Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1899 — Page 2

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. |jfTe? BABCOCK, Publisher. iUNSSELAER, INDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

g Eugene L. Packard, who formerly con li'Wncted the Investment and Security Comii'&tay, ■ get-rich-quick institution, was /iSravteted in the Federal Court in New York of using the mails to further Mi&emes to defraud. feChinatown. at Marysville. Cai., was tWbe scene of a lively battle between rival Sfobinders* societies, the Suey Sing and yHop Sing. About IlM) shots were exjwjhanred. One Chinaman, a member of Uthe Suey Sing faction, was killed. H At Mexico, Mo., Edward Spencer of IrVandiilia caught Night Watchman Ben ■3:jEddleiuan by the collar and shot him »|ead before the officer could use his wea>.pon The murderer had been quarreling J|with the officer. He was captured. r In lndianai>olis. John A. Hoover, an conductor, aged 24 years, shot his wife twice in the head, fatally wounding her. He then turned the weapon on a himself and sent oue bullet into his brain ■•and died from the effects of the wound. ; The Siegel-Hillman pry Goods (lorn- .. pany, which ©periled a large department Ertore at St. Louiw. filed a deed of trust > to secure all its creditors. The liabilities 9. of the firm are placed at about $225,(MM), land its assets at a!>out the same figure. A big building on the terrace occupied Thy manufacturing firms in Buffalo. N. jj Y., was badly damaged by fire. The | principal losers were the Montgomery ; Door and Box Company. SIOO,OOO, and the Duther Manufacturing Oaipany, .$20,000. I Miss Mary Garrett, or; of the most fnoted women prisoners in the Ohio penir tentiary. has beeh pardoned. She enterved the" prison Oct. 5. 1888. carrying a ■ babe in her arms, to serve a lift* sen- • trace for cremating her two stepchildren at Spencer. f 'Lucius Miller, a negro employed at a (Inion Pacific grading camp, near Han- > na, Wyo., armed himself with a pitchfork | and swearing he would kill every man |in camp, cracked the heads of several V graders. Troy Pendleton, white, shot R-and killed the negro. I- Wayne Hatfield, son of Elias Hatfield iand nephew of “Devil Arise” Hatfield, shot and killed George Hatfield's son of J Bear Creek. The shooting occurred in r George Brasetir’s store nt Matewan, W. hVa Wayne Hatfield, the murderer, esfc caped to the mountains. Judge Morris in common pleas court at i Toledo dissolved the injunction against ; the Bicycle Workers' Union restraining ; strikers frc»n patrolling the Standard t Tube and Forkside works and accosting | and intimidating employes who took their i places. The court held mat tin 1 strikers | Bad a right ,to keep pickets about the I works and to talk to workmen and urge | them to eotne out. Joseph Palmer has been sentenced to I the St. Cloud, Minn., reformatory nfter a girl had become his wife in a vain ati tempt to save him. Palmer was accused | of grand larceny. The State's best wit- | aess was Miss Hattie Baldwin. The girl wedded Palmer, believing that under t- the law she should not be compelled to testify against her husband. The pair, I however, were tried as conspirators. Maggie Drayer, the 14-yeur-old daughter of John Drayer. was shot and killed at Topeka, Kan., by -Mrs. William Taylor. A number of children, including Maggie Drayer, were at the Taylor house playing with p-pguns. when Mrs. Taylor, saying that she had something that would beat their popguns, picked up an old musket. which she accidentally discharged. The entire load of shot entered the girl’s breast.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Citizens of Minnesota sent a black bear p to Admiral Dewey for a Christmas prest ent. The Anchor, Line steamship Tainui was ; slightly damaged in a collision in the River Clyde. J., M. Berry's flour ami meal mill at ' Augusta, Ga., was destroyed by tire. Loss $115,000. insurance $85,000, ' At Tiffin, Ohio, Capt. R. B. Bever fell from a scaffold, breaking twelve bones. I He also received fatal internal injuries. pC By telegraph and 1,700 miles apart, Miss Lizzie Ilnmmons of Winchester, Ky.. and Trooper Sam Wheeler of Fort Wingate, N. M., were made one the other day. C A report has reached Manila that Col. Wilder, who is in Northern Luzon, sends word of the death of Aguinaldo's wife I While in flight with the reltel leader be- ’ fore the pursuing Americans. The most disastrous explosion in the ft history of the coke region occurred at the Bramell mines at Uniontown. Pa., in which thirty-two men lost their lives and many others were badly injured. g ■' lhe directors of the Great Northern Railway Company have awarded the cou5 tract for the construction at Quebec of ' a 1,000,000-busbel elevator at ,a cost of L. $250,000 to Chapman & Co. of Buffalo. U, The worst wreck for many years took place off Cai»e Hatteras. The British “ tramp steamer Ariosto struck on a shoal nix miles south of Hatteras life-saving and twenty-one of her crow lost 6 their lives. c The Mississippi Valley Lumberman t says that the lumber cut in Minueapolis this year was 594.373.009 feet, more p; than was ever ent in a year lx-fore in that or any other city, and a gain of 1,250,000 feet over last year. I Gov. Poynter of Nebraska has instruct|ed the prosecuting attorney of Sarpy to l«egin proceedings against the two reg- . ulars at Fort Crook who were implicated 'in the shooting and killing of a deserter from that post several weeks ago. At San Francisco, Cal.. John Lennon, r a teamster, was found deml in a house -on the San Jose road, ami it is believed | he was murdered. Kh- Peter J. Holbert, an electrician at Jacksonville, Fla., shot his wife and then turned the weapon on himself. inflicting wounds from which he died. Mrs. HolJudge De Haven, in the United Stales I-, District Court at San Francisco, has deK tided that minors over 18 years do not Kiequire the consent of their parents to Knifist in the navy, and when once enlist-B-i they must serve their term.

