Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1901 — Page 2

•JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. HcNSSELAER, - • • INDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Friends fear that Fred 11. Bacon, president of the Canton, S. D„ State Bank, which closed its doors, has fled and some intimate that he has committed suicide. He left Canton shortly before the bank failed, ostensibly for the purpose of going to .Minneapolis to procure financial aid. James F. Ayres of Port Arthur, Mich., was found dead in his room at a Washington hotel, lie had been shot in several places about the body, and the police assert that all the circumstances ' point to murder. Ayres belonged to a well-to-do family in Grand Rapids, Midi. L. I). Blaine, n wheat grower of Prat! County, declares that Kansas would need tlic services of 11.000 men from other States to help in saving the big wheat crop. Blaine held a conference with railroad officials, who agreed to make a spo tin! rate to harvest hands in the middle West. nnd-misery -prevailing in New -Verier especially among the children, to whom she has devoted years of her life, Mrs. Edith Thomas, friend of the poor and a giftc I writer, sent a bullet through her heart in the west side branch of the University Settlement. Robert W. Kinahan of Chicago, manager of the Stock Exchange building, has an oil painting which he bought at a sale of household effects seized for rept, and which cost him sls. Art experts, including Alfred Chntain, n New Vork critic, say it is a genuine Rubens and worth $15,990. Ail his life ".Steeple duck" John Williams laughed in the face of death high in the air as he followed his business of painting and repairing church steeples, only to be killed by a Cleveland street ear in a most commonplace way. The simple act of trying to dash in front of a trolley car brought him to It is death. Mrs. Mary Leonard, known as "French Mary.” a vivandiere of the Civil War and one of the most picturesque figures produced during the rebellion, committed suicide at Pittsburg, Pa., by taking poison. Mrs. Leonard served with the Pennsylvania volunteers, doing service in a number of battles, for which she received a medal for bravery. Following is tha,Btanding of the clubs In the National League: W. L. W. L. New York.. .10 5 Brooklyn .... 8 10 Cincinnati . .12 7 Philadelphia.. 9 10 Pittsburg ...11 BChicago 8 11 Boston ..... 9 7 Bt. Imitis. . 7 111 Standings in the American League arc as follows: W. L. W, L. Detroit 14 5 Boston 7 9 Baltimore ...10 sMilwaukee ..8 11 Chicago ....12 7 Philadelphia.. 5 11 Washington.. 9 oCleveland ... 4 15

NEWS NUGGETS.

President McKinley's trip lins been abandoned at San Francisco. American Museum of Natural History is about to send an ethnological expedition into China. Gen. Lueban, Filipino leader, lias promised to surrender with his entire command in n few days. The Twenty sixth infantry, United States volunteers, has been mustered out at the Presidio, San Francisco. John B. Forsythe, a well-known farmer of Kay County, Oklahoma, was found murdered in his house. There is no clew to the criminals. Federation of Musicians, in session at Denver, adopted resolutions declaring ragtime melodies “unmusical rot" and pledging the organization to work to check their popularity. ltiot followed an attempt of the Union Traction Company in Albany, X. V., to resume the operation of a portion of its electric street railway system which had lieen tied up by the strike employes. A parliamentary paper just issued shows that 1134 farm buildings, mills, cottages and hovels were burned in the Orange Itiver Colony and the Transvaal from June, ltMHt, to the end of January, 1901. Cincinnati society circles were stirred by the announctancnt that Miss Marjorie Harmon, daughter of Jmlson Hannon, eg-Attorney General of the United States, was secretly married to George Heckle of Boston. James Lee, colored, a convict from St. Joseph County, sent tip for larceny, was killed by Night Officer Herrick of the Michigan City, lnd., State prison, after lie hud murderously attacked the officer with an iron bar. To take care of its increasing business and to prepare for the world's fair, the Burlington Hitilrond Company Is planning an extensive system of terminals and yards in North Ht. Louis at an estimated cost of $ 1,000,U00. Two hundred miners employed by the Taylor Coal Conipauy at Beaver Dam, Ky„ have struck because of a recent Injunction temporarily restraining all operators froiy paying dues assessed by the United Mine Workers of America. Five hundred individuals who have hitherto been adherents of John Alexander Dowle of Chicago have retailed and left Zion because the general overseer lias declared tltut lie was un angel and a reincarnation *f the prophet Elijah. At Williamson, W. Vn„ Senator S. 1). Stokes was found not guilty of the murder of Bev. J. J. Woll, the I’resbytgrian minister killed lust November. The trial was brought ti> a sudden close by the failure of the prosecution to make u ease. Vlcc-Preahlent Boosevelt inis accepted the invitation to make an address at Minneapolis during the State fair in September. Edward A. Cudahy of Omaha is quoted aa saying he will, if necessary, double hla reward of s2s.<K*» to secure tlie capfnre of I’at Crone, the alleged kidnaper of hia son. Fire destroyed the plant of the Walkervilla, Out., match factory. The total less is given by Peter Stenius of Detroit, one of the partners, at $115,000, with $73,000 insurance. About 100 men were employed.

