Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1899 — Page 2

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EVENTS OF THE WEEK

E It ia offiHaliy anaouaced that the Brit|gish ambassador at Washington. Sir Julian . Pauncefote, and the British minister at ft The Hague, H. Howard, have been apgpointed British representatives at the r peace conference called by the Osar. I’ The Albatross, a new type of torpedo gfeboat destroyer, just built at Chiswick for I' the British navy, has attained a speed of gpthirty-three knots on her trial trip. The is 227 feet long and 21 feet in r the beam, with a draught of 2*4 feet. President Barrows announced to the and faculty of Oberlin, Ohio. Kjpllege that a donation of $50,060 has been | received for a new chemical laboratory J building and SIO,OOO for its endowment. || The name of the donor was not given. R ■ William Kinneman was tarred and in Deerfield township. Ohio, by Ktwelve masked men for undue intimacy Kwlth the wife of WiUiam Eidenour. who f is now serving a sentence in the work house. Kinuemau has left the country. ■New York City has been placed in the field for the meeting place of the national ponventions of both parties in 1900 by the organisation of the recently appointed committee of the Board of Trade and Transportation. Gen. McAlpin, chairman. I? The condition of war which has existed between the United States and Spain since April 21, 1898, terminated the other day when the last formalities in the rentoration of peace were performed by the exchange of ratifications of the peace treaty. k F. H. Brigham. Pacific coast inspector of Government surveys, says some of Altadena’s palatial homes, owned by rich men from Chicago and other Eastern points, are inside the California forest reserve recently established by President McKinley. Apologies having l>een made by the GovI ornor, Sir Augustus Hemming, the legislative council of Jamaica withdrew the vote of censure on the Government and voted $500,000 to meet immediate liabilities, pending a rearrangement of the finances •f the island. The battle between the revolutionists under Gen. Pando and the forces of President Alonso, near Oruro. in Bolivia, tasted over an hour, during which time 200 were killed. The victory of the Pando party was complete, and President Alonso fled to Chili. | The steamer City of St. Ixwis. Captain 1 Thorwegan, from New Orleans, is quarantiued at the southern limits of St. Louis because of a case of smallpox found os board. She has thirty first-class and E tfiirty-five second-class passengers, with - 100 deck hands on board. s Two Chicago men, one of whom jocuf larly gave the name of former Mayor Geo. ' B. Swift, the other calling himself Adolph | Van Trangue. were fined $lO each in a ; New York police court. The bogus Ml Swift kissed a pretty girl in the street and a policeman did the rest. Private advices announce the death from falling ISO feet down the Elkhart : shaft, near Chloride, Colo., of John D. Young of Louisville. Ky. He was a son of J. Roe Young. A month ago he received as a gift a mining claim that would < soon have made him a millionaire. B. H. Goodno, who received five votes for Mayor of Bronson, Kan., at a farce election, was declared by the county attorney to have been legally elected under the Australian ballot law and he and the fun set of city oCtcers chosen with him will take their seats at the usual time. George M. Porteous of Chicago has been awarded $750 damages against John Brisben Walker. Porteous sued for $50,000 damages for libel, based on the publication in the Cosmopolitan Magazine of an article entitled “Identifying Criminals,” with twelve reproductions of photographs Of the plaintiff in various attitudes. At Oshkosh, two large factories and several minor plants and buildings went up in smoke in about two hours. The loss aggregates $160,000, and several acres were swept clean. The fire started in the dry kiln of the Choate-Hollister Furniture Company, a' four-story frame structure, which was destroyed ia half an hour. The names then spread to surrounding plants. The Choate-Hollister Furniture Company lost on factory and stock $125,000. J. A. Barnes, owning the Star foundry machine ' works, lost $20,000 on buildings and machinery.

NEWS NUGGETS.

