Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 7, Plymouth, Marshall County, 30 November 1894 — Page 2

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A. R. ZIMMERMAN, Publisher.

PLYVO TH. - - IMS AN. TAKEN BY THE BANKS NEW BOND ISSUE COMMANDS A BIG PREMIUM. Swindler Ralked at Alliance New Idea in Steamships Ugly Stories About an Indiana Failure-Steamier Indiana Safe. All Goes to a Syndicate. Secret nry Carlisle lias decided to accept the Stewart syndicate of bids for the entire new issue of J?."iO,0X),t00 5 per cent bonds. The figure offered by the syndicate was 117,077. The following oüicial Statement concerning the acceptance of the syndicate's proposal was made at the Treasury: "The Secretary of the Treasury has accepted the proposal of John A. Stewart, president of the United States Trust Company, and his associates to purchase the entire issue of 7 per cent bonds, amounting to ..", m, nt 117.077, and accrued interest from November 1. The proceeds of the bonds under this bid will be .S10,öl7.'.2 greater than they would bo if the other highest bids were accepted. A very imiortant advantage to the Government in accepting this lid is tbo fact that all the gold will bo furnished outHide, and none drawn from the treasury. It is also more convenient, and less expensive to the department, to deal with ouo party rather than with many." Neals Arretted After Failure Xeal Brothers, the heaviest millers in Eaftern Indiana, gave notice that they had suspended business, and the members of the firm, Wallace and Burton Xeal, aro under arrest charged with embezzlement. The failure probably reaches 100,000. with no assets of any consequence. Of the thousands of bushels of wheat stored in the mill, it is said, not a pound is left. Kvery grain dealer in Portland and those at Decatur, Reruo, and Ridgeville were caught in the crash. IJuised a Check from $0 to $OöO. S. V. Hurley presented a draft for $950 nt the First Xational Bank at Alliance, Ohio, Oct. 10, issued by the People's Xational Hank of "Washington, Ind.. on the United States Xational of Xew York. Vuo draft was sent to New York and the money returned. Hurley called in ten days, but when asked to identify himself he disappeared. The check was Issued for $0 instead of $950, it is learned. To Revolutionize Navigation. Baltimore parties interested in the ar-row-shaped steamer Howard Cassard paid that a Xew York syndicate had been furmed to complete the necessary improvements to the engines of the vessel and prepare her for another trial. Mr. Freyer, the inventor, says the steamer will revolutionize ocean travel. On the first trial her engines did not work well. NEWS NUGGETS. The Cunarder Lucnnia arrived at Xew York a day and a half late, delayed by itorms. - Princess Rismark, wffe of Trince Bismark, died at 3 o'clock Tuesday morning at Berlin. John Linthicum, a Chicago live stock dealer, has been granted a divorce at Indianapolis. The overdue steamship Indiana from Liverpool reported at the Philadelphia breakwater Monday night. Major General O. O. Ilownrd, recently retired, has arrived nt Portland, Ore., where he will spend the winter. Division Superintendent McKee, of Little Hock, has been arrested and accused of the murder of Conductor Brown. Surgeon General Wyinan reports that r2,S0J seamen were treated by the marine hospital service during the year ending June IX. The wedding of Xicholas II., Czar of Russia, to Princess Alix of Ilesse-Darm-Btadt took place in St. Petersburg Monday afternoon. The Indian Office has ordered that all Indians implicated in the recent murder nt Pino Ridge, S. D., must be turned over to the civil authorities. Prof. E. G. Mason, of Manhattan, Kas., who disappeared from a train at Mirage, Colo., Xov. K, was found dead on the prairie near Mirage. K. Y. Schenck, editor of the Caddo, I. T., Banner, shot and mortally wounded George Willis for circulating rumors derogatory to Schenck's wife. Fire destroyed the business part of Marion, X. C. causing J?SO,000 loss, with 512,000 insurance. The jail was burned, twenty-seven persons confined therein narrowly escaping. What was believed to have been evidences of an eruption on Mount Tacoma now aiiesrs to have been simply a cloud of vapor. There are no signs of an eruption having taken place. The famous omnibus injunction against E. V. Debs and (00 others was brought in Circuit Court at Ixs Angeles, Cab, on a plea of pro confessa to complaint. Judge Ross made the injunction perpetual. A new church has been organized in St. Louis iu which belief ia a deity, lu tho divinity of Christ, or in a future state la not required of its members. Its avowed design is to meet the social, industrial, intellectual, moral and spiritual demands of liberal and progressive minds. As a result of taking a liquor habit cure Walter K. Hall, a court stenographer at Denver, has lost his mind. lie has a wife and family, but believes himself a Bingle man. What would have been a bigamous marriage was stopped by hit friends Saturday just as the minister was beginning the service. The Controller of the Currency has authorized the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Eldorado, Kas., capital $00,000, to begin business. County Treasurer Westley O. Barney, Defiance, O., found short in his accounts for the third time, resigned. His bondsmen hud to put up $GrjOO. Mrs. Matilda Gerst, of Allegheny, Fa., supposed to le tho "Mrs. John Harris" who deposited funds of the bogus Pennsylvania Land and Lumber Company in Chicago, Toledo, and Cleveland banks, Las eluded the detectives and escaped.

