Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1901 — Page 6

JASPER COPNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Pubiisher. RENSSELAER, ■ * INDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Ernest Still, a Glencoe, Ok., bachelor, propones to put himself up to be raffled off. The young ladles who are to’ invest are to pay $5 a ticket and he expects to sell between 2,000 and 3,000 tickets between now and the opening of the new country. The south-bound cannon ball passenger train on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad was wrecked near Beebe, Ark. The engine struck two cows and was derailed. The mail car and two baggage c ars were also derailed and smashed into kindling wood. Prof. Johnston of the University of Kansas has discovered a means by which he expects to make the negro white. Prof. Johnston’s method consists of inoculating the negro with the germs of leucitis, or albinism, a harmless disease which produces those oddities of nature known as albinos. While the towboat Princess of Wheeling was passing up the Ohio river near Vanport, Pa., it was struck by n wind storm and sunk in ten feet of water. The cabin and stacks were carried away and the boat is badly wrecked. The owner, Captain T. M. Garlick, and four men escaped on a small boat. A largo breaker at No. 2 mine of the Delaware and Hudson Company in the eastern part of Wilkesbarre, Pa., was destroyed by fire. Condy Connor, Jack Bucks, Peter O’Donnell and John Bugdale, who were at work in No. 2 mine when the fire broke out, are missing. The loss will be fully $1(X>,000. Seven persons were Tn ju red by the explosion of a cupola in the Ainericaii Car and Foundry Company’s shops in Chicago. One, 'Thomas Cusick, died at the county hospital. The explosion was caused, the employes say, by powdet or dynamite in a quantity of waste iron which was being melted. The loss to building and cupola is $5,000. > By the death of her mother, Mrs. Alexander Dunsmuir, Edna Wallace Hopper inherits a fortune running into six figures. After her separation from her first husband, Mrs. Wallace was privately married to Alexander Dunsmuir, the British Columbia coal king. Dunsmuir died over a year ago, leaving the bulk of his estate to his widow.

Forged notes, altogether aggregating $20,000, have been discovered by the Akron, Ohio, Varnish Company. J. H. MeCrum, treasurer of the company, has been missing for a week and is supposed to be en route to South America. It was supposed that his accounts were straight, the only shortage discovered being an over draft of $4,500. Brown & Bailey, Edwards & Docker and the Dock wood Folding Box Company are the three Philadelphia concerns which will join a combination of board mills and paper box factories in course of formation, with a capital of $50,000,(XX). The organization will include practically all the important con>*erns asso ciated with the paper trade in the country. The conference of the American Tin Plate Company's officials with the representatives of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers resulted in the signing of a new wage scale. The workmen asked for an advance of 10 per cent. Under the new •wale they will receive an advance of 2 per cent. Nearly 30,000 men will ba benefited. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...31 22 Brooklyn ....27 25 St, L0ui5....30 24 Boston 24 23 New Y0rk...24 20 Cincinnati ...21 28 Philadelphia 27 25 Chicago 19 36 Standings in the American League are as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....33 20 Detroit 27 25 Boston 29 18 Philadelphia. 21 29 Baltimore .. .24 20 Milwaukee ..19 32 Washington. 24 20 Cleveland ...18 31

NEWS NUGGETS.