The Roumanian cabinet has resigned. ' In the Irish county councils election the ' Nationalists elected 544 candidate* and the Unionists 119. Five children of Ole Peterson of Viborg. 8. D.. were poisoned by eating wild parsnips. Two of them are dead. .. George Merriam Hyde, writer for magazines. is missing from his home in New , York. Police are looking for him. The State Department finds itself unable to issue a warrant for the surrender to the Mexican authorities of Santiago The Polar Bear Tobacco Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, has sold out to the American Tobacco Company for $1,400,I- Dr. Minton Warner, professor of Latin »t Johns Hopkins University, has accept Bed the Latin professorship at Harvard t niT<?rsiiy. I The Great Northern an' Northern Pa- ‘ <xfic roads have suffered greatly by the . s„ v< l)n t a na. and train service from Pacific const was almost abanfew days. ; ine itngnth Presbyterian, one of the oldest churches in Chicago, caught fire from an overheated furnace and burned to the ground. No lives were lost. There At- Oberlin, Ohio, the Rev. James i"l-ari' W " apoplexy. wages of Ml em •< ■ < fronF* i f 2to 2d per The Tot-

EASTERN.

Brooklyn su cant girts ha vs formed a Yale asks $2,000,000 for her bi-centen-nial in 1901. William C. Wright of Toronto is dead at Chatham. X. Y. Prof. John R. Sweney, the composer, died at his home in Chester. Pa., aged 62 yean. » Thomas Malloy, secretary and treasurer 9f the Onondaga Coarse Salt Association, Syracuse. N. Y„ is dead. Mooes W. Dodd, founder of the publishing house of Dodd. Mead A Co., died at New York. He was 86 yean old. The Mechanics' Bank of New York has purchased the Fulton Bank of Brooklyn, N. Y„ which will go out of business. Rev. W. B. Thorp of Binghamton, N. Y., has received a unanimous call to the South Congregational Church of Chicago. Sir Henry Scholfield. K. 8., who lived in Jersey City, died from pernicious anaemia. He was 66 yean old. Sir Henry was at one time connected with the British diplomatic and consular service. The New York Tribune prints a story from Washington that Secretary Alger will resign when he returns from Cuba and will be succeeded by Gen. Russell Hastings, who was McKinley’s superior officer during the civil war. The first of the threatened glass workers* strikes took place at Elmer, N. J. Manager Bassett of the Elmer glass works refused to recognise the committee which called on him to present the demands of the men and the glass blowers quit work. A fire which originated in the Hershy building at Reading, Pa_ owned by Milton Hershy of Lancaster and occupied by the Lancaster Caramel Company, did over SIOO,OOO worth of damage. The Hershy building was also completely destroyed. Loss on building and contents. $75,000. Samuel M. Graham, well known throughout central Pennsylvania.' was instantly killed near Phillipsburg, Pa., while attempting to get a kodak pciture of a large stump which was being blown out of the ground with dynamite, a sliver striking him on the neck and nearly cutting his head from the body. Fire broke out in the five-story dwelling at 2 East Sixty-seventh street. New York, rhe home of Wallace Andrews, president of the New York Steam Heating Company. The fire spread very rapidly and when the firemen arrived in response to the first alarm they found the interior' of the houses all in Eleven lives were lost. About 3.000 cotton mill operatives are idle as the result of the many strikes in Rhode Island and more than 7,090 looms in the Pawtucket valley. 6,000 of them in the mills owned by Robert McKnight, are not in operation. The latest recruits to the strikers* ranks are the employes of the Natick mills. Agent Holt of the Slater cotton mills, in Slaterville, says that his mills will remain idle until the striking weavers accept the 6 per cent increase in wages, with a 10 per cent raise on some lines of work, as offered.

WESTERN.

