Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1901 — Page 2

•JASPER IIIUNTY DEMOCRAT ~F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. HcNSSELAtR, - • INDIANA —tay-"-" . — l —

WEEK'S NEWS RECORD

Great floods caused I>y the overflowing of the Yang-Tse hare caused the death of pinny thousands in China, The river has risen forty feet and for hundreds of miles the country is a great lake, with only tops of trees and an occasional roof showing. Corwin 11. Spencer, a -prominent member of the St. Louis Hoard of Trade, has already cleaned up $250,000 on the ids bulge in corn. He lias cornered 1.000.000 bushels of the grain, which tie expects to sell in September at the handsome profit of $400,000, • Ellis Glenn, through h#r at4orne.va T has filed a declaration in the United States Court nt Parkersburg, W. Va., in a suit against William Iti hardsou for SSO,(KKI damages. This proceeding is it sequel to the recent sensational trial of Ellis Glenn for forgery. Two hundred Mafisuds attacked a militia post at Knshmirkur, India, killed a sentry and surprised the garrison, which sought-refuge in the barracks. The Mahsuds decamped with thp rifles, ammuni tion, uniforms and kits of the garrison without losing a man. Serious rioting, lasting for five dayaud resulting iu the killing of five per sons and womjding of upwards of 201' others, begun in Itio de Janeiro, Brazil according to a report received at the State Department from Charles Page Bryan, the United States minister. Leonard G. Hefuig's jewelry store at Allentown, Pa., was robbed of between $4,000 and $5,000. Two young men win are missing are suspected of having com mitted the robbery. One of them was at l apprentice in the store and carried a kej to the door and the combination of tht safe. •

Dan Hannon, an old Irishman at Louisville, Ivy., lost both legs from sleeping in a chair. He slept always with hi> feet crossed tip tailor fashion under and his head resting on a table. The impeded circulation produced by his constrained sleeping position caused gangrene. Dr. Meyer amputated both legs. A respectable looking young man of 2committed suicide tit the Hamilton Hole in Wichita, Kan., by taking laudanum He tore his name off all his marked gar incuts, including his hat, and left an on signed note asking tiiat bis body lie kept for three days, when Elmer Scripture ol Westport, Ind., would take charge of it The body of Miss Emma Tizzurd was found in the well in the rear of the family home nt Eaton, Ohio. She had been suffering with melancholia and during the early evening became ill, supposedly from having taken poison. A brother who lay in the doorway to prevent her escape fell asleep. Some time during the night Miss Tizzurd tiptoed her way over his body and lifting the cover from the well, leaped in. Following is the standing of the club* in the National League: W. L. W. L Pittsburg ...51 34 Boston 42 42 Philadelphia 50 27 New Y0rk...30 41 St. L0ui5....51 30Cincinnati .. .30 5< Brooklyn ...45 42 Chicago 30 5b Standings in the American League an as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....57 32 Philadelphia. Mil 14 Boston 50 35 Washington. 35 47 Baltimore .. .47 30 Cleveland ...35 Mi Detroit 48 42 Milwaukee . .33 58

NEWS NUGGETS.

Nathan Caruthers, colored, was hang ed at Memphis for the murder of Charles Nee he. John Pennington, a negro, was burned nt the stake by a mob of 500 whites and blacks ut Enterprise, Ala. Postal receipts for the year will show an increase of $7,000,000, the total being nearly 100 per cent greater than iu 1890. lowa Republicans nominated A. B. Cummins of lies Moines for Governor oti the first ballot. On test vote his faction proved its control over the convention. The body of James M. Frazier, a Presbyterian minister, 82 years of age, was found iu the Ohio river near Paducah Ky. It is supposed he committtd suicide. An old notroglyeerin wagon used afuel at a Lima, Ohio, carriage factory, exploded, wrecking a portion of tin- build ing and seriously injuring s-veral tin ployes. Fireman Patrick Grimes of the steamship Belgt-nland, bound for Philadelphia, committed suicide when the vessel was three days out of Liverpool, by jumping overboard. Benjamin Pugh, the negro who murdered John Tit-gen, a waiter in n restaurant in Brooklyn, Aug. 23 lust, was put to death in the electric chair iu Sing Sing prison, William F. Coston, the manufacturer of the Coston marine night signals, was seriously injured in an explosion which occurred nt his works on Staten Island. One building was destroyed. The money loss was small. The Navy Department has ordered the gunboat Mathias, now at Boston, to proceed to Hampton Roads and thence to Colon, nt tin* eastern terminus of the Panama Railroad, to look after American interests there. A mortgage for $85,000,000 given by the St. Louis and Han Francisco Railway Company in favor of tht- .Worton Trust Company of New York City was recorded nt Van Bureo, Ark. War revenue stampt in the stun of $43,000 were attached. A trolley car of the Memphis, Tenn., Street Railway Company ran off a bridge over Bayou Gayoso and five persons were injured more or less seriously, James Kversole and his horse were ingulfed iu quicksand m-ur Tempo. Air, and were swallowed up. Many peop u saw the dreadful sight, hut were power l less to help hitu. A dispute between W. J. Ligon, sanitary Inspector of Jackson, Miss., 1 11 1 David L. Hbelton over an inspection was followed hy a per-tonal encounter, in which Shelton was shot and killed by tininspector.

