Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 28, Plymouth, Marshall County, 26 April 1895 — Page 2

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A. R. ZIMMERMAN, PuMishcr. PLYMO JTH. - - INC ANA. SUPPLY OP FOOD FISH NATIONAL COMMISSION IS ENLARGING ITS WORK. Millions of KtfKH and Small Fry Are Heins Propagated for Distribution All Over the Country-Cuban Kcbcl Too Active in the United States. Fish for the Lakes. The Fish Commission expects this year to nlmost double the work of last year. In IS! VI about four hundred million fish were distributed. Tliis year the division of fish culture hopes to exceed that figure by at least two hundred million and probably three hundred million. The work of the spring distribution is now at its height. From the Ohio and Michigan stations the commission has already taken about one hundred and twenty million whitetish and about eight million or ten million hike trout will be taken in the next ten days. In the neighborhood of four hundred thousand brook trout will be taken from the Colorado station. These lish will be planted in the great lakes and the surrounding inland lakes. The Putin-Bay station has just reiorted the collection of some two hundred million piKe and perch eggs from Lake Erie. These will be distributed in the lakes and also in the public waters of Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois and Iowa. The work of distribution will be begun at I)uluth in ten days. A month ago the marine work of the iJovernment was completed. The total ourput of cod for distribution along the Maine coast was 70,000,000. The lobster and flatfish work is also in preparation in the East. East year the commission handled SU.OW.OOO lobsters. This year it is believed the number will be nlmost doubled. Shad is now one of the most imiMrtant food lish and the number distributed will be increased from fiO.OOU.OOO last year to lUO,0X),00 this beason. Debs May do Free. A report from Washington is to the effect that the Supreme Court will in its decision of the Debs contempt ease reverse the decision of the lower court made by Judge AVoods, and grant the writ of habeas corpus asked for Debs and his associates, relieving them of imprisonment for contempt in disobeying the orders of the court. It is understood that the court stands either six to two or live to three in favor of Debs. It was the strongest argument used by the attorneys for Debs that a man cannot be punished twice for the same offense and not without trial by jury. In this instance Debs and his associates were enjoined by the court from interference with the mails, and on complaint that they had failed to obey this injunction they were not only arrested and indicted under the statutes but hauled into court for contempt and sentenced to imprisonment on that ground. Judge Eyman Trumbull and Clarence S. Darrow, their attorneys, argued that this was a sort of double barreled shotgun justice punishing a man for a crime for which he had been indicted but before he was tried. Senator Voorhees, of Indianapolis, says he is in possession of information which leads him to the conclusion that the Supreme Court will reverse the decision of Judge Woods. Want a Ilia Waterway. In the Illinois House Mr. Ellsworth introduced a bill looking to the construction of a ship canal from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi river. The bill declares it to be the policy of the State of Illinois to procure the construction of a trunk waterway through the State from Lake Michigan via the Desplaines and Illinois rivers to the Mississippi river of such dimensions ami capacity as to form a homogeneous part of a through route from the Atlantic seaboard via the great lakes to the Uulf of Mexico. Ity its terms the (lovernor is authorized to appoint a commissioner of