Ligonier Banner., Volume 37, Number 25, Ligonier, Noble County, 18 September 1902 — Page 2

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The gemius who will invent a gun thut ean't go off while the careless bunter is pulling it toward him, muzzle first, will save scores of lives 3early. :

Juége Caldwell, of Little Rock, Ark,, znd Judge Jackson, of West. Virginia, wrere appointed by President Lincoln. They are the omnly remaining judges whose commissions bear his signature. Judge Caldwell is 70 years of age.

A Daltimore man has a plan for manufacturing fuel out of ordinary dirt and a few chemicals, and a company is being organized to promote 3t. llf the chemicals are not. too scarce it will be difficult to get up & trust on such a fuel. The dirt supply: cannot be cornered. _ .

Jusiice Shiras, who will resign next spring from the United States supreme bench, is an ardent fisherman. His summers are spent among the lakes of Canada with his son, George Shiras 111. There have been three of the name living at the same time, all wellkrown public men, and they had to be rumbered to distinguish father from #on and grandson. .

Snapshooters, autograph hunters 2nd interviewers have gone far toward making life 'a burden for Lord Kitcherer since he returned to England from South Africa. To one young man who had served in South Africa and who asked him for his signature his lordship said: *“Young man, make your own autograph worth some--Ihing; mine’s worth nothing.”

Dr. W. T. Harris, United States commissipner of education, firmly believes that suceess comes to—or at least is Ceserved by—those who are ‘“early to bed and early to rise.” For years it ’has been his custom to retire about the time chickens seek their roost and he is always ap at 3 o’clock. Most of his Pbest work is done between that hour and the time when his clerks arrive at Ihe burean. _ - i

There has been discovered to the ezst of Fresno, Cal,, in the Sierras, the biggest trec in the world. At the time 3% was said that it measured 150 feet in circumference. John Muir, the great paturalist, has just visited the tree and reports that it measures at the base only 109 feet and at four feet above the ground it was only 97 fect in circumf{erence. It is, however. larger than the Gen. Sherman or the Gen. Grant. which heretofore were the recognized monarchs of the forest. :

A cerporation with $lOO,OOO capital kas been organized at Birmingham; Ala. to exploit’an invention by which whisky can be put in tablet form. If this is not a news fake and time proves that a proeess has been discovered by which aleohol can be solidified, a revoJution will be brought about of consequence in many ways. The entire Tevenue taxation now resting on the Hiquor traffic would have to be revised, while present legislation to restrict the sale and use of aleohol would be wholly worthless. =

The supreme court of New York has decided that because a wife forges notes on her husband it is mot a sufficient ground on which he may reasonably ask a divorce. Extravagance and crime do not constitute cruel and inhuman treatment, and the court sums up .a very remarkable case by saying: “A husband takes his wife for better or worse. and because she does not conform bher expenditures to his notions of economy is not a ground of casting her from him.”

Sir Thomas Lipton is providing for the construction of another cup challenger. For the third time he will “eross the pond” to try his luck at *Jifting thecup.” Thelast time he was bere a feeling of uneasiness prevailed Jest the splendid yacht which he brought, the product of months of careful British designing, should leave the American boat behind. But all misgivings were groundless, since the Columbia beat her rival in Shamrock weather. Still, every time Lipton builds a boat he improves upon the one before.

Optimism is fashionable. This is one of the best possible fashions that can be introduced. To practice it one must say all the good possible to and of relatives, friends and enemies. Broad compliments must be received as a part of the game with as much gusto and appreciation as one can sammon. Even truth must be saecrificed in this effort to be optimistic. The fad may have its good points, but to be too enthusiastic over everything may lead to a thread of insincerity, either in one’s self or in the opinion of others. s

There were, as shown by the census Teports, 2,555 persons over 100 years of age ;‘athe United States in. 1850, 2,953 3n 1860, 3,522 in 1870, 4,016 in 1880 and 4,500 in 1890. TRere ate probably 5,000 mow. In 1890 the oldest person in the United States was the Indian Gabriel, ©f Salinas, Cal. The next oldest was XNancy Britt Kennedy, a white woman of Maine, but two-thirds of the centerarians in the Unitel States were col-

ored. While there are probably not snore than 1.200 whites over 100 years of age, there are probably 3,800 negroees and Indians over that age.