EASTERN.

The attendance at the Pan-American Exposition for the first three months was 2,724,908. Prominent New York- financier declares Rockefeller's wealth has been vastly underestimated, and that it is nearly sl,000,000,000. George H. Holt, well known in banking circles in New York City as a member of the firm of George H. Holt & Go., is dead at his home at Great Neck, L. L He was 59 years of age. Explosion wrecked a block of buildings on laicust street, Philadelphia, causing death of from twelve to twenty persons, injury of fifty more and a panic among residents of the neighborhood for several blocks around scene of disaster. William Wilson of Green Point, L. 1., aud Jesse Wilson of Pittsburg, employed on the Frick building at Pittsburg, in course of erection, were instantly killed. The derrick gave way and the men were precipitated from the sixth to the second .floor, _. .... . . Walter Snider, son of a Standard Oil Company official, was drowned in a pond on the grounds of the Euclid Golf Club nt Euclid Heights, a Cleveland suburb. He was 19 years of age. It is supposed young Snider lost his footing while crossifig the pond. What is believed to have been an attempt to set fire to the new docks of the North German Lloyd line in Hoboken, N. J., was reported to the polite the other night. A night watchman found a pile of papers burning beside the oil house of the line in time to save a conflagration. Joseph Henry’s barn, near Ocean City, Md., was struck by ligbtuing and two of his children were burned to death. Another child was killed anil a fourth rendered unconscious. During the storm a number, of vessels, inclu ling the police boat Nellie Jackson, were sunk and several fishermen lost their lives. Steamboat Island, one of the Apostle group, off Chequamogon bay, Lake Superior, has disappeared. Before the last storm, and for time immemorial, it was a small island of sand and rock overgrown with trees. Now it has gone and a ro.ky reef several feet under water marks its place. It is now a danger to navigation.

WESTERN.