EASTERN.

D. L. Moody, the famous evangelist, died at East Northfield, Mass. Prof. James M. Manyon of Philadelphia has made a S2,(MX),(MM) gift for founding a college and home for orphan girls. Comptroller Dawes has appointed Special Examiner Daniel G. Wing temporary receiver of the Globe National Bank of Boston. Mass. The old building and the dormitories of the Georgetown convent, Washingtn *, D. C., were- destroyed by fire. All inmates and employes escaped. Loss SIO,OOO. Au advance of 10 per cent on certain lines of furniture was made by the Eastern Furniture Manufacturers’ Association at a meeting held in Philadelphia. Baltimore immigration authorities are making desperate efforts to keep contract laborers out of the country and during one recent week thirty were returned to Germany. The Woman’s National Sabbath Alliance is about to send r. letter to department stores in New Yoric City, requesting them not. to advertise in Sunday newspapers, Two crowded trolley cars came into collision at Flatbush and Fifth avenues, Brooklyn. Many persons were injured and nothing worth mentioning waa left of either car. Jesse Metcalf died at 1., aged 73 years. He was president arid, treasurer of the Wanskuk Company and one of the best-known manufacturers in Rhode Island. At Binghamton, N. Y., John Edgar Gardner, in order to get his picture in print, shot his young wife and then killed himself. Gardner was (10 years old, his wife 29. The American Political League has issued a call for a national convention for the nomination of candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States, to be held in Boston, Mass., July 4, HMM). William Mutter. 42 years old, senior member of the firm of Kimball Brothers & Co., tobacco manufacturers nt New York, committed suicide by shooting. He is said to have lost considerable money in Wall street recently. A strike began the other day at the Hyde Park ami Oxford, Pa„ collieries of the D„ L. & W. company. The drivers went out after making a demand for an increase of 1A cents per day. making a wage scale of $1.47 per day. William V. Wilson, Jr.. & Co., lumber dealers of Baltimore, made an assignment. Liabilities SBO,(MM), assets $50,000. Mr. Wilson is in a serious condition at a hospital suffering from a bullet wound accidentally self-inflicted.

WESTERN.