Navy Department has decided to aban don efforts to aid the naval militia. New York Aidermen propose to ship hoboes from that city to the Western wheat fields. L. L. Bailey of New Orleans, who killed W. L. Selph in a duel, has been released from custody. Mrs. Pclmiera Decker, widow of a soldier of the war of 1812, nearly 90 and blind, has Iteen granted a pension and arrears amounting to $3,000. Another cloudburst descended upon stricken West Virginia coal fields and damage to property is said to lie even heavier than on the previous occasion. Ten high school graduates at Mount Vernon, N. Y., were hazed by Cornell students, who tied them to trees in the woods and left them to the mercy of mosquitoes for four hours. E. H. Balmer, 80 years old, and his wife, who is four years younger, of St. Paul, Minn., are the parents of a fine baby boy, who arrived a few days ago. He is their first child. J. Pierpont Morgan offers to furnish the money, over $1,000,000, for three of the five buildings for the new medical college of Harvard University, to be erected in memory of his father. Fire destroy?!! property nt Mayfield, Ky., worth probably $200,000. Seven tobacco rehandling houses, a large quantity of tobacco, a cooper shop and thirtytwo small residences and business houses were destroyed. The Kansas City I.ive Stock Exchange by a vote of 71 to 01 has, refused to join the National Live Stock Exchange, which has headquarters in Chicago. The Lake Erie, Bowling Green and Napoleon Railway Company was incorporated at Columbus. Ohio, with $300.900 capital. It will build nn electric railway from Port Clinton to Defiance. W. L. Meredith, son of W. M. Meredith of Chk-ngo, chief- of the national bureau of engraving nnd printing, was shot and killed by John Considine, a former Chicago policeman, in a diV| at He•ttle.

EASTERN.

Woman and two child Ten died of starvation in New York City. Carnegie is planning to erect a monument to Blaine in Pittsburg. John McCauley, chief of police of West Hoboken, fell down the Palisades and was fatally hurt. Col. T. C. Sloan was drowned in a yachting accident off Keyser's Island. South Norwalk harbor. Annie Viets of East Walpole, Mass., qhot and seriously wounded A. C. Blanchard and killed herself. Adelbert 8. "Hay, son of the Secretary of State, was killed by falling from a hotel window in New Ila ven, Conn. Explosion iu a store at Paterson, N. J., resulted in death of seventeen persons. Twelve bodies have been recovered ami identified. Six more in the ruins. George Middleton of Pottersville, N. Y.. shot and killed his wife. Jealousy was the < au.se. Middleton is under .arrest. He is 35; his wife was 28. Four small children are left motherless. George Snyder, Jr., 14 years old, was run over by a car at the sand pits at Hainesport. N. J., and had both legs so badly crushed that he bled to death before medical aid could be secured. The bursting of a huge five-ton flywheel in the Edison Electric Light works, at 53 Duune street, New York, fatally injured Harry Kraemer, an oiler, and caused a panic in the neighborhood. During a quarrel with his 7-year-obi sister. Ward, the 14-yeur-old son of Thurlow Hineher of Braddock's Bay, N. Y., shot the girl through the stomach with a revolver. She will probably die. The unwritten law that a man may slay or maim the deepoiler of bis home was repudiated and discredited the other day when a New Jersey jury convicted Thomas G. Barker of assault on Rev. John Keller. Thirty acres of coal land near Pittston, Pa., sank several feet and the surface is still going down. 'The cave-in occurred at the Fidler colliery, operated b.v Elliott, McClure & Co. The 600 employes escaped. Elizabeth Owens, 10 years old, reproved by her mother at Mayfield, Pa., secured paris green and coming into the room where the mother and some neighbore were talking, swallowed a fatal draught. Her death resulted. Driven insane by overstudy and illness, Richard Friedman, aged 25, shot and killed his sister Rosa, aged 21; fired a bullet at his sister Helen, aged 17, and then ended his own life. The tragedy took place on a crowded West End street in Boston. The Erie and Pittsburg flyer was ditched at Transfer, Pa. Four passengers were badly hurt. Just after leaving the station the rear axle of the tender broke, throwing the tender, baggage ear, express car and vestibuled coaches from the track and turning them over. Two persons were killed, three fatally hurt and forty others injured by the wrecking of a Pittsburg and Lake Erie train at Monaca, Pa. The train ran into an open switch while going at a high rate of speed and plunged down an embankment twenty-five feet high. There were between 125 and 150 passengers, and it is little short of a miracle that any of them escaped death, as all the cars turned over and two of them went over twice.

WESTERN.

