Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1901 — Page 2

•JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. ffcNSSELAER, • - • tfiDtaW*.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

• The 4yonr-nld Kr,rt -t >f- -Ht-rs’-fa WaUa< ! C was burned fatally in Munoie, Irul. The child was left in the house alone hy his piw, jbeard screams *b3 broke into the house,; iititling the chihl rolling before the fire, his clothing atnl flesh burning. Janies H. Tettaton was banged tft Ken-, nett, Mo. He made a confession on the gallows, stating that he hired W, T. Bar* Irani atbl A. ’.l. Ransom to commit the crinie of Killing and burning his step mother and her four children, for which lie paid them SSOO. The jury in the $20,000 damage suit of Mrs. Addie M. Smith against the heirs of the late (C\-1 “resident It. B. Hayes at Fremont, Ohio, lifter a five weeks' trial, tiwarded the plaintiff $5,100 for Injuries lined in a runaway caused by a vicious dog owned by the exl’resldent. Myron M. Parker and W. 8. Kerr, executors of the will of the lute John Sherman,’have tiled suit agaTtisFjHTS. Mary’ S. MeCallttm et al. of Washington, I). in the eoumion pleas court for iustruytion of the manner of the distribution of Mrs. MeCallum's bequest of sl<M»,<*oo l>rovided for in article 2 of the will. Everett S. Hi eh arils, an iron worker at Minneapolis, chased liis wife, from whom he had separated, from the rooms of a dancing teacher into a closet near by and tired several bullets into her body. When the police arrived they found the woman had bled profusely. Mrs. Richards was removed to the hospital, where it is thought she will live. The husband was arrested. Two deaths from starvation were reported to the Milwaukee police by Agent Prelisim of the Associated Charities. Mr. and .Mrs. John Iloel'er had sold most of their furniture for a small sum. with . which they purchased food and fuel for llp-inselves and two children. When most of the food had been eaten it is supposed the parents deprived themselves in ' . order to save the children, and, being too proud to beg, literally starved to death. Depositors in the Gertnau National Hunk, Allegheny, Pa., made a run oil that institution. Police were called to keep the people in line. A steady stream poured into the bank and drew out savings of years. Over $1 80,000 was paid them. The bank kept open ail hour later than the usual time to pay oft' timid deIKisitors. Rumors that the hank was shaky came from, a waggish remark about a run on tlit* bank roof by a telegraph lineman who was fixing wires. Robert Fitzsimmons, Jr., son of the » pugilist, narrowly escaped death under the wheels of a passenger train at the depot in Alton, 111. The Fitzsimmons party played at the local theater and were waiting for a train Vo St. Louis. Just as the Chicago and Alton limited rolled into the depot little up to ofie of the coaches and tried ,-go-ajgccp ns dose as possible willnutl fault--the platform. Suddenly his fod4e£lipped and he fell on liis face but a few feet from the ear's t rucks.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Johu 1). Rockefeller has given another $250,000 to Brown University. Andrew Carnegie is to belasked lo give a library building to Ash ta hit la, Ohio. John Hawkins was instantly killed in a fight at Centralia, Mo., by Riley Mi-Ken zie. The building of the Milwaukee Herohl and the entire plant was destroyed by fire. Holland’s present to Queen Willie! tnina will lie u new crown, for which £20,000 has been subscribed. At Clnrksfield. Minn., Mrs. C. J. Brce and baby daughter were burned to death by a gasoline stove explosion. Tout 1.. Johnson was nominated for Mayor in the Democratic primaries nt Cleveland. He hud no opposition. Thomas O'Donnell of Kerry addressed the House of Commons in the Irish lan guage until tin* speaker protested. It is reported in Brussels that American and European financiers have formed a great combine to control China's trade. The Hoard of Health of Philadelphia announced that thi‘ bodies of fifty babies have been found buried in thin paper boxes in a trench in Somerton Mill cemetery. An investigation has been stalled. The old cadets at Kenyon Military Academy in Ohio have signed and delivered to the regents a pledge that they will neither engage in nor assist in any form of hazing or annoying a fellowcadet. Charles E. lVrkins has resigned the office of president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and George B. Harris, second vice-president of the compqn.v, has been made president in Mr. Perkins' place. In Minneapolis Frank 11. Hamilton was declared guilty of manslaughter by a jury which had deliberated forty hours over the testimony concerning the mui der of Leonard Day in the billiard room Of the Hotel West Nov. 25. The Maunwu coal plant of the Pittsburg Coal Company uear Monongahela, Pa., was destroyed bv fire. The loss is between $35,000 and $50,000. One hundred men were at work in the mine, bill escaped by the rear entrance. The whole crest of a mountain over a mile in circumference slipped into Loughborough inlet, 100 miles from Vancouver, B. C., up the rocky British Columbia const, last Saturday. The great slide was the result of iiu earthquake. Fire destroyed the sawmill and lumber yard of A. Wilbert Sons in Plaqueniine, I,a. laws SIOO,OOO, partly covered by insura nee. At the point of a revolver a negro held John Tussong. it Columbus, Ohio, jeweler, at hay while he rifled a drawer containing fifty watches valued at SI,OOO. He escaped with his booty. The Cincinnati Traction Company was incorporated at Columbus, Ohio, with a capital stock of $2,000,000. It was organised for the purpose of leasing and operating the entire street railway system of Cincinnati.