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 FROM WASHINGTON. A dispatch says that the United States treasury deficit for the-fiscal year has been wiped out and a. §79,956 credit balance exists. ‘

Secretary Shaw’s plan to avert a possible financial pinch is to give government deposits to banks where new circulation is taken out.

A government boarding house, to determine the effect of food preservatives, coloring and adulteration en healthy persons, will be started in Washington. At the present time the total national bank circulation outstanding ($363,626,206) exceeds that of any period in the history of the national banking system. = ° Government monthly crop report puts the condition of corn at 84.3, nearly six points above the ten-yelr average. Other grains also have high figures.

Appointment is announced of John P. Debolt to be judge at Honolulu, vice Abram S. Humphreys, resigned. Mr. Debolt is a prominent member of the Honolulu bar. :

President Roosevelt has removed William Vaughan United States district attorney for the mnorthern district of Alabama, for neglect of duty.

THE EAST.

The developments in the coal strike indicate agtivity in peace mnegotiations. Mitchell has been called to conference with Gov. Stone.

The preéident concluded his southern tour and reached Oyster Bay to rest until the beginning of his western trip, September 19.

The democrats have mnominated Henry F. Hollis, of Concord, for governor of New Hampshire.

A draft for £l,OOO from the Welsh miners has been received by President Mitchell. The donation was made to the American miners. :

. The planshave about been completed for the reception which President Roosevelt will tender to the citizens of Nassau county on the 15th instant at Oyster Bay. It is probable that between 10,000 and 12,000 people will attend. <

The public school registration, just completed, shows a total for Greater New York of 502.903 scholars. This is an increase of 35,000 over the preceding year.

George Lindhurst was bitten by a fly two weeks ago, at Brooklyn, N. Y., and is dead. The physicians pronounce it an extraordinary case of blood poisoniug. '

Thinking his brother was a burglar, Sam Kendlewood shot and killed him at_lronwood, Va.

WEST AND SOUTH.

Near Wenona, Ga., William Mobley, a negro who attempted to assault:a young white girl, was hanged by a mob.

Robbers took $4,000 from the bank at Lewisburg, Ky. - White caps whipped Mat Sturgeon and his wife near Bloomington, Ind., and warned them to quit the county at once.

The death of W. C. Anderson, concressman from the First district 'gf Tennessee from 1874 to 1896, occurred at Newport. '

Colorado democrats have nominated Edward C. Stimson, of Cripple Creek, for governor. John Lomax (colored), who assaulted: Susie Costenbader, a young woman, was hanged at Montrose, Va. The president traveled through North Carolina on his way to Washington and was greeted by large crowds at many places. : é A St. Louis grand jury reindicted all members of the house of delegates’ boodle committee, members of which were sworn to forfeit their lives for confessing. Walter and Leroy Woodruff (brothers) and William Tennant, a brother-in-law, were drowned at Manistique, Mich. In the Second Wisconsin district John J. Wood, of Berlin, has been nominated for congress by the democrats. Burglars robbed the post office at Miami, Mo., of $5OO in money and stamps. .

Fire destroyed the plant of the Fredericksburg Brewing company at San Jose, Cal., the loss being $300,000.

In St. Louis all but six of the 19 members of the alleged combine of the house of delegates, who are under indictment on various counts, are under arrest. : ‘

G. W. Shoemaker, for eight years postmaster at Albany, Mo., and a prominent lawyer, has been sentenced to prison for ten years for defrauding the county on school fund loans.

In Chicago Albgrt Fredericka and his wife, an aged couple, committed suicide by inhaling gas.

The lowa democrats have mnominated Martin I. Wade for congress in the Second district and George W. Cullison in the Ninth. New Orleans confederate veterans have refused the proffered aid of Gen. Torrence, commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. They decline with thanks the money to build a home for indigent confederate soldiers in Alabama. : :

Republicans in state convention in Washington pledged support to President Roosevelt in 1904, - :

Horace Boies, of Waterloo, la., exgovernor of Towa, has been nominated by the democrats of the Third district. His opponent on the republican ticket is Speaker Henderson. .

