Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 29, Plymouth, Marshall County, 3 May 1895 — Page 2

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A. R. ZIMMERMAN, Publisher. - PLYMOJTH. - IN DAN; I . BIG INSURANCE SUIT.

STOCKTON COMPANY WORSTS ITS OPPONENTS. cDn Francisco Shipping Wonderfully Busy-Grand Trunk Reorganization -Gave Up Life Rather Than Lovo Hopelessly Hcadncar Costs Jlore. Insurance Must Be Paid. ' The decision of Judge Smith in the famous suit of the Stockton. Cal.. Combined Harvester and Agricultural Works against the Glens Falls and seventy-two other insurance companies to recover $'.H,OOO as insurance on property of the plaintiff burned several years ago, was rendered Tuesday in favor of the harvester company for the full amount. When the property was burned the harvester company and the insurance people submitted the "matter to arbitration and an award of jvlM i.i mm ) was made. The harvester people accepted this, but before it was paid matters wen' brought to the attention of the insurance companies that caused them to refuse to pay any such sum. Suit was then brought cm the award. The ease has been to the Supreme Court ami this was the second trial and the second decision in favor of the plaintiff. The insurance companies alleged that fraud had been committed and that the burned property though insured for .rJT.OOO was worth scarcely anything. Straw Hats on the Rise. Straw hats and wall paper are now slated for a trip to the sky. Their prices are likely to join the procession of br!loons occupie 1 bv beef, oil and leather. Straw braid, out of which the familiar and necessary straw hat is made, has gone up 10 per cent, and more, and there is a chance that cheap straw hats will cost a little more this year than they did last. There is an equal chance, some jobbers Wlieve, that next year's crop will be sold at better prices, because of peculiar conditions that exist. Braided straw, of which hats are made, comes mostly from China and Japan. Last summer's spell of hot weather exhauste-d the supply of straw hats; the war in the East, it is thought, lias interfered to some extent with the shipments from China and Japan, for it is understood the manufacturers have not yet got the ir stoc k. There has been a smart, healthy trade in hats for the coming: season and a rise in straw braid. Out of these conditions jobbers foresee possibilities that hats may cost mure. Heavy Wheat Shipment. Every iron ship in San Francisco harbor, with one? exception, has been chartered. This is a c ondition of affairs which lias nevir been before at that port. A year ago Mission Hay was crowded with idle British ships, but one after the other they have been engaged at prices ranging from -" to ;;i shillings. The sudden demand for wheat carrying vessels was a mystery until the statement was made that the IWO.tMK tons of syndicate wheat was to be sold and shipped to LiverpoolThe engaged tonnage in port now amounts to ÖS.JYs:'. while at least forty more vessels which are on the way to San Francisco have also been engaged. Unable to Control Her Affections. Unable to remove from her mind the strange hypnotic inlluence exerted over her by a music te acher and suffering from unrequited love. Mrs. Seelie Venuieren, of Denver, I'i years of age, fired a bullet into her left breast, inllicting a fatal wound. In a letter to her husband she coolly informed him that she loved Luther T. Hail, the music teacher, and it was for his sake that she intended to take her own life. Another letter was addressed to Hail and one to his wife, loth telling of the vain struggle of the writer to control herself and prevent unhappiuess to all concerned. Sir Henry Tyler Resigns. There was a crowded meeting at London Monday of the shareholders of the (Irand Trunk Railway of Canada. Sir Henry Tyler, th? president, announced that on account of the majority of proxies against him he placed his resignation in the hands of the company. The meeting was very noisy, and finally adjourned until next Tuesday in order to enable the shareholders to appoint a new board of directors. BREVITIES. The gubernatorial investigating committee has reported to the Tennessee Legislature that Gov. Turuey was elected by n plurality of i!.I!."iN votes. The Republican members of the committee will present a minority report in favor of Evans. The Colima (Mex.) volcano is again in n state of active eruption, and the inhabitants of the valley at the base of the. mountain have been forced to abandon their homes and llee for their lives. The molten lava and ashes have destroyed the growing crops and much valuable property in that section. The habeas corpus case of Fred Milheiser, who was arrested at Jalveston, Tex., April 11!, by one of Superintendent Byrnes detectives on a bench warrant from New York for grand larceny of l,.riK) barrels of sugar from the sugar trust, has been decided in the District Court. Judge Stewart announced that the prisoner will Lave tt return to New York. It is rumored in railway circles that a new rule will shortly be put into force on the railroads in the Vanderbilt system, which, in brief, is that ollicials, when making promotions among employes, shall pay no attention to seniority of service, but will consider only eiliciency. It is said that if the rule is adopted it will meet with stubborn resistance by the men. The.'HK) roat maker of Baltimore, Md., members of the Fluted (Jarmentmakers of America, opposed to the sweating system, are out on strike. The body of Dr. C. 8. Dixon, r prominent citizen of Ashland, Wis., who was lost in the woods last winter, was found Tuesday by a searching parly near Eagle river. Mrs. Andrew Carnegie was thrown by a fractious horse at Duiigeness, Fla., and severely injured. Frank D'Albcrt, foreman of W. II. Herbert's job printing othce at New York, was caught in a belt and c rushed to death.

