Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 23, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 March 1895 — Page 2

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A. R. ZIMMERMAN, Publisher. FLYWOJTH. - - IN DANA. TO LAY BARE A PLOT. ENORMOUS WHISKY TRUST DISCREPANCIES. Over $80,000 in Bullion Missing from the Carson, Nev., Mint-Rumor that Uawaii Will He Asked to Withdraw Minister Thurston. Big Sensation Brewing It is expected that the ox pert s will soon comploto their examination of the Kmks of the whisky trust for tin? fiscal year endiug March :U, lStrj. Their report will develope the foundation for suits against certain officers and directors of the trust to recover moneys whieh will aggregate $'2A UO.txKJ or more. Incidentally, it is Mid. they will lay tare the facts in the eonspiracy which culminated in the sale of the Shufeldt distillery in Chicago and which was maiked during its progress by attempts to destroy the distillery with dynamite ami by the arrest of (ieorge J. Gibson, tht n Secretary of the trust, on a charge of being implicated in the plot. It is learned tl at the experts have found entries on the books of the company showing that upwards of ."imUHK was expended soon after the arrest of Gibson ad before the indictments against him were quashed, and for all this vast expenditure to debt entries were made. Further, the actual disposition of most of this money has been learned from records found in the inner safe in the vaults of the company at lVoria, which was opened ly exIrt locksmiths. It is on these discoveries that the civil suits to recover money so paid will be based. Some of these suits may be started by the receivers, though those officials refuse to make any admissions in this regard. Shortage at Carson Mint. Andrew Mason, inspector of the mint end superintendent of the New York assay department, has been in Carson, Nov., for the last week inspecting affairs at the United States mint. A shortage was discovered al-otit a month ago. It was learned that something over lH had mysteriously disappeared, and that five clean-ups. which were made in quick succession, as it was thought some clerieal error had been made, failed to reveal the shortage. Ketined gold and silver to that amount has disappeared from the department, but Inspector Mason expects to be able to clear up the mystery. Xo direct charges have been made. Minister in Had Odor. A Washington dispatch says: Considerable excitement was produced by a reiK.rt that the State Department would soon ask the Hawaiian Government to withdraw Minister Thurston from Washington. It was charged that Mr. Thurston had become distasteful to the President or Secretary (Iresham. and that his career of usefulness as an envoy to this government was alout to come to an end. Although it is impossible to obtain official confirmation of the truth of the report, it is generally believed that Mr. Thurston hai become persona mm grata to the government of the United States, and that hir recall will soon be asked for. Pub treasury (lathers in Pennies. Fifty thousand bronze cents were taken to the United States subtreasury at Cincinnati, Ohio, Tuesday by various people and exchanged for currency. One woman had 54t worth in a sack. A negro tame in with JjHOO in a basket, which he carried on his head. These receipts were the greatest in the history of the Cincinnati subtreasury for penny receipts. It is the result of the stoppage of slot machine gamUing a fortnight ago, since which the subtreasury has been harvesting pennies daily. BREVITIES. San Francisco has a temperance saloon. Arthur P. Peterson. Attorney General of Hawaii under the monarchy, died in exile at San Francisco. Tji storage warehouse and elevator of Hugh 1'ogcrs & Co. at St. Louis was burned. Iss, Sit M U.HHJ. . A colony of Wisconsin fanners has taken up over RMMio acres of land along the Patuxent River in Maryland. David II. Moffatt has been elected president of tiie L'xecutivo Hoard of the International Mining and Industrial Exposition, held in Denver next year. A serui-ofhVial report in Havana regarding the firing on the Allianea by a Spanish war vessel is that a steam launch was seen to leave the Alliam-a's side before the warship signaled her to heave to. All the New York police officials i gainst whom indictments were found by th extraordinary Grand .lury were placed under arrest when they went to iMilice headquarters Tuesday morning. . The boiler house and other parts of II. X Slater's woolen mill at Webster. Mass.. were destroyed by the bursting of one of the boilers. Over Gl M people are thrown out of employment. The loss is Oakland. Cal.. school children are preparing to plant a "liberty" tree on the anniversary of Lincoln's assassination. April .. Soil is being gathered from every State and Territory and from the tombs of Washington and Lincoln. Dr. Cuneo, Italian Consul, has returned to Denver from Walsenburg, where he made a full investigation of the recent lynching of hist countrymen, who were charged with murder. He says every assistance iossihle was offered him by the county authorities. He will not discuss the nature of his reMrt to the Italian Ambassador, but it is evident he believes it will prove entirely satisfactory. Jim Turner, Hill Cok's partner, has been arrested near L'ddy. N. M., by Deputy Marshal Perry, the officer who caught Pill Cook. LMith (J. P.all, of Cripple Creek. Colo., is suing for a divorce from Samuel Hums, a Boston hack driver, who she says forced her into marriage while she was under the influence of a drug. , Great loss in houses and cattle, perhaps in lives, is being caused in Alabama by the heavy ruins and cloud bursts. Eleven prisoners, headed by the notorious murderer, Tom ! thick, escaped from the county jail at Seattle, Wash.