waterways, who shall be a civil engineer of recognized standing on the waterway question; such commissioner to report to the next (Iener:;I Assembly data and recommendations. BREVITIES. Navigation is open at Montreal. The I tody of Edwin Forrest is to be removed to a mausoleum at the Edwin Forrest Home near Philadelphia. tJencral Antonio Ma ceo, the Cuban revolutionist leader, is reported to have committed suicide. Almost the entire business portion of Duquesne. Pa., was destroyed by a tire of supposed incendiary origin. The loss is variously estimated at from $SOf0O0 to $1ÖO,00. Frank Howard Poor, serving a sentence for forgery at the Massachusetts Reformatory at Concord, has fallen heir to about $H,0HUXI0 through the death of Frank Howard, a Nevada mine owner, for whom Poor was named. At San Jose, Cal.. Albert Anderson stabbed and killed Alice T. IHair. wife of (leorge H. Ulair, a prominent citizen of Woodland. Anderson then drove the knife through his own heart. For carrying concealed weajMuis exMayor J. II. Davidson was sentenced at Lexington, Ky.. to ten days in jail and to pay a fine of $."0. Isaac La Forge, aged 74. of Pine Hush, N. V.. killed himself with a shotgun, pullJug the trigger with the great toe of his right foot. The Dime Savings Hank at Willimantic, Conn., closed Tuesday. The last bank commissioner's report shows that the savings bank had Oct. 1 Ü.N77 depositors. $''( 5..V.H on deposit, and a surplus of about $2.',O0O. Obituary: At Iiondout, N. Y.. Prof. Edward A. Späth, 7.1. At Elgin. 111., P. C filbert. SI!. At Des Moines, low. Captain F. It. West, SJ.-At Ilrazil, Ind., Dr. J. M. Price. Alice T. ltlair, wife of t.corre II. Hlair. a prominent citizen of Woodland, Cal., was stabbed to the heart by Albert Anderson at San Jose. Ex-Congressman (leorge W. Fithian is said to be the first choice of the free Kilver Democrats of Illinois for Uovernor. Colombia has laid an export tax of $2 per sack of l'JÖ itounds on coffee. Import duties hv been increased 1." per cent.

EASTERN. Earthquake shocks were felt at Modus, Conn.; Burlington, Vt., and Montreal. Sevill, Schofield & Co., proprietors of the Economy Woolen Mills at Manayunk. Pa., have at-sigued, with liabilities of about $330,000. Judge (Jildersleeve at New York denied the application for alimony in the pending suit of Mrs. Cutting for separation from her husband, ex-Congressman John Jj. Cutting, of San Francisco. "Doc" Minchon is on trial at Rome, N. Y., charged with aiding the escape in April, 1802, of Tom O'Brien, the bunko man, now held in Paris, France, for killing Heed Waddf -11, -the gold brick swindler. A New York syndicate has agreed to furnish $12,000.000 for the Minnesota Canal Company. It is proposed to open two hundred miles of canal and river front at Duluth for navigation and power purposes. Andrew Carnegie has donated $100.000 to build a monument to Mrs. Mary E. Schenley, of London, England. The monument is to be erected under the triumphal arch at the entrance of the park of 400 acres which Mrs. Schenley presented to Pittsburg. The international convention of the Young Women's Christian Association in session at Pittsburg, elected these officers: Mrs. (Jrr.ce Whitney Evans, of Detroit, president; Mrs. W. Messer, of Chicago, and Miss Mary It. Stewart, of Detroit, vice-presidents; Flora Shank, of Indiana, and Carlotta Colding, of Wilkesbarre, I 'a., secretaries. Robert Center, club man, man of leisure and one of the best known sportsmen in America, was knocked off his bicycle and crushed under the wheels of a coal wagon while riding at New York Wednesday evening. He died three hours later. The tragedy occurred almost under the windows of the Colonial Club and before the eyes of the president, J. II. Uuderford, and half of the members, to whom Mr. Center was personally known.