Charles Madre, a civil engineer, was killed by the cars at Watauga, Ok. Prof. Riggs of the Field Museum of Chicago has found the skeleton of a dinosaur in Colorado. Gov. Nash refused to interfere with the death sentence of Edward Ruthven, the Cleveland, Ohio, murderer. Seven persons were killed by a tornado in northern Nebraska, five of them being members of one family living near Naper. Four were fatally injured. The Nebraska Supreme Court declares that the liability of a railroad company is the same to a man -riding on a pass as to one who purchases a ticket. While swimming in a slough near Sutter City, Cal., three boys, Elmer and Wallace Larue, aged 9 and 11, and Geo. Clements, aged 9, were drowned. At Frankton, Ind., Albert Towne fatally shot Mrs. William Granger and then fired a bullet into his own brain. The tragedy occurred at Mrs. Granger's home. The business portion of Scott, Ohio, was destroyed by fire. Van Wert was asked for assistance, but before an engine could be sent the fire was under control. During nn electrical storm a 35,000barrel oil tank in the Wood County, Ohio, eil field, belonging to the Standard Oil Company, was struck by lightning, entailing a loss of $40,000. The boiler of a Chicago and Alton locomotive pulling a passenger train exploded at Blue Out, Mo., killiug the engineer, George Gerew, and fatally injuring the fireman, Julius Crowley. Dr. Ira A. Priest, president of Buchtei College nt Akron, Ohio, has resigned. He refuses to give reasons for his action, but is understood to be dissatisfied with conditions generally at the college. A twenty-months-old child, inemlter of a family named Neese, living near Plankinton, 8. D., while playing on a bench fell off into a pail containing about two inches of milk and was drowned. Fire at the sawmill of the Tower Lumber Company, near Bear Lake, Minn., destroyed alwut $150,090 worth of lumber, the bulk of which belonged to Paepcke. Leiebt & Co. of Chicago. ■ Dr. Victor Popper committed suicide at San Francisco after being arrested on the charge of having caused the death of Miss Violet Vanornuni of Chico, who had just died at the receiving hospital. Robert Waddell won the American Derby from a good field. The Parader was the only Eastern horse to show. Bullman on the winner rode a waiting race aud was cheered for his masterful effort. John W. Cookman, who in March killed Jesse Mcßride, a neighboring farmer, near Dresden, Mo., vtas found guilty of murder in the second degree and given a sentence of thirteen years in the penitentiary. Thousands of people, men, women nnd children, camping on the borders of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache reservations in Oklahoma awaiting the opening of that land to settlement are iu destitute circumstances. Fire destroyed lumber worth $200,000 at the Bear Head Lake yard of the

