Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 5, Plymouth, Marshall County, 16 November 1894 — Page 2

(CIjc3nbepcnbcnt A. R. ZIMMERMAN, PuMislier.

PLYMO JTH. IN D AM A. EIOTEKS IX CONTROL. NICE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN AN IDAHO TOWN. Semi In Your Bids for lion Is-Sngar TruU I'roker Must Stand Trial Cook's Men Loot a "Katy" Trnln-Owen Cert.ilnly i:!ectel. Italian laborers on the Idaho State wagon road are in a state of anar.'hy. Contractor Costello narrowly e capod with hi-; lifo and fed to Spolcan?. Tin trouble aroo fivra non-payment of wag s due. Several hundred Italians are row in 1 ossetsion of the real. Tie s hue been feile 1 and thrown aero s the r. ad, bridges blown up and traftic made impossible. The Ma e will take mcasuies to have the ditlicuity eettled at ence. Ask.t I'.uH lir J to I. Sfcretahy Cakmslk late Tuesday afternoon issued hi-? caT for bd; f r '.w.t,' tiij ." p r ent. tjn-yea bond. intero t to be paid in c in. which i interpreted to mean gold. The on'y material changes male in the present cal f om that i sued .hin. Ii last are the. omissb n of the upset r mi: imum price which would I accepted an 1 the notice t at the pro1 oäals for the rosent is-ue must bo tcalcd. It is conüdeutly asserted at the Treus try Pepatment that an amount will bo re tli o i considerably in excess, of that received on the lebmar." i see. This oxpeetation is bn-ed on the fact that there are ex e;tiona ly large :. mounts of m ney now lying idle an i seeding inveMmsnt in the money enters of ti e ountry and upon the further fact that the February i -sue, is i:oiv quoted fit 1 IS.. 0, or about - per cjnt above he pri e, which would yie'd re: cent, i rom the last issue ihere was i ca ii-ed '. 17. .', and of this amo.-nt $."2. -;"(). 2 U.'-i was in gold e. in, $.,MO,42 in gold certificates, and &.'P."i! in other m ney whi -h the subtroasui ies were comjelle I to taksj in leaking change. CIen m! Oir the t':i-. Pass:"N.:lr train No. 2. on the Missouri, Kansas an I Texas Kai road, was held up and robt od four miles north of Muskogee, I. T., by Hill Cook and fourteen men. - The robbers clean d out the express car of it- entire contents. NEWS NUGGETS. M. S. Gardner shot and killed Postmaster Youreo at Sumner, Ok., in a quirrel over land. The personal campaign expenses of John W. Coif, elected Recorder of Jsew York, were 75 cents. Juixjk McDouc.AL, at Toronto, Ont,, re'used evidencj that Aid. Stnvart solicited bribes from a contractor. Kid Thompson and a man named Hopper, supposed to be the Ho?coe train robbers, were arrested in the Keno Mountains, Arizona, by cowboys. Governor Flower of New York has agreed to allow experiments to bo made on the next man electrocuted, to tee if resuscitation is pes iblo. Nicola Toila and George Wostinghouse both nay it can bo done. A PAKTY of twelvo negroes reached New York Sunday on the steamship Kansas City from Savannah, Ca. Their objective point is Monrovia, Liberia, where they expect to found a colony drawn from the negroo of the South. Friends of the young despcralo, Fd Morgan, of Mas3illon, Ohio, who was shot by Marshal Louis .'ust at Harnhill, assembled under the leadership of the boy's father to avenge his death. Thirty deputies were put on duty to protect Just Serious work is feured. The oflicial veto in the Seventh District of Kentucky gives Owens Dem., a plurality of 101 votes. The total vote cast Owens, IV. m , l.,007; Denny, Hep., l.'VVTt; Johnson. Co., 2i:!: I innel, Pro., fiöl. It is taid'that Demy has employed attorneys to begin a contest Harvey and Arnold, the murderers of Mayor Marsh of Kinsley, Kan., ploaded guilty to the cha-go of murder in the first degree. The sentence imposed wasimt rioninonl in the State en.tentiary until such time as the Covernw shall decide that they shall be hanged. C en i rl, Cassits M. Clay, of Lexington, Ky., despite the efforts of his children, succeeded in ma: rying pretty 15-ycar-o'd Don Hlclurdson. The ceremony took placo in the presence of only the farm-hand i and the girl s relatives. S -uire D juglas porfoi mod tho cer eraony. Julk;!' 