Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 27, Plymouth, Marshall County, 19 April 1895 — Page 2

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A. R. ZIMMERMAN, Publisher. PLYMOUTH. - - INDANA. MAY FOltCE A FIGHT. NICARAGUA TRIES TO MAKE A CATSPAW OF UNCLE SAM. Mutilated Corpse Found in a Hurrel No More Grass-Fed Stock in TeiusCnban Kebellion Not Crushed-Seven Wives on His Trail. I This a Trick? If Nicaragua's counter pniosition to flreat Britain for the submission of the whole question in dispute to arbitration has been rejected by the latter (Jovernment, as rciorti d, administration officials will expect another strong appeal for assistance from the weak republic. The whole question has now reached an acute stage and no one at the State Department ventures to predict what the outrome will be. Nicaragua cannot well afford at the present time to pay the .STö.ono indemnity demanded without borrowing the money. There has been much talk from Nicaragua n sources about the necessity for ceding Com Island to Croat Britain iti lieu of the indemnity. This talk may be only a trick on the part of Nicaragua to force the United States into coming to her rescue. Although Nicaragua might of her own motion suggest the cession of Corn Island to (Jreat Hritain as a means of escaping the payment of the indemnity demanded, such action would nevertheless be indirectly the result of coercion on the part of (Jreat Britain. Hence the authorities would consider a move of this kind a violation of the Monroe doctrine and, as one oflicial remarked, the administration would be compelled to step in and prevent by force, if necessary, the consummation of any stich deal. This is no doubt what Nicaragua would like. In with the Cans. Foliccnian Charles J. Poole, of the Desplaines street station, Chicago, has been suspended from duty and orders have been issued for his arrest. Circumstantial evidence gathered by detectives from central and Desplaines street stations indicates the policeman was connected in some way with the gang of burglars of which Clarence White, alias "Whiter." is the head. White is now under bonds on charges of participation in the Beam and Keith burglaries and the evidence against Policeman Poole is regarded by Assistant Chief Boss and Inspectors Shea and Lewis as strong. Texas Cattle Scarce. Ctoorgetown, Tex., dispatch: The last train load of meal-fed cattle for this season will be shipped from here Wednesday, and there will be no grass-fed cattle to ship this summer on account of drouth. The supply of stock cattle on hand to be fed next winter on cottonseed meal is 20 per cent, less than last year. Prominent cattle men do not attribute the rise in beef to any combination, but to the supply of tattle, which has fallen off greatly during the past two years on account of the drouth. Horrible Find in the Itiver. At Kansas City two fishermen found a whisky barrel lodged in a pile of brushwood in the Missouri river in which were the arms, legs, head and trunk of a man. It is impossible to identify the remains owing to their advanced state of decomposition. In life the man was evidently about CO years old, smooth-faced, cleanshaven, with irregular teeth, three of which are missing. Coroner Bedford believes the body was a student's cadaver. BREVITIES. The National Saw Works at Cincinnati burned. The loss is over $300,000. William O'Brien, of Chicago, was found dead near Little Bock, Ark. He is supposed to have fallen from a train. Switzerland imports $100,000 worth of paper more than she exports, mostly from France, Austria and England. United States Consul Cerman suggests that American manufacturers might capture the trade. The Interior Department has overruled former decisions in holding an acting assistant or contract surgeon during the civil war has not performed such military service as entitles him to a pension under the act of June 27, 1800. The Paris Figaro gives currency to a rumor that Dr. Nansen, the arctie explorer, has found the north pole and that it is situated on a chain of mountains. It is also said that Dr. Nansen planted there the Norwegian Hag. The story is regarded as without foundation in truth. E. B. Hunter, an old-time Chicago stock yards speculator, was assaulted mysteriously by an unknown person in the firm's office Friday evening. lie became unconscious before help could be given him and died at his home. His assailant struck the old man a terrific blow with a brick and escaped. William Headrick, wanted in Ohio, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky for bigamy, has been arrested at Middlosloro, Ky., on a charge of horse stealing. Seven deserted wives are on his track. Ileadrick's method was to travel about the country, and when he found a woman with money he would marry her. Then, as soon as he could get her money in his Iossession he would desert her. Havana advices say: Chagrin and anger succeeded the premature elation of Captain (lencral Calleja over the supposed en pt ure of Joo Ma ceo. Macco's double was captured, but not Ma ceo. Anticipating unusual efforts to capture him, the. wily Cuban general donned a disguise ami went to the front in command. Colonel (Juerra was the one captured, while Ma ceo escaped to the mountains with a few of his followers. The Japanese field marshal, Yamagata, is declared to be Archduke .lohati of Austria, who gave up his titles and disappeared several years ago. Family troubles caused Mrs. William Baldwin, of Hartshorno, I. T., to take her own life. She ah;o gave strychnine to her 7-year-old girl ami the latter is not expected to recover. A receiver has been appointed for the Iowa Construction ami Manufacturing Company at Sioux City. The Washington arch will be transferred to the city of New York with elaliorate ceremonies on April 0.

