Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1901 — Page 2

JASPER COENTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK. Publisher. HcNSSELAER, , - INDIANA

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The management of the Union I’acifie has decided to spend nearly $1,000,000 in establishing a resort on the site of the natural Indian fort on Dale creek, 8,400 feet high in the Rocky fountains, a short distance southeast of Sherman, Wyo. - ' An oil well which was drilled three miles east of Lima, Ohio, proves to be the biggest gusher in the Lima field. It will average several thousands of barrels a day. It is impossible to control the flow. The new well will open up a big territory. Latest directory of Manhattan and the Bronx, just issued, indicates a population in the two boroughs of 2,075,450, or an increase in one year of 23,850 inhabitants. The estimate is based upon the government standard of 5 1-10 persons to each family. At Nevada, Mo., in the preliminary examination before Justice I’oage of L. E. Bryan, who killed John Davis in that county on July 3, the case was dismissed by the prosecuting attorney, the evidence tending to show the killing was done in self-defense. The wheel of a sleepftig car on the Moscow-St. Petersburg express broke when the train was near Okoulowka. The car fell over ou its side and thirteen persons were injured, among them Mrs. Beard of Boston, tMrs. Harmin of San Francisco and Mr. Calendar of New York. The mystery surrounding Irene Can ning, the 16-year-old girl who so mysteriously appeared at Goshen, Ind., recently, and whose identity the police have been endeavoring to discover, was cleared up by a message from Barre, Vt.. stating that she is'a girt who ran away from East Barre last winter. At 1 o’clock the other morning a westbound special interurban electric car on the Union Traction Company line, west of Muncie, Ind., dashed into the regular passenger car from Indianapolis, the switch having been tampered with. The vestibules on both cars were smashed, an<l Motorman Willard Ellar of Muncie had a close call for his life. lire American Locomotive Company has appropriated the sum of $500,000 for the purpose of enlarging its plant at Schenectady, N. Y. It is stated that the capacity of the plant will be increased The idea is to make this plant the central one, and it will be developed to the greatest extent, although other plants are to be improved and enlarged. Calvin Jordan, assistant clerk of the city of Des Moines, lowa, recently returned from Tm-onto, Canada, where he had been negotiating for the purchase of Clapperton Island in north Lake Huron, between Grand Manitou Island and the main land. There are 10,Otto acres in the island, partially timbered. Jordan plans to devote the island to timber and wheat growing. He declines to state the price at which the purchase is being negotiated. Floyd Peckham, 19 years old, was arrested at Cranesville, Pa., for the murder of his father, Lealton Peckham, on Jan. 13 last. The elder Peckham had come home drunk and driven his family out.. His dead body was found next day with four bullet holes in it. Floyd easily proved that after going to a neighbor's he had not gone back home. It is now said that a detective has discovered evidence that murder was committed before Floyd left. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...45 30 New Y0rk...34 35 St. Louis. ...45 34 Boston 34 39 Philadelphia 42 33Cincinnati ...32 43 Brooklyn ...41 36Chicago 30 53 Standings in the American League are as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....50 28 Washington. 31 36 Boston 45 28 Philadelphia. 32 40 Baltimore ...39 30Cleveland ...30 46 Detroit 42 35 Milwaukee ..26 52

NEWS NUGGETS.

George Brown, aged 43, and his nephew, Jim Brown, aged 22, fought with knives at Winchester, Ky., the latter being killed. George Brown may die. The entire manufacturing department of Chureh Brothers' pressed Urick works at Golden, Colo., has been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $100,(XX). Rafaello Farinacco, an Italian for ■whom the police of Cleveland have been seeking for nearly a year on the charge of murder, surrendered himself to the authorities. While bathing at East Battle Lake. N. D„ Allen Huel and Allen Harris, each 17 years of age, got beyond their depth and were drowned. Both belonged to prominent families. The thunderstorms which brought relief to Cincinnati assumed cyclonic proportion*,from Newport east to Fort Thomas and south into the State for a considerable distance. No lives were lost. Charles R. Flint is organizing a chair trust, the capital of which is said to lie SIO,(XX),(XX). Tlie combination will include about forty chair companies, or practically all the big concerns in the United States. Michael Kelly, a maniac, brooding over fancied wrongs, murdered John R. Garrett, a lumber merchant of Leavenworth, Kan., fatally wounded a physician, shot three policemen and a laborer ami was himself killed by the officers. William Hobson, a negro, wns accidentally shot and killed while passing u gun shop in Louisville by G. W. Steen, who •was testing a rifle. Steen was arrested The section men on all the railroads entering Columbus, Ohio, with the exception of the Norfolk and Western, have been granted an increase of 10 cents a day and will not strike, as threatened. It is reported that Gen. Delarey has informed tlie Klerksdorp commando that there is no longer any chance of European intervention, and that they must fight the war out to the bittor end entirely on their own account.

