Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1899 — Page 6

. JASPER. COUNTY DEMOCRAT. I KCIS. BABCOCK, Publisher. EeNSS£UcR, INDIANA.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The marine hospital service has receiver «d cable advices announcing that the ft lower part of the town of Orizaba, MexE >co, is now' infected with yellow fever, ft. There have been sixty-three deaths at K Cordova. I I A fire started nt Tiro, Ohio, and the K larger part of the town was destroyed. |T The tire departments from Tiffin, Ohio, and New Washington went in response p to calls. The fire started from an exillusion. al'. James Fisch, chief clerk at large of the railway mail service, is on his way to t Valdez, Alaska, to take up the matter of a opening an all-American rail route from ■ Valdez by way of Eagle to Circle City, I Alaska. E It is reported in San Francisco that a |j Chinese-American corporation with a | capital of $20,000,000 i.s being formed to K, establish large enterprises in China. The J? Chinese Government is said to be backI ing the undertaking. I “Abe” Coakley, who is said to have I been a partner of ‘•Jimmy" Hope of i Manhattan Bank robbery fame, was stabbed in New York. His assailant was William Joyce, a hotel porter. Coakley is dangerously wounded. I At Yuma. Ariz., E. F. Saginetti's merchandise store burned with the loss Of six lives. A crowd of men was carrying 1 goods from the building, when the second floor fi 11 upon them. Many wore injured. The loss is estimated at $150,000. | N. E. Crissy, 25 years old, an aeronaut Of Johnstown, I’a., fell 000 feet to instant , death on the Punxsutawney, I’a., fair grounds. The belt by which he wan held : broke before his parachute was spread, and he shot like a stone to the ground. Capt. Richard P. Leary, United States , navy, a native of Baltimore, has arrived at Guam, Ladrone Islands, and has established the sovereignty of the United States. He has issued his first proclamation us governor of the island to the natives. N. W. Harris & Co., bankers, of Chicago, have sol dtheir street car lines in Seattle, Wash., thirteen miles in length, and operated as the Seattle Traction Company, to a Boston syndicate of‘capitalists. The price is said to have been $1,250,000. While a herd of 600 cattle was being driven over a bridge which spans the big Carey river south of Elgin, Kun., the : structure suddenly collapsed. John Kehen and Tom Baker, cowboys, mid 140 head of cattle fell to the stream. Sixty feet below, and were killed. The conference between President Truesdale of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railway with Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, at Scranton, resulted in an agreement that all engineers on the regular passenger runs shall lie paid a stated sum for each 100 miles run. The standing of the clubs In the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn .. .75.30 Chicago 58 57 Boston 71 42 Pittsburg ...50 58 Philadelphia 71 45 Louisville ...50 02 Baltimore ..00 44 New Y0rk...49 02 Cincinnati . .02 49 Washington. 39 73 St. L0ui5....04 53 Cleveland ...19 99 Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis 08 40 St. Paul 53 GO Minneapolis. 71 43 Milwaukee .'.48 GO Grand Rap..sß 55 Buffalo .....47 G 7 Detroit .....56 55 Kansas City.4s 60

BREVITIES.

