Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1901 — Page 2

JASPER COCNH DEMOCRAT ’ l ~F? E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, -■ - - INDIANA

WEEK’S NEWS EECORD

A cablegram received by Miss Clara Harley of Cleveland announced the death nt Margate, England, of her brother, Or lando Harley, the famous tenor singer. Mr. Harley was one of the few Americans who reached fame on the operatie stage. The New York and Boston express train collided with a freight train while passing out of New Haven, Cann., through the Cedar Hill yard. It is reported that two passenger ears weje telescoped and that two persons were injured. B. F. Jossy, an immigration commissinner stationed at Tucson, Ariz., committed suicide by shooting himself. He was charged with smuggling Chinese across the border from Mexico and implicated with him was Collector of Customs Hoey of Nogales. The safe in the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company’s branch office in Chicago was blown open by burglars. The cracksmen secured $207. The office is located ou the second floor of a flat building, but nobody heard the explosion. The safe door was blown off, evidently by dynamite. A locomotive and two empty passenger coaches jumped the Lehigh Valley track at Oxboro curve above Mauch Chunk, Pa., and went over an embankment four feet high. Charles Burroughs, the engineer, and the fireman were caught beneath the overturned locomotive tin I both were killed. A battle was fought near Ringwood, O. T., between members of an anti-horse thief association and the Jenkins ban I ol horse thieves, of wlwiu twu. wui- -badly wounded. Five men rode to Ringwood with a bunch of horses stolen in Grant County. They were recognized, the horses seized, and the battle followed. State Treasurer J. 11. Stowers of Mis sissippi has been suspended by Gov. Longino, who appointed G. W. Carlisle temporary treasurer. Mr. Stowers had admitted that $107,000, missing and unaccounted for when the Governor counted the cash Aug. 15, had been deposited in banks, which is forbidden by law. Margaret Tyler, 7 years old, was kidnaped by her father from the home of Mrs. M. F. Green in Chicago. The child's mother had been divorced from Bert Tyler, and hail married J. J. Waite, a bank clerk. Mrs. Waite ditsl two weeks ago, and the child was placed in the carof Mrs. Green. In company with a man who represented himself to be a constable, Tyler went to the house of Mrs. Green and took the child by force. Mrs. William Townsend of Brookings, 8. D,, has returned from Faribault, Minn., where she had been to look after her interests in the estate of her uncle, Harvey Scott, who died Aug. 1, leaving property to the amount of about $(*0,000. Of this amount there is $25,000 in government bonds and notes. In his will he ordered $25,000 to be burned and willed that $5,000 be given to his housekeeper. The authorities have refused to destroy the money as directed in the will and it is likely the heirs will secure their rights. Following is the standing of the clubs In the National League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...50 39 Boston 51 55 Brooklyn ...01 47 New Y0rk...42 58 Philadelphia 00 47 Cincinnati ...42 59 St. L0ui5....59 4S Chicago .....44 C 5 Standings in the American League are as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ... .(55 12 Philadelphia. 55 51 Boston (53 43 Washington. 45 57 Baltimore ...5(5 4(5 Cleveland ...14 ill Detroit 5(5 GO Milwaukee . .37 70

BREVITIES.

Premier Lnurier opened the annual exposition at Toronto. Raymond Ross, the negro who assaulted Mrs. Miller July 28, was legally hang ed at Canton, Ga. Fire damaged the plant of the Kansas and Texas Coal Company at Huntington, Ark., to the extent of *60,000. Rather than yield to what he regards as unreasonable demands, the Sultan, Vienna hears, is preparing, for a war with France. Nearly forty suits for damages have been entered at Seattle against the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company in connection with the wreck of the steamer Islander recently. Discontent over the condition of affairs in South Africa grows in Britain. Ministerial organs acknowlerge the situation is grave, while Chamberlain is assailed by his opponents. Robert Downing, the tragedian, has en gaged an attorney to prepare papers for a suit for divorce from his wife on the ground of desertion. Eugenia Blair was the subject of gossip some time ago. Lloyd Booth, a pioneer iron manufacturer and president of the Lloyd Booth plant of the Union Engineering and Foundry Company of Youngstown, Ohio, Is dead. He was about 03 years of age. Explosion on steamer City of Trenton, near Philadelphia, killed eleven and injured twenty-three. Four persons are missing. Fire followed, and survivors had to leap into the river. The deserted vessel run ashore. Mrs. Johanna M. Lovelace of Turner, Kan., has made an offer to the Kansas City, Kan., Baptist Theological Seminary of a free gift of ninety acres of land, valued at *30,000, lying just outside the limits of that city. During a severe electrical storm nt Texarkana, Ark., lightning struck an umbrella and killed a boy who was carrying it. At Beallsville, Ohio, William Montgomery, a well-to-do farmer, while intoxicated, fatally shot his wife and then turned the revolver on himself, committing suicide. George McLeod, a negro wanted on two criminal charges, was killed at Elba, Ala., by a sheriff's posse. He was found in a mill pond, up to his neck in water, and was raising his Winchester to fire on the posse, when he was shuL