EASTERN.

Marshall S, Pike, poet, stager a»d actor, is dead at Upton, Moss., oggd 83. Ice blockade in the river and hay at New York is the worst knows in year*. Four firemen, including .captain, killed and one fatally injured in fire at New Haven, Conn. Tt' Clyde Line steamer Comanche, New York to Charleston, was on fire two hours during a fierce gale- • ‘ , Efhelbert Ncvin, one of the most noted American composers of song, died suddenly at New Haven, Comb— —— Purchases of land on Staten Island are believed to be connected with a plan of the steel trust Usbuild great shipyards there. , Michael MeQunid, u young man from Itangor, Me., made a brave rescue of a woman nnd her two children from a tenement house lire in New York. Warren Armstrong, the 2-year-old aou of James Armstrong of Flick,-Pa.,-was killed by being shot through the head by a bullet from a revolver in the hands of his G year old brother. • M. Hecko of Pittsburg was shot, while defending himself from being robbed by Ihree negro highwaymen at Mclvee'a Koeks. The bullet entered his abdomen ,oii the left side and he died. News lias been received of an explosion of dynamite at Patterson Creek, Md. Two unknown Italians and a man named John Boarder were blown to atoms. Three others were seriously injured. The packing department of the Buffalo Bolt Company's plant at North Tonawuudn, N. Y., with a large stock, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at from $73,000 to SIOO,OOO, and is covered by insurance. Car No. 25 on the Hamilton avenue division of the Consolidated Traction Company in 4 Pittsburg jumped the track and toppled over against the curb, wrecking the car and injuring twenty or more pas sengers, four seriously. Miss Edith Talbot of the Bowdoin Square Theater stock company was shot and seriously wounded as she was leavifig the stage entrance of the theater in Boston, after the performance, by a man who made -good bis escape There is no clevi - to his identity.

WESTERN.

