Ligonier Banner., Volume 37, Number 8, Ligonier, Noble County, 22 May 1902 — Page 6

. s : ® The Ligonier Lanner LIGONIER, m . INDIANA. In the famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius that overwhelmed Pompeii and Herculaneum, 10,000 people lost their lives. But few calamities in history .equal the recent horror in the West Indies. It is nothing new for women to commit crimes for lovers’ or husbands’ sakes, but a divorced wife who engages in wholesale forgery in order to help her former husband “because she loves him so” is a distingt novelty. -

The game of indoor tennis, which is handicapped by the idiotic name of ping-pong, is now certain to become a fad, since a British doctor has discovered that it engenders a disease called tenosynovitis — anglice, ping-pong ankle. We have had the “tennis elbow.” “bicycle heart” and “golf neck.” 1t only needed that latest monstrosity to make the list symmetrical. -

A shrewd Yankee inventor has come forward with a scheme for a moving platform on the Brooklyn (N. Y.) bridge that will make it possible for that great structure to handle much larger crowds. Now one of the wonders of the world, the bridge with this addition would be still more marvelous. The directors have the inventor’s proposition under consideration.

In the death of Francis Bret Harte American literature loses one of its most - distinguished representatives. His place in this literature does not rest either upon the fact that he wrote voluminously or that he enjoyed a long and deserved popularity, but is due to his originality and the distinctive American quality of his writings. - ; :

The London Lancet, the best of medical authorities, says that too much bathing is harmful. “It tends to maceration of the superficial part of the epidermis, which is too frequently removed, and occasions probably too .rapidly a proliferation of the cells of the malpighian layer.” We didn’t think it was as bad as that.

Thomas A. Edison thinks that San-tos-Dumont has' solved the airship problem, and Santos believes that with $1.000.000 he can construct an airship that will cross the ocean in twodays and carry 100 passengers. His air ships -may be one of the marvelousinventions of the present century, but we are in- . clined to the belief that they will never be the popular method of transportation over the oceans.

* The post office department has some strange contracts to award. Recently it let the contract for carrying mail on a canoe route in the Philippines and the same day closed a contract for a mail delivery in Alaska by dog sled. The®man who takes the Alaska contract will travel the 414 miles between Eagle and Valdez, making the journey twice a month. and receiving no less than $1,500 per trip. -

. There are now residing in New York seven former members of the cabinet, three of whom were secretaries of the treasury—namely, Fairchilds,” Carlisle and Gage; four men who have been ministers to France —Bigelow, Morton, Reid and Porter; iwo ex-governors of the state, twe men who have been lieutenant governors, and 13 who have been mayorsg either of New York or Brooklyn.

Canada does not know whether to be pleased or alarmed by the influx of Americans into the far western end of the dominion. Many thousands of farmers are said to be moving into Canada on account of the abundance of very cheap lands in that region, and the Canadians are afraid these newcomers will put new jdeas into the heads of their Canadian neighbors and start an annexation movement. ha

_ John D. Maud, a wealthy farmer living near Hamilton, 0., has always been a sincere enemy of weeds, and when he died a few days ago it was found that his will set aside $5,000 in government, bonds to be used by the county in waging a ceaseless war against “noxious, wild and disfiguring plants.” The will provides that only the income from the bonds shall be used, the principal to constitute a lasting weed fund. :

- Paul Leicester Ford, murdered by his brother in New York, was a man of rare versatility and industry. His “Honorable Peter Stirling” and “Jamice Meredith”—to mention only two of the stories he wrote—have been among the most successful of the novels of the past few" years. His biographies of Washington - and Franklin attracted wide attention in England as well as in the United States. Essays from him on a variety of subjects have appeared at frequent intervals in the past few years in the popular magazines.

