Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 12, Plymouth, Marshall County, 4 January 1895 — Page 2

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A. R. ZIMMERMAN, Pur fisher. PLYMO JTH. I NO ANA. SIX PEOPLE KILLED. DEADLY GRADE CROSSINGS IN THE EAST. Seventeen Servants of the Dclavan limine, Albany, Perished May He lead Internal Ite venue to IJe InCreased by Beer. Six Persons Killed by Trains. At Kcci'.o. X. II.. a sleigh containing Charles Brooks, aged CO years; his daughter Ada. aged !!."; und I-oui. Bergeron, aged IT, was struck at tho Water street cro-sing by the ii;rth-beund passenger train from Boston on the Fitchburg railroad Tuesday night, killing th'Mn all. The bodies were thrown over 100 feet beyond tho crossing. Tho crossing is not guarded by a Hagi'ian or gates. The Lehigh Valley passenger train No. from (leiieva Tueselay ni'it struck a bleich a half-mile east of Wiilard. X. Y., containing Mrs. Hughes, her sun, and Miss Larkin of Ovid, and all tho occupants were killed. Believe He Ih Hanged. Bart Scott, defaulting treasurer of Holt County. Nebraska, is reported to have been hanged .Monday night by vigilants. There are many rumors atloat in regard to Scott's disaj .pen ranee, and some believe that Scott has been disposed of, that he has. been either hanged or his hody weighted and dropped into tlie Niobrara River in tho quicksands. Others believe that it I..? only a ruse for Scott's escape and that he has Hod to parts unknown, while a few think that Scott's own friends have put him out of the way to keep him from telling on them. arret t Scott, while serving lib; second term as treasurer of Holt County, Nebraska, alout eighteen months, disappeared from his home in O'Neill. Ho was traced to Mexico and a long light ensued over bringing him back to the States. Tho Holt County Sheriff first eanu bad; without him. and after a long delay he was brought home. II' was arraigned nnd convicted of stealing $70.011. Tho county sued his bondsmen, but Aug. ill) the District Court decided that Scott nnd not his bondsmen was rosionsible. Scott was out on bail. Tho ease has attracted much attention all over the whole West. Kxpcnses Kxcccd 1'eceipts. Driven by the inexorable necessity of raising more money with which to meet the current expenses of the Government, allies of the towers that be are about to move for an increase of J?l a barrel in the tax on fermented liquors. Tho revenues would be swollen JjvlO.OOO.OOO or more by that means. Boer is now taxed $1 a barrel, and the income from tho beer tax for the fiscal year ISltt-'Ul was J?2S,G1S,000. The year preceding it amounted to ..Tl.S'JO.OOO. The annual production of beer in the United States averages U3.000.tiOO barrels, of which 10 per cent., or U,"oo.iK) barrels, is manufactured in Illinois. Chicago being the great center of production in the State. There was some talk before Congress convened of enlarging tho tax on spirits, but this suggestion was frowned upon by the Treasury Department, as the change coining right on top of the new law would involve the revenue bureau in inextricable confusion and complications, and it was abandoned as inexpedient. Not so with beer, however. That is a simple proposition, the tax business being easily in control. "Owl' in a Wreck, Just at midnight Tuesday as the "Owl" suburban on the Northwestern reached the Dfering depot, Chicago, it ran through an open switch into a freight standing on a side track. Tho tender of the passenger engine crashed into the first coach, badly injuring five passengers. The collision knocked the freight from the track, and half a dozen cars fell onto the depot, partly wrecking it. Seventeen Servants Cremated. The horrors of the Delavan House fire at Albany, N.Y., increase as the hours go by and the list of persons reiorted missing i; increased to seventeen. Storekeeper Bronk and Chief Chef Toinaznia said tat there could be no doubt that all of the missing met their doom in the fire. NEWS NUGGETS. Doss Hatts murdered his fiance, lizzie Smith, at Hunter Hill, Ala., and then killed himself. William Connors was caught at St. St. Louis in the net of blowing open the isaf? in a Hour and feed store. The British steamer Yozford sunk the French bark Marie Louise. Five of the bark's crew were drowned. The bark Osseo was wrecked on Holyhead breakwater and the twenty-four persons on Itoard were drowned. Mrs. D. 0. Bloomer, the well-known adTOcate of dress reform for women, died at Council Bluffs, aged 70 years. A barber shop at Klwood, Ind., was wrecked by a natural gas explosion nnd Its eight occupants were injured. Gilbert Jameson, one of the oldest residents of Norwalk, Ohio, was blown by the gale from the Lake Shoro bridge at Huron and disappeared beneath the waters of the river. The Kev. Sam Small's paper, the Norfolk Pilot, is threatened with a