Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 37, Number 6, Jasper, Dubois County, 19 October 1894 — Page 10

WEEKLY COURIER.

C. J)OANE, FubUhr. fASPEB, INDIAN Tun United States steamer arrived at San Francisco, on Mohican the 8th, from Behring sen. Twkntv-six of the nest of thirty boilers ut the Henry Clay colliery, Shnmokin, la., blew up, on the 11th, and three men were reported hilled. A nisi'ATCH received from Shanghai, on the Sth, savs a rebellion had broken out at Jehol, the seat of a celebrated imperial palace, 120 miles from Pekln. Ox the 10th a detachment of Japanese cavalry and infantry made an attack upon and routed a force of 2,000 Chinese at Wei-Ju and captured the place. Skckbtauy Caiu.isi.k, on the Sth. authorized the statement that he was not and would not be a candidate for the United States scnatorship from Kentucky. Hkxhy, Earl Grey. K. G.. G. C M. G., died ir. London on the 0th. He was born in 102 and succeeded to the peer- , age in 1S45. His successor is Albert II. It. Grey, born in 1S5L Ox account of prior engagement to ae- . tiov. .Melvinicy win m w cept the invitation of the sugar planters of Louisiana to speak in that state M..Kin1i.e will not be a bit during the present campaign Tin: returns to the statistical division nf tin. department of agriculture for the month of Octolwr make cotton show j a decline of 3.2 points from the i-eptem-ber condition, which was S5.0. The agricultural department has received from Joseph 'Mattes. Jr., one of its representatives in Europe, a letter showing a satisfactory increase in the use of American corn in Germany. Tin: Cologne Gazette of the 11th asserts that the European powers have agreed upon a Corean policy, and decided not to take any action hindering the Japanese advance upon Pekin. Tiik Ohio Presbyterian synod, in session at Columbu-. on the 11th, adopted a resolution urging congress to pass the Hoar bill prohibiting express companies from handling the business of lottery companies. Tub convention of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew commenced in Washington city, on the ltth, with a mass meeting. Every state in the Union and Canada and Scotland were represented. Chief Justice Fuller presided. Foil a month or more from one to three ; residents of Oklahoma territory have lwen arrested daily on the charge of ; perjury in land eases. On the 11th fully 200 indictments were pending in the United States court, and about fifty persons had been sentenced to the penitentiary, all for the same crime. Tiik Japanese government has decided to raise an internal war loan of 10.000,000, which, together with the new taxation for war purposes, will bring the resources of the government up to 25.000.000. A minority in the cabinet favored a foreign loan, owing to the lateness of the last internal loan. It was reported in St. Petersburg, on the 0th, that if the czar decided, as it was fully expected lie would, upon a form of regency during his absence from Russia, the czarowitz will not be appointed regent, but will be intrusted, by a special declaration of the czar, with the direction of state affairs. . Tiik largest score ever made by a I'nit.-d State cavalryman was recorded, on the 11th, in the army shoot at l'.-rt Sheridan. Sergt. Oliarles Karsten. "IV troop. First cavalry, made the remarkable score of 47 points out of a possible f0 on the fiGO-yards range. Karsten shot with the regular army caroine. Ix the Temple cup series of seven gamus between the Orioles, of Haitimore, Md., winners of the whip pennant of the National Hascball league of l-Ot, and the "Giants, of New York, who held second place in the championship series, the latter easily won the first four games, thus securing the coveted trophy. Tin: eighteenth annual of the American Humane convention association met in Evansville, Ind.. on the 10th, with almut 150 delegates, men and women, In attendance. The report of the secretary showed 3.421 prosecutions for brutality, 27,000 children rescued from evil associations, and 70,42s animals protected from abuse. William F. Sloax. the language teacher, died at his home in Chicago, on the 7th, after a fast of fifty days. Prof. Sloan had leeii subject for a long time to attacks of a disease which, he said, compeled him to fast. He had frequently lived three or four weeks without nourishment, and his physicians had expected his recovery from the last attack. Tin: vacancy caused by the retirement of Commissary General John P. Hawkins, United States army, was lllled, on the 8th, by the promotion of Brevet Brlg.-Oen. Michael U. Morgan, who was next In rank to Gen. Hawkins in the subsistence department of the uriny. and the lirst man In each of the lower grades was moved up one step. Tiik attorney-general, to whom the question was referred, decided, on the Oth, that the worn "wool" used In tiie new tarliT law refers to sheep wool only, and that the new duties, under schedule K, on the hair of other animals went into effect August 2S, when the new law became operative. Collectors have, been instructed to refund all entries upon the bais of this opinio".

