Ligonier Banner., Volume 32, Number 28, Ligonier, Noble County, 14 October 1897 — Page 2

° .. @ The Ligonier Banner LIGOi‘IIF:B. 't - 1 - INDIANA . Count '.[‘olst:; sa;’s the British and the Zulus are the two most brutal races on earth. : s

i The London Globe calls' the United ,States a fourth-class power, Historians ‘will please remember this in writing about 1776 and 1812. . .. |

. British landlords are said to own 20,- .+ 000,000 acres of land in this ecuntry, an area larger than that of Irelznd. Itis not comparatively much of a slice in' our , domais,. . ; S

“Raising horses is likely still to be a profitable busigess. Good horses are now in active demand and bring good prices. This list includes both carriage teams and heavy draught horses. P’oor stock is in oversupply. '

. Boston wins the championship baseball pennant of 1897, and Americans who still retain a, love for the national game will not be sorry that t§e coveted trophy goes to a club with an wunlarnished reputation for playing clean, manly basebalk : - _

An ungainly horse, whese breakfast had evidently been of a light variety; amused itself and a erowd in Chicago by snatching a new and costly fall hat from the head of a woman and quietly munching it until as an article of fashionable headgear it was beyond re‘pairc i 2 : f,

In case the bicycle’becomes prominent - in war, all the forces will want to invest .in more tac-tix. It is said that “GerTuany is training bloodhounds to bring down the Frenéh bicyele troops in time ‘of war.” Half the money spent in sixounce tacks would do it better. A ten.inch gun loaded with tacks pointed -along any highway where such a’troop. might come would cause loud talk.

Pittsburgh papers announce the manufacture of steel barrels as a new industry. - The Standard' Oil company wishes.to get rid of wooden barrels, andis trying to substitute stecl barrels for them. “The manufacture of steel barrels has been attempted in England with success, and the Standard Oil officers have been watching the experiments with interest. People all over the world will scon be using them for airtight stovess., =« -~ =

- We are gravely informed that a new and riehgold veinzhas been discovered in the neighborhood of Lake Wawa, Ontario, and that experts have assayed some of the product up to $692 to the ton. Gold veins and similar El Dorados in the silver and copper fields are now-a-matter of daily diseovery, and if the mining speculators are not careful they will soon give the lay public the impression that gold'minesare plucked oft raspberry bushes in the boundless and pptimisticwest = = -5

The current report of the United States geological survey shows that the production of natural gas in this country is dec]}ining through exhaustion of the supply. In 1888 the value of the product was $22;000,000 and last year it svas $13,000,000. ‘Some years ago scientists ‘who had jinvestigated the matter pr'edictgi that fihe supp.]y:)‘jf natural gas-was {enrpérary.. Tl;g}t;}_gzipg of the storage Teservoirs—is now exhausting”’the sx&gly and evideritly na~ ture’s la¥oratory is not makigg up the growing deficiency. === - (0

In Coburg, Canada, a 70-year-old man kissed his niece against her will. The icdignant woman at once commenced suit for $2,000 damages and at the trial she was awarded 20 cents. It is probable that Canadian courts yyould oxdi:narily estimate the value offa KiSs at a, iruch _higher rate than a ecouple of: dimes, and that a large reduction was" madse in this case onaccount of the near relatipnship of the parties. 1f the lady had been kissed by her father it is likeIy thét she would not have recovered more than a nickel. o o

Thomas A. Edison was asked theotherday what he tHought of those Chiecago men who claim to be manufacturing gold from the baser metals. The inventor, it is said, did not reply categorically to the question, but smiled significantly and picked up from -his desk¥ eablegram which had just been received from Italy. Thé dispatch read: “To Edison, Orange, N. J.: Have invented perpetual motion. Will you help me perfect. it?” ~4¥ou will notice,” he said, with afar-awdylook, “thata great many remarkable discoveries are being made this year.” - - i 2 TR ARSI R ™ Some day when the ordinary routine ia light a congressional committee sheuld be appointed to find out why:it is'that the woman who elopes or horsewhips arival or hits her husband witha lxatcl)qg:zgiz;y}variably“a society leader” or “one-ofGur prominent society people.”.. The latest illustration of, this comes from lhdiana, where “'a society leader” has just deserted her husband for a man with a tandem bicycle. Asa matter of fact, her action shows that sha . = s z i 3 undoubtedly a very common, ordinary ‘woman, whose society aspirations never got beyond a ¥icyele riding academy or avollerskatingrink. =~ °~ = -

