Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1901 — Page 6

JASPER COENTY DEMOCRAT, ~~F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. EENSSFLASR, - , . INDIANA.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Judge Tarvin rendered n sensational decision in the Kenton County Circuit Court at Covington, Ky., in the Stricker contempt case. He declared that the decision of the United States Court was rendered on records that had been forged. Brig. Gen. John C. Bates, who recently returned from the Philippines, has been ordered to command the department of Missouri, with headquarters at Omaha, Neb. The department has for some time been under the eonintand of Gen. Merriam, who is in permanent command of the department of Colorado. Two of the negroes implicated in the murder of John Gray Foster were lynched by a mob at. Benton, La. One was Frank, commonly known ns “Prophet" Smith, who ns the head of the “Church of God” movement in that section was blamed as being responsible for the sentiment against the whites Which led to the death of Foster. The other was F. D. McLand. An avalanche unparalleled in the West Virginia mountains occurred at Hopeville. Great sections of the mountain side along the Potomac river for two miles rushed down into the beautiful valley The home of Mrs. Andrew Ours, a widow, was completely wrecked. The 22-yetir-old daughter of Mrs. Ours was instantly killed and'Mrs. Ours is in a dying condition. The battleship Oregon had a narrow escape from serious damage if not from complete destruction at Sun Francisco. All hands were at work transferring ammunition to lighters, preparatory to the ship going to Bremerton, Wash., for docking, when one of the big 13-lnch shells fell from the fleck into the bottom of one of the lighters. The men who dropped the shell held their breaths, as they expected the huge projectile to explode when it hit the lighter, but nothing happened. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: W. Ta W. L. Pittsburg ...28 18 Philadelphia. 22 22 New Y0rk...21 17 Boston ......19 20 St. L0ui5....25 21 Cincinnati ...20 22 Brooklyn ...23 22 Chicago 17 31 Standings in the American League are as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....20 19 Baltimore ...19 20 Boston 25 17 Philadelphia. 21 23 Detroit 27 20 Cleveland ...10 27 Washington. 20 IS Milwaukee 5.10 29 After an exciting chase, in which a party of nearly 100 farmers took part, William Hockwell, one of the most daring burglars on record was captured north of Kinnickinnick, Ohio, on the Norfolk and Western Railroad. He is only about 24 years old, and gave his home as at London, Ohio. Rockwell began his series of burglaries the other night about 10 o’clock in Chillicothe, ami from that time on until 4 o’clock in the morning, when he attacked the wife of John Moss, who keeps a store at Kinnickinnick, about six miles north, he has one hold-up and four burglaries to his credit. To all the charges against him Rockwell freely confessed his guilt to his captors. A. G. Peterson of Chicago was killed at Rockford, 111., by Policeman Sully after the former had terrorized every person in the Illinois' Central station and had narrowly missed shooting a number of waiting passengers. Stilly's act is believed to have saved the lives of several persons. Peterson entered the station with a bag of doughnuts and a revolver in his hands. He placed the doughnuts in the center of the floor and began to fire at them. As the passengers ran out of the room be shot at them, too, the bullets just missing some of them. After Peterson had driven baggagemen, ticket ugents and operators into the station tower he shot at Policeman Sully, who returned the fire with fatal effect.

BREVITIES,

Texas State rangers have killed another Mexican horse thief and outlaw. John Christie is said to have died from a beating received in Bellevue hospital, New York. Five hundred native Christians were murdered by Corcans on the Island of Quelpaert. Judge Palmer of Denver has cited for contempt several ministers who criticised his action in saloon cases. Hans Wagner of the Tagehlatt staff was mortally wounded by another journalist in a due) near Berlin. John I). Rockefeller has given $250,000 to Cornell University. Mr. Rockefeller's act is a great surprise to Cornelllans. Nearly 500 chests of tea have been stolen from a storehouse in Williamsburg. N. Y., but moat of them were recovered. According to private dispatches from Rio de Janeiro, rioting is going on there as a result of increased street car fares. Frank Bolton of Newark, Ohio, is believer to have perished in the hotel fire at West Baden. Ind. He was u guest at the hotel and nothing has since been heard of him. The Brazilian Government has paid the indemnity requested for the destruction by a mob of a Baptist chaise) in the province of Nictheroy, maintained by the American Baptist mission. At Butte, Mont., Miss Mabel Durfield Foster was married to William Andrews Clark, Jr., son of Senator W. A. Clark. The father of the groom presented his sou with a check for SIOO,OOO. Jerome Brown, the 10-year-old boy mlsalqg.from his home in Chicago, was found drowned in the lake. He had fallen from a pier. Cyrlll W. King, former construction quartermaster at Fort Morgan, Ala., has been sentences) to imprisonment in the penitentiary for one year and a half and to pay a One of $3,000. The grand Jury at Cleveland, Ohio, reported up true bills in the case of Augustus Hubbell, and the officials of the Cleveland Leader Publishing Company, who were charged with libel. Tom L. Johnson caused their arrest.

