Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1899 — Page 2

JASPEK COUNTY DEMOCRAT. ■ '**..y" •' " "'."T-Y'itf* 11 Jll ~- • fl *y ; ~'-11—1 | A F. E. BaBCOCK, Publisher. REWSSELAcR. INDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

According to advices from Magellan Strait, the American minister at Santiago, Chili, has definitely purchased ’Various islands of the Wellington archipelago, with the object of establishing coaling stations. John Zacbert, a San Francisco mining •Xpert, declares that the old Russian boundary of Alaska is defined by monu■aents placed at short intervals, and that inclosed in each is a chart of the Russian possessions. Congressman James Hamilton Lewis has left Seattle for Washington to present claims for damages against the Canadian Government of Americans debarred as aliens from locating placer claims in tire Atlin mining district. Edward Kieley, who has been chased by an Indiana mob near Bourbon and was cornered in a swamp near Bloomingburg, escaped from his pursuers and is concealed in the marshes with Nellie Berger, whom he abducted. Fifty tramps took possession of the little town of Poseyville, Ind., and for three hours the officers were unable to do anything. They marched through the main streets of the town terrorizing the inhabitants and looting the residence of Mrs. Florence Duff. Pittsburg and Eastern capitalists have just purchased 4,000 acres of coal land in Westmoreland County, Pa., the consideration. it is reported, being $1,400,000. It is the intention of the new company to make coke of the coal and to begin operations at once. David Connell was shirt and probably fatally wounded by an unknown man at the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad depot at Cripple (’reek. He had been soliciting miners to work in the < oeur d’Alene country and seven recruits whom he had secured were with him when he was shot. A bold highway robbery took place in Corry, Pa., when patrons, of the Pawnee Bill show were returning to their homes. The robbers had destroyed the arc light, leaving the road in darkness, anil with drawn revolvers they proceeded to stop -the people and carriages, blocking the Street until at least 500 people were held. Litigation, extending over fourteen years and at present affecting claims estimated at $10,4)00.000, has been brought to a conclusion by a decision rendered by Judge Townsend in the I'nitcd States Circuit Court at New York in favor of the International Tooth Crown < ompany. The decision upholds the validity of the tooth crown patent. C. G. Anderson of Fulton, 111., leading ■ party of twelve prosjieetors, has arrived at Dawson, Alaska, with sensational news regarding a copper find nt the headwaters of the White river in American territory. Anderson and his companions are said to have found chunks of pure copper, ranging front the size of a hen s egg to pieces weighing twenty-five pounds. Jack Holly, L. Priest and Will Bobo, prisoners at the Federal penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., ferociously assaulted with shovels Guard F. Knief, and after beating him over the head and neck, almost severing his head from his body with the crude weapons, made their escape. Jack Holly, the leader of the ■trio, attempted to board a fast-flying Santa Fe train, missed his foothold and was cut in two. The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. [Brooklyn ...60 SOCincinnati ...47 42 Boston 55 34 Pittsburg ....46 44 Philadelphia. 53 86 Louisville ...40 48 Baltimore ...51 37New Y0rk...35 52 'St. L0ui5....51 38Washington. 34 58 ■Chicago .....47 40Cleveland ...16 76 I Following is the standing of the clubs In the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. 53 33Milwaukee . .30 45 Minneapolis. 51 37 St. Paul 30 47 Detroit 46 41 Buffalo 37 48 Grand Rap. .45 41 Kansas City..3s 53

BREVITIES.

i Gen. Nelson A. Cole died nt St. Louis. ! New York newsboys have formed a union. • Solomon Jones, a negro, was hanged by a mob near Forrest, Ga. , W, A. Hamilton of Chicago hns been (elected president of the Beta Theta I’i (fraternity. - t The Pennsylvania Railroad Company (has decided to create a pension and superannuation fund for its old employes. i Canada has refused to allow the United States warship intended to be used as ■an Illinois training vessel to pass through the St. Lawrence. . Officers of the transmississippi commercial congress decided to hold the next (session of the congress in Houston, Tex., [April 17 to 21 next. 1 Dr. A. L. Lee and Gideon Kratzer of (North Baltimore, Ohio, who left for the (Klondike, were drowned at Crook’s Inlet, jtogether -with twenty others. • The Navy Department has decided in the case of new gunshops at Washington [navy yard that workmen must not be .employed more than eight hours a day. . Mrs. Mary Stevenson, aged 25, living in Detroit, administered morphine to her two daughters, Ella, aged 6, and Emma, aged 3, and then swallowed a quantity of the poison herself. Ella died. John Thompson and his wife, an aged couple residing between Cable and Bear Gap, Pa., were found dead in their home with a bullet wound in the head of each. Murder and suicide are suspected. The plant of the Little Rock Cooperage Company in North Little Rock, Ark., (was destroyed by fire. Loss about $75,f At Washington, Elihu, Root was sworn lln as Secretary of War, Two hours later (Gen. Alger, the retiring Secretary, was <en route to his home at Detroit by way of Philadelphia. , The Samoan commissioners sailed from (Apia, after signing the agreement abolishing the kingship and president, and Agreeing to an administrator witn a legislative council of three tripartite nomi-