Tower Lumber Company, twelve miles north of Tower, Minn. Nearly all of it belonged to the Paepke-Leicht Company of' Chicago. At Staples, Minn., during the evening performance of Berwick’s circus the brother of the proprietor, who was acting as clown, dropped dead while on his way to the dressing room. Heart failure was the cause. Driven to despair by jealousy, William Tllott, 29, shot "his wife and John (Jlancy, 21, whom he found with her at the Great Western Hotel, Cincinnati. Mott gave himself up and said he hoped he had killed Clancy. Two prisoners who escaped from Fort Snelling grabbed a woman and used her as a shield to prevent their pursuers from firing on them as they crossed the bridge over the river,/ They were recaptured after a long chase. George D. Herron no longer has any church standing in lowa. The Congregational Church of Grinnell, by a unanimous vote, decided to ulrap the_.name of the former professor of applied Chris-'' tianity from its rolls. A fatal shooting occurred at Jagger's ranch, near Horse Prairie, Mont. Sam Moore and William McKenzie quarreled over a horse and Moore began shooting as McKenzie made for his rifle. Two shots hit McKenzie, who died. Because Joseph McSparren, aged 19, would not apologize for remarks alleged to have been made about C.'E. Anderson's wife, the two men came to blows at Richmond, and Anderson bit off two fingers of McSparren and nn ear. The first load of new Kansas wheat was marketed at Winfield. It was soft wheat, tested sixty-two pounds and sold for 65 cents. The millers say that the wheat in that section will be better and the yield larger than for many years. Charlie Betts, aged 13, has been acquitted by a Kansas jury of murdering a farmer, although the evidence against him was very strong. His chum, aged 16, who made a confession charging Betts 'with the murder, will be tried later: Clara L. Howe, wife of the editor of the Atchison, Kan., Daily Globe and the author of the "Story of a Country Town,” has been grunted a divorce from her husband, E. W. Howe. Mrs. HoWe alleges abandonment as the cause of action. The large warehouse of Thomas Lyons, at Arcola, 111., was destroyed by lightning, and over 700 tons of broom corn owned by the Union Broom SupplyCompany was consumed. Loss is from $75,000 to $100,t)00, covered by insurance. Thomas Scruggs, aged 18 years, son of M. I). Scruggs, a wealthy live stock dealer, was killed at Troost park in Kansas City, while trying with the assistance of two companions to withstand the unprovoked attack of ten or fifteen young ruffians. An unknown woman who went to Murdock, Minn., with a month-old baby left for North Dakota without the baby, ami an investigation resulted in the discovery of the infant's dead body, a handkerchief about the deck, indicating death bystrangulation. An attempt was made to blow up the First Methodist Church of Manhattan. Kan., with dynamite. It is believed to he the work of jointists who directed their spite against Rev. J. M. Miller, pastor of the church, because of his crusade against saloons. Nicholas Fox, a life convict at Lincoln, Neb., sentenced from Omaha nine years ago for killing his wife. Will receive an unconditional pardon and be released. This will be Fox’s reward for assistance he rendered in saving the penitentiary building from destruction by a fire. The executive committee of the national hospital for consumptives, located at Denver, Colo., has received a donation of $25,000 from NV. Guckenheim's Sons of New. York and $5,000 from Mr. Brodselder of Louisville, Ky., to be apidied to the building now in cdurse of erection. While rocking a small rowboat from side to side two Chicago young men— Stephen Michalski and Michael Linowiecki —were thrown into the water and drowned at St. Joseph, Mich. The drowning took place on the St. Joseph river in sight of a thousand or more excursionists. The corporation of Brown University has unanimously- elected to the board of trustees the Rev. Dr. Elisha Benjamin Andrews, chancellor of the University of Nebraska. Only four years ago Dr. Andrews, then president of Brown and an ardent champion of free silver, was forced to resign. Charles E. Cotton, former cashier of the First National Bank of Syracuse, Nel>., has been acquitted by a jury in the federal court. Charges upon which he was tried were those of making false entries in books, making false reports to the Comptroler of the Treasury and abstracting funds of the bank.

SOUTHERN.

Boozeville, a town seven miles from Rome, Ga., with a population of 400, was destroyed by tire. The loss was about $20,000. Ju Frank Clayburn, aged 25, son of the late Col. Clayburn of the Twelfth South Carolina volunteers, committed suicide at Columbia, 8. C. A. M. I-eary aud J. L. Davis fought a duel at Waynesboro, Miss., in which both were killed. The trouble was the result of a family feud. Between $30,900,000 and $49,000,000 is to be spent in the next few years on the roadbed nnd equipment of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The compress owned by Inman, Nelms & Co. at Houston, Texas, was burned with 2,300 bales of cotton. The loss is placed at $125,000, partly insured. a ruling from the State Supreme Court bench, in which there was a plain-spoken dissent, women cannot practice law in the Tennessee courts. Two union miners were fatally and a third dangerously wounded in nn encounter with the non-union men at work in the Marntime mines, Matewnn, W. Va. A handcar on which six section hands were riding near Filson, Ky., was struck by lightning and Foreman J. Townsend, white, and Ed Miller, colored, were instantly killed. Floods in the Elkhorn river valley, West Virginia, destroyed the towns of Keystone and Vivian and damaged other villages, causing a loss of 390 or 400 lives. Twenty-five miles of Norfolk and Western Railroad were destroyed. Miss Alic* Duvatt Gibbs, aged 18, a beautiful girl, who waa found and de-

