Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 36, Number 41, Jasper, Dubois County, 22 June 1894 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER.

C DOAXK. Publisher.

JASPER,

CURRENT TOPICS.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

Ja.mi:s H. HocoiiTKU.ixo, of Chicago, has boon untHiinted executor of the will

of the late Senator Stockbridge, of , Michigan, ami his Kind llxed at 81,000,000. Tin: .lnpane.se government 1ms sent a naval and military force to Corea to protect the interests of Japan during the revolt in that country. It is relorted that the king of Corea has tied to Japan. Tin: .disciples of the Norwegian wmool of literature in lierlhi are preparing an enthusiastic welcome of lljoernst jerne lljornsen and Ibsen's publisher, Jacob Hegel, who are about to visit llerlin. Tm: marriage of Miss Kessle Cleveland, cousin of President Cleveland, to Dr. John A. llurke, of New York, took plaee, on the 12th, at the residence of the groom's father, James llurke, at Tacony, Mass. Tin: presldenfshealth was yery much improved: on the 13th. his physician expressing confidence that the slight malady was under entire control, and that there was uo remaining cause for public concern. L,rciAX Anthony Gkxkkat. Wayne, a negro cook in an Ohio militia company, was: so seared during a riot near McClanesville, on the night of the 11th, that next morning his once jet hlaek hair was white :us miow.

Tm: marcpiis of Dufferin, British amba.vsndor to Paris, in an interview, on the ISth. with M. Hanoteaux. the foreign minister, informed him that England desired to act in complete accord with France in Vegard to Morocco. Tin: chief princes of Morocco, who were likclv to cause trouble to the new

regime, nave been removeu irom ineir commands in the army. .Some of them have Wen sent to distant provinces, while others have been imprisoned. Tin: Cork and Munster yacht clubs have offered a first prize of 100 and a second prize of 25 each day of their coming regatta at Queenstown. with a view of tempting O.c Vigilant, Valkyrie. Britannia, Sitatanita and Meteor to compete. Ox the 14th the New York Society of the Sons of the American Revolution laid the foundation stone of a monument at Dobb's Ferry, Westchester countv, designed to mark the spot where Washington had his headquarters in 17S3. Ox the 12th Rev. Dr. Arthur Brooks otliciated at the funeral services in NewYork of the late Cyrus W. Field, at the church -of the Incarnation. A special train afterward conveyed the body and the members of the family to North Adams., Mass., where the interment took place the same afternoon. Is the Huntrarian chamber of depu

ties, on the 12th, Premier Wekerle declared that the ministry maintained the nrotrramrae theretofore announced,

but abandoned its contention for the

creation of new magnates. Emperor Francis Joseph, he said, had author

ized him to announce that he recog

nized the civil marriage law as a politi

cal necessity, Emix PashA'8 affairs arc fast beeom

ing entangled beyond hope of extrica- .... t! X.S..

tion. xne guaruian. ui ma hhik daughter Ferida and Emin's first wife,

Emilie Leidschaft, have not reached an nuderstunding, and the widow is alout

trt mom in a, Prussian court to set

aside Emin's formal adoption of Ferida

for the reason that it is void before the

Prussian law.

A iiaktardlv attempt was made by

htrikimr miners t wreck a crowdec

tinsMniwr train on the Baltimore fc

Ohio railroad, on the night of the 10th

in a rock cut 4 miles east of Zanesvtlle. O. The consummation of the

horrible deed was prevented by a hand car being derailed by the obstruction

in time to remove it lefore tlie passen

ger train was due.

Tin: grand jury at Washington de cided. on the 12th, toreturn a true bil

against John S. Shriver, Washington correspondent of the New York Mail and Express, and E. J. Edwards, New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, for refusing to violate the confidence of those furnishing them with information with reirard to the alleged brilcry of senators by the Sugar trust. TtiK navy department received a dispatch, on the l'lth, from Commander Phillips of the cruiser New York, announcing the arrival of that vessel at Kingston, Jamaica, where she would take coal r.nd proceed immediately to New York. A.s the admiral made no mention of the condition of affairs at Itluclields, Nicaragua, Secretary Herbert assumed that nothing notable had occurred there.

At a conference held at Columbus, O., on the ttth and 11th, between representatives of the striking coal miners and of the operators of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana and northern Illinois, terms of settlement were adopted and signed, by which it was agreed to end, on the 18th, the great coal miners' strike, which has caused so much loss of property and suffering to the operatives and their fainilief.

