Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1899 — Page 2

"i. i •" —“—*■ IF. p. BABCOCK, Publishe/7 ■ • • mblAN*. .■ J - •

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

“wi .».• Hpng*d children of the late Robert Bon■fljtt, “have begun salt at New York to ■lt&iitest liis will. They allege that when 81 was made, ten days before Mr. ‘a death, he was mentally incomand was improperly influenced by ters. d« <ew’ England transfer elevator at Chicago, owned by Latter & , was burned to the ground. The re was used by the (Rand Trunk din transferring grain. Twenty td bushels of wheat in storage iirned. The loss is $100,(XX). tim of melancholia resultant from th, Helen Banfield, wife of W. S. I, a banker, committed suicide at lo Springs by shooting. She had rtaken of luncheon with her hustkd six children, and retired to her a. The bullet entered the heart. Casino at Green Labe; Win., was ed by fire between <5 and 6 o'clock er morning and Mt; and Mrs. F. ks, who were living on the third ■ the building at the time, were to death. The loss will be $35,QOQ qn the building and SIO,OOO on the §?• contents. «. E- . At Tacoma, Wash., the American bark | Wilna, Ca'pt. John Slater, caught fire jjj her hold and became a total loss. [ She"Wns'loading at the St. Pfttil and Ta- ' coma Lufiibcr Company's mill for Australia and had.. 400,000 feet of lumber below her decent the time of the lire, i .The total loss ,yi*l be $31,000. As a result «ts the wont storm in Tel: ton County, Mont., four sheep herders are known to be dead and eight others fc are missing. The severity of storms may S'- be judged by the fact that it took four horses four days to bring in one body on | a toboggan. The snow is four feet deep on the level in parts of Teton County.) Captain Powell of the steamer John p Plaukinton reports passing through a large amount of wreckage on Lake lluI ron off Point Attx Barques. The wreekp age consisted of cabin doors, painted green, mattresses, pillows and the deck- | house, apparently fTom a steamer. Noth- | ing can be learned of the identity of the I ship. & . One person was killed and nine others tvere injured, several probably fatally, in a tirade crossing accident at Seymour, I6Vrh. A wagon in which were tun young SfWi honbd across the country to ehaVP vati a newly married couple was struck by an east-bound meat train on the Rock Island roud and knocked from the track. - WiHeCuppkvß was killed outright. .. Wtavtfc excitement prevails at Olive ; .Ohio, as the result of the arrest qf. .several prominent citizens for an alleged attempt to lynch Ira Stevens, a f married man, who, it is alleged, has for the last three years annoyed the commnnity. The crowd, it is alleged, placed I, a rope around Stevens' neck, and after I dragging him two miles started for the woods to hang him. His piteous cries || moved them to leniency. £ Reports from Duluth state that timber speculators have discovered a way lo ge-t possession of about all the best unI surveyed government pine bearing land Ip the northern port of the State with p old “forestry scrip.’’ These scrip holdep« are looking up the best land and plasf, trying it with their forestry scrip, for Sich they have paid $2 to $3 an acre. ! pifie land'is worth at least S2O an ■ acre the size of the profit is apparent. |; if ate John Widoseu of the scaling' schooner Bowhead has reached San Fratteisco front Ihe far north with a story H of.:the terrible experiences of himself and twts sailors for fifteen days in an open boat .in the Arctic ocean. They narrow- , escaped wrpek several ttmes and at the last their boat swamped off lloskinuta, a small coast settlement. Their f peril was* seen from the shore and they were rescued. They then tramped eighty ttlllea'across country to Yukon, where they were picked up and taken down the river. l’ The most serious fire in the history of | Knightstown,, Ind., broke out. Three lives were lost and property worth $160,000 pr more was destroyed. The dead fe men were members of the voliinfeei'. lire department and were lighting the lire i . when the front wall of a three-story building fell outward. They were caught H by the falling bricks and crushed to death. The Masonic Temple, the largest building in the city, was in the path of t the flames and was destroyed, together V with the building occupied by K. O. Anto derson, dealer in household.,g/vd*; Green If, Brothers, saloon,, and Davey Brothers, dealers in notions. The fire is supposed ' to have originated from an,.explosion of natural gas.

NEWS NUGGETS.

