Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1899 — Page 6

F. E. BABCOCK. Publisher. ; ...... RENSSELAER, INDIAN*.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Members of the Belgian Antarctic expedition are reticent regarding the result of the expedition, but it is known that it gdvaiK'ed to 71 degrees 36 minutes latitude south and discovered land previously unknown, which it called Danco. Gov, Stephens returned the Farris insurance bill to the Missouri Senate, hav- ‘ tag signed it. This measure makes the anti-trust law apply to St. Louis and Kansas City and will practically destroy the boards of fire underwriters in both cities. The United States torpedo boat Souera. purchased just la-fore the war with Spain, which twice tried to cross the ocean under its own steam and each time returned disabled, has been shipped from Ixuidon on the, steamer Manhattan for New York. The great battle for United States Senator at Harrisburg ended without an election. and. unless Gov. Stone calls an extra session, at which there should he an election. Pennsylvania will have only one representative in the United States Senate during the next two years. Serious student riots have occurred at the University of Kieff, Russia, the rioters smashing the windows of houses and shops with stones. The troops were called out and dis|>ersed the mob. injuring several persons and arresting 400 of those who took part in the disorders. Representatives of the anthracite coal trade have established a schedule of prices involving an increase of from 10 to 50 cents n ton ou anthracite coal. It is estimated that on the annual production of 40.000,000 tons this will take from the people and place in the |>ocket of the trust at least $10,000,000. At Toledo, Deputy Revenue Collector Hogue narrowly escaped being killed by two tame bears, from the owners of which he wal attempting to collect $lO war revenue tax. The Italians refused to pay, and the bears were turned loose on the officer. A large part of his clothing was torn off, and he barely escaped with his life. The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. St Louis.... 2 OCincinnati ... 2 2 Chicago 4 1 Boston 2 2 Philadelphia.. 4 1 Louisville .... 1 3 Baltimore ... 3 1 New York.... 1 3 Pittsburg ... 2 1 Washington.. 1 4 Brooklyn ... 2 2Cleveland ... 0 2 Julio Henna and M. Zeno Gaudia presented to the President a memorial from the people of Porto Rico, asking that the civil government be turned over to the control of the departments in Washington having jurisdiction over similar matters in the United States; that the |>eople of the island be granted a territorial form of government temporarily, and for free trade with the United States. At Henderson, Tenn., a mob of masked men overpowered Sheriff Smith and compelled him at the point of a pistol io go with three of them to the cell where A. M. La Rue was confined, who in March killed John Young, a neighbor. The masked men placed a rope around the neck of La Rue and tried to drag him out, but could not. They then shot him through the head and body and left him. A resolution has been presented in the Massachusetts Legislature to revoke the sentence of expulsion against Roger Williams, passed by the general court in 1035. The petition on which the resolution is based recites that: “Whereas, Boger Williams' doctrine of religious liberty. for advtwating which he was Imuished, has become the fundamental sentiment of christendom, therefore the sentence of banishment should be revoked.” * Will H. Hardin, under sentence for murder, was shot to death by a mob in his cel) at the Clinton jail, Arkansas. Gov. Jones commuted Hardin's sentence from death to life imprisonment, and this, it is believed, aroused the friends of Hardin's victim. Hugh Patterson. The mob went quietly into Clinton and made a demand on the jailer for Hardin. It was refused, the jailer was overpowered and the keys were taken from him. Hardin offered desperate resistance before he was shot down. Half a dozen shots were then tired into his corpse and the mob scattered.

BREVITIES.

