Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 39, Plymouth, Marshall County, 19 July 1895 — Page 2

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PLYMOUTH, INDIANA. DEATH CHAIK WAITS. WOMAN MAY PAY THE DREADED PENALTY. Nicaragua May Cancel Canal Concessions Because of Delay Nebraska Desperadoes May Have Been Lynched Oreaon Stage Held Up. Maria Barbcri Sentenced to Death. Maria Barberi, who murdered her lover, Dominico Cataldo, at New York, because he abandoned her, was found guilty of murder in the first degree, and will, if the verdict is allowed to stand, be the first woman condemned to deatli fcinoe the passage of the law making electrocution the death penalty. The case will be taken to the Court of Appeals, and if that court does not order a new trial the Governor will be appealed to to commute the sentence to imprisonment. The Recorder's charge was unfavorable to the defendant. He said in conclusion: "You must exemplify justice ly your verdict. A jury has nothing to do with mercy. The law knows no distinction of persons. The law does not hold woman less responsible than man. The female sex is sometimes used as a cloak for most horrible crimes." Threatens the We Canal. A private letter to a New Orleans gentleman from Managua. Nicaragua, contains the following, which is given with every degree of authority: "The concession granted several years ago to the Maritime Canal Company by the Nicaraguan Government for the construction of the Nicaraguan Canal is for the second time in great danger of being cancelled, and if annulled will be otherwise disposed of. This second trouble, is caused by the promise to build a canal at a point called Tipitapa. which would connect Lake Nicaragua with Lake Managua. When the concession was granted it was agreed that in return for the concession a canal would be built at this IKint within three years after the beginning of the work on the main line of the Nicaraguan Canal. Tin time limit placed upon the completion of this waterway expired in Octolr, 1N02. As the company has made no steps toward carrying out its contract the Nicaraguan Government threatens to annul the concession, and the threats come in the form of a resolution on the part of the President and his Cabinet, which to all apiear:iiic is final." Short "Work of Nebraska Ii natters. There is a general belief at Butte, Neb., that a party of rustlers captured by the vigilantes Sunday have been lynched. The men captured were: Louis Zouadland. a resident of Spencer, Neb.; S. C. Clark, C. S. Murphy and C. II. Jackson, who lived west of Spring View. Nearly one hundred head of cattle were found. But few citizens think the rustlers reached Spring View, as the vigilantes are old ranchers and seldom bring a rustler back when they have a good chance to make away with hint. Others believe that because of the publicity given to the affair the men in charge will not dare to make away with them, but will turn them over to the authorities at Spring View, when other parties will take them from the officers, and they will likely share the usual fate of rustlers. Two Bold Highwaymen. The Wilhoit Springs stage was held up by highwaymen at Howard Hill, about nine miles from Oregon City, Ore., Thursday. Henry Mattoon. the driver, and one passenger, a Portland mau, were robbed of their money, amounting to about $."0. The incoming stage had passed that point but fifteen minutes before. It had three passengers, two of whom had been out hunting and carried their guns in plain view, which probably prevented a repetition of the recent Klamath Palls double robbery. NEWS NUGGETS. The steamer Ariel, reported sunk in the James River with a crowd of colored excursionists, arrived safely at Petersburg, Ya. It was delayed by the storm. Relatives of persons killed in the collision at Craig's Road, IJuebec, have sued the Grand Trunk Railroad for damages exceeding in property loss $150,0OO. A railroad and wagon bridge is to be constructed across the Missouri River at Yankton to connect the (Jreat Northern with the Yankton and Norfolk Railroad. The Comptroller of the Currency has declared a 10 per cent, dividend in favor of the creditors of the insolvent Fvanston (III.) National Bank. Also a 10 per cent, dividend to creditors of the Oregon National Bank of Portland, Ore. The President has issued a proclamation stating that as Spain has extended to American citizens the privileges of copyright as contemplated by our copyright f;ct, Spanish citizens are granted the privileges of American copyright. Mrs. N. K. Pairbauk. wife of the wellknown Chicago capitalist, died at her home at 11 o'clock Monday morninc She had been suffering from peritonitis for several weeks and underwent an operation a month ago, which proved unavailing to save her life. The claim of Capt. Lamothe. of Alton, 111., to the site of the city of Indou, Out., which he says was leased in 170S by an ancestor, only excites ridicule (here. There is no such lease as he speaks of in the local archives. The first one on record dates back only to 1820. The controversy over the leasing of Indian lands on the Omaha and Winnebago reservation took a new turn when the District Court enjoined the Indians' agent, Beck, from making further evictions. It is not believed Beck will obey the injunction and more trouble may follow. Within the last two weeks the average of deaths at Chicago from gasoline stove explosions has been three a day, as reported by the health department. Never before has the slaughter been so great, and theonly explanation which the coroner has to offer is that it is the beginning of the gasoline season, and that all of the fools are not dead yet. A bill for a receiver of the Hotel Richelieu, Chicago, was tiled in the Superior Court by II. Y. Bcmis, proprietor of the hotel. Judge Payne apioiiited William C. Huguniu. The bond was fixed at $25,000, which was furnished.