'Vleorgc Thurston. aged 10 years-, was hilled"* in a football same nt Delphos, Kan. ■ According to the Sehlcsischo Zt-itung a new proposal lias been tint forward regarding the Samian question, ling! aml has offered” Gerihtay compensation if she will renounce JJuvH. Caise F. Askew, trustee of Obion Oouuty, Tennessee, was shot and killed by Lee Patterson, a farmer, who mistook him for a neighbor who had threatened him with violence. Shortly after starting to sail the second race for the America’s cup, the Shamrock was disabled by the breaking of its topmast. The Columbia sailed tile course and was declared the winner. Robert and Maria Chatham have gained their suit in the "Kan Mateo County, California, Superior Court, to be considered the children of the late capitalist* Robert Mills. They \yi!l share in the division of a $300,000 estate. British liberals in Parliament have pledged siipport to the government’s conduct of the war. Oscar a New Orleans muKkfiap, jKorjrqwed a pistol, and return.;** tyimt) ;ip»ot by* Ufife through, tac head w]i'yc , slejit. He then turned the weapon on himself. Domestic inf, li< ity is given ns the cause of the trilgedy. • 1 At Parkersburg,AJ’Va., XJcorge (Kid) thj; Washington, l’a., pugilist froo y’eax Carr, pugilist, in a gWM'&nWt, whs found gufity of voiitbtary manslaughter. The verdict moans Jhom one to fivejrears in the penitentiary.

EASTERN.

Samuel Jacoby, a well-known banker and flour merchant, died at New Tork. William B. Smith, well known as the man who first.reflned petroleum, died*at Everett, Mass. Dr. Charles Smith of Atlantic City, N. J., who ciai.njip to be 123 years old, is about to weu a 45-year-old bride. The first of the series of races for tlic Anf&rffca’s cup was sailed in New York, the Columbia winning by ten minutes and eight seconds. The steamer W. P. Keteham ran down the little Schooner Typo in Lake Huron. The Typo was instantly sunk aud four of the crew were drowned. Owl’s Head Mountain House, a popular summer resort hotel on Lake Meinphramagog, owned by C. D. Watkins of New York, was burned. Loss $100,060. The Bridgeport Line steamer Nutmeg State was burned in Long Island sound, off Sands point, Long Island, aud ten persons were burned to death or drowned. The Traders’ National Bank of Baiti* more has decided to go into voluntary liquidation and practically dosed its doors. Decline iu the bank’s business is the cause.

The crew of the Holland submarine boat narrowly escaped death by asphyxiation at New York. One of the gas reservoirs leaked. The six men were taken out unconscious.

Fire destroyed the three-story frame building in Newton, L. 1., owned and occupied by the Equitable Silk Mills, and stock and machinery was damaged $30,000 nnd the building $15,000. Frederick George and his three little daughters, aged 0, 4 nnd 2 years, respectively, were instantly killed at Riverside, N. J., by a Pennsylvania express train. They were driviug across the track.

The Windsor Hotel at Hudson, N. Y., was destroyed by fire, and Wallace O. Hall, u traveling salesman for a Philadelphia publishing company, was suffocated. The property toss will exceed $50,000. Fire destroyed a large four-story warehouse iu Brooklyn, owued by the Bush Company, limited, and 8,000 bales of cotton stored iu it. Loss S3OO,(XX), principally on the cotton, which was well insured.

While addressing a socialist women’s meeting in u hall at New York, Mrs. Florentine Ciintius-Lange, a socialist agitator, was stricken with apoplexy and died in a few minutes. She was about 53 years old. Janies H. Eckels, president of the Commercial National Bank of Chicago and Comptroller of the Currency from 1893 to 1897, was run over by an express wagon on Fifth avenue, New York, ."fnd badly hurt. The firm of Shannon. Miller & Crane oif New York, manufacturers and importers of militnry goods, founded in 1820, has bee* placed in the hands of a receiver One of the partners has brought suit for dissolution. Lorenzo Dow died at his home iu Now York, aged 72 years. He was born in Paris. When the gold fever broke out in 1849 he went to the Pacific coast, and for several years he was engaged there in prospecting for and in operating mines. PractjegUy al|, the mills in New York Stute, nr-e now organized under the name of the American Association of Knit Underwoai' which has decided to’ifinkp a per cent advance in the pried Wfle cce underwear, which is the kind most generally worn, and in which line the competition heretofore has been the fiercest.

WESTERN.

