Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1899 — Page 2

mm COUNTY DEMOCRAT. I-K E. BABCOCK, pSshe.. ■ •'~t= pRENSSELA.R. - INDIANA

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Melville A. Sheldon, Louis Cohn, Isaac J. Cohn, Sigmund Klee and Moses J. Cohn, individually and as members of the firm of Cohn Brothers, Klee & Company, the New York Musical Record and the Manhattan Railway Advertising Company, filed a petition in bankruptcy in New York City. Several valuable toilet articles belonging to Queen Wilhelmina of Holland and a quantity of silver and gold dishes were stolen from the palace recently. Detectives recovered the greater part of the stolen property at the shop of a silversmith. who says he purchased them from the silvermaster at the palace. An engine attached to the New York and St. Louis day express on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad left the track near Petroleum, W. Va., and plunged Over a twenty-foot embankment. The engine, postal ear, two baggage cars and two coaches were derailed and badly damaged. Engineer William Meyers was instantly killed. The Navy Department has directed that the Eagle and Yankton be completed at the Portsmouth navy yard by Oct. 17, as they are needed for survey work Silbout Cuba and Porto Rico and will be thus employed all winter. The Navy Department has awarded the contract for building the Portsmouth dock to John Pierce of New York for $1,089,000. The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ...89 40 Chicago 68 64 Philadelphia 84 49 Louisville ...63 70 Boston 81 51 Pittsburg .... 63 71 Baltimore ..70 53 New York...54 76 St. Louis ....77 59 Washington. 49 83 Cincinnati ..73 61 Cleveland ...20 120 Elijah Hall shot and killed his father, Henry Hall, in Pike County, Kentucky, for abuse of his mother. The father was a preacher, but was very quarrelsome and abusive toward his wife. The son interfered in one of these scenes, and receiving some abuse from his father, in a moment of passion shot him dead and fled. Fred E. Harvey, until recently corresponding clerk of the Preston National Bank at Detroit, Mich., was locked up on a charge of embezzlement. He has confessed that he robbed the bank by a system of false entries. The amount of his peculations is said to be about $11,000. Harvey had been employed in the bank eleven years. He is married and 35 years of age. The Thirty-first regiment, United States infantry, known as the ‘‘President’s Own,” and composed of fighting men from Ohio, Tennessee and Clay County, Kentucky, is encamped on Angel Island, San Francisco bay, at the Federal quarantine station. The regiment was removed from the Presidio on account of the spread of smallpox among the men. From 0,000 to 8,000 persons, of whom 3,000 were veternns from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, attended the dedication of the Indiana monuments and markers at Chickamauga Park, Chattanooga. By the ceremonies the State of Indiana turned over to the Federal Government 113 markers and monuments, costing in the neighborhood of SBO,OOO. Gov. Mount made the presentation speech. Immediately following the dedication of the Indiana monuments the Wilder brigade monument was dedicated.

NEWS NUGGETS.

James Callahan, 17 years old, n farmer, was killed by a Wabash west-bound freight train near Mexico, Mo. At Williamson, W. Vn., Elias Hatfield, who killed H. E. Ellis, was sentenced to twelve years in the penitentiary. There was a disastrous earthquake at Aidin, Asia Minor. Hundreds of persons were killed in the Valley of the Mender. The Government has taken steps to secure possession of Mission rock, San Francisco, which has been held by the California Dry Dock Company since 1870. According to advice's brought by the Steamer Empress of India from the Orient, the empress dowager of China is said to be seriously ill. Li Hung Chang has been recalled to power. Rev. Dr. L. M. Kuhns, one of the bestknown preachers of the Lutheran Church, in the West, dropped dead at the Omaha exposition grounds. He held the leading pulpit in Omaha for a generation. The Russian Abyssinian expedition has discovered a new range of mountains be- , tween 8:30 and (! north latitude and 36:30 longitude. By permission of the Czar, the mountains have been named the Nicholas 11. range. A passenger train, north bound on the St. Louig and San Francisco Railroad, collided with a freight train fifteen miles southeast of Kansas City. Four persons were killed and four others more or less seriously injured. The contents of a caution fired during a soldiers’ reunion nt Ceredo, W. Vn., passed through a coach of a Huntington and Big Sandy train. More than a dozen persons were injured by flying missiles and broken glass. Prof. Swingle of the Agricultural Department has gone to California for the purpose of giving the fig growers of that ; Btate who are attempting to propngate the Smyrna variety of figs, the benefit of his information on this subject, v Corea has at last a written constitution. It has nine articles, all dwelling upon the powers and prerogatives of Hie | Emperor, and containing no mention whatever of any rights or privileges belonging to any other person in the realm. Joiin L. Hanna, chief of police at I>alton, Ga., was shot and killed by throe . moonshiners whom he was trying to arTrust promoters have invaded the pie field. The American Pastry and Manufacturing Company opened its doors at New York. It controls uineteeu plants and haa a capital of $3,000,000. filurifH. F- Farley of Monterey County, Cal., was shot and killed by George 1 Caesar, whom be waa trying to arrest for arson. Caesar, who had been drinking, threatened to shoot four officers and burn van the town.