EASTERN. John llubbell, a well-to-do farmer of Cuba, N. Y., has been swindled out of $3,000 by the old-time bunko scheme in which the swindlers negotiated to buy his farm. Methodist Episcopal bishops of the world are in private convention at Carlisle, Pa. They will fix the dates for the fall conferences and designate the presiding officers. Prof. A. J. Waters has resigned as professor of agriculture in the Pennsylvania State College, to accept the directorship of the Missouri experiment station, located at Columbia. The New York House Wednesday adopted a resolution favoring the annexation of Canada to the United States, which will be forwarded to the Senate for concurrence. The Dime Savings Bank nt Willimantic, Conn., has suspended. The last bank commissioner's report shows that the savings bank had Oct. 1, 2.877 depositors, $(5'M5..V.ll on deposit and a surplus of about $23.000. Gov. Brown, of Maryland, is to ask the Governors of all the States and territories to aid in securing money to erect a monument at Frederick. Md., over the grave of Francis Scott Key. author of "The Star-Spangled 11 .:im r." General Bailington Booth, of the Salvation army, has renounced Cjueen Victoria and in two weeks will become an American citizen. lie has made formal application at the county clerk's office in Jersey City for the necessary papers. The financial strain on Stanford University has been fixed up so that it will continue to run as usual for at least one year. When the Federal Government filed its Siri.OOO.IiOO railroad claim against the Stanford estate the university received a heavy blow. At riainfield. N. J., the First National Bank was robbed of $111,700. It is thought the theft was committed while but two clerks were in the bank, at which time a stranger entered and engaged them in conversation, while a confederate reached the vault through the directors' room. WESTERN. Three pool rooms were raided by the Denver iolice. The proprietors will resist the attempt to close their places. John Tincher. editor of the Weekly News at Pawhuska, has been banished from the Osage Nation by Indian Agent Freeman because he "roasted" Freeman bitterly in his paper. Nathaniel S. Jones, once one of the "big four" operators of the Chicago Board of Trade, died of paralysis at St. Joseph's Hospital Wednesday night. His wife and son were with him at the last. Nebraska may have to close her State penitentiary for lack of funds. The last Legislature abolished the contract system in vogue, but failed to appropriate funds to pay the institution's expenses. The interstate commerce commission has granted to the railroads terminating in California and their connections authority to make a lower rate for oranges to the Atlantic seaboard cities than to intermediate points. This will enable California growers to market oranges on the Atlantic seaboard in competition with imported fruit. Five tons of nitro-glyeerine at the factory of the Ohio and Indiana Torpedo Company, two miles west of Limn, O.. exploded at noon Wednesday. The shock was felt for twenty miles. Over a thousand panes of glass, including a number of large windows in business blocks, were shivered. Two employes had barely left the building when it went up. The Denver and Rio Grande express was robbed of about $1,100 at Victor, Colo. Express Agent Carlin says a powerfully built man came into the depot and struck Carlin a powerful blow which laid him insensible. When he regained consciousness the robber had disappeared, the safe door was open and the money gone. When Henry Schneider, a Chicago barber, put his head out of the window Friday ami found it was raining he blew his brains out. Schneider was fairly well-fixed in the way of property and had a pleasant home with his wife and two children over his barber shop. For some time past business had been dull and it seemed to worry Schneider. When he woke up Friday, however, and saw the rain coming down he muttered: "Too bad. This mcans another dull day." Then lie went into a bedroom and shot himself. The members of the East St. Louis Live Stock Exchange held an indignation meeting at the National Stock Exchange and denounced Secretary Morton. The proceedings were opened by a discussion of the advisability of replying to his statements