Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 43, Number 7, Jasper, Dubois County, 19 October 1900 — Page 2

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r. in 1MB, IfisWWsse. taSTKB. 1 I l ANA. The Topeka prcsytery, in M -smn at Kutisas City, ka - . oil the 1 Ith, tOtc4 in favor of revision of tin- Confession oi t'.nt li The Cape Colony house of assembly, on the Ith piwd o second reading bill to raise a U -HI of gl "i to aa arc the Immediate pay meat a! half the l"srs sustained ny private persons thron;, h tin- war. The steamer Btmbo, with MM bak's of coffee, Mm barged lo r cargo at New Orleans on ilu- Utk This la the find COffec from Santos. ' Crail, since the plague broke out IImm aigkt months ago. The plague is beloved to he stamped out. Maj. Seldon Noy. s Clarke, a widelyk now ii newspaper man, who had lieen connected witli the Washington bureau of the Nf York Tribune for H years, died in Washington, on the th, of heart failure. He was an authority on political and economic questions. Mrs. J.M.Ite.ieliamp. of Kansas City, Ias.. has asked the police to assist her in finding her husband, a CongregKtional clergyman, who left home August 10. saying he was going to Colornlo or J anstng to w ork among the railroad nun, mid has not Wen heard trom si nee. Mr. ChainiM-rlain. HHtfcsh secretary of state for the colonies, speaking, on the 9th. at Stourbridge, said: "Great Britain's foreign ioliey, as I Bum it up, ia to remai:' on friendly terms with every great country in F.urope, and on something more tlian friendly terms with the United St a', es." It is semi-othciall denied in Paris that the French fovornmon t has been npproached on the subject of the suggested disemhni kation of farmer president Kruger. at Marseilles, whence he eonhl cross Frame to Th Hague. On the contrary, it is added. Mr. Krugcr is expected to land directly iE Holland. A telegram from Hen. Su, reports that u serious rebellion has broken out in the southwestern part of Kwanif Si M ovince, la China; thnt his 80,000 troops ire inadequate, and that he needs at least 100,000 to cope with the danger, which directed against the manchus and thcatens to hc-orae worse than the Tai Ping rebellion. Gen. C.reely received a cablegram, on the 10th, Baying that the signal corps' line from Tien Tsin to I'ekin, long the PJ Ho, had been completed. Within a short Mme it was expected that the signal corps' line would be completed from Tien Tsin to Taku, making a through connection over the United States military line from I'ekin to Taku. Admiral Remey, on the 12th, cabled the navy department of bis departure from Chinese waters. He goes on hia flagship, the Brooklyn, from Taku to Che Foo, thence to Nagasaki, Japan. Although his dispatch does not announce his movement from that point. It is the understanding at the navy department that he will next go to Carito, P. L According to reports from St. Pierre, 17 fishing vessels that were operating on the Grand Hanks during the gale of September 12, are still missing, with crews aggregating over two hundred men. A number of other vessels arriving at St. Johns. N. F.. report a loss of one to seven men each. The fatality list probably exceeds three hundred. A disastrous freight wreck near the East Hound Urook signal tower on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, on the night of the 11th. tied up all travel on the road, except that which could be sent around the wreck by way of the Lehigh Valley tracks. One engineer was cut in two, and one engine and manv cars were demolished. E. K. Hawson. superintendent of nsval war records, has made his annual report to the secretary of the navy, showing that the entire work of publication, which was begun about six years ago. will be about half completed by the end of the current year through the publication of the twelfth, thirteenth and part of the fourteenth volumes. President Mitchell of the United Sline Workers issued a call, on ths Sth. for a convention of the striking ÜBCra of the anthracite regions, to nvet it. Bcrnnton, Pa, an Ike Ittlu The call gave great satisfaction to miners and operators, all of whom expect the action of the convention on the olfcr of a ton-per cent, increase hi wnL'fs to end the strike. The official preliminary estimate- M the crop yield of Iowa for the current year show- Corn, area, H,C1H,660 acres; average, 41 bushels per acre; total product, :t:;!,:ifi5.060 bushels, which ii greater by 1 ,000,000 than eer he fori harvested In the state. The total of all cereals will be stUIOMBO, which ii 10,000,000 in excess of any previoui year, and II 1.000,000 above the aver age yearly output the past ten yeara .1 m The Women's Synodical society of the Synod of New Jersey, at its an ratal meeting, on the 11th, in the First Presbyterian church of Jersey City, passed a resolution urging Cnited States atnnton nnd representatives In MifrtSS to take enrlv action b -v.ards securing an 'intendment to the constitution prohP.'ling polygamy in ny pan of the United State or In any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

NE AYS JNBR1ER Compiled frcra Various ßüunvs, PERSONAL AND GLNEHAL.