Mrs. Josephine Kuder, a member of the Arion Singing Society Society of New | York, died suddenly of heart disease on the Arion's special train east bound from Denver. Bev. 11. R. Moseley, D. D., of Florence, S. C., has resigned his pastorate and will after Oct. 1 take charge of Baptist missionary work in Cuba for the American Home Missionary Society. Rioting broke out at Cleveland in connection with the strike on the lines of the Big Consolidated Railway, and four cars were nearly demolished, while the crews were compelled by a mob to tlee for their lives. J. B. Ransdell, Democrat, has been elected to Congress in the Fifth Louisiana district. The new battleship Alabama made a record of 17.02 knots an hour at her. builders' trial. The United States secret service has discovered a new counterfeit $2 treasury note of the series of 18111. Mrs. Catherine Parr-Trail), the oldest Canadian authoress, died in her eightyninth year, at Lakefield. Ont. The steamer San Salvador, in leaving Rio Janeiro, came into collision with the United States-cruiser Montgomery, causing some damage. Gen. Jiminez, leader of Santo Domingan revolutionists, has been placed under arrest at Santiago by Gen, Leonard Wood, the American military governor. (’apt. James E. Eastman, Second artillery, died at Chase's Lake, near Glenfield* N. Y„ from the effects of an attack of Cuban fever contracted during the campaign. William Downey, indicted by the grand Jury at Jefferson City, Mo., in 1897, for complicity in a postoffice robbery at Holt's Summit, that State, was arrested at Alliance, Ohio, At Huntington. W. Va., Henry Lusher, while dreaming that he was engaged in a fight with burglars, pounded his roommate seriously ami then fell down a flight of stairs, breaking several bones. At Bridgeport. Conn., the warehouse and junk of M. 11. Rogera was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of neizly $49.U00. Loo Hee Ben was found dead in his laundry in New York with a little hole over his heart. His friends say that he was murdered. It is believed to be a highbinder crime. The greatest fire in the history of Yokohama occurred recently when a square mile of buildings was destroyed and aix- , teen lives lost. The property loss is estimated at between $5,000,000 and $6,000,00*

EASTERN.

Ex-Judge Henry Hilton of New York died at Woodlawn Park, his Saratoga country seat.

Yale is to receive $75,000 from the late Dr. Charles J. Stille at the University of Pennsylvania, to be devoted to the pollsuit of political economy.

Albert Golden of Greenwich Point and Furman Hicks, 40 years old, of Hempstead, were drowned while sailing in Hempstead bay. Long Island. St. Anne's convent at Sparkill, N. Y„ was destroyed by fire, and a number of persons, mostly children, were hurtled to death. There were upward of 500■ occupants in the building when the tire broke out.

Concord. N. H.. was shaken by an earthquake. The disturbance appeared to pass from southeast to northwest and was of several seconds’ duration end of sufficient violence to awaken people from a sound sleep. The wedding of Miss Julia Dent Grunt, daughter of Gen. and Mrs. Frederick D. Grant, to Prim e M ichael Calacuzeno of Russia is aniiouneed to occtfr Saints’ Memorial chapel at Newport on Monday. Sept. 25.

After riding a bicycle 1.200 miles to attend the national encampment of the Grand Army Of the Republic mid to meet old comrades of the civil war. Jas. A. Rappe. aged 84. years, of Marinette, Wis.. hie arrived in Philadelphia. Clayton C. Mason, a nephew of Senator Mason of Illinois, died at Washington from tin overdose of morphine taken hypodermically, presumably to ease pain due to kidney trouble from which he had suffered for some time. Mr. Mason was an employe at the inpitol. Juanita Teressette Terry, aged 13 years, who was killed with her half-sis-ter and nephew by a train at Seabright, N. J., was the only daughter of the late Juan Pedro Terry, the Cuban 'millionaire. and would have inherited Lietween $6,000,(100 and $7,000,000 from his estate.

The American Automobile Company has been organized in New York City, to control the manufacture and operation of all the automobiles and motors in which kerosene or gasoline is used, not only in this country, but in France, Germany and other countries in continental Eu rope. Carl Trenk halts.' aged 40. and his wife, while at work in their bakeshop at New Milford, Conn., were shot by Trenkhaus’ brother Edward, aged 55. Mrs. Treukhaus was killed instantly. The murderer was pursued, and when be was about to be taken he turned about and sent a bullet through his own temple.

WESTERN.