in which he charged that the rise in the price of beef was extortion and the result of a beef ring or pool or combine. Resolutions were adopted calling upon him to appoint a commission for the purpose of making an investigation under oath as to the truth or falsity of his charges, the exchange to pay all expenses. It is estimated by the Denver, Colo., street railroad companies there have been r.i m Mj bicycles added to those in use in Denver since the opening of spring, ami electric and cable companies have been the chief losers. Friday the Tramway Company announced the wages of all classes of employes would be lowered to the uniform rate of 20 cents an hour, a cut of 2l per cent. From the figures of men stationed at central points the company has established the fact that the use of the wheel is costing them $1!,MH) a day, as there are at least 10,000 wheels in daily use by all classes of citizens. The Hamlin furniture factory at the southeast corner of North Campbell avenue und Homer street. Chicago, was entirely destroyed by fire Sunday afternoon. The factory was a three-story frame building, with a frontage of 1Ö0 feet and a depth ctf 2iK) feet, and a three-story brick structure with a frontage of 1(M) feet. Both buildings were destroyed. The stork and machinery were valued at ?2.",1M M ami are a total loss. Mr. Hamlin said the insurance Amounted to about $20.000. The two buildings were owned by J. I). Freese and were worth $21.000. They were insured for between $l."i,OO0 and .10.0O0. What will probably prove another murder inysery came to light at Milwaukee Friday night. The vicim is Henry Mosher, of Rochester, N. Y., 20 years of age, whose body was picked up in the lake near Lakeside l'ark, minus money and minus a gold watch. Mosher was the captain of the dining-room waiters in the Plister Hote l. He left the hote l and was nlout to go to Rochester, N. Y., to visit bis parents. Mosher did not talk much about his business, but he lad Thursday

drawn thirty-three days' pay from the Prister and besides that had $120 in cash on his person. He had a bank account and carried the bank fook in his pocket. SOUTHERN. Ex-Cashier Holland, who swindled the Merchants ami Traders' National Bank of Charlotte. N. C, has disappeared. His shortage is between $ii0,000 and $75.00O. Hail-storms in Arkansas and Mississippi damaged growing crops ami destroyed considerable farm property. A negro woman named KaulTniau was frightened to death. Upon representations that citizens of Nicaragua were making an honest effort to raise $7ö.(mmi to pay the Hatch indemnity. Great Britain granted an extension of time to give them a chance to make up the amount. Five cheap two-story stores in the Fined Building at Frankfort, Ky., were destroyed by lire. It was with ditlieulty that the people in the second stories were saved by firemen. George Yeager. a cripple, and his two children, aged 5 and S years, were burned to death. An old feud between Marshall Chambers and Harry Myers, prominent Green County (Ala) planters, was wiped out in blood Wednesday night. Myers was found lying in the road dying with five bullets in his body. He lived long enough to tell that Chambers had killed him. Madeline Bollard, complainant in the famous breach of promise, suit against ex-Congressman W. C. P. Breckinridge, will soon sail for Europe, and for the next four years will be the traveling companion of a wealthy ami charitable woman who has taken an interest in her case. Associate Justice Jackson of the United States Supreme Court is at his home, West Meade, fix miles from Nashville. His health has steadily improved since his return from Thomasville, Ga., several weeks ago. During good weather he rides several miles on horseback daily, and does not appear to feel fatigued from this exercise. At Arkansas City, Kan., Friday afternoon Arthur McKay Stanley, the o-y earold son of Dr. J. A. Mathews, was found at the bottom of an old unused well. The boy had been there since Monday afternoon, as he disappeared on that date. A thorough search had been made; the rivers and canal had been dragged, and it was finally concluded that he had been Steden by Indians. Edward Henry, a Salvation army captain, heard the moans of the boy. On being taken out the little fellow