Lewis iSiusou I'iske. I>. D„ I.L. D„ president of Albion College, Michigan, is dead, aged 75. Northern Pacific freight train ran away down a mountain nt Butte, Mont., and a hrakeman was-tilled. John Julian,, who robbed a saloon in Kansas City, after locking the proprietor in an ice chest, was .sentenced to forty years in the penitentiary. 11. P. Packard of ltedfield, S. D., is shut out from his home because of smallpox. The city is quarantined and no one is allowed to enter or leave. The will of the late Frederick Harvey of Santa Fe eating house fame was filed for probate at Leuven worth, Kan. The estate is valued at $1,100,000. George Fowler, Son & Co., to build stock yards for the Company's exclusive use, in connection with its packing plant in’Kansas City. Judge Fursman’s ruling in the Kennedy murder case, barring the testimony of handwriting experts, is likely to destroy the State's case against Molineux. In the Nevada State Senate a concurrent resolution known as the lottery bill, which passed both houses two years ago, was defeated, .‘1 for anil 10 against. Pretty Pearl Wcidtnan of Cleveland married William A. Kurtz, and when her father and mother found it out they formally announced that they disowned her. The Toledo Southern Railroad Company of Toledo, Ohio, was incorporated with $25,000 capital. It proposes to build an electric railway from Toledo to Dayton. Mrs. Lulu Prince Kennedy, who shot her husband, Philip 11. Kennedy, in Kansas City on Jan. 10, has been indicted by the grand jury for murder in the first degree. Herbert A. Wright, the broker, acting lor himself and two or three others, has purchased the majority of the stock of the Wick Bunking Company in Cleveland. Maurice Thompson, the author, died at Crawfordavllle, Ind., nfter an illness of many weeks. He had been kept alive for several days by the use of stimulants. \\ bile nt work in the village well at Bisvabik, Minn., three men were caught by a cuve-in. Two men were saved, but James O’Laughlin is buried under twelve feet of dirt and is dead. Alton It. Dalrymple, a millionaire, who, with his brother, Oliver A. Dalrymple, owned and operated the "Bonanza” wheat farm in North Dukota, died at bis residence in St. Paul, Minn. At Logan, Ivan., Joseph R. Hinton, aged 22 years, a rejected suitor, shot Maggie Shurtz, aged 17, and then himself. Both will die. Hinton hud previously threatened to kill the girl. At Arkansas City, Kan., seventy-five men armed with axes and hatchets and headed by the ministers of the city went to n saloon called the "Last Chance” nnd destroyed it after the manner of Mrs. Nutiou. Cnpt. Ernest Penguet, GO years old, a St. Louis millionaire, has announced his engagement to Miss AU-xina ’ Louise Green leaf, aged 27, stenographer in the Boatmen's Bank. Miss (Jreenlcnf is nn orphan. Mrs. Mary Walton, a wealthy widow of Appleton, Wis., nnd John G. Holmes, a former clerk in her employ, were secretly married In Denver, Colo., on Feb. N. Mrs. Walton is much older than the young man. In Cincinnati Judge Hollister granted a permanent injunction against the Jef* fries-Ituhllii prize fight. The promoters postponed the event until after they enn carry the ease to the Circuit nnd Supremo Courts. rho most disastrous fire for years wiped out the wholesale houses of Johu A. Haynes, Lewis & Co. and William Lonergan, the Bujletin building nnd office and several other concerns at Cairo, 111. Loss SIOO,OOO. Gilbert Ashville Pierce, former territorial governor of Dakota uud United States Senator from North Dakota, a veteran newspaper num, died at the Lexington Hotel in Chicago, after an illhess of several weeks. Tha executive committee of the I’res-

