Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1902 — Page 3

Test your neighbor to subscribe for the taxpayers’ friend, This Dmbocbat. It gives all the news. FIRMS FOR SALE. BY • Dalton Hinchman REAL ESTATE AGENT, Vernon, Ind. No. 37#. Farm of 140 acres, 3 miles of good railroad town of 400 inhabitants; atwo•tory frame bouse of 8 rooms; frame barn /v.J14x90, *U ib good shape; fine orchard; farm veil watered; 40 acres in timber, farm lays nice and Dice roads to town; 70 acres more can go With the 140 if purchaser wishes it. Price #3O per acre. No. 378. Farm of 342‘A acres; frame house \ of# rooms, Rood frame barn, a fine young orchard, 100 acres in timber, balance in good state of cultivation, a fine stock farm as well as a good grain farm, it is a well watered farm and lays nice; 2H miles of railroad town. Price #2O per acre, one-half cash, good time Ott balance at 6 per cent, secured by first mortgage. No. 379. Farm of 300 acres; frame house of B rooms, large frame barn, ice house and other out-bulldings; farm is well watered, lays nice, well fenced: 8 miles east or west to railroad towns on J. M. A 1., B. & O. S. W. or Big Four. Price #3O per acre. No. 380. Farm of 700 acres; said farm has . thfef dwellings, two good barns; three good orchards; this farm can be put into 8 or 4 good farms; part of farm is rolling, but is not bad, teost of it level and smooth; 3 miles of a good railroad town, 14 miles of Madison, Indiana. Price #3O per acre, two-thirds cash, balance on good time at 6 per cent, secured by first mortgage on said farm. No. 381. Farm of 100 acres; 5 miles of good R. R. town of population of 400. Nice frame cottage of 0 rooms, large frame barn, fine orchards of all kinds of fruit, farm lays nice, in good neighborhood. Church and school close to said farm, Price 83,300. Correspondence Solicited. References: Judge Willard New, Ex-Judge T. C. Batchelor, First National Bank. Merchants: S. W. Storey. N. DeVersy. Jacob Foebel, Thomas A Son, Wagner Bros. A Co., Nelson & Son. J. H. Maguire & Co., W. M. Naur, Herbert Goff and Wagner’* plow factory. Anyone that wishes to look over the county, would be plessed to show thorn whether they wished to buy or not.

Where to Locate? WHY INTHK TKRHtTORY TRAVERSED BY THE . . LOUISVILLE and NASHVILLE RAILROAD THE— Orest Central Southern Trunk Line, IN KENTUCKEY, TENNESSEE, ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, FLORIDA, WHERE Farmers, Fruit Qrowers, Stock Raisers, Manufacturers, Investors, Speculators, and Money Lenders will find the greatest chances in the United States to make "big money" by reason of the abundance and cheapness of Land and Farms, Timber and Stone, Iron and Coal, Labor—Everything! Free sites, financial assistance, and freedom from taxation for the manufacturer. Land and farms at #I,OO per acre and upwards, and 600,000 acres in West Florida that can be taken gratis under the U. S. Homestead laws. Stock raising in the Gulf Coast District will make enormous profits. Halt fare excursions ths tint and third Tuesdsys of each month. Let us know what you want, and we will tell you where and how to get it—but don’t delay, as the country is filling up rapidly. Printed matter, maps and all infoimation free. Address, R. J. WEMYSS General Immigration and Industrial Agent, LOUISVILLE, KY.

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END IS ANNOUNCED.