A fire destroyed 150 houses at La Pointe-a-Pitre. Island of Guadeloupe. Andrew Carnegie has offered to donate $1,750,000 for additions to rhe Central Library buildings at Pittsburg. Hon. .1. I). Ellis. Representative from Vernon'County, is dead at his home near Nevada. Mo., of pneumonia. Mr. Ellis' wife died of the same disease about a week lief ore. Mrs. Mary McKee, daughter of former President Harrison, has lieen appointed by Gov. Roosevelt a commissioner to the 1900 exposition in Paris to represent the State of New York. > Newton Hilliard, formerly part owner and manager of the Baker Opera Company, has been adjudged insane in the probate court at Cleveland, Ohio, and ordered sent to an asylum. At Winnipeg. Man., Mrs. George Mid|Wpton. while out bicycling with her sister. | was run down by n runaway team and killed. Her sister. Miss Graieve. fell out t<Of the path of the team and escaped. | The fishing schooner Eliza of Beverly, Ewaas., which sailed from Hyannis for trailing grounds, struck on Rose and fcOrowu shoals during the night and eleven of the crew of fourteen men were Jost. The Congregational Sunday School and ‘ Society, in session at Boston, Hijected Willard Scott. D. D„ of Worcester, president, and William E. Barton. Ik D„ Oak Park, 111., a vice-president. Gen. Henry, owing to illness, is to be reof the governorship of Porto Rico. The military force in Porto Rico is also Hipbe materially reduced. * ; Urs. Cook, wife of Captain Frank Cook. 1 Who Commanded the Brooklyn during the B*tewar, died in Annapolis. Md.. after a EBKdainr Illness. Captain Cook was ab£la k fit of jealousy at Cleveland. Wiljfem Beatty, aged 22. shot and killed John aged 32. and sent a bullet ■tough the forehead of Mabel Day. over Mfbom the men had quarreled. The woman •hovaa

EASTERN.

Brooklyn servant girls bare fotmsd a onion. Eugene J. Swan, a New York promoter, has tiled a petition in bankruptcy, with liabilities of $10X538 and nominal assets of $13382. The big conibinatioa of all the coal interest* on the Monongahela river is an assured fact. The capital stock will be $30,000,000. John G. Shannon of Pittsburg. Pa- formerly United States District judge of Dakota, was seriously hurt in a runaway at San Diego. Cal. Gov. Powers of Maine has called a special election for June 19 to choose a Congressman from the second district to «ucceed the late Nelson Dinghy. The United States cruiser Raleigh, which was one of the ships of Dewey's fleet at Manila, arrived in New York harbor and was welcomed with great demonstrations. The focusing of the sun's rays by an electric light bulb set fire to a curtain in the home of John M. Sager in New York. His 3-year-old daughter Lily was burned by the blaze. W. C. Andrews, who perished in the tire which destroyed bis home at New York, by will provided for the establishment of a home for lhe education of girls at Willoughby. Ohio. Chancellar Henry M. MacCracken of the University of the City of New York made announcement of the receipt of gifts to the institution of nearly $300,000. He withheld the names of the donors. John A. Barnes, the former husband of the woman who is now the wife of John A. Magowan. former Mayor of Trenton. N. J., was secretly married Wednesday to Miss Anna Minch of Cleveland. Andrew Murray, who had been ejected from the fit. Elmo Hotel at Dubois, Paemptied the contents of an oil can on the floor of a rear room in the hotel and set fire to it. The fire was discovered and quickly extinguished. The Boston Museum, the oldest playhouse in Boston, was badly damaged by fire. The blaze started on the Tremont street side and is thought to have been caused by a careless smoker. The loss to ■ the museum is estimated at about SBO,OOO. Justice Williams at Watertown. N. Yhas dismissed the indictment against R. B. Molineux, charged with sending poison to Harry Cornish, on the ground that the grand jury received other than legal evidence. He directs that the case be sub- < mitted to a new grand jury. Miss Lizzie Fisher, a housemaid, was killed at Vineland, N. J„ by Charles C. Lamb, her employer, while his wife was at church. Lamb committed suicide. Neighbors think Lamb was madly in, love with the girl. He attacked her in the dining room, shooting her.

WESTERN.

