Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1901 — Page 6

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK. Publisher. RENSSELAER, ■ INDIANA.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Fire in the tied Hook storage building in Brooklyn, owned by the New York Storage Company, did damage to the estimated extent of $100,600, and property worth $150,000 more was in dangt r of being destroyed liefore the firemen mastered the Hames. Arrangements for a reunion of the Eighth Ohio regiment of the SpanishAmerican war, popularly known as th? "President's Own,” have been put as'.de until the complete recovery of the President. It had been hoped to have him at the reunion. The steamer Tartar brings news that a mountainin northern Japan disappeared after an earthquake. It rose over 500 feet in height and covered forty acres, at the outskirts of the village of Kolwaynma. It sank with a tremendous thundering noise. It whs officially announced that the Mexican International Railroad had been purchased by Hpeyer & Co. of New York. It is expected the property will be. operated more or leas in harmony with the Mexican National, which is in process of reorganization by the same firm. The schooner Sea Gem while attempting to make Manitowoc, Wis., harbor missed the pier and went ashore. Captain Hanshaw of Charlevoix, owner of the boat, ami the four members of the crew were saved. The vessel broke up, nnl with her cargo of slabs will Is- it total loos. While seated at the front window of his cottage, in Brighton, N. Y., Giuseppe ('uciauti was shot and seriously wounded. His assailant is not known, but the police arrested Joseph Bell, who was found running in Brighton avenue. On Bell's person was found a revolver with one of the chambers emptied. The Weldon Grocery Company, a < 01poration with a capital stock of $400,000, went into the hands of a receiver. The company has seventeen stores in Pittsburg and vicinity and is said to be doing a good business, but lately has been unhide to pay its credits when they came due and had to give notes*. Vice Admiral Fnik Pasha, chief of the general staff of the Turkish admiralty, has made his escape from Constantinople, going by British steamer to Malta. Fear of the consequences of his memorial to the Sultan denouncing maladministration in the navy caused his flight. His property has teen declared forfeited. Three conviyts at the State penitentiary— Ed Caviness, sent up for murder; Frank Harris, for stealing beef cuttie, and D. K. Reed, serving time for larceny —have escaped from the penitentiary ranch two miles from the prison near Canon City, Colo. They overpowered Overseer King, an I, taking his carbine and revolver and horses from the stable, started for the mountains. Some weeks ago Homer Reahard, an 11-year-old boy, was found dead near his home in West Denver, Colo., with a bullet in his brain. He was thought to have been accidentally shot by a hunter, but the police now believe it was a case of murder, and eight boys have been arrested on suspicion. The detectives believe Reahard had quarreled with some of these boys and that he was first stoned nud then shot. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ~.73 42 Boston 59 61 Philadelphia 70 19 Chicago 50 74 Brooklyn ...09 53Cincinnati ...45 68 St. L0ui5....63 50 New Y0rk...45 71 Standings in the American League are as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....70 40 Baltimore ....">8 58 Boston 68 52 Washington. 53 66 Detroit 05 55 ('levels nd ...52 08 Philadelphia 02 58 Milwaukee ..44 70

BREVITIES.