EASTERN.

Report comes from Metucben, N. J„ that Mary E. Wilkins find Dr. Freeman have been married. Steamer Bon Voyage was burned and beached near Portage ship canal, Lake Superior. Five passengers, all women, were drowned. Prof. Charles It. Eastman has been found not guilty of murder-of his broth-er-in-law, Richard H. Urogan, Jr., at Cambridge, Mass. Four-masted schooner Maria O. Teel has reached New York after a four months' voyage from Tampa, Fla.; she was driven far out to sea three times. E. F. Tibbott, who served Gen. Harrison for so many years as private secretary, Ims been made the confidential secretary of John Wnnamaker of Philadelphia. fJarabel Agaminn, an Armenian in West Hoboken, says his wife and her brother have fallen heir to an estate of $224,000,000 in Constantinople and Calcutta. The bodies of Perry B. Durand and tiny Lapman, two of the four men of the Rockefeller fleet recently drowned by the capsizing of a yawl, were found floating in the bay at Erie, Fa. A consolidation of all the natural gas companies, numbering about twenty, in Washington and Green counties, Pennsylvania, with n capitalization of übouT $12,000,000, is in progress. The boiler of a freight engine on the Huntington nnd Broad Top Railroad at Mount Dallas, Pa., the southern terminus of the road, exploded, instantly killing four members of the locul freight crew.

It is announced by the Homestead, I*a., school board that C. M. Schwab, President of the United States steel corporation, will present the borough with a manual training school. The site has been purchased. After dressing in his best clothes nnd paying liis hilts, George W. Harden, the janitor of the Nathan Littaur hospital, Gloversvillo, N. Y., committed suicide by shooting himself. Disappointment in love is said to have been the cause. Fight of rival syndicates to control Northern Pacific caused a wild panic in New York Stock Exchange, sending that stock up to SI,OOO a share and causing drop of 10 to 35 points in other securities. Many speculators were ruined. One mail was shocked to death by electricity and two of his companions who tried to rescue him from the spluttering wires were severely burned the other day In the first fatal accident at the PanAmerican Exposition grounds at Buffalo. Body of Willie McCormick, hoy who disappeared from his home at llighbridge, N. Y., six weeks ago and was thought to have been kidnaped, is found in Cromwell creek, in which lie is supposed to have been drowned accidentally. Tug farm house of Wesley Allen, at Khorley, Me., was burned during a repent night ami Mr. Allen, his wife, daughter of 14 nnd another person at present unknown were burned to death. The circumstances are believed to point to murder. A new cancer cure of undoubted benefit Is given to the world by Stephen Griggs of Brooklyn. The treatment consists in eating boiled yellow corn and drinking the water ia which it is boiled. No other food is allowed during the treatment. At least thirty days is necessary to complete a cure.

WESTERN.

