Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 35, Number 46, Jasper, Dubois County, 28 July 1893 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER.

C. DOAXK, I'libMnher. JASPER. INDIANA l'm.inr.icK A. Johnson, aged 05, an rx-coagressman, died at Glenn Falls, N. Y., on the 18th, of heart failure. Tiik First national bank at Grand Junction, Col., and the First national bank at Carson City, Col., failed to open their doors for business on the 20th. Tiik infanta Eulalie of Spain, who had Wen visiting in Paris, left that city, on the 20th, en route to England, to visit the duke of York and his bride, Princess May, Tiik will of the late Anthony .T. Drexel, of Philadelphia, was admitted to probate on the 20th. It disposes of an estate valued at between 15,000,000 mnd 30,000,000. The total production of pip iron in the United States in the first half of 1893 was 4,50-2,918 gross tons, against 4,709,083 for the first half of ISM. a decrease of 200,705 tons. Fob the twelve months ended June SO, 1893, the total value of the exports of merchandise from the United States was S47,423,147; for the year 1692 the figures ware 1,030,27S,14S. Tiik Paris Soleil says that Itangkok will be bombarded by the French gunboats only as a last extremity, should all other means of arriving at an understanding with Siam fail. It is said in Valparaiso that a Dundec whaling vessel has returned from the Antactic ocean with 0,000 seal skins, and that the captain refuses to tell where he obtained them. Twei.vk men lost their lives at the "iron gates" of tha Danube on the 18th. Their boat was dashed against a dredger that was moored in the stream, and the men were thrown out and drowned. A Tashkknd letter to the Vienna Tress affirms that the military mission which Russia dispatched from Turkestan has for its object the final annexation of the Pamirs without consulting Great Uritain. Hon. J. Sterling Morton, secretary of agriculture, said, on the 18th: "I think the chief remedy for the present depressed condition of business is the repeal of the Sherman bill. That should be done at once." Jlm. Annik Rhonson Ai.cott Piiatt, widow of J oh u 11. Pratt, and oldest daughter of A. llronson Alcott, died at Concord. Mass., on the 17th. She was the original of "Meg," the oldest one of "The Four Little Women." Sinck their issue 'ast year not one of the Columbian half dollars had found its way bad- into the treasury depart mcnt iin" the 17th, when one was re ceived in a package of money sent for od,iption by an Atlanta (Go.) bank Cholera has reappeared in Moscow, KiefT and northeast Hungary. InMoscow the outbreak is most serious. There were thirty-two cases and eleven deaths in the convict forwarding prison at that city between the 1st and 11th Tiik remains of Anthony J. Drexel, of Philadelphia, were consigned to the tomb, on the 19th, with,, services as unostentatious as was the life of the great banker and philanthropist. The interment was made in the family mausoleum in Woodland cemetery. The Itritish bark Pinmore, Capt Maxwell, which arrived at Queenstown on the 17th, was one of the four contestants in the long race from San Francisco, and was the first of the racers to arrive. All the vessels left Can Francisco March 22. J. R. Thomas, cashier of a bank in Ovid, X. Y., hearing burglars in tha post office, next door to the bank, on the night of the 19th, went down to the street and called upon them to throw up their hands. He was fired upon and slightly wounded twice, and, returning the fire, killed one of the burglars. On the 19th the duchess of York, the bride of Prince George of Wales, sent -to the lord mayor of London 600 for the'benefit of the families of those who lost their lives in the Victoria disaster. This money was the balance of a Mira for a wedding gift collected by the lord lieutenants of the several counties. China has taken measures to assist fliara, which for many years has paid Jjcr tribute, against French aggression. On the other hand, it is said that the Russian fleet in Chinese waters is under orders to proceed to the jrnlf of Siain for the purpose of suplortlng the French in their demands gainst Siam and toprotcctthe French residents there. Patiuck Gallagher, as a result of -whose original confession himself, Pcmpscy, lteatty and Davidson were convicted of complicity in the wholesale poisoning of nonunion workmen at Homestead, Pa., and sent to prison, and who, on the 19th, made a second confession retracting his former statements, sent for the prison warden, on the 20tb, and, repudiating his recantation, reaffirmed under oath his first confession. IN a letter to Comptroller of the Currency Ecklcs, Henry Clews, the welliknown New Yor.r banker, says the national banking act should be so .amended as to provide for notes Ih-Iiu-.issued up to the par value of United ! Mates onds deposited, and that an issue of notes against the surplus capvital of national banks to the extent of 75 per cent thereof would also be wise. These two changes in the law woubl .make n Increase in the national curIrcncy amounting to about 1150,000,000.

