Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1901 — Page 2

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. QcNSSELAER, - - IWDiANA

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

The presidency of the New York Cenrial, to succeed Samuel K. Callaway, who resigns to become head of the Aineri- ; can Locomotive Company, lias been offered to VV. 11. Newman, president of the ; Lake Shore and Michigan Southern ltaitway. - At Black Buck Lake, Minn., a wild moose, chased by dogs, got tangled up In the anchor rope of a boat containing a little girl, and before the parents could' J interfere the moose dragged the boat nnd I its contents across the lake. The child j was not hurt.' The schooner Edwin lloy arrived at ! Halifax, N. 8., from Capo Horn after a successful sealing trip of eight months. The schooner brings 1 ,l'Oo skins of fur seals, and reports seals numerous in the South seas and no other vessel engaged on the fishery. ‘ J. 11. Stokes, alias W. J. Davis, 11. V. Hawkins, J. 11. Langford, W. J, Stone and W. I. Crane, one of the most noted burglars In the West, whose specialty ia robbing fur stores, lias been left an estate Vof $50,000 through the death of relatives in Fort Dodge, lowa. The trick of a practical joker who drugged a bowl of punch served at a meeting of the Supreme Council, “Order of X,” a new social order in Indianapolis, nearly caused the death of every one present. As it was, out of the twentyfour members present nineteen were prostrated for several hours. In deciding the DeLlma case against the federal government the Flitted States Supreme Court held that the constitution followed the Dag iuto Porto Hico, and that the island, at the time the duties \yere collected, was- a territory of tlio United States, but not a part thereof within the revenue clause of the constitution. Mitchell Kidd, n farmer living on Davis creek, near Charleston, \Y. Vn., was shot and killed at iiis home by John Kowlins, a miner. Itowlills’ wife was infatuated with Kidd and a few days ago left her husband at their home in Fayette County and could not be found. Rowlius found a clew and followed her Pt> Kidd's house. It was announced at the annual commencement of tlie Columbus, Ohio, Art School that Emerson McMlllen of New York had offered to give a site valued at $.*10,000 and n sum not so exceed SIOO,000 for the erection of an art museum, providing an equal amount was raised by the people of Columbus by popular subscription. - Lieut. Gov. M. F. Allen, vice president nnd director of the Farmers’ National Hank, which recently suspended at Vergonnes, Vt., and J. \V. Ketchjjm, a representative in the Legislature from that place, wore arrested By Fnited States officers under indictments charging them with complicity with Cashier D. 1). Lewis in wrecking Ihn bnnl. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: W. L. \V. L. New Y0rk...14 8 Brooklyn ....13 13 Cincinnati ..15 11 St. L0ui5....12 10 Philadelphia 10 12 Boston 0 14 Pittsburg .. .15 12 Chicago 11 19 Standings in the American League are us follows: \V. L. W. L. Chicago ....19 9Boston 11 11 Detroit 18 11 Milwaukee ..10 17 Washington. 14 9 Philadelphia.. 9 17 Baltimore ...12 OCleveland ... 8 19

NEWS NUGGETS.

Boors raptured n British post of fortyone ruen near Mnruisburg. Lieut. Sweet is to lie chief of the secret service in the Philippine*. Senator W. A. Clark must pay tax of $240,000 on bis United Verde mine prop erty. Admiral Sampson says he will not retire until he reaches the ago limit, Feb. 0 next. William P. Ilazrn of the United States secret service has resigned to go into business; Robert 11. Moulton, who shot at May Buckley ami wounded her two escorts, is hopelessly insane. Sultan of Morocco lias yielded to the French demands ami danger of serious trouble is averted. iAtndon hears the mullah has mad* an alliance iu northern Somaliland and has SO,OOO men to lead against the British. While preaching from his pulpit in the Harmony Street Baptist Church at Avondale, Ala., Rev. J. B. McEwen, a negro, was shot from a window of the church tind killed. An oil well that throws n aix-iuch stream of petroleum fully 100 feet in the air has been struck on Middle Hass Island, in Lake Erie, a few miles from Sandusky, Ohio. United Presbyterian general assembly, has adopted report of judiciary committee, declaring members of secret societies ineligible to membership in the church and expelling those already mem bers. Miss Agnes Long, at Sycamore, Ind., shot herself through tkc benrt In the Methodist Church pulpit. She went to th« church aiohe for organ practice. The body was discovered by her brother four houra later. At Naugatuck, Couti.. Caro Rung bought a bicycle, and in scorching down n long hill he turned out to dodge a team and ran squarely into a atone wall, llis bend struck the wall and his skull was crushed. Death was instantaneous. The Cuban constitutional convention Ims accepted the Platt amendment by u vote of 14 to 15, the final action being taken amid scenes of intense excitement. Noah Johnson, a Portsmouth, Ohio, bicyclist, while scorching over the route of n coming ruee, ran into E. L. Barrows on the streets of Scioloville and inflicted fatal injuries. Joliiihiiii was arrested. A. Robertson & Co., operating the Corbin and Excelsior collieries at Sbamokiu, Pa., agreed to hereafter pay their employe! semi-monthly, whereupon the strike of 1,000 men and boys was declar* rd off..

