Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1899 — Page 2

MR COUNTY DEMOCRAT TRBABCOCK? Publisher. jitEUUR, ■ • '■ INDIANA.

KENTS OF THE WEEK

Hnerlean apples are in such great detr fin Germany this year that shipSta have commenced one month earlier Last year 22,851 barrels ■Kaent abroad. This year it is expect■fcß shipments will reach 100,000 barWWnfo Rockefeller has given $250,000 B&bwti University, Providence, R. I. Eg is.tliv first substantial lift toward Wf2, 000,000 endowment fund which of Brown University has trying to raise for the last five Wirederiek Max Brookhouse was hanged Wihe ’ State’s prison at Westerfield, Wth., for complicity in the murder of Offliel N. S. Lambert in Wilton Dec. 17, ■yiD7. His partner in crime, Benjamin F. 'lllis, was hanged on the same gallows open switch caused a wreck on the tie Railroad at Miller’s station, Pa., in fcfiteh four men were killed and two in|®ed. Train No. 5, the New York-Chi-rMJO express, ran into the rear end of a Jjleight train while going at the rate of atty miles an hour. f jjThe little city of Bowling Green, Ohio, M a narrow escape from a tornado. Just Orth of the city limits a strip about two ’ : .pies long and half a mile wide was lit- ; billy swept clean. One person was peraps fatally injured, while several others sere more or less hurt. ♦ A deed covering the transfer of the carbon factory in Fre*ont, Ohio, to the National Carbon Com♦ny of New Jersey has been filed. The qnsideration mentioned in the deed is sl, Iflrt the revenue stamps attached show be value to be SIOO,OOO. At Wintonville, Ky.. Logan Randolph Ifett shot and killed. It seems he had .iome trouble with the keeper of a “blind tiger” In the morning and just after dark Returned to the "tiger." Friends near heard five pistol shots and on investigation found Randolph’s body near the place. J John L. Larson. John Lundstrom, Albert Larson and Henry Eggan, of Garfield, and O. C. Westman, from Belle River, thrashers, while returning from Brandon, Minn., were struck by lightning. Lundstrom and Westman were killed. Two others were injured, but Will recover. i Probably fifty persons were injured in a rear-end collision on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Connellsville station, Pa. The presence of mind of Engineer John Haggerty saved the lives of many. The first section of train No. 5, an emigrant special of eight sleepers, ran into the rear end of the Cumberland accommodation. Engineer Murray of the emigrant train lost control of bis engine, the air brake refusing to work. The standing of the clubs In the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ...82 36Pittsburg ...61 59 ‘Philadelphia 76 46 Chicago 61 61 Boston 73 46 Louisville ...53 65 Baltimore ..68 48New Y0rk...49 69 Cincinnati ..68 52 Washington. 41 77 St. L0ui5....69 54 Cleveland ...19107 Following Is the standing of the clubs tn the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis 72 44 St. Paul 57 (14 Minneapolis. 74 47 Milwaukee . .54 (14 Detroit .....60 60 Kansas City.sl 69 Grand Rap..oo 61 Buffalo 50 69 ‘ Hopkins J. Hanford, general manager Of the Kinloch Telephone Company, went to St. Louis from Minneapolis, Minn., recently to arrange maps and profiles for a gigantic new long-distance telephone enterprise which will cover all important points in the Mississippi valley. The proposed company will be incorporated Oct. 1, with a capital stock of $1,000,900, paid Up. It "’ill be known as the Kinloch iLong-Distance Telephone Company, and •will extend many miles to the norfh, east, south and west of St. Louis. The company is the outgrowth of the Kinloch Telephone Company of St. Louis, which organisation has recently made a large extension in its local service, involving an additional expenditure of $212,000 on its switchboard facilities.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Charles L. Bailey, Harrisburg, Pa., .president of the Central iron works, is .Jdead, aged 77 years. ' The State Department at Washington ’has been informed that a revolution has ibroken ont in Venezuela. I Alfred Henderson, Spring Lake, N. J., S Ahead of the seed firm of Peter Henderson & Co., is dead, aged 50 years. . president Lou bet has issued a decree I convoking the French senate to sit as a Thigh court to hear charges of treason Paul Deroulede and bis associwkttes. Attorney General George B. Peters of Tenn., was injured while makk Ing « tour of inspection of the Chicago Kiatock yards. He fell through a shaft and 1 fractured his skull. .Freight No. 91 on the Norfolk and - "Western road broke in two and the sec<tions came together in Dingess’ tunnel, 1 .near Williamson, W. Va. Three trainmcn and four tramps were killed. | The steamer Sequoia, from Clipperton reports that scurvy is causing « xnueh distress there. Five men have sucfeetunbed to the disease and twenty-three ‘ others are afflicted with the malady. | Herman Groth of Chicago was found dead in his room. Gas was escaping r, ; from a jet turned partly on. It is suppoaed he committed suicide. Groth was 50 years old and had been ill for some time. Germany is reported to have purchased 1,000 square leagues of territory in Bra- . Bishop Pierce, Episcopal bishop of ArgMtaasas, Aied at Fayetteville, Ark. Bishop JJ?ieree was one of the oldest members of the Episcopal Church in this country. He bad for more than a quarter of a century H&eien bishop of Arkansas. The North German Lloyd steamer KaiWilhelm der Grosse arrived at New York from Bremen, Southampton and after a record passage of fire

