Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1899 — Page 6

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. *~F. E, BABCOCK. Publisher. ~ RENSSELAER, INDIANA. ■ ■ ■ - ■ - - ■ - -—————————- %■

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Robert L. rutting has begun suit in the Supreme Court at New York for absolute divorce from Mrs. Minnie Seligman Cutting. His wife denies his allegations and Intends to make counter charges, insisting that the courts must grunt a decree in Iter favitr. Adjt. Gen. Corbin has prepared this Statement of the number of deaths which have occurred in the army sinee the beginning of the war with Spain: In Cuba, 1,390: iu Porto Rico, 287: at Honolulu, 45; in the Philippines, 000: in the United States. : 1,872; total, 0,200. , The Russian minister at Peking, M. de fliers, has notified the Tsung-Li-Yamen that Russia is unable to accept the Chinese refusal of u railroad concession and that she will seud engineers forthwith to survey a line to connect the Russian Manchurian Railroad with Peking. The schooner American Boy, from Kodiak, Alaska, reports that Kodiak has had an unusually mild winter, with u small snowfall. Catches of furs have been lieavy. The passage of the law permitting natives to kill otters is bearing fruit. The ski us are worth SOOO each. The directors of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway have authorized an issue of $15,000,000 first mortgage 4 per cent consolidated bonds to retire present obligations, buy new equipment and to, purchase the Cleveland, Canton and Southern and Cleveland Belt and Terminal Company. The conference called in St Paul to consider freight rates to Pacific coast points closed without a decision in favor either of Pacific coast joblters, who want changes, or the wholesale and jobbing interests of the middle West, who insist that the present tariffs must 1m- maiu- ' tained. The threatened general strike of coal miners in the Missouri and Kansas district has apparently been averted by an agreement entered into at a conference at Pittsburg, Kan. The operators have agreed to concede the eight-hour day after Bept. 1, recognize the union and frame a new scale of wages. A race between a freight train and four Jobbers in a spring wagon took place near Lentner, Mo. The law-brenkprs bad a good start, but were overtaken two uijles out from the village and captured by the train crew and locked up iu a box car. The only lane available for the escaping robbers ran parallel with the railroud truck. Elliott W. Brown, manager of the National Sheep and Cattle Company, one of the best known stockmen 6f Nebraska and Wyoming, was drowned in Indian creek, Nebraska, while attempting to ford it on horseback. Air. Brown was one of the Wyoming rough riders under Col. Grigsby and distinguished himself in the Mississippi wreck lipd summer, when he saved many lives. Thomas A. Merritt and Edgar Holman of Duluth arrived there from the Golden Star mine in the Seine river district, with $12,000 in gold bricks. It represented one month's clean-up at the mine with a tenstamp mill and beats all previous records for the same length of time by SIO,OOO. The stock in the mine jumped from (15 to 85. The stock of the Emma Abbott mine, owned by Chicago and New York parties, which is supposed to be on the same vein, advanced 5 cents also. The largest stamp mill in the world was started up recently by D. O. Mills at the Treadwell mine on Douglass island, Alaska. The new mill contains sixty batteries of five stamps each, with a crushing capacity of four tons to each stamp every twenty-four hours. The Treadwell and its associated mines uow have 880 stamps In operation. They crush 3,520 tons of ore every twenty-four hours, averaging about $4 per ton in gold, or $14,000 daily. One-third of this output is settled in concentrators ami shipped to the Tacoma ameltcr. The other two-thirds, or $9,380 per day. is the amount of gold actually released on Douglass island. The standing of the clubs in the Xa tional League race is ss follows: W. L. W. L. .Brooklyn ... .23 10Baltimore ...17 15 St. L0ui5....22 10 New York... 11 IS) Chicago .....20 12 Pittsburg ....11 20 Qnciunati ..18 11 Louisville ...11 20 Boston 19 12 Washington.. 9 23 Philadelphia. 19 12Cleveland ... 0 22 Following is the standing of the olubs in the Western League: W. L. * W. L St. Paul 14 10 Detroit 13 12 Milwaukee ..15 llßuffalo 10 12 Indianapolis. 12 11 Columbus ...10 12 Minneapolis. 13 12 Kansas City.. 9 10

NEWS NUGGETS.