Joseph D. Strong, aged 45. an artist, died at San Francisco. L. V. Bockius of Canton, Ohio, died of paralysis, aged 73 years. Fire in the Northern Pacific shops at Mandan. N. D., caused a l<*» of from *50,600 to *75,000. George L. Potter, a Boston capitalist, died at Pasadena, Cat. of consumption. .He wi« 33 years of age. The Fanners and Mechanics’ Bank of Warrensburg. Mo., has gone out of business in order to avoid liquidation. Judge Peabody of the St. Louis police court has decided that under certain conditions a husband has a right to beat his wife. Mrs. David Harpster, aged 57, widow of the late “wool king of the United Staten.” died at her home in Upper Sandusky. Ohio. The executive committee of the grand lodge of Elks, in session in St. Louis, approved the plans made by the meeting of the order in June in that city. « R. R. Donnelley, the founder of the Chicago city directory, and a member of the firm of IL R. Donnelley A Sons' Printing Company of that city, died of apoplexy. Ralph H. Wainwright, probably the greatest coal operator in Ohio, died at Massillon of heart failure. He was known to coal men throughout the United States. Edmund J. Moffat, a brilliant lawyer, died at St. Luke's hospital. Denver, Colo., after suffering six weeks from acute consumption, the result of an attack of grip. Fire at Lead. S. destroyed property worth *IOOI,OOO. The fire department was helpless, owing to low water pressure, and the entire town was threatened at one time. The Geneva Wheel Company's works at Geneva. Ohio, caught fire and were totally destroyed. The concern manufactured wagon wheels. The loss will probably reach *20.000. Frank Griffin, editor of tin* Maryville. Mo, Daily Review, was shot and wounded mortally by C. G. Jesse. The trouble was over some reference made to Jesse in Griffin's paper. Edward A. von Schmidt, a yachtsman and bay pilot, shot and killed his former wife. Mrs. Isabel von Schmidt, and then tried to kill himself, in Alameda, a suburb of San Francisco. J. S. Bell, manager of the WashburnCrosby Flouring Mills Company, announces the consummation of the deal whereby his company assumes ownership of the C. C. Washburn group of mills in Minneapolis. State Fish Commissioner H. D. McGuire and State Senator A. W. Reed of Douglas County. Oregon, were drowned ia the Umpqua river rapids. An oarlock broke, the waves were high and their boat was swamped. Judge Seaman of the United States Court at Milwaukee holds that it is within the power of the court to order sales of mortgaged property belonging to a bankrupt. tree and clear from all incumbrances. and that it may enjoin foreclosure proceedings if the circumstances warbeets' bank at Botkins. Ohio, was en I terod by burglar, and the safe blown I open. The strong box was uninjured, but I ** The | not known.

least nine persons were killed and a score wounded, Pana, 111., was again placed under martial law. At a recent meeting of the board of directors of the transmississippi and international exposition in Omaha the payment of a 12H PPf cent dividend on paid-up stock of the association was ordered, making a total of per cent already paid. The newest El Dorado which experts think may prove to be another Cripple Creek, has just been created by a strike made on the summit of Sierra Blanca Peak in the Sangre de Cristo range, eighty miles south, but visible from Pike’s Peak. Judge Ross of the Los Angeles, Cal., District Court handed down a decision favorable to the United States in the case of the United States vs. the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, involving title to 1,810,000 acres of land in southern California. Alexander Ogg, a wealthy farmer living near Barnesville, Ohio, and his household bad a desperate battle with four masked robbers the other night. All were sleeping but a nephew, Robert, when robbers battered down the door. The old man, his nephew, the nephew’s wife and the robbers were all badly hurt before the intruders were driven off. Mrs. S. E. Plowman of Topeka, Kan., sustained fractures to five of the ribs on her left side in a car wreck on the Los Angeles and Pasadena Electric Railway, near Los Angeles, Cal. Several other persons were slightly injured. The wreck was caused by a number of small iron nuggets on the track, which caused the car to be derailed and crash into a telegraph pole. Fire broke out in the store of B. F. Keesling at Logansport, Ind., and was not brought under control for three hours. Following are the losses: City National Bank, building and fixtures, $10,000; P. W. Moore, building. $10,000; G. W. Burrow estate, building, $5,000; Dewenter & Co., men’s furnishing goods, $15,000; B. F. Keesling, drags, $15,000; Ix>gansport Wall Paper Company, stock, SIO,OOO. Martin Fnrnibal was found dead near the city limits in Toledo, Ohio, with a load of buckshot in his back. He had been shot by Henry Hartman, who had heard chicken thieves in his yard and fired to get rid of them. Furnibal, after the shooting, had gotten into his buggy and drove away, but was overcome and fell from the rig dead. His dog was watching the body when it was found. Furnibal’s partner escaped.

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SOUTHERN.

