Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1899 — Page 2

I&ER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. ' -A - I F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. SmSELAER, - ~ - INDIANA.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

| The NilW-Bement-l’ond company, in corporate,! at Trenton. N. J.. is spoken ‘ -Of in financial circles as a “tool trust, fajthough its organizers declare that they 4®re. not seeking to establish a monopoly. ®?he company has a capital stock of SB,E A statement completed by the Auditor tlpt State of Ohio shows that there arc 8jp0.874 saloons in the State, a gain of 698 istnce the July statement of last year. ‘The total revenue is $548,116.69. The Kfeeer and whisky license in Ohio costs fss2so a year. k The Seneca Point Hotel, on CanandaiHftta Lake. N. Y.. was destroyed by fire. ■|‘The structure was valued at S6§JM)O. Kjttle insurance was carried. Thcre4were Babout forty guests in the house at the ft time and all escaped, though many of ft them lost their effects. ■k The .London war office has completed fflts preparations for an emergency force ||iof -30,000 men to be ready to leave at any fc’ time for the Transvaal. Fast steamers I- for their transportation are waiting oristiers. It is said that the Grenadier now at Gibraltar, and the Twen-Ifety-first Lancers, now in Egypt, may also ( >be sent to South Africa. ? George W. Cady has been appointed Kfeceiver for Thomas 11. Groves, proprie- | tor of the Chicago Bankrupt Store, loftrated in Cleveland until very recently, B when the stock was removed to other An involuntary bankruptcy petiE tion was filed against Groves by three of his New York creditors, who claim | that Groves’ liabilities amount to $125,jooo. Ift Fire came very near destroying the town of Robarts, Ky. The losses are: b Eakin's drug store, $17,000; Eakin’s hardware store, $10,000; Dunean’s genI eral store, $7,000: empty store buildings I belonging to W. G. Duncan, $12,000; Dr. Cottigham’s office and residence, $5,000; K. of P. hall. $2,000, and several small jg cottages, SIO,OOO. No insurance was cargried. t At New Philadelphia. Ohio, Albert MyK ers shot and killed his wife at the famK Hy residence, and with the same revolver r ended his own life. The tragedy created [ a great sensation. What prompted the Redouble crime is not known, but it is supfcposed that jealousy was at the bottom of E the shooting. Mr. and Mrs. Myers had £ not been married long and were both under 30 years of age. : An engine under full head of steam fc blew up at the Cardenas roundhouse fc, near Tampico, Mexico. The killed are: s Engineer Felix Limer, New Orleans; EnI’gineer L. Fitzgerald, Monterey, Mexico; E Engineers J. Hussey and Will Gibson, ;»■ formerly of Chicago. Three Mexican K firemen and wood passers were also killi ed. An engineer of the name of Lockchart was blown ninety feet and fatally ; injured and two Mexican shop employes f ■were also fatally hurt. The standing of the clubs in the NaK tloual League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. | Brooklyn ...tit) 34 Chicago 53 4(1 f Boston 62 38 Pittsburg ...50 51 | Philadelphia 6.3 39 Louisville ...44 55 I Baltimore ...59 39 New Y0rk...41 55 | Cincinnati . .55 44 Washington. 35 66 I St. L0ui5....55 4(1 Cleveland ...17 87 Following is the standing of the clubs •in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis 59 34St. Paul..,. .4(1 54 Minneapolis. (11 49Milwaukee ..43 52 k Grand Rap. .53 48 Buffalo 43 58 Detroit 50 48 Kansas City. 39 60

BREVITIES.