Albert D, Fogg, Cincinnati, Ohio, died, lie was agent of the Adaius Express Company and had been in the service thirty-five yen**-. Carl Browne, Coxey's old lieutenant, left his' second command at Wichita, Ivan., and declared the proposed march to Washington off. Joe Goldberg, sou of Solomon Goldberg, a wealthy Jew of Chicago, committed suicidcsnt Duluth, Minn., by shooting, lie was lit years old and manager of the One Cent store. A threshing engine belonging to Peter Anderson, twelve miles southeast of Britton, S. D., blew up, killing four men and seriously injuring one more. Low water is supposed to be the cause. A boiler in a mill near Browusburg, lud.» exploded. Milton Roberts, Ban Wasson and Nathan Cook were killed. Willis Tyler was fatally hurt. The damage' 1 caused amounts tnss,ooo, A rear-end collision occurred near Granite Canyon station. Wyo., on the Union Pacific Railroad, between n stock train and an east-bound fast mail, killing two men and injuring three others. Peter Jansen, a member of the lower house of the Nebraska Legislature, is defendant iu a suit brought by C. B. Congdon. a’ Chicago broker, to recover $13,000 of unpaid margins in a wheat deal. Four months ago Dominick Hauro was fatally stabbed iu a tight at Warren, O. On bis ‘deathbed ho told his wife that Frank Augusta had stabbed him. The other night Mrs. Tnuro shot and killed Augusta. Alfred Ilayes, a patient at the People's hospital in Chicago, became delirious and leaped through a sccoud-story window to the ground, twenty-five feet. His injuries Were so severe that he died a few miu : utes later. A fast mail train on the Chicago and Northwestern road was held up between Elburn and Maple Park, 111., by three masked men, who blew up the express safe with dynamite and escaped with its contents. Two heavy shocks of earthquake occurred ut Santa Rosa, Cal. Much alarm was created, but the damage was confined to the cracking of a few brick walls, the dropping of plaster aud the shaking of goods from shelves. Rev. Henry W. I’iukham, j>astor of Bethany Baptist Church and one of the most prominent young clergymen in Denver, Colo., lias been dropped from the Rocky Mountain Baptist Association for alleged heretical views. At Lawivnee, Kan., Master iu Chancery 11. P. Dillon has sold the Carbondale Railroad, a small line running out of LawreUce. to W. E. Winner, for the Kansas City, Lawrence arid Topeka Railway Company, for $51,000. .Yf school, a reformatory w hoys at Fechanugle, Ill'.',' was destroyed by fire and its 400 inmates scattered over the county. 1 ' The loss on buildings is estimated at $150,000. No one was seriously injured. *■ At Mountain Grove, Mo., David Bran-

ton cvptied We six-shooter Into Henry Holt, killing Mm instantly. Holt had quarreled with Branson’s brother, %.§ripplc. and was slashing him' with a Wife when David stepped off a train aniinterS. Schultz, millionaire soap ?r, died suddenly at Zancsfrom heart trouble. He was in theatrical circles as man- ‘ Schultz opera honse. His timated at from $1,500,000 to $2,5004)00. The C. J. Baker Tent and Awning Company’s establishment ip Kansas City burned. Loss SOO,OOO, wXh $40,000 insurance. The building, oKyned aD J. A. A. BtrUen of Chicago and rl{Jjsed at $22,000, was totally destroyed, fully covered by insurance. -!i._ i < Xltt-Fanners’ Bank at Schell City, Mo„ hy cracksmen, who bound and the watchman and blew open the safe with dynamite, securing $3,500. Tbgyfthbp escaped. There were two men, if planitfd, iu advance. lioo, a prosperous farmer, shot and killed his wife’s father, Walter Buckley. Ivillion is alleged to . have mistreated his wife anil the father upbraided him for it. In a fit of anger Klllion drew a pistol and shot the old man four times. The Cleveland Board of Health has begun a crusade against adulterated food products. It is announced that a disinfecting preparation was being used by a number of butchers to preserve meat in hot weather and by milk dealers to prevent milk from turning sour. The pareuts of 14-year-old Harry Sherry,' residing in the southern part of Unudo, Ind., believe that the boy has committed suicide. He left the house several days ago, saying, “I will die before 1 will go to school.” He has not been seen since, although a rigid search has been made.