At the age of 74 Wilson Huy, who supervised the construction of the confederate ram Merrimac, is dead at his home in Hampton, Va. ; An Ackley, la., fire destroyed $30,~ 000 worth of property in the business digtrict. :

Flames destroyed the new building of the university at Ottawa, Kan. Michigan democrats of the Eleventh. district nominated Dr. David J. Erwin, of Lake City, for congress. .

Fire broke out in the Beaumont ‘(Tex.) oil field and greatlossis threateued at Spindle Top. Waste along Texas & Sabine railroad started the blaze, which got beyond control. Several tanks have already exploded. '

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

Hayti’s provisional government decree declaring Gonaives and other ports blockaded will be ignored by the United States.

The demands of the Boer generals on Secretary Chamberlain at a recent conference included a yearly grant to Boer widows, orphans and injured burghers. - The concessions were all refused.

In China 5,000 persons lost their lives by the overflowing of the West river. ;

Steps are being taken by the Hungarian government for the adoption of stringent measures to restrict emigration.

In Paris the Bank of France was robbed of $44,000 in gold by some person having access to the cash vault. :

The Colombian revolutionists captured Culebra government troops and were. erecting breastworks at Colon and Panama.

A London dispatch says experts estimate the damage done to Kentich hop growers by a storm of rain and hail at fully $500.000. Statisties of cholera in Egypt show that there has been 1,380 fresh cases reported, making totals since July 15 of 20,328 cases and 16,209 deaths.

LATER NEWS,

An automobile, in which Mrs. William M. Stewart, wife of United States Senator Stewart, of Nevada, was riding, dat Alameda, Cal., became unmanagable ind crashed into a telegraph pole. Mrs. Stewart was killed. Senator Stewart is at presemt at The Hague, in connection with the Pius fund arbitration, in which he has talken a deep interest. 2

Secretary Wilson, who returned ta Washington from a trip through the west, has summarized the agricultural conditions in the states he visited. These states included Nebraska, Kangsas, lowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. He said there was a great abundance of crops generally in that region. Rev. Dr. William C. Pierce, a pioneer Methodist minister of the western reserve, died in Cleveland, O. He had labored in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. A syndicate with a capital 0f,550,000,000 is being organized, in London, by the “Coal Combine,” which proposes to purchase the Fife and Clyde companies’ mines.

Alexander R. Shepard, who was vice president of the board of public works of the District of Columbia during the territorial government ef the District in 1871, and two years later gevernor of the District, died at Batopolis, Mex.

Luke Wheeler has returned to Chicago to surrender himself to State’s Attorney Deneen and tell the special grand jury all he knows about the taxfixing conspiracy. Dispatches from a score or more points tell of killing frost inthe northwest. The mercury fell to 24 degrees in many places.

The voleano Kilauea, in Hawaii, continues to show unusual activity, and it is said the lake of fire is rising. The president has made the following appointments: Charles J. Bonaparte, of Baltimore, Md., and Prof. Andrew S. Draper, president of the University of Illinois, to be members of the board of Indian commissioners. The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fair arrived in San Francisco and were interred in Laurel Hill cemetery.

Colorado republicans nominated James H. Pembody for governor. Forest firesare burning over the Cascade and Coast ranges from British Columbia to the California line, destroying millions of feet of lumber, many farmhouses, barns and much livestock. Two people are known to have lost their lives and others are missing. ' ;

At St. Paul, Minn., the home of Louis Moritz was destroyed by fire. Two children, Louis, aged two years, and Annie, aged 17 years, perished in the flames. :

The forest fires in Washington and British Columbia continue to rage fiercely. = Several villages have been destroyed. Fully a score of lives have been lost and many persons are homeless.

Gov. Beckham, of Xentucky, has instructed Attorney General Pratt to begin proceedings to prevent the Corbett-McGovern prize fight.

The conference between Gorv. Stone, of Pennsylvania, President Mitchell, and others, held with a view of ending the coal strike, proved fruitless. : :

It is said that President Roosevelt and five of the most influential members of the United States senate are about to take steps that they hope will bring to an immediate end the long strike of miners in the anthracite field. $

Secretary Shaw has announced a plan whereby a total of $8,200,000 of the treasury holdings will be thrown into immediate circulation. This amount will ease the present Wall street situation and tide over the crop-moving season stringency.