byterian 30beolog:cal Seminary has purchased a six-acre tract in KotinUc place, located in the northern part of dmaha, and will commence work at once on the aeminary buildings. John Day, Robert M. Haley and James Fitzgerald, the Shnnesville bank, robbers, were sentenced by Judge Sbotwell at Canal Dover, Ohio.i The first-named got nine years and the other two ten years in the penitentiary. Day pleaded guilty. At Lafayette, Ind., a serious coasting accident occurred, In which many were injured. To avert a collision with a bobsled, an attempt was made to turn a coruer, and the rack run' into a tree. Three women and two men were painfully hurt. J. Ogden Armour of Chicago and his associates have just completed another gigantic'deal by which the Fruit .Growers’ Express, otherwise known as the Armour ear line; succeeds to a monopoly of the refrigerator car business in California. v All accident occurred to the east-bound train on the Central Pacific near Mills City, Xev., which resulted in killing three passenger s and seriously injuring several train men. The train run into a washedout culvert and one sleeper was teleseoped. In Kansas-City Fay Doyle, aged 28 years, a son of Dr. T. Doyle, was shot with a revolver in the hands of Catherine Davis, who says she is a professional nurse, lie is seriously wounded. The woman says it was accidental. They had quarreled. News from Canyon City saya the greatest snowstorm ever known in the Texas panhandle has ended. The snow is two feet deep on the level in Randall, Swisher, Briscoe nnd adjoining counties. There is heavy damage'to cattle and general ranch'interests. Robbers wrecked the Grenola, Kan., State Bank with dynamite in an nttempt to rob it. The vault and front of the building were ruined and the furniture and fixtures were blown to atoms. The robbers were scared away before they could open the safe. Thirty passengers in a street car coming to Cincinnati from Dayton, Ivy., were carried down a fifty-foot embankment into the bed of a small stream on the Kentucky side of the river, and only one of the number escaped injury. At the same time not one of the number was killed. Ex-Captain Oberlin M. Carter, U. S. A., serving a sentence in the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth for defrauding the government on harbor contracts, suffered another defeat in Uis attempt to secure his freedom. Judge Hook in the United. States District Court refused to release the prisoner on bail. Hall Frampton, a colored man at Nebraska City, Neb., quarreled with his wife and attempted to kill her. His stepdaughter, aged 15, took the part of her mother, when Frampton turned on her, seized a shotgun, chased her a block, shot iter in the head and then beat her brains out with the stock of the weapon. A diamond sunburst brooch valued at SBOO was obtained from the jewelry store of Merrick, Walsh A Phelps at St. Louis, and Chief of Detectives Desmond's men are now engaged in searching for the boldest diamond manipulators who ever operated in St. Louis. The swindler passed himself off as William J. Letup, Jr. Judge Munger of the Federal Court at Lincoln, Neb., acted favorably on an application made by J. W. Coffin and other stockholders of the Nebraska T.oan and Trust Company of Hastings, Neb., for a receivership for the company. James M. Clark of Hastings, a former president of the company, was named as receiver. One of the most daring railroad robberies that has occurred for some time took place in a Pullman ear on the Oregon express train out of San Francisco. The wife of F. H. Osgood, president of the Seattle and Kenton Railroad, was robbed of diamonds nnd jewelry worth $3,000, which was in a hag suspended from her neck. 11. Wise of New York, president of the Union Irou and Lead Company, is about to make contracts for the building of an immense concentrating nnd smelting plant at Irondale, Mo., where the Irondale Lend Company, in which the Union Iron and .Lead Company is interested, has valuable properties, which %ill be worked for lend. The State Bank at Phillips, Neb., was entered by robbers, who secured from SI,OOO to $1,300 and escaped. The men were noisy and reckless in their work, breaking in the door of the bank with a sledge hammer. This awoke many citizens nnd the party was seen to have been composed of at least three men and possibly four. The safe wae demolished toinpletely with nitroglycerin. As the robbers left the station agent fired at them three times ami they returned the shots.

SOUTHERN.

Steve L'Hominedieu, racing man, tried to about Hubert Pinkerton in case at New Orleans. Aunt Peggy Jones, eolored, is dead at Ghent, Ky. She was 124 years old. Her oldest living ebiid, Charlotte, is over 100 years old. A severe earthquake shock was felt at Union City, Tenn. Houses rocked and windows and crockery rattled. The wave was from west to east and lasted several seconds. K. It. Patterson, cashier of the bank at Bridgeport, Ala., and bookkeeper of the Bridgeport stove works, committed suicide by Nhooting himself through the brain. No motive for the act is known. The steamer Aragon reports the loss in a gale off llogg Island, Virginia, of her tow, the iron barge Alabama, with five men on board. There is no doubt that the barge went to the bottom very soon after the hawser parted. llobbers entered the bank at Omaha, Texas, and stole $5,000. They escaped on a handcar which was standing near the track of the railroad and pumped their way some distance south, where they abandoned the ear and took to the woods. Drugged with knockout drops, seriously carved with n knife or dirk and robßed of all his ready cash, amounting to sl,000 or more, was the fute which befell Dr. Alfred E. Meyer of New York, a physician who has been spending a week In El Paso, Texas, with A. Movins, a millionaire pntient. L. A. Hester, white, was sentenced nt Fairborn, Ua., to life imprisonment for the murder of Sterling Thompson, colored, some weeks ago. Shortly after the

killing Pegratn Cochran and t|tata'othll% SheU^Jocijran, H both white, *afe ffvea similar sentences for the saute crime. Five.ejher white men stand indmteS tor, the murder, /

FOREIGN.