EASTERN. Associate Judge Stern, of Coudersport, Pa., died at his home from the effects of poison taken with suicidal intent. He had been a grip sufferer for some time. Mayor Curtis, of Boston, Mass., lias offered a reward of J?l,tX for the detection and conviction of the person or persons who set fire to several churches in that city. John Unlieber, aged OS, a scarred veteran who fought with Napoleon, and his wife are being shipped from place to place by New York town authorities in order to avoid supporting them. Nathan D. Thompson has lost his suit to recover ,?1. 122 from Albina Goods peed, at New York, for the cost of a campaign book containing the lives of Maine and Logan. The defense claimed that the work was defective. Among other peculiarities, one plate of the look showed Blaine as a ragged ly kneeling at the bedside of his dyinjj mother, lie was 41 years old at the time. The firm of Cushman Bros. & Co., manufacturers of window shades at Boston, Mass., went into insolvency, with liabilities of $1..UH)0. The linn has factories at Cambridge and Soinerville, both of which are either mortgaged or have attachments on them to the extent of $21, OCX). The heaviest creditors are among the different banks in Boston. A meeting of the creditors will be held to consider a compromise offer made by the firm of 33 1-3 ceuts, payable in two years. The Prick Coke Company posted notices at Uniontowu, Pa., that a new scale will go into effect April 1 granting an increase of ." per cent, in all grades of work. This will stop the strike which was ordered for April 1. The new scale of wages is the same as the men struck for last year, when they made a losing fight which lasted six mouths. The other operators will be forced to pay the adVance or have a strike. It is also said the advance is made with a view of crushing W. .7. Kainey in retaliation for his refusal to go into the coke operating syndicate. The New York Charities conference has decided to adopt the scheme of iotato farms for the poor which was inaugurated by Mayor Pingroe of Detroit last summer with great success. A committee has been apiointed to carry out the plan on a large scale and ac tive work has been commenced. The plan is simply obtaining the use of idle tracts of land in the city and dividing them up into patches of onethird of an acre for each family. Potatoes for planting and other vegetable seeds will be furnished. Each man must then attend to his little farm and all the products are his own. Mr. William Steinway has offered the use of a tract of land containing 1KM) acres in Long Island City, ex-Mayor Hewitt gives a large tract at Inwood, Columbia College donates seven acres of its new site on Morningside Heights. All these offers were received before any public appeal was made, and it is expected that thousands of acres will be tendered when asked for. New York has a large area of unoccupied land. According to a census taken by Postmaster Dayton through the letter carriers there are 17,320 ,-acant lots, containing over 1,0 0 acres, below West 14Gth street and the Harlem river. In the annexed district are many thousand acres that the committee expect to be offered for the summer's use. WESTERN. Representative Jones' bill to prohibit the wearing of high hats in theaters has been killed by a committee of the Illinois Leg isla tu re. Ex-Governor Campbell of Ohio is suffering severely from drinking water into which a bottle containing a strong solution of ammonia had ."alien. Chief of Police Crowley, of San Francisco, Cal.. takes exception to the criticisms of Max O'Koll and says it is an insult to compare that city with Paris. Mrs. Sarah Porter, widow of Dr. J. B. Porter, formerly of Chicago, and sister-in-law of the late Prof. David Swing, is a candidate for member of the Oxford, Ohio, school board. Mrs. Augusta L. Tabor's will, filed at Denver, gives half her estate, "ikihm, to her son, Nathaniel Maxey Tabor. The remainder is to be divided between her brothers and sisters. Receiver Failey, of the Iron IIa 1, brought suit in Indianapolis to quit title in the receiver of the real estate valued at $3MKH) to JjClUKMJ. The defendants are the old trustees. The famous Irvine divorce case at Salt Lake, growing out of the murder of Banker Montgomery, of Lincoln. Neb., has resulted in Mrs. Irvine securing her decree and $10,(K)0 alimony. Frank Littletield is under arrest at Anaheim. Cal., for trying to kill his brother and the hitter's wife and mother-in-law. Littletield thought his brother's marriage had disgraced the family. Robbers entered a Stringtown, O. T., store, loaded the safe on to a pair of trucks stolen from the doiot, and hauled it several miles into the country, where they blew it open with dynamite. Witnesses in the trial of A. R. U. strikers at San Francisco claim that Superintendent White, of Sacramento, sent telegrams to Southern Pacific agents ordering them to ditch a train run by strikers. The Yandalia west-bound train No. 7, with six coaches with passengers, was wrecked at Terre Haute, Ind. The express and baggage cars were crushed