The big stern-wheel steamer John K. Speed, owned by the Cincinnati and New Orleans Packet Company, was wrecked and sunk in the river near Louisville, Ky. The 109 passengers and the members of the crew were rescued. The property loss is only about SB,OOO, as the steamer can be raised. Dr. Walter B. Lafferty, son of Rev. J. J. Lafferty, editor of the Christian Advocate, is dead at his home in Richmond, Va. He was found the other day lying unconscious by the track of the Chesapeake and Ohio, near Meechums river, with one of his legs crushed and suffering from other severe injuries. Two negroes. Forest Jamison and Moses Anderson, were lynched at Brooksville, Miss., by a mob for the murder of T. H. Cleland. Cleland, a stock farmer, was found dead in his room. An investigation was at once made and an inquest held, resulting in a verdict of assassination. Guilt was soon placed upon two negroes who were living on the farm. A pitched battle was fought in the streets of Brunson, .8. C., between James Preacher, Charlie Preacher and Aren Preacher, brothers, on one aidand Geo. Ried, Mack Ried and James Ried, brothers, and Joseph Connelly, on the other. George Ried was killed, Mack Ried fatally wounded and Joseph Connelly seriously and James Preacher slightly wounded.

WASHINGTON.

Almon M. Clapp, at one time United States Government printer, died at his residence in Washington in the eightyeighth year of his age. Justice Stephen J. Field of the United States Supreme Court (retired) died at his home on Capitol hill in Washington, D. C-, of kidney complications. Mr. Mitchell, assistant comptroller of the treasury, has decided that men who were appointed to office or who eulisted in the revenue cutter service for the war with Spain are entitled to extra pay under the act of March 3, 1859. The Navy Department has sent instructions to Rear Admiral Cromwell, commandant of the naval station at Havana, to place a rail around the lot in which the bodies of the men killed in the Maine disaster are buried. Marble slabs are to be placed over the graves. The President has allotted *I,OOO for this work. The Secretary of State has announced the names of the United States delegation to the disarmament conference, which will meet at The Hague in the latter part of May. The delegation consists of Andrew D. White. United States ambassador at Berlin: Mr. Newel. United States minis ter to the Netherlands; President Seth Low of the Columbia University. New York; Capt. Crosier, ordnance department, U. 8. A., and Capt. A. T. Mahan, retired. U. S. N. The President has named twelve new warships recently provided for by Congress as follows: Battleships, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia; armored cruisers, West Virginia, Nebraska. California; cruisers, Denver, Des Moines, Chattanooga, Galveston, Tacoma. Cleveland. Hundreds of petitions have been sent to the White House and Navy Department ever since the new ships were provided for, urging the merits of various names. Georgia did not petition.

FOREIGN.

Special dispatches from Berlin say Great Britain has agreed to the German proposal for unanimity in the decisions of the Samoan commission. Gen. Gomes favors a free Cuba and will devote his time to organizing the Cuban people into a party that will urge American withdrawal from the island. Preaident Andrade of Venezuela and Francis R. Loomis, the United States minister, paid a visit to the United States fleet at La Gnayra and lunched with AdThe Eiffel tower ia to be converted into • -.dfftswa fnr AYlMkrimfiktlf* with

of base and coalin station. It Is reported that the Dominican Government is massing troops on the frontier in fear of an invasion by Juan Jiminez from St. Marc, Haiti. It is also causing the arrest of suspected Dominicans residing in Port au Prince. An attempt has been made at Moscow to assassinate the Czar’s aid-de-camp, Gen. Mauzoy. He was stabbed in the throat by a servant, but the would-be assassin was overpowered. The general’s wounds are not serious. It is reported from Port au Prince, Hayti, that the French steamer Manonbia, belonging to the Transatlantic company, has been wrecked off Anso d’Ainault. The passengers and crew were saved. but the steamer and her cargo were lost. M. Lorillier, who was private secretary to the late Lieut. Col. Henry, who committed suicide at Mont Valerien Fortress last August after confessing to having forged a letter largely instrumental in delaying the Dreyfus revision, killed himself in Paris. Emperor William has sent instructions to the German ambassadors in London and Washington to the general effect that Germany considers the new government in Samoa illegal and the action of the British and Americans a clear violation of the Samoa act. A soldier at Matanzas, Cuba, while cleaning the courtyard of the castle, found a Spanish gold piece. Other soldiers immediately staked off claims and dug up the whole yard, finding coins dated all the way from 1730 to 1808 and worth $306 in American money. Japan was visited by another terrible earthquake. It centered in Nara prefecture, and over thirty persons were killed by falling timbers and in mines, many of which caved in. The governor's report shows that besides those killed eleven persons were injured, thirty-one dwellings destroyed, fifteen badly damaged, while thirty-six other buildings were more or less wrecked.