EASTERN.

C. Arthur Pearson, London publisher, has arrived in New York. Martin J. Tighe of New York killed hfs young wife and attempted suicide. Chocolate factory of Runkel Brothers, in New York, was burned, the loss being $250,000. Negro in a red shirt waist was mobbed and partly stripped in Madison Square, New York. Rev. Thomas F. Kennedy, D. D., of Overbrook, Pa., has been appointed rector of the American College in Rome by the Pope. Samuel P. Lcvenberg, aged 18, of New York, has discovered the secret of wireless telephony, working at nights after his day's toil was done. John Biddle, charged with the robbery and subsequent killing of Grocer Thos. D. Kahuey a,t Pittsburg, was convicted of murder in the first degree. United States transport tipped over in a dry dock in Erie basin, killing one man and injuring twenty-five others. Caused by careless placing of bilge blocks. Ferryboat Northfield collided with propeller Mauch Chuuk off Staten Island slip and sank. Over 200 passengers rescued, but many believed to have perished. Senator T. C. Platt of Cx'cw York, broken by ill health and family bereavements, announces that under no conditions will be again be a candidate for the Senate. The Empire Theater at Lynn, Mass., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss on the building of $50,000, fully insured, nnd losses to occupants amounting to about SIO,OOO, partly insured. John Wanamaker offered Philadelphia $2,500,000 for street railroad franchise voted by councils practically as free grant to company in which prominent politicians are said to be interested. William 11. Young, the mechanic who worked out and adapted the ideas of Elias Howe, inventor Of the sewing machine, died in the poorhouse at Bridgeport, Conn., of consumption and alcoholism. About 120 machinists of the Snow Steam Pump works at Buffalo, N. Y.; who have been out since May 20, returned to work. Neither side will state the nature of the agreement under which the men resumed. A. M. Townsend, agent in New York of the Hongkong and Shanghai corporation, received a cable message saying that the 250,000 Mexican dollars stolen from the company on May 24 at Singapore had been recovered in Ceylon. A fire which started on the dock at the foot of Ferry street, on the Niagara river front, nt Buffalo, destroyed two elevators, a large (lour mill, the ticket office and a part of the dock of the International Ferry Company. The total loss will be in the neighborhood of $210,000.

WESTERN.