0LKoverruled the demurrer to the indictment against Messrs. M Cartney an I ( hap i an, Now York Bt;ckbrokors. who refused tT answer questions put by the Soaato committee which invetigatod the su.;ar trust. The court held that tho indictment was all rieht, and tho cora-rittee had authority to ask tho questions. K'-:o:ntly, Poutmastor Laning and Col. Dubois were in a sloro at Pridgetn, N. J., when Laning told tho Colonel he would givo hi n $10 if ho wou'd keep 4uiet for half an hour. Tho Colonel complied, and Laning rof a-ed to j ay tho money. Then Co!. Dubjis sued him, and Justice Myers gavo judgment in favor of Dubois. Poth bides have spent moro than $100 already, and tho case will bo appealed. Two masked men ho'.d up tho F'risco passenger train at Monett, Mo., and looted tho express car of several hundred dollars. Dr. Me Cosh, ex-Pro identof Prirccton College, ia growing gradually weaker, and whi'o hi condition is not dangerous it is causing groat anxiety. There have been violent shock of earthquake along tho northern coast of Chili and in Ho'ivia. Ono hundred people have ben killed by the seismic disturbances within a ladim of forty miles from Lapa&.

EASTERN. The family of Fred Pew, a Cornell tudent from Buffalo, who was believed to have been drowned in Cayuga Lake, now believe the young man was murdered. The body cannot be found. An express train on the Heading Road struck a street car at Nicetown, Pa. The car was thrown Gfty feet from the treck. Two passengers are, reported killed outright and several others Injured. Frank Alhert, endeavoring to break the bicycle record between Now York and Chicago, arrived in Hochester, N. Y.t Tuesday night. YVhilo in a restaurant his wheel was stolen and he had to abandon tho trip. The Committee of Seventy at New York are considering a suggo tion to endow a chair of municipal reform in Colum: ia College in hon .r of the Ho.. Dr. Parkhurst, and install that gentleman as its first professor. Talmage has rodgced from the Brooklyn Talernacle, giving as his reason that the church edifice has a'ready been cestroyed threo times by fiie, and that it is too mach t ask that hi congregation build a fourth one. Frank Amjert, endeavoring to break tho bicyclo road record between New York and Chicag3, arrived in Kochester. N. Y., Tue. day night. "While in a icstaur int his wheol wai stolen, and ho had to abandon the trip. Attorney General Hancock, t-f New York, has given aa opinion that in the matter if selling li ,uor on a train the law is not violated if the c mmodity is sold in tho buT t o - li-cen-ed a:, though after 1 eing p :rchased i.i tho buffet it may bo taken to any other car. Leonard Moody, president cf the Brooklyn Tabernacle beard of trustees, called on Dr. Talmago and discus-ed with him tho future of tho Tahornac c congregation and of Dr. Talmage "s pastorate. To a repo; ter Mr. ..Yioody t aid: "I stringy advis d Dr. Talmage against n building tho Ta ernacie. I do not know whether a building will 1 o rented for Dr. Talmage in Hn k yn or in New York. I understand ho has re eiwd calls from other cities." Train No. 5. L'altimore and Ohio limited, ran into the first section of No. ('.-I, a fast cattle train, at Hoscnetoel siding, twomilos easi of Hockwood, Pa., at f:40 We inosday evoning. Six men wio killed in tho collision and several others badly hurt. Tho railroad officials say no passongers were hurt. Both trains wero going at tho rate of forty miles an hour, and came tcgether while rounding a curve. Neither rew had time to jump or sound a warning. The mail car was reduced to kindling wood. Only the heavy vestibules of tho passenger cars saved them from a similar fate. Fully a dozen cattle cars were piled up in the wrek. killing and maiming many of the dumb brutos.