libel suit by the American Book Company because of a statement regarding the manner in which Virginia contracts were secured. A sawmill boiler exploded nt Bonny r, Ky., killing five men nrd badly scalding several more. The names of four of the dead are Bird, Fnnn, Derring and Shark. The mill was the proitorty of Hard Derring and was almost totally destroyed. The private ear of President Booth of the Canada Atlantic Railway recently struck a man near Malone, N. Y., killing him instantly. President Booth has sent 51.000 to the widow nnd children. At Wilson, N. C, a bomb was exploded in the middle of the town. A numltcr of houses were shaken and the Church of the Disciples of Christ was damaged. Congressman McKttrick declares that he will presM his bill for the creation of n department of commerce. Plates for the printing of facsimiles of orenrnxostn go st a nips will be seized by

fc,tJTERN. A shortage of .!M).0o0 has been discovered in the Kings County, New York, treasury. John Burns called Andrew Carnegie "a professional philanthropist" in Ins speech at Pittsburg. Fire at Burlingfon. Yt., destroyed J. B. Booth's lumber yard ami V. & (J. K. Crane's mill. Loss $rj",000. During a wedding ceremony at Boston Christmas day. the groom. Chas. Hughes, of Louisville, Ky., died at tho altar from apoplexy. Kx-Senator Piatt has left Dr. Parkhurst's chureh because the latter from his pulpit called him a boss and arraigned him as a devil in politics. The American Loan and Trust Company of New York has asked for a separate receivership for the Oregon Short Lino and Northern Railroad. Edward B. Carter, transfer and coupon clerk in tho Xati. mal Bank of Commerce, New York, has confessed to stealings of $2!,X0, which cover a period of twenty yenrs. Dennison AYIieelock. Indian Director of the Indian School, and Lou No La Chappel Ie, a Chippewa girl, were married at Carlisle, Pa. YlieLi'ock h a Graduate of the school. Six horses and two mules were killed Thursday morning in Philadelphia by coming in contact with the deadly electric light wires, which were blown down by the storm. Mrs. Emily Bobbins Taleott, of West Hartford, Conn., celebrated her 101th birthday. She was 0 years old when President Washington died. She has four children living. At Ponghkeepsie Harry Monier, the English bridge-jumper, leaped from the top rail of the Ponghkeepsie bridge with a pitfnehute, striking the water, 1212 feet beler.-, in eight seconds. Petitions of the Farmers Loan and Trust Company of New York, as trustees, to have separate receivers appointed for the Oregon Short Lino and Utah Northern Itailway Company wore tiled in the United States Circuit Court at Boise, Idaho. D.ight Miner, of Miner's Bank, Dunkirk,. N. Y., who defaulted in 1SSÖ for $170,000, returned and gave himself up Wednesday. He was admitted to bail in the mjia of $.1.tMK). The bank has realized fthout .STt,000 on his estate, and as tho principal witnesses against him are dead he may go free. Fire destroyed the three-story brick block at the northeast corner of Broadway and Fillmore avenue, Buffalo. The building was owned by John Binghamton, and occupied by Eckhardt & Co., Oywnhl Tinkler and Charles Weisman as stores. The fire spread over the whole block and across Broadway to the threestory brick block extending from Fillmore avenue to (Jibson street. The loss will roach $'::00,000. Owing to frozen hydrants it was thirty minutes before the firemen could turn a stream of water on to tho flames. The Lexow Committee, scorned, laughed at and considered a huge joke when it first began its work, has secured its first great victory in the New York criminal courts. Police Captain John Ii. Stephenson has boon sentenced to three years and nine mouths in the penitentiary at Sitiflf Sing and to pay a line of $l,O00. The laughter that first greeted the Lexow Committee ceased long ago, but Wednesday marks an epoch in the history of its labors nevertheless. It is the consummation of its first groat case, and now no one can doubt that an almost endless number of convictions, with their accompanying sentences, will follow. The reform movement has gained full headway and will sweep everything before it. The last hopo of the corrupt police has gone, and they know, one and all, what they have to expect. It will also make the work of the committee easier. There already have been some confessions and it cannot be doubted now that there will be more. It H likely to be a race to see who can tell all he knows first, and in that the victory is greater and more far-reaching than would appear from the mere statement that Stephenson has been sentenced. Capt. Stephenson was about the first man of any iniyortnnee to get caught in the Lexow net. and when ho was turned over to the Court of Oyer and Terminer and found guilty by a jury tlioro was a quaking all along the line.