EASTERN.

D. B. Murdock, a retired merchant of Pittsburg, is dead at Queenstown. The plant of the American Fisheries Company at Promised Land, L. 1., was destroyed by fire. It is said the machinery was worth nearly SIOO,OOO. The appraisal of the personal property of the late Roswell I*. Flower puts its value at $3,781,909. on the basis of what stocks were worth May 12 last. Fire destroyed the Ira S. Debro box factory aud the J. H. Chase flouring mills at Rochester, N. Y.. and also damaged adjoining property. The loss is SIOO,OOO. Frank Goodrich, 37 years old, a produce peddler of Weathersfield, shot and killed Mary Bcrrigan, 15 years old, at Hartford, Conn., and then killed himself. Congressman Daniel Ermentrout of Reading, Pa., is dead, aged (52 years. He represented the Ninth Pennsylvania district in Congress and was elected last November to his sixth term. Henry Braven nnd John Weber,-deaf mutes, blew open a safe in Buffalo, N. Y., with the intention of robbery. They made so much noise about the job that they were heard nnd captured. Fire nlmost destroyed the large building on East 128th street, New York, occupied by A. S. Nichols ns a factory for wood and granite mantels and grates. Damage to stock SBO,OOO, to building $20,000. The body of Mrs. Anthony, wife of Prof. A. W. Anthony of Bates College, was found in the Androscoggin river at Lewiston, Me. She left her home upon her bicycle. Her death is thought to be accidental. John Shepherd, a farmer, 50 years old, and Homer Robinson, 17 years old, were instantly killed by a freight train on the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Berkshire, N. V. The men were driving across the track with a load of lumber. Two men were killed and two injured in a collision on the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston Railroad near Baird station, Pa., between the pay traia aud a freight train. The accident was caused by a misunderstanding of orders. Massachusetts Prohibitionists have nominated the following State ticket: Governor, John W. Baer, Medford; Secretary of State, John B. Lewis, Reading; Treasurer, Herbert B. Griflin, Winthrop; Auditor, Franklin A. Palmer, Stockbridge. With a newspaper train carrying the New York Sunday papers and consisting of three baggage cars and a locomotive, the Lackawanna Railroad beat all records between New York and Buffalo for a train, covering the 410 miles in the actual running time of seven hours and twenty-three minutes. Mrs. Catharine Kennedy was burned to death in a fire which invaded a five-story tenement in Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn. Mrs. Kennedy’s sons, David and Peter, sustained painful injuries, as did also Thomas Freeman and August Schwnrtzner, who lived in the tenement. Mrs. Kennedy was 55 years old.

WESTERN.

