Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 30, Plymouth, Marshall County, 10 May 1895 — Page 2

(Efjc3n&cpcnöcnt A. R. 2!. MAI ER MAN, PuMisher.

FI.YMO JTH. I TZL ino an; WILL TAKE IT EASY. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND PREPARING FOR THE SUMMER. Bond Syiidicxitc Said to lie Preparing for Another Treasury Kaitl-Nurrow Kfccapc for King Humbert and Consort Strikers Arc Kiotinsr. Will Work at Gray Gable. A complete executive office will bo established at (J ray Cables for the President's use this summer, and as arrangements have been made fur the transaction there of nil public business that will conic before him, it is probable that his departure for Buzzard's Pay will be made ns soon as the weather becomes oppressive in Washington. Private Secretary Thurber will be near enough so that he can work with the President every day. No appointments that may be made or other business transacted by the President will be furnished to the public at P.uzzard's Hay, but v. ill be pent to the White House in Washington for announcement. All communication with the departments will be through the clerks in charge of the White House. This method is taken in order to avoid any necessity for the oliicials to be in attendance at (J ray Cables. Cornering the Supply of Gold. A Washington special says: 'Treasury oilicials profess to see something ominous in the purchase of the output of the gold mines of the I'nited States by brokers representing the Mergan-Ilothschihl bond syndicate, which is accumulating American gold at the rate of S?lö K Kinn.) to $.'. HM).(KK) a month, which represents from (." to 7." per cent, of the total production of mines of this country. It is taking practically all the re lined gold bars which are produced by the twentyfive or thirty private refineries in the Fast. The syndicate is under contract obligations to maintain the Government gold reserve until the conclusion of its $0'KjO,om bond deal. The Government is absolutely at the mercy of the syndicate. The administration has contracted to sell the syndicate any and all new bonds it may issue between February and next October, no price being named. Those who are familiar with the details of this last enormous bond transaction Kay the syndicate will come out J?S, H K ,(KKJ ahead, net, and the temptation to engage in another colossal operation of the same sort is apparently too strong to be resisted. The syndicate is beyond any question getting possession of all the gold it can. When the emergency arrives the Government will find its source of supplies dried up completely." IJiK Strike IScjrixn. About 1,200 men employed in various rapacities at the blast furnaces of the Illinois Steel Company at South Chicago went on strike Tuesday. The laborers, preascrs and helpers at the same company's shops in Joliet are on strike. Altogether 4,000 to 3,000 men are affected by the strike. The strikers of South Chicago demand a reduction in their hours of labor ami an increase of pay. They have been working twelve hours a day and their pay has been $1.00 per day. They demand a ten-hour day and the restoration of the former schedule by which they were able to earn $lM0 a day. The Joliet men ask for an advance of pay ranging from 10 per cent. up. The laborers, who have been paid 11 cents an hour, or $1.10 a d:iy, nsk $l.r,T to $1.50 a day, but it is expected they would bo satisfied with $1.2.". Thus far there has been no sign that the company will accede to the men's demands, and the strike may prove a serious setback to the revival of business which seemed to have begun. Men in other industries are said to be infected with the same desire for moreyxiy, and the strike may spread both in South Chicago and Joliet. The South Chicago strikers began rioting Tuesday, and many Leads were cracked by police. Royal Train Derailed, King Humbert and Queen Margaret ot Italy had a narrow escape from death Tuesday. They were on their way by rail in a special train from Florence to ttome, attended by their suites. Suddenly, near Incisa Lake, there was a violent shock, one of the carriages was derailed and everybody on board the train received more or less serious concussions. An obstruction of some description, it appears, either fell across the track or was placed there by evil-minded persons. Several members of the royal suite sustained slight injuries, but the King and Queen escaped with nothing more serious than a bad shaking up. BREVITIES, The Government is said to have been defrauded of $l.r00,000 during the last ten years through undervaluations in imports of decorated china and glassware at Philadelphia. It. M. McElroy, of Princeton College, won the Princeton-Yale oratorical contest at Now Haven. He took the affirmative of the proposition: "Resolved, That the income tax of 18i4 was justifiable." Cholera has appeared among Mohammedan pilgrims in Mecca at Cainaran, the island in the Ited Sea where devotees from abroad are required to stop and remain in quarantine for ten days. Forty deaths have occurred out of lifty-oue cases. President Seth Low has offered to personally assume the cost of the new library building for Columbia College, estimated at about $l,000,0t0. Trustee William C. Hche-rme-rhorn agrees to be responsible for a new science building for the college, to cost not more than $.'100,000. Additional advices received from Majunga regarding the victory of the French on the Petniboka river thow that the Horas lost ."'0 men, including several imIorlant chiefs. The French forces, ns already cabled, captured a number of prisoners, several guns ami a quantity of provisions. The French losses were only one killed and four wounded. IJoston theater owner have organized a mutual lire insurance company. John Gehrig and Alexander St ruhen were drowned near Shoshone, Idaho, while attempting to ford Wood river. Gehrig's body has been recovered.