The Winton-Wood ward Company, wholesale grocers, Grand Island, Neb_ assigned. While trying to rescue her niece. Oar* Woods, Miss Katherine Williams and the little girl were both drowned in Lake Merced, Cal. Captain Nathaniel W. Parker, the oldest riyennan and pilot in the West, is dead at the residence of his daughter in St. Louis, aged 91 years. Mm. C. M. Howe of Chicago was elected president of the International Young Women’s Christian Association at a reeent session at Milwaukee. Almost half a block of business houses in Cleveland was wiped out by tire, the damage amounting to almost a million dollars. A number of persons were injured. The twenty-sixth annual meeting of the national conference of charities and corrections will be held in Cincinnati May 17 to 23. Fifteen hundred members are expected to be present. The three-story brick building at First and Delaware streets, Kansas City, owned by Peet Brothers and occupied by the National Paper Box Company, burned to the ground, entailing a loss of $25,(400. The jury in the case of the State against Mrs. Ida Ewing, charged with having murdered her sister-in-law, Mrs. Lizzie Ewing, at Hopkins. Mo., the night of Sept. 26, brought a verdict of acquittal. Mayor Thomas A. Marshall of Keithsburg, 111., won the seventh Grand American handicap at Elkwood park. Long Branch, N. .1., for the second lime, after a spirited race against Charles Grimm of lowa. A prairie fire started near Wessington Springs, S. D., and swept across the country, destroying everything before it. Several thousand acres of pasture and much stacked hay were destroyed. Many farmers lost all they had. Hundreds of square miles of grazing land has been burned over by prairie fives south, east and west of Cheyenne Wells, Colo. Thousands of cattle have been driven to other ranges. Still further west on Wild Horse, another fire started. Marble has lieeu discovered on the lauds of McGugin & Co. at Olive Furnace. Ironton, Ohio. There are two veins, one four feet and the other two feet. The marble has been analy cd and will bring in the markets 90 cents a cubic foot delivered. Charlotte Wilhelmina Gertrude Bishop, otherwise known as Mme. Pianeka. the lion tamer, was legally separated from her husband, H. H. Bishop, a resident of New York, in Kansas City. Mme. Finn ek a secured her divorce on a complaint of cruelty. Elevators Nos. 1 and 3 of the Hay Exchange at St. Louis were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss estimated at $60,000. The elevators were used for storing hay. Five cars loaded with hay standing on the side track, together with four empty cars, were burned. Harry Frei, who was abducted sixteen years ago and who was located at Knoxville, Tenn., returned home to Marion. Ohio. His father was waiting for him at the depot and there was a pathetic scene as the father clasped Ma long-fan son in his arms. A fegrful accident has taken place an the Great Northern road in the Cascade mountains. A big avalanche struck the rotary snow engine and hurled it down a canyon 1.000 feet deep. Nothing was left of it bnt small pieces. Six men were fatally injured. A prairie fire which started in the sand hills has been raging northwest and west of Broken Bow, NeK, consuming everything in its path. Thomas Momaoey of Eureka Valley was caught while trying to remove Ms horses from the stable and horned to death with them. John Koch started to return to his house from aoane

haystacks hieh he haft turn f Mam Cora Tanner, thtmvh the medium of a box of tamtams and a bouquet sent her by aa unknown person. waa poisoned at Omaha. Neb. The police are unable to throw any light on the mystery, though they have found the place where the candy was purchased. Hydrocyanic arid was used, both the candy and roses being sprinkled with the poison. While a Cleveland. Csntoa and South era Railroad train was crossing a drawbridge over the Cuyahnga river, near Cleveland, the engine and three cars left the rails and ran on the ties. The engine crashed into the supports of the bridge and was thus saved from toppling over into the river, about thirty feet below. One hundred passengers were on board. Word has reached Cheyenne of a terrible accident at Sheridan. Wym. in which mx persons lost their lives. The melting snow caused both Big and Little Goose crocks to overflow their banks and flood the town. Into the raging torrent a Burlington and Missouri train plunged and six passengers wero drowned before help could roach them. Twenty-three Crow Indians lost their lives in the flood. The private bank of Ball Jfc Son of Coloma. Mich., was rotated the other night of SIJSKI. When Mr. Ball came down to the bank in the morning he found the door standing open and the bank vault wrecked by dynamite. Valuable papers were scattered all over the main floor. The clock had stopp>-d at midnight, which wa» probably the time the explosion occurred, as the entire face of the dock was broken. * Three men killed and tire injured is the result of a boiler explosion in a sawmill located about eight miles east of Chippewa Fails, Wis. The mill was a small one owned by George Straight. Power was furnished by a twenty-horse power engine and boiler. Without any warning the boiler exploded, entirely demolishing the building and hurling eight workmen high in the air. The explosion was due to the weak condition of the boiler, having been in use for a number of years. The three men killed wero residents of Cadot, Wis.

SOUTHERN.