In a statement issued on the subject of the money stringency in New York Secretary Shaw says that he sees no immediate cause for alarm.

New. York republican leaders in conference indorsed President Roosevelt for 1904. :

King Edward is officially declared sonnd in health.

The late Alexander R. Shepherd, better known as “Boss” Shepherd, leaves a fortune conservatively estimated at $6,000,000. . "Rev. H. H. Washburn, rector at Oyster Bay, made President Roosevelt uncomfortable in a sermon by calling him a David providentially raised to fight the trusts. The president bhad requested a McKinley memerial address. 1

There was a general observance 6f McKinley memorial day im American cities. From almost every pulpit there was reference in prayer or in address to the late president and his work. His favorite hymns were sung. A pretty feature that was adopted by many of the citizens way the wearing of a pink carnation in memory of the martyred president.

HOMAGE TO M’KINLEY'

General Observance of First Anniversary of His Death.

Eulogzies Delivered by Speakers in Many Cities—His Favorite Hymns Sung—People Wear His Favorite Flower.

Canton, 0., Sept. 15.—There was a general observance of McKinley memorial day in the city which claimed him as its own. From almost every pulpit there was reference in prayer or in address to him and his woek. His favorite hymns were used. There was mno attempt at decoration other than to have the portraits of McKinley draped with flags and surrounded with choice flowers. The address that attracted most attention here was that given by Judge William R. Day, foemer secretary of state and a friend and adviser of McKinley for many years. The address was delivered in the First Methodist Episcopal church, of which McKinley was a member, and in which the public funeral was held September 19, 1901.

Visits Her Husband’'s Tomb

Although deeply conscious of the fact that it was just one year ago that her beloved husband died, Mrs. McKinley did not vary the program followed by her for several months. All days to her have been memorial days. Her usual trip to Westlawn cemetery was taken Sunday forenoon, and she laid love’s offering of flowers on the casket that contains the remains of the nation’s martyred chief. Mrs. Murrett A. Hobart, who is her guest, went with her into the McKinley tomb and also laid a bouquet of flowers on the coffin.

In Chicago.

-Chicago, Sept. 15.—Chicago paid an impressive tribute Sunday to the memory of William McKinley. Throughout the city from platform and pulpit men of all nationalities and all creeds lauded the life and deeds of the martyred president, whose death occurred a year ago Sunday. His nobility of character, purity of home life, solidity of statesmanship and greatness of heart were all subjects for outpourings of eloquence from both the clergy and laity. Musical services, arranged especially for the occasion, added in a considerable degree to the impression made by oratory and prayer. The largest meeting was held in the afternoon at the First Methodist Episcopal church, where speakers of national reputation joined in giving expression to their esteem for the character and life work of thelate president. : In the Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist and churches of other denominations the sermons contained references to President McKinley and his worth, Polish and Bohemian nationalists' and turners also paid a tribute to the memory of the late president. . Dispatches tell of appropriate services 'held in the following, among other cities: Seattle, Wash.; Portland, Ore.; Louisville, Ky.; Nashville, Tenn.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Pittsburg, Pa.; San Francisco, Cal.; Denver, Col.; Dayton, O.; Topeka, Kan.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Springfield, O.; Lincoln, Neb.; St. Joseph, Mo.; New York, Brooklyn and Washington.

In Cincinnati

Cincinnati, Sept. 15.—McKinley memorial services were held in:all the churches of this vicipity Sunday. The attendance was larger than usual. There were special programmes in many churches, including the favorite musical numbers to the martyred presdent. Appropriate exercises were also held in all the benevolent and other public institutions. In some churches the floral tributes were as elaborate as on Easter. In many places the portrait of McKinley was festooned with crape or flowers. The posts of the Grand Army of the Republic attended in bodies at different churches. At the cathedral Archbishop Elder had the Litany of the Saints recited after high mass, and =2all the Catholic churches had similar services. In most of the Protestant churches the pastors spoke at the morning service on the life and character of McKinley and the lesson of his untimely death, but in the afternoon and evening judges, lawyers, professors from the University of Cincinnati and other prominent men addressed the congregations on McKinley. No day was ever more generally observed in sacred or secular circles here.