In the senate, on the IHh. after much preliminary sparing, the member settled Iowa to work iu the tariff bill, and accomplished were than on any former day of the jevcu weeks consideration of the bill, eight luges, comprising at jwrasraphs being disposed of ....la the house three hours werv spent, under the avemlnute rule, on the Indian appropriation bill-K-vcn pages being passed over. Most of the session was occupied In the discussion of unavailing motions to amend. IX the senate, on the 11th. after a personal .planatlun by Mr. Quay, the tariff bill was taken up. tho ijuestlon being on the tlrst paragraph of the spirits and wine schedule 01). which, together with schedule 1 (cotton manufactures), and J (flax, hemp and jute and their

manufactures) three schedules consisting of nineteen paragraphs were disposed of. After n short executive session the senate adJourned .. .In the house almost the entire day was de voteil to consideration of bills relating to the Interests of the district of Columbia, no conclusion being reached with respect to any of them. IX the senate, ou the 12th. absolutely no progress was made on the tariff bill. Mr. Hoar's motion to Increase the rate of duty on spectacles, eye-glasses and opera glasses from 10 to SO jer cent, ad valorem, w-as defeated. Yeas.il; nays. 30. Mr. Quay took the ttoor. but readily yielded to several senators who advocated the claims of the wool growers. A motion to iostpone the bill Indefinitely was defeated Yeas, nays, 33 In the house a bill to aid In the establishing of a national

home for aged and infirm colored people of the district of Columbia was passed, and consideration of the Indian appropriation bill was resiimed-twcnty-seven pages being passed over In committee of the whole. In the senate, on the 13th. consideration of the wool-growing Industry of the country, under the wool schedule of the tariff bill occupied nearly the entire se-ston, many republican senators making earnest appeals for the protection of the wool growers at least tsiual to that extended to the manufacturers of wool. Half an hour before adjournment Mr. Quay began the eighth Installment of his interminable speech against the tariff bill In the house several bills of a private nature were passed and the Indian appropriation bin was further considered In committee of the whole, eleven pages being disposed of. Is the senate, on the Uth. tho session was taken up with an animated debate of the question whether raw wool shall be placed on the free list or on the dutiable list, but no progress whatever was made in disposing of the wool and woolen schedule In the house the In

dian appropriation bill was further considered la committee of the whole until a vote upon an amendment toabollsh the office of superinlend-

nt of Indian schools disclosed the lack of a

quorum. Later tho amenument was iieicaicu

In the house.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Tiik incident growing out of the tearing down of the United States Hag from the United States consulate at St. Thomas, Ont., has leen satisfactorily closed by an explanation to the state department that the perpetrators of the outrage were drunk and lrresK:iklble, ami would bo properly dealt with. . A m:roKT in favor of giving to Col. II. L. Moore, the democratic contestant, the seat in congress of the Second Kansas district, held by Funston (rep.), was made, on the 12th, by the subcommittee to the house committee on elections. lx the senior class of mathematics al Cambridge university, England, a young woman named Johnson has won the honor of sixth wrangler for 1S.3,

distancing all her male competitors.

Tin: khedtveof Egypt has abandoned

his proposed tour of Kumitc owing tc

the pressure brought to bear uhii him bv the sultan of Turkey, lie will, in

stead, pay a visit toConstantinople.

Maj. Hoiikkt II all, of llaltunore,

Md.. died of old age on the ISth. He

was lorn in that city in 1S07, and wa

a prominent figure for years in the his torv of Maryland's militia.

HauoX GiovaxXI Nicotkua. ex-min

ister ol the interior aim Itciysioremost statesman, died at his home at Vico Equense, near Naples, on the l'lth.

TllK North German Gazette advo

cates the passage ol a mil oy tue reichstag to punish boycotting by line and imprisonment.

Skckktaky GitKSii.vM left Washing

ton, on the 13th, for a brief visit to Chi

the 13th. sent to

U.U. Laxoimix A Co., of Minneapolis, have contracted, for S2,WX),(KK), to construct 100 10-mile canals and three storage reservoirs on Kio Verde and Aqua Fria, Ariz,, and a new river, with

a capacity of 000,000 feet of water, and

it canal to carry .1,000 cubic feet of water per second. The canal will reclaim 4(10.000 acres of choice orange land. The work is to be completed before the close of the vcar 16Ü..