EASTERN.

Louis Pullerson and Michael McDonald were put to death by electricity in Sing Sing prison. George Clarke, Fred Clarke and James Bowen of Bethel, Me., were drowned in Lake Umbagog. Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague died at Edgewood, her country home near Washington, in her fifty-ninth year. Franklin Trusdell, Philadelphia, died, aged 45. He was a newspaper man well known in this country and England. It Is announced at New York that the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Company has absorbed the Dunlop Rubber Tire Company. Smith & McNeill's hotel in New York was damaged $50,000 by fire. There was a panic among the guests and employes. One cook was terribly burned. Copper coins are worth more as metal than as coins. Two hundred and fifty tons of coins arrived at New York from India, to be melted for refining purposes. The death is announced, at the Manhattan State hospital for the insane in New York, of Lottie Fowler, who, twen-ty-five years ago, was a well-known spiritualistic medium. Sidney Hall, who recently died at Hartford, Conn., left the bulk of his estate, inventoried at $11,120, in trust for the purpose of combating the doctrine of the immortality of the soul, By the collapse of the steel frame of a new building being erected for the Westinghouse Electric Company at East Pittsburg, Pa., Charles Fister of Kingston, Md„ was killed and five men injured. Charles Richards of Chicago, who is visiting Brooksville, Vt., was struck by a flyer on the Rutland road. He fell fifty feet, was badly cut and bruised, but his injuries an: not thought to be serious. Private Albert McVeigh of Charleston, W. Va., Company G, Twenty-seventh regiment, was killed and Private Gould of the same regiment was fatally injured at Camp Meade, Pa., while alighting from a freight train. Uriah Fonts of Cleveland died at the home of his son in Peekskill, N. Y., as a result of an internal fracture of the skull received by falling downstairs. Mr. Fonts had a wide acquaintance with politicians and politics in Ohio and adjoining States. A trolley car, loaded with eighty passengers, mostly women and children, was held up by four highwaymen in Brooklyn. The conductor was beaten nearly to death and robbed of all the money in his possession. The robbers were captured. William Dolan and Jacob Shester, 16-year-old boys, died at Fall River, Mass., from injuries received in the Algonquin mill. They Were piling clothing in a dryer when a valve admitting steam was accidentally tinned on. The boys were almost naked and escape was impossible. Inspectors of the Board of Health nt New York seized and destroyed 900,000 pounds of fruit and vegetables unfit for human consumption. One seizure was 175,000 pounds of bananas being unloaded from a steamer in North river. Another was of 20,000 pounds of watermelons. Erie passenger train No. 7, west bound, crashed into a freight express which had been derailed a mile east utf Laekawaxen, Pa., and was wrecked. Four cars, including two sleepers, were burned. Two persons were killed and twenty-one injured. The wreck was caused by a landslide. Twenty persons were injured in a wreck on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad at Herr’s station, Pa. None of the injured is likely to die, but several are badly hurt. The smoker and middle coach of the accommodation train, which were crowded to the limit, were smashed •to splinters.

WESTERN.