Actor Thad Brooke murdered Mrs. Millie Lighthawk and killed himself during u rehearsal at un Otjiahu theater. The building occupied ns the brush department of the Cincinnati workhouse, five miles north of that city, was destroyed by fire. The center converter of the smelter of the Detroit Copper Mining Company nt Moorenci, Arizona, blew up, seriously injuring eight men. At Clarksville, Mo., fire broke out in the grocery store of Cash & Marviu. It soon spread and consumed one entire block. The loss is heavy. John Lattlicr of Limestone City was married it) Toledo, Ohio, to his aunt, Mrs. Anna Limber, by Justice Templeton. He is 22 and she 29. The disabled transport Lennox was towed into port nt San Francisco, having been picked up while drifting toward shore at mercy of current. John W. Lipps of Chicago found his son in un orphanage at Berne, Ind., after a separation of six years, aud regained him with the aid of a detective. At Columbus, Ohio, Cresceus. the king of trotters, lowered his own and the world’s record of 2:02%, made at the Cleveland track, to 2:02*4, a full half second. A pretty Italian girl was stolen from the lake at Ht. Joe, Mich., on the eve of her wedding. The bereaved bridegroom accuses unsuccessful rival of the kidnaping. Following close upon the heels of the organization in Chicago of the Servant Girls' Union "comes the organization of 7,000 Fuilmnn porters, with headquarters in St. Louis. The Commercial Bank of Andrews, Ind., closed with only $25 cash on hand. President Key has been arrested and 12,(KS) depositors, mostly f armors, fear loss of all their savings. The machine room, foundry and storage room of the Gem City stove works were destroyed by fire nt Dayton, Ohio. The loss is estimated nt s<lo,ooo, fairly well protected by insurance. Offices of the Subtirbou Electric Railway Company in Harlem, Chicago, were looted by four robbers, who overpowered two men, blew open the safe and escaped with between SOOO aud S7OO. Two Chicago and Alton freight trains collided head on at Grain Valley, Mo. Engineer Jacques was killed and Engineer Walsh an l Fireman Pilliam, nil of HI a ter. Mo., were badly injured. A Dayton, Springfield anl Lrliana trolley car crushed into a coal car which stood'on an open switch near Donnellsvilla. Ohio. As n result fourteen peisous were hurt, several of them dangerously. Mr. and Mrs. Burr Ferguson of New York were robbed of S3,(KM) worth of diamonds at their hotel in Colorado Springs, the jewels being taken front Mrs. Ferguson's trunk while they were absent from the room. The exposition building at Kansas City, erected during the boom of 1887, at a cost of over $200,000, was destroyed by fire in less than two hours the other afternoon. It had not been occupied for ten yeurs. Iru Turner was shot and killed in a wood-chopper's cabin in Dead Man's Gulch, eight miles from Missoula, Mont., by Henry Xudson, his father-in-law. Nudaoti says that he found Turner beutIng his wife. Mrs. Josephine Dashnult, wife of Cnpt. I>. A. Dashnult, one of the most prominent men in Sandusky, Ohio, saw her husband coming out of Ritter’s saloon and Immediately wrecked the place. Armed witli bricks and stones, she destroyed tlic front and the glassware of the saloon. The George 11. Phillips Company of Chicago suspended temporarily, owing to great confusion in account* of the firm. Rush of work on untried clerks is said to have caused overpayments to customers of $330,900. Mr. Bolaud, representing a New York syndicate of capitalists, says plans have now been almost fully .perfected for the construction of trolley linos which will establish connecting links between Detroit and Chicago. A. W. Miller, Hanlusky's absconding

city clerk, was seen there the other evening disguised as a woman. He was recognized by Henry Damming and an attempt was made to arrest him, but be effected his escape. Henry Chisholm, who graduated from Yale last June, is now working nine "iiours n day, six days in the week, as an inspector at the Chatnpiou rivet works iu Cleveland for $1.75 a day. Young Chisholm’s father is a millionaire. A special from Manti, Utah, says Rasmus Anderson, aged 27, shot Miss Emily Campbell, aged 22, and P. C. Christensen, a stage driver, and then committed suicide. Anderson was a discarded sweetheart of the young woman. Oliver Rudiseli, employed in the Addyston foundry, west of Cincinnati, was mortally wounded by Edward Crosby, a feilow-workmnn, in a duel in the dark at Rudiseil’s house, where Rudiseli discovered Crosby when he returned from work. Three convicts escaped from the State penitentiary at Lincoln, Neb. Hince the penitentiary dire last March the celUiouses have been overcrowded and during the hot weather some of the men with short terms to serve have been allowed to sleep in the open. At Lima, Ohio, W. A. Jones returned home intoxicated aud accused his wife of infidelity. Hhe took a hatchet and split his head open. Hhe then ran to a policeman's house aud told him her husband assaulted her. Hhe has disappeared and Jones will die. While the members of the Chicago fire department groped and stumbled their way around in the darkness for half an hour two big elevators belonging to the Grand Trunk Railroad and leased by Rogers, Bacon & Co. were destroyed, entailing a loss of $75,000. An unknown thief robbed William Hanford, a diamond snlesman for Freendeuheim Brothers & Levy of New York, of more than S7OO in diamonds and SBO in money mi a sleeper on the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway between Grand Rapids and Mackinaw City. The Hawkeye Coal Company of Kansas City has filed suit in the federal court against the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company for damages amounting to SIB,OOO, which the coal company churns have been caused by unjust discrimination in freight rates. Thomas Mnllay, an old-time actor, who had for years played in "Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” lias been committed to the Rochester, Minn., insane asylum. Mallay had so much of Uncle Tom. that it affectmL his brain, and now he imagines that. Simon Legree is constantly pursuing him with bloodhounds. Detectives employed by an Akron. <>., hank arrested two men in a Goshen, Ind., gambling house and recovered about $lO,000 in currency and gpld coin which was stolen from the bank ten days before. The prisoners were taken to Elkhart, where they led the way to the hiding place of the money. Without a word of warning, and seemingly without provocation, Alexander McCullough of Crawfish, Ohio, shot an l killed his wife and then blew out his own brains. The supposition is that he was insanely drunk when the tragedy occurred. The affair took place iu sight of the five children of the couple. J. MeGregor Adams, a Chicago multimillionaire, who is hale and hearty despite, his three score and ten years, has been married to Miss Edith MacGregor, an attractive young woman, well known in Brooklyn society circles, whose age is hut little more than one-third of her husband's. Mr. Adams is president of the Adams & Westlake Company of Chicago.