Why should the eminent physicians who admit that excessive meat-eat-ing is injurious hasten to disavow at the same time fhat they are vegetarians? There is nothing discreditabie in the fact of -being a vegetarian, and the time when it was fashionable to sneer at vegetarians has gone by long ago. The very faet that in many diseases meat is the first article absolutely interdicted by physicians is the best evidence that the medical faculty admits in effect, if not in terms, that people would be better off without meat altogether, High speed has recently been developed upon some of the western railroads, and it will cause no surprise if 1902 proves to be a year of railway record-breaking. For the last few years the traflic on the railroads has been so great that the officials have been kept busy providing for it and have had little time to ‘think of faster schedules. But now there is talk of new records and of phenomenally fast trains, including wne that will make the journey from New York to Chiecago in 18 hours. This rate of speed will be cooling.

The Important Happenings of a Week Briefly Told. IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION All the Latest News of Interest from Washington, From the East, the West and the South. THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. In the United States senate on the 13th an additional appropriation of $300,000 was voted for the stricken people of the French \Vestrlndi_e‘s‘;l

the agricultural appropriation bill was passed; Senator Stewart (Nev.) spoke in support of the Philippine bill, and the conference report on the Cuban diplomatic and consular bill was adopted. In the house discussion of the naval appropriation bill was begun. The conference report on the omnibus claims bill was rejected. During the greater part of the session of the United States senate on the 14th the fortifications appropriation bill was under consideration. Alexander . Brodie was confirmed as governor of Arizona. In the house the naval appropriation bill was discussed and the conference report on the Cuban diplomatic and consular bill was agreed to. : The United States senate on the 15th passed the fortifications appropriation bill and further discussed the Philippine bill. A conference on the agricultural appropriation bill was agreed to and a bill to establish an Indian agricultural school at Wahpeton, N. D., was passed. In the house an exciting debate on the Philippines was started by Mr. Vandiver (Mo.), who accused the army of crime and cruelty to natives. Mr. Hepburn (la.) denied the charges. A bill was passed opening to homestead entry the extensive Ute tract in Colorado, embracing about 9,000,000 acres. : : FROM WASHINGTON. The president laid the corner stone near Washington of the MeKinley Memorial Ohio college of government of the American university. H. Clay Evans has taken the oath of office as consul general at London. Albert G. Riddle, a well-known lawyer and author, and an ex-member of congress from Ohio, died in Washington, aged 86 years. | President Roosevelt says the British camp at New Orleans is lawful; mo recruiting is done there, and mule shipments do not violate meutrality. | ’ THE EAST. In New York Lewis Nixon has resigned as leader of Tammany Hall. The United States cruiser Dixie with 3,000 tons of provisions and clothing for the relief of the people on the island of Martinique, sailed from New York. : % Julia Bedell celebrated her one hundred and first birthday at her home | in Bayonne, N. J.

John Baritch, Fatrick XKelley and John McMichael were killed by an explosion at Girardville, Pa.

The steamers Dixie and Sterling are on their way to Martinique and St. Vincent from the United States with a month’s rations for 50,000 people. Anthracite mine workers in convention at Hazleton, Pa., decided to countinue the strike of the 145,000 men against the mine ownersand to fight it out to the bitter end. Williath Tod: Helmuth, aged 60 vears, a surgeon of natiohal reputation, died suddenly at his home in New York. In New York the one hundred and fourteenth general assembly of the Presbyterian church opened in the Fifth Avenue churech. : In a fire that destroved the American hotel at Mt. Pleasant, W. Va., five men perished. ; The collapse of the $120,000,000 hardware trust is anaounced- , WEST AND SOUTH. In the Seventh district of Illinois the republicans have nominated Philip Knopf for congress. E. F. Ware, of Kansas, has taken the oath of office as commissioner of pensions, : In the Tenth Towa district J. P. Connor, of Dennison, has been renominated for congress by the republicans.

‘Charles Dick has been renominated for congress by the republicans of the Nineteenth district of Ohio. Lieut. Gov. Jesse Stone’s funeral was held at Watertown, Wis,, in the presence of a large concourse of people from all parts of the state. At the Chicago stock yards cattle prices broke 20 years’ high record, the price of $7.60 being reached; hogs and sheep broke a year’s record. Subpoenas have been served on packers.