A hind for ths benefit of Um Oal vest on school children was started, on the Utk among the attendants of the public schools of St. Joseph. Mo., with the result that v as raised. School children of other cities will be uskel to son tri bu to. The reply of the state depart men! to the French not.- relative to the Isisis of Chinese negotiations was inadc'p1'' On tll' n,,- M '" the main with all the French proposals and suggest parly action. Announcement wsi made, oa Ik llth, of the appoint tneiit of 1'. A. Miller as general passenger agent of tke i hi.-.i ... Milwaukee i st. Paul, reilaray, rice Geo, K, Ueafford, resigned to Bagage in other business. Col. Humphrey, quart ermaster in China, sent a cable: s a in. under date of the lnh. to tke quartermaster general announcing the first departure of United states troops from China. Mr. Tewksbury, an American missionary residing at Tung Chow has presented claims agalnat China on behalf of converts la -' I villages for compensation for property losses. It is asserted in Koine that Arch bishop Martinelll will be raised to the cardinals te at the next consistory. A very serious view is taken at Field Marshal Count von Walde rsce's headauartere. in Tien Tsin, of the revolutionarv movement at i anton. a raise alarm, on the 7th. aused the Chinese officials (here tO protest against any occupation ot l nines icrrnor. i or Yang Tse viceroys, the dispatch adds, openly, aflirni that they will OppOSC nny advance of the Hermans into Bhang Tung province. It is understood that the final disposition of the silver some $275.tK)0 In amount taken bs the American marines at the capture of 1 lea tsin, inav be determined bv congress. Inj the meantime tke silver la being treat I ed as a trust fund, of which tke government is the custodian, until a determination is reached us to its rightful disposition. Patrick Murphy, "The Father of .foplin." M.. died at his home in that city on the 12th. He was born in Ire-1 land in 14'.. Huring the civil war he was a government freighter, and, later, became Interested in Colorado mining. Be was the first settler in what is now Jopliu. Bear-Admiral Silas Casey, at present commandant at League Island navy yard, has be n selected to succeed Rear-Admit al Albert Kautz aa commander -f the Pacific station upon the hitter's retirement in the near future. William eigler. a well-known nnd wealthy eitien of New York, has announced that he will purchase two vessels, fully eiiip and man them, and send tken in qneal cf the north pole (luring the summer of IfOL Albert ft, (ireen. of the general land office, has been selected as chief of the new division of forestry of the Interior department authorized by the Is. xt congress. A dispatch from Hong Kong, dated tin 12th. say s; 'Admiral Ho is pursuing the rebels in an easterly direction from San Chun." Tka Modern Brot he rhood of America "ill hold its next eonven-.ion at Hons Fails. S. 1.. in 1001. Failures' for the week ended on the 12th. as reported by R. (J. Ihm s Co., were in the Cnited States, against 164 last year, and U in Canadu.againat 27 laet year. A Shanghai dispatch, dated the llth, savs the Chinese Customs bank has ' ' '!,,, Vtk tnnlu ,1... I I