IN GENERAL.

A mining disaster in which twelve men lost their lives is reported from the Sierra Mejada mining camp, located in the State of Coahuila, Mexico. An explosion of foul gas occurred in the Veda Rica silver mine and before all the miners could get to the surface the dry timbers were on fire, the fierce flames barring exit. An order-in-council has been passed preventing any person employed by the Dominion Government in any capacity from Making out or recording mining claims on Dominion lands of any kind in the Yukon territory. It was also decided to exempt from the royalty tax the gross output of any mine up to the amount of $5,000. Four more trusts, with capital of $280,000,000, are in course of formation. They are: The American woolen trust, $65,000,000; the cotton trust, $80,000,000; the worsted trust, $75,000,000, and the carpet trust, $65,000,000. The International Smokeless Powder and Dynamite Company, with a capital of $10,000,000, has been incorporated in New Jersey. George R. Schnoeler is the sole survivor of a wreck between Malcolm and Vancouver Island. The sloop on which he and Tom Hackett*of Seattle had been selling liquor to the northern Indians w'as lost in a storm while all on board were drunk. The drowned included Hackett, an Irish logger known only by his first name, Charlie, and two half-breed women. Recently published official figures show that in 1898 the Canadian gold output was $13,700,000, placing Canada in fifth place as a gold-producing country. Of the total product $10,000,000 was taken out of the Klondike. Official estimates place the output from the Klondike this year at $30,000,000, and British Columbia is also expected to do much better than in previous years, so that Canadians hope that Canada will soon be near the top. R. G, Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “Failures in the first quarter of 1899 were in number 2,772, against 3,687 last year, and the liabilities $27,152,031, against $32,946,565, a decrease of 17.6 per cent. Geographical aspects make the return peculiar, with a slight increase of 13 per cent in the Southeast, and 20 per cent in the central States. There was a decrease of nearly 40 per cent on the Pacific and Southwestern States, 41 per cent in Western States and 40 per cent in Middle States. No other year of the twenty-four covered by Dun’s quarterly reports has shown as small failures during its first quarter, excepting 1880 and 1881, and no other except 1880 and 1886 as small liabilities per failure. Failures for the week have been 141 in the United States, against 232 last year, and 17 in Canada, against 32 last year.*

THE MARKETS

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 *5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2,34 cto 35c; oats. No. 2,26 c to 27c; rye. No. 2,52 cto 53c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13c; potatoes, choice, 55c to 70c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, *3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice fight, $2.75 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; corn. No. 2 white, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 33c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2,75 cto 76c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2,28 cto 30c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 56c. *, Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.25; wheat, Nq. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 81c; rye, No. 2,59 cto 61c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to *5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2,73 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; rye, 59c to 61c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 mixed, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; rye. No. 2,54 c to sflc; clover seed, new, $3.45 to $3.55. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring, 69c to 71c; corn, No. 3,33 cto 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; rye, No. 1,55 cto 57c; barley, No. 2,47 cto 49c; pork, mess, $9.00 to $9.50. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to *4.25; sheep, fair to choice wethextra, *4.50 to *6.50. , ■'

BLOODSHED IN SAMOA.