Result of Long Night Conferences at White House. PEACE IN COAL WAR. Six Men Named for Board of Arbitration by President Roosevelt Differences as to Personnel ot Com mission Are Adjusted and President Acts —Operators Yield to Demand of Miners—Bishop Spalding of Illinois Is Chosen as Representative of Labor —Agreement Comes In a Dramatic Manner. The seal strike came to a sudden, unexpected, and dramatic end in the White House in Washington at 2:20 o’clock Thursday morning. An agreement to submit the entire question to arbitration was reached at a moment when hope had almost been abandoned, and was brought abbot in a long conference between President Roosevelt, Secretary Hoot, 'Carroll L>. Wright, Commissioner of Labor, Immigration Commissioner Sargent and George W. Perkins and Robert S. Bacon, members of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., representing J. P. Morgan. * Bishop to Represent Miners. The basis of the settlement was the concession on tile part of the mine-own-ers granting to the miners the right 'to he represented on the arbitration commission, and the President at once mimed Bishop Spalding, of Peoria, 111., as the representative of the miners. This concession was made only after President Roosevelt had insistently limited ont to the representatives of the opei utnrs the absolute necessity of according to the miners a representative on the commission. Agree When Hope le Gone. The end came dramatically. Even the administration members, who had worked without resting for over a week to secure an agreement to arbitrate, hud almost lost hope. Wednesday President Roosevelt and John Mitchell were in conference at the White House twice. President Mitchell, expressing himself as anxious to cud the strike, insisted that the miners should have some representation on the arbitration commission if the operators were directly represented. On this point he was firm, and President Roosevelt agreed to present his counter demand to the operators. The result was the conference, which commenced at 10 o’clock Wednesday night nnd ended early Thursday morning. Official Statement leaned. The following official statement announcing the close of the Rtrike was issued at the White House at 2:20 a. in.: “After a conference with Mr. Mitchell, and some further conference with representatives of the coal operators, the President has appointed the members of the commission to inquire into, consider, nnd pass upon all questions at issue between the operators nnd miners in the anthracite coal fields. Makeup of the Commission. “Brigadier General John M. Wilson, U. S. army, retired (late chief of engineers, U. S. A.), Washington, L>. C\. as an officer of tlie eugineer corps of either the military or naval service of the United States. “Mr. E. W. Parker, Washington, D. C., as HU expert mining engineer. Mr. Parker is chief statistician of the coal division of the United States geological survey and the editor of the Engineering tnd Mining Journal of New York. “The Hon. George Gray, Wilmington, Del., ns a judge of a United Stntes court. “Mr. E. E. (Murk, Cedar Rapids, lowa, grand chief of the Order of Railway Conductors, ns a sociologist, the President assuming that for the purposes of such a commission the term sociologist means a uinu who has thought and studied deeply on social questions, and hns practically applied his knowledge. "Mr. Thomas 11. Watkins, Scraaton, Pa., as n mail practically acquainted with the mining and selling of coal. “Bishop John L. Spalding, of l’aoria, 111. The President lias added Bishop Spalding’s name to the commission. “The Hon. 4'nrroll I). Wright has been appointed recorder of the commission."

PORTO RICAN SCHOOLS.

There Are 1 ,'JOOof ThcniOpcnThroiighout the Island. Twelve hundred public schools were opened throughout the entire islnml of Porto Rico on the morning of Sept. 29. The trews is surpassingly important because it means that 50,000 Porto Rican children hnve been started on the road toward worthy American citizenship. The news means that the youth of Porto Rico are being given a chance in life that they never could liuve had under the Spanish flag. We have curried to them the opportunities that Europeans have to come to us to get. The fifty thousand boys nnd girls who assembled in the 1,200 public schools of Porto Rico on that Monday will lx* the fathers imd mothers, the educated fathers aud mothers, of the next generation. And the next generation of Porto Ricans will be the citizens of un American Htate, a sovereign member of the American Union. Without the education imparted Ip her public schools Porto Rico would never be fit for statehood.

Telegraphic Brevities.

Illinois Uentral conductors hnve been given an increase of $lO a month. W. I). Iluber was re-elected president of the Brotherhood of Carpenters. Fred Atkinson, superintendent of the Philippine schools, hns resigned. Tho resignation takes effect Jan. 1, 1903. Home one sent a bundle of bloody clothing to the Trauernlcht-Bhaiiks Commission Company, Bt. Louis. Mystery. A company with $2,000,000 capital has been Incorporated In Colorado to build a railroad front Cripple Creek to Pueblo.

FEATURES OF THE STRIKEOF COAL MINERS. Strike began May 12, 1902, duration • • • 155 days Miners and others thrown out of work 183,500 Number of woilTbn affected 105,000 Number of children affected 283,000 Capital Invested in coal mines $511,500,000 Operators’ daily loss in price of coal 433.500 Total loss caused by strike 197,300,000 DETAILS OF THE TOTAL COST OF THE STRIKE. Loss in miners’ wages $29,350,000 Loss of operators 08,800,000 Loss of merchants in mining towns 22,750,000 Loss of mills and factories closed 7.320,000 Loss of merchants outside district 10,000,000 Lossuof railways 34,000,000 I..ossof*4Hjsineßs permanently 8,000,000 Cost of troops in field 1,850,000 Cost of coal and iron police 3,500,000 Loss to railway men in wages 275,000 Cost of maintaining non-union met; 545,000 Damage to mljges aud machinery 5,000,000

STORY OF THE COAL STRIKE.