Fire destroyed almost the entire business portion of Detroit, Texas. Loss $30.000, insurance small. Gen. James M. Lewis, a well-known attorney of St. Louis, died there of peritonitis, aged 41 years. The Mullanphy Building and Loan Association of St. Lottis made an assignment. Liabilities, in loans, $40,000; resources aboiit $84,500. Fire destroyed lhe carshop of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Dubuque, lowa. The loss will be between $75,000 ami SIOO,OOO. Rev. Dr. F. D. Newhouse, presiding eider of the Mankato District M. E. Church, died of pleuro-pneutnonia at Mnnkato, Minn., aged 42 years. Royal Matthews, president of the First State Bank of McPherson, Kan., has been acquitted of the charge of receiving deposits when the bank was insolvent. A cave-in in the Lightner mine. Angeles Camp, Cal., imprisoned four men in a slope on the 300-foot level. John Whitten, a timberman, was taken out. Three others were yet imprisoned. At Perry, Kan., T. C. Kirby, proprietor of a hotel, shot ami killed G. A. Foley, and, riding to Oskaloosa, surrendered to the sheriff. Foley was a boarder at the hotel.

At Marshall. Mich., the jury in the case of Mrs. Sanderson, charged with killing her husband by administering giounil glass in his food, returned a verdict of not guilty. At Dallas, Texas, F. M. Etheridge, a lawyer, shot Attorney Edwin O. Harrell four times in a crowded elevator. Harrell had a pistol in his hand when he was shot. He died later at his home. Eleven little girls were burned to death, five others suffered injuries which in several cases are likely to prove fatal, and several older persons were severely hurt, during a fire that interrupted the rehearsal of a Christmas play at Quincy, 111. J. T. Butler, late cashier of the Edgeley, N. D., Bank, has struck a gold mine near San Diego, Cal., which has created great excitement as being a wonder in its way. Assays at a depth of forty-nine feet show gold quartz running $247 to the ton. Near Custer. S. D.. the Vigilante Mining Company has struck a vein of copper ote in its mine that exceeds anything in value that has ever been found in the Black Hills. The rich ore is found in the 300-foot level. The width of the vein at this time is ten feet. Two years ago J. Ditiglienno was sentenced by the Federal Court to serve a two years' sentence in the Folsom penitentiary at San Francisco and pay a fine of $2. for having counterfeiting tools in his possession. Dinglienno’s term expired on Nov. 23. but he refused to pay the fine and declines to take the pauper** oath, saying he is content to remain a guest of the State. The warden of the prison has asked for legal advice as to how he shall proceed to eject the convict. The home of Luke Darst of Cheshire, Ohio, was burned at' midnight on a recent night. Darst and eight children were asleep jn the second story. An alarm was given and the father rnshed from the house and badc his children jump from the high windows into his arms. Seven of them were rescued in this manner, but Clarence, a 10-year-old boyi, lost his head when he came to the window and rushed back into the house. The roof fell in and the boy was burned to death. Fire which started in the north end of the kilnroom destroyed $250,000 worth of property belonging to the Lanyon Zinc Company at Lanjonville, five miles east of lola, Kan. The 200-foot metal lined smokestack fell, killing two men working on the roof. Thej- are: Jesse Matthews and -t. B. Schaub, both married. No one else was injured. The destroyed buildings were the machine kiln I building, containing four large and ex-

pensive reroaating machines, crusher, room, engine room and two large Corliss engines. About half the plant waa destroyed. The loss is covered by insurance. The works employed about 200 men. ’ » According to the announcement of Gen. Paul Van der Voort of Omaha, who has been engaged for several months past lit organising parties for colonizing Cuba, the first batch of colonists have sailed from New York for the scene of their future homes. Itiis the intentiofi of the promoters of the movement to colonize a large section of the northern shore of the province of Santiago de Cuba. The colonists will locate on tracts of land ranging from five to forty acres each, the greater part of the land being covered with valuable timber. The first party to sail comprised several hundred men of various trades, aud from all sections of the country, principally from the Went.

FOREIGN.