Will of George (J. Cannon of Utah disposes of an estate valued at $1,000,000. Six high school girls at Terre Haute have been suspended for staying away from classes to see “Sapho.’’ Steamer City of Paducah sank in the Mississippi river and twenty-five or more persons were drowned. Vessel struck a snag while leaving landing. Enthusiasm of crowd at San I.uis Obispo, Cal., to shake hands with President McKinley caused panic from which he was extricated with difficulty. Seven counts charging James Callahan, alleged to be one of the abductors of young Cudahy, with perjury on bis late trial, have been filed in Omfflia. T. S. McClindy, in a fit of insanity, shot anil killed Howard Baker, then killed himself, at Boone’s Ferry, twelve miles south of Oregon City, Ore. In Salt Lake City the north wail of the Salt Lake Theater collapsed. So far aa known no one was hurt. The building was one of the landmarks of the city. Iu Indianapolis the Appellate Court held that n railroad company cannot exempt itself from liability for negligent injury of a passenger traveling on a pass. The expected slirfke of carpenters and builders at St. Paul was nverted, an agreement being made with the Builders' Exchange. Both sides made concessions. Fire sweeping through a lumber district near Detroit caused losses aggregating SKOO,OOO. The Western Union Telegraph Company suffered to the extent of SOOO,000. Lawrence and Miller, charged with tbreo postofflec robberies in Kansas, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to four and three years' imprisonment respectively. William B. Leeds of New York, the tin plate magnate, has signified his Intention to give $33,000 to the Margnret Smith homo for aged women at Richmond, lnd. The Giia river on the Saeaton reservation, Arizona, lias gone dry nnd no grain will lie harvested by the Indians. Government aid will be required to relievo the situation. The Great Northern Railroad has filed with tho Minnesota Secretary of State the certificate of the inereaso of $25,000,000 in its capital stock. The fee paid to tho State was $13,500. Merritt Chism, wealthy fanner residing nanr Bloomington, ill., stubbed and boat his wife to death In the presence of tlie family, nnd then attempted to drown himself In a shallow well. E. 11. Metkevcr, who murdered Dorothy McKee at Long Beach. Cal., in July, 1899. was hanged at San (Jtientin prison. Mftbever wn* in love with the girl, hut she declined to marry him. Mr*. Celia MeFnddrn, wife of n Cleveland saloonkeeper, while enmning Detroit street in v tliat city, was struck by an east bound ear nnd n distance of fifty feet. Her recovery is doubtful. Charles Lott ery mid Jack Ryan, charged witlt robbing tlu» savings bank at ChaJroa, Ohio, last month, were con-

rioted of'burglary. Lowery was a member of tfie famous "Blinky” Morgan gang. w ’ A fire, believed to have been of incendiary origin, destroyed several buildings in the business section of Crested Butte, Colo., causing a loss of $50,000. The Colorado Supply Company was the heaviest loser. If it is not too hard to strike a bargain with John D. Rockefeller, Siegel, Cooper & Co. of Chicago anil New York will place a great department store similar to those the firm has in New York and Chicago in Cleveland. Charles ClabaugU and William Morrison were killed nnd John Paxton was seriously injured by an explosion at Pleasant Valley mines? near Carthage, Mo. The men were drilling and struck an unexploded shot. At I.akotn, N. D., there was n heavy fall of water which was as black as ink, and which, upon examination, was found to contain a tine, black, greasy sediment. A second shower of perfectly clear water fell later in the day. Fred Smith, son of ex-Judge Smith of Osborne County, Kansas, was shot and killed at Cleo, O. T. He began discharging a revolver in a restaurant filled with women nnd children nnd Cook Snoddy opened fire upon him. It is believed by his friends that Dr. Henry Hopkins of Kansas City is to be Dr. Carter, who resigned recently. Dr. Hopkins is a son of Mark Hopkins, who made Williams famous. At the point of a revolver Rug Bickow--Bki, a Chicago saloonkeeper, forced one of three burglars to throw up his hands and surrender. The man’s companions, however, refused to obey and ran from the saloon aud escaped. While Jacob Becker of Manitou, Colo., was viewing the ostriches on the new ostrich farm near that city, one bird plucked a four-carat diamond stud from his shirt front aud swallowed it. The stone was valued at SOSO. An attempt of the uew director of police of Detroit to quiet a curbstone orator caused a riot that lasted four hours, involving thousands of disturbers aud injury to nearly a score. Force of 300 reserves was needed to disperse the mob. A dastardly attempt was made to wreck a fast passenger train on the Wabash Railroad by placing a pile of ties across the track a mile east of Wyatt, ind. A slow freight unexpectedly preceded the flyer and the obstructions were discovered. The body of Wolf Betz of Carmi, 111., was found floating in the Wabash river near Mount Vernon, Ind. The head was crushed in and several bruises were found on the body. Betz disappeared from his home two weeks before and had $5,000 on his person. Clinton E. Worden, a porch climber anil crook of national notoriety, and Edward C. Worden were arrested in Chicago. The men confessed that they had committed burglaries in various parts of the city, and in their room was found jewelry valued at SOOO. Representatives of more than 2.500 machinists employed in Cleveland, Ohio, who are members of the International Machinists’ Association, presented printed circulars to the manufacturers asking for a nine-hour working day and 12% per cent increase in wages. Dr. Herman, colored, was fatally shot at Topeka, Kan., by the members of a vigilance committee. The trouble was the outgrowth of a scandal. Herman lived at the home of Mrs. George Hamler, whose husband died under Herman’s care several weeks ago. A report from San Francisco, where 21 of the newly appointed second lieutenants recently appeared for examination, shows that there were 19 failures, a surprisingly large number. The war department thinks that not more than half of the new appointees will get through. A horse doctor named Ziegler and George Browner were having a fight hack of Colby’s billiard hall at Fairbury, Neb., when the Rock Island switch engine, pushing a string of cars out of the way, ran over the two men, cutting off b6th of Ziegler’s feet and injuring Browuer’s right hand. Louis Deman, a member of Company D, Second United States infantry, surrendered himself to Marshal Drushall of Orrville, Ohio. Deman said he had assaulted a comrade, Daniel Ferris, with n bayonet while the latter was asleep in the barracks at Columbus, it is thought Deman is crazy. The Warren County grand Jury at Hamilton, Ohio, indicted John McClung, 70 years old, the richest man in Mason, for murder in the second degree for the killing of his wife llebeeea, who was found in bed with her skull crushed a month ago. McClung is a miser and worth SIOO,OOO. Frank Rockefeller has secured the appointment of a receiver for the Siegel Sanders Live Stock Commission Company of Kansas City, in which he is largely interested. Judge Gibson appointed Utley Wedge of Joplin, Mo., receiver, with full power to take charge of all the business and affairs of the company. .1. L. Chandler, an old resident farmer of lol.and, Oklahoma, was taken from his home the other night, presumably by cattlemen, and lynched. For some time there has been trouble between the farmery nnd the cattlemen, and a great many cattle have died from drinking poisoned water. Chandler was suspected of having been responsible for the loss.