to splinters, but the passengers miraculously escaped with slight bruises. Mine. Fouchett, sister of Richard Demady, charged with the murder of Lena Tapper at Denver, has become violently crazy. Some believe her mind has been unbalanced by the terrible secrets known to her regarding the Market street murders. Inflamed with rage and ready to kill if necessary, a mob of 300 Poles attacked St. I led wig's Church in Chicago, and only for the drawn revolvers of seventy-five IK)licemen the new pastor, Father Szydlaczyk, might have been seriously handled, if not made a martyr to rigid obedience to the orders of Archbishop Feehan. The new priest is of the Resurrectionist order, ami the parishioners want no Resurrectionists. The enraged miners of Walsenburg, Colo., not satisfied with the slaughter Tuesday of four of the Italian murderers of A. J. Hixon, at 3 o'clock Wednesday morning broke into the jail, oveqiowcred the guard and shot to death two other Italians charged with complicity iu the crime. Their bodies were riddled with bullets. The sheriff released the other Italians as soon as he learned of the first

attack, knowing that be could not defend them, and they are now in hiding. Fire destroyed between $3'X.000 and $350.000 worth of Kansas City property at Fourth and Broadway Wednesday evening. Flames burst out of the win- ' dows of the big four-story building at 410 ! West Fifth street, occupied by the Eng- ! lith Supply Company, dealers in engine supplies and wrought iron materials, and j spread with almost incredible rapidity. The Western Newspaper Union and the Great Western Type Foundry building was destroyed. The Western Newspaper Company supplied ready-prints for 200 Western weekly newspapers and employed a big force. The loss in this building alone will exceed $17ö.m-0. The English Supply Company t arried an insurance of $.;o.ro. Cashier IVnton of the National Rank of the Republic of Chicago, said judgment had been taken against the Walter A. Wood Harvester Company of St. Paul, Minn., because the bank officials had no information regarding what the harvester concern intended doing about its obligation to the bank. Mr. Fenton said the bank held the Walter A. Wood company's judgment note for J?l!.". 00. It was two weeks overdue, and, as nothing had been heard from the company, the bank decided to be on the safe side by takii.g judgment and putting the sheriff in possession of I.tKM) reapers and mowers in the local warehouse of the company, Xo. 74 Taylor street. The company has its plant and general oflices in St. Paul. It is capitalized for !?2..M.tiOj. It is a separate corporation from the Walter A. Wood Harvesting Machine Company of Hoosae, X. Y. Mr. Fenton said the company's statement shows $3 of assets for every $1 of indebtedness. The wreck on the Yandalia at Terre Haute, Ind.. was a "lucky" one as to the escape of the passengers and the train clews, only five being slightly injured, but the loss of money in burning of the express car containing the through sealed safe from Xew York for St. Louis is large. Just how much is not known, but enough is known to warrant the assertion that it is well up in the thousands and may be more than Uh.mn. The New York office manifested great anxiety about the charred contents of the safe, and sent instructions not to open it, as it is to be sent to the treasury at Wellington. The safe was in ft white heat and smoke issued from the sides of the door for several hours after it was removed from the wreck. The paper money is undoubtedly burned to ashes. Around the sides molten metal had escaped, leading to the belief that there was either coin or jewelry inside. There was another safe in the car, the one used by the messenger, and its contents wore aUo de- j st roved. Little of the merchandise express goods was saved. The Supreme Court of Illinois gave a decision at Mount Vernon Thursday, declaring that the eight-hour law, or as it is generally known, the sweat-shop law, is unconstitutional. The law prohibited j the employment of women for more than eight hours a day, or more than fortyeight hours a weck, iu any factory within the borders of Illinois. In deciding the case the judges also pronounced illegal section 10 of the bill, which provided an annual appropriation of $20,mh) for factory inspectors, whose chief duty was to see that the eight-hour clause was enforced. The burden of the decision is that women in respect to contracts are on tiie same footing with men, and that an act which abridges the freedom of contract between workman and employer in a lawful occupation is unconstitutional. While the law related exclusively to the employment of women, it was understood at the time of its passage that a similar measure regulating the number of hours men could be hired to work would follow on its heels. Probably 40,K0 women in Illinois who work in factories arc affected by the de 000 of whom live in Chicago. They are employed in the main in shoe factories, cloak and clothing houses, candy factories, paper-box shops and various other manufacturing establishments.