In Cleveland,

Cleveland, 0., Sept. 15.—McKinley memorial services were generally held in the churches of the several denominations in this city Sunday. The life and work of the late president formed the subject matter of the discourse of the preachers, or if not that, choirs sang the two hymns which Mr. McKinley liked so well. In Roman Catholic churches a prayer composed by Archbishop Carroll for the guidance and protection of rulers was read. A very impressive observance was that in Edgewater park, where 25,000 people, present at a band concert, joined in the singing of the hymn, “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” with heads uncovered, to the music of a band. .

Coal Sold at $25 a Ton.

Chicagaq, 'Sept'. 15.—Anthracite coal sold in Chicago Saturday at the highest figure quoted in years. The Weaver Coal company sold several orders of a high grade at $25 a ton and some ‘at $2O. These prices, while not gen“eral, are in the face of a hard coal famine in the city and they indicate what may be expected unless a supply 6f'anthracite soon reaches town. Soft coal has gone up in price eight to ten per .cent. within a few days and coke, the best substitute for hard, coal, is quoted at $l2 to $l3 a ton, double the price asked September 1.

A Fatal %nnrrel. . Guthrie, Okla., Sept. 15.—1 n a quarrel over school affairs Joseph Watkins, a farmer of Beaver county, was'shot and killed by a neighbor, Doe Cravens. The school board had made a tax levy which did not meet Watkins’ approval. The quarrel took place at Cravens’ place. The latter surrendered and was released on bail. ;

ssrike_ Settled.

Ottumwa, la., Sept. 15.—The street car strike here was settled Sunday evening. The company practically recognizes the union.. Cars on all lines are running. i

THE FINANCIAL SITUATION.

Secretary Shaw to Release $8,000,000 to Ease the Pressure in Wall Street.

Washington, Sept. 15.—Yielding to the demands of the New York banks, Secretary Shaw has announced a plan whereby a total of $8,200,000 of the treasury holdings will be thrown into immediate circulation. This amount will, it is thought at the treasury department, ease the present Wall street situation and tide over the crop-moving season stringency. Four million of this amount will be released to mnational banks not government depositories, but which are to be temporarily made such, on the depositing by them in the treasury of what are known as “free” bonds whick they may have in their vaults. This amount will be distributed in sums of $50,000 and over. The additional $4,200,000 will be put into circulation through anticipating the October interest. This latter plan is not an unusual proceeding on the part of the treasury secretaries. In a statement issued on the subject of the money stringenecy in New York the secretary says that he sees no immediate cause for alarm. He emphasizes the principle that he does not want to force any bank into the market to buy bonds at the present rates, which fact he gives as a reason for designating . national banks possessing free bonds as temporary depositors for government funds. This plan is commented on as giving a slight elasticity to the currency which it has not heretofore had. When money once more becomes plentiful in commercial channels the deposits from these banks can be withdrawn and the bonds released from the treasury which will be held as security. The secretary calls attention to the fact that there is no evidence of a currency famine, present or prospective elsewhere than in New York, and even there the rate is not’ high for commercial paper, and for commercial paper he has the greater solicitude. He is well satisfied with his efforts to increase circulation which he decided upon in the early summer when present conditions were plainly visible and has the presses busy preparing to meet an emergency which he does not expect but which he thinks it is wise to provide against. Thus far he has made requests only of such banks as hoid large deposits and have very [limited circulation, and he is not ask.ing these to increase to the maximum, nor to increase at all for the present. He does mnot desire to force the banks into the market to buy bonds at a rate higher than the government is willing to pay. He does .desire to make the best possible use of the free bonds now:held by the banks. Incidentally he likes to encourage banks to hold free bonds during the dull months, believing it is much better to hold bonds that will yield one-half per cent. even than to make call :loans at two per cent. He is therefore giving the banks that hold these free bonds an opportunity to use them to most excellent advantage. This method if pursued by the banks would give a slight element of elasticity to our otherwise inelastic currency system.

MAY TAKE HAYTI.