WESTERN. Governor "Waite, of Colorado, threatens to move to Illinois and run for uovernor. A commission has been organized in Nebraska to outline a plan of relief for drouth suf.erers. Ernest Huhn, Superintendent of tho Eagle Bird mine at Mayhert, Cal., fell COJ feet down tho shaft and was instantly killed. The Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway Company will build 122 miles of railway from South McAlister to Oklahoma City at a c:st of $1,200,000. Train robbers stopped a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train near Hyannis. Neb., but abandoned any attempt to rob it. It is believed their nerve failed at the last moment. Ex-Cashier John B. Koettinc, of the lailod South Side Savings Bank, of Milwaukee, has been held without bail for trial for leceiving deposits after ho knew the institution was insolvent. A hill has passed both houses of the Cherokee Legislature making it treason for a Cherokee citizen to sell real estate of this nation to a noncitizen, making as a penalty for so doing ucath by hanging. The Ht. He v. Abbot Bernard, Abbot of St. John's Abb.?y. Stearns County, died at Stillwater, Minn., aft:r a lingering attack of Bright's disea se. Abbot Bernasd was b rn in Austria fortysix yi ars jtgo and camj to this country early in tho Vrf s Buklincton passenger tra!n No. 41 was held up about one mile east of Ilyannis, Neb., at ö o'clock "Wednesday morning by two men wh boarded tho train at hitman, covered tho engineer with Winchesters, and told him to stop tho train when ordered. Wh.-n tho train was stopped the men got off and ran, taking nothing with them. It is supposed tho bandits lost their net vo at the last moment. The survey of the Ohio canal to ascertain its practicability as a ship canal will begin in Akron, Ohio, by the corps of Government engineers appointed for tho purpose. This will bo the lir.-t of tho routes ti bo surveyed, tho other leing tho Erie Canal, a route from Erie, Pa., to Pittsburg. Tho engineers will work north to Cleveland. Tho car.al is to bo 70 feet wide and 7 feet deep. Hohhers broke into tho First National Bank at Oberlin, Ohio, and got away with about $400 in silver. Tho front doors werj opened by tho uso of crowbars, and tho locks of tho vault were blown off with dynamito. Tho thieves then stole two rigj to make their escape sure. One of tho rijrs was found at Elyria. Thoro is no trace of tho robbers. Tho vaults woro opened, but the safe, which contxinod 2.,hH), was not touched. At Huntington, Ind , threo mon were killed and many others injured by tho explosion of a box of dynamite. Tho mon were employes of Koefor &; Hall, contractors for the con ruction of tho big I- lint crook eewcr. Tho oxplosion happened as tho men woro warming tho explosive. Tho dead are: .lack Hynn, John Hartman and Martin Keif, r. So jx:werful vaa the concussion, fifty pounds of dynamito having been in tho bo , that tho damago to houses in tho neighborhood will amount to several thousands of dollar?. ItUFUS N. Hamsay, Treasurer of Illinois, died at his residence in North Carlylo at 5:15 Sunday morning. Never did a man look as healthy ai Mr. liam-

sa v did less than five days ago. He complained Thursday to his friends of

being sick, and went to bed suffering ! intensely with the same trouble that has been bothering him for tho last ten years heart disease. He camo near dying Saturday morning, but rallied, and seemed some better during the day and that night, but at r:15 Sunday m rning he complained of the room being warm, gave cno m'ghty gasp for breath, and fell b ck on his ,couch dead. Ho leaves a wifo and three children. SOUTHERN. Incendiaries made an attempt to destroy the town of Addison, W. Ya.. by fire. Striking union stevedores areiolieved to have caused the fires on the ships loading cotton at Savannah. James Nolas was ot and killed by "Wild Bill" Turner at Middlesboro, Ky. It ras tho result of an old grudge. Aue Williams, one of tho largest wholesale and retail clothiers in Austin, Tex., has filed chattel mortgages ta secure creditors. Liabilities are Charles F. Pitt & Sons, importers of chemicals at Baltin ore, made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. Assets about $1., OOO. The liabilities, it is said, will not exceed that amount. POLITICAL. TrXAS Populists claim t havj oleetcd their State ticket and two Congressm.n. A p unt that has been overlooked in commuting the political complexion of the next .