|t Prince Henry of Germany is to visit fe; the United States on returning from the R East. Symptoms similnn to those of the bull bonic plague have been found at Oporto, | Portugal. E. The anti-Goebel Democrats in Kentucky have nominated John Younjy | Brown for Governor. Earthquake shocks, accompanied by ; torrents of rain, are reported from the ‘ central portion of Portugal. Fire at Westchester, N. Y., destroyed | St. Peter’s Episcopal Church and most of its contents. Loss, $200,000. The first national convention of the | Young People’s Christian Temperance s Union will meet in Chicago Sept. 20. Franklin Hassler and Hilda H. and 6 Gertie Fleischman of Harrisburg. Pa., were killed by the Lebanon Valley ex- , press. . _ _ 3 At Elkton, S. D., two drunken harvest 1 hands resisted arrest by Marshal Fergu- | son, and the officer killed one of them in s. (self-defense. The dead man's name is | not known. The surveying steamer Resolute was | Bunk in collision with the British steanij er Scindia, last reported from Calcutta, for Bombay. Several lives were lost in the disaster. Joseph Brunock, a railroad man, has ‘ brought suit against President Trumbull ;of the Colorado and Southern Railroad « Company for $20,000 damages on the ground that he has been blacklisted by that road. . Mrs. Lily Langtry, the actress, was ( married recently at the Island of Jersey to Hugo Gerald de Bathe, 28 years of age, eldest son of Sir Henry Percival de Bathe, hurt., a retired general and Crimean veteran. \ The oroner's jury investigating the "Bridgeport, Conn., trolley accident, s whereby twenty-nine persons were killed, caused the arrest of William Kelly, who admitted having perjured himself to protect the traction company. ( At East Bernstadt, Ky., Charles Jones was shot and, instantly killed by Cam Williams. Williams is in jail. j The ill of Joseph Benorst, who died J at Kansas City, proves to be a most reK markable document. Although he was | an infidel, Benorst loft all but $4,000 | of his fortune of $150,000 to religious t And charitable organizations. i,. A young man about 25 years old, with KSmooth face, was found murdered in a I box car at Vanda|ia, Mo. Tramp* were gta the car with the corpse. They said • another tramp had killed ihe youug man if? c

EASTERN.

Robert Porterfield, a well-known shipping master, died in Brooklyn, aged 86 years. Col. William E. Sinn, the theatrical manager, is dead at Pittsfield, Mass. He was 65 years old. ' Jennie Worrell, twenty years ago a famous beauty and actress, was probably fatally burned by bprning grass on the Coney Island meadows. George Grnuers, aged 18, and Tony Rixes, aged 21, were struck by lightning at Baltimore and instantly killed while sheltering under a large tree. Shoe manufacturers effected a permanent national organization at Philadelphia and agreed upon a general advance in prices of 10 to 25 cents a pair. During a heavy electrical storm the flint glass works of John Murray & Co. at Philadelphia were struck by lightning and destroyed. The loss is estimated at $125,000. Rev. Walter Manning Barrows, D. D., of Greenwich, Conn., died at Mackinac Island, at the summer home of his brother, President John Henry Barrows of Oberlin College. A Johnstown, Pa., dispatch says a reduction of wages in the structural department of the Cambria Steel Company goes into effect at once, ranging between 70 and 80 per cent. Solomon Quinter of Reading, Pa., formerly a railroad employe, shot and instantly killed his wife, Annie, Aged 48 years, and Edward 11. Kitzmiller, aged 28, whom he found in her cowpauy. James Quinn, aged 60 years, a resident of Lookout, a suburb of Carbondale, Pa., was killed in a faction fight between his family and the Gallaghers. Spectators say that fully 200 combatants were in the melee. John B. Smith, formerly in the real estate and building business in New York, has filed a petition in bankruptcy, showing liabilities of $136,494, of which $92,708 is unsecured. His available assets are $28,307. Hazing at West Point has been abolished by Col. Albert L. Mills, whose gallantry at the.storming of San Juan heights, when he was a lieutenant of cavalry, cost him an eye and won him the superintendency of the military academy. While Henry Hahn, of New York, was riding his bicycle near Arrochar, S. 1., the wheel suddenly stopped and Hahn was forced to dismount. He looked at the rear wheel and saw that a black snake five feet long had become entangled in it. In East Middlebury, Vt., a man named Eastwood went to the home of his moth-er-in-law and shot his wife and her mother, killing both. He then drove to Middlebury, went to the residence of Frank Fenn, shot him through the heart, killing him instantly. David McDade, one of the best known aeronauts in the country, jumped from a burning balloon a half mile in the air in the presence of 1,200 people at Owego, N. Y. He landed in the river and was rescued with a few bruises and several burns.

WESTERN.