WESTERN. St. Louis Democrats have decided on a Lexow investigation. Yirgil Prather was fatally stabbed by Crisper I lagan, botli farmers, near Eversonville, Mo. Explorers report having soon smoke and steam issuing from the crater of Mount Panier. Fire in Cleveland, Ohio, destroyed buildings and their contents valued at nearly $2."0, too. Bus Luckly, member of the Cook gang, surrendered twenty miles from Muskogee, I. T., and is locked up. Mrs. Maggie '. Ferguson, a milliner of Jackson, Mich., has been robbed of jewelry worth $1,(100. "Sim" Coy, for many years a picturesque figure in Indiana polities, died at bis home in Indianaitolis. College presidents of Indiana nt a meeting In Indianniolis decided to forbid intercollegiate foot-ball games. A LoadUle justice has decided that there is no law in Colorado to prohibit a man from burning his own house. Three thousand five hundred jack rabbits, the result of the annual hunt, were distributed to the ioor of Denver. (Jolonel Michael Frank, the father of tho free school ystem of Wisconsin, died at Kenosha at the age of IK) years. Fanners and robra engaged in a desperate fight near SVfiS, Ohio. Two of the former were shot and one of the latter. Joseph Bidwell and William Findley, farmers of Union County, were killed near Columbus, Ohio, by a Pan-Handle train. Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst, widow of the California Senator, has .'esoutl tho town of Lend, S. I)., witi a $100,000 library. The body of Stephen dlass, jfcden from the cemetery nt (Jreenwood, i'nd., was found in the dissecting-room oj Iudiana Medical College. While impersonating Santa Claus at Columbus, Ind., the cotton on t).j Bev. Gilbert Dobbs caught fire. Friends ihrew him to the floor, but the flames weft not extinguished until he hnd been badly burned. The Cliff House, near San Francisco, " I t - - I . ... . VUMM

will be replaced Ly a steel and stone structure, to cost $1,000,000. Harry Ilayward, charged with instigating Blixt to murder Miss Ging at Minneapolis, has tried to bribe the Sheriff to allow Blixt to commit suicide. The St. Louis Grand Jury has returned over fifty indictments for election crimes. Among them is one against Sheriff-elect Henry Troll for election bribery. A. C. McLanghlin. special agent of the United States Treasury at San Francisco, has been arrested, charged with murderous assault en two lauudrymen and a street-car conductor. Despite the seemingly conclusive fact that Matson, husband of tho woman murdered at Topeka. Kan., was in California when the crime was committed, witnesses testified he was in Topeka at the time. Despite the seemingly conclusive fact that Matson, husband of of the woman murdered at Topeka. Kan., was in California when the crime was committed, witnesses testified he was in Topeka at tho time. In l collision between two Big Four freight trains near Lafayette. Ind., Engineer Elijah Campbe'l, of Indianapolis, was instantly killed, a tramp, George Spenco, from Canada, was dangerously hurt, and Charles Henry, a brakeman, was injured in the back. Col. E. W. Tat loo, Inspector General of the Utah National Guard, has made his official report to Gov. West on the recent invasion of Utah by the Colorado Ute Indians, saying the Utes had decided to return to Colorado after being threatened with military force. Two Sticks, the noted Sioux Indian murderer, for whose reprieve many efforts have been made in vain, was hanged at Dead wood, S. D., on Friday. The crime for which Two Sticks was hanged was the murder of Emanuel Bennett, Bodnoy lloyce, James Bacon and William Kelley at Humphrey & Stringer's cattle ranch, on the Sioux reservation. Feb. 4, 1SLKJ. The warehouse of the Pioneer Paper Stock Company at Chicago was burned Thursday evening, entailing a loss of $5r,00 $-U,000 en building and lö.OW on contents. Tho building was a fivestory brick structure. The roof and Ho rs fell in and only the wall on the west side is standing. When tho south wall fell out it wrecked two one-story frame cottages and two families were rendered homeless. From the cottages twelve people had been taken by police officers just before the wall fell. At Silver Lake, Lake County, Ore., while a large party was attending holidaj festivities, a lamp exploded und set fire to the building. Forty-one persons were burned to death and fifteen injured. A large crowd had assembled in Christman Brothers hall to attend the festival. While the merriment was nt its height some one climbed on a bench, from which iHtint he expected to get a better view of what was going on. In doing so his head struck a lamp hanging from the ceding, overturning it. Tho oil immediately caught fire and everything in the room being dry and of an inflammable nature the room was soon a mass of names. Some