, , , r deed convevs the land from the countreasury, and Is preparing to send . . . u, ... t - enniiiiiKSKini'i-s of Soerieer i-omitv

more. The Presbyterian synod of North Dakota elected Andrew Christy Ik VWn, I.1., of Omaha, synod!cnl missionary for North Dakota. Sir Alfred Milner, the Hritish high commissioner at Cape Town, has gone to Dlocmfontein. William J. l'.ryan addressed an audience at Ann Arbor, during his l.vir of Michigan, on the llth, ami was compelled to submit to considerable jollying by the university students, who were out in force, before being permitted to go on with his peech. Two desperate convicts at the Tennessee penitentiary made a daring and novel escape from that instil ution, on the evening of the Utk, by sliding down telephone wires from the top of a three-story building to a point ouside of the walls by means of improvised trolley cycles. They were rceapt ured. The battleship Wisconsin made a successful trial trip off Santa Karbara, CaL, on the llth. On he western run, over a rt2-knot course, on average of 17. 9 w;.s made. The average for four hours was 17.25. with strong tide allowance in favor of the ship. In a spurt a speed of 1.5 Wag attained. BepOTtl from Georgetown, Ky., Indiente that Henry Youtcey may tu-ver again appear in court. His physicians fear brain fever, which in Oi" patient's present condition, they say, would surely prove fatal. The membera of the Taft commission are disgusted with the corrupt condition of the native courts of Manila, and intend to substitute honest Americans from the Cnited States for the native magistrates. Americana having a knowledge of Spanish are preferred, but they are the hardest to secure. An official order has been issued by Secretary of War Penardo Reyes of Mexico expelling from the army Maj. l alios Glass, the grounds for the expulsion being that the officer made piddle statements in the presence of his superiors derogatory to the Institutions of Mexico.

The coufi -re uce coin salt tee appointed hi the Keutuck,. legislature to adjuat the illiagietiii ill over tke aka lion iiii t o take the place of Ike Qe h-i law, fall d to agree, aad Iks It ad ,.,. on b. th akiee axj real tka anstsloa that a new law will not he passed. Hot, Mount of Indiana, on the iitii,