SOUTHERN. John Hammer shot and killed MacMoore at Junction City, Ky. The Texas Cotton Palace, recently burned at Waco, is to be rebuilt. Thomas Smith was sentenced to die at Jackson. Ky.. for the murder of Dr. J. F. Rod er Feb. 13. Dr. John A. Rroadus, famous as a scholar, divine and author, is dangerously ill at rouisvil)c, Ky. Cotton dealers held a convention at Atlanta, Ga., to inaugurate an acreage reduction iu Georgia. George Whittaker, convicted of murder, and Will Downs, convicted of assault, were sentenced at Motrilltown, Ark., to hang Friday, April IV. Plans have been completed for an old soldiers' home in (Jeorgia. A hundred thousand acres of land have been sec-tired, on which it is proposed to establish 11XMJ veteran settlers. The Midway Society, whose mission it is to perpetuate the historical associations of the old Midway Church in Liberty County, Ga., met in that structure Wednesday. The church was built in 17Ö2. The international feature of the New Orleans riot through the shooting of Purser ltain of the British steamship Engineer, has resulted in the exchange of notes between Sir Julian Pauncefote, the Itritish ambassador, and the State Department, and of telegrams between the State Department and the Governor of Louisiana. Under the circumstances, it is not likely that the British Government will ask the United States to compensate the wounded Englishman. Although, following precedent in such cases, It is not improbable that some indemnity may be paid to him, more as a matter of international comity than because of any just claim he may have against the Government. WASHINGTON. Secretary of the Interior Smith has decided to issue a patent for the Taylor Mining Company's claim in the Coeur d'Alene country. The most belligerent message dispatched by this Government to a foreign power since the memorable controversy between the Harrison administration and the Chilians has been conveyed through Minister Taylor by Secretary (iresham to the minister of foreign affairs at Madrid. A more downright assertion of American rights was never uttered by Mr. Blaine himself. It amounts practically to a warning to Spain that a repetition of the Allianea affair will be considered by (his country as a declaration of war. A new menace to the financial system of the United States has suddenly come into being. The price of silver has ad

vanced I's cents an ounce, following a similar advance in London, due to the beginning of hoarding here and abroad in anticipation of Immense financial transactions when China begins to pav the war indemnity demanded bv Japan of $l!."i0,O00,00i or ?3.k,000,X '0. Will China have to pay in silver or in gold? In whatever coin, the effect upon the United States will be immediate. If gold is demanded it is feared that the rate of exchange on London will suddenly shoot up, and the treasury will be subject to a new and greater drain than any in its history a drain that Morgan and Belmont will be powerless to stop. Long-headed financiers in Wall street see the possibility of some very important results when this big war debt to Japan conies to be paid.