WESTERN. Gov. Mclntyre of Colorado and Senator Teller are leaders in a movement already started to push the organization of nonpartisan silver clubs in the West, in accordance with (Jen. Warner's suggestion. Mrs. Katherine Jackson died at Terre Haute, Ind., a maniac as the result of the disgrace caused by the arrest of her son on .1 charge of theft. The son is in a precarious condition from an attack of epilepsy. A. Schleifer, one of the wealthiest and best known business men of Ida Grove, Iowa, shot his wife and then killed himself. Mrs. Schleifer cannot live. Indications show that he had been planning the tragedy for several days. Mrs. Adams Darling, the ioetess, charges that her son, Irving I. Darling, the musical composer, was poisoned by his wife and Dr. Francis Xavier Spanger of Detroit. Dr. Spanger and the widow have married since young Darling's death. At the G. A. R. encampment at Macon, Mo., ex-Senator Ingalls made the principal address. He expressed the belief that in the future the West and South would be joined together by common ties of business and political interest and would be invincible. At Cleveland, Alexander Turk. 23 years of nge, called at the residence of his sweetheart, Miss Julia Fallon, and fired three shots into her body. He then turned the weapon upon himself and ended his own life. Jealousy is supioscd to have caused the deed. The regents of the California State University have been informed by the executors that the bequest of the late J. C. Wilmerding of a trust fund of $400,000 for the building and maintenance of a school of trades for boys is about ready to be turned over to them. Charles Coles, the driver of the stage that was reported to have been held up by two men on the plains between Norman and Princeton, Cal., has confessed tha-t he is the one who looted Wells-Fa rgo Company's treasure box. He named Charles M. Myers as his accomplice, and both are now in jail. R. F. Ludlow, superintendent of the Springfield, O., malleable iron works, was shot at three times by D. Z. Gardner, a prominent attorney. Ludlow met Gardner on the street with his wife when the shooting occurred, none of the shots taking effect. Ludlow's wife had recently sued him for divorce. A mass meeting to boom the Detroit plan was held at St. Louis, Mo. Judge Stroher was elected president and George C. Worth secretary. Different property owners sent in tenders of real estate aggregating over seventy-live acres of ground for the use of the association. Another meeting will be held to get the details of the scheme in working order. The controlling interest in the Chicago Times-Herald and Evening Post was purchased Saturday by II. II. Kohlsaat, who will direct the policy of the two papers hereafter. The new management says the policy of the Times Herald will be wholly independent of party ties, striving for that which is best for the nation, heedless of the dictates of mere partisanship. In national affairs, while avoiding alliance with any party, it will always advocate the doctrine of protection to American industry. E. L. Spalding, a Salvation Army leader, was arrested at Rütte, Mont., on the charge of counterfeiting. It is sajd Spalding put in circulation the stuff after it was coined in a secret tunnel near the city by a gang of ten men, several of them with a national reputation as counterfeiters. A young man named Haidlow gave the information, but he has disappeared, and the otlicers believe he has been made nway with. A request has been sent to Washington for the assistance of a secret service oflicer in ferreting out the counterfeiters. The North Dakota Milling Association of Grand Forks, N. D., owning and operating twelve flouring mills in North Dakota and Northern Minnesota, made an assignment Thursday afternoon to William F. Honey, of Park River, N. I)., as assignee for North Dakota, and A. D. Stephens, of Crookston, Minn., as assignee for Minnesota. The otlicers of the association are: President, Hugh Thompson, Crookston, Minn.; vice-president, John M. Turner, Grand Forks; secretary and treasurer, George F. Honey, Grand Forks. It is said the assignment was caused by an attachment levied upon the association for $100,000 by the Mandau Roller Mill Company, to secure the payment of a note given for that sum by the association, through General Manager Turner. Other debts amounting to $2,000 are pressing, of which $20.000 is open accounts and $0,000 due the First Na

tional Bank of Mandan. Approximately the assets are $700.000; liabilities, $400,000. This association is organized under the laus of New Jersey. It owns and operates mills at Mandan. Bismarck. Casselton, Mayville, Park River, Northwood, Minto, Milton and Grand Forks. N. D.. and at Mi.orehead. Crookston and Fisher, Minn. The attachment and mismanagement are causes of the assignment. The assignee will continue the general offices in Grand Forks until the affairs of the association are closed up. SOUTHERN. Adolph Scheuerick, a member of the Boyland protective police in New Orleans, shot and killed Mattie Francisco, wife and four children. The woman leaves four children. She had deserted her husband. It. A. Blanford, who, after being fourteen years a fugitive from justice, surrendered to the Austin, Texas, authorities, lias been discharged, there being no evidence against him. He was accused of embezzlement. Ex-Senator Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia, father-in-law