-enate is tho admission of Ftah, with two United States Senators. Tho act of tho last se s'on of Congress almitting Utah provides that in March, 1 vf, the constitutional convention shall bo held. '1 ho first Tuesday afte - tho first Monday in Novcmbjr f that year the c nstitution is to be submitted to t:io peop'e. The act also provides that a i.eprosentative to the bifty-fourth ( ongres shall be e ectcd at the same ti:i;e a vote is taken Uon the con titution: also that State oil cers and a Legislature shall bo cho en and that if the Constitution is ratified tho I egislatuie shall immediately meet and ele.t two United States Senators. Tnis would make in all ninety Senators, and as the next Senate now stands the polities of tho Utah Senators w,uld cut an important liguro. Another probability which arises is tho admis.ion of both New Mexico and Arizona, which may bo accomplished In time, so that four more Senators would participate in the organization of the next Scnatj. Hills have already Eassed tho Houso for tho admis.-ion of oth these Territories. The Senate Committee on Territories has reported them favorably to tho Senate and they are now on the calendar. FOREIGN. Consternation has been caused in China by tho di-co.ery that the Tei Yang squadron has been caught in a trap at Port Arthur by the Japanese, owing to the neglect or o.erruling of Li Hung Chang's orders. Li Hung Chang disclaims any responsibility in tho matter. A. J M3CNTNEY Japson, explorer and author, who went into Africa with Henry M. Stanley and found Em in Pasha, will come to California to bj married. In a lew weeks tho vedding of Mr. Japson and Miss Anna Head, daughter of A. F. Head, the wellknown millionaire mining man of San Francisco, will bo celebrated. The London Telegraph says that Japan will demand as the terms of peac3 tho cession to her of the Island of Formosa and tho payment of an indemnity of 4.0,0 .o.ouo' or 4.--io,oav 00. Ft reigcers who have arrived at Cho Foo from Port Arthur say the Japanese are attacking tho latter place belaud and by sea. A Chinese t!eet lies insido tho harbor. The governors of the southern provinces of Morocco, pressed by tho rebels in their respective district, have sought refuge in Morocco Citj', fleeing fn-m tho outraged Kabyles, their longsuffering, oppressed and despoiled subjects. Tho Sultan has ordered them back to their districts. To obey moans death at the hands of those people, who have laid siego to tho southern capital and plundered the surrounding country. The Chinese array of tho north has retreated to tho mountain-, whero tho 6oldicrs aro reported to be starving and suffering severely from cold and exposure. Tho Japan so army is reported to bo encamped at l 'ong Wang Cheng. The Ja; an ose- ate pursuing some l.),(i0 Chinese, mostly law recruits. Port Arthur is not oxp cted to make a determined stand against tho Japanese. Ad niral Sir E. H. IVcmantle, in command of tho Brilish lleot, considers that Port Arthur will probably bo tho scene of tho last engagement of any importance between the Chines? and Japanese. It has como to the knowledge of tho United States Emba sy that the pretense that tho prohibition of tho landing of American cattle in Germany was based on sanitary reasons is without foundation. It appears that tho Hamburg sanitary authorities passed two of tho cargoes of cattle in question as he ilthy, and that thereupon Prussian sanitary otlicers wore or Jerod to Hamburg and sub.