EASTERN. A trust in plate glass industries is being formed in Pittsburg. The forthcoming bond issue of ?50,000,000 has all been subscribed for by Xew York banks. Andrew Carnegie has promised to give Homestead a clubhouse and library to Cost J?7.".,(K0. A general lockout of shirtmakers is imminent at Xew York owing to a contemplated reduction of 10 per cent, iu wages. Mrs. .Tennnette MeWilliams, an aged lady living at Brinton, Pa., was so frightened by a train whistle blowing a fire alarm that she died. Mrs. W. R. Graham, wife of an Allegheny, Pa., light inspector, took a dose of rough on rats and died. She is thought to have been demented. Proceedings have been begun to impeach Tammany Justice Divver at Xew York. He is charged with malfeasance, bribery and general incompetency. Frank Godfrey, assistant instructor in the Young Men's Christian Association gymnasium, while attempting a double somersault in Boston, fell and broke his neck. Fire broke out in the barns of tho Allegheny, Pa., Traction Company. Fortynine horses, seven horse cars and seven electric cars were burned. Three dwellings adjoining were also destroyed. The entire loss is about J?73,00U. George D. Teller, the oldest traveling passenger agent in the United States, died at Buffalo. He had been with the Northern Pacific since its organization, and was pensioned two years ago on account of old age. New York bankers have subscribed for nil of the latest tond issue, and have dropped their scheming to raid the gold already in the treasury in order to pay for the bonds. The threat to reject all their bids accomplished this. Lemons in the Xew York market are higher than at any time for ten years, partly owing to earthquakes in the Messina District, which have closed the packing houses and brought about a stampede from the country. George M. Irwin of Pittsburg, Pa., who has been wanted by Pittsburg investors for ten days or more for alleged swindles in the conducting of his grain speculating business and left investors to whistle for the $1,500.1 mt) they had left in his hands, was arrested in Xew York. Father Ducey, in a reply to Archbishop Corrigau's letter admonishing him for taking such a prominent part in the Lex3v committee investigations at Xew York, says: "I shall be greatly pleased if your excellency will inform me under what canonical rules you forbid my presence at any further sessions of the Lexow committee." The body of General John C. Fremont, the "pathfinder," the first candidate for President on the Republican ticket, which has lain in a receiving vault in Kockland Cemetery on the Hudson for many years, is to be buried at that place Thursday, under the direction of the Associated Pioneers of the Territorial Days of California. While Inttoring under a fit of hysteria a servant in the family of Edward Pearsou, of Philadelphia, tried to burn alive a 2-year-old child. She picked up the child and held it over the lire, which was a furious one. The mother heard the youngster scream and rushed to save it. The girl beat her off and deliberately tried to roast the child. A strong man finally beat the girl into submission. The Xew York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is up in nnns against President Cleveland. J. G. Haynes, President of the society, says: "A President of tho United States who finds great pleasure in the shooting of squirrels is quite capable of the inhumanity of having his horses tails docked. But if he has done so I shall make it my business to see that justice is meted out to him." Bt.t investigation proves tho falsity of the story.

