Ligonier Banner., Volume 32, Number 26, Ligonier, Noble County, 30 September 1897 — Page 2
’ . * ; The Zigonier Banner LIGONIER. : t INDIANA I . .M.A e e e S, The Carlisle (Pa.) school is helping to solve the Indian problem. There are this year 600 Indian pupils enrolled. | ——————————— A — S : Just as the world is getting used to Alaskan orthography Andree’s balloon isreported to have been seen at Antzifirowshoje, Siberia. Ty - Nevada is the most sparsely settled state in America. There are nearly 2%, square miles to each inhabitant; next comes Idaho, with one inhawuitant to each square mile. 1 S ——T— T OPI |TS In New Jersey the feeling against gamblers and their various methods has lead to a constitutional amendment to prohibit gambling, which will be voted on this fall. An eastern scientist has discovered that “kissing is a cure for dyspepsia.” The chances are that dyspepsia will be the most popular disease in sight, and drugsof theapothecary will mold and go to ruin. :
On the eve of returning home, Lord Kelvin remarks that this country leads the world in the development of electricity as a motive power. It isa great achievement in the opinion of the famous Dritish scientist. ;
A Florida paper says the tobaceo crop in the state this year will bring $10,000,000, in addition to which there will be 300,000 crates of pineapples, to say nothing of vegetables, melons, turpentine, lumber and a “pretiy good smattering of oranges.”
Electric railway equipments have been ordered from this country in Dublin, Bristol, Coventry and several Australian cities, as well as London. Our inventors and skilled workers in this field are apparently without any rivalry in the world. =
The Yukon river of Alaska is a noble stream 2,200 miles long, and 30 miles witle 600 miles from its mouth. At Fort Yukon it is six miles wide. People who imagine that Alaska Is a small country and its rivers creeks, and its mountaings hills, are wide of the mark.
“The Italian government is experimenting with a rifle that fires 80 shots a minute. Civilization is a great thing, It has certainly struck a killing pace. Perhaps bullets may be some day under the ban of law and science, like other, deadly microbes that spring from the conditions of disease.
According to an old tradition the Britizh frigate Hussar, which sank in East river in 1780, carried an immense treasure in goid, and divers have been interested accordingly. A recent thorough search of the records proves that there was no gold on the ship when she went Idown: After 117 years investigation began at the right end of thestory.
C. M. Bailey, the Winthrop (Me.) oilcloth manufacturer, deserves a vacation. He-recently told a reporter that in the 48 years he had been in business he never had taken a holiday himself or closed his shops. And he now has men working for him who have been in his employ the whole 48 years, though most of them have had both holidays and vacations.
A new French machine called s menometer registers a man’s will power and shows the intensity of his thought. When a person near it goes against a hard mental proposition the registering needle jumps around like a nervous man in the presence of an annoyed hornet; but in the presence of an idiot the needle clings to zero like a thumb tack to a bicyecle tire. ‘
The electric light is comparatively a new star in the sky, but there was $lOO,000,000 of invested capital represented by the Edison illuminating companies recently convened at Niagara Falls. The Niagara cataract itself is an illustration of the extent of the use of electricity as a motive power, which not many_ yecars ago was confined to Jersey lightning in a bottle. '
For some years Uncie Sam has been breeding reindeer in Alaska. The government farm is on the lower Yukon, andnowcontainsoverl,oooreindeer,and none of the animals ever are put to work. It would seem as if this was the time to harness up the bucks and let ‘them help develop the country. They could doubtless be used with great profit upon the frozen rivers during the jcoming winter. a 0
The oldest postmaster, who is fonnd s Hammondsville Station, 0., has bern giving some recollections of his servics of 68 years under 34 postmasters-gen - eral. Ileremembersthe time when ma'l robbing was a capital offense, and he saw two men hanged for the crime at Balitimore. Sixty-six years ago he was a passenger over the first 13 miles of railroad built in the United States by the Daltimore & Ohio. The speed was ten miles an hour. This venerable official of 86 formerly charged 25 cents postage on a lettér carried 400 miles. Stop and think what two cents will do now. i 5