Sam Washington, a negro, was hanged at Yazoo City. Miss., for the murder of a plantation manager named Coker. A Louisville (Ky.) Baptist church has decided to expel all members connected in any way with the manufacture or sale of spirits. Hiram Hall, who was sentenced to death for murdering his young wife by pushing her into a well, was hanged at CroMville. Tenn. Maj. Julian Ransome, one of the most noted duelist planters and financiers in the Southern States, committed suicide at Vinerille, a suburb of Macon. Gt., by taking morphine. The plant of the Little Rock Oil and Debating Company and the Aurora Manufacturing Company wero partially destroyed by tiro ar Little Rock. Ark. Loss $75,000, insurance about one-half. In a shooting affray that followed a lawsuit at Deview. Ark, B. C. Ashburn wts instantly killed. A. J. Black and his son Lee were fatally wounded. Alex Miller had his arm broken, and Henry Miller was badly shot in the arm. B. M. Ashburn and several others wero shot and moro or less seriously wounded. The Hot Springs. Ark . grand jury has refused to indict Sheriff Bob Williams, his brother, Colle Williams. Ed Spear and Will Watts, who were charged with murdering Chief of Police Toler. Sergeant T. F. Gosslee. Detective J. E. Hart and Ixtuis Hindlc. on the ground that evidence presented proved the killing to hare been in self-defense. The accused hare been released from their bonds. In the Lake City lynching ease at Charleston. S. C, the Government consented to a verdict of not guilty against the throe men under indictment, the evidence being insufficient. The three are Clark. Kelly and EL Rodgers, nil members of the Second South Carolina regiment. The disqualification of Lee. one of the two men who turned State's evidence, materially weakened the prosecution.

WASHINGTON.

The President has prepared a proclamation setting apart 136,000 acres of land on the south side of Lake Tahoe. CaL. a* a forestry reserve and public park. The Postoffive Department has received notice that the parcel post convention between the United States and China has been ratified and arrangements hare been made for it to go into effect immediately. One of the largest contracts for dressed beef ever placed by the United Stales Government has just been arranged with a Kansas City packing bouse. The contract is for 1.500.000 pounds of best export beef to be shipped to the Philippine Islands for the Government troops. The statement of imports and exports issued by the Treasury Department shows that for the nine months ending in March the exports were $947,919,405: imports. $409,995,033. an excess of exports of $447,924,372. The exports of gold for March were $1,109,845: imports. $3,187.575. an excess of imports of $2.0,«.730. The Secretary of War has issued orders for the reorganization of the military departments in Cuba. The number of departments is reduced from seven to five, the two eliminated being the department of Pinar del Rio. commanded by Brig. Gen. Hasbrouck. and the department of Matauzas. commanded by Brig. Gen. Bates. The Secretary of State at Washington has directed the return to their posts in Spain of the United States consuls who were obliged to leave on account of the war. Two of these officers. Consul H. W. Bowen at Barcelona and Richard M. Bartieman at Malaga, are now in New York. The third. J. Howell Carroll, consul at Cadiz, is now at Gibraltar.

FOREIGN.

According to Honolulu advices exQueen Dowager Kapiolaai is seriously ill. It is estimated that Argentina will have 1 JiOO.OOO tons of maize available for axpert. Lady Frances Anne Emily. widow of the seventh Duke of Marlborough, is dead at London Because of representations from the State Department at Washington. Italy, has auspradrd all action against Colom El Correa Espanola, the Cartist organ at Madrid, has bee* suppressed on the ground that it«the property of a British sufijoct. Emma Nevada, the American prima donna, baa been compelled to cancel a six

th * t nffiyrrnriit in Spain tta"insults of the populace. The German Government has been informed by Great Britain that the latter has no designs of annexation or protectorate on the Tonga Islands. At the request of the Government of the Republic of Colombia, Italy has derided to grant a further delay of three months in carrying out the conditions of her ultimatum. The Chinese Government, according to a dispatch from Shanghai, has assented to the proposal to open three new ports in the provinces of Kiang Su, Kiang Si and Ngan Hwei, or An-Hui, Count Castellane has been awarded S3OO damages at Paris in his suit against the newspaper which published a false account of the Castellane-Deroulede duel on account of an actress. In his suit Castellane asked for $20,000. Gen. Guy V. Henry, commanding in Porto Rico, said to a member of the Porto Riean commission that he does not “believe in thrusting Americans into all the offices: I believe in colonizing. 1 have been here nearly a year and the commission only a few weeks.”

IN GENERAL.

