Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1899 — Page 6

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK. Publisher. " ."Art*- ■ 11 _ RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

At St. Lottis the grand jury returned indietnients against State Beiler Inspector Charles Price and IT. H. Phelper, member of the board of examiners for stationary engineers, for rewiring illegal fees. In an interview given the London Times Rear Admiral Sampson says the United States has more to gain from an alliance with Great Britain than that nation has and he rejoices in the growth of international amity. West Point men arc indignant because certain cadets who were found deficie.it in their studies and who on that accos’nt were dismissed from the military academy. have been appointed se< i.nTi licUt’Hants in t'-ie at. y. Joseph ais rhiin declare.l in the British House of Commons that the relations bet ween Great Britain and the South African Government constitute a real danger and that President Kruger bad broken every pledge. The State Department at Washington has received a draft for $40,600 from the Peruvian Government, adjudged by the arbitrators hi the case of Alexander McCord, an American, who was .ill-treated in a Peruvian revolution years ago. The two mine pump men, Charles Reuss and Burt Froy, who were imprisoned’ in the Boh Air mine at Leadville, Colo., thirteen days before, were reached the other night mid restored to their friends. They show little effects of their experience. An alarming explosion occurred in a laboratory of explosives attached to the War Department in Paris, where experiments were being made with a pew kind of gunpowder. Chief Engineer Veil, Assistant Engineer DOuville and a third official were injured. The attempt to secure the release of the Younger lioys. who are serving life sen fences in the Minnesota penitentiary for their connection with the shooting of a Northfield bank cashier and others, in which the James boys were said to be also concerned, failed in the State Senate. The Central Trust Company has brought suit in the United States Court at Columbus against the Ohio Mining and Manufacturing ComjMtny to have a receiver appointed for tin* Perry County Coal Company. It is claimed that the company owes the trust company s”<>••,<M.H> and interest. Great excitement prevails in Pleasanton, Kan., over the rich strike in the zine mine. For several days the miners have been following the lead and taking out orc, but the matter was kept quiet until now. when the company became satisfied that rich zinc was there in large quantities. Thomas Wiggs, son of State Senator Joseph W. Wiggs of Pike County, Ind., literally ent Wesley Hurt to pieces. Wiggs had been employed temporarily to teach school at Carbon. Hurt called at the school house, and. nourishing a pistol, told Wiggs that he had a grudge against him and one of them l»a*i to die. Wiggs ran at Hurt with a pocketknife and slashed him across the chest and abdomen, and his brother, who was a pupil in the school, stabbed him in the back. The prospectus of the National Straw Board Company has been issued. It says that the company is to be incorporated under the laws of New Jersey with a capital stock of $(1,000,000, equally divided between common and 7 |>er cent cumulative preferred stock. The company will have a working capital of $200,000, and is expected by its managers to control half thy straw board output of the couptry. An agreement will be reached, it is said, with the American Straw Board Company, which controls the other half of the output. A terrible explosion of powder occurred at Dewitt. Ark., as a result of which two children were fatally injured, several other persons badly hurt and property to the value of several thousand dollars destroyed'. The explosion occurred in of S. L. Leslie. A rejxirt was heard and the explosion which followed wrecked the building. About a dozen people were in the building at the time, including Mr. Letdleji-family and some customers. Two of Leslie's children were fatally burned. The others were more or less injured, several badly, but not fatally." It is supposed the explosion was caused by the children playing in the store, who, it is thought, accidentally set fire to the keg of powder.

BREVITIES.