EASTERN.

John Butler, a colored wife murderer, was hanged at Baltimore. A zevere wind and rain storm did mucn damage in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and part of New York. Four lives were lost at Mauch Chunk. Senator and Mrs. Nelson W. Aldrich, of Rhode Island, announce the engagement of their daughter, Abby, to John D. Rockefeller, Jr. An accidental explosion of a “human bomb” in a New York park threw thousands of pleasure seekers into panic and resulted in injury to many. Dr. Nellie Poor, of Chicago, became Insane on an Erie train at Corning, N. Y., and attempted to jump out of a window. She fought imaginary foes with a large knife. Chicago and Western soap manufacturers held a secret meeting at New York and decided to form an association to buy supplies, tallow, resin, etc., at cheaper prices (han at present. An old man named Paddy Kearns died in Tarrytown, N. Y., -literally of starvation and neglect. In the house in which he had lived alone for longer than fifty years bank books showing deposits of $7,000 were found. John C. Topping, manager of the hardware firm of Topping Bros., of New York, committed suicide by jumping from the third story of his home in Brooklyn. Ins.omnia due to nervous prostration was given as thecause. The cohl storage plant of Armour A Co. at the Pennsylvania freight yards in Jersey City was completely destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $50,01,0. The fire was caused by an explosion of chemicals used in the ice plant. Following a custom that she adopted last year, Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddysignalized children's day at the State fair at Concord, N. IL, by giving a pair of shoes to every deserving child iu__C° n ' cord who makes his or her needs known nt that time. James W. Lyall, ('3 years of age, a wealthy maniifactiirer of cotton goo Is. was found dead in a bath tub of his home in New York with the gas turned on. The theory of the family is that Mr. Lyall had been overcome by faintness and fell, striking the gas bracket in falling, and so*turned on the gas.

WESTERN.

Postmaster William Price, of Baltimore, Ohio, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs roofers struck against a proposed 10 per cent reduction in wages. Forest fires are doing great damage on the timber belt along the Columbia River on both the Washington an ] Oregon shores. Because two union beef butchers employed by the Cudahy packing house at Armourdale, Kan., were discharged, 125 butchers struck. Mrs. Hattie Wright Maddy, “the Hetty Green of Cripple Creek,” is dead from the effects of twenty grains of morphine, self-administered. The stage running to Mendocino was held up ten miles from Ukiah, Cal. The express box was taken and two passengers and the driver robbed. D. 11. Mortly, famous as the writer of the Ohio constitution of 1852, died at MeConnellsville, Ohio. There is now but one member of that convention living. George Anspaugh, while drunk, at Lima, Ohio, assaulted his wife, knocked her down and poured red pepper sauce into her eyes, blinding her for life, it is feared, A conservative estimate would place the population of the city of Cleveland to-day at 402,428. These figures disclose a remarkable growth for the city during the past year. The Santa Fe Railroad Company has secured a charter to build fourteen separate lines of railroad, with a total length of 815 miles, to be operated as the Eastern Oklahoma lines. The senior member of Toledo’s largest dry goods firm, Sol. A. Lasalle, jumped into the Maumee River with the apparent purpose of ending his life, but was rescued by a patrolman. Five masked men entered the home of Philip Stiles, near Deshler, Ohio, and after torturing and threatening the entire family of six persons for four hours departed with S(SO in cash. The bank of New Metamoras. a private concern, has closed its doors. The bank had deposited $50,000 with the Superior Street Savings and Banking Company of Cleveland, which went to the wall. Judge Kohlsaat, of Chicago, has issued an order enjoining strikers from placing pickets in the vicinity of the Allis-Uhahn-ers plant, or from interfering with the business or operation of the company in any manner. Elrino Chavez ami Loon Mora were run over by a Santa Fe train near Hanover, N. M. Both were decapitated and horribly mangled. They were on the way to the wedding of Mora to the stepdaughter of Chavez. In Cleveland, Coroner Simon rendered his verdict on the disaster at crib No. 2, at which occurred the loss of a dozen lives. He finds the City of Cleveland, the subcontractors and the crib engineer jointly responsible. Upon application of the Superior Realty and Improvement Company Judge Dellenbaugb of the Common Pleas Court in Cleveland appointed Walter D. Sayle receiver for the Superior Street Savings and Banking Company. John Andrews was instantly killed by John Romers, who mistook him for a bear and sent a bullet through his heart at short range. The men were with a party enjoying an outing nt the Lewis ranch near Red Lodge, Mont. Orleen Emerson shot and killed Dick Burrell nt Brownstown, Ind. The murder occurred in Emerson's drug store. Burrell was always a dangerous man when drinking and had killed two men in his time and had served a term in prison. Tramps held up John and Paul McGrath, of Rush City, Minn., on a moving train. The men resisted and John McGrath was shot dead. Paul escaped to the top of the train, but was overtaken, robbed and finally locked into a ear. The Grant Cooperage, one of the largest industries of Ashtabula, Ohio, has entered into a combine with the Tomlinson Barrel and Machine Company, of Chicago, and the Veneer Barral and Package Company, of Cleveland. Th*