of Senator Stephen B. Elkins, while in New York, declared that his son-in-law would positively not be a candidate for the Republican nomination for the presidency. A sheep herder has discovered a horrible charnel cave full of human remains near the village of Quechultenango, Mexico. Over a hundred skulls were counted, piled with their bones in one great heap. It is supposed the remains are the ghastly souvenirs of one of the numerous attacks made on travelers and whole caravans of freighters in past decades. Nothing but a thread intervened the other day to save William Marquette, a Chattanooga, Tcun.. tailor's apprentice, from horrible death by means of an infernal machine which was sent to him through tho mail in a small box marked "Dominoes." Imbedded in two ounces of the loose explosive was a dynamite cartridge provided with a match head, fuse and cap. A wooden block turning on a pivot lay behind the cap and back of the block an improvised steel trigger was strung forward and held by common pins stuck through a bit of wood. This was connected with the sliding lid of the box by a thread so delicate that the slightest jar would set off the explosive. Seven common rubber bands drawn taut held the trigger with the tension of a hair spring. The string worked out of its poor fastenings while the boy was unwrapping the package, thus averting the tragedy. An electric railway conductor had threatened the boy's life, it is alleged, because he had discovered a crime on the part of the conductor. Dwight Moody, the evangelist, was conducting a meeting at Fort Worth, Tex., Sunday. All of Texas has been in great need of rain, so Mr. Moody called upon his audience of 8,000 Christians to pray fervently that the floodgates might be opened. This was at . p. in. At night, while the tabernacle was crowded by 10,000 people from Fort Worth and surrounding cities, Mr. Moody announced that word had come from several points that rain had fallen. A few minutes later the storm burst on Fort Worth and torrents of rain fell. Then Mr. Moody gave thanks to (Sod and called upon the congregation to join in singing "Coronation." The song had surged forth from fen thousand voices when a cracking noise was heard and then the roof sank, the rafters gave way, and the heavy timbers and boards covered with tar and graved came down on a portion of the congregation. Several were fatally hurt, and lofty were less seriously injured.

WASHINGTON. Secretary Morton and Statistician Robertson have not yet had an opportunity to consider the recommendations made by the various representatives of the commercial organizations which recently presented plans looking to more accurate crop reports by the Department of Agriculture. Whilo the suggestions of the commercial men may be taken into consideration, and some of Ihem adopted, the department has already considered plans for improving the service and has found that the trouble lies in the fact that there is not sufficient money to carry out any method of reform that would greatly improve the service. Statistician Robertson says that it would not be best to abolish the State agents while there are still but a limited number of reporters in each county. He thinks it well to increase the number of reporters, but this is something that the department had under consideration. Secretary Gresham has laid down some doctrine touching the rights of merchant steamers in foreign ports to afford asylum to refugees that may be of great importance to commanders of vessels. This was called out by a letter addressed to the State Department in December, 1S94, by C. P. Huntington, president of tho Pacific Mail Steamship Company, asking for an exact definition of the powers of captains of merchant steamers in this respect. The Secretary responded that the so-called doctrine of right of asylum having no application to merchant vessels in port, it follows that a shipmaster can found no exercise of discretion on the character of offense charged against the refugee. While no general rule can be laid down as a comprehensive principle, a merchant vessel in a foreign port is within the local jurisdiction of th country with respect to offenses or offenders against the laws thereof, and an orderly demand for the surrender of a person accused of crime by due process of law, with exhibition of a warrant of arrest in the hiinds of the regularly accredited oflicer of the law, may not be disregarded or resisted by the master of the ship. Arbitrary attempts to capture a passenger by force may call for a disavowal when the resort to violence endangers the lives of the innocent and the property of a friendly nation. FOREIGN. Great Britain has rejected Nicaragua's proposition to arbitrate the differences between the two Governments and insists on the demands contained in its ultimatum. A Jamaica dispatch says the American steamer Barnstable, from Boston for Port Antonio, was fired on off Grand Ague by the British cruiser Canada. It is said the Barnstable stopin-d and was boarded by British otlicers. Mrs. Willie K. Ynnderbilt was married Thursday to Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, in London. About a month ago Mrs. Ynnderbilt secured an absolute divorce from Mr. Yanderbilt, and was given the custody of their three children. FKn his return home at Massillon, O.. Anthony Howclls, consul to Cardiff.