CUBKEXT TOPICS.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Tiik government has at bust found a purchaser for the colossal globe which cost $13,000 and was on exhiintion in tin. i-.iv.. mm. nt iiuUiUiiirat the w oriu s fair. The South Park commissioners have given 10 for it. PASSKXfiKit train No. 35, of the At-' lanta & West Point road, which left Atlanta, Ga., at 7:25 a. m. on the 7th. i tumbled over the high trestle over Osappa creek, a few miles beyond West Point, and seven persons were badly injured. Tiik procession held In Dublin, on the 7th, in commemoration of the death of Charles Stewart Parnell, was the j largest on record. In the line were , political societies from all parts of the country, every county in Ireland being , represented. i It is reported in Kentucky circles , worthy of credence, that Secretary Car- i lisle will be a candidate for the seat ; now occupied by Hon. J. C. S. j Hlackbum in the senate of the United States. Silas Lkwis, one of the Wllburton ' Choctaw political prisoner., was to , have been shot to death at Tushka-. homina, I. T., on the öth. He had , taken his seat on the death box, and ; the guards charged with his execu-j tion stood with rilles to their shonl- ' dors awaiting the order to fire, when n messenger rode up on a foaming steed I waving a reprieve in his hand. ! Skxatoi: Him., of .ew orlc, was, on tre 0th, formally notitied of his nomination as democratic candidate for governor of the Empire state, and .signified his acceptance of the unsought honor. Hon. Ciiaki.ks Drxhy. United States minister at IVkin, has warned thel American residents in the Chinese cap-' ital that the city is certain to bo ati tacked by the Japanese, and advises j that all ladies and children be sent at once to places of safety. A MKMI5KU of the Carnegie company states authoritatively that the steelrail pool, which expires by agreement on Decerning- 5, will not be dissolved, nor will there be a reduction in the prices of the product. "Tiik Michigan limited express on the "Soo" railroad went through a bridge near Pelican Lake. Wis., at an early hour on the morning of the 7th. The fireman was killed and the engineer fatally wounded. Tin: Hungarian house of magnates has rejected the bill recently introduced providing for the extension of the religious rights of Jews in Hungary. It was reported from Panama, on the Sth, that Americans had regained centred of the Panama railroad, aud that George J. Gould will be it new prsident. Tiik funeral of cx-Gov. Curtin of Pennsylvania took place at Bollefontc, Pa., oil the 10th. Ox the 9th Chicago celebrated the anniversarv of' the famous fete day at the World's fair, and that, also, of the burning of the city twenty-three years j ago. two paraues, a grand military club ball and a couple of club banquets were the features of the day. K. N. Stkvbs, a lawyer, was arrested in Portland, Ore., on the 0th, in connection with the assassination of George W. Sayers, whose body was recoved in the Willamette river on the 5th. He is charged with murder and held without bail. Gov. Bronns of Arizona, in his annual report to the secretary of the interior, estimates the population of the territory at 70,000, of whom some 11,000 are Mexicans. A dispatch from Shanghai to the Central News of London, dated the 0th, says the mouth of the River Min below Foo Chow has Won closed, in fear of an attempt on the part of the Japanese war ships to steam up the river. RltAKKMAX JoilX Cl.KWKI.!.. while crossing a track on the Pittsburgh ,fc Lake Erie mad at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 0th, to throw a switch, caught his foot in a frog and was run down by an approaching train and fatally injured. At a cabinet council in Paris, on the 0th. the plans for a cable from Prest to New York and another from Ilayti to New York were examined. Mi:s. Conmx, wife of Col. IL C. Corbin, of Ohio, assistant adjutant-general of the army, died ut her home in Washington city on the 0th. She had been ill for several months. MAUV Kkusik, h young Hungarian girl, who arrived iu this country on the -1th. was shot, three t ines and in stantly killed, at Olyphant. Pa., on the 0th, by Frank Bezek, whom she refused to marry. Tin: suit of Mrs. Martha Jones, of Pittsburgh, Pa., to recover 82,000 from the Fidelity Mutual Life association on a policy on the life of her husband, was brought to u remarkable and nbrupt termination on the Oth. The defense produced in court a deposition and photograph of the supposedly dead man, showing that he is. now living in England. Jones disappeared In December, 1S0. Tin: London mint lias struck a new British dollar, which resembles the Japanese yen in size, weight and fineness. The coin is expected to circulate largely in Singapore and Japan. It will be mainly coined by the Bombay mint, which has agreed to charge 1 per cent, mintage, instead of 2 per cent., charged for rupees. Tin: North German Gazette comments Ironically upon the opinion of the American inlnlsler at Pekln, who udvisex the removal of the wives and children of foreigners from Pekiu to Shanghai, In view of the probable Japanese attack Upon the Chinese capital. The paper says that the minister has no means of learning of the Japa nese movements. Asotiikii imttle has taken plnce In the orient, the Japanese having, on the 0th, run the gauntlet of the ('nine.se fort on the Shan Tung promontory und captured Che-I-'oo, a treaty port on the Yellow M-a. Foo-Cliow, another treaty port, 700 miles south, Is threatened.

