Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1899 — Page 2

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT: |r F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. jjptUUER, • • • INDIANA.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Near Joplin, Mo., three big zinc mines, known ns the Cock Robin, Pelican and Chicago Consolidated, the projierties of 1 Thayer & Chandler of Chicago, were I sold to the United Zinc Company for SIOO,OOO. sr The minor is current throughout the oil field that an English syndicate has purchased the holdings of the Indiana Pipe Line and Refining Company, the Cudahys and the Manhattan Oil Company in Ohio ■ and Indiana, the purchase price lieing $0,000,000. \V. D. Jacobs find Ed Harrison, who were out prospecting, are believed to have been lost in a recent severe snowstorm which prevailed at Battle Lake, Wyo. Their outfit and dead horses were found in a deep ravine about sis miles from town. Telegraph messages were trausmited by the Poliak-Virag system from Chicago to Milwaukee and return at the rate of 12,000 words an hour. Later ••dots"’ and “dasites” were sent to Buffalo and back nt the rate of 00,000 words nu hour. With assets amounting to S3O,(KM) and liabilities $20,000, the Yankton. S. D. Savings Bank was forced to close its doors after a three days’ run oeeasionad by the defalcation of County Treasurer A. Peterson, who was known to deal extensively with that bank. Two thousand sheep belonging to the Ctsliles Sheep Company were driven from Wyoming into Routt County, Colo., to the range forty miles northwest of Craig. Later fifty masked men captured the herders and then proceeded to kill the entire flock. The herders were warned not to bring any more sheep into Colorado and were released. Frank M. Parker, Jr., special agent of the North American Trust Company of New York to Spanish Honduras, speak- ■ iug of the financial condition of the republic, said: ‘Spanish Honduras is today in a much better financial condition than any other of the Central American republic*, tile exchange there lieitig only 125. while in Guatemala it is about 500.” Joseph C. Cockburn, a proiniuent citizen of Logausport, lud., suffered a stroke of apoplexy while seated at his desk in his private office. He fell from his seat in such a manner that his head did not touch the floor, hut instead was propfied up against the bottom of his desk. His collar wus thus pressed tightly nlKiut his throat nud he clinked to death without being able to help himself. Frederick and Henry Blinders, father and son, farmers.of Richfield, Ohio, were arrested on a charge of the murder of Airs. 1\ finders. The woman was found in the garden dead, with her throat cut and n knife in her hand. Henry Blinders was taken ill recently with typhoid fever. The doctor told him he could not recover, and it is now alleged that he made a deutli-l»ed confession, claiming that lie and his father murdered the wife and step-mother. West-bound passenger train No. 5 on the Baltimore and Ohio road ran into the rear end of a west-bound freight train near MeCook’s station, lud.. while running at n high rate of s|M>ed. causing a bad wreck, killing Engineer Bradford of the passenger train, nud injuring Engineer Barber anil two firemen. The accident occurred during a dense fog. The passenger train was drawn by two engines. Both engines, two postal cars and three express ears were derailed and thrown into the ditch, j

BREVITIES.

Tascott has born arrested again—this time at Vancouver, B. C. The First Tennessee Regiment was mustered out of the service at San Francisco. Frineess Marie Amelia of Leiniugen, sister of the (■rand I bike of Baden, is dead, in her sixty-sixth year. Russian railway bonds of the value of $10,000,000 have Ween purchased by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. The United States transport George IV. Elder holds the record for a round trip to Manila, having made the voyage in sixty-one days. Thomas W. Braeher. inventor of thirty different pieces of machinery and articles connected with and used in the hatter's trade, is -dead at his home in New York. The British transjKirt Manchester City sailed from New Orleans for Cape Town. She curries 11,000 mules, to lie used in the South Afriean campaign. Allegheny University astronomers, by - the use of curved plates in photographing meteors, developed a field of 950 square miles. Formerly ninety square miles was all that could be included. Joseph F. McMahon was shot und probably fatally wounded while asleep at his home in Taunlou, Mass. John Gallagher, McMahon’s brother-in-law, it is alleged, did the shooting. \ Otto Blunter, one of the seven survivors of the Grecly exiiedition to the arctic regiou, rescued by a relief party under command of Commodore W. S. Schley in June, 1883, died at San Antonio, Texas. Martin V. Bergen, sou of Councilman Peter V. Bergen, of Princeton, N. J., died from the effects of a hazing at LawrencerlUe. Inflammation of the bowels caused death. Bergen was 13 year old and a freshman. The steamer Lakonin, from Glasgow for Baltimore, passed Caiie Henry, Va., bound in, and signaled that the steamship Manchester Enterprise, which left "Liverpool for Montreal, had foundered at sea and that all hands had been saved. Leather and hides have risen in price suddenly. Oak sole leather of the first quality, used in making shoes, has gone up from 34 to 38 cents a pound. The Porte has addressed notes to the powers reiterating the demand for the suppression of the foreign postofflees in * Tnrkey. It is not believed the demand will be acceded to. A masked mob of seventy-five men attempted to break Into the jail at Covington, Ga., and lynch William Collins. The jail was defended by a force of deputies, it'll/, firiwl in I/. < k,| nmh lVßim/lt wr uiroeo 1 * uw » wwuuuiun men and dispersing the lynchers. > ■ —. * -