EASTERN.

Maurice Robinson of New York is planning an automobile trip around the world. Italy has made representations to the United States regarding the lynching of two Italians at Erwin. Mass. A fierce electrical storm at Grove City, Pa., resulted in four deaths and the severe injury of three other persons. Infernal jpachine sent by mail to a Brooklyn city employe exploded, tearing off the left hand of Edgar Schroeder. John Gilcofsky and Anthony Chickfay of Shenandoah, Pa., were instantly killed by a fall of coal at Maple Hill colliery. Gottlieb Faher, well-known landscape artist, was shot and killed in front of his home in New York by Thomas McGurk. Hamburg-American liner Deutschland has made a new record for the trip from New York to Plymouth—s days 11 hours and 5 minutes. The Shelter for Homeless Girls in Syracuse, N. Y., was destroyed by fire. Forty-one inmates escaped in their night clothes by the fire escapes. David McCann, aged 19, son of a wealthy San Francisco man, was killed in New Haven, Conn., while stealing a ride on top of a Pullman car. Anna Kowalchik, arrested by Cleveland police for the murder of her 1-day-old infant, confessed to the crime. She was taken to Johnstown, Piy, her former home. Gen. Daniel Butterfield, former assistant United States Treasurer at New York, died at his country home, Craigside, near Cold Springs, N. Y. He had been suffering from partial paralysis. A widow survives him. Francis Schlatter, once well known as a “divine healer," was sent to St. Elizabeth's hospital for the insane at Washington. The commitmentT was temporary, and further inquiry into his mental condition will be made. “Jack” and "Ed” Biddle were sentenced to death at Pittsburg, Pa., for the murder of Thomas D. Kahney April 12 last, and Walter Dorman was adjudged guilty of murder in the first degree for his part tn the homicide. The village of Six Mile Ferry, near Homestead, Pa., is excited over the find ing of a woman's arm in a ravine near the town, and later the discovery in some bushes of a silk dress, minus a sleeve. Bloodstains were also found on the grass in the vicinity. Five persons were drowned in Long Island Sound by the capsizing of the yawl-rigged yacht Venitzia of Philadelphia at a point five miles east of Sand’s Point, near the New York and Connecticut line. Two only of those on board the yacht were rescued. At Taunton, fire in the Union Block caused a damage of nearly $150,000. Among those damaged are the Hacks Publishing Company, Pierce's hardware store, E. D. Tisdale, jeweler; H. D. Washburn, undertaker; A. I. Barker, druggist, and Charles Barnard, tailor. While hundreds of citizens were hunting for Agnes JJodges, the missing Smith College girl, her body was accidentally discovered in Birges pond, Bristol, Conn., by William Fitzpatrick, who was bathing. On making a dive into deep water he struck her body, which immediately came to the surface. Morton Starr Creasy of Hartford, Conn., shot and killed his friend and classmate at Yale and the Harvard law school, Sidney Bristol of Battle Creek, Mich., in a bedroom at the home of Cressy’s grandmother in Brattleboro, Vt. It is thought that Bristol was taken for a burglar while walking in his sleep. The full-rigged ship Commodore T. H. Allen, outward bound with 80,000 cases of oil for Hongkong, was discovered to be aground and on fire just outside of Sandy Hook. Word was telegraphed to New York and a number of tugs and fireboats went to her assistance. She was later pulled off, towed inside the hook and anchored near the shore, but sank in seven fathoms of water. The crew of the Allen was taken off.

WESTERN.