' apolofied. on b-hal; of the state, to ; Gov. Booeavelt .f Htw Vork, for tka Indignantl) offered him the prerloai nicht, at Fort Wa.snc when i.... Booserell arai atoned) lu ins oarrlagSi by n gang of hoodlnms. 'i he Kllxabetkport j v J.) Hanking c. , v hfceh "as robbed at I10t,l s.n by William Bchreiber, Ita akaooiiding bookkeeper, ha begun sin, IgainSt I Anna Hart, tkt woman in ffen ! ". k, on wkOta, it is alleged. Schreib, r squandered much of tka itolcn money, RuaaeU Sage, of New York, is sec1., ing to recover money on aORM rail, w,i aid bonds issued by the i'tlngg i a . ,, t . .. f ( 1 1 Jiectis, llunaMlii couiii, .nun, May years ago. which the Minnesota supreme court legi ia out of exiat euee. LATF. NEWS ITEMS. Wm. K. Tabh, Jr., formerly mnnnger of the branch house of Nelson. Morris A- Co.. of Chicago, at Atlantic City, N. J., was arrested at the home of a relative at Schenevus, N. Y., on the 13lh, charged with grand larceny. The firm allege that there is a shortage in his accounts of ocr twenty-four hundred dollars. The naval board 0 examine the old frigate Constitution has reported to in navy aepartinem i nai i wm wm abool four hundred thousand dollars to place that . sv,.l in condition such as coniempiaico o i nc i..nnii . . Ii is raisins? a fund for for the rehabilitation of "Old I ronsides." The Dowieite deacon. Homer Kessler, of Chicago, made another unsuccessful nttcmpt to hohl services at Mansfield, 0., on the Utk. Ha was taken in Charge ov Hie police at I tie home of F. D. Calvcr. and was sent out of the city on the west -bound Pennsylvania paasenger train. While the crew of the White Star liner Oceanic, ( apt. Cameron, were lowering an anchor, at Liverpool, on the Utk, the chain broke, tearing off the left leg of one of the carpenters nnj fracturing the right. He died s,,,.n afterwards. Another man had his left leg frad ured. The Lorain .) plant of the Federal Steel Co. was closed, on the Cith. throwing ,()(M men out of employ ment. It is said the shut-down will be for 01 lv i wo weeks, but as orders are liciht the men believe the mills will be idle until after election. The Mosquito fleet of five small gunboats belonging to the United States nnvv, left Cramps' ship yards, Philadelphia, on the li.th, for Cuba, with Fella B, Hnaicke, chief of the revenue cutter Barrien, in command. While digging a sink hole in the rear of a resilience in Omaha. Neb., Ott the 13th, sewer jfmW c.vcrcame three Workmen, and tWO of them were suffocated before they could Im rescued. Some Chinese soldiers desecrated the cemeteries for foreigners at Nam-Shih-Tu, near Canton, and the viceroy had the offenders decapitated und dismissed their commander. Lieutenant-Commander William H. F.. e her, naval attache of the United States etabassy in ltcrlin, is sutloring from pneumonia. Ma j. Fi am is S. hörige, paymaster of the Division of Cuba, is down with yellow fever. cov. Meant of Indiana, on the isth, le. eived a deed to the 1 acres of land in Spencer county, Indiana, surrounding the crave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the mother of Abraham Lincoln. The to the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial association, of which the governor is president. The work on the monument has begem, ancl will, it is bell, ved, I completed this fall, when dedicatory services will be held. The supreme court of the Cnited States, on the Utk, granted the motion of the government to advance the Neely eases, ami ossigned them for hearing November 12. The government is very anxious for a deei sion. which will settle the coustini tlonal questions involved. The annual report of the Kansas City, Fort Scott A Memphis Railroad Co., fur the fiscal year ended June 30, loaned on tie istk, shows an increase of H81,C 10, or -.'.'ij per cent., in carniiiL's; of $030,493, OT 21 l-'i percent., in expenses, aad of 1345837, or 25 per cent., in net earnings. .b-tT nnd Mngtrie .lones nnd their four children were blown to atoms, on the I Sth, by a el erg, of dynamite which destroyed tlu-ir home at Sells, Ark., fonr miles fron Bot Springs. It is believed that dlrputc over home trad claim prompted the ootraga. The 1.300 delegatea lO Ike railroad department of tke Y. M. c. A, confer ence, whose sessions in Pklladelphia doted on the Nth. were the guests of tke Pennsylvania railroad, on the IStk, on aa excursion to Atlantic City. Col. McMillan wos sworn in as lieulenanf governor af the Province of Manitoba aa Ike IMk, The ceremony was performed at the gvernnient house by J, J. Mefiee, clerk of the privy council at Ottawa. Dr. .lames Cnrlyle, nephew of Thomas Carlyle, the great nrthur. and himself one of the Is-st-known educationists of Ontario), died la Toronto, oa the 1,1th, of bronchial asthma. A petition in bankruptcy was filed in the Cnited States 1 ist rift court of Slew York, on the 13th, by Bflla S. Hsnkine, boarding house keeper. Liabilities. 50ft,l IA; assets, none. Ann ng the passengers who arrived nt (few Vork, on tke IStk, on Ike steamer Minnehaha were s. L. Clemens (Mark Twain), Mrs. tit n"tia and the Misses Clemens.

WITHIN OUR LIMITS.