~ At the oil fields near Austin, Tex., the drill in a well at.a depth of 142 feet: dropped into a lake of liquid asphalt. At Indianapolis the Indiana soldiers’ and sailors’ monument was dedicated.

. Flames wiped out the entire businese portion of Farlin, Ta. In Chicage Esther Allan, aged 23, only daughter of John Alexander Dowie, died as the result of burns from an exploded alcohol lamp. A decision by the Jowa supreme court practically ends prohibition in 60 counties, opening the way to liquor sale by express companies.:

W. S. Green shot and killed his divorced wife and committed suicide at Montgomery City, Mo. .

In a fire at Laurel, Neb., John Jacobson and his wife and infant child were, burned to death. ;

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, Canada’s parliament has voted $50,000 for the relief of the sufferers at Martinique and St. Vinecent. Off the coast of Madras the British steamer Camorta was lost with 739 { persons. 3 Latest estimates show that more than 2,000 persons have perished on the island of St. Vincent during the nine days La Coufriere has been in eruption, and the mountain is still raining fire - and threatening further destruction. | Members of the British parliament have promised $5,000,000 as a nucleus ltnnd for a retaliatory combination against the Morgan steamship trust.

Hayti’s navy, under Admiral Killiek, revolted and joined the revolutionists under Gen. Firman.

On the eve of the inauguration of President-elect Palma Cubans expressed their gratitude to the United States for intervention in their struggle with Spain for liberty. At Martinique Mont Pelee is still belching hot ashes and streams of lava, wiping out every trace of vegetation and life that escaped the first eruption. .

In Paris 12,000 persons have been absolutely ruined by the failure of the Humbert’s Insurance company.

In Havana the.Cuban =ongress met and deciared Gen. Palma elected president and Estevez vice president. In Sweden all workmen have begun a strike to force granting of universal suffrage. : Near Martinique small islands have sunk out of sight, and scientists fear greater disaster. The St. Vincent volcano threatens a mnew eruption, the old crater having disappeared and a new one becoming active.

In Quebec Col. John F. Gaynor and Capt. W. D. Green, wanted by _sthe United Staes government for frauds, were kidnaped by United States officers. ;

A London paper asserts that peace is absolutely assured as a result of the Boer delegation’s deliberations at Vereeninging. : The people at Kingstown, St. Vincent, fear annihilation through a fresh €ruption of La Soufriere. : Doctors who have examined bodies at St. Piere agree that the victims were smothered by noxious gases which swept down from Mont Pelee ahead of the destructive flames. : : LATER NEWS, Senator Lodge tried to induce the minority in the United States scenate on the 16th to fix a date for a vote on the Philippines bill, but failed. Senator McLaurin concluded his speech against the bill, and Senator Deboe made one in its support. Ninety-five pension bills were passed, and nominations of H. G. Squiers, of New York, for minister to Cuba, and Edward S. Bragg, of Wisconsin, for consul general at Havana, were received from the president. In the house a bill was passed to refund war taxes collected upon legacies and bequests of a religious, charitable or educational character. The naval appropriation bill was further considered. - Lord Pauncefote has tendered his resignation as ambassador to Washington from England and asked immrediate acceptance. ‘ Striking anthracite miners are planning to tie up all the coal mines in the United States.

Thirty-two persons were injured, seven probably fatally, in a $500,000 blaze that destroyed Armour & Co.'s lard refinery at the Union stockyards in Chicago. Dun & Co.’s trade review reported weather and wages disturbing factors in business. _ Presidént-elect Palma of Cuba has announced his cabinet; Tamayo, secretary of state under Gen. Wood, will remain.

The governor of St. Vincent in a cable to London reported 1,300 bodies buried; nine sugar estates destroyed. All live stock on Windward islands killed. - There were 228 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 16th, against 218 the week previous and 177 the corresponding week of last yvear.