Congressman S. 11. Peters of Kansas is said to have been selected as pension commissioner. Mike Hess, a farmer at Hastings, Neb., was swindled out of $2,500 by two confidence men. Two trainmen were killed and four Injured by a collision of Santa Fe trains at Williams, Arizona. A jury at Omaha has returned a verdict for $545,947 against the bondsmen of J. G. Bartley, defaulting Stafb Treasurer. John F. Dupont, n prominent young man of St. Joseph, Mo., was drowned while bathing at Lake Contrary, near St. Joseph, Mo. Complainants against Harlem Jockey Chib in Chicago secured a temporary injunction restraining the making and registering of bets. County Judge Vinsonhaler of Omaha has held James Callahan, charged with perjury, for trial in the District Court and fixed his bail at $1,500. Near Bellaire, Ohio, the three young sons of Lawrence O..Mellott were carried away by the water in Captina creek in a cloudburst and drowned. Seventeen persons were injured, some of them seriously, by the sudden collapse of a grand stand on the grounds of the Chicago Normal School, Normal Park, Chicago, Indictments have been returned against Lant Salsbury, city attorney of Grand Rapids, Mich., and four others accused of bribery in connection with the water works deal. John A. Tuttle, a prominent railroad man, shot and killed himself at Hutchinson, Kan. He left a number of letters in which he gave fear of blindness as the cause of his deed. It is announced that the separate maintenance suit of Mrs. Clara Newberry against her husband, in Sandusky, Ohio, will be dismissed, a family council having settled the trouble. In Kansas City Mrs. Lulu Prince Kennedy was found guilty of murder in the second degree by the jury trying her case. Her punishment was fixed at ten years in the penitentiary. Julius C. Benton, a well-to-do stockman, shot and killed his wife and then killed himself nt Denver, Colo. Mrs. Benton was a daughter of former Stats Auditor John W. Lowell. Wholesale frauds have been discovered in quartermaster and commissary departments at San Francisco. Collusion between prominent nrmy officers is charged. The government loss is heavy. Ben Cravens and a companion blew open the safe in the Santa Fe depot at Coyle, Ok., with dynamite, securing sl,500, and escaped. The safe and part of the building was wrecked. Commander B. F. Tilly of the United States navy was kidnaped in San Francisco by two thugs who gave him knockout drops and left him iu an insensible condition near the sea wall, where he was found. Mrs. Lilia Pratt of Edtnomfs, Idaho, was killed nnd Miss Lncns, daughter of Bishop Lucas, seriously injured in a runaway accident while the two young women and Bishop Lucas were returning from a drive. “Jack” Smith, n former member of the Seventeenth United States infantry, leaped from a Big Four bridge at Columbus, Ohio, Into the Scioto river, a distance of sixty-two feet, and rescued two men from drowning. George Baird, local cashier for the New York Life Insurance Company, committed suicide by inhaling illuminating gas in Ms room in Cleveland. Officials of the insurance company say that so far

as now known Baird’s accounts are all right. Mrs. Anna Chapman, a member of the Eugenie Blair Dramatic Company, playing a summer season at the Lyceum Theater in Cleveland, fell through a trap door while crossing the stage behind the scenes and sustained a fracture of the skull. Beneea W. Hazard, city passenger agent of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, was found hanging to a rafter in the basement of the city ticket office at Des Moines. It is manifestly a case of suicide, though no possible motive is known. Fire destroyed the Mineral Springs Hotel at West Baden, Ind., and drove ithe 225 guests and employes out of the building in their night clothes. Not a life was lost and no one was badly injured. The loss is $500,000, with SIOO,OOO insurance. George H. Phillips, the Chicago corn operator, was given a banquet by National Grain Growers’ Association at Minneapolis. In a speech he advocated the establishment at Chicago of immense government granaries and a $30,000,000 farmers’ bank. The Dwyer Bros. Mercantile Company, wholesale dealers in department store supplies, made an assignment at St. Louis for the benefit of creditors. The assets of the assignor, Consisting of merchandise and accounts, amount to $375,000. The liabilities amount to $225,000. The locomotive on a Union Pacific freight train blew up near Clarks, Neb. Engineer Charles Fulmer of Council Bluffs and Fireman Daid Jenkins of Omaha were killed. Brakeman William Fleming of Omaha was scalded, internally injured, ankle broken and will die. Frederick G. Roelker, one of the bestknown members of the Cincinnati bar, was found in his bedroom with a bullet in his brain. The first impression was that it was a case of suicide, but the family physician after an examination stated that the shooting was accidental. Adelarro Joyal, a Canadian Frenchman, who recently commenced a divorce suit at St. Cloud, Minn., against his wife, nearly succeeded in an attempt to kill her, shooting her ten times. However, the doctor says she may recover. Joyal is iu jail. Jealousy was the cause of his crime. Reports have been received that during the recent storm in Redwood County, Minn., the new granary of Fred Schulz, In Waterbury township, in which a large party of young people were enjoying a social dance, was demolished. The storm carried away the granary and five of the dancers were badly injured. Three men—Harry Simmington, Stacey and Givens—held In the county jail at Fort Morgan on a charge of burglary, with the aid of confederates on the outside. sawed their way out. As they were leaving the jail they were discovered by Sheriff Calvert, who tried to stop them and was shot through the abdomen by Simmington. Reports of troubles with the Indians near Fort Washakie, Wyo., are unfounded. Col. Jesse M. Lee, commandant at Fort Leavenworth, f.sserts that the Indians have made complaint that the agent has not given them sufficient seed grain to plant and thereby raise their crops, but thia is found to be simply a complaint. The family of John B. Poirier, residing six miles west of Blue Earth, Minn., was attacked by Charles Simon, supposed to be a maniac. Sophy Poirier, the 17-year-old daughter, was fatally stabbed, and Poirier was badly cut before he succeeded in disarming his assailant. Simon was armed with a knife and a sharppqinted iron rod eighteen inches long. This he drove through the body of the girl. Simon was arrested. He has worked in the vicinity, but was a stranger to the family of his victims.