SOUTHERN.

The woodworking department of the Illinois Central shops at Paducah, Ky., burned, entailing a bids of about $25,000. The blaze is supposed to have originated from spontaneous combustion. Miss Carrie Jones, daughter of Gov. Thomas G. Jones, was crushed to death hy a street car in Montgomery, Ala. The accident occurred iu frout of the executive mansion and was witnessed by Gov. Jout-s. George \V. Itanck, one of the best* kuowti literary nu-n of Kentucky, was killed by a Louisville aud Nashville train at Lexington, Ky. He was searching for evidence regarding the location of the old "Ada Spring." While playing on a farm wagon in tho yard of Emery Bayl on the Cheat river, near Morgantown, W. Ya., Lloyd and Marie Shoemaker, aged 5 and 8 years, were fatally hurt by rolling over u precipice 200 yards high. Charley Bentley, a negro, confessed to the murder of “Jim" Vann, alias Williams, a white man, and was hanged by a mol) in Leeds, Ala. The murderer's body was riddled with bullets and left hanging to the limb of a tree. The brutal murder of Mr. and Mrs. Tallferro 011 the night of July 30 led to the lynching of Betsio McCray, her son, Belfield McCray, and daughter, Ida McCray, all colored, at Carrollton, Miss. Ida McCray confessed to the knowledge of the murder. The boiler of the engine of a Western and Atlantic passenger train exploded nt Bolton, Gn.. fatally injuring Fireman J. L. Aenehbaeher’of Atlanta and badly injuring Engineer N. V. Bell, also of Atlanta. The engine was demolished an 1 the baggage car derailed. Charles 11. Bnreford of the bankrupt firm of Bnreford tY Lawson, whob-snle milliners of Louisville, Ky., his disappeared and 110 oue knows his wlieroabouts. Home weeks ago Orville Lawson, the junior member of the firm, left town, taking with him $49,000 of the concern’s money.

FOREIGN.

Dowager Empress Frederick of (lerinauy died at Friedricbshof, surrounded by her family, including the Knitter, Torpedo boat No. 81 mink off the Island of Alderney, in the English Channel. There was no hue* of life.. All her gnus and stores were fared. The boat will be rallied. A dispatch to the London Morning Leader front Madrid says that King Alfonso has decided to adopt the naval profession, and he will embark ou u warship shortly. A bomb filled with cartridges and with" g lighted fuse attached was placed at thu door of the apartments of M. Zola, the author. In I’aria. It was discovered by the concierge. Dr. Carl Peters, the German explorer.

writes to the London Time*, declaring liis belief, as a result of his discoveries Hi South Africa during the last two years, that the country between Zambesi and the Sabi is the Ophir of Solomon. Miguel Malavar, who has been recognized as the successor of Aguinuldo by ttfe Filipino junta at Hongkong, has issued a proclamation giving assurances to the natives of the continuation of an active campaign and expressing hope for its successful issue. A letter from a soldier iu Houth Africa says the Boers wrecked a train near Naboomspruit. One hundred and fifty Boers attacked the train guard and twentyeight Gordon highlanders were killed, eighteen wounded and ten captured. The conductor, engineer aud firemen of the train were subsequently shot. H. M. S. Viper, the torpedo boat destroyer which broke all records and wai the fastest ship afloat, was totally wrecked on the rocks off Alderney Island in the English Channel during the mimic Imttle of the British flee't engaged in the maneuvers. The entire crew -was rescued and taken to St. Anne's. When King Edward had the crown jewels taken from the tower of Londoq recently he got an expert to examine them and found, it is said, that some of the largest stones were paste. This seems to confirm the old story that when King George IV. was hard up he often used to take jewels from the regalia and sail them to tide him over.