Some interesting figur=s are supplied by the sanual report of Superintendent S. I. Kimball, of the government lifesaving service. Except when a big wreck cecurs on our coast the public rarely bears of the life-savers, yet there are mure than 2,000 of these watchers on duty. During the last fiscal year there were 483 disasters on the ocean coasts and on the great lakes, involving 5,402 persons, of whom only 20 were lost. The estimated value of the property involved in these wrecks was $10,647.235, of which $9,145,085 was saved. Only one vessel out of 73 wre ked became a total loss. : : . T S R A SR D 1 Recent remarks on the powerful effeet of extreme hot weather on the brain have called forth from a man his persona! experience, One day after applying himself intensely to the study of geometry, he ate his dinner like one irra dream, and finally rushed upon his brother with a pocket knife, and the brother only saved himself by flight, this, happily, breaking the spell. Here is a new opportunity for criminal lawyers. A sudden solar seizure ought to e more serviceable to them than hypwpotism. Perhaps witha little expert as-
Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION, FROM WASHINGTON. Attorney General McKenna has declared section 22 of the tariff bill, which imposes a ten per cent.discriminating duty tax upon importations not carried in American vessels, null and void. The president and his wife left Washington for South Adams, Mass., where they will be the guests of W. B. Plunkett for several days. : b In the forthcoming reports of bureau chiefs of the mavy department the necessity of increasing the personnel of the navy will be presented to congress. The first meeting of the monetary commmission appointed under the authority of the convention of business men held last January in Indianapolis was held in Washington. Ex-Senator George I'. Edmunds, of Vermont, was chosen chairman. : ; The navy department sent orders to San Francisco to have the gunboat Wheeling sent to Honolulu.. /Advices to the state department show that there are more than 10,000 Europeans and Americans resident in €haina. , . : The bureau of statistics of the treasury department says the total imports of dutiable sugar during the Ilast fiscal . year were 4,381,403,687 pounds, valued at $85,901,902. THE EAST. : At Wilkesbarre, Pa., warrants were issued for the arrest of Sheriff Martin and his 80 deputies, charged with willful and malicious killing of 24 strikers near the village of Lattimer September 10. : In New York the Cuban junta received authentic advices of the safe landing in different parts of Cuba of three big expeditions in aid of the insurgents. i At Wilkesbarre, Pa., Sheriff Martin and 78 of his deputies were indicted for the murder of 2# striking miners near Lattimer on September 10. . . Robert J. and John R. Gentry paced a tiiile in. double harness in Philadelphia in 2:09, breaking the world’s team recoli'd. 7 .
The arctic explorer, Lieut. Peary, arrived in Boston from Sydney, 8.. C. He said the big meteorite he brought to America weighed 100 tons. Completion of the new steel arch brtdge over the Niagara gorge was celelbrated at Niagara Falls. In a fire in a grocery store at Chester, T’a., six persons were seriously injured by the explosion of a barrel of gasoline.
WEST AND SOCUTH.
At the age of 100 years John O’Connor died at Ligonier, Ind. . : Tramps héld up a Great Northern train near Smith Lake, Minn., and robbed the passengers. : ; In New Orleans 18 new cases of yellow fever were reported and 11 at Mobile, Ala. : In Walsh county, N. D., vwo cases of leprosy were discovered. Seattle (Wash.) and New York men have subscribed the capital necessary to build a narrow gauge railway from Skaguay' over the White Pass to Lake Rennett, Alaska. The Arkansas valley has beenselected Ly the Salvation Army as the place where hundreéds of families from the cities of the United States will be located on farms of their own. "~ Engineer J. D. Young and his fireman were killed and Conductor G. R. Boyd was fatally hurt in a railway collision near Ilelena, Ala. e Reports as to the condition of the crops throughout the country say that frost has only slightly injured corn, while other crops were in a fair condition.