Andrew Carnegie has offered the city of Portsmouth, Ohio, $50,000 for a public library. Jacob Neer, aged 02, formerly of Sioux City, lowa, killed himself with a revolver at Bellefontaine, Ohio. Dr. Alston Ellis of Hamilton, Ohio, has been elected president of the Ohio University and has assumed his duties. Eleven persons were injured on the West Madison street car line in Chicago on account of faulty working of cable. Andrew Putnam committed suicide at Luverne, Minn., by drinking carbolic acid. He was despondent over the crop prospects. A heavy freight train on the Big Four road ran into a heavily loaded passenger train at Columbia Station, Ohio. Five train men were hurt, but not seriously. Advices from. Tower, Minn., report a serions fire there that destroyed ten buildings, including a hotel, butcher shop and saloon; other buildings were dwellings. Rev. J. B. Dusman, postmaster at Goshen, Ohio, attempted suicide by shooting and cannot recover. It is believed that he became mentally affected by the beat. Mrs. Annie Blehr of Cincinnati, in open court at Batavia, Ohio, called Judge Parrot a liar, and was sent to jail until she retracts the statement. This she says she will never do. Despite the advice of William J. Bryan that they support the regular party nominee, George A. Groot of Cleveland says the Bryan Democrats of Ohio will nominate an independent State ticket. The Toledo plant of the Republic Iron and Steel Company, which suspended operation* shortly after it passed into the control of that corporation about two years ago, will resume operation as soon as men and materials can tie secured. W. J. Woodbury, proprietor of a job printing office at Bt. Paul, committed suicide by jumping from the high bridge into the Mississippi river, 200 feet itelow. Financial difficulties are said to have been the cause. . Martin Harding, a boy, was struck by lightning while working in a buy field near Gambler, Ohio. A hole the site of a walnut was torn In the back of his head and hl* clothing nnd shoes were rent from his body. Andrew Carnegie has offered Kansas

Orty. Kan., $75,000 for « free ItbMfty, providing the city furnishes the site and agrees to maintain the library, at a cost of not less than $7,500 a year. The offer will be accepted. At Lincoln, Neb., Frank Marshall, a negro cook, shot and killed his ‘niece, Verne Lee, 18 years old, and badlywounded his sister, Eliza Marshall. The crime is the outgrowth of domestic trouble of long standing. While walking on a trestle near Eve. Mo., Grover Lemmon, aged 18, and Frank Long, aged 21, were run down by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas flyer and instantly killed. John Van Dusen, a companion was badly injured. Frank McDonald of Fredonia, Kan., and Cyrus Wing of Chanute were killed, Cromwell Lake of Chanute was probably fatally injured and George Clark had three ribs and his breast bone broken in the wreck of a Santa Fe work train near Emporia. Joseph Pabian and Frank Pabian xbet a horrible death at North Bend, Neb., by sinking in the treacherous quicksand* in the Platte River. They were swimming and were caught by the oozing sands and carried under before assistance csuld reach them. While Wellington, Ohio, was almost completely deserted for the annual town picnic, Miss Herrick, the postmistress, sister of Col. Myron T. Herrick, was held up and* robbed by two men. The robbers were caughLahnost immediately by the town marshal. Dr. Alston Ellis of Hamilton, Ohio, has been elected president of the Ohio University. He at once assumed his duties. The election was necessitated by the refusal of Rev. 8. D. Hutsinpiller of San Francisco to accept the position after he had been elected. In Cincinnati Clarence Davis, aged 17 years, shot and seriously wounded his step-father, William Weidebusch, and also attempted to kill his young wife, and John Good and George Metze, young men whom he charged with slandering him. He is believed to be insane. The old plant of the Globe-Wemicke Company on West Eighth street, Cincinnati, was partially destroyed by fire. The building is used for the manufacture of paper filing boxes and office furniture. The damage is estimated at SIOO,OOO, with considerable insurance. The Traders’ Grain Company of Kansas City stopped payment, and it ia said the liabilities amount to $150,000. The company operated on a capital of $20,000. The failure was caused by the advance in both corn and wheat, aided by the heavy buying orders of country customers. Charles Dobb, 17 years old, accidentally shot and killed his mother while she was picking berries near Dexter, Mo. Dobb was hunting turkeys, and, discoving a motion in the bushes, he fired. A njpment later the young man’s mother staggered forward and fell dead in betson's arms. While digging a well south of Chamberlain, S. D., Thomas Wyman, at a depth of seventy-five feet, was overcome by the damp air, and his partner, Evers Phillips, not hearing from him had himself lowered down and narrowly escaped a like fate, being insensible when brought to the surface. A fire at Cambridge, Minn.; caused a total loss of SBB,OOO, the principal losers being the Merchants’ Hotel, P. O. Peterson, Presley’s drug store, the general stores of Alfred Smith and H. J. Johnson, Chounard’s saloon, Satterlihd'a jewelry store and C. L. Johnson & Co., clothiers. Insurance $50,000. Justice George L. Walls, known as the “whipping post judge,” caused a young girl to be given twenty lashes In his court room in Kansas City. The girl, Lillie Thomas, bad been convicted of stealing a purse containing $3, which she spent for soda water and candy. Her mother applied the- lash. The Missouri river has cut its banka at a point eight miles south of Leavenworth, and is now pouring part of its waters into the Platte river. An island, five miles long and in some places nearly two miles wide, has been formpd. If the Missouri adopts the new channel this land will be transferred from Missouri to Kansas. A head-end collision between a northbound St. Joseph and Grand Island passenger train and a Santa Fe freight, two miles west of Gower, Mo., killed Engineer Baker of the Santa Fe train and Express Messenger Floyd of the passenger train, injured fourteen others, and demolished the Santa Fe engine and several freight cars. There will be no strike on the part of the 6,500 Missouri and Kansas coal miners in district 25. The joint scale committee, composed of ten operators and an equal numlier of miners, which has been in session at Kansas City, almost continuously since June 1, reached an agreement on every important point in the new wage scale. Memphis police and authorities at Laconia, Ark., on the Mississippi are trying to clear the mystery surrounding the disappearance of six persons. A large houseboat has been found stranded and with the interior disarranged. A picture of the boat with six persons aboard was found. It is believed the people were murdered by river pirates.