Penfield township. Ohio, was visited by an earthquake. Robert J. Burdette w T as stricken with vertigo while lecturing before n Hnnford, Cal., audience. Judge Melnncthon Wade Oliver of Cincinnati died suddenly at Twin Lakes, Wis. He wns 75 years old. California health authorities are considering the question of establishing a quarantine against consumptives. The Calistoga and Lakeport stage wns held up near Napa, Cal., by a solitary highwayman, who made off with the express box. The first frost of the season damaged corn, late potatoes, buckwheat and tender vegetables in sections of Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. At Guthrie, O. T., the lowa Indians have been holding a pony smoke and dance. Eight hundred Indians danced nightly in gorgeous rnjment. In a pitched battle between negro and white miners, fought in the main street of Carterville, 111., seven of the colored men were killed and two others wounded. At 3:30 o’clock the other morning the safe of the bank at Davenport, N. D., silver and a number of valuable papers was blown open by burglars and S2OO in taken. The projectors of the. new Madison Hotel at Toledo, Ohio, which is to be one of the largest in the West, have announced that the plans include free automobile service. Abraham Dahrouge, a Syrian, iu jail at Cincinnati, said he knew of a plot to kill the Sultan of Turkey; that the chief conspirators had been in Cincinnati, and later in Indianapolis. Michael Owens and Richard Conroy, marines of the cruiser Philadelphia, have died from the effects of drinking wood nlcohol at Vallejo, Cal. Both men enlisted at Mure Island. Gen. R. A. Alger has given out aHetter written by himself in New York Sept. 8, in which he announces his withdrawal from the candidacy for United States Senator from Michigan. Ex-Mayor William G. Rose of Cleveland died at his home there, aged 72 years. Mr. Rose had been ill for about three months. The primary cause of death was rheumatic gout. At St. Louis, Mo., John O. Dickey, a clerk in the Burlington Railroad office, fell twenty feet from the Holman .cycle path bridge while riding a wheel and choked to death in the mud. A large aerolite fell near Sycamore, Ohio. It weighed over 500 pounds and burst into many pieces. The light of the meteor was blinding and its roar in passing through the air was deafening. At Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, Joseph J. Gill of Steubenville wns nominated for Congress by the Sixteenth congressional district Republican convention on the two hundred and ninety-ninth ballot. Charles Alfred Pillsbury, one of the leading men of the Northwest and conspicuous as one of the founders of the flouring mills center in Minneapolis, is dead of enlargement of the stomach. A Toledo wheel manufactory is filling an order for five bicycles for the children of the King of Siam. It is the largest order for wheels to be ridden by persons of royal birth ever received in America. A north bound passenger train on the Southern Pacific Railroad ran into the rear end of the Porterville accommodation train at Formosa, Cal. Three women were killed and three men seriously hurt. On account of the quarantine regula- . -

tioß* neither mall nor passengers were permitted to be landed from the steamer Coptic at San Francisco. The Coptic made the trip from Yokohama in fifteen days. Fire started at Lincoln, Neb., in the Jacob North printing bouse, a three-story building, contaming an immense amount of printing machinery and the home of many publications. The North building was completely destroyed. J. N. Waldron, an enlisted man of Company E, Thirty-fifth infantry. U. 8. V., committed suicide at the Hotel Columbia, Vancouver, Wash., by taking poison. He left a letter, requesting that E. F. Pnlley, Stone Fort, 111., be notified. There was a big wreck on the Great Northern four miles west of Harlem, Mont. A passenger train was derailed from seme unknown cause, the engine, tender, baggage and mail cars and two conches leaving the track. SevefTpersons were injured. A nitroglycerin magazine of the Hercules Torpedo Company, three miles southwest of Lima, Ohio, exploded. The building was blown to atoms. One man was found some distance away in the woods, unconscious. It is uot known what caused the explosion. As a result of domestic difficulty, Mrs. liarne Phillips of Scotia, Neb., forced her two children, aged 1 and 2 years, to take carbolic acid and then swallowed a dose of the poison herself. The husband found all three lying upon the floor dead when he returned from the field, where he had been at work. Fire which started in the basement kitchen of Seaver’s bakery, at 8(5 State street, Chicago, spread into the Economical drug store and for a time threatened the complete destruction of the entire Burden bloc|t, the first floor of which is occupied by these concerns. The flames caused damage estimated at $50,000. At .the Columbus, Ohio, penitentiary Rev. G. F. B. Howard was compelled to bend over a box while a lusty guard vigorously applied a hickory paddle. Howard was lately returned to the penitentiary, from which be escaped Sept. 12, 1894. He was captured at Horton, Mich., where he was pastor of the leading congregation of that village. Practically an entire block of buildings was destroyed by fire at Los Angeles, Cal. The losers are the Los Angeles Farming nnd Milling Company, the Perry Mill and Lumber Company and J. R. Holbrook, dealer in iron pipe and well casings. Three men were injured in the fire, two of them probably fatally. The property loss will reach $250,000. Three men were killed and twenty freight cars destroyed at Paul, a small station on the Missouri Facifie Railroad eight miles south of Nebraska City, Neb. Freight train No. 124, running very fast to make Julian as a siding point, crashed through a bridge two miles south of Paul. The twenty ears piled on top of the engine, nnd the wreck caught fire. Eight women were seriously hurt, one perhaps fatally, in a cable car accident on the Twelfth street linei.of the Metropolitan street railway system at Kansas City. It was on the “incline,” by which the cars descend the west bluff to the union depot. A drunken man fell off a car, and it was stopped to pick him up. Another train crashed down the grade and telescoped it. B. R. Banning, a Hawaiian capitalist, arrived from Honolulu and registered at the Occidental, San Francisco. Among his effects was a valise containing, it is said, between $30,000 and $50,000 in bank notes, bonds and sugar stocks. A few hours after his arrival he missed the valise. It is thought that Mr. Banning’s property was sent on board the Nippon Maru by mistake and is now on its way back to Honolulu.