one shouted: "Shut the door and keep quiet; it can be put out." By this time the confusion was so great that people began scrambling in a wild endeavor to reach the door. Women and children were trampled unek-r foot, and ns there was only one exit to the hall and the fire being between the majority of the crowd and the door many rushed headlong into the flames. Silver Lake is a village of about 100 inhabitants, and it is 1Ö0 miles from tho nearest telegraph office. The box office at Pike's Opera House, Cincinnati, Ohio, where Co!. Breckinridge lectured on Thursday night, was the scene of an exciting fight. Attorney Gus Meyer, who represented Madeline Pollard, hail a bill of $45 against Col. Breckinridge. There had boon rumors of an attempted attachment and the boxoflieo was barricaded. Constable Kinney went up to the window as if to purchase a ticket. At that instant Constable Yolkor gave him a lift, a shove, and Kinney was propelled clear through, knocking down the ticket-seller, overturning the cash register, and breaking a picture on the wall. Then began nil exciting struggle for tho possession of tho money, which had rolled from the smashed register. Kinney managed to pick up about $0. Col. Breckinridge and his sou Desha rushed in. "You robbing " shouted the Colonel, while Desha yelled: "You come down to the Grand Hotel to-morrow and give me satisfaction." Kinney declined the invitation to a duel, and, after counting the money he had seized, returned $i:i to Manager Ballenberg. Col. Breckinridge immediately after the fight delivered Ids lecture on the "Era cf American History." There was nothing striking in the discourse, and it met with a chilly reception. There were exactly 200 in the audience, twenty-four of whom wore women.

SOUTHERN. A drunken brawl at Wrightsville, Ark., resulted in the killing of two negroes. A man named Myor got the wrong bottle in a Holland (Ark.) drug store and is dead. Gov. Fishback, of Arkansas, has proclaimed Feb. IS as memorial day for George Poabody. The Georgia race war is over and the State militia has been withdrawn. Seven negroes were killed. Five white loys were terribly burned in a suburb of Richmond, Ya., by tho explosion of gunpowder. Joseph Thornton, of Montgomery, Ala., while driving was killed by the accidental discharge of his shotgun. Ethel Fowler, aged 5, died of hydroprobia in Little Rock, Ark. She was bitten last October by a pet pug. At New Orleans the cases against Lavigne ami others connected with the contest in which Bowen was killed were dismissed. Tho women's council of the Nineteenth Century Club, of Memphis, Tonn., voted to boycott Congressman Breckinridge's lecture. Dudley C. Ijogan. hardware merchant in Iosingtou, Ky., was found dead, tin wound seeming to be impossible of selfinlliction. Three burglars broke jail at Montgomery, Ala. Thomas Martin of Buffalo, Frank Leroy of Brooklyn, and Thomas King of Now York. Peter M unlock, a rnotortnan on the Carroll'.crti street car line nt New Orleans, fatally shot his wife and then blew out his cwii brains with a revolver. A. W. Alton, a crank from New Jerusaloid, Texas, has boon nrrested at New OYleans. He says he was on his way to Washington to kill the President. 11 1 ho r i t ieno fJ UoCO 1 1 0 aS taf.09

and International Exposition at Atlanta, Ga., have received advic?s that the Argentine Republic has appropriated $15,000 in gold for a display next fall. The jury in the Now Orleans briberv

case against Conncihncn William J. Kane : and Francis B. Thritlily was called into court and a mistrial entered. The jury stood eight for conviction and four for acquittal. j It is said on good authority the attorneys for Madeline Pollard contemplate ; following Congressman Breckinridge m j his lecturing tour throughout the country ! in an effort to attach tho receipts in payment of Miss Pollard's verdict for hrea h of promise. This will be done, it is said, ; by filing a transcript of the judgment ha 1 ; in Washington in each place the Colon, -I ! lectures and basing a creditors' bill upon that A serious wreck occurred near Waxahachie, Texas. The Katy south-bound and the west-lf.m.nl Houston and Texas Central collided at a crossing one mile north of the city. Tho trains were both heavily loaded with passengers. It seems quite miraculous that more were not injured. Seventeen are reported to have been hurt in the wreck. It is thought two or me passengers win die. ine engine of the "Katy" run into the rear coach cf the II. A: P. C, stnkiug it alio.it midway, tearing tho seats up and scatter ing tho coach fixtures about promiscuously. WASHINGTON. Secretary Carlisle declines to be .1 candidate for United States Senator for Kentucky. Congressman (Jear is rapidly recovering from his recent attack of cerebral hemorrhage.

