK They ace coming to att tthe km off BSMMUOM ai diiy„ <ar more Shan heflff tthe dhrQir <esgwntfinw>s ®f the goxieanmanit, ais ftp tfiu bimc®rds toe tofff fitw jaunts. IMmihg: die totter pout tdbe year HOIS tthe waw new«ne teas fcrausfiit to $55396.833;; nto dhty m tea anaiiunted te 32.T3H.TWL mu U efie Pacific Mnarnafi otoes ffmtefl MD4L--404. AS teU tthe ttrttril newiQtK off the year M9B wwwe $442012511. Senator Enfahntos off Knlhmm vns the neclpMto iff a :R)un»sih senmA. gift TtMt toafle. ttfhe ipifflt -iff ai jprMieffitil s»B----toier whose *tosdhnigK* he hnß pwsnmeß Cnter the mew arnny BiiD thaw w3H be Mt oeconfi Ilieinmuntte awwtoteA. amt aMonfig W»00 aQQffictoitms aee aftwatCt filed. Cdhmdl KThmfies E. Awtt. tarnn Speaher <«ff the hitenui langHtottniwu neoestflF fllrinn Manila, wteae hr wwnff as .judge afivwuOK, espuieHMes tdhe opthmm tihrtt the .rs weftwimg the neciflritaanit FHfcgtoxas to at aeftnons <ne axnll wiQl ampniie consiteisftfie Osmo. The ggM>s nsotMtom off toe DhHgAteiiß off toe JtoaatotM Beototofin tot Oernn— Jtat CWBtoy mb a gtoa etotot at toe Wtobkgte —toil sananau .. <no—K ter

FACTS ABOUT SAMOA.

foraiKr Wants to Rule the Little Group-Her Trade There Xa Small. The Germans wapt the ruling hand set Samna. They cannot claim this on the strength of their superiority In trade with the islands, for in this respect they fall far below the United States, Great Britain and Australasia. In 1807 the islands imported $53,415 worth of goods from the United States, FTA-T** from Great Britain and only $5,562 from Germany. The Germans, however, prepare and export a great deal of copra, and they own most of the- land that foreigners hold in the islands. Of the 135,000 acres, about onesixth of the area of the group owned by foreigners, at least 85,000 acres, including the best land in the islands, is owned by the Germans. This landed estate was secured by the original Ger man trading firm, and its successor, have never parted with an acre of it. The great drawback of Samoa is that it is so far from markets. Its best products are tropical fruits, which are abundantly produced, but distance from, markets prevents exportation. California is fifteen days by steam, and freight rates are prohibitive. Besides, California is itself a fruit country. New Zealand is five days distant, but its whole population is not much more than that of Baltimore. Sydney is eight dhys away by steam, but Australia and New Zealand have islands nearer them, notably Fiji, which grow ail the tropical fruits they want. So no fruit is shipped from Apia, the only port of the islands. In 1888 the Ceylon coffee disease first appeared on the plantations of Samoa, and in a short time put an end to the coffee production in that group. No attempt has since been made to raise coffee.

Practically the whole business of -Samoa is based to-day upon the cocoanut. and the export of copra, the dried meat of the cocoanut, represents nearly all the exports of the islands. In 1897, nearly 11.000,000 pounds of copra, the native product, were exported in addition to the large quantity raised’bn the German plantations. But even in her copra Samoa is not particularly fortunate. Some fifteen years ago there was an enormous demand for copra, with the result that the cocoanut tree was planted on the coast of every sea where It would grow. A few years biter the markets were glutted with copra, prices fell about one-half, and the days of the prosperity of that trade have not since returned. What with her potttical troubles and the causes that have conspired to keep her commerce small. Samoa has uot had a very prosperous history., The time is com Ing. however, when she will see better days. The resources of the group, which, all told, is about as large as Rhode Island, have yet scarcely l>een touched. In fact, nobody lives mote than three or four miles from the sea, ami the inner pajrts of the islands have not been utilized.—New Y’ork Sun.

VARYING VIEWS.

What Work or Event of the Century I» Most Important? A Berlin paper opened a wide and interesting field for discussion by asking: “What work, or what event, of the nineteenth century is of the most importance tn Germany, very naturally, the most answers favor the foundation of the German empire by Bismarck. Next In order of numbers come those who believe that the Darwin theory is the most important contribution to the world’s knowledge and is entitled to occupy first place. Then opinions take on many hues, some standing up for the- discovery of chloroform and others for some particular discovery in the field of astronomy. Along a line entirely distinct is the suggestion of a Mrs. Suttner, who votes for the Czar’s manifesto, while her husband, who must be a shallowpated man, suggests the Dreyfus affair. Many women consider the “woman movement** in general the most important development of the- century, which is not so bad. We are most surprised that the commercial use of electricity did not receive- precedence. It is of more importance- to humanity than the unification of Germany, which may not be at all permanent, or the Darwinian theory, which, as a well-established theory. Is stitt rejected by some aide scientists. But the- field is open for guesswork and people with hobbies will favor their hobbies.

Willing to Oblige.

Ail unkempt-looking fellow stopped ad a suburban residence and asked for employment. The lady of the house, wheat the moment was superintending the- removal of some plants, emerged firwx the greenhouse and asked him if he wae a gardener. “1 ain’t had much experience,” was the repfy. “Well, can you plant these shrubs?’' “1 shouhln’t like to risk spoiling them, ■toftaaL*** “Well; what can you do?’ “Weft, ma’am,” he replied meditattoiHSr, “if you’ll give me one of your hasßaadTb cigars I’ll sit in the greenhoose and smoke out the insects that’s cattag up the leaves of them rose

As soon m a girl gets a violin she ‘ weate her way to the photographer’s and Bos her picture taken with it in ;her arms. A woman does the same ; wBHk her first baby, and a woman who &a» neither recently sat for a picture with her sewing In her hands. She Sgsred tiiat it would look natural. ; When a man has plenty of time to “aegwr m toe streets, it fa a sign that he fas Bttte else to do, ■m frnpfir are a> kind tlmt raying Had yonT beeomes work.