Rock assaying SSO gold to the ton has been found in Central Park, New York. The silver service and the silver bolls secured by citizens were presented at New Orleans to the cruiser New Orleans. According to Washington gossip Admiral Dewey left Manila to avoid friction with the civilian commissioners. The general synod of the Reformed ■Presbyterian Church adjourned in New pork to meet at Sparta, 111., June 2, 1900. I John H. Hutchinson, for fifty years prominent in railroad and financial circles, died at Philadelphia. He was 80 years Naval orders posted the other day nsifdgn Captain J. B. Coghlan to duty as commandant of the Puget Sound naval Station June 50, relieving Captain J. G. is raging in Karaehee. the principal seaport town of Sinde, India. The ■petal returns show a total of 1,197 eases pad of 1,099 deaths since the beginning of the outbreak. | J. A. Bulmer & Co., lumber merchants Of Montreal, have assigned at the instance tt( Atwater & Dncles, advocates. The liaMMw amount to $229,254. I- Mrs. Emma L. French, wife of Alfred K French, one of the best known arehiEpta of Cleveland, committed suicide. She pld been ill and feared that she was becoming insane. #The carhouse of the Red Bank and Hgptg Branch Electric Railroad, in ■fcmrsbnry, N. J„ was destroyed by fire, glauc were sixteen cars in the building. ■lm loss on the building and its contents ■pmonut to about $50,000.

EASTERN.

John W. Isham, the theatrical manager, has filed a petition In bankruptcy in New York. Liabilities $14,000. The discovery has been made that 2,000,000 silver dollars stored In the Philadelphia mint vaults have rusted from, a leak. ' Jesse M. Lee, proprietor of the Hotel Lincoln, Pittsburg, Pa., has filed a petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities $100,720, assets $58,815. The Maryland Steel Company shipped from New York on the steamer Falls of Dee 250 tons of steel rails for the Australian Government. Lawyer W. D. Zimmerman of Chicago has bronght suit at Buffalo against bis brother and a Buffalo doctor for conspiring to induce his wife to leave him. He asks $05,000 damages. Russell Sago has given $50,000 to the women’s hospital, which is about to erect a $400,000 building in New York. Mrs. Sage has long been interested in the hos pita). Charles W. Briggs, Rochester, N. Y.. died, aged 74. Ho was ex-Mayor of Richester and founder of Briggs Brothers & Co., one of the largest seed firms iu the United States. The Edwin S. Piper Company, dealers in dry goods. New York, have made an assignment. The statement shows assets $112,025. mostly in merchandise, and liabilities $77,405. William A. Jones, general freight agent of the Empire Fast Freight line, committed suicide in New York. Worry over his wife’s illness is believed to have influenced the action. The Massachusetts Supreme Court has rendered an opinion holding that passengers can recover damages for injuries to baggage from the last road over which their baggage came, A woman believed to be Della Walters, address unknown, jumped from the ferryboat Plainfield, of the Centrnl Railroad of New Jersey, into the North river, New York. She was rescued. Miss Agnes Sutter, a wealthy woman, 7ti years old, was burned to deuth in her home in Newburg, N. Y. It is believed her pet cat upset a lamp that was burning, thus setting the place on tire. In the Connecticut State Senate a bill to extend suffrage to women throughout the State was defeated by a vote of 12 to 9. This will settle, probably for some years, the question of woman suffrage in Connecticut. Fire of ntiknowiK. origin started in a building in Freeman street, Brooklyn, used by Veils Bros, as a planing mill, and spread rapidly until nearly an entire block was destroyed. The total loss is estimated at $350,000. Dr. Charles S. Murray, the young physician of Sewickley, Pa., who pleaded guilty to the charge of murdering his father’s colored butler, John C. Jenning, wns sentenced to four years iu the Western penitentiary.

WESTERN.