EASTERN.

Howard Gould will build at Sand Point, L. 1., an imitation of Kilkenny Castle. The Wakefield, Mass., Baptist Church has extended a unanimous call to Hev. 11. A. Heath of Keokuk, lowa, to become its pastor. Steamer Baltimore foundered in Lake Huron, and twelve of the crew, including the captain and his wife, perished. The storm caused many lake wrecks. Fire gutted three floors of the big wine warehouse at the East India wharf, Brooklyn, N. Y., belonging to the Sonoma Wine Company. The loss is estimated at $250,000. William Woodlmll, a farmer residing at Laurel, L. 1., shot and killed Martha Williamson, a neighbor, nnd then committed suicide. Just what led to the tragedy has not yet been made clear. Herman Oeiriehs on a recent trip from New York to Hail Francisco, took by accident an overdose of strychnine that came near to ending his career and incidentally his iuterest in the Fair millions. Frank Herny, son of h Methodist clergyman, shot and kilied Charles Vanderlyn at Greenfield, N. Y. Heroy was drunk and was abusing his uncle, James Heroy, an aged cripple, and Yanderlyn interfered. The great ship, armor plate and gun combination of the Vickers .Maxim Company of England and-the William Cramp Shipbuilding Company and the Bethlehem Steel Urfmpany of this country bus been practically completed. The International League of Press Clubs Benevolent Association has filed articles of incorporation in Union County, New Jersey. The association will erect a home at New Orange, N. J., for aged and indigent newspaper workers. The five West Point cadets dismissed recently—Bowlb.v, Cleveland, Keller, Linton and Mahaffey—will not appeal for clemency to the War Department. They have entered the service of the New York and Bermudez Asphalt Company.

Giovo Buttaeavaello was convicted in White Plains, N. Y., of having buried his own child while the baby was alive. The crime was committed at Hastings on the Hudson. The murderer was sentenced to nine years and ten months iu State prison. A sensational suicide following a desperate attempt at murder took place at a Philadelphia hotel when John A. Jenkins of Brooklyn, N. Y., attempted to kill a young woman named Mae Barber and Then blew out his brains while in the grasp of a policeman. Ernest Button, colored, who pleaded guilty to administering poison to William Eliegood, his father-in-law, with murderous intent, was sentenced at Wilmington, Bel., to receive sixty lashes, stand one hour in the pillory, be imprisoned four years and pay n tine of $5,900. Two crowded electric cars racing toward each other for a switch while running at the rate of forty miles an hour collided near Greenbush. near Albany, N. Y., with terrific force. Five persons were killed and more than a score injured, at least two fatally and others seriously. • Bavid Reynolds, a farmer living two miles from Schenectady, N. Y., has been uiunlfiTtl In his Until. Ills head was smashed to a pulp with an ax, which was found near by. Reynolds was miserly and wealthy and it has always been believed he carried large sums in his boots. Fifteen of the sixteen members of the crew of the Norwegian bark Elsie were drowned by the sinking of that vessel as the result of a collision in a dense fog off Sable Island with the Wilson liner Ohio. The survivor, Christian Pontoon, 10 years old, was brought into Boston on the Ohio. Mrs. George Wendt of Guttenbcrg, N. J., has gone to New York to have specialists make an X-ray examination of her stomach. She says she swallowed a lizard twelve years ago while drinking a glass of water. She believes the animal is still alive within her and claims that every time she changes her died the lizard makes a vigorous protest. Little Madeline Edison, the 12-year-old daughter of Thomas A. Edison, the wizard of Menlo Park, is the latest proposed victim of kidnapers. Recently Mr. Edison received a letter in which a demand was made for a very large sum of money to be placed in a lonely spot in the Orange mountains. The result of a refusal to comply with the demand was to be that Madeline would be kidnaped.