Island Must Restore Order or This Nation Will Undoubtedly

Intervene

Washington, Sept. 15.—Unless peace is restored in Hayti by October 1 the United States will issue an ultimatum to the warring factions calling upon them to bring about a tranquil condition of affairs and the failure to do so will in all probability result in the annexation of Hayti to the United States. This government will intervene if hostilities do not cease within a short time of the delivery of the ultimatum. President Roosevelt has given the question careful consideration, and is convinced that the disturbances in Hayti will not end without the intervention of a strong power. He fears the inability of the provisional government to maintain order will involve the United States with some European power, on account of the enforcement of the Monroe doctrine.

He regards the situation there as reflecting on the United States in that the country is immediately under American influences through proximity and the Monroe doctrine, which prevents any European power interfering.

It is not the declared intention to acquire the island,-but the better informed at the state department are of the opinion that that will be the result of an attempt at friendly intervention. The people are extremely hostile to American control and will be suspicious of any action taken by the United States. Secretary Moody is advised of the proposed action and will be in readiness. This course has been approved by every senator who has been consulted by the president on the subject. Later developments will be considered at :the conference at Oyster Bay Tuesday. »

Bridegroom Drowns Himself,

Saginaw, Mich., Sépt. 15.—Charles B. Rabson, a gold mine owner of Atlin, B. C., who married Miss Phoebe Grant Stephens here on Friday, went violently insane Sunday, dragged his bride through the streets and then drowned himself in the Triver. s .

Filipino Bandits Killed.

Manila, Sept. 15.—The force of native constabulary which has been in pursuit of the Rios band of irreconcilables in Tayabas province, Luzon, has killed 18 men and captured 25 of the bandits.

Serious Anti-Semitie Rlot.

Vienna, Sept.. 15.—A 'serious antiSemitic outbreak has occurred at Czenstochowa, a pilgrim resort in Poland. A mob stormed the Jewish shops and wrecked the bread shops, and, according to the Slowopolski, 14 Jews and one gendarme were killed, and numbers were injured. The military was summoned to restore order.

i Kl}led His Wife. Boston, Sept. 15.—George Huber, of New York, shot and killed his wife near Great Barrington, Mass., on finding her in company with James FPearing at a public resort. {

CONFERENCE FRUITLESS.

Gov. Stone’s Meeting with Mitchell Appears to Have Been With- ' out Result. }

Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 15.—After a conference which lasted from two o’clock Saturday morning until 4:3C President John Mitchell and the district leaders of the striking anthracite miners departed from Harrisburg, seemingly crestfallen over the result. Gov. Stone still seems to be hopeful that his plan to bring about a settlement of the strike will bear fruit, but the miners’ officials appear doubtful. Not one of the men who participatedin the conference will divulge what scheme was proposed by the governor. President Mitchell, before leaving, stated simply that the governor had submitted no plan that would settle the trouble. It is believed here that Gov. Stone asked the miners to return to work and arbitrate afterward, and that the miners’ officials refused to consider the proposition. . Shenandeah, Pa., Sept. 15.—T0-day begins the nineteenth week of the coal strike. The date on which Senator Platt predicted that the strike would end has passed and the hope which was instilled into the people in this locality because of that prediction has been succeeded by a feeling that the end is still far off. The reiteration by the coal presidents during the week that no concessions would be made and the resolutions passed by nearly all local unions of the United Mine Workers renewing their allegiance to their officers and pledging themselves to continue the strike until concessions are granted show that neither side to the controversy is weakening. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Sept. 15.—Estimated losses at the end of the eighteenth week of the coal strike are as follows: Operators, in price of c0a1..........$ 43,200,000 Strikers, dn wages ... ovi .ae . a 0424,000,000 Employes, not 5triker5........e.... 5,300,000 Ralilroads, in earning 5............. 10,000,000 Business men outside region...... 8,200,000 Coal and iron police .........cee... 1,000,000 Nonuhlon workers ...i..5i...00i 450,000 Breops In feld .. oaiii e 275,000 Damage seteeecsesesgieiaaieienanne. 6,500,000 Total |i i it eas o 3112,420.000

THE PRESIDENT ANNOYED.