new corporation’s capital stock is $500,000. At Kansas City choice northern grown potatoes sold the other day at 50 cents a peck, the price of two bushels a year ago. A single bushel cost $1.90 from retail dealers, or about SI.OO when purchase! direct from wholesale dealers and jobiters. A steam threshing machine exploded on the farm of. C. L. Christenson, near Porter, Minn., instantly killing Mrs. Christenson and severely injuring her daughter, Lars Christenson, Jr., John Anderson and one of the assistants at the machine. One of the greatest gas wells ever discovered iu the gas belt was struck a mile east of Parker City, Ind., by the Farm Land Oil Company, which was boring for oil in the new oil territory: The well is estimated to be flowing 3,000,000 cubic feet a day. The body of a woman, supposed to be Mrs. Bess Striegel, has been found in a room in the Lane Block, Boulder, Colo. Beside her on the same bed lay Bert Striegel in a dying condition. An empty plpal, one labeled laudanum, was lying'near by. Robert G. Evans, United States District Attorney for Minnesota, wh-j last winter was a prominent candidate before the legislature to succeed Senator Cushman K. Davis in the United States Senate, died suddenly in Minneapolis from heart disease. The Barberton, Akron and Eastern Railroad Company of Akron was incorporated at Columbus, Ohio, with $25,000 capital. It will build and operate a steam railroad from Barberton via Akron through Summit and Mahoning Counties to the State line.