Mont Pelee is now threatening new’l eruption; flashes of light appeared all | night from the crater, and cinde_rsl were showered on St. Pierre ruins dur- | ing the dav. ]

Emperor William notified President Roosevelt. that he will present a statue of Frederick the Great to the United States, to be erected in Waghington, to commemorate Prince Henry’s visit. Morne Soufriere lis threatening fresh eruptions and the survivors on St. Vincent are panic-stricken. The island is constantly agitated by earthquakes, and scientists predict further explosions. : MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

A new train on the Pennsylvania will make the trip from Chicago to New York in 17 hours. o

The J. P. Morgan steamship trust deal causes fear in London that railway lines also many be bought up. Senator McLawren (S. C.) and A. A. Gates, of that state, had a fist fight over politics in a hotel lobby in Washington.

Judge Earle, referee, has decided that the New York special franchise tax law is unconstitutional on every point.

American railroads have said to have taken the leading interest in the syndicate behind the Atlantic ship combine.

Prince Henry of Prussia- has been celebrating at Kiel the twenty-fifth anniversary of his entry into the German navy. :

The United Trish leaguc committee has issued an address to Americans asking financial support of Irish movement.

The New York Central railroad has leased the Delaware and Hudson route, seeuring its own line to Saratoga and Montreal. ¢

Foreign immigration for the first four months of 1902 footed up 178,604, the largest number ever recorded for a corresponding period.

Prof. Bierkeland’s elestro-magnetic cannqQn, which theoretically throws a two-ton projectile 90 miles, was given a successful test at Berlin. ~ The remains of Bret Harte, who died in London, were buried at Brimley, Surrey, in the presence of his widow, son, daughter and a few friends. The Michigan Central railroad gave a mortgage of $18,000,000 to secure 31 per cent. bonds due in 1952; $10,000,00 to be used to retire existing bonds and $8,000,000 for improvements. A new way to cook cereals in saturated atmosphere has been discovered by Dr. A. P. Anderson, of Chicago. He says starchy products can be made more healthful and a variety of flavors produced by his process. ‘ The act to repeal special war revenue taxation will go into effect on July 1. %The act concerns bankers, brokers, ‘pawt}broker’s, custom-house brokers, theaters, circuses, bowling alleys, billiard rooms, dealers in grains and securities, dealers in and makers of cigars Gl - £ 2 : {;and,;fiobacco, persons engaged in refin-

THREAT IS SERIOUS Effort to Be Made to Call Out All Coal Miners. Movement, If Successful, Will Involve 449,000 Men, Tie Up Every ‘lndustry and Completely : Paralyze Business, Hazleton, Pa., May 17.—The anthracite mine workers in convention Friday, in order to win their strike, unanimously decided upon a plan that if carried into successful operation, would practically tie up the industries of the country, paralyze ‘business and invonvenience the people throughout the United States. It is their desire that a special national con¥ention of the United Mine Workers of America be called as soon as practicable for the purpose of endeavoring to have all the bituminous mine workers, both organized and unorganized, involved in the anthracite miners’ struggle. This announcement was officially made at mnoon Friday by President John Mitchell in a statement giving the result of the deliberations of the delegates in convention. This statement is as follows: g Statement Issued by Mitchell.

“‘At this morning’s session the convention petitioned the national officers to issue a call for a national convention of all miners employed in the United States for the purpose of considering the situation in the anthracite field. If the desire of the anthracite miners is carried into effect a national suspension of coal mining will be inaugurated. All questions of detail as to the direction of the strike in the anthracite field were referred to the district and national officers. Definite plans will be outlined within the next few days. For the present the engineers, firemen and pump runners will continue at work. All mine workers were advised to remain at their homes, abstain from frequenting saloons and under all circumstggces observe the law.” : : Effect Far-Reaching.