EASTERN. The bo;ly of Hoy M. Culver, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. of Newark, N. J., has been found in the Clyde river near Bavannah, X. Y. Culver mysteriously disappeared about six weeks ago. A St. Johns (X. F.) paper announces the United States Atlantic squadron, under the command of Admiral Meade, will visit Xewfoundland waters this summer, where it is likely it will meet the British fleet under Admiral Frskine. A Xew Jersey Senate committee is investigating a charge that for $1.000 Fvn I. Hamilton, wife of Robert Kay Hamilton, obtained through Gov. Abbett. who is now dead, and the New Jersey Court of Pardons, her release from State prison in November. ISJH). Edward Ilurrough, State Road Commissioner of Xew Jersey, well known throughout the country to agriculturists, foil dead while delivering a speech at the reunion of the Twenty-third New Jersey regiment at Gen. Grubb's residence at Philadelphia Friday afternoon. In concluding his speech, Mr. Iiurrough said: "I hope to meet you all beyond, where friends and enuuiies will .'rather i;i one grand reunion." The words seemed to choke. Purrough clasped his hand to his head and fell over dead. He was a leading Republican of New Jersey. At South Acton, Mass., Friday morning, one of the powder mills of the Aineritr.n Powder Company blew up. A few minutes later a second mil!, situated 100 yards away, also exploded. Fire, caused by the explosion, spread to the third mill, known as the Corning mill, and in a few minutes it also blew up an 1 was destroyed. Five persons are believed to have been killed. The woods -lose by the mills were Fet on lire and burned tiercely, threatening the big storehouse of the company, containing 0,000 pounds of powder, and preventing the saving of property. Fifty men were employed in the mills, and when the nois' of the first explosion was heard those in the Corning mills, about thirty in number, rushed from the building and escaped liefere the flames spread to the mill. The mills, ten in number, are separated from each other and inclosed by high board fences. The explosion of the first mill set lire to the surrounding fence and the llames soon spread to the second mill. In fifteen minutes after the first explosion three of the mills had been destroyed.

WESTERN. W. II. Dotson, a well-to-do merchant of IloF, I. T., was gored to death by a mad bull. Sand Lake, Mich., was wiped out by fire1. The only business structures left are a restaurant and the depot. The loss is $00.000. G. A. Houghton, bookkeeper for P. A. Means Sc Co., of Cheyenne, Wyo., was ar-reste-d in Denver. He c onfessed to embezzling $7,'HJ0 from his employers. The Supreme Court of Kansas has lecided that the law of 1S02 giving a mortgagor eighteen months for the redemption of property after foreclosure is constitutional in so far us it applies to contracts in force prior to the passage of the law. Work was suspended Wednesday by 00,000 Massilloil. O., miners and will not be resumed until a scale for one year is made and signed. The suspension is complete in Massillon district, but will not be respected if the unorganized miners continue at work.' At Iliattsvillc, Kan., over half a dozen people have been poisoned, some of them Ierhaps fatally, by medicine administered by a traveling woman dentist who has skipped town. The dentist traveled under the name of Dr. Alberta Oberlin and claimed to come from St. Louis. A frightful cyclone struck near the little town of Patterson, twenty miles east of Hutchinson, Kan., at 4:20 Wednesday afternoon, and as a result ten persons are dead, twenty-live injured, twenty houses razed, and many barns and buildings destroyed and cattle, horses and hogs killed. A Tacoma, Wash., dispatch says: The cuticle of the late Tom Blanck, the desperado, has been tanned and will be made into pocketbooks. The people of Sumner say it is an attempt to "immortalize a red-handed murderer" and accuse a physician of that place of tanning the human skin. The attachment suit of II. F. Crandall, proprietor of the Grand Missouri Hotel, Kansas City, Mo., against the Wagnerian Opera Company to satisfy a claim of $3l) for board for sixty-four musicians was compromised. Mr. Damrosch paid Mr. Crandall $100 and certs rather than be comiellod to try the case. An electric and wind storm in Wisconsin on Friday and the day before killed several peoplenud damaged much property. The dead are: Joseph Auderla, aged 14, killed in his bed at Kellnesville; Jasper Chlup, killed at Lodi; John Kitchenmeister, killed at Seymour; Mrs. Joseph Sutherland, killed in her cellar at York, where she had gone to get away from the storm. At least fifty-two people are believed to hare been killed near Sioux Center, Iowa, in a terrific cyclone that passed over northwestern Iowa Friday afternoon. Some