FOREIGN. Cuban revolutionary leaders are said to be anxious to annex Cuba to the United States. Money lias been raised in London to build the largest smelter in the country at Colorado Springs, Colo. Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby. private secretary fo Queen Yietoria and keeper of the privy purse, who was stricken with paralysis on Jan. 7, has been pronounced to be dying. The Spanish cruiser Krina Begente is believed to have foundered off Tangier, Morocco, during the recent gale. She had a crew of 420 officers and men. Pieces of one of her boats and semaphore flags are reported to have been picked up along the shore near Ceuta and Tarifa. IN GENERAL John W. Henderson, a clerk in the Traders' IIa uk, of Stralhroy, Out., disappeared on Saturday night with i?4.00 of the bank's funds, which he secured during the afternoon while acting as teller. He is thought to have headed for Chicago. The Rome Giornalo, referring to the killing of the Italians at Walscnburg, Colo., say-. that the Italians wer. certainly in the wrong if they killed Hixon, the saloonkeeper. "But that does not justify the summary lynching of the prisoners. The importance of the law is nevertheless evident, and if is to be hoped that the United States will net lirmly and rapidly, punishing the guilty and giving satisfaction to Italy." An alarming epidemic- is raging among horses in Halifax. X. S., and the disease is easily contracted by human beings who come in contact with the infected animals. Veterinarians pronounce the affection ejuinal smallpox, and many of the horsemen in Halifax are victims. The (Jovernment Veterinary Surgeon has the disease in hi. right hand. Another man more seriously affected will have to have his arm amputated to prevent blood poisoning, and still another horseman is believed to be fatally ill as the result of handling diseased horses. The Government Yeterinary Surgeon says the disease is atmospheric and any animal is liable to contract it. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Substantially all indications of the state of business are rather more favorable. Farm products are a little higher, railroad earnings a shade better, clearing-house exchanges a small percentage larger iu comparison with February, and most of the industries show a somewhat better front, though their gain is not large. The money markets continue undisturbed: the operations of the syndicate still prevent exports of gvld, and withdrawals from the treasury have of late practically ceased. There is not muh enthusiasm about the situation., however, because the gain is slow and business is a long way from what is considered only a prosperous condition. Further, the gain is in some cases due to obviously temporary causes and to some causes which do not make prosperity. By the burning of the Wabash roundhouse in Toledo, Ohio, Sunday morning, fifteen inen wer' buried beneath a mass of brick and timbers. Four were killed outright, and nine seriously hurt. This is the most serious lire, in j-oint of killed and injured, that ever occurred iu the city. The loss on six engines destroyed is estimated at SltMUMl; building. is-VM); store-room and miscellaneous stock, $10(H). Mrs. Sumner, of St. Paul, was given gasoline instead of kerosene, by a careless grocer. While using it to kindie a tire she and her neice, Nellie Classen. wer fatally burned. At St. Louis, the Rogers Sc Co. warehouse and elevator bmned. entailing a loss of ?2 xi, x K. At Cleveland the Worthington Block, occupied by the World newspaper and the A. X. Kellogg Newspaper Company, burned. Loss JfHl.lKN, insurance !?71.fHo. The Homes County infirmary, near Millersburg, burned, causing a loss of $20hi0, fully insured. The forty-six inmates were rescued. The Litchfield flouring mills, the warehouses of the Simpson lumber yard and 1.ÖOO cords of wool were burned at Litchfield, Minn. The total loss is J.LUijm. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Catt le, common to prime, $3.7.V7i.ri; hogs, shipping grades. $3.H) (1ö.tlO; sheep, fair to hon e, $2.5o'i".M; wheat, Xo. 2 red, ,Vö(m'; corn. No. 2, 4U(45c: oats, No. 2. 2S'72te; rye, No. 2. o-'Wölc; butter, choice creamery, 1S( lNV-je" eggs, fresh. lpr12c; potatoes, car lots, per bushel. 