tained by Lexington detectives and take® back to her home in Frankfort, Ky., by her father, J. U. Gibbs, committed sub cide by taking poison, It is said shj eloped to Lexington with a drummer. Walter Selph, a young drummer, was killed in a prize fight at Audubon Park, New Orleans. He and a young man named L. L. Bailey had a quarrel at a military ball and agreed to fight it out with bare fists. They had no seconds, and pounded each other until Selph fell from a blow which broke his neck.

FOREIGN,

During a debate in the city assembly at Tokio, Japan, Hoshi Toru, the eminent diplomat, who was minister of communication in the last, Ito cabinet, was stabbed to death by an unknown assassin. Prof. Robert Koch publishes in the German Medical Weekly a declaration that Dr. Goet'sch of the Slawentzitz hospital has used for ten years tuberculin against tuberculosis with unvarying success. An unexploded bomb hasTieen found in a railroad carriage in which two princes of the house of Montenegro have been traveling in Italy. The Italian authorities have refused to Impart the details of the discovery. While the Crown Prince Frederick William was on his way from Minden to Bonn a drunken individual approached his carriage at Bochum, Westphalia, and aimed a blow with a stick at the window at which the crown prince was seated. The phenomenally cold weather has the worst effect on crops everywhere Europe, and especially in France, where the wheat crop has been ruined. Hence the importation of the American commodity will be a record one. Two French firms alone are credited with having already ordered more than the entire importation from the United States in the year 1909.

IN GENERAL.

Princess Hatzfeldt, it is said, will receive an additional $1,000,090 from C. P. Huntington's estate. National Department of Justice ia making a secret inquiry to ascertain whether trusts are violating the Sherman law. The report that the United States addressed a note to the Danish government demanding that St. Thomas and St. Crois be fortified if the Danish government refuses to sell the islands to the United States is denied at the State Department. According to the Philadelphia North American, a syndicate of capitalists is planning a combination with $100,000,(XX) capital to control the entire production and sale within the United States of the various products and by-products of cotton seed. Frias and Mataa, accused of counterfeiting American dollars in Mexico, have been declared presumptively guilty and will be held for trial. Pawnshops in the Mexican capital are being searched by the police for apparatus said to have been used in this work. John L. Sheppard of Toronto, Ont., who was arrested for non-support of his wife, showed that he had secured a divorce in the United States and held that he was under no obligation to support her. Judge Mac Douglass held otherwise, giving judgment to the effect that American divorces shall not be valid in Canada. * The first news of the season from the far north was brought to Philadelphia by the Greenland bark Find I ,Hl?’'Trom Ivigtut. There were fears among the natives when the Fluorine left that Lieut. Peary and his party of explorers had perished, as the winter in North Greenland had been one of the severest ever known. “Increasing distribution of merchandise, particularly in the territory beyond the Ohio river, including the far Northwest, is a feature of the general business situation, and tells of widespread prosperity and confidence. The railroads • are carrying more goods that may be classed as luxuries than before, and in spite of Wall street's slightly higher money market there is no fear on thia score in any line of legitimate trade. Crop news continues good, there is less trouble from disagreements with labor and the long laggard cotton goods market has recovered slightly with the reduction of unsold stocks of print cloths.” The foregoing is from the weekly trade review of R. G. Dun & Co. “Failures for the week numbered 193 in the United States, against 179 last year, and 14 in Canada, against 15 last year.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicagoj-Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.10; hogs, shipping grades. SB.OO to $6.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 66c to 67c: corn. No. 2,42 cto 43c; oats, No. 2,746 c to 28c; rye, No. 2,46 cto 47c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 9c to 10c; potatoes, new, 70c to 85c pjr bushel. tr Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.90; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2,67 cto 68c; corn. No. 2 white, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 30c. t St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.10; hogs, $3.00 to $6.05; sheep, $3.00 to $4.15; wheat, No. 2,64 cto 65c; corn. No. 2, 41c to 42e; oats. No. 2,28 cto 29c; rye, No. 2,44 cto 45c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $6.00; sheep, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,69 eto 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 29c; rye. No. 2,56 cto 57.. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.95; wheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 31c; rye, 54c to 55c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 67c to 68c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 42c to 43c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 26c to 27c; rye, No. 2,50 c to 51c; clover seed, prime, $6.50. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 65c to 66c; corn, No. 3,41 cto 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 1,48 e tq 49c; barley, No. 2,54 cto 55c; pork, mess. $14.75. Buffalo —Cattle, Choice shipping steers. $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, fair to prime. $3.00 to $6.30; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50 to $4 .25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.00. New York—Cattle, $3.75 to $6.00; hogs. $3.00 to $6.50: sheep, $3.00 to $4.2T>; wheat. No. 2 re'd, 72c to 73c; corn, No, 2, 46c to 47c; oats, No. 2 white, 82c to 33c; butter, creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, weat>rn, 12c to 18c.