Two persons were instantly killed, two burned to death and one mortally injured in a railroad wreck near Woodstock, Ont. A report has come from Montreal that several anarchiMts had arrived th re fcr the purpose* of assassinating the I hike of York when he comes to Montreal. The postotllce nt Edmond, Ok., was entered by burglars, the safe blown open and |383 stolen. Vnited States marshals, with - bloodhounds, took the trail of th** robbers. In Nevada, Mo., James B. Ftrfgttson, aged 40, was shot by Hirnm Bates, aged 05. The men were neighbors in the suburbs of the town and fell out over a trivial matter. Seven of the thirteen bodies that have been entoinlied since June 10, when the explosion in the coal mine of the Pittsburg Coni Company at Port Royal, Pa., took place, have been recovered. The King and Queen of England, the Czar and Czarina of Russia, the King of Denmark, the King of Greece and twen-ty-eight princes and princesses went by the same train from Fredemdmrg to Copenhagen. 11. Vellenger, who was found dead at Hot Springs, Ark., had among his effects two discharges from the Cook County hospital. Chicago, dated Oct. 1. HMM). The coroner returned a verdict of death from causes. At Cripple Creek, Colo., the bnrbcr shop of John Tyler was blown up with dynamite. The explosion wrecked the building nud contents, but Tyler escaped. Tyler is a colored man ami hns repeated y refused to join the Barbers' I'n:* n. At May King. Ky., ‘'Jim" Kelley, the notorious mountain moonshiner and outlaw of Elkhorn Creek, was shot and killed by Charles Ison, 20 years old. Heavy rains have raised the water in the Republican and Beaver rivers in Nebraska, carrying away bridges and washing out railroad roadbeds near B.irtley and other points. The 12-year-dld son of C. A. Gitnnmr, living near Moscow, Idaho, placed the small end of a powder horn in his mouth ami ignited tin* powder, as he said, to “make a smoke.** The inside of his h sid was reduced to jelly.

EASTERN.

H. O. Armour, the multimillionaire packer of Chicago and New - York, died very suddenly at Saratoga, N. Y. Miss Maud Willard of Canton, Ohio, lost her life in an effort to navigate the whirlpool rapids at Niagara Falls in a barrel. The Sheldon House, the largest hotel in Ocean Grove, N. J., was totally destroyed by fire. The guests escaped. The loss is heavy, there being only $16,0C0 insurance. | The Northwestern Hotel at Military road and Lansing street, Buffalo, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at S4O,(XX). Pipeman Frank Fites was buried beneath fulling debris and badly injured. President William McKinley was twice shot Friday afternoon while holding a public reception on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo. The assassin, Leon Czolgosz, a Cleveland anarchist, was arrested. Mrs. Charles Snyder, nged 25 years, was shot and instantly killed nt her home In New Haven, Conn. Her husband is under arrest on a charge of murder. He was intoxicated, and he, too, had in some way received a bullet in the wrist. Thieves broke into the postoffice at Lansdowne, Pa., dynamited the safe and escaped with stamps valued at $1,590, leaving untouched $9,000 worth which they overlooked. Not a clew on which the police can work was left behind. Miss Jennie R. Ewing, head of th? hosiery department of Boggs & Buhl an I prominent in church work, met almost instant death in a runaway accident at Pittsburg. Miss Ewing jumped and alighted on her head, fracturing the skull. The steamer Twilight, which plies between Trenton, N. J., and Philadelphia, was sunk in the Delaware river, but, fortunately, none of the 300 and odd passengers was drowned. The steamer is supposed to have struck a rock at Perriwig bar. President McKinley delivered a speech of world-wide-importance at the Buffalo exposition, Reciprocity was his message to Europe, while he declared this government must build the isthmian canal, anil that the American merchant marine must be encouraged. Grief over the shooting of President McKinley and the subsequent worry over his condition and prospects of recovery, led Orlando D. Van ('amp, on? of the most prominent men of Erie County, Pa., to kill himself. He blew off his head with a shotgun. The Haddington African Baptist Church, a small frame structure in Philadelphia, was destroyed by fire. Rev. N. 11, Hester, the pastor, was arrested charged with setting fire to the edifice. Mr. Hester whs suspended by the elders about a month ago. Hart D. Munson, a prominent Republican politician of Connecticut, left New Haven for Mexico four weeks ago, expecting to be away for two weeks. As nothing has been heard from him and he carried a considerable amount of money, his friends are alarmed. John D. Lankenau, the well-known Philadelphia philanthropist and member of the Drexel family, who died recently, left upward of $1,500,000 to be divided equally between the German Hospital of that city and the Mary J. Drexel Home for Aged Patients of the hospital. The climax to a dinner party given by Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. Peters, at their home in New York City, came when Mrs. Peters deliberately walked to the sideboard, filled a liquor glass with carbolic acid, and facing her guests, drained the glass. Her action, it is said, was brought about by a reproof from her husband before the rest of the party.

WESTERN.

