Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1899 — Page 6

JASPER COUNTY' DEMOCRAT. *~F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. K£NSSELAER, - INDIANA

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

The Kurds have avenged tile recent incunrion of Russian Armenians into the Alashgcrd district in Turkish Armenia, by pillaging the Armenian village of Kostur and massacring 3<A> of its inhabitants. Information was brought by the steamer Warrimoo from Australia of the atrocious murder of a white man and subsequent devouring of the body by_ the treacherous cannibals of the Admiralty islands. Senator Hayward died at Nebraska City. Neb. Aug. 15 he was stricken with, apoplexy while addressing a Modern Woodmen picnic assembly at Brownsville. Neb., and from that time bis strength gave way gradually. The Central Steel Company has been organized by Indianapolis and I’ittsbnvg capitalists, with a capital of $240.01 Hi. The new corporation has purchased the JBremier steel-plant at Indianapolis and will reopen the works. The People's Telephone corporation, the Knickerbocker Telephone Company and the American Telephone, -Telegraph and Cable Company. were consolidated at a meeting of the directors of the three corporations in New York. Charles J. Clarke, a prominent millionaire and philanthropist, died at Pittsburg Jrom concussion of the brain. Me was thrown from liis road wagon while out driving and never regained consciousness. Thevlcceased was (Mi years Of age. The crop bulletin of the Kansas Board of Agriculture for the present year- shows final returns of the State’s agricultural products ns follows: The winter wheat yield amounts to 12.815,171 bushels. ’1 lie yield of coni is 225.183,452 bushels. Maddened by :t fear that her husband would not he able to find work and that the family Would starve. Mrs. Annie Gleunnn of Brooklyn, X. Y., killed her <i-year-old daughter Mary and attempted the life of her other daughter and herself. The European Union of Astronomers announces, through Harvard College observatory, the discovery of a minor planet of the tenth magnitude by t harlois. The object has « motion of minus 14 minutes iu right ascension and 4 minutes north in declination. In Philadelphia George X. Hey I, 52 years old, was burned to death in a tire which occurred in ids shop, while he was sleeping, lleyl’s body was found leaning against the front door. It is believed he was endeavoring to escape when he was overcome by smoke, A feature of the opening day of the l>ecomber term of I,a Moille Couut.v Court at Hyde Park, Vt., was the hearing of a euit for divorce brought by the wellknown actress. Julia Marlowe Taber, from her husband, Robert S. Taber. She alleges intolerable severity. Col. Harvey, who is acting agent of the State Trust Company in the management Of Harper ic Bros, of New York, says that the famous old publishing house had (sold to the American Book Company the publication rights of its entire line of college and high school test books, comprising 450 works. At Mn.vsville, Ky.. Dick Coleman, the negro murderer of Mrs. Lashbrook, was taken from the officers by a mob of 1,000 men ami burned at the stake. The mob, led by the husband of the negro’s victim, dragged the shrieking criminal through the principal streets of the town, bound him to a small free, set fire to brush and tow about him, and stood guard until he was dead.

BREVITIES.