7,V(j.x5e. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. J?3.tH). r.."0; hogs, choice light, $3.1HK(4.7."; sheep, common to prime, $2.UO(f4.riO; wheat. No. 2 red, 546Ö.V; corn. No. 1 white, 43i 44c; oats. No. 2 white, XVa?rU St. I.uis Cattle, J?3.tM KMi.( Ml; hogs. $.5.00!!i-l.7."i; wheat, No. 2 red, foVti7Vtt': corn. No. 2. 4.'ti-!-lc; oats, No. 2, 3K?i3.c; rye. No. 2. ,"7'00c. Cincinnati Cattle, $3.rOr.r0; hogs, $3. .(i :.((; sheep, $2..V?t 4.7Ö; wheat. No. 2, 7AKl7AU; corn. No. 2 mixed, 4t'rfir47e: oats. No. 2 mixed, 32V33c; rye, No. L öt'aöSe. Detroit-Cattle, ?2.r0rr.ö(); hogs, $1.00 (iH-HO; sheep. $2.(Kr(j4.riO; wheat, Xo. 1 white. (UKoMVMoc; corn. No. 2 yellow, 4. (nA7t,c; oats, No. 2 white, 34(3."ic; rye, Xo. 2, nicotic. Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 red, ritKjtiOc: torn. No. 2 yellow, 4fl(24(l,c; oats, No. 2 white, IVMi'My-i rye. No. 2. 7Wi7un Buffalo-Cattle, $2.rW('i.U0; hogs. $3.0) 45.00; sheep, $3.MrrT.00; wheat, Xo. 2 red. tir?;(;U,c; com. No. 2 yellow, 48'Vr 40c; oats. No. 2 whit?, 3ö(T30e. Milwaukee Wheat. Xt. 2 spring. ftSfi öMoe; torn, No. 3, llftirll'c; oafs. No. 2 white. 32tf33c: barley, No. 2, rcriöoc: rye. No. 1, 53i5rc; pork, mess, $11.7o(f 12.2.". New York-Cattle. $3.00(rU3; hogs, $1.0tr(ö.(0; sheep, $3.00'. lo.OO; wheat, No. 2 red, tWfM.te; corn. No. 2, Mri.V2e; oats, white Western, 37(t43e; butter, creamery, 15V;20e; eggs, Western, 14CJÜ 15c.

J01LN BULL IS SURLY.

UNGRACIOUS DEMAND UPON NICARAGUA. Spanish Cruiser Report Firing: Upon a Stca tner Cattle Rustlers Lynch a Woman-Disastrous Failure of a Kansas City Bank. Lion Tries to Bite. The British Government, through its Minister at Managua, Nicaragua, has submitted an ultimatum to Nicaragua. It demands a cash indemnity of 15m .y75.HHO as smart money to pay for the e pulsion of Mr. Hatch. British Consular Agent at Bluetiehls. during the troubles there last yar. and also the appointment of a commission to adjudicate the damages sustained by the persons and property of British subjects who were expelled from the Mosquito Reservation the same time. By the terms of the ultimatum (ireat Britain is to name one of the commissioners and Nicaragua another, and these two are to choose a third, who shall not be a citizen of the Fnited States. It was also made known that a British warship is now on its way to Nicaragua to enforce thee demands. Dark Crime in Nebraska. Some time Friday Mrs. V. F.. Holton, a respectable woman living alone on a ranch in Keyapaha County, Nebraska, was lynched. The crime is credited to the vigilantes of the district, who hi lieved her iu league wills cattle rustlers. Some think the rustlers .-ommittcd lie ciime in revenge for evidence against them furnished by the wo! ,uii. The coroner found JCiil the woman's oersoii. which is regarded as certain -.'videiico the crime was not committed by tramps, as was at first supposed. Her struggle for life had been a hard one. The bedding and clothing of the woman were torn and scattered alut the building. Her shoes had evidently been removed, probably by herself, preparatory to going to bed. when surprised by the lynchers. The woman had evidently been assaulted before she was hanged, and everything points to a premeditated plan for the perpetration of the dastardly deed. Come from Italy for KcvciiRe. Arcangelo and Nicholas Christilli, brothers. Friday .morning entere! the small general store kept by Ben .lennette and his wile at McGregor. Minn., and riidl'I them with bulh-ts. Th cause assighed for the murder is a quarrel over the cutting of som- limber. Italians in McGregor better posted say tin' bad blol between the JeiiUeite and Christilli families was eng-nlor'd in Italy. whre a brotloT of .lennette stabbed in a stre t row the brother of the Christillis: The Christillis. tin story is. follow-d the .lennettes tj McGregor for ihe express purpose, of revenging themselves for the stabbing of tlo ir brother. Bold IIoll-lJp in Oklahoma. News d' a bohl and daring hold-up and robbery comes from Washita, O. T. Near dusk the section house and men were robbed by two highwaymen. Section Foreman Wols was hit, the ball entering the right cheek and coming out at the right ear. Mrs. Woods was also beaten over the head with a six-shooter, receiving wounds which are lik-ly to prove fatal. The booty obtained consisted of .