Oyster growers and dealers are planning a $10,000,000 combine. Matthew Mills of Chicago has been elected president of the Yale Y. M. C. A. I>r. Hauer, the eminent geologist and member of the German privy council, is dead. A convention delimiting the frontiers of Great Britain ami France in the Nile Talley has been signed at London. William 11. Oakley. 72 years of age, president of the National Citizens’ Bank, died from enlargement of the lieart at New York. At Wichita, Kan., Nina Haymond has been arrested and placed in jail, charged with the murder of Edwin C. Jones. She admits that she struck him over the head with a bed slat. Charles Haun and a boy named Hull were struck by an east-bound Rio Grande passenger train while (Tossing the tracks in a wagon seven miles south of Salt Lake, Utah, and both instantly killed. At San Francisco. John Epperson, a jockey and part owner of the horses Texarkana and Bessie Lee, was stabbed to death by James J. Gilligan, a horse rubber, the men had been enemies for a long time. During the absence of John Dian and wife of Grenfell, Man., from their farm their residence caught fire and their five children were burned to death. r - According to advices from th»> Orient the Emperor of Corea has caused a sepoation by appearing in a full uniform ent tn American fashion. His attendants ulso have been attiredin American style. k General Duckett, a negro, who murdered James Stockton, a planter," was lynched by a Dnekett had been Magaths bottoms siace the crime, but WM Wtiptet* <h>r render. He coufesseA Ae

EASTERN.

Mrs. Martha Place was put to death in the electric ehair at Sing Sing, N. Y. Survivors of the Windsor Hotel horror at New York allege that the fire was started by robbers. Mrs. Emily Marie Fish, wife of Hamilton Fish of New York, died at Washington, of heart disease. Rev. Dr. Albert S. Gumbert, pastor of the Dudley Street Baptist Church, Boston, died suddenly, aged 46. Capt. William Everett died at Delaware City, Del., of pneumonia. He graduated from West Point in 1868. Reports come from New York of a prospective conference between sugar and coffee men to patch up a truce and end the present trade war. W. J. Fitzgerald, a clerk in the distributing department of the 1 ittsburg postofli< e since 1805, was arrested while steal.l:.: moneyed letters. An inventory of the person; I estate of Charles B. Wright, late pres . ■ nt of the Nor:hern Pacific Railroad, til: I in Philadelphia. places its value at $3,1)50,921.56. Fire destroyed the five-story building occupied by A, J. Hague & Co., 354 Broadway, New York, and Elliott & Co., next door. Both firms were importers. The loss is several hundred thousand dollars. Mrs. Anna Hays Byers, widow of Eben M. Byers, the Pittsburg millionaire manufacturer, whose last sickness and the events connected with it a few’ years ago caused such a sensation throughout the country, has been adjudged a lunatic. Robert M. Floyd, the 19-year-old son of Robert Floyd, general superintendent of the Cunard Steamship Company’s offices in New York, committed suicide. The suicide is absolutely without a known causp. The lad failed to leave any word. The southwestern limited on the Lake Shore road was w recked at West Seneca, N. Y.. by an ice-clogged switch. Engineer Henry 8. Shattuck was killed and Brakeman George W. Roberts was severely injured. While the passengers were roughly shaken up, none was injured. A new satellite of the planet Saturn lias been discovered by Prof. William H. Pickering at the Harvard observatory. This satellite is three and a half times as distant from Saturn as Lapetus, the outermost satellite hitherto known. The period is about seventeen months and the magnitude 13%. Merrill & Soule and the Loomis-Allen Company, large manufacturers of canned good# at Syracuse, N. Y., have been approached by outside parties interested in the same line of business with a proposition to form a trust, capitalized at $20,000,000. Amalgamation is expected to take place June 1.

