Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 39, Number 14, Jasper, Dubois County, 11 December 1896 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER C. IKtANK, PiibttwhSMr.

JASPER

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DECEMBER 156.

Tin body f Mgihllda Blind, thesulloness miil ie. Hirer, win tlie.l recentbttH neu. crated in I M crematory at Wok lag, Kagleed, MM ist. m A I aiu.k majority of tin- Knglish non-union lu borers li wMit to Iliimburg to take the places Ps t he st riuei s. refused to unload VMM la mni remrnnl to Kurland. , Mil TTiK public debt statement, issued on tle 1st. showed a net increase in the public debt. less cash in tlie treasury, during November of .-'". ' Total fash la tbe treasury. K'.&.Mul,It wa announced, on tbe 1st. that Police C mmissi.uier Theodore Koosevelt, of Now York. would IM willing to accept (lie ottice of secretary i t be navy under Um M.-K.nley udministra-tion.

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CURRENT TOPICS. THE NEWS IN BRIEF PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A hhk KM)ti celled t by a felM alarm at Kverrlt. Mw on the let UM run into by a locomotive. Thn , MgJ at of the strainer was killed, and tha driver auil both Imrie fr fatally injured. i i the higging camp in the neighborhood of Manilla. Mich., are making .retaratioua to begin work, and man v aar already; started. 1 he proa- ! peeSa are for a very prosperous winter on the V i Uatis-s City -Mo. i poiine officials arrested Jeff Paget and Albert 1. s. two oi the bamlits who held up and attempted to rob an Alton express

train at U.ue tut. near lndepeodeuee. Mo., on the eveuiutT of lletober 24. Bride nee against ttieiu is conclusive. Tu situation at Chippewa Fall Wis.. tt very critical, on the Vd. the entire city and uiueh of the Chippewa valley being liable to destruction and lastali. n at almost any moment by the giviug way of the immense ice gorges that had formed in the river at intervals for many mile. The resi-

A Pin-1 1 ii to the London Dally Mail from t oiistiintinople, on the 3d, aid that another massacre had Ml curred at Lverck, iu which lot ArmeBteM were reported to have bun killed. A PWATd from Bombay, OB the Id, amid that the Mortality from famine In the be la pur and lielaghal districts. w as steadily laeraaafajr. Hendreda ai persous had died froui starvation iu the Goiia districL ju Hatch, the Hawaiian ininiater to the I'nited Mutes, accompanied OJ Mr Cooper, minister of foreign atfai.s ot the republic of lluwuu. called upon .Secretary Ola t the department of stale on the Ud. HlUlor Kkank. late rector of the Catholic university in Washington, w ill sail for Koine, ou the ilh, iu response to the eoaamaada of the papa to go U that city and perform such duties as may be there assigned him. Tai: tilth accident in three week iu the wheel pit extension of the power tuuuel at Niagara Valla, N. V . ea curred. on the .ui, when the fusteuiugs in the bucket carrying some stone, gave way, fatally injuring lire laborer-.. faj report published in the London Daily Mail, on the 1st. tliat (Mr Matthew White limley. the home secrc tary, had ordered the release Irom MoUoaraj jmi of Dr. Jam.esou, the Tranaraal raldar, is atMalfwad upou ollic.al authoiiiy.

Mn i ii ki ks Y. I'oKHN the famous

cartoonist of Waahiujitoii. lied, on the j tinth were rapidly moving their

.''h. at hi apartments in tbe UarflMM Hat in that city, from a complica I k W of disorlers. t he cuiminatton of an at-tttv-k of locomotor ataxia. ' abvaiciana of llolloway j;:l

have oroii' uneed

the health of lr.

ehaudise ami houaeholti eneci i. higher (r.uniil. 1 ii. otticial count of the vote cast in the raaaal riaetiaa la the atate oi Rhode Island is H larger than at

tirs: supi.ed The correct ti pure are:

Jamiesoii, the leader of the Transvaal J McKinley, 37.147; Itryau. 14.45: plo-

raid, w bo i BBMrgOtaf a sciiteii. e m 15 numths' iuiiirisonmeut, to le in a precarious state. TBI new electric lifhl piaut at the national capitol was put in motion, on tM -th. and proved to have been successful v installed. The new plant is tha b g st and most complete the capita 1 has ever owned. A 1 1 IK organised at Haroda. India, in honor of the isit . f the earl of LMpria, viceroy of India, had a terrible outeoii.c in the killiutf of N pers-.ns and the lojnrlttfof many others by a ftaat crush followed by a panic. i ..I i Mitt a Typographical union, at a special BMetiaf held at Washington, hy a decisive vi.te. censured threedelejätes to the convention of the International '1 y I oraphical union, which met at oil rmlo Sprius recent:;.', for their action in opposing the civil service system as ailministered at the jfovernment priuting oftice. It is stated that den. Weyler, several weeks ah'o. issued a secret order to his cutnmauders in the various Cuban province to "clear the country" of noncom hatants. This order has been interpreted by the Spanish commanders as an edict to massacre old men. w omen ami children, and tbe result is an appalling list of butcheries. 1 1 is rumored in military circles thai tbe troop of the First artillery, now stationed at various potts ou the gulf and Atiau'ic coasts, are to be concentrated at l'eiisacola, Fla., for practice with the modern heavy guns which will soou lie in jxisitioii on Santa Kosa

TuiBTKS.it sigued letters fronitieurge iland

Washington to Arihar sonag, the agriculturist, dated from !M to 17'.U, ou farms :u America, were soul at auction at sot he by S iLoiidoui ou the 1st. Alu i some smart bidding MM documents wcic soiit for 47u.

1 in anini-1 report of l'ostiuasterflnnainl vVilaoa Wtil not be mane public uulil ufur the president has submitted his UUliual message to Collgicss. Ihis is tai.en to in.iicate that matters ul great importau.e pertain to postal iiffa.rs are under cousid-KaMon.

M i:!a Mi TIKI'S has just completed

his thirtieth contin uou year as seSton of Crown I'oiut cemeterv. tit Kokoano,

ralitv for .McKinley.

Tiik IhkIv of Sheriff William F. Ilerr..u ..f P. y mouth county, la., was found. kraiMd and froze;., bes de the raMsvaj track ucar Meiritl, Neb . on he Jd. w here he had evidently fallen from a train. Tut M isc msiu board of election canTaasers completed its labors, on the d, tadfasg that McKinley elector received Mi.ltt, as against 16t.5-. for the l!r an lectors. John W . 1koi. secretary of the Fulton eoanSj bonrd af health, reported to the Indian-, state brd of health, uu the .td. tbe death of five children in that county from diphtheria. Their parents belonged to the sanctified sect, and positively refused medical aid 'or the children. Finally, however, they submitted to allow a physician to preseril. and the disease was broken up after five children bad died. Tut ladies" committee, which during the past year has been engaged in raising the 8100,0"0 endowment fond for a chair of English literature in LnwreaM university, at ApphMon, W is., have completed their work. Mrs. J. T. W itter. of lirand Kapiüs. gave Ss.ouu. on the ad. making 11 1U.O0O raised, aad thus securing Senator Sawyer s conditional gift of $."..ouOl , BUS t aataaa, years of age. cl Hiusboro. O.. a guest at the Kmp.re hotel. Sixty-third atreet and Itoulevard, New York city, while in a fit of insanity, on the 3d. jumped from the fifth story of tbe hotel to the yard aud was instantly killed. Jam Ton. of Cleveland, one of the prominent business men of northern