Miss Lena. Bierc, one of the brightest students‘ .iat ithe Berea, Ohio, College, committed snicidc by hanging herself with a rope to the bedpost in her room. Miss Bierenvcnt to the school from Lowell, Mich. It is believed that overwork aud intense religious excitement unbalanced her mind.

At Fori Scott, Kan.. James Bish shot his fiancee. Miss Clara Stainbrook. As she fell Bish sent a bullet into his own brain. He is dead, but the young wornau will recover. Tliey had quarreled over the date of their wedding, thcFyouug woman huviug insisted that she could not be ready as soon as Bish demanded. A storm of unusual violence visited Hardy, Neb. A large amount of damage was done to buildings. A brick school house was unroofed and the walls badly cracked. The engine house at the Hardy elevator was wrecked. Several barns were blown down. The "aggregate loss will amount to many thousands of dollars.

The G Troop's stables at Fort Meade,, adjoining Sturgis, S. D., burned, together with 125 saddles, all the trappings of the troop, a large quantity of eommißsary supplies and hay and feed, causing au estimated total loss of SIO,OOO. Fortunately the fire occurred when all the horses were on the picket line and all were saved. •. lootin' - • •

Machines l ftit making liquid air have been ordered from German makers by Charles F. Brush of Cleveland, the inventor of the electric arc ligtit. and their arrival is being awaited with interest by the scientific men of Cleveland. One of the machines will be given to the University of Michigan nnd the other Mr. Brush will place in his laboratory in Cleveland. As the steamer Fedora, bound down, was abreast of Port Huron, Mich., her wheel chains parted and she headed for the dock at Sarnia. Her engines were reversed as quickly as possible, but she was under full speed and the big boat could not be stopped in time. She crashed into the dock, doing considerable damage to the structure, but escaping with slight damage herself.

SOUTHERN.

An explosion at the Riversiilt Iron and steel works, Wheeling, WajXir, burned and crushed a number of workmen. In a daring attempt made' by three masked bandits to rob the bank of Sevierville, Tenn., the leader of the gang was killed, another was fatally wounded and the third committed suicide rather Hum surrender to a posse of citizens which had surrounded kis hiding place. Nqnr the State fair grounds in Dallas, a trolley ear on the Rapid Transit Street Railway, filled with passengers, collided with an excursion train on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe road. Of the fortynine passengers on board the street ear, nearly half of them were hurt. Six were seriously injured and three of these cannot live. Mi?ss Bet tie Mcllvuiu, daughter of Jailer Mellvain of Mason County, Ky., frustrated au attempt to escape from the Mason Cdunty jail. Miss Mellvain held the heavy iron entrance door against the prisoners who were trying to force their way out. Charles Shot well, a desperate prisoner, slashed her with a case knife, but she bravely held the door until Deputy Jailer Slack secured his pistol and fired, driving the prisoners back. Several iron bars had been sowed in two, and knives and heavy pieces of irou for weapons had been provided, ready to make a desperate fight for liberty.

WASHINGTON.

The NahyxiDepartmeut has assigned Captain WifWam H. Whiting to the post of captaiubof the Norfolk navy yard, in p!ace of Captain Rockwell. Captain lk#T. Jobe, late of the Sixth United States volunteer infantry, has been arrested at Washington ou the charge Of thing War Department penalty envelopes for private letters. Rear Admiral Sampsou has retired from conmiajud of the North Atlantic squadron,, 4ud his Hag has been hunted down ffoin the cruiser New York. Admiral Farquhar has taken command. Gen." William It. Shufter, who for over a year lias Rold the position of brigadier general .hi the regular army and major geuerlit is now on the retired regular army. He will, however," remain in comriiand of ahe,.department of the Pacific., Sir LdHfs Henry Da vie*, Canadian minister of marine and fisheries, has given CaMUa’s' conseut to a temporary arl uugcmiutt of the Alaskan dispute. This has prsiOtifflafty settled the whole mailer for the,flint being, as the main features df were origiuaUy suggested by the United States. Secretary Root has been in receipt of a number of petitions respecting the

‘Commercial Cable Company, all iftpnff AJflKt/eragig.M allow the corporation to ftrCuba. The Secretary has aaJPwswer to these in a letter stating in substance that the War Departn»«gM had»»ftthipg jto do with the matter, itWf has' inry executive branch of the Government. Conjgreae, he'says, has prohibited the grantjjtt<^;»ny ? franchises in Cuba/ and -there if'DO resting in anyone without action to give the Commercial Cable Company the right to construct and operate a cable.