WESTERN. Aease of leprosy has been discovered in Grand Forks County, North Dakota. The Illinois Supreme Court has been petitioned to annul its decision declaring railroad ticket scalping "illegal." At Sacred Heart. O. T., a wild bog killed a 14-months-old babe and seriously injured its mother in her fight to save it. Prevalence of smalliox in Milwaukee has caused the closing of another school. Thousands of persons have been exposed. Owing to an epidemic of diphtheria in Detroit two of the large public schools and a couple of smaller parochial schools Lave been closed. William Wickwier and sister,who lived five miles south of Galesburg, Mich., were attacked by tramps. He was fatally injured, but she will recover. Heirs of the late Xehemiah Hulett, of Duluth, have settled with Mrs. Lucy A. Pomeroy, who claimed a third interest in the estite as Hulett's common-law wife. Four members of the local board of mediation of he American Bailway Union at Los Angeles, Cab, were convicted of conspiracy to obstruct the mails. General John A. McClernand is seriously ill at Springfield with a malignant carbuncle on his neck, and owing to his advanced age it is feared he may hot recover. Four thousand people, many of them prominent in Chicago's social world, welcomed General William Booth, of the Salvation Army, at the Auditorium Thursday evening. Engineer Jim Boot, who ran a train through the Hinckley forest fires, has outlived his usefulness as an "actor," and has gone back to his engine on the St. Paul and Duluth line. Mrs. W. P. Evans, of Petnluma, Cab, saturated her clothing with coal oil and then set her garments on fire. She was burned to death. She had been previously insane, but had been released from the asylum. At Kansas City, Mo., Mrs. Fhalinda Loving, an aged colored woman, lay down on her bed and went to sleep with her lighted pipe in her mouth. The pipe set the clothes afire and the old lady was burned to death. Seven firemen were injured, three of them seriously, while working at a fire Friday night iu the Chicago lumber district. The men were in an alley surrounded by blazing piles when one of the piles toppled over on them. At Shelbyville, Ind., the low-pressnre natural gas mains, which furnish the domestic supply, were chrged from the high-pressure reservoir, and about niidif juany stoves melted. Prompt

alarm saved the town. Three houses were burned. The Woman's Christian Temperance League of Keokuk ndop'ed resolutions condemning Mrs. Cleveland for using wine at the recent christening of the St. Louis at Philadelphia, declaring such action "an insult to the revered memory of Mrs. Lucy B. Hayes." The Illinois lii-ln-kah degree convention at Springfield elected these officers: President, Mrs. Kate A. Troxell, Canton; vicepresident, Mrs. Xellie L. Harris. Chicago; secretary, Mrs. Lola L. Uickard, Olney: treasurer, Mrs. Kathrina Iloefer, Chicago; director of orphans' home, Mrs. Esther Woods, Springfield, five years. Col. Hunter of the Texas Pacific at Fort Worth sent a telegram to the Adjutant General's Department, saying they were anticipating a hold-up at Strawn, Tex., of a train carrying money to their coal mines to pay off hands. Alexander, one of the outlaws with the Cook gang in the Coretta train robbery, was captured near Tulsea. Four students and the dean of the medical faculty of Cottner University at Lincoln, Xeb., are under arrest, charged with grave-robbing. Wednesday, Otto Albers, aged about 45 years, died. On Thursday the body was buried iu Wyuka Cemetery. Friday Supt. Byer discovered that the grave of Albers had been rifled and the body caried away. Detective Malone was placed on the case, and he rounded up a party of medical students at the lecture-room at Cottner Universiy. Dean Alexander was about to illustrate his lecture by a practical exhibition of dissection, and had applied the knife to the cadaver of Albers when Malone placed the men named under arrest. The prisoners were released on bonds of 500 each to appear for trial. The English capitalists who have been dealing in South Dakota paper during the past few years have been investigating the validity of their holdings and find in nearly every instance they have been swindled through J. L. M. Pierce, an Englishman, who has been living during the past three years in London. Fresh evidence is daily accumulating, but enough has been gathered to indicate that Pierce has realized fully 1,000,000 in live years through fraudulent and forged papers, school bonds, tax deeds, certificates, mythical township bonds, etc. The firm of Pierce, Wright Sc Co. has offices in Yankton, iu London, in Holyoke, Colo , and in Spokane, Wush. Discovery of the frauds was delayed thus long by the prompt payment of tho interest couioas at the New York office.