EASTERN.

Twgnty-five guests at a wedding la Middletown, Conn., were poisoned by eating Ice cream. Twenty persons were hurt in a rearend collision on the Long Island Railroad at Vander veer Park.

Gilbert Benning, 20 years old, and Abraham Hill, aged 13, were drowned from a rowboat in Buffalo harbor. The five-story cigar factory of Bernard Stahl & Go. on First avenue, New York, was destroyed by fire, with a loss of $120,000.

Five children, four girls and one boy, the children of farmers living in Easton, were drowned at Black Rock, Conn., while sea bathing. The American Bicycle Company, a union of many firms, with $40,000,000 capital, has been formed in New York. A G. Spalding of Chicago is president of the new company. The dry goods firm of Fahey, Schantz & Bullock of Rochester, N. Y., bus gone into voluntary dissolution. The nominal assets of the firm are placed at about $78,663, liabilities $192,154. In New York, Meyer and Bernard Hecht, who formerly composed the firm of Hecht Bros., importers of fancy goods, have filed separate petitions in bankruptcy. The firm’s liabilities are $129,629. John Pollock was shot and killed, William Thayer was seriously wounded and about eight men were hurt in a fight between the strikers at the collieries in West Pittston, Pa., and a repair gang. Henry Hofheimer, formerly of Henry Hofbeimer, Son & Co., wholesale dealers in boots and shoes nt Norfolk, Va., has filed at New York a petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities $430,804, nominal assets $21,000. Ex-United States Senator Warner Miller has resigned as secretary of the International Paper Company of NewYork, but continues to be a stockholder. He has been succeeded by E. W. Hyde, formerly assistant secretary.

What is said to be the largest packet freight carrier on the lakes was launched at Buffalo. The new boat, to be called the Buffalo, is 403% feet long, 58 feet beam and 28 feet deep. She was built for the Western Transit Company at a cost of $350,000. The American Match Machine Company has been incorporated at Trenton, N. J., with a capital of $1,000,000, for the purpose of building and equipping match factories throughout the country. The American is to fight the Diamond Match Company. J. W. Campbell of Marinette, Ohio, and J. S. Ford of Chicago have been bolding conferences in Binghamton, N. Y., with owners of five different chair factories in that section and negotiations have been completed preparatory to absorbing them into the trust. A boiler explosion at the Republic iron works on South Twenty-fourth street, Pittsburg, killed five men and seriously injured Seven others. Fire which broke out following the explosion added to the horror. The mill was partly wrecked and the entire plant was compelled to close down.