Ex-Judge William M. Zearing of Chicago died at Mackinac Island, aged 75. Frederick W. Niblock, Pasadena, Cal., died of hemorrhage of the lungs, aged 29. Lillian Lewis, an actress of national reputation, died at Farmington, Minn., of consumption. Fire caused by an explosion of a gasoline stove destroyed fifteen buildings, comprising the main portion of Cass Lake, Minn. George W. Blazer, superintendent of the Elizabeth, Colo., public schools, was shot and instantly killed on the street. The murderer escaped. Fields of wheat in Cuss and Traill countiek, N. D., were devastated by a severe storm of wind and hail. The loss ia from 40 to 50 per cent. At Cleveland, explosives were again resorted to on the Euclid avenue line. The car was bound east. There were twentyfive passengers on board, but no one was injured. At Bowling Green, Ohio, the jury in the case of John Zeltner, on trial for the murder of Attorney Westenhaver, brought in a verdict of guilty of manslaughter. Albert Beers shot and killed Daniel Lininger at Toledo while the latter was in company with Beers’ wife. Lininger had been warned to stay away from Beers’ bouse. A liberal rainfall extended over southern Kansas and Oklahoma. For several days there had been very hot weather, but no hot winds, and corn is in perfect condition. Crazed by jealousy, Henry Marks placed a dynamite bomb under the home of his girl’s parents at Guthrie, O. T. The house was demolished. Walter Steubens was killed and the young woman fatally hurt. Two police officers were murdered at Denver by a recruit belonging to Company L, Thirty-fourth Volunteer Infantry, now staioned at Fort Logan. The officers were shadowing the soldier and two companions. At La Crosse, Wis., fire broke out in the two-story building corner Pearl and Front streets, occupied by Davis, Sorenson & Co., manufacturers of bar fixtures and office furniture. It was totally destroyed. Loss, 850,000. The C. E. Ingalls creameries in northwest Nebraska are all attached and closed by numerous creditors. Ingalls was born at Woodstock. 111., and came from Guilford and Galena. His family bought tickets for Dubuque, lowa. Three powder mills connected with the plant of the Aetna Powder Company, near Aetna, Ind., blew up. The explosion was caused by a fire igniting a quantity of dynamite in process of manufacture. The loss was about 85,000. Gus McKennie, a prominent and wealthy cotton compressor of Gainesville, Texas, who with his wife had been stopping at Manitou, Colo., was instantly killed by a colored waiter, George A. McCormick, at the Barker House. During the progress of a ball game at Felicity, Ohio, Clay Larkin struck Chas. Schock of Neville on the hea<F with a baseball bat. Schock wgs rendered unconscious and died. He had been a merchant at Neville for twenty years. The Injunction proceedings brought against the city of Toledo to prevent the payment of $3,000 appropriated for a junket to the meeting of the League of American Municipalities has bad the de-

i aired effect and Toledo will not be represented. The coroner's jury at Omaha placed the blame for the electrocution of four firemen at the Mercer Chemical Company’s fire on Aug. 9 on the ThomsonHouston Electric Light Company and the city electrician, charging criminal negligence. Chicago will soon have another improvement added to its mail service. A plan has been adopted by the Postoffice Department for the registration of mail by the letter carriers at the doors of persons living in the residential sections of large cities. W. T. Coleman, an ensign on the battleship lowa, who was to have been court-martialed at San Francisco on a charge of having been intoxicated at the Puget Sound naval station, attempted suicide by shooting with a navy revolver. He will recover. L. Walker of Poland, Ohio, filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy. Walker is the man through whom President McKinley met with monetary difficulties several years ago. He admits liabilities to the amount of SIO,OOO and avers that he is without assets. Thoburn Gibson has discovered an ore deposit upon the lands of Jesse Spalding, between Crystal Falls, Minn., and Amasa, that shows up to be 600 feet long and averages thirty feet wide. The ore assays 64.40 in iron nnd .08 in phos. The find is worth $50,000. Six firemen were injured at a fire which broke out in the restaurant of Star & Owen, near the corner of Sixth and Market streets, San Francisco. The roof of the building fell in and several of the firemen were buried beneath the debris. All are expected to survive. Mrs. Clara Baldwin of Irvington, Ind., with strychnine introduced into the food eaten at dinner poisoned her husband, her son James, 18 years old, and her daughter Mary, 15 years old. Mrs. Baldwin went to an upper room and shot herself through the head, dying instantly. The strike of the employes of the American Smelting and Refining Company’s plants in Colorado was declared off at a meeting of the smelter men’s union in Denver. It is thought it is but a question of a short time until all the plants in Colorado will be going at full blast. Emile Swarbeau was riding a bicycle on the streets at Muncie, Ind., when the pneumatic tire in the rear wheel exploded, throwing the rider several feet into the air. He"was dashed to the sidewalk and rendered unconscious. The rider was found to be in a dying condition. Fire, which broke out in the paint department of the Cleveland Stone Company’s plant at Berea, Ohio, destroyed a number of buildings filled with valuable machinery and a large quantity of lumber, all owned by the stone company. The loss is estimated at upward of SIOO,000, insurance unknown. The National Hay Association wound up its session at Detroit with the election of the following officers: President, James W. Sale, Bluffton, Ind.; first vicepresident, John D. Carscallon, Jersey City; secretary and treasurer, F. F. Collins, Cincinnati. Baltimore was chosen as the next place of meeting. William T. Caple, a non-union motorman of the Big Consolidated Company at Cleveland, fired two shots at William Little, a teamster, both bullets taking effect. In return Little picked up a hatchet lying in his wagon and hurled It at Caple, striking the motorman in the head and making a frightful wound. Several of the unsigned national bank notes of the First National Bank of Portland, Ore., taken by the Union Pacific robbers in June, are in circulation, being of $lO, S2O and SSO denominations. Some have appeared at Chadron, Neb., and it is held by legal authorities that these bank notes are legal and must be redeemed.