New by Telegraph from Variou i Towns in Indiana. Tralit W reeked. Viiiceuue. lud . Oct. I V An Fvan rille i Torre Hgala south hound freight train was wrecked .it Pu reell, -even miles south of this city . late Sundaj afternoon aad three men are seriously hurt and one is missing. The Iraia struck con I brow Inf I aa engine into a ditch ami piling up 18 ..lis, for having oil tanks, which Ig alted aad all burned la I heap, one car contained two race horses. II. M. C. and Emma, belonging to Mr McKlnney, of Evaneville. B. at C. a killed outright and was lnirned up. Bmma had a leg broken and had to DO ihot, The men injured arc William Dock, Bvanaville, collarbone broken and internal injuries; Thomas Enrigkt, BlckatOad, Ky., arm broken; .lames Alsep, New Harmony, Ind., hurt in breast. The head brak.inan ! missing and is thought to have been burned up. The engineer and tirenian jumped and saved their lives. How In a lull. Wabash, Ind.. Oct. lä. There is a Beret controversy in DTOgrCSS in the State Federations of Clubs of Indiana, which will probably result in a complete reorganisation of that body, it has just been discovered that instead of the treasury containing between $,im and 1300 there is now OB hand but $'.. It is charged that the Offleera and committee of the federation have gone on a number of junketing tours to Indianapolis; that at each meeting these persona have charged up every penny of their personal expenses until there is little left in the treasury for the current disburse Dienta, The Wabash federation will take an active pari in effecting reforms. tore Mi) Kill. Wabash. Ind.. Oct. 15. Frank Smith. a prominent mill owner of this county, is at the point of death at Koann. the result of the use of remedies for obesity. Mr. Smith two yean ago weighed ISO pounds and as his Weight interfered with his ability to handle his large business he followed the advice of a friend and began treatment. He. lost rlesh rapidly, but impaired his constitution, CIce ration of the stomach and liver fvt in and an Indianapolis specialist called and said his death was only matter of time. Mr. SMiiith is .'..! years old. Man Mlonliie. Lafayatte, Ind., Oct, 15. William J. Koseberry. Sr.. president of the Land and Improvement company and a leading citi.en. has mysteriously disappeared, and there is no clew ;i to his whereabouts. He departed from his office last Thursday, leaving the bocks upon the desk and the cash drawer unlocked, evidently casing vork without premeditation. Mr. Ko. .-berry had been in jsior health for some time, but persisted in business net iv it v . It is thought that temporal v ttntntal aberration influenced his itrange departure. I'ounil Belg, New Albany. Ind.. Oct. 13. David Behware. of Oalena. a wealthy miller, has just found 13Q in gold as the result of a dream. The moncv was bidder by Mr. Schwnre during the civil war. in anticipation of the raid through here of (ien. .lohn Morgan. After Morgan had passed S.hware looked in vain for the money, and concluded that some one had stolen It. He moved to (ialena years later. A few nights ago he had a dream, in which he located the spot where the money was hidden, and, going there, found it intact. Asnln IlUarcrre. Danville. Ind.. Oct. 15 The jury in Ihc Ragan murder trial, after remaining out 24 hours, reported to Judge Hays an inability to agree upon a verdict, standing seven for conviction and five for aeqttittal, This wns the second trial of the ease, the firs' juryalso standing seven for conviction and Ave for acquittal. Kon nil In a Field. Brownavltk, Ind.. Oct. 15. .lefferjon Banek, 3 years old, the wealthiest man in this county, after a diligent search of L' I hours, was found dead in a a V l f a neiii, where nc nun seen ouruing brush. The cause is attributed to heart failure. Shipped fruni Mnnlln. Goshen, Ind., Oct. l.V Itogi rs A Wilton, of I his city, have received II piano from a V w Vork house with n card saying that tin- case is made from the Ural mahogany log shipped from Manila to the Cnited States. Found Demi. Fort Wayne. Ind.. Oct. IS, Chartei Jemieson, a liver stable helper, was found dead in the barn, hanging' over a water trough. As there were no marks of violence, hi: death is attributed tO alcoholism. I'ara Derailed. Crowfordsville. Ind.. Oct. 15. A Mormn train was derailed nt the Crnvv fordsville station. 12 cars loaded with Bedford stone being piled up. The ace Ideal was caused by n broken rail and the damage is quite heavy. Knox. Ind.. continued ill Heed, pastor copal church rharee. Oct, II - On aaeoaal of health lev. Kobert S, of the Methodist Kpishere. has resigned his Pocket rieketl. Franklin. Ind.. Oct. 13. Mayor , Limes ). McDonald attended the Indianapolis carnival und while in the capital city bad his pockets picked of 34

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It Opened Quietly with Few Collieries Working, and None Working Full-Handed. THE STRIKE HAS MOT YET BEEK ENDED. A llellef F.sUta. Ilweer. Ihat Ike laid of Ihr Week Will See Ihts IMoese Hack st Work-IHa BMB aaatratlitait VIM aa üaü rrii i kafclaweii llaleton, Fa., Oct. 16. The Aft week of the eal miners' strike opened quietly. The lew collieries that have continued in operation since the strike was inaugurated arc working us usual, with the same numlier ol mn tke hud in the mines last week.