Fire did $5,000 damage- in the cotton factory of J. Burton <k Co. in Chicago. William Schnyder, a miller at Higginsport, Ohio, was shot dead on the street. A lire at Armona, Cal., destroyed $30,000 worth of property, including a large quantity of this season's crop of raisins. Cyrus A. Brown and Matthew Craig were hanged in Muskogee, I. T., for murder. They were the first white men to be executed in the territory. ■Six men were killed near Joplin, Mo., by. the explosion of five boys of giant powder. The plant of the Marguerite mine was also completely destroyed, Mrs. Phoebe Hearst denies the statement sent out from Deadwood, S. D., to the effect that she intended to sell her interests in the famous Homestake mine. The only direct descendant of Columbus in America—Mrs. Mary Harriet Robinson—died at Sandusky, Ohio. She was 80 years of age. Her inaideii name was Colomba. McCook, Neb., is much stirred up over the mysterious disappearance of Robert Barr, a prominent cattle man. He was traced to a point two miles north of Dresden, Kan. The Great Northern proposes to erect, has let dredging contracts for and is preparing plans of construction for an ore dock seventy-three feet high and sixtythree feet wide at Duluth. The iron framework of the new Coliseum in process of erection in Chicago collapsed, burying many workmen in the ruins. Nine men were killed, nine were injured and five reported missing. Great forest fires have been raging in the vicinity of Denver above the Platte Canyon of the national forest reserve and in the center of one of the most thickly studded timber areas in Colorado. While hoisting an immense casting five men were seriously injured at the E. P. Allis foundry in Milwaukee. The easting, weighing twenty-seven tons, and the structure by which it was hoisted, gave way.

Final figures' furnished by the State Auditor give the assessed valuation of South Dakota nt $158,722,7(14. an increase of $40.142.21 IS over last year. In the total about $13,000,000 is corporate property. Owing to the increasing price of meat and the falling off of trade in consequence the St. Louis butchers are organizing to fight the so-called beef trust, which, they say, is responsible for the higher prices. A special from Deadwood, S. D., says that four Indians, John Swift, Longhorn, Pretty Eagle and Noisy Own, have been bound over for the murder of Yellow Bull, supposed (o have been pounded to death with clubs. Henry Marron, CO years of age, was killed near his home, seven miles southwest of Ponca, Neb., by a blow of Forris Casey's list. The murder was the result of an old feud.. Casey gave himself up to the authorities. The Toledo Commercial, which has been run as an independent paper, was sold the other day by George Hull to John 11. McLean, owner of the Cincinnati Enquirer, acting through C. C. Stivers, his business manager. Harry and Joseph Becker, 29 and 23 years of age, respectively, brothers, of St. Louis, were drowned in tue Illinois river just above Grafton. 111. One of the brothers was seized with a cramp while in bathing and the other went to his aid. After making a futile attempt to kill his wife, Hugh Herr, living at Cleveland, sent a bullet into his head. There is little hope for Herr's recovery. The cause for the shooting was that Mrs. Herr did not want to live with her husband. Through the treachery of Sergeant of the Guard Crawford of the Fifth United States cavalry, who is believed to have been bribed, eight prisoners confined in the Wardner (Idaho) prison escaped and

I fled to the hills. The faithless sergeant 1 of the guard also is missing. j At Lima, Ohio, stockholders of the late American Nati6nal Bank, which was | mysteriously robbed of over SIB,OOO on I last Christmas eve, have filed a suit against N. L. Michael, vice-president, I and Gus Kalb, cashier, to recover the I amount taken, with interest. ! Martin Nessler was robbed of S7O at I the First National Bank in Milwaukee. The money was seized by one of three ; men. Two of the men escaped with the money. The third was captured after an exciting chase. He has been identified as William Barrett, a general thief. The San Francisco police declare that I two of the men who robbed the treasure I room of the steamer Alameda of 5,000 ' sovereigns some time ago have been accounted for, one of them. Jack Casey, who is in custody, asserting that Jimmy Kelly, an alleged associate in the crime, is dead. Albert Scheuer, a Metamora, Ohio, youth, 17 years old, was accidentally shot, the charge entering his abdomen and penetrating upward through intestines, stomach, liver and lungs. He walked a mile to his home, his wounds were sewed up, and he is now said to be out of danger.

Thomas Padgett, formerly of Duluth, but now of Minneapolis, who was the principal witness in the suit brought by Ella Mendenhall against Luther Mendenhall. president of the Duluth Street Railway Company, for divorce, announces that he committed perjury. He is dying es cancer.

