Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 37, Number 11, Jasper, Dubois County, 23 November 1894 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER.

C. DOANK, Publisher. JASPER, INDIAYA On the lr.tU the president appointed Edward K. Lowrey, of Ohio, second secretary of the United States legation at I'ekin. Upward ol thousand persons in Until, England, were rendered home less, on the 15thk by the overflowing of the uiver Avon. Judok Brkwkh, of Omaha, Nah., handed down a decision, on the 12th, making the injunction against the Ne braska rate law perpetual. A msi'ATCH from Limasol, Cyprus of the 15th, said twenty-one persons had been drowned by the floods, and that the number of domestic animals destroyed was far into the thousands. Tiik New South Wales assembly adopted a motion, on the 14th. offered by Sir Henry Parkes, setting forth that it isdesirable that negotiations looking to Australian federation shall be resumed. A dispatch from Chemulpo to a London news agency says that the officials of the Corean government, whose tendencies are pro-Japanese, are framing a constitution to be used at the beginning of ISM. A heavy snowstorm raged in Menominee, Mich., on the 12th. The steam barge Pringle and consorts, also the Business, were two or three days overdue at that port, and fears were entertained for their safety. Garrktt Vanginkf-l, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Des Moines, la., who had been totally blind for the past two months from contusion of the brain, awoke at 2 a. m., on the 14th, with sight perfectly restored. Advices from Rio Grande do Snl say that the Brazilian rebel chiet Salgado was defeated, recently, at Lima in a battle lasting nine hours. The government loss is stated to be 181 killed and the rebel loss sixty-three. Hon. Myron B. Wrioht, of Susquehanna. Pa., congressman of the Fifteenth district of Pennsylvania, died in Trenton, Can., on the night of the 12th, of typhoid fever. He was, on the 6th, elected for the third term. Martin J. Watson, of Anderson, Ind., has buried the last of a family of five, including his wife, who were in good health a month ago. They were the victims of black diphtheria, which is raging in the Indiana gas belt The Laughlin nail works at Martin's Ferry, O., which closed over two months ago, was placed in full operation on the 12th. About COO men and boys are employed. Lack of orders and hard times were the causes assigned for shutting down. A TKnmni.E wind, rain and hail storm prevailed in Brussels and vicinity, on the 13th, doing immense damage to property and involving considerable loss of life. Fifteen deaths were reported. During the storm the roof of a factory at Ath was carried away killing four persons. Ex-Statk Senator John O'Mali.ey, who had been wanted by the Chicago police for over a week on the charge of shooting and wounding a hack driver and saloon-keeper on election night, surrendered himself to Chief Brennan, on the 15th, and gave bail to appear when called for trial. An attorney for the 55 alleged fictitious patent medicine companies at South Bend., Ind., was at the post office department in Washington, on the 15th, for the purpose of having the "fraud orders'' against the companies rescinded. No hearing in the case, however, was ordered. The superintendent of the Chicago police, suspended seventeen officers, on the 12th, pending their trial by the police board on the charge of neglect of duty on election day. They were accused specifically of not preventing the assault and driving away of voters from the polls in various parts of the city. Rear Admiral Bancroft Giikraiwi, commandant of the navy yard in Brooklyn, having reached the age limit of 02 years, was retired, on the 10th, from the service and turned over the control of the yard to Capt Bodgers, who will be the acting commandant until Admiral Ghcrardi's successor is appointed. On the 12th Henry Schmchl, the Chicago pedestrian, accepted Edward Wes ton's terms for a six-days' walking match, to take place at Hochester, N. Y., provided that Weston shall make the stake $1,000 instead of 5(K). Schmchl was willing to walk in Chicago for 8.100, hut would not go east for less than S1.000. It is announced that the firm of Drexel, Morgan & Co., of New York, under its present title, will expire by limitation on January 1, 1805. A new ntl tt X ttA utiilnM 4 lira til in i vaa la lV.it, a taial. ä hill, title of .1. Picrpont Morgan & Co. The change is due to the death of A. .1. Drexel and J. Hood Wright The Loudon house will also be reorganized, and, after the date mentioned, will be known as Morgan, Ilarjcs &. Co. Tiik Manufacturers' Record, of Baltlmore, Md., publishes sixty letters from United States senators and rep- ! rcsentatives giving their views as to whether the government should afford , financial aid to secure the early com- j plction of the Nicaragua canal. The ' writers, about equally divided c I tween the two great parties, take strong grounds, almost unanimously, in favor of the completion of the canal Hnd its control by the United State nvix-uiiHMlt.