The Czar of Russia has issued a rescript exonerating Finance Minister De Witte from recent charges. Li Hung Chang has been appointed acting viceroy of Canton. It is believed this is preparatory to his degradation in compliance with the French demands. The death is announced at St. Petersburg of Chevalier Anton de Kontski, the famous pianist, aged 82 years. He was the author of the celebrated work, “The ‘Awaiting of the Lion.” At Amalfi, Italy, an enormous rock, upon which stood the Cappuceini Hotel, slid bodily into the sea. carrying with it the hotel, the old Capuchin monastery below, the Hotel Santa Caterina and several vilLs. Many people were buried in the debris. Forty school children were drowned at Frelinghem, Belgium, near the French frontier. The children of the districj had been given permission to play on the frozen River Lys. The ice broke suddenly and the children disappeared. A few were rescued, but the majority were drowned. S An additional indication of the secret understanding which has recently been arrived at lietween Chinn and Japan is seen in the honors lately conferred on Yano Fuinio, who has resigned his post as Japanese minister at Pekin in order, it is said, to take the post of foreign adviser to the imperial Chinese Government. Oscar 8. Straus, United States minister to Turkey, has left Constantinople for a visit to this country. The yellow Ware pottery manufacturers have advanced their selling price lists 5 per cent, to take effect immediately. The R. Greene Manufacturing Company of London, Ont., wholesale dealers in-clothing, has assigned. Direct liabilities SIIO,OOO, indirect liabilities SIOO,(MM), assets $75,000. Maj. Gen. Wood, Governor of Cuba, has- accepted the resignation of the members of the Insular Cabinet. The members will remain in charge of their offices, however, until their successors have been named.

At Montreal, Que., Ferdinand Lemieux, local manager of the defunct Ville Marie Bank, was found guilty of sending to the Government false statements as to the bank's condition, and was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. One of the most peculiar accidents ever recorded in Ontario happened recently. Theodore Heath, a young Cathcart man, while eating his dinner swallowed his false teeth. Three physicians were called, and decided upon an operation. Heath was cut open and the teeth removed, but he died from the shock. A new departure in the policy of the Department of the Interior at Washington is emphasized by unequivocal refusals which have met ail frccent requests for loans of Indians for exhibition purposes and Secretary Hitchcock and Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones have determined to stop the abuses of the privilege. The Ontario Government held a sale of 398 square miles of timber limits in the district of Algoma, Nipissiug and Rainy river districts, at Toronto the other day. It was attended by all the leading American lumbermen in Michigan, who bought freely, notwithstanding the fact that the terms of sale prohibited the export of sawings, the expectation being that the scarcity of lumber and increased demand in the United States would necessitate a larger demand of manufactured stuff from Canada. The prices of the limits showed a good advance.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $7.50: hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice. to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn. No. 2. 30c to 31c; oats. No. 2, -2c to 23c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 53c; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 26c; eggs, fresh, 16c to 18c; potatoes, choice, 35c to 50c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,69 cto 70c; corn. No, 2 white, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.25 to $7.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 'to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn, No. Z yellow, 31c to 33c; oats. No. 2,23 eto 25c; rye. No. 2,52 cto 54c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No, 2,70 cto 71c; corn. No. 2 .mixed. 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; rye. No. 2,62 cto 63c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, 56c to 58c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 69c *to 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 23c to 23c; rye, No. 2,54 c to 56c; clover seed, $4.70 to $4.80. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 61c to 66c; corn, No. 3,31 cto 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; ry«n No. 1,55 c to 56c;' barley, No. 2,43 cto 45c; pork, mess, $9.75 to $10.25. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 th $6.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.60 to $4.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.75. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 75e; corn, No. 2, 40c to 41c; oata, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; batter, creamery, 23c to 28c; eggs, western, 16c to 22c.

WHEN ONE GOES DOWN THE OTHER GOES UP.

—St, Paul Pioneer Press.

PERISH IN A STORM.