A letter received from Lieut. C. G. Warner of Fort Scott. Kan., who is aid on Gen. Fred Funston's stuff, states that Funston is In Manila awaiting orders to sail for home with the Twentieth Kansas regiment. The letter states that Funston will retire from army life and reside in Kansas. Dr. J. H. Hubbell, a prominent physician of Naponee, Neb., is missing. One night recently lie went out to mail a letter. and in about five minutes returned and said he had a call to go to the country. He kissed his wife and only child good night and went out and has not been seen since. Foul play is feared. A Big Consolidated motorman and conductor were threatened with violence by an angry mob at Cleveland. The Broadway ear was running at a rapid rate and struck a spring wagon, throwing the four occupants on to the pavement. The police, coming on riot call, had great difficulty in protecting the street car men. The steamer which off Fairport, Ohio, was the Sir S. H. Tilley, a Canadian vessel of 750 net tons. The fire started in the engine room and it spread so rapidly that the engineer did not have time to shut off the steam and the crew and passengers, about twenty in number, had difficulty ifi escaping. The Tilley is almost a t<.taJJ,uss. Near Perry. Ok., John'S. Perry, a cowboy, and Miss Emma Moyer were wedded while standing on one sifle of a swollen stream while Rev. Mr. Carlock, who performed the wedding ceremony, stood fifty yards away on the opposite, side of the stream. The clergyman could net get across the stream to the bride's home, the place appointed for the, marriage.

SOUTHERN.

The Democrats of Mississippi have nominated A. H. Longiuo of Washington County for Governor. The historic old Clay mansion, near Faris, Ky., was destroyed by tire. All the contents, including numerous pieces of valuable bric-a-brac, were destroyed. The property of the New Orleans Brewing Association was knocked down to J. A. Bluffer, representing the organization committee of the association, who offered $860,000, which was the only bid. The recent torture inflicted upon six Mexican prisoners confined in the Hidalgo County jail by officials of that Texas county in an effort to extort confessions has become an international affair. Four of the prisoners claim to be citizens of Mexico and have appealed to President Porfirio Diaz for aid and redress. It is estimated that there will be a falling off of the crop of cotton in the South this year of about 30 per cent. In some parts of the cotton belt the damage is the result of excessive rain; in others it has been caused by windstorms and floods, and in other places drought, hot weather and rust have injured the crop. At a Populist camp meeting near Bruceville, Texas, J. B. O'Brien, editor of a Democratic newspaper, made a speech in favor of expansion. Dr. J. B. Harris, chairman of the Populist committee, took O'Brien to task. A shooting affray resulted, Dr. Harris being shot in the head and left breast and O'Brien in the right side. Harris is dead. O'Brien's wound is not considered fatal.

WASHINGTON.

The Navy Department does not look with favor on the proposition to have the historic warship Constitution take part in the Dewey demonstration at New York. The Secretary of the Treasury has authorized the commencement of condemnation proceedings to secure lot 36, in Indianapolis, for the erection of a public building. Two designs for a new $5 silver certificate have been submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury by the bureau of engraving and printing. One has upon its face a vignette of Washington and the other of Jefferson. The constitutional dispute over the Car nadian Senate’s rejection of the Government’s redistribution bill, which was submitted by Charles Russell, English solicitor to the dominion, to eminent English counsel, has been decided against the Senate. Maj. A. E. Woodson of the Ninth cavalry has tendered his resignation of the agency of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians at Darlington, Ok., a position which he has held for nearly six years. Gen. Charles King, retired, is mentioned as his probable successor.

FOREIGN.

Wang Eui Soo recently declared himself the rightful king of Corea. He was sentenced to death and was decapitated. While sixteen men were descending into the Couchard mine at Haute Croix, France, the cable broke and they wen all killed. . ▲ great railway accident occurred al

Santiago, Chili. An entire passenger train fell into the river Mapoch*. runs through the city, find many lives wen- lost. *■ , The Sultan of Morocco has notified the powers that he is destroying the native boats on the Riff coast and is establishing a gunboat service in order to protect fo’reign shipping from piracy. Mnlai-Abd-El-Aziz, the Sultan of Morocco, had a narrow escape during a recent thunderstorm, when an electric bolt killed several persons, ineluding two court ushers, who were standing within a few feet of his majesty. The newest Peruvian revolution at Huanuco, under the leadership of Senor Durand, hits assumed a more serious phase and is giving the Government even more concern than did the Iquitos rebellion, which subsided three weeks ago.