CURRENT TOPICS.

THE EWS Ilf BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Fl he broke out in the barn and chicken incubator of Adolph Sheppard in Findlay, 0., onthe night of the 15th. and the building was consumed, together with 500 chickens. The flame communicated to the dwelling-house of Sheppard and partially destroyed it. Mrs. Sheppard ran Into the house to liberate three dogs which were confined there, and was attacked by one of them and terribly bitten. Wiuijc John Welch and Charles Marx, aged 19 and 21 respectively, were bathing in the Ohio river at the mouth of Eagle Hollow, 2 miles above Madson. lnil-- nn tlin lrttli V,l0i xvns caught in the undertow and drowned before assistance could reach him. Tin; court-martial appointed to try Capt Maurice A. Rourke, Staff Commander Hawkins-Smith and the surviving officers of the battle ship Victoria, which was sunk in collision with the llritish battle ship Camperdown, olT Trijfjli, Syria, on June 23, was opened upon the Hibernia, the flagship of Rear-Admiral Richard E. Tracy, admiral superintendent of the Malta dock-yard, off Valetta, on the 17th. EMPEnon William, accompanied by the empress, sailed from Kiel, on the 17th, on the imperial yacht Hohenzollcrn, to visit Hornholm, an island belonging to Denmark, in the llaltic sea; Gothenburg, in Sweden, and other places in that country. The party will also meet King Oscar and the members of the Swedish royal family at Stockholm. Rev. Father Thomas K. Walsh, for the past twelve years president of Notre Dame university at South Rend, Ind., died of chronic ISrights disease on the 17th. Father Walsh was 40 years of age. and was president and professor of classes of Notre Dame for several years previous to being elevated to the presidency of the, institution. It is stated by good authority in Rome that the German government has intimated to the Vatican that no official opposition would be made in the rcichstag to the centrist proposals looking to the adoption of a law allowing the return to Germany of members of the Catholic religious orders. The French vessel Jean Say, which recently arrived at the mouth of the Meinan river, was seized b tne Sin meseand sunk.presumably for the pur pose of bloekmg the channel ia. a iu tile attempt to prevent thtf French gunboats from ascending t- Itangkok. Tkeasuker Starr of '.he Cherokee nation was in Chicago, on the 17th, negotiating for the sale of the govern ment bonds recc'eif by the nation for the Chejkee strip. T-ut, government of Siam has con futed to withdraw the troops in the Mekong valley, provided France agrees to also suspend hostilities. Testimony adduced, on the ISth. before the court-martial trying Capt. Maurice A. Hourkc and the other officers of the battle ship Victoria, which was run into and Mink by the- battle ship Camperdown while maneuvering off Tripoli, on June 23, vas direot and positive that after the vessel was struck the lamented Vice-Admiral Tryon assumed the entire responsibility for the terrible disaster. Leon S. Smith, the young man who started in with the avowed intention of swindling banks out of ?.00,000 with the aid of a passport and forged drafts, and who secured nearly f5,000 from Michigan banks by way of experimenting, pleaded guilty at Grand Rapids, Mich., on the ISth, to the charge of forgery. Sentence was deferred. Apparently undismaved by the loss of their navy, the land forces of the revolutionists in Rio Grande do Sul, Rrazil, have become more aggres sive than ever. (tenernls Saravia, Tarciz and Salgado have combined their forces, and are besieging Yaguron city. The town is well defended, and its capture will be difficult A fiiie which burned over an area of 1,500 feetsquare,and destroyed property valued at 7,500,000, occurred in Lon don on the 17th. The burned district is but a short distance east of the Rank of England, the Royal Exchange and the Mansion House, the residence of the lord mayor. James Lee, the well-known horsetrainer, died at Saratoga, N. Y., on the 18th, of pneumonia. Ex-(.ov. O. M. Stone, of Iowa, died at Oklahoma City. Okla., on the 18th. A Nyack (N. Y.) physician reports the death, after seven hours' existence. of triplets which must be classed with the most remarkable ever born. The triplets weighed in the aggregate fifteen pounds. There were two boys and a girl. The boys were joined by a ligature al most precisely like that which united the Siamese twins, and were otherwise