Twenty-one Engliah Sailors Lose The Lives. In a terrific storm the British steamship Ariosto was wrecked on Diamond shoals, off Cape Hatteras, and twentyone of the crew were drowned. Had they remained ou the ship until the life savers succeeded iu making a cotutortion from the shore to the wreck all would have been saved. The captain and eight men remained on the beat till a breeches buoy was rigged up and they were saved. The twenty-one men who chose to risk their fate in the ship’s lifeboat were drowned between the vessel and the shore.

The Ariosto, 2.265 tons net register., sailed from Galveston bound for Hamburg via Norfolk, where she meant to touch for coal. Dense fog has provailed off this coast for several days. and. although it lifted the night before, it is believed that the ship had pnevxmsiy lost her bearings and got too close inshore. Scon after the* Ariosto struck the waves began to rol| over her. ami twenty-one men of her crew launched three of her boats and attempted to come ashore. Within plain sight of the watchers, including the crews of the life-saving stations, who stood upou lhe beach, powcrless to help them, the boats' crews lost their lives. One after another the three boats foundered in the heavy seas. Not one succeeded in reaching the shore, and not one of the occupants escaped with his life. Captain Baines and eight the remainder <»f the Thirty aboard the vessel, ek*cted to remain aboard rhe ship after she struck, and this saved their lives. Strenuous efforts were made by the crews of the Hatteras and Ocracoke lifesaving stations to save the imperiled men on the Ariosto. After several ineffectual efforts to land a line aboard the doomed ship by firing it from the gun ashore, it ■was accomplished. A line which reached the stranded steamer was by those aboard made fast to the mast, and the breeches buoy of the Ocracoke station's crew was sent out to the ship by Captain Howard. Soon above the boiling seas a man in the buoy slid ashore on the life line, while wild cheers arose from those on ship and shore. Before nightfall the last man was ashore.

FORTY KNOWN to BE DEAD.

Liat of Victims of Bramell Mine Ex- . \ plosion la Very Larne. 'j'hc horror of the Braznell mine explosion near Brownsville, I*a_, is worse than fit st estimated. Tuesday morning the number of dead was known to be over forty.

The explosion "was terrific, and was heard plainly at Brownsville, four miles distant. The main shaft was totally wrecked ami rendered helpless. About four cages of men had gone, down to work. Mr. Thomas, the cageman. on his fourth trip, went’ to the bottom with fourteen men. and gave the signal for the cage to rise, when the explosion occurred. The cage was blown with terrific force to the top of the shaft, and fell back to the bottom, completely Hocking across the mine. Timbers were hurled hundreds of feet; the lower nag of brick work in one shaft was complctcly wrecked, and had to be tunneled to get into the mine at all. The explosion was caused by a miner's naked light coining into contact with gas in a room where no gas was supposed to exist. The tipple was wrecked and the buildings over the fan and the engiuc werc shattered to splinters. The iron work at the bottom of the shaft was twisted in all imaginable shajtcs. Idling plainly of the awful force of the explosion. Immediately following lhe roar of the underground inferno black damp poured out of the pit mouth, inviting suffocation and death to those win* would gladly have entered ami gone to the rescue. A teuiimrary cage was rigged up at the air shaft and rescuers went down. A ghastly sight met their gaze. Mangled bodies were found on all sides. The mine looked like a total wreck. The rescuers pushed on and soon fourteen men were taken out. Some of these were dying, and nearly all were horribly mangled. Fire broke out in the mines, and if any of the men still there were alive there was every indication that they would be suffocated by smoke and their bodies burned. A company was recently formed for raising reindeer in Eastern Norway, for the purpose of supplying Southern markets with reindeer mbat. There s a growing market for this meat in France and Belgium. __ Secretary of the Treasury has asked Congress for $48,000 for improvements of St. Louis’ postuffice and $35,000 to Postoffice Department has issued fraud orders against iae tuinpire emorwmery works. New York, and the Baxter I'nb-

EARTHQUAKES IN CALIFORNIA

Many Towns on the Ctanst Severely Shaken by Henry Shark.