Ir.xxtn. a 0-yenr-old daughter of Conductor Laiuaster, of the .Missouri Pacific railroad, was burned to death, on the 0th, at a farmhouse 12 miles south of Olathe, Kas., where Lamastcr's ehlb Iren live with their grandmother. The ehlld was playing with the lire in the kitchen stove, when its clothes caught.

iNVKSTlOATiox by the ponce uns re v,,..i.,.i ,., terrible fact tlmt forty old Kiilili..rs have been roblvd and mur dered at the national military home at Dayton, ()., and only passing notice taken of the crimes. The grand army has taken the matter in hand. (ii:oin: Lamohk. an acrobat, fell a disti.nee of forty feet during a performance in Chicago on the Dth. His right leg was broken in several places, and it was thought it might bo necessary to amputate it to save his life. Miss Fiiaxcks K. Wiu.ahii, world't president of the W. C. T. U., who wen) to Cincinnati to address the Ohio statt convention, was reported seriously ill hi that eity on the 10th, Lady Somerset was with her. A kkat temperance meeting win held in the Auditorium In Chicago, ob the night of the 10th, to give voice tü the opposition of the holy see to the saloon. PjtoK. Lkvdkx, of Berlin, was again summoned by wire to attend the czar, and started for Livadia, on the 10th, to remain some time. Tiik treasury department is preparing custom regulations to govern the entry of exhibits for the Atlanta (Ga.) exposition. Ox the 10th the Hungarian house ol magnates passed the third reading oi the bill providing for civil marriages. Sin Jonx Dioiiai.k Asti.uy, baronet, the well-known sportsman, died in London on the loth. At 12:30 o'clock on the morning of tlfe 11th, burglars blew open the safe in the New Lexington (0.) post oflice and secured S00 in money and stamps. The explösUm knocked out the whole front of the buildincr and awakened the entire populace, but the burglars made their escape. Oxk man was killed and six men and one woman were badly burned or injured by jumpiug and dropping from the windows of a four-story wooden tenement house which was burned iu Boston on the l Ith. Ix the United States circuit court at ! Omaha, Neb., on the 11th, Judge Wooli son deeided that the receivers may I not cut the salaries of the employes of the Omaha ,v St. Louis (N abash) road. N. D. Smith, an employe of the bureau of engraving and printing, wa arrested in Washington, on the 11th. charged with stealing 50,000 two-cent stamps from the bureau. Tin: Minneapolis & St. Louis railroad was sold in Minneapolis, Minn., on the 1 1th. at sheriff's sale, and purchased for the stockholders' committee for 85.UOO.000 cash. Piiixckss Maiiik, wife of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, gave birth to a daughter on the 11th. Tiik ameer of Afghanistan was reported, on the 11th, to be very ill.. Fori: earthquake shocks were felt at Athens, Greece, on the night of the Juurs LiciiTKXiiKUO.a member of the board of education of Detroit, Mich., charged with accepting a bribe, made an unsuccessful attempt at suicide on the 11th. Two men were burned to death and one probably fatally injured, on the 11th, by the burning' of a barn neat Fort Recovery. O., which was fired by a spark from a threshing machine jngine. LATE NEWS ITEMS. VlCK-PltKSIDKXT GKOHOK W. HoWAIU) of the American R nil way union who, next to President Debs, has been the most aggressive enemy of the railroads thev have ever hud, was robbed of a pocket book containing about forty an nual passes on some of the largest ran wav svstems in the country while tak ' ing a ride on n Chicago electric car on the 12th. Dktkctivk Ihr.'Kitir.uw, of Chicago, and Chief of Police Richardson of Argentine, Kas., arrested John Hodwige in the Santa Fc yards at Argentine. The prisoner is charged with being im plicated in the wrecking of a passen ger train at Battle Creek. Mich. Tin: principal portion of Biloxi,Miss, was destroyed by fire on the 12th. The burned district embraces the opera house, uianv stores and n large num her of dwellings. The loss will be probably S50,00) or more. Ca it. RoitKKT C. AxnitKws, one of the most noted pedestrians in the country died at the age of 102 iu Sumter, S. C. on the night of the 10th. He was a sol dler in the Mexican war and in the war of the rebellion. Tin: Mule Spinners association at Full River Mass., voted, on the 12th to accept the manufacturers' prnposi tion, and, this, it was believed, would break the stiike of the 21,000 opera lives in that eity. timothy y. iiawi.ky. a utichcr, age .1 . . ..11 J t i B.i, was louim ucan at rem, ind., on the morning of the 12th, and 83.000, inrge pari oi wmcii was in gold, win found In his pockets. He was without relatives. i ... i .Mtimi-iKM wo passenger train on the Richmond, Fredericksburg .fc Potomac railroad was held up near Quin tico. Vn on the 12th, by seven masked men, who robbed the expresss car ol 8150,000. Sxkak thieves entered the residence of F. J. Ott, keeper of a general store at Newton, O., on the 12th, and stole a tin box containing SI 10 m money and sr.'