CURRENT TOPICS, THE KEWI IM BUEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL

TflK 4 -Old Rounta,'' Allen 0. Thur ran, recently celebrated hi eightyfirst birthday anniversary. The judge in his old age Is a sufferer from rheumatism, ami was competed to receive the friends who called to tender their congratulations, propped up in a reclining chair. His intellect is still undimmed, and he responded to the greetings with much of his old-time spirit. Dr. Senkro, superintendent of immigration, has under consideration the case of Wilfred Mowbray, the English socialist who slipped into the country, after having once being denied admission. The question now is whether or not Mowbray shall be deported. The country can get along very well without him. Saisaoe meat and dried meat are said to be made at Hammond, Lake county. Ind., from the remains of broken down and diseased horses, which are purchased in Chicago, from the street car companies and transported to Hammond for slaughter. In his proclamation to the people of Finland the czar of Russia expresses his desire to confirm the religion and fundamental laws of the country und the rights and privileges of every class, high and low. which they have hitherto enjoyed according to the constitution of the country. The watchman of the Lake Shore fc Michigan Southern railway bridge in Grand Rapids, Mich., found a box on the river bank, on the morning of the 12th, containing the body of au infant. The head had been severed with an ax in order to crowd the body into the box. The coroner decided the child wa shorn alive and had been murdered. The first mate and five sailors from the steamer Crown of England landed at Santa Monica. Cal., on the 11th, in a dense fog, bringing news of the wreck of their steamer, which occurred at 2 o'clock on the morning of the 7th. The schooner West Side, carrying a crew of seven men, went ashore on Point Pelee, Lake Erie, on the 12th, and displayed signals of distress. The tug Home Bnle went out from Amherst burg.Ont, to try to reach her. It is reported that .lohn Wilde, an American, alias "Hoic,'" and Cameron, a Scotchman, alias '"Browne," who were arrested on board the tTencn steamship Sidney, from Marseilles for Yokohama and Hong-Kong, charged with conspiracy to destroy the Japan ese fleet by the use of torpedoes, have been released from custody by the Jappanese, after taking oaths not to re sort to any action tending to assist China during the war. Thirteen cases of small-pox were discovered in New York citv, on the i 12th, in the vicinity of West Thirtyninth street. The contagion arose from a case of small-pox recently found at 439 West Thirty-ninth street. Whii.k mlham Ward, a well-known and wealth farmer living near Williamstown, Kas., was sitting at a window in his home, on the night of the 11th, unknown assassins stole up and emptied a load of buckshot into his face and body. Although fatally hurt. Ward ran half a mile to a neighbor's and gave the alarm, and a posse of seventy-five men were soon in pursuit The first of the two steamships built in this country for the International Navigation Co. was launched from the Cramps' shipyard in Philadelphia, on the 12th, in the presence of President Cleveland, members of the cabinet and a large throng of people. Mrs. Cleveland stood sponsor for the vessel, and christened it the St. Louis, after the metropolis of Missouri. On the 12th a dispatch from Shang hai to the Central News, London, said it was reported there that Port Arthur was taken by theuapancsc, on the 11th, without resistance. The Japanese, after bombarding the place for a short time, made a land assault upon the enemv s works, wnen tne unncse sur rendered. The Japanese legation at Washington had not. up to the 12th, received official confirmation of the capture of Port Arthur. The legation people say, however, that if Port Arthur has in trt'th fallen, it will be the most disastrous blow that China could have received. Electricians donbt the success of the attempts which will be made at Auburn (N. Y.) prison to resuscitate Murderer Wilson after his electrocu