A. SiKLSKi, of HulTalo, N. Y has re-

ceivert a letter, uaiea -nay irom ir. Jankowsv. Russian Poland, stating

that his brother-in-law, a citizen of UutTalo, S. A. Kismanski, who had lived twentv-tive years in America, was, the . . .... -

moment he arrived m uussia. arrested

ind deported to Siberia. The Polish

people of lluffalo have reported the matter to Secretary Gresham.

Tun work of a year is represented in

new map of this country. Canada,

Mexico and a part of the West Indies, being issued bv the general land oilie.

The map is deemed the most complete

vet issued, and over 14,000 copies will ihj

distributed.

M. L. AxmtF.ws, auditor of the Cud-

ahv Packing Co. at Omaha, Neb., while

bathing in the Platte, on the 10th, was

drowned. As a result of the Hood his

companions were unable to recover his

hotly.

Tiik report of Naval Constructor

Hanscom on the injuries received by

the cruiser Columbia in grounding on

her trial trip shows that twelve plates

were damaged and that 510,000 and one

month's time will be required to repair

the ship.

Low KosKHKHY, the Hritish premier,

has presented to Hon. 'lhomas t.

Ha yard, United States ambassador, one

of the plates which Ladas wore while running the Derby.

Thk English combination of coal

owners has decided to make a general

reduction of 10 per cent, in the wages of miners. The latter are organized to resist the cut. Tiik hotly of Patrick O'Day, who disappeared from his hdme in Indianapolis several days previous, was found in the canal, on the night of the 11th. with evidence of having leen murdered and roblnid. His' head was frightfully mutilated. Ht. Hkv. llisnor T. M. D. Waiui, of the African Methodist Episcopal church, died suddenly, at Jacksonville, Fla., on the night of the 10th, of heart failure. Dki.koatkMauk Smith, Of Arizona, will make an effort to have the appropriation for the Carlisle Indian school stricken from the Indiau bill. Mr.

Smith savs the education of Indians at

Carlisle, Hampton and other eastern institutions has done more harm than

good. Tiik extensive mill-plant of W. L. Matthews, at Marlc'.te, Mich., consist

inir of Hour mill, split-pea and oatmeal

mill and elevator, was destroyed by tire on the night of the 11th. Loss, 840,000;

no insurance.

Tiik bankrupt court of London, on the 12th. irrantcd a receiving order

against Itobert Huchanan, the play

wright and author.

Tub thirtv-ninth annual convention

of the Pennsylvania state organization

of the Ancient Order of Hibernians convimi'd In Pittsburgh, on the 12th. 300

delegates Wing in attendance.

Tub iirst quadrennial convention of the American Railway union met in

Ulrich hall, Chicago, on the 12th. N. H. Pahmjxh was convicted at Sag

Jnaw, Mich., on the 12th, of stealing

railroad ltond.s valued at Slo.1,000 from

the Wells-Stone Mercantile Co., his for mer employer. Parsons had been i

trusted elerkof the company, and stood

high socially, lie is also charged wit!

destroying certain books and papers of

the company.

It is given out in New York that Richard Croker's determination to go

abroad was taken within thirty-six hoars of the .sailing of the steamer upon

which he was a jassenger, lniund for Germany. That lie preferred to depart

unknown to the general public is tin

derstood to be shown by the fact that

he was booked us John Miles.

IX the Uhodc Island legislature, on

the 12th. George Pcnhody "iVetmore was

unanimously elected united Mates

senator to succeed N. F. Di.vou.

en go.

Thk president, on

the senate the nomination of John II. Miller, tif Kentucky, to be United States consul at Port Stanley, Falkland islands.

Tub report that the Urazilian gov

ernment troops had been defeated at

Polatos. m the state of Kio Grande do

Sul, was oillcially denied on the Uth.

It was the insurgent army that was

defeated, Gen. Machado routing the

insurgent Gomericil and eapturing his

artillery, ammunition and horses.

It wasannounced in the Italian chum

ber, on the 14th, that the former min

istry will remain in oiliee with the ex-

ception that Signor ISarazzuoli, a mem

ber of the right, will assume the portfolio of agriculture in the place ol

Signor Hoselli, who had leen appointed

minister of nuance.

Tub platform of the isconsin pro

hibitionists calls for woman suffrage.

postal savings hanks, that all monej

Imj issued direct by the government ant.

that immigration le restricted.