History of the Great Struggle Between Operators and Miners. Serious grumblings came from the miners of the anthracite coal region a year ago, but not until the latter part of last April did they make their formal demand for an eight-hour day, GO cents a ton and the recognition of their union. The demand was refused, and Senator Hanna and other members of the Civic Federation succeeded in bringing about a conference between the representatives of the miners and George F. Baer of tlie Reading Railroad nnd other operators. President Mitchell told his men of the appeal he had made in New York to the coal operators, but there was no sign, he said, of any recession. He received the ultimatum from the four largest coal roads May B."‘ They all rejected The offer to submit their differences to the Board of Trade. President Mitchell issued the order for a temporary strike Friday, May !>, and Monday, May 12, about 143.000 men went out. Every man and hoy oh *yed the order and not a pound of coal was mined Monday. It was then considered and has subsequently proved to be the most remarkable tie-up in the anthracite region. Senator Hanna pleaded for n sixty-day truce, hut neither side favored his scheme. The United Mine Workers held a convention at Hazleton, I’a., Wednesday, May 14, to determine whether or not the ■trike was to be made permanent. On the second day of the session the delegates voted to continue the strike to the bitter end. About 800 men voted, and the majority was 112. The mine owners met in New York May 20 and declared “war to the unife.” The miners’ executive committee decided May 21 to keep the pumps in the mines running on the old basis until June 2, and a call was signed by six district leaders for a national convention to decide as to whether the strike should be made general in all sections. President Mitchell, on June 18, railed a national convention of United Mine Workers at Indianapolis, for early in July. The operators caused to be published a long statement giving their position, and on June 22 President Miteliell replied to them, and after contradicting nearly all of their assertions, offered to submit the differences to a board of arbitration, and said bis men would stand by the result. The operators then attacked Mitchell’s assertions and posittrely declined to arbitrate. Senator Thomas C*Plntt began an effort Sept. 1 to end the strike within two weeks. A woman was shot at Edwardsville and rioting continued. One man was killed at the Maltb.v mine. Gov. Stone came to New York Sept. 8 and held a conference with Senator Platt and several Republican leaders. Mr. Morgan ■till refused to interfere, and the operators sent another ultimatum to the miners. President Roosevelt called the mine operators and the miners’ leaders into conference at Washington and urged them in the interest of the suffering public to reach an understanding. Mr. Mitchell, for the miners, offered to submit to arbitration, but the operators refused to consent to any compromise. Suits were begun in the New York mid Pennsylvania courts looking to a receivership for the coal iniues aud carrying roads and the denunciation of tire operators became more general, thefkituution rapidly approaching a crisis. The conference between Mr. Morgan, his partner, Robert It. Bacon, Secretary Root and President Roosevelt at ’lie White House Oct. 13 was not unexpected. With it came what probably brings the end of the most remarkable labor controversy in many years.

MUST ACCOUNT FOR $50,000.

Dowle to Appear In Court to Explain a Recent Deal. Dowie, “the restorer,” soon will be compelled by Judge Cutting of the Chicago Probate Court to live up to his selfimposed title nnd restore to the heirs of Frederick Sutton the sum of $50,000, which “Elijah II.” managed to lay hands upon. Frederick Sutton was a New Zealander who, upomcoming to Chicago, joined the camp of Ziouites. He died nnd by his will, dated March 22, 1902, witnessed by Dowieites, left all to Dowie. Speicher was appointed executor. But there was a codicil, dated March 25, by which relatives were provided for. Then Dowie and Speicher got busy nnd witnesses were found who testified that Button was feeble-minded when he remembered his sister and other relatives. But he was of sound mind three days be. fore when Dowie was the sole benefactor. • * The will nnd codicil were filed in Lake County, but tlio case was referred to Ure Probate Court of Cook County, before which It now is, on petition oF Ellen Bidridge, Button's sister, of Yellow Bluff, New Zeadland. If reports from a seemingly authentic source are to be credited, Missouri may soon have a gold mining boom. Heury Clay, a prominent resident of Golden, reports a rich strike of gold and silver or* assaying S7OO to the ton near Caaaville. _____ Patronise those who advertise.

NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE G. A. R.

GENERAL T. J. STEWART.

Gen, Thomas Jnniison Stewart of Norristown, l’n.,'who was elected comniand-er-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, has been adjutant geenral of the State of Pennsylvania since 1895. He served ns a private in the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, during the Civil War, mid In 18<i8 became an officer of the National Guard, to which lie fins always been devoted. From 1882 to 1889 he was assistant adjutant general G. A. R. of Pennsylvania, department commander in 1890, and 1898-1900 he was adjutant general of the Grand Army. Gen. Stewart was l-oru in Ireland in 1848 and was educated in the public schools of Norristown, which has always been his home. He is unmarried.

OUTLOOK FOR COAL.

In 48 Hours After Strike Is Off, 75,000 Tons Can Be Mined. When the miners' strike shall have been officially declared at an end the full force of 143,000 men will report for duty within twenty-four hours, says a dispatch from Wilkesbnrre, Pa. Seventy-five thousand tons of coal can be mined, it is believed, and be ready for shipment in forty-eight hours, and the amount increased to 100,000 or 125,000 tons a day at the end of a week. It can be moved to New York and other Atlautic cities in thirty-six hours from the time it is brought from the mines. A fact that seems to indicate preparation on the part of the coal companies to transport coal in large quantities is the arrival at coal-shipping cenfbrs of an increased number of cars.

The Political Pot.

Twice during one week the Rev. Sam Small, tlie Georgia evangelist, who has been in Vermont speaking in the interest of a license (local option) candidates for Governor, collapsed on the platform from the effects of drink. He openly confessed to his condition. The New York Republican platform, important ns being that of the President’s State, favors road and canal improvements; says “the integrity of tho protective principle must be preserved,” and condemns monopolies or any combination for the destruction of competition, and advocates purchase of Adirondack and Catskill binds for preservation. Representative Babcock, of Wisconsin, as chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, has opened contpnign headquarters at New York, in the St. James Building on Broadway. The distributing station for campaign literature is still located at Washington, as in former campaigns. Associated with Mr. Babcock in the management is Representative Hull, of lowa, chairman of the Executive Committee. As ■ result of the new suffrage laws in Louisiana national attention has been drawn to the local option election held at Tioga. Only oue vote was east, the voter being the only inhabitant who had complied with all the requirements of the new laws, including the paying of poll tax two years in advance. This vote was’ for a license, which makes tire town “wet,” though a majority of tlie people are said to be prohibitionists. Former Speaker of tho House Thomas 11. Reed say*: “They had better let the tariff alone. I believe the sentiment of the people Is strongly opposed to tariff revision, nnd if it is not it will be if the tariff ever comes up for revision.” Ex-Senator Marion Butler, Populist, of North Carolina, in mi interview at Washington, said the Populist national committee Is remaining passive now, during t)ie congressional elections, but that the party will have a ticket In the field for President 111 1904, and expects to poll the largest vote ever polled - by Populists.

CAN REGULATE TRUSTS.

Attorney-General Knox Declare* Congress Has Fnll Power. Attorney General Knox, in a speech before the Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce the other evening, declared that

Congress has full power v under the Constitution to pass all the legislation necessary for the regulation aud control of trusts. It is believed that Mr. Knox gave expression to the views of President Roosevelt and the administration on the subject. He pointed out the limitations of the

ATTY. GEN, KNOX.