Ohio, aud a sou oi DneU Tod. one of

IN hi AX A NiATK X.-.WS. A.sio.iu A. rt KMAn was SfSMMsed rect i.,- f..r I ouia Wolf A Ob. df go-Mis .ue a4 Ft. Wayaa, on the aiplientkMi of the pre errtd Msdil ITS, who hold a r-v'.aJ0 chattel or. the stoea. Other ert-ditors have commenced attacbmeiits and replevin proeeedinw to fxcover goods on recent ahipaieuL Slaaar esaaMaata claim gtHMis were purchas'd through misr. pre-utatio;i hy the firm as to it financial standing. The stock is worth Ito.ooo. I't. t Hi.u u. ass.Ntmit in the .. partn.eut of geography at the state N.-rmai. is dead at the horns for invalids. HiS death resulted from a complication of disc-ase. lrct lleich came to the normal this fall. Tnr. immense shoe shops at the pr a on south are now in operation The T.tr-l-x Shoe and Leather Co. has taken about IX men there in the capacity of foremen, and the output from the factory will he eery large. The new building is a model one for the purpose and the firm have put in the most approved machinery. AT Windfall the jury in tbe case of the state of Indiana against Frank Ko-s. who, it was alleged, killed a playmate with a creejaa mallet, returned a verdict of not guilty, on the groun.; of el'-lefenv. Chaki-R Pell, a carpenter, escaped from the constables at Milan am.d a Aer vif bu.iets from the oflu-er's revolvers. Hell had been arrested on charir-s made by M'.s, L.i.th Abltott1Ijnk W ABI-.KV a farmer livlngsix miles eaat of Winchester, hangeu h.tnself in his barn. Joi: s. La f.y. of Cambridge City, has Isoiht the young trotter, lied 1- . . by Kedfieid. from Charles Leoou, of Kennard. lie is a promising ant mal.

lad, lie fore that Mr. McTigue was 0uj,,-swar governors, died suddenly

ddiaxacsoi Mraoas awapretad ai be iii; concerned in plots uKainsl the Tnrkiab goeernment eontinne Many ol ill . lukcu into custody have beeu Seised While IS had and taken a uaM Ml Uta central prison. The suttering

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Kllll UI9UCH Ut v....iraaamg.

1'iUt ofieinj count of Iowa's president. a i Vote shows. Mchmicy, repubi., tstl Iii uii, ileiuocrat, Palm r, national Uemocral, s.'-li laa at lag, prohibition, J.iVi.i; lieuile.., uuttonat, S&aj MnHotielb, social lubor, 4äo; II. Ii inlav'i uiaiol.tv. 07.1..0: McKili-

- s iiUiral.ty, satsnS, Mlwi Iii IlllffTf Do.NAI.PsoN. of ChdMtnrthe. is, wasva ui Theodore lJouauaon, a veterna whaateasd la tue catitara of Jclleison lavis, has received ..t.ee llial sue has heeu alloed fl- H luoiilu MSlke ami 144 back peusiou. hue ia grantlj assappoiatad, tmnkiug toe SSiaiMa ot her late husband ticcivilis of bettor i coy ui lion Irom hu UUllUj.

'I m. Maiiehester ouaniiau aaya that Lot it ."-aiisliiiry, british prime minister au.i aaoresnrj ot state tor foieiu af latra. win make VafJ sliouy represeii kaUstSM to ine Spanish nuvtiuuitut with releience to tlie uctentiou iu

tnh.i o t in ,i u I h. lit .es tlie i e oi Ulchnid and John l.eattv, rMMeatS of Ikfitksh Columbia, i . i li is icportcii on apparently goad aatitatiu ixasa Mm ate awaaasni puii Mh siate ot W iseoiisiu that an af lol l will he uuide during the coming session of tlie Irglalslara M tuke VN istoiiMii slat ue oi JViaituelte out ol the tapilea ut t ashingioii. '1 he statue was accepu u i . ooureaa altar a hard hhi iiaiiisi ki bj p. a. org an I aa in is an ovcj the countij.

sexton of the old cemetery. Dunug .

this period the veteran sexton has i burled 4,nof persons, digging all the graves hin. seif. TSUS laiatialhome of I). M. Kirkhride in W cbita, Kas.. w as totally de- ' stn vol by tire, early ou the m ruing of the HHh. and the oceupanls barely !

escaped with their lives, Mr. Kirkbrkte, entirely unassisted rescuing his family by carrying them down a ladder from a secmid-story window. Loss o house, tl-.iWJ; on furniture aud library, i)

liiiini.t.N of the 4 prisoners coiilaed m tue Wyandotte county jail in

Kansas it y, Kas . made their eseate. ou the Ithth. through B window from a h i h the bars had tieeti sawed. Three uf the niimWr were recaptured. Tiik home of Iuther lireenmau. a fai no r. four miles northeast of Perry. N. Y., was liest n yed by fire, on the morning of the '.".th. and the entire family, consisting of five persons, was burned to death. i hi: ItaOMIir. a hieago coinmis-

M4M merchant, was held upand robbed

of S i (too on a Halstead street electric car at Thirty-ninth street ou the lJib. Chat MS Mathusek. who stole tlie wallet eoatalalaajthe money, was arrestel ft'-r a severe struggle, but two companions who aided him snatched the p. pketSooh while Mathusek wasstrugg!i:ig with bis captors, jumped from tl.i ear ami escaiwd. '1 1 1 k iteaaaer I ity of Kalamaxoo was burned at her docU at S..nth Haven. Mich., on the morning of he Shth. Robert Van Ostraud and Joe Lang.