C. 11. Gordon of Chicago has been elected superintendent of Lincoln, Neb., schools. Itev. Arthur L. Williams of Chicago has been elected coadjutor to Bishop Worthington at Omaha. A county seat election in Grant County, Oklahoma, resulted in favor of Pond Creek, the present county seat. At Guthrie, O. T., Henry Towner and George Bress were fined SSOO each for failing to put war revenue stamps on two notes. Nouh IT. Swayne, indorsed by the Toledo Republicans as a candidate for Governor, has declined to have his name considered. Dr. Esmond, member of a posse seeking Bill Watson, a notorious horse thief, was shot and killed by the latter northwest of Shawnee, Okla. The gang escaped. The Ohio Water Works Association has organized a memorial association, having for its object the promotion of patriotic feeling between the North and South. F. A. Etsner’s ice plant at Clinton, Mo., was destroyed by fire. The plant cost SBO,OOO, and had a capacity of sixty tons a day. The fire was of incendiary origin. At Kansas City, Charles E. Tinsley, an engineer, who had been exposed to smallpox, locked himself in Sis house and defied the officers. He was guarded in his home. L. J. Rose, formerly a State Senator and Democratic candidate for Congress and due of the best-kuOwu race horse breeders and wine growers in California, committed suicide. Lewis Slack, an itinerant tailor, was killed about two miles east of Avery, Ohio, on the Nickel Pinto bridge over the Huron river. He was instantly killed. His home was in Chicago. Judge J. B. Johnson, Topeka, Kan., is dead. He was mnster in chancery in the Santa Fe receivership case and was many years the law partner of George R. Peck, formerly of Topeka. Fireman Fred Parker was killed and Engineer H. E. Walter severely injured in a wreck on the Iron Mountain ,and Southern Texas road uear Tip Top, Mo., on Hogan Mountain. Two alleged cattle thieves, John Washtub and Joseph Starr, have been publicly flogged with 100 lashes each at San Bots. Ind. T. Several hundred Indians watched a deputy sheriff apply the lash. llaberer & Co.’s factory of carriage bodies, a five-story building at the west end of Eighth street, Cincinnati, bnrnetj. Loss over SOO,OOO. The street railway power house was badly damaged. A nitroglycerin tank at the Aetna powder works, Aetna, Ind., exploded the other night, blowing the building in whieh it was located to pieces and killing three men. No trace of the bodies could be found. Robert Gillhatu, general manager of the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad, died at Kansas City from typhoid malaria. Mr. Giltham superintended the construction of the Pittsburg and Gulf system. James E. Dubois, secretary of the Colorado State Board of Agriculture, committed suicide at Fort Collins by taking poison. No cause is known for the act except grief at the death of his wife, which occurred recently. An attempt to'burn the Christian denominational college at Cotner, Neb., was frustrated by His* Lethe E. Watson, elocution teacher In the institution. She overheard two strangers plotting the destruction of the building. Bala fell almost continuously throughout Nebraska for a week, and aa a result

considerable damage has been done to property and crops. Cera is reported to be rotting, while small grain has in many places been washed oat. j Mnj. John A. Logan, who resigned from the army, has returned to Yonnpstown, Ohio, and will leave shortly for Cubs, where he will represent a large party of capitalists in developing the sugar and mineral resources of the island. Levi Moore, a clerk in the Kansas City market, shot and perhaps fatally wounded Mrs. Jennie Campbell, Mrs. Emma Landis and Mrs. Anna Meek, while in a fit of jealous rage. Mrs. Campbell and Moore had been "lovers, bat the woman deserted. Smallpox has spread to the Kansas City city hospital, and it has been decided not to admit any other patients to the place until the disease is stamped out. The infection gained a footing by the admission of a patient supposed to have another affliction. A St, -Louis policeman found • 9-year-old boy crying and wandering around on the street and took him to the station. The boy said his name is Willie Manters, and that he was kidnaped from his home in Hamilton, Ont., by a strange man, who took him to Chicago and later to East St. Louis, where the boy escaped. A vein of ore carrying $19,090 in free gold has been discovered on a ranch near Custer City, S. D. The vein is fourteen inches wide and has been uncovered for a distance of thirty-five feet, but no sinking has been done yet. It is the first quartz that has been found in that vicinity, although rich placers have been worked. A negro cake walk in the opera house in Enid, Okla., broke up in a riot between whites and blacks, started by the negroes shooting into a crowd of white men. Three white men were wounded, when the whites returned the fire, fatally wounding four negroes and slightly wounding sev-eral-others. More than fifty shots were tired before the trouble was quelled. David I. Field, a retired capitalist, shot and killed Robert W. Stratford, bis negro man of all wort, in the vestibule of his handsome residence, 5345 Vernon avenue, St. Lonis. The shooting was the result of Stratford attempting to assault his em ployer, who had just discharged him for neglecting his work. He ordered the negro away, but the latter grew angry and advanced on his employer, who shot him dead. Mr. Field at once surrendered himself to the police and was taken into custody. Fire almost completely wiped out the mining town of Jerome, Ariz. Building after building succumbed, with a population almost powerless to prevent the destruction, for the town has no water supply of consequence and practically no fire department. Dynamite was used in blowing up buildings to check and prevent further spread of the flames. Tho postofflee, Masonic Hall and the company stores and hospital were saved by special effort. Many persons were injured. There is comparatively little insurance and a majority of the losses are total. At Cincinnati, James Weaver, colored, aged 11 years, confessed to having poisoned his father, Woodson Weaver, and his half brother. John Weaver. John Weaver died in a few hours, and W'oodson Weaver has but slight chance for recovery. The lad simply said that he found a box of “rough ou rats” on the stove and didn't know what it was. He put it in the coffee pot. The father and two sons were living together and prepared their own meals. Both the men were taken ill soon after drinking the coffee. -A neighbor saw the boy throw away the can which contained the poison, and this led to the confession.