FORCE OF AMERICANS AND BRIT. IBH AMBUSHED. Seven Are Killed and Their Bodies Decapitated by the Savage Matsu* fans—Forty Natives Meet DeathCauses Anxiety in Washington. Press dispatches Wednesday from Apia, via Auckland. N. Z., stated that a party of 105 American and British sailors were forced to retreat to the beach, after having been caught in ambush by 800 Mataafans on a German plantation. The expedition was led by Lieut. A. H. Freeman of the British third-class cruiser Tauranga. Three officers were killed. Two British and two American sailors also were killed. Ensign Monaghan remained to assist Lieut. Lansdale and was shot in retiring. The natives engaged were some of Mataafa’s warriors. They severed the heads of the British and American officers .killed. Priests of the French mission afterward brought the heads into Apia. The manager of the German plantation was arrested and detained on board the Tauranga on affidavits declaring that he was seen urging the rebels to tight. In a previous engagement twenty-seven of Mataafa’s warriors were killed, and there were no casualties among the European forces. The news from Samoa of the ambuscading and massacre of American and British sailors stirred the authorities in Washington as they have not been since the excitement of the Spanish-American war. The most serious phase of the affair is not the aggression of the Samoan natives, but the suspicion that they were incited to the deed by the German residents of the island. There was a refusal on the part of the higher officials to discuss the sad event. The secretary of the German embassy called early upon Secretary Hay. Neither of the officials would disclose anything as to the nature of the exchange that took place. The arrest and detention by the British naval officials of a German subject is one of the most dangerous features of the controversy. The chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Davis, was one of the earliest callers at the White House. His brother-in-law, Bartlett Tripp, has just been appointed American member of the Samoan commission. After a call on the President he visited the State Department. The Senator expressed grave fear as to th? complications that might ensue with Germany on account of the massacre.

SAYS RATIONS WERE GOOD.

Shafter Says that Beef on the Hoof Was Impracticable. Captain Edward H. Plummer, aide-de-camp to Gen. Shafter, called before the court of inquiry in Washington on the beef question, testified as to the manner of packing provisions to the front from Siboney. He stated that there were 100 wagons and 1,000 mules. Half of the latter were used for the pack trains. The road was bad and the provisions were got to the men with difficulty. The ships were so loaded that it was impossible to take off such an assortment as would give a complete ration to each soldier. Armour’s Jacksonville agent, S. Ochsenslager, testified that the meat issued at Camp Cuba Libre was good. Maj. Gen. Shafter, who had charge of the Cuban expedition, was the next witness. After describing the movement of the American troops on Santiago he stated that the amount of provisions taken to Cuba was determined by the capacity of the vessels. He first heard of the intention to use canned roast beef from Gen. Eagan in Washington before the war. Witness said beef on the hoof was impracticable in such a campaign. He never heard a complaint of the canned roast beef as being uuht for food until he returned from Cuba. He ate it himself, and found no fault with it. The first refrigerated beef was received on the 19th or 20th of July. He only heard one complaint. He had up reason at any time to even think that tie beef had been chemically treated. Gen. Shafter said that the supply of rations was good and sufficient; that there was no complaint about the quality of the meat; no complaint about the hardships an dexposure of the campaign. There were no complispnts to him from the rough riders or their commander, Col. Roosevelt. Maj. Lee read from a report of Roosevelt to Col. Wood, in which it was said that the rough riders had nothing to eat but what they captured from the Spaniards. “If they didn’t,” said Gen. Shafter, “it was their own fault, through their own carelessness in not carrying three days’ rations w’ith them.’*

LAWTON'S NARROW ESCAPE.

Rebels Were Retiring When One Fired from Ambush. Gen. Lawtou has continued his advance beyond Santa Cruz. The rebels are slowly retiring, but except for brief stands by skirmishers, are doing little fighting. Gen. Lawton had a narrow escape from death at the hands of a daring Filipino. The man remained behind when his companions fled and concealed himself in a house by which the American soldietv, passed. When Gen. Lawton and his staff reached the spot the rebel fired point blank at the American commander. Fortunately his aim was bad and he missed his mark. The American soldiers quickly rooted him out of the house and bored him full of holes. The Filipinos lost 150 killed and wounded in the fight at Santa Cruz. ' ; "• Gen. Wheaton, with the Tenth Penn* sylvania and the Second Oregon regiments and two gnus, met with slight resistance near Santa Maria and had one man wounded. But the enemy bolted when shelled by the artillery, and burned and abandoned the town of Santa Maria, where a thousand rebels .were reported to have been concentrated. The enemy retreated toward the mountains, burning the villages behind the retreating force. Occasionally a few of the rebels dropped to the rfcar and fired at the advancing American troops from the jungle, apparently with the idea that this would check Filipinos' 14 llut'finding thesetactics Uiefmiljn body. j,•; g ? ——— n

ELEVEN KNOWN DEAD.

