Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1899 — Page 6

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WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

i if rank Tepley. a well-to-do Bohemian farmer ten miles from Stanton, Neb.. killed his wife with a carpenter’s hammer and then committed suicide by taking poison. He objected to his wife visiting a disinherited daughter and son-in-law. Mrs. Ada A. Bowman blames David Bowman, her brother-in-law, with cansing all the trouble between her and her husband. George Bowman, at Brooklyn, N. Y. Acting upon his advice, she declares, her husband spanked her, laying her over his knee and chastising her in severe parental fashion. Miss Ida Carr, aged 26 years, daoghter of David Carr, one of the wealthiest men in East Tennessee, disappeared several days ago from her home at Old Town, and no trace of her has since been secured. It is rumored she was kidnaped by two men, but her family do not believe It They think she committed suicide. Contrary to common belief, the trade between the United States and Braxil last year showed a falling off, both in exports and imports. The figure* quoted in a report to the State Department by United States Consul Hill at Santos show that while the exports to Braxil decreased #300,000 in the last year, the imports • fell off no less than #111,000,000. The first car which the Big Consolidated Street Railway Company tried to run with a non-union crew around the Union street loop in the south end iron works district of Cleveland, met with trouble. Obstructions had been placed on the track and when the conductor got off to remove them a crowd stoned him. He regained his car and went on. Later he was hauled off his car and kicked and beaten. William McQuaid. president of the Eureka Coal and Mining Company at Knobnostcr, Mo., who was arrested in Chicago on the charge of having obtrindl SI,OOO from the Bank of Knobnostcr by false representations, has instituted suit at Warreusburg against the bank. He demands #25,000 damages, on the ground that the bank refused Jo honor his check* when be had money more than soffloeot to meet them, and thus caused the failure of the Eureka oomi«any. South-bound passenger train No. 1 on the Colorado aud Southern Railway was robbed by fonr men at a point five miles south of Folsom, N. M. After the train had been brought to a standstill and the crew had been intimidated by guns, the robbers used dynamite with good effect, blowing open the sides of the express car. But*. Webb and the Wells-Fargo express agent, Glover, both state positively that nothing was secured by the robbers. Herbert H. D. Peirce, first secretary of the United States embassy to Russia, says: “The relations between the United States and Russia were never on a more cordial basis than at present, and the friendship which is traditional between the two countries finds constant expression in Russia, not only among officials, bnt also among the people of all classes. There is a great opening in Russia for American capital and for the introduction of American machinery and methods of doing business." The big whisky trust, with $125,000,000 capital, which has absorbed the old whisky trust and its principal rivals, filed its articles of incorporation at Trenton, N. J. It is the third in point of size of the immense industrial corporations is existence, two greater being the Federal Steel Company and the lead trust. The companies altsorbed by the Distilling Company of America, as the new corporation is called, are the American Spirits Manufacturing Company (the old whisky trust); the Kentucky Distilleries and Warehouse Company, the Spirits Distributing Company, and the Standard Distilling aud Distributing Company. The standing of the club* in the National League race is ns follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ...50 23Cinelnuati ...36 35 . Boston 45 27Pittsburg .—34 37 T: Philadelphia. 43 27New Y0rk...32 33 Chicago ~...42 27Louisville —2B 44 Bt. Louis. 41 31 Washington. 25 49 Baltimore ...39 30Cleveland ...12 58 Following Is the standing of the clubs lo the Western League: W, L. W. L. Minneapolis. 40 28 St. Paul 32 35 Indianapolis. 37 29 Kansas City. .32 30 Columbus ...34 32Milwaukee .. .32 37 Detroit 34 33 Buffalo 2S 39

NEWS NUGGETS.