SOUTHERN.

At Duektown, Tenn., the furnace and ore ronstiug men have joined the strikers at the copper mines. The Southern hosiery yarn spinners have formed an association. A schedule of advanced prices was adopted. The agricultural department of Georgia his decided to begin a vigorous campaign against the sale of oleomargarine in that State. At Thomson, Ga., H. B. Battle, a negro preacher, was killed by an unknown white man. Battle had preached a strong sermon against lynching. The flour millers of Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky and Mississippi in secret conference decided to advance the price of Hour about 10 per cent on Oct. 1. The long drought has been most seriously felt in its reduction of the cotton crop of Texas. The crop will be 2,000,000 bales short of the crop of last year. The British steamer Angola cleared from New Orleans with 168,172 bushels of corn and 160,000 bushels of oats, the largest cargo of grain ever taken from that port. East Tennessee has furnished more soldiers per capita to the volunteer forces than has any other section of the United States, the record being one soldier for every 856 inhabitants. Fire in the wholesale district of MemPhis, Tenn., destroyed the establishments of Lee Brothers Gin Company and Rogers Brothers, dealers in Implements. Loss $120,000, insurance $50,000. An adobe house five miles from Mora, N. M., collapsed, killing Manuel Cordova and his wife and six children. Rains caused the dirt roof to fall. Only one member of the family, a boy of 10 years, escaped, Interest In the Baker family’s troubles has been revived in Boston by the issuance by Mrs. Baker of an appeal for material assistance on the ground that she is in poverty. She is the widow of the murdered postmaster of Lake City, S. C. Noah Finley, a negro, was hanged at Pulaski, Va. Finley’s crime wns highway robbery and attempted murder and bis execution was the only instance in late years in which the extreme penalty has been imposed in Virginia for this offense.

FOREIGN.

H. Rider Haggard, the novelist, has gone to the Atlin gold fields. Aguinaldo is reported to have refused $5,000 « year said to have been offered by the Schurman commission, to be paid while the Tagalos remained peaceful. Hostile foreign criticism of the Dreyfus verdict has angered the French people, and the Paris press takes up tha threats to boycott the exposition and plalilty tells the world its absence will be weleome. Advices from Kalisch, in Russian Poland, say that thirty-two persons were crushed to death in a panic la a syua- -

gogue there, caused by the upsetting of B lamp. | The victims were all women and children. Many others were injured. .-Great Britain and Portugal, It Is reported, are about to sign a convention by which the latter teases to the former certain territory and stations in Portuguese East Africa. Germany, it is said, has also secured similar advantages from Portugal. Emperor Nicholas has signed a ukase decreeing that when the middle Europe canal aud the Siberian railway are completed in 1901 all ' important Russian ports on the Pacific, Baltic and the Black sea shall be closed "forever to any butt Russian ships. Dr. Edward Bedloe of Philadelphia, United States consul at Canton, has been cleared of the charges preferred against him by the Chinese Government and, it is said, will be either restored to his post in Canton or clothed with au office in the consular service equally as important. Walter Wellman underwent a surgical operation at London for straightening his right leg, which was seriously injured during bis recent arctic trip. Another operation is necessary, but the attending surgeons say they expect to save the leg, and that Mr. Wellman will be able to return to America in a few weeks.

IN GENERAL.