tion. Gov. Flower has declared his intention to permit the experiment. which will h: made by experts in the execution room. A special to the Bee from Neligh, Neb., says: Barrett Scott, the default ing treasurer of Holt county. Neb., who stole 8100,000, was sentenced at Neligh, on the 12th, to the penitentiary for five years. The academy building at Rush ville, Ind., a handsome brick, together with its contents was completely destroyed by fire on the 13th. The building was occupied by the Rushville business college, whose loss cn fixtures is 81, .100. Loss on the building, $-0,000; insurance small. Supposed to be the work of aa incendiary. William S. Stitkois, aged 70 years, the Chicago millionahe whose suit for millions against Charles B. Farwell, of i - , C"W h'ls m'lc suuh a stir in legal circles, and who was adjudged insane by a commission of lunacy, on the 5th, died at the Glenmary home in Oswego, N. Y.. of senile dementia on the 12th. A cold wave spread over Pensacoln, Fla., and vicinity, on the 12th, the i thermometer going to 28. Ice was plentiful. Many or tue older Inhabit ants do not remember a frost so early. A circular inviting bids for 850,000,000 ten-year 5 per cent government bonds was issued by the treasury department on the 13th. Cot- Wm. II. Giiihm, ex-state senator and republican postmaster at Jackson, Miss., was sentenced in the federal court, on the 13th, to three years in the Kings county (N. Y.,) penitentiury for erubozzlliif. us postmaster. 1.000

On the 13th the London court of chancery prauted Sir Augustus Harris, the theatrical manuger, bu interim Injunction preventing Col. Mapleson from circulating a prospectus connectlag Harris with the Imperial opera eowpany, which Is. about to be floated a& a stock enlerprUc ONK Hl'NPKKl pvl'fOhs wm killed by the late seismic disturbances within a radius of -10 miles from the vity of La Paz, Bolivia. The twelfth annual meeting of the Baptist congress for the discussion of public questions, met in Detroit, Mich., on the 13th. The czar has appointed the prince of Wales honorary colonel of the Kiel? regiment of dragoons. The train on the Missouri. Kansas A Texas railroad, which was held up by the Cok gang on the night of the 13th, was heavily guarded by United States marshals, but Bill Cook and Cherokee Bill, with their fifteen men, forced them to surrender all their guns, money and watches. A HOMR found by a London policeman in a niche between the pillars of the court of justice, on the 12th, was found on examination to contain nothing explosive. The Italian deputy, Agnini, was. on the 14th, sentenced to six months' imprisonment at Modena for taking part in the organization "of societies, designed to subvert the government A HOARDiNOHorsE in Elberfeld, Rhenish Prussia, was destroyed by fire, on the night of the 13th, and seven of its occupants were burned to death. Several others are missing. Henry Hinder, a wealthy and wellknown German resident of Ann Arbor, Mich., was burned to death in his barn ou the night of the 13th. The Trowbridge flouring mill at South Haven, Mich., was destroyed by fire on the night of the 13th. Loss. 810,000; partly insured. Government soldiers captured by the Brazilian insurgents are given the choice of death or enlisting in the rebel army. They enlist The United States revenue cutter Rear arrived at San Francisco from Retiring sea on the 13th. Retorts from nil over Brazil, according to Admiral Mello, who is in Buenoi Ayres.represent the people ripe for revolt The resignation of Dr. Hermann von Sendling, Prussian minister ol justice, was accepted by Emperor William, on the 14th, and Dr. Shonstedt, formerly president of the celle court of appeals, was appointed to succeed him. The British ship Culmere, Capt Read, last reported at Hamburg., October 1, from Iquique, foundered, on the 14th, in a gale 80 miles off Spurn Head, Yorkshire, England. Twenty-two persons were drowned, including the captain and his wife. Sheffield, la., a town of 1,000 population, was wipeil out by fire on the night of the 14th. Only two buildings, Carhart's bank and Shneffer &.