Joseph Gingotti, an Italian, aged 2G, was shot and killed bv a mob at a railroad camp near Ashdown, Ark. The mob was made up of sixty Americans, armed with rilles and revolvers, and had raided the camp as a demonstration against Italian labor. At Ash Hill. Mo., Luther Baggett, 19 years old, shot and killed Mary Keith. 15 years old. He confessed the crime was coiMititted at the instigation of Mrs. James Gilpin. The latter, her husband ami young son. have been arrested for complicity in the crime. R. T. Ross, a music teacher, and'bis wife, 50 years old, and penniless, were asphyxiated by gas in San Francisco. In the hands of Mrs. Ross was clutched a curtain, and it is thought that she attempted to roach a window, and that Ross had dragged her back. Lafayette Newkirk, a wealthy stock raiser, was shot and killed on one of the principal residence streets of Mexico, Mo., as lie was walking home alone. The assassin was pursued by several persons who heard the shots, but escaped. No motive for the murder is known. The desire to run all negroes from Oklahoma Territory towns, which started at Sapulpa, has spread to Stroud and a mob of gamblers and toughs has driven all the blacks from town. In addition they tore down the houses of two negroes und burned the buildings and contents. The Carey Banking Company, of Carey, Ohio, was closed by the sheriff. ,1. F. Miller, of the Superior Street Savings and Banking Company, of Cleveland, was the organizer and secretary and treasurer and the failure is said to be due to the suspension of the Cleveland bank. Grant Gillette, the cattle king who fled to Mexico over two years ago owing cattlemen over $1,(100,000, is believed to have been in the United States recently, traveling in disguise. Benjamin Cooper, a telegraph operator, formerly of Abilene, who knew Gillette, says he saw him in Oklahoma. The Sandy Valley Banking Company, of Malvern, Ohio, organized two months ago by F. S. Miller, former secretary of the failed Superior Street Savings and Banking Company, of Cleveland, has made an assignment to 11. J. Wilson, a merchant of Malvern. Depositors are much enraged. Fourteen persons were injured in a collision between a Greenfield interurban car and a train on the belt railroad in Indianapolis. A freight engine with a dozen cars was approaching and as the electric car reached the center of the track the locomotive struck it and threw it to the side of the track. Mrs. S. N. Lee, 32 years old, a sister-in-law of Thomas Walsh, the Colorado millionaire, was killed in a runaway accident in Kansas City. Her coachman dismounted from the carriage to adjust the harness, and the horses took fright and ran away. Mrs. Lee and her 7-year-old son leaped from the carriage. The boy was not hurt. ■While charging the soda fountains in George Ott's drug store at Ashley, Ind., the clerk, Fred Nicoli, supposedly made an error in mixing the gas and an explosion resulted. Fragments of the fountain struck Nicoli on the head, killing him, and knocked Ott unconscious, injuring him probably fatally. The damage to the building is slight. Henry Gephart an 1 his son Rolla are under arrest at Middletown, Ohio, for the murder of Wesley Wells. All are farmers. The quarrel arose over the use by the Gepharts of a road through Wells’ farm. Wells locked the gate and the Gepharts broke the lock. Wells thereupon attacked them with an ax and they fired ou him. They surrendered. Severe storms have visited southern Arizona almost daily for the past ten days. Railroads from Sonora and Bisbee, connecting with the Southern Pacific, are paralyzed. A large bridge was washed away near Fairbank on the Arizona and New Mexico Road. A body was seen floating down the river followed by a buggy. A storm which was almost a cyclone visited Tucson, tearing off several roofs and demolishing the gas works. All rivers are raging torrents.

SOUTHERN.

J. M. Mercer, convicted of assault, was hanged at Tampa, Fin. A mob at Winchester, Tenn., burned at the stake a negro who assaulted and shot to death a white woman. Sara Farrow, a negro, shot and killed his wife, his father-in-law and mother-in-law Bear Dawkins, 8. C. A head-end collision on tho River line of the Rapid Transit Company at Atlanta, Ga., killed one person and injure! seventeen, three of them seriously. A pistol duel was fought on Little Bird Creek, near Mlddlesboro, Ky., between

Thomas Little, aged 70, and William Strong, aged about 40. Strong was killed and Little surrendered to the authorities. At Rapidan Landing, La., the boiler of a pump boat owned by Loisel & Israel exploded, killing two negroes and injuring fourteen. The pump man, a negro, felel asleep and the boiler went dry, resulting in the explosion. * When Gov. Longino of Mississippi counted the State’s cash Aug. 15 he found a shortage of SIOO,OOO. No publication of the matter was made, but the Governor quietly informed Treasurer St-ower that he would return later and make another count, when, he trusted, the funds would be all there. At this investigation the cash checked up to a cent. The first indictments for lynching returned in Alabama for many years are reported from Elmore County, where Judge Enson called the grand jury in special session to investigate the hanging of a negro who was accused of attempted murder. Judge Ensou gave evidence of the earnestness with which the inquiry was prosecuted by sentencing to jail for contempt of court several witnesses who refused to testify.

FOREIGN,

The federal party has been reorganized at Manila, and Jose Albert, a prominent native physician, elected president. The new board outlined a strong pro-Ameri-can policy. King Edward VII. arrived at Wilhelmshoe, Germany, the other day. He was met at the station by Emperor William. The two sovereigns drove In an open carriage to the castle, where luncheon was served. The British farmer has a sad tale to tell of his grain crops. Wheat is rather below the average, and this means that the country is barely producing 8,000,000 quarters, not much more than a quarter the amount required for consumption. Count Gilbert Graf Hohenwert-Ger-lachstein, recently appointed by Emperor Franz Joseph as Austrian minister to the City of Mexico, has arrived in New York. The Count is the first minister of Austria to Mexico since the execution of the Emperor Maximilian.

IN GENERAL.