• - | British officials deny the story that Canadian mounted police are to he scut to - the Porcupine region of Alaska, i The ait nation of the American I -mo steamer Paris is most favorable. She is folly afloat, and dear of the rooks. iff' Nine persons have died of lockjaw in New York aud vicinity within thirty-six |ponr». Nearly all are cases resulting #l»m wounds received from pistols on the ipSanrth of July. gpMvices from White Kook, Shoshone " Indian reservation, say there are prospects of diaturbauces on that reservation sis connection with the Indian school. aaJ Hhal the fourth attempt to burn the school ifljjgfJding has been made. KCke Metropolis Tunnel Railroad Comjfrtny. with a temporary capital of JSft,PK), was incorporates! in Albany to build ,1if7,000,000 tunnel to connect Brooklyn City under the two rivers and HKnland of Manhattan. 6. Batterson. Jr., vice-president -■pfcf New England Granite Works. cx»nwps the report that a combination of Various Eastern quarries is under way. f jKge *re about fifteen properties which UHrhc included in the combine, which | gptt represent $12,000,000 capital. |.Hn fa a crowded five-story tenement yltonroo street. New York, resulted in 9|ll injuries to five persons and the overtfiming by smoke of eight others. |,Ba«h Brothers & Co.’s men's furnishs9H|jp«ds Store, in Pittsburg, was dam3pfi*by fire and water to the extent of 38.000. The fire started in the basement mvi bis readied Victoria, B. C„ of a Ifroek Bay, five miles from Ccluclot, on coast of Vancouver Island With it 1 Crudest appliances $9 a day is being

eASTERN.

suddenly nt Washington. P. D. Moxhan, n millionaire and philanthropist. died at Ins home in Vineland, N. J-, aged 78 years. Poison from the bite of a “kissing bug" is reported to have canned the death of a G year old boy at Philadelphia. The order for the enlistment of ten new regiments of infantry has been issued at Washington by the Secretary of War. The secretary and treasurer of a big Wall street syndicate is said to have absconded in Europe with $500,000 of the company’s money. Otto too Ohlen, aged 24 years, whose father is said to be a wealthy manufacturer of Col am bn*. Ohio, was drowned in the Delaware river at Philadelphia. Steven A. Gardner, general superintendent of the marine district of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, died at Stamford, Conn., of apoplexy. Thomas P. Day. vice-president and cashier of the People’s National Bank of Pittsburg, was prullably fatally hart at Uniontown. Pa., by being struck by a train.

Robert Bonner, publisher of the New York Ledger and owner of famous horses, died at his home in New York. Death was due to a general breaking down of the system. A shifting engine on the Pittsburg Junction Railroad ran down a pleasure party of colored people in Sheniey Park, Pittsburg. One man was killed and two women fatally injured. Fire in a six-story brick building in Boston, occupied mainly by tobacco manufacturers. caused a $75,000 loss. The interior of the building was wrecked and its content* were almost a total loss. Willard E. Baker, formerly employed by the Adams Express Company in Boston, and wanted there for embezzlement, made his escape from the officers sent to San Francisco to take him back East. Eighteen-year-old Charles Knauss, in Allentown, Pa., shot and seriously wounded Mrs. Edwin Dieffenderfer, aged 20, and then killed himself because Mrs. Dieffenderfer refused to elope with him. The Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad was sold at Cincinnati to E. R. Bacon, George Hoadley, Jr„ and J. Chaunrey Hoffman, as a purchasing committee for the security holders, for $3,510,000. The wholesale liquor dealers of Cincinnati met G. W. Wilson, commissioner of internal revenue, and protested against his recent ruling extending the privilege to the distillers of reducing proof whisky to 90 per cent. Heavy rain, together with a cloudburst, completely flooded Lower Germantown, a so barb of Torrington, Conn., and tbe 400 residents have been driven from their homes to Upper Germantown, which is located on a htlL Tbe New England Cotton Yarn Company, with an authorized capital of sll.500,000, filed papers of incorporation with the Secretary of State at Trenton, N. J. The company is formed to weave cotton, flax, jute and linen. Fire and an explosion in the house of Captain Dickins of the United States navy at Washington resulted in the shocking death of Mrs. Dickins, who was fearfully burned and died before medical assistance could reach her. The United States Government has declined the proposal of the Government of Austria-Hungary to arbitrate the claims for damages arising from the death of Austro-Hungarian subjects during the rioting at Hazleton, Pa., in September, 1897.