EASTERN.

Rev. Dr. James F. Bruner la dead at Washington, aged 77. Haddens E- Horton of the New York Times died in New York. Andrew Carnegie has given $1,730,000 to enlarge the institute bearing his name at Pittsburg. Gorshou Siegel, vice-president of the Sicgel-Cooper Company, died at New York, aged 59. George B. M. Harvey has been made president and manager of Harper & Bros. Deal with Doubleday & McClure failed. At Hazleton, Pa., Miner McGeehan dug oat of the solid coal in the Laurel Hill colliery a chunk of virgin copper. Copper iu a coal seam is a geological curiosity. In Washington, D. C., Charles F. Goleva y attempted to act as peacemaker iu a quarrel. He was knocked to the sidewalk, the fall causing a fracture of the skull, from which he died. The Rev. Joseph Hartwell of Binghamton, N. Y., who died recently, held .papers wFich it is claimed will entitle his heirs to a large part of the land ou which the village of Pullman, 111., is now located. Harry Hatfield, the lightweight boxer, who was knocked out by Jack. Fox in a prize fight iu the Pelican Athletic Club. Brooklyn, is dead. He never regained consciousness after 1 icing counted out. A meeting of the representatives of the Middle States Furniture Association was held at Williams|K>rt, Pa., for the purpose of fixing a schedule of prices. It was agreed to advance prices 10 per cent at once. The American Irou and Steel Manufacturing Company has suspended operations iu all its puddling and rolling mills at Lebanon, Pa. The cause assigued is an exhausted coal supply, resulting from tbc car famine. The Ross House, a four-story structure at Ridgwav, Pa., has been almost entirely destroyed by fire. It is thought the fire was caused by an explosion of natural gas used in lighting aud heating the building. The valuation of the hotel was about $-10,000. The Sloss-SbctHold Company has licen organized at New York, with a capital of $20,000,000. The company has $2,200.000 iu cash paid iu for the purpose of paying for the properties outside of the Sloss Iron and Steel Company and for developing its coal aud ore properties.

WESTERN.