_With 100 gold seekers on board the steamer Rosalie left Seattle, Wash., for the Klondike. : Flames on the north side of Arlington, Ga., burned 20 houses. The state rested its case in the Luetgert murder trial in Chicago after four weeks spent in securing a jury and presenting . evidence. In the absence of Andrew Smith and his wife (colored) their house was burned near Donalds, S. C., and their six children were cremated. Fire wiped out the works of the Youngstown (0.) Bridge company, the loss being $lOO,OOO. Henry and Samuel Maas, aged 16 and 19, respéctively, were killed near Rockport, Ind., by the caving in of a sand bank. James H. Eckels, comptroller of the currency, im a speech at Colorado Springs, C 01.,, said that he believed a great wave of prosperity was sweeping ‘over the country. In New Orleans 12 new cases of yellow fever were reported; 11 at Edwards, Miss., and 5 at Mobile, Ala. John and Richard MecGriff, twins, celebrated at Geneva, Ind., the ninetyfifth anniversary of their birth. ‘ Nebraska ‘“gold” democrats met in Omaha and nominated James Woolworth, of that city, for supreme court judge. , Judge Vincent made the opening address for the defense in the Luetgert murder trial in Ckicago, in which he claimed Mrs. Luetgert was seen after May 1, that bones found in the vat were not human, and that rings found did not belong to the missing weman. ~ Jamies Lane died at his home in Chicago, aged 102 years. ~ Judge C. Buckley Kilgore, a member of the Fiftieth, Fifty-first and Tiftysecond congresses from Texas, died in Ardmore, I. T.; aged 62 years. Almost the entire business portion of Bainbridge, 0., was destroyed by fire, and W. P. Beardsley and Thomas Higgins were burned to death and seven other persons were badly injured. . Three miles from Livermore, Ky., the sawmill boiler of 2. D. Dex blew up and three men were killed and ten injured,. - M. J. Sholéy, Henry Feldshaw and W. J. Grunsten testified in the Luetgert murder trial in Chicago that they saw Mrs. Luetgert alive in Kenosha, Wis., May 3 and 4. Flames destroyed the major portion of the John Gund Brewing company’s plant at La Crosse, Wis., entailing a loss of $200,0000 - : David Ridge, sheriff of the district; Jesse Sunday, sheriff-elect (both Indians), and Thomas Baggot (white) were killed in a drunken row at Saline, I. T. by Samson Batt. s Rev. L. D. Morris, of Greencastle, Ind., ffwas delivering an address to a conven- ' tion of Christian churches when he was t:'m%mn_y{. ‘stricken with paralysis, | Tn a runaway near Coy. Ark., John Trafford and his wife were fatally in. ' jured and their 14-year-old girl killed SRR R e e
For assault Sylvanus Johnson was hanged at Key West, Fla. In Kentucky and Tennessee frost seriously damaged the tobacco crop. The seasonsof the Western league and the Western association baseball clubs closed, the Indianapolis club winning the pennant\in the former and the Cedar Rapids club in the latter. '
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
A tornado swept over Sava, Oria and Latiano, Italy, and 40 persons were killed, 70 were wounded and 20 houses were destroyed. Dispatches say that Bartoleme Macco has been elected vice president of the Cuban republic and Gen. Maximo Gomez minister of war. :
Off Cuxhaven the German torpedo boat No. 26 sank and eight of her crew, including her commander, Duke Frederick William, were drowned. . A confession has been made by Eduardo Velasquez, formerly chief of police in the City of Mexico, that he directed the murder of Arnulfo Arroyo, who was under arrest charged with an assault upon President Diaz. _ It is reported that Japan is landing troops in Hawaii preparatory to resisting all attempts to annex the is~ lands to the United States. ’
The death of Mrs. Orr, aged 112 years, occurred in Kingston, Ont. Advices say that all the foreign powers except Austria refuse to back Spain in her Cuban policy, recognizing the interests of the United States justify the latter’s interference in Cuba.
The Russian government will shortly prohibit the exportation of wheat from Russia. o
A filibustering expedition for Cuba was captured and 19 men on the vessel were slain by Spaniards.
LATER NEWS.