Thk due de Orleans, eldest son ol the eomte de Paris, is betrothed to

Princess Henrietta, daughter ol tne count of Flanders, brother of King

Leopold of Helgium.

A noAT containing 110 harvesters

crossing from Achill to W'estport, Coun

ty Mayo, Ireland, on the 14th, was eapsized. and thirty-five of its occupants were drowned. lx the absence from the state of the United States marshal for Nebraska the authorities at Washington refused, on the 14th. to order troops out to protect the Union Pacitie from the industrials near Julesburg. the marshal's request being necessary. Ixtbkbstixo ceremonies were held, on the 14th, in the Philadelphia council ehamlier, in historic old Independence hall, ir commemoration of the adoption by congress, on June 14, 1777, of the Hag made by Uetsy P.oss. from the design submitted to her by Gen. Washington as the national emblem. "Flag day" will hereafter be annually observed it Philadelphia.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. W, 0. FitY.an employe of the Indiana

Has Co., was drowned ill a gravei pit.

south of Red Key. His body was recovered.

Tin: remains of Patrick O'Day. who

disappeared some days ago, were found in the canal at Indianapolis. II is skull

was fractured, and the surroundings in

dicate that he was murdered.

Apki.i.v the 3-year-old daughter ol

G. V. Wertzberger, died a tew oays ago at Decatur. While preparing for

the funeral, Hertha, the sister oi uie

deceased, aged ft years, was sutmemy

taken with hemorrhage of the lungs and died in a few minutes. Roth were

taken to Maplewood eemetery in tho

same hearse.

At Dan rille Louis J. Snyder pleaded

guilty to the charge of manslaughter

and was sentenced to the penitentiary

for five years. Snyder was eharged

with the murder of Mrs. Olive C loud.

of Indianapolis, and his case was sent

to Danville on a change ol venue. Last w inter Mrs. Cloud was shot and instantly killed. She and Snyder had returned from a wine-room and had

ipiarreled. No one witnessed the shooting and Snyder's defense was

that Mrs. Cloud had attempted to snoot him, and that in the scullle that ensue I the weapon was accidentally discharged. At the trial held recently the jury disagreed. In consideration of a light sentence Snyder agreed to enter a plea of guilty. At Anderson James Million, while talking to friends at home, suddenly exclaimed: "Good-by!" ami dropped dead. IIkxuv Rrxnv was sentenced to two

years in the penitentiary for stealing a

horse from In father at tonnersviue.

He stole the animal, sold it for S!. and

inside of 10 davs again stole it. this

time getting S7 for it.

At HopewelJ Charles Vamings. a farmer, was attacked bv a bull and gored almost to death. RKiT.BSBNTATivKsof the District Syndicate, which already owns the gas plants at Frankfort. Lafayette. Crawfordsvillc. and other Indiana cities, fire at Logansport negotiating for thejmrehase of loth the old Logansport Natural Gas Co.'s plant and the newly organized Citizens Co. Hiou kicking is said to be the rage among the young ladies at Hloomington. Thk coal famine has struck Kokomo. All factories Uke natural gas for general purposes, but some ue coal for certain work, such as welding steel and iron. All are now out of coal, and these and every blacksmith shop will be closed until some comes in. There is not a ton of eoal in the city. Tiik contract was let the other night

DEAD OR DOOMED.

Two II und red Men t'uiiKlit by Mim l.-

ldolii Killed OutrlRlit or Mow mmTin- 0M'ii!iik to tho Mint Seah-d I with Itrlckuork to l'rfveiit 1 1 r Slr ! of tho riioiu-s AH llou. .Mmiidoiieil. TitoiTvr, Austrian Silesia. June U..

A terrible disaster, involving a great, loss of life, incurred at Keiirwln. An explosiou of lire-damp tool: plaee In

the Johannand 1-ranclzUa mines attiiat,

place. Nearly 200 miners are said to have Wen hilled. La r Kit The ventilator shafts were

destroyed and the tire was spreading

In all directions. The explosion took plaee at 10 a. m. in the pit of the Francizka mines, and resulted in the death of 120 miners. This explosion wiis almost immediately followed by a series of other explosions in the mines, the most disastrous of the latter being in the Johannas pit, where eighty miners were killed. A rescue party which descended Into one of the pits at ft o'clock this morning also perished. The ventilator shafts of several of the pits- were destroyed and lire spread in all directions. Assistance has Wen sent to the scene of the disaster from all quarters. The Johann ami Francizka mines are owned by Count Von I.ariseh. Tlu-lr Doom Seult'd.