EASTERN. J. Edward Addicks has sued the Philadelphia Tress for libel in publishing an article saying that he gave a worthless check to a Philadelphia hotel. Merchants on the Bowery at New York have started a movement to have the name of the street changed, claiming that its bad reputation hurts their business. . Governor Morton has submitted to the New York Legislature a message requesting the legislature to provide a proper exhibit for the coining cotton exhibition In Georgia. Investigation shows that in the last twenty-two years the city of New York has received Jjtf40,000 as rent of a pier for which the lessees received ?930,0U0 from a sub-lessee. Four inmates of the New York State Asylum for Insane Criminals at Matteawan, including Oliver Curtiss Perry, of Syracuse, the train robber, made their escape from the institution. Near Smith's Mills, Vt., a Boston and Maine passenger train was derailed by a bowlder that a heavy storm had caused to fall upon the track. Engineer S. J. Booney and Fireman Lewis Emerson were fatally scalded. During a dense fog a train on the Buffalo, Bochester and Pittsburg road ran into a washout near Sykes, Pa., wrecking the engine and eighteen cars. Engineer Taylor, Fireman Shea and Conductor Ilruce lost their lives. James W. Scott, proprietor of The Times-Herald and Chicago Evening Post, died suddenly of apoplexy Sunday afternoon in his apartments at the Holland House in New York. Mrs. Scott and her young niece, C J race Hatch, were with him when he died. The preliminary survey of the ship canal to connect Pittsburg with Lake Erie has progressed so far that the engineers in charge of the work are free to state that they have found the proposed canal perfectly feasible and that an abundant supply of water can be secured. The survey will not be completed before June 1, however. According to the engineers, the most available route is through the Mahoning valley to Lcavittsburg, and thence to the lake.

WESTERN. Eight dynamite bombs were found in the cellar of a St. Louis house formerly occupied by unknown foreigners. The "-year-old child of George E. Bisher, of Mingo Junction, ()., fell into a barrel in which spring water runs, and was drowned. B. C. Marvin, representing the bondholders' committee, bought the Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern Bailroad for $-JUM0O. Patrick Benson, an Oakland, Cal., attorney, has received information that he has fallen heir to an estate of .?t75,000 in Scotland. Chief Justice Albert H. Horton, of the Kansas Supreme Court, has resigned. Judge David Martin, of Atchison, has. been appointed to succeed him. An unknown man. while waiting for a train on the platform of the Lake Street Elevated road in Chicago, L'l off the structure and was almost instantly killed. Charles Hart was hanged in the Ohio State prison for the murder of Elsie ami Ashley Giode. children 7 and t) years old, respectively, in Paulding County, Nov. -1, 1!1M. The Perry, O. T.. Hardware and Implement Company is in the hands of a receiver. One of the partners is charged with using the concern's money to meet election expenses. The Minnesota Senate adopted a memorial favoring deep waterway improvements to the sea. Congress is asked to continue the present work and to extend the system in the interest of the business development of the entire Northwest. The largest personal wine deal ever made in San Francisco was consummated when F. Chealicr & Co. bought from Dowdell & Co. of St. Helena 4,000,0X gallons of dry wine. The wine has already been sold to prominent wine dealers in New York. In St. Louis, an immense grain elevator owned by the Missouri Grain and Commission Company, of which John W. Sharpe is president, was destroyed by lire, together with 70.000 bushels of grain. The total loss will reach $73,00). of which little is covered by insurance. The origin of the lire is unknown. Bessie Chesborough, a 1 (3-year-old girl of Chicago, has been missing a week, and it is feared she has committed suicide. Her mother is entertaining no other theory and believes the girl has drowned herself in the lake. Detectives have been at work on the case, but no clew has been found that would indicate what has become of the young woman. Two failures to pass an examination in stenography are thought to have crazed the girl. The Hotel Baymond at Pasadena, ten miles from Los Angeles, Cal., was destroyed by fire at .":.;) o'clock Sunday afternoon. Not a stick of the famous resort is lefl. The hotel was crowded with