Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1903 — Page 7

Edwarg P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. * Lewi Abstract*. Real Estate, Loans. WW practice in all the court*. Office over F**- «**’• Fair. K RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Judson J. Hunt, m, Dim, Ms M Real fsm RENSSELAER, IND. Office np.atalr* In Leopold block, first stair* west of Vanffensselaer street. Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For The N. A. AC. Ry, and RensselaerW.L. A P. Oo. fca_Offlce over Chicago Bargain Store. | Rensaelaer, Indiana. U. M. Baughman. O. A. Williams. Baughman & Williams, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Law. Notary work. Loan*. Real Estate and Insurance. Special attention given to collections of all kinds. Office over ••Racket Store,” ’Rhone 329. Rknsselakr, - Indiana. F.F. Irwin 8. C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstract*. Collection*. Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellows' Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. ’ R. W. Marshall, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Practices in all court*. Special attention given to drawing up will* and aettling desedent's estate*. Office in county building, east side of court house square. auair volts. e. a. •rtul muter a. sueaaa * Feltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law, Real Estate, Insurance Absracta and ■Loan*. Only set of Abstract Books in the Bounty. I RENSSELAER, IND. i ..... .. Ira W. Yeoman, I ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. ■Remington, Indiana. I Law. Real Estate. Collection*. Insurance ■nd Farm Loans. Office upstair* in Durand bra. I. B. & I. M. Washburn, I Physicians & Surgeons. ■hr. I. B. Washburn will give special attention ■ to Diseases of the Eye, Ear. Nose. Throat I and Chronic Diseases. Ha also teste eve* ■ for glasses. I Ornes Taisraoat No. 4*. ■ Rssiaaacs Phoms No. *7. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. lE. C. English, I Physician & Surgeon. ■Jffice over Ime*' Millinery store. Rensselaer. ■ Ornes Phoms 177. I Saaiaaxa Phoms, lie. Doctor A. J. Miller, ’ I PHYSICI AN ND SURGEON, I Rensselaer, Indiana. | Office up-*taira in Forsythe block. General practice of medicine, surgery and X-ray work. Kails answered promptly, day or night Of<J“P" CoJ ' fcv. W. MERRILL, M. D. I Ett Menn M SUM, KENSSELAER. INDIANA. I Chronic Dlaeaaea a Specialty, fcffice 'Phone 808. Residence ’Phone 34* K)r. Francis Turfler. Dr. Anna Turfles. I Drs. Turfler & Turfler, I OSTEOPANHIC PHYSICIANS. ffi Graduates American School of Osteopsthy. ■jffice over Harris Bank. Rensselaer, Ind. Kourst 9 to Um; lto4:*op. m. LO. Hani*, E. T. Harris, J. C. Harris, ■ President Vice-Pre*. Cashier. I Rensselaer Bank. I Deposits received on call. Interest Bearin* Certificate* of Deposit issued on time, Ex■han** Bought and Sold on principal cities, ■iote* Discounted at current rates. Farm Koans made at 5 per cent I WaSoMdtaSkarvpf Year Busin***. fa. L. Brown, I DENTIST. KJffice over Larsh’s drug store MCIIJMIRI Crown, Bar and Bridge 5 Work. Teeth Without Plates, Without Pain. .. J. W. HORTOH .. ■ I*VXAR*IN MMMiata ■eeth carefully stopped with gold and other Klltage. Consultation free. Nitrons Oxide Ks* administered dally. Charges within the K**ok of sit »c»dbv A.F.Lo«*.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD, Newcastle Liquor Cases to Be Dropped —Man Lets Horae Choose Wife for Him—Kokomo Vote* for Open Baleone—Wedded in Tower. The temperance crusade in Newcastle two years ago, -which created such excitement for a time, will soon be a thing of the The 145 indictments returned against local on information furnished by detectives, will be dismissed at the coming October term of the Circuit Court. When these case* first came up, the detectives failed tn appear, end the case* have since. been carried from term to term. Sheriff Christopher has had subpoenas for the detective*. to bring them here to testify, but after a diligent search, lasting over a year, has been unable to locate them. The smallest number of indictments against one man wan six and the largest seventeen. Saloon men say that in several neighboring counties the detectives made false affidavits, and that should they appear to testify againrt local saloon men the State would prosecute them for making false affidavits.