perfect Lloyd Aspinwall, a prominent New York club man, and member of an old and wealthy family, was arrested, on the 18th, on a charge of having forged the indorsement of his brother, William H. Aspinwall. upon the note for f-2.400. The mystery surrounding the disap pearance, a few weeks ago, of Ruiz Manchem, a wealthy ranchman living nearUrcs,in the state of Hcrmosillo, Mexico, has been cleared up by the finding of his dead IkkIj- in the wilds of the Sierra Madre mountains. The body had been partly devoured by wolves. Thk physicians at St Vincent's hospital. New York city, arc unanimous in pronouncing Miss Dot Sonwell, the snake-charmer, who was bitten by a rattler, on the lftth, a most peculiar young woman. In spite of the fact that a venomous snake bit her in a dangerous spot, and that the poison had plenty of time to get in its work. she continues to improve, until now it is almost certain that she will recover. The case of Stephen Reigcr, the last of the defendants in the celebrated Molydor monk-reuses at Detroit,Mlch. ended, on the 19th, in a verdict of "not guilty," which pave general satisfaction, as there was no doubt that Rciger was forced to go with the murderers.

Nati'Kal gas was struck, on the 18th, Bear Newtoubrook, Oat Wm. Holmes at work in a well Ifty feet below tho surface, signaled that he was iu trouble, and a man named Sharp de scended to assist him. II did not return, and after water was used to dissipate tho gas the two bodies were

, brought up. Holmes was deud and j Sharp can not recover. ' Joseph Loumann, the organist for St I Paul's church and bookkeeper of the Sun Mutual Insurance Co, of Cincinnati, is ia deep trouble. The company charges him with a shortage of 3,000. Lohmann has been the secretary of the company for alnnit twenty years, and in German circles was one of the bestknown insurance men in the city. On the 19th World's Fair Commlslurmiuu, oi r lonua, siaieu in me national commission that lie I fU0"Pht Agricultural building was in imminent danger of bcinir set on fire. A pipe was found running to the roof which was so hot that it could not be touched, and the gallery around the pipe seemed to be charred. A Roston dispatch of the 18th announced the shutting down for the month of August of the Amoskcag cotton mill. This is the largest cotton mill in the United States, and probably in the world. It employes 8,000 operatives, uses 0,000,000 pounds of cotton a week, and pays f225,000 a month iu wages. A.N open cable car on the Walnut Hills line, Cincinnati.runningdownGilliert avenue, on the 19th, jumped the traek. The gripman, John Dieterlich. was thrown to the ground and fatally injured, and several passengers were hurt On the night of the ISth every store in the town of Susan ville, Cat, was destroyed by fire. Five blocks were burned, causing a loss of (250,000, onefourth covered by insurance. In all sixty buildings were burned. The case of the Plankinton bank directors, recently indicted by the grand jury for accepting money knowing the bank to be insolvent, was called in the criminal court at Milwaukee on the 19th, but was continued to the September term. The Roston Post announces that Mayor Matthews of that'cJty is in the field as a candidate lor governor of Massachusetts. Mrs. Co".ad Feunham, of Tonawanda, N. Y., has fallen heir to about f4,OO0.000 by the death of an uncle in hvh'a. Cor- C. Jones, .Til, historian of Georgia, died at Augusta, on the 19th, of Rright's disease, aged 52. Maooie Pixier and Emma Pixler, her cousin, each aged 5, were run down and instantly killed, on tho 20th, by a car on me m est rna Electric line in Pittsburgh, Pa. The special convention of the statu oflicers of Colombia at the World's fair and the dedication of the Colombian pavilion took place on the 20th. William Rruon. of New York city, has been appointed receiver for the Findlay, Fort Wayne &. Western railroad for Indiana. The American Rar association will meet, August 30 and 31, in Milwaukee. Execution? of opponents of the government are said to occur almost daily in Honduras. Sykes, Ai.i.is & Moohe-iocse's large woolen mill at Reynoldsville, Pa., was destroyed, on the 19th, by fire caused by a nail passing through the picking machine. Loss on the mill, about ?50,000; insurance, $S,000. The residences of John Richards and William Iiurke, adjoining the mill, were burned; loss, about $20,000. LATE NEWS ITEMS. A letter received at Victoria. It. C, by the 