tourist, but they all escaped with their lives, although wa id robes and other possessions were consumed. The Uaymond was one of the most famous health ami pleasure resorts in the United States, it was located on a hill commanding a magnificent view of the San Gabriel Valley, and cost over $1.000,0(10. Dr. Persis White and Dr. C. B. Scheffer, the two most capable women physicians in the staff, have resigned their connection with the Chicago Hospital for Women and Children because the food of the institution is not adequate, either in quantity, quality or variety, and because prunes formed a prominent article of diet three times a day. This much is not stated in the dignified letters which the doctors sent to Mrs. Dr. Boot, chief of the board, but the truth is concealed behind the candid statement that they could not longer remain with the management 'and allow to go unheeded treatment which was not in keeping with their own sense of propriety or the ethics of the profession. The dead bodies of a man and woman were found Friday afternoon on a farm a few miles west of St. Louis, on the Walton road. Their throats were cut. In the right hand of the man was a revolver. At the feet of the bodies was an empty box labeled "poisoH." The woman's hat was crushed and broken, laying on the ground. Pinne! to a ribbon was this note: "We have both decided to die together, and if one or the other should happen to mover the other shall not be held responsible for the deed. We loth are going to take poison, and I will do the shooting. We are not doing this on account of i any Jove affair, but simply becnuse we

don't want to live any longer. This is all we have to say, and hope there will be no trouble. We remain as ever, yours truly, Louis Frank, 11XJ4 Cherokee street; Miss Kate Kolb."

SOUTHERN. Dick Edwards, alias Bill Leroy, convicted of the murder of Mrs. Ilattie Ilaynes. of Denison. Texas, in 1802, and sentenced to life imprisonment, died Sunday night in Huntsville prison of consumption. Officers at Bomney, W. Ya., spirited away D. S. Shawn to-the penitentiary to save him from a mob that was preparing to lynch him. Shawn had had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment. The rumor that several Fort Smith, Ark., society women had been indicted for card playing was the outcome of a practical joke a man played on his wife. The telephone system took it up and for a while things were interesting. John Kelvee. leader of the mob of strikers that attacked the Pratt mines in Alabama last July, precipitating a fight in which a deputy sheriff and four negro miners were killed, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to one year's imprisonment. The Lexington, Ky.. Leader publishes an interview with a Kentuckian just returned from Washington who is close to Secretary Carlisle and family, and who says that the Secretary will surely be a candidate for Senator from Kentucky to succeed Blackburn. A new organization among negroes is being established in North Carolina under the name "National Equal Bights Council of the United States." Its main purpose is to secure "equal rights" for colored people at hotels and all public places and the right for colored men to marry white women. The body of Jefferson Davis, Jr., was reinterred Friday afternoon beside that of Iiis father. Young Davis died iu Memphis a few years ago of yellow fever. Mrs. Da vi and Miss Winnie came on from New York to the interment. They were joined at Bichmond by Mr. James Richardson, of New Orleans, to whom Miss Davis is said to be engaged to be married. Simple religious services were conducted by llev. Dr. Hartley Carmichael, rector of Old St. Paul's. On the bier rested n silk Confederate flag, the same used when the lody of Jefferson Davis was interred. All the dead Davis children are now interred at Hollywood. Frederick Weimer, a well-to-do farmer near Versailles, Ky., went to Louisville to sell seventeen hogsheads of tobacco. When he arrived he had $700 in cash and his tobacco netted him the same amount. He was afraid to go to bed with so much money about him, and remained iu a saloon all night. He told those in the saloon about losing his wife lately, said he was lonesome, and would give $30 for a wife. Two hackmen Win. Welper and Martin Cram1 have lately been disputing the affections of F.tlie Gannon. They a greet I to waive all claim and give her to Weimer for the $30. The girl consen teil to the marriage. Weimer and his bride missed the train for Versailles and employed the two hackmen to t.tke them to their destination. Next morning Weimer body was found near Versailles. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of suicide. The testimony shows the suicide had a wife and three grown daughters living in Ripley, O.. a wife in Bracken County, and the Louisville girl to" whom he was married. Weimer was a total abstainer prior to his Louisville trip. WASHINGTON. The Treasury Department has decided that it has no power to extend the time for making income tax returns. The sale of postage stamps for the last quarter of lst4 was the largest ever known ami indicates a revival of business. Inspector Stuart telegraphed the Post Otliee Department at Washington that counterfeit two-cent stamps were in circulation at Chicago, whereupon Chief IIax.eii of the United States secret service ami Chief Inspector Wheeler of the Post Office Department, after a consultation with the postal officials, decided to issue a circular of instructions to inspectors throughout this country to institute an investigation of the stock of stamps on hand in the post offices at all the large cities. Secretary Morton has not been unmindful of the recent remarkable advance in the prices of meat and has instituted an inquiry into the causes which led to it. Should the result of his investigations show an illegal combination by the big meat men of this country to put prices up, this fact will be reported to the Attorney General for such action as he may deem proper tinder the anti-trust statute. When the Secretary of Agriculture was questioned in regard to this subject at Washington he remarked: "Figures for retail beef, as given out in New York, are very astonishing, and I cannot account for so remarkable a rise in so short a time. There has been an increase of fully oll 1m per cent, in the single item of porterhouse steaks over the figures of a few weeks ago, and the department wants to know something about the reason for such an unparalleled advance. What applies to choice cuts of meats is equally true of other portions of beeves, and the prices are not warranted by any legitimate causes. At first glance it would seem impossible for the big meat men of the United States to corner the market, although they would do it quickly enough if the opportunity pre-v sentcd itself." "fxdreignT Emperor William has requested Prof. Lindner to write a iiopular history of the war of 1S70. for publication on Sedan day next September. The United States steamship Concord has arrived at Chin-Kiang. The Atlanta has arrived at Colon from Carthagena, and the Alliance has arrived at New York. William Court Gully, M. P. for Carlisle, the Government candidate, was elected speaker of the British House of Commons Wednesday in succession to Sir Arthur Wellesley Peel, who resigned on Monday last, by a narrow majority of 11. The Parnellites voted against the Government. Mr. Gully in Mlitics is a liberal who supports Mr. Gladstone's ideas. The St. Petersburg Novoe Vremya says if (Jreat Britain has approved the territorial demands of Japan in regard to Manchuria ami Corea, Russia will consider itself relieved of the obligations of common action and will opiosc Japan on land and on the sea. The Berlin correspondent of the Iondon Standard telegraphs: "I learn the Government regards Japan's demands as highly detrimental to the commercial interests of Europe iu China. Germany is willing to co-operate

w!th the other powers in protesting against them, but she will not take th initiative." United States Consul General de Kay, at Berlin, reports that Dr. Louis Waldstein, of New York, has discovered the means of curing consumption, lupus and perhaps cancer. The doctor announces in the German medical papers an extraordinary action of minute injections of pilocarpine, a crystallized extract from the Brazilian jaborandi plant, on the lymphatic system. This, in a sense, completes the celebrated "heil serum," acting favorably on patients whom the serum does not cure. The key of the discovery is this: By successive injections of minute doses of pilocarpine in the veins he arrives at a gradual stimulation of the lymphatic system. That system increases the white corpuscles in the blood, which, in some way not agreed upon, certainly overcomes particles in the blood that produce disease. The report closes with a statement of a case of lupus of twenty-two years duration, regarded as incurable, which was relieved immediately after the first injection and is now almost cured.