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oi apoplexy ll toe vonvuuru us... Columbus oc the .id. N.wsvas received from Cuba, or the 3d, confirming the report that Maj iu'D. Serefin Sauch was killed in an engagement a'. I -as lamas. Santa Clara province. Ir. Lo is I t un a, senor Figuerra, a druggist, and several other wellknown residents of I ieufuego. Cala have been arrested as political suspects. H ai r a doen steamers are said tc be bound tight in the ice along tha north shore of Lake Superior, aud it w ill be impossible to release them.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Tm. state of Minnesota will probabiy realire fio.s-o by tbe s.- i.re. on the 3d. of 30 tot. of venison by the

stale irame warden, because it waa be

ing illegally shipped from that atate Baal as, New Yrk and C hicago. 1 in tin. -s laf the illegal transportation of the game will amount to over Ü4o.iwu This secure ia aaid to be the largest e v. r maie in the I uited state The strike committee, on the 4th. called oMt au uf the Hamburg barot workti.en. irrespective of the character of their employment, in order to assist the strike of the dock laborerv ' The men called out include the engin 1 eers. bargemen and others employed , by the state and city. TfMl cabinet meeting, on the 4th. watttndad bv all the memlers except Sje.retary La mon t and Atb.ruey Oan

ral Harmon. It i uudeistotsJ thai

tireineii. w ere biirneil to death, the sueh portions of tbe nresi lent

stewardess is missing, and it is feared s.e as re. ale t foreign affairs SM1 she also has periMhed. discusattl and financial reeommenua t.s the Mta tbe nssocirted banks of Qoaa oneMlderad. New V.iik city held HI, 4 11. Ml in ex- , m p.inon of Englishmen, actcess of the requirements dl the H ftW j mg noflie ally. to present AinlaaCellt. rille. , ...r lt. t-ar. I t lh.il.iv.if Ills iniuinri

w ith a sultstantial recisgnition of the esteem in which he is hebt by individ-

1 lit L xi it i .t Mates court of claims has oicU iiil a iii.eaillig ixi tin e.cbraled Lit Abi a o nung a.e, uivolvinj; a claim Jor laige uumunU against

.Mexuo, abhth was tlikpuLcd on Uie emiaad al Hand, and leJeiieJ bj cougi ess to tlie i-oui't ot claiuia lor buaJ jiniguieiil. lie rehearing aul not tai ' piace until alter the ( hrisiauas hailttojrs. tha paraoaa cluelly intereaivii a the ciaims being in New Vork. " ' litauAissof rapMSad unfriendly acta bow li towuid tins nation President .cm i.iu l, on the Jd. issued a proclamation revoking Ins lot me r proclamation oi jj nuaiy 14 ibss, saeBeadlag the eilet Uoii of port unties impost d Upon f. lcigf. vessels upon vessels euteicd in MM pv "ts of the United States from auy of the ports of the bcriuaii empires, this revo cation to take i tied on uud after the secoud of Jauuuiy. 1BU7."

I ii i .Soven ier treasury deficit, from oflie.al figures issued on the 1st, was tT.CJl.mio. and for the live mouths of,

the fiscal year to date. Mo. .Vu.hhU. t the Bath DaMad Stales Treasurer Morgan mailed MM checks, aggregating 81's.sjj, in payment of hecember interest . it the funded loan of l'.'i. T ut Falls CeMaSJ Co, at Norwich. Casta., riMiiued, on the lufh. after f-mr and a half months' shutdown aud Some ,Mn emp'oyes tiegru ork. Wa. HxttuwAT, .he w alldtaoera piano

manufacturer, who had been ill for some tune with typhoid fever, died in New York on the idth. A m bridge is to be constructed over the Hudson river at New York at