7-year-old daughter of Capt. Alexander McLean, of the steamer Alexandria, of date June 25, the very day ho is said to have attacked the Mohican, tells the child that he is not going to the Russian coast, but will return home when the season is over in Japan. This proves the utter unreliability of the story published concerning the Alexandria's attack on the Mohican. The land telegraph wires between Saigon and Itangkok have been cut by the Siamese. This will cause some delay in the transmission of dispatches to the French war ships at Itangkok, as all messages will have to be sent via Singapore, Madras, Calcutta, and thence through Iturmah down the bay of Rengal, and so on over the line that extends northeasterly from Itangkok to Elephant Point The exchange banks of Calcutta have for the present refused the offer of the Indian government to purchase the silver tendered after the closing of the mints to free coinage. It is understood that the banks in question will dispatch a delegate to Simla to represent their case to the government and that they ask that the offer be left open in the meantime. The openly-expressed sympathy of the Kansas state administration for the striking coal miners, and the fear that it will incite the strikers to lawless acts which will resylt in great damage to the mines, has induced the mine operators to appeal to the federal authorities for protection. Gen. Adam E. Kino, late consul-general of the United States to France, recently returned, speaking of the trouble between France and Siam, said: "There is no doubt that the cause can le found in the desire of the French to foster colonization schemes." Honduras troops threatened to mutiny Imcause they had not been paid. President Vnsquez forced a loan from the merchants of the city and planters in the suburbs. With this money the soldiers were paid nnd an uprising averted. Comptroller Ecki.es has ordered a dividend of 0 per cent, in favor of the creditors of the Evanston national bank of Evanston, 111. Tun steamship Fürst Rismarck.which arrived in New York, on the 21st, brought 43,700 in gold, consigned to New York bankers. Two entire blocks of buildings in Long Island City, N. Y., were destroyed by fire on the 31at

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Now they say the Valparaiso burglui

is a woman. They haven't caught her yet Joseph Hite, ah ambitious youth, committed suicide at Kokomo because of his inability to acquire a highedueation, having a widowed mother with small ehildreu depending on him for support David Swartzkll and wife, living near La port, were arrested, charged with robbing and burning the house of W. F. Lewis, which was recently destroyed. As a result of the interview of City Comptroller Woolen, of Indianapolis, with the New York Life Insurunce Co. officials a few days ago in Chicago, Mr. Woolen has arranged to borrow 100,000 from that company to tidu over the situation of city finances. He has already secured $12,500 at 8 pet cent He will take the balance at 0 per cent as ho needs it. Max E. Leiter, one of the Columbian guards who participated in tho gallant attempt to rescue the firemen imprisoned by the flames th..fc recently consumed the Cold Storage building on the World's fair grounds, is lying at his home in Lafayette suffering from very serious and perhaps fatal injuries sustained while sliding down eighty feet of hose through fire and smoke. Leiter is aged twenty-five, and the son of a prominent dentist of Lafayette. A kishi:;o party composed of Joseph Schaefcr, Ed Reese, William Selm, Henry Rower and Henry Schaefer.wcre in a skiff on the Ohio river, at Evansville. They attempted to ride the waves caused by the passing of the steamer D. A. Ncsbit, when the skiff was overturned, and Joseph Sch&efer was drowned. His body was not recovered. Pepkr Rover, a wealthy saloonkeeper of Harmony, near Itrnr.il, was drugged und robbed of considerable money and a fine gold watch and chain. Peter Carroll, a well-known merchants' policeman of Indianapolis upon returning home was suddenly taken sick and he died before medical aid i-uuiu ne secured, ine case was tration by heat i .i , .... prosThe other morning Trackwalker Clark, perceiving a peculiar odor near Mitchell at tho mouth of Mill creek, made an examination, resulting in the disco very of the dead body of a man. It is supposed to luivo been there several days. How the body came to be there is not known, but it is