was discovered to be uninjured, excerpt for a few flesh wounds. He was alive, but terribly emaciated. He will pull through. He was without food a period of more than 100 hours. The terrific hail storm which swept through Wilson, Berar and Medina Counties, Texas, Wednesday night did much damage. The hail stones were the size of goose eggs and covered the ground to the depth of two feet. The towns of Lytic, Benton City and Castroville were greatly devastated by the storm, the houses being riddled like a sieve by the hail stones. The damage to residences and business houses in Lytic alone amounts to about ?."i0,000. Hundreds of head of live stock were killed. The track of the International and Great Northern Railroad was blockaded with hail stones, and they had to be removed before trains could proceed. The cotton ami corn crops in the path of the storm were completely destroyed. Two hundred thousand dollars, it is estimated, will hardly cover the amount of damage to crops and other property. A subscription was started for the relief of sufferers from the storm. WASHINGTON. President Clevelan has appointed Brigadier General Wesley Merritt to be major general in the army. During the third session of the Fiftythird Congress 720 bills and resolutions became laws, which is less than 0 per cent, of the number introduce!. The members of the Interstate Commerce Commission have roacheel Kearney. Neb., and are listening to complaints that the toads are discriminating against Kearney. An effort is being made by Ihe civil service commission te extend the protection of the classified service over the steam and electrical engineers employed in the del art mnts. Reports at Washington, D. C, show that during the last ten months the number of Italian immigrants arriving in the country was 10.82." less than during the same period last year. The Secret Service Bureau at Washington has been informed that Mrs. Mack has been identified at Hamilton, Out., as Tinsey McMillan, one of the Chicago stamp counterfeiters, and will be brought either to Chicago or Buffalo for trial. The Secretary of Agriculture will in about ten days begin the publication and distribution of a series of bulletins relative to the foreign markets for the agricultural products of the L'nitcel States. The bulletins, it is believed, will be of great value to persons seeking foreign markets for their products.

FOREIGN. A London dispatch says England will give Japan open support in ratification of her treaty with China, and that strenuous efforts are being made by Rosebery's government to induce the United States to join in preventing foreign interference. If trie, this is a peculiarly strange and unusual attitude on Great Britain's part. Washington advices give no confirmation of the report. Calcutta dispatch: A dispatch from Simla announces that the contents of the diary of Dr. Robertson, the British political agent at Chitral, who was besieged in the fort there, and who was relieved on Saturday by the Hying column commanded by Col. Kelly, has been received there, and gives an account of the siege. He says that on March 3 the British garrison made a rcconnoisnnce in force and lost twenty-two officers ami men killed ami had thirty-one wouihIchI. The siege proper began on March 4. On the JSth the enemy tried to set fire to the water tower, and on the 1 1th the besiegers attacked the east side fort, but were repulsed. The enemy on April S attempted to set lire to the citadel, and on the 11th the fort was attacked on al! sides. The garrison made a sortie on April 17, recaptured the summer house and blew up the enemy's mine. The British loss in the sortie was eight killed and thirteen wound, eel. The enemy lost sixty killed, of whom thirty-five were bayoneted by the troops engaged in the sortie. On April 19 the siegt was raised. The Russian Government has sent a note to Japan intimating there are various conditions to the treaty of peace between