WESTERN.

The tug Red Cloud of Lorain was wrecked off Cedar Point, Ohio. Three lives were lost.

Black Hawk, the most noted of the chiefs of the Wisconsin Winnebago Indians, died in the town of Brockway, Wis., aged 90 years. Richard Kessee, in jail at Springfield, Mo., under sentence of death for killing Dave Shelby at Marshfield, committed suicide by taking morphine. Samuel Merrill, ex-Governor of lowa, died at Los Angeles, as the result of a paralytic stroke w%?cb occurred several days ago. He was 77 years old. Joseph Dunn, wanted for postoffice robberies in Ohio, and one of the five men who broke jail in Toledo three months ago, -has been captured at Port Huron, Mich.

A small sailboat containing six persons was capsized near the mouth of the river at Toledo, Ohio, and Charles Lawrence, a 3-year-old son of J. H. Lawrence, was drowned.

The University of California will erect a monument on the college campus to the collegians who died at the front in the late war after having abandoned their studies there to enlist ns volunteers.

Harry Harmon dived backward from the Eads bridge at St. Louis,, dropping ninety feet, and suffered no injury.' Harmon was attired in complete street dress, except coat and bat, when he dived. The body of a man supposed to be L. L. Applegate of Cincinnati, was found in the woods near Blandon, Mo. A halfemptied bottle of morphine seemed, to indicate that Applegate had committed suicide.

Joseph Martin, a Im If-breed Indian, living twenty miles southeast of Coffeyville, Kan., kicked his 14-year-old sister to death to prevent her marrying Albert Ball, to whom he objected. Martin escaped. Eighty men were out all the other night fighting the forest fire south of Englewood. 8. D. At sunset the wind abated nnd the town was saved from destruction. The fire burned all the timber on Custer peak. A. A. Graham, long a Lake Michigan navigator, resident of Chicago, has returned to Seattle from Atlin, Alaska. He is one of the heaviest American operators in that camp, having acquired thirtyfive claims.

Lieut. Maceo, son of the dead Cuban general, was refused admission to a public dining room in a Spokane hotel on account of his color, when he threatened to kill the waiter and war arrested and fined in a police court. Gov. Bushnell of Ohio, in behalf of the citizens of Marietta, presented ■ silver service to the gunboat Marietta at the Charlestown navy yard. Gov. Bushnell was accompanied by a delegation of Marietta citizens. A fire at Ballard, Wash., destroyed the plant of the Bay Lumber and Shingle Company, the public school building and a small dwelling. The total loss is estimated at $60,000, of which $50,000 falls on the mill company. At Peru, Ind.j Mrs. Edith Quick and brother-in-lnw, Henry Quick, were discharged at a preliminary trial on the charge of murder. At the close of the argument Jus tee Fulwiler declared the evidence was insufficient. The second attempt of prisoners to break out of the Toledo jail in three months owwrred the other'day, and five United States prisoners were nearly out

of tbe building when caught They had uaed saws to effect an escape. T. V. Robins, late of St Joseph, Mo., is in jail at Pond Creek, Ok., charged with attempted murder. He shot his wife four times because she refused to sign a deed unless he would give her part of the proceeds of the transfer. The famous “Carr Strike” mine at Custer, 8. D., has been sold to W. Treweek and other Homestake people, who will bond and exploit it. The mine was discovered in May by Charles Carr, and the ore averages $1,360 gold per ton. Rev. William Johnston, former pastor of the African Baptist Church of Maryville, Mo., and evangelist of the Colored Baptist Church of Kanias and Missouri*, was killed by Officer John Wallace while resisting an attempt to take him to jail. By the explosion of an oxygen tank in the Chicago Calcium Light Company’s machine room in that city, Frank Hopkins was fatally burned and Howard McClenethan, engineer of the company, received fatal injuries by burns and bruises. Two masked men walked into Harry Green’s gambling “game” on the second floor of a block in thA very, heart of the business district at Spokane, Wash., and held up fifteen men, looted the tills and safe and escaped with $1,600 in cash and bills.