C. T. Hobart, chief engineer of the Columbus, Lima and Milwaukee Railroad, brother of Vice-President Hobart, was fatally injured at Gomer, Ohio. Mr. Hobart attempted to pass between a big crane at the Watkins elevator and the railroad track when a construction train passed and squeezed him. His hip was crushed and he was internally injured. Robert Shatto, aged 17, met a horrible death at Columbus, Ind. He was working in a hopper-shaped wheat bin at Griffith's elevator. His legs became submerged in the wheat, and, drawn by rhe suction of receding wheat, he was unable to extricate himself. He was covered by 400 bushels of wheat, from which it required an hour to recover the body. Workmen repairing the high school building at Arapahoe, Neb., brought to light a double tragedy. In one of the rooms was found the body of James Bloodworth. Lying partly across the body was that of Miss Grace Cooper. Both had been shot through the temple. Bloodworth was 21 and Miss Cooper was 15. They had been keeping company for some time, to which the parents of the girl objected.

SOUTHERN.

The manufacturing plant of the Chattanooga, Tenn., Furniture Company burned to the ground. Loss $50,000. W. B. Cleveland & Co, wholesale grocers at Houston, Texas, have failed. Liabilities are $441,971, assets $753,199. Two Mormon elders are reported to have been beaten to death with dubs by masked men in the mountains of Tennessee. Charles P. James, Ixesburg, Va., died, aged 80 years. He was formerly an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, having retired in 1892. Fifteen hundred coal miners in the Middlesboro. Ky., district went on strike asking an immediate advance of pay. They had been promised 5 per cent increase on Sept. 1. At Port Gibson, Miss., Bill Wilson, a youug negro, was spirited out of his cell and hanged to the county gallows in the jail. Four shots were fired into his neek aud head by the unknown lynchers. Mrs. S. A. Steele, manager of an extensive home for needy children in Chattanooga, Tenn., has completed an arrangement with Gen. Fitzhugh Lee to receive fifty Cuban girls at the home and raise and educate them. Police Officers Albert P. Rawlins and Charles A. Daniels fought a duel to the death at Dallas, Texas. Rawlins wan almost instantly killed and Daniels died an hour later. The duel was the result of a difference of long standing. Five negro children were boned to

death on McKowan’s plantation, near Jackson, La. The parents locked them np in their house and went to church. On their return the charred bodies of the little cnes were found in the ruins of the house.

FOREIGN.