Yibxxa. June 1ft. At 3 o'clock this

afternoon the lire in theKearwin mines had not abated, and men were set to closing the pits with brickwork. It was then thought that, all the bodies

in the mines had been burned,

A DRUNKEN HUS3AND

Miirdrrs 1IU rutlirr-lii-Ijw. Mmol at III

Vlf ion! Children, itnil Kill Himself.

Guaxh Uahhs. Mich.. June 111. U'm.

Henshaw. a drunken painter, yesterday

morning tried to kill his wife and chil

dren, fatally shot his father-in-law, Ja

cob Sutton, and then blew his own

brains out.

Mrs. Henshaw separated from her

husband on account of cruel treatment

a couple of years ago at Rock Island,

111., and came here to live with her

seven children, iiensinw iouoweu

her, and has annoyed her more or less ever since.

Recently Mrs. Henshaw instituted

divorce proceedings, and It is Wlicved

tins fact provoked yesterday s tragedy.

Henshaw went to Smtton s house m

West street and shot the old man

twice in the head. He then crossed the street to his wife's house and tried to break in. Failing in this he fired two shots at the woman and her children, and then sat down on the porch and blew out his own brains. Sutton,

who is 70 years old. will die.

REVIEW.

new school building at Richmond. PRESERVE THE PEACE FIRST,

LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Ix the senate, on the lftth, alter con

tinuing the debate on the wool and woolen schedule of the tariff bill from

10:30 a. m. until '!:.10 o'clock, all the

amendment.- offered on the republican f.ide of the chamber were rejected. An amendment by Mr. Peifer to put all

woolen manufactures on the free list

was pending when the senate ad

jnurned. . . .In tlte house, an order from

the committee on ruhs limiting the

debate on the Indian appropriation bill

to 3:30 p. m. of the 10th. was adopted

by a party vote. The full text of the

bill was then read, occupying nearly

all the remainder of the session.

A TKi.KOitAM from Hong Kong. China, to the Hritish Medical Journal, says:

"The plague has all the symptoms of

the true bubonic pest, which ravage

Europe in the middle age-s, and which

is descriWd by PeFoe. The only Europeans "affected were the soldiers cmployed in disinfecting the native quarter. One of them has died.

Tub cost of maintaining the large force of state troops in the field, on

account of the coal miners' strike, may

require an extraordinary session of the

Uhio legislature, as hieunial sessions were determined upon at the last ses

sion, and it will be two years before

these bills can W paid if no extra ses

sion is called.

Ax explosion of fire damp in the Johann and Francizka mines at Iv earwin, Austrian Silesia, occurred, on the lftth, by which nearly 200 miners arc-

said to have Wen killed or to have per

ished in the flames which followed. A

rescue party which descended into one

of the pits also iwrishcd.

Wiiii.i: cm their way home from a Dunkard love feast at Wooster. 0., on

the night of the 14th, Grant Raum

aged 18, shot Millie Zimmerman, 17, oiily daughter of a widowed mother, through the heart. Hau in claims the weapon was accidentally discharged. Tub failures in the United States for the week ended on the lftth, as reported by R. G. Dun .t Co., were 232, against 3HI for the corresponding week of last year. In Canada the failures were 40, against 34 last year. Thk house committee on public buildings and grounds reported, on the lftth, in favor of using the site of the present Chicago public building, and authorizing an appropriation of $4,000,000 for the proposed new building. A committee of the college of cardinals has approved the pope's encyclical letter, stamping it as his political teslamntit Tin. rifVH.n1 will clint-llv

I W promulgated.

tor a

to cost S30.00O. It will be a handsome

structure, and will be the administra

tion bnildine-of the Richmond schools.

The style will be Romanesque and the

building will be one of the most com

modious for school purposes in the

state. Work has been begun, ana tne

building will be inclosed by January 1.

Mitf. Gkoiu.k Zimmkkmax. the young

bride of one of the wealthiest young

men in Decatur, committed suicide by

t.nkinir morphine 1-amilv trouble is

the supposed cause.

Tin: Ft. Wavne Electric Co., recent

ly incorporated, will begin work on its nhmt at onee. employing over ftOO mc-

j . ehanics.