In a fight in a saloon in Omaha, Neb., Ed Joyce was instantly killed and Ed Callahan mortally wounded. Girls’ clubs in southern Kansas have resolved to wed men who served with Funston in the Philippines or remain single. A man giving the name of Thomas Hughes of Chicago, who claimed to have been shot by robbers, died at Mankato, Minn. The carriage trimmers of the Brown carriage works at Cincinnati have struck against a reduction of 15 per cent in wages. More than 150,000 bushels of wheat were burned in a tire which destroyed the Nickel Plate elevator at. Greenspring near Tiffin, Ohio. Andrew Carnegie has offered to give $50,000 for a public library in San Diego. Cal., if u site be donated and the library maintained as at present. Will Deitrick fell from a Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton freight he was stealing a ride on north of Lima, Ohio, and was ground io- pieces. The town of Kale, O. T„ having a population- of SOO, was destroyed by tire. Henry Johnson and Richard’ Salms were burned to death. The loss is $30,000. Senator J. B. Foraker was notified by telegraph of the death of his aged mother at Hillsboro, Ohio. Mrs. Foraker had been seriously ill for the past three months. At Springfield, Ohio. Mitchell Post, G. A. It., voted not to attend the next national encampment in PhNadelphia on account of trouble over stop-over privileges with railroads. The child of Mrs. Augustus Hageman, 30 mouths old, was kidnaped at South Bend, Ind., by a girl, and it is thought she is in possession of a gypsy band that recently passed through there. The store of Hoyt, Kent, Sefton & Co. at Cleveland has been placed in the hands of a receiver on application of H. H. Hoyt, who charges other members of the company with mismanagement. Three thousand five hundred brickmakers went on a strike in Chicago, nearly every brickyard in Cook County being shut down, with the resultant prospect of tying up building operations indefinitely. "Louis Billow, who is under arrest at Ellensburg, Wash., for murder, has confessed that because Miss Hess of Fremont, Ohio, refused to marry him he blew up her house with dynamite and shot her father dead. Elizabeth Collins, colored, tried to steal Hilda Fowler, the 6-year-old daughter of Charles Fowler, in. Chicago. She was roughly handled by a crowd of enraged people. This attempt waWhe fourth she had made within an hour. While at Parish’s home in Lima, Ohio, Hany Huffman pulled a revolver and

told Ed Pariah that he would show him how to kill Mexicans, The pistol was discharged and the bullet entered Parish’s breast, killing him. Huffman was arrested. A railroad to connect the Northern Ohio Railway at Copley and the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling at Warwick with Barberton is to be built by a company being formed by O. C. Barber and J. K. Robinson of the Diamond Match Company. The famous Mariposa estate, territorially one of the largest gold mining properties in the United States, and the first quartz property developed in California, is to be reopened and worked after a suspension of operations for nearly thirty-five years. Fire destroyed the palatial residence of Mrs. Mary Hayes-Chineweth at Edenvale, San Jose, Cal. Loss $175,000, insurance $75,000. A second fire destroyed the fruit warehouse of J. B. Inderreiden & Co. of Chicago, causing a loss of $40,000, insurance $25,000. W. A. Thayer, the balloonist from Collins, Mich., was killed in sight of many persons at Streator, 111. He fell from the parachute when the balloon was up 200 feet, landing on his back on the railroad track. His back, neck, both legs and both arms were broken. As the congregation was leaving the Methodist Church at the close of a session of the Pine Bluff district conference, held in Grant County, Ark., an unknown assassin fired a load of buckshot into Van H. \Villiams, inflicting fatal wounds. No cause is known for the crime. Charles L. Taylor and Johq M. Fulton of Reno, Nev., have bought from Samuel Hunt, Orin Bennett aryl S. D. Thacker the largest antimony mine in the United States, there being over 20,000,000 pounds of high-grade ore in sight. The mine is in Humboldt County, Nev. “Honest" John Salisbury, a former member of the Board of City Aidermen at Kansas City and for many years a prominent live stock commission man, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a pocketknife. He had been mentally unbalanced for several months. Ten men were badly injured and a large number of others bruised and cut in a collision between a work train on the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad and a shifting engine near Mingo junction, O. Both engines were demolished. The accident was caused by a misplaced switch. At Carmi, 111., Mrs. George Crabtree, 16 years old, confessed to having put poison in coffee with deliberate intent to murder her stepmother and father, Walter 8. Warthen. The result of the act was that her brother was killed and her parents and a neighbor were made deathly sick. Robert Miller, aged 50, residing near Centerville, Ohio, tried to kill himself by cutting his throat and then setting his bed on fire. Miller would have died soon, but his family rescued him. and. by the aid of a physician, may save his life. He is. a wealthy farmer, and gave no reason for the rash act. The ore handlers’ strike on the M. A. Hanna dock at Ashtabula, Ohio, is settled, and the men have returned to work. The men gained every point they demanded. An arbitration committee of three persons was appointed, which will engage and discharge all employes and settle all differences. Mourned as dead for fiye days and as many nights. Jesse Castle, a boy aged 8, has returned to his borne in Columbus, Ohio. During all the time that his grandmother, with whom he lived, mourned him as dead, the child was the prisoner of some colored man in the vicinity of Gahanna and Delaware. The aged wife of John Pritzke was found dead at her home in North Little Rock, Ark. The body was horribly mutilated, having been chopped to pieces with an ax. Near the body sat John Pritzke, the husband, in a dying condition from wounds inflicted with an ax. The* house had been robbed. Harry W. Fontaine embezzled money from Dreyfuss & Co. at Denver, and shortly after the discovery of his crime committed suicide by taking morphine. About fifteen years ago Fontaine lost $15,000 at roulette and on the Chicago Board of Trade. His father hnd been a wealthy liquor dealer of Toledo. Three people ended their lives in the Ohio river in front of Evansville, Ind. They are: August Mattingly, 17 years of age; Miss Pearl Cheaney, 14 years of age. and Miss Marion Onan, 20, of Henderson, Ky. The young people were caught in the rapids in front of the mail line wharfboat and their skiff capsized. A light engine going west on the Union Pacific collided with an overland passenger train one and one-quarter miles west of Walcott, Wyo. Fireman Koneld was killed. Engineer Walter Marsh of No. 4, a resident of Laramie, was fatally'injured, dying a few minutes after beipg picked up. Both engines and mail cars were demolished. The main line of the Baltimore and Ohio was completely blockaded the other day by a. tunnel just west of Cambridge, Ohio, caving in. The cave-in occurred about twenty minutes after the regular west-bound passenger had passed The track inspector who discovered the accident had just time enough to stop a special and save it from destruction. The tunnel is 700 feet long and at least half of it was blockaded. All trains were run over the Cleveland and Marietta Railway.