Sherman act aud said if this law is constitutional then other legislation along the same line would also bo constitutional. The keynote of the Attorney General’s speech was the positive declaration that Congress lias full power to pass any laws necessary to control the trusts and end any evils for which they are responsible. Mr. Knox proceeded to show Ihnt no constitutional amendment is necessary, explained what is lacking in the Sherman anti-trust law, and declared that if, as has been proved, this law is constitutionill. an amendment or a new law can he passed by Congress without a special indorsement by the voters of the nation. After declaring that the great combinations of capital, numbering thousands, in their numbers and size ’’appall no healthy American,” and that no right thinking man desires to impair the efficiency of the great corporations and instrumentalities of national commercial development, lie continued: "The conspicuous noxious features of trusts existent nnd possible aro these: Over-capitalization, lack of publicity of operation, discrimination in prices to destroy competition, insufficient personal responsibility of officers and directors for corporate management, tendency s o .nonopoly nnd lack of nppreeintiotr m tbtnr management of their relations to the people, for whose benefit they are permitted to exist. Over-capitalization is the chief of these and the source front which the minor ones flow.” The speaker declared that corporations depending upon any statutory law for their existence or privileges trading beyond their own States should he required to do business in every locality upon the same terms and conditions, with no preferences in service, no discrimination in prices, and such as are carriers should be required to keep the avenues of commerce free and open to all on the same terms, and to observe the law with reference to .stifling competition, “moreover,” he added, "corporations upon which the public depends for the necessaries of life should lie required to conduct their business so as regularly and reasonably to supply the public needs.” Other recommendations were made nnd then the Attorney General took up the question of the power of the government to regulate trusts, citing the constitution and the legislation enacted on the subject. He then declared that in his opinion the power of Congress now extends far enough to regulate commerce in the ways suggested. He declared that no one could now say that that power does not extend so far. After reviewing the recent cases agninst the railroad merger and the beef trust the Attorney General concluded his speech with these words: “A law regulating interstate commerce for its protection against restraint, ho brond as to cover all persons whose business is conducted under agreements which are in any way or to any extent In restraint of trade, might exclude thousands of small concerns conducting industries in one State from marketing their products in others; but a law which only covers contracts and combinations in restraint of trade as defined by the common law would exclude all hurtful combinations and conspiracies. Congress can, if it sees fit, adopt the scheme of that law.”

KILLS HER FOUR HUSBANDS,

Because They Sought to Learn Her Secret of a Rich Gold Mine. Because her husbands sought to coerce her into revealing the secret of a gold mine which she possessed Mollie Fox-

water, nu Osage Indian woman of Oklahoma, is now in jail charged with the murder of the four men to whom iu succession she stood in the relationship of wife. She admits the killing in each case, hut says that its her husbands threatened her life in case she did not rove il