The Arkansas valley has been seleeted Js:)he. site of the first colonization pfojelt of the Salvation Army in the U.nit'{d States, and hundreds ‘of families from the large cities are to belocated on farms.of théir own with sufficient start to speedily Decome self-cup-porting. this being the aim and object of the colonization idea. There .is a field. in this country for teaching the very poor in the greatcities that health, “happiness and financial independence are within their reagh 'if they will ra“linquish urban surroundings and become tillers of the soil. The Salvagion Army is doing a good.work. s ~The report that a Canadian vessel has planted the British flag on Baffin Land, a great island in the west of Baffin’s bay, and erossed by the arctic, is without: much if any significance.. While “Ammerican whalers may have established ‘and mdintained stations there prior to’ “ others, there will be no squabble overa frozen and desolate bit of land near thepole, which no oue wants nor could put. to any good use. The gazetteers for Ihany years, probably always, have in_cluded Baffin's Land in British North | _America.- 1 the Connécticut whalers *%W i anoth é“&ffi*mthmJ fi sfifliég'n“obm

Epitome of the Week.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION,

FROM WASHINGTON. °

President McKinley *has appointed ‘W. R. Finch, editor of the La Crosse (Wis.) Republican, minister to Paraguay and Uruguay. s The president has renewed the receptionsgiven on Monday to the general public. . ’ .

. President McKinley has .appointed Laurits S. Swenson, of Minnesota, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Denmark. e 5

... The. commissioner of mavigation in his annual report shows that the total -documented tonnage of the United States on June 30, 1897, was 4,760,220 tons, the largest for 21 years, except 1893, when it was 4,825,071 tons.

THE EAST.

Flames swept away every building except five in Austin, Pa. ‘ The official returns of the election.in New Jersey show a majority of 102 for the anti-gambling amendments and 905 against woman suffrage. ~ Adolph Pierson, Joseph Herth, A. Hendrickson and George Robbins, fishermen, were drowned near Long Branch, N. J., by the upsétting of their boat. ; ‘ ;

- In Boston the first game of the Temple cup series was played, the score being: Boston, 13; Baltimore, 12. The second game of the Temple cup series in Boston was won by Baltimore, the score being: Baltimore, 13; Boston, 11, - : ) . .Funefal sefvices of the late Neal Dow were held at the Second Paritsh church in Portland, Me. The attendance was very large. : . - Explosion of gas in a coal mine at Plymouth, Pa., killed Isaac Edmunds, Gecrge Eddy and Louis Richards. In the Temple, cup series Baltimore won the third game, the score being: Daltimore, 8; Boston, 3.

‘The constitutional amendment requiring all candidates hereafter for the right to vote in the state to read the constitution in English carried by a large majority at the Connecticut elec-’ tion. e A )

- In Philadelphia James Michael roat'E a mile on a bicyele in 1:36, eclipsing the American record of 1:381-5.

In Brooklyn, N. Y. 50 first-class horses perished in the stables of the Cheshire Improvement company, which were- burned. -

_.The death of Lemuel Ammerman, of Scranton, Pa., capitalist and ex-¢on-gressman, occurred suddenly at Bloombires, o ' ) . In Philadelphia’a relay of six.thoroughbred horses .raced five ' miles against *four crack bicyclists, and the hcres won by fi% yards in 9.25.

WEST AND SOUTH.

In a sawmill at Moscow, Ta., two were killed and another injured by a boiler explosion.. - ~ ‘ ~ Wind blew down the big hotel at lindsay Park, near Charlevoix, which was to have been the largest summer hotel at the northern Michigan resorts, and Pierre Kendall and Guy Hamilton were killed and ten other persons were indured: . = ¥

- At Louisville, Xy., the Phoenix Brevwing ,company failed ‘for $250,000. - - Ilinois, Missouri, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska and Arkansas were all reported to be in great need of rain. | In the trial in Chicago of Adolph L. I.uetge’rt’ for the murder of his wife both sides of the case have been heard und the state has begun the introduection of evidence in rebuttal.:” =~ .