SOUTHERN.

As a result of domestic trouble* K. C. Page allot ami killed his brother-in-law, F. E. McCalleu, at Ennis, Texas. Henry Johnson, a negro, was lynched at Valdosta, Ga. He luid tired at a young white man, but ilid not hit him. Oil was struck seventeen miles west of Lake Charles, I.n. The well is between 300 nnd 300 feet iu depth and Hows freely. A tuob of masked meti went to n house oeeupied by Lee Key, colored, near Knoxville, Ark., niul at daybreak Key wan found dead in tho yard, having been shot. It Is charged he had been terrorising other negroes. John Turgor surrendered to City Marshal Smith, stating that he bad killed Jerry Boulden, one nnd a halt miles south of Alvarndo, Texas. The parties were brothers-in-law and the killing was the result uif a fntnlly quarrel. An effort Is being made to organise in Norfolk, Va., a combination embracing the cotton seed crushers of the South.

The object of the proposed combine, it is understood, is to control the market for cotton aeed and its products. W. L. Royse, a student at the Ken* tucky School of Medicine in' Louisville, was stabbed to death by John Nitbers, colored assistant janitor at the school. The crime was committed because Itoyse remonstrated with Nithers for being drunk. The negro escaped.

FOREIGN.

De Wet has invaded the Transvaal men. CoJP? Bojii de Castellane is suffering from appendicitis. French government has promised to give American coal a fair trail. M. Ilcnri de Verninao, vice-president of the French Senate, is dead, aged 60. German budget report for next fiscal year will reveal a deficit of nearly 80,000,000 marks. Holders of the* notes given by Prince Henry, husband of Queen Wilhelmina, have thrown them on the open market. Many young girls, from 15 to 18 years of age, have been stabbed in the breasts by a red-headed man at night in public places in Moscow, Russia. The Dublin police seized William O’Brien’s weekly paper, the Irish People. It is reported that the seizure was made on account of reflections upon King Edward. The English House of Commons, by a vote of 307 to 58, voted the civil list for the King, the sum being fixed at $2,350,000 annually. The opposition was made up almost entirely of the Irish members. It is reported from Tikvesh, a vilayet of Balonica, that the Turkish police in that district are acting with great brutality toward the unfortunate inhabitants. Many Bulgarian residents In the Tikvesh district have been arrested and cruelly tortured.