Christmas morning at 425 o'eteek a severe earthqaake ririted Southern California and caused extensive disaster. At San Jarintm. a town in Riverside County, the shock seemed to have had its center. It lasted twelve seconds only. hut the severity was great. At the Baboda Indian reservation six squaws were killed by falling walls, two fatally and many seriously injured. The mam shock was preceded by a Ikmd. roaring snund and awakening many just in time to escape from the doomed buddings. The business street was such a wreck tons of debris had to be removed before buddings ovik. be entered. Over SlVn> damage is estimated at San Jarinto and at llemit, a small town near by. At the latter place the large tourist hotel was badly damaged and also the teispital at San Jaeinto. The rear wall of the Johnston Work in Hemit feUL Fortunately &■ perse® was injured at either fftwv so far as is known.

Other placers where th»- stench was severely Mt were Santa Ana. Ante-trn. San BcrTisrdiaa and Riverside. However, no heavy damage is reported from any of itee-e places. In Santa Ana guests of bedels were aiu««*st rolled from their beds, dock* were stopped and brick walls of several buildings were badly cracked. People roused from their l>eds, rusted to the streets, some in their night dsthing, and remained up until daylight. The shock was terrific at Needles, but no seri*®s damage was reported. At Ventura horrses were damaged ansi the shock was followed by a high wind and heavy sea. The heaviest earthquake ever known occurred at Anaheim. It lasted ten seconds and was violent frocu the beginning. lodging houses were emptied and the streets were filled with shivering l«rcqde. A number of buihHngs were cracked, but no serious damage was done. The county hospital at Bowers was damaged by the earthquake. The steak almost shook Hemit to pares. There are but two chimneys left in town. At Redlands the shock lasted one minnte and a quarter.

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.

Sixty-five cases of enteric fever are reported from Ladysmith. Russian oMkers and privates: t-ontinne to join the Boer army. British eensKwed reports say only 400 wotmded at Tugela river Friday. From lark of horses: the Rough Rider force will he cut down to ItUtMK Comb IX-yk. the novelist, has volunteered for South African service. Cape Town advices, say the Boers are massing a groat force at Storaibwj. French press express sympathy for Gen. Buller in his alleged disgrace. fjord Roberts denounces as untrue stories of disloyalty among the Irish troops. The ITnbria and throe Allen Line steamers have been chartered as tranopmtts. Queen Victoria entertained on Dec. 20, at Windsor Castle, the wives and ihildren of soldiers in South Africa. The British wounded who fell into the Doers' hands at Strwmherg have been removed to Rnrghrrsdkorp. ten miles north. When next army division is'completed England will have ItSOtat men in the field against the Boers. This includes reserves and volnntecrs. A Rome paper says it is learned that the British troops to Egypt will shortly be rvidaced by Italians to enalde the former to go to South Africa. Boers excuse themselves for firing mt stretcher bearers by asserting two squads of Connaaght Rangers took cover under civilian bearers of Red Cross. England threatens tremble if Portugal continues tn allow supplies of war material and foreign volunteers to roach the Transvaal through Drlagoa bay. A Berlin news agency has reports from Washington that the American Government intends to'invite the European powers to propose mediation to England. Baller is being mercilessly criticised by London military experts for his tactics which are by some culled imbecile. The Common Council of London vdted tn raise and equip 1,000 volunteers and afato appropriated £25,000 for expense*. jfl-hwiah thtfy <milt 18* VilSf-d

PUSH BRITISH AT LADYSMITH.

Baca* Continue to Hammer at White’s Forces iu Besieged Town. From Pietermaritzburg cornea the news ,d another battle at Ladysmith. Maj. A. C. King. Capts. Wathen and Oakes, Lieut. Hulse and IJeut. Col. Fawcett were wounded and nine non-commission-ed officers and men were killed. Ten others were woundol. There were no'details. AKswtling to a telegram from. Uhievely, Natal, th*- Boers surprised » picket of hussars to the eastward of the camp. Two British were kilted. They lost sevvu horses also. In a special article discusmug the international law asiieets of Boer importations through I>eingoa Bay, the London Time* says: “Were we to adopt, yither With or without the consent' of Portugal, the drastic measures which are so nirily suggested in some- quarters we might find ourselves suddenly confronted with internatioual complications far more serious and injurious to the successful proseention of the South African war than the evils of which it was sought to secure an abatement.” Rumors of the seizure of Delagoa Bay by the British are just renewed in Berlin awl Lisbon, but it is said there no such stejis have been taken, and those in a position to know declare that Hour shipped from America to Portuguese agents in Delagoa Bay will be released after due diplomatic delay. The same persons insist that the British plan is to check as much as possible all shipments tn Marquez in order to worry the Boers into taking the aggressive step of invading Portuguese territory, and taking Lourenzo Marquez and all the war material and food in store there? so that the British navy can attack the plactrami capture it and move against the Trausvaal through it on the plea of Boer aggression, and without laying the British Government open to foreign interference.