A strong English syndicate has, itis said, offered to purchase the Union Pacific railroad. :

Marsh fires near Valparaiso, Ind., have destroyed many houses, thousands of tons of hay and miles of fences.

Charles Vise murdered and robbed Duncan Paul, postmaster at Appin, Mich. _ -

At Hernando, Miss.;#euns r Crower, a negro, was taken from mé’%‘@%urtroom by a mob amd lynched for‘%ssa_ultihg 15-year-old Dovie Ferguson. i Mary. Ortez, an Indian woman, .died in San Francisco, and a danghter said that her mother was 130 yearsold. _ - By the falling of a platferm “at an elc-ct'-xjic:’i-ai:lwgyr station in Kansas City 30 persons wete injured, several of them seriolisly,. - el . * Fire destroyed the girls’ dormitory at the state industrial school in Plankin-~ ton, S. D., and seven girls pérished in the flames. B A

Laura Bennett and James Ferguson, two prisoners, were roasted to deathhy the burning of the jail at Opelika, Ala, Fire destroyed the opera house and two Dbusiness bmuildings at Detroit, Mich., the total loss being $500,000. About half the village of Centerville, 0., was wiped out by fire. . . 5 In/ a fire in George Martin's livery barn at-Allison, la., niné horses perished.. Tive of the animals were bloadcd stock. s i Cwted

. Drought which has prevailed throughout the northwest for nearly twomonths has been followed by disastrous fires on the prairies andin the fexests of Indiana, Michigan, Nerth and SéuttrDakota ‘and Nebraska. In several instamces entire v’illagps have been swept away. Lesser fires have prevailed in Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin. . Three men held up the-Chicago and. St. Louis express on the Chicage & Alton railroad within a few miles of Kansas City, Ma., but they secured nothing. - Flames nearly wiped out the business rortion of Medora, 111. : In Chicago flames swept away 42 fouildings at the stock yards, causinga loss of $120,000. An unknown Inan was burned, to death and ten other persons, were injured.” e Yellow fever was reported as growing worseé in New Orleans, while at Mobile, { Ala., and Edwards, Miss., an improvement was announced. 1 ~ln annual session in ‘Frankforb-the“ Kentucky Bankers’ association unanimously adopted a resolution complimenting the local bankers for keeping ‘wine off the table at the banquet. / In Flint, Mich., Lester L. Burtéon, an attorney, shot and killed his wife.and then sent a bullet through his own brain. A quarrel was the cause, Fire nearly wiped out the historic village of St. Elmo, a suburb of Chattanooga, Tenn. - g . The total wheat crop in Michigan this year:is 24,925,007 bushels, an average yield of 16.46 bushels per acre. ' - At Clarion; Mich., W. M. Shain shot Mrs. Hattie Lee, and afterward took his e ~ Louise 8. Rounds, of Chicago, has for | the twelfth time been elected state president of the Illinois Woman's Christiau g s e e e

Near Newport, Ky., 11 persons who assaulted a young woman aarrowly escaped lynching. Berglars robbed the Bank of Union ecounty, at Morganfield, Ky., of nearly $3,000 while the cashier was at dinner.

The building and loan association at Liberty, Ind., has gone into voluntary liquidation with liabilities of $35,000. Many poor people lose their all.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

In Canada the villages of Casselman, Cheney and South Indian were wiped out by bush fires. - * . ; In Cuba there is a great scarcity .of food and many people are dying of starvation. L !

In China 60 villages were destroyed bj’ floods and 20,000 persons lost their lives. : ! Sl

The government decided.at a cabinet .council in Madrid to grant autonomy to Cuba under the suzerainty of Spain and to continue the campaign as long as may be necessary. ‘ Along the Capadian border just north of the Minnesota state line ten lives ‘were lost in fires which were raging. Germany has refused to recognize Ferdinand W. Neumann, of Chicago, as United States consuPat Cologne. . . . The stronghold of the Brazilian fanaties, Canudos, has been captured by government troops, and the rebel leader, Conselheiro, taken prisoner. . - The biography.of Lord Tennyson contains letters from Queen Victoria which show that she was biterly hostile to héme rule for Ireland. ]

The Spanish cabinet has decided that the system of warfare in Cuba must be completely changed.