estimate the entire death roll at 200 to 300, for many hamlets were in the storm. Four school houses are known to have been demolished, two teachers and several pupils killed, and score's of other buildings have been wrecked. A Chicago North Side man was so well satisfied last year with his fiat and its renting price that he put in hardwood floors, iwpered, painted aud otherwise improved, and expended many good dollars on the property just as if it belonged to him. "When it comes to signing another lease," ho argtied to himself, T11 get a reduction because Pro been such a good tenant." Rut he didn't. On the contrary, the landlord said: "You have been getting that flat too cheap at $."J0. It goes for $05 next ye'ar." Protests were vain. Threats to tear up the improvements were met with promises to sue for damages, and in tho cud the lease was signed nt $05. Six hundred striking St. Louis, Mo., brickyard workmen left their temporary headquarters west of Tower Grove Park Thursday, armed with stones and clubs, and marched north towards the yards of the Cofe Rrilliante Pressed Rrick Company. The workmen nt these yards refused to strike the other day when visited by a committee from the union. A warning was sent to the x.iierintciident of the works by the police, and he barricaded the gate leading to the yards and awaited the mob's appearance. When the mob came up it assaulted the gate, but was repulsed and dispersed by the police, the struggle for a short time being highly exciting. Judge Myers, of the Leavenworth, Kan., District Court, has made a very

important order affecting the rights of Dr. Leslie E. Keeley. W. F. Johnson, of Topcka, sues Dr. Keeley for JIOo.ihX) damages, the petition reciting thru plaintiff has been wade a physical wreck because of the gold cure. Judge Myers, in granting the petitioner's request, rules that Dr. Keeley must make known the ingredients of this bichloride of gold compound. The court holds that the cure is not a property right nor a trade- secret; it is unprotected by a patent, has been in use more than two years and there is nothing to prevent Dr. Keeley testifying, and that he must tell what it is. Alton mail and express train No. C was held up about half a mile north of Carlinville. III., at midnight Wednesday by a gang of five men. The train had just stopped for the crossing when the men began tiring and jumped into the cab and commanded the engineer and fireman to hold up their hands. They were scared away by the train crew, but not before they had killed, the engineer. The gang ran in all directions, but three of them were captured and are now in jail. The sheriff and posse, armed with shotguns, have started on the trail of the rest of the men and hope to have them soon. The dead engineer was Frank Holmes, one of the oldest and best engineers oil the Alton road. Five persons were drowned at Carsrude Lake, six miles from Fort Collins, Colo., Sunday. The dead are: Ray Ra.lger. Denver, aged 1'.; Robert Craig, Fort Collins, aged L'O; Carsrude, son of II. Carsrude; Carsrude, daughter of II. C. C. Carsrude; Carsrude, daughter of II. C. Carsrude. The party went eut fishing in .1 leaky old craft. Radge r hoc-oming frightened, tried to paddle to shore, ami in some way upset the loat. At Detroit, Mich., four lives were lost in drowning accidents. The Raugh family tried to change positions in a rowboat, which capsized. Although hundreds of people along the docks witnessed the accident, all sank before aid could reach them. More-lie Mondsworth, HO years of age, went in swimming at Peoria, 111., and was drowned. There is no money in the horse moat business. This was made plain in a practical way the other day to a man who came all the way from Oregon to lay before Chicago firms what he thought was a bonanza. It was this man's opinion that a great deal of money could be made in buying horse s in the West at $5 a head and slaughtering them for export to Frame and Germany, where the llesh is largely used as food. "There's a big oversupply of horses on the ranges," he said, "and they can be bought cheaply. It's the chance of your life to make a fortune." "I can't see it that way," said the butcher to whom the project was submitted. "At Hammond there is a firm which has made a business of buying cheap horses and working the llesh into sausage. The high price of hides is the only thing that has saved the concern from failure. There is but little real meat on a horse, the average being not more than L'5o pounds, and no butter fat or similar stuff which goes to make up a profit in the cattle slaughtering trade. Take my advice and feed your horses to the hogs or use them for fertilizer." The evening train bore back to Oregon a dejected "Col. Sellers," mourning a crushed scheme in which he hatl seen millions.