Ex-Secretary of State John W. Foster 1 intendent Byrnes handed a letter to has consented to go to Japan to aid the j Chairman Lexow and said that it was a Chinese rcprosentativei: in bringing about 1 copy of cue that he had sent to Mayorpeace. ; j elect Strong early in December. It was Annual meetings of the Associated ! b S'"'ti fr the force of which ii:wtnPi0. ,.r i ; : he has be en a member for the last thirty-

..i.u"ii,in.i .1 iiivi I, il. nil- .nilll'lll illl Folk Lore Society, the American Society of Church History and the Jewish Historical Society were held in Washington. FOREIGN. Francis II.. the late King of Naples, died Thursday at Arco, in the Austrian Tyrol. Brazilian troops burned a hospital at Sau Cabriel and cremated 120 wounded and sick rebels. To nvert a tariff row wi'h the United States, Spain is considering the granting of partial homo rule to Cuba. The German Government has modified i its prohibitory decree against American meats ko as to admit canned meats. Austria, it is said, proposes to join Germany in retaliating on the United States if the sugar duties are not modified. The Sultan of Turkey has declined to allow an American representative to aeeomnanv tho Armenian innuirv commix sion. Six thousand Tonghaks were defeated by tho Japanese in a four hours' tight at Lai-Jurin. The rebellion is practically at an end. The etor.mer Guerley, from Port MorAnt, Janniea, loaded with bananas for Philadelphia, narrowly escaped being swamped by a waterspout off Cape Hatteraa. IN GENERAL Indians at the Rosebud agency in South Dakota are holding another ghost dance. Union Pacific employes agree to accept the Denver wages scale if receivers will retain the present force. Eleven more tiro insurance companies have given notice of their intention to withdraw from the Pacific Insurance Union. A. K. Lindcrfelt, Milwaukee's defaulting librarian, who embezzled $10,000 of the library funds, has been located in Pa ris. In an address before tho American Economic Association Carroll D. Wright declared the A. R. U. strike to be an epoch-making event. The Government bond syndicate has dissolved after disposing of but oT per cent, of the issue. The new currency plan is alleged to have caused liquidation by holders. Andrew Carnegie has made a demand on the Government to bo reimbursed for the $140,000 tine imposed by the President in connection with the uruior-plate frauds. Now that it has been finally decided to hold the next international convention of the Christian Endeavor Society in Boston, owing to the fact that the railroads have persisted in refusing to grant ates to San Franeiseo.th" place named by the last convention, the committees appointed tct make the preliminary arrangements have gonc actively to work. Tho convention will assemble in July, and enthusiastic members of the committee of thirteen already put it that 7."t.K0 Christian Endeavors will be in attendance. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to primo. ?.".7r!J7ti; hogs, shipping grades, $,.Ö0 (j 1.75; sheep, fair to choice, J?lI('4; wheat. No. II red, fiCfcolc; corn. Net. 2, 4."W4(;o; oats, Net. 'J. 'JN'.irdc; rye, Net. 2, 4Sf(."Ic; butter, choice creamery, '2l(il -'Me; eggs, fresh. l'.K20e; potatoes, car lots, per bushel, 5."t(fft."ic. Indianapolis Cattle, slopping, J.'l'cjJ Tt.00; hogs, choice light, $,"f.4.7ö; sheep, common tct prime, $'Jlr.'