Six men are under arrest at Guysboro, N. S., charged with wrecking vessels and defrauding insurance companies. Charles Frohmau has purchased from Winston Churchill, the author of “Richard Carvel,” the dramatic rights to his hook. Mr. Frohinan hopes to have the story dramatized. The steamer Delta, from Sydney for St. John’s, N. F„ with coal, went ashore in u thick fog nenr Cape St. Mary’s. The ship and cargo are a total loss, but the crew were saved. About 130 freight handlers employed by the Canadian Pacific Railroad are on strike at Owen Sound, Ont., for 2% cents an hour increase for trucking and 5 cents an hour for handling coal. The remains of Gen. Antonio Maceo and Francisco Gomez, son of Gen. Maximo Gomez, have been exhumed and placed in a temporary shrine. The permanent mausoleum will be begun immediately. The Missouri Pacific announces that it will put in a rate on packing bouse products of 8 cents from Omaha to the Ohio river and 12 cents from Omaha to Memphis. The Burlington has announced a similar rate to Kansas City. Advices from Skaguay say that three pronounced earthquake shocks occurred there. They were so strong that clocks were stopped, and dishes were shaken from shelves and houses swayed, causing their occupants to run into the streets. Advices from Sonora show that Chief Tetabiate of the Ynquis, who remained loyal to the Mexican Government in the recent Indian outbreak, was seized by the rebels and cruelly tortured, being stripped, slashed with knives and his body mutilated. Au expeditiou of four University of California professors has just returned from Alaska. The expedition was undertaken to explore the coast of Bering Sea with a view to studying the botany of these regions. A large number of specimens was secured. Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, whose father was Nathaniel Hawthorne, the novelist, and whose husband was George Parsons Lathrop, the writer, has been received into the Third Order of the Sisters of St. Domino t This order is for lay men and women living in the world. Alfred Day, representing a Philadelphia syndicate, is shipping men and material to Alaska for the construction of the second railroad in that territory. The road is to be fifteen miles long and to be used in connection with the development of 25,000 acres of coal lands on Kachkemo bay, Cook inlet. Charles Paul McKie, representing a syndicate of New York.capitalists, is negotiating with the Mexican Government for the construction of the Chiapas Railway, 274 miles long, including all its branches. The road, which will run from San Geronimo, on the Tehauntepec Railway, to the Guatemalan frontier, penetrates a very rich tropical country. It will cost $4,000,000 in gold. The first authentic news of the disaster to the Jessie party, whieh occurred at the mouth of the Kuskowim in June, 1898, and by which fourteen persons lost their lives, was brought to St. Michaels, Alaska, by Dr. Romig of the Romig mission at Bethel. Dr. Romig had with him many articles taken from the bodies of those washed ashore at different points. Six bodies are reported to have been found.

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 $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2,32 cto 34c; oats, No. 2,21 c to 23c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 59c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 16c; 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, 67c to 68c; corn. No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c.' Bt. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.75; 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 24c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 56c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,68 cto 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 25c; rye. No. 2. 62c to 63c. 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, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye, 59c to 60c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2. 57c to 59c; clover seed, old, $4.35 to $4.45. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 69c to 70c; corn. No. 3,32 cto 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 1,67 cto 59c; barley, No. 2,45 cto 47c; pork, mess, $7.75 to $8.25. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, Common to choice, $3 .25 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice weth- i ers, $3.50 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $6.25. JfciLi: New York —Cattle, $3.26 to $0.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, SB.OO to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 78c to 75c; corn, No. 2, 88c to 89c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; batter, creamery, 18c to 24c; eggs, western, 13c to 18c,