SOUTHERN.

The Western Union Telegraph Company is arranging to lay a new cable between Miami, Fla., and Havana, Cuba. Martin Collin was shot and killed at Bristol, Tenn., by Will Templin. Both were young business men and quaraeled about money. H. 11. McConnell and his wife, an aged couple, were killed by lightning at their home near Cottage Grove, Tenn. Both had their clothing burned off. The Kentucky Populist State convention denounced both the old parties and nominated a full State ticket, headed by John G. Blair for Governor. James M. G’arlington. the leader of the band which in July, 1808, robbed a Santa Fe Railroad train near Saginaw and killed two trainmen, was hanged at Fort Worth. Howard A. San*>n, an emissary seeking miners for Missouri and Indian Territory coal fields, was fatally stabbed in the coal fields at Bramwell, W. Va. His assailants are unknown. , Yellow fever has broken out at the National Soldiers* . Home at Hampton, Va. There are now thirty cases of fever

In the place and there hava been three deaths from the disease. Owing to the scarcity of coal in the Chattanooga, Tenn., district and the unprecedented demand for commercial fuel, operators have advanced the price of domestic coal 25 cents a ton and commercial coal 10 cents. Chancellor R. B. Kelly has appointed R. A. Mitchell of Gadsdeh and O. H. Parker of Anniston, Ala., receivers for the Gadsden Land and Improvement Company. The suit was brought for the purpose of winding up the affairs of the company. Three Mormon elders who have been preaching their peculiar doctrines In Jasper Connty, Georgia, are missing, and the supposition is that they have been roughly handled by a jnob that forced them bodily from the house where they were stopping.

FOREIGN.

Guzman Blanco, ex-president of Venezuela, is dead in Paris. N. R. Harrington, member of the American fish commission, died at Atabara, Egypt, of typhoid fever while en route for the Blue Nile. The death is announced at Paris of Albert Menier, from typhoid fever. He was a brother and business associate of Henry L. Menier, the chocolate king. A dispatch from Nijnii-Novgorod reports that a cargo and a passenger steamer collided on the River Volga, and that the passenger steamer sank, drowning 155 persons. The Hawaiian Islands have been violently shaken by an earthquake, and Mauna Loa, on Hawaii, started in eruption. Damage by the earthquake amounted probably to $50,000. A dispatch from Manila says that the rebels atempted to recapture Galamba, but were easily repulsed. One American wa» kilted and six others wounded. The Filipino loss was heavy. An expedition comprised of troops from San Pedro Macati, Pasig and Morong, under Brig. Gen. R. H. Hall, captured Calamba, an important trading town on the south -shore of Laguna de Bay. Percival Spencer, the famous aeronaut, with a companion named Pollock, recently made the trip to Dieppe, France, from the Crystal Palace at London. The balloon reached an altitude of 12,000 feet.