The warship Machias has arrived at Colon prepared to defend American interests. Ranger reached Acapulco on its way to Colombia. Railroad officials high in rank make the statement that the Erie system has been finally taken over the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad. The Newport News Shipbuilding an 1 Dry Dock Company has notified the NavyDepartment that the battleship Illinois would be ready to go into commission on Sept. 10. Information has been obtained byagents of the Colombian government that a vessel now at a New Jersey port had been engaged by the insurgents for a filibustering expedition. Gen. Fabius J. Mead, who had a notable career during the Civil War, died of consumption at the family home. Gen. Mead served all through the Civil War and enjoyed a close friendship with Gens. Grant, Imgan and McClellan. The number of islands in the St. Lawrence Thousand Island group to be placed upon the market by the Dominion department of the interior number approximately 500. They are distributed over the river between Kingston and Brookville. Though there are some drawbacks, notably labor troubles iu the iron and steel industry, business is of well-sustained volume, to which fact payments through the country's clearing houses, railroad earnings and the strength of prices of staple and partly manufactured merchandise offer testimony. Except in certain branches of the textile mzrkets, sellers of merchandise have an advantage over buyers, and distribution is as large as stocks will permit. The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Plate Workers succeeded in enlisting the sympathy of other workmen, with the result that the output of merchant bar and wire rods is curtailed to the extent of about 40,000 tons monthly, according to R. G. Dun & Co.’s review of trade. Grain quotations eased off somewhat during the week, though the net decline was small. Weather conditions steadily improve, making the outlook bright for late planted corn. Failures for the week number 205 in the United States, against 171 last year, and thirty-five in Canada, against twenty-nine last year.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, *3.00 to *5.85; hogs, shipping grades, *3.00 to *6.35; sheep, fair to choice, *3.00 to *3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn. No. 2,52 cto 53c; oats, No. 2,32 c to 33c; rye. No. 2,52 cto 53c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 14c; potatoes, new, 90c to *I.OO per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, *3.00 to *5.75; hogs, choice light, *4.00 to *5.95; sheep, common to prime, *3.00 to *3.50; wheat, No. 2,07 cto 68e; corn, No. 2 white, 59c to 60c; oats, No. 2 white, new, 37c to 38c. St. Louis—Cattle, *3.25 to *6.00; hogs, *3.00 to *6.05; sheep, *3.00 to *3.25; wheat. No. 2,69 cto 70c; corn, Nd. 2, 54c to 55c; oats, No. 2,36 cto 37c; rye, No. 2,58 cto 59c. Cincinnati—Cattle, *<3.00 to *5.25; hogs, *3.00 to *6.20; sheep, *3.00 to *3.25< wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 58c to 59c; oats. No. 2 mixed, now, 86c to 37c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 53c. Detroit—Cattle, *2.50 to *5.15; hogs, *3.00 to *5.95; sheep, *2.50 to *3.75; wheat. No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 55c to 56c; oats, No. 2 white, 36c to 37c; rye, 54e to 55c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 56c to 57c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; rye, No. 2,53 c to 54c; clover seed, prime, *6.00 ( Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 3,52 cto 53c; oats, No. 2 white, 37c to 38c; rye, No. 1,55 c to 56c; barley, No. 2,63 cto 64c; pork, mess, *14.40. Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers, *3.00 to *6.00; hogs, fair to prime, *3.00 to *6.50; sheep, fair to choice, *3.00 to *3.50; lambs, common to choice, *4.50 to *5.75. New York—Cattle, *3.75 to *5.75; hogs, *3.00 to *6.25; sheep, *2.25 to *2.70; Wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2, 58c to 59c; oats. No. 2 white, 40c to 41c; butter, creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, western, 14c to 17c.

SULTAN BROKE WORD

FAILED TO KEEP PROMISE TO FRENCH MINISTER. In Consequence Diplomatic Relations Between the Two Nations Are Broken Off, and M. Constans lias Left Constantinople—Abdul Hamid la Shifty.

A semiofficial note has been issued in Paris announcing that, the Porte not having carried out its undertakings with

regard to the disputed questions between the French and Ottoman governments, M. Constans, the French ambassador, acting under instructions from the foreign minister of France, has left Constantinople on the date named in his last communication to the Porte on the subject.

ABDUL-HAMID.