Let Horae Select Hie Wife. Mrs. Ralph E. Brown of Hendricks County, in her suit for divorce, charges that her husband let a horse select his wife. She and Mr. Brown were married in Angust last and separated in December. She says Mr. Brown was paying attention to a woman in Indianapolis and she herself lived in Clayton. On the day fixed for the -wedding Brown got into his buggy, undecided whether to marry her or the Indianapolis girl. He dropped the reins over the dashboard and left the decision to the horse, which turned off at the Clayton road, thus deckling the defendant in his choice of a wife. Open Saloons la the Vote. After a seven months’ crusade against Kokomo saloonkeepers under the Nicholson blanket law, the temperance people were defeated in the vote Friday and the town is wet again. The crusades closed twenty saloons, all of which will open again. In every ward the remonstrants were in the minority in the count. Aged Relative es Bryan Dies. Mary Gano Bryan Cobb, step-great-grandmother of Col. William Jennings Bryan, died in Kokomo, aged 101 years. She was a Daughter of the Revolution and a widow of the war of 1812 and the Mexican war. She was born in Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 11, 1802. All her children died of old age years ago. Fast Freight Kills Three. Three persons, Mrs. Will Billman, her daughter, Mrs. Ollie Peters, and Miss Blanche Gill, were killed at Felton’s Crossing, four miles east of' Ligonier, while walking on the Lake Shore tracks. They were struck by fast freight train No. 63, west bound. Have Wedding in a Tower. Charles N. Thompson and Bessie Wilson, visitors to the Terre Haute fair, decided to be married and as suddenly consented to go to the court house tower for the ceremony, ?«o that they were pronounced husband and wife 175 feet above ground. Brief State Hazelnuts are plentiful this year. Martinsville has a new canning factory. Bloomington has a new broom factory. Rushville has several new oil companies.

Peach canning factories over the State are getting busy. Darlington has let a contract for a system of street lights. Peter Surprise of Laporte County is dead, aged 104 years.

Bad weather made the Delaware County fair lose money. A woman was fired on from a Lake Shore train at Laporte.

Mrs. R. W. Davis lost a satchel and diamonds worth SI,OOO at ShelbyvHle. Robert Kirkpatrick of Wheeling sold 235 hogs in Flora for something over $3,000.

A carnival in Logansport cleared more than $3,000 for the local people who gave it.

Lightning struck a school house in Warren County, and it burned to the ground.

John Corwder of Logansport has a peach tree bearing at least 150 peaches nine inches in diameter. Reports of trustees show that Earlham College, at Richmond, is in better financial shape than ever before. “Uncle” Sammy Beighler of Howard County has on exhibition at Kokomo a radish weighing 9% pounds. Decatur County farmers are aroused over increased taxation and will make some effort to have it reduced. A fine Bernard dog, owned by Father Bogemann of Bloomington and valued at $175, bas been abducted. Joe Runner of Worthington tried to drive Fletcher Owen into the ground with a sledge hammer. Owen will recover. While Lewis Robson, an Allen County farmer, was sharpening a plow, a piece of the point tore his eye from his head. Vincennes, is enjoying an unprecedented boom, and contracts for homes are being let in lots of ten to various contractors. Rev. Martin Luther of Valparaiso bas resigned the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church there and will go into business. Henry Downey, u Kokomo cab driver, who went totally blind last year, recovered his sight fully and instaneously the other day. He took a short nap and on awakening was astonished to find he could see. He had quit taking treatment The doctors ats puzxkd. Joseph Pohlman of Kokomo, in a cross bill filed against bis wife, Sarah Pohlman, alleges that she has thirteen husbands living, eight iu Ohio and five in Indiana. It is alleged that the divorce from “No. 13” will be followed immediately by a ceremony that will bring No. 14 into line.

FAST MAN WITH A RAZOR.

Eastern Barber’* Record la B*vCute*« .Bkavea in Thirty Minutes. Seventeen beards cut from the chins of an many longshoremen 1* Frank Bala’s record in the competition for the gold medal offered by a sporting paper to the barber who should shave the most men In thirty minutes. The record was made In Bala's shop at 323 Furman street, Brooklyn, before a notary public, an official timekeeper and threescore witnesses.

About seventy-five men were crowded Into the shop when the trial began and people were standing three deep before the windows. The subjects, naturally, were about . the toughest, from a tonsorlal standpoint, that Furman street could product In fact, only those whose beards rasped with a manly harshness as Bala ran his fingers over them were admitted. Andy Dean was the first man la the chair. He had about five days’ growth of beard, which shaded almost Imperceptibly on each side into a short, bristly, black mustache. Bala laid out six razors that had been prepared especially for the slaughter, tucked a few towels under his belt and picked up the loaded lather brush. “Are you ready?” called out Jim Lake, the timekeeper. “Yes,” said Bala.