$722 in money, i ailroad checks, and three gold watclios. Kansas City Bank Fails. The National Bank f Kansas City failcl to open its doors Monday morning. In the panic d 1S'.3 the bank suspenlel. but through an arrangement between deiM.silors and stockholders it was permitted to resume business. The stoaly withdrawal of deposits since that lime lias place! the bank in an embarrassing position and necessitate anoi her suspension. The statement given out is not omplote. It shows assets of J51.NKUMM; liabilities, Sl,..tiiK. Spanish Gunboat Identified. The commainler of the Spanish cruiser ('oiide de Vendito reports at Ha ana. Cuba, having fired on a steamship flying the Fnglish flair. Two blank shots were fired lirst and then two with balls. It is presumed that the cruiser was mistaken iu the nationality of the Hag and that the steamer tired upon was the Allianea, an American. NEWS NUGGETS. The floods at Columbus. Ga.. arc subsiding, and the river is reaching its normal stat'. An apartment house in Roxbury. Mass., was entered by menus of skeleton keys and .s'S.::ho worth of properly, consisting of railroad and bank bonds, jewelry, brink hooks, notes. mrt gages and st k belonging t Miss Mary B. Swift, was taken. Miss Rebecca Reiilick also lost l!Mt. Andrew Mason, superintendent of lh' Xew York Assay otiice and G eminent inspector, has been in Carson. Nov.. some time inspecting matters in th' l'iiit-d States mint in that city. Tin-re are rumors d n shortasr- vhi-h runs up to something over .Y7mUnh. The shortage is said to be in the melier and refiner's department. Fx-Govcnrnr W. J. Xortln-n said at Atlanta. Ga.: "Yes, it is true I have in hand an enterprise to locate veterans fnuu the Xorth on Georgia farms, but it has not yet materialized well enough for in' to give you the details. You may say, however, we have tracts of land in Dougherty. Montgm ty, Tlhunas, Wilcox, Laurens ami Glinn Counties. You may also say 1 feel certain I shall succeed in locating a great colony in Georgia." A Kansas woman has written to Governor Morrill t sa that sh' is "entitle to i?LM for the raising of thirteen childicu." Fnited States Commercial Agent Burl.er. at Sagua la Grande, Cuba, rcjxuts that owing to bad weather the new sugar crop will show a de-r-as in yield as nun pa red with the average. Rich gdd diggings have b'-u fouinl on the banks of the San .luan River, near RlufT, Ftah. Prince Xawab Imad Xawaz .Tung Bahadur and wife, of India, are viewing the sights of New York. Thornton Parker, a negro who assaulted Mrs. Mary Melton, was s-ntoncol to lie hanged at Wim lu ster, Ya. Militia guarded him during his trial. Stores and saloon were generally closed at St. Iuis and Cincinnati Sunday as a result of the aggressive warfare of Sabbath associations.

Apologize or Figjit. The American poopl are with Mr. Gresham in this. -I'ticn Herald. The American people are proud of their flag, and believe that it should be protected from insult everywhere, whethr on land or sea. - Cleveland Lcad-r. The iii-ideut shoidd bo scttle! in a way to convince Spain that reckless firing upon American merchant and passenger i-hips will not be tolerated. Nashville American. If there should be any thow of li s;tatioii in making proper ajnilogy and in duly punishing the bumptious commamier of the Spanish war vessel, the Fnited Statis is in a position to bring proper pressure to bear. Philulclphia Re ord. Our w ar vessels should be iosted on the Cuban coast with public instructions to quote the language of forty jears ago to "piwcnt the exercise of the assuiael light of visitation and search ;'nd repel the int'rfcroiie- I v fnr-." Philadelphia Press. The incident must be satisfactorily explained r an apology must b- forthcoming to wipe ;ut the insult to our Hag. It Is tin: that foreign nations l- made to realize that the American flag must be respect el anywhere and everywhere. MhvauloM- S-iitin 1. Refusal in the part of Spain to -omplv with 1 1 i - r-juir-m-nts f th- Ci.ited States -o-.iid h:-.e but in- meaning. Ba k of Secivtary Crcsham's stern uitimaium