Emperor William attended thtf opening of the Dortmund-Ems canal in Germany. Emperor William has decided to assent to the resolutions of the peace conference. Two men have ambnshed Maitre Labor!, counsel for Dreyfus, at Rennes, and one shot was fired, hitting Labori in the back. According to Hong Kong advices an agreement has been reached between Great Britain and the Chinese Government that the United States shall have an executive settlement at Hankow. It is proposed after the close of the Paris exhibition next year to open an American exhibition either in Moscow or St. Petersburg, consisting chiefly of American exhibits from the French capital. Including Paul Deroulede, sixteen members of the Anti-Semitic and Patriotic leagues and young royalists have been arrested in Paris under a general charge of forming a conspiracy to overthrow the Government. It is expected General Lord Kitchener of Khartum, conqueror of the Soudan, will pay a visit to New York and other cities of this country as soon as the important military mission upon which he set out recently is accomplished and he is able to take a vacation. It has been decided by the Government of Russia that hereafter any university or high school student creating or instigating disorders shall be forcibly drafted into the army and compelled to render from one to three years’ service. It is not said whether or not this applies to foreign students. Captain Vashiero, a naval attache of the Japanese legation at St. Petersburg, thinks Russia will eventually abandon its transsiberian railroad. At a banquet in Tokio recently he said the greater part of the Siberian railway was imperfect in construction and it would hardly be possible to utilize it for war purposes.

IN GENERAL

Alexander McDonald, king of the Klondike, has failed. His liabilities are estimated at 89.090,000. His assets are of uncertain value. The recent seizure of six Canadian fishing boats near Point Roberts by the United States customs officials will probably be settled by the release of the boats. When Gen. Torres learned that his nephew had been killed by the Yaquis he ordered that forty prisoners who had fallen into his hands be put to death, and they were taken out and shot. In consequence of the new anti-rebate law going into effect in Texas general managers of all railroads will call in every pass and no more will be issued except for charity, to employes and peace officers. Sixty Chinese members of the crew of the United States transport Victoria were in mutiny and before the end came a pitched battle took place. The ship’s officers, backed by some carpenters, won. The trouble arose over wages, the Chinamen demanding a 87 increase a month, which was refused. The climax of the Missouri-Kansas Zinc Miners’ Association fight against the smelters for higher prices for zinc was reached the other day, when the association announced that it had made the prices for all grades of zinc ore for the next six months. This means prices for about $8,000,000 worth of zinc ore. Heretofore the schedule of prices has been made weekly. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “The output of iron furnaces in blast Aug. 1 was 269,032 tons weekly —60.8 per cent more than in 1892 and 2.07 per cent more than last year. The supply appears to be at least equal to the demand, although new demands for the week have covered 2,100 tons for new buildings at Chicago, with much for bridges, and 4,000 tons for eastern buildings at Pittsburg. Wool is a little less active after its great rise, and inside quotations are sometimes accepted, but sales at the three chief markets have been 20,206,690 pounds in two weeks, against 23.495.800 in the same weeks in 1897, and 16,436,600 in the same weeks of 1892. Failures for the week have been 136 in the United States, against 196 last year, and 29 in Canada, against 18 last year.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 73c: corn. No. 2,30 cto 32c; oats, No. 2,19 c to 21c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 54c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, fresh. 11c to 13c; potatoes, choice, 28c 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 $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep. $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 74c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats. No. 2,21 cto 23c; rye. No. 2,55 cto 56c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 nixed, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye. No. 2,56 cto 58c. Detroitr-Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.5Q; wheat. No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn. No.' 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; rye, 54c to 56c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2,54 c to 55c; clover seed, new, $4.05 to $4.10. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 3,32 cto 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye, No. 1,54 cto 55c; barley, No. 2,39 cto 41c; pork, mess, SB.OO to $8.50. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $6.75. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 78c to 79c; corn, No. 2, 88c to 39c; oats, mixed Western, 26c to 29c; butter, creamery, 16c to 21c; eggs. Western, 11c Io 15c.

DOWIE SEEKS REVENGE.