FOREIGN.

Formal declaration of war upon Great Britain has been made by the South African republic of, the Transvaal. Private, advices from Coustantinople state Quit .thejßuitijto has recently caused several lqflieq his ha fern to be drowned in tbrjfdtypfecuawa charges of complicity in the : conspiracies of the young Turk B«ron> Farrer of Abingef the most distinguished Stiffly authorities on trade 'nnd finance secretary of the died suddenly in hia cigh ty rfiAPyoalv >. Telegrams from Linz,, capital of upper Austria, on the Danube, report that the inhabitants of that district are in a cut' dition of terror owing to a series of “Jack-the-Ripper” murders. The fifth occurred recently. The victim was a worn* an 50 years of age. News coming from southwest Africa brings news of the massacre of Lieut. Guise, German commissioner at Rio del Key, near Old Calabar river, and also of Heirr Leemeyer, a German trader, together with a hundred native ’ soldiers and carriers, constituting an expedition formed by Lieut. Guise to quell disturbances, near the Cross river, which forms the boundary between British and German territory there.

IN GENERAL

Confirmation has been received of the rumor that the steamer Scotsman has gone to pieces. She broke up during a storm several days ago. The National League season of baseball is ended. The pennant goes to Brooklyn. Boston finished in second place and Philadelphia third. Edwin B. Hay, counsel for W. F. Sylvester, owner of the alleged Filipino filibustering steamer Abbey, has made a statement in defense of Dr. Edward Bedloe, Uuitefl States consul at Canton, China, under charges for granting an American registry to the Abbey. Portsmouth, Ohio, officials of the Cincinnati, Portsmouth aud Virginia Railroad say negotiations are well advanced for the purchase of the line by the Pennsylvania Railroad. It is said to be intend* ed for use in connection with the Ohio River Railroad as a low-grade line from Pittsburg to Cincinnati, tional League at the close of the season The standing of the clubs in the Nais as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ..101 47 Pittsburg ...76 73 Boston 95 57 Chicago 75 73 Philadelphia 94 58 Louisville ...75 77 Baltimore . .86 62 New Y0rk...60 90 St. L0ui5....84 67 Washington. 54 98 Cincinnati . .83 67 Cleveland .. .20 134 Prairie fires have swept over the Dauphin district iu northwestern Manitoba. Hundreds'bf settlers were surrounded- by flames before they had time to realize the danger, and iw a twinkling houses, grain, hay 'WiK‘bg ! <4u<f ifenees went up in smoke, and the accumulation of years of toil disappeared front tl»e face of the earth. Fire swept rover territory many miles in extent. i At Toronto, Out., an attempt was made to burn the war material which the Government has all ready for serving out to the Toronto, London and Hamilton Transvaal contingent. At the time stateil an officer and a private on their rounds fe.und part of the woodwork of the storeroom of the fort on lire aud with the help of the fire brigade extinguished the flames before serious damage was done.. It was then discovered that waste and rags saturated with oil had been placed clase to the woodwork and set on fire. The woodwork was also well oiled. R. G. Dun Ac Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “Industrial conditions could hardly he better. After many months of such extraordinary buying that its continuance seemed impossible, even larger buying still crowds producing works in most lines beyor-1 their capacity. Sales of wool are smaller, only 7,473,300 pounds for the, w.'ek at the three markets, without further advance. Failures for the week have been 164 in the United States, against 205 last year, and 27 in Canada, against 25 last year.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime,. SS.OO to $7.23; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 'to $4.23; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2,30 eto 32c; oats. No. 2,22 c to 24c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 56c; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 24e; eggs, fresh, 16c to 17c; potatoes, choice, 25c to 33c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime, $3.25 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, OSc to 70e; corn, No. 2 white, 32c to 34; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 20c. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.25 to $0.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72e; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33e; oats. No. 2,23 cto 24c: rye, No. 2,58 cto 59c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $0.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep. $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2. 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 30c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 20c; rye, No. 2,03 cto 05c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $0.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 74c; corn. No. 2 yellow,',3sc tc£S7c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c’ to 28c; rye. Ole to G3c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 72c to 74c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2,59 e to 01c; clover seed, $0.05 to $0.15. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 Northern, 06c to (jSej'eorn, No. 3,31 cto 33c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 20c; rye. No. 1,58 c to 00c; barley. No. 2,40 cto 48c; pork, mess, $7.75 to $8.25. BuffaloiiGsattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $0.50; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 w $5.00; sheep, fair tri choice wethers, s3.ofel to., $4.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.50. * * New York —Cattle. $3.25 to $(1.75; hogs, SB.OO to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; cprn, No. 2, 40c to 41e; oats. No. 2 white, 30c to 82e; butter, ereamery, 17c* to 25c; eggs, west-

COLUMBIA WINS FIRST RACE.