IN GENERAL The United States Government is negotiating for a site for a battery on Conanicut Island, which will command the western passage of Narragansett Bay. Seven A. B. V. men at Fergus Falls were found guilty of obstructing the mail luring the Great Northern strike last April. They were lined $100 each, on the installment plan. Between Tw) and SOO negro families have recently arrived from the United States at Tiahualilo, State of Durango. Mexico, as colonists under the Federal concession granted to W. II. Ellis, an American citizen. The jury ir. the case of Anna F. Dickinson, for confinement in an insane asylum, against Dr. Underwood, Dr. Ilillmun, John M. Bryden, George B. Thompson and others, after being out for seventeen hours, was discharged, not being able to agree. Obituary: At Detroit, Harry C. Tillman, 42. At New York, Mrs. Emily Free-burn-.Tames, wife of ex-Postmaster General James. At Boscobel, Wis., Frank Gray, S3; Daniel Oswald. At Columbus, Wis.. Bev. Father Dwyer. At Milwaukee, Mrs. Orville L. Butler, wife of exMayor 0. B. B. Butler. The jury which investigated the fire in Simpson's dry goods store at Toronto brought in a verdict that McKay, night watchman, and Sprott, Livingstone and Farley, servants of the Domes Protective Association, had a knowledge of the cause of the fire. It is expected the crown will issue warrants. The Cincinnati Price Current summarizes the crop conditions for the past week as follows: "The past was a favorable week for wheat and other crops. The growth is not advancing rapidly. The tenor of wheat crop returns has been well maintained, except in Kansas. Spring seeding Is progressing favorably for both wheat and oats. Some areas are still needing moisture. The week's packing of hogs amounted to 103.000, against 1230.000 for the corresponding week a year ago." Eighteen months from the present time, when the frisky calf of to-day is ready for the slaughter house there will be a fall in the present high price of beef, whether purchased on the hoof or at retail. This assertion is borne out not only by the assertions of the interested packers of Chicago. Omaha, St. Louis and Kansas City, but by the statistics prepared quarterly by the Government concerning the shipping, receiving and killing of cattle in the four American cities which control the delivery of beef dressed or on the hoof to the remainder of the country and Europe. The statement that a combine among the four principal packers of the West has caused the increased prices is indignantly denied by them, ami the devr.stated grass and sage brush ranges of the West iointed to as irrefutable evidence of the absolute lack of cattle in comparison with the demand. B. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Progress toward better business continues, but it is slow ami meets many obstacles. In speculative aspects anil in wholesale demand for goods the week shows improvement. Moii'-y markets are undisturbed and a little more active. Hut among the chief obstacles M the anxiety of operatives to secure better wages, even while many manufacturing works are running without profit and others at the risk of loss. In a number of establishments better wages have been conceded, thus increasing the purchasing power of the people, but strikes have largely overbalanced settlements, several of importance having thrown about 12.OOO workers out of employment this week. Retail trade has improved on the whole since March. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $'$.73 to $0.30; hogs, shipping grades, $3 to $3.30; sheep, fair to choice, $2.30 to $3T wheat, No. 2 red, 33c to 3(c; corn. No. 2, 43c to -ll3e; oats. No. 2, 20c to :i0c; rye, No. 2, 3Ce to 3Sc; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 20 Vie; eggs, fresh, lie to 12c; potatoes, car lots, per bushel, 73c to l)c; broom corn, per lb, common growth to fine brush, 4c to GI-jC Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $13 to $3.23; hogs, choice light, $11 to $3; sheep, common to prime, $2 to $4.73; wheat. No. 2 red. 33c to 33VLc; corn. No. 1 white, 4c to 4(i'Jc; oats. No. 2 white, JJT.c to :34c. St. Louis Cattle, $.i to $0.23; hogs, $4 to $3.23; wheat, No. 2 red, 34c to 33c; corn. No. 2, 42c to 4.; oats. No. 2, 30c to M0!-jc; rye, No. 2, 3(3c to COc. Cincinnati Cattle, $;3.30 to $0.23; hogs, $.'1 to $3.30; sheep, $2.30 to $4.73; wheat. No. 2, t'0e to Glc; corn, No. 2 mixed, 4lc to 1(3 Vie; oats. No. 2 mixed, 31 c to 32 Vi"' rye, No. 2, t'Oe to tile. Detroit-Cattle, $2.30 to $G.23; hogs, $1 to $3; sheep, $2 to $4.73; wheat. No. 1 white, 00c to tile; corn. No. 2 yellow, 43c to 43Vc; oats, No. 2 white, 34c to 33e. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 red, 37c to 37c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 4(e to 4(3tc; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 33l.c; rye, No. 2, 34c to 30c. Buffalo Cattle. $2.30 to $0.30; hogs. $3 to $3.73; sheep, $3 to $3.23; wheat. No. 1 hard, (33c to lt."H&c; corn, NaT 2 yellow, 40c to 3Cc; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 30c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 spring, 37c to 38c; corn, No. 3, 4Sc to 40c; oats, No. 2 white. 32c to 33c; barley. No. 2, 32c to 33e; rye. No. 1, 37e to 30c; pork, mess. $12 to $12.50. New York Cattle, $3 to $(3.73; hogs, $4 to $3.73; sheep, $3 to $3.30; wheat, No. 2 -red, 02e to 03c; corn. No. 2, 3e to 31c; oats, white Western, 37c to 40c; butter, creamery, 14e to 21c; eggs, Western, 12c to 13c,

CIIIXESEEMPIltEDEAD

REPORT THAT THE EMPEROR WILL SOON ABDICATE. Proclamation Over His Signature Has Iicen Posted in Shanghai and Llscwherc, Declaring His Ministers Are Traitors Cuban Cause Crushed. Throws 17 p His Hands. A dispatch from Shanghai to a London news agency says that a proclamation bearing the emperor's name has been issued describing the empire as finished and asserting that he is unable to govern any longer and that the oflicials he trusted are corrupt. It is added that the proclamation has caused great excitement and that there are signs of rebellion. The document, however, is said to be the work of the secret societies. Little doubt is felt at the State Department in Wasington that the proclamation posted in Shanghai announcing that the Chinese empire is finished is really the work of the secret societies, for there is no record in history of the voluntary abdication of a Chinese emperor. It is said that these secret societies, aimed at the existence of the present dynasty, are numerically strong in the central provinces, and it is apprehended that upon the conclusion of pence their ranks will be swelled by the disbanded soldiers influenced by the Hunan, or war. party, and that sporadic revolutionary movements may be expected in various parts of the country. Cuban Cause Is Crushed. Late advices from Havana say that Ma ceo is captured and Cuba's last hope is gone. Crombet has been killed. Without these two leaders all is chaos in inBiirgent ranks, and the most ardent friends admit thnt the Cuban cause is lost. The Spanish authorities are posting bulletins and the loyalists in Havana are celebrating the ending of the revolution. Without Crombet and Ma ceo there can be no real war. On Saturday the Cuban army und the Spanish soldiers met at l'alniarito. The rebel forces numbered 2,000 men and the Spaniards om0. A desperate battle followed and, according to otlicial reports, lasted two hours. At the end of that time the rebels retreated, were pursued by the Spanish troops and Ma ceo captured. His secretary was also