WESTERN.

Senator Ilannn has joined Memorial Post, G. A. It., of Cleveland. lowa Prohibitionists nominated a State ticket, headed by A. U. Coates for Governor. Whitten Orwin and Lofih Cisko were instantly killed by lightning near Hockstown, Ohio. Leo Lynch and Henry Krcsh, 9 years of age, were drowned iu the Kaw river at Kansas City while tishiug. John L. Jones, who shot and killed Thomas Keane at Evansville, lnd„ waa acquitted on the ground of self-defense. William I’eyaer, n young man engaged on the new Wells building in Milwaukee as a pointer, fell ten stories and came out alive. John It. Tanner, former Governor of Illinois, was attacked by heart disease and died within half an hour at a hotel in Springfield. Postmaster Lowry and son of Carter, Ok., were shot and killed by a man named Fowler. The shooting wus the outcome of an old feud. The body of Henry >1 ingot s, who shot and killed his brother-iu Jaw, Frank Grepel, in St. Paul, was found in a small lake near Rosemont, Minn. First national Bunk of Mineral Point, Wls., was blown by robbers, who secured $30,000 aud escaped without leaving a clew to their identity. Claude W t limluell, aged 32, n clothing merchant of St. Joseph, Mo., committed suicide. He left n note saying his death was due to domestic difficulties. John Miner wtis shot and killed by William Decorsey uear Couesville, Ohio. The men were intoxicated and quarreled over the possession of a bottle of whisky. Mrs. Samuel Mm honberg of Chicago, while trying to snve her 0 months old baby front flames caused by nn explosion of gasoline, was so severely burned that •he died. \V. Mahey fired the contents of a

double-barreled shotgun into the body of Homer Kein at Augusta, Ok., without any apparent cause. Keiu was fatally wounded. Johnson Haynioud, a wealthy farmer, disappeared from his home ten days ago and his body was found in the Ohio river at Procton. A bullet hole in the head indicated murder. A second attempt to wreck a passenger train on the Wabash road was mnde near Wyatt, Ind., the other night. Ties were placed on the track as they were ten days before. Two children of Julius Poss, aged 1 and 5, were burned to death at their home in the v town of Lida, Minn. They entered the barn with some matches and tiie building was ablaze a few minutes later. Richard C. Hixlop, a 13-yjjar-old *<-hoolboy, was beaten ami stabbed to death as he lay in bed in his father’s house in San Francisco. Richard Lutcbard. a Swedish butcher, is tinder arrest for the murder. For interfering with a father who was chastising his child, Benjamin Atkins, a brick mason was killed in Chicago. Daniel D. McCarthy, a saloonkeeper, is under arrest, charged with causing the death of Atkins. The National Association of PhysioMedical Physicians and Surgeons, in convention at Indianapolis, elected A. E. Gummngc of Chicago as president and voted to meet in Chicago the third Tuesday of May, 1902. During the performance of “Buckskin Bill’s” Wild West show at New Castle. Ind., Edward Wallace was stabbed to death by William Briggs fn the cooking tent where the meu were employed. Briggs escaped to the woods. The Aragon mine at Norway, Mich., has been sold by Ogelvie, Norton & Co. of Cleveland to the United States *Steel trust for $2,900,000. The Aragon is one of the older mines on the range and has an output of over 500,000 tons a season. Miss Eliza Karnes, who has been eooking in private houses lu Wichita, Kan., for the last eight years, died, an 1 in her trunk was found $5,000 in greenbacks. She was supposed to have been penniless, and always claimed to be very poor. The cause of her death is a mystery. Dr. W. T. Wallace engaged in a duel with four robbers the other night an I saved the First National Bank and the postotffie in Waverly, Ohio, front being robbed, lie exchanged shots with the burglars, and a trail of blood proves that ltis aim was good. The crooks made their escape. The aftermath of'a ball game between Cass School and Oberlin College on the college campus iu Cleveland was a ferocious scrimmage, in which both teams and 100 of their friends participated. Wilfred Alburn received a broken collar bone and black eyes and bloody noses were common. * Jacob Utters, a well-to-do livery stable man, shot Mrs. Henry Kegelmyer, a wealthy widow, at her home in Leavenworth, Kan., and then shot himself. Both are fatally wounded. The shooting was the result of a fit of jealous rage. Utters being in love with the woman, who had not returned his affection. William Park was shot and killed at Central, N. M., In the office of a justice of the peace during the preliminary examination of May Esmond, charged with a serious crime. James A. Wiley had given damaging testimony in which he used Park’s name. Park commenced shooting and Wiley dropped him. For fifteen years Mrs. Florence Bovey. wife of Prof. C. L. Bovey, superintendent of the Ostrander, Ohio, public schools, has been unable to speak. The other day she suddenly regained her voice. Her nftiiction had baffled the skill of many of the country’s best physicians, and its disappearance is as great a mystery.