Andrew Carnegie has offered $20,900 to the city of Riverside, Cal., for a free public library. Fifty horses belonging to McNab & Smith, draymen, were poisoned in San Francisco. Fully one-half of the animals are dead. The steamer Gold Dust of the Louisville nnd Evansville Packet Company burned nt Harding's Landing, Mo. No lives were lost. At Richmond, Ind., the livery barn of John A. Logan burned and twenty horses perished. It is believed to have been an incendiary fire, C. A. Tomlinson, a farmer who lived near Ottawa, Kan., shot himself. He had brooded over the partial failure of crops until his mind was affected. It is reported that the new survey Of the international boundary line will leave the greater part of the town of Blaine, Wash., on the Canadian side. John D. Ely, an electrical lineman who lived with his sister, Mrs. Mnggie Kelleher, in Chicago, committed suicide at Seattle by drinking carbolic acid. John Nelson, the young bicyclist of Chicago who was injured in his race with Jimmy Michael nt Madison Square Garden. New York, died at Bellevue hospital. A. B. Hammond of Portland, Ore., and C. J. Winton of Wausau, Wis., have purchased 50,(MX) acres of Oregon timber land from the Southern Pacific for $500,• 000. A tornado at Benkelmnn, Neb., destroyed the United Presbyterian Church, many (tables nud windmills, and partly wrecked several houses. No lives were lost. Two Klondikers, Clarence Berry and William Staley, have arrived at Seattle with nearly $500,000 in bank drafts as a result of the summer's sluicing on Eldorado creek. The United Postoffice Clerks' convention nt Milwaukee has voted to continue the National Postal Journal and to in crease the anuuul dues to cover the cost of subscription. Fully 10,000 peach trees will have to be destroyed iu Athens County, Ohio, as u result of nn order of the State agricultural department, the trees being afflict* ed with Snn Jose scale. Fire caused in the neighborhood of SGO,000 damage to the dock of the Lehigh Coal and Coke Company at West Superior, Wis. The loading apparatus an! several box cars burned. The Pacific dredge bout on Moose creek, near Salmon City, Idaho, was blown up by the bursting of a boHer. Superintendent Dunlap wan killed and four other men seriously injured. Imkin Herron, pitcher for the baseball club of Arkansas City, Kan., fell dead while playing against the Joplin team.

Pbydcians declare excitement and overexertion brought on heart failure. Geqrge May, 9 years old, was killed by a Wisconsin Central train at the Harlem race track in Chicago. The lad evidently failed to see a Wisconsin Central passenger train and ran on the tracks in front of it. Albert Morris of Nowata, I. T,, was shot and killed On the street at Coffeyville, Kan., by John Nelson, his brother-in-law, also from Indian Territory. The murder was the result of an old family grudge. James T. Patterson, son of R. C. Patterson, the millionaire tobacco manufacturer of Richmond, Va., has begun suit at Omaha for divorce from his wife, Cora Lathrop Patterson, prominent as a singer in that city. At Cass Lake. Minn.. W. J. Murphy, proprietor of the Minneapolis Tribune, was dangerously injured by the premature explosion of his gun while hunting. The charge of shot entered his side under the right arm. Nearly sixty persons who attended the banquet at the opening of the new Seventh precinct police station in Cleveland suffered from ptomaine poisoning. It is believed that either the clams or the ice eream contained the poison. A. Dinkel, a florist, while making an excavation in a vacated alley in the heart of Brazil, Ind., unearthed the skeleton of a man who evidently had been murdered and buried there years ago. A large hole was found in the skull. , William C. Gates, alias "Swiftwater Bill,” has been arrested in San Francisco charged with the abduction of his 14-year-old niece from Tacoma. It is alleged that he married the girl id spite of the fact that he already had a wife. In Denver, Colo., fire destroyed the buildings at 1825 to 1837 Market street. They were occupied by the HumphreyJones Mercantile Company, wholesale paints, and the Sauer Manufacturing Company, confectioners. Ixiss SIOO,OOO. The Indiana Long-Distance Telephone ami Telegraph Company of Kentucky, with a capital of $1,000,000, was incorporated at Dover, Del. It is authorize 1 to construct and operate telegraph an I telephone lines in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. Emil I. Fischer, the Humane Society stable boy who tried to sell a mongrel pup at Madisonville, Ohio, for $60,090, was sent to Longview lunatic asylum, a victim of liquor. He declares he was started in the drink habit by taking wine at communion. Oliver Eylar of Dallas, Texas, who was visiting his brother, J. W. Eylar, editor of the Georgetown, Ohio, News Democrat, shot himself in the temple in the woods and was found dead several hours later. He had been acting queerly for some days. Rather than go to school 15-year-old Arthur Jaquay, son of A. K. Jaquay, a boilermaker in the railway shops at Atchison, Kan., committed suicide. The boy rebelled at going to school and when his parents insisted he secured a revolver and shot himself.