At Canada Lake, N. Y., Lafayette Yanderpool, former supervisor of the town of Caroga, and his adopted daughter, Miss Morey, were drowned. Vanderpooi endeavored to save his daughter, who was in bathing and had gone ont beyond her depth.

WESTERN.

William D. Bloodgood of New York has obtained a divorce from his wife, Katherine S. Bloodgood, in Bismarck, 8. D. Mrs. Elsie Scheib of San Francisco ate of some candy received by mail and has since been seriously ill with symptoms of arsenical poisoning. George W. Julian died at his home in Irvington, Ind., at the age of 82 years, lie was a prominent politioian and wellknown anti-slavery leader. James McAfee was hanged at Carthage, Mo„ for the murder of Eben Brewer, a merchant of Joplin, whom he attempted to rob nearly two years ago. The contract for building the PalmerAuburn cut-off of the Northern Pacific was let at Seattle to 1L C. Henry of Seattle and Nelson Bennett of Tacoma. Burglars tried to rob the coonty treasury at Medina, Ohio, but were frightened away after they had blown off the outer door of ihe safe with dynamite. EM Clinch, a dealer in general merchandise at Bakns. Minn., shot his wife twice in the bead and then committed suicide. He died instantly, but his wire will recover. An earthquake shock was felt at San Francisco and from reports received from other sections of the State it would appear that the vibrations were general. No damage has been reported. An explosion of gasoline in the basement of a business block at Indianapolis partially wrecked the building, in which was a laundry and a drug store. Five persons were seriously hurt. August Becker of Chicago was found guilty of the murder of his wife. Rachel Becker, and the jury, which named the death penalty, dealt justice in recordbreaking time—one hour and ten minutes. A north bound passenger train on the Burlington road went through a culvert near Waldron. Mo. fireman Charles Welly of St. Joseph. Mo. was killed and several passengers are reported to have been seriously injured. Armisted Taylor, colored, has been convicted of the murder on May 13 of Mrs. Bose Rosenstein at Slidell, Mo. Taylor also killed the woman’s husband, and la Georgetown, O. C-. shot and killed Policeman Passa before be surrendered. A warrant baa been issued at Salt Lake City for the arrest of President Angus M. Cannon of the Salt Lake Stake of the Mormon church, charging him with polygamy, which is cited as being contrary to the laws of the State of Utah, MBS. TV fhmous mountain mining town of CotUtewille, CuL. was entirely destroyed

standing. The loss Is heavy. Conlterville had about 1,000 Inhabitant* and has been s noted mining center since pioneer dsys. j A terrific rain and wind storm struck Crookston, Minn., the other evening jnst after tbe opening of the performance of Ringling Brothers’ circus. The main tent jcoUapsed, injuring sixty people, bat none of them fatally. The circus company’s loss is SIO,OOO. Michigan Pottawatomie Indians who lay claim to the ownership of 2,000,000 acres of land in lowa on which the tribe once lived are preparing to push their claim to the lands, the value of which, they assert, should be paid them without legal recourse. A collision between s freight train and a passenger train bearing delegates to the National Educational Association convention at Los Angeles occurred at Newman, Gal. Two passengers, Mrs. Thomas of Seneca Falls, N. Y., and Mrs. Harris of Ft. Louis, were killed and five others slightly injured. All but one of the seven members of the family of William Reinhard of Columbus, Ohio, were killed and the remaining one was badly injured by a Big Four passenger train. Reinhard and his family were driving in a surrey. The vehicle was knocked into splinters. A platform on which were thirty prominent Jews of Cleveland fell h distance of several feet, resulting in serious and perhaps fatal injury to some. A new synagogue had been completed and was being dedicated. A large platform had been erected for the occasion.