.huo in negotiable bonds. Faii.ukks In the United States dur ing the week ended tlie 12th were 231 against 203 for the corresponding weeic oi last year, ami 43 in Canada ugalnst 42 last year. Wvvv.KUi (.oiwty national bank o Kearney, Xeb., failed to open its doors on the 12th. The officers refused to make a statement. Wahiik.v DtntHTO.v of Sing Sing prison died at hing tng, . v., on the Rth of typhoid fever. Coi'KXHAfiKXwill be officially opened ns u iree port ou November 9.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Aakox Hancock, of LincohnlUe, ahash county, Is at death's door from the effect of a fall, lie attempted to i.ross the floor, tripped on the carpet and pitched forward. He Id. mid the shock will is 00 years cause his ,cath' ,, , Tin: big new anti-trust distillery at Terre Haute, was sturted up a few days ago at n capacity of 1,000 bushels of grain a day. The start was made neeessarv by the arrival of eattle to be fed from'tho slops. The hv; trust distillery will be started early in November at u capacity of 3,000 bushels a day. Tin: crew of a south-bound freight on the Michigan division of the Dig Four road, found a man badly mangled and unconscious along the track at a point north of Marion where the Dig Four line runs side by side with the Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City. The man was unknown. All his limbs were broken und he was hurt internally. He can not survive. At Vincennes while children were burning leaves, the clothes of a little son of Hon. John Hurke caught, and instantly the child was wrapped in Humes. Friends rushed to the rescue, but the child was so badly burned that it died in great agony. Mr. Hurke is United States revenue collector for the district. Piui.ip Stutz, a prominent farmer of Clarice county, and his wife Mary have had a remarkable matrimonial career. Being lovers in childhood, they were early married, but, failing to agree, were divorced. After a few years they came together and were remarried. Again they were divorced and remarried, and even again did they secure a divorce, and a few days ago were remarried at New Albany, thus being three times divorced and remarried. Mr. Stutz is well to do, and. as evidence that his wife can maintain herself in single blessedness, she was. when last married, the ownerof a large millinery store in New Albany. They declare 'their intention of separating no more. Tin: Saluda postoftice burned the other night with all the contents, but no registered letters. The residence of Mrs. Silas Tolbert was also destroyed. A xr.w bank was organized in North Manchester, the other day, by local capitalists. The institution will be known ns the North Manchester bank, and will occupy the rooms recently vacated by the,. First National bank. It will open November 1 with a capital stock of ?25,O0O. which will be increased to 850.000 in the near future. CAMriu:i.i.siii i:(i has twenty men over six feet in height. l!Kiroi:n now has an allnight telephone service. J. J. Piiakks, of Noblesville. has a cane owned by Gen. Andrew Jackson in is .,. At Anderson trainmen and hobos ex changed a number of shots on a Dig Four freiglit. but the hobos escaped. Wm. N. WiniKi.v. the reaper king. has begun active work towards rebuildinghis factory near Muncieon the site of the one burned several months since. At Cambridge City Thomas Ander son, jr., a colored ooy auoui si.xieea vears old, accidentally shot himself the other evening. With his companion he was examining a new revolver, when it was discharged, the ball taking ch"eet in Anderson's brain, killing him almost instantly. Tr.nitK Hautk loses the locomotive firemen's headquarters, which it has held so long. Chief Sargent said the other night that all ell'orts to retain the headuuarters there may as well close, as the ultimatum of the Ilarrisbursr