IN GENERAL.

The Hawaiian territorial legislature has passed a resolution containing a memorial to President McKinley to remove Gov. Dole. He is charged with obstructing legislation. Three men were burned to death in a boarding-house which, with other wooden tenements and Roy & Savigniese’s Hotel, was destroyed at Ottawa, Ont. The property loss was $30,000. The Indian Bureau has received word that the official count of the vote of the Cherokee nation on the Cherokee agreement with the Dawes commission shows a majority of 1,023 votes for rejection, instead of 1,235, as first announced. Castro Garcia, who absconded with revenue funds to the amount of $2,000 in June last and who was extradited from Havre In July, has been tried by a native court at San Juan de Porto Rico and sentenced to thirty-two years’ imprisonment. ' - The schooner Fostoria, in tow of the steamer Annie Laura, collided with a huge cake of ice in the St. Clair river and sank almost immediately. Two sailors, whose names are not known, were drowned. Three members of the crew were saved. Monterey, Mexico, and vicinity, for eight miles on each side, was visited by a terrific hail and rain storm. The river rose rapidly. A number of families were carried away aud many children drowned. An Indian village was swept out of existence. The Southern Pacific passenger department has completed its statistics on the west-bound colonist movement, which began Feb. 1 aud concluded on May 5. During this time the number of people who came from the east, both colonist and second-class, was 20,434—a 150 per cent increase over 1900. Bradstreet’s says: “One looks in tain, at this writing, for any evidence that the general business of the country has been in any way interfered with by the—for the time involved—severest fall in prices in the history of the New York Stock Exchange. The general conclusion reached is, indeed, that convulsion is purely a ‘stock panic,’ not involving or connected with the general industries of the country in any way. There will not, in fact, be a bushel of wheat or a ton of coal less in the country as a result of this convulsion. Speculation in grain and other staples has, however, been checked by the concentration of interest upon the stock market. General trade advices this week are, in the main, rather more favorable than those of last week, mainly because of the improvement in crop prospects, due to seasonable rains following planting.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cottle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.85; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2,51 cto 52c; onts, No. 2,27 c to 28c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 52c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 10c to 11c; potatoes, 34c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.75; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; com, No. 2 white, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 30c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.85; hogs, $3.00 to $5.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2,28 cto 29c; rye, No. 2,64 cto 55c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.10; hogs, $3.00 to $5.05; sheep, $3.00 to $4.45; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 45c to 40c; onts. No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; rye. No. 2,58 cto 50c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.05; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 70c; corn. No. 2| yellow, 45c to 40c; onts, No. 2 white, 30c to 31c; rye, 55c to 50c. * Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 45c to 40c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 28c; rye. No. 2,54 c to 55c; clover seed, prime, $0.50. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 3,42 cto 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 1,53 c to 55c; barley, No. 2,56 cto 60c; pork, mess. $14.45. j Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; bogs, fair to prime, S3.OU to $5.95; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50 to $4.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.10. New York—Cattle, $3.75 to $5.00; hog*, $3.00 to $5.90; sheep, $3.00 to $4.76; wheat, No. 2 red, 79c to 80c; com. No. 2, 50c to 51c; oats. No. 2 white, 38c to 34e; buttor, creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, western, 13c to 14c.

A RIVER BOAT SINKS.

PADUCAH GOES-DOWN IN THE MISSISSIPPI. Steamer Strikes a Snajr During the Night Near Grand Tower, Ill.—Report* Say that Fifteen Person* Are Drowned. The steamer City of Paducah sank Sunday night in the Mississippi river near Grand Tower, 111., and at least fifteen of her passengers and crew were drowned. The boat left St. Louis Sunday morning, and at nearly every landing along the river took on freight, most of which was corn. The steamer carried a small passenger list and a light cargo. During the night she was backing out front Brunkhorst landing, which is about ten miles above Grand Tower, when she swung around and struck the bank heavily with her stern. A snag imbedded in the bank tore an enormous hole in the hull, through which the water rushed with frightful rnphyty. She at once began to settle and at the end of three minutes nothing but her roof, texas deck and pilot house remained above the surface. —The crew and their-roustabout helpers, being on the-lower deck in the midst of the cargo when the vessel struck, were