a cost not to exceed t'J.',Ooti.oo TUB too employes of thf Standard silk mill, at Philipsburg, N. J . who had baea working on short tune for

several months, went to work on full time M the Nth. The knitting establishment of Seifert A Kitonbeart. at Uie same place, w hich had been idle several mouths, has leen purchased by i arty Somiers, who a .so commenced ota-rations on the o h US, WsviKR. as at-anosvledged by hiiuseif in interviews with prominent Spaniaidaof tbe Junta ia frefensa in his paint'' st Havana, has reaofved to aateraaiaa te all the ehaas in the province oi Pmar del Kio not encaged as soldiers 1. the Spanish ranks. M matter Imw peaceful aud baimlesthey appear.

uals. is said to find no expression ot disapprobation at the state departasMt, Li I aikiH has had another disastrous

L. A. Maatn t Ca. of Kichmond. have issued the initial copy of the Ked Men s 1 bieftain. a journal which will be devoted to the interests of the Ked Men in the state. Charlu Lau kET. of Cambridge City, has sold to A. Asher. of Pittsburgh, a handsome bay team. The price was fäOO One of the horses w as purchase t in Push county, and the other at W illiamsburg, in Wayne county. Two masked men held up Saloonkeeper Nolan Iteckner. at Arlington. He was hauled from his buggy and beaten insensible. His horse and boggy, gold watch and $100 diamond were taken, and he left on the roads.de. supposed to be dead. He waa found next morning. Pecker wa a'.:i.: treaass Ao.rii.Lx Laviiiiv. aged 7', one of the wea'.tb est farmers of Parker county, died tlie ther morniug of injuries receive i :i-e days ago by falling throurh a shaft in his elevattw. During the war he served iu Thirty-first Indiana vo unteers. He owned land here and in Missouri.

Mn nut Fi.ovKxa. an aged farmer, was instantly killed by a freight train at Cromwell. He was deaf an t bad been through three almost similar accidents before, escaping each time without injury. A l l w wieks ago Mrs. Leon W'uilard. of Marion, received notice that she had inherited a large estate in France, and she at nce went to that country to invest Ma Her dan-rhter. Mrs. Willi Mi Pac.us. has rec.-ivcd word frni her that the report was genuine an i that her share of the - nearly a m..lion dollars. Tas second death ocenrred the other d iy at Anderson am rig the triplets born to Mr. and Mrs, J. P. Carpenter, of that city, three weeks ago. They w . re all boys. The total loss to the Wabash countyJail by fire the other night was W,m fi.htWon the build. n - an :. fur-

n.ture. Th- Jail was insure : t r -. '. (tjually d.videti letween the CMHMa ..-ut of Ilartf.T 1 and the Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Co. of Philadelphia. The furniture was in-ure.l in the Fire Asocintion of Philadelphia Javi Lvx.n. Jk. trustee of the Wabash Church and - 1 ';-tiPure Co., has received an order irom a Chicago firm for twenty-five thousand school desks, with the privilege of making it twenty thousand more. The above order is the .argest order rer received by tbe corr.pany. and will insure work for a full force of employe for a yenr. lM-lASA pensioners: Original Jas. Ctood. I'nion Center. La Porte; John Kobbina. deceased. ML P.easanL Perry; Lemuel Johnson, deceased. Greenfield. Hancock. Increase- IVter My era. Lvnnville. Warr.ck; Isaiah I Kamp, liioomfield, Greene; Kenjamin F. Kichartl. MauckporL Harrison: James H. l'arbrough. Shoals. Martin .lami-l W. Maj. Prazil, Clav: John Pipes, New Amsterdam. Harrison. Original W idows. ete. Renewal: Minor of James A. Spear, of Columbia City. Whitley. Mary E. Payne. Winchester. Randolph: MolMi L Bobbin. Mt. Pleasant. Perry; Anna M. Jones, (ireenhe d. Hancock. Thk count was completed the other