IN GENERAL.

T. J. Fitzmorris of Omaha has been elected president of the United States I,eague of Building and Loan Associations. Consul McCook at Dawson says that $10,000,000, instead of $20,000,000, in gold will cover the product for the last twelve months. Four men were crushed to death, seven seriously injured and a number slightly hurt in the wreck of a construction train on the Midland Railway near Windsor, N. S. There is another hitch in the Alaskan boundary controversy. Canada wants to establish docks, wharves and and other terminal facilities at the proposed leased port on the Lynu canal. Cubans had a big procession and mass meeting at Havana. A number of speeches were made, all in favor of absolute independence and union and urging the furtherance of work to secure this result. A new transatlantic record to Boston was established when the big Dominion line steamship New England, CapL James McAuley, steamed into port, having made the run in 6 days 7 hours 40 minutes. The United States has been brought into the Dreyfus case through a published statement ascribed to former Ambassador Eustis, in which he is made to say that Dreyfus is culpable and that he could prove it. The current number of Bradstreet’s says: “Special activity in the iron and steel industry is reported at Chicago, where heavy advances have been made in finished products, and numerous shipments are reported. The cereal markets note little change in price, but trade opinion seems to favor steady flemand and few fluctuations, in view of admittedly large necessary takings by foreigners.” Secretary Gage has upheld Ckistoms Collector Stone of Baltimore against the civil service commissioners in refusing to allow Special Deputy Collector Dryden and Cashier Montell to take the examination ordered by the civil service board. The collector held that he did not think an examination at this time would be necessary, as both men had been employed in the customs service nearly fourteen months.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4 75; sheep, fair to choice, $3 00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 68cto 69c; corn. No. 2,30 cto 32c; oats, No. 2,20 c to 21c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 52c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 35c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime, $3.25 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 69c; corn. No. 2 white, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2,20 cto 22c; rye. No. 2,54 cto 56c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2,68 cto 69c; eorn, No, 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 57c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29e; rye, 53c to 55c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 32c to 34c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye. No. 2,51 c to 53c; clover seed, new, $3.90 to $4.00. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 70c to 71c; corn. No. 3,32 cto 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to’26c; rye, No. 1,51 cto 53c; barley, No. 2,39 cto 41c; pork, mess, $8.50 to $9.00. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 .to $6.00; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $6.50. “ New York—Cattle, $3.25 to s6joo; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 76c to 77c; corn. No. 2, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2,27 cto 28c; butter, creamery, 15c to 19c; eggs, Western, 12< to 16c.

THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE.

—St. Paul Pioneer Press.

DEATH OF LUETGERT.

Notorious Sausage-Maker Suddenly r.spires in His Prison Cell. Adolph Luetgert, who was serving a life sentence in the Illinois State penitentiary at Joliet for the murder of his wife, Louisa, died suddenly at a few minutes before 7 o’clock Thursday morning. The probable cause of his death was heart disease. It was thought at first that he might have killed himself, but the prison physician. after examining the body, concluded that death resulted from natural causes. There were no indications of poisoning, nor were there any marks on the body. To all appearances Luetgert had been in the best of health, although he had been suffering from rheumatism. The chaplain of the prison said that in the several talks he had .with the pris-

ADOLPH L. LUETGERT.

oner he had always declared his innocence of any crime. He was confident he would be vindicated in time and that the Supreme Court would grant him a rehearing. He frequently spoke about his case and all his thoughts seemed to be upon it. The warden and his deputies all pronounce” Luetgert to have been a well-behaved prisoner. The only trouble which they ever had with him was a little argument he got into with a representative of a large packing house over the meat furnished. He had to be placed in solitary confinement as a punishment for his conduct. Luetgert’s passing away marks the closing chapter of one of the most grewsome murder mysteries in the annals of criminology—his debt to the law which was fixed by a jury at life imprisonment has been wiped out.

EVANSVILLE MINERS RIOT.