SOUTHERN.

Susan Adler, a 16-year-old girl, killed herself near Decatur, Ala., by swallowing a box of sulphur matches. It is said a love affair caused the young woman’s suicide. At Covington. Ky., Harvey Dwelle shot and killed Mrs. Hanna Bornwasser and then shot himself, dying later. They were former sweethearts. Jealousy caused th? shooting. A passenger wreck occurred fourteen miles west of Mannington, VV. Va. A large party of Fairmont, W. Va., excursionists were aboard and the engineer and several passengers were killed. While acting as peacemaker between two mountaineers who had quarreled over dice at Middlesboro, Ky., Dick Young, aged 20, of Stonega, Va., was instantly killed. He was shot by Sam Loins. Two hundred and seventy-five soldiers of the Twenty-seventh infantry were st nt to the hospital at Fort McPherson, near Atlanta, Ga., as a result of poisoning thought to be from eating a stew which was cooked all night. The first anniversary of the great storm was appropriately observed in Galveston with public memorial services given under the auspices of the Woman's Health Protective Association. Seven thousand people attended. Frank C. Lechner, cashier of the Bank of Timmonsville, 8. C., disappeared recently, and now an investigation shows a shortage of $5,000, which, it is feared, may grow larger. Lechner is bonded in a surety company for SIO,OOO. James Howard and ex-Secretary Of State Caleb Powers, convicted as Goebel murder conspirators, quarreled in jail at Frankfort, Ky. Howard threw a heavy inkstand at Powers, striking him in th* head. Powers was knocked over and bled profusely. A Texas and Pacific freight train crashed through a Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe passenger train at the crossing of the two roads in the eastern part of Dallas, Texas. The combination baggage and express car w:ts cut in two and the body of the mail clerk, A. F. Jackson of Waco, was found buried under the cab lit the freight engine, which was overturned and badly wrecked.

FOREIGN.

Gen. Hughes' campaign in the Island of Leyte hns resulted in the surrender of the insurgent Col. Pacheco with his entire command. Thia ends the insurrection cn that island. Letters’ entire commando has been taken by Mnj. Scobell, south of Petersburg. One hundred and three prisoners were captured, twelve Boers were killed and forty-six wounded. Charles T. Yerkes has secured control of the projected Brompton-l'iccadilly Tube Railroad, with a capital of £2,100,000. The acquisition gives Mr. Yerkes' system almost complete control of lx>ndou rapid transit. Assurances of pence with the world were given by the Chinese government at Pekin Saturday when the protocol agreed upon by the Emperor’s adviser# nnd the ministers of the powers was formally signed by representatives of all the parties concerned. The newly arrive! American teachers at a mass meeting in Manila huve decided to cable to the President, complnining that they were promised commissary

privileges and that they now find their expenses are double what they were assured they might expect. * William Vocke, attorney for the German consul in Chicago, says that the losses to banks and business houses in Prussia through the alleged fraudulent operations of Gerhard Terlinden, who was arrested in Milwaukee several weeks ago, will itmount almost to $2,000,000. China's awakening to the influences of western civilization is at hand. A new era in government, education and industry dawned Monday. By imperial decree the old systems, -honored since the days of Confucius, are overturned. Emperor Kwang-Tsu promises to become a modern ruler in every sense of the word. The American missionary woman who was captured by brigands in the District of in the Vilayet of Caloniea, Turkey, was Miss Ellen H. Stone. The Sultan, immediately upon hearing of the abduction of Miss Stone and her companion,'peremptorily ordered the Vali of Salonica to secure their release and to exercise every care for their comfort and safety.