iir- th- guns of th ii'v navj ami the invincible potcm-y of the Amcri p-i-1 1'. In case if war Cuba wiull be wrest 1 from Spanish misgov-rnm-nt in a twinkling of an eye. and Spain would b.se her last stronghold in the n-w world. New York Alv-rtiser. The peremptory demand addressed to the Spanish Government by our D-part-n.ent of Stnl-, and sign-l "t In-sham. will surprise ami delight every Ameri- an heart. Soiio-ImmIv is oonc-rn'd. th-n. about the dignity of the Fnited States of America. There is somebody connected with tli- "l-v-land jolniinist ration who is not utterly indifferent t ihe sentiment now manifesting itself so vigorously outside of otiicial -ir-les. There is some jierson in Washington who holds old-L-sh-i'ii-.l notions about the Imimr of the fJag. New York Sun Dem.. Fai-liion's Maker Dead. II' was a man with an idea. There s.ro few si! h in each generation. Pittsburg Dispatch. In lh- '".line ami fortune :it1aiiiel by Worth there is a significant lesson for p'-ir prii.t-rs. Graml Rapids D-mo rat. Tin' death of Worth, flu fatuous maniiiillincr and dressmaker, will fill th feminine world with n-gr-t. Bui there are others. Rochester Herald. Let us hope the man r woman m whoia lh' Worth mantle falls will not have Mich expansive ideas when it comes to originating styles in sl'-v-s. l'xcki.ngo. The feminine worhl may grieve, but it cannot go into sackcloth ;unl ashes. Mr. Worth having neglected to set the fashion in that kiinl of apparel. Kansv.s Gity Journal. With the l-atli of Worth, the gnat Paris dressmaker. go-s his r-putaiiou for st!' and fashion. Perhaps arisiorati- Aiieri-ans will now look at home for their ideal modiste. Grand Rapids Herald. Now that Worth is d.-ad tlms- in this country wh have b-en accredit hg their home-made dresses to him will hae to s-le t his Parisian su--essr .r iriv- th ir own dressmakers their just due-. Detroit Five Press Oriental Peace. In affairs of liplomrn-y as in war Japan Is very well able to take care of h rs lf. Imüai.apoüs Xew s. This war has addHl anoih-r to the gnat powers ,,f th- world ui hin! ami si a. There is reason to hop' that it has also added anotlo-r to ihe gn at, progressiv-, int licetual. and a-hi'ving nation, rieft to p:!i humanity forward. X-w York World. China is uniti-d, the gr-at wall is a monument of their bee-like uterpri and aeiivity. and yet that nation is not gn at because it rejected instead d" r.bs. ibiag what lb rest f the world had to iTcr. Happy Japan, poor China. - Milwaukee Journal. Ghina's habitual fondm-ss for t ri kery :ml falsc!i.iod will prevent many il-rv-crs of passing events from believing that slu is sincere in h-r pn-v.-m 1--sin for p-ace. This tuny prove to be true. It is barely iMssible that China may b- simply scheming to p-rsual Japan to make such extortionate lemaiids ::s t fon-o Kuropcau tnvi-i to step in between her and her fi'. New York Ad rtis r. Gai-.aM I.atist Death. There are n a sons for b-lieiiig that Cafaiino Gara has finally met a icrmaneut death.-- Washington Post. A man like Garza, wl: dies so often. oely swells th death rate without Wnoliting the undertakers Wheeling R-g-isicr. With Gara dead ami Bill C.K.k in prison, the wild West and bloody lordr will bc.-omo monotonously tame and uninteresting. I Mroit Journal. The Mexican bamlit Garza, prominent iu the Cdombian revolution, is said to have been really kille, which will eiie him of the distinction if rivaling the late Mr. Bill Dallon in the n.m;lor and variety of his deaths. -Baltitu re Herald. It is rep.rted that Gnrza has been Killed in a tight. In a man of pru.b-me and experience it is remarkable that lie shtoild have gotten into a fight. Ho hod made a spo-ialty of resolution nnd should have stuck to that. Washington Slar. That I.euiislativc Fiuht. Will the Home Missionary Society please send its bravest worker to Iloosi idoin. Detroit Journal. The Legislature is gone, and a largo sigh of relief is ascending from Imliana without regard t race, tdr or previous condition of servitude. lndianapilis Sentinel. The Indiana legislature is doing its utmost to show that physical culture is after all an imiortant consideration iu educating a young man for his resjumibilities as a citizen. Washington Star.