Wale, says that some sort of epidemic has secured foothold in this country which leads countless numbers of persons to write to him about supposed fabulous estates that have no existence. It keeps him too busy fo answer such letters. United States Minister Bartleman at Caracas has been negotiating with the Venezuelan Government to secure the reopening to American commerce of the mouths of the Orinoco, all of which were closed, with one exception, by decree. The matter was brought to the attention of the State Department through the seizure of the steamer Bolivar of an American line for entering one of these forbidden passes of the river. The Venezuelan Government has taken the ground that the closure of the other passes is necessary to prevent the invasion of the customs laws, but at last accounts it had offered to establish a port near the Gulf f Paria destined for the entry of foreign freight. The St. James's Gazette, commenting upon the latest developments in the dispute between Great Britain and Nicaragua, says: "There is wonderful ignorance of diplomacy upon the part of the American journalists. Why should we want to bombard GreytownV If Nicaragua has been so foolish as to refuse to pay the indemnity, which, with the knowledge of the United States, we demanded, we shall take such steps as the American Government was perfectly aware of at the time of asking. The Monroe doctrine has been a doctrine for sixty-two years and has not been acted upon yet. When Groat Britain has serious differences to settle with South American republics it will not be prevented from doing so by anything but settled international law." The new Spanish minister to the United States, Senor Depuy do Lome, has arrived in Havana. At Santiago Senor do Lome personally investigated the stories told of the firing upon the American steamship Allianca by a Spanish gunboat, securing all tho important facts in the case for transmission to his Government, and in order to guide him in his negotiations with the United States, looking to a settlement of the complications which grew out of that affair between the United States and Spain. When interviewed regarding the result of his investigation into the tiring upon the Allianca, Senor de Lome remarked that he had no doubt that the negotiations between the two Governments in regard to the Allianca affair would have an outcome satisfactory to both parties.

IN GENERAL Frozen salmon are being shipped from Vancouver to Australia. Oliver Curtis Perry, the insane train robber who escaped from Matteawau Asylum, has been recaptured at Wcehawken. Obituary: At Gainesville, Fla., Dr. John P. Hall, of Tampa. At New York. Granville Perkins, the artist, 0T. At Shelbyville, Ky.. ex-Gov. R. C. Wickliffe. At Nashville, Teun., Rev. G. W. Winn. Hie Standard Oil Company is engaged now in the most stupendous operation ever undertaken in its career to take from the pockets of the American people, through the medium of oil, a sum of money the immensity of which is not realized by the mere expression of it in figured; to acquire as part of its possessions the desirable oil-producing territory of the United States east of the Missouri river, and in so doing to constitute itself supreme and absolute owner of an indispensable lighting and fuel material in this country as it is now dictator of its distribution. By the advances made so far in the price of refined oil the Standard has added $00.000. N0 to the value of the product it absolutely owns and will sell to the people. That is to say. that is the Standard's profit, but probably not all that has been made up to this time out of thefrenziedadvancein crude oil. which, unless the best information is incorrect, it has manipulated. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly report of trade says: "In every speculative department business is growing, but this is really the least satisfactory feature of the situation. Cotton, oil and wheat climb above the export price, so that the marketing of products abroad must Wo checked, and in uiey is absorbed which ought to be emptied in productive industry and in distribution of products lo consumers. Everybody knows oil has not risen 2MJ per cent, because it is intrinsically more valuable, nor is wheat actually worth more than it was two or three weeks ago. but the expansive and uplifting force has fortunately taken to speculation rather than to production, and so we have higher prices in all speculative markets without a large demand for consumption. Stories of combinations between the Standard Oil Company and Russia as to partition of the oil-consuming territory by no means account for recent prices of petroleum, which appear to be entirely fictitious." MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prim $.'.75 to $.r0; hogs, shipping grades. $; to $ö.ö0; sheep, fair to choice, $2.r0 to $5; wheat, No. 2 red, 07c to 07'1'C; corn. No. 2, 40c to 40c; oats. No. 2. 28c to 20c; rye. No. 2. o0e to te; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 12e; potatoes, car lots, per bushel. 75c to S5c; broom corn, per IT, common growth to fine brush, 4c to (fyV. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $' to $G.25; hogs, choice light, $.'l to $5.25; sheep, common to prime, $2 to $-1.75; wheqt, No. 2 red, 55c to 5(c; corn, No. 1 white, 45c to 4Je; oats, No. 2 white, ooc to .'.'tic. St. Ixuiis Cattle, $3 to $0.25; hogs. $4 to $5.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 55c to 50c; corn. No. 2. 42; to 4oV; oats, No. 2, 20c to 30c; rye. No. 2, 50- to OOe. Cincinnati-Cattle. $.'1.50 to $(;.2."; hogs. $3 to $5..; sheep. $2.50 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2, 01c to OD-; corn. No. 2 mixed, 40Ac to 47i: Hts, No. 2 mixed. 31c to 32c; rye. No. 2. 00o to OSe. Detroit-Cattle, $2.50 to $0.25; hogs. $4 to $5; sheep. $2 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, TiOe to ZtM-c; corn. No. 2 yel.'ow. 45c to 4tM-: oats, No. 2 while, 35V to ,'Mc Toledo Wheat. No. 2 red, 51c to 50V.c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 45c to 40c; oats. No. 2 white, .'JoY- to 3,'lc; rye, No. 2, 51o to 50c. Buffalo Cattle. $2.50 to $0.50; hogs. $3 to $5.75; sheep, $3 to $5; wheat. No. 1 hard. 00c to 07c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 40c to 50c; oats. No. 2 white, 35c to 30c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 spring, 5Se to 50c; corn, No. 3, 47c to 4Sc; oats. No. 2 white. 32c to .'13c; barley. No. 2. 52c to 5.3c; rye. No. 1, 50e to 01c; pork, mess, $12 to $12.50. New York Cattle, $3 to $0.50; hogs. $4 to $5.75; sheep. $3 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2 red. 04c to 05e; corn, No. 2. 50c to 51c; onts, white Western, 30e to 41c; butter, creamery, 14c to 21c; eggs, Western, 12c to 13c.