WESTERN,

Orville B. Skinner, aged 05, for several years traffic manager of the Big Four road, is dead at Cleveland. At Jamestown, Cal., the Crystal group of mines has been sold by C. E. Shafter to an Edinburgh (Scotland) syndicate for $250,000. The bursting of nn oil tank on the lease of the Stark Oil Company caused a fire at Scio, Ohio, that destroyed $30,000 worth of property. At Cleveland, Judge Walter C. Ong has tiled a petition in voluntary bankruptcy. His liabilities are placed ta $35,000. Assets are given as $22,000. The seven passengers who had been snowed in at Iron Mountain, Wyo., on the Cheyenne and Northern Railroad for two weeks, have been rescued. The California Legislature has adjourned sine die, without electing a United States Senator to succeed Stephen M. White, whose term has expired. At Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Elmer Gifford ami Ella Wharfield were to have been married the other evening. Gifford died suddenly of heart disease during the day. Dr. Oliver Marcy, dean of Northwestern University and that institution's patriarch, died at his home in Evanston, 111. His illness extended over a period of about nine weeks. The home of John Moore at Hutchinson, Kan., was burned to the ground, the result of a lamp explosion, and his five children, ranging in age from 3to 12 years, lost their lives. At Detroit, George J. Mink, aged 10, was stabbed under the left shoulder blade by Xavier Glombin, a 12-year-old boy, who, it seems, started a quarrel with him. The blade pewstrated the lung. Edward Osterhide, a white man, 32 years old, and “Bud” Price, a negro, 24 years old, were killed in an election riot at St. Louis. Three men are under arrest. charged with the shooting. One of the bloodiest combats which ever occurred in Hot Springs, Ark., took place the other afternoon nt 4 o'clock. As a result of the fierce conflict five men nre dead and another dangerously wounded. Benjamin F. Hutchinson, famous for gigantic deals on the Chicago Board of Trade and known the country over as “Old Hutch,” died at the Lake Geneva (Wis.) sanitarium. His passing away was due to heart failure.

The smelters and tools at the alleged gold mine at Malvern, Ohio, are in the hands of the sheriff of Carroll County, who levied on them to satisfy a judgment. The strike of gold bearing quartz has proved to be a myth. It is believed by the officials of Yellowltone National Park that the unprecedented heavy fall' of snow in the park this year will cause the death of many elk, deer and antelope, as they cannot dig through the frozen crust and obtain food. In the Federal Court at Wichita, Kan., the jury gave Mrs. Williams of Austin, Texas, judgment for $42,000 against a defunct bank of Arkansas City. Her certificate of deposit was changed to a certificate'of stock just before the failure. Gov. Stanley was her attorney. Forty-nine of the members of the Skeedee Indian tribe in the Creek nation have died from smallpox since Jan. 1. There are but 105 members in thiq tribe. It is said that when an Indian discovers hi fans the smallpox he crawls into the brush and dies from lack of care and starvation. The Royal clay works at Midvale, Ohio, one of the largest industries of its kind, will resume operations soon, after an Idleness of three years. Over twt> hundred men will be given employment. The works were recently purchased by the Crown-Clay works, with headquarters at Akron. *. ’ ; » The first of three,’eases brought by &t. Louis <t»qKet> brokers' against Lafayette 'MbM’ilVtm* of Chicago and other memMrt of the central anti-ticket ncalpiug

committee for alleged defamation waa dismissed in St. Louis. The other two cases were withdrawn at plaintiffs’ cost. The Tacoma police say that J. Schwarts, who, according to Dawson ad-

vices, has been sentenced to eight years’ imprisonments is the “King of Diamond Swindlers,” who is notorious in Europe and America. The offense for which he is being punished was committed last July in Dawson. He was in the habit of paying his bills with gold dust, in which a large percentage of brass filings was mixed, and was successful for a long time before his artifice was discovered. The romance of being the white bride of a full-blood Sioux Indian has been suddenly dispelled in the case of the Chicago young woman who went to Gordon, Neb., last summer on the way to Pine Ridge Indian agency. She was then the wife of White Thunder, an Indian whom she met in a wild west show. A few days ago •White Thunder was accused of abusing his wife, who is now a domestic in the homo of B. J. Gleason. Three Indian policemen undertook to arrest White Thunder, when he opened fire, killing one policeman and wounding another. White Thunder finally surrendered and was takeb to jail at Pine Ridge.

SOUTHERN.