If a special national convention is called and the miners succeed in their object it would directly affect 449,000 men, who are employed in and about the coal mines of the country. Coal would soon become scarce and this would ultimately result in the tying up of railroads and all sorts of industries that use large quantities of the fuel. It is doubted by some interested persons here who are closely watching developments that such a stupendous movement could be brought about, for the reason that the business interests of the country would not stand idly by and permit such a plan to be put into effect. May Meet in Indianapolis, The striking miners are enthusiastic over the convention’s action, and most of them see only success in the proposition. An absolutely trustworthy source is authority for the statement that the special convention will be called, probably at Indianapolis, in the course of several weeks. According to the rules of the United Mine Workers, a petition signed by five mine workers’ districts is necessary to call a special convention. The three anthracite districts are unanimous for such a meeting, and it is likely that the West Vir-

ginia district and the Michigan district will consent to the issuance of the call. The two latter districts now have small but stubborn strikes in progress, and they will doubtless consent to the call, so that they, too. may receive the benefit of whatever may be accomplished.

Amn effort was made to learn what steps, if any, had been taken in the direction of a sympathy strike of other trades unions. It was learned that some of the labor leaders of the country had informally discussed such a movement some time before the present strike was inaugurated, but that mo definite plan presented itself. Such a strike, it was thought, would probably not be inaugurated for four or five or possibly more months and only in the event that the union was in danger of going to pieces. May Be Permitted to Work,

The matter of calling out the engineers, firemen and pump runners from the anthracite mines to allow the workings to become flooded and damaged was left by the convention to the discretion of the national and district officers. What they will do cannot be definitely learned, but it seems probable that they will be permitted to remain at work for the present, at least. It was said at strike headquarters by an official that the United Mine Workers’ organization had all along followed a policy of protecting mine property, on the ground that the destruction of accumulated wealth, as a rule, ultimately affects the workmen seriously. :

Business Depressed. Business generally is stagnant and coal in this section is becoming scarce. Many of the foreign mine laborers, in anticipation of a prolonged struggle, have left the region, and others are preparing to follow. A carload of these twworkmen from the Sehuylkill region passed through here, some en route to other coal fields, and a number bound for their native land, where they purpose remaining until the strike ends..

May Tender Its Services, Washington, May 17.—The National Civic Federation has under serious consideration the means whereby it may be helpful in bringing 'about a termination of the anthracite coal strike. A tender of the good offices of the federation, with a suggestion of arbitration of differences, among other things, has been discussed in a tentative way, but no definite conclusion has been reached and several days will be permitted to elapse before a determination will be reached as to what course the federation should pursue, Under Guard. Montreal, Que., May 17.—Messrs. Gaynor and Greene are guests at the Windsor hotel, each guarded by a local detective, with a force of United States secret service agents unofficially in reserve. They will not go back to Quebec, much as theyand their friends desire it, and in spite of the writ of habeas corpus granted by Judge Andrews, of Quebec, directing Chief Detective Carpenter to return his prisoners to that city. Judge La Fontaine of this city, remanded ghe prisoners until Monday morning, and expects that they will be produced before him.

HURT AT A FIRE.

Structure Crowded With Speectators Falls in Chicago—Stock Yards Plant Destroyed.,

Chicago, May 17.—Surging up a wooden runway, sitting under the crossbeams of it, and standing beneath it to watch the destruction of the lard refinery of the Armour & Co. Friday evening 200 persons out of a erowd of 2,000, who stood on the top of the runway, were thrown 30 feet to the ground by the collapse of one section of the runway. Besides the list of injured. others were hurt at the fire. Those whose injuries were sufficient to demand hurried attention number 35.

Others were slightly hurt but were able to leave the scene of the fire without asking for help or receiving attention from physicians.