HURLED TO ETERNITY

FOURTEEN KILLED AND FIFTY HURT IN WABASH WRECK, Terrible Plunge of a Fast Traja Down an Embankment—Calvert Had Been Washed Out—Dead Are. Italian Immigrants—Horrible Ecene*. Train No. 3, the west-bound limited, one of the finest trains on the Wabash Railway, was wrecked at Cass, nine miles east of Peru, Ind., at 12:30 Wednesday morning by jumping the track and plunging down a forty-foot embankment. Fourteen bodies, all of Italian immigrants on She way to Colorado, were taken from the Wreck, and about fifty persons are injured. Train No. 3 is one of the oldest and one of the finest of the limited of the Wabash. From Peru west it is made up pf two sections—one from Detroit and the other from Toledo —and consists of ten caps. With combined baggage car and express, one combination, one day, one emigrant, three chair cars, three Bleepers and the private car of the general superintendent of the Iron Mountain system, William Cotton. The train was one hotir late and was making up lost time. While on a sharp curve, running fully sixty miles an hour, the engine Struck a weakened culvert, derailing itself, plunged down the embankment.'The express car and the first chair car telescoped themselves, while the emigrant car in the lead, and, followed by two chair cars, went down on the left side of the track. The «first sleeper of the train was badly crushed and twisted, Handing with its forward and hind trucks one on each end of the embankments. The sleeper following was twisted and the windows crushed in both ends. The trucks were torn from under the car, but no one in either sleeper was injured. Only the last sleeper and the private car of the Iron Mountain remained on the track uninjured. At the foot of the embankment, so steep that it could hardly be climbed, crushed and jumbled in a mass, with two chair cars on the top of the emigrant car, was where the deaths occurred. There was no warning, simply a concussion, a grinding sound, then a plunge to death below. |

FARMERS HOLD UP A TRAIN.

Kansans Take Vigorous Measures to Procure Harvest Hands. Driven to desperation by sight of their rich fields being ruined for want of harvesters, a party of twenty Osage County (Kansas) farmers held up a west-bound Santa Fe train Tuesday night to obtain the help necessary for reaping their grain. No. 55 was pulling out of Peterson, a small town, when four husky, heavily armed fanners entered the engine cab and ordered the engineer to stop at a certain crossing a mile south of that place. At the same time others pointed revolvers at the conductor and brakemen, and when the train stopped compelled them to cut loose from the two emigrant cars containing harvest hands bound for the Western fields. Then there was a fierce conflict between the harvesters, who resented the vigorous measures taken by the wouldbe employers. Finally, however, after several of each party had been severelyinjured, a compromise was effected by several persons not engaged in the con.flict, and the two hundred harvesters agreed to work in Osage County at $3.50 a day.

CHAFFEE TO COMMAND.