“Go!” roared the timekeeper, and Bala made a downward jab with the bnlsh that scattered lather from one ear to the other. Two quick swipes with the brush on each cheek, a purrled chasing of fingers over the raspy mat and the longshoreman was ready for the razor. Two strokes finished the left side of the face, two more cleaned the right side and a few quick ones scraped the chin and neck bare. Andy never murmured. “Done,” cried Bala. “One minute and forty seconds,” sang out the timekeeper, and then there was loud Applause. John Nesplng, whose beard is red, was the next man up, and he also was turned out In one minute and forty seconds, bleeding only slightly from a gash on the chin. John Cowan’s capillary adornment was easier and it went down in one qiinute and fifteen seconds. Joe Packard and Jim McCarthy were finished In about the same time. A Frenchman who couldn’t speak English, but who knew that he needed a shave, was the sixth man. He came out holding his face in his bandanna and jabbering volubly. John Keeler, Pat Herring and Tommy Williams were finished up in fairly quick time. Bala was warming to his work now and he trimmed Jimmy Henessy’s face In exactly one minute, the best time made. Jimmy had considerable blood on him at the finish. An unknown man then took the chair.

“One minute and sixteen seconds,” said the timekeeper as this one got up.

Louis Bey, a Turk, came out in quick time with part of his promising young mustache gone. The McNally brothers were finished up in less than three minutes and two other men were done in just about as good time. “One minute and ten seconds more,” the timekeeper shouted. But Bala had run out of subjects. “Quick,” he screamed, as he changed razors snd the timekeeper himself was pushed into the chair. Bala took the last bunch of hair off his chin just as the gong sounded. He was cheered to the echo. Then, just to show that he wasn’t down and out, he cut a man’s hair in two minutes and fifteen seconds and shaved Buck Busteed, the man with the Iron beard, who is barred out of all Furman street barber shops, In just one minute and fifty-five seconds.—New York Sun.

Nothing Serious.

The night wind toyed with the bosom of the beautiful Chicago river. “Farewell!” cried Guy Throop, hoarsely. ’“Farewell!” The dark-eyed maiden by hl* side burst Into tears. “Do not say farewell!” she murmured. “It will kill me!” Moved by her emotions. Guy Throop hastened to ease 1 her mind. “Oh, it’s just a Patti farewell,” he whispered. “I’ll be back —aye, a dozen times!” And only the deep mutterings of an overworked bridge-tender disturbed the stillness.

Those Tell-Tale Feet.

The rector called, but for some reason the lady did not wish to see him. Answering the bell, the maid very politely said her mistress was out Now, In the drawing room, leading directly from the front hall, there was a folding screen which stood two or three Inches from the floor. Behind this the lady secreted herself. “So your mistress 1* out?" mildly said the minister. “Yes, sir,” Answered the maid. “Well,” remarked the caller, as h* looked toward the drawing room, “the next time your mistress goes out, will you kindly suggest that she taka her feet with her?”

A Funereal Gait.

“Here!” called the impatient guest The obsequious waiter came to his side, says Judge. “Seems to me that soup I ordered is a long time getting to me.” “Yes, sir; but you must remember, sir, that you ordered turtle soup.”

Then and Now.

Early to bed and early to rise May once have made people healthy and wise, < ' But at present the man who would fain make his mark. Has got to keep hustling till long after dark. -—New York Time*.

TURKEY EXPECTS WAR SOON.