WASHINGTON. Secretary Morton denies the report that he contemplates raising the quarantine against Canadian cattle. The patent office is hearing arguments as to the ownership of a patent for a cigarette making machine that is warranted to make five milis of cigarettes per day. The tobacco is spun out in an endless rope aud fitted into an endless roll of paper, and is then cut into the proper lengths. Secretary Gresham is a sick man. He has not taken any nourishment for three days. He lias lost his voico nnd is in a bad way. Several visitors were admitted during Thursday afternoon in violation of the physician's orders, and they persisted in discussing pending diplomatic complications and left him in a feverish, semidelirious state during the night. The ailment, neuralgia of the stomach, it is learned, is one of nearly a year's standing and twice before in three months has compelled the Secretary to take to his bed. The Department of Agriculture has received no oliicial confirmation of the report from Paris that seventeen soldiers at Vitrie died from eating American tinned meat. Dr. Salmon said that the cause of poisoning from eating canned goods was not well understood. It did not necessarily follow that the meat was diseased. Some chemical change, due to the presence of solder and tin, sometimes took place, which proeluceel the poisonous effects. A report will probably be received in due time from the United States consul general. Secretary Hoke Smith, of the Interior Department, in an interview on the financial question, divided the people into three classes gold monoraetallists, silver tnonometallists and bimetallists. He did not think the gold monomctallists strong enough to become a factor in the campaign, but that the issue would be for and against silver monometallism. He thought that , the free aud unlimited coinage of silver at the present ratio by this country alone would mean nothing more or less than silver monometallism, for if, under that system, the price of silver bullion did not materially advance, no other metal would be presented at the mints for coinage. , foreTgnT In accordance with a special imperial edict issued in erder to prevent the possibility of the Japanese entering Fekln, the Chinese have cut the river embankments near Pekin. Much territory has been flood el and hundreds of Chines? have been drowned. United States Consul General Pen field, at Cairo, makes the surprising statement that Egypt, in proportion to population, has more railway mileage and better service than Austria, Hungary, Spain or Portugal, and it is all Government property, with the exception of a few shrrt lines. An English syndicate has about concludes! negotiations for the Portland Conscdielatcd. the City and Suburban and the East Side Railways at Portland, Ore., comprising a mileage of 128 miles of electric lines. These three roads represent an outlay of about $.'.000,000, and it is understood that the purchase price will be close to that figure. The Paris Gaulois announces that Russia has invited France and Germany to sign a joint note stating their objections to the treaty of ioacc arranged nt Shimoneseki between the 'representatives of China and Japan, and that the latter country be notified that the fnet of her ignoring this note will warrant trmenl in

tervention upon the part of the threo powers which sign it. The London foreign office publishes a table giving the number of divorces in foreign countries yearly for the last ten years, the figures having been speeially gathered by members of the consular corps. In the whole of Gnat Rritain during but ."no divorces were applied for, while in Germany ihe total v;:s nearly 7.000. and in France 5.700. The State of Massachusetts shows up with one divorce to every twenty-two marriages. A correspondent of the North China News, writing from New Chwaug. asserts and quotes Eurojxans as authority that

i the Japanese treiops, when they entered Denshodai, murdered and wounded prisoners and many of the peaceful poplation asserted that an hour after the battle ended Dot a winded man was to be seen, but there were many bodies with bayonet wounds in addition to gunshot wounds. More than 1,000 Chinese were dead and many of the bodies were mutilated. Id Manchuria cholera has appearer, but not in so threatening a form, and the latest reports are reassuring. Strenuous efforts are being made to prevent the disease from spreading. The town of Ujina, t:ear Hiroshima, has been isolated and a most rigid quarantine regulation is everywhere enforced. There has also boon an epidemic ef smallpox in Ynmarashi prefecture, the number of cases being y.ooo. Hi GENERAL Richard Mansfield has bought all the dramatic rights in this country for Nodier's "Trilby." Rev. Father Pagaza has been consecrated Roman Catholic bishop of Vera