supposed to nave been some drunken trnmp bent ing his way through and fell from :i freight train. The body is decayed be yond recognition. jsaac and Jsadore hroot 11 and 15 years respectively, were run down by an electric motor in Indianapolis the other morning. The older boy, Isadore, had his brother by the hand and was trying to lead him across the tracks lhe motor struck the youngest lad nnd killed struck and may "die. John A. was found rope. The him. The elder was also so badly crushed that he Miller, of Michigan Oity, dangling at the cad oi a act is attributed i& menial derangement A renewed effort is being made to secure the pardon of George Stotler. which has been on file in the governor's oflice since Porter's administration. Govs. Gray, Hovey and Chase, each in turn, have refused to pass favorably thereon. Stotler is the oldest man now wearing penal stripes. He was sentenced in 18rt3 for killing two boys, respectively 14 and 10 years old, who were employed on the same farm with himself in Randolph county. William Corvih, aged 8, was fatally injured at Richmond. He fell from his stilts and was impaled on a picket fence, one of the palings penetrating his abdomen. Mrs. Will " ItLACKiifRx's' baby was fatally burned by a flatiron falling in its cradle at Evansville. Fly poison placed in the reach of children came near resulting in the death of a child of .lames Morris, of Hazel Dell. It drank the poison, and only by several hours' work is it living now, though about to die. The Carrollton woolen mill, of Madison, has assigned to IL M. Winslow. Liabilities. $75,000; assets unknown. The stringency of the money market was the cause. Sixty-five hands are idle. The first wheat of '93 was delivered at Anderson, a few dajs ago. It is of a very fine quality aud weighs 02 pounds to the bushel. Throughout that section of Indiana wheat is unusually heavy, and is generally graded No. 1. The market price ranges from 53 cents to 55 cents. A post office has been established at Crokes, Porter county, and Crist F. Rohrdancc appointed postmaster. Indianapolis, the Grand Jury returned an indictment for murder against Miss Anna Wagner, the domestic employed in the Kocstcrs family. John Q. Hicks will retire in a short time from the Miperlntendcncy of terminals of the Rig Four railroad at Indianapolis, and the office will be abolished. Mr. Hicks will take another position at Indianapolis for the same company. It. S. Sutton will be appointed Superintendent of the Cairo division of the Rig Four to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Supt J. W. Simmons. Earl Shirley, a popular young man of l-Ilkhart, was drowned the other afternoon while bathing in the river I he body was recovered. Edward Elkinh, a baker, fell from n third-floor window at Logansport, and was fatally injured, A oas syndicate of Ln Fayette has leased a 1,000-acre tract of land four miles north of Elwood for the purpose of sinking wells to supply that city with natural gas from the Madison county fields. Near llenryville, the other night nn extra freight south-bound on the Louisville division of the Pennsylvania, ran into a local freight, also south-bound. Charles Rnyburn, of New Albany, who was stealing a ride, was killed, nnd Engineer George Sherley, of tho extra freight, probably fatallv Inlitred

BLOODSHED IN KANSAS

riif Crl4 In Ihr .Ml Her' Trouble la Kan a Arrive -A Fierce. Hattle at Clement' I'll, Near Weir Clty-rive Hundred Striken, Headed by a Hundred Wont Drl-e the .Men from tha I'll Aftrr a lrirrutt KtrtigKlt Kn ltrHii-Ht at I'ltUburgli -Ngruc tu Take th I'Ihcc of tU .M Inert. Weir City, Kas., July 20.Tho ex pected crisis has come in the Kansas miners' strike. Miners who were willing to work quietly and peacefully have been attacked and blood has been shed. Tho feeling which has been growing more and more bitter for several days culminated to-day In a fierce battle at Clements' pit, one mile south of here. All the forenoon there weremutterings of the approaching storm, and the feeling was uniwrkal that serioiin trouble was at hand. Just before noon a band of 500 of tha strikers, headed by 100 women, whteh had been marching to the various strip pits, reached Clements' pit, nnd a committee tried to persuade the miners there to quit This they refused to do, and when the committee reported the entire body of marchers moved onto the works to force the men out The strip men were ready for them, and when they