Japan and China that Russia cannot allow to be put into execution. A dispatch from Berlin to the London Times says it is firmly believed in the Russian capital that Japan has made considerable secret concessions to Great Britain. A dispatch received at Berlin from Tokio Wednesday says that the envoys of Russia. Germany and France have formally protested to the Japanese ministry of foreign affairs at the incorporation, by the terms of the treaty of peace between China and Japan, of any of the Chinese mainland in the Japanese Emp're. The Japanese ollicials at Washington are disposed to treat lightly the reports from European capitals as to troubles over the China-Japan settlement. Minister Kurino is satisfied all will be amicably arranged if, as he jocularly expressed it, "a temporary armistice of the European press reports can be arranged." In other official quarters, however, there is apprehension of the menacing attitude of Russia. Germany and France. The report that Russia had instructed its ambassador at IVkin to demand a cession of territory for a harbor on the Pacific, confirms the view that Russia would obtain Port Lazareff. The failure of England to join in the menacing action of other European powers is explained on the ground that England already has its Asiatic possessions and Pacific naval stations so it is anxious to maintain the status quo while the latter powers are anxious to secure similar territory and naval advantages. IN GENERAL Detectives have unearthed a scheme by which Chinamen are being smuggled across the border from Canada in colfins with concealed air boles. Ex-Congressman Charles D. Hayes, of Kinderhook, N. Y., and Lafe Pence, of Colorado, purchased a controlling interest in the Kinderhook and Hudson Railway for about $70,000. The death of Coxswain John Johnson of the cruiser Olympia was not caused by the blowing of the breech plug of the five-inch rifle, as first reported, but by the recoil of the rifle itself, which struck the coxswain full jn the face. The suit of the Wells-Fargo Express Company against the Adams Express Company for $35,000, the value of a pack, age of currency stolen from the Adams company between Cincinnati niyl Nashville in 1802, has been compromise, the Wells-Fargo people accepting $27,000 in full and final settlement. Obituary: At St. Louis, Edna A. Forman, daughter of ex-Congressman Forman. At Springfield, Ohio, T. C. Busbe. father of W. II. Bushey, of Chicago. At Dayton, Ohio, Rev. Dr. W. Mittendoft 04. At St. Johnsbury, Vt., Col. Franiliij Fairbanks. At Beloit, Wis., A. L. 1. Montague, of Rockton, 111. At Elgin, III., Robert M. Ireland, 45. Reports have coin: to Winnipeg, Mai, from St. Johns, just over the Manitoba boundary, that 1,500 Indians and halfbreeds are on the warpath, and that 700 women and children are in tents on the prairie. Troops from Fort Tot ten arevdered to St. Johns. A man named Ro-., living near the boundary on the Canadian side, was chased by Indians and had to llee for his life. Two girls dead, seventeen badly injured by burns or bruises received while jumping from the windows, at least thirty other persons hurt not so badly, and a total loss of $750,Ut.KJ mark the de-st ruction of the great factory of the Canadian Tobacco Company, Montreal, Thursday overling. This is the largest concern of its kind in the dominion, and is owned principally by W. C. Mae-Donald, the great benefactor of McGill University. The experts who are examining the books of Paul Schulze, late general lam: agent of the Northern Pacific Railway, have found that his defalcation amounts to over $51 H ,0 M), instead of a few thousand, as was at first supposed. The shortage, it is said, may even reach the enormous sum of $700,1)00. The embezzler, who was one of the best-known railroad men in the country and an influential resident of Tacoma, committed suicide a few days ago. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: Neither the rising speculative markets nor the steady gain in industries has ceased, and it is wholesome that there are fewer signs of hesitation in the productive industries than in speculative prices. Wage strikes grow more numerous and cause some trouble, and retail desnand lags behind wholesale and jobbing purchases behind production in some branches, but through many conllicting reports the fact shines out that the industries are-gaining, not with a rush :rnd a whirl but more safely. It is less e-lear that railroads are increasing their earnings. But revival of activity in other directions helps confidence1 to take the throne so long held by distrust.

MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, to $3.75 to $0.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3 to 5.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, Cle to 02c; corn. No. 2, 47c to 48c; oatr, No. 2, 2Sc b 20c; rye, No. 2, 05e to 07c; butter, choice creamery, 10c to lO'c; eggs, fresh 12c to l-'-jc; potatoes, ear lots, per bushel, 70c to S5c; broom corn, per lb, common growth to fine brush, 4c to 7c. Indianapolis Csitlh shipping, $3 to $0.00; hogs, choice light, $3.O0 to $5.25; sheep, common to prime, $2 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 00c to GO1; corn. No. 1 white, 40c to 4GVlc; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to :i:(2t St. Louis-Cattle, $3 to G.25; hogs, $4 to $5; wheat. No. 2 red, C2c to G2'-c; corn. No. 2, 45c to 4tc; oats, No. 2, 20c to 30c; rye. No. 2, G3c to GOc. Cincinnati Cattle, $3.50 to $0, hogs, to $5.25; she-ep. $2.iVO to $4.75; wheat. No. 2. tV.c to OTV-jc; orn, No. 2 mixed, tSc to 4S-Cc; oats. No. 2 mixed, 31c to 31ic; rye, No. 2, GOc to 71c. Detroit-Cattle, $2.50 to $G; hogs. $4 to $5; sheep, $2 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 04c to 01V; corn. No. 2 yellow, 47c to 47,'.c; oats, No. 2 white, 34 e to 34e. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 red, (Vic to G5e; corn. No. 2 mixed, 47c to 48c; oats, No. '2 white, 33e to 33c; rye, Xo. 2, 00c to GSc. Buffalo-Cat tie, $2.50 to $0.50; hogs. $3 to $5.50; sheep, $3 to $5; wheat. No. 1 hard. GOc to 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 52c to 52'c; oats, No. 2 white, 35c to . oc. Milwaukee? Wheat, No. 2 spring, G2e to 03c; corn. No. 3, 47c to 4Nc; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; barley. No. 2, 52c to 54c; rye, No. 1, G7c to GOc; pork, mess, $12 to $12.50. New York-Cattle, $3 to $0.50; hogs, $4 to $5.75; sheep, $3 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, GOc to 70e,; corn, No. 2, 53c to GOc; oats, white Western, 37c to 4lc; butter, creamery, 14c to 20e; eggs, Western, 13c to 14c.

BIG RISE IN LEATHER.

SHARP ADVANCE IN SHOES TO PROBABLY FOLLOW. New York Fails to Squeeze Its Popu lation Above 1 ,S40,8GG Pittsburg: Blaze Costs Three Livca-Wliat llngland Really Wants. Another Trust Atielel. Shoes may go tip in price. Leather's price is skyward bound, and as a conse-ejueni-e footwear, especially the cheaper grades, may rise also in cost. Leather is one of the things in the procession of commodities the upward whirl of which has attracted the attention of the business and speculative world, l'rices ol certain grades have gone up from six to nine cents a pound a rise in instances amounting to over Go jht cent. Lower grades of shoe's have advanced in some cases 15 per e-e-nt.. and manufacturers agents in Boston, the great center of the footwear business, are writing customers declining to duplicate1 orders at prices recently quoted, .fohbers and manufacturers believe the advance' in shoes must at a moderate estimate amount to fully 25 per cent, before snow Hies, for they see no markeM indications: of a c hange in the conditions which have mainly brought about the rise. These are the fa-ts f the receipts of live cattle and the supply of hides, though there are some men who suspo-t the heather trust in some measure has helped the hurrah along. Gotham in a Sad Way. Figure as they may. the ollic ials of the New York Health Department cannot squeeze out a total population for that city of more than LS40.N00. These are the ollicial figures as made public Monday night. It was stated a couple of weeks ago that they would certainly turn two millions, and when this claim was relegated to the rear it was announced that the iopulation would certainly be more than 1,100,000. Second canvasses of districts believed to be underestimated was made, the discrepancy being based on the death rate as announced by the Board of Health, but somehow the figures have kept en dwindling until now they n-re at least 150,000 