FIFTEEN MEN PERISH;

Unknown Bark Goes Down in Midocean with All On Board.

News has been brought to Norfolk, of the loss of an unknown ship and her crew of fifteen in the terrible storm of Saturday night. . With her great steel bows bent and twisted by murderous seas, two propeller blades gone, and steel lifeboats transformed by giant waves so that they resembled the figure “8,” the overdue Johnston liner Noranmore. a KXWOO-tou vessel, the largest tramp boat affixit. arrived iu port, twenty-throe days out from Liverpool, after encountering a hurricane of tremendous proportions anti one that nearly sent the big ship to the bottom of the ocean.

<?apt. Richardson brought the first news of the loss of the bark iu midocean with fifteen souls; of the almost uneqUaled heroism on the part of a boat’s crew from his ship in an attempt to save the lives of those on the sinking ship, and how in the hurricane and darkness his own men narrowly escaped Jeath.

INITIATION WAS TOO SEVERE.

Candidate Receives Injuries While Entering the Royal League. Alexander Johnson of Chicago has hovered between life aud death for over a week as a result of his initiation into the fraternal order of the Royal League. Johnson's hurts were received white he was being imlnctetl into the mysteries of the order as demonstrated by Avondale Lodge. No. 123. The seriousness of the injury became apparent only on the doctor's examination. A bloo<| clot formed on the brain, where it is said he was struck, and Tor several days he was delirious and weak. The injured man observed the fraternal injunction of secrecy so closely that not even the firm he was emidoyed by knew what kept him away from his work.

REBELS ATTACK SUBG.

Garrison Re-Enforced by Marines and the Enemy Is Repulsed. A Manila dispatch says: Gen. Santa Ana. with a force of insurgents estimated at 300, attacked the garrison at Subig. A body of marines wen* sent from Olongapo to re-enforce the garrison and the Filipinos were driven back, several being killed. There were no casualties on the American side. A company of the Forty-sixth volunteer infantry, together with a contingent of marines, has been sent from Manila to re-ehforce the Hubig garrison ill further.

SEES THIEF FROM PULPIT.

Minister Leaps from Chancel and Catches a Prowler. While preaching the Christmas service in St. Paul's Episcopal Church at Marinette. Wis.. Rev. Dr. H. W. Schefeler saw a thief coming out of his house with his pockets stuffed full of valuables. He quickly stopped in the middle of a sentence and threw off his vestments and gave chase. He caught the prowler and handed him over to the police*. The thief was sentenced to six months in the penitentiary.

FROM FOREIGN LANDS

Sweden has $175,540,000 invested in railroads. is to spend $15,000,000 on new drainage works. Americans buy $7,000,000 worth of millinery in Paris yearly. The Italian Parliament House has b<*en pronounced unsafe for occupancy. Great Britain's insane have increased 2.0*10 annually for the last ten years. An attempt is being made to establish a permanent German theater in London. Switzerland has an electric railway 7.450 feet above the sea level, the highest in the world. This year’s famine in India covers 350.000 square miles, and renders miserable SOJMMKOOO people. ■: By order of the Russian Government, court officials arc being instructed in Oriental languages. In Barcelona. Spain, out of 12,000 perSOM liable for taxes this year, only 9,000 have paid the amounts due. Japanese mills prefer American cotton because it has a longer staple than that from any other country.