Information from Para announces that the inhabitants of Acre, the territory claimed by Brazil and Bolivia, have proclaimed their independence and constituted a. new South American commonwealth. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says the suspension of M. Vonderweiss, a millionaire of that city, has produced a depressing effect on the bourse. His capital was estimated,to have been between 50,000,000 and 60,000,000 rubles, but after his debts are paid he will scarcely have 6,000,000 rubles left.

IN GENERAL.

Frank C. Ives, the billiard expert, is said to be dying of consumption at Havana. The Hearst interest —one-third —of the great Homestake mine at Deadwood, S. D.. is to be sold in London next month. Secretary Smith of the National Association of Mexican War Veterans announces that the annual meeting will be held in Indianapolis Sept. 13 and 14. It is now thought the number of people who lost their lives by shipwreck during the West Indian hurricane which passed up the coast several days ago will reach 10.

Frederick Johnson, a farmer of Gilbert Plains, Man., shot and killed his wife and three children while insane, and then committed suicide by shooting himself. Neighbors say that the family relations have always been good. On the Gordon river, which has its outlet on the west coast of Vancouver Island, and twelve miles from salt water, a ledge has been discovered forty feet in width carrying galena from wall to wall, most of it solid galena and all the ore streaked with it.

Severe fighting took place in the neighborhood of Monte Christi, Santo Domingo, between the Government forces and the revolutionists. The former lost heavily, while the latter, owing to the advantageous positions which they occupied, only suffered slight loss. Andriano Grullon, the representative of the Santo Dominican revolutionists in this country, has received the following cablegram, signed "La Marche” and dated at Santiago de Cuba: "Revolution in capital. Government surrenders.” La Marche is the representative of the Jimiuez revolutionists at Santiago de Cuba. The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis (Big Four) Railroad announces that it has met the demands of the engineers on the system by agreeing to increase the pay of passenger engineers from $3.15 per 100 miles to $3.25, and the wages of freight engineers from $3.75 per 100 miles to $3.80 per 100 miles.

It is officially given out that the organization of the $37,000,01)0 window glass trust has been abandoned. Erown Bros. & Co., bankers, who were financiering the deal and are out $50,000, have withdrawn, the immediate cause being the action brought in the Indiana courts by the Glass Workers’ National Association enjoining the Indiana manufacturers from entering the trust. The independent and co-operative manufacturers organized in Columbus and will open their plants Sept. 15. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: “Actual payments through the principal clearing houses for the week were 23.1 per cent larger than last year, and 56.2 per cent larger than in the same week in 1802. For the month thus far the daily average of payments has been 26.3 per cent larger than last year, and 56.0 per cent larger than in 1892. Tonnage from Chicago in three weeks has been 80.7 per cent larger than last year and 74.6 per cent larger than in 1892. Failures for the week have been 163 in the United States, against 179 last year, and 16 in Canada, against 26 last year.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—-Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 79c to 71c; corn, No. 2,30 cto 32c: oats, No. 2,20 c to 21c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 55c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, choice, 27 c to 35c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $5.00; sheep, common to prime, $3.25 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2 white, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c. St. Ixtuis—Cattle, $3.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2,21 cto 23c; rye. No. 2,57 cto 58c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,69 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2,58 cto 60c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 whits, 23c to 25c; rye, 58c to 60c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 32c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye. No. 2,55 c to 57c; clover seed, new, $4.40 to $4.45. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 69c to 71c; corn, No. 8,31 cto 33c; qata, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 1,54 cto 55c; barley. No. 2,41 cto 43c; pork, mess, SB.OO to $8.50. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $6.25. New York—Cattie, $3.25 to $6.30; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2. red, 75c to 76c; corn, No. 2, 3»c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; butter, creamery, 17c to 22c; eggs, Western, 12c to 16c.

CONDITION OF CROPS.