Eight persons were injured at Lorain, Ohio, as a result of a head-on collision between two riiotor cars on the Lorain and Elyria electric line during a dense fog. The front half of each car was demolished. None of the injured was fatally hurt. The boiler in Chapman & Sargent’s bowl factory at Copemish, Mich., exploded, killing three men and fatally injuring four others. The building was totally wrecked, debris being scattered for eighty rods around. The loss to the factory will be $5,000. The barkentine Gardiner City has arrived at San Francisco from Bristol Bay, Bering Sea, with 5,025 barrels of salmon. She and the barkentine Willie R. Hume report that the run of fish at Bristol Bay this season has never been exceeded in the past. At Garnet, Kan., Harry Winans was killed by the explosion of a gas tank used in connection with a kinetoscope. His father, H. K. Winans, was burned from face to feet and will probably die, and his brother Don was bruised and burned slightly. The 2-ycar-old daughter of Louis Gilbert of St. Paul met with a peculiar death. She was playing with a bean pod in her mouth when it slipped down and lodged in her windpipe. A physician was instantly called, but before his arrival the child died.

Dr. T. A. McCann of Dayton, Ohio, performed a wonderful surgical feat. He located a horseshoe nail in the windpipe of a boy by the X-ray process, and then extracted the nail by means of a powerful magnet. The boy is Clarence Grady of Indianapolis. At Salt Lake. Utah, a carpenter named Van Guilder gave his two children, a boy and a girl, heavy doses of morphine, then shot the girl through the head, killing her instantly. He afterward shot the boy through the head, probably fatally, and then killed himself.

E. J. Riekes, 37 years old, of Kansas City, who, it is said, holds a responsible, place under Swift & Co. in that city, was taken to Bellevue hospital, New York, violently insane. He had been visiting friends in Maine and was on his way to Dutchess County, New York. The Gillette-Herzog Company of Minneapolis has secured a contract for the construction of a $35,000 all steel sugar mill, to be delivered at Honolulu within five months. A sugar cane crushing plant is already under construction by the same company for another Hawaiian firm. A suit has been filed in the District Court at Omaha. Neb., by Attorney General Smythe, the petition of which declares the existence of a school furniture trust, and asks that the unlawful combination be prohibited from doing business in Douglas County or in the State of Nebraska. Recently a party of boys ranging in age from 18 to- 20 years left Toledo to see the country and they decided to rough it, depending on beating their way on the trains. Four of them jumped from a fast flying Baltimore and Ohio train at Akron and all were injured, Abraham Klein dying. Masked robbers invaded the home of Robert June, a cattleman living south of Hope, Kan., and secured $2,100, which June had just received as the proceeds of his year’s herd of cattle. June and his family were intimidated with shotguns while the house was searched. The robbers escaped. Fire in the big plant of the Jacob Dold Packing Company at Kansas City burned through the engine room of the fertilizing department into the lard room and the main plant. A large section of the plant was destroyed. The plant was valued at over $500,000 and it is estimated that $250,000 damage was done.

The east-bound fast mail train on the Walaish line crashed into the rear end of a freight train near Birmingham, Mo. The fast mail locomotive and three cars of the freight train were demolished. Fireman Bert Gallagher of Kansas City was probably fatally injured and Porter Bert Cooper was slightly injured. No passenger was injured.

SOUTHERN.