.2."t; wheat, No. 2 rod, r2fc7ö:ic; corn. Net. 1 white, 4'.(ß l.'l'.c; oats, No. 2 white. o.W:Uc. St. Louis Cnttle, $.!': hogs. $:.a4.75; wheat. No. 2 reel, riUi."i2c; corn. No. 2, 42r(4:!c; oats, No. 2, 'J'dV'e.JO rye, No. 2, rsKc.VJc. Cincinnati-Cuttb, $.C(Ve7r,.r0; hogs, ft ViUhtc; corn, Ne. 2 mixed, 4V(iHU", oats. No. 2 mixed, I'JfjJc; rye. No. 2, S-MiMtc. Dot rctit Cattle, $2."0(clö..rt0; hogs, $l(f ! 4.7ft: sheep, $2W.'l.2ö; wFent, No. 1 white. rt.Vf."iOc; corn, No. 2 yellow, 4,V10c; onts. No. 2 white, :i3&Mc: rye. No. 2. rrri0c. Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 red, 54.mo; corn. No. 2 mixed, 4,' lie; oats. No. 2 white, nr.'k-tUjc; rye. Net. i', rttK'L 02c. Buffalo Cattle. $2.5Kiö.r0: hogs. $1 ' 4.7.r: sheep, $2ifto.."0; wheat. Net. 2 red, r7fi."7Ioc: corn. No. 2 yellow, HtVdVl oats. No. 2 white. .''.Vo0e. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 spring, öS'!! TtS'c; corn. No. 3, 41(ti2e; oats, No. 2 white-, 31(x.;i2e; barley, No. 2, rWi'utv; rye. No. 1, 4lKjj."le; pork, mess, $11.00 11.no. New York-Cattle, $35.50; hogs. 3.50 (15: sheep, $Sfitf.ri0; wheat, No. 2 reel, 01 tj02e; corn. No. 2, 51fiiT2e; oats, white, Western, 2Ml.V2c; butter, creamery, 22 24 LVeterf 2200.

FAILURES FALL OFF.

FAVORABLE SHOWING FOR THF. PAST YEAR. j ' Famoiis Albany Hostelry Burned Supt. Byrnes Springs a Sensation of. Ills Own- CIosl- Call for Hailuuy Ofiicials Guatemala Must IScy:iii War. Last Year's llusitiess. B. G. Dun A: Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade .'ays: Commercial failures in IM I. already ivported, Lumber lJ.l!'li. against K,:2V2 . i;ist yar, with liabilities of 81.;:?.-j:;s.-pi 1, c gainst .SM !i').77;M hot year. Front those accounts, banks, bankers, financial and transporting companies are excluded. Manufacturing failures number L'.Töt, against l.l'JJ last year, but liabilities are only M.l'.tlJST. against $170.1.o'.U last year. The trading failures numb; r 11.Ö14. against 11.51J hist year., but lia bilities :tro oi;!y !:;. i;;-:::::; last :s 1 .M'. . 1 , against year. The statement )(V Mvtj(,ns shows a decrease of about ! two-thirds In defaulted liabilities in tho middle and central m.nh r:i State., onej half iu the wot ami southwest, and .1 ; third in other sections. Holiday trade I ni"t expectations. Purchases were iu;inerous. but smaller than usual in amount and m.rre con'im-d to needful articles. thus anln-ipatiiig ordinary trade. Ilyrrics Has Oiiit. Saturday night the L-xow Committee adjourned at New York subject to t ho ; call of the chair, .lust as he was through j answering Mr. Co Ts questions. Supertwo years. The superintendent said tho ; department was honeycombed with abuses, which had been growing for thirty years ar.d they could only bo remedied by radical legislation. Local politicians, ho c laimed, were the curse of the department, and as long as politics was a factor in tho force such a state of things would exist. Mexico ricsn't Want to Fight. Tho topic of conversation at the City of Mexico i. President Diaz' speech, which is universally applauded in all circles. The general opinion is that Guatemala must bo made to satisfy Mexico. A prominent official says that Mexico wants only justice, and if Guatemala ' . A 111 . J f 1 tl'l I. wants war 11 win nave 10 uociare 11. nai is most to the point in Diaz' speech is that he says no useless delays should be allowed in the discussion, and