day of the special election in Fulton

WE YLE R'S CAMPAIGN A lipl. let I He f .Mil I i . l-t.UO I s it m Ha it... s.,,1 n .on ut yt'i i.u. Hjh m ...utf ia. . i ii: .i i area rates aeassasnaj llesesti afOaaa int. I SSV ion BlutislJ! .ill I I r. i.l ill ( IrlrUlil't ! ;. !. Mssa Ksi Wisi. F.u.. Dec. 4 Passengers v ,, ari Ii. I (r.uu Itttvan., V e.lnes la report that Wey lern campaign a pi liar del Kio so far i a failure, det he f ict t hat he has a force of over US . thousand men in the piovince M Ma Wevh r left Artemis. be formed n eoaasa of uluou infantry, l,flasj , .. i . aud tcu p eees of artillery and ui in lied, skirling tbe base f the hills MM soatheru side and -.e.-U ug an . ton.; to attack Maeeo, who is ss-i....g., fortified ou t,ip of the hills, ll appears that Maeeo has gathered ail lus forces und is uow intrenched in hills awaiting WeytoTS attack.! 1 Mrs is no truth. It is said, iu tbe rep. rt that Maeeo had divided his forces into small baudsfto elude coiuhat, and it is fin tlier declared tha: it is knowu ou good authority that Weyler has uo i v.cw of meeting Maeeo IjtttMaa, with a large force, is re red stea lily advancing west. He is ine.v repMta - iu Santa t lara provIsMtSi end, it i saiil, is coming with O.UOJ lueu. 1 ,i-re are more shocking details of L p .lein. i s execution, tien. Martinei Campos. It is sai l, is iiidign int at the injustice eaMBsittod iu eaaea tiug Colema. CaanpM obtained the aaeeBa pardon lor b.m aud sent a telegram so advising. The aaeesawe nr rue I ut msiii, but rejHirts say VNeyler pocketed it aud ordered the execution to pntceed. 1 he rcls-ls trappe I '.'I local guerillas near Vjuivicau recently. All wer. killed with machet. The fact was neve: teporlc i by tlie papers. It i raaaoretl L doff liasarrived with an expo tition. lio came from Cam p.- the, Mexico. Th.-re is great interest in Havau concerning Presideul C.evelaint's iuessage aud the action of congress thereaa.

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i iftasHai i . if i b lasaSi Havana, I-?c. 4. The exjiectatiou of loyalists here is al a high point, they wishing to hear of a b-cis.ve deteat of tM rebels in the province of Pmar del U.o by the troops under command of t apt. -tieu. Weyler. smcehis return to the frout from Havana Geu. Weyler has had uo eugagement with the insurgents. In fact, the Spanish MMte have uot ttcen able to locate the enemy, ami ttie position is not l.u wu of a siugle one of the rebel parties. The last report received here stated that Geu. Weyier and his forces were SasaMMd near Lo I'alacios. The con lit ion of l,eu. MirnaslTl Ma Dot. who recently returued to Havana iitfering with fever, has bajaM a urea, -mi fears arc euterlaiued that, be will uot recover. MaaSel and GMMMSS Ion- llr.tr. I Uu ii. or, AUttstl .Mtrrii. Hav ana. Dm 4. Musketry and c.inCon tiring lots been heard in the directiou of tue Gob, ruudura hills, ucar Ca ya;ab,s, about seven mile-, aorthsveet .: Al less sa. and in tnu rear of ten. e .i i' si forces. As yet no report lias reached here as to the occasion of t he l ng. but it is thought that a detachment of .Spanish tropsha-. met a body of insurgents who are detached from Ma . s command Mast. Weyler'a ignorance of the w i. er. ah i.it s of Min e i remarked. uioii here, uud is f i lug fise to many rumors. One report has it that be is in lue UaM hills with a small force, while another report states that he has left the province of Pmar del Uio, having abstml 'iie I his men ami mroaaed tus? trot h. i la disguise. All these reports are based ou nothing but eoujocturcs.

BLOODSHED IN ZANZIBAK.