At Omaha George NV. Archibald, aecuwtHl of stealing $3.01 K) from the Pacific Express Company, was acquitted. Nearly 100,000 employes of the New Xiugluiul cotton mills have been notified of a 10 per cent advance in wages. The American garrison of 20*• at Vigan, Luzon, repulsed an attack of .SOU Filipinos, killing 35. The Americans lost eight killed, Gen. Pleasanton Porter was selected as chief of the Creek Nation. The full bloods, who had protested against the general’s selection, made no demonstration. H. C. Frick has resigned the position of chairman of the board of managers of the Carnegie Steel Company of Pittsburg, Pa. His successor has not yet been named. T. A.'TJTffiff of Chicago has bought the, plant of the Kansas City Car and Foundry. Company and promises to make it one of the large car-wh«(d foundries of the country. Samuel E. George, member of the firm of P. T. George & Co. of Baltimore, made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors. Ilis liabilities are estimated at $200,000. Rev. Richard Hassell, a pioneer Congregational minister of Illinois and Wisconsin, died .at Seattle, Wash., of senile decay, aged 70 years. He settled in Illinois in 1842. Seven robbers entered the village of Cornell, 111., and by the use of nitroglycerin ble wopen the sale of the Cornell Batik and secured over $5,000 in money and also many valuable papers. J. O. Darragh. president of the wrecked Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings Bank, who was convicted in 1807 and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary, has been granted a new trial. The Lowell Manufacturing and Bigelow Carpet eoaipanies, two of tile largest carpet manufacturing concerns in New England, voted to consolidate under the laws of Massachusetts. The capital Stock of the new company is $4,030,000. Mrs. Vanata Colfy of Leavenworth, Kan., aged (iO, was burned to death, her clothing catching fire while she whs getting supper. Postmaster and Express Agent 11. B. Fellows of Scnrsdaie, on the line of the Harlem Railroad. New York, died from a pistol shot wound inflicted by an unknown assassin. A.collision at (Riaruntine, New York \ . harbor, sunk the steamer Lasseil, loaded with Coffee, held by the health authori- , ties owing to bubonic plague on b<>ard. The boat was struck by the Red Star line

EASTERN.

Twenty-eight thousand employes of the Fall Hirer, Mass., cotton mill* are to get • 10 per cent, advance in wwgw. At Pittsburg Jobu G. ihiuscn, a lumber dealer, asked to Ik- declared a bankrupt. His liabilities are if34.SU and assets $7,300. Joseph Fox was drawn into the machinery of the card department at the Bradford mills at Philadelphia and crushed to death. S. J. Newell, a merchant of New Bedford, Mass., formerly of New York, has filed a petition iu bankruptcy. Liabilities $354,040, assets SIOO. Petitions in bankruptcy were tiled by Adolph Blitz, a New York clothier, having Unsecured claims to the amount of $423,178 and no assets. John C. Miller has been appointed receiver of the J. C. & J. C. Miller Company of Baltlwyisville, N. Y. Assets SOO,000, liabilities over $200,000. John M. Vouch, a stock dealer of West Middlesex, Pa., filed n petition in bankruptcy in the United States District Court, llis liabilities are $02,057 and assets $25. John McKay, an oil well supply and iron -pipe deiih r of Titusville, Pa., has tiled a petition in voluntary bankruptcy. The liabilities arc $178,8811. and the assets $235. John Thomson Agnew, who bad been for the last thirty years vice-president of the Continental National Bank in New York, and who was once the friend and political associate of Samuel J. Tilden, died in his eighty-fifth year at his home there, of apoplexy. Samuel Simeon, of 1445 First avenue, New York, is in Bellevue Insane pavilion, bis mind a wreck from' despair over his vanished savings, which he invested with the Ffftnklin syndicate. Stanton Barnard, formerly a Western lumberman and for many years president of the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company of Chippewa, Wis,, is dead at iiis home in New York, aged 71 years. Mose Scborner, IS years old. left tackle of the llcfkliuer, X. football team, was thrown in a game at Herkimer with the New Hartford team and twisted his spine. He was rendered unconscious and died without regaining .consciousness. A Pennsylvania Jtailro'ad train crashed into a stage at Cranberry crossing, Pa., killing Miss Davidson of, Grafton, W. Va.; Miss .Kuintn Goeddecke of .Butlerand Mrs. Paisley of Harwood. Toney Cheroy of Hazleton, the driver of the coach, was severely injured. The doors of the home office of the Investors’ Trust, 1221 Arch street. Philadelphia, doing business exclusively with patrons outside the city and promising large profits on investments, have been closed. Efforts to find the president, secretary and cashier are unavailing.

WESTERN.

Griggs, Cooper & Co.’s wholesale grocery at St. Paul was burned, entailing a loss of $150,000.