Non-Unlonista Attacked—The Mayor Forbids Parade. Rioting and disorder prevailed at two of the Evansville coal mines Wednesday. As the colored non-union miners came from the First, avenue mines they were met by a crowd of boys who carried tin cans. Several stones were hurled at them. When a block away from the mine the miners pulled their revolvers and opened fire on the crowd. No one was hurt. Several hundred people gathered and the police dispersed the crowd and escorted the miners home. Nearly 1,000 striking miners, their families and sympathizers were at the John Ingle mine when the colored miners quit work. Both the strikers and non-union men were armed. Maybr Akin issued a proclamation forbidding the miners to parade.

TO REMOVE THE DAMS.

Illinois Valley’s Demand on Chicago Drainage District. Dredging of the Illinois river and the removing of all dams therein is demanded by the Illinois River Valley Association before the water of the Chicago drainage canal is turned into it. If this is done the association, by implication, promises to withdraw opposition to the plans of the Chicago drainage district. This was the net result of the meeting of the association at Whitehall, 111. Five thousand, persons were present and the result of their deliberations was incorporated in a set of resolutions which will be presented to Gov. Tanner and President McKinley. The former will be ask-

INDEMNITY FOR LYNCHING.

Relatives of Italians Slain at Tallulah s, Will Be Recompensed. Italy will be paid an indemnity for the lynching of three of the five at Tallulah, La., and the State Department will lay down the principle, once for all, that an alien does not become a fullfledged citizen of the United States until naturalisation papers have been formally issued to him. » Of course the State Department will pursue the regular legal course for ascertaining the facts in connection with the lynching.

OTIS PROCLAIMS NEW CONTROL

He Establishes Provisional Rule for the Island of Negros. Gen. Otis has proclaimed a provisional government for the Island of Negros. The island will be under a military governor, and a civil governor and advisory council will be elected later. This Government is established pending the action of Congress on the constitution for the Island of Negros. Baeolor will be the capital. A cabinet consisting of secretaries of treasury, agriculture and interior will be appointed by the military governor. These, together with an attorney general, will exercise the executive power. All male inhabitants of 21 years of age, who can read and write Spanish, English or Visayan, and who possess SSOO in realty, and who have been residents for one year are eligible to the franchise. The military governor will prescribe the time and place of elections. He will also appoint three judges to sit at times and places designated. A free school system will be established and the teaching of English will be required. The advisory council to.be presided over by the civil governor will devise a system of uniform taxation. The military governor will collect the customs and control the postal service. The secretaries will draw $3,000 a year. The civil governor will receive $6,000 a year. The military governor will have the power of veto in all legislative action, subject to the approval of Gen. Otis. A Washington dispatch says that the President has no intention of relieving Gen. Otis from the military command in the Philippines.

BODY IS CREMATED.

Remains of Col. Ingersoll Incinerated at Fresh Pond, L. I. The body of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll was cremated Thursday at Fresh Pond, L. I. The coffin was plain and covered with black cloth, having neither handles nor plate. It was only used to convey the remains from the house at Dobbs Ferry to the crematory. A special train was in readiness at the Dobbs Ferry sta-

FRESH POND CREMATORY.

tion, and there was a special train also on the Long Island Railroad. The mourners remained at Fresh Pond until the cremation was completed, when the widow carried the ashes back to the home in the cinerary urn selected for her by George Gray Barnard, the sculptor, who took the cast of Col. Ingersoll’s head after death.

HALL ROUTES REBELS.

Insurgent Town of Calamba Captured by American Troops. A Manila dispatch says that Brig. Gen. R. H. Hall, with 1,000 men, has captured Calamba, on Laguna de Bay. The

GEN. HALL.

has a population of 11,476 and is twentyseven miles from Santa Crus on the eastern shore of the bay. Its capture is not considered of any strategical importance, except as a part of the plan to harass and worry the insurgents.

Sparks from the Wires.

Pat Malone killed by the cars, Akron, Ohio. Falling telegraph pole, Pittsburg, killed Frank Scopu J. C. Saylor, school teacher, shot dead from ambush on Pickett’s creek, Kentucky. Prospectors are leaving Dawson City by the hundred for Nome, the new gold field. A $9,000,000 fertilizer trust Is proposed. - Ex-Commissary General Eagan has ix turned from Hawaii.

loss to the United States forces was four killed and twelve wounded. Calamba is a town on Laguna de Bay, about thirty miles southeast of Manila. It is mudt farther south tTA the United States troops have yet penetrated on land. It is in the province of Laguna. It