Stove manufacturers decided to advance prices 10 per cent on all kinds of stoves all over the country. At Chatham. N. 8., four persons were burned to death in a fire at the Northumberland County almshouse. Negotiations are said to be iu progress for a combination of the watch movement and watch case companies of the United States. Prince, the murderer of Actor Terriss, has written to Sir Henry Irving from his prison asylum that he will kill him as soon as he is released. W. 8. Stratton has sold his famous Cripple Creek mine, the Independence, to the V enture Company of London. The price is believed to be not less than $2,000,000. An order for 32,000 military rifles of light power has-been placed by the Mexican Government in New York. This order is the largest one placed in this country by a foreign power in the last twentyfive years. One of the big guns from the Spanish warship Oquendo has been secured for Cincinnati, and one from Morro Castle, Santiago, for Hillsboro, Ohio, the native city of Senator Foraker. It is proposed to bring these guns by special train from Norfolk, Va.. and have demonstrations along the route. Passengers on the steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, from Honolulu, state that recently the bottom of the great volcano fell ont. followed by great clouds of dust and smoke. Some alarm was felt by the guests of the Volcano House, but some of the guests became reassured and started to investigate the phenomenon. A hole 150 feet in diameter showed the extent of the eave-in. All attempts to locate the bottom of the crater were unavailing. Ex-Postmaster General John Wanamaker has become interested in a scheme for the treatment of low-grade ore, which, if successful, will double the world's gold output. The Wanamaker syndicate, which recently purchased five claims for SIO,OOO, has reached the camp, fifteen miles from Colorado Springs, with machinery for a mill of 100 tons daily capacity. The managers are confident of success on $1.50 ore. The lowest grade ever successfully treated there is $3 a ton, the lowest price being $2.50 treatment charges. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “There is still increase in all legitimate business and the productive power of great industries increases even though some of their stocks decline. The sharp reaction in speculation a week ago in no way affected the producing capacity of furnaces or mills and has been in part recovered, while the disturbance of business caused by the formation of great combinations has in large measure ceased. The money market is in safer and more wholesome condition, and in spite of four heavy payments by large syndicates, amounting to about $50,000,000, has grown easier. The only stringency has been in call loans. It is not owing to speculation alone that payments through the chief clearing houses have been 80 per cent larger than in the same week of 1892, and 103.3 per cent larger than last year. New York transactions far exceed those of any previous week, $1,468,502,709 in amount, but outside New York the clearings were 41.5 per cent larger than in 1888. and 44.6 per cent larger than in 1892. The truth is that no such expansion in the general business of the country has ever been seen before. Failures for the week have been 188 in the United States, against 254 last year, and 22 in Canada, against 18 last year.”

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattie, common to prime, sXol> to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, 3XOO to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn. No. 2. 35e to 30c; oats. No. 2,26 c to 28e; rye. No. 2,55 cto 57c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14e; potatoes, choice, 52c to 60e per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to SSXO: hogs, choice light. $2.75 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red. 70c to 71c; corn. No. 2 white, 36c to 37c; oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 33c. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat. No. 2,77 cto 79c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 34c to 36c; oats. No. 2,28 cto 30c; rye. No. 2. 55c to 57c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $2.50 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed. 36c to 38c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 30c to 31c; rye. No. 2, Glc to 63c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 yeOow, 35c to 37c; oats. No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; rye, 6Oc to 62c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 75c to 76c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; oats. No. 2 white. 28e to 29c; rye, No. 2,57 c to 59e; clover seed, new, $3.65 to $3.70. Milwaukee— Wheat. No. 2 spring, 71c to 73c; com. No. X 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 29e to 31c; rye. No. 1,58 cto 59c; barley. No. 2,47 cto 49c; pork, mess, $9.00 to S9XO. Buffalo-Gattie, good shipping steers, SXOO to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, SX2S to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice wethera, S3XO to $5.25; lambs, common to extra, S4XO to $650. New Tork-Cattle, SX2S to SSXO; hogs, S3OO to S4XO; sheep, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 82c to 84c; corn. No. X 43e to 45c; oats. No. 2 white, 35c to 15c “ **

TRAP DEWEY’S MEN.