No Rain in Soma Section* and Too Much in Others. A summary of crop conditions issued by tfie Department of Agriculture says that while the drought conditions reported at the close of the previous week have been relieved considerably in the South Atlantic States the drought continues with increased severity in Texas, Oklahoma, Southern Missouri and Michigan, and rain is much needed in the Ohio valley, the lower lake region, New England and generally throughout the Southern and Central Rocky Mountain districts. Very favorable weather conditions prevail in lowa, Northern Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas, but as in the previous week, reports of the effects of excessive moisture are received from the Dakotas and Minnesota.

The general condition of corn in the States of the central Mississippi and Ohio valleys is less satisfactory than at the close of the previous week, owing to continued absence of moisture, which has conduced to the too rapid maturity. The weather conditions in lowa, northern Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Minnesota and in the middle Atlantic States have been more favorable, and generally the crop has made good progress in these States, although late corn is somewhat less promising in portions of Nebraska and Kansas. Reports of injury to grain in shock and stack continues from the Dakotas and Minnesota, principally, however, as a result of rains of the pkevious weeks. Grain in shock has also been injured by rains in Washington and Oregon, but in the last named State the rains were of greater benefit to the late spring grain and other crops. In the western portion of the cotton belt there is quite a general deterioration in the condition of the crop. Favorable progress has been made in cutting and housing tobacco, which work is generally well advanced. The previously reported unfavorable outlook for apples continues, although some varieties, principally the early, are abundant in portions of Nebraska. Kansas, Illinois, Indiana and in the middle Atlantic States and southern New England.

Much plowing for fall seeding is being done in lowa, northern Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas, but the condition of the soil has been unfavorable for this work in the States of the Ohio valley and New England and the west gulf districts.

EASY FOR IDOLITA.

Wins the Rich Horse Review Stake in Straight Heats. The largest crowd ever assembled in Dubuque was there to see the Futurity at Nutwood Park, for a $20,000 stake. Two

IDOLITA.

down for the first heat about 1:30 o’clock. Twelve of the nineteen entered started in the race. Idvlita ttook the race in straight heats, the best time being made in the first—2:l2%. Ecstasy was second. Rita E. third, Ima Electrite fourth and My Trick fifth. It was a great race, notwithstanding the favorite won in straight heats. When it had been finished the winners were paid in crisp bank notes, in tine leather pocketbooks appropriately lettered in gold. The Horse Review purse of $20,000 was divided as follows: First .$9.0001 Fourth $1,250 Second 4,500 Fifth 500 Third 2.2501 The estate of Senator Stanford, nominator of the sire of the wlner and nominator of the winner, $2,000. J. H. Thayer & Brother. Lancaster, Mass., owner of Baron Wilkes, sire of the second horse, $250. Major McDowell, owner of the second horse. $250 additional to the purse as nominator of the Second horse.

TROOPS HOME FROM MANILA.

Idaho, North Dakota and Wyoming Volunteers Arrive. The United States transport Grant, bearing the Idaho, North Dakota and Wyoming volunteers, arrived at San Francisco Tuesday night. The Grant left Manila Aug. 1, touched at Nagasaki and Yokohama and left the latter port for San Francisco Aug. 13. The transport brings thirty officers and 516 enlisted men of the First North Dakota. twenty-eight officers and 445 enlisted men of the First Idaho, twelve officers and 2-13 enlieted men of the First Wyoming, two officers and fifty-seven enlisted men of Battery A. Wyoming light artillery: eight officers and eighty-four discharged soldiers, twenty-five convalescent patients, seven naval prisoners, two naval hospital patients and four civilian passengers. The transport carried in adlitioii a crew of 156 men, making a total on board of 1,619 persons. During the voyage there were five deaths.

VIRGIN’S STATUE IN ALPS.

Colossal Imu’xe sculptured by Italy’s Queen Dedicated.

Thousands of people Tuesday climbed Mont Rocca Melohe, one of the highest peaks in the Alps, to attend the dedication of a colossal statue of the Virgin erected on the amount through the contribution of 10,000 children and sculptured by Queen Margaret herself. The royal princes were among those present at the ceremony. On the base of the statue is an inscription by the Pope praying the Virgin to guard the frontier of Italy. The statue commemorates what is regarded as an act of divine intervention. About two years ago, a company of Alpine militia were marching over Rocca Melone when an avalanche started and buried them in snow. Assistance was summoned ami all of the entombed men were rescued. All Italy was moved by the ineid- nt.