PAR DON FOR DREYFUS

f. v FRENCH ARMY CAPTAIN GIVEN HIS FREEDOM. Agree* to Relinquish Hie Appeal for’ Reversal of Judgment of the CourtMartial—May Go to England to Hecn per ate Hla Broken Health. It was officially announced In Par’s Tuesday that Dreyfus’ pardon had been agreed upon in principle, but that it would not be signed for several days, owing to formalities. Dreyfus agreed to relinquish his appeal for a reversal of the judgment of the court martial which recently convicted him of treason and sentenced him to ten years’ imprisonment. This action on the part of the prisoner is regarded as practically giving up his fight for rehabilitation and complete establishment of his innocence. This unusual course is a part of the general policy of amnesty adopted by the present Government, and is the logical outcome of the incongruous verdict. The health of Dreyfus is as precarious as ever. He can live only a few years. It is understood that Dreyfus will go to England with his family, there to spend the remainder of his life, or at least to rest and recuperate his broken health. It is said that Mme. Dreyfus and Maltre Labori recently paid a visit to Folkestone, near Dover, and engaged apartments in expectancy of the event of a pardon. A peculiar coincident was the anr.ouneement of the death of M. Seheurer-Kest-ner, the former vice-president of the senate and foremost champion of Dreyf if, almost the same time as that of the pardon. He had been ill for several days with typhoid fever, partly brought on by worry over the Dreyfus ease.

$500 A DAY TO WATCH GUERIN.

Cost of the Blockade of Hi* AntiSemitic Fort. A dispatch from Paris says that the question of the cost of the blockade of Fort Chabrol is one that will probably end by interesting the French taxpayer. There are at present something like <SOO men on duty round the anti-Semitic fortress. Of these 150 are republican guards, 150 are troops of the line, four are firo-

GUERIN’S HOUSE.

Hendquarters of the Anti-Semitic League of Paris and stronghold of the Jewbaiter Guerin, who defied the police.

men and the rest nre police and detectives. -Of the latter 120 are on duty in the twenty-four hours. It is estimated that the grand total cost is 9,5(50 francs, or a little over SSOO a day. As the siege has lasted thirty-eight days, M. Jules Guerin and his twelve men have already east the taxpayers about $19,000. To this is to be added the amount of the indemnity which it is now almost certain will be paid by the Government to people whose business has suffered owing to the siege.

LOOKS LIKE A FROST.

The Chicago Fall Festival May Be Abandoned. A Chicago correspondent declares that it is thought by those on the inside of the fall festival management that the entire affair will have to bo abandoned. Whether the labor trouble will prevent the Federal corner stone exercises on Chicago day is problematical. The corner stone committee proposes to be able to arrange matters so the Chicago day exercises will be carried out on the grand scale designed, and it is thought this can be done. But whether the corner stone exercises’ come off or not it is generally admitted that the fall festival is dead. The labor interests made the demand that Mr. Truax withdraw as the head of the celebration. His withdrawal and the cutting of a new stone by union labor are the conditions which the unions made to the discontinuance of their opposition to the festival, They declared that if Mr. Truax would resign aud a new coiner stone was cut and placed by union labor, they would hold in abeyance their fight on Contractor Peirce ns to future stone work on the Government building until after the corner stone aud festival celebrations are concluded.

SCHLEY IS AN ISSUE.

President May Not Fend Him to the Fonth Atlantic Station. Several friends of Rear Admiral Schley called on the President Monday and protested against the assignment of Schley to the South Atlantic squadron. This position is only secondary in importance, and in navy circles the assignment is regarded as a shelving of Admiral Schley, To the President they bitterly denounced the persistent persecution of Schley by the Navy Department, aud urged the executive to right matters by having Schley given n more important assignment. After the conference Gen. Angus said that he believed the President would order a change that would give Schley his deserts.

DEATH OF LIEUT. COL. MILEY.

Inspector General of Volunteers a Victim of Fever at Manila. Lieut. CoL John D. Miiey, inspector general of volunteers, died Tuesday at Manila. The information reached the War Department in a cablegram from Gen, Otis, His death was due to cerebral meningitis attendant on typhoid fever. Col. Miley’s rank in the regular army was first lieutenant, Second artillery. Typhoid fever of a most virulent type k epidemic at Madrid. - JT hk v mm,

FILIPINOS TO VISIT OTIS.