IN GENERAL.

The yacht Columbia, champion of 1899, has been chosen to race against the Shamrock 11. in defense of the America’s cup. E. C. Duchesny, 47 years of age, assistant general superintendent of the Pacific division of the Canadian Pacific Railway, wax killed by a falling roek at tunnel No. 11. The investigation into t&e loss of the steamer Islander has begun at Victoria, B. C. The pilot denied reports that he and the captain were drunk, as did a majority of the other witnesses. Henry Peltier and his wife, farmers, living just outside of Windsor, (Jnt., were struck by a fast Michigan Central train while driving into that city and instantly killed. Their carriage was ground to pieces. Two hundred thousand dollars lost in lake ships stranded in the gale and fiftysix lives barely rescued by life-saving crews is the record on lower Lake Michigan and Lake Huron for Saturday night and Sunday. Forest fires are ravaging Newfoundland and threaten several large lumbering districts. Twenty-three houses have been destroyed in the settlement of White Bay, and it is feared that other villages also have been burned. Gen. D. S. Stanley, president of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, announces that the annual reunion of that society and the veterans of that army will be held at Louisville, Ky., on Perryville days, Oct. 8 and 9. The I’nited States consul at San Salvador has cabled the State Department as follows: "Fire broke out in the barracks adjoining the presidential residence and destroyed both buildings. Public order and commerce unaffected.” It is reported in Washington on goo 1 authority that arrangements have keen completed in London for a new treaty to take the place of the defeated HayPauncefote compact and that everything is now ready for its formal drafting. This will l>e done by the British foreign office. Lord Pauncefote and Ambassador Choate. R. G. Dun & Co.’s review of trade says: "A holiday reduce! the volume of legitimate business, while speculative operations were seriously curtailed by the general closing of exchanges from Friday afternoon to Tuesday morning. In the movement of merchandise and in many manufacturing lines there has been effort to make up the loss by working overtime, but the week's record will fall behind those immediately preceding. Actual sales of many iron and steel products are recorded at material advances and the tone throughout is hardened by vigorous demand. Placing of sample orders for spring footwear is of such character as to indicate a healthy market and some jobbers are so anxious for early delivery that contracts are being closed now. Despite more activity in the market for cotton goods and placing of government contracts the staple shows no great strength. Although unsettled in tone little alteration occurred in the principal cereals. Trading was restricted and tip* re was an apparent distineliuation to assume an aggressive stand on either side of the market. Commercial failures during the month of August were 803 in number and $9,458,866 in amount of liabilities. Compared with the same month last year the statement is most unsatisfactory, aa failures were then only 735 in number ami $7,323,903 in amount.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, < $3.00 to $7.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $8.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 69? to 70c; com, No. 2,55 cto 56c; oats, No. 2,32 c lo 33c; rye, No. 2. 52c to 53c; butter, . hoice creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; potatoes, new, 90c to 95c u*r bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $«.C>5; ■keep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.50; whe.it, No. 2, G9c to 70c; corn, No. 2 wh'te, Me to 57c; oats, No. 2 white, new, 36c to 37c. Bt. Lonis—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.35; hogs. $3.00 to $6.80; sheep, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2. 69c to 70c; corn, No. 2, 57c to 58c; oats, No. 2,35 cto 36c; rye„ No. 2. 55c to 56c. Cincinnati —Cattle. $3.00 to $5.60; hogs. 4J.00 to $6.85; sheep, $3.00 to $3.25; wheat. No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 57c to 58c; outs. No. 2 mixed, new, 80c to 37c; rye. No. 2,56 cto 57c. Dctiolt-Cattle, $2.50 to $5.15; hogs, $3.00 to $6.40; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 56c to 57c; oats, No. 2 white, 35c to 30c; rye, 52c to 53c. T< kd>—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 71c to 73c; com. No. 2 mixed, 56c to 57c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 3(lc; rye, No. 2,48 c to 49c; clover seed, prime, $5.30. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 norther*, 67c to 68c: corn, No. 3,55 cto 56c; No. 2 white, 36c to 37c; rye, No. 1, 52,< to Me; barley, No. 2,59 cto 60e; pork, in* st. $14.50. Buffalo -Cattle, choice shipping steers. $3.00 to $5 80; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $6.90; sheep, fair to hcoice, $3.00 to $.1.50; lambs, common to choice, $4.50 to $5.25. New York—Cattle, $3.75 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $6.65; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2, 61c to 62c; oats, No. 2 white, 37c to 38c; bntter. creamery, 10c to 19c; egg.*, western. 15c to 18e.