SOUTHERN.

The postofflee and other buildings at Hoy, Ala., were burned. The Georgia Supreme Court decided that the State Treasurer had no right to use the “public property fund” to pay the school tqfMhers of Georgia or for any other purpose except the payment of the bonded debt of the State. Five negroes, members of an organisation whose motto was “Death to ’the Whites,” were hanged from one scaffold iu public at Sylvania, Ga. The murder for which the men died was but the culmination of a long series of crimes. The Huntley Oil and Refining Company, with a capital stock ot $2,500,000, has been chartered at Austin, Texas. It is to prospect in twenty-five Texas counties for oil. The board of directors include* C. A. Towne of Minnesota and Gov. Benton McMillin of Tennessee. John G. Foster was shot and killed on the Foster plantation, five miles east of Shreveport, La., by a negro of the name of Prince Edwards. Foster was 22 years of age and belonged to one of the leading families of Louisiana. Gov. McMillin of Tennessee is a brother-in-law of the dead man. Tricey Griffin, colored, was hanged at Brunswick, G*., for the murder, in October last, of R. Marion Latimer, a passenger conductor on the Southern Railway. The conductor was killed for ordering the negro to come inside the car from the platform while the train was in motion. Simon Williams and George Reid arranged to fight a duel to the death at Owensboro, Ky., with pistols, but the police broke It un. Williams had attempted to abduct his 7-year-old daughter, who had been taken by his wife to Reid’s, her brother, and a duel was to be fought for the possession of the child.

FOREIGN,

Young King Alfonso of Spain attended hl* first bull fight. Foxhall Keene has given to charity $13,250, half of the Oaks stakes. Royalists of Paris had planned a coup d'etat, to be headed by Col. VillebolaMareull, who was killed in South Africa. Dr. San Yet Sen. reformer, has gone to China to start a revolution to overthrow the Empress Dowager and the mandarin*. An explosion in a cartridge factory situated In the suburb of Les Moullneaux, near Paris, has resulted In the loss of fifteen lives and the Injuring of about twanty person*. The victim* were horribly mutilated. Eddie Guerin of Chicago, world-famous a* a bank sneak, Highwayman and robber, ha* been arrested in Paris, France,

and his identity established by thg Pinkerton agency of Chicago. His latest crime was the robbery of the Express Company’s Paris office. The village of Nanders, Tyrol, wat swept by a flood nnd twenty-eight of its inhabitants are missing. A dam which protected the village from the high level of a lake outside the place was burst by a storm .and the water rushed down, sweeping sixteen houses before it. A Are at the Galleys Island shipyards, St. Petersburg, consumed the slips, the cruiser Witjas and other vessels, the government and other buildings there and a large stock of timber. According to the Novoe Vremya, twelve persons lost their lives in the flames. The damage done amounts to 10,000,000 rubles.

IN GENERAL.