.Sot one of the collieries, however. Wtka1 the workings of the adjutant. W Oi k ill'' full handed. The Cranberry L'enerals office of the Americans ia

mines of A. Pardee Co. Have more men at work than ony of the fewother mines still in operation. The Company claims to have more than half of its men at work. ÜTHIKK XOT YET USD ED. llellef Eilsts that tke End of tke Week Will See tke End. Shamokin. Fa., Oct. 13. No1 I colliery resumed operation in this portion of the coal region. While minera generally think the terms of the convention will be accepted by operator! and coal-carrying companies, operators hereabouts insist that so far mt they are concerned they will not, mileaa forced to by the coal-carrying companies, sign an agreement to pay ten per cent, advance. The Bkamokin nnd Mt. Cnrmei delegations returned from Bcrnnton Sunday night. Oeorge Hart lein, secretary of District No. 9. made this statement : Hellene Terms Will k Aeeepted. "The terms, I believe, will be accepted by operators giving their approval through newspapers and notices posted about the collieries. Miners will not go to work until President Mitchell declares Ike strike off Officially, Big demonstrations will lie held through OUl the region on the day pre' ions to work being resume. 1 I think tb dtieties will ie working betöre next Saturday. The companies ..... . . . . i .i i - ri . m will taKe up trie grnvan.es ,, ,c , DWB employes, and re.lr. s. tliem SUM work is go in THOOI'it OHDERED Ol'T. Sis ompanlea of the Fonrth Heement Kest to Tantker alley. Shenandoah, l'a.. Oct. 1" Advi.es have reached Gen. i bin, in Command ot the state troops here, that a large body of marching strikers have left McAdoo for the 1'anther Creek region. They epcc to reach that valley in tunc to intercept the miners on the.r

way to work in the morning. Gen. do. of Madrid says the Carlists nBokin ordered mix companies of the j preparing, leverishly. to open a Fourth regiment to leave to-night f r paign mi the end of the present tar, that vallev. und a special train on the adding that the discontent in Cata-

1'liihidelpliia A Heading railroad was provided to take them to Tama.pia. which station is but a few miles Irorn Coal Data, STRIKE RAMIFI' ATIOKS. Want and P.nln Followlna Is the Wake of the Strike. New York, Oct. 13. A special to the Herald from llaleton, l'a., says. Want and ruin have followed in the Wake of the strike in the anthracite region. Families who lived in comfort while the mines were in operation now feel the pinch of privation, and the bare necessit ies of existence seem like luxuries; business men, upor. whom prosperity had mailed, have bean brought to the Verge af bankruptcy; thriving towns have become Magna nt. casual travelers have for Kaken them, and newspaper corre' spondents and labor leaders const -tute the most important element bV the floating population. Merehants Cancelled Orders. Merchant who had large order outstanding when the strike Itcirun promptly canceled them, refusing to make purchases until the trounle end cd. Commercial travelers, usually the heal patrons of the hotels,chsiiged their routes, as they could sell nothing in the coal regions. The theaters have been unable to attret audiences. rind many of the liest attractions that had been booked cancelled their dates, to the further detriment of the hotel keepers. Deed Train ( renii I. aid Off. s there was little coal to bhauled, the coal railroads had to layoff the crews of most of their coal trains. There hit actually In the enormous yards nt Manch ( hunk several hundred coal cars which uu di normal condi'iotis, should !e scattered on railroads from the Atta nt ie to t he Pacific, Felt la Otker Quarters. The stagnation of t rnile here is, of course, felt by th manufacturers and wholesalers of the eastern cities who furnish the supplies, and as the merchants run obluin no cash from their coMomcrs. they must appeal to their creditors for leniency No Marines to fosse Haas, New York, Oct. 16. A special to the Herald from Washington says: Secretary Long has decided not to order home any of the marines now in th Philippines. Instead, if more ma rincs should be available, they will be sent to Manila. Sailed from and Arrived st Manila. Washington. Oct. Mb (ien. Mae At thur not ified the war department yesterday that the transports Siitm ami Athenian had sailed for the Cnited btates and that the transport Frederica arrived at Manila yesterday.

THE AMERICANS IN CHINA.