Claah with Bulgaria Feems .Certai* Before September End*. The latest orders from the Turkish government are regarded as a sure indication that the Porte entertains serious apprehensions of war. Sixteen battalions of mustahfuz, or second reserves, have been called to arms In the Salonica, U*kub and Monastic districts and the artillery and cavalry reserves of the Adrianople and Smyrna divisions have also been mobilized. The commander of the third army corps has been ordered to strictly watch the Servian frontier, where, it Is thought, revolutionary bands will probably cross. War between Turkey and Bulgaria is now regarded as‘ inevitable. It is even believed that the outbreak of hostilities will occur before the end of September, when the re-enforcements from Asia will have been concentrated in Macedonia and in the vilayet of Adrianople. It is not thought that there will be any formal declaration of war, in view of Bulgaria’s vassal status, but that some frontier incident will precipitate hostilities. The Bulgarians and Macedonians residing in Constantinople are in terror of massacre. A large number of them were arrested a few days ago as a “preventative measure” and they have not yet been released. The fear of a massacre is probably exaggerated, although in view of the present excited state of Mussulman feeling an Insignificant incident might perhaps lead to a massacre. The terrible accounts received regarding the conduct of the Turkish troops have not surprised European circles, but many who have hitherto been optimistic in their views now accept the prevailing belief that Turkey is on the eve of a catastrophe. ° A consular dispatch from Salyonica says that according to authentic information the insurrection in tihe district of Monastic has been practically stamped out. Bashi-ba-zouks assisted the regular troops in the work of repression, which is said to have been carried out with sanguinary ruthlessness, the object of the Turks being,'' apparently, to exterminate not only the Bulgarian inhabitants, but all the Christians of whatever nationality. The State Department received a cablegram Tuesday from Minister Leishtnan at Constantinople, in which he says that a riot occurred early Monday or Sunday night at Beirut in which seven Christians were killed and several wounded. Two houses occupied by Christians were pillaged by the soldiery. The panic was general.

UNION HOST MARCHES.

Chicago's Labor Day Parade the Biggest on Record. Organized labor of Chicago broke the record for industrial parades in this country, if not in the world, Monday. For four hours two great columns, each ten abreast, marched down Michigan avenue. From West Jackson boulevard, where the four divisions composing the western column formed, to Harrison street and Michigan avenue, where it joined the South Side column, which had been organized at Twenty-second street, the two columns marched through living wall*. Had these spectators, many of them toilers themselves and members of unions, entered the parade with their organizations, leaders of the Labor Day committee declare that instead of having 100,000 men in line the procession would have contained the 200,000 promised, and the street* would have been filled with a great industrial army that would have been marching when night fell. As it was, there were thousands more persons in line than were ever seen in a labor parade before. There were more union* marching and more trades represented, showing to what extent the work of organization had been carried in this city. For months labor leaders have been declaring Chicago to be the best, organized city In the world, and they believe the showing made more than justified their claims. Below is given the estimated number of marchers in line In the principal American cities: Chicago 100,000]Worcester .... 6.000 St. Louis .... 29,000'Indlanapolis .. 5,708 New Orleans. ;25,000 Fall River.... 5,000 San Francisco 23,388 Springfield ... 5,000 Cleveland ... 22,000 Ottumwa .... 5,000 Baltimore ... 18,000 Streator 5,000 Boston 15,733 Des Moines .. 4,100 E. St. Louis.. 15,000 Evansville ... 3,900 Louisville ... 15,000 Peoria 3,600 Philadelphia.. 14,500 Denver 6,500 Pittsburg .... 12,800 Memphis 8,000 Bridgeport .. 12,000 Lowell 2,500 New York.... 10,190 Salt Lake 2,000 Milwaukee .. 10,000 Joliet 2,000 Cincinnati ... 10,000 Moline 2,000 Kanaa* City.. 7,692 Terre Haute... 1,582 8t Paul 7.500 Lynn 1.600 Lincoln 7.000 La Crosse 1,228 Columbus .... 7,000 Sioux City.... 1,200 Detroit 6.500 Oshkosh 1,000

From Far and Near.

Glovino Feauvalo, 9, Chicago, was run over by a wagon and killed. Southern Pacific train w<s derailed, Promontory, Utah. No one killed. Fannie Orinwits, 4, NeW York, fell four stories and fractured her skull. Congren has been asked to give $50,000 for the education of the blind. Miss Mary Jenkins, 19, of Denver, Colo., fell from a cliff and was killed. Burlington expref’s went into a washout, New Castle, Wyo. No one killed. Northern Pacific limited train was derailed near Mont. No one hurt J. M. Hotchkiss, Denver, Cok>., is dead as a result of injuries received in a wreck of an excursion train. The Conecuh Lumber Company’s plant at Montgomery, Ala., burned, resulting in a loss of $70,000; insurance $50,000. Residents of Sullivan Island have appealed to the Governor of South Carolina to save them from the mosquito pest. Robert McComisk’s house, Golden City, Mo., was struck by lightning and fired. He rescued his family, returned to get some household goods and was burned to death. Major Charles H. Smith, widely known as “Bill Arp,” died at lia borne, “The Shadows," at Cartersville, Ga., after an illness of many months. The Nelson Morris Packing Company, which proposes to erect a big packing house in Kansas City, Kan., has applied to the State cnSTrter board for a license to do business in Kansas. hundreds _of Mississippi Choctaw I» dians are immigrating to Indian Territory, in accordance with an act of Congress last year, which requires these Indians to settle there in order to secure allotment, the vales' «f 820 acre* *

SPEECH BY THE SULTAN.