Joseph Medill, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, died at his winter home in San Antonio, Texas, of heart failure. He was 76 years of age. A series of terrific windstorms swept through portions of Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas, doing an immense amount of property damage and killing a number of persons. In a wreck on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad near Wheeler, Ky., caused by a landslide, Charles Painter of Jellico, fireman, was killed, and the engineer, Charles Shively, injured. A mob of Mexicans tried to prevent the removal of the smallpox patients in Laredo, Texas, to the pesthouse. One of the officials was badly beaten and a number of the mob were shot by officers. Six men of the Fifteenth Minnesota have been sent from Augusta, Ga., to St. Francis Barracks, Fla. It is understood tbeir sentences are for one year, except in the case of Williams, the ringleader in the recent trouble, who got six years. Members of the Legislature at Little Rock, Ark., were panic-stricken when it was announced that physicians had diagnosed the case of Senator Lankford as smallpox. After a half hour's debate the House voted to vaccinate all its members.

WASHINGTON.

Because they are not expressly mentioned in the reward bill passed by Congress the auditor of the Navy Department has decided that the volunteers who served in the marine corps during the recent war will not receive extra pay. The quartermaster's department at Washington has received a report from Santiago, saying that out of more than 300 disinterments of the remains of soldiers to be brought to this country 26 per cent are unknown dead. It is expected the percentage of unknown will be much less than this when the list is complete. A dispatch from Washington says: “In view of the early exchange of ratification of the treaty of peace with Spain the State Department will make immediate arrangements for reopening its consulate in that country. It is the understanding that the President will reappoint practically all of the officials who were withdrawn upon the outbreak of war. Instructions will be given to the consuls to do everything in their power to promote cordial relations between Spain and the United States, and especially devote their attention to re-establishing satisfactory trade relations.” The Postoffice Department is constantly receiving a large amount of evidence tending to show the popularity of the rural free delivery system where it has been tried, and the desire for the extension of the service to other territory where it is not yet in operation. The original appropriation by the last Congress under President Cleveland’s administration for the trial of the system was $50,000, and the Fiftyfourth Congress followed this with an appropriation of $150,000 to continue the experiment. The Congress just ended increased this amount to $300,000, aud the system is now considered practically a permanent feature of the Postoffice Department.

FOREIGN.

Denmark now wants to secure a port in China. The German Reichstag has passed a compromise army bill on lines acceptable to the Emperor. The United States cruiser Philadelphia has arrived at Apia, Samoa, and Admiral Kautz has held conferences with the consuls. Admiral Dewey has reported the arrival of the battleship Oregon at Manila, with her condition unimpaired by her long sea voyage. Maj. Gen. Ludlow, military governor of the department of Havana, desires to be relieved of his present duties and sent to the Philippines. Mrs. Harold Frederic, widow of the well-known American correspondent and novelist, who died in London in October last, is dead of cancer. The Spanish cabinet council has decided that the treaty of peace with the United States should be ratified immediately after the dissolution of the Cortes. Gen. Gomes, in a speech at Havana, intimated that he might, in deference to the overwhelming demand of the Cuban people, accept the presidency of the island republic. The Spanish Government has concluded a loan of 30,000,000 pesetas with the banking house of Urquijo. The money will be devoted to paying the arrears due the Spanish troops which have served in Cuba. The strongly fortified village of Caitai, northwest of Pasig, was captured after a desperate fight by the Twentieth regular infantry. The Americans lost seventeen wounded, while the rebels’ loss was heavy. The steamer China, from the- Orient via Honolulu, brings news of the death of Princess Kaiulani of Hawaii. The cause of death was attributed to inflamnfatory rheumatism. The princess was born; Oct. 16, 1875, The yacht Norua, in which A. J, Wea-. ver and a party of- friends -Bailed -from. New York Nov. 2, 1896, to “explore.and write up the strange places of the earth,” has arrived at Colombo, Ceylon, after a stormy passage through the Red Sea. ▲ serious conflict between the police and people of Havana resulted in much shoot-