SOUTHERN.

An unknown negro who resisted arrest at Crowley, La., was lynched. Babe Battis, Duser Thompson and Abe Petway, negro murderers, were hanged at Nashville, Tenn? Three boys of Newport, Ky., went to sleep on a railroad track near Marysville and were run over and fatally injured. Despondent because of ill health, Mrs. A. O. Bourdon of Biloxi, Miss., placed a revolver barrel in her mouth and pulled the trigger, killing her instantly. The bodies of Wheeler and Mynatt Hattnaker, nged 11 nnd 14 years, were found in n mill pond near Jacksboro, Tenn. They had been stabbed and beaten to death. ' Andrew' Carnegie, who gave S4O,(XM) to the city of Covington, Ky., for a public library, has increased the gift to $75,000 to meet the desire of an auditorium in conjunction with the library. C. J. Dillon and William Morgan of Three Mlle, W. fought a duel over a girl wid) whom both were in loye. They, used shotguns. Morgan was shot In the breast, and his adversary in the abdomen. Two freight trains oA the 'Louisville and NashYrlle road collided at Nortonville, Ky., killing two men, fatally injur-

ing two and slightly injuring trt. The accident was due to a conflict Of tniia orders. Jesse Phillips, a negro preacher, labor agitator and lodge organizer, wag lynched at Cleveland, Miss., for the murder of Lucius Reed. Two other negroes were subsequently shot by the lynchers for making threats.

FOREIGN,

Allies have agreed to evacuate Pekin Aug. 14. Dnke of Connaught was installed grand master of British Free Masons. Civil rule has been withdrawn from Cebu and Bohol and the province of Batangas, Luzon. Gen. Cavero, a Carlist leader, was killed and many persons wounded in religious riots at Saragossa, Spain. Mrs. Kruger, wife of tKe former President of the Transvaal republic, who is now in Europe, died after a short illness. Representatives of the powers at Pekin have agreed upon a plan for the payment of the 450,000,000 taels of indemnity and China has aecOfted it. Earl Russell, arraigned at the bar of the House of Lords in London for trial on the charge of bigamy, pleaded guilty after lengthy- arguments against thd jurisdiction of the court. George Herrick, formerly of New York, one of the oldest members of the American colony in London, was found dead in bed. He had lived in the English metropolis for twenty years.