SOUTHERN.

A horse attached to a picnic hack ran away in Peoria, Texas, killing Thomas Lovejoy and injuring several young ladies. Fire destroyed the Morris building on Main street, Houston, Texas. The loss is estimated at $75,000, covered by insurance. , The House of 'the Texas Legislature passed finally its bill placing 1 per cent tax ou all persoual incomes in excess of $2,000 a year. "Doc” J. W. Hamilton, aged (50, one of the oldest and best known bookmakers ami turfmen in the United States, died of dropsy in San Antonio, Texas. One of the worst tornadoes that have visited Texas passed over the northwest portion of Erath County. Country homes and church buildings were wrecked in several localities, the most serious being at Mount Pleasant. One man was killed, at least fifteen badly injured, and a great deal of property was destroyed. One of the most peculiar strikes has been in progress on the Wheeling, W. Va„ street railway lines. The men struck for 20 cents an hour, with nine hours a day’s work. All the cars are in operation and the company is not having any trouble to run them. It is estimated, however, that not over five persons ride on the entire system during the day.

WASHINGTON.

Maj. John A. Logan has resigned from the army. Senator Kyle has consented to -continue at the head of the industrial commission. J. R. Gnrrison of Washington has been appointed auditor for the Island of Porto Rico. President McKinley has commuted to life imprisonment and dishonorable discharge from the army the sentence of death against Charles Company H. Third United States Volunteer infantry, found guilty of murder by a court martial in Santiago, Cuba.

FOREIGN.

Andrew Carnegie has subscribed £I,OOO to the Gladstone memorial fund. Consideration of the German meat inspection bill is to be postponed until next autumn. Word has been received of the death of Mdlle. Rhea, the well-known actress, in Montmorenci, France. An expedition under Prof. Nathorst has left Stockholm for the northeast coast of Greenland, in search of Prof. Andree. Forty-eight locomotives have been ordered of the Hehwartskopf works, Germany, for the Russian Railway in Siberia. jThe latest sensation in the Dreyfus case is an alleged declaration by Gen. Boisdeffre that he saw a letter written by Emperor William to Dreyfus. Fons envoys have been-sent by Agolnaido to the American authorities to sue for peace. An American protectorate, with Filipino autonomy, is desired. The Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes is to be added to the Urited States navy. If

flames anflorwecin j-, mL tofiP uiuCTfl were lujaTru, uaf to. wboib m since died. The town of Ferooow, in toe Government of Warsaw, Poland, has been 'destroyed by fine. Twelve lives wore lint and 3,900 people, driven from toeir immn, are now camping in the fields. The agitation of the Coban dock laborers at Cienfnegos, who have been demand ing back pay, culminated In bloodshed. A negro was killed by a Caban officer. The dock laborers have now been paid. Statistics compiled by the Treasury Dr j partment show that China’s imports from the United States for the fiscal year at 1899 will exceed $13,600,000, to mfintfc should be added the balk of the $5,60f1j606 sent to Hong Kong. M*j. Marchand, the French explorer, who has just crossed Africa from toe Atlantic coast, has arrived at Jibootel. Urn insignia of commander of toe Legion off Honor was handed to him on hoard toe French second-class cruiser D’Assam without ceremony. Kang Yn Wey, the reformer who del from Chiba, is reported to be behind a scheme to form companies in ovety city of consequence in the United States, Canada and Australia which will attempt to «o»trol Chinese capital in order to further sffl oriental industries. About $08,066:666 worth of stock will be issued. The German bark Ariadne caught toe while lying at the Standard Oil Company's pier No. 2at Bayonne, SL X The flames spread to the pier, which was destroyed, together with about 006 barrels of oil. The Ariadne was burned to toe water line. The loss on the Ariadne is estimated at $25,000;' on the pier $16,666 and on the oil $2,500.