SOUTHERN. A dynamite explosion at Charleston. W. Va., killed Joe Harkius and badly hurt three others. Gen. John G. Morgan has been renominated for the Senate by a joint caucus of Alabama Democratic legislators. Miss Mary Stevenson, daughter of the Vice-President, is growing steadily worse at Asheville, X. C, and is not expected to recover. Lancaster Bros., sawmill owners nt Pine Bidge, Texas, have filed a deed of trust preferring local creditors to the amount of $,'0,000. W. M. Robertson is named as assignee. At Waco, Texas, John D. Rockefeller and fifteen of his Standard Oil business associates have been indicted by the Grand Jury for entering into a conspiracy to control the coal oil market. Gov. Hogg has indicated his purpose to issue a requisition on the Governor of New York for the parties. WASHINGTON. Mrs. Cleveland declines to allow Watts painting, "Love and Life," to be hung in the White House. President Cleveland is said to be perfecting a plan w hereby civil service rules will apply to practically all the departments. Busts of Vice Presidents Stevenson. George M. Dallas, and Elbridge Gerry have been placed in the Vice Presidential niches in the Senate gallery at Washington. The Xational Fish Commission will hereafter furnish gold fish only to State Commissions, to parks, and for public uses generally, and will refuse private applica nts. Congressman-t'ect Howard, of Alabama, author of "If Christ Came to Congress," says he is going to introduce a resolution investigating President Cleveland's source of wealth. What promises to be a most sensational divorce suit was begun at Washington. I). C, Friday by the filing of a bill in the District Court. The principals are well known iu society, and the corespondents whom it is reported the husband will name in his cross petition are two prominent public men one a Senator from the East and the other a Representative from Pennsylvania, both being married men. The plaintiff is Mrs. Virginia S. Orth, who sues for an absolute divorce from her husband, charging cruel treatment on many occasions. She is a wellknown society woman. The nnmial report of United States Treasurer II. D. Morgan shows that tbo net ordinary revenues for the last fiscal year were $207,71,010, a decrease of $S8,007,tJU9 as compared with the year before. The net ordinary expenditures were $30,7, 525,279, a decrease of $lo,DÖ2,074. including the public debt, the total receipts on all accounts were $724,000,&3S and the expenditures $008,008,002. FOREIGN. Kanakas on the Xew Guinea Islands have revolted and eaten all the white settlers. China has sent an officer to Japan to negotiate terms of peace. It is said she offers $17r,CKMl,(Mi0 indemnity. The bundesrath has appointed Dr. Pioda von Locarns to be Swiss minister to Washington. He is now councilor of the Swiss legation at Rome. Dispatches have been received at Che Foo stating that the Japanese captured Port Arthur on Wednesday, after eighteen hours fighting. The Japanese lleet did not take part in the engagement, though the torpedo boats attached to the lleet did. The Japanese are now leaving Port Arthur. Shanghai advices say Count Oynma's army is marching northward through tho Liao Tung promontory In tho direction of Xiuchwang. He has left 10,000 troops behind for the investment of Port Arthur. After reatking Xiuchwang it id said that Oyama's destination will be Shan-IJai-Kwan, the terminus of the railroad to Tien-Tsin. "Lord Ashburtou," otherwise known as "William Grillith," alias "Griffin," alias "Graham," alias "Charles Rertrand," alias "St. Elmer Donaldson," alias "Big

Griff," nlias "Griff," the notorious inter- ; national swindkr, has been run to earth by Scotland Yard detectives and is iu prison in Iondon. A Loudon paper asserts that as a result of the understanding between Russia and England the Dardanelles is likely to be opened to all warships. Emperor Xichohis is suffering greatly from insomnia, and is consequently very much depressed in spirits. The Czarina has become very much emaciated as the result of her vigil at the bedside of her husband, and the subsequent tax upon her physical strength imposed by the journey to St. Petersburg and her participation in the various ceremonies over the body of the late Czar. Salvador Franch, the chief conspirator in the bomb-throwing plot which resulted in the