IN GENERAL

Venezuela has been invaded by an army of Colombians. Gov. Gen. Wood declares the outlook for Cuba is bright. Mexican troops killed Yaquis' chief and fourteen braves near Potam. Forty-sev-en Indians were captured. President McKinley has accepted an invitation to attend the national G. A. R. encampment at Cleveland. Hugh McKellar, deputy minister of agriculture, estimates the yield of wheat in Manitoba and the Northwest territory for this year at from 55,090,000 to 90,000,000 bushels. Helen M. Mears of Oshkosh, Wig., has been selected as the artist to model the statue of Frances E. Willard, which is to be placed by the State of Illinois in the national capital at Washington. Negotiations for a settlement of the steel strike are abandoned and a fight to the finish will ensue, Pierpont Morgan offered terms less favorable than at the first conference, and they were promptly rejected. Four lock gates were carried away in Cornwall, Out., canal, and navigation was suspended until they could he replaced. The water in the level, which is a mile long, flooded the surrounding land to a depth of seven feet. Tremendous damage lias been caused by fire to the forests in Northern Ontario and Quebec, especially in the neighborhood of the head waters of the Ottawa River and of its principal tributaries. In many districts the havoc wrought by the flames is complete. Owing to the efforts of the United States minister at Rio de Janeiro, Charles Page Bryan, proposed tariff charges prejudicial to American commerce and favored by British, Italian and Argentine interests have been defeated in the Brazilian congress. As a result of the decrease in the ocean freights from Montreal to Glasgow, London and Liverpool many vessels are leaving the St. Lawrence light. The dullness is attributed to the effect of the drought in the West and the advance in the price of corn, which causes the English buyers to hold off for a break in prices. “Continued favorable weather conditions have resulted iu the saving of much late planted corn, and in the Northwest ideal weather for spring wheat harvest has been enjoyed. As this is the point that business in all parts of the country has been most carefully watching, the general feeling is better than a week ago, although the disposition on both sides to settle the steel strike has not yet resulted in any agreement, aud the labor situation is thus kept prominent.” The foregoing G from the weekly trade review of R. G. Dun & Co. It continues: "Violent flucVuatious have marked the course of corn prices. The top point of the previous week was not regained, but traders on the short side of the market were compelled to cover nt a loss. Failures in July were 997 in number, against 793 last year, and $7,035,933 in amount of liabilities, agaiust $9,771,775 iu 1900.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago— Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $0.75, hogs, shipping grades. $3 00 to $0 30, sheep, fair to choice, $3 00 to $3.05; wheat, No 2 red, 70c to 71c, corn, No. 2,55 cto 50c, oats, No 2, 35 c to Stic, rye, No. 2, 50 cto 57c, butter, choice creamery* 10c to 20c; eggs, fresh. ISc to 15c; potatoes, new, 00c to SI.OO per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $-1.00 to $5.72; sheep, common to prime. $3.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2,04 cto 05c; corn. No. 2 wiiite, 54c to 55c; oats. No. 2 white, 80c to 41c. St. Louia—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.70; hot*. $3.00 to f0.1X1; sheep, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2. 00c to 07c; corn. No. 2, sTtr*to 88c; outs, No. 2,30 cto 37c; rye. No. 2,02 cto 03c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5 25, hogs, SB.OO to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $3.50, wheat. No. 2,07 cto 08c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 50c to 57c: oats, No. 2 mixed, 80c to 37c; rye. No. 2,52 cto 53c. Detroit—Cuttle, $2.50 to $4.70; hogs. $3.00 to $5.75; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,08 cto 00c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 55c to 50o; oat*. No. 2 white, 38c to 30c; rye, 54c to 55c, Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 54c to 55c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 31c to 35c; rye. No. 2, &?* to SUc; clover seed, prime, $0.50. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern 09c to 70c; corn, No. 3,57 cto 58c; oata No. 2 white, 38c to 30c; rye. No. 1, 54» to 50o; barley, No. 2,59 cto UUc; pork, mess. $14.25. I Buffalo—Cuttle, choice shipping steers. $3.00 to $5.90; hogs, fair to prime, s3.of to $0.20; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50 ts $4.00; lambs, common to choice, $4.50 to $5.50. New York—Cattle, $3.75 to $5.78; hogs. $3.00 to $0.00; sheep, $3.<K) to $4.00, wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn. No 2, 50c to 00c;-oats, No. 2 white, 41c to 42c; batter, creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, wester*. 14c to 10c.