Order Issued Making Him Military Chief in Philippines. Following the order issued from Washington making Judge Taft civil governor of the Philippines, an order has been is-

sued naming Gen. Chaffee as military governor of the archipelago. The militafy has been ordered to vacate the Ayuntamicnto, the large public building which was erected out of the municipal funds of Manila for governm e n t purposes. This will be occu-

GEN. CHAFFEE.

pied by the civil officers in the Philippines. The palace of Malacayan, heretofore occupied as headquarters for Gens. Otis and MacArthur, also has been ordered vacated by the military authorities, and will be occupied by Gov. Taft. Malacayan was the headquarters of the Spanish captains general when in com mand in the Philippines, and the natives of the islands have come to regard it as the headquarters or seat of government. The Estada Mayo, another large public building, is to be the military headquarters, and will be occupied by Gen. Chaffee.

BIG STEAMER WRECKED.

L isitnuia with 503 Paaaenger* Aboard Goes Aground. The Orient Steam’' Navigation Company's steamer Lusitania, Captain MeNay, from Liverpool for Montreal, having 500 passengers on board, was wrecked Tuesday night off Cape Ballard. The Lusitania was bound round Cape Race for Montreal, with a large cargo and n ship load of passengers. She mistook her course in a dense fog- and went ashore near Renews, twenty miles north of Cape Race, before daybreak. The ship ran over a reef nud hangs ngainst a cliff. The passeugers, who arc mostly emigrants, were panic-stricken. They stampeded and fought for the boats, but were overcome by the officers and crew, who secured control after great trouble and a prhlonged struggle with the rougher element among the passengers, who used knives.

Sparks from the Wires.

Unknown man assassinated Webb Norris, London, Tenn. C. F. Peterson, a prominent Swedish editor, Chicago, dead. Saratoga brewery, Mechanicsville, N. Y., burned. Loss $50,000. King Edward’s coronation will probably take place June 25, 1902. Richmond, Cal., had a $20,000 fire. Caeli Slmonda, a baby, perished. Leo Stevens, balloonist, was nearly killed by a fell, Mt. Vernon, N. T.