that existing treaties should be respected. The State of Jalisco has now fallen into line ai,d offered all its resources to the i oderal Government in case of war with Guatemala. Rend Roasts Burnt. The railroad coal operators and miners of the Pittsburg district had a joint convention at Pittsburg to decide on a uniform mining rate. Tho business of the meeting was lost sight of iu a sensational attack made by Col. W. P. Rend, of Chicago, on John Burns, tho English socialist, and Editor Stead, whet wrote a book about Chicago. Under ordinary circumstances the Colonel's remarks would have been applauded, but as Mr. Burns had been invited to a seat iu tho convention as a courtesy the matter was smoothed over. Kscapc Through tlu? Car Windows. General Manager XV. P. Robinson, General Attorney M. A. Reed, Superintendent A. M. Morey, Engineer F. Howe and Attorney Cessna, all of the St. Joseph and Grand Island Railway, bad a narrow escape from death near Edgar, Neb., by the burning of the general manager's private car Nemaha. Tho lire was caused by the explosion of an oil stove. Every one of the officials was nearly suffocated and had to be taken though tho windows of the car. All their clothing and the car were destroyed. Dolavati HoisKo (lone. The candidacy of the several men for the speaker of the New York Assembly received a startling baptism of lire Sunday night at Albany, for the Dclavan House, that famous hostelry known from Maine to California, the Mecca of politicians and the center of all big State polit ical events for forty years, was completej y Several persons were fatally injured. BREVITIES, Peter Costono shot ami killed himself nt Toledo, Ohio. Despomlenoy was the cause. The imniest at St. Louis tdntwed that Jeihn McMillop, 10, died froia drinking whisky. Twenty-five bakers iu Cincinnati have reduced the price of bread from live to three cents. John Fitzgerald, ex-president of tho Irish National League :f America, dicl nt Lincoln. Neb. He was 00 years edd. Texas will lo 00 year edil iu the spring of IStXt, and preparations have already boon commenced for a celebration of the birth of the State. Henry C. Lewis, of St. Louis. Mo., ngeel 20, a student at tho Massachusetts Institute of Tcohhedetgy at Boston, class of 'iXl, committed suicide. Loadvillo, Col., local detectives locateel Gertie Reims, a lti-yoar-oM girl, who ran away to goon the stage. She worked in Denver and Kansas City and finally went to Loadvillo. Hero she donned Itety's clothing aiwl got a jtositittn as call loy at n big mine, ami it was there the detective: located her. Yice Chancellor Green has elocided the boycott of the Newark (N. J.) labor organizatietns against the Newark Times for using plate matter t be illegal, xud has issued an injunction. Mayor Eustis at Minr.capedis has signed tho resolution authorising tho issuance Of $200,000 in bonds for work on Ihn ivservoir system. Burglars broke into the home of Ileviry Fecker. at Piqua, Ohio, and carried off his savings, amounting tct $1,700. Bradstreet's reports a decrease of M.OO bushels in tho available tmppfy of wheat in the United States aJ Canada. Secretary Carlisle has issue a call for $2.:;;2.000 bonds ist'.ed to the Central Pacific, commonly known as currency 0s. Another rebellion is threateiwd in Uracil. The amy, which is devoted to Peix- ",., " 1 ln , ' J-! ortU;rS' ailtl J lwn l,!ve

A CRITTt CAT.