death of thirty persons and the wounding of eighty others in the Lyceo theater in Barcelona, Spain, a little more than a year ago. was shot to death there at G o'clock Wednesday morning. He j rejected energetically the efforts of the priests, who sought to persuade him to turn his mind to his approaching death, and expressed scorn and contempt for those persons who believed that his rec nt pretended conversion was genuine. The prisoner showed no fear. His meals were eaten with a good appetite and were apparently relished. It was several times found necessary for the military to charge upon and disperse the crowds which had collected about the prison in the hope of seeing the execution. Franch cried, "Long live anarchy!" as he w::s being led to the place of his execution, and scoffed at religion to the last. A letter from Mayroycni Rev, the Sublime Porte's representative at Washington, to the Xew York Herald regarding the reported Turkish outrages in Armenia, says: "I have been. I admit, very much surprised, I will not say with the unfairness, but with the hastiness of the Xew York daily press' criticisms and publications of wild reports about the disturbances created by certain misguided Armenians in some parts of Asiatic Turkey. "The assertions published by the Ijondon Daily Xews are entirely incorrect. The facts are as follows: Armenian brigands, having in their possession arms of foreign origin, in connection with insurgent Kurds, burned and destroyed Mussulman villages near Sassnun. In order to giv an idea of the ferocity displayed by these Armenian bands, the example, among many others, may be given of the burning alive of a Mussulman after his being forced to swallow some explosive matters. Regular troops were sent with instructions to protect peaceful inhabitants, and notwithstanding the calumnies which were published against these troops, the truth is that they have not only protected all law-abiding subjects, including, of course, women and children, but also restored peace to the satisfaction of all. It has also been said that the Kurds had stolen all the furniture and cattle of the Armenian fugitives. It is not so."

IN GENERAL Montreal is to have a world's fair, to be held from May 24 to Oct. IU, 1S00. Three ocean liners, the Catalonia, Kansas and Bovie, are several days overdue. The international gas pipe between Detroit and Windsor, Out., has been completed. The National Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention completed its session at Cleveland and adjourned. linker Rech, a Hungarian emigrant bound from Rudapest to Xorth Dakota, landed in Xew York with his family of three and a fortune of $120,000. A letter from Lieutenant Peary, the Greenland explorer, has been received at Dundee, Scotland. It was brought by a whaling vessel and was dated Cape York, May 20. The Anthracite Coal Company of Canada, it is rumored, will erect large coal bunkers at Vancouver, R. C., and ship extensively to San Francisco and Puget Sound. Mount Ranier, Washington, is reported to be in eruption. The snow-capped cone on its summit has disappeared and steam is rising from the crater. Several slight earthquake shocks have been felt at Tacoma. Obituary: At Caldwell, Ohio, George Washington Rrown, SO; at Xorth Adams, Mass., Judge James T. Robinson, 72; at Rloomington, 111., Mrs. Xapoleon R. Deafer, 00; at Topeka, Ind., Norman Latta, 40. Obituary: At Tiffin, Ohio. General William II. Gibson. 72. At Denver, Colo., Rridget Duffy, 101, formerly of Chicago. At Oshkosh, Wis.. Paul .1. Reynolds. At Virginia, III., Mrs. Mary Kennedy, KM). At Paris, Dr. Claudio Jannet. Obituary: At McGregor, Iowa, Gregor McGregor, aged 50. At Jacksonville, Fla., United States District Attorney Owen J. Sumner, I4. At Malesus, Tenn., Mrs. Susan R. Hudson, 102. At Queensville, Ind.. Thomas Allwell. 00. At Escanaba, Mich., Carl Rathfon, 40. At Coldwater, Mich., Mrs. H. F. Ray. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, ?.'.7rf (."(); hogs, shipping grades, $4(5; sheep, fair to choice, $2fi:i.r0: wheat, Xo. 2, red. KM ."He; corn, Xo. '2, 4!K?4:U.e; oat 8, No. 2. 2M2JV: rye, No. 2. iSlStÄe; butter, choice creamery, Ü4 ', 25M-e; eggs, fresh, L'0l!l,c; potatoes, car lots, per bushel, O0'(70e. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, JfvJg r.öO; hogs, choice light, J? lf4.7"; sheep, common to prime, $2(2.