Deputy Sheriff Lewis of Manchester, Ky., was killed in Clay County while attempting to arrest Mart Smith, a murderer. Mobile, Montgomery and other Southern cities have quarantined against NewOrleans, where yellow fever has made its appearance. At Atlanta, Texas, Captain IL E. Boyle shot and killed A. L. Culberson, his brother-in-law. The men hqd up to a few days ago been on the best of terms. At Darien, Ga., the jury in the cases against Ben Dunham, James Willy. Marshal Dorsey. Louisa Underwood and Maria Curry, charged with rioting, returned a verdict of guilty. The jury was out only fifteen minutes. A special train bearing Cooper’s circus was wrecked at Toiner’s Station, Tenn., by the burstingof an air brake hose and twelve persons were injured and circus property and animals scattered in all directions. None is fatally hurt. In the trial of the Darien, Ga., riot cases Judge Seabrooke granted a change of venue Inethe case of John Delegal, Ed Deiegal-and Mtamda Delegal for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Townsend. The case will be tried in Effingham County. George W. Jones of St. Louis has pur- „ ’ ’» 1 ' “'f J-' < S * •*' i

.formerly connected with the Bt. Louis Republic and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. One of the most ghastly tragedies that ever took place in Knoxville, Tenn., was the outcome of a street duel between two negro women, who fought with razors until one fell dead and the other was carried away mortally wounded. The women were Ella Lotspeich and Lillie Givens. An order for 500,000,000 feet of Southern yellow pine, the largest single order in the history of the lumber trade, for use in the construction of Cecil Rhodes' proposed Cape-to-Cairo railroad in Africa, is said to have been given to twenty ■mills along several Texas and Louisiana railroads.

FOREIGN.

Six hundred lives have been lost by the flooding of a copper mine at Besshi, Japanese island of Shikoku. A dispatch from Madrid says the number of Spanish monks now held as prisoners in the Philippine Islands is estimated at 399. A dispatch from Constantinople says that the Turkish cruiser Ismir has been wrecked in Besika bay, between the coast of Asia Minor and the north end of the Isle of Tenedos. Several well-known war correspondents representing English newspapers at Rennes have received instructions to hold themselves in readiness to start for the Transvaal on twenty-four hours’ notice. President Figuereo of Santo Domingo has resigned. The ministers will continue at the head of their various departments until a provisional government has been formed, after which the elections for president and vice-president will take place. Owing to the spirit of opposition and evasion shown by the Chinese foreign office in the negotiations now progressing between China and Jtaly, the Italian squadron In Chinese waters will be immediately re-enforced by two torpedo boat destroyers.

IN GENERAL.

The proposition to organize a Texas traffic association to take the place of the Southwestern Freight Bureau, recently dissolved, is off. The executive council of the International Typographical Union has voted SIO,OOO to assist the striking printers on the New York Sun. In a collision between two river steamers on the North Sea canal one of the vessels sunk and nine persons, including two women, were drowned. The commissary department is now buying coffee in Porto Rico for supplying the army in that island and Cuba, this action having been taken as a measure of relief. The death at Mayaguez, Porto Rico, of Corporal Stephen A. Barry of Company ,C, Eleventh infantry, of a wound inflicted by a native, has been reported to the Adjutant General. Cadet Philip D. Smith, who was appointed tq the West Point Military Academy from Nebraska in 1897, was dismissed from the institution for hazing Cadet Ulysses Grant, third. A fierce gale along the Labrador coast wrecked eleven vessels, which were drh'en ashore at different points while fishing. It is feared the disasters are accompanied with large loss of life. A telegram announces the death of Frank C. Ives, the champion billiard player, which occurred at Progresso, Mexico. Consumption was the cause of death. Ives’ remains will be brought to Plainwell, Mich., for burial. A company of volunteers went from Hermosillo, Mexico, to Pitaya to join CoL Peinado’s command and arrest the Yaquis who had destroyed telegraph lines to Potam. The troops met a band of about eighty Yaquis and a short fight occurred, in which one soldier was killed and the Mexicans routed. ‘ The commercial stiuation is thus outlined by Bradstreet's: “With an exceptionally heavy business already booked for the latter portion of the year, the mercantile community faces the trade situation with confidence, testified to by very generally firm prices and with quotations in a number of lines showing further marked advances. The most conspicuous exception to this is found in cereals, which are weak and declining. Wheat (including flour) shipments for the week aggregate 3,613,413 bushels, against 3,313,825 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 4,167,868 bushels, against 4,590,097 bushels last week.*'