Recent Italian census shows a population of 35,000,000, which is larger than was supposed. Tekla, King of Gojarn, Abyssinia, died of poisoning, and two claHnanta are fighting for the throne. Three condemned Chinese officials have refused to obey the Emperor’s command to commit suicide. Russian secret police have arrested many literary men, lawyers and students for alleged conspiracy. , Gen. Christian De Wet and former President Steyn eutered Cape Colony and occupied Phillipstown. The British attacked them ;>nd drove them out of the town with loss. The first Parliament of the reign of King Edward VII. was opened by the King in person. Ilis majesty was accompanied by Queen Alexandra, the Duke of York and Cornwall, the Duke of Connaught and many others of the royal family. " In the chapel of the royal palace ia Madrid, in the presence of the royal family and all the aristocracy and officialdom of Spain, Dom Maria De Las Mercedes De Bourbon y Hapsburg, Princess of the Asturias, was wedded to Prince Charles Bourbon.

IN GENERAL.

A monument to the late Queen Victoria is to be erected at Winnipeg, Man., probably at the parliament buildings, at a cost of $30,000. The President submitted a list of naval promotions to the Senate, with Sampson ahead of Schley. Old controversy is likely to be revived? C. A. Willard of Minneapolis and J. F. Cooper of Fort Worth, Texas, have accepted positions as judges of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Sixty men were killed or are now buried under tons of rock in a shaft of the. Union mines at Cumberland, B. C., as the result of an explosion of gas. The State Department has been informed officially that the Russian government had imposed the discriminating duty amounting to about 50 per cent additional on American manufactures of iron and steel. Captain A. B. Wolvin of Duluth and President James Wallace of the American Shipbuilding Company are in Halifax, N. >S., where they have made arrangements to erect a shipbuilding plant for their company. A dispatch from I.a I’az, Peru, says that the overflow of the river has caused the inuudatiou of the city and the destruction of bridges. Many lives have been lost and the damage will aggregate $1,000,000 Bolivian. A mail report giving an account of the bursting of a shell in the bore of one of the big 13-ineh guns of the United States warship Kearsarge has been received at tfie bureau of ordnance of the Navy Department in Washington. The accident occurred while the ship was at target practice off Pensacola, Fla. Weather records for February in the last ten years have made it evident that the ground hog is unreliable. Only twice in that time has his prediction of Feb. 2 been accurate. This' was in 1895 and 1000. Other years when he came forth, saw his shadow nnd retreated, leaving the inference that cold weather was to remain, he was wrong. So was he when he emerged from his hole uud, not being frightened by the light, gave the people to understand that winter was practically at an end. Bradstreet’s commercial report says: "Trade advices are rather more cheerful. This applies as much to current retail business, which has been enlarged by wintry weather, as it does to opening spring trade, which finds stimulation in the general confidence felt as to the outlook for Eie coming year. Prices show exceptional strength, all things considered, the one weak spot being raw cotton. which shares the rather unsatisfactory tone manifested by the cotton goods and yarn markets. Foreign demand for our breadstuffs has been rather better and this is reflected in heavy exports, particularly of corn. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week nggregate 4,814,878 bushefs, against 4,997,813 last week. From July 1 to date this season wheat exports are 125,790,374, against 128,850,301 last season.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.«0 to $5.40; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.45; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2,37 cto 38c; oats, No. 2,24 c to 25c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 16c; potatoes, 39c to 43c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.40; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to-$3.75; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 white, 89c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.70; hogs, $3.00 to $5.35; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2, 37c to 38o; oats. No. 2,25 cto 26c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 52c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.85: hogs, $3.00 to $5.45; sheep' $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No, 2, TBc to 79c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 27c; rye, No. 2* 50c to 57cj '* Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.60; hogs, $3.00 to $5.40; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No, 2, Tsk- to 79c;. corn. No. 2 yellow; 38c to 39c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; rye, 52c to 53c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 77c to 79c, corn, No. 2 mixed, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 27c; rye, No. 2,51 c to 52c; clover seed, prime, $7.00 to $7.10. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 72c to 73c; corn. No. 3. 37c to 38c; oats, 1 No 2 white, 20c to 27c; rye, No. 1,52 c to 53c; barley. No. 2. 57c to 58c; pork, mess. $13.50 to $13.92. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $5.60; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.45. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.30; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 ~to $4.50; whegt, No. 2 red, 77c to 78c; corn. No. 2, 46c to 47c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 83c| butter, creamery, 21c to 22c; eggs, west* ern, 13c to 16c.