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 50 i. "tie; corn. Xo. 1 white, 436J 43ic; oats, Xo. 2 white. 'XYii'M. St. LouisCattle, $WH; hogs, tföl.75; wheat, Xo. 2 red, 50651c: corn, Xo. 2, 4.V(i44c; oats, Xo. 2, 20ft 2Uc; rye, No. 2, Ztfi'ul. Cincinnati Cattle, $.3.5063.25; hogs, $465; sheep, ?l(i2.50; wheat, No. 2 red, KVaTMjc; corn, Xo. 2 mixed, 456.4(e; oats, Xo. 2, mixed, 32(&32Vc; rye, Xo. 2, 536 55c. Detroit Cattle, $2.rt0ft5.25; hogs, $46 4.75; sheep, $'J(2.50; wheat, Xo. 1 white, 50650; com. Xo. 2 yellow, 4tt64ti.e; oats, Xo. 2 white, 2633c; rye, Xo. 2, 406 5 le. Toledo Wheat, Xo. 2 red, KURTAc; corn, Xo. 2. yellow, 456f löt.e; oats, Xo. 2, white, 32&.'t2l&c; rye, Xo. 2, 4J650e. RufTalo Cattle, $2..r06j3.25; hogs, $4($ 5; sheep, $26j3; wheat, Xo. 2 red, rS65!)c; corn, Xo. 3 yellow, iZ0fae; oats. No. 2 white. 3.37c. Milwaukee Wheat, Xo. 2 spring, 576? 5Sc; corn, Xo. 3, 4!647c; oats, Xo. 2 white, 325:53c: barley, Xo. 2, 5365lc; rye, Xo. 1, 416j31c; pork, mess, $126J 12.75. Xew York Cattle, $3(0; hogs, $3.506 5; sheep, $26J2.50; wheat, Xo. 2 red, CU ((jTiOc; corn, Xo. 2, &86J5tJe; oats, white Wyteru, 376741c; butter, creamcry, 2520c; eggs, Western, 23G2Ga

A NEW REVENUE PLAS

LAGER BEER MAY CONTRIBUTE MILLIONS. llarvurd Loses to Yale Shoe and Leather IJank. Looted of $300,000 liijr Einer M!tsiu;-Filibusters Headed for Hawaii. Tax on IJeer 31 ay le Increased. A Xew YoHi authority upon matters in the spirit and beer trade s:'.ys if any attempt is made at the coining session of j Congress to raise revenues it ir. probable j an increase iu the tax on beer will be j made. Under the present law a barrel j of beer, thirty-three gallons, is taxed 1. i If it were taxed on its nlroholie contents, i under the SI. 10 rate, the tax would be $2.50. An increase in the tax from $1 to $2 would not be more than one-fifth of a cent to the glass in tho price of beer, but Would give the government an an nual revenue of from $3ott.M0,t00 to $35,000,000. Trade Gains Slowly. R. G. Dun ,fc Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: TheTe is some change for the better. The gain is slow and in some directions not very distinct, but the signs of it are a little more definite than last week. The most important of them is larger employment of labor, answering a better demand on the whole for manufactured products. Much of this is due to the unnatural delay of ordersfor the to the unnatural delay of orders for the winter whieh resulted from prolonged uncertainty, but it means actual increase in earnings and pun-basing power of the millions, and so gives promise of a larger demand in the future. Prices of farm products in the aprsrrejrate do not improve, btit the prevailing hopefulness i felt in somewhat larger transactions. Moves to It educe Hin Own Salary. At the session of the Knights of Labor at Xew Orleans a resolution was adopted protesting against the issue of new bonds by the United States tloverniuent. A resolution favoring the amalgamation of all brewing associations into one organization was referred to tho Executive Roard and n recommendation that surface railway employes of Xew York be reunited in one body of the Knights of Labor was adopted. The next convention will be held in Washington in Xovember, 1S13. Previous to adjournment General Master Workman Sovereign moved that the salary of the General Master Workman be reduced from $3,500 to $2,500. The motion was unanimously carried. Indiana May Re Iost. The American liner Indiana, Captain Townsend, from Liverpool and Queenstown for Philadelphia, with a crew of seventy men and 140 steerage passengers, is six days overdue. Captain Hunter, of the Rritish steamship Calvin, which reached Girard Point Sunday morning from Porti, says that on the 20th inst., while weathering a terrific gale, they observed on the crest of a wave a part of a passenger vessel's life raft. It was painted snow white, and tho figure "2" was plainly visible on one end. Pilot Schellinger says that the raft closely resembles those carried by the American line boats. Close to the raft was floating a wooden buoy. Casli in Mrs. Harris' Strong lox. The strong 1hx in the Merchants Storage and Ranking Company at Cleveland, Ohio, which was rented by Mrs. Harris, the alleged Pennsylvania Land and Lumber Company swindler, wa-s forced open by Rxiert