-equeiitly announced that tho cargoes of catt'o woro atllicted with Texas lover. Tho cattle shippers of Hamburg aro indignant at tho action of tho Prussian authorities, as they havo n cently built four cattlo ste imors for tho American service, anr tho o vessels havo b.on rendered useless by tho prohibitory orders recently issued. A dispatch from Rio do Janeiro Fay s: Some artillerymen, here, having l)Con oideredto I'ernambuco, llatly rolused to move, and a detachment of infantry wa sent to tho artillory barracks to restore order. Tho artillerymen barricaded the barracks and lieparcd to djfen themselves ull the time shouting: "Down with Poixoto! Down with Hunger:" Finally, their Colonol appearing, they listened to his speech recommending obedience, and promising tho government wuld redress tlioir wrongs when order was restored. Twenty of the ring coders were then arrested by tho infantry and Iramediatelj shot. One hundred &ud seventy

of the mon were discharged fr. m th service, and tho rest were distributed among other troops. It is feared the mutinous spirit will show itself among other troops. The first mass for tho repose of tho soul of Alexander III. was celeb, ated at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning in the Byantine chapel where the remains of the Czar are lying in stato. Tho mass was attended by the officers of all the regiments in tho vicinity. Tho ceremonv was most imp essivo, all

irosent holding lighted taper s in their ia..ds. As the body of t e Czar lav ia its coffin it was noticed that the ato Emperor's face was but ittle altered. It had a placid ex pression and tho form o' tho dead Czar seemed as herculean as ever. Beside the lier were two Cossacks of the Teiok bodyguard, two Dvor,ony grenadiers two chamberlains and two ri emen of the Sixteenth corps. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon the second mass, at which the Czar, Ca ina, l'ri;.cess Alix of lies e and tho I'rincss of Walos and all the imperial and royal suites attended, was celebrated at the same church. The streets of the town were very cu'et. and there were ve y tew visitors'th -re. The body of the late Czar was esc3rted with great ceremony on board tho Russian crusier Pumyat Merkooviafor tran-portatu n to Sebastopol. IN GENERAL The schoone: Annie M. Pi id ', bound from Mabou. C. B., to Halifax, N. S., was driven ashore at tho entrance to Halifax harbor. All on board, including the captain's lU-ycar-oid bay and two female paiseng rs. were drowned. Attorney General Hanc(k k, of Now York, has given an opinion that in tho matter of selling liquor on a train tho law is not violated if tho commodity is so d in tho buffet or licensed car. though after being purchased in the b u. et it may bo taken toauy other car. The New York Press says: "After to close of business Frldav it was announccd t lat tho Government will ask tho bankers for another loan of $.7),00,OJO. Gold bonis for that arrounu bea ing ." pei cent, interest will bo i:-sue I within a few day. at a price which will net investors about '.i pjr en', annually." The schooner Annij M. Pride, Capt. James G. Pride, bound to Halifax from Mabou, C. B., was driven ashoro near Herring Covo at the entrance to Halifax harl or Wodnosd iy, and all on shore perished. Fishe men watched the vessel from the cliffs as it drifted to Its doom, but were powerless to rave the crew. Besides a crew of four hands the Captain's litt'e son, 10 years old, sin I two female passengers were on board. Within two weeks moro the shipping season will have como to an end,, and within another two weeks nearly all the big boats on tho great lakes wiil be tied up to th docks, after tho most unprofitable season lake shipping has known in years. There is at least (0,00:Vj0 invoked in ships and crafts of one size and another upon tho waters of tho lakes and it is doubtful whether this vast investment h"is paid a cent's worth of dividend during tho whole season. Profits usually ran.o from G tj 8 and 10 per cent, after j aying all costs of operation and insurance, but lucky is tho man who has been able to find cargoo founds vessel this year that would pay a fair return on his inve tment. Tnis do;ro-sion in business has