' Yellow fever caused the death of William J. Scanlon, United States consul at Port Antonio, Jamaica. :

LATER NEWS,

Cuba was discussed at a cabinet meet-

ing and there was a strong sentimentin favor of sending more urgent representations to Spain. The president will insist upon an early answer fo his friendly note. i ' : : _John R. Gentry and Robert J. brokethe pacing team record, going the mile at Glens Falls, N. Y., in.r2:oB. The Spanish cabinet decided to recall Gen. Weyler and Marshal Blanco will succeed him as governor general of Cuba. ;

Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles arrived in New York on the steamer St. Louis from Southampton. - :

There were 123 business failures in

the United States in the seven days ended on the Sth, against 194 the steeit previous and 296 in the corresponding period of 1896. . e The stables of Dr. W. T. Frady near Marietta, Ind., were destroyed by fire and 43 horses were cremated. , * John Roderick McPherson, United States senator from New Jersey from 1887 until 1893, died in Jerse§ City, aged 64 years. S At Lafayette, Ind., fire destroyed the new Second Presbyterian church, the loss being $75,000. : George Morgan was hanged at Omaha; Neb., for the murder of Ida Gaskill in November, 1895. He died protesting his innoéence. : )

The transfer of the congressional library in Washington from the capitol to the new library building has been tompleted. L Glass workers in sesion at Columbus, 0., representing the entire glass industry of the United States, took steps to form a trust. . ] , Fire at Gibsonburg, 0., destroyed the post office and many other business places, the total loss being $200,000. A typhoon in Japan caused the loss of 90 lives. Three hundred persons were injured and thousands of houses were destroyed in the vicinity of Tokio. Prof. Slaby, in experimenting at Berlin with Maroon’s wireless telegraph, succeeded perfectly in exchanging messages without wires.at a distance of 21 kilometers.

Up to the Sth there had been 505 cases of yellow fever in New Orleans and 50 deaths and 109 cases at Mobile, Ala,, and 17 deaths. ; : i

The tobacco crop has been cut short 16 per'cent. as a result of the drought in Kentucky. - A company has been organized to ‘build a railroad from Skaguay to Lake ‘Bennett over the White pass to the -Alaska gold fields. : Capt. Gen. Blance will sail for Cuba ‘October 15, and Capt. Gen. Weyler will return to Spain immediately. ' Gen. Castellanos assumes the djrdaction’ of affairs until Blanco’s arrival. i

Twelve persons were frozen to Jdeath at Glane, Austria. : Leander Peterson and Joseph John- - son were killed and a man named Harris was fatally injured by a blast in a mine at Wakefield, Mich. e Chicagoans on the 9th observed the twenty-sixth anniversary of the greate conflagration of 1871. Fiohn Frank Early (colored) shot and kilied his wife, from whom he had been sep|arated six years, and then fatally shot | his mistress, Nannie Frey, in Cincinnati. [¢Nicaragua is establishing a gold -standard and will use temporarily the gold coin of the United States. Peter E. Studebalker, treadurer of the Wwagon and carriage firm of Studebaker Brothers Mautfacturing company of South Bend, Ind., died at the age of 61 | years. v g : The two hundredth anniversary of the Cld Duteh church made famous by ‘Washington Irving, and near which he Is buried, was celebrated in the old building at Tarrytown, N. Y. . William Timmons, who shot his wife,’ her father and mother at Kdnor, Md., was found dead with a bullet in his brain. . - Funeral services over the remains of | Charles Eneu Johnson, the well-known {tnk manufacturer, were held in Phila-" delphia. e - : - The estimated yield of gold for the year in the United States is $30,000,000, which is one-third of the world’s estimated output for the year. ' 7 The steamer City of Seattle arrived at Victoria, B. C., from Alaska laden with gold and with about 100 persons who had left there because of the scarcity of food. i o b Char]ejs Gallagher, for years connected with the Missouri Republican, now the Republic, died in St. Louis, aged 77 yedrs,” L LR | By the bursting of a huge water mnain in New York 10,000,000 gallons of water poured into a fashionable neighborhood, causing immense damage. - The gunboat Marietta, detailed to relieve the Concord in Alaskan waters, seiled from San Francisco, © - Rain which fell throughout the west marked the end of the long drought | that for months has harassed the farmers of 20 of the corn-producing or cat-‘tle-raising states of the union.” <

DESTRUCTIVE EIRES.