IN GENERAL.

Bicycle tubcmakqrs bare formed a trust. The former Spanish cruiser Eeina Mercedes has arrived at Hampton Roads. Three companies of infantry are to he sent to Alaska to prevent a clash over toe boundary dispute. President McKinley and Arthur Dixon of Chicago have been elected members Of the board of trustees of the American University. The American Bankers' Association has decided upon Sept. 5, 6 and 7 as the dates for its next annnal convention, which to to be held in Cleveland. The American liurr Paris, with many noted people on board, went ashore an toe Manacles, off the Cornwall shore of England. The passengers were *ll rescued without injury. Messengers have arrived in Victoria, R. C., with news of a fire that laid threefourths of Dawson City, X. W, T„ to ashes. The loss is estimated at from SB,000,000 to $4,000,000. No lives were lost. The American Glass Company, toe combination of window glass concerns, has tosued a new list advancing toe price off its product 5 per cent, to go into effect Jimi 1. This is the second advance recently made in window- glass. Nine railroads that the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company tom been operating under leases for yean hare been bought outright by this corporation, and hereafter they will be parts of toe lug system. The following are the reads: Illinois Valley and Northern, Galesburg and Rio, Chicago and lowa, Peoria sad Hannibal, Ottawa, Oswego and Fox fiber Valley, Illinois and Grand Trunk, American Central, Quincy and Warsaw; and St. Louis, Rock Island and Chicago. The purchase of these branches solidifies the Burlington system east of the Missouri river. Bradstreet’s commercial report says: “The feature of the trade situation this week is the renewed strength of wheat and other cereals, iron and steel, and last, hut not least, raw wool, which has heretofore lagged behind other staples in a discouraging way. The price-making features in cereals are not entirely of encouraging character, being chiefly the less favorable reports as to tbe growing crop west and northwest, and advices of insect dam-, age influencing western markets toward a higher plane in face of a discouragmgly small export business, caused in some degree by the continuance of the strike of grain handlers at Buffalo checking toa movement of large quantities of gram to the seaboard. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 200 bushels, against 3,284,182 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggie-, gate 2,753,414 bushels, against 2,708,08* bushels last week.”

THE MARKETS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping graina, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, s3.<B to $5t75; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2,32 cto 34c; oats, No. 2,38 c to 28c; rye, No. 2,01 cto «3e; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, choice, 27c to #Bc per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $»«5 to $4.68; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; cere, No. 2 white, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 2sc to 31c. St. Louis—Cattle* $3.50 to $5.75; begs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to SSAU; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 77c; core. No. 2 yellow, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2,27 cto 2Sc„ rye. No. 2,62 cto «3c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $220 to $5.98; wheat. No. 2,73 cto 74c; core, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 30c; rye. No. 2,64 cto G6c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.73; wheat. No. 2,74 cto 76c; core. No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats. No. 2 white, 38c to 31c; rye. 61c to 63c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 75e to 77e; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 31c; rye. No. 2,59 c to 61c; clover seed, new, S3BO to S3BB. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 73c to 74c; corn. No. 3,32 cto 34c; oats, Nu. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye. No. 1,69 cto 62c; barley. No. 2,46 cto 42c; pork, mess, SB.OO to $8.50. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.73; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.50; lambs, emuariu 49 •Xtra, $4.50 to $6.75. New York—Cattle, $325 «u $5.73; hogs. $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $528; wheat. No. 2 red, 85c to 86e, emu. No. 2. 41ctu 42c; oats, No.* white,Mem34c; butter, creamery, 15c to 19c; eggs. Western. 15e to Kic.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