Up to Ihe 24th thcre were 98 cases of yellow fever in New Orleans and 15 deaths, 41 cases at Mobile, Ala., and 6 deaths, 123 cases at Edwards, Miss., and 20 deaths. and 75 cases at Biloxi, Miss., and 4 deaths. e
A landslide at Girgenti, Ttaly, impriscned 40 persons in a well with no hope for their rescue. e
Eduardo Velasquez, former inspector of police, accused of instigating the murder of Arroyo while the latter was in custody for his attempt to assault President Diaz, shot himself dead in prison in the City of Mexico. Every business house in the town of Afton, I. T., was destroyed by fire. Wesley Nading, a grain merchant at Flat Rock, Ind., shot and killed his wife yfid then attempted suicide. No cause was known for the deed.’ :
The State Bank of Davenport, Neb., closed its doors because it could not secure borrowers forits deposits.
There were 209 business failures in the Uhited States in the seven days ended on the 24th, against 204 the week previous and 315 in the ?)rresponding period of 1896. , A landslide on the Dyea trail in Alaska killed 18 persons. ‘ Noah Johnson, the 22-year-old son of John F. Johnson, a farmer near Marion, Ind., shot and killed his sweetkeart, Macie Mang, the 17-year-old daughter of Martin Mang. Jealousy was the cause. :
Gen. Paez, military leader of the rebellion in Nicaragua, killed himself after being taken prisoner. :
The Musee theater in Toronte, Ont., was destroyed by fire and in the panic that ensued one person was killed and many others were injured. Fifteen men and eight horses were killed by the explosion of an ammunition wagon in Pilesti, Roumania. , In session at Columbus, 0., the Society of the Army of the Cumberland elected Gen. W. S. Rosecrans as president. :
By an explosion of black damp in the Williamson county coal mines at Johnston City, 111., five men were killed and several others were badly injured. The village of Riverdale, Mich.. was reported to have been nearly wiped out by fire.
The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 24th aggregated $1,368,804,677, against $1,386.354.242 th: previous week. The increase compared with the corresponding week of 1895 wias 60.6., .
At Shamokin, Pa., Arthur W. May, aged 24, killed Cora Kasem:un, aged 18, and then took his own life. Refusal of the parents of the girl to allow them to marry was the cause. » : Severe earthquake shocks were felt in Maine at Belfast, Ellsworth, Bangor and several other towns.
At Hawesville, Ky., a mob of 800 men lynched Raymond Bushrod, a negro, accused of assaulting 14-year-old Maggie Roberts.
It was said that there was a fair prospect that Spain would accept the good offices of the United States as to Cuba.
At a large meeting in Athens a resolution was adopted calling upon King George and the cabinet to renew the war with Turkey rather than accept the terms of peace offered by the conference.
A strange disease is doing great damage to hogs in southern Kansus and they are dying by the hundreds. Terriblesuffering was reported among gold seekers on the Skaguay and Dyea trails in Alaska because of the sefting in of winter. Reports of rich gold finds continue to come from the Michipicoten region on Lake Superior. Mons Minson fatally shot two brothers named Peterson at Vincent, la., because they objected to his marrying their sister-in-law, and then killed himself. Five acres of buildings in Chicago comprising the works of the Chicago BEridge and Iron company were burned. The steamer Admiral Gervais, with 200 passengers, while lying off the town of Ufa, Russia, took fire and many persons jumped overboard and were drowned. - In a political quarrel at Morrison, 0. T., Peter Praxton and John Rambo killed each other. . . Victor Anderson, a well-to-do farmer at Whiteside, Mich., killed his aged mother and himself. No cause for the deed was known. ‘ - By a cave in at a silver mine 12 miles from Ell Paso, Tex., in Mexico, 17 men were killed. : The rye crop this season will be 25,000,000 bushels—-1,000,000 more than last year and 2,000,000 less than in 1895. : ~ The percentages of the baseball clubs ‘in the National league for the week ended on the 24th were: Baltimore, 7043 Boston, .703; New York, .638; Cin--cinnati, .571; Cleveland, .531; Brooklyn, A 465; Washington, .460; Pittsburgh, 448; Chicago, .441; Philadelphia, .419; Louisville, 402; St. Louis, 218, Do OL A e e B e s e s s
IS FOR ANNEXATION.