CGreat Loss of Life and Property at Many Points.

Ten Persons Perish: in Blazing ' Forests Along the Canadian ' DBorder—Awfunl Disaster in : South Dakota. i

Chicago, Oct. 7.—The drought which has prevailed throughout the northwest for the last month has been foilowed by disastrous fires on the prairies and in the forests of Indiana, Michigan, N orth and South Dakota, Nebraska and Can‘ada. Lesser fires have prevailed in Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin. In several instances "entire villages have been swept away by the flames and a number ©f human lives have been -sacrificed. ‘Much live stock has also perished. The loss to the farmers has been very heavy, and reports show that hundreds. of thousands of dollars’ worth of buildings, grain and hay has been destroyed. The heaviest losses seem to have bean sustained in Michigan andlndiana. Advices from Detroit and;lndianapolis indicate a serious condition of affairs’in the rural districts tgibutary to those cities. At least ten lives have been lost in the fires, which are raging along the Canadian border just north of the Minnesota state line, and three persons perished in the Ottawa river valley. In many places the settlers were compelled to flee for their lives and many narrow escapes are reported.. Big Fire in Chicago.

Chicago, Oct. 7.—Dexter Park horse market, from time out of mind the center of the stock yards hors® trade and comprising the oldest of the stock yards buildings, was destroyed Wednesday afternoon in a fire that in'2o minutes swept over as many acres and threatened to engulf all the busingss and residenee property of the district. Extent of fire,over area of 20 acres; numbers of buildings burned, 42; value of property destroyed, %117,500; amount. of insurance, $103,600; men injured;ll; horses burned, 8. ;' . 5 ‘ Avwful Disaster in South Dakota.

Plankinton, S. D., Qct.'7.—One of the worst disastérs in the history of the state occurred Tuesday at midnight by the burning of the girl’s dormitory at the state'industrial school. Seven lives were lost. The dead are: Tillie Hooper, instructor; Mabel Tobert, aged 9, of Sioux Falls; Bessie Merby, aged 14, of Hot Springs; Ida Warner, aged 16, of Watertown; Christina Bergman, aged ’ 11, of Yankton; Nellie Johnson, aged 13, ~of Grafton, N. D.; Lillian West, aged 11, of Sioux Falls. The burned structure !—was of wood, three stories in height and - was but recently completed. There -was no means of extinguishing the fire at the school, and the buildings being over a mile from town no aid cou“ld,be rendered, and in a short time the entire annex was enveloped in flames. In less than 20 minutes from the time the fire was first seen the building was destroyed. There were about 25 other ‘persons in the school who escaped in ;their nightclothés with the greatest difficulty. : - ; s

A KETTLE FULL OF GOLD. Reported Richneéss ¢f the Eldorado and Bonanza KFields Contirmed. - Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 6.—Henry Brathober, mining expert of the London Exploration company, which the Rothschilds control, left Tuesday for San Francisco, whence he goes to London by the way of New York to confer with English capitalists whom he represents. He has'visited many of the great gold mines in thé world, but was astonished at the yield of the Eldorado and Bonanza fields. Believing that many stories he had heard. were exaggerated, he quietly made his way along the creeks and investigated. He was fully- convinced that he had heard only the trnth when two men owning a claim at Eldorado creek produced a copper kettle containing $12,000 in gold, and proved to him that they had cleaned it up-in three days. e Victoria, B C., Oct: 6.—J. C. McArthur, dominion government surveyor, who just returned from the north, says there will be no starvation at Dawson this;winter. . When he left there were 2,000 liead of sheep and 400 head of caitle on the Dalton trail which would reach. Dawson. between September 15 and 20. .7 laa -