had passed the tres pass line they were fired upon and a general battle ensued in which Winchesters, pistols and clubs were used. Over 100 shots were fired, and it is nothing short of u miracle that nolody was killed. One man was in jured in the forehead and another in the leg, a boy was shot in the foot and one of the women got a ball through her arm. None of the injuries are fatal and it is believed that none of them are dangerous. A number en both sides were badly beaten up with clubs and clubbed guns. As a result of the battle the men in the strip pit were routed by the strikers, and were forced to flee for their lives, pursued by a howling mob.which would have lynched them had thy been caught There is an inclosure around the pit, which was broken into by the strikers. The owncrof the strip. Clements, his son and a man named lliir Dick Reed, are said to be the ones who did the shooting, and they have given themselves up and were run out of the county for safekeeping. I he excitement was intense after the shooting, and it was feared that matters would become worse, but a prominent striker, George R. Fulton, marie the crowd a speech, 4n which he advised them to keep cool and counseled peace. It is rumored that a quantity of firearms have lccn received here Unight. The excitement is still at fevor heat, and there is every probability that a further demonstration will he made during the night Intrnue Kic-ltrmcnt nt mtUhurgli. PiTTSiiunoii, Kas., July 20. The miners in this vicinity are in a stite of intense excitement to-night over the wounding of four of their number at Weir City this afternoon. Many express the opinion that this is but a starter and will result ia more bloodshed. That they are more wrought ap aow jthaa at any tiate dariajr-tke strike Ss certeia, ami there ia ao telliag what the end will be. A meeting of miners and strip men is called for to-morrow in Henry's hall in thiseity, when it is expected n number of miners will be present from the lower part of the district, nnd it is ab most certain something new will bo decided upon regarding the matter of work. A telegram was received to-day stating that Assistant Attorney-General Clarke will arrive in Pittsburgh tonight to afford the miners all the legal protection to which they may bo entitled. . No attempt was made to disturb the strip pits in the neighborhood of Pittsburgh to-day. Those operated by Reck, Iteasley and Lanyonnre running the same as usual. The stockades around the Kansas & Texns shaft No. 12 at Litchfield is about one-third completed and the men are working night and day upon it Considerable uneasiness was felt nt Lee's pit last night from the fact that a number of men marched up and down the road there shouting and firing guns. No other demonstration was made. Miners, having provided themselves with guns, it is feared that to-duy's eruption at Weir City will result in a colli, sion here. Colored Men to Take tho IMac of Stricklag Miners. Leavknwortii. Kus., July 31. It is current rumor here, with the railroad officers as authority, that 1,000 colored men were put on the cars at Hirmingham, Ala., Wednesday night, and started for Kansas, to take the places of the striking miners . It is thought they will go to Pittsburgh, and from that place be distributed to all the affected mines in the state. Trouble and perhaps bloodshed will undoubtedly follow such an attempt Arretted n a Charre of KmbeEslemeat. Nr.w Orlkan", July 21. Yesterday nftcrroon James W. Dowling, of the United States mint, was arrested on a charge of embezzling 35,00O from the government, mado by the district attorney at the instigation of the department at Washington. This was the result of tho mysterious fire in the uuilt of the mint, said to ha-e been caused by an electric wire, by which the bills In a tin box were reduced to nn unrecognizable mass of charred pa per. Throe Men Unmet! to Death. London, O., July 31. Three men were burned to death in a fire at an oil well near here yesterday, llctwccn Jl and1 4 o'clock the well wns being drilled on a farm belonging to tho Ohio Oll Co, about half-way between Freeport and Woodside. Tho last way pcruw was being turned, when the well suddenly liegan to flow furiously. Tho flood of oil soon reached tho boilers near by and ignited. So rapi'dly did the flro spread that only two work men out of fivo escaped with their lives and they were terribly and perhaps fatally burned,

FRENCH DEMANDS.