been due to the hard times, for naturally shipping responds at onco to every change in tho pul o of busino-s: and, inasmuch as it has been general the effect has been the more disastrous. Not even a pencil mark can b3 found on a lot of wreckage which has been thrown up on the beach by tho storm near Fish l'oint, live miles north of East Tawas, iich., on Lake Huron. The identity of the steamer which wont to tho b tt m somewhere off that point Thursday or Friday remains a in, story, although searchers spent several hours hunting over tho wreckago foi her name. Everything which has been thrown v.p n tho beach indicates that tho steamer was of ihe largest size, as tho broken timbers aro of great strength. The wreckago did not como ashore until Saturday afternoon, but early Sunday morning tho wreckers from tho neighlorh od were gathering in everything of value. By noon they had stripped tho wreckago of pij)os. whistle, and even cut the hinges out of the cabin doors. Tho cargo consisted of apples and Hour, and tho size of tho wreckage indicates that tho boat must havo carried a crew of at least fifteen. MARKET REPORTS, Chicago. Cattle Common to Prime. . .$.1 7." Hog -Shipping (J r;ilcs 4 ot Sheep Pair to Choice 2 in) Wheat-No. 1 Red f4 Corn-No. 1 SI Oat No. 2 2S Rye No. 2 47 fl 0 2.". dt 5 oo ft 3 75 dt, r.r ti 2! be. 4S Putter Choice Creamery... '2'.lj'ifl Kggs Fresh iro (, Potatoes Car-lots, per bu. . . 55 6 INDIANAPOLIS. 24 'A 21 U" 75 (X) Cattle-Shipping 3 00 Hogs-Choice Light 4 OO Sheep Common to Prime... 2 OO Wheut No. 2 I ted 4'J Corn No. 2 White r.2 Oats-No. 2 White 31 5 Ct, 3 25 7-2 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3 Hogs 3 Wheat -No. 2 I ted Com No. 2 Oi) dt c 00 00 U O (H) m ojt r2 45 (16 4'1 lXyTr JtOli 4 "Ö W Oata-No. 2 ltye-No. 2 CINCINNATI Cattle Hogs no 00 00 f.2 r.2 32 r.i 5 0j 5 ki 3 u n ) s &3 b.'t 33 G3 Sheep 2 Wheat-No. 2 Kcd Corn No. 2 Mixed Oats No. 2 Mixed Iki c,'Nu U12TKOIT. Cattle 2 Hogs 4 Sheep 2 Wheat-No. 1 White Com No. 2 Yellow natu No. 2 White IC3 0"O TOLEDO. Wliear No. 2 Red . Corn No. 2 Yellow Oats-No. 2 White Itye No. 2 ItUPl'ALO. Wheat-No. 2 Hod Corn-No. 2 Yellow Oats No. 2 While MILWAUKEE. Wheat-No. 2 Spring Corn -No. 3 OatM-No. 2 White Itarley No. 2 liYC NO. 1. ... ........ Pork-Mess 11 NKW YOItK. Cattle 3 n .gs a M ff 5 50 00 (si 4 75 00 (6 2 75 M (i R7 52 33 (,t 41) Q 3 50 54 53 324 60' . m 57', vi r-2 c 32 4-S i$ K2 tffc 82v u (i rut 4t fit 51 75 al2 25 OO ff 0 50 d t 5 00 ki) 3 80 .10 a Sheep Wheat No. 2 Red Corn No. 2 Oats-White Western Ilutter Creamery v-mmm Western to 8 40 23 .

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ST. LOUIS LAUNCHED.

THE CRAMPS TURN OUT THEIR FINEST VESSEL. Clritend by Mrs. Cleveland A Robber Killed by HU Pals to Prevent Confession The L.oii-LooWel-f or Report on the Strike 1'in illy Submitted. St. I.-u;s Ih Afloit. Shortly after 1 o'clock Monday tho magnificent steamship i-t. Loins, of th American Line, was succe?sful'y launched at ('1 amp's hp yards, Philadelphia. Tho aiiair was witnessed by fully ."AUMjo people. Mrs. C'evela d, wife ot tho President, br. l:e the traditional bottle of champagne 0:1 tho bow of tho noble ship a it glided down the ways at tho fane time- uttering these words: I christen theu St Luiis."' In this instance, and for the first time since the ceremony was observed at damps sdiipyard, tho cnampag. e was oi American manufacture. . 11 ivparath n for the launch had been care ully made, and, although the shi; i- il'-i feet longer than ;.nv that ha- ever been launched at the yard, th 3 ui licuit fe.it o getting a ve?s?el from the ways into the water was accomplished without u hiten. After the laun h tne invited guofts t) tlu number o: 4 ', were entertained at a lun.-h in the otli c of the :?hip builders. l.relv in L-.bor's Favor. TiK report of the United State? Strike Commission, app iuled by President Cljvelmd July 2'", is.J, to investigate all matters relating to the fam n s Chicago strike, has ln-en submitted t the President. The report tore Pullmans m.-tii-cds: say.