Breaks Bphytyt-Ltk* Sllsncg st Las* and Bags Kind Word*. On ths anniversary of hi* accession Tuesday, Abdul Hamid, the Sultan of Turkey, received in audience at the palace the heads of the religious communities and the ecumenical patriarch made • speech of congratulation. In reply thereto, after thanking the patriarch and the others present for their good wishes, the Sultan, contrary to precedent, spoke at some length, a* follows: “All my desire la for the welfare *f the population, without distinction of race or religion. As to the detestable and regrettable deeds to which the pat-

ABDUL HAMID.

riarch alluded, I am convinced that the movement does not proceed spontaneously from the population, but is instigated from abtoad. I hope the measure* taken will insure tranquillity. I call God to witness the sincerity of my'’declaration and that all my aspirations and work are* for the,welfare and prosperity of all my subjects.” Turning then to the Bulgarian patriarch the Sultan bad* him communicate his words to his flock. Next addressing the Greek patriarch the Sultan said he regretted that the Greek population had also suffered from the recent troubles and declared he would be pleaeed to contribute to the subscriptions being raised in the patriarchate in behalf of the sufferers. The Sultan further remarked that he was very 'sorry that some of the soldiers had been guilty of acts contrary to hi* order* and desires. The Sultan personally assured Mgr. Ormanian, the Armenian patriarch, that hi* words applied to the Armenians as well as to the people of other nationalities.

TO FIX ALASKA LINES.

Boundary Commission Holds Opening Meeting in London. The Alaskan boundary commissioners held their first meeting Thursday in London. An abstract of th* arguments of the United State*, given out, sets forth that a “serious collision” with Canada was threatened if Canada had pressed boundary claims. t It Is declared that the British commissioner’s contention that “Canada's claim to the territories at the head of th* Lynn canal was at the time well known to th* United States government,” is false. Continuing, th* document rays: “This is * gratuitous assertion. There Is do proof to sustain it. Canada never put forward any such claim to the United State*. The claim was first made in 1898 by Great Britain before the joint high commission. It has been said that ‘if the Canadian government had instructed British vessels to disregard these regulations there would have been grave danger of a serious collision.’ There undoubtedly would have been *a collision, just as certainly a* if they had been instructed to disregard the regulations of th* port of New York.”

Considerable ipace is devoted to ths part played by th* Klondike gold discoveries in arousing Great Britain’s Interest In the controversy, and in this connection notice h taken of an assertion made by the British commtesioneni that the towns of Dyea and Skaguay owed their existence to the migration to the Klondike. They assert on the contran that Dyea was founded in 1886 and Skaguay in 1888. The document* covering the American presentation of the case are comprised In three volumes, making a total of about eleven hundred pages. In addition there are also two volumes of maps. Prior to the formal assembling tb< commissioners met in their private co, ' ference room and selected Reginald T. Tower of the British diplomatic service, formerly attached to th* legation *4 Washington, and recently minirter to Siam, to b* *ecretary of th* commission. J. R. Carter, second secretary of the United States embassy, and Mr. Pope, a representative of the Canadian government, were appointed assistant nscretaries. Lord Chief Justice Alverstone was subsequently ohosen chairman of the commission.

News of Minor Note.

John Brown, Rheems, Pa., while drunk, perhaps fatally stabbed two of his companions. A street car in St. Paul, Minn., struck and upset a hook and ladder wagon. No one injured. In four days nineteen babies in Denser, Colo., died of diseases traced to milk preserved with formaldehyde. Engineer Dilly and Fireman Conley were killed in a wreck, Little Falla, N, Y. Engine jumped the track while on a curve. Steamer Annie Roberta, carrying 1,500 excursionists, sunk at the foot of Market street, McKeesport, Po. No one was drowned. As a result of the disastrous hurricane tn the West Indian Islands the price of bananas in Now York has advanced from 75 cents to $3 a bunch. R. D. Rogers, who was appointed Circuit judge to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge B. M. Hughes of the Eleventh Missouri district, has sent Gov. Dockery his resignation. As a result of a trial at Pawhuska, O. T., Friday, Mrs. James Lenox and her 14-year-old eon were held without ball for the murder of her husband, neat Hominy, in the Osage reservation. Vice Admiral Qervera, who surrendered to the American fleet off Santiago de Cuba, han resigned the RsMm of chief sf staff in the Bp«»idh navy, to whisb he van appointed It Dec—lSttk