AaßMcawAald by the Native* May Be Given I heir Liberty. Agninaldi » made overtures of peace Tuesday by* sending two insurgent majors through the American lines under a flag

LIEUT. GILMORE.

this was merely a pretext for reopening negotiations sor 5 surrender. They made no request for an exchange of prisoners, and left Gen. MacArthur after a brief conference, promising to return with the released prisoners in a few days. They asked, however, in return for the release of the prisoners that envoys be permitted to accompany them through the lines to confer with Gen. Otis. In asking permission to send American prisoners into our lines, a correspondent says, Aguinaldo shows that he no longer has the idea of holding these men as hostages to protect himself. He is probably beginning to understand that his threats against the American prisoners are useless, and if carried into execution would close the door even to the general amnesty whieh had been promised by Gen. Otis. He is, therefore, taking a very proper step to enable his representative to ask for a conference with the American general in command. The Secretary of War, however, does not hope for an immediate cessation of hostilities in the Philippines, and will

give no orders which will ehange the general plan of campaign. Secretary Root presented this proposition to I the cabinet, and it! was discussed very briefly. The general opinion was that the commanders in the Philippines could handle

the situation, and that there was no occasion for any action by the authorities in Washington. The conditions have not changed. The Government cannot recognize any so-call-ed rebel government. Gen. Otis is the representative of the United States in the Philippines, and he has an army there to put down the rebellion. His orders are to suppress this rebellion, and his terms to the rebels are unconditional surrender. The President and Secretary of War have approved Gen. Otis’ action. They will not modify any demand he has made. There will be no conditions. The rebels must surrender and accept the authority of this Government. They can secure recognition for no alleged government of their own. Admiral Watson reports the rout of a fore? of rebels intrenched on Lingayen gulf, island of Luzon, by the gunboat Paragua, commanded by Ensign Davidson. The Paragua is one of the small gunboats purchased from Spain by Gen. Otis and turned over to the navy. The scene of the battle was on the north coast of Luzon, off the port which forms the northern terminus of the railroad.

SOME STARTLING FIGURES.

Casualties Resulting from Troubles in ths Pana Mining District. The grand total of casualties since the advent of negro miners from the South to take the places of striking white miners in the Pana district is something appalling. The coal strike was declared in southern Illinois on April 1, 1898, because of the failure of the operators to abide by the decision of the arbitration board. Four months later the importation of negro miners from Alabama commenced. With the arrival of the first batch of negroes the trouble began. Numerous clashes of a more or less sanguinary nature occurred nlmost daily, but the first great tragedy came Oct. 13, when the mine guards at Virden shot and killed eleven strikers and wounded nineteen more. One negro was killed and four wounded in this battle. Other battles fought at Pana. Carterville and Virden, in which the roll of dead and wounded was more than doubled, followed. Following is a complete list of casualties since the beginning of the trouble: Oct. 13, 1898, at Virden, 11 whites, one negro. Oct. 10,1898, at Pana, one negro; April 1, at Pana, two whites, five negroes. June 30,1899, at Carterville, obe negro. Sept. 17, 1899, at Carterville, seven negroes. Total, 13 whites and 15 negroes. Wounded; Sept. 29, 1898, Pana, one negro; Oct. 11, 1898, Pana, two whites; Oct. 13, 1898, Virden, 19 whites, four negroes; Nov. 17, 1898, Pana, one white, two negroes; April 10, 1899, Pana, eight whites, one negro; June 30, 1899, Carterville, 20 negroes. Total, 30 whites and 28 negroes.

THOUSANDS DIE BY STORM.

Entire Villages In Japan Reported na Swept Away. The steamship Empress of India brings details of the storm which swept across Japan. The prefectures of Kochi, Takamatsu, Ehime and Okayama suffered most, a total of 325 lives in all being officially reported lost, with 11,135 houses overthrown or inundated in Kochi, Takamatsu and Okayama. , Ehime reported no financial loss, but the death of 1,500 residents, the greatest casualties occurring at a large village near the Besshi copper mine, which was utterly obliterated. From the wreck of this mine itself 120 corpses had been removed at last advices, while it was feared that fully 000 others remained below ground.

Labori’s Work.

Fernard Labori, the counsel for Dreyfus, is the editor of an exhaustive encyclopedia of French law, the twelfth volume of which was issued last year. He is also the editor of a monthly political and literary review called the Grand Review.

The Next Total Solar Kclipse

The next total solar eclipse will take place on May 28, 1900. In order that the observations may be made in as useful and systematic a manner as ppasible, astronomers are already consider!* plans for observing the phenomenon.

of truce. They were taken to Gen. MacArthur, ostensibly to arrange for the release of sixteen American prisoners of war, among them Lieut. Gilmore and his men sfrom the gunboat Yorktown. Army officers are confident, however, that ,

GEN. MACARTHUR.