Hawaiian Senate TUnanimously Ratifles the Treaty.
Japan Is Opposed - Said to Have Landed Over a Thousand. Men on Island—Uncle Sam Scnds g : Warships.
Honolulu, Sept. 14 (via San Franciseo, Cal., Sept. 22.)—The steamer Pekin carries the news to the United States that the annexation treaty has been unanimously ratified by the proper legislativebody. That it was done unanimously, it is thought, will have a big effect in the United States, and remove all hesitancy that may exist on the part of the government at Washington. The exiraordinary session of the senate began September 9, and the next day, when the preliminary work of organization had been done, there was nothing but the work of ratification to be accomplished, and this was rushed through, not by agreement, but because there was no desire on the part of anyone to discuss the matter. There was but one opinion on the subject, and the result was that the vote on ratification was unanimous.
There was never any difference of opinion as to what the senate would do. This body was elected after the revolution with the one idea of working for the annexation of the islands to the United States. From the time in 1893 when the queen was dethroned there has been no subject on which there was more unanimity, and there has been no body with more annexation feeling than the senate. It was the feeling that the treaty was the best that could be had and there was no objection to the ratification. The meetings at which the ratification of the treaty took place were the most largely attended of any in the history of the government, not excepting the trying time of the revolution. As soon as the fact was made known that the senate had agreed to the ratification there was the utmost enthusiasm all through the city. It had been planned to make the occasion the excuse for the most elaborate ceremonies-that have been carried-out since the republic was founded. There was nothing lacking to the appropriate celebration, and the people joined in the ceremonies and jollifications as fréely as the most ardent of the republicans.
Suspicious Movements of Japs.
San J'rancisco, Sept. 23. — If the stories told by the passengers and crew .of . the steamship City of Peking, which arrived here from Hong Kong via Honolulu on Tuesday evening, be true a state of affairs exists in Hawaii which demands the attention of the state department. When the City of Peking arrived at Honolulu the attention of the other passengers on board that steamer was attracted by the remarkably symmetrical movements of 174 Japanese steerage passengers who were disembarking. Although classed as laborers, their well-drilled and military appearance was too palpable to escape observation and occasioned considerable comment. The Japanese were apparently under the command of a veteran sergeant and divided into squads of 20 under noncommissioned officers. During the voyage a military discipline was observed which created comment among the other steerage passengers and steamer’s crew, and many conjectures were hazarded as to the meaning of their being shipped to the islands. It was generally believed that they were sent to the islands for the purpose of forcibly resisting annexation if necessaary. Rumors of the presence of the mikado’s soldiers are not new on the islands, and it is said that over 1,000 well-drilled men have already been landed there, and about 400 veterans of the Japan-China war are expected upon the next steamer. : : U. S. Warships Off for Honeolulu.
San Franecisco, Sept. 25.—Every indication here points to the fact that the government has information of an extremely critical state of affairs in the Hawaiian islands. Within ten days President McKinley will have at Honoiulu the Philadelphia, the Bennington, the Wheeling, the Yorktown and proba-~ bly the big battle ship Oregon. This is a fleet entirely without precedent in those waters and is significant of g crisis or something very like it.
Sheriff and Deputies Held.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Sept. 23.—The taking of testimony din the preliminary hearing of the commonwealth vs. Sher. ift Martin and his deputies, was resumed Wednesday morning. Upon the reassembling of court in the afternoon the judges thought sufficient evidencs had been produced to hold the defendants for trial. The sheriff and the deputies then came before the bar and entered bail for trial in the sum of $06,000 each; $5,000 for murder and $l,OOO for feloniously wounding. A bond was provided by a Philadelphia trust company. G Will Next Mect in Daltimore. Louisville, Ky., Sept. 24. — The su: preme council of Chosen Friends Friday morning selected Baltimore as the next place of meeting and fixed the date for the third Tuesday in September, the committee having reported favorably on the amendment to have biennial meetings. The session will® adjourn Saturday. Wages Go Up Ten Per Cént. Duluth, Minn., Sept. 25.—The Minne. sota Iron company has decided to increase the wages of all its employes ten per cent. October 1. Mining operations will be conducted with a full force all winter. Kills Himself. City of Mexico, Sept. 24. — Friday morning ex-Chief of Police Velasquez shot himself in the left temple, dying immediately. No ome knows how he procured the pistol. : Gone Crazy. : Columbus, Kan., Sept. 25.—Ed Staf. fleback, one of the notorious family of murderers, in jail here, has gone stark mad through fear of lynching at the hands of a mob. Forty Victims of an Earth-Slip. - London, Sept. 25.—A private dispatch from Rome says that about 40 persons were killed and many others injured by an earth-slip at the sulphur mines near Girgenti. - Russia to Prohibit Wheat Exports. - St. Petersburg, Sept. 23. — It is asserted that the Russian government will shortly prohibit the exportation of wheat from Russia.