Pleasantviile, lowa, was badly damaged by a hailstorm. Nearly all the glass on the south and west sides of the dwellings was broken, and in the country eastward a strip of growing crops five miles wide and twelve miles long was destroyed and much stock killed and injured. Fire in the large plant of the Illinois Can Company in Chicago caused damage to the amount of $150,000 and imperiled the lives of over 600 employes. The latter escaped by means of the fire escapes and stairways. Some bad hairbreadth experiences and two were injured. A desperate attempt was made to hold up the limited passenger train on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway. 'The affair happened near the village of Chetek, Wis. The train was fired into three times, and two women passengers were hurt by flying glass. Traffic on the famous “Y” bridge at Zanesville, Ohio, which for sixty-eight years has spanned the Muskingum and Licking rivers at their junction, has been suspended. A, serious break in the ponderous beams was discovered, the floor of the bridge having sunk six inches. Robert Hill, who was soon to sail for Paris to arrange for an exhibition of fine glassware at the exposition, fell from a wagon near Tiffin, Ohio, and was crushed to death by the wheels. He was the head of the glassworkers’ union and superintendent of Ball Brothers’ big factory at Muncie, led.

John D. Molines, a well-known Omaha character, was found in a dying condition at Douglas and Fourteenth streets. His head was badly cut and he was otherwise injured. The cause of the man’s injuries is not known, but five hackmen are under arrest, the police claiming that they know something of the affair. A tornado passed over the town of Union, Wis. The storm struck the township at the western boundary and plowed a furrow across it six miles long and fifteen to forty rods wide. Practically everything in its path was destroyed. Estimates place the loss at $50,000 to $75,000. There was no loss of life.

An iron box containing s2,Gil shipped by the American Express Company for the J. H. Somers American Express Company to Sherrodsville, Ohio, to pay the men in No. 5 mine, has been mysteriously stolen from the Cleveland, Canton and Southern Railway depot, in which the express company has its office. Dick Williams, a negro charged with the murder of two white men, was lynched at Alma, Kan., by a mob of white men. The mob left the negro hanging to a telegraph pole. Six minutes later he was cut down by the town marshal and taken back to the county jail, where he recovered consciousness. Williams cannot live.

Efforts have been made at Pueblo, Colo., by the striking smelter men to induce the men working at the Eilers smelter. one of the trust plants, to quit. A collision occurred between the guards at the smelter and a crowd of strikers, who tried to gain entrance to confer with the workmen. Several men were seriously hurt. Charles Salzman and Miss Kate Ilerbetsheimer met on the street at Sentonville, 111., and the woman asked Salzman to get into her buggy, which he did, and they drove away. They had not gone far when Miss Herbetsheimer drew a revolver and fired at her companion! the bullet piercing Salzman's body. Salzman fell forward, but quickly rallied, and with his own revolver discharged all six barrels at the woman. But two shots took effect, one entering her neck and the other inflicting a slight wound in her side. Salzman’s refusal to marry Miss Herbetsheimer is supposed to have been the cause of the shooting.

FOREIGN.

A dispatch from Paris announces the death there of Very Rev. Eugene Pesnelle, superior general of the Order of the Father of Mercy, aged 75 years. After an all-day secret session the Volksraad at Pretoria appointed a committee of five to draft a franchise reform bill. Such action is in harmony with the wishes of England. Ambassador Choate and Lord Salisbury are almost deadlocked over the modus viveudi fixing the Alaskan boundary. Neither side will accept the provisional line proposed by the other. M. Bertiilon has been discharged from his place as head of the French anthropometrical department because his testimony as a handwriting expert in the Dreyfus ease has proved to be erroneous. The rali of Van, Turkish Armenia, reports an incursion of an armed band of revolutionary Armenians from Persia. In the with Turkish troops it is reported several persons have been killed. Admiral Cerrera and the other commanders of the Spanish fleet destroyed in the battle of Santiago, whose conduct has been the subject of inquiry by special court martial have been acquitted and formally liberated at Madrid. The trial of the slayers of Gen. Luna, 1 the Filipino leader who was assassinated by the guard of Aguinaldo’s residence, is

showed there was a conspiracy on the part of Luna and other officers to kill Aguinaldo and make Buna dictator. • Measures have been taken to strike off the rolls of the Prussian berrenhans, or house of lords, the name of Prince Gebhard Blucher, great-grandson of the famous general who commanded the Prussians at the battle of Waterloo. Some years ago the prince, rained by gambling, fled to New York, where it is said he became naturalized. The Pall Mali Gazette, London, says the secretary of state for war, the Marquis of Lansdowne, in conjunction with the military chiefs, has completed arrangements to dispatch 40,000. to 50,000 troops of ail arms to in the event of matters taking a turn for the worse. It is added that all the necessary arrangements have been made there for the distribution of the troops on their arrival.