* ", ‘ ‘ 1 ‘ rl ' T • FIFTEEN OF THE YORKTOWN’S CREW CAPTURED. Ambusbed by Filipinos at Baler, in Sale of Luzon—Gunboat Had Gone to the Rescue of Spanish Prisoners— Admiral Cables Brief Details., The dispatch from Admiral Dewey received at the Navy Department in Washington, reporting the ambuscade of Lieut. Gilmore and his party, and stating that their fate was unknown, caused great concern at the department. Because of the cruelty known to be used by the Filipinos toward their prisoners it will be a most grateful surprise to naval officers to learn that the heads of Gilmore arid the others have not been cut off and their bodies mutilated. Instructions were sent to Admiral Dewey to use every effort to ascertain if the party is still alive, and if so. to secure their release, if possible, either by ransom or in exchange for some insurgents held by the American forces. Gen. Otis and Admiral Dewey have about 1,600 Filipino prisoners in their possession. Aguinaldo’s well-known reputation for feathering his own |jest leads to the belief, however, that he will prefer to listen to overtures for the purchase of the freedom of the Americans. According to Admiral Dewey's dispatch the warship's cutter, with fifteen men aboard, was sent from the Yorktown at night to make soundings near Baler, where a small Spanish garrison had been resisting the insurgents for nearly a year. The object was to ascertain how close to the shore the gunboats sent by Admiral Dewey to rescue the Spaniards could go. The cutter had gone for some time when suddenly three volleys, fired in rapid succession, were heard aboard the Yorktown. A curious feature of the affair is that no reply to the shooting was made by those aboard the cutter, which had a machihe gun in her bow. This leads to the impression that Lieut. Gilmore and his men were ambushed and iwrhaps all slaughtered before they could raise a hand in their defense. Dewey’s dispatch reads as follows: “The Yorktown visited Balor, Luzon, east coast of Luzon, F. I„ April 12, for the purpose of rescuing and briuging away the Spanish -forces, consisting of eighty soldiers, three officers and two priests, who were surrounded by 400 insurgents, some of the insurgents armed with Mauser rifles, as reported by natives. Lieut, J. C. Gilmore, while making an examination of the mouth of the riter in an armed bont, was ambuscaded, fired upon and captured. Fate unknown, as insurgents refused to communicate afterward. “DEWEY.”

A MOTHER’S HOPE.

Still Thinks of Finding Her Boy, Who ° Was Stolen Fifteen Years Ago. The finding of Gerald Lapiner, the kidnaped Chicago boy, has kindled anew the fires of hope in the breast of Mrs. Lizzie Dickinson of Hhughton, Mich. Mrs. Dickinson believes that she may yet find her boy, now grown, to manhood, who was stolen fifteen years ago. In 1884 the Dickinsons were living at Florence, Wis., where Mr. Dickinson w r ns a mining engineer and superintendent of the mines. One day the boy, Willie, was stolen. He was then 6 years old. The theory was advanced first that the boy had been kidnaped in a spirit of revenge by some of the miners who were identified with a strike. This theory was abandoned later, a search having been made in the meantime of all the abandoned shafts in the vicinity in which the boy might have fallen. Almost a year passed before the aid of a detective was called, and then a thorough and organized search for the little fellow was made. The little fortune owned by the parents was spent in the hunt for the boy by the Pinkerton detectives. Clews were chased from one end to the other of the United States. Several times"it was believed that success was at hand. One clew, which was undoubtedly a true one, led the detectives into the South and into a settlement of negroes, where the boy had been secreted for several months. Unmistakable traces of the Dickinson boy were found among these negroes, his playmates having learned the same prayers he recited when at home and also having gained a true description of his home in Wisconsin. But the boy could not be found. In the years that have elapsed the mother has never wholly abandoned hope. The husband is dead, and the broken-hearted mother has traveled all over the United States. She has seen 153 boys about whom there was mystery, pointing to an abduction, and has been the agency of restoring thirteen stolen boys to their parents. If living Willie is now 21 years old.

Springlike.

—Chicago Record.

GIRLS DIE IN A FIRE.

Orphans’ Home at Berne) Ind.) To* tolly Destroyed. A dispatch reports the burning of the orphans' home at Berne, Ind. A terrible panic was caused among the fifty-seven inmates. All were rescued, with the exception of three, who were burned to death. The fire started from a stove on the third floor and swept through the building with great intensity. The home contained Inmates from nearly all the Central States. The institution is conducted by German Menuonites.

TO FORM A NEW GRAND ARMY.