SlwHroek I* OMtat#»cr*ted m»d Out* ••lied from fctivt t» yt»t»k. T After seven failure* the Columbia Monthe first of the aerie* of raeea with the Shamrock for ’the international »ip and the America’s cup. Sir pttm’s green-hulled challenger, pet, which has appeared so light airs and baffling breezes, i wer a sea course of thirty en on the wind and fifteen \f|fh;the wind astern. The elapsed time 1 of the victorious boat, the Columbia, was 4:33:53, or :10:14 better than that of the ShatHrock. which covered the course in 5:04:07. Deducting her time allowance of six seconds, the .Shamrock was vanquished by :10:08. There was not much enthusiasm at the end, because from

THE COLUMBIA.

start to finish the race had been a procession, with Columbia constantly increasing a lead which she established soon after the beginning of the contest. In the weather work over the first leg the Columbia was :9:50 better than the Shamrock, and in the run home, with all kites bellying, the Yankee clipper added twenty-fonr seconds to her lead. This doubtless would have been :fj the wind had not freshened, naUjjwiily helping the yacht astern, and partlyrdosing the great gap of misty sea her bow and the Columbia's stern. ‘

The breeze, whiijh was from tfie qait, varied iu force from six to twelve knots, but was true ns to direction. The seas were somewhat lumpy, aud occasiojjayy white-crested, but they were not big enough to bother a catboat. In tbq Kinward work neither yacht w*s In the run to the finish the element oif l chance apparently was with the Fife model.

The contest, which was fairer than any ever sailed off Handy Hook, may be said to demonstrate that the Columbia is the better craft in a light or moderate breeze, knifing her way to windward through smooth seas, and that she is also superior by a minute or more in a following breeae of moderate power.

BLOW FOR SHAFTER.

Admiral Bampsok Insists Chadwick Wrote the I’oral Letter. A Boston special says Rear Admiral Sampson, now in charge of the local navy yard, has made anbther attack on Gen. Shatter, amplifying his statement made at Morgantown, \V. Va., that Captain Chadwick is entitled to the credit for Toral’s surrender by saying that Shatter did not understand the situation because of ignorance. To a reporter he said: “When I made the speech at Morgantown I had considered carefully what I intended to say, and I will retract none of my statements, for they are all correct. I said that Shatter was not capable of understanding the results of the battle because of his lack of proper education, and I will say so . again. It was solely through the efforts of Captain Chadwick that Toral surrendered as soon ms he did. Heretofore it has been thought that it was Shafter. In his report to the War Department Shatter gives himself the whole credit, neglecting to even mention Chadwick’s name. This I did not think right, and I determined to correct the matter as soon as I. had the oppo;*tunity. Gen. Shafter has used his utmost efforts to give the impression that it was he, and he alone, who forced the surrender of the Spanish troops. I wish to correct this impression.”

PULSE of the PRESS

-* Boer and Briton. , England is always heroic when she starts out to lick ah' Infant. —Memphis Commercial-Appeal. The end will be the complete establishment of English domination over South Africa. That must come iu time.—Philadelphia Times. The Boers have the right to assume that the British Government has decided upon the extinction of their independence. —Rochester Post-Express. One is naturally inclined to the belief that the use of a little finer diplomacy on the part of the Boers could have averted the war which must eventually result in their defeat.—Albany Journal. It Is a fight not against but for the people of the Transvaal, if it be fair to call three out of four the people. And whatever the more immediate fortunes of j the war may be, in the end medievalism will make way for the modern.—Brooklyn 1 Eagle. Is it not quite probable that “Lorelei” of the diamond fields at berloy and the gold mines at burg may lure this great nation toner utter humiliation and destruction? Rome had her day. Britain will have hers.— Waukegan Sun. There i$ not the slightest merit in Great Britain's attitude toward -the South African republic. It is simply>j* ease of Great Britain coveting gold arid being determined to obtain possession of gold fields regardless of the rights of Kruger's people.—Omaha World-Heraid. If England wins, and wins quickly—and the majority of unbiased persons throughout the world probably believe she will —the effects of the conflict, beyond a temporary flurry on the speculative exchanges at the outset, and the temporary suspension in the outflow pf gold frem the Transvaal, are not likely to be serious.—St. Lonis Globe-Democrat.