Revnold s store, were left standing. Total loss. 8125,000; insurance, 850,000. OFFiciAi.copies of Secretary Carlisle's circular inviting proposals for bonds reached the subtreasury in New jork, on the 15th, and each bank and trust company received c copy. At a meeting of directors in New York, on the 15th, Clarence Seward was elected vice-president of the Adams Express Co. and Wm. B. Densmore was chosen secretary. A dispatch from Tien-Tsin, of the 15th, said it was reported there that Col. Von Hanneken had been put in complete command of the Chinese army. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Rev. .Max .Maoil, during .the past year rabbi of the Rrith Eines Jewish congregation in Allantown, Pa, resigned his charge on the 10th. He renounced his faith and declared his conversion to Christianity. He will join the new United Evangelical church, and may enter the ministry. Rosa Riciisecker, of Canton, 0 despondent because her husband was out of work, left her bed, during the night of the 15th, and going out upon the street, took cnrbolicaeid, which caused her death. Her husband was awakened later by the crying of the baby. The fifth annual convention of the Nonpartisan Woman's Christian Temperance union, in session at Washington. Pa., adjourned ,on the Ißth, after selecting Kansas City. Mo., as the place for holding the next convention in November. 1805. $s the 10th White fc Ham's ax and edge tool works at Honesdale, Pa. .were burned, causing a loss of 820,000; partially insured. Forty hands were thrown out of employment by the fire. The works will le immediately rebuilt. Hamilton Stewart, of the editiorial staff of the Galveston (Tex.) News, died, on the 10th, aged 81 years. He was prominent in early Texas politics, having been associated therein with Sam Houston. On the ltith the president appointed lohn E. Jackson, of New Jersey, secretary of the United States embassy at Berlin, and Herbert Goldsmith Squires, of New York, second secretary of the same embassy. The failures for the week ended on the Kith, as reported by R. G. Dun .t Co., were: For the United Stntes 270, against 323 for the eorresnoiidinir wi.i.k , last year; and for Canada 38, against 30 nisi year. Anorr 10 o'clock on the night of the 15th, twelve members of the Cook gang rode into Muskogee, I. T paraded the main street, laid in a supply of cigars and then rode leisurely out of town. Advices from Fusan, Corea, under date of the 10th, state that a battle had lecn fought between Japanese troops nnd rebellious Tung Hales, in which the former were victorious. Three distinct shocks of earthquake were felt at Carson City, Nev., on the , nignt of the 15th. .a damage was re ported. Ex-United States Senator Roiiert C. Winthrop died at his Marlborotreet residence in Hoatoa on the 16th. Camomnb, dowager duchesa of .Men tKM. died la Loadoa cm the 16th. She had beta aerioualf ill for tome Um.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. JrsHE Conn, the VO-ycar-ohl sob o! Steven Conn, residing near Muncie, met death near Marion the other even Ing by a log rolling back on him while beinff loaded on a wagon. 11 v the faulty condition of the da In the St. Joseph river at Elkhart, there was a rush of water into one of the hydraulic races, whereby the embankment on one side was washed out and h section 30 by 20 feet of the Klkhart Knitting Factory was Carried out, together with a large quantity of manufactured stock and machinery, causing a damage, of 810,000 to the knitting company alone. Large quantities of socks tloated down the river, and many persons fished out a supply. The matter will result in litigation. Loci Woods' residence at Muncie was destroyed, and a two-year-old daughter fatally burned. The child wus asleep. In the anxiety to save the furniture the child was forgotten until the house was enveloped in Humes. Dick Wiikk.lkr, & farmer, shot nnd killed Ambrose Wilcox near .Mt.Carmel. Wheeler claims self-defense. Teure Haute will ask the next legislature to give her a charter like that held by Indianapolis and Evansville. At Lowell, Mrs. Jacob Ball was terribly bitten by a vicious hog. A wrkck of a freight train on the Chicago Erie railroad, at Markte, resulted in a heavy loss to property. Several ears wero destroyed atwl a tramp severely injured. Jas. Ff.ro cson, a fnnner. about 70 years old, went to a school-house near his home, west of l'eru, and shot himself in the head, dying instantly. Dr. Frank Sweasev, of Ross Plains, was digging a well and using explosives of his own make. He had fixed two charges that did not explode, and was arranging another, when it exploded, shattering his hand and breaking his arm in three places. He lingered in