Cruz, Moxieo. Col. De Garmo, originator of the Montreal food fair and well known in Chicago, is alleged to have abse-ondeel from Montreal, leaving numerous unpaid bills behind him. Notice lias been given by the Standard Oil Company that it can no longer furnish fuel oil and its customers must look elsewhere. Scores of fae-torie-s in Cleveland use this fuel oil and they will be force d to abanden it. The general opinion seems to be little or no change in coal price will be made. Advices from San Juan Beautista, Mex., say that six Guatemalan outlaws who have been committing many murders and robberies in that soetiou during the last few months have been shot. A force of armed citizens overtook ,tho outlaws near the town of Saguil and a light took dace, in which the leader of the brigands, Fran cisco Bojas, was kilhnl. Five others were captured and they were shot. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Raseball League: Per Clubs. riaye'd. Won. Lost, cent Pittsburg 15 10 o :700 Boston 10 7 3 .700 Cleveland 12 8 4 .007 Baltimore W ö 4 .o.0 Chicago 13 7 G ..,8 Brooklyn ....10 5 5 .000 Cincinnati . ...14 7 7 .."00 New York. ... 11 5 0 .455 Philadelphia ..10 4 C .400 Louisville ....12 4 8 .3,a Washington ..10 3 7 .M00 St. Louis 14 4 10 .2S(j Sugar has joined the procession of pro ducts climbing upward. There is an advance of one-quarter cent a pounel in re fined sugars, and that is considered only a trifle ns compareel with upturns com ing. Chicago appears to be the storn center, and the mails bring tons of envelopes into the wholesale houses fretm the wide territory tributary to that market. Chicago is the largest distributing point to the retail trade in the country. Willott Je Gray, of New York, wired the following to linns there: "Europe stremg and advancing since morning. All things considered, we expect an advance of half a cent en relined before the culmination." R. G. Dun & Co.'s Review of Trade says: "Business begins May in better con dition than at any other time since the breakdown in May, lS'Xl. Smaller in volume than then, it is not now shrinking, but enlarging. The chief obstacle to a more complete recovery is the anxiety of many to pluck fruit before it is ripe. HoMcrs of some staples have lifted them se far as to prevent their marketing. Consumption of materials in some branches is checked by advances which cannot be realized for finished products. Workers in some industries are demanding wages that cannot be paid out of any business in sight. In spite of labor troubles and speculative excesses, the outlook brightens. Money markets continue healthy and, with heavy sales of railway bonds abroad, the deficiency in public revenue, $S,74ü,840, in April, causes no apprehension." MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $5.FiO; hogs, shipping grades, $3 to $5; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $5; wheat. No. 1! red, 03Uc to GPac; corn. No. 2, 47c to 4lc; oats, No. H, ti.Sc to ÜOe; rye, No. 2, 04c to (55c; butter, choice creamery, 10c to 17c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; potatoes, car lots, per busheJ, 70c to UOc; broom corn, per lb, common growth to fine brush, 4c to 7c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3 to $0.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, common to prime, $2 to $1.50; wheat, No. 2, 05c to CoVe; corn. No. 1 white, 47c to 48c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c. St. Louis Cattle. $3 to $0.25; hogs, $4 to $5; wheat, No. 2 red,'(4e to 00c; corn, No. 2, 40c to 47'; oats, No. 2, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2, U3e to GOc. Cincinnati Cattle. $;?.50- to ?6; hogs, $3 to $5.25; sheep, $2'50 tu $4.-73; wheat. No. 2, COc to UU&e: corn, No. 2 mixed, 4Se to 40c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 3QVic to 3P2C; rye, No. 2, 02c to G3e. Detroit Cattle, $2.50 to $G; hogs, ?4 to $5; sheep, $2 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 07c to OSc; corn, No. 2 yellow, 4!c to 4l!c; oats. No. 2 white, 34c to 34 ,'; rye, 07c to COe. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 red, C7c to 07Vj?; torn, No. 2 mixeM, 50c to flOe; oats, No. 2 white-, S3c to 33; rye. No. 2, GOV tu 07c. Ruff r.lo Cattle, $2.50 to $0.50; hogs, $3 to $5.50; sheep, $3 to $5; wheat. No. 1 hard, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 53c to 53i.c; oats, No. 2 white, 35c to 36c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 spring, 05c to Go1'; corn, No. 3, 4!e to 50c; oats. No. 2 "white, 32c to 33c; barley. No. 2, 51c to 52c; rye. No. 1, G3c to 01c; pork, mess, $12 to $12.50. , New York-Cattle, $3 to $0.r0; hogs, $4 to $5.50; sheep, $3 to $5; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2, 58c to 0c; oats, white Western, 3Sc to 41c; butter, creamery, lie to 20c; eggs, Wtern, 11c to 12c.