The N'psbit law of Missouri providing among other things that the offense of illegal voting may be punishable by imprisonment iu the State penitentiary for any term of years in the discretion of the court, was sustained iu every point by n decision of Judges Wood and Ferris of the St. Louis criminal court sitting en banc. At Zanesville, Ohio, Judge Frazier adjudged Mayor James L. Holden guilty of contempt of court, nnd fined him S2OO and costs, nnd the six policemen who assisted in the rescue of the patrol wagon from the custody of the sheriff, who levied upon it to satisfy an execution ngainst the city, wore sentenced to pay the costs in the case against them. At Pond Creek, Ok., Bill Campbell, a negro, was lynched by a mob of 400 persons, which broke down the jail, took hint to the scene of his crime, nnd hanged him to a telegraph pole. While on the way to the place of execution the negro sang “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” and other hymns. The crime for which Campbell was hanged was the fatal shooting of Deputy Sheriff George Smith. George Greyers' jewelry store at Anderson. Ind., wns robbed of several thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds the other day at noon, when a clerk was alone in the store. Two strangers entered, and while one engaged the clerk's attention the other secured n tray of diamonds from the show window. The robbery wns not discovered until some time later, the robbers having made their escape. There were eighteen stones taken.

SOUTHERN.

F. H. Richardson of Louisville, Ky., shot and killed his wife, Kittle Richardson, mistaking her for a burglar. It it thought that Mrs. Richardson was walking in her sleep. Robbers blew open the postoffioe safe at Buena Vista, Miss., nud secured SSOO in stamps and money. From the safe of Thompson & King they secured negotiable paper to the amount of $4,000. Millions of dollars damage has been done nnd at least eight lives lost in- Upper Tennessee by the floods, which began their work of destruction when a dam across the Doe river at Klizabethton gavo way. Gov. Aycoek of North Carolina says all the lowland crops on the Ktate penitentiary farm known as Caledonia were destroyed .iit the recent floods. He nays the flood damage in the State amounts to several million dollnrs. At the village of Kan Ygnaclo, a village just south of El Paso, Texas, the police have unearthed a complete outfit for making counterfeits of American money. Two men, G. Peres and A. Marqnea, have been arrested on suspicion. A great strike of oil at Sour Lake, twenty miles northwest of Beaumont,

Texas, is fully confirmed. A well waa struck in the rear of the Sour Lake Hotel and at once became a gusher, flowing 15,000 barrels a day. This new strike has caused renewed excitement all over Texas. At the home of Benjamin Salyer, miles from Salyersville, Ky., there was * sensational duel with pistols, the cause of which is not known. Dr. Jasper Owens, Jr., son of a wealthy man, was perhaps fatally shot and a woman named Barker wounded. Mrs. Salyer, it is stated, fired the shots inflicting the wounds, but it is added that her guests were also armed and shooting at her.

FOREIGN.