-, the wag.s of the employes wo o low, and their rents and in idciital necessary expenses were high: tho j urpose of the (ieneral Managers' Association is declared to have be n, in larg ; par t, to 1 revent o.iployoi from h tving a V( ice as to their uy. Tj e t 'ene.al Managers and tho Pullman Company were seveioly c.)led; tho pending of tio ps t C'h'cago is justified: strikes are justit'ed and arbitration urged, but tho report insi-ti u.-on tho lull protection of labor's rights. I'an'c I'olilirr Is Sbof. TiKEK masked robbers attempted to hold up the bank at Sylvan Grove. Kansas, at neon Wedno-day, and one of thoir number met death in an unusually tragic manner. IIo was shot by tho cashier of tho bank, John Calenc, and when in a dying condition was perforated wit.i bu.lets by his own comrades to save them elves from exposure. BREVITIES. Geokc.k W. llotjfis, ex-City Treasurer of Tacoma, Wash., has been arrested chargod with embezzlement of $2-VWi, deposited by him in tho suspended . savings bank. At a "possum bake given by tho Mannerchor Cub of Sharon, Pa., tho dish was pronounced suporior to any heretofore served. It has since transpired that tho " '.o-isum" was tho family cat of a Brookfield, Ohio, citizen. Til k indications aro tho Nebraska Gubcrnatopial question will n jt be settled until tho Supiemo Court has had an opportunity to pa s on tho official vote. The complete returns on their face givo Holcomb, Fusion candidate, L."))ij plurality. Juix;h Isaac Howe, the Populist candidate for Governor of South Dakota in tho late campaign, is lying toriou.dy ill at his homo, with small hope of recovery. The excitement and fatigue of tho campaign wero mote than he cjuld endure. A lion presumed to have o-caped from a ti aveling menagerie is killing largo numbers of sheep and otho j-t K-k in the no ghborhood of Washington Court House, Ohio. Armed parties a e s ouring th country, but havo been unable to lind it. T.JE He v.. Carl Pofinger, for eight years past minister of St. John's Evangeli al Church ia Plymouth, Ind., died sudden'y from ap: plexy n his Göth birthday. He had received tho congratulations of his family a few minutes bofo.c going to his room. A silt vn; ; d sease among horse; has made its appearance in .New Jersey. Farmers near 1 ieton, Locust Grove, and Lennox, in the western taction of Clark Town-ship. I nion Co 11 ty, have been for several week-; battling with a hor.-o disease which icsembles diphtheria in a human bei ;g. The dLeae is said to be spreading. A PANIC was created in tho Willard Hotel, at Omaha when tho Kev. Father F. X. Schroellio a local Catholic priest, suMen'y developed violent symptoms of insanity With arevilor in his hand ho lo. kel imself up in hin room, declaring he was the Kmpercr of (iennany and would not treat wit 1 anybody le.s than tho United States Marshal. W. J. C)KNi-LL. theycung Englishman of II Cajon Canon. Cal., whoso baby farming methods wero recently expo-cd by an o iicer of tho Denver Society for tho Pievent'on of Cruolty to Children, and who was chargod with the fraudulent uso of tho Unitod Statei mails, was convict d by a jury in tho Vnited Sta'os District Court. Cornell used the ma 1- in an attempt to blackmail ertons who e child: 0.1 he had proposed to exclude frm s;cioty. Tiikke masked men entered E. C. Endorly's store at Thormopolis, Wyo., covered tie proprietor with guns, and comj el!cd him to givo thorn $I,ti(K) from tho safe. I ndo.-lv and others pursued tho robbers and shot one, who was reeogn'ed as Jako Snyder. He will die. Tho others escaped "Geneual" J. S. Sanders, who commanded the Cripple Creek Coxey army which left Pueblo la-t May, has iust lecn arrest, d on a warrant charging him with tho theft of a locomotive. John Pickktt Trask, 'i,, of Arahorst College, died of typhoid-fever Friday night at Amherst Mass. There aro several other cases of typhoid-fever Amos MclNrosii, Prosecuting Attorney in Indian Territo y, tw co shot Lee Adkins, Tax Collector, through tho body, on account of aa eld r4)ud.

CURRENT COMMENT.