Tracy. The order under which it was opened was granted by Judge Stone upon the application of Attorney Dellenbaugh. The box was full of greenbacks and gold, tho former tied in packages of $0, $10, 2?10 bills, and the gold was in a woman's stocking. There was $10,500 in the pile. Arms and Ammunition for Hawaii. The dispatches from San Francisco intimating a probable uprising of the Royalists iu Hawaii to overthrow the present government and place Queen Liliuokalani on fhe throne receive part confirmation in Port Townsend. A well-known and responsible ship broker made the statement that he knew of his own personal knowledge that large quantities of firearms and ammunition were being recently shipped clandestinely to Hawaii on lumber vessels. Electric Car Jumps the Track. An electric motor car became unmanageable on the steep Twentieth street hill at Omaha, Xeb.. and after dashing two blocks at a terrific speed jumped the track and collided with a telegraph pole. The injured are: Motorman Clark, dangerously hurt; Col. A. A. McCoy of Deadwood; i-M Hayden, I. X. Callahan, Mrs. D. A. A. Hart of Omaha, not seriously. Yale Aain on Top. In Satunlay's great football game nt Springfield, Mass., Yale defeated Harvard by h score of 12 to 4, though Harvard played the most sc ientific game. Six men were hurt so they had to be carried from the field, one having his collar bone broken. nBREVlflEsT General William II. Gibson died at Tillin, Ohio. Miss Vietoria A. Stein, of Chicago, has sued Clarence H. Saulpaugh, of Mankato, Minn., for Jj'oO.OOO for breach of promise. The Xew York Xational Shoe and Leather Rank has been robbed of $'J.1,HM. The man accused is S-uuurl C. Seely. For fourteen years Seely has been a trusted lookkeeper in the institution. For more than nine years, it is now alleged, he has been stealing the bank's funds methodically and persistently, aided by one o the bank's depositors. Roth men are missing. A negro was lynched Friday morning $t Landruru, S. C. Mrs. W. IS Graham, wife of the Allegheny, Pa., light inspector, committed suicide. Joseph A. Reck, a leading architect of Toledo, O., committed suicide. Cause unknown. Dr. Harold Moyer of Chicago w. elected treasurer of the Mississipin V:.. ley Medical Association. The indictments against the seveutyfive striking miners of Rinningham. Ala., charged with rioting, were quashed. Robert McQuarrie and Alex. Darraugh were hilled and two others injured by the explosion of a boiler in a sawmill at Montieello, Out. The failure of Jacobs & Co., Rgston store, nt Guthrie, O. T., is the worst that ever occurred in Oklahoma. Assets, $7,400; liabilities, $72,000,

CHINA READY TO QUIT

VILL OPEN PEACE NEGOTIATIONS DIRECTLY WITH JAPAN. China Said to Re Willing to Pay on Indemnity of One H'uiulred Million Taelsä I Jodides All Japan's Kx pen sea Special Envoy Dispatched. IJears un OHc Branch. De Ting, the chief of the imperial customs at Tien Tsin, who was recently summoned to Pekia in order to confer with the government as to ways and means for raising money for the war, has left for Japan in order to arrange terms of peace. The departure of the Chinese customs chief for Japan is regarded by officials in Washington as the result of Japan's demand for a direct offer from China. Tho De Ting mentioned in the cable is said to be Dictcrin';, a German, who occupies the position of commissioner of customs. That he should be sent as tho peace envoy is accounted for by officials oa the ground that an indemnity would probably bo secured on the customs receipts. It has been one of Japan's contentions that she would expect to receive the customs receipts of the big Chineso ports in case an indemnity was arranged. It is said that the Chinese envoy will probably be 'the guest of United States Minister Dun at Tokio. Japanese officials have been accorded every courtesy. Although Japan shows no signs of exhaustion, fiscal or military, her Governmentand people ought to bo satisfied with the magnificent progress already achieved in humblicg a power ten times, more formidable as to numbers and allied with the most nggressivo imperial sovereignties of Kuropo and Asia. England' Interests are implicated with China's; Russia's are complicated with China's. If japan can arrange peace which, first, shall completely detach Corea from China; which, secondly, shall give nonew