The rich Grantz gold mine at Deadwood, S. D., has been bonded to Denver people lor $1,000,000.

Two passenger trains on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad were wrecked by collision near Sulidu, Colo.

Mrs. M. C. Reed, wile of a minister at Platte City, Kan., was killed by falling into the basement of the church.

At Minot, N. I)., Hans Thorpe, a car repairer for the Great Northern, shot and killed his wife and then attempted suicide. lie is not seriously injured and is in jail.

The total gold production of the Cripple Creek district in November was $2,515,500, an increase of more than 25 per Cent over the largest previous monthly record.

R. W. Wallace, a deputy customs collector, was ambushed and murdered near Presidio, Texas, by a party of Mexicans, lie bad a notorious Mexican smuggler : u custody. L. I). Merritt, a private in Battery U, Third artillery, committed suicide at San Francisco by shooting himself through the head. Merritt enlisted last April in Indianapolis. Superintendent Wolfe of the Kansas City, Kan., schools has caused a sensation by ordering the teachers under his supervision not to appear in the schools in golf skirts. Peter Sekmidum and Mrs. Gekri, his sister, aged respectively 73 and 74 years, were found dead in their home near Sandusky, Ohio, by neighbors, having beeu asphyxiated by coal gas. The unknown bandit who met his death in South Omaha, Neb., while attempting to hold up Bank Clerk Trumble, has beeu identified as W. M. Cummings, living at 5422 Wabash avenue, Chicago. The dead body of John Creineaus, with a bulk-thole in the head, was found in a l«ed in his late home at Clenwood, Ohio. Gremeans was an aged and wealthy citizen. His young wife cannot be found. Clarence B. Douglas, a newspaper correspondent' charged with killing Editor James Williams at Ardmore, I. T.. in June, 181)7, has been found not guilty and discharged. His plea was self-defense. The 300 women employes of the SSwofford Dry Goods Company, of Kansas City, have returned to work, the company having agreed to restore the former scale of 05 cents a dozen for sewing overalls. The Rubber Goods Manufacturing Company, known as the rubber trust, will consolidate the plant at Peoria, 111., with the plant of the India company in Akron, Ohio, tripling the capacity of the latter plant.

C. J. Dressel, one of the leading men of that section, shot himself dead at Lesuettr, Minn. Mr. Dressel had represented the county in the Legislature, and was" a deputy revenue collector for the district.

The town of Garland, Texas, with 2,000 inhabitants and an important business point twelve miles from Dallas, was destroyed by fire. The property loss, exclusive of cotton and railroad interests, canuot fall below SIOO,OOO. Mrs. John A. Logan, Youngstown, 0., has received a message from General Otis through the War Department that the remains of Major Logan will not leave Manila for San Francisco until the latter part of December. Louis Schinska, a Wealthy resident of Dallas, Texas, was found dead in front of the county court house. His skull had been Crushed and his face disfigured. lie had been murdered for robbery, as bis pockets were empty when found. United States infantry, who was to have been tried before the United States Court for using War Department penalty en-

• - v elopes for private letter*, esc*pen from the county jail at Columbus, Ota*. A rear-end collision tietirero MNdEht- , bound Los Angeles paswugw rtnbr ! 2 and a local freight handled ts J. K. Miller, occurred near Islet a. twelve miles south of Albuquerque, X. ML, with «*ious results. Many passenger* neve cat and bruised.

Seventy-five homicides have occnrred in St. Louis during the eleven wmtte of thi* year. It exceeds by six the reread for the twelve mouths of 130 S. Of the many slayers, Frank B. Callaway is the only one whose life is. in jeopardy, he being the only one under sentence of drathAt St. Louis 4. Eads How, grands,-a, of James B. Eads, builder of the St. Louis bridge, and himself at raaiftmnaire. should he choose to accept the fortwne his relatives have been trying in vain for years to have him accept, ha* given $2,000 to “be expended for the public welfare."