Ing and dabbing. From thirty to fifty people were wounded, some seriously. Among the injured is Police Captain E«tampes, formerly a colonel iu the Cuban army. News has been received from Smyrna that' 6,000 Cretan Mussulman refugees, who were in lack of work and food, invaded nnd pillaged the Greek and Turkish quarters of the city, a conflict resulting, in which many persons were killed or wounded. Boron von Morepheim, former Russian ambassador to France, in an interview at Pau denounces as a “clumsy invention’’ the story that he is the real cnlprit who sold both Russian and French military secrets to Germany, and that Dreyfus is innocent. A dispatch from Stockholm says that King Oscar, at the request of Dr. Nordenskjold, has provided F. R. Martin with 1,500 kroner in order that he may make a search in Siberia for Prof. Andree and his companions. It is added that Martin has started on his search. The legislative council of India has adopted the countervailing sugar bill. The viceroy of India, Lord Curzon of Kedelston, expressed satisfaction at the unanimous feeling of the council on the subject of the bill. He said the fullest inquiries had shown the necessity of urgency in the case, and he condemned the bounty system as being “a vicious expedient for selfish interests.”

IN GENERAL

Oliver Provost was hanged at Port Arthur, Ont. Provost murdered two French swine herders named Carrie and Delvin, Feb. 10, 1897. At Toronto, Ont., James Beatty, exMayor and ex-member of parliament, is dead from the effects of a paralytic stroke, which he suffered six weeks ago. The Seaman's Landlord Association has decided that in future sailors in deep water vessels leaving San Francisco must be paid S3O a month instead of S2O, as at present.

The "Esperanza mine at El Oro, one of the famous mines- in - Mexico, has been bonded to an English syndicate, which puts up SIOO,OOO for freight money. The price of the mine is fixed at $3,000,000 gold, aud the option expires on April 25. The Antarctic exploring expedition's steamer, the Southern Cross, has arrived at Tort Chalmers, New Zealand, after landing Borchgrevink and his party at Cape Adair, Victoria Island. She reports that all the explorers were in good health when landed.

Far in the frozen north, a few miles off the desolate Dalton trail, Canadian and American miners have met in deadly conflict. Four are reported to have been killed outright and a number of others have been seriously wounded. The trouble arose over the possession of a rich placer gold field, 100 Americans attempting to drive fifty Canadians oat. At Halifax,* N. S., the Canadian Government officials have seizeed the Beaver line steamshin Lake Ontario, now under charter by the Atlantic Steamship Company, upon the claim that the steamer waa lauding dry goods belonging to a Denver, Colo., woman on which the duty had not been paid. The agents of the vessel were required to give bond and the ship was released. Miners who have arrived at Seattle from Copper river, Alaska, say that Gov. Brady has been requested to ask the Government to send a vessel to Copper river for the purpose of bringing home stranded prospectors. There are between 200 and 300 of these men who are without means to secure transportation. Many of them are suffering from scurvy. Bradstreet’s says: “An activity which in some directions represents the continuance of pre-existing conditions and in others reflects a special impulse communicated by the near approach of spring forms the leading note of this week's trade advices. In the iron and steel industries activity continues unabated, the upward tendency of prices Icing strikingly maintained, and the eagerness of consumers to take the product remaining unchanged. The more springlike weather has induced a greater keenness in the demand for seasonable goods, and from most sections of the country come reports of a marked activity in jobbing lines having to do with dry goods, millinery and footwear. Cotton fabrics generally are in a strong position. Wool does uot display any animation, though prices are maintained. The lumber trade exhibits every indication of activity. The cereals weakened during the week, probably in sympathy with wheat. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 4,114,046 bushels, against 4,398,821 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 4,211.326 bushels, against 3,737,586 bushels last week.”