lam Will Chnnrrully the Mim. ((ninny, nut llt Will Kr.l.t t Trrrn'r' Nkn will lu ut........... . DchikiiiI la Which Xh wllllM.HUp,,,,ra ,v ' tluiutum. 11 London, July 'Jl.Importnnt commuuications have passed to-day between the foreign office and , m Jones, llritish minister resident i Itangkok. Vice - Admiral Fremantle. eotn-mander-ln-ehief of tho Chinese division of the fleet, is hastening to Singapore where dispatches from the admiralty awaits him. The greater part of th squadron under his command accompan led him. Great Uritain informed Slum yesti.r. day that she could not recogniVe any obligations to assist her. It is evident therefore, that tho Siamese government must patch up as lest as it can most of its differences with Fratiee. In the territorial arramrements, however, Great Uritain will have a voice. The exact nature of her demands cannot be ascertained before France shall specify more particularly than she lm specified in her ultimatum, the bonn. daries of the territory to be brought umier r reneh control. The ultimatum is notably indefinite as regards this point Even Siam is still in the dark' and her efforts to obtain light from M. rnvie Ohls fair to fail for several days. The vital part of the French demand for territory may include the whol.. left bank of the Mekong river. This territory Siam will not surrender without a struggle. France has lmv. Siam a month in which to withdraw from the ports of tho lower Mekong. Sium manifests all willingness to pay I' ranee the indemnity demanded for injuries to French citizens nnd prop erty, although the indemnitv sneoifi...! by France is far in excess of the dam age. M. Pavie. minister resident, handed France's ultimatum to Prince Douvwongse. Siamese minister of foreiim affairs, on Friday. At the same time he informed the Siamese government that in case France's demands should be refused, he would at onee hnv Itangkok to go aboard the gunboat Forfeit The blockade of the Siamese, he added, would le declared at once. lhe opinion is general here that Siam will offer to pay the indemnity demanded by France. It is doubtful, however, that the French claims to tho territory will be allowed. Much depends on the response of Great Uritain to the efforts Siam is making to gam her moral or material support. SUSPENDED PENSIONS. A Couple nt Specimen Cime Which Reflect No Credit on the KfTortu to Puree the I'elmlou Roll of Ienl-lirat, Framln. KU: Detroit, Mich., July 'JJ. The most sensational thing that has yet come to light relative to the so-called purging of the pension list is the suspension of a distinguished pensioner, Justice Charles J. Long, of the districtcourt Few soldiers ia this itate suffered from woaaea m severe as 'those of Just iLeirAt. the battle of Wilmington klaad, Om., he lent hi left am! nu lie whs also shot through both Mas aud abdomen. The latter wound has still to be dressed twice daily. Although the order of suspension injurs date of June 37. Mr. Long has j not yet received official notice of its . issue. The notice is a formal docu ment, nnd gives no clew to the rcasons that have influenced the course of the department. The order gives tho pension certificu to nuiclier, which shows thnt there could have bocn no mistake or confusion of names. A Dying Veteran Petmlnn Lopped Oft. Minneapolis, Minn., July 22. I lira m Weeks, of Minneapolis, a veteran who served four years in the federal army during the war of the rebellion, has received notice that his pension of six dollars per mouth will be discontinued. While in the service he passed through forty-three battles, one of which was Getteysburg. He Is now very near death from gangrene of the foot and rurious other complaints, some of which hal been traced directly to his exposure in the army. The only reason which can lie found for the cutting off of his pension is the incomplete and one-sided report which was sent to Washington by the St Paul board of examiners, who refused to look at his foot at the last examination. Weck case has created considerable feeling among O. A. R. circles, and prominent parties have interested themselves in securing the renewal and increase of his pension. A MISSING WIFE Napponed to Have Clone far a Sojoarn at the National Capital. Grand Rapids, Mich., July 22. Fernando Page, keeper of the cloak-room at- the house of representatives at Washington, whose home is in this city, recently packed his goods and went to the national capital, and Fred J. Provin, of this city, believes that his wife, Cora, has gone with him. Wednesday night Mr. Provin found his rooms deserted, and the furniture, etc, gone. He found most of the goods at Page's house, packed with the hitter's goods, that were to be sent to Washington. Mr. Provin recovered his goods by means of a writ of attachment Mrs. Provin is a daughter of Herman ltlodgctt, the man who figured as the co:vsnondent in the celebrated high sosiety divorce case of AddlsAd-dis. . Another Lake Disaster. SaultSt. Mahik, Mich., July 21. The first tidings of another lake disaster were brought here yesterdny by the City of Windsor, dipt J. S. Moore reported that tho lighthouse keeper at Rig Duck island found part of a cabin ashore at Walkhousc, on tho south side of Mnnitoulin island, fourteen miles ncrtheast from Duck island, with one body in the top of the cabin. Two other bodies were found on the bench near by, also a part of a pilot house. No numcs or description could be learned or color nt wreckage ascertained.