John Graboni died at Chicago, the victim of holdup men. Oa the night of Xov. 22 be was attacked near his bowse. He resisted the highwaymen, and in the scuffle that followed was so seriously shot and stabbed that his removal to the hospital was necessary. The robber* e»i caped. L. A. Root, until recently chief clerk of the great enrup, Knights of the Maccabees, committed suicide at Port Horn, Mich., by swallowing carbolic acid. He left a note asking his wifi?’* forgiveness for thus ending bis life. Root resigned his position on account of nervous debility. Judge John A, Williams of the Federal Court, district of Arkansas, who recently sentenced National Committeeman Reese of the United Mine Workers of America to ninety days in prison for his partkspatiou in the Kansas coal miners’ si rake, was burned in effigy in the streets of Pittsburg, Kan. In Omaha Mrs. John W. Scott has brought suit for divorce on the ground that her husband insisted upon treating her sick child by Christian science when it was sick and that it was necessary to abandon her home ami return to her parents in order to secure medicail treatment for the little one.

The North Central Kansas Teach er-’ Association at Manhattan put itself am record when a young minister tried H* puT through a resolution condemning fiootiraiUA hot fight followed, ia which the ywaag women present defended football by speech and vote. The preacher's resolution was defeated by two to erne. At BuslmeJi. Nob., the Union 1 Pacific transcontinental trains collided with frightful effect. Fifteen passengers injured, though none fatally, is the report from the two trains, l»olh of which were heavily loath'd. One of the trains was taking water when the other crashed into it. Fireman Doone was fatally hurt. A wreck on the Neil)art branch of the Great Northern resulted in the death of three men and the destruction of an engine and ten cars. A heavy coal train from Belt, drawn by a Mogul engine, was about a mile from Great Falls, Mont., when the engine struck a steer, left the track and ten tars were piled on top of it. At Dallas, Texas, Roy Morton, 14 years old, killed Nora St, Clair. 11 years old, by shooting her with a Winchester rifle. The,tragedy took place in the store of the boy’s father. The little girl playfully snapped a toy pistol at the boy. The latter seized a rifle, exclaimed "Fit fix you, you •monk,’ ” and fired. The girl fell dead.

While fighting advancing flames in a tire in the Chicago lumber district several members of an eugipe company. Minded by 4he smoke, were swept off a shed roof by the debris from a falling wall, owe fireman being killed and one Majored, while two were unhurt. Ilarty Brothers and J. A. Gauger suffered damage reaching SOO,OOO. Officers of the Flint and Fere Marquette. steamer No. 3 reported on their arrival at Milwaukee front Lwiington that a passenger named Max Pfenning of Janesville, Was., committed suicide by jumping overboard while the steamer was in midlake en route to Milwaukee, Pfenning was 00 years old. No cause is known for his act.

"Forty men and women were crushed and briiised or burled through sjiaoe in a collision between a Wabash suburban passenger train and a cross-town electric car at Thirty-first and Stewart avenue, Chicago. The car was reduced to sjdinters and scattered along the road, and the motorman, struck down at his post, was so seriously injured that he died two hours after the accident.

The Colonial Zinc Company of New York has purchased from C. E. Miyne of Omaha a forty-acre mineral lease and the Mayne mill, near Galena, Kan.. 110 acres of mineral land of the Free Coinage mine and lease, including two mills, the Blue Wing and several large and small zinc and lead mines and first leases -on three tracts of rich mineral lands near Cartcrviile, Mo. The consideration was $300,000. Michigan lmultermeu are making arrangements at Toronto to move their mills and a large part of their plants from Michigan to the Georgian Bay hunber district on Lake Huron. They say the judgment upholding Ontario's right to prohibit the export of saw logs was so clear they have no hopes of being successful on appeal, and that all their mills in Michigan, being unable to get logs, are about to close.

SOUTHERN.

Fire destroyed the large foundry of Schucb & Martin in Covington. Ky. Loss $50,000, insurance SIO,OOO. A. J. Warren’s furniture factory at Nashville, Tenu., was partially destroyed by fire. Loss $35,000, with $25,000 insurance.