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

The recent tight money market with It high rates has led to several suggestlom for relief by the Government. The proposition is being discussed in Washington that there should be some provision for keeping the money of the country in circulation instead of having large sums locked up in the vaults of the treasury and the shbtreasuries. The Government has a cash balance of $288,000,000, of. Which nearly $83,000,000 is on deposit i»\ banks. The other $205,000,000 is stored in Government vaults. it is earning nothing for Uncle Sam and is performing no function as a medium of exchange in business transactions. The suggestion is made that the Secretary of the Treasury should deposit a larger proportion of this enormous fund in banks, whence it would find its way into circulation in times of tightness, but this suggestion is coupled with the proposition that the Secretary should charge the banks interest at the rate of 2 per cent per annum. ) . liiplrna! Revenue Commissioner Wilson will recommend to Congress that a refund be made of the taxes paid by cigar dealers on the cigars manufactured and sold by Counterfeiter Jacobs at Lancaster, Pn. The Government knew for a long time that* these bogus stamps were being used, but did not interfare with the unlawful business for fear of permitting the escape of those who were engaged in circulating the famous SIOO counterfeit Monroe note. For months cigars with forged stamps were being sold, and when the counterfeiters were arrested all the cigars bearing these stamps -Weto‘seized by the internal revenue officials: It was decided, however, that the rprntlTSsers were innocent of any fraud, nnd they were permitted to have possession of the cigars by the payment of the lawful tax.

The State Department has no records .ifegft'ing the number of Americana In the firfßtVaal. There is 4 directory giving the names and addresses of the more Anfemincnt business' men in the Republic,

Ortt this does not indicate their nationality. The population, according to the census of 1896, was 245,000 whites-and an estimated population of*' 600,000 blacks. The State Department makes an effort to keep track of the Americans in barbarous countries. There are lists furnished annually by the American consuls In China aud Morocco. The Transvaal has never been regarded as an uncivilized country, and no effort has been made to keep track of our citizens who go there.

Admiral Dewey is expected to connect himself with St. John’s Episcopal Church ir. this city. He has never been conspicuous as a religious man. In fact, he has been known to utter robust and resounding ensswords, iu moments of stress and excitement, yet so far as he is anything he is supposed to be an Episcopalian. Hia relatives belong to that church and his leanings are that way. A Congregational church up in Vermont claims him as a member, but that was in the long distant past when the admiral was a boy. St. John’s is the fashionable Episcopal congregation of Washington, and it naturally wants to include Admiral Dewey in its fellowship.

New Department of Justice Building. Front Elevation of the New Structure for Washington. According to the latest bulletin issued by the bureau of labor there are 140 cities in the United States having a population of 30,000 or over. The bureau has been collecting and compiling a mass of municipal statistics, and for purposes of correct comparison has broken away from the last census population figures* now nine years old, and mode estimates of its own. Massachusetts leads off with. 17 cities of 30,000 and over, Pennsylvania with 13, and then conies New York with 12, Ohio with 0, Illinois with 6 and Indiana and Texas with 5 each.

HOT OCTOBER WEATHER.

Chicago paid homage to the palm leaf" fan Sunday, donned summer garments.

tween 7 o’clock in the morning and 3 in the afternoon. Pavement thermometers took issue with the figures recorded in the weather sanctum and registered 87 degrees st 3 o’clock. The October heat record was established in 1807, when 87 degrees was booked. The other extrema occurred in 18S7* when the mercury drop--ped to 14 degrees above sero.

that had been wafted to moth chests by the autumn, winds of some days before, which,, threatened to cut short the annual visit of Indian summer, mopped it* brow, and betook itself to summergardens, the cool, •drinks of the soda fountain, and the relief afforded by the ice man. In the weather bureau, the mercury went up the tube to the 84 degree mark, coming within four degrees of the highes t temperatureever recorded &in the month of .October. Tlfe upward, flight of the mercury covered a rise of 23 degrees be-