DUN'S COMMEHCIAL R j

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Olio,. In, i. VI, mill ,.f thoio tmtt) r.r Ceat, o n,.

er . s t ' o. l.l.e. i., , 1 nun. leite- . I.r, Iii, I ,,i , ... i Nl.W Yt'US. lec. .'. I; I., j i IT to day iu then w. i ,..y i of trade: The classified failure for N v , given to-day, show a gratify in.. , tloii i-oinp.nel with Octoln apeeislly important a show u llu- pMallar disturbance din i, presideiilial caiupaigu, w in i, kw fai.ures Sl6.li.onii iu A , September. .1 ul not prevent , re tu rii to it mon t lily agg reM greater than that o4 May I Ii. ., liabilities iu eleven mouths ha . l'.is. .js.C.'.i. against 61t .. year, ihe increase being 000 outside of those two month this remaining increase of . cent was also in part due to during tbe campaign Ihe ; failures U alstut forty pat c Septeiftlier aggregate gives for tbe confidence so fern pressed. Grouud for confidence is in the abaudoiimeut of tw largest combinations by iron industry bus been reihe paaalhUlty that two othei abandoned. Sii.h a slate withiu a mouth after thee.. . gests that these i irgan iat h is when depresaed bealaea i.i port all tbe works in cmsnot expected to survive age: rival and snrpla leinaud fm- pi 1 The imiued ate effect of i . prices is to check buying ot stee1 products, bill it will st) seen .i'-out w hare prk?as i

range. At present the Infor wire uails is 1.35, -fcl.J.'i two weeks ago, withgn ff. lucliou ou small sies becui-i-ards reduced "extra" charges , MB ue selling at SI :. aga us, c weei.s ago Tbe bar com bin a! . still undersold by steel ban . t cents and nothing is tlo.ng in i .. - -cause the meeting shortly to in 1 will settle wnether any p -fixed for the next year. II pig at Pittsburgh is lower al -And gray forge at $ll. but then .. largo demand for vessel pi ,tes

jn foreign contracts uud the I Several thousand cars have been lered and numerous new bui And bridges. M .i. or metals are a - h ide sti The coke combination has ehasgi I method so that contracts ar nade below prices recently ru mg iu 1 there is s im- partition f e :r- am-nig the produc SfJ la I Anthracite sells Ihomw the SirtrelM, but better dein.tnd is i neeted with revival la aiannfarl Wool ssanefaatnriaai is vraitlaji a w hile more con cerus are at work, tin iew dei.iaul improve, but liU.e . favorable weather. Iu the cot na ii n fact lire there is little chan .hough goods are sei 1 1 B : better, bu with many added wt.rl. - product. o rxeceds present demaini T he market for raw c ton is wei. tViih over S,ttsagB bales in sight December 1. wheu the crop la us tboiit half iu aigbt, current est re. Aoiild leave only 3,.VJ1.k ;oine forward iu nine luoulha argest ctuisiimptioii in mil s idvaucv price-. Other it ets have been weaker. heat rose to the close jut gradually reacted SI ihnrply on Friday, closing ' .r the week T he week's bin a Is shown by the clearing urns, was one per cent 4 ,-ear and the uu nt h of Nov ui H-r cent., and II per cent, e- J .-.'. the cdlipirison leing for trie past tiv.- luouths. Fa lures for the week ha v. i ii tne United Slates, against fear, and in l auada la agauis; ." ear.

news .f IM KndiiK uf ItallMa i asdi M I ll. I. I .lie. I Mil l t ....!' rtll. potii:, Dec. 4. la the i haaslwii of

NAT U Rt DID IT.

fire. Daule. an Important town in the ronntT fo,. m repreaenUtive, and

pr iv nee of sM R:o. teing the sc-ne.

More than thirty b mses in the business section of the town were destroyed, the losses aggregating hundred of thousand of dollar. Tiik announcement was received in : London, on the 4th. of the death, ou November 11, of Joseph James Cheese- J man. president of the republic of Li- I battel and tbe inauguration, on Noveinber 13, of Vice-President W 1) o. email as president Amin h Pai nsn. of Montezuma. O.. and K L -iodfrey. f Kmlent-.n Pa .

both oil men, were drownetl in the ; reservoir at ML Mary's, O . on the 4th. I Palmer broke through the ice and Godfrey went under while endeavoring to ! rescue his companion. Thf. Milwaukee heaith department rexrted. on the 4th. a wholesale poison. ng of families in the northern part j of the city, snpposed to have been j caused by eating bread from a certain '

bakery, containing arsenic. Mi Mr tar Fa si-is of the interior depart meat submitted hi first annua! report to the president on the 4th. It is an eshaastive and well prepared paper.