The War In the Orient. The King of Corea is in more danger than was supposed. He sleeps In a folding bed. New York World. LI Hung Chang, divested of pretty much everything that is worth wearing nowadays, might probably be employed as a living picture. Dubuque Herald. The prediction that tho Chinese will some day overrun Europe poems about to be realized they are so anxious to get away from the Japs. Philadelphia Times. The capture by the Japnnose troops of another Chinese port suggests that if China can light she ought to begin before she has been elubbed to death. Philadelphia Inquirer. It seems that tho newspaper correspondents tight in the van of the Japanese for -es. The ignominious defeats of the Chinese may now be readily understood. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The Chinese have concluded that if the Japs are so awfully stuek on having Port Arthur they may have it. Therefore they themselves have left perhaps for some quieter town. New York Morning Journal. Krrent Tr.in Ii bbej-ies. The promptness with whieh 1he authorities are -a1diinir the Virginia train robbers in their interviews will only strengthen the public belief that if the outlaws are ever captured it will be by accident. Pittsburg Dispatch. Train robbers are operating dangerously near Philadelphia. The audacious rascals who held up a train near Kichmond. Ya.. will doubtless be unrelentingly pursued and punished. Prompt retribution may preent further trouble. Philadelphia Call. For scientific train robbing, California is entitled to the palm over Indian Territory. Two of the bandit gentry not only cleaned out an express car with neatness nnd dispatch but used the locomotive tt carry them beyond the reach ot pursuit. Kansas City Star. Tho California and Virginia train robberies occurred almost simultaneously with Dr. Conan Doyle's arrival in this country. The brigands were probably desirous of seeing how a story of the 16bberies would read after being touched up by the eminent writer of detective tales. Baltimore Herald. IngerHoll on S: Icicle. Col Ingersoll's remarks will also apply io political suicide. Washington Post. Col. Robert G. Ingcrsoll has let up on Moses loug enough to speak a good word for suicide. Philadelphia Call. Col. "Bob" Ingersoll has come out in favor of suicide, which is another of 'Bob" Ingersoll's bobingersolls. Springfield Republican. Col. Ingersoll's article is virtually a plea for suicide as a justifiable nnd even commendable way of ending one's career if it is not satisfactory to one's self. Buffalo Enquirer. The law in New York which punishes an attempt at 6tiicide with imprisonment Is attacked in his most vigorous fashion by Col. Ingersoll. The law is of course barbarous, for a person despairing or insane enough to attempt suicide assuredly needs other treatment than imprisonment if he fails. Boston Transcript. The Czar's Death. Alexander III. from the opening of his reign was harassed by morbid dread of assassination. At last comes Death, th cynical scene-shifter, alike indifferent whether life is a comedy or a tragedy, and rings down the curtain. Tribune. It Is impossible to think of the death of the Czar except as that of the peacekeeper of Europe an autocrat who was nevertheless an exemplary ruler in many ways and one whose private virtues earned the respect of all men. Philadelphia Ledger. He was not a great man, nnd fortunately not:a bad one. Destiny had placed him in the groove of a great machine, which, with all his autocracy, he had not the power to change; and he did the best that any Czar can do when he moved decorously and decently down the groove to tho end. New York Journal. I'p Higher. It is well that the police commissioners are to be examined. They can explain many things which stand sorely in need of explanation. Tho public should know the worst. Indianapolis News. Isn't Mr. GofT a little indiscreet in announcing that he may call Mr. Richard Croker to the Lexow staud? Mr. Croker'8 health is very precarious and there are steamers starting for Europe constantly. Providence Journal. It does not take much effort to imagine a more comfortable state of mind than that of the "big men" in Xew York who feel tho Lexow committee drag-net slowly but surely gathering around them. Philadelphia Bulletin. Klee tion I-hor. No one can blame the weather man. He played his part well. Baltimore American. In a day or so the excitement will have died out nnd neighWs will again be on speaking terms. Washington Post. Tho next thing to upset the country will be Christmas, when it will bo the women's turn to go crazy. Atchison Globe. As a tribute to some of the candidates tho brass band will please strike up "Home Again" while the election returns are being read. Washington Star. The Lily of Hawaii. Tosslbly Liliuokalani will be able to rair her unsettled mind with her unset tied pension claim. Washington Post. Ex-Queen Liliuokalani, who may with poetic license be styled a faded Lili, modestly requests of Uncle Sam a pension of 540,000. This petition is evidently offered as a coiupromiso uion her original demand for President Dole's head Philadelphia Record. The German Chancellorship; Europo is fdled with ,the suspicion that the brash young Pmperor of Germany Is gradually working down to a figure-head chancellor.-St. Louis TostDlspatch. Count Caprivi lias acequitted himself creditably, and the fact that he was not willing to bend his convictions to suit the notions of the young and somewhat erratio Kmperor shows that he had the requisite courage and resolution for tho premiership. Pittsburg Coaaiercial Ga Kette,

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