Fire destroyed the merchandise .store* of E. I). Hamilton and E. R. Beauchamp -and the latter’s residence at Edmonton. Ky. Loss $15,000, insurance $7,500. The entire business portion of Onancock, Va., was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO, with s2s,000 insurance. The origin of the fire is unknown. 1 An unknown white mao, closely masked, held up the two messengers in a Southern Express Company car, and under cover of a revolver compelled them to give np $1,700 in cash. Eight thousand dollars in another safe was overlooked by the outlaw, who accomplished his work without any aid. The robbery took {dace near BrancifviUe, S. C-, on the Southern Railway. At State Line, Min, Edmond, the 5 year-old son of Dr. W. 11. Boykin, shot and instantly killed Ms brother Roderick,

aged 11, ud wwwbwwdd hubrothwawtrd. and whew rtefwwd 'be declared that he w»fiM start them if they did art give it So him.. He went into the house, got a small shatsoat and p»t his threat into esectrtian, *

WASHINGTON.

lattnai revenne rereipts fee 188)0 increased SHC.CI7.fiW) over last year. The Fifty-sixth Congress of the United State* nrt and ergauK'd on Monday. Ambassador White is said to have asked to he transferred front Berlin, because of American mtkh» of his riwnitmws for Germany.

Ewptui powers ale disposed to ask the United Stases tor an open-door policy in the I*hil:pf*i*es in retnm for their consent to the same policy in China. Attache* of the United States embassy at Berlin deny the story that Ambassador White intends to resign on account of ***^

During the firs* nine months of American occnpation exports of merchandise and gold coin front Havana to the United Skates reached a total of sltv*ll.lstl more than to all other countries.

The treaty for the partition qf the Same* Islands was signed at the State Deportment at Washington the other day. These was KtiSe of ceremony connected with the signature of the treaty.

fOREIGN.

Emperor WiMiasui's eldest sob is reported ;s be betrothed to tjsceea YYilbel mina. latest advice*, say that the revolution in OoJkwmbis is spreading and gaining •sttreaiigshTheodore Schreiner, brother of Olive, say* the Beers pJassneo the war as long age* as 1882.

Tbe Snsltraißs of Turkey is said to be trying to andante Tripolitan sheiks against England and France. Spanish chambers of commerce urge the people not to pay taxes until the Government is refformed-

Alter a fight lasting sixteen hours the City of Maracaibo, capital of the State off Znlia, Yemeurefia. is in the power of the Hernandist revolutionary forces. The (demand from* South Africa for wheat and Sfcnwr is greater than ever before. Since the season opened six cargoes have been shipped from Portland, ttregem. Other orders have been declined there on acconat of lack of tonnage.

IN GENERAL.

British Colaiffiilwa mincers, oppose tbe impo«rtataio«B of American labor. The transports Dofiaiy Yost ©ok and Co Juan tea sailed for Manila with the Forty second infantry on board.

While several Normal students were sharing at Regina. Mat, on the reservoir two of their number— J. Clarkson of Sea Forth. Ont_ and Miss Montgomery of Edmonton—broke through the Ice and were drowned.

The deer tenting season recently ended resulted in a total of eleven hunters killed and seven xrooiiMfed in the Michigan and Lake Superior sections of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Most of them were mistaken for deer. The baskentime Ctshioni arrived at St. John. N. EL minus her bowsprit and headgear. She had been in collision with the Spanish steamer Santatuderine off the Xewfonndland banks. The first mate of the steamer was killed in tbe collision. The United States auxiliary cruiser Prairie has sailed from the Brooklyn navy yard for Havre, France, with the first shipment of the United States Government exhibit for the Paris exposition. The vessel will proceed to Norfolk, Va., and to Baltimore, where she will take aboard additions to her cargo, and will then go direct to Havre.