Mark L Patterson, republican, was elected by 1 vote This gives the republicans V memliersof the house, a ma.o-ity of 4. and 3 members of the st-nate. a majority of IS; a majority on joint ballot of 'JO. Lai ss wr was standing in fr .nt of J. W l a'.ton's s'or-,.. Shelhurn. w hen a large piece of window glasa, which had preTMmsly been broken, fell from the frame, a distance of six feet, on the back of Snapp s neck, inflicting a serious, if not fat.l. gash. Joun Vails, of South Kokomo.whilc out hunting, was killed hy the cam. In following the game he did not notice the approach of the train. Elia Kmb. of Erie, nine miles west of abash, has filed suit for S-'l.OOC damage against Andrew Wis, of the same place, for injuries ii-f.icved by the latter'a dog, which attacked him while he was walking alone the highway last August, and terr.bly laceraud hi in. l-.lt Barsktt, of I r:c.vf,inl eilte, waa killet near Lafayette riding on top o.' a Monon i asi er train. His head struck a bridge and his skuil

i was cruahed.

I lit. aeavget r an Awful t I.l...... 1 .11. V I I

iepoties yesterday the Marquis Ms- Krirlllt weanaj

met! v ein tsti, minister of foreiguaffairs. UoaBl aaml tue reports from Baa Mhni of the- murder of Mm Italian t ouI sill I'ecchi. the captains and a uutuhcr of other aMtoan of t:ie Italtaa war ships Volturuo and .Staff. -ta, and the Wounding of a hu mired or untre, other Italians by Somalis, at Magadoxo. 1'i.e men bad faoen into au ambuscade, aud were attacked w ithout any warning. The gi ivriiiueiit, tne u.inister said, would take enecg -iic mcasuie to punish the Somalis, who wer guilty. Th - aaa lis said that the con Annatorv ! -epoi-s s showed that 14 Italians had aaa killed, together with u aaas ber of tit.- nneertaol the Italians, whoso caravan was attacked during the uignt. Twenty-st ven It-Hlies were reMtered by a rescue party. Which hurr ed to the scene fr mi Maga x , wheu the news of the fighting reached there. 1 hv rescuers arrested a niiui

her of the S .mal is who parlicip Stod in the massacre aud punished them appropriate! v. Many of the Somali trib.siueti were also killed by the Italians iu the tight, that followed the attack on tbe earn van.

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S. .n'7-I irr I'l-rtimt I'rrlth.il in th HnI In, lot ( jrelone. Lo.xiMis:, Dec. 4. The colon iai oflice has rece.ved a dispateh from Ply mouth, capital of .Mnntserrat. stiting that H persons of that island perished u tbe slot in.

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I., in toi. I iiii'I'kwa Falls, Wis.. Dai langer is now over. Tha nal receded three feet and is eontiaesa; .. run off. Many of the uu iave couiinence I to return ! ' uess piace lit her are yet will not move until next week la Lindley, Col. Jtm. s, I'uited v jineer. and party, made a tri the river to-day la a apeekl stopping at various p dale ' the coiidit on of the gorge A party returued Mayor Liioiicv iua tue following statement: We were ull ipiite fairly c that the reecdiug of thewat : uiain tit and that the gorge wll become any more menacing St present. It : quite SI ' the w iter has cut a large psM Death the got ge and Cot, Jaaea that the snow and ice may gradually until all danger is pS have nature to thank for tue hsp relief, and if this tve.it h tin ues for a week the gorgrendered a helpless aa it hsi threatening. Ancttor Ice is atil ing down in large quantities, passing beneath the gorge ana I h. ring to it as it did tester I i condition has undergone a ewmp change, Sud such a su hleii ' factorv termination of what t, ened to be a gn at disaster wa- ' looked for by the most sang' -

DLCEI VING THEMSELVES.

i'rrmler l ttitli Wlinilin. I ough a tteanefMab Mapkip. Dec t. Ihe queen regent presided at a meeting of the cah.no con m il yesterday, st which Premier tsuovss del Castillo announced the sr- ! rival of Geu. Poiaviejo, the new gov- t e.nor of the Philippines, at Mauila. I 1 kc premier also auuouuced t.,at the insurgent leader Maeeo had disap- 1 peared from his position in the ('ubsu I

province of Pinsr del Uio, and that the

pauisll troops under were purauius bim.

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