BOY SLAIN BY A ZOO TIGER.

Young Nielson, a keeper at an Indianapolis zoo, entered the cage of a ferocious Bengal tiger, presumably by mistake, and was attacked. When <> the attendants heard his shrieks the lad was under the beast's paw and the ” savage teeth were crunching his head and neck. Clubs and red-hot irons were used without avail, and not until seven bullets were fired into the beast '' was the mangled youth’s release secured. It was then too late. ' ’

SAYS HE WAS PERSECUTED.

Reason Given) by Samnel Moser for Murdering His Family. A murder trial which is of more than ordinary interest, not only because of the enormity of the crime charged to the defendant, but on account of the revelations it is expected to bring forth concerning the peculiar customs and beliefs of the Amish community in this country, has been in progress at Pekin, 111. The j defendant is Samuel Moser, who last May murdered his entire family, consisting of his wife and three sons. Moser is the son of Benedict Moser, a luau worth. SIOO,OOO and .a. leader among the*

Amish people. The elder Moser refused to aid in his son’s defense, declaring that lawsuits are against the principles of the church. In an Amish community the church expects to regulate the conduct of its members. One of their characteristics is that they do not. believe in the expression of emo-

SAM MOSER.

tion in any way, and it is in connection with this peculiarity of their belief that Moser got into trouble with the church, which led to his expulsion, to persecution, according to his statements, nnd eventually to crime of a most horrifying nature. One Sunday, in church, he dandled his child on his knee and caressed it, to stop its restlessness. He was rebuked for this “idolatry” by the preacher and later told to confess his fault liefore the congregation. He refused and was expelled. •‘Then, he claims, persecution began. He says he was not permitted to eat at the table with his wife, that his father nnd mother would not visit at liis home, that

THE MOSER HOME

his wife and children were away from hint all day long Sundays at the church. These, with other persecutions, he says, made life so intolerable for him that there was only one thing left to do, and that was to end the lives of all his family and seek a new home or else death for himself. Moser shot himself, but without fatnl result, and was arrested before he could repeat the attempt upon his own life. The Amish people, of whom the Mosers

are a part, are mainly of German or Russian descent. Their invariable rule is to settle in communities nnd buy ail the land they can in one uninterrupted stretch. Then they build their big church in the village in the center of the settle-

ment. The village of Morton is the largest Amish community in the country. The marriage customs ore more sharply in contrast with American ideas than any thing else about the people. Bride and groom arc selected for euch other by the church, with a view to equalizing the future generation. The bright and promising young man must take to wife the slothful, dull girl, and the most wideawake, gay, industrious maid gets for her helpmeet the worst lout in the congregation. During the ceremony bride and groom stand on opposite sides of the church, and nfter it each goes to his nnd her own home, not to see the other for a week. 'Phe dress of the people is very plain, nnd the women's dress particularly so. The hair is worn combed straight back nnd wound in n knot, and adorned by a blue or black sunbonnet on all occasions. The people associate with none hut members of their community, wear no jewelry, hare no entertainments or parties, allow no wall paper or ornaments in their homes, nnd no musical instrument?. None of them is poor, and many are wcqlthy far beyond their wants. The troubles and dissensions in the Amish Church and Society are causing many members of this faith to dispose of their farms and belongings in central Illinois and seek new homes in the far West. The largest party of that society yet moved left Peoria the other day in special tourist ears for their new homes in Utah. Twelve earn of their household effects nnd farming implements have herti sent on ahead.