Pnaa Kills an Falc and Tnkca It Home. Charles Wiswell, of Carbonate, Lawrence Countj, has :i cat that is a kin of it3 kind. Besides being a good inousor, this remarkable foüne is death to mountain rats, ni-ht hawks and f:!ier small game. r.-t bng ago bringin.i j Lome ms the rest:lt its prowess a large jack rabbit. But tin :u..st nj markalde incident in th-' cat's hi. lory j happened a clay or two a-o. j It was f:!i e-r.c.ciiiirr with a f;:!! -grown j bird of freed ::t.. and pn--.-y w:i tl ? j victor. The cai was sittins: on :i pile ot 1 quart:: patiently waiting tb rej'.ppe.arj nne-" of .1 c'lipnr.mk. which but a 1:1 j r.ient before it had chased ? r 1 1 :i !:!, j when suddenly tbo sky above th: e-:t j b vaüie. darkened. :i:;d an onii'.iov.M j swish as if from ;i rapidly moving body i fell u; on pr.ssy's ear. The oat anran : J aside with a Mo;;.,: :n rapid that t!i" j ovo -1 : 1 : 1 1 -;u-.-y fciicw it, ;4il in 1 1 1 - j pk'.ec it h id ) (:!, iod but ft PdollKMlt b:. J f-r. stood a full grown bald eagle, its j pliiu-ricc ru:ilc;l :ind thirsting for Me od. Fussy had : arid and accepted tho gt:g. ! of battle, at-ei in le s tiino than it takes to t-!l it. the- f:::iio'.:s "ni'tnkoy :u:d -Mi"' j r.i" time was i- ing iv-oiiactcd. It was :i :-p'.raic si niggle, and, although ! pussy was pretty badly scratched by the eagio's ta-oiis. it, when taking tho iiutiative in the iv,ht, .secured a decid1 advantage, having landed 0:1 tho I carlo's back. For a few moments the nil- was tilled with fur and feathers, and the g"un:d was all torn up. but pnssy held on. and in :i short time succeeded in biting through the neck of its antagonist. The struggles of the eagle grew weaker and weaker, and soetn ceased altogether, and pusy. ex'i.'trti cd by the violent cxi rtions and sort ! from wounds inflicted bv the carle's 1 j talons, rested for a moment, then, as j calm as though sitting on a. rug before ! the kitc hen hearth, w ont carefully over 1 the milled fur, made its (edict, and, seizing the body of the vanquished antagonist, drew it with much difficulty to the home of its master. Laying it at thej master's feet, the cat purred its satisfaction, ami in this way boasted of tho victory. The combat was witnessed by a number of people, every one of whom expressed a desire to buy the cat, but Mr. Wiswell says he would not sell it for the best mine in the Black Hills. Tho eagle measured 0 feet 4 inches from tip to tip of one w ing to that of the other. St. Paul Pioneer Press. A Tabic or iVtritiecl Human Flesh. There is a table in the Segato department of the Nuova Santa Maria Hospital Museum at Florence, Italy, which for originality Iu the matter of conception is probably without a rival. Tho des'gner and constructor of this wonder was Prof. Ciusoppe Scgato (one authority spells the name "Sagatti), the discoverer of a lost process for petrifying human and other llesh, ami who worked iu the various hospitals ami museums cf Italy about forty years age. To a casual observer this table is nothing more or less than a curious mosaic made up of marbles and agates of different sizes and colors. Iu reality, however, it is composed wholly of human flesh, muscles, vise-era. intestines. etc. It comprises every portion of tin human body transformed into solid stone, destined to endure as long as the world shall last. Different portions of the human body, show ing the w hole internal anatomy, are so beautifully petretied as to be a wonder to the traveler as well as an object of study for the medical student. The table is bordered with upwards of KM human eyes, preserved by some process which makes thorn look as natural as lifo. It is, without doubt, the most ghasCy piece of furniture ever designed by man. Bf 11 I lgli!t:i i;r. The occurrence of what is known ns ball lightning- is so rare that every instance of it is of some interest. The London Lanl et lately described a narrow escape from death by this form of lightning, which was experienced by a distinguished surgeon of I.ouvain who had gone to visit a patient in ;i neighboring town. He was overtaken by a thunderstorm, and what he described as a ball of lire descended upon and rendered him for some time unconscious. On coining to himself he form 1 that the cloth of the umbrella which he had been holding was completely burned off its steel framework, the metal being twisted into every shape. He attributes bis safety to tho circumstance that the umbrella has a wooden handle. Had it been metal he must have been instantaneously killed. How Heids (Irow. A story was told by Ticknor, who said It was a singular fact that the head of Ianiol Webster grow larger after he had passed middle age. Ticknor, knowing Webster intimately, asked him about the matter, and received the reply, "Yes, 1 lind that I have constantly to increase the size of my hats." We may observe that this Interesting phenomenon does no;: depend entirely ujHn increase of years, for comparatively young naval otlicers have boon known to complain of a tightness In their headgear after tho mental strain involved in taking lunar obseryations. The Athenaeum. F.ipert Photography. A recent lawsuit in Ohio, involving the ownership of fifteen hundred acres of vauable real estate, was settled lately by the aid of photography. The turning point of the suit was as to whether an old deed executed seventy-five years ago had live signatures or only four. There were spaces for five, but only traces of four visible. The clerk of the court was ordered to have the deed photographed by an expert. He took it to Washington for this purpose. The negative developed somo c lucncv ui iuv missing signature but on enlarging it ten times the name came forth distinctly. wholo