John B. Carey, ex-Mayor of Wichita, • Kan., died suddenly in San Jose, CaL, i aged 74. OlUcials of the Pullman company are ' looking for a 1 leaver site upon which to j build large s-h<q«s. At Guthrie, O. T., Belle Fleming, aged j 17, has been admitted to the bar of the j United States Court. The operators of the Qtiita coal mines have signed the'scale demanded by the Miners' L'uion at Russellville, Ark. John Gilliland was killed by an engine on the Jamestown and Frauklin branch of the Lake Shore Railway at Ashtabula. Ohio. Andrew Martin, a young millionaire of San Francisco, died at his mountain re- | sort at Palm Springs, 100 miles from j Los Angeles. Senator John M. Thurston of Nebraska j and Miss Lola Purniau, daughter of Mr. j aud Mrs. W. J. Furman of Washington, D. C., were married a few days ago. The bones of a man and woman were found in the ruins of the St. Charles Hotel, which, with six other buildings, was destroyed by tire at Wagoner, I, T. ; Emil Ilollinger, the Chicago wife mar- : derer. declared on the gallows with his last breath that he was an innocent man. j The drop fell, breaking bis ucek in- • stautly. Metal workers' lockout in Chicago has J lieetl settled. Sykes Rooting Company j paid disputed -railroad fate and men | agreed to arbitrate question of wages during strike. At his ranch, eight miles northeast of j Colorado Springs, Colo.. C. P. Shores 1 shot and killed Thomas Williams, aged [ 21 years, who a year ago eloped with j his daughter, Lelia Shores. Leonard B. Imbodru of Kansas City, ’ Mo., found guilty of conducting a “wild- j cat” liauk, has been seutcuccd to ten ] years’ imprisonment in the State pent- 1 tontiary at Jefferson City. Fire which started iu of a wholesale millinery stock did SI 10,- j 000 damage to- the buildings at 140 and ] 148 State street, Chicago. Several persons were injured by explosions. Six men were killed and four seriously injured ill an accident on the Chicago. St. i Paul, Minueaiiolis aud Omaha Railroad near Humboldt. S. I». A work traiu was thrown from the track by a handcar. Cornelius Corcoran of 5401 licarboru j street, Chicago, killed one of his chil- i dreu, shot and fatally wounded three ’ others, ami then euded his owu life. The father, it is said, had been insane for i some time. Mrs. Ernst Hummel, public school 1 teacher in Chicago, had her 7-niouihs-ohl child adopted by her sister, thus obey- ' ing board- rule that uo woman with a ; child less than 3' years old may be a teacher. A special dispatch from G leu wood \ Springs, Colo., says that Game Warden a Johnson and his |iosse had a fight with the Indians who had invaded the State i from Utah for the purpose of hunting, j oud one Indian was killed. Edward Prugk, aged 38, single, and re- j siding with his parents five miles south- 1 cast of Dayton, Ohio, committed suicide j by firing the contents of a shotgun into ' his breast. Prngh had become mentally | deranged from excessive grief. Mrs. George Harding, residing at Sheridan, Wyo., munlercd her 1' ilf sou. Lee W., aged 4 years, aud then committed suicide while in a state of temporary insanity. She cut the child's and her own carotid arteries with a razor. William Huff was taken from the county jail at Bloomfield, Mo., aud hanged by a mob of about 100 men. Iluff, who was charged with the murder of Andtew Melton, showed remarkable nerve, facing the mob aud asserting lie was not arraid. The Swift sheep syndicate is tryiug to secure grazing privileges on the Uintah and Uncompahgre reservations in eastern Utah, where it purposes to place 700.000 breeding ewes. Two agents of the syndicate bare boon trying to arrange the deal. The American Bicycle Company dosed the Viking and Colton factories at Toplants. The two concerns have employed COO men, including the traveling and

oto force*, and these are bow sot as At Santa Ana, CaL. E. R. Howe of Chicago tried to commit suicide by shooting. The bullet parsed through his bead, lodging under the right eye. He declared he was without friends and, therefore, did not care to live. Physicians think he wiQ recover. It is said that a new morning paper will be started in Cincinnati on Jan. 1. It is understood that George B. Cox, the Republican politician, will be financially interested in the new enterprise. The paper is to aril for 2 cents and have an afternoon edition. The will of David Ayres, involving an estate valued at $35,000, and which was contested by his son David and his granddaughter, Roa Ayres, both of Chi cago, was set aside by the jury at Sandusky, Ohio, on the ground of incapacity and undue influence. At Bakersfield. Mo. Luke Seels mortally wounded Postmaster \V. M. Sharp with a knife. A challenge to fight was accepted and the principals went to the cellar, where a duel was fought, resulting in the fatal wounding of Sharp and slight injuries to Seels. The directors of the Unive.sity of Denver have elected Dr. Henry A. Buchtel of East Orange. N. J., chancellor of the nniversity, to succeed Chancellor William McDowell, who resigned in June last to accept the secretaryship of the Methodist Book Concern. Frank D. Randall, a civil engineer of Kansas City, claims to have discovered in the Grand canyon of the Colorado river a vein of copper greater than any heretofore known, together with gold, garnet-bearing schist, asbestos, onyx, serpentine and coal in great profusion. At 2 o'clock the other morning two masked men broke into the Parker, Kan., State Bank and, binding and gagging Cashier Slaughter, who slept .n a rear room, blew the safe open, securing sl,000 in cash. They stole two torses and escaped with a posse in pursuit. David V. Rieger, former president of the Missouri National Bank, which failed Nov. 3U, 1890. owing depositors sl,500,000, was found guilty in tbc United States District Conrt at Kansas City, Mo. of misapplying the lasi’s funds and sentenced to six years in the penitentiary. A At the noon hour the othei day the office of the Southwestern Mt tual IJfe Insurance Association at Marshalltown, lowa, was entered, the safe blown open and cash, drafts and certificates of deposit to the amount of about $0,500 were abstracted. There is no dew to the thieves. At Toledo. Ohio. Amelia Harris Fletcher. a society girl well known in northern Ohio, and residing at Weston, was given an absolute divorce' from her negro husbaud. John Fletcher. On the witness stand Miss Harris testified that the negro forced her, at the point of a revolver, to marry him. Robbers blew open the safe of the Bank of Curl Junction. Mo., and secured between $3.01)0 and $4,000 in cash. The robbers numbered four and were well armed. A crowd of men pursued them a short distance out of town, bnt returned without having gotten near enough to exchange shots. In Youngstown, Ohio. Frank llaney. aged 19 years, son of Joseph Haney, a prominent insurance agent, committed suicide at the rooms of the Manhattan (’lull, taking an ounce of morphine, his condition not being discovered until too late to save him. Haney had been suffering from insomnia. Judge J. 11. Cramer of Oak Haritor, editor of the Exponent, and A. G. Winnie of the Port Clinton Republican, fought to a finish on the depot platform at Port Clinton. Ohio, and Winnie lost an ear and one finger, the members having been bitten off by Cramer. The feud i is one of long standing. Ben L. Rich of Idaho and I- M. Xe- | beker of Utah. Mormon elders, have arrived in Columbus. Ohio, and announced their intention of opening headquarters at once and making Colnmbus a recraitj ing station for the Mormon faith. The : < lergy U Columbus are highly indignant ! over of the Mormons.