great pain and died from lockjaw. Diphtheria is prevalent in Knightstown, und as a consequence the public schools have for the present suspended. Seven new cases were reported in one day. Thus far, however, none have proven fatal. James Vanrimik and son, Albert, and Madge Wilsey were poisoned at the home of the former in Muncie by eating pressed beef. All are in a dangerous condition and Albert lay as if dead for hours. Tiik funeral of Harry, the 10-year-old sou of Philip Rehmer, occurred at Dillsboro. a few days since. He is the third child of this family to die within a month of typhoid fever. Kirk broke out in the business portion of Nortli Vernon the other morning. Two valuable horses were burned. Loss about 83,000. Partly insured. Jamks CJoer. of Brazil, blew out his brains with a shotgun. Just before the commission of the act Goer told some friends that he contemplated suicide, as Mrs. Sourwine, whose 1msband is now in jail charged with train-wrecking, refused to listen to his entreaties, and that he could not live without her. John II. Jones, a flour and feed merchant of Indianapolis, died the other day of injuries received some months ago. when he was sandbagged and robbed by footpads. E. It. Evans attempted to burn the Delaware county jail, and thirty prisoners narrowly escaped being burned to death. Evans was a crank on religion, nnd the other day his mind became so unbalanced that it was necessary to place him in jail. Kkkt Anson, a young man, was huntihg quail near Huntington, when hi shotgun exploded. A part of his face was blown off. He is in a bad condition. Dei.heut Brown; a seventeen-year-old boy was arrested at Gas City for stealing several razors and pair of shoes. He was brought to Marion nnd placed in jail. Next morning he was found hanging from the bars of a window. Eight other prisoners were iu the jail at the time. Mahk Porter, of Elwood, is the victim of a strange malady, which lias left him a life-long cripple. A peculiar weed, resembling hemp and growing along the Wabash, is being experimented by Capt Campbell, of Roekville. Tiik farmers in the western part of Vanderburgh county, are very much exercised over the breaking out of hog cholera among their hogs. Hosklla Stili.wki.l, of Edinburg. has commenced suit in the Johnson county circuit court against C. C. Cramer for slander, demanding as damages the sum of 85,000. Some nrticles of clothing were stolen and she alleges she was accused of stealing them. A company lias been formed to build a new hotel at Ashley. Mrs. II.VRRY J. Unions dropped dead on the streets of Cicero. Some Kendallville youths had to pay 815 for damages done Halloween. Natural gas under James Gatbreath's store at Swayzee exploded and blew the front of the building out. No one was hurt TiiKREwere 20more marriage licenses granted in St. Joseph county than in Elkhart county during October. Thomas Huffman, north of Huntington, was fatally injured by a runaway team. lie was thrown from the wagon, and the wheels passed over him. He is a wealthy farmer. DuitlNO the past year 70 names hnva been added to the pension list in Floyd county. Isaac IIa.vawat.t, of White county, met with a peculiar accident While throwing a club at a cow Iiis arm wnn given a singular twist and the bone broken squarely off abo-e the elbow. Another remarkable uccident is that of C. D. Meekhnm, who dislocated his shoulder the other night by striking at a mouse as it ran across the floor. At It'intington Thomas Tracy was perhaps fatally injured by falling from a building upoti which tie was work-inc

DUN'S COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

The IlopWul Frrlliur Reported l.at Werk Ctwtlaura-l.ttw Farn I'roiliK-U unit I.w Water, U'lttt Only 1'MrtUl ICmeluymont ef Labor, tftlll KvMnl HUtrlltutluH Mini HlMiIrr KrMHtptlon of Iniluatrlrft-rrug-reit TomthdI ICrcoTi-ry NutrJ. New York, Nov. 17.-U. G. Bun Co.'s weekly review of trade issued today says: III nearly all branches of business KTuduul improvement appears and the hopeful feeling observed last week has continued. Then it was also noted that the main conditions of business and trade had not suddenly changed and this Wcomcs clearer, to the disappointment of some. Low farm products, tow wages, and only partial employment of labor, still retard distribution und the limited demand hinders the recovery of industries. Progress toward recovery has not ceased, and many establishments have resumed or added to their producing force, some ulso advancing wages, but it will take time to lift business out of its depression, and the progress made, if less than the sanguine expected, is at least encouraging. The decision to offer SM),000,000 bonds for replenishment