THE MARKETS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 69c; corn, No. 2,34 cto 35c; oats, No. 2,25 c to 27c; rye. No. 2,54 cto 55c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; potatoes, choice, 63c to 70c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; bogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 70c; corn. No. 2 white, 34c to 35c; oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 33c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $3T.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats. No. 2,27 cto 29c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 56c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 2,58 cto 60e. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 74c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c; rye, 59c to 61c. No. 2 mixed, 70c to 72c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; rye, Nd. 2,54 c to 56c; clover seed, new, $3.55 to $3.60. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring, 66c to 67c; corn. No. 3,32 cto 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 1,54 cto 56c; barley, No. 2, -45 c to 47c; pork, mess, $9.00 to $9.50.. .Buffalo—Chttle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to< $5.75; hogs, comppon to,/?boice ? $3.25 to $4>25; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3 50 to $5-00; lambs, 'common to extra, $4.50 to W OO- '• New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 80c to 81c; corm Nd, ?, 41c to 43c; oats. No. 2 white, 35c to 36c; butter, creamery, 15c to 22e; ogga. Western, 12c to 14ft ,

AN ANCIENT PROVERB REVERSED.

The $3 000,000 Bird in the Bush Is Worth to Gomez More than the Bird of Uncertain Value in Hand.

WEALTHY CHICAGOAN SHOT,

Affray Takes Place in the Case of the Auditorium Annex. In a crowded dining Yoom of the Auditorium Annex in Chicago, where there were nearly 100 guests, most of them women, H. 11. Hammond shot John T. Shayne Tuesday afternoon. Three shots w’ere fired, two of which took effect.. Hammond made no attempt to escape, but surrendered to the house detective aud was locked up. Both men are well known in Chicago. Shayne being the head of the firm of John T. Shayne & Co., furriers. Hammond is a merchant tailor at 189 Wabash avenue. Jealousy of a peculiar nature was the passion that led Harry Hammond to wreak vengeance on John T. Shayne. Mr. Shayne was dining with the divorced wife of Hammond and two other ladies. Since her divorce Mrs. Hammond had been receiving the attentions of Shayne, who is a widower, and it was alleged they were soou to be married. It is not apparent that Hammond grieved over the loss of his wife by divorce; in fact, he made no effort to prevent her securing one. At the commencement of the shooting the ladies with Mr. Shayne fled to the palm gallery at the epd of the room. Mrs.

JOBS T. SHAYNE.

Hammond had seemed to fear trouble on observing Hammond enter the case, and had cautioned her companions not to speak to him. After the first shot the victim of Hammond's rage dropped under the table. A panic reigned in the hotel Immediately. Guests ran into the lobbies screaming for assistance, and waiters sought places of safety on the second floor. The assailant started to leave the room by the entrance to the lobby, but was confronted by the head waiter and chief clerk. He was led unresisting to the private office of the Annex, and taken into custody.

WOMEN PERISH IN A FIRE.

Blaze in an Omaha Business Block Deals Death and Injuries. As a result of what was at first said to be an explosion of a gasoline stove nearly two score women were imprisoned in the. third story of the Patterson block at Omaha. Thirteen of the women leaped to the stone pavement below. One was killed instantly and all the others more or less seriously injured, and a number are expected to die. The plight of the victims was witnessed by thousands of people, who were unable to render aid. "The women were forced to jump or be burned to death. The victims are all members of the women's branch of the Royal Neighbors and of the Maccabees, and at the time the fire broke out were in session in Labor Temple, which occupies the top story of the building. The explosion occurred in a closet under the stairway leading to the room occupied by the women, and from the first their escape from that direction was cut off. A fire escape was available on the opposite side of the building, but the only woman who had presence of mind sufficient to reach that point was Mrs. Brosius, and she fainted from excitement the moment she reached the ladder and dropped the full distance. The victims are all more or less prominent, most of them being members of the Knights of the Maccabees, as welt as the other orders: They were in the lodge room at their secret work when cries from the street attracted theiy attention.

Notes of Current Events.