An arrangement had been effected, and its terms drafted by the Ottoman foreign minister, with the approval of the Sultan, who had promised M. Constans that the text should be handed to him on a certain date.M. Constans telegraphed to Paris the day following that none of the promises had been fulfilled, and M. Delcasse, minister of foreign affairs, telegraphed M. Coustans that, in view of so flagrant a disregard of the undertakings, the negotiations could not longer bo coutlnued and requested M. Constans to inform the Porte that ho had received orders to leave Constantinople. M. Constans communicated with the Porte, fixing Monday as the date for his departure, and, as the engagements were still unkept, M. Constans left Constantinople on that day. With thedeparture of M. Constans the relations between France and Turkey may be regarded as broken off. Munir Bey, the Turkish ambassador to France, has been telegraphed not to return to Paris. The current affairs of the two embassies can be carried on by the charges d’affaires, but all negotiations of a political nature will be entirely suspended until the Sultan yields to the French demands. The French government holds that the Sultan has broken his word. He had promised full payment of the long standing indemnities to the Frenchmen, amounting to 12,000,000 fraq£S but declined to pay the full amount and offered a reduced sum, which was refused by M. Constans, who waited until Monday and then departed. The Sultan made a final attempt to induce him to stay. M. Constans had left Therapia on board the Vautour for Stamboul, where he was to take the Orient express. A court chamberlain arrived at Stamboul in posthaste from the Sultan, begging M. Constans to return to Therapia and promising that everything would be satisfactorily settled. M. Constans declined to return, declaring the time for promises was past and that it was for the Sultan to fulfill his undertakings.

SMUGGLE IN CHINESE.

Government Traps Corrupt Officials Who Were Sellins Certificates. Probably the most important arrests ever made in connection with the smuggling of Chinese across the Mexican border into the United States were made the other day in Arizona, when William M. Hoey, collector of customs at Nogales; B. F. Jossey, an immigrant inspector, Frank How, a Chinaman living in Nogales, and another Chinaman living at Clifton, Mexico, just across the border from Nogales, were taken into custody by special agents of the treasury and secret service operatives. It is stated that with two or three exceptions, the whole customs and immigration administrations at Nogales are involved. Some time ago an official of the Treasury Department having Nogales as his headquarters wrote the department that he had reason to believe the official force at that point was corrupt, and that Chinese iu large numbers were being smuggled across the border for a consideration. A secret service operative was sent there at once and plans laid to secure evidence against the persons under suspicion. Several Chinamen were furnished with money and sent on to buy their way through the official cordon. This was accomplished without difficulty, the pries demanded being from SSO to S2OO. The secret service men also arranged with one or two employes whose honesty had been tested to go into the collector’s office at a certain time and demand a share of the money being received from Chinamen. This was reluctantly agreed to aud considerable sums of money were handed over in the presence and full hearing of a secret service man, who had previously secreted himself in a near-by office closet.

GIFT TO BRIDE $4,000,000.

Henry M. Flagler, Standard Oil Magnate, Marriei Again. The marriage of Miss Mary Lily Kenan to Henry M. Flagler, the Florida multi-millionaire and Standard Oil magnate, who was recently divorced from his insane wife, was solemnized at Konanville, N. C., at the old country homo of the Kenan family. There were present to witness the ceremony only a few friends and relatives of tho bride and groom. Rev. Dr. Pty ton 11. Hoge, pastor of Warren Memorial Church, Louisville, Ky., but formerly Miss Kenan's pastor, at the First Presbyterian Church of Wilmington, N. C., officiated. Mr. Flagler's present to his bride was a check for $1,000,000 and $3,0U0,000 in government bonds. The old home, colonial In architecture, was profusely decorated with a wealth of plants and flowers and presented a scene of grandeur.

TEXAS FARMERS STARVING.

Drenth Rnlna Crops and the People Are in Need of Food. Reports from Zacatapato County, Texas, confirm the news that tho poorer classes there are facing starvation. Range water has failed and cattle ars too weak to travel and are dying rapidly. The country is literally burned up by the drouth. There is not n green thing to be seen except cactus plants. Zacatapato County is fifty miles from ths nearest railroad.

FIRE AND STEAM KILL.