CITY OF PADUCAH.

placed in a position of awful peril. As the steamer careened in settling, the big cargo, consisting chiefly of sacks of corn, shifted, and before the men could escape half of them wore pinned down and either crushed to death or held until the water brought abont their end. The passengers and most of the crew were asleep at the time. When the fact became known that the boat was in trouble' a panic took possession of the people on board. Several jqmped overboard and swam ashore. The boat sank in twentyfive feet of water. The steamer City of Clifton, of the same line, passed up shortly after the accident and took on board the crew and passengers who had escaped. The City of Paducah was a 600-ton vessel, nine years old, and cost $30,000. Captain Kirkpatrick, one of the oldest river men .of St. Louis, who had been with the vessel since it was put into commission, was in charge. It was fully Insured. This is the third time the City of Paducah has sunk, but the first time loss of life has oeci/rred. Captain Kirkpatrick stated that the boat would be a total loss.

STRIKE RIOT IN ALBANY.

Traction Company Trlei to Ran Car* with Non-onion Men. In Albany, N. Y., riot followed the attempt of the Union Traction Company to resume the operation of a portion of its electric street railway system which had been tied up by the strike employes, Inaugurated last week. The first car passed the lines of strikers without molestation. The second was held up, the wire* cut, obstructions placed on the track and the motorman badly cut by flying misailes. He was taken from the car and marched hack past the frightened nonunion men huddled together in the barn. The conductor was pulled out through the car window. Later the car was ditched. Although there was a squad of police on hand, it was powerless. Hundreds of maddened strikers and citizens chased 200 non-union men through the streets, using bricks, clubs and revolvers, because the latter had come to Albany to take the places of the strikers.

MORGAN STAYS A PANIC.

Save* London from Threatened Corner In Northern Pacific. J. Pierpont Morgan, backed by Baron Rothschild, Sir Ernest Cassel and tlmlr powerful financial connections, averted a wholesale crash on the London Stock Exchange Monday. The famous New Yorker, studying the metropolitan market from his retreat at Aix-les-Bains, and foreseeing that only extraordinary action could prevent a slump in London like that which devastated the New York market,.wired his London house to use all its influence to tide over the danger. The situation threatened general disaster. J. Pierpont Morgan went to London with all possible haste, arriving in the nick of time. The Stock Exchange committee, contrary to all precedent, was Induced to suspend buying in Northern Pacific stock until further notice, thus smashing all schemes for a corner and restoring the market's equanimity.

CHURCH AND CLERGY.

The First English Lutheran Church of the Gcnernl Synod in Toledo, Ohio, has been organized. The Rev. C. 11. Weaver, M. D., has resigned the charge of Triulty Episcopal Church, Davenport, lowa. St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Grand Forks, N, D., has secured as its rector the Rev. J. K. Burleson of Tccumseb, Mich. Col. John Jacob Astor has announced to the trustees of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, his intention to present a chime of bolls on the com-? pH*>ion of the structure. The Rev. J. H. Eager, D. D., missionary of the Southern Baptist convention to Italy, and his son, Mr. J. Howard Eager, Jr., of Baltimore, will conduct a 'Seventy days' tour to Europe. One of the handsomest churches In the Cumberland valley of Pennsylvania Is ths First Lutheran Chnrch of Carlisle, which is nearing completion. The congregation was organised 140 years ago.

YOUNGERS MAY GO FREE.