New submarine naval boat Fulton was launched at the Nixon shipyard. Henry M. Flagler, Standard Oil magnate, has sued for divorce from his Insane wif*. . ~ ■" ~ . The battleship Illinois, on trial trip over Cape Ann course, made recordbreaking speed of 17.31 knots an hour and wins rant of queen of the American navy. Fire has destroyed all the lumber in the yard of the. Ontario Lumber Company at French River, Ont., on Georgian Bay, amounting to 15,000,000 feet and valued at over $200,000. Andrew Epperson, who had been found guilty by a jury of a charge of stabbing Ida Allison, made an attempt to kill Judge Ball in the County Court at Chatham, Ont. He was overpowered only after a hard fight. Trolley cars built in this country will soon go whizzing and clanging from Athens to Piraeus in modern Greece. The contract for constructing the line has been let. In a general way the cars will resemble those use* in Brooklyn. Evelyn Briggs Baldwin has started on his journey to the north pole. He sailed from New York on the Friederich Der Grosse. At Perth Mr. Baldwin will go to Dundee, where the America, flagship of the expedition, awaits his arrival. The battleship Wisconsin will contest honors of being the fastest vessel of its class with the Illinois, which now holds the record. In a trial remarkable speed was shown, the big fighting machine making 18.6 knots an hour for two hours under forced draft. Herbert W. Bowen succeeds Minister Loomis in Venezuela, the latter being sent to Portugal. Lloyd C. Griscom, charge d’affaires at Constantinople, is made minister to Persia, and is succeeded by Spencer Eddy of the Paris legation, who in turn is succeeded by Arthur B. Blanchard. Dispatches from Dawson City say that $7,500,000 in gold dust had been deposited in Dawson banks of the season’s clean-up. The total clean-up is estimated at $25,000,000. A nugget worth $1,020 was picked up on Frank Piscator’s No. 2 Eldorado. Alaska’s total output will be about $35,000,000. ' The schooner Czar, bound to Labrador with fishermen and their families, seventy persons altogether, was driven ashore on Cabot Island, on the north coast ot Newfoundland, in a dense fog and gale. Four men were drowned and six others were injured, but the women and children were all landed safely; The schooner Constitution, bound down in tow of the Victory, and the Elwood, bound up, came together in the lower entrance to the Canadian lock at Sault Ste. Marie. The Elwood has a crack six feet long just back of the stem, but will be able to continue her voyage. Considerable repairs are necessary before the Constitution can proceed. “Confirmation by the agricultural bureau of recent private estimates of the wheat crop has given to business a tone of greater confidence. Retail operations both East and West are larger and distribution of merchandise by the wholesale trade is increasing in dry goods and boots and shoes. The labor situation is gradually mending with the appreciation of the fact that in some directions manufacturers would be glad of a temporary shut-down of works.” The foregoing is from the weekly trade review of R. G. Dun & Co. It continues: “Wheat declined to a more reasonable level tvlth the withdrawal of speculative support. The government report of condition of June 1 was chiefly responsible. A crop this year equal to the greatest ever harvested was indicated by the official statement. Failures for the w’eek numbered 179 in the United States, against 102 last year, and 23 in Canada, against 21 last year.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.90 to $5.80; hogs, shipping grade*, $3.00 to $6.10; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 70c; corn,-No. 2,41 cto 42c; oats, No. 2,26 c to 28c; rye, No. 2,46 cto 47c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 9c to 10c; potatoes, new, 90c to $1.05 per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.95; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 70e; corn, No. 2 white, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c. St. Louis— $3.25 to $6.10; hogs, $3.00 to $6.05; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,68 cto 69e; corn, No. 2, 41c to 42c; oats. No. 2f‘27c to 28c; rye, No. 2,50 cto 51c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs. $3.00 to $6.00; sheep, $3.00 to $3.50: wheat, No. 2,09 cto 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 42e to 430; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; rye. No. 2,58 cto 59c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.55; hogs, $3.00 to $5.95; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 42c to 43c; oats. No. 2 white, 29c to 30c; rye, 55c to 56c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 28c; rye, No. S, 51c to 53c; clover seed, prime, $6.50. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 69e to 70c; corn. No. 3,40 cto 41c; *at*. No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 1,49 c to 50c; barley, No. 2,55 cto 56c; pork, mess, $14.65. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers. $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $0.15; sheep, fair to cholcee, $3.50 to $4.25; lambs, common to extra, $4-50 to $4.75. New York—Cattie, $3.75 to $5.90; hogs, $3.00 to $6.35; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 70c to 77c; corn, No. 2; 46c to 47c; oats, No. 2 white, 81c to 83c; butter, creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, westu*. 11c to 12c.

HAZEN PINGREE DEAD

EX-GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN EXPIRES IN LONDON. Receive* Death’* Summon* After Brief Illue**—Story of Remarkable Career in Bnsiness and Politic*—Labored for Many Reform* While in Office. Hazen S. Pingree, former Governor of Michigan, breathed his last in London, England, at 11:35 p. m. Tuesday. He was under the care of three physicians and two nurses, but the doctors

had admitted for the last day or two that the hope of his recovery was very slight. Dr. Mills left the dying man’s bedside hardly fifteen minutes before the final summons and promised soon to return. At that time Mr. Pingree was unconscious, as he had been for several hours.