Head of Sion Fcoreo Chicago News* papers and Doctors. John Alexander Tlowle vented his wrath against the doctors and the newspapers jpf Chicago Sunday in an address before a large meeting at Zion Tabernacle. The fierce abuse, in language most foul, had for its purpose revenge against the doctors because they caused the arrest of one of the elders of his church and one of its members for malpractice and criminal negligence in the ease of Mrs. Flanders, who died recently. The newspapers and their employes were scored for reporting the affair. He mentioned one after another of the news* papers and told of wrongs they had done to him. He accused all of lying and called reporters as a whole a disreputable set, qualifying the term with numerous foul adjectives. Of Joseph Medill he said: “Joseph Medill was a wicked man. He was a bad man. He lied about Zion.” < . Of Mr. Flanders, the husband of the

DOWIE’S HOTEL AND HOSPITAL.

woman who died under the care of members of Zion, who was in the audience, he said: “You should have committed suicide when you said you would. Then there would have been one dirty dog the less in Chicago.” Of Lawyer Stevens, also in the audience, he said: “Stand up, you scoundrel. In the name of the most high God I brand you as a liar, a traducer of a widow and a scoundrel.” One of his remarks was the prophecy that before long all the wicked Chicago papers would be driven from the field by the Zion Morning Sun and the Zion Evening Star, and another was a threat that Gov. Tanner and the State Board of Health, or “death,” as he called it, wbuld be held financially responsible for the arrest of the Zion workers in the Flanders case.

MAY DISRUPT FRANCE.

Paris Press Fears that a Revolution Is Imminent. The Paris papers, without distinction, express indignation at the outrage of which Labori is the victim. The Temps deplores the “state of disorder into which the Dreyfus affair has dragged the country” and says that it is “high time for us to stand up and be ourselves again.” Continuing its review of the situation, the Temps observes: “Casimir-Perier testified to his wishes for a reconciliation, and we now see how far fsom it we are. Perhaps this pistol shot marks the culmination- of the crisis and will restore us to the path of good sense.” The Liberte, which holds the Government responsible as the “apostle of the anarchy that has existed for the last two years and that has sown broadcast the seeds of civil war,” says: “The outrage is only an incident in the era of catastrophes toward which the country is rushing.” The Journal Des Debats says: “The revolver shot is bound to be the end, and one fine morning it will be closely followed by the horrors of civil war, if violence, hate, contempt for justice and law and all the fanatical, anarchic and homicidal passions continue to poison the air we breathe.” The Figaro says: “In all the long series of crimes in the pages of our history this is the first time when assassination has struck down an advocate, and that, too, at the very hour when preparing to plead in defense of his client, to establish truth and to confound accusers.”

WHITE EXPECTS TO DIE.

Sheriff of Clay County Bays He Will Purely Be Killed. John Feland, a prominent eastern Kentucky politician, says that while at Lexington he met and had a long talk with Beverly White, sheriff of Clay County, from whose house Tom Baker was assassinated while being guarded by the State troops. “Sheriff White told me,” said Feland, “that he knew his days on earth were numbered. He was confident that some of the Baker crowd would kill him just as soon as a good opportunity was presented. He added, however, that he was prepared for the worst and touched his belt, in which, he carried two huge Colt’s revolvers and abowie knife. White remarked that he might leave Clay County, but for the fact that all of his relatives and property are located there.”

BUILDING STARTS AGAIN.

The Strike of Chicago Brickmakera Brought to a Close. Building operations in Chicago and Cook County have been resumed. The strike of the brickmakers, which lasted a week, is off. claim the victory. The men believe they have proved their charge that the yard owners have been in combination. They further claim they have succeeded in breaking up the “brick trust,” as they term it. On the other hand, the manufacturers insist there is no such combination and that the strike has been a failure. In the entanglements resulting from the strike, a number of central labor bodies and contractors’’ associations became involved, so that the cause for which the strike was declared was completely lost sight of. . i

Told in a Few Lines.

Benjamin Tresselt, Buffalo, N. Y., died of hydrophobia. Mary Robinson, New York, committed suicide by throwing herself in front of a train. Clarence Watkins, 12, Chattanooga, Tenn., stabbed hia father in the rejflon of the heart May die. Gunboat Machias has gone to San Pedro de Macoris, San Domingo, to look after American interests. Body of Barlow Prewitt found at Glasgow, Ky., with his throat cut from, ear to ear. John Short ia accused. He’a gone.