Convention of Spanish-American War Veterans Called. A convention to consist of two delegates from each company that either served in the late Spanish-American war, or was organized with the view of being mustered into service, has been called to meet at a Washington, D. C., Sept. 4, 5 and 6. The object of this convention, as stated in the circular issued by the executive committee of the “Proposed Spanish-American War Veterans’ Association,” is to organize those who took part in the late war, or were members of provisional companies, whose intention it was to enlist in the service for the war, into a “Grand Patriotic Fraterno-Beneficial Society, or a Grand Army of 1898, having for its object, among other things, the wiping out of sectionalism in the land, the promotion of closer relations, the fostering of a more unselfish patriotism, and the corporate effort to secure the enactment of legislation, in State and nation, In the interests ’ of soldiers, the army and navy generally.” The chairman of the executive committee of the association is Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler. The headquarters and the place of residence of its secretary, William Christopher Liller, are in Lancaster, Pa.

ROAST BEEF FOUND GOOD.

Army Court Samples 7,000 Cans and Only Ten Are Spoiled. The army court of inquiry, in session at Washington, inspected nearly 7,000 cans of roast beef that had been shipped to Porto Rico during the war with Spain and later reshipped to Havana. Each case of the beef was opened in the presence of the court, arid the exterior of each can inspected. Cans were selected at random and opened. Of the entire lot only one blown or swollen one was found. In all only ten cans were found that gave any indication of having been spoiled, and no can was found spoiled that did not indicate by exterior appearances that the contents were defective. The beef examined comprised about twenty-five cases of the Armour Canning Company brand, and ten cases of the Wilson Packing Company. With the exception of the spoiled cans, the meat in all the others opened presented a fresh appearance, and had a wholesome odor.

LIEUTENANT LANSDALE.

This brave officer of the United States cruiser Philadelphia was ambushed and slain at Samoa.

BRYAN AT THE DOLLAR DINNER.

Silver Leader Arouses Enthusiasm at the Jefferson Banquet. Three thousand people of both sexes and of all classes and conditions sat down at the doljar Jeffersonian dinner in the Grand Central Palace at New York. More than 600 waiters were required to attend the guests. The first course was served shortly before 7 o’clock. The menu included soup, fish, roast beef, turkey, ice cream, coffee and cigars. Three thousand bottles of wiue were gratuitously served by a wine company. The arrival of William J. Bryan was the signal for a tremendous outburst of cheering. Among those who sat at the guests’ table were: James R. Brown, presiding: on his right, W. J. Bryan; on his left, Charles A. Towne of Minnesota; O. H. P. Belmont. William 8. McNary, secretary of the Democratic State committee of Minnesota; Mayor J. L. Rhimoohs of Covington, Ky.; Bolton Hall, George Frederick Williams. ex-Congressman William E. Ryan of Rochester, A. 8. Towson of Virginia, Col. Thomas Smith of Virginia and John Clark of Ridpath.

FILIPINOS SEEKING FOR PEACE.

Committee Appointed to Confer with Bchurman Committee. According to Manila advices, Gen. Lagarda said that a committee of twentytwo Filipinos had been appointed to confer with the peace commission, and would offer the following program: 1. As large autonomous rights for the Filipinos as possible. 2. To bring about peaceful relations between the insurgents and the American authorities. 3. To insist that Americans and Fili- • pinos only shall occupy public offices. Arevalo, a former aid to Aguinaldo, is now in Manila. He said in an interview that, if the Americans send emissaries to Aguinaldo now, he thinks a peaceful solution of the present troubles is possible.

1,000-MILE TICKET ACT UPSET.

Supreme Court Holds Michigan Law Is Discriminating and Invalid. The United States Supreme Court, Chief Justice Fuller and Justices Gray and McKenna dissenting, upset the Michigan law requiring railway companies to sell 1,000-mile tickets, good for two years, for S2O each. H. C. Smith applied to the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company for a ticket under the act, and the railway company refused to sell. The Supreme Court of the State decided that the law was a proper regulation of railway companies within the State and gave judgment requiring the company to sell the ticket. The company appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States.

PATRIOTS FOR REVENUE ONLY.

Ten Thousand Cubans Enlisted Since the Fall of Santiago. Gen. Gamez’s chief of staff stated to a press correspondent that over 10,000 Cuban soldiers who are actually in arms will not get a cent of the $3,000,000 given by the United States, because they only joined the army after Aug. 14. They did not care to fight for Cuban freedom, but were willing to take a share of the gifts of is now most clamorous about the alleged “rights” of the Cuban army, •• ' s i '* ‘ 1 ri* ■'-/-I" 4 ‘ ‘ b ’ .