HAZEN S. PINGREE

Dr. Mills had not returned when the end came. The only person in the room at the time was Hazen S. Pingree, Jr., who had been constantly at his father’s bedside and had not removed his clothes for four days. At 11:30 he noticed an apparent change in his father’s condition and drawing closer soon observed that the heart had ceased to do its work. Death had come silently and without special warning. The once vigorous and aggressive American passed away peacefully and without a word to friend or foe. Upon the death of his father H. S. Pingree, Jr., cabled at once to his mother and uncle, who were about to sail from New York, not to do so. The body will be embalmed and sent to Detroit. Dr. Mills, in speaking of tho condition of his distinguished patient shortly before his death, said: “It seems too bad that the serious nature of his ailment was not discovered earlier. He ought never to have been allowed to travel on the continent. Mr. Pingree is receiving every care and is making a gallant fight, but the ulceration of the stomach is only one symptom of the complicated disease which it seems impossible to check.” Business and Political Career. Hazen S. Pingree was born at Denmark, Me., Aug. 30, 1840. He spent the first fourteen years of his life <m his father's farm. He then went to work in a cotton factory at Saco, Me. He afterward learned his trade as a shoe cutter at a factory in Hopkinton, Mass. When the Civil War broke out Mr. Pingree enlisted in the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. *He served from Aug. 1, 1862, till August, 1805. During 1864 he was for five months a prisoner of war. After the war he went to Detroit. He worked at his trade in a shoe factory In that place until 1806, when, with H. Smith, he established a very small shoe factory of his own. The partnership was eminently successful and the factory developed into the largest shoe manufacturing business in the West. Mr. Pingree was Mayor of Detroit four times, serving in that capacity from 1889 to 1896. During the mayoralty he attained prominence by his successful project of securing vacant lots for the cultivation of potato patches for the poor, and also by his fights against street railway and other combinations. He compelled the Detroit street railways to reduce fares to 3 cents. He was elected Governor of Michigan in 1896 and was re-elected in 1898. At the end of his term he retired to private life.

LONG JOURNEY TO WED.

Young Woman Travels, to the Philippines to Marry Her Sweetheart. Miss Anna Irvine of Washington has gone to the Philippines to bn married to Capt. Charles Lyman of the Marine Corps. She is only 20 years old, and is

MISS FRVINF.

acompanied by Mrs. Chas. H. Lyman, mother of the bridegroom. Miss Irvine goes half way around the world to become a wife because her affianced could not come to her.

Brief News Items.

Bob Saunders killed Pat McQuery near Checotah, I. T. Charles Clark, a young farmer, was killed by a train near St. Francis, Ark. Coal has been discovered on the farm of T. G. MgClure, near Aurora Springs, Mo. Germany has acquired a coaling station on the Farsan Island for the China transport service. Charges made in the British House of Commons that the government has been grossly defrauded by agents in purchasing mules and horses are to be investi.gated. Lulu Scott, who escaped from the Mis, sour! Industrial School, was recaptured at Chillicothe, Mo. She had blondined her hair and worked eight days in Geo. Pollard’s hotel. Young W. Smith, a farmer, living near Warren’s Bend, Texas, lost both his eyes and his right arm by the explosion of a stick of dynamite which he was about to throw into a creek to kill fish.

NOW IT’S A SOIL MAP.

AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT IS MAKING FARMERS* GUIDE. Colored Chart of the Entire Country —Carefully Gathered Information Shorn What Grows Beat and Telia the Thing* to Avoid. Washington correspondence: The Agricultural department is about to publish a soil map that will enable the farmer, wherever he is located, to determine just what crops will bring him the largest returns in money. Printed in colors, it will convey information in the clearest and most easily comprehended manner imaginable. The map is to cover the whole of the United States, and will be on such a scale that every ten-acre patch will- be represented by one-eighth of an inch square. But each fanner will be able to procure a chart of his own neighborhood.' on a larger scale, so that he can arrange his planting in accordance with the suggestions which It conveys. The work la done by townships to start with, and these are put together to make counties, which are finally assembled to form complete maps of States. Hitherto the business of farming has been to some extent guesswork; the agriculturist formed a surmise as to what crops were best for him to try, and did his planting accordingly. Henceforth it will be quite different. Soil Map I* First Guide. In the first place, the soil map will show what kind of agricultural industry any given locality is best adapted for, whether fruit raising, vegetable growing, dairying, or general farming. It will make clear to the farmer in North Carolina, for instance, that he has the same soil that is used advantageously for certain purposes io Georgia, and that, if climatic conditions are not unfavorable, the same crops may be expected to succeed on his land. A wonderful strip of light, sandy soil not over four or fi,ve miles wide extends along the Atlantic coast from Massachusetts to Florida with occasional inter-* ruptions, bqrderiug the ocean and its embayments— i. e., the rivers and bay*.? It is a natural truck patch, adapted for the production of early vegetables, which' ripen much sooner in that ribbon of land than anywkere else in corresponding latitudes, jwing to the nearness of the sea. Tb'«s nearer the water, the earlier the planting may be done. Along that strip in spring the climate moves north at an average rate of thirteen miles a day. The crops of vegetables which it produces come to market at a corresponding rate. But backward weather in the South and forward weather in the North will disarrange things sometimes, causing a ripening of the same kinds of produce at the same period in different latitudes of the strip, and thus bringing about a glut disastrous to grower*. Under ordinary condition*, however, the potatoes, tomatoes, peas,: and other garden stuff arrive first from Florida, then from Georgia, next from the Carolinas, and so on. This interesting strip is conspicuously shown on the soil map, owing to its great commercial importance. It has so lengthened the season for fresh vegetables that now it may be said that there Is no longer any season; such products nre obtainable all the year round. In Southern Florida there is a limited area below reach of frost where vegetables can be grown all winter, nnd the yield of thi* region tides over the cold months until the spring season begins its march up the coast. Show* What to Avoid. It Is the strip next to the beach, a mile wide, that Is best for trucking purposes, and these sandy lauds, when near to cities and with good transportation available, are worth from SSO to SSOO an acre, though only a few years ago they were valued at $1 an acre. As shown by tho map, even along the strip the soils vary,' so as to be adapted to different kinds ot truck, the lightest and sandiest being best for early peas, the medium most suitable for tomatoes, and the heaviest just right for growing cabbages. The map will call attention to certain troubles of soils, which have been investigated through chemical analysis. One of these is acidity, which has an Important influence upon farming over large areas;;anothcr is excess or deficiency of certain elements of plant growth, which san be supplied by fertilizers; and yet another is alkali. As for allaaM, science has ascertained both the source of i\and the remedy. It comes usually from wash from the mountains, from -salts carried on to the land by‘irrigation, or from deports laid down at a period when the land was sea bottom. The remedy is to underdrain the land and wash out the alkali and to prevent the accumulation of seepage water in the subsoil. Map for Cotton Region. An illustration of the method of mapping, and of the value of the work, is afforded by a chart of the so-called Yazoo Bottom, in Mississippi, which has just been completed. It is a vast alluvial delta 100 miles long by 40 miles wide; and comprises a good deal of the richest land in the world. But within its topographical limits are four or five different kinds of soil, some of which are unproductive. Some of the land yields a quarter of a bale of cotton to tire acre, some of It half a bale, some of it three-quar-ters of a bale, and some of it a bale and more. Generally speaking, the bottom represents a production of about a bale to the acre. f The spots not so productive for cotton have been ascertained recently by the experts to be valuable for crop* of kind* not yet Introduced, such as vegetable* and certain fruits. Provided with a soil map of the region, the farmer will know where to replace poor crops of cotton with vegetables that will yield SIOO to S2OO an acre. The map will give a basis for the introduction of new crops from abroad by showing what areas are speoially adapted to certain kinds of plants. It was incidental to this investigation that the important fact wns ascertained that real Sumatra tobacco could be grown in the Connecticut Valley, a discovery which will put millions of dollars into the pockets of American producers. In theso of rapid agricultural development 11 Is of the utmost importance to encourage in every possible way the introduction and spread of new Industries, such a* truck growing, fruit culture, etc.