WAR HEROES IN CAMP

■SORROW FOR M’KINLEY TEMPERS JOY OF VETERANS Thirty-fifth Encampment of O. A. R. Opine in Clevelan ! Condemnation of Assassin and Hope for Victim the Keynote of Speeches. The thirty-fifth annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic began Monday in Cleveland. Never, perhaps, since its organization has this fast-dimin-ishing army of Civil War veterans gathered around the campfire In circumstances so profoundly solemn and Impressive. Former encampments, scarcely without exception, have been happy reunions; this one could not avoid the features of a house of grief, verging perilously near to the borders of mourning. Gen. Daniel Sickles voiced the sentiments of the thousands of Grand Army veterans assembled when he strode into the national headquarters Monday and, adSresslng Gen. Leo Rassieur and other ignltaries, said: “Comrades, let ns thank God for the news from Buffalo! The Lord has heard the prayers of the world. Christian, Mohammedan, Chinese and all people have united with us in prayer that McKinley might be spared to us. That prayer is answered.” In a sense the birth of the Grand Army was marked by the assassination of one

MAJOR LEO RASSIEUR. Retiring Commander-in-Chief.

President. It came out of times of strife and disorder. It has seen these pass away and its whitening veterans have come to await the last call in the sunlight of peace and union and in the rcflectiyn of a work well done and a repose well earned. Today the tragedy of is recalled. Thursday they held a grand good-will gathering for the purpose of extending the sympathy of the nation and of the Grand Army to the President. Senator Manderson of Nebraska also sounded the keynote of the encampment at the reunion of the First Ohio volunteer light artillery. "Tempering every breath of happiness at this reunion is the fearful tragedy of last Friday,” said Gen. Manderson. “1 can find no words in which to refer fittingly to the wretch who has done this thing. It is for us and our sons to stamp out anarchy and socialism as we stamped out secession.” The Cleveland encampment undoubtedly marks the climax in gatherings of the bronzed, aged aud battle-scarred veterans of the Civil War. It brought together scores of old soldiers, many es whom will not be on hand for another encampment. Depleted numbers, the advanced age and accumulating infirmities of those who survive, the disappearances of posts by the death of members, will end in the not distant future the history of the Grand Army—an organization that has had a career that stamps it as unique in Itself, without reference to the exceptional nature of the great events from which it took its rise. Held together entirely by community of sentiment and a spirit of mutual helpfulness, its existence has been a perpetual reminder of the strength of the bonds and the intensity of the patriotic spirit which united the men engaged In the war. Cleveland has not had the nations] encampment since 1872, and secured it thia year through the efforts of the Business Men's Association of that city. The local committee made ample provision for the accommodation and social entertainment of the veterans. Comfortable quarters were provided in seventy-three public school buildings, and 500 local veterans and Sons of Veterans acted as guides. There were camp fires galore, where the “boys” could summon memories of the breaking of the storm of war, enlistment, of tearful good byes, reports of killed, wounded and missing, the long struggles the final triumph, the journey home, and the greeting. There were also reunions of brigades, regiments, battalion-*, an i companies, with addresses by orators of national reputation. In connection with the encampment were held meetings of other national associations, as follows: Woman's Relief Corps, Ladies of the G. A. R„ Daughters of Veterans, Sons of Veterans, Naval Veterans, and its woman's auxiliary. Colored Veterans, Union Ex-Prisoners of War, and its woman's auxiliary, Mexican War Veterans, Army Nurses, and Loyal Home Workers. Interest In the encampment business proceedings centered in the ejection of a commander-in chief for the ensuing year. Three prominent candidates were considered. They were Daniel E. Sickles of New York, Eli Torrance of Minnesota nud Thomas J. Stewart of Pennsylvania. * With'each year |he general Interest in the Natloual Grand Army of the Republic grows; apparently increasing with the ratio in which the ranks are thinning. This ratio has crept in the Inst ten years from 1.33 to 2.80 per cent. The organization dcached its high-water mark in 1890. when its members numbered 409,489. In 1900 the enrollment was 276,669. Although Monday was the opening d*y, the real beginning of the encampment was Tuesday, when there was a great naval parade on Lake Erie, commemorative of Commodore Perry's historic victory, which occurred Sept. 10, 1813. The following day occurred the great street parade. The line of march was but two miles in length, the long roarehes of other encampments having fatigued the veterans too muA. It was an inspiring scene On the opening day It was estimated that there were nearly 190,000 strangers In ths city.