Bradstieet's commenaal review says: Warm weather and a holiday hare imparted an appearance of irregularity and even dullness to some lines of distributive trade, completing a month which has been on the whole quieter than was the preceding month, bat one which still makes satisfactory comparison with a corresponding period last year, when the weather conditions particularly favored distributive business in seasonable goods. The price ritaatioo generally is apparently one of notable strength in view of these conditions. Wheat, inclnding Btwr, shipments for the week aggregate 40(1 bushels, against 3JSS3.b» * last week, 7,483959 in 18WS. «*.««.!*» in 1887, 3.£53.100 in ISSK and 3J%K» in 1895. Since inly 1 this season the exports aggregate XUCT.:Vd bushels, against SMk «p&.«42 last year, and in 189798.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prune, $3.00 to $750: hogs, shipping grades*-. $3.00 to $425; sheep, fair to choke, $3.00 to $450; wheat* No. 2 red. Me to (lie; corn. No. 2,29 eto 30r; oats, No. 2,22 c to 23c; rye. No. 2. 49r to 50e; butter, choke creamery. 25c to 27c; egass, fresh. 17c to 19c; potatoes, choke. 35c to 45c per busbeL Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $050; hogs, choke light, $3.00 to $425; sheep, common to prime. $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red. Ole to (Mr; corn. No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; oats; No. 2 white, 2V*e to 27c.

St. Lonis—Cattle. $325 to $725; bogs, $3.00 to $425; sheep, $3.00 to $450; wheat. No. 2. 09c to 71c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 29c to 31c; oats. No. 2. 23c to 25c; rye. No. 2. 51c to 52c.

Cincuumti —Cattle, $250 to $650; hogs, *3.00 to *4.00; sheets. s£so to *4.00; wheat, .V £ 08c to iOr; corn. No. 2 mixed. 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 26e to 28c; rye. No, 2, (Or to <S2eDetmit—Cattle, $230 to J 5.75; hogs, *3.00 to *4.00; sheep. $3.00 to *4.25; wheat. No. 2, (Sc to «Ue; corn*. No. 2 yellow. 33c to 3Sc; oats. No. 2 white; 27c to 28c; rye. 57c to 59c. Toledo —Wheat. N 0.2 mixed, 06c to 68c; cota. No. 2 mixed. 31c to 32e; oats. No. 2 mixed, 23e to 21c; rye. No. 2. 53c to 55c; clover seed. *4.ti» to *4.70. Milwaukee —Wheat, No 2 northern, 63c to 65c; corn. No. 3,32 eto 33c; oats. No. 2 white; 24c to 26c; rye. No 1. Me to 56c: bailey. No 2,41 cto 43c; pork, mem, $7.75 to *825. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, *3.00 to *6.75; hogs; common to choice. *325 to *425; sheep, fair to choice. $3.00 to *425: lambs, common to extm, $420 to *550. i New York —Cattle. ?3-23 to $6.75; hogs. *3.00 to *450; sheep; $3.00 to *4.75; wheat No. 2 red. T'c to 74r; corn, No 2, 30c to 41c; oats, No 2 white, 30c to 32c; batter, creamery, 23c to 28c; eggs, mdenw Uc to 21c.

FACE DEATH AT SEA.

FEARFUL VOYAGE OF TRANSPORT MANAUENSE. Twirl Ia Cauwht In a Typhoon and Arrive* at Manila in a Sinking Condition - Soldiers Kept Bailing for Daya in Ignorance of Their Banger. The army transport Manauense arrived at Manila, thirty-three days from San Francisco. She narrowly escaped foundering with all on board, as her engines broke down and she rolled three days at the mercy of a typhoon. The Manauense had on board Lieut. Coi. Webb Hayes and three companies of the Thirty-first infantry. The officers and aoldiers were kept baling for twelve days and it was ahuost a miracle that the vessel reached Manila. The steamer, it is claimed, was unsea worthy, undermanned and short of provisions. When the Manauense anchored in Manila bay there was several feet of water in her hold and 400 grimy, greasy, hungry, exhausted soldiers and saiiors who had been passing buckets of water for two weeks, night anil day. First Assistant Engineer Dunleuvy was under arrest, and, according to Col. Webb Hayes’ official report, the chief engineer would also have been under arrest if there had been anyone to replace him. jlen Ignorant of Banger.