convention will be carried out, and the headquarters moved to some other city to be selected by the grand trustees. At Goshen the tax levy is 00 cents per $100. At Greenwood a S7,0(K) water-works plant is a possibility. Uki'ohts from the prison north show g-0 prisoners. Tin: postmaster at Elkhart now has two clerks and the oflice is open at all hours. P.u.t.v SrxiiAV. the baseball evangelist, is assisting Mr. Chapman in the revival at Terre Haute. A tiikmkxiioi s oil strike was made on the Robert Ciamniell farm south of BlulTton. When the drill penetrated the rock the oil came with a rush and it is estimated that the well has already produced S00 barrels, all of which was wasted, no provisions having been made to care for it. It is good for 1,000 barrels every twentyfour hours. Tin: calaboose at Waterloo has been sold for three dollars. Tin: plant, stock, etc., of the Indiannpolis Cabinet works was sold at public auction to a local syndicate for S7O.O0O. Tin: Jay county fair is reported to have been the most successful, financially of any county fair iu the state. The association netted 81.000. Tin: Anderson Coiled Hoop Co. has been organized and will erect a factory in Grand View, an Anderson suburb. It will employ thirty-five men. Passkxokii Train No. (5, on the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis railroad, which left Evansville at 7 o'clock the other morning struck and instantly killed Mrs. Leah Keilnut at Temple At Vlncennes, the administrators of the estate of John Marone sued the Big Four Railroad Co., the other day for Sll.OOO damages for killing the deceased lust August. Hi.'iioi.Aits blew up the Bloomlield, bank with dynamite and secured, 84.700. One of the robbers was captured. G. FoitKXOKit and W. G. Fitzhugh were horribly i-cabled by a boiler explosion at JelTersonville. At Brazil Coroner Mershan rendered his decision finding that Mrs. John Dickens, aged 00 years, was killed by her husband. Dickens is In jail and denies the crime. 31 ns. Katk Manx, a well-dressed, intelligent and respectable-looking woman of Indianapolis, got drunk In order to show her husband that the habit v.'iis disgusting.

DUN'S COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

lulin- Still Wultliilf oh th lUtnll Tnuir, Iii. li...'loiniH'iit r Whlrlt UShiW- l.rK ImixirlH ml Smalt i:inrU. with 1 hI-lillitit-M f Coli! KtMirl WhiiI of I-ulth In (iotrrium'iit Crop KiMrU Very Ion. riulii!;. Nkw YoitK, Oct. 13. It. G, Dun A Co. 's weekly review of trude issued totiny says: Business is still waiting for the dove opmentof retail trade. There Is a little better demand In some Industries, but not so great iu others. Wholesale dealers In nearly all branches are halting because retail business does not yet show distinctly what It Is to be. Lower prices for the great farm staples and lower wages In some establishments hinder purchases for consumption, whllu political interest and uncertainty also have some retarding influence. Meanwhile large imports and small exports of merchandise, with inadequate employment of money here, are raising the rates of foreign exchange so mat possibilities of gold exports somewhat alTect the stock market. Die halting attitude for the moment is disturbing to those who have looked for contin ued gain, though, rightly considered, it is the natural consequence of conditions which were to be expecU'd at this season. The government crop reports are not greatly trusted, and yet have an influence to actually exaggerate the ten dency toward loweriirices.beeau.se they are suppoed to put all the crops too low. Men calmly reckon that if the government report indicates over 400,000,000 bushels of wheat, the crop must be over 500,000,000 bushels, and though western receipts for the week have been only 4, 400,075 bushels, against 0,335.30s last year, and Atlantic exports only 017,211 bushels, against 000,5(31 lastVjar t,K' Pr'co is KtitfliHy lower. Corn has been strong, for icceipts are hardly a quarter and exports barely an eighth of last year's, and men question whether the actual yield, if above the government estimate, may not prove lower than has been supposed. The cotton returns are more confusing, but all point to a yield so far above that indicated by the government that its statement has been followed by a further decline for the week of one-quarter. The receipts thus far hardly encourage extremely large estimates, and yet it