Opening of the French Soudan to European traffic is announced. Henrik Ibsen is suffering from paralysis and can scarcely walk or talk. Kaiser has barred reporters from all functions where he intends to speak. Kail Eukeljon, Norwegian spy of the Filipino junta, has been arrested at Manila. Three British warships have been ordered to Saloniea in connection with the Turkish postoffiee dispute. The volcano of Keloet, Java, is in eruption. The lava is threatening the Blitar coffee plantations and has endangered Kedinli. The district is in total darkness. In an explosion at the Universal colliery at SengPnhyde, near Monmouth, England, seventy miners were killed. A relief party which descended into the pit came up two hours later prostrated by after-damp. The Khedive, doubtless acting on the advice of Lord Cromer, the British diplomatic agent, has pardoned Arabi Pasha, the leader of the Egyptian rebellion iu 1882, and Mustapha Fehmy, bis second in command, who were sentenced to banishment for life. Capt. Frederick J. Barrows, late depot quartermaster of the department of southern Luzon, sentenced to five years; Capt. James C. Reed, late depot commissary at Manila, to three yenrs, and Lieut. Frederick Boyer, late depot commissary at Calamba, to one year’s imprisonment. have been incarcerated in Bilibid prison at Manila. A bottle which was picked up at Granton, England, contained a message saying that the steamer Croft, with all hands, was sinking in mid-Atlantic. The British steamer Croft of the Arrow line, laden with grain and general merchandise, sailed from New York Jan. 25, 1899, for iSeith and Dundee, with a crew of twenty-five men and was never again heard of. King Victor Emmanuel, returning from a walk in Rome, entered the elevator to reach his apartments on the second story of the palace, and an inexperienced servant set the indicator for the third story. Arriving at the second story, the King was on the point of stepping out as the elevator continued to ascend, but his majesty jumped back in the nick of time and thus escaped being crushed.

IN GENERAL.

Gov. Allen was warmly welcomed on his return to Porto Rico. American ordnance nnd navy armament syndicate is being organized. Dangerous derelicts are reported by the steamers L’Aquitaine and Mcsaba. Union Castle Steamship Company, which monopolizes South African traffic, defies threatened American competition. L. F. Loroe, fourth vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railway Company, has been selected as president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The Peruvian press says that President Roea of Argentina intends to visit the Buffalo exposition. He will also consult President McKinley upon various South American questions. Machinists will demaud shorter hours without decrease in pay on all railway systems in the United States and Canada, refusal to be the signal for a general strike iu both countries. Bradstreet’s says: "The general situation is still largely a favorable one, the primary encouraging feature being the fine outlook for the country’s crops. General distribution, retarded hitherto by the backward spring, lias been stimulated by warm, sunny weather. Industrial conditions head the list of disturbing features, hut confidence in eonservatistn and good counsel is widespread and the effect upon general business, exerted by the largest number of men idle for several years past, has been apparently minimized.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.85; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.95; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2,41 cto 42c; oats, No. 2,27 c to 28c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 52c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 10c to 11c; potatoes, 42c to 00c per bushel. Indiunapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.75: sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.<M); wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 white, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 31c. fit. Iritis—-Cattle, $3.25 to $0.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.80; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn. No. 2, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2,29 cto 30c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 50c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hog*. $3.00 to $5.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.15; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c corn. No. 2 mixed, 45c to 4flc; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 81c; rye, No. 2,58 cto 59c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 77c; Corn, No. 2 yellow, 45c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; rye, 55c to 50c, Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 2,52 c to 53e; clover seed, prime, $0.50. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 73c to 74c; corn. No. 3,41 cto 42c; oats. No. 2 white, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 1,53 c to 54c; barley, No, 2,54 cto 55c; pork, megs, $14.02. Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, fair'to prime, $3.00 to $0.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50 to $4.00; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.75. New York—Cattle, $3.75 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $0.20; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 78c to 79c; corn. No. 2, 48c to 49c; No. 2 white, 32c to 83c; butter, creamety, 18c t* 19c; eggs, western, 11c to 12c.

MRS. BONINE REFUSED BAIL.

Application for Release Upon Habea*Corpna Writ Denied. Attorneys for Mrs. Lola Bonine, now in jail in Washington for the killing ofi James Ayres, the census clerk who was Shot t 6 death in his room at the Hotel Kenmore, fi.led a petition for a writ of habeas corready to furnish bail and urged that 6he be at once released. Judge Baruard, after reading the petition, heard arguments of counsel. Hs refused to allow the release of Mrs. Bonine ou bail, denying the application sot a writ of habeas corpus. The case has been the stibjeet of much discussion among the legal lights of ’Washington, it being the almost unanimous opinion thpt if the fair prisoner's story of the killing is false, it is one at the (most ingenious ever constructed, anil will be one of the most difficult upou which to convict ever presented to a jury.

GEORGE D. HERRON MARRIES.