FALLS OFF A LITTLE.
Fever Quarantine in South Hurts Business—The Favorable Features, New York, Sept. 25. — Bradstreet’s says: .
There is a check to the inward sweep of demand in staple lines noticeable throughocut the country for the past six weeks. The yelilow fever quarantine, which extends from Texas to Georgia, has brought wholesale. business to a practical standstill throughout the greater portion of the region embraced by the gulf states. At cen“ters of distribution in eastern, middle and central western states, the recent activity in dry goods, hats and hardware had fallen - off, but at the northwest and on the Pacific coast buying by interior merchants and the | free distribution of merchandise continue to be features. Demand for heavy textile fabriecs has been stimulated by cclder weather, and St. Louis merchants say the yvellow fever scare will have no effect upon trade in that city, as southern merchants had supplied themselves there before the quarantine was enforced. The outlook for business in parts of Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee and Georgia is for a much duller season than had been expected. Favorable features of the week are found in sharp advances in prices for iron and steel, heavy sales of Bessemer pig iron, steel billets and rails and a prospect that iron and steel prices will go higher in the near future. Wool is also higher and woolen goods for 1898 delivery are up ten-and 15 per cent., with the outlook favoring a further advance. The increased volume of general trade is also stimulated by the continuous heavy movement of cereals to tide water, the almeost unprecedented large quantities exported each week and the increased number of people finding employment in industrial and commercial lines as compared with a year ago, together with the tendency of gold to come here from abroad.” E ) ;
WOODFORD'S MISSION.
Has Offered Good Offices of United States in Settling Cuban War,
Madrid, Sept. 22.—1 t is learned upon high authority that the much-dis-cussed interview of Saturday last between the United States minister to Spain, Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, and the Spanish minister of foreign affairs, the duke of Tetuan, was merely preliminary. Gen. Woodford represented to the duke the gravity of the condition of Cuba and requested, in behalf of the United States, that Spain would find a method of speedily ending the war and giving justice to the Cubans. He offered the good offices of the United States in effecting a settlement of the Cuban troubles, which practically gives Spain an opportunity of gracefully ending the war. If she does not embrace it within a reasonable time, notice will be given that the United States must interfere, though Gen. Woodford has not said so yet. ’ : Spain cannot expect the aid of European powers, as the United States ambassadors have ascertained that all the European countries, except Austria, recognize that the interests of the United States justify the latter’s interference in Cuba. .
Emancipation Day at Nashville,
Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 23.—Emancipation day at the centenmial was one of the best days of the fair. Early in the morning large delegations of colored citizens come into the city from neighboring townsiwand smaller delegations from Washington, D. C.; Louisville, Ky., and other northerm and eastern points. - Fully 10,000 negroes were on the grounds. The programme was an enjoyable one, and those who took part in it were men of unusual ability. Chief Hill, of the negro department, presided over the meeting. After several musical selections Booker T. Washington, president of the Tuskegee. mormal school of Alabama, spoke. Hisaddress was a stirring one. After the exercises the crowds witnessed the field sports prepared for the occasion, including a fancy drill by company G, the only colored compamy of militia in thestate.
Perils of Chilkoot Pass.