SOUTHERN.

A: Meridian. Ij- John Danner and wife were run over and killed by a train. A head-end collision between passenger trains occurred at Pleasure Ridge Park, Ky.. in a dense fog. Five persons were injured. An epidemic of typhoid fever has brokru out at the State normal and industrial college at Greensboro, N. C-, making it necessary to close the school nntil Jan. 1. Henry Tate shot Sheriff Evan Bledsoe near Jonesville. Va. Young Tate was the son or John M. Tate, who was killed by Bledsoe over politics a few days ago. Deputy Sheriff Neal Jennings killed John Fee at Blackwater, Va. The fight was a continuation of the Tate-Bledsoc trouble, three men having now been killed since the trouble began. Cora Ernest, an actress who for years made Chicago her home and who made her first appearance in that city, died at Birmingham, Ala. She was taken ill while tonring Southern cities. At Mlosburo. Ky„ John M. Tate, former representative of L*p County. Ya. was shot and killed by Deputy Sheriff Evan Bledsoe. Tate was a leading Democratic politician. Bledsoe is a leader among the Republicans. Trouble over politics led to the killing. The cases of the Christian scientists at Americas, Gm, who refused to be vaccinated were settled by the sentencing of E. J. McMath to imprisonment at the city hall for thirty days and a fine of sl3. Five women of the congregation were given fifteen days’ imprisonment and ordered to pay a fine of $3 each. Dr. Thomas E. James, a prominent physician of Greenville. S. C„ and his son. Wade Hampton James, were killed, near Six Mile Church in Pickens County. The shooting was done by Sam Lanier, a fanner, and the alleged cause of - the killing was that Dr. James and his son were driving away, so Lanier j thought, with the latter's wife. Mrs. Lanier was in the boggy at the time of j the murder.

WASHINGTON.

Commissioner of Navigation reported American at earn tonnage for the first time exceeded that of sailing vessels. According to the Near York World Secretary Root has entered the race for the second place on the Republican national ticket. •. Secretary of the Treasury Gage has ianed an order to purchase fgjQQflmgp

worth of bonds, the primary object of At purchase being the immediate relief of the New York money market. > The other afternoon a blue flag, bearing two white stars, shot upward on the mainmast of the United States cruiser Chicago as she lay at anchor off Tompkinsville, S. I. A second later a salute of seventeen guns thundered forth, announcing that Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley had assumed formal command of the South Atlantic squadron. The annual report of the commissioner of Indian affairs, William A. Jones, urges more schools, more systematic methods, study of individual traits and consideration of subsequent environment in outlining studies in the Indian schools. The entire educational system of the Indian office, he says, is predicated upon the final abolishment of the anomalous Indian reservation system.