Shows Signs of Displeasure at His Pastor’s Sermon on the : Trusts,

Oyster Bay, N. Y., Sept. 15.—Rev. Dr. Henry Homer Washburn, rector of Christ Episcopal church, in the presence .of President Roosevelt and his family and a congregation that filled the church to overflowing, on Sunday preached ‘a sermon in which. he devoted comnsiderable attentiom to “Possibility of Danger Coming By and Through the Unguarded Use of Great Wealth Concentrated in the Hands of a Few,” and in which he also stated that “if ever circumstances indicated that one was placed previdentially in the executive chair of the nation, then the circumstances that attended the promotion of Mr. Roosevelt is indicated.”

The day was the first anniversary of the death of President McKinley and the president had requested Mr. Washburn to hold memorial services. The announcement that this would be done and that President Roosevelt would be present, served to draw a large crowd to Christ church, which the president attends while here. The first part of the rector’s sermon was devoted to a eulogy upon the life and character of the martyred McKinley and to this the president listened attentively. But when in the second part of the sermon Mr. Washburn'took occasion to speak of the possibility of danger eoming through certain trusts, and also to laud the president, Mr. Roosevelt became restive. His face colored and he plainly showed signs of disapproval of the rector’s utterances. At the conclusion of the sermon he turned to Mrs. Roosevelt, who-sat beside him, and whispered: ‘“He should not have done that.” :

After the services, the president stated that he had requested Mr. Washburn to hold memorial services, but that he had no knowledge of what the sermon contained, nor had he any intimation that the rector would refer to the trusts or to himself. Mr. Washburn also stated that he had prepared the sermon without consulting any member of the president’s family.

Murder Semsation in Italy.

Rome, Sept. 15.—A tremendous sensation Las been caused in Italy by the latest development in the murder of Count Bon Martini, who some days ago was found assassinated in his house at Bologna Prof. Murri, a university’'professor, and one of the best kulown physicians in Italy, was Count Bon Martini’s father-in-law. Prof. Murri denounced his own son, Tullio, 2s the murderer of the count. Tullio Murri, who is a well-known socialist and lawyer of Bologna, is in Servia.

Send Millions to New York,

Chicago, Sept. 15.—The firm of Armour & Co., of this city, has sent a sum of money approximating $4,000,000 to New Yor’: to be placed on loan there, the only reason being, it is stated, because higher rates of interest could be obtained there. :

~ Storms in Germany. Berlin, Sept. 15.—Destructive storms raged in many parts of Germany Saturday. In Saxony the temperature sank to zero and a hurricane-like wind unroofed many houses and injured a large number of people. The damage is estimated at-millions of marks.

Forts Are Weak.

Washington, Sept. 15.—The recent army and navy maneuvers showed forts guarding Long Island sound not strong enough to prevent passage of a strong fleet. Searchlights were found' to be uncertain. The forts ‘are 'to be strengthened.

Leaves a Fortune of a 0,000,000

Chihuahua, Mexico, Sept. 15.—Alexander R. Shepherd, better known as “Boss’ Shepherd, news of whose death at Batopilas, state of Chihuahua, has just reached here, leaves a fortune conservatively estimated at $5,000,000. 4 :

To Restore Chinese Railroad.

Tientsin, Sept. 15. — Maj. Gen. Creagh, the British commander, has started for Peking to confer with the foreign ministers regarding the restoration of the Chi-Li section of the Peking-New Chwang railroad to the Chinese. .

DIE IN FOREST FIRES.

Between Twenty and Thirty Livca Known to H‘ave Been Lost {in tke Northwest.

EKalama, Wash., Sept. 15.—News has reached here that the forest fires on Lomis river have wrought sad havoc? D. L. Wallace, wife and two children, were burned to death. They were camping in the woods when caught by the fire. Their wagon was found burned up, the charred bodies lying near. A 12-year-old boy of Mr. Hanley’s also is dead. Mrs. John Polly and baby, and a brother, name unknown, and Mr. Newhouse and Mrs. Graves are dead. Fifteen others were found without clothing except gunnysacks. The worst of the fire is on Lewis river, about 12 miles above Woodland. The country is well settled and there are doubtless other casualties. :