is to be considered that the crop was later than usual. Reports from the different cities show, as they did a week ago. that, while extreme low prices for cotton unci wheat are checking retail purchases in the west and south, there is, nevertheless, a general gain. Monetary movements indicate that the expected expansion of interior trade has not been realized, and the demand for currency from this city has materially slackened. The demand for commercial loans is weaker, and 3 percent, is quoted for prime four mouths paper. Exchanges at the principal clearing houses for the second week of October are relatively smaller than for the first week, exceeding those of last year only 3.1 percent., while 21.5 percent, less than in 1S02. The general average of prices is about ft per cent, lower than a year ago, though still somewhat higher than In July last. The iron industry records larger production in September than in any other month this year, but as prices are gradually weakening because of insuf ficient demand for finished products, some works are prenarmir to close or shorten time. A few good structural contracts are reported, and two, amounting to 15.000 tons, for steel rails; but, while combinations hold up prices of rails and wire nails, the demand for bar iron is unsatisfactory, and Hesse mer pig and steel billets are weak. The season for boots and shoes has been unusually good in number of cases shipped, but in value the de crease must be larirc, because of the general preference of low-priced goods It is stated that M) per cent, of spring orders are for shoes selling at fcl or lower, and heavy shoes have largely taken the place of boots. Most shops have orders for some tune to come, and demands for immediate delivery are still numerous. The demand for cotton goods has ma terially slackened, and prices have be come irregular, although resumption of work at I-all River and New Bed ford, with only 5 percent, lower wages. indicates confidence in the future The woolen mills still have numerous belated orders for fall goods, but the demand for spring goods does not in crease, although In nearly all the lower-priced products domestic makers appear able to command most of the business that exists. Sales of wool have been 4.S77.040 pounds, against 2,500, 152 last year, and 7,000,000 in 1802 and prices are a shade weaker for fine fleece. Ohio selling at 17M cents at Philadelphia, but combing and tcrri tory wool are steady. Failure for the week ending October 4 show liabilities of 81,711,270, of which SS05.KS5 are of manufacturing, and S-S02.301 of trading concerns. The final report for September shows liabilities of on I v 87,307,124, of which 83,254,373 are of manufacturing, and 3,710,002 of trading concerns. The failures during the past week have been 231 In the United States against 203 last year, and 43 in Canada against 42 last year. Will Urform the (loviTiiinrnt of Corra. Loxnox, Oct. 1.1. A dispatch to the Central Newt, frcin Tokio says thai. Corea, being cleared of Chinese, the opportunity has arrived for Japan to undertake a thorough internal reform In order to curry out this reform the presence of an experienced minister Is necessary and for this purpose Count. Inauine, Japanese minister of the In terior, has been sent to Corea. The emperor has the fullest confidence in Count Iiitinlne, who will proceed at once In the war ship Ysli'nor to Chumelpo. In Corea he will act us a special advisory ambassador

LETTER CARRIERS

Munt ! NiiinlnidiMl From th Kllcllil l.l.t, Hint Cuunot he Itrliiotcil from Oltlrr )i. rrpt for I'mumi After l-'ull 0iMirlnnll)r f.,i Ilrfrnur- A Clrt-iilür of Instruction tc l'oatHiMnttn-a Ht Frrti Delivery OlIlrn. WAHinxoTON'.Oct. 1,1. Assistant Postmaster-General Jones yesterday issued circular instructions to all postumster ut free delivery offices, directing that hereafter sub letter carriers must ix, nominated from the eligible list. Vacancies in tin; carriers' force must hi filled, where practicable, by promotion of the senior sub. All new employ incuts of clerks and carriers and re movals must be reported to the first assistant postmaster-general as soon as made. No carrier is to lie removed except for cause, aud unoi written charges filed with t la post office department and full opportunity for defense. No resignation usked for ny a postmaster win he ae cepted by the department. Postman ters must submit to the department