LUMBER FIBM FAILS.

STRANGE COLLAPSE OF A MINNESOTA FIRM. The Japanese Will Accede to Russia's liccnicst Gov. Morrill, of Kansas, Accused of Crime A Quarter-Million Fire Loss in ISnffalc. Will Tay All It Debt. The assignment of the- lumbe r and banking firm of N. 1. Clarke & Co., ef St. Claud and Minneapolis, caused much surprise, but it is claimed the' depositors will lose nothing, as. eonte inplating ar.assignment. the manage-me-nt has for some- time been engaged in executing dee-ds ;;nl mortgages to secure depositors and private creditors to the extent of about $175,0'. The Minneapolis li.;hiiitics will not exood $5oo,xiO nnd the assets are variously estimated as high as .-"VM ., but owing to re-cent transfers $1.o(o.omo i.-s pn.li.-.My nearer the eorree t figure-. A rumor that the faihiro was due to '"ilye rs" in wheat and e-orn was denied e mpkat bally by Mr. Clarke. Iitissia's Protest Heeded. The Japanese? Covernment has in fern, ed the Cover:::m.-nt eif Ce-rmany that in accordance with the advice of the powe-rs Japan has rolinejuish.vl h r e-hfim to tluL:ao Tung peninsula under the treaty of Shinioiioseki. In l'aris the Japanese minister has informe-d the minister of foreign affairs, M. Haiiotaux. that, deferring to the friendly advice1 of Frane-e. Ilussia and (Jermany, Japan has renounced its claim to the permanent posse-ssibn of the Laio Tung peninsula, including I'ort Arthur. The Journal de St. Petersburg M!)s that Japan, in conformity with the advh-e of liussia, Prance- and Ce nnany. renounce s he-r chums to the possession of Pr ug-Tie n. An otheial able rece-ived in Washington gives decisive information that the Ihnperor of China has ratilii-e! the treaty. The information is so positive as to be be-yond quest ion. I t K ars up many contradictory statements from unollie-ial source-s as to whether the emperor had or had not ratified. A press dispatch from Yokohama says that China's ratification is still in doubt. All this doubt is put at rest, however, bv the authoritative' information re-aching Wash ington. The ratification of the Chinese emperor brings China and Japan to a linal accord, so that it remains only for Japan te settle with Itussia and other protesting powers. Charges Against Morrill. S. W. Chase, warden of the Kansas pe-nitentiary, Monday swore out a war rant fer the arrest of Cov. E. N. Morrill. charging him with obtaining money unde-r false pretenses. Mr. Chase charges that from De'C. 15, lN'.ll, to Jan. 14. the elate of his inauguration. (Jev. Morrill main taine-d a suite ef private rooms and kept three clerks busy sorting over the appli cations of ollice seeke-rs and answering private correspondence', and that after he became Governor he signed vouchor for these expenses and paid them out of the executive continge-ut fund. The April salaries of the three clerks have been withheld to replace the amount so drawn. but that doeis not remove the cause of complaint, and Warden Chase and lus attorneys say they will push the' matter. The arrest of Gov. Morrill is by many e-onsidered spite work on the part of War den Chase, who is under investigation now. Unprecedented May Day. In the twenty years' meteondogie-al history of Chicago there are- but seven years in which the? temperature rose as high in any time in May as it lid Friday. In the cpiarter of a century no similar elate ever equaled tiie day in heat. The maximum temperature was JsX, :d the average for the twenty-four hours 73. One case of prostration by heat was reported. NEWS NUGGETS. The P.lake Puilding at Oakland, Cah, burned. Loss, $20,000. "Uov." William Walker, of IVnver. passed through 1 Joe-host er, N. Y.. in a prairie schooner. He hail driven all the' way from Denver and is, on his way te New York city for the benefit of his health. Ge'orge Newe ombe, alias "Hitter Cre-e k." alias "Slaughter Kid," and Charles