IN GENERAL

Conroy Brothers’ sawmills, on the Ottawa river, several miles from Ottawa, Ont., were struck by lightning and burned to the ground. Loss $135,000, insurance $75,000. For the quarter ending M'arch 31 last there were 7,846,168 money orders issued, amounting, to #52,383,938. This is an increase over the corresponding quarter last year of $3,890,306. Chairman Mortimer C. Rankin of the Populist national committee says his party will form no fusion with the Democrats in 1900, but will write its own platform and name its own ticket. The New York Central and the Pennsylvania railroads have entered into a compact unprecedented in railway history. Under its provisions the two great properties become for practical purposes one system. Prominent negro churchmen of the South aud their brethren of the North have formed an institution to be known as tbe “Scientific and Ethnological Academy of the United States.” The object of the society is the perpetuation of negro scholarship* Bishop Turner has been elected president. It is learned from a source which is believed to be reliable that the Crystal Glass Company of Bridgeport, which is largely owned and controlled by Wheeling, has sold its plant and business to the National Glass Company for $202,500, a premium of 35 per cent on the capital stock of the concern, which was $150,000. The Red Cross steamer Portia, from New York bound into Halifax, with sev-enty-five passengers on board, was wrecked on Flinn island, off Sambro light, a point fifteen miles to the eastward of Halifax. The disaster occurred daring a thick fog. All on board the steamer —117 all told—were landed on the island in safety. The American Association for the Advancement of Osteopathy held its annual meeting at Indianapolis and elected the following officers: President, A. O. Hildreth, St. Louis; first vice-president, F. IV. Hannah, Indianapolis; second vicepresident, A. S. Burgess, St. Paul; secretary, Miss Irene Harwood, Kansas City; treasurer, C. M. T. Hulett, Cleveland. The New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals has reversed the decision of ViceChancellor Gray in the cases of the Trenton Potteries Company against Richard Oliphant and others. Mr. Oliphant, after selling out to the trust, entered into a written agreement not to start again anywhere in the United States except Nevada and Arizona, but subsequently started in opposition, and Vice-Chancel-lor Grey refused to restrain Mr. Oliphant Ipr Grey refused to restrain Mr. Olipliant, taking the ground that the contract was in restraint of trade.

Bradstreet’s views the trade situation thus: “Holiday observances and semiannual stock takings have worked toward quiet in general trade and industry, but it is significant of the favorable conditions ruling in this, as compared with previous years, that trade advices point to rather more than the average business being done, notwithstanding the checks to demand and shipment above mentioned. Additional results of the season’s work brought to light are fully as favorable os those indieafed in Bradstreet’s report last week, and furnish an adequate basis for the general air of confidence with which the business world faces the last half of the year. Business failures for the week number 136, as against 158 last week, 241 in this week a year ago, 213 in 1897, 219 in 1896 and 266 in 1895. Business failures in Canada for the week number 25, as compared with 23 last week, 16 in this week a year ago, 34 in 1597, 32 in 1896 and 30 in 1895."

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, 53.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to 54.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 73c; corn, No. 2,32 cto 33c; oats, No. 2,23 c to 24c; rye, No. 2,58 cto 60c; butter, choice ereamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 12e to 14c; potatoes, choice new, 58c to 65c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.25: wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2 white, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 30c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 76c; corn, No. 2 yellow', 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2,26 cto 27c; rye, No. 2,50 cto Glc. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. '2, 71c to 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 97c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 2,64 cto 06c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 tb $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 76c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 37c; oats. No. 2 white, 29c to 81c; rye, 59c to 60c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2,57 c to 59c; clover seed, new, $3.95 to $4.00. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 8,33 cto 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 28c; rye, No. 1,59 cto 60c; barley, No. 2,41 cto 43c; pork, mess,, SB.OO to $8.60. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $0.75. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 79c to 80c; corn, No. 2, 89c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 82c; butter, creamery, 15c to 19c; eggs, Western. 14c to 16c.