Socialist la United to Mlsa Rand In Rooms of a Friend. Without the exchange of the usual mat rimonial vows, with none of the ritual oi the formulas either of church or state Prof. George D. Herron, leader of th« socialist crusade, and late clergyman of the Congregational Church, took as his wife last Saturday night the young woman for whose love he had already aban doned the mother of his children. Thi unique wedding of Prof. Herron to Misi Carrie Rand took place in the apartpieuts of Dr. Charles B. Patterson, in the Schuyler apartment house in New York, in which establishment Prof. Herron has had rooms since he went to tha city early in the spring. There were no plighted vows of faithfulness, nor was there the customary bestowal of the wedding ring in token ol an indissoluble union. What meager ceremony there was attending the event was performed by Rev. William T. Brown, pastor of the Plymouth Church of Rochester, N. Y., who is in sympathy with many of Prof. Herron’s socialistic views, nnd is a member of the socialistic brotherhood. Dr. Patterson gave* a dinner to tha party after the wedding. No present* were given save of the simplest nature, except the gift of Miss Rand’s mother. This was a 35-acre farm near Metuchen N. J., where Prof. Herron and his wife are to live, and upon which Mr. Herron and those interested In the socialist brotherhood to which he belongs expect to work during the coming summer.

WORLD’S WHEAT YIELD

Is Nearly Equalled by the Corn Crop of the United States. The Department of Agriculture's compilation of statistics showing the world’s wheat crop in 1900 brings out the sac( that it was lighter than in either of the two years immediately preceding, and only about 80,000,000 bushels in excess of IS9O. The following summary shows the wheat crop by continents for each of the two years last past: 1000. D9O. North America ... 681,772,000 610,284,003 South America ... 120.157.000 125,146,006 Europe 1,476,142,000 1,622,020,00<; Asia 312,082.000 403.280.00tj Africa 45,400,000 42.373,008 Australasia 60,111,000 66,202,000 Grand total ....2,586,564,000 2,768,205,000 The Siberian wheat crop, which amounted to 45,473,000 bushels in 1899, wns short 55 per cent in 1900, and there was a shortage of 53 per cent in Manitoba. The following table compares the aggregate wheat crop the world over, for ten year* past: Bushels,) Bushel*. 1090.. 2,586.564,000,1806 2,683.312.00* 1880 ... 2,768,206.00011804 2.660.557,000 IHOB. ... 2,042,430.000|1803 2,650.174,000 1807.. .. 2,234.401.000 1802 2,481,806.000 1886.. 2,506,320,000 1801 2,482,822,000 The wheat crop of 1900, it will be seen, was close to the average for the past ten jears. It will also be noted that the wheat crop of the whole world is only one-fifth more, in bushels, than the corn crop of the United States.

Sparks from the Wire.

Oil discovered at Texas City, Ji. T. Kansas City police board says saloons must shut up on Sunday. Said that Monsignor O’Connell will bo the new bishop of Portland, Me. Great Western Cereal Company baa been formed. Capital $3,000,000. French Transatlantic Steamship Com pnny has contracted for 121,000 tons of Welsh coal. John Mead, Ashland, Ky., went fishing with dynamite. It was prematurely dis charged. John’s dead. Because her husband refused to stop drinking liquor, Viola Adams, Newark, N. J., drank carbolic acid. Dead. Actor John D. Gorman, 61, New York, died of blood poisoning. A lamp exploded. a small piece of brass tubing entered his foot. His foot was amputated, but too late to save his life. Streets of Rockwood, Tenn., are full of idle men. The Roan iron works discharg ed ail their miners wito joined the union, At Wilkesbnrre, Pa., 1,000 persona signed a pledge to abstain front Intoxicants. Father Curran officiated at the meeting. Kimberley Advertiser, n newspaper controlled by Cecil Rhodes, urges that Rhodes should be made premier of Cape Colony. Relations went to Chicago to attend th* funeral of Patrolman Andy Eoban, his death having been reports*! by a newspaper. The relations found Andy all right