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

Indian* of southern Georgia refused to cede their lands between the Olctnulgee and Oconee rivers, as agreed by their representatives, saying that “The land is our body, the water our blood, the trees our limbs, and the grass our hair, and we will not cut them asunder.” Astley’s royal amphitheater was burned in London wibh a loss of forty lives. English residents and travelers in Italy and Switzerland were arrested on orders issued by Napoleon. A census of Washington, D. C., showed 5,000 Inhabitants outside of Georgetown, with 900 dwellings of two stories and over. Ships of foreign nations were said to be flying the United States flag in order to enter The Hague, where American* only were allowed.

SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. Ex-President James Monroe’s claims against the United States for extraordinary expenses paid by him from his own pocket while he was minister to Francs were allowed to go unpaid by Congress, in spite of his well known poverty. Ths stone coffin In which King Duncan, slain by Macbeth at Inverness, was reputed to have been buried was unearthed in the ruins of Algin church yard. A Liverpool newspaper predicted Andrew Jackson’s election as President over John Quincy Adams in the campaign then opening, because Irish interests in America were favorable to th* former candidate.

FIFTY YEARS AGO. A cholera epidemic, which later spread •hroughout England, began at Newcastle. Queen Victoria paid a visit to Ireland. Smallpox was said to have killed 1,800 of the 60,000 residents of Hawaii within a few weeks. Hie paper mill at Chester Creek, Del., erected in 1715, from which Benjamin Franklin obtained his stock, resumed operations under a modern system. The cholera epidemic in Copenhagen and St. Petersburg was declared under control, 9,000 persons having died of th* disease in the two cities. Antoine le Claire broke ground at Davenport, lowa, for the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad, now th* OhicagtN Rock Island and Pacific. FORTY YEARS AGO. Gov. Pierpont, the Union chief executive of Virginia, fixed hi* capital at Alexandria, the rebel Governor and capital being at Richmond. Leavenworth, Kan., citizens demanded th* removal of Gen. Schofield from th* military command of that district and accused him of responsibility for th* Lawrence massacre. Central Illinois was visited by a killing frost, which destroyed the cotton crop, in which thousands of dollar* had been invested, and ruined corn and fruits. The United States government leased a tract of land at Grand Rapids, Mich., for a conscript camp, that city being eo inaccessible at that time it was believed forced recruits could not get away to Canada. Railroad communication between Washington, Baltimore and the West was resumed for the first time since the rebel invasion of Pennsylvania.

THIRTY YEARS AGO. The first successful corner in com was effected at St Louis, T. B. Carruther & Co. and Nason, Bartholow A Co. being the principal “longs.” France abolished the duties on grain and flour to relieve the high price of bread in Paris. The Secretary of the Treasury announced that he would insue coin certificates under act of March 3, 1863, if demands for crop moving funds proved excessive. Pennsylvania coal operators- met at Pittsburg and threatened to** shut off barge transportation from mine owpera who paid higher wages than their own scale. TWENTY YEARS AGO. The New Orleans (La.) grand jury reported the city in the possession of hoodlums, the police powerless, and crimes being committed daily under license from city officials. Railroads of the United States were reported to own 298,000,000 acres of laud. Seventy-five thousand persons were reported killed by a volcanic eruption and tidal, wave in the island of Java. The Russian government forbade the Jews within iW dominions to engage in the distilling or eale of liquors, which they practically controlled. President Chester A. Arthur reached Billings, Mont, at the erid of his western tour. TEN YEARS AGO. Aa evidence of the business depression prevailing, New York bank clearings for August were said to have fallen $4 per cent under 1902, while seventy-two out of 128 railroads showed decreased railroad earnings. Senator A. P. Gorman of Maryland blocked free silver legislation in the Senate, and advised its advocates to follow Preaident Cleveland’s suggestions. Nancy Hanks broke ths Fleetwood track record by trotting * toUe tab with Budd DeMs up.