HE WOULD NOT YIELD.

Senator Fairbanks Favors a Fir a* V Stand in Alaska. > The revenue cutter McCulloch reached Seattle Sunday morning with United States Senator Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana and party on board. The party went ashore soon after tbe cotter landed and went to Tacoma as the guests of United States Senator Foster of Washington. Tbe trip in northern waters has occulted 'about three weeks. Wrangel, Jttaean, Sitka, Skagnay and other points of interest were visited. At every port Senator Fairbanks was received with the greatest spirit. Several monster receptions were held in his honor. The citizens of Alaska lost no opportunity td impress upon him their loyalty and desire to remain nnder the Stars and Stripes. Senator Fairbanks refused to talk to reporters <m his views on the Alaskan

SENATOR FAIRBANKS.

boundary question, after having personally investigated situation along the southeastern Alaskan coast He said to a friend, however, that there was no doubt the United States should hold every foot of soil to which there was any rightful claim. He said that there seemed to be no valid reason for giving Canada a port on the seaboard, and that the people of Alaska deserved better treatment from the Government.

ENGINE KILLS SIX.

seven Members of an Ohio Family Run Down by Train. At Columbus, Ohio, six members of a family of seven were killed at the Woodward avenue crossing of the Big Four Railroad. The seventh lies in a critical condition at one of the city hospitals. Mr. and Mrs. Reinhard and their five sons had gone ont for a drive In a one-horse surrey. They went first to the home of Mrs. Jacob Hoffman, near the State fair

grounds, whose husband had been killed only last Friday in a local railway yard. After a short time spent there the Reinhard family started to go to the home of a sister of Mr. Reinhard. Their road lay across the tracks of the Big Four Railway, which runs along the west side of the State fair grounds. A high board fence around the fair grounds shuts off the view of all trains approaching from the north. Several eye witnesses to the accident say the surrey was driven upon the iraeks without any of the occupants noticing the train, which struck the vehicle just as it rested squarely on the tracks. The surrey was knocked into a thousand pieces and the occupants hurled into the air. Mr. and Mrs. Reinhard and their sons, Arthur and Karl, were killed instantly. The other boys, William, Edward and Clarence, who, though badly injured, were still alive, were taken to a city hospital in ambulances. William and Edward were so badly injured that they died early in the evening. Clarence wilj prohably recover. The horse attached to the surrey was cut to pieces.

VOLUNTEERS TO STAY.

General Otle Organizes Two Regiments in Philippines, Gen. Otis cables the following: “Two veteran regiments assured. Will enlist about 1,000. You can appoint eleven second lieutenants for First and nine for Second regiment to, recruit in the United States; all other offices filled. Regiments styled First and Second Philippine United States veteran volunteer infantry.” Adjt. Gen. Corbin cabled Gen. Otis that these designations could not be allowed for the Philippine regiments, and in order to save confusion they would be called the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh United States volunteer infantry.

DREYFUS’ ENEMY REMOVED.

M, Denial No Longer Director of the Penitentiary. Paris expresses unanimous approval at the dismissal of M. Deniel, director of the penitentiary and the guard of Dreyfus. A storm of public indignation was called down upon the head of Deniel, who, at the very time that the Court of Cassation ordered a revision of the trial, sent to the administration a report that attempted to prove the guilt of Dreyfus by alleged auspicious attitudes and habits. M. La Soucan has been appointed to succeed Deniel. The appointment and removal are made by M. Decrais, minister of the colonies.

AUTOMOBILE IN WARFARE.

British Army Officers Inspect Hiram Maxim’s Invention. Lord Kitchener of Khartoum is about to inspect guns mounted upon motor carriages, adapted by Hiram Maxim, the American inventor of the Maxim gun, from the plans of Fred It. Sims. The British war office is giving careful consideration to the use of the automobile in war, and an official order for the organisation of an experimental battery of machine guns mounted on gasoline motor carriage* is likely soon to issue.

CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR OFFICERS.

FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

Great Britain. Motor milk vans are being used. London Mohemmedans will build » mosque. t . The profits of the British postofficeamouct to $20,000,000 a year. Lady Henry Somerset is leading a«crusade against smoking by women and girlsCovent Garden, London, has been 1» the possession of the Bedford family for 300 years. The new clock being constructed for Liverpool Street Station will be one of the largest in the world. American printing presses have appeared in Edinbnrg, and the only adverse criticism made is that they turn out paper*, faster than is necessary. For some time past it seems there hasbeen a considerable falling off in the nnmber of young men offering themselves as “soldiers of the Qneen,” and the military authorities are in a perturbed state of mind as to how the fighting strength is tex be maintained. Russia. Russia has twenty-nine women pharmacists- > The Russian scepter is of solid gold and t contains 268 diamonds, 360 rubies aud 15emeralds. Russia’s Asiatic possessions are threetime the size of England’s, bat hold only 23,000,000 inhabitants, as compared with* England’s 297,000;000 subjects. Asparagus is so plentiful on the Russian steppes that the cattle eat it likegrass. The seeds- are sometimes driedt and used as a substitute for coffee. Last year no rain fell and no green, thing grew. The result to-day is that in. the eastern provinces of the Volga six. millions of people are without food out of a total of twelve millions.

Germany. Germany makes an excellent brand of “Scotch” whisky, which finds a ready sale in India. Mistrials rarely occur in criminal caseain Germany. A vote of six to six acqdits the prisoner; a vote of seven to five leaves the decision to the court, and a vote of eight to four means conviction. Music boxes for bicycles are now manufactured by a firm in Hamburg. Theround, box-shaped apparatus, which is.

said to give the sonnd of a better-class accordion, is attached in front to the lower part of the handlebar, and connected by a beveled gear with the front wheel in such a manner that the revolution of this wheel causes the music to play, France. Paris has 17,735 physicians. There is an elegant cemetery for dogs* in Paris. The poor men and women who die there are buried like dogs and thus tho thing is kept even. The French Government is attempting to raise revenue by letting out the back*, of match boxes, which are a state monopoly, to outside advertisers. The human hair industry is an activn one in France. The average price given for a full long head of hair is from 92 to ?5 for the best quality and color. Petroleum drinking is increasing in Paris. The species of intoxication produced by this new' drink somewhat differs, from that of ordinary alcoholic beverages, in that the “petrolie” is exceedingly morose, though less inclined to brutality. Turkey. No flags but Turkish are to be seen in Constantinople. A band of reformers is attempting toabolish the veil worn by the women. The culture of silk worms, which hadi fallen off considerably, is again becoming important. In Turkey the most beautiful and desirable woman is the one who weighs the most. A thin'and willowy creature would have no social standing in Turkey. Till recently the employment of electricity in any shape or form in Constantinople was strictly forbidden.

RAINY SEASON IS ON.

American Soldiers Fighting Ele> meats la the Philippines. It has been raining and storming about Manila and the country along thfl American south and Bay lines is literally flooded. The aoldiers are suffering great discomfort. The Thirteenth infantry regiment at Pasay is in the worst position, being practically surrounded by water. The bridges, that were used for getting supplies have been washed away, and some of the companies are now separated by streams six feet deep. In many cases the men aresleeping with three feet of water beneath their bunks, which are derated on cracker boxes. The company cooks, when preparing their meals, stand knee deep in, water. Some of the roads leading to Pasay are simply impassable, and the rice fields oh all sides are one great lake. A high wind blew over several tents of the Second reserve hospital. Manila bay is impossible of navigation by either launches or canoes, and no vessels are leaving the harbor. The River Pasig and all the other streams are swollen, and the city streets at low points are covered with water. ' ■, Prof, A. It. Crook, Chicago, will examine the “fossil cemetery of the world,” near Laramie, Wya. He is looking for m . prehistoric stegosaurus. _