Pierce, the dead outlaws, we-re identified at Guthrie, O. T., as two of tlw Koek Island train robbers, and Newe-omb as a member of the gang that rohlod sudoral Santa Pe trains. Fire in liuffalo, N. Y., destroyed M. Strauss V: Son's tannery, iostal station A, Grobon's coal yard, barns, several freight e-ars, two dwellings, a number of horses and a large amount of stee k in Fast liuffalo. The hiss is estimated at $250,000, with $125,000 insurance. The Omaha Indians receiveel $25,tH0 in money Monduy at the Decatur, Neb., agency. Per capita it amounted te Theyvfiocked to lhvatur about 2Ö0 in number. It was uet long befere' elruukeu Indians tilled the streets. Depredations of all kinds were committed. Knives, pistols and all sorts of deadly weapons were thick. A determined young lover met a violent death at Hlount Springs, Ala. Thomas Sayn, a Nashville, Tenn., tinner, starte-d to llinningham to surprise his sweetheart, Miss Mary Zimmer, of Nashville, who is visiting then. He gt as far as Decatur, Ala., when his inoiie-y was stolen. Nothing daunted he teedi to the trucks of a Louisville and Nashville freight. He was put off twice and twice got on again. At the iint mentioned he tried to get from under the car aud was run over and killed. Dr. Julian II. See-lye, ex-presldent of Amherst Coih'ge, is critically ill. Five out of seven occupants of a leaky ohl boat, whie-h the party had taken to go for a fishing trip on Carsrude lake, Cdo., were ilrowned. laelge-r, one of the party, had Iwcoine frightened ami overturned the lioat while attempting to paddle it to the shore. A company has been organised at IVrtlaud. Ore., to pack and export horse meat. Mr. and Mrs. George llaaugh. Prank Connelly and Edward Moriarity were drowned by tho upsetting of a boat at Detroit. John It. Melean, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, is reported to have bought the New York Morning Journal. The United States Atlantic squadron, under the command of Admiral Meade, will visit Newfounelland ws.ters this summer, where it is likely -it will meet the British licet under Admiral Erskiue.

ENGINEER SHOT TO DEATH

Deed of Three Men Who Hoarded a a Alton Lx press Train. The St. Louis ami Chicago express on the Alton road was he-Id up by robbers half n mile north of Cariiiiville, 111., at about midnight Wednesday. Threo men boarded the locomotive and ordered the engineer, Prank Hohnes, ef Ilioomington. to thr-j-.v up his Lauds. He refused and was shot and h.siaiitly killed. Three shut;: w re llnd. All three robbers were caught an;! plae; d in jail. The one who shed Hohnes w.:s captured by a mail clerk as he was getting o.T the cab. No one else wrs hurt. It is not known whether r bbery was the motive for the crime or not. The belief is current that the engine t was murdered by revengeful tramps. In the morning when going south, at C:iriinvn!e, JM- vmpelh-d some vagrants to leave the train. A few mo-nie-nts later he discovered siie tramp burning cars on the "Y" and succeeded in driving tin m way. II was a resolute man and despite tin- threats of the hobos that th-y would g-.-t ev-u witbxhim he dir-pi'rsed tl:e;n. The--'. farts, coupled with that of the murdT taking place iu the same vicinity, stre-ngtln-ned the theory that he was murde re d by some of the tramps. Holmes w.;s age about 42. He w;;s a so:i of Judge Holmes, who was one of the' pii.ne-e-r lawyers of IIIoniington, and v:;s i;'i- te d with the Alton road for a quarte r of a e-ntury. TnAiN-:coiJi:i:i;s' plot poilld. Kcsult Im the Fatal Shooting of Two Men Near St. Jeejd:t Mo. Two man fatally sh:jt is th' result of a frustrated attempt to rob a Purlington train coming into St. Joseph, Mo. For Koine days a gang f tough e harae ters has been hanging aro:ni. and information was brought to the i'nriingb.n oHicia's that the Omaha express was to be held up. William Haag, a hotel man, furnish---1 the information, and the otiiee-rs sent guards, who frustrated the design. Wedmvsday evening, while Kb-hard Pan, ca employe of Haag, was sitting in the bar of Haag's place, Thomas I'arrall, one of the gang, stepped inside the door and. without a word, shot IIa 11 through the stomae h, intlicting a fatal wound. . Citizens tjuickly gathered and captured the men after a bng chase, n.