Dir. J. M. Dixxex. of Ft. Wayne, an-

nounees that ne win uring a

damage suit for HW1 against the Allen

County Medical society. He alleges

that the society made false statements

that injured his practice. The citizens of Princeton will organ ize and burrow for coal.

Er.KiiAitT nrinters have organized a

ball league of three clubs.

Tin: jury in the Frank Rowers despe

rado case, at Anderson, returned a ver

rtii-t M-ntenemir him to four years in

the Michigan City penitentiary. Row

ers was one of the leaders of the noto

rious Goodman gang

Wii.i.iaji R att isit. colored, committed

suicide in the county jail at Indianapo

lis l.v hantring himself with his

blanket. He was caught in the act of

burglary, indicted and sentenced all m one day. I-'it.vXic SrMMKP.s, son of Dr. Summer;;, of Daleville, fell under a Rig Four freight train the other day at that place and had both, legs eut off. He Is aged twenty-one, and since a small Ihiv has practiced jumping on and off freight trains. At Columbus bread is now selling at C cents a loaf, owing to the bread wsir, and it will probably go down to 1 cent. At Goshen a cat has adopted a rat that nurses with the kittens. Miff. D. L. Exxis and babe were killed by cars at I.atorte. Tiib citizens of Wabash are talking electric street railway again. Maxv sheep have been killed by dogs near Crothersville. The latest swindling scheme out Isbeing worked on the farmers of Indiana. Men representing themselves ns ofliccrs are calling on the unsuspecting. They represent that the state law requires vaccination, and that, they are sent out by the county. They vaccinate their victims, charge fifty cents and skip ont. The vaccine virus quills left at several plates have been exam

ined and the matter, supposed to bo virus, is nothing more than worthless paste. The scheme is a winner and the men working it are taking everything Wfore them. It is denied that Mr. A. M. Reach, of Rush county, has sold a half interest in his gas generator to Eastern capitalists Mr Peach's, invention has not yet been perfected. Lixpsev FAititis is suing his uncle, James 11. Farris, for 810.K)0 damages.

The plaintiff alleges the defendant ac

cused him of stealing grain. Th parties live at Sanborn. Knox county

A JCitv in the Porter circuit court warded Frank G. Stephens, of Hammond. $2,ft00 against tho Monon railroad. He brought suit for 510,000 damages, as a result of Wing struck by a train on their road and crippled for life

Ami

liy the i:eiise Af teriviinl. U tlio

W'-Ay (iuv. MeKlnlrj Arsues. Coi.pmws. O., June HJ. Gov. Mc

Kinley said in regard to an article m

the Cincinnati Enquirer charging him with recklessly and illegally creating a debt against the state, and was liable to arrest and

fine: "We will nrcserve the peace

and protect proj,erty first, and pay the

expenses afterward." He said it would W impossible for the state emergency board to act in this ease, because it would Ik imtossible to tell how much

the expense would W. 1 he expenses

will W paid at an early day, said he; "no one will W obliged

to wait until the legislature meets, nor will anyone be subject to a

discount for prompt payment. The

emergency Ward will allow the dell elenev as soon as the amount of the ex

pense is known." He said he did not at present intend to call a special session

of the general assembly.

DROWNED IN THE KENTUCKY.

Ml Carrie Htuli, One of n FMilns: Iry, Druwnril r Waco, Ky. Waco, Kv., June HJ. By the upset

ting of a Hat Wat in the Kentucky

river Thursday afternoon Miss Carrie Hush, a handsome young lady, wnt drowned. A party of fourteen boys and girls were on a fishing excursion,

and all of them were thrown into the

water, which was eight feet deep.

A man named Jack s-eweil, who was

working in a field near by, heard their

cries ol distress ami rusneti to me

scene and plunged into the river. Hy

the most heroic efforts he brought them all safely to shore, except Miss

Rush, who .sank W'fore she could be

reached. Several ol those who were

taken out were mere dead than nlivt

and were resuscitated only after the

most patient work of physicians.

The causes have not yet been ascer

tained.

FIGHT WITH PIRATES.

Ieieriito itnttle in Wlilrh n Hand of

Cldnciw Finite Were Wnrnteil.

Vaxcoi'VEU. B. C, June HJ. The

steamer from China reports that a band

of pirates, with eight junks, planned

to attack Tanchi, a walled village in

the district of Hsinning Quang Tsung.