McPherson Is Dead. : . New York, Oct. 9. — Ex-United States ‘ Senator John R. McPherson, pf New Jersey, died Friday night. : ; [Senator McPherson was born at York, Livingston county, N. Y., May 9, 1833.* He was for a time engaged in farming and stock raising.” He became a resigent of Jersey City in 1858. In 1871 he was eledted to the’ New Jersey senate and served for three vedars. In 1876 he was a presidential elector, when the state wenit for Tilden: by a large majority. In 1877 he was elected a United States senator to succed F. P. Frelinghuysen. He was elected to a second term as United States senator by the legislature in 1883 and ito a.‘third term by the legislature of 1889.] i : Accomplished Swindler. - New York, Oct. B.—Emmet B. Gibson, alias George B, Sherin, a railroad promoter, who claims that he was at one time a judge in Ohio and who was once president of the Akron (0.) Streetßailway company and. is now vice president ‘of the company, was arrested Thursday -afternoon, charged with laying down bogus checks,beating hotels out' of board bills and carrying on swindling operations of various kinds amounting ‘to almosti};O{),OOO. , : Robbed at Noon, - . ~ Louisville, Ky., Oct. B.—A spec¢ial to the Post from Morganfield says: Thieves entered the office of the Union County bank Thursday during thelunch hour and secured-over $3,000 in currency which had been left in the cash drawer. . When -the bank officials returned they found the drawer had been rifled. 7 - o | Switveriand to Buy Rafironds. Berne, Oct. 8-The national couneil, by a vote of 98 to 29, has adopted a bill providing for the purchase of the five ~prineipal railroads of Switzerland, at a. ~cost approximating 1,000,000,000 francs or $200,000,000, Switzérland has a complete system of telegraphs, which, ex-i‘ cepting the wires for railroad service, is wholly under control of the stute. i .’E‘a’bonnr'msnmdn Dead. | ‘ - Scranton, Pa., Oct. B.—Hon. Lemuel Ammerman, of this city, a capitalist -and ex-congressman, died suddenly of ‘heart disease Thursday afternoon at SN S e e L e e S

' GREAT BRITAIN REFUSES.' Will Not Take Part in Behring Sea i : Senl Conference. : London, Oct. 7.—The officials of ths ‘British foreign house have communicated to the United States ambassador, Col. John Hay, the final decision of that government, that Great Britain must refuse to take part in any sealing conference with the representatives of Russia and Japan. The British government, however, asserts its willingness to confer with the United States alone, but it insists that Russia and Japan are, not-interested in the B'eh,rin‘g sea seals to a degree entitling them to representation in the conference. The British government does not suggest any date for a conference with the United States, and it is thought probable in London that Great Britain’s withdrawal will result in two meetings, onc between the United States, Russia and Japan, and the other between the United States, Great Britain and Canada. ; Tt

It cannot be too strongly reiterated that the withdrawal of Great Britain from the Washington conference is duc to Canada’s insistence; that until the Canadian officials informed the foreign office here of Canada’s ‘objections to. meeting RussiaandJapan,out of fear of being outvoted, Great Britain fully intended to enter the conference with the three other governments. : London, Oct, 7.—lt is undersotood here that an eminent Russian jurist will be selectéd as uinpire in thé Venezuelan dispute. » i S

n CHECKED BY DROUGHT. 3 T } . Business in thhe Weost and Northwest © Suffers ns a Consequenge. New York, Oct. 9. — Bradstreet’s says of the business outlook: : “Distribution of general merchandise in the central west and northwest is further checked owing to the prolonged drought in Kentucky, Illinois and Kansas, portions of Missouri, Nebraska, lowa, Minnesota and the Dakotas. Telegraphic advices to Bradstreet’s report serious damage in Kansas and parts of Nebraska and lowa, where early planted wheat is up and budding out, that planted later is not likely to sprout. Fall plowing is now impossible, six weeks without rain- having dried up pastures and compelled farmers ito feed stoek. - b

‘“Manufacturing industries ‘throughout the west, particularly iron and steel, continue active, and there is an increasing tendéncy on ‘the part of the interior merchants to remit promptly. While.the volume of trade has decreased at Chicago, it is ahead of the like record .in recent years. There is a moderate improvement in business in the south, Alabama having raised the‘quarantine against Georgia cities, and central and northern ‘Texas points having resumed commercial relations with Galveston.: Planters continue to. hold cotton, which delays collections. Higher prices this week are reported for cotton, which has been declining for some time; coal and 'clothing in sympathy with wool; for naval stores, under heavy purchases by large traders; wheat, wheat flour and eggs, print cloths, lard, beef and sugar have declined. Hides are weaker, lead._ is‘lower and Bessemer pigs sold off 50 cents a ton -under heavy .speculative efferings, notwithstanding the iron and steel markets as a whole remain active and firm.?’ : .