A courier just arrived from Lewis river, states that there are only two houses left standing on Lewis river from Trait’'s place to the head of the river, a distance of 30 miles, and that not less than 15 persons have perished. - A great fire is also raging on the Coweman,, in the northern part of the ‘county. Everything combustible in its path was consumed. The air is thick with smoke and falling ashes. Hill's camp is reported destroyed; Muckley brothers’ No. 2 camp is also burned out; Moreland’s camp is badly damaged. Seven donkey engines are ruined, two men from Barr’s camp are reported missing, peeple are panic-stricken and many are almost crazed with grief over loss of property. Cows litz county thought it was going to escape until to-day, when the reports came thick and fast, each worse than the last. Five people are dead and two missing with only partial reports from the burned district. The horrible news cast a gloom over the entire county that hardly can be described. : '

Portland, Ore., Sept. 15.—About 300 people are left-homeless in Multnomah and Clackamas counties as a result of the forest fires that have raged for the past week. Fires have burned over a wide scope of country, but the greatest damage in this state appears to have been done in these two counties. In the fire that destroyed the town of Palmer, near Bridal Veil, two boys named Hamilton were caught while trying to escape from the flames and burned to death. The timber losses in Clackamas county have been immense and the whole length of the Clackamas river presents nothing but vistas of ruined settlements.

The Springwater region has been utterly swept by fires and those who have reached points in .communication with the outside world say that immediate help must be sent in order to save the lives rescued from the devouring flames. Around Portland the fires are dying down and the people in the suburbs are resting easy for the first time since Thursday. In all parts of. the Willamette and Columbia river valleys the smoke continues very dense and it is feared that the full extent of the losses will not be known until Oak Point, 20 miles below here on

TERRIBLE DISASTER.

Twenty Caucasian Villages S*ept Away by a Glacier—Seven Hundred Persons Killed,

St. Petersburg, Sept. 15.—A report was received from Tiflis from the officials appointed to-investigate the terrible calamity in the Caucasus caused by thenorthern slope of Mount Kasbek descending on the valley below. Twenty villtages were destroyed and nearly 700 persons killed, the damage to houses, cattle, ete., being estimated at 40,000,000 rubles (over $30,000.000). On the northern slope of Mount Kasbek. in an elevated valley, lies the watering place of Tmenkau. visited mostly by patients suffering from gout and serofula. The hot springs came from beneath a glacier in close proximity. At five o’clock in the morning the glacier commenced to sway, but up te four p. m. the bathers, to,the'number of several hundred of both sexes, laughed at the idea of a catastrophe; ‘and, in spite of distinct warnings, continued bathing.

At seven p. m. the whole valley was filled with a deafening noise like thunder, a subterranean rumbling - was heard, and the stream swelled to a mighty torrent, carrying with it huge blosks of rock and ice. The bathers tried to save themselves, butit was too late. The entire northern slope of the mountain, with the glacier, began to move at a tremendous pace from village to village, destroying everything in its way. Within three minutes a valley over 12 miles long and half a mile wide was devastated. The wall of rock and earth which now filled the valley rose to a height of nearly 1,000 feet. Of the bathers only four were saved, and of the 700 corpses found in the whole valley there was hardly one, not mutilated. All this destruction was the work of not more than three minutes. i

Suspect A rregt_(_-fl‘

Chicago, Sept. 15—William Raymond, who was arrested at West Union, la., will be brought back, having been identified by Sergt. Mooney as being one of the men who shot and killed Policemen Charles Pennell and Timothy Devine last month.

Get Little of the Fair Estate.

San Francisco, Sept. 15.—1 t is reported that the exact amount received by the relatives of the late Mrs. Charles L. Fair in settlement of their claims was $185,000, inste#ad of sums running into thé millions heretofore ‘mentioned.

Dropped Dead.

Lenox, Mass., Sept.- 15.—Samuel D. Bacock, aged "81. a wealthy New York banker and stockholder in the Commercial Cable company, dropped dead here Sunday evening while walking on Main street, from the Lenox club to his home. . The cause was heart failure. ; Comfederate Veteran Dead. Jacksonville, Ala., Sept. 15.—Gen. John H. Forney, a major general in the eenfederate army, died at his home in this city after ten days’ illness. He was a brother of the late Congressman W. H. Forney.

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