FOREIGN.

In Russia the meteoric displays caused a panic in many places. It was believed that the end of the world had come. There are rumors that in some villages Russian parents murdered their children to save them from an expected worse fate. A special cable from Panama, Colombia, se.ys: Official advices from Bogota report that a terrible battle between the Government forces and the revolutionists was fought near Bucara Manga, in which the Government forces were victorious. More than 1,000 rebels were killed. C. I*. Greathouse, who was consul general of the United States to Kaugawa, Japan, from 1880 to 1889, died at Seoul recently. At the time of his death Mr. Greathouse was adviser to the Coreau Government, a position he had held without Interruption during his ten years’ residence in Corea. The famine which is spread over the greater portion of Bombay district of India is daily becoming more acute. The enormous number of 951,523 men are employed on various relief works, but therft are still millions of persons destitute for whom no relief can be provided and who must inevitably starve to death unless immediate outside assistance is forthcoming.

IN GENERAL.

Mrs. John A. Logan, Jr., ba9 received a telegram from Secretary of War Root, notifying her that he had advised Gen. Otis by cable to have the body Of Maj. Logan exhumed and sent home. L. Duplace, German consul at San Juan, Porto Rico, who was a passenger on the steamship Patria, and was rescued with the other passengers, died from the Shock after reaching land. Rumors current for several weeks culminated in the definite admission by offi-. rials of the Satanillo and Moroto Railroad and the Pouupo mine at Santiago de Cuba that both properties bad been sold to the Carnegie company. A decided earthquake shock was felt at Santiago de Cuba, lasting nearly half a minute. Several houses iu the city were badly damaged and the front of the marine hospital office fell, blocking the street. No personal injuries are reported. The trust that has purchased eighteentwentieths of all thia year’s crop of broom corn in the United States has agreed to make the price of central Illinois broom corn S3OO per ton f. o. b. cars, all other grades of broom corn to follow in price according to quality. John W. Gates of Chicago, president of the American Steel and Wire Company, and William Edcburn of New York closed negotiations with J. W. Drape & Co. of Pittsburg for the purchase of 0,000 acres of ore land for a new organizatiqn known as the United States Mining Company. The cash price for the property is $1.000.000s Bradstreet’s views the business situation thus: “General trade and industry continue at a maximum volume for this season of the year, while prices as a whole manifest a strength unapproacbed in recent years. Strength of values is still most notable among manufactured textiles, but cereals, hides, leather and manufactures thereof have also strengthened slightly. ' On the othet hand, pork products, rawcotton and tin are slightly lower. The great majority of prices, however, remain firm at unchanged quotations. The strength of cot' ton goods this week, partly the rcsqlt of active demand, and also of heavily reduced available stocks, has been in striking contrast with the irregularity and at times weakness manifested by the raw product. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregated 4,540,007 bushels, against 4.050,843 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 4.C03.718 bushels, against 4,581,447 bnshels last week.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00- to $7.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to SLSO; wheat. No. 2 red, 06c to 68c; corn. No. 2,32 cto 33c; oats. No. 2,23 c to £4c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 50c; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 17< to 19c; i>otatocs, choice, 35c to 45c pci bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0 50; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.25; sheep, common to prime, $3.25 to $4.25; wpeat, No. 2 red. 05c to 67e; corn. No. 2 White, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c ts> 27c. • Bt. Louis—Cattle. $3.25 t* $0.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.23; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats. No. 2, 23 cto 25c; rye. No. 2,51 cto 53c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $2.50 to $0.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep. $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn,*No. 2 mixed, 32c to 33c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 25c to 20c; rye. No. 2,59 cto Glc. Detroit —Cattle, $ .50 to $0.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2,50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, G9c to 71c; corn. No 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats. So. 2 white, 26c to 2Sc; rye, 50c to 58c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 09c to 30c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 24c; rye. No. 2,55 c to 57c; clover seed, $4.90 to $5.00. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 northern, Csc to C7e; corn. No. 3,32 cto 34c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 27c; rye. No. 1,55 c to 57c; barley, No. V, 44c to 40c; pork, mess, $7.75 to SB. 5. Buffalo—Cottle, good shipping steers $3.00 to $0.50; hogs, common to choice, $325 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice wethera, $3.00 to $4.25; lambs, common to extra. $4.60 to $5.25. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to. $6.50; hogs, $34)9 to $4.50; sheep. $3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn. No. 2, 40c to 42c; oats. No. 2 white, 81c to 82c; better, creamery, 21c to 27c; eggs, waster*. 15c to 21c.