STRIKE IS ORDERED.

STEEL f MEN BIDDEN TO STOP WORK IN MILLS. President Sl.nffer Senda Out Call-A Gigantic Rattle with Powerful Monopoly la Expected to Result—'Thousands of Employes to BeKendered Idle President Chaffer of the Amalgamated Association has issued the long-talked-of general strike order. Up to this time • it has been merely a skirmish, each side trying to find the vulnerable spot in the other’s arms. Now it is different. The die is cast. The battle of the giants is on in earnest, whether to ignominious defeat of oue side or the other or compromise remains to be seen. What the result will be no man can foretell, hut judging by the expressed determination of both i parties to the controversy the battle will be waged fast and furiously. Much ! money will be lost, thousands upon thousands of men will be Idle, great suffering is looked for, even bloodshed and death are possible and feared. Estimating conservatively, the Amnlga--1 mated association directly should have about 100,000 men on strike as soon as the order takes effect, counting those now out and those expected to go out. The number of men to be affected by sympathetic strike cannot even be guessed at. The steel trust employs 400,000 men alone and most of these will -be affected, for they cannot work when the skilled Amalgamated men are not at work. President f-haffer’a Order. "The officials of the United Htates Steel Trust have refused to recognize our union men—those who are now striking for the right to organize. “The executive board has authorized me to issue a call upon all Amalgamated and other union men, in name and heart, to join in the movement to fight for labor’s bight. We must fight or give up forever our personal liberty. “You will be told that you have signed contracts. You never agreed to surrender those contracts to the United States Steel Corporation. Its officers think you were sold to them, just as the mills were, contracts and all. j “Remember, before you agreed to this contract you took an obligation to the Amalgamated Association. It now calls you to help iu this hour of need. "Unless the trouble is settled on or'before Saturday, the mills, will close when the last turn is made on that day. “Brethren, this is the call to preserve our organization. We trust you and need you. Couie aud help us, and may the right come to the just cause. Fraternally yours, T. J. SHAFFER, "President.”

SMELTER IS PLUNDERED.

Pold Thieves Rob Vault of Gold Bricka Worth $280,000. The Selby Smelting works at Vallejo. Cal., were robbed during a recent night of gold bricks admitted by one of the officials to be worth $280,000. Other estimates place the loss as high as $350,000, The robbers conducted their operations with skill, but in their haste to get away left two big gold bricks on the shore of the bay. The robbers had evidently been working on the case for two or threa months. They had dug a tunnel from outside the house, first digging a shaft about three feet deep. Tflen they tunneled in under the-vnult and, striking ui>ward, bored a hole iu the strong room floor. Part of the holes had been bored two months ago, it is thought, and the last one was bored on the night of the robbery. Through that hole they took the gold bricks and carried them to a bank near the tunnel, cast of the works, where they were evidently placed iu a boat. The gold in the bricks is worth $20.00 «n ounce. The two which the robbers left behind are worth about $50,000. In addition to this there was stolen from the bullion vault crude gold iu nil shapes and sizes and some of it in bat's of different lengths. The thieves got all the bullion in the vault, lenviog behind only the two bricks which they dropped on the shore in their haste. Only one day's accumulation of refined gold was kept at the works. The Selby Smelting and Lend Company is the largest concern of its kind on the Pacific coast. Ores are scut from all over the western country to be smeltcrcd and refined and the gold is theu turned over to the mint. A steamer makes special trips between the smelter and San Francisco, carrying the ores one way aud taking back the refined gold. Sheriff Veale of Contra Costa Counter and his deputies and Chief of Police Sunford of Vallejo, ns well ns the police of San Frunciaco aud all the liny cities, nre at work on the casg, hut there is not the slightest clew to the robbers.

News of Minor Note.