WADES TO HER DEATH

WOMAN DROWNS HERSELF. AND A LITTLE BOY. Admiral Meade Squadron Sails for Trouble:! Waters-Government Finances Must He Overhauled Retirement of Gen. McCook- Curzon-Leitcr. One More Unfortunate. A woman whose identity has not been discovered committed murder and suicide in the siirht of two witnesses at 12:30 o'clock Monday afternoon at the foot of Forty-eighth street, in Hyde Park, Chicago. She walked to the lake shore leading a boy .". years old by the hand. At the water's edge she took the child in her arms and waded out to a point 2X) feet, or more from land. Here attention was attra'-ted to her movements by the cries of the "child. .langes Wallace and Frank Morgan were fishing on a breakwater near by. They heard the buy's screams and saw the woman push him under the water and hold him there. They shouted to her to stop and ran to the rescue. When the woman saw them coming she waded still farther mt, and still holding the boy she let herself sink below the surface. Wallace and Morgan watted out as far as they could, but the woman and child had drifted bejond their reach. The bodies were recovered. Deficit of $ 10,00 OO0. The decision of the Supreme Court in the income tax case necessitates a recasting of the estimates of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, and from the best data obtainable it is believed that the deficit for the year will amount to 40.000,000. The amount of the deficit to date is S17.251.211. with indications of a further increase before the close of the present month, but the income tax receipts, it is expected, will materially cut down this amount during the remaining ten weeks of the fiscal year. Receipts from customs ami from internal revenue sources continue to increase, but not at the pace expected, and with fully one-half of the anticipated receipts from the income tax cut off it is doubtful if the close of the year shows a deficit of less than $4 , x x,U h . Faith in Hritixli Honor. A telegram received at the Navy Department announces the sailing of Admiral Meade's spn:idron from Colon. All the vessels started, the Minneapolis going to Kingston. Jamaica, and the New York. Columbia. Cincinnati, Atlanta and Ba leigh heading for Key West. The isthmus will not long he left unprotected, for Secretary Herbert says that one of the ships will soon be detached from the squadron and sent back to Colon, but the movement of Meade's squadron is regarded as showing that the administration has absolute confidence that in the Nicaragua!! affair the I'ritish (Jovernment will take no steps inimical to American interests, and will not indirectly seek an acquisition of territory through its claim for indemnity for the expulsion of Consular Agent Hatch. Canada Wants that i? l'J.",O0O. In the House of Commons at Ottawa. Out.. Mr. Costigan. Minister of Marine and Fisheries, stated the Canadian (luveminent had been promised by the Imperial (tovernmeut aid toward recovering the award of .St2ö.MM agreed upon as the proper amount to be paid by the I'nited States as a compensation to I'ritish Columbia sealers. The Imperial tiovernment will at once, he said, communicate with Washington on the matter. I.ion Causes a Funic at a Circun. At Kvansville, Ind.. during the performance of a circus Monday afternoon the riding lion became unmanageable, tore loose from its keepers, and rushed furiously about the tent. The audience became panic-stricken. Women fainted, and öne lady was knocked down and had two ribs broken. The animal was finally cajturcd. Dannie Nuucut Fined at haj'on, Ohio. Dannie Nugent and his wife were brought before the police judge at Hayton, (.. charged with being known and reputed thieves. Dannie and his wife took matters coolly and pleaded not guilty. The judge lined Dannie 25 and cosls. The woman was dismissed. NEWS NUGGETS. The grand floral festivals closed at I.os Angeles and Santa l'arbara. Cal. In the first named place there was a big street parade, in which the Chinese presented a unique appearance. Thornton Farker. colored, was hanged at Winchester, for assault on Mrs. Melton. Frank Fuller, also colored, was hanged at New Orleans. La., for murdering Henrietta (lard nor. The wedding of the Hon. leorge Nathaniel Curzoii. M. P.. and .Miss Mary Loiter was celebrated at St. John's episcopal -horch :i Washington at noon Monday, amid scenes of such brilliancy and in the presence of such a distinguished assemblage of cabinet otlicers. diplomats. (Jovcrnors and bishops as to give tho event the character of a public ceremony. C.cneral Alexander McDowell McCook. the most distinguished representative of the famous lighting McCnoks and who was recently promoted to the rank of major general of the Fr.itcd States army, goes on the retired list, having reached his (Ith year. He is the eldest of ciuht brothers who have borne anus for their country, and has been in the army for forty-two years, although during the war he served with the oIunteifs. Otis Skinner, the well-known actor, announces his marriage fo Miss Maude Durben. leading lady of his company, at Corning. X. Y. Miss Trudie Harms, of Wheeling. XV. Ya.. has brought suit for .SJo.CHM for breach of promise against J. C. MH I rcgor. one of the best known business r.ic:i in the State. Kopresentative Cogswell, of Massachusetts has been sciiously ill. but is improving. Sam Nolan, aged 0. of Fort Worth. Tex., committed suicide because his mothi r teased him. Sealing nun prophesy that the catch will be very li.ht this year, the prediction being based nioii the bad lin k of schooners so far. Catherine Scott, aged 10'!. the oldest woman in Brooklyn, is dead. She was born in Ireland and came to ltrooklyu fcctctity years ago.