HOBARTPASSESAWAY

VICE PRESIDENT SUCCUMBS TO LINGERING ILLNESS. n : End Cornea with His Family Present nt the Home in Paterson - Deep Sorrow Expceased nt Washington for the Nr tion’s Lorn—His Career. ' tv Garrett A. Hobart, Vice-President of the United States, died at his home in Paterson, N. J., shortly after 8 o’clock Tuesday morning. Dr. William K. Newton, who has remained at his bedside almost constantly since bis condition became serious two weeks ago, ascribes the immediate cause of death to heart failure. Mr. Hobart’s condition began to change for the worse late Monday afternoon. He became suddenly weaker and his heretofore wonderful vitality seemed to be deserting him. Shortly before midnight he spoke to Mrs. Hobart, who was kneeling by his bedside. What his words were are not disclosed, but after they

GAHRETT A. HOBART.

were spoken the Vice-President became unconscious. He remained in a comatose condition during the balance of the night. At his bedside when he passed away were Mrs. Hobart, Garrett A. Hobart, Jr., Dr. Newton and his wife and Miss Alice Wardell, the nurse. As soon as the Vice-President expired a message announcing his death was sent to President McKinley at the White House. Another message was dispatched to Gov. Voorhees of New Jersey. CAREER OF GARRETT A. HOBART. From a Country School Teacher to Vice President. Garrett Augustus Hobart was born at Long Branch, N. J., June 3, 1844. He received his education at Rutgers College and graduated when he was 20 years old. He began his career as a schoolmaster. Later on he took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 18C9. In 1871 he became city counsel of Paterson, and in 1872 counsel of the freeholders of Passaic County. He represented the Third district of Passaic County in the State Assembly in 18i2. Mr. Hobart soon became one of the leading Republicans of his section. He was married July 21, 1809 to Jennie Tut“tle, daughter of ex-Mayor Socrates Tuttle of Paterson. He was re-elected to the Assembly in 1873, and at once took the highest rank and was chosen Speaker of that boily. In 1870 Mr. Hobart was elected to the’*State Senate, and in 1881 was elected president of the Senate, and was re-elected the following year. During his terms in the Senate he became a member of some of the most important committees. From 1880 to 1891 he was chairman of the State Republican committee of New Jersey, and under his leadership the party conducted some brilliant campaigns. He was nominated in for United States Senator, but the Legislature being Democratic, he was defeated by John R. MaePherson. He was a delegate at large to the Republican national convention in 1876 and again in 1880. He became a member of the national Republican committee in 1884, and served until 1890, when he waa nominated for Vice-President and elected. Since his election to the vice-presidency Mr. Hobart hod played an important part in political affairs. Between the President and Mr. Hobart there have existed the most cordial relations, and the visits between the two have been of the most informal and neighborly character. Mr. Hobart was a first-class business man and was connected with numerous big concerns. Mr; Hobart was a very fascinating man, with a pleasant face. He always had bis pocket book open in behalf of charity. When he located in Paterson bis entire capital amounted to only $1.50. He worked hard and his efforts were rewarded by a remarkable success. Garrett A. Hobart was well beloved in Paterson, lie is said to have been a good neighbor and an honest business man. During his illness the city seemed to neglect regular duties to hear the news front the bedside, and on all sides were heard prayers for the siclfc. man. Mr. Hobart in health was « genial, courteous gentleman and was most approachable. After his election to the vice-presidency he remained thO same to bis old friends and associates. • Mrs. Hobart has been invaluable to Mrs. McKinley, relieving her of many of her trying;" social duties. Mr. Hobart has been equally valuable to McKinley. He was a man of great tact, and his diplomacy has been made use of by the President in several trying situations.

Telerraphic Brevities.