Port Townsend, Wash., Sept. 25.—The tug Pioneer, which left Puget Sound on September 12, with the bark Shirley in tow for Skaguay, returned at one o’clock Friday morning, having made the run down in 96 hours. The Pioneer brings a report of a landslide which occurred near Sheep camp on the Chilkoot pass last Sunday morning in which 18 men are said to have lost their lives. Only one body is said to have been recovered, that of a man named Choynski, a «cousin of Joe Choynski, t prize fighter. The men supposed to have been lost were packers on the Dyea trail. '
Will Go to Boston. Springfield, 111., Sept, 22.—The selection of the next meeting place of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows was made a special order for ten a.m. Wednesday. Six invitations were received,from Tampa, Fla,; Detroif, Richmond and Boston, Baltimore, Md., and Hot Springs, Ark. DBoston was selected after a strong fight. Grand Sire Carleton appointed the following committee to revise Rebekah ritual: Nye, Minnesota; Humphrey, Illinois; Ross, Ontario; Nolan, Tennessee; Pillsbury, Massachusetts. i To Fortify Montreal. - Birmingham, Sgpt. 24.—The organ of Joseph Chamberlain, secretary of state for the colonies, the Birmingham Post, says the government of Canada, early in 1898, will make large purchases of Leavy field batteries and a number of defense guns, the latter being for a new scheme for the defense of Montreal and the river below that city. ' : Bank President Dead. St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 23.—Edward MecCormick, president of the Citizens’ ‘national bank of St. Paul, one of the wealthiest men in the state, died here Wednesday. He but recently returned from Europe where he went for his health. He made a fortune as a railroad contractor and was well known in this and adjoining states. Congressman Belknap Weds., Marion, Ind., Sept. 23.—The marriage of Hugh R. Belknap, congressman from Chicago, and Miss Marietta Steele, daughter of George W. Steele, congressman from this district and ex-governor of Oklahoma, was solemnized at the Gethsemane Ipiscopal church in this city Wednesday evening at s&even o’clock. ‘ ‘ Condition of 'Treasury. Washington, Sept. 23. — Thursday’s statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $215,620,762; gold reserve, $146,745,178. Judge Kilgore Passes Away, Ardmore,l. T.,Sept. 24.—United States Judge Kilgore, ex-congressman from Texas, died here at 1:10 Thursday afternoon after a short illness. , More Troops for India. London, Sept. 22.—Drafts from eight regiments of cavalry have been ordered to make ready for shipment to a 0
WAS A BRUTAL MASSACRE. So Characterized by Executive Council of Federation of Labor. - Washington, Sept. 23. — The fourth day’s session of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor convened Thursday morning at nine o’clock, all members being present. | Regarding the shooting at Lattimer, | Pa., on September 18 .the following resolutions was adopted: S l ‘“‘Rescived, That we declare the attack | of Sheriff Martin and his deputies on the | marching miners then oh strike as a brutal, | unprovoked massacre inspired by the coal ! operators of that section to defeat the‘ demands of the men for better conditions. | ‘““Resolved, That the ever-ready use lni late years of court injunctions, armed force and.the state militia in time of labor t troubles is only part of the insidious pro- | gramme to entirely subjugate the wo.rk-t ers of America to the most debasing degra- | daticn. | “Resclved, That we condemn most se- | verely the wanton killing and wounding of ° phe poor miners of Lattimer, and will give our fullest help through the ‘trade unions and the American Federation of Labor to raise money for the legal prosecution and conviction of Sheriff Martin and his murderous minions, that through‘the courts of our land even-handed justice may be done to atone for these revolting murders.” - .- FHE YELLOW FEVER. ' Situation at Infected Cities of the South from Late Reports. New Orleans, Sept. 25.—Eminent doctors believe that the work of the board of health is productive of good results and that the feveris not spreading, but, } on the contrary, is being confined to localities. Thus far there have been a few less than 100 cases and 15 deaths. The death rate is in the neighborhood of 15 per cent. It was in 1878 16 per cent.; so that up to the present time the disease is about as virulent as it was in the last great epidemic New Orleans has had. There were three deaths and eight new cases reported on Friday. . Mobile, Ala., Sept.2s.—Friday’s report showed three new cases and three deaths from yellow fever. Since the appearance of the plague there have been totals of 41 cases and six deaths: Edwards (Miss.) reports a total "of 30 new cases on Friday; total cases to date, 130; total deaths, 4. ‘ -+« . London Bankers Protest. . London, Sept. 23.—A meeting of the bankers of London called to protest against the action of the governor of the Bank of England, Hugh C. Smith, aho, at the semiannual meeting of that institution Thursday. last read a letter addressed to the chancellor of the exchequer, in which the governor announced that the bank was prepared to hold one-fifth of the bullion held against its note issue in silver, provided always that the French mint is again opened to the free coinage of silver and the prices at which silver is procured and salable are satisfactory, | was held at the clearing house Wednesday. There was a large attendance fipx‘esentatives of powerful interests. veral of the prominent banks were not represented. A resolution protesting against the Bank of England’s proposed action nvas adopted. This resolution will be embodied in a letter to the governor of the Bank of England. The protest upon the part of the London bankers is unprecedented and is the only thing talked about at present in financial circles. .