less than the total fixed upon by the most confident estimators. The population of New York in June, 100, was 1,515,351. NEWS NUGGETS. James F. Caldwell, the veteran starter ef race horses, who is known to turfmen the country over, lost 55.000 in a faro bank at Little Bock. Ark. Judge Goff. of Columbia. S. C. and the State authorities are likely to lock horns over the seizure of liquor brought into the State in violation of the dispensable w. The State Hospital for Insane at Watkins, N. Y.. was partly burned. The loss was $7,500, and the excitement among the inmates was intense while the fire raged. The men employed by the New York and Cleveland (las Coal Company, near Pittsburg, repudiated the strike order. They said in convention they were satisfied with the 55 cent rate. William Kirt, of Hamilton. Ont.. and Charles Witters, a colored man. were killed, and Alfred Sells, of New York City, was seriously injured at Rockport, Ohio, by being struck by a train. In regard to the reported Indian outbreak in North Dakota and the sending of troops from Fort Tot ten to the scene of the trouble. Major General Merritt said: "There is nothing in it at all. Some man with a fertile imagination has started the scare." Light is being let in upon the intrigue behind the British movements in Nicaragua, and the revelations are in the highest degree sensational. Thy point to British control of that republic and to British domination over an i ownership of the canal. British capital will build the canal and its operation will be tinder the protection ejf British cannon, unless the plans that are now will along toward completion miscarry. The Nebraska State Supreme Court convcne.nl in extraordinary session to hear tho case of tin State of Nebraska against evState Treasurer Hill and his bondsuun to recover the sum of !?23l.0O0 which was lost in the failure of the Capital National Bank of Lincoln. The case will be tried by a jury, and a special pane l has been drawn for the occasion. This is the first time in the history of the State that such a course has been resorted to. A stranger walked into the Iowa Trust and Savings Bank at Dubuque and broke the window behind which lay the funds for use during the day, with the evident intention of grabbing the money .uid escaping before the employes had recovered from their surprise. Teller Maurice Brown was standing near, and as the window was broken he took in the situation and grasped a revolver, shooting the man. the ball taking effect in the robber's he-ad, inllicting a serious but not dangerous wound. A frame elwelling owned by Henry Snyder, in Pittsburg, and occupied by Samuel Weaver and his family, burned the other night. Weaver was ill with typhoid fever and was known to have perished. In the morning his re-mains and those of Frederick Snyder, son of the owner of the building, ami William Mitchell, a male nurse who was attending Weaver, were recovered from the ruins. Mrs. Weaver is in a critical e-oudition from burns and fright. Mrs. Yeaver is the mother of a two-day-old baby, and she and her child were rese-ued with great ditüculty. The loss was about $10,OOO. Maximo (Jo'.uez. the famous soldier who took part in the last revolution in Cuba, on the side of the separatists, has lauded in Cuba. (rant Wheeler, euieof the men who robbeel a Southern Pacific train at Wilcox, A. T., some months ag, finding it impossible to escape the ollicers, shot and killed himself :ear Ma neos. James Dupont was arrested near Perry. O. T charged with a murder near Lexington, Ky., in 1S1H. Curryville, a small town in Pike County, Mo., on the (."liie-ngo and Alton road, was almost destroyed by fire. The American see tion en the Thesophical Society has voted to sever its connection with the international seuiety. A cyclone struck the northwestern iortion of Omaha. Four houses were demolished at the corner of Thirty-third and Spaulding str;--ts. and a number of outbuildings and trees were blown down.