NEGRO WHO STRUCK DOWN CZOLGOSZ.

James B. Parker of New York City is the negro who stood directly ahead of Czolgosz when he shot President McKinley and who hurled him to the ground with a terrific blow after the second shot was fired. Parker was born in Atlanta forty-five years ago in slavery. He left New York last spring to wait iu an exposition case. He is a giant in size, standing over six feet, and as erect as an Indian. The assassin tore his vest buttons entirely off in the struggle.

QUEEN OF THE REDS CAUGHT.

Notorious Emma Goldman Arrested by Chicago Police. Emma Goldman, whose anarchistic lectures stirred Leon Czolgosz to shoot President McKinley, was arrested by the Chicago police iu the house at 303 Sheffield avenue Tuesday afternoon. In telling of her whereabouts during the preceding ton days she spoke freely, and said that she was in Pittsburg early the previous week. From there she went to Cincinnati, where she remained until Thursday evening, when she went to St. Louis. She said she reached Chicago Saturday morning, and saw the police at the station watching for her. The anardiist leader made admission* from which the police hope to gather much. She admitted knowing the would-

EMMA GOLDMAN.

be assassin of the President. July 12 she met him for a few moments iu Chicago. Twice she admitted being in Buffalo this summer—once about the middle of July and the second time about the middle of August. On the second visit to Buffalo she visited the Pan-American Exposition. Miss Goldman denied emphatically that she was in any way connected with the attack upon the President. She declared that there was nothing in her teachings to result.in violence. In the same breath she called McKinley the most insignificant President in the history of the country—a weak tool of capital—the enemy of the laboring man. She declared that doubtless Czolgosz had “just causes” to drive him to the act he committed. The importance of the capture of thia anarchistic leader is deemed immense by the federal authorities. It is the intention to charge her directly with being an accessory before the fact in the attempted assassination of President McKinley. Saturday afternoon the woman called at the postofflee in St. Louis and gave orders that her mail shoul 1 be sent to Chicago, to the general delivery. The police were already on her trail at that time. Later she received a telegram. This she destroyed. From nearly every State in the Union nnd from nearly every public man comes the demand for the crushing of anarchism, the arrest of its exponents, the suj>pression of its literature, and the interdiction of its meetings.

HOW CORN LOOKS.

The cut, taken front a St. Lottis paper, shows how most of the crop in Missouri is affected. An explanation frequently furnished by farmers is that owing to the drought there was not enough nourishment for the grain.

Sparks from the Wires.

Czar is having- automobiles built for army officers. Constable Ben F. Sheehan, near Dayton. Ohio, killed himself. Secret service men bagged a gang of counterfeiters on the Snake river, eastern Oregon. Thomas Hodge, Edgar Tressinger and Gus Conrad were crushed to death in a mine, Silverton, Colo. Judge Fitzgerald, New York, says the bequest of >OO,OOO, by Helen C. Brush, to the First Church of Christ, is legal. ,