HENRY GEORGE WILL RUN. Notified of Several Nominations for Mayor of Greater New York. . New York, Oct. 6.—Henry George accepted the ‘nomination for mayor of Greater New York at Cooper Union Tuesday night. It was in the saime hall and before many of the same people that he accepted the nomination 11 years ago. In 1866 he received 68,000 votes. It was the greatest outpouring of the people seen in this city during the’ present campaign. | ' Jerome O’Neill, of the Central Labor union, presided. The chairman mentioned the Chicago platform, whereupon the entire audience arose to its feet as one man, hats and handkerchiefs, were waved in the air, and the cheering continued for several minutes. -

A. B. Cruikshank, of the united democracy, formally tendered the nomination, on Behalf of his organization, to Mr. George. Charles Frederick Adams, on behalf of the democratic alliance, then offered to Mr. George the nomination of the crganization which he represented. ‘Jameés T. Garvey, of the people’s party, and John H. Crosby, of the Manhattan Single Tax/club, also notified Mr. George of his nomination by their respective ' organizations. '

More Money Order Offices.

Washington, Oct. 9. — The post office department has adopted a pqlicy of general extension of the money order system. First Assistant Postmaster General Heath believes that any post office ' wanting money order facilities should be given them. Complaints have been constantly filed by businesshouses that their correspondents at villages are unable to send money orders because their post offices have no such facilities. During the past fiscal year almost 27,000,000 money orders were? issued, amounting to d little less than $200,000,000. The- to%tkl_ number of money order offices in operationisabout 22,000, and the number probably will be increased to 80,000 by the next fiscal year. e hLin et

Men Wanted.

Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 9.—Employment agents report that work is ready at hand for an army of 1,500 men.. The men are wanted for the woods and for railroad work. Agents say that men are hard to obtain, although the wages are good and railroad fares are advanced .to ‘send}‘workmen to their destination. It is thoughtthe demand will increase with " time as several’ railroads are ‘¢redited with intentions of building ‘new lines and-extending old ones during the coming winter.

Heuvlv Losses in Battle.

London, Oct. 9.—The Brazilian legation Here has received a telegram from the government at Rio de Janeiro stating that Canudos, the headquarters of the religious fanaties led. by Antonio El Conselheiro, was captured after a campaign in which over 3,000 Brazilian officers and soldiers were killed, wounded or invalided. The dispatch adds that Ell Conselheiro is dead.

In New Quarters. . ¢ - Washington, Oct. 9.—The transfer of -thc congressional library from the capitol to the new library building has ‘been cempleted. The library has been, ‘closed since theist of August, and it is claimed that the removal, with the incidental displacement and packing.of books, papers, etc.% is the quickest ever made in so extensive a library. . Adopts Gold Standard. L New York, Oct. B.—A dispatch to the Herald from Lima, Peru, says: Aftera discussion, which continued for several days, the chamber of deputies of Peru adopted the gold standard by a major« My oftoneyete, .. . -G

TOO MUCH FOR SPAIN.

View of Situation as Given by the » Cuban Insurgents.- ‘.

New York, Oct. 7.—Tomas Estrada Palma, chief of the Cuban junta. has just received a letter from Gen. Gomez, commander in chief of the Cuban army.

« ““Weyler’'s successor in Cuba,’” writesthe general, ‘‘in order to cope with the rebellion at its present: stamding .will be obliged to demand 200,000 troops and $lOO,000,000 and, even then he will fail asignominiously as Weyler has failed, -

“Our men were never imbued with a more hopeful spirit than they are at present. The campaign in Las Villas has been an utter failure. The Spanish soldiers avoided us at every possible opportunity. This served to encourage our men. lam glad to say that we are -ali ‘confident of ultimate success.” If - Weyler be recalled his successor here, whosoever he may be, will be surprised to see the spirit of: victory which,?animates the brave Cuban troops. We cannot be subdued and no one knows this better than Weyle‘x':." With the Gomez letter was one from Gen. Calixto Garcia, who commands the troops.in theeastern provinces. Itgave some particulars concerning the capture of Las Tunis on August 30 last. .