Clemency la Recommended for the Notorious Prisoner*. The efforts of the friends of the Youngers to secure their release from the Minnesota penitentiary are at last apparently to be crowned with success. For many years the friends of these men have gone regularly to Minnesota to present to theGovernor nnd Legislature a plea in behalf of the convicts, but until recently

little encouragement was held out, The crime for which they were incarcerated was regarded as so dastardly, the anxiety to maintain tin* good reputation off the State for law and order was so decided that neither' the people nor

COLE YOUNGER.

the legislators of Minnesota would pay the slightest attention to any proposition looking to their release. Now, however, the Minnesota board of prison managers has unanimously recommended the parole of the celebrated bandits, who have been in prison twenty-five years. Cole, James and Bob Younger were imprisoned for their raid on the Bank of Northfield in September, 1876. The James brothers, Jesse and Frank, escaped to Missouri: Two members of the gang were killed and Bob Younger died in prison. There were six Younger brothers, one of whom died in childhood. They were the sons of CoJ. Henry W. Younger, a wealthy Southerner, who moved to Casa County, Missouri, in 1830. When the war broke out the Younger property ta»

raided first by one side and then the other. The boys, in revenge for the injuries Inflicted upon their father, became guerrillas and created so many enemies that pardon was denied them at the close of the v^ar.

JIM YOUNGER.

They then joined with the James brothers and began a long series of bank and train robberies. The most famous detectives were sent to hunt them, nnd were in turn hunted themselves. In one of these fights John Younger was killed, hut after he had fallen from his saddle he rallied and killed the detective who had shot him. At the time of the Northfield robbery the Youngers might have escaped had they not stopped to assist a wounded companion. The James boyswanted to kill the wounded man, but the Y'oungers would not listen to the proposition. The James boys then pushed on and escaped, while the Y'oungers, in trying to get the wounded man away, were surrounded and captured.

STOCK VALUES ARE HIGH.

Table Showing How Values Have Greatly Advanced. The following table relates its own story of growth of fortunes, presenting the value attached to leading railway and industrial securities eight months ago, the high prices achieved during the recent boom and the closing quotations for the week: September, Close--1900. High. Friday. Atchison 25% 90% 73% Atchison pfd ...67% 108 97% Baltimore and 0hi0.... 65% 114% 105 Brooklyn Rapid Transit 47% 86% 77% Burlington 120 199% 181 Delaware and Hudson. 106% 185% 159% Erie 10% 43% 80% Great Northern pfd...149% 208 179% Missouri Pacific 46% 116% 106 New York Central ....128% 170 154% Northwestern 158% 215 198 Northern Pacific 45% 1000 150 Rock Island 103% 169% 151% Union Pacific 53% 133 112 Wabash pfd 16 46% 37 American Tobacco .... 85% 130% 122 Colorado Fuel 29% 108% 90 Consolidated Gas 164 238 218% General Electric 132% 234 220 Pacific Mall 27% 47% 36% Railroad earnings, export movements nnd bank resources have Increased immensely, but not in proportion with the upward movement in stocks. Secretary Gage and other officials of e government explain the rise in stock values as due in a large measure to the vast Increase in money, cheapening its relative value. That the banks have not entered into the wild spirit of speculation with their trust funds is shown by the fact that against the $900,000,000 now outstanding there was nearly $800,000,000 in loans last year. There is now in the federal treasury an accumulation of gold, silver, United States notes and treasury notes, exclusive of the $150,000,000 reserve, total cash and deposits of $230,457,119, against. $212,282,391 last year.

CHINA WILLING TO PAY.

Saxo Revenue* Are Diminishing and Time Moot Be Granted. The Chinese plenipotentiaries have sent to the ministers theic answer to the demand for 450,000,000 taels ($327,000,000). The Chinese reply states that China haa not the slighteat intention of trying to escape from the payment of her just obligations; that she is pledged to pay nil the legitimate expenses of the allies apd all damages actually incurred by foreigners during the recent troubles, and will do so. After dwelling at length upon the diminishing revenue of the country nnd the' great number of outstanding obligation* of the country, the plenipotentiaries propose to set aside 15,000,000 taels ($lO,000,000) annually out of 70,000,000 fnela ($50,000,000) to be paid to thj powers in monthly installments until the sum agreed upon is made up. Those best acquainted with the condition of the Chinese treasury are impressed with tho fact that the country can do no more.

Notes of Current Events.

Salvation army will establish a colony in Florida. « Several Kansas City preachers scored Police Judge McAuley for fining Carrie Nation SSOO. Arkansas House pasted n bill appropriating $1,000,000 for completion of tho capitol at Little Rock. Dr. W. C. Browning, Philadelphia; who attended the late C. L. Magee, millionaire and Senator, has presented a bill for $190,000 for medical scrvlcee. Ha attended the doctor twenty-one moo the.