taken and all the personal and private papers of the rebel leader confiscated. The battle was a hard-fought one. and the insurgents battled desperately against odds. The Spanish soldiers resistl with remarkable courage the onslaught of the rebels. In a hand-to-hand eoiillict a number of Cuban officers, one of whom was a colonel, were killed. It is authoritatively stated that Nicaragua has made a reply to (Jreat Britain's ultimatum. It is in the nature of a counter-proposal and not a direct acceptance or rejection of the British demands, and as such it is not yet known whether (Ireat Britain will accept it as responsive to the ultimatum. Higher Pay for Women than Men. Women have entered the ranks of day laborers and are proving themselves so efficient they receive higher wages than have been paid men for the same class of work. Half a dozen Welsh women began work last week in the rolling mill of the Mononahela tin plate works at Pittsburg. They receive the plates as they come from the rolls and separate the black sheets. This work heretofore has been done wholly by men. It is hard and rough. The women wear great leather shields on their hands, leather aprons ami hob-nailed shoes to protect them from the heat and metal. The women are paid $1.30 a day. Men received for the same work $1.33. The forewoman gets $1.73. This is the first time women have been employed at such work in this country. Japan Has the Host of It. A dispatch to the London Times from Shanghai says Li Hung Chang's son-in-law telegraphs that a peace convention was signed at Shimonoseki Monday by the jdeniiMdentiaries of China and Japan. Following are the terms of the convention: 1. The independence of Corea. 2. That Japan retains the places she has conquered. 3. That Japan shall also retain the territory east of the Liao river. 4. That the Island of Formosa be ceded permanently to Japan. 3. The payment of an indemnity of $100.000,(hm, and 0. An offensive and defensive alliance. Paul Schultz Dead. Paul Schultz committed suicide I'riday by shooting himself at Tacoma, Wash. Schultz was a Yillard man in the Northern Pacific, and was forced to resign a few days ago as general land agent for the western division of the road. The reason assigned for his foreiil resignation was that several land agencies had been consolidated and fewer officials were required. Schultz was one of the bestknown men iu the Northwest. The cause of his suicide is not known. NEWS NUGGETS. Joseph Bosso, an Italian miner, was shot and killed at Denver by William de Moss, one of a gang of toughs from whose insults he was trying to protect a party of little girls. Secretary Morton reports that there is n shortage of about .".(HUI head of cattle for slaughter; and to check the tendency to excessive prices for dressed beef, without injuring the interests of the producer, has ordered the free admission at certain California and Texas ports of properly inspected cattle from Mexico. Timothy Collins, a wealthy resident of San Francisco, hanged himself. A photographic counterfeit of the $3 issue of the American Fxchango National Hank of New York city, series of 1NN2, check letter F, charter No. 1,301, bank No. 101, 70S, treasury number letter V 1.230.0M. Mrtrait of Jai field, has made its appearance. Carl Shaw, treasurer of Blaine County, Ok., has been imprisoned for embezzling $7,000. Joseph Ilnydeii. ex-president of the Doniphan County Bank, was killed by a runaway at Troy, Mo. a 1,1 . . - ... Keeper (Jeorge Booke, who was af tacked by the lion Parnell at Laredo, Texas, has died of his injuries. Bobcrt K. Wright, Jr., 22 years of age, was arrested nt Fnirhaveii. N. Y., by officers from Emporium, Pa., for the murder iu 1888 of Christian Drum. Bobbery was the motive of the crime.

A WAR ECnO.