“The dynamite gun which you sent us,” writes Gen. Garcia, *played an important part in the capture of Las Tunis. Its destructive shells spread terror through the Spanish troops. We besieged it for three days;, when it finally surrendered. "~ We found many of the troops in a terrible condition. At _lggst 100 men fell victims to the dynamite.sh Is, a good many more being badly wounded. ‘The rest of the 500 men were in an utterly demoralized condition when the Spanish flag was hauled down. Our losses numbéred. 60 me‘r&l All the'sick and wounded Spaniards were sent to hospitals and given -every possible attention: The prisoners were all released. G 2 “If we had a few more dynamite guns, we should soon end the war. Reports of its destructive work here have spread-all through Cuba and have disheartened the Spanish - soldiers.” Lk ey :

WEYLER '‘RECALLED. Spanish Cabinet Names a New Gov- ! ernor General for Cuba. Madrid, Oct. 9. — The cahinet has decided upon the immediate récall of Gen. Weyler from’'Cuba. Capt, Gen. Blanco Y Arenas, marquis of Pend-Plata, will be the new governor of the island. Gen. Blanco will be accompanied by Gen. Arferine -as vice governor ef Cuba, by

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The government is resolved to deal quickly and energetically with Weyler, chiefly in order to prevent his organizing in Havana more demonstrationsin his favor or create other difficulties to the government. . e e The change in captain generals isregarded ag assuring a radical changé-in policy in dealing with the insurgentsin Cuba, but that the war is to be carried on with vigor is manifest from thestatement made with apparent authority that the/cabinet has determined to send to Cuba with Gen. Blanco 20,000 reinforcements. - ~ - !

The State’s Rebuttal.

Chicago, Oct. 9: — The"evidence for the prosecution in the Luetgert trial is now before the jury. The state rested its case Friday afternoon. The ¢losing testimony was of the same impeaching character as that which marked the evidence of the preceding 'day. . Prof. George Dorsey had his innings-during the afternoon session, and he madematters unpleasantly warm for Dr. Allport. Dorsey called attention to the fact that during his examination Allport had identified the femur of a gorilla as that ef a man; that heidentified a hu--man femur as a hog’s femur; had declared that the sesamoid of a buffalo was the patella of a dog, and had given it as his opinion that a piece of temporal bone of a shepherd dog was the temporal of a monkey. Ex-Judge Vincent cross-exafljlined the witness briefly without material benefit and lét him go. " Cleveland Streets Flooded. s Cleveland, 0., Oet. 9. — The biggest water main in the city broke with .a: crashing noise in_the down-town district Friday and practically ; paralyzed business in that'part of the city. The break occurred at 'the corner of St. Clair and Bond streets. 'Paying-stones and dirt shotinto the air and the ¢olumn of water rose 30, feet above the sidewalk. The entire street was soon flooded to the depth of three feet and the. basements of every house and business block were flooded. It was fully an hour before the water, could be turned off. The damage will amount to thousands of dollars. . : 2 Delays Her Answer. _' London, Oct. 8. — Arrangements have been made tohold an informalconfereénce between the chancellor of the exehequer,- Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, - and other British officials on the one side and the United States monetary commissioners and Col. Hay, the United States ambassador, on the other side, for the purpgese of securing a more definite’ understanding as to what the United States and France expect. Con--sequently the British government wilibe unable to fulfill the promise of the chancellor of the exchequer to give the United States commissioners a reply during the present month, gud the delay will possibly last some fiek—s‘ o 7 Yellow Feéver's Progress.. Washington, Oct. 9.—Surgeon-General. Wyman’s yellow fever advices Friday night included the following: Netv Or-. leans—new cases, 49; deaths, 5; total cases to-date, 503; total deaths to date, 50. Mobile, Ala.—new cases; 6; deaths, 0; total easessto date, 109; total deaths, 17. Edwards, Miss,—new cases, 13;° deaths, 4. Biloxi, Miss.—new cases, 11; ‘deaths, 1. : S A 2 ettt SRR Y A ~_ Will Coin No More Silver. . z | Paris, Oct. B.~The European edition ‘of the New York Herald asserts that the Indinn government declines o reopen the Indian mints to silver. - .

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