ETHICAL CULTURL SOCIETY.

Something of the New Cult Which is Gaining Prominence. The movement of ethical culture now so prominent in all sections of the United states and portions of Kurope had its origin in New York city, where the first ethical society was founded in 1870. The attitude of the New York society has been from the first neither irreligious nor anti-religious. In the opening address which Frof . Felix Adler delivered on May J."), 1S7(I, the watehwonl which he suggested for the new movement was : "Diversity in the treed, unanimity in the deed.'' He also emphasized in those remarks that belief in any of the received doctrines of religion, should not hinder any one from joining the new organization. Neither itlix AM.ru. should a negative attitude toward the current religious teachings be a hindra nee. Those who aspire to become good men should be welcomed to the new fellowship, no matter what their opinions might be on questions of theology or philosophy, l'rof. Adler stated at that time. All that was expected was a sincere interest in the moral improvement of the individual and of societv, and a willingness to waive points of difference and to come into fundamental agreement with others animated by the same desire. These views had been known by a number of l'rof . Adler s friends for some years prior to the organization of the society, l'rof. Adler was at that time professor of Oriental literature at tiie Cornell university, and when a number of friends of th cause of ethical culture were prepared to form a society lie resigned from the faculty of the university and entered the lield in which he had lonj been desirous to h'bor. It was a labor of love for him from the beginning and still is such. At first the new society was tho target for much hostile criticism and even bitter persecution. Like all new movements it required time to be correctly appreciated, and in the beginning it was misinterpreted. The fact that the Kthical society did not aflirm any religious belief was regarded as positive proof that its members and its leaders were at heart hostile to religion. lut this wa? a mistake, and as time went on it was perceived to be such. The prejudice which the society at first excited has abated from j'ear to year. Some of those who were its most pronounced antagonists have become its well wishers aud supporters. The change of attitude against the society is shown by the fact that the legislature of the State of New York has conferred upon l'rof. Adler legal authority to perform the marriage ceremony. A Smuggling Scientist. A Berlin periodical has the following: In lSU." Humboldt and Guy Lussac met in l'aris to pursue their investigations as to the compression of air. The t wo men of science found it necessary to obtain a large number of glass tubes. These were very dear in France at the time, and the enormously high duty forbade their introduction from abroad. Hut Humboldt was nothing daunted He ordered the tubes from a (Jerman lass works, and instructed the manufacturer to close them up at both ends and aflix to each a label with thesj words, "Deutsche l.uft" (Herman air). The air of (lertnany was an article which did not appear in the tariff, and the custom house oilicials allowed tho tubes to pass, and they were thus delivered free of duty into the hands of tli3 two men of science. A Cruel Wrong Inflicted on Sailors. A sailor on a troopship informs me of a curious grievance from which he and hi mates suffer. "The ship's company is limited,"' he writes, "to two parrots for each mess of about twelve men, and if these are not in uniform caires they are thrown overboard." Tastes, of course, differ, but I should myself have thought an allowance of one parrot to every six men on board a troopship was not an unreasonably small one. "A. II." evidently thinks otherwise, however, and this is not strange, perhaps, when it is remembered on the authority of Mr. F. ('. 1'urnand's once popular Ivrie. thr.t Jack's "heart is true to his Toll." Ant Nests in Trees. The ants of Malacca make their nests in trees, joining the leaves together hy a thin thread of silk at the ends. The first step in making the nest is for several ants to bend the leaves together and hold on with their hind legs, when one of them after some time runs up with a larva and, irritating it with its antennae, makes it produce a thread with which the leaves are joined. When on larva is exhuustcd, a second it brought and the process is repeated

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