of ttie treasury reserve was, by bankers, generally approved, but events are showing that restoration of confidence cannot by itself remove all embarrassment. It is generally assumed that the offered bonds will be taken at once. The effect is less easy to anticipate, for the formal nnnouneement that after a general reconstruction of the revenue laws It is still found necessary to borrow largely, tends to raise doubt about financial provisions for the future. The reported importation of gold from London, with a loss on its face of 87,500 at present exchange rates, is presumably meant to alTect bond subscriptions. There have already been some withdrawals of gold from the treasury by redemption of notes to make payments for bonds, and goods rather than gold are likely to come from Europe, London has also sold hereabout l.r,O0O shares during the week. Money continues to accumulate, none going west, while the outgo to the south has diminished. Bankers are much encouraged by indications of larger business, but there is no increase as yet in commercial borrowing, and one dry jyoods loan has leen taken at u'1 per cent Merchandise imports in two weeks of November have been 10 per cent, larger than last year, though 30 percent less than in ISM, and exports for the same time show a decrease of about 8 per cent. Exports of breadstulTs, cotton, provisions and oil iu October were S.7,000,307 against $.' 8,8:1 8, 1)35 last year, although a million bales of cotton went abroad and the value of the same quantities exported this year would have exceeded S70,000,(KKi with last year's prices, the difference in prices alone being 810.000,000 in cotton and S-', 100,000 in breadstuffs. Resumption of work and increase of working time have been more conspicuous iu the cotton industry than in others, but no increased demand for goods appears. Print cloths are unchanged and the market is dull. Few hoc concerns have stopped or resumed, hut. shipments from Boston in two weeks have been l.'.l.IiOl cases, against 112.CSI last year, and 130,I9 in lh'X'. Orders for the cheapest goods have multiplied so that most producers of such goods are occupied until next year, but better grades are still neglected. In women's grain shoes manufacturers have sohl largely at last year's prices, but claim the advance in leather adds 'i or it cents to the cost, and insures loss, and they are accepting fewer orders. Leather manufacturers hold that they cannot sell more cheaply as hides are at present In finished products of iron the demand is on the whole narrower, so that structural beams are lower: the barbed wire combination is broken, the strife in nails continues at the lowest prices heretofore named and both gray forge and Bessemer are a shade lower at Pittsburgh. At the west there is a little more improvement Manufacturers of winter woolens have good orders for this time of the year, many still running mainly on such goods, but there is a general failure of supplemental orders for spring goods. In Kersey cloakings there is prospect of a good season, and the retail trade in carpets has been encouraging. But sales of wool are again smaller than last year. Speculative markets have Iwen stipulated in part by the call for bonds, and wheat has advanced one-half cent corn one-half cent and cotton a sixteenth. Western wheat receipts in two weeks of November have been 7,7S1.I571 bushels against JU.IOO.SIIO last year, but Atlantic export in two weeks have been only l,0,Jii1:t:r bushels against 1.770,01.1 last year and they are not increased by the advance iu price, which is partly due to accounts of extensive feeding to cattle. Failures in the first week of November were rattier larger than of late, the liabilities amounting to S'i.SH. Hri, of which 87 13, 4 'JO were of liianiifntiiring and S'J,OS0,077 of trading concerns. In live weeks ending Navember 1 liabilities in failures were $11,1'J7.Q!0, of which 8, 1(11,81.1 were of manufacturing anil 80..171.Ü7I of trading concerns. The failures of the past week have been 'J70 in the Untted States, against S'J.'J last year, nnd its in Canada, against 'M last year. A Wclt-Known .Monrjr-ltrnkrr Klltril In Atlrmtit to Hol Hin,. Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 17.Jiinies Fullcrton, son of Attorney James 0. Fultcrton, attacked Frank Short, a well-known money-broker, in the tatter's office yesterday afternoon. He crushed the old man's skull with two blows from a heavy wrench, and then tried to steal 81,800 from him. lie dropped the money before leaving the room. Fullcrton was followed by seera1 men who heard Short's cries, and was arrested on a trolley car a few bloakf awny. Short will die.

MURDER AND SUICIDE.