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $0.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 70c; corn, No. 2,30 cto 32c; oats, No. 2,20 c to 21c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 56c; buttir, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis—-Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime, $3.25 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 68c; corn, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2,22 cto 23c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 56c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4-06; wheat, No. 2,68 cto 70c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 59c. ~ Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye, 58c to 59c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 69c to 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 22c; rye, No. 2,56 c to 57c; clover seed, new, $4.65 to $4.75. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 69c to 71c; corn, No. 3,31 cto 33c; oats. No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 1,54 cto 55c; barley, No. 2,41 cto 43c; pork, mess, $7.75 to $8.25. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, SB.OO to $6.50; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice wethers* $3.50 to $4.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $6.25. New York-—Cattle, $3.25 to $6,50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep. $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red. 74c to 76e; corn, No. 2, 88e to 40c; oato, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; batter, creamery, 17c to 22c; eggs. Wartera, 12c to 16c.

BIGGEST IN HISTORY.

RECEPTION TO DEWEY WILL BE WITHOUT PARALLEL. The Welcome to Be Accorded the Hero of Manila Bay Will Be the Greatest Ever Extended to Any Man by Thia Nation. New York has been the scene of many notable demonstrations, but they will all pale into insignificance when compared with the coming celebration in honor of the return of Admiral Dewey from his victorious conquest in the far East. The welcome to be accorded the hero of Manila bay will be the greatest ever extended tq any man in the history of this courtfry. The great triumphal homecomings of the Roman conquerors will be as nothing compared to the reception to be given this quiet American citizen, whose name is enshrined in the hearts of his fellow countrymen. v The decorations will be the most elaborate that New York has ever seen or will probably see for generations to come. Every decorating establishment in the city is overwhelmed with orders for work for the occasion. It is estimated that no less than $6,000,000 will be expended for decorations by day, illuminations by night and festivities in general. Some firms will expend as high as SIO,OOO for decorating, while about every dwelling in all the boroughs will be draped in the national colors or some other ornamentation. The great demand for bunting has sent the price up 20 per cent, and has kept the mills down East unusually busy turning out the cloth. The makers of flags are running night and day in order to supply the demand. Dewey day will be a veritable Fourth

UNCLE SAM TO DEWEV—“HURRY UP; WE CANT WAIT!”

of July, if fireworks can make it so. The toy stores are clamoring for Dewey cannon, Dewey crackers and Dewey everything else. Young America intends to celebrate as never before, for George Dewey has no more ardent admirer than the small boy. The wholesale dealers in firecrackers now regret that they did not foresee this big demand for their goods and lay In a bigger supply, as they will apparently run short of the demand. Another branch of industry that is reaping a harvest through the celebration are the lithographers and others who print and paint portraits of the admiral. Thousands and thousands of likenesses are being run off, enough, it would seem,

THE DEWEY ASCH.

to give one to every man, woman and child in New York. The building of the arches, stands, etc., is giving work to thousands of carpenters and laborers, while the work of putting up the decorations will give employment to thousands more. The greatest crowd that New York has ever entertained will be there from all parts of the country to enrich the coffers of the hotel and business men. Altogether Dewey day will be a great boon for the metropolis. As Dewey makes his triumphal entry into the city millions of tiny piecea of red, white and blue paper, known as confetti, will be showered upon him. Thia feature is new to Eastern cities, but the custom is followed at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans and the Venice • carnivals. Millions of these pieces are being turned out and Dewey's path bids fair to be carpeted with the beloved red, white and blue. ,Harvey, Cbon, Chris BeChtenwald and John Hickey, Louisville, Ky., ware seriously injured by an elevator dropping thirty feet.