The colonel’s report also declares that the captain of the vessel told him that the only thing which brought them through was the fact that the men were greenhorns and failed to realize their danger, while experienced seamen would have deserted the ship and taken to the boats in midoceau.

The Manauense is a chartered ship flying the British flag. She started from Sau Francisco accompanied by the transport Pekin, which carried the remainder of the regiment and encountered heavy seas to Honolulu without accident.

After starting it developed that she was undermanned and soldiers, had to be detailed to act as firemen, coal passers and waiters and to do other work. Beforb reaching Honolulu the crew concluded that the ship was not safe and the majority agreed to desert." Though they were closely watched, many of the crehr succeeded in getting away and the Manauense left Honolulu with less than half her crew. The vessel sprung a leak and an investigation resulted in finding several feet of water in her hold. The steam pumps were tried, but failed to work, and there were no hand pumps on board. However, forty-six buckets were found, others were improvised and the soldiers not employed in working the ship were organized into five shifts and, stripping and forming lines, they began baling, the officers working with the men, passing the buckets, which were sent up to the deck by a windlass. The baling continued until the ship anchored at Manila.

Machinery Is Disabled, The same day the leak was discovered the machinery collapsed and the electric lighting plant and evaporating, distilling and refrigerating apparatus failed to work. There w ere no lamps aud the few candles found were exhausted after a few days. 1 During the last week of the passage the Manauense was in utter darkness at night. She had been rolling in heavy seas oH the way, but Nov. 22 she encounteredtyphoon and pitched and tossed alarmingly. The Pekin became separated from the Manauense in the storm. The water rose rapidly aud the firemen could only feed the fires by being lifted on the shoulders of the other men through water waist deep.

The typhoon lasted two days and a half and in the midst of it the engines stopped. The officers held a council and found that there were 420 persons on board, with lifeboat accommodations for 213. In the meantime the men below, ignorant of their extreme peril, were passing backets and singing, while the ship rolled helplessly on the ocean with hatches closed. The heat was intense until the typhoon passed. Throughout the remainder of the voyage the engines of the Mananense failed frequently and the ship would roll for a few hours while the engines were repairing. Then the steamer would proceed again for a few hours. The meat and vegetables rotted because of the failure of the refrigerators and were thrown overboard. The officers and soldiers were utterly exhausted when they reached Manila. They declare the engineers were grossly incompetent. The officers also say that the behavior of the troops was beyond praise. For days they worked in the dark, suffocating hold with water sometimes up to their shoulders and planks washing about in a manner dangerous to life and limb.

OLD WORLD NOTABLES

Argentina’s president has a $7,500 uniform. King Alfonso of Spain has a new automobile. Ex-President Pierola of Peru has $50,000,000. Earl of Harrington owns a grocery in London. The Grand Duchess Nicholas Nicolaiewitch is a Russian nun. All of the Danish princesses are taught to sew and make their own dresses. Queen Victoria advocates sensible footwear and practices it by wearing felt shoes. Ike Duke of Richmond and Gordon, in his eighty-seconjJ year, goes fishing almost daily. The Prince of Wales inspected the Scots Guards prior to their departure for South Africa. The Due d’Orleans has surrounded his estate in England with a strong wire fence ten feet high. Lord Lister ranks Sir William Turner as the foremost living anatomist. Princess Victoria of Wales and Princess Charles of Denmark cling to cycling as their favorite exercise. The late Sir Edwarl Victor Lewis Hoalton ip his will left the Prince of Wales what is said to be the only badge of the old Order of St. John of Jerusalem to existence. V The new governor of Bombay has been made a baronet by the Queen, in order ■sight he continued. •*

THE "FRANKLIN SYNDICATE."