A tlhlmfo IjtnillHily Klllril hjr i ItiiMrtlrr Whom HUk lluil fr'ortililitru tlin lluu. The Murtlrrrr Then Take Ilia (Iwii I. If Ihtniratlc Truublr mt Ilm Hut tu hi or the TrKKly A llritv l.ltlln Hoy. Chicago, Nov. 17. At (1 o'clock yev. tcrday afternoon J. .1. Higgins," an electrician, killed Mrs. Katie McLaughlin, of :i'J2 West Monroe street, Pild shortly afterward committed suicide. Hlgglns boarded with Mrs, McLaughlin, and for some reason was asked to leave the house. As lie had a position with the General Electric Co., and had lived with Mrs. McLaughlin for a long time, it must have been for some other reason than the nonpayment of board. The lndy has lived on West Monroe street for four months, and had Hig gins for a boarder in two other houses. On Carpenter street, it is said, Mr. McLaughlin threw the boarder out of the house. Since leaving Carpenter street Mr McLaughlin has resided at 478 Fulton street and apart from his wife. He was formerly a manufacturer of gas stoves, but is now foreman for George L. Rood, in a similar business. His living apart from his wife gives foundation to the rumor that something besides money matters is behind the murder and suicide of last evening. Iliggins shot at Mrs. McLaughlin four times, the first three shots going astray. The fourth fire did the murderous work. As the woman fell, her little 11-year-old soh Willie, ran to attack Iliggins, who was a very large man, Xi years old. The man shot the last bullet out of his revolver at the little boy but missed him. The little fellow ran out of the house, called a doctor several doors away, and then went a block further and got a policeman. Iliggins left the house and walked up the street until a patrol wagon arrived, when he returned on the opposite side of the street, and standing with his face to the house where the murdered woman lay, fired four bullets into Iiis own head. His Imdy was removed to the county morgue. . J. McLaughlin, the husltaud, was notified and came to the honse. He wished to make an immediate search of the house for papers, hut the police interfered. He then wanted to take Iiis little boy away, but this was also denied him. He refused to make any statement and seemed very much overcome. The bravery, self-possession und thought displayed by little Willie was wonderful, and would do credit to one many years his senior. MAUD SCH ER M ERHORN, A Heroin Young C.lrl, Smrrt the I.lvra or Tlilrtj-KlKht OiifnUIn Ituriiln" Ilo-trl-ICrsi'iiril ut ihr I.utt Muim-iit. Wichita, Kan.. Nov. 17. The Patterson house at Harper was destroyed by fire early yesterday morning, and only through the heroism of Maud Schermerhorn, a girl of 10, was great los of life prevented. There were thirty-eight guests in the house at the time, anil many of them escaped with nothing but their night clothes. Maud Schermerhorn was the first to awaken to the danger, und callinga companion the two tried to escape down a stairway, but were driven back by the fire. Maud Shermerhorn's compainion fainted, ami the young girl carried her through the smoke to a window, through which she lowered her to an abutting roof and thence to the ground. Both were badly burned. but Miss Schermerhorn returned to the house to awaken the guests. By this time all the passages were full of smoke, and crawling on her hands and knees, she went from door to door, giving the alarm until finally she herself sank exhausted by her burns and other injuries. In rushing out one of the guests noticed the prostrate form of the young girl and carried her out just in time, for a few moments later all the avenues of escape were cutoff by flames. Many of the guests were overcome by the smoke and heat and had to be carried out The loss is 820,000. INCENDIARY FLAMES. Winnipeg, Man.. VUHcrf lij- Srrlr et L'oatly Firm. WiNNii-KO, Man., Nov. 17. What is believed to have been a series of incendiary fires occurred Thursday night, and yesterday morning and ns a result property valued at 8100.000 has Wen destroyed. Between midnight and C o'clock no less than five alarms were turned in for different fires. Among the buildings burned was the Western Canadian block, at ttie corner of Main street and Portage avenue, where the fire originated and the Grand Fnion hotel on Trincess street. The Haines crossed the street and destroyed the large warehouse of Merrick, Anderson &. Co. In addition to these buildings a number of smaller stores and dwellings were burned. The Western Cunndian block was one of the finest buildings in Winnipeg. The ground story was occupied by Wright Bros., importers of English dry goods, who earried a stock valued nt Sir.,000, and by Mitchell, the druggist, whose loss will exceed S7.".,000. This block was erected some five years ago uta cost of S12ri,000. the tower tloors being occupied by business firms, and the upper five stories being fitted up for olllces occupied by Insurance companies and professional men. The loss on Merrick Anderson Sz Co.'s warehouse is estimated at fully St'J-",0ö0. PREPARING FOR BUSINESS. An Impiirtnnt Mrrtlnic of thr Comnilttr if Spntjr. Ni:w York, Nov. 17.-The executive conimittt'o of the committee of seventy, at a meeting in the chamber of commerce yesterday afternoon, took Important action looking to ttie trial of delinquent city officials. Resolutions were passed by the committee which asked Gov. Flower to have a deputy attorney general, or Hie attorney general himself, prosecute cases before the oyer and terminer, which meets carlr I December