EVERY HONORABLE VETERAN DESERVES HIS PENSION. And the Lone Limb Is Not the Only Ilcason for a Government Reward Either (trom. Journal, I.eiciston. J?e.) Samuel It. Jordan has just given th Journal an account of his lifo, which ia viewof his extremely hard lot for the past few years will be read with interest. T am 48 years old and have always lived in New Portland. I enlisted in the army in ls02 as a private in Company A, Twenty-eighth Maine Yolunteers. My army experience injured my health to some extent, although I worked at blackemithing some part of the time, when suddenly, several years ago, I was prostrated with what able physicians pronounced Locomotor Ataxia. At first I could get around somewhat yet the disease progressed quite rapidly until I had hardly any feeling in my legs and feet, they felt like sticks of wood and I grew so much worse that I could not move for three years without help, as my neighbors and friends could testify. I employed several physicians in my vicinity, and elsewhere, and they all told me that medicines would not help me, that they could do nothing to effect a cure and that in time I should become entirely helpless. I became discouraged. Lwas a great care to my wife and friends. Shortly after I met an old army comrade, Mr. All. Parlin, a resident of Madison, Maine, and bo incidentally mentioned how he had tried Dr. Williams' Pink Fills for a severe case of rheumatism and a spinal and malarial trouble, that he had suffered 'with consequent of his army life, and had been greatly benefited by their use. lv hia earnest recommendation I was induced to try the pills. After taking them for a time I began to feel prickly sensations la my legs and a return of strength bo I could move them a little. After a few. weeks I began to feel a marked improvement in my condition. I soon was enabled to walk around a little with the help of crutches. After taking for some time I can now walk without crutches, mr cnerai neann is mucn improved ana 1 ave regained mr old-time vicor. I can walk about and enjoy life once more, for which I feel very thankful, and This happy result is due to the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills." Dr. Williams' Tink Tills for Tale People are not a patent medicine in the sens that name implies. They were first compounded as a prescription and ued as such in general practice by an eminent physician. So great was their etlicacy that it was deemed wise to place then within the reach of all. They are now manufactured by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., and are sold in boxes (never in loose form by the dozen or hundred, and the public are cautioned against numerous imitations Bold in this shape) at .r0 cents a box, er six boxes for $2.0 , and may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. W'lliamh' Medicine Company. A Shrewd Rejoinder by Lincoln. But anions the various incidents of the conference the world will probably longest remember that recorded by Alexander II. Stephens, one of tho threo commissioners, who afterward writing of the event, Faid that Mr. Hunter made a Ions reply to the President's refusal to recognize another Government inside of that of which he alone was I resident by receiving ambassadors to treat for peace. "Mr. Hunter," says Stephens, "referred to tho correspondence between Kln Charles I. and his Parliament as a trustworthy precedent of a constitutional ruler treating with rebels. Mr. Lincoln's face then, wore that indescribable expression which generally preceded his hardest hits, and he remarked: 'Upon questions of history I must refer you to Mr. Seward, for he la posted in stich things, and I do not pretend to be bright. My only distinct recollection of tho matter Is that Charles lost his head.' That settled Mr. Hunter for a while." Century. GERM THEORY OF DISEASE. The Position It Occupies and Attention It Is lfceeivin;; from Scientific Men. The serm theory of the origin of disease is a subject which is nt present attracting; the attention of scientific men in all parts of the world. The chief importance of the perm theory, however, is not that it shows the origin of disease but that it points out the best means to be employed to effect a cure. The germs of disease, from whatever source they come, are lodged and developed in the blood. The blood, of course, by circulating to every part of the body, is sure to scatter disease throughout the sy.-tem whenever it is impure, the weakest and most susceptible parts beins the first to puffer. It is because of scrofulous taints in the blood, for Instance, that the skin becomes covered with eruption?. It Is lactic acid in the blood which causes rheumatism, and it is because tho blood does not supply proper nourishment to the nerves that people suffer with nervousness. The cure for all these diseases, and of many others, can only be effected by purifying tho blood, and absolutely destroying all germs of disease. No Intelligent person can doubt that IIo d's Sarsaparill.i has actually and permanently cured many thousands of cases of scrofula, rheumatSm. nervousness, dyspepsia and other troubles, and, as its proprietors claim, it is all because this medicine purities the blood. As a matter of fact. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the only reliable blood purifier that Is before the public to day, and persons afflicted with in. pure blood or any of the great variety of ailments which it causes, will be most certain to find relief and cure in Hood's Sarsiparilla because it possesses this peculiar power to purify, enrich and vitalize the blood, and destroy the orms of disease. Tickled by lloynlty. Like her sister republic across the Atlantic, democratic Franco Is only too pleased to have loyalty as her guest. French journals are recounting with pride that the Blviera has never had so many royal guests as this season. An Ihnperor, two empresses, four ptecns. three kings and twouty throe royal and Imperial highnesses make up the list. All truth is nonsense to the man who has let a lie make Its lio:ce iu big heart.