PULSE of the PRESS

South American Alliance. A South American alliance is all right on paper, but—-—.-—Providence Telegram. It would be suicidal for the little republics to combine against the greatest of all republics. Closer relations and not the cold shoulder is the policy for thiscontinent.—Troy Times. The South Americans do not know enough to run better governments than, they have. Their lack of political sense is shown in their rather imprudent distrust of the United States. —Terre HauteExpress. Soon or late we shall probably discover that there is a European meddler behind, this nervousness that seems to be affecting our Latin-American neighbors. They will get over it in time.—Washington Times. Don’t fret lest the South American, countries are going to unite against the United States. It is difficult for any one of them to “unite” for any considerable length of time, to say nothing of the whole.—Boston Transcript. The whole history of the country would have to be reversed, and we should have to seek the things which we now abhor and abhor the things which we now admire before we should threaten the independence of these republics, for the mere sake of expansion.—Brooklyn Eagle. Relief for Porto Rico. Now that Porto Rico is ours, it surely behooves us to promptly relieve the destitution brought by the hurricane.—New York Herald. As a part of our new possessions the people of the island have a claim on our generosity which should be met to the fullest extent.—Philadelphia’ Press. The President and the War Department have acted with commendable promptness, but the bounty of the Government should be supplemented by the benevolence of our citizens. —New York World. The news that Porto Rico has been raised from her misfortunes by American good will and restored to prosperity and comfort will show the people of all our new possessions and of all the neighboring lands that incorporation into the United States is the most desirable thing that can happen to any small community. —New York Journal.

Marriage and Money. Let us have more young marriages—early marriages if you will—and less talk of the future, and of the necessity of. having a “pile” before we can be happy. —Waukegan Sun. A young man, who is any kind of a man at all, and who is willing to cut out all useless extravagances and do his part kindly and generously, will find that a wife who has his interests at heart is not a weight to him, but his most valued helper.—Galesburg Republican-Register. The Chicago Tribune says that the current discussion of marriage in that city leaves the question where St. Paul left it. Don’t jump at conclusions, neighbor. St. Paul hasn’t left it yet. They are still marrying and giving in marriage up here.—St. Paul Pioneer Press.

Britons and Boers. The more the Boers concede to the English the more the English demand.— Buffalo Express. Experience has taught us that all news coming from the Transvaal, from whichever side, is to be regarded with suspicion.—London Chronicle. President Kruger has expressed his gratification that the Volksraad has agreed to stand by the Lord. But will the Lord stand by Kruger?—Boston Transcript. The Boers must yield. It would be better for them to do so gracefully before a shot is fired than to have to do so after suffering frightful losses.—Savannah News. It is once more looking warlike over in the Transvaal. But there will be no war. Oom Paul is an obstinate old man, but there are some things that he knows as well as any one.—Peoria Herald.

Dumdum Bullets nt Joliet. After the dumdum bullets the exploding bomb, perhaps. Anything to “stop” enemies of fugitive prisoners in these days of civilization, you know.—Baltimore Globe. Dumdum bullets will hereafter be used to shoot convicts who attempt to escape from Joliet penitentiary. This comes of not giving the convicts representation at the international peace conference.—Buffalo Express. The guards at Joliet penitentiary have been armed with Mauser rifles carrying dumdum bullets. The only excuse offered for the use of these bullets in warfare Is that, In meeting a charge of overwhelming numbers of savages, it is necessary to have a bullet that will produce shock enough to stop the rush of any man it hits. There is no such emergency . to be met in shooting a runaway convict In the back.—New York Journal.

Chicago Assessments. If the St, Paul assessor things his lines have fallen In hard places let him interview one of his Chicago brethren.—Minneapolis Times. According to some of the tax returns in Chicago one is led to believe that there is a large class of people who think there are no blessings of government 1 worth mentioning when the assessor comes around.—Sioux City Tribune. This is a blue summer for the Chicago millionaire. For the first time in his history he has learned that the law is actually stronger than the power of his wealth. Another astounding fact presented to him is that all officials cannot be corrupted.—New York World. Bugs. La Salle has a kissing bug club. So far that enterprising little city is in the lead in this matter.—Peoria HeraldTranscript. This is a great year for bugs. A new kind of potato beetle has put in an appearance out in Illinois, and he eats like a soldier just home from the Philippines. -Boston Globe. The kissing bug has begun to frequent camp meetings, and there is a faint hope that it may be brought to see the error of its ways and reform.—Chicago Tribune.