James W. Scott. Mr. Scott was personally a most gen'.ai and likable man. Buffalo Courier. It was Impossible to be acquainted with him and not like him. Scraulon Truth. The city was eminently for the man and the man for the city. Kansas City Star. Long will his memory live in the archives of American journalism. Spring field News. Fortune failed to change him from th genial, kindly spirit that he was. Milwau kee Journal. There is no man In the profession whos loss could be more severely felt. Minneapolis Tribune. He Intelligently labored to the achievement of the public interest. Bockford Hegister-Gazctte. He was a man of high private charao ter, and this was reflected in his newapaper. Toledo Blade. He inaugurated a new era and Injected a new spirit in the "Western newspaper field. Oshkosh Northwestern. Mr. Scott has been a force in Western Journalism and politics that commanded national recognition. Kansas City Journal. Mr. Scott was a man of great energy and enterprise and possessed wonderful executive ability. Bochester Post-Express. Above all he had a high sense of tha duties which belong to newspaper work, believed in making a paper of clean character, attractive in its typographical appearance, and edited in its own office Springfield Republican. Mr. Scott was a grand type of a trca American. He was eminently a practical man, and many editorial conventions have been Instructed and benefited by his addresses and instruction. Few knew him but to love him. Elgin News. Opinions on Various Subjects. The oil producers can live on the fat of the land, if they wish. Cincinnati Tribune. In any event. Great Britain never leti the handle of the jug get on the farther aide. Detroit Tribune. The author of "Trilby" may come 1 this country if he likes, but he must a sumo all the risks. Chicago Itecord. What Is needed is not legislation to make the dollar cheaper, but to make it lesi coy and delusive. Chicago Dispatch. The counterfeite rs of the postage ßtamp probably excited suspicion by using a good quality of gum. Kansas City Journal. The Income tax opposition has revealed one curious fact the enormous 'estimate which multi-millionaires put upon two cents. St. Louis Pust-Dispatcli. The Lexow investigation cost $07,000, which is cheap enough, for Tammany would have been glad to pay forty time as much to prevent it. St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. Those persons who have positive knowledge that J. Wilkes Booth is still allvs should form r.n organization of some sort and do their talking to each other. Chicago Tribune. Russia is growling louder than England over Japan's peace treaty with China, but there are no s:gii9 that either of them means to do anything about iL New York Recorder. Tax on Bachelors. The one commendable feature of the tax woulj be the ease with which it could be collected. Rloomingtou llulle-tin. Illinois proposes to tax kachelors, too. It looks as if a new name would have to be invented for single blessedness. Boston Herald. There is a bill in the Illinois Legislature to tax bachelors the theory probably being that married men are already overtaxed. Detroit News. A supplementary tax might indeed be levied upon such old maids as should be discovered to have promised once upon a time "to be a sister" to any young man. Philadelphia Record. As a rule old maids do not require a home other than that which they may provide for themselves, and it is an Insult to them to suggest that they stand in need of such a retreat. St. Paul Call. Illinois proposes to tax bachelors above the age of V'2. and with the proceeds of the tax establish an old maids home. This would appear to be eeiuitable, whether constitutional or not. Minneapolis Tribune. Woman mul Her Hat. Many men are of the opinion that woman will not deserve the ballot until she gives up big hats and balloon skxve. Baltimore American. A Dallas lawyer opposes the bachelor! tax and insists that women shall go back to sun-bonnets so that he can afford tc marry one of them. (Jalvcton News. The Inflated theater hat flaunts itself triumphantly in public, while the whipping post skulks regretfully back Into the shadow of innocuous desuetude. New York World. There is a future awaiting the theatrical manager who will provide a hat museum near the foyer where women may inspect each other's bonnets between the acts. New Haven Palladium. The designs for tho theater hat this spring are larger than ever. Fashion la an inexorable ruler. Perhaps since woman's suffrage is recognizee! the women will remove their hats. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Dr. Cook's Lxpedltion. It Is to be hoped that Frederick Cook will on his exiH-dition to the south pole meet with better results than have th many explorers to the pole at the other extremity. Washington News. Dr. Frederick C.ok will lead an exploring party next September to the antarctic ice cap, w hich covers a sixth of th surface of the globe. The doctor expecti to pre-empt this little tract and make a summer resort at the south pole for effet New Yorkers. Minucaindw Journal. To Dr. Cook, who is said to be contemplating an exploring expedition to th antarctic regiens, we have a single suggestion to make. It is that he arrange to send out a relief expedition in advanc to receive and care fer his party when it arrives wherever it is going. Washing ton Star.