PULSE PRESS

Locking children in a house alone ough to be made murder iu the Oih degree.Detroit News. The trusts have more to fear from then own yyoi-k than anything else. —Brocktoi (Mass.) Times. Strange that riotous strikers neve, profit by the sad experience of others who tried the same game and failed.Detroit Free Press. A new Indiana law makes it life imprisonment for kidnapers. But what getfd is such a law if the kidnapers art all of the Pat Crowe variety?—Toledo Blade. The next time we get one of those Albany dispatches from St. Petersburg, let us not feel obliged to be horrified at the cruelty of the Czar’s government.— Detroit News. George Washington never hold a rank higher than that of lieutenant general in the army of the United States. Lieut. Gen. Miles has a right to feel his honors.—Omaha Bee, Returns from the national banks in Nebraska, outside of Omaha and Lincoln, show that the deposits are steadily on the increase. The State banks show a similar condition.—Omaha Bee. Divorces are becoming so common that it is suggested that it may soon lie necessary for the applicant for a lady’s hand to bring letters of recommendation from his last wife.—Topeka Journal. Three terrible Turks have successively come to this country and walked off with the wrestling honors. If sitting crosslegged on a cushion develops this type of physique it is time for the professors of gymnastics to explniu.—St. Louis GlobeDemocra t.

It is stated that Kansas will need 20,000 laborers from outside the State to get iu the wheat crop. It will be a busy time out there anJ fantastic politicians and reformers of various sorts will have to take a hack seat until it is all over.—New York Evening Sun. 'ihe Niles bank wrecker, who loft some $1i5,000, more or less, to be provided by the stockholders, is released on SIO,OOO bail, and will spend the warm months at a summer resort, while his dupes apply their noses to the grindstones to meet his deficiencies.—Detroit Free Press.

Regarding his appointment as brigadier general in the regular army it will be observed that Br’er Funston “ain’t sayin nothin’.” If he continues to hold his tongue as hard as he is holding it now he may yet be President of the United States.—New York Mail and Express. The surgeons think nothing nowadays of taking out a man’s stomach. At Santa Ana, Gal., they have relieved a sufferer of one lung, much to his benefit. They will soon take people’s heads off and leave them more intelligent and more beautiful than they were before.—New York Evening Sun. Gen. Chaffee is a positive nun and when he said that American and British soldiers would never again face each other on the battlefield he only said in a positive manner what he thought. But it s ten to one he had in his miud a proviso that if they ever did the Yankee soldiers would always be “face-on.”—Mil-waukee Journal. If Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith be right when he says that “Uucle Tom’s Cabin” is responsible for John Brown’s raid and the- Civil War, then it is responsible for Abraham Lincoln, and Ulysses 8. Grant, and W. T. Sherman, and a lot of other prominent results—including a good deal of free advertising for Mr. Smith—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The fact that Benjamin Harrison wa* once President of the United States dees not interfere in the least with the other fact that he had a right to dispose of his property by will in such mauuer as seemed to him just and expedient. Newspaper comment on his action in this matter la not only superfluous, but impertinent. —Philadelphia Bulletin. In the action of the Illinois Central Railroad Company providing for a pension to old employes may be seen another development of the spirit that has recently started among moneyed men. The act is further evidence that the interests of employer and employe are bound together on something more than a dollar-aud-ccnts basis.—St. Louis Republican. The German reichstag appears to have realized that China is a rotten ornuge, and that far too much money has already been wasted upon the German Asiatic expedition. The Russian plan could be executed if the concert of the power* should consist of absolute monarchies, bnt not In a world of representative, constitutional governments. Philadelphia Record. It yi one of the great advantages connected with the public school system of the United States that it has a powerful influence toward preventing the erection of barriers between different sections of the people and toward promoting among them nil a sentiment of community. Here, by far the greater number of parent* send their children to the public school*, und attendance there carries with it no social disabilities whatever.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Capital punishment has been restore/ ' to the statute books by the Colorado Leg-' Islature, in the hope that the deplorable lynching record of the Centennial State may be intermitted aud redeemed by observance of the laws. Among the fortyfive States of the Union Rhode Island, Maine, Michigan and Wisconsin are now Ihe only communities in which the penalty of a life for a life is not exacted under terms of statutory enactment. — Philadelphia Record.

Decrease in New York’s Death Rate.

New York’s health department was created in 1800. At that time, according to the Public Health Record, the death rate in the city was 34.92 per 1,000, with a population of 707,979. In 1900 the death rate had decreased to 21.04 per 1,000 in a population of 3,444,073. Harvard College observatory station at Arequipa, Peru, has discovered a new comet. Robbers got $1,500 from the G. & 0. Railroad station, New Albany, Miss.