MOLLIE FOXWATER

the location of the mine she was justified in doing away with them. Mollie Foxwater is uot an ugly, coarsefeatured woman like many of the halfbreed squaws of hut possesses many of the refining qualities of a white woman. Khe has been well educated mid has traveled much. Six* lived in a fins? stone house near the Grand river hills, in the Cherokee nation, with a retinue of servants to wait upon her. She lived well and dressed in fushion, while her home contained all the modern apixiintments of a pretentious house. The fact that she was credited with possessing the knowledge of a rich gold mine led to her having many suitors. Mollie said that her father when dying had revealed to her the secret of the nrine, enjoining her to maintain the secret. Since his death she lias lived on the gold which she carried away from it from time to time. She said she treated her husbands well until they demanded a knowledge of her secret ami then, owing to their threatening her life, in case sire refused to share her knowledge with them, she killed them. A life-size statue to the Hungarian patriot, I-ouis Kossuth, was unveiled In Cleveland, Ohio, in the preseuce of 50,000 people. The statue stunds on a pedestal and Is about twenty feet high. The figure of Kossuth was the work of a Hungarian sculptor, Andrew Toth of I)obreazln, Hungary. Arthur Huuter nnd Bertha Gorman of Hartvllle, Mo., nged 17 and 15 respectively, eloped to Vinits, I. T., where they were married. The youth eloper* have returned home and received parental forgiveness.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTB OF THE PAfi T WEEK. Marlon Resident Deserts His Wife and Baby Calnmet Canal Project Will Not Be Revived-Two Violent Deatba in lVaba»h-Many Divorces. “I am going to leave the city and you will have to dig for yourself or get somoone else to dig for you,” was tho note Floyd Turner left for his wife in Marion when he left home. Turner is an oil operator. He was married to Miss Hazel Perry about it year ago. Six weeks ago a baby was horn to them and the mother of Mrs. Turner came to visit them. She left a few days ago nnd mnde her daughter a present of quite a smn of money, which Mrs. Perry alleges her husband took with him. A warrant was sworn out for his arrest, charging him witli wife desertion. Mrs. Turner was left with Hos fine cent" of money. Her parents live in Ehvood. Calumet Canal Plan Dead, Semi-official announcement is ifinde that no attempt will be made at the coming session of the State Legislature to pass the Calumet canal bill, which was defeated after a hard fight a year ago between its promoters and a railroad lobby. The scheme was to construct a ?(inal from Lake Michigan, near East Chicago, to the Calumet river, near Hammond. This would open an immense tract of lands for factory sites. The Legislature, however, refused to authorize a special assessment of taxpayers of Lake County to construct it. The principal objection of the railroads was that they would have had to expend millions in erecting and maintaining drawbridges. Two Die on Rail at Wabash. Within four hours the other morning two persons were killed by Wabash trains in the Wabash city limits. William Hopkins, aged 50 years, was struck by a fast freight while on his way to work in a stone quarry. Miss Grace Overly, a school teacher, aged 23 years, threw herself in front of a freight train in the western part of the city. She.was ;.-ut to pieces. A brakeman who rode r n the pilot saw Miss Overly leap to death, but he was powerless to save her. She was engaged to marry I. Church, an engineer. No reason is given for the suicide. Thirteen Per Cent Divorced. The State statistician hns compiled tables showing the relation between marriage and divorce in Indiana for the year ending June 30 last and finds that for every seven marriage licenses issued there is one divorce, or that 13 per cent of the marriages are followed by legal separations. To He Hanged in Michigan City. The jury in the ease of Ora E. Copenliaver at Indianapolis, charged with the murder of his wife, returned a verdict of first-degree murder nnd fixed the penalty at death by hanging at the Michigan City penitentiary. This is the first death sentence passed on a murderer in Marion County in seventeen years. Young Woman’* Suicide. Mrs. Maria McGoran, 20, committed suicide at Brazil by taking a large dcse of morphine. She was married six months ago, and her hushnnd deserted her. This, it is thought, caused the act. All Over the Btat* Anthony Tasso, an Italian, 39 years old, was killed by a bicycle rider at Coxville. At Seottsburg J. A. Eckhart, aged 55, died of blood poisoning caused by cutting a corn. As a safeguard against grave robbing the Common Council of New Albany has ordered electric arc lights placed in the city cemeteries. The congregation of Rev. Dr. Yannuys of Goshen surprised him with the gift of SSOO on the eve of his golden anniversary as pastor. Nelson Mains, aged 00, was found dead in jail at Hagerstown, lie had been arrested for being intoxicated and died from congestion of the brain. The bodies of Pleasant Pruitt, aged <l2, and his wife, aged 47, were found in tire basement of their home in Indianapolis. The police say Pruitt killed his wife and himself. The big tin-plate factory at Elwood has opened up its doors and the wheels have begun to turn. While the men have no definite idea of how long the plant will run. they feel that the resumption is to be permanent. After three weeks of life in the woods, Zncli Smithson, charged with the murder of George Boswell, has surrendered to Sheriff Cooirer at Green Castle. He has been living in a cave in the western part of the county and lias had nothing to eat hut pawpaws and apples since the murder. Isaac W. Martin of La Porte, who was sued for divorce by his wife a few days ago, 4rought suit for $5,000 damages for alienation of affections, the defendants being Richard Fleming and Vilette Fleming of Chicago. Vilette Fleming is the daughter of Mrs. Martin by a former marriage. After an idleness of six months, nearly one hundred strikers at the Evansville glass Leveling works will return to work. The men demanded an increase in wages. Business men have suoveded in getting tlie contending parties to arbitrate. The workmen gain about all tlrey asked. Indiana Harbor, a town only n year old, but having about 2,000 inhabitants, had its first church services Sunday. The Lutherans of the town dedicated their new structure, the First Evnugelicn! Lutheran Church, with solemn services and in the presence of u great throng of people. many of whom were from If aiiitnoiid, East Chicago nnd Whiting. 11. F. Watson, an old soldier, was ■truck by n mail pouch thrown from a Pennsylvania train at Amboy, aud hud his shixilder dislocated. A stick of dynamite was found under a bridge near Bt. Paul. The fuse which was attached to the stick was partly burned. A few days ago an attempt was made to blow up a hotel at Bt. Paul. The lirery ham nnd undertaking establishment of J. I>. Sells at Elwood was burned. Mr. Sells was overcome liy smoke while trying to rescue a horse and la in n serious condition. The loss la 18,090, Insurance 13.000.