Statue of Oliver Cromwell was unveiled in London by workmen, in the river, New York. Was a passenger on the wrecked ferryboat Chicago. James Meabon, 22, Titusville, Fa., dragged his gun over a log. He is dead. Mrs. Harriet A. Fox, mother of Della Fox, the singer, is dead at her home in St. Louis. ; t Mrs. Jane H. Scnnatt, aged 65 years, and Mrs. Elizabeth Sarsfield, aged 75, were suffocated by escaping gas at Roxbury. Mass. Ex-County Treasurer John C. Lemmerts of Lockport, N. Y., whose official accounts showed a Beaty deficit, was convicted of grand larceny. J 1 Thomas Wright was hanged at StephensviUe, Texas, for the mfflrder of John Adams, whom he believed had caused him to be sent to the penitentiary.

IN THE PUBLICEYE

Henry C. Payne, who may manage the next Republican national campaign, has had good political training. During the

contest of 1890 he was one of the most able of Senator Hanna’s lieutenants and paid special attention to the work iu the Western States. Senator Hanna has the highest appreciation of Mr. Payne’s political skill and the general impression is that should the present chairman retire he would be bis successor in the

management of the next presidential campaign. Since 1872 Mr. Payne has served consecutively as secretary and chairman of the Young Men’s Republican Club of Miiwankee, secretary and chairman of Iris ebunty committee, and the same offices in the State central committee of Wisconsin. Since 1880 he has been a member of the national committee, and for ten years he was postmaster at Milwaukee.

Mrs. Maria Jenks of Pontiac, Mich., who supports herself by washing and Ironing, was once engaged to marry Gen.

MRS. JENKS.

this and she told how she had become Grant’s partner that evening and a short time later they were engaged. The young woman's father did not like Grant and sent his daughter to Albany. She never saw the future President again. Miss Daisy Letter, of Chicago, whose beauty and prospective fortune have caused her to take a conspicuous place

in society in this 'country and abroad since her debut a few years ago, and who is accounted j one of the great “gatehes” of the day, is, it is reported, engaged to Major Colin Powys Campbell, a British officer of illustrious ancestry and d i s,t i n guisbrd achievement. Major Campbell is one of the heroes of the

Anglo-Indian army. He is at present an officer of the Second Central India Horse. Miss Daisy Leiter Is the youngest of the throe daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Z. Leiter, of Chicago. IJer oldest sister is the- wife of Lord Curton, Viceroy of India. Already the inventors of the country are busy getting up new attraction! for the coining presidential campaign. From

CAMPAIGN TORCH.

at the top of which is mounted a papier mache representation of the face of the presidential candidate. Below the lamp a pair of cymbals is mounted, one of them being loosely fastened, so that by swinging their torches the marchers can make as much noise as may seem desirable. President Kruger has sent seven sons uud fifty grandsons into the Boer army

to fight the English, in addition to taking the field himself, and It would appear from the illustration, which is drawn from a photograph, that even the fourth generation is keeping np the martial reputation of the family. The young sold ie f shown is Fritz Eloff, a greatgrandson of the president, who rejoices in the courtesy title of “lieutenant” in spite of

the fact that he Is only 4 years old.

This and That.

Athens, Qa„ bank is in the hands of a receiver. Ghithrie, Tenn., was visited by nn SIB,OOO fire. James Smith, Clevelaud, Ohio, was killed by a motor car. Jennie Coleman, Neff York, took carbolic acid and died. Another through railway line from Chicago to New York may bo established. Lime manufacturers of the South will be organized into a $2,500,000 combine. Rallwny employes refuse to haul coal mined by non-union men, Ducktown, Tenn. A. L. Lattimer, Columbia, 8. G„ worried by financial trouble and blew out his brains. . - > ■' Win. Hnnn, 17, Philadelphia, didn’t know It was londed and Edwin Lipyincott ia dead. - —— —- Charles Caoss, 17, Stamford, Conn., confessed to having murdered Mrs. Freetuau King, 00.

HENRY C. PAYNE.

U. S. Grant. Recently at a church social one of the curiosities displayed to the guests was a little rosecolored silk apron bearing the legend: “This is the apron which matched (fen. Grant’s tie at a necktie party 40 years ago.” Mrs. Jenks was found to be the owner of

MISS LEITER.

Oklahoma cornea one of the most novel of the new suggestions* It is calculated not only to stir partisan feeling to the height, but, at the same time, to render miserable the lives of a’.l residents along the line of march of political processions. It consists of a torch

KRUGER’S GRANDSON.