CROPS ARE IMPROVED

FAVORABLE TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS FOR THE WEEK. Winter-Wheat Harvest in Progress in Northern Portions of the Grain Helt —Yield Good—Corn Is Reported to Be Doing WelL According to the climate and crop division of the w-eather bureau the teniperature conditions of the week were highly favorable in nearly all parts of the country, especially in the Rocky Mountain region and on the Pacific coast, where the previous week was abnormally cool. The South Atlantic States, which suffered from excessive rains in the previous week, have experienced more favorable conditions for cultivation, which has been seriously delayed. Rain is now generally needed in the central and west gulf States, including Arkansas and southern Missouri. Further and general improvement in the condition of corn is indicated. In Nebraska, the Dakotas and portions of lowa the crop is in need of cultivation, but is generally clean in the last named State. In Missouri corn is bolding out well, but the southern portion of the State must have rain soon or sustain serious damage. In Illinois, Indiana and Ohio corn is backward, but is now making growth. In "the Southern States the corn crop is doing well except in Texas, Louisiana ! and southern Mississippi, where it is greatly in need of rain. In the Atlantic coast States the crop has made favorable progress, but needs cultivation in portions of the Virginia and Carolinas. Winter wheat harvest has advanced under favorable conditions during the week, and is now in progress in the northern portion of the central and western districts qf the winter wheat belt, with generally satisfactory results both as to yield and quality. In Michigan and portions of Pennsylvania and New York fly has caused deterioration, and increased reports of rust are received from Ohio and Virginia. In the Carolinas grain in shock has suffered some injury frotn moisture. In California harvtst ia progressing in all sections. In Oregon and Washington the .prospects continue favorable, and wheat is ripening in the first-named State. The spring wheat region has experienced favorable weather conditions, and the outlook for spring wheat is now mo.-t encouraging, although in northern Minnesota some fears of lodging are entertained. The crop is now heading over the southern portion of the spring wheat region. In the Ohio valley and middle Atlantic States the oat crop has made favorable progress and is generally improved in the States of the upper Mississippi and upper Missouri valleys. The generaLoutlook for hay is satisfactory except in portions of the Ohio, central Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys, where it is not as good as usual. Haying is now in progress in the more northerly sections. The reports respecting apples are somewhat more encouraging in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kansas, but in the other important apple States the outlook is less promising, and dropping continues to be extensively reported. Crop Report* by State*. Missouri—Good showers tn extreme northern counties and crops doing well; elsewhere rainfall very light, except a few localities, and high temperature Intensified drought conditions; corn holding its own, but must have rain soon; some damage by cbini-b bug In southwest; cotton blooming; wheat nearly all harvested; yield and quality food; som* oats cut; meadows and pastures short; water becoming scarce; apples still dropp ng. Illinois—Continued warm and showery weather Improved crop oondhlons; wheat harvest In progress; yield good in many localities and poor In others; corn making rapid growth, hut still rather small; bay and oats improved, but yield will be below average; broom corn, stock peas, potatoes, pastures and doing welt; fruit prospects generally food, though apples are not so promising. Indiana—Wann weather and frequent rains beneficial; storms Injurious In localities; wheat and rye harvest begun In south portion: heads well tilled, promising good yield; fair hay crop being housed; clover cutting finished; oats beading; potatoes blooming; corn and tobacco growing well; corn small, but good cqlor; fruit abundant, except pears; apples dropplug freely, but many remain on trees. Ohio —Considerable damage by local storms, grain and clover lodged by winds; warm and wet, favorable for crop growth, but unfavorable for curing clover; pastures, timothy, oats, barley, potatoes and gardens improved; meadows weedy; wheat ripening, rust Increasing; corn greatly Improved; some field* still too wet to cultivate; tobacco plants doing well; dropping of apples not so general; plums and peaches Indicate large crop. Michigan—Week generally favorable for crop growth and germination of late seedings; corn shows marked Improvement; oats healthy, but rather short; wheat continue* to crinkle and tall; sugar beet* generally promising and mostly thinned; been* germinating finely and making good stand; apples not setting well; potatoes tn fine condition; clover haying generally begun. Wisconsin—Continued warm, with general rains moderately heavy over western counties; local hailstorms did little damage small grains doing well and generally beaded out; clover cutting begun; hay crop generally poor, except on new Heeding* and uplands where a fair c*op is promised; oats and bsrseeJlng? * e 8 *° o<l crop ’ eicept on broadcait lowa-Fine growing weather, with ample rainfall, except in portions of eastern secBoo: corn making rapid growth and generally clean except where work was relarded by heavy showers; pastures much improved and meadows show some benefit fromi late rains; oata, spring wheat, and barley doing well, but still below normal condition; apples and plums show light fruiting South Dakota—Abundant rains, some lowlands too wet; some local damage by hallsmall grains, especially spring wheat mad* thrifty progress and U generally in exeellent condition; wheat, oats, and barley headIng; corn Improved, but considerable weedl- * news; cultivation slow; hav prospects satisfactory; pasturage excellent: flax snd notetoes doing well; wind* injured apnea in southeast counties. Nebraska—Warm week, with heavy showers in northern counties; wluterv W hJ al harvest commenced in southern counties; heads rather short, but well filled with plump berry: oats Improved In northern counties but poor In southern; corn hns grown well but needs cultivation and hot, dry weather in northern counties; apples unimproved- bar crop promises to be unusually large. *' A camera fiend iu BritishTlohnnbia while endeavoring to take a photograph at the extreme edge of a cliff, made a misstep and fell a hundred feet into th* water below. On his way down he pressed the button. The resultant picture, ha declares, Is the best in his collection. A movement hns been started In Georgia to perpetuate the memory otEU Whitney by converting into an elegant country club the scene of hia labors near Augusta, where he perfected his cottoi gin. An organization has been perfected and a charter for the clitb secured.