The villagers, learning of the inten

tion, nrocurrcd the assistance of

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some tarnen runners aim sonuers, so that when the pirates arrived

they were surrounded by a force of .100 men. There was a desperate fight, in

which thirty-two pirates were killed

and three captured. Three of the junks

iviT. seized and many pirates were

drowneil while trying to escape to the

rest of the squadron. Eight villagers

were wounded, one mortally. Cnxry nml llmvrne (Jet n llerlnf.

Washington". June HJ. Jacob S.

Coxev and Carl Hrowne.hls reincarnated

and leather-coated lieutenant, mado

their appearance again at the capitol,

and this time actually delivered the re

marks which they were not permitted

to make from the main steps of tho

capitol on May 1. Coxcy and Browne

anneared W'fore the senate com

mittee on education nnd laWr and

for two hours and a half talked to the

memWrs of the committee on tho Coxcy bills for good roads and no Interest on

WnclK. The arguments were in tae

Uftual stereotyped form.

DUN'S COMMERCIAL

rrolu.Me KrTeet of the Kml ,t o... ,,. .

Nlrlke Still Further Iteiliietloi, v i lie lleuy rullliiK Off In (iul.l i:M,r.', The Flood of Money from Hie Interior i New York Hank Sit 111 Contimit', hnwYniiu, June HJ. U. (;. n,. f.

Co.'s weekly review of trade Ksm-ii uh

uay says:

The strike of tho bituminous .i...

wlll end Molality wherever the nutlmrit-, aaJ ailvlee of their cmertd nrwuiUu. :i can .1,1

and there is Utile room to doubt Hun uu- ni famltie. will then bcln to al.te. Hut reeineiit seems to be uiujrlly reject.-1 L most of the miners la Ohio, ntul i. m,. ,. other staten, and It In tu terms cumin ..,.

uihiii its general accent uiivu in western i, ..,. sylvuiilu, whi-rUMimu of thoon,nitiirsr-j.c! it

j-rouuuiy ioc.il htriiKKics muv continue j,ul tho miners will Knnlimlly seo that the. iwro little chanco of uetlhiK' more Hum their c.,tu. mltteelms secured. Some time must eiat

before supplies of fuel will enable mi w.nu to resume that have no other reason for misj i1(j. Inu production. Meanwhile the ilcmui.,1 f,)r products Is so slnck that It seems ipu-Min. able whether as many hamls will litnl employ, ment before tho end of June- as were emn'.ow.i in April. 1 The actual output of iron weekly. June , uns only tU,fil7 ton, ttnalust l'.U.Ta: April i ,inii ITI.ftÄiuyeuriiKo; but the reduction of .'bsy tons In unsold stocks indicates that a iu. -itity nearly double- the output has been tnln-j or consumption.

ii mere were oruer to continue manuf -et.

at that rate, resumption of over twu-th -it.

the full capacity of works would not l-

di'.ayctl. Hut the eustern tlcmaml is

whole, disappointingly small, and In tin

tral region tho termination of the coke in essential, but not yet assured. At th-

a larger uciu-iiui linn renter activity up;, ar, and a heavy business Is likely to follov. ;n, . moval of the obstruction. A sale ot fift.lcD.MO pounds of lake coptw - a 9 cents .seems to mark a new policy on jort

of the producers, and tin Is weaker with receipts. Many boot and shoe shop

stopped, but shipments from '.lit! etisper cent, larger for Juno thus far th..: year. The demand Is mainly contimti ipriced goods, and has recently been morrow for women'", shoos.

The woolen mills nre closing rapidlv asserted that scarcely any have onl-rs

cupy them beyond .luly I in men's weui the demand for tlress goods, a somew h

tone Is perceived. Sales of wool in two weeks have been Nsl pounds, against. 3.fi,l7t5 last year

M0.HO In The New York nml t'h hin markets are dull, and at Horton 1

decline. Is s.een la prices, with a larj:. s

territory wool ut Si cents, scoured. AVholilers nppcar to bo expecting high r ;

than can tit present be realized in east, r 1 n&r-ket-.

Further concessions have not pnlav-

demand for cotton goods, ami the rv, : port that production has been clo-e ; year's Is said to bo based upon return-

only the more fortunate mills. That go

accumulating Is evident, but sales ht; distinctly Improved with the weather.