The fire in the lard refinery of Armour & Co. started on the fifth floor by the explosion of three vats of lard. There were 700 employes at work in the building at the time of the explosion and most of them were warned by the detonation and fled from the building. In the lard cooking-room, where the explosion occurred, the hot, melted lard was thrown about the room and the flames soon spread through the room. There were no employes in the vatroom at the time of the explosion, and none of them is known to be injured. By the time the firemen arrived the upper floors of the building were burning fiercely. The greasy material, with which the building was filled, burned quickly and with a loud roar. The heat was intense and as the fire spread through the building the firemen were driven back step by step. They stood as close as possible and other men played a lead of hose on them to keep them from serious burns. There was no time left in sending in calls for extra engines and following a four-eleven alarm two extra calls were sent and soon 37 engines were pumping water into the roaring mass of flames.

The lard refinery was at the corner of Forty-third street and Center avenue. The building extended for 300 feet along Forty-third street and for 200 feet on Center avenue. There are 2,000 men and women employed in the plant and they are working night and day, 700 of them having the night shift. The Armour refinery was valued at $500,000, according to Secretary C. F. Langdon and Superintendent M. S. Conway. Supreintendent Conway said that the building had been in use for about three months and had been in course of erection for 18 months previous to the time it was used. ‘lt was the finest plant of its kind in the world, and no expense was spared to perfect 1t ol cannot\estima.t.e the loss to the contents.” ;

Secretary Langdon said: “The loss on the building was $500,000. I cannot place an estimate on the contents, but the amount will be somewhere between $250,000 and $400,000. It is practically a million-dollar fire and fully covered by insurance.”

GIFT TO UNITED STATES.

Emperor Willinm to Place Statue of Frederick the Great at Washington.

Wiesbaden, Hesse-Nassau, May 17.— The German emperor Wednesday, May 14, telegraphed as follows to the president of the United States, at Washington:

“I am still under the deep impression created by the splendid and cordial reception of my brother, Prince Henry, by the citizens of the United States of America. In the speeches with which he was greeted the fact was often mentioned that my ancestor, Frederick the Great, maintained a friendly attitude towards the young American republic during the course of her formation, thereby laying the corner stone of the friendly relations which have always existed between our two countries. The example set to me by the great king I intend to follow. ‘I wish to commemorate the visit of Prince Henry by a gift to the people of America, which I request you to acceptin their name. I intend to preseént a statue in bronze of Frederick the Great to the United States, to be erected in Washington on a place you will kindly choose. May this gift be looked upon as a lasting sign of the intimate relations which have been successfully fostered and developed between our two great nations. (Signed) “*WILLIAM,I. R.”

President Roosevelt replied Thursday, May 15, thanking Emperor William heartily, in the name of the United States, and saying that he would lay the matfer before congress immediately. Washington, May 17.—Emperor William may come to America to unveil a statue of Frederick the Great to be erected in Washington as his gift to this country and as a token of international amity. :

PEACE IS ASSURED. Sufficient Indications of Attitude of Boer Leaders to Warrant Confidence as to Outcome. London, May 17.—The Daily Mail Friday morning says it understands that suiiicient indications of the attitude of the Boerleaders at Veereeining have transpired to justify the assertion that peace in South Africa is absolutely assured. A powerful factor in attaining this result, the paper says, has been the British generosity in the matter of farm rebuilding, for which, it believes, about £ 5,000,000 has been granted. .

Carrie Nation Sent to Jail, Topeka, Kan., May 17.—Mrs. Carrie Nation was Friday sentenced to 30 days in prison and to pay a $lOO fine, by Judge Hazen, in the district court, for smashing bar fixtures stored in a vacant barn in this ecity, in February, 1901. - She will not appeal the case, and has gone to jail. Revision Report Made, New: York, May 17.—The Presbyterian creed report, made to the general assembly, offers a declaration that the confession does not teach infant damnation. The report is certain of adoption. Convicted of Smuggling. New York, May 17.—Michael Leinkran was convicted in the United States circuit court for smuggling $25,000 worth of diamonds. He was arrested as he was leaving the steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm, on which Prince Henry was a passenger on February 23. v

Getting Evidence Against Beef Trust, Wichita, Kan., May 17.—E. McKeever, assistant United States district attorney fdor Kansas, was in the city Friday, getting affidavits from the syutchers in connection with the alleged beef trust. "

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