IN GENERAL

Ecuadorian consul general in Valparaiso, Chili, A. Arias Sanchez, was assassinated and his body mutilated. Flint glass bottle manufacturers of the United States have formed a combination with a capitalization of $30,000,000. E. J. Park of Wheeling, W. Va., is president, and G. J. M. Porter of Chicago actuary. Third volume of “Maclay’s History of the American Navy” is excluded as a text book at the naval academy at*Annapolis, it being discovered that it calls Admiral Schley coward, liar, caitiff, incompetent and insubordinate. Jake Skin, the St. Regis Indian, who, backed by chiefs of the Iroquois tribe, held Calquhoun Island in the St. Lawrence river nearly six months in defiance of the dominion government, has been dispossessed and arrested. An armed force is guarding the island against the Indians. The enormous floating steel dry dock which Spain placed in the harbor at Havana to increase the efficiency of her fleet in the West Indian -waters has been purchased by the United States for $185,000, and will be towed to Manila to render our fleet in Asiatic waters independent of the docking facilities at Hongkong. It is reported that negotiations are on foot looking to a consolidation of large mixed paint concerns, One report has it that the company will engage in all branches of the paint business, including pigments, oils, turpentine, varnishes, chemicals, brushes and glass, and that a $100,<j0<),000 company will be organized. In addition to the other bases of supplies demanded in the Platt amendment; it is the Intention of the administration to permanently retain Morro Castle, overlooking the harbor of Havana. This is announced upon the highest authority. It is the intention to occupy, control and defend the stronghold with United States troops after the government of the island has been handed over to the Cubans. “Anxiety regarding unfavorable possibilities in the future rather than any actual present misfortune depressed securities and caused cancellation of some orders for mqgchandise by western dealers. Retail distribution of goods will not be curtailed by the labor controversy unless it is of long duration, as the men have saved money during the recent period of full employment at high wages. Similarly, in some agricultural districts, where there is fear that little com will be harvested, preceding bumper crops at good prices have put farmers in such prosperous condition that their purchases will not fall off materially, while the greatest crop of wheat on record has not brought a return to the low prices of previous heavy yields,” according to R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review’ of trade. Continuing, the report says: Atlantic exports show a large gain over last year's figures, for the week amounting to 3,902,775 bushels, against 1,841,861 a yeay ago. Failures for the week numbered 193 in the United States, against 231 last year, and 32 in Canada, against 27 last year.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—-Cattle, common to prime, SB.OO to $6.00; hogs, shipping gradase, $3.00 to $6.17; Sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn. No. 2,57 cto 58c; oats, No. 2,30 c to 40c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 57c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 12c; potatoes, new, 50c to 75c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $6.00; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,66 cto 67c; corn, No. 2 white, 54c to 55c; oats, No. 2 white, 37c to 38c. St. Louis-Cattle, $3.25 to $5.85; hogs, $3.00 to $0.00; sheep, 453.00 to $3 50; wheat, No. 2,67 cto 68c; corn, No. 2, 58c to 50c; oats. No. 2,40 cto 41c; rye, No. 2,61 cto 63c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $6.10; sheep, SB.OO to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,66 cto 67c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 54c to 55c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 38c. to 39c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 50c. v Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.10; hogs, $3.00 to $5.85; sheep, $2.50 to $8.75; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 53c to 54c; oats, No. 2 white, 39c to 40c; rye, 53c to 54c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 72c to 78c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 58c to 59c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; rye, No. 2,54 c to 55c; clover seed, prime, $6.50. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 70c to 71e; corn, No. 3,55 cto 56c; oats, No. 2 white, 40c to 41c; rye, No. 1,54 c to 55c; barley, No. 2,55 cto 56c; pork, mess, $14.07. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.65; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $6.20; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50 to $4.25; lambs, common to choice, $4.50 to SS.<JO. 1 New York—Cattle. $3.75 to $5.85; hogs, $8X1) to S6.W; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; *vh*«t, No. 2 red, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2, 61c to 62c; oats, N*o. 2 white, 43c to 44c; butter, creamery, 18c to 10c; eggs, western. 14c to 16c.