footing to Russia on the northeast nor to England in the ports and mines of Corea, Japan will prove herself not only a war power of distinguished rank, notwithstanding her insular insignificance and her comparatively small numbers, but she will havo outfitted tho entire array of European diplomatists who have been hovering over the contest like vultures expecting to prey oa both contestants. China will bear watching in all states of negotiation for peace. Shameless in treachery, recreant to pledges, savage tocaptives, barbarous in all respects in which she has not been partially civilized by force, her diplomats will not hesitate to cheat even their own agent in the negotiations. KILLED LIKE BEASTS. Two Thonsand of th Unprotected People Tlutchered in tawun. A dispatch to the London Times from Vienna says that a letter has been received there from Smyrna reporting that Zeki Pasha, a Turkish marshal, with a detachment of Xizams and a field battery, massacred 2,CKX) Armenians at Sas6un. The bodies of the dead were left unburied and their presence has caused an, outbreak of cholera. Many Christians aro reported to have fled by secret paths across the Russian frontier. So far there has been no official confirmation of this news, but if it is true it is time the powers share in the responsibility by their failure to enforce article CI of the Rerlin treaty, which imposes on thern the duty of seeing that the Porte takes measures to protect Armenians. The latter declare that they hopo for nothing from Kuropo, but that they still have confidence in Great Rritaln. Numerous appeals have been maJo by the Armenians to the Rritish foreign office. The last appeal received says that tho Armenians do not wish to see more of their territory annexed by Russia, but if Great Rritala is unablo to help them they will be compelled to look to Russia, under whose yoke they would bo better off than under the yoke of Turkey. A dispatch to the London Daily Xews from Constantinople says that tho energetic'ftction of Sir Philip Currie, tho Rritish Ambassador to Turkey, has caused consternation among the members of the Turkish Government. Rverything has been done to keep secret the facts of tho outrages. Information from various sources tends to prove that the Sassua affair was most serious. A dispatch from Constantinople to the Standard 6ays that in response to the protest made by Sir Philip Currie, Rritish Ambassador to Turkey, the Porte has unreservedly withdrawn the charge against Mr. Hallward, the Rritish Consul at Van, of inciting the Armenians at Sassun and elsewhere to revolt. Tho charge grew out of the investigation made by Mr. Hallward into the Armenian massacres and his report to the Rritish Ambassador. The Governor of Rltlis, who is seriously involved in tho outrage, made the charge, it ia said, for tho purpose of revenge. The Sultan has decided to send a commission composed of three niemlers of his military household and one civilian to Sassun for the purimse of making an impartial inquiry into tho outrages on Armenians. The latest news is to the effect that many of the Armenians who were supposed to have been killed fled from the soldiery and are now returning. Hrleflet. Judge J. T. Terrill was shot and killed at Jonesboro, Ark., by Amey Seymour, a stock raiser. Refore fslllng a corpse Terrill knocked Seymour down with a club, inllictiug serious wounds. Mrs. Blanche Kaufman, a French ae tress, was sentenced at Cincinnati, Ohio, to three months' imprisonment and to pay $200 line and costs for shooting her husband several months ago. Two more dead, burned in the forest fires of Sept. 1, have been found in the most northerly portion of the burned district. One was Capt L. Brook, of Pin City, Minn.; the other cannot be identified. Tho trial of the would-be train robbers, Overfield and Abrams, was postponed until February at Memphis, Mo., because. Abrams is not sufficiently recovered to ap pear. General McCook has ordered a court martial for the trial of Captain Thcophilus Morrison, Sixteenth Infantry, on, charges growing nt of th errutic con, duct of the officer during last summer's campaign. The body of Sam Sing, the Chineseleier, who lived for more than four years alone in a cell nt Snake Hill, N. Y., whero' doctors watched his disease, helpless to aid him, was buried Monday ia Quick limo at Snake HilL