niestions relating to the appointment removal and reinstatement of letter carriers for settlement by correspond ence between the department and th civil-service commission. The object in issuing these new rig illations, which practically dcpm-i postmasters of the appointing povn-j over their suoordinates, is oilk-iiillv defined to be "for the purpose of avoid ing unjust removals of clerks and ear riers in the classified service, and tc avoid embarrassments and annoyance to the department and postmasters with reference thereto." Also t. i.U viate the "delay, annoyance and mis understanding that have been cause,iu the past by postmasters conduct inc. with the civil-service commission, correspondence which should originaU alone with the head of the post-oflh . department." Theoretically the power of making all appointments and removals of li t ter carriers and other officials has always been vested in the post-oUlcc de partment, but practically postmasters have been accustomed to exercise tin pifwer of appointment and rcmoial without previously consulting the post oftice department, merely reporting their action pro forma for approval. lhe new regulations are designed t" make practice conform to theory and to keep the appointing power ecnteivd in ashington. It is denied that thi ji is any political significance in the cir cular. BROKE THE RECORD. ,V lllril-SIioothi? Glutril Which ShunN Without ii Parallel. Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 13. The American field champion, J. A. II. Elliott, broke the worlds record at trap shooting at fifty yards boundary, in the second match of the series with Dr. W. F. Carvir yesterday. Elliott made a clean score of 100 killed, which is one' more than the best record here tofore made and which was held by Elliott. Carver's score of 00 equab the liest previous record and the match itself stands without equal in trap shooting contests. Carver missed Iiis fourth bird, which was a low flying straight-away driver and was badly hit. falling dead ten feet outside the boundary, making vir tually even bird which left the trap killed. The birds were a strong, fast-flying lot. and a stitT breeze blew across the field, making the shooting difficult and adding tothegreatness of Elliott" victory. Elliott, who lives in this city, was carried from the field on the shoulders of his friends. The final match of the series will lie shot to-day. FIRE AT FULTON. Tho Illinois Town Suffer t l.on of Tueiity Tlio(i:iinl Hollar. Fn.TOX, III., Oct. 13. This towu suffered a heavy loss by fire this morning. The losses are as follows: Fulton grist mill. 52,500; Georg Rhodes' hotel, S,O0O; Fulton steam laundry, 82,1K)!I; ice companies' stabh and horses, 8700; W. C. Snyder coal and wood yard, $1.000;Northwestern freiglit house, about 3,000. Other minor losses bring the total up to about 20,000 with slight insurance. During the excitement two fire bugs set fire to the llolleran house in three places. They were discovered, hut escaped. Lyons, la., sent two hose reels, hook and ladder truck, and engine and K'vcnty-five firemen to aid in checking the flames. A RUSSIAN REGENCY Will h Announced liy Imperial Killet hi I! I"MT DllJ-O. St. Pi:ti:i:siujho, Oct. 1.1. The latest announcement in regard to the czars departure for Corfu is that he is to he accompnnied by the czarowitz, wlm will remain a few days with his majesty. The czarowitz will then g' to Darmstadt, and with the Grand Duke the Grand Duchess Sergius escort Princess Allx to St. Petersburg. The marriage of the czarowitz and Princess Alix will probably take place at tho beginning of November. During t'1' absence of the czar a council of regeccy will lie formed, clothed solely with the executive power. It will consist of the czarowitz and Grand Unices Michael and Vladimir. An imperial edict announcing the regency will lie issued shortly. MALFEASANCE IN OFFICE. Ten ImllrlmenU lleturiu-il ArhIm"! HUH City .liitlcrn. KAJfHAH ClTV, Mo., Oct. 13.-T110 grand jury yesterday returned ten indictments against Justice of the Pence Ross W. Lntshaw and two against Justice W. H. Browne for malfeasance in office. The evidence before the grand jury showed that Lutshaw assessed wholesale flues against keepers o bawdy houses, and appropriated tm funds to the amount of 810,000. Hrotvnu was guilty of iv like offense. Ih dieted men arc prominent democrat.

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