Sneculction In products has ugi.:.

cheoked, although prices arc. on tin- .!.i.t

slightly higher, corn l'i cents, withu.'tira

receipts comparatively light and utifa

crop reports, while nog products sugr

vance with ipilte large exports disclose.:

May report of the department, w he i'

a fraction higher, tho exports and

consumption for the year having a!r. iscceded the government estimate of las; v art crop bv I'.'l.iRK).oXI bushel. Westen. n-cur-N for tho week have been 1.451 Ml 1 !!:.

against '-MUi.ftM last year, ami AMn.tic

exports only WH.Öitl bushels, against : .vtk;

last year. Cotton has yielded a frait.oi .inj

the report of acreage by the Financial h--v

lcle Indicates an Increase of .'.i!iht c-tt. with prospects decidedly more faver.it- nun a year ago. Kxtwrts of dornest n- pr!-

uctt. la May showed decrease 11 ill the principal classes except pr. :. the aggregate being $.17.sjn.7l,' -! MUtll.tn last year, but more than ' '' of

the decrease in value Is found to be lu. xtt fall in prices. Kxports from New Verl- f..--we weeks of June have been 7 iw cent. Lirr is value than Inst year, vrhile Imiorts tft tail

point have been 18 per cent, smaller.

Stocks havo not been active, but M;-rc

have declined an average of only Kl -wr

IHM. while trust stocks average il.'l p r iurf lower for the week because of rcallwti..i,aal doubts about congress' action. Kailra-i fin

ings for the llrst week of Juno sh .1 in

crease or U per cent., ngainsi i - cent, decrease for the last week of Ma-, asd

IS.s per cent, for all roads In the united vtf reporting for the full month, thoiu'i -ta'f-

ments which include Canadian unu .mi - re

turns show a smaller loss, u is rt-as. .1 tc expect that the resumption of work at t)'

mines will considerably increase ranwa-. re

ceipts.

Oold exports havo diminished to ?

the week, and sales of foreign exchang f na

ture about the end of July indicate seme throwing from Europe against products t- w mjiortcd. A little more commercial paptr fM

Jobbers are also found by the nam;' in--Hood of money from the interior has n- t . ' .irt

though tho time for movement of crops ura-

near.

While business Is narrow.it is eompar.t:vf

free from losses by failure, for the I..im' "

reported In failures for the tlrst week t w were only &;-W,2S, of which fITfl.lls wrec

nianufacturlngandilJCJ.Wloftrrdingcor -crc1 The aggregate liabilities thus far reimrtcu

failures la May were but ?I3.:.H.7W. 01 wo. fS.MÖ.OÄ were of manufacturing nml iw.cf trading concerns.

The number of failures this week has w

in the V tilted States against 313 last ar and 40 in Canada against 31 last year.

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ERASTUS WIMAN CONVICTED

The Foreman of the .fury Weep White l'

lUrritiK the Vrrdlct KeerUeil ' Groan. Nbw Yoiik, June 15. All the after

noon the crowd in the court room

creased, and as an hour passed an

nothinp; had leen heard from liiejar room, Wiman's hope Increased. II

chatted and laughed with his fnen.

nnd seemed in the lc.st of spirits.

As the iurv tiled into the court r""

it was easy to see what the verdict w.v

The jurors showed plainly tliat 0 had decided adversely Wimnn's fat-

As Wimnn rose to face the jury

ruddy face leeame deadly paie.

I,,, tromhled violently. The forenw

of the jury was much more nfVi tc

however, as he was actually weep-

when he delivered the verdict

with a stromr recommendation mercy. M

As soon as the verdict was nim";,;

Mr. Wittum fell hack in His cnair n groan. His young son placed his ar about his father's shoulders, and n

two sat silent for a few inimm

Then Sheriff Hrown came, and i-ra

Wimnn started for the Tomhs, and nfter his father's departtu

young Wimnn started for home to tc

his mother the sad news.

THE PLAQUE IN CHINA

Han All the Symptom "f ' J

iHtttic I'c't of tne .niiniie ..' -

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Loniiok, June lC-Thc Hritish Mc; al Journal has received the follov.it

telegram from Hong Kong: "The pltigue has all the symptom' the true hnhonlc pest, which ravap Europe in tho middle ages, nnd w ;H is descried hyDcKoe. The on ropeans who were affected wen t 1 diers who were employed in tlic of disinfecting the native quarter, w of them has died and some havtpultc seriously ffected.