Emeralds have Itecn discovered in Arizona, and, it is said, in North Carolina. They are, however, very small.

TO RAISE THE MAINE.

Men Who Do the Work Win Receive Only a Salvage. It has been three years- since 25S sailors of the United States navy went to the bottom of Havana harbor with the wreck of the battleship Maine, and on the third anniversary of that event a contract was signed for the raising of the wreck. The N. F. T'hamberlain company of Chicago will undertake the work. A little over two years ago, when the question of. raising the wreck was first seriously broached Mr. Chanibevluiii,coneeived a plan for raising the wreck of the Maine, as well as that of the grounded. Spanish transport Alfonso XII. He immediately organized a company and set to work to perfect the details of the task. Mr. Chamberlain then proposed to raise both the wrecks of the Maine and the Alfonso for salvage, agreeing at the same time to pay the government 3 per cent of the net proceeds and guaranteeing the return of all personal property of the crew that should be recovered. The government notified the company that the proposition was acceptable and with the approval of the bond and the attachment of the official signatures the company is now ready to begin work. The plan which Mr. Chamberlain has adopted for the Maine is the building of an immense cofferdam around the wreck. The dam will be eighty feet broad at the base and wide enough nt the top for a safe wagon road. The incline will he on the inside. Bundles of brush thirty feet long, weighted with stone, will first lie let down all around the wreck. Upon this dirt and gravel will be dumped, forming a comparatively water-tight foundation. Stone, brush, dirt and gravel will then Inalternated until the wreck is completely surrounded by a dam forty-five feet high. Dumping engines will be put to work, as soon as the dam is completed and the wreck cleared of water. A well will be dug inside the dam. into which the bilge water can run, and the work of retrieving the wreck will then lie fairly begun. One hundred tons of brass nnd bronze, together with the engines nnd the protective armor of the Maine, will be the property of the Chamberlain company. The cost of doing the work outlined by Mr. Chamberlain is estimated at $75,00<i.

RURAL MAIL ROUTES.

Their Continnance May Depend on Patronage. Localities which have recently had rural mail routes established in them will be interested in a new order just issued by the government, which may indicate that rural service is not to be permanent if the delivery routes are not self-sustaining in point of revenue. Though Uncle Sam is always obliging and ever ready to cater to the wants of rural residents, yet he expects the rural mail system to be patronized to such an extent as not to detract from other de-, partments of the postoflice service. Contrary to the usual idea, postoflice business is computed on the basis of the amount of stamps canceled and not on the number of letters, postals and packages delivered from the otllee. Hence it will be seen that if on a certain rural route 2,000 pieces of mail were delivered in a month and the carrier on that route received no letters and cancelled no stamps, the route would lie considered from the point of view of the business end of the postal department, as a complete failure. The purpose of the new order requiring a report of the uiuouut of business originating on each rural route is to ascertain which of the routes are paying and which*are operated nt a loss. The carriers are required to report the number of letters, postal enrds, papers, packages and circulars they receive from farmers along their routes, the number of registered letters, special delivery letters, money orders and all the business which originates along their routes.

MRS. MOSER.

News of Minor Note.

Fourteen women received the doctor's degree last year at the University of Zurich. Congress lias adopted the “ilow-sand system” of filtration for the water supply of Washington. . Twenty Rio Janeiro policemen attacked ■in unurmed man on a recent night, cut him with sabers, fired thirty revolver shots at him and finally completed the cowardly assault by putting a bullet in his brnhi ns ho lay helpless in a doonvuy where he had taken refuge. Mrs. Charles Weed o 6 Bound Bro|ok, N. J., owns the most valuable cat in the world, a superb French Angora, and $5,000 would not buy him. Napoleon I. is the name of this famous pet, and its silken coat is of the richest golden hue. The beauty occupies luxurious npartqieuts. Cattlemen in South Dakota are generally agreed that It is time to abandon the present method of brnndiug cattle as cruel. In New Zealand they have a composition which is used to make an easily distinguishable mark. It is applied with a cold iron, destroying the hair or hide, but not causing pain to the animal-