The President has -approved the plans of Adjt;. Hen. Corbin- for the reorganization o£ the army. . • . • , Qu rainydajs.Gov.Roosevelb still dons tfte, old x| smnbrefQ which Jte Santiago anil Ban .Tuan. .Manufacturers nt Bangor, Me., are sending canoes of birch bark and canvas to China, Japan and Palestine. Cuban newspapers urge the natives to turn banditti because the United States is giving the island an economical government. ~ ,

GERALD LAPINER FOUND.

Kidnaped Child Imprisoned in an Ohio Farmhouse. A clover country girl solved the mystery. Chicago police were quick to take her advice after almost a year’s fruitless

GERALD LAPINER.

kept carefully locked up for ten months in a little out-of-the-way farm house. No motive has been discovered yet to have induced the woman to lure the child from his home, 4835 Prairie avenue, Chicago, last Memorial Day. Louis Lapiner and his wife, after offering rewards and following clews all over the lake States, had almost given up hope of ever finding the youngest of their three boys. It seemed a “Charley Ross case No. 2.” Detectives all over the country abandoned the chase, and little Gerald, once so prominent because of his strange disappearance, had been well-nigh forgotten.

The real discoverer of the lost child was Miss O. C. Ferris. Miss Ferris saw the child by’accident as she passed the window of the farm house kitchen. He was tied to the table, crying lustily. As no one came to his relief she knocked at the door until she convinced herself no one else was in.the house. Then she tried to open the door, but it was locked. All the windows were bolted, an unusual thing in that part of the country. Next day she set inquiries afoot and found that an old man and a mysterious woman had gone to live in the farm house months before. Her instinct told her it was a case of kidnaping. She went home and racked her brain to think of some case of abduction she had read about in the newspapers. The only one she could remember was that of little Gerald Lapiner. She sought her brother and they wrote to Chicago, and baby Lapiner was found.

WINTER WHEAT IS DAMAGED.

Peculiar Weather Conditions Are Responsible for This. 5 That the winter wheat sown last fall under the most favorable condition has been seriously damaged by the peculiar weather conditions which have prevailed is shown by reports from all the winter wheat producing States. The estimates as do the damage vary in a marked degree, some States reporting almost a total loss, while others report that the crop will be of fair size, but of a poor quality. Ohio, judging from the reports, appears to have suffered less than other States, while the conditions in Illinois are unfavorable, to say the least. Favorable weather from now on may change all this, however. Apprehension, rather than serious damage, has been caused on the Pacific coast by lack of moisture, but it is believed that at the proper time the West will come forward with her regular crop. Winter wheat was sown last fall under very generally favorable conditions. There was abundant moisture over the f whole belt, with excess in but limitde districts. Opportunity for carefully preparing the seed bed was ample and the crop went into the ground in excellent shape. The only complaint came from some districts in the central valleys, where there was an excess of moisture, which delayed seeding and finally resulted in the seed going into a soil that was too wet at a date later than is considered desirable. On the Pacific coast seeding was delayed by the absence of the Usual fall and early winter rains. To this review of the general character of the season tittle can be added in the way of definite statement of the actual effect on the crop. Apparently all conditions have been favor- * CT 0 serioUß and widespread injury, and tjtat such has been the result is the opinion of at least of the local observers upon jwhpse Tata this se-/ . ries of crop reviews is based. - 1 . \ I Go Bang, a wire-haired fox terrier, the property of a prominent New' Yorker.en-' joys the distinction of on Bis life, the highest insurance a,dqg, ever hiifLlJe.may take additional pride: thaf the premium paid is unprecedented. So valuable is Go Bang that when an insurance company demanded SSOO for a $3,000 policy for a year the owner paid it without a murmur. The Canadian Government has decided to construct a telegraph line to connect the Yukon territory with British Columbia.

work. Then the sheriff of Lake County, Ohio, arrested the alleged ibductors of Gerald Lapiner on a farm two miles west of Painesville and restored the long-lost child to his mother. The prisoners are John Collins and Mrs. Ann Ingersoll. The boy had been