Iber MavO Honored TkentBelve- nntf Tlielr omiiIO l llrlmllliiu Front i:cenM-a. New York, o, t. if, a Fekin aon mondenl writes! The unexnmnled eonduel of I Aiueriiuns bei ftven Oen. naffc au Ininence at the uicetingH of generals, which arc held very other dav, ahead of that of any other general. 1; not disparaging. (Jan. Chaff ee'n hard ommon annas, which, according to other generals, has helped them Solve 10 many knotty problems, nor h I tonal dignity, both among the diplo mats and generals, but it unquetionablc that his influence has been crcntly increased through being thw leader of a body of men w Im have distinguished themselves not only in the face of the enemy, bnl equally s. against the lemptations that cist g a city like Fekin under existing condition. It is said among foreign officer much ouickcr and much more saiisfateory than that of any other nation, and probably the best known und liked officer of the American olH cers among foreign officials, with tlo exception of Qen. Chaffee, is his ad-, jutunt general, ( apt. Bntekinaon, of the Sixth cavalry. R0SSLYN F ERR ELL ON TRIAL. A Pies of Insanity la be Set I la Defenae af Express Meaaeugrr l.nne'a Murderer. Marvsvilb-. O.. Oct. 13. -JtOSSlyn 1! Ferrell was placed on Irial here OD the charge of murdering Adams ).. press Messenger Cknrlea Lane on Vu gust 10. ItMJO. Ferrell made a wriis-n confession, in which all the detail oi how he shot Lane and robbed the eir press safe, were set forth. The purpose of the robbery was to secure money for his then aporonchlng mar riage with Miss Lillian Cost low, f Columbus, in whose presence he was when arrested two days later. The young lady has been subpoenaed as a witness for lire state. CARLISTS IN CATALONIA Tke ffnnilih o eminent I'rrt u rlet Uer the btaeweevr of a Depot of Arni mt l.erlda. Paris, Oct. If..- A dispatch from M.1(lri( s;is ,,. Spanish govern. ne t is greatly concern d at the revival of tka Carllst agitation aad the iiis,,..ery of a depot of arms at Lei Catalonia, where ur Reaaingtom UK) bayonets and an Importaal collection of machinery and tools for the manufacture ami repair of arms Wert seised at a locksmith's store kept by a Carlist. Four arrests were mad I the store. including a man named Nim Ik), who styb's himself "Chief of th'. ('artist administration." The Hi Ionia forms excellent soil for the ,ilist propganda. A PREJUDICED BRITISHER. Me Dram the Line icalnat ClttSSSH of the I lilted Statea and H a lire w a. London, Oct. it;. The will of ) B Clayton, the son of the late men. her of parliament oi that name, has ju-t been probated. lly it he lenv. I hit two daughters a fortune of 1144, with the curious provision that tin money is only to be payable if the attain the age of without marryIng either n citizen of the United States or a Hebrew. The reason for this pro vial on is not given. RETURN OF GEN. BULLER. t'ompllmentar Order laaaed h iau Hoherta on ien. Ualler'a Work In Month Afrlea. Pretoria, Oct. 18. Lord Robert!, in nn army order announcing the reI urn of ien. Puller to Knglnnd.t ban I - Sir Itc lvcrs for his irnllant service while he was commander in-ch i. f . the Hritish forces In South Africa and for the ability with which he carried out the operations while serving under Lord Roberta, which, the ordci ciliares "lb suited in tka collapse of the Baera ia the Gestern Transvaal.' TRAIN WRECKER SUSPECTS. Fonr loans Hna Arrested In ( Menno Snupected of Iis In Wrecked the Lake kore Kspreaa. Chicago, Oct. 13. Four hoys, su -peeted Of having caused the vv re. k of the New York and BoetOO exprc-s on tka Lake Maore A. Michigan Southern railroad al South Chicago. Son. I. i.v have been nrrested. The boys. ratiL'mg in age from nine to eleven year-, deny that they wrecked the train, hut one of them said hn knew two l,v -who had stolen parts of the switches. The truin wis derailed by an open switch nnd two men were killed and three injured. Chile's New Oaanmeti Valpraiao, Chile. Oct. 16.-The Chilean ministerial crisis has been solved by the formation of a new cabinet. Premier---Henor Eliaa Albano. Minsitcr of Foreign Affairs Scnor Manuel Salinas. Minister of Justice Senor Kmilio Csdccido. Minister of Finance Scnor Kamon laatelleca. Minister of War Senor Kichardu Perez. Minister of Industry 8enor Bafael Orrego.