THE EPWORTH HOSTS

OPENING OF THE CONVENTION .IN SAN FRANCISCO. Annual Convention of Methodist Society Begins in the Pacific Coast City— Mechanics PavllionCrowded to Its Capacity—Welcoming Addresses Made. The Epworth League convention of 1901 was. formally onened at Mechanics’ Pavilion, San Francreco, Thursday. For a week the tide of travel had been toward San Francisco, until the Epworth hosts, 25,000 strong, had been poured into the city ready for the opening services. Thursday evening the convention was in full swing with meetings in three Igi-ge halls. The vast auditorium of the pavilion, with seats for 10,000 and additional facilities for a chorus of 2,000, which was to give special concerts, presented a pleasinj sight. - The entire auditorium was canapied by American flags, while around the gallery railing red and white bunting was draped gracefully, with here and there the shields of America and Great Britain and their respective flags crossed above them. The stage was hung with gold colored bunting, the State’s color. The throng began assembling early for the opening ceremonies, which began at 2:30 p. m., everyone enthusiastic an 1 happy. From ths torrid temperature of the East to the cool breezes of the Pacific and • temperature of 60 degrees was a welcome and exhilarating change to the pilgrims. At 1:80 p. m. a missionary conferencs was held at the -headquarters on Larkin street. At ths same time a business meeting of presiding elders and league Officials assembled at the pavilion in orfi<*r to prepare for the day’s actjviti.s. When Chairman Filbert ascended the platform and rapped for order at 2:30 o’clock every seat in the building had r.n occupant, while many sought standing room. The vast audience greeted the chairman with a Chautauqua salute and then listened to the opening service. The song service was led by Robert Husband and devotions by the Rev. Judson Hill. Addresses of welcome were given by Gov. Gage, Mayor Phelan, Bishop Hamilton and the Rev. J. C. Symonds of Woodlqnd; responses on behalf of the Methodist Episcopal Church byBishop I. W. Joyce, Minneapolis; on behalf of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, the Rev. H. M. Du Bose, Nashville, Tenn.; on behalf of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada, the Rev. James Henderson, Toronto; on behalf of the colored Methodist Episcopal Church, A. A. Carter, Atlanta, Ga.

MRS. BONING INDICTED.

Mrs. Ida Bonine has been indicted in Washington for the murder of James Seymour Ayres, the young medical student. The indictment was something of a surprise. The police have been unable to break the confessing of Mrs. Bonine, la which she declared she killed Ayres in her own defense, and it was generally believed she would never be tried on the charge of first degree murder. There is practicaHy nothing against her except her own story, and it is not believed that that will convict her. Ayres was killed at the Kenmore Hotel, in his room. A woman was seen to leave his room by the fire escape, and enter another room in the building. Mrs. Bonine says she was called by Ayres, who said he was sick, and as soon ss she entered the room he locked the door and attacked her. Ho was killed with his own pistol. Above are shown two pictures of Mrs. Bonine, one taken when she took first prize in n beauty contest in Columbus, Ohio, the Other taken since she has been in jail In Washington.

PULPIT AND PREACHER

The corner stone of a new Catholic church was recently laid in Clledonia, Wis, The Rev. W. H. W. Reese has assumed the pastorate of Bmithfield Methodist Episcopal Church, Pittsburg. The Rev. F. A. Beyl of the divinity school of the University of Chicago has accepted a call to the Baptist Church of Mason City, 111. Dr. R. Marshall Harrison, who for nearly three years has been th* senior curate of St. Ann's Church on the Heights, Brooklyn, has accepted a call to the vicarship of Holy Trinity Memorial Q|lapel, Philadelphia. Presbyterians of Neenah, Wis., have dedicated their new $35,000 church. It was through the efforts of the Ladles* Society of the church that the new building was made possible, and all of the $35,000 required was in hand or pledged before the work was begun. What is said to be the handsomest and costliest pulpit and altar in the State of Wisconsin has Ixen dedicated in the Cbhrch Of the Holy Name, Sheboygan. Thehltxr is-of oak and white walnut, forty five feet high and twenty feet wide, hand-carved, and gold burnished. Its cost was $5,000.

SCHLEY TAKES ACTION.