Complete Collapse of the Moat Glaring Swindle of Recent Years. The "Franklin syndicate,” the empty shell of which the New York police are now carefully guarding, presents one of

W. F. MILLER.

copiously exposed in the newspapers. The only novelty about the New York concern lay in the circumstance that it outdid all predecessors in the openly fraudu- ■ lent character of its scheme. In short, * it promised depositors a return of 10 per cent a week to be won in stock exchange speculation. It actually paid this rate on deposits for more than a year and at the time of its collapse is said to have had on .hand something over $1,000,000. The wonder is where people of so little sense got so much money. One day just before the collapse Miller claimed to have taken in SBO,OOO and paid ont $30,000 in interest.

Attention was directed to the place, but, in the absence of complaints, the police and district attorney were unable to act. The banks shut down on the syndicate, however, when depositors began to grow alarmed, and demanded their money back. Miller announced that he would not pay a dollar without a week’s notice. Later the house was sejzed and closed by the police. There were forty employes in the office when it was seiz-

FRANKLIN SYNDICATE HEADQUARTERS

ed. They were allowed to go. The police also took charge of $15,000 in cash. Migs Annie Gary, an employe, who lived in apartments adjoining the building, had SO,OOO hid away in an old lounge. The daily mail received at Miller’s office amounted to about three wagon loads. Nearly every letter contained money. One

of Miller's trusted employes is responsible for the statement that the Franklin syndicate man had taken in over $4,000,000. Promoter Miller is indicted and iD hiding. He may be captured and sent to the penitentiary, but that will neither reimburse his dupes nor prevent a ngw erop of innocents from rushing into the snare the next time a swindler asks the privilege of making a fortune for them out of hand.

"HE” IS A WOMAN.

Prisoner Convicted as Ellis Glenn Is a Woman.

Is a comely young woman in jail at Hillsboro, 111., the Ellis Glenn, alleged forger and fugitive bridegroom, who courted Miss Ella Dukes, or is the prisoner Ellis Glenn’s twin sister impersonating him and ready to suffer the law fox his sake? This question has agitated all Hillsboro. The prisoner is certainly a woman, and, it is claimed, she donned male attire to atone for her twin brother’s alleged crime. Ellis Glenn, engaged to marry Miss Ella Dukes of Hillsboro, was indicted for forgery and Miss Duke’s father and uncle went oh his bond. He went to St. Louis a few days before the wedding day

"ELLIS GLENN,"

Woman who assumed disguise to shield her brother.

and disappeared. It was telegraphed a St., Louis newspaper that he had been drowned at Paducah, Ky. There he was arrested. Later he pleaded guilty and was taken to the Chester penitentiary. Then it was discovered that “he"’ was of the feminine gender,' and she was brought back to jail at Hillsboro. <fs> The prisoner says her name is Ellis Glenn and that her twin brother is Elbert Glenn. Her brother, she says, was a private detective, and was in Hillsboro in the disguise of a sewing machine agent. He fled, she says, from the forgery indictment, and she joined him at Paducah, Ky., and determined to sacrifice herself for her brother, so that he might have his liberty to prove his innocence. Miss Dukes says the woman in jail is Ellis Glenn, who conrted her and won her love. The Hillsboro people say she lived with them as Ellis Glenn, man, eighteen months. The prisoner says she-, saw Miss Dukes but once, for five minutes. Miss Dukes and her father say they are ready to help Miss Glenn, who they knew as a man and as future husband and son-in-law. The postmaster' df Bentley Springs, Md„ became tired of his position, and thrfrw the effects of the postofflee into a mail car, which carried them to Baltimore.

those typical cases which will probably continue to confound the lawmak- , er and sadden the; economist until the millennium. Of course, the “syndicate” was 1 a barefaced swindle. There was nothing k new in its plan. Scores of like swindles have run their course, milked their victims and been