-t. however, until Parrali had be-on fatally shot. MRS. PAR NELL RECOVERING. lie Murderous Assault on the Mother of the Clrcut Home If 11 1 er. Mrs. Delia T. S. Parnoll. the aged mother of the d-al Irish home nile leader, who was nnirde roiisiy assaulted while returning to her home near Porde-ntown, N. J., is now recovering, although her life was at first despaired of. Mrs. Parnoll went t P.ordentown In tiie afternoon, and it was dark when she returned. Part of the -iv bneL- lIia VS'l uas "''mpanied T .1 Vftß Dan Grillin. and fol-lowe-d. it is said, at some distane-e, by a weli-l rosse 1 young man in a light ovorCoat. Soon after Grillin loft her he heard cries, and, rushing in the direc MKS. PAIiXEIX. tion of the sound, found the old laly lying in the road and blooding profusely. Sho had evidently been struck on the head with a brick. She was movel to the house of John nnl Charles Casey, who work Mrs. Parnoll's farm. It was found that her purse had been stolen ami also the key of her house which she carried with her. The Ca soys, fe-aring that the absence of the house key was significant, kept a careful watch on the old mansion ri TT -O0 - sins. PAKXELL'S i:com. Thursday night. What secrets were locked up in that oM house imbody knows. What papers are hidden there that might affect more than on-? man connected with the home rule movement? Mrs. Prrnoll has boon .1 central figure in Irish politics in this country. She has for years lived in her present home, overlooking the Delaware. She was the daughter of Kear Admiral Charles Stewart, who commanded the United Status frigate-s Constellation ami Constitution during the war of 18111. She wan bvrn" in 1S15 in the old hoim-stead. While attending a presidential ball in Washington in 1S41 she met her husband, John Henry Parnoll. She was marrie-d in Vt'l and went to live on the ancestral estate of the Parnoll family, at AvemJale, County Wicklow, Ireland. She left the Parnell estate, at Avondale, and came several years later to this country. She became a favorite in "society and was at one time considered wealthy, haviug inherited a comfortable fortune from her father's estate. Speculations in Wall street brought financial revorse-s, which lost her fortune. She, however, receives a pension of 00 a month on account of her father. Telegraphic IlrcTities. It Is n-iHi-tcd that the New York World will join the ranks of Il-e-eut papers. Pactoria in milk has caused an epidemic of typhoid fever at Stamford, Conn. There lias lKen an outbreak of cholera at the naval station of Mji in Southern Japan. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court hat decideel that bicyclists must pay toll oa turnpikes. Miss Lizzie Gniber was fatallv injured at Joffe rsonville, Ind., by being thrown from a carriage. Mines in the Fifth Ohio district are closed, 7,000 men being out. The me n demand GO cents n ton. Fire got such a headway In the whole sale grocery of J. II. Mohhnan & Co., New lork, that the walls caved in before an alarm was given. The loss is $75,000. The Missouri Supreme Curt refused to let a grand jury have the b)xes containing the lallets cast nt the last election, holding that tlce H-cnvy of the 1 ml lot must be preserved. Lawrence Fnrrvll. the pugilist. Is under an-ost at IVnvcr on a charge of having b(Hn Implicated in the highwar robber of Mrs. Kate IlebanL who was relieved of $800 worth of diamonds.

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