W * w Eleven person* lost their five* in two fires which destroyed mansions in the millionaire section of Fifth avenue. New York, early Friday morning. The first blaze started) in> the residence of Wallace 0. Andrews, the millionaire president of the New York Steam Heating Company. This magnificent palace proved- a deathtrap, as nearly every inmate perished, including the millionaire and hie wife, who. were found locked in. each other’s arms. Mr* St. John, their daughter, and her three young children, also met death, an did fear of the servants. Two persons, servants, alone escaped from the building by jumping. They are in.the hospital fatally hurt. Sparks blown* two blocks- through, an epen window, from-which a young woman was watching the fire in the Andrews mansion, ignited the house of Albert J. Adams. Miss Adams* cries awakenedNellie Quinn and. Mary Malloy, two of the servants, but by the time they readied the hallways- they found escape ent off, so rapidly did- the fire spread. They jumped from* the fourth, story to a balcony extension and were severely tajured. Mary Vokei, another servant, was also badly injured by a fall. Isabella and Evelyn Adams, daughtersof the owner of the bouse, were slightly injured by falling glass. The fire in the Adams bouse was put oat after causing. SIO,OOO damage. When the firemen searched the building they found: Mrs. Mary Loughlin, 60- yearsold, burned to death: in her bed on an upper fleer. The police,, after a thorough investigation of the ruins of the Andrews mansion, concluded that the fire started through a gas explosion, which occurred in the basement of the house* Nearly every soul In that splendid but ill-fated mansion perished. Two servants saved their lives for a time by jumping, but the injuries they received from their awful leap will probably peeve total. The Andrews- mansion was completely gutted, and it wa*three hours or more before the firemen and police could begin the search tor the dead. Body after body wav carried out, laid on the sidewalk and. then carried to a near-by police station. The first to be identified was that of Mrs. George St. John, daughter of Wallace P. Andrews. With' her husband and children she lived: in her father’* house. Her husband, C. G. St. John, happened to be away in Delaware on a business trip, and thus saved his life.

BIG DROP IN STOCKS.

WiMly Exciting Scenes Witnesrod ere the Evchnnaeo. There was a. panic on the stock exchanges Friday. It waa a “blade Friday” on all of the bourses. Millions were lost on Wall street, and LaSalle street, Chicago, has not hod such a shaking up since the memorable days in *96, when the Moore campaign in Diamond Match and Biscuit shares ended ih disaster. It was a case of everybody trying t* sell at once. Stocks poured out of the commission houses in enormous volume, and with them came the most vigorous hammering of the market by the professional bear element that has been seen in several months. All efforts of the bull interests to stem the tide were unavailing, and after the first few minutes of the session all efforts in this direction were apparently withdrawn. The market in Wall street was in a thoroughly demoralized condition. Sensational does net begin to express the state of affairs that prevailed. The decline ia the industrial* quickly spread to the general list, and for a time the bottom appeared to have dropped out of the whole market. Not only the industrial, but the* railroad shares, good sad bad, as well, were thrown overboard in the wild scramble of traders to get out from under. It was Mt a question of taking remaining paper profits, bat of minimizing losses. The main idea seemed to be to get out of the market as qnirkly as possible.

TO PROTECT AMERICANS.

Crnioer Detroit Harried to BlMffeWa, NicaraKua. The cruiser Detroit was ordered post haste to Bluefields, Nicaragua, for the protection of American interests in that quarter. Its dispatch under hurry orders was at the urgent request of the State Department, to which American residents both at Bluefields and in Costa Rica appealed for protection of American interests. The arbitrary and extortionate policy adopted by Gen. Torres at Bluefields, who on more than one occasion has made himself persona non grata to this Govenfl ment, and whose restoration to been followed by acts which Amefl residents resent and protest the main cause of the vessrikfl The 5;;,!,.. Department •: :<r - d rii.-tious to tifl :ufl nt fl business interestsjfl - ■ tMfl isl surgents are levyfl besides «ooltecttefl dptws on imptufl M| FARESfI ■ ■: i : tfl cents, twenty-fl Single fl main at 5 cents afl fl • -