Union Veteran Legion,
Columbus, 0., Sept. 24.—The national encampment of the Union Veteran Legion has elected the following officers for the ensuing year: National commander, Archibald Blakely, Pittsburgh; senior vice commander, E. D. Spooner. Chicago; junior vice commander, William Baird, Lewiston, Me.; surgeon general, Dr. C. M. Savage, Columbus, O.; quartermaster general, Thomas J. Hubbard, Baltimore; chaplain-in-chief, Rev. Charles L. Shergar, Wellsboro, Pa.; executive committee, Edward Donnelly, Jersey City; John W. Baker, Pennsylvania; Joseph B. Knox, Massachusetts; John D. Shephard, Kentucky; A. S. Oliver, Ohio.
Saw Mrs. Luetgert May 3.
Chicago, Sept. 24.—Viewed from various standpoints, Thursday’s proceedings in the Luetgert murder trial were the most remarkable that have occurred within three weeks. In the face of the sensational circumstantial evidence that had been produced to prove that Mrs. Louis Luetgert met death in her husband’s sausage factory on May 1, three witnesses testified Thursday that they saw the woman alive on May 3 and 4. One of the witnesses talked to her and believed from the description and photograph of Mrs. Luetgert that the woman he saw was Olrs. Luetgert. Hunter Not Guilty. Frankfort, Ky., Sept. 22.—Dr. W. Godfrey Hunter and his two co-defendants, ex-Congressman Wilson and Mr. Franks, were on Tuesday acquitted of the charge -of bribery in connection with the senatorial contest at the recent extra session of the legislature. Although Noel Gaines and Thomas F. Tanner, who turned state’s evidence, were also acquitted, the verdict is in direct conflict with their testimony, which the jury evidently disbelieved. Many Persons Drowned. London, Sept. 23.—A special dispatch from Vienna says that 30 persons were drowned as a result of the collision Tuesday evening at Fiume between the steamer Ika, a local passenger vessel, and the British steamer Tiria, which was leaving that port as the Ika was entering. The Ika sank in two minutes and in full view of thousands of people who crowded to the piers and water fropt when the accident became known. ¢ : - Bubonic Plague Spreading. Bombay, Sept. 24.—The latest health statistics show that the bubonic plague is again active, having creptunobserved fromhamlet to hamlet,until a wide area is affected. The newspapers assert that the withdrawal of the medical officers for service with the troops on the frontier will entail consequences infinitely more disastrous than anything happen‘ing on the frontier. ' ) Horrible Disaster in India. Madras, Sept. 24. — Owing to thé floods having washed away a bridge of the Bangalore-Mysore railroad, near Maddur, an engine and five cars filled with passengers were precipitated into the river, causing great loss of life. { . To Serve in Andrcws’ Stead. Schenectady, N. Y., Sept. 25.—Ifev. Eliphalet Nott Potter, formerly president of Union college in this city, said that he had accepted the presidency of the Cosmopolitan Educational univer-
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