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PULSE of the PRESS

A basal Tbiwara Abroad. China will pirase apologize to Italy tot to ifr-”*Tr oat when the monkey passed its vop, Louisville Courier-Journal. Another Italian cabinet has fallen. The b-»tt«w» really seem to be able only to —a peanut stand.— Philadelphia North lk nil that after all England derided toad was only joshing when to wrote “The Trace of the Bear.”— Store sty JanranL For x assn i* solitary confinement on * desert totand Dreyfus seems to be able to make >hn*g* pretty lively for his enemiet^ If Ananias to where he can study the 1 complication of the Dreyfus case he must to fltered to admit that he was a poor amateur when it comes to lying—MinneKcgarding a railroad from Cairo to tbe Chpe there is a feeling that England may jy to farce the Brer republic to make tracks to Sooth Africa. —Philadelphia Don Carlos seems to have made the valuable discovery that he can keep on preBnmßhg just as well without making a big name over to If the Bonaparte and Ortons young an will take notice, the mrehl win to duly grateful.—Pittsburg

Fresno of Fence. If the peace congress can accomplish nnriiisg elite it can go to pieces.—BerliD ttod.) Herald. Tto first effort of the peace congress will tote-avoid n fight over questions of prece-tonee-—Philadelphia Ledger. Tto chief argument placed before the prate conference is not that war is into man, hot that it is expensive.—Washington Star. Tto peace conference at The Hagne is expected to finish its business in not more than three weeks. Wars call for more tor.- Ohio State Journal. A little disarmament congress is now tog held at Manila and it bids fair to accomplish, more than the meeting at The Hagne.—St. Pan! Dispatch. Beth things all “at sixes and sevens” in this way. it is oat of the question, of coarse, that the conference should bring afteaf any beneficial results deserving of meuctou. —New Orleans Times-Democrat. Tile delegates to the Czar’s disarmament conference go loaded to the guards, and most of them are prepared to find the fifth rib of their dearest enemy, and to make an open door into a vital part of the aforesaid rib. — Louisville Post.

kchoFS •* tbe War. At one- end of their line tbe Filipino-; are suing for pence and at the other are fiwhg ftoax *aibttsh.— Baltimore Herald. Xo effort has been made to locate the .gfiaat that supplies the Philippine insnrrecemu wftk new backbone.—Detroit TribTto hotter class of Filipinos, according te- Akin. Otis, ore tired of war. Unfortunately. it to not the better class whom (At? Americans are fighting just now.—y Jlealco Two Republics. v Ajtninnlth* has scruples against being in a hrrry re surrender: the only time he ever tarries to when he knows American ecoops. are marching toward where he happens re bv.—LaSalle Tribune. Tto War Department having assured us that tto Philippine war to practically over, it toteute in keeping that we should tore that Lawton is momentarily expecting: a great battle.—New York Telegram. 1 “Have yon heard any encouraging news?” asked one Filipino chieftain. “•Xto.”' answered tto other. “We can't afford any more encouraging news. Agon•fiUo's telegraph tolls hare been altogether tom heavy.’“—Washington Star.

- Sr. BMssff Tribulation*. Probably the best advertised clergyman us this, country to-day is the Rev. Dr. heretic.—Boston Herald. . The good naan who fears heresy now maw either bora too late or has lived too tunc. He is out of harmony with the agate of the times.—Terre Haute Express. At. Brigs**, k seems, is to be again toastedl m the- theological gridiron—this time as the-instance of an Episcopalian brother gnopefifr, who charges him with heresy «nC protests against his ordination.— a&Bamfi Eapnhf Democrat. Tbe-fcv. ftr. Briggs may not be able to a spiritual fold commodious enough Smt khg hat the religious world is wide ami growing whirr, so he is not likely to hrdhufiuiu beauty hospitality somewhere Dtr_ Briggs had about as hard a time Fhruhgtiirhuis had in getting him out of Shew ML Art why should he care about whamh affiliations if he has a message tortfffiwrN—llmmragohs Tribune. AgutnaMos reigny season, will never art fix.-—S£mkx City Tribune. The supply of capitals for Agninaldo ia tunning short.—Peoria Herald. ma the Filipinos send delegates to the »jtnj»pportanity they Ik muirtwidit Agninaldo heartily Kansas home. Agnaaohin «* playing oat the game •gainst heavy adds in a manner that rfkuwht SB the sympathy of every member baseball team.—Cleveman who is anxious to toutHmrtrtTv’ Agumaldo tSsnt lSrtif* >r >il^ PSti ° n ‘ ng -"?■*!!? ** j”- • -V. .. • • !. ••V,*:.. • ■- •-