FIRE ON MORMONS.

Tawaaaaee Mob Attack. Meeting PIM» and Kill, a Yona« Wonsan. Wednesday night six Mormon elders were conducting a meejing in a school house at Pine Bluff, Stewart County, Tenn., when the building was stormed by a mob of over 100 men. Eggs and rocks were thrown through the windows. Those present fled in a panic to save their lives, as bullets commenced to strike the building thick and fast. Elders Hiram Olson and H. C. Petty left the building to escape. Miss May Harden, a popular young woman of the place, walked between the elders with a view of checking the work of the mob. While the trio passed down the road shots were fired from ambush. The woman was hit and almost instantly killed. Her brothers secured bloodhounds and placed them on the trail of the assassins. Barton Vinson, a prominent young farmer and superintendent of a Sunday school, was lying in wait for the elders and the girl's brothers became convinced he had fired the shot which killed their sister. Vinson wrote out a confession, stating he had killed the girl, but that it was an accident. Shortly after the confession ths bloodhounds trailed to his home and wert called off to prevent their tearing the man to pieces. Vinson turned, picked up a knife and cut bis throat His family and the officers’ posse witnessed the suicide.

FEVER AT NEW ORLEANS.

Yellow Jack Causes Southern Cities to Establish a Quarantine.

The Texas State health department Friday night received information of one death from yellow fever at New Orleans. State Health Officer Blunt at once ordered a rigid quarantine against New Orleans on passenger and freight business, to continue indefinitely, and all,border stations were notified to refuse ad-

mission to any person or freight from that port. Owing to one death by yellow fever I* New Orleans and two other cases declare ed there, Mobile city authorities proclaimed a quarantine against persons, baggag* and freight from New Orleans entering Mobile County. Quarantine is also proclaimed against Key West. Owing t* the yellow fever at Key West; the Navy Department has decided to withdraw th* force at the naval station there. Th* army garrison will go to Fort McPherson, Ga. The Indiana State Board of Health received a report of the death of a man in Knox County from yellow fever. Th* man had lately returned from Cuba. Th* case is pronounced certainly yellow fever, the patient haying all the even to turning yellow and having th* black vomit. Doctors say there would be no danger whatever of the spread of yellow fever in this latitude if the disease were introduced.

WORLD SHORT OF WHEAT.

Hungarian Ministry Bays the Demand Will Exceed the Supply. The Hungarian ministry of agriculture has issued its annual estimates of the world’s harvest, '{'his points to a considerable deficiency. While the stocks rm maining from last year are much smaller than was generally supposed, the wheat yield is 110,000,000 hectoliters below last year’s yield and about 34,000,000 short of the entire world’s demand. The estimated yield of rye Is 5,000,000 less than that of lost year, of barley 23,000,000 less and of oats 35,000,000 less, The total deficiency in all cereals is about 97,000,000 hectoliters.

MERRIAM MAKES REPORT.

The Prisoners May Have Lacked Fuel and Bedding. Brigadier General H. C. Merriam, commander of the department of Colorado, U. S. A., has made a detailed report of the miners* riots in Idaho. Gen. Merrianj admits that suffering occurred among the men Imprisoned for lack of fuel and bedding, but claims they had enough to eat, The report shifts the responsibility for all that was done upon the Governor. According to Gen. Merriam about 700 arrests were made, but only 528 were detained after the first investigation. Of these three died, two of disease and one suicide.

Largest Cotton Crop Known.

Henry M. Neill, the cotton crop expert of New Orleans, who predicted the enormous crop of 1894-95, 1897-98 and 180899, Is out with a forecast indicating that the crop now maturing will exceed any of these, and may readb the unpredßlenh ed total of 12,000,000 bales. ———- // -■■■■ Patronize those who advertise.