An Explosion Spreads l iaaster Amons Passengers. Explosion, fire and panic combined in deadly work on the city of Trenton, killing eleven persons aud possibly more and injuring over a score of others, some of whom will die. In addition four passengers arc missing. Nearly all the persons injured are from Philadelphia and Camden. Their hurts consist principally of scalds aud burns. The steamer, which belonged to the Wilmington Steamboat Company, left Philadelphia at 1:45 o'clock Wednesday afternoon for its daily trip to Trenton. At a point opposite the Harrison mansion near Torresdale the steam pipe connecting with the port boiler burst with a loud report. The forward part of the upper deck was well tilled with passengers, while many others were in the cabin. Before any of the or employes had an opportunity to seek places of safety another explosion occurred and this time the port boiler was rent in twain. Scalding steam and water poured into the cabin aud sections of the woodwork of the boat were torn away by the force of the explosion. Those of the passengers who were not seamed and scarred by the scalding steam and boiling water were struck by flying fragments of the splintered cabin. Legs and arms were broken and faces and bodies were parboiled. The screams of the injured could be heard on shore, and the cries of those who leaped or were blown into the river were pitiful. So great was the force of the explosion that a piano in the upper drawing room of the boat was hurled many feet away from the boat into the river. This proved a fortunate circumstance for many of the injured passengers. Thrown into the water, scalded and otherwise injured so that they were rendered helpless, they clung to the piano, which had fallen into shallow water, until rescued. After the explosions the rudder turned the bow of the boat toward shore and she quickly ran aground, fastening herself in the mud. By this time the vessel had caught tire and those of the passengers who were still aboard were compelled to leap for their lives. Fortunately the water was not more than four feet deep aud many of the victims of the disaster weie able to wade ashore. Some, however, who were too seriously injured to help themselves were rescued by members of the boat clubs, whose houses line the river front at this point. The captain and crew of the boat conducted themselves as heroes. They rendered all the assistance possible to the injured, aud Captain Wwrell was tho last man to leave the boat. All the seriously injured were hastily conveyed to the hospital at Holmesbtirg. There the scenes were distressing. Meu and women with the flesh hanging from their limbs and bodies bore their suffering like stoics, and some even smiled while the doctors laved the raw and bleeding flesh with cooling lotious. None of the injured was able to give an intelligible account of the disaster. Chief Engineer Murphy, who was on watch when the accident happened, declares that there was ample water in the boiler, and that the steam pressure was not excessive.

ABDUL HAMID IS FOR WAR.

Sultan of Turkey Regards Demands of France aa Uureaaonab c. The Vienna Tageblatt publishes mail correspondence from Constantinople which says the Sultan will go to war rather than yield to unreasonable demands, that he is studying plans for defense and that he has ordered 300 guns from Germany. The French flag was hauled down from over the embassy of France in Constantinople after the departure of the ambassador, M. Coustans, and it will not be hoisted again until diplomatic relations are restored. The staff of the embassy remains there, but there is no charge d affaires. The French consuls in Turkey have been directed to continue to protect French interests. Besides the immediate causes of the disagreement, it is pointed out that constant difficulties were placed in the way of French commercial interests iu Turkey, which contribute to M. Constans’ resolution. All the embassies complain of vexatious interference with trade.

PULPIT AND PREACHER

The Rev. J. P. Morley, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church -at Cambridge, lowa, lias been awarded a special scholarship worth S2OO by Harvard University. The Rev. R. R. Claiborne, rector of St. Luke s Episcopal Church, Kalamazoo, Mich., has resigned to accept a position with Dr. Stires in St. Thomas’ Church, New York. The Rev. E. C. Jenkins has resigned the pastorate of the Baptist Church at Sheboygan, Wis., and will go to England as chorister for Evangelist Shiverca, of Long Island. The Rev. L. N. Call, who has been pastor of the Baptist Church of Sac City, lowa, for the last five years, will give up pastoral work and remove to Webster City, bis old home. The Rev. Sumuel Tyler, one of the assistants of St. George’s Episcopal Church, New York, has resigned to accept the rectorate of the Church' of the Advent, Cincinnati. The Rev. 11. R. Remsen aud the Rev. F. W. Fitts, who have been graduated from the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass., have become euratis in Calvary Church, New York. Christian Memorial Church of Rock Island, has extended a unanimous call to the Rev, Thomas J. Shuey, of Valparaiso, Ind., to become its pastor. Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church, Detroit, has secured the Rev. W. 11. Culver, of Brighton, Mich., as "boys’ ” pastor, a new plan of work among tha boys nnd young men of the congregation. The Rev. Father Frank J. Van Antwerp, of Holy Rosary Church, Detroit, was presented with a purse of S4OO iu gold by members of his congregation az the expense money of a vacation trip to Europe.