FRENCH [?]M BUYS HORSES.

.V,gre its from Faria Make Extensive Purchases Here. An agent representing one of the biggest horse buying firms of France recently appeared near Kansas. City, Mo„ and commenced buying horses, which are to be used ns cab horses in Paris. Inquiry leveloped the information that the French buyers are alarmed because of ; The excitement occasioned by the Dreyfus case and are making elaborate preparations to meet any emergency which nay present itseh. ■ a

hours before the time set for the races to begin more than 10,000 persons .had passed through the park gates and when the Futurity was called it was in the presence of at least 20,000 people. The Futurity candidate s scored

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

Inquiry at the patent office reveals the fact that inventive activity is greatest just now in processes for the manufacture of acetylene and other illuminating gases, the motive being to discover methods of producing Light cheaper than under any of the existing processes. There is also great activity in the field of automotive devices. The great strides which have been made lately in autovehicles of all descriptions seem to have wonderfully stimulated inventive genius in that field. In electricity the applications for patents are mainly for the perfection of machinery already in use and for the application of principles that are already well known to mechanical uses within somewhat restricted limitations. Little interest appears to be taken in storage batteries or in chemical electricity at this time. Compressed air is not, as many suppose, a new thing, and there is little new to report in that field. Inventors tried for a while to perfect safe processes for compressing acetylene, but they have abandoned that idea on account of the prejudice against it.

An interesting story comes from Indian Territory regarding a United States court there, judge, attorney, clerk, sheriff and marshal, with all necessary assistants and paraphernalia, which travels from place to place over the territory, holding forth as occasion demands. This novel institution is in the northern section of the territory, where the towns are few and far apart, and where it is cheaper for the court to go to the people than for the people to go to the court. Much money is saved the people each year by the movable outfit. There is a small bouse on wheels, resembling a mover’s wagon, in which the court travels, and in which the court records are kept. Here, also, in towns where there are no better accommodations, court is held and justice dispensed. With the court is a complete cooking outfit, presided over by a firstclass culinary artist, who sees to it that the court does not want for food even if it does want for some of the other things which are common in civilized communities.

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Poetmaster Gorban of Chicago will have to go into his private purse to pay for the handsome furniture he purchased for use in his office and that of his assistant. Mr. Gordon purchased, among other things, a desk for which he paid SIBO and a chair which cost S4O. In addition to this some furniture for the assistant poetmaster was purchased at a rather high rate. When the account was sent here for approval the officials held that the prices were entirely too high. 'The account was disallowed and Mr. Gordon will either have to pay for the furniture out of his own pocket or send it back to the manufacturers.

After the recent improvements on North Capitol street had been made it was dlacovered that some of the workmen bad thoughtlessly made away with the historic corner stone set in place by George Washington at the time of the original surveys to mark the northern boundary of the city. The stone cannot be found, but a committee of citizens has been appointed to prepare a suitable pillar or tablet to mark the spot where the stone stood for ao many years. 4 j——

A new-style domestic money order has been issued by the Poetoffiee Department. The new form is somewhat smaller than the one previously in use. Its dimensions are about those of the ordinary bank draft. The color of the order is blue, with a ground of very light blue. The tints and the intricate lathe-work, it is snid, will render counterfeiting very difficult, but as an additional safeguard, a horizontal watermark, composed of the initials U. S. M. 0., in broad capital letters is wrought into the paper on which the new forms are printed. State Department officials decline in the most emphatic manner to say what* Consul Bedloe’s actions were which offended the Chinese and caused his suspension, but say that the consul’s integrity is in no way involved. Assistant Secretary Oridler said that the granting of an American charter to the Abbe, which is now being held by Behr Admiral Watson, had nothing to do with the suspension of tfcp cqpstf, although in granting an American charter to that vessel, in the opinion of the officiala here, Dr. Bedloe exceeded hia authority.