A<to*r*l Asks Secretary Look for a. . Court of Inquiry. After nearly three years of silence under the lash of official and unofficial charges against his character as a man gnd hi* reputation as a naval officer, Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley has at last demanded a naval court of inquiry to investigate the charges and insults which are heaped on him by Historian Maclay In the third volume of his “History of the United States Navy,” in which the jSampson-Schley Santiago harbor controversy; is dealt with at length. Wfigm a decision has been reached by this body the matter will not end there. A civil action will be brought by the admiral asking that the historian pay his damages for libel. The controversy, which had smoldered gfter the first blaze following the close of the war, began to flicker again when Secretary Long of the navy ruled—out Maclay’s book at the naval academy at Annapolis. Rear Admiral Sampson has been quoted several times as saying that

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he knew Maclay was going to treat Schley as he did in his book, before the publication was Issued, and that the statements were substantially true, as they appeared to have been taken from the official reports of the battle. The, action which Schley has at last taken has been expected by his friends for some time. From the treatment Rear Admiral Schley received at the hands of the historian, the friends say, it is obvious that the author tried to defame the officer. A telegram was sent to Admiral Schley by his friends, stating that it was a duty he owed himself to disprove the historian's charge, it was the Schley newspapers that began the agitation over Maclay’s reference to Schley as a coward and to what Maclay termed “his caitiff flight” from the enemy. Schley’s failure to take prompt action against Maclay or the Appletons, who published the work, has caused murmurings even among his defenders. Navr.l officers who have heretofore refused to be drawn into any discussion as to the merits of the Schley controversy have been showing some feeling over the silence of Schley under the latest attack on his integrity and professional standing, while those officers who have not been so reticent have not failed to express themselves freely on the subject. , For three years past charges and coun-ter-charges, criminations and recriminations, have been hurled back and forth, and while the American people have sympathized with Admiral Schley and have believed that a great wrong was attempted against him, they would gladly see the question set at rest. The battle of Santiago is of course the main subject of coatroversy ( and while technically Admiral Sampson was in command as the court of claims has decided in respect to his prize money interest, he was not in actual command while the battle was' raging. Admiral Schley was in command, and was responsible for the movements of the fleet. To be sure, the situation was so simple that he only repeated the standard order long before given by Sampson in case the emergency should arise, “Clear for action, close with the enemy," but he was present, and the Brooklyn, of which he was in personal command, took a prominent part in the engagement. Admiral Sampson’s ship, the New York, came upon the scene after the fight was substantially over and Cervera’s fleet had been sunk.

UNION OF FARM HANDS.

Indiana Tiller* of the Soil Are Sac-, ceaaful la Their Organization. “Farm Laborers’ Union, No. 9247, branch of the American Federation of Labor,” the only organisation of its kind in Indiana, although only a month old, is already returning benefits and becoming so popular among farm laborers that the officers say it will soon spread over Knox and adjoining counties. Originally formed among the farm hands of W. H. Brevoort, Knox County, the union is being run on a basis to secure to membership laborers from auy farm, and twentyseven farms are already represented among the list of members. Their wives nnd daughters especially are appreciating and encouraging the union, and take pride in announcing that they now have shorter hours of work and more time for recreation, rest and study, a desideratum not obtainable heretofore with 10 and 11 o'clock suppers and 3 and 4 o’clock breakfasts. The leader and perhaps the most enthusiastic woman among them is Mrs. Thomas Murray, wife of one of Brevoort's tenants. The union holds enthusiastic meetings twice a week in the open, in the district school house or the church on the Brevoort farm, or in their hall in Vincennes —just as suits their convenience. Better wages and shorter hours, fair and uniform treatment and improved modes of living, secured through the arbitration method, usually receive thorough discussion at these meetings, followed by a short hout* of social enjoyment.

Telegraphic Brevities.

Consul General Stowe, Cape Town, has quit because living expenses devour his salary too fast. Rockefeller and Morgan are about to start a bank in Ppris with $50000,000 capital, it is said. Miss Gilman, 63, sister of the late milk ionaire tea merchant, New York, has been declarer! insane. Reports from Alaska say that maim / persons on the islands of St. Paul and St. George died from measles the past wi«t«r.