An edict of reform has been issued to the chinka by (he Chinese court, it is ■aid. It is sold an American will open a new Monte Carlo on the island of Miga re then. lteubcti Hill of Iticbmoud, Ky., Ims been acquitted on u charge of shooting 11. S. Cate*. Sack of 1,000 silver dollars is mysteriously missing from the Commercial Bank, Chicago. Fires; Hanover, Pa., foundry, io-s $100,000; 8 -hodewald’* yarn mill, Philadelphia, S7S,(MX). Transport Meade arrived at Han Francisco with forty iusane soldiers and twenty-five consumptives. Near Velasco, Texas, D. A. Carroll was shot and iustantly "killed by \V. O. 1-eggett, who surrendered. Lawyer R. W. Dwyer of Terrill, Tex., was the first person to die at the new town of Lawton, O. T. Heart disease. Stanley Hinton, 30, fireman at tho his head through tho spokes of n tly wheel. It started suddenly, teuriug his head off. Simon Williams, Moutkello, Fla., sentenced t* death for murder, made a dash for liberty, wounding Deputy Sheriff Kilpatrick with a revolver. Williams was shot to death. Some members of the Imperial yeomanry threw away and stamped on medals given them by King Edward. They aahf the government la in arrears to them and that tb* medals are worthless.

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

George Kennan. who lias been ordered out of Russia by the Czar's police, is the greatest living American student of the

empire of Rntaia. He was boftt in Norwalk, Ohio, in 184 and began iif« as a telegraph operator. He was in northwestern Siberia in 1895 and 1890 as a superintendent of t onslrti - tion of telegraph, and in 1870 ,'i» llsited Russia to explore the mountains of the Eastern Caucasus. Mr. Kennan made extensive explorations on horse-

G.P.O. KENNAN.

hack in Daghestan and Cheehnia, crossing the great range of the Caucasus threetimes in different places, and returned to America in 1871. In 1885 and 1880 he made a journey of 15,000 miles through northern Russia and Siberia sos- the purpose of investigating tho Russian exile system. He was admitted to all the con vict prisons and mines, and exploded the wildest part of' the Russian Atnl. He wrote and lectured extensively of his experiences.

William M. Beardshear, who was elected president of the National Educational Association, has been connected

with . educational movements in lowa for more than twenty years. He was born at Dayton, Ohio, iu 1850. He was a farmer's son and got little education until after the war. He was a big boy when he was 14 years old. He had climbed up to five feet eight inches, was

W. M. BEARDSHEAR

of big frame, and so persuaded the military authorities that he was so much older that they enlisted him and he joined the army of the Cumberland aa a private in 1804. He served until the end of the war. Then he started in to get some schooling. lie worked hard and got two years at Y’ale University. His progress was so rapid that at the age of 29 he was made president of Western College at Toledo, lowa, and was the youngest college president in the country. He was. appointed superintendent of public schools of Des Moines in 1888, but two years later he was elected presid-nt of the college at Ames. His school work has been wholly of a supervisory nature. He stands 0 feet 3 inches in his stockings.

Perry S. Heath, one of the directors of the Seventh National Bank of New York, which was closed by Comptroller of the

Currency Dawes, was formerly first assaant pootmaater general, and one of the many newspaper men who have graduated into business life through political odices. Mr. Heath was some years ago the general

PERRY S. HEATH.

manager of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, and afterward went to Washington as a correspondent, where his brilliant work made hint interesting to the various statesmen with whom he came into contact. He served ns first assistant postmaster general during the first administration of President McKinley. He has been a dost* student of hanking systems, and has long been considered an authority in that line.

An addition to the Allied Women's

Club of the University of California, established by Mrs. P. A. Hearst, is tha department of parliamentary law, which will begin its first courite next term, with Mrs. Urquhart Lee of Chicago in the chair. Mrs. Lee is one of the most distinguished parliamentary ten hers in this country, aud has given courses of lectures upon the subject in nearly every city iu the United .States,

MRS. UNQUHART LEE.

John A. Hiusey was at the head of the Endowment Runk. Iv. of P„ until the recent financial troubles entne. For

twelve years, until last January, he was president of the hoard of control of the Endowment Rank of the order, with practically unlimited control of Investments. Mr. Hinsey is 05 years old, and so deaf that, lie cunuot hear anything thut is not shouted into

J. A. HINSEY.

his ear. He got some practical training in Wisconsin politic* bctl>s he went to Chicago. In Milwaukee, where he lived until the offices of his railroad were moved to Chicago, he was known as “Bos*” Hinscy. Abdul Hamid 11. has beaten the British average of decorations for service in Houth Africa. There was f fir,. In the hnrem nt Yildis kiosk recently that was put out quickly. The Kultan has already liestowed <IOO medals for life saving on that occasion. William Dorsey Jeuks, the new Governor of Alabama, is u luwyer by profession and has made a for: 11110 by his practice. Improvements to coat $75,01K) will soon be made in the St. Joseph, Mo., custom house.