EASTERNThe Hubbard House and other buildings in the business section of Clayton, N. Y., were burned; loss about $75,000. There were forty guests In the Hubbard House, all of whom escaped. Mrs. Lena Roesener, of Pittsburg, hanged herself to a .'loset door, after she had hung up two of her children in another room. She had been sick for a long time, and it is supposed was insane. The furniture of Mrs. Katharine Chase, daughter of the late chief justice, and former wife of the late Senator Sprague. of Rhode Islr I, has been seized for debt and is about to be disposed of at auction in Washington.Cadet Roberts, a member of the "plebe" class at West Point, is said to have been so badly hazed a few days r.go that he fainted. Cadets Robert Jayue MaXey and Wallace Bryan Scales were placed under arrest, charged with being the offenders. Rev. Dr. P. Ernest Hanser, who for eight years had been professor of Hebrew in the German Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Bloamfield, N. J., has been deposed from his position and from the ministry and expelled from the church for bigamy. Mr. and Mrs. James Britt, who live at Haldeon, N. J., reported to the Bloomfield police that they had been held up by two footpads who "ode bicycles on the Patersor. road in Brooklyn and lobbed of $1,700 in cash, besides some jewelry. After the robberv the thieves remounted their wheels and escaped. Rev. S. II. Phillips, of Durham, Pa., died of blood po'soniug. Six weeks ago Miss Cope, one of his parishioners, for a jest pricked him with a hat pin in the leg. Blood poisoning followed, and to save his life the leg was amputated, but he failed to survive the ordeal. The young woman is almost crazed with grijf. The social session tendered by Atlantic City, X. J., lodge to the visiting Elks at the Baltic avenue Casino ended in a disaster in which fully 100 persons were seriously injured. The session had just opened and only one of the speikers had been heard when, without ;he slightest warning, the building, which had not been used for several years, collapsed and fully 1,000 persons ve:e thrown to the floor beneath. One hundred and six acres, adjoining the grounds of the Chautauqua Assembly, at Chautauqua, N. Y.. have been secured by the American Brewing Company of Chicago, Milwaukee, and Toronto, and it is the reported intention of the company to erect a beer garden and brewery thereon. Mrs. Kate Hunt, of Buffalo, who owned the property, will receive $30,000. The asseirbly tried to purchase part of the property this spring, offering $15,000 for fifty acres, but Mrs. Hunt refused to sell a part. Great indignation is felt there over the sale.

WESTERN. Lena Groh and Stella Schlaudecker, young girls .f Cleveland. Ohio, were run down and killed by an electric motor. Law and order people of New Holland, Ohio, administered a ?oat of tar and feathers to a young woman named Minnie Taylor and then drove her out of town. J. K. Hudson, editor of the Topeka Capitol, was arrested a second time charged with criminally libeling Judge Poster, of the United States District Court. The insurance men of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho have forme! an organization called the Northwest Insurance Association, to control insurance rates in the Northwest. The fifty-first annual session of the national division Sons of Temperance opened in Cleveland. The principal business of the gathering consists in the revision of the constitution. Near Kaj-sville, Utah, Thoaias Boynton, a well-to-do farmer, was literally chopped to pieces while in bed, by Xephi Blamiers. his rtepson. The two men had a slight jangle the previous evening. The Minnesota Supreme Court has granted a Ftny of execution in the case of Harry T. Ilayward, under sentence of death foi the murder of Catherine Ging, until after the apieal can be heard in the October term. It was developed in court at Cincinnati that W. D. Bender, who is in a sanitarium, had some weeks ago actually burned up $40,000 in cash and $i:t.250 in United States bonds. Some weeks ago Bender became ill and is now partially insa ne. War between the settlers of Jackson Hole, Fremont County, in Wyoming, and the Bannock Indians is imminent. The dispute has already reached the stage where one of the Indians has been killed and several others imprisoned, and their friends are threatening revenge. The trouble was occasioned by the Indians from Idaho, who, finding game scarce in their own country, organized a marauding expedition into Wyoming. Railway men now declare they know why Calvin S. Brice bought the Pittsburg, Akron and Western Road a short time ago. They claim to know with certainty that he is forming a great railroad system, which will le the shortest route between Chicago and New York and have ramifications to many of the great business centers. The line will be between the Yanderbilt system en the north and the Pennsylvania on the south, and will cross the Frie in several places. There was an unusual number of fatalities and serious accidents in and near Chicago Sunday. Seven people were killed in a variety of accidents and several of the nine injured will die as a result of injuries received. The deadly trolley got in its work as usual and helped swell the list of killed and injured. There were one or two suicides and several accidental drownings. Probably the most pathetic of the fatalities was the drowning of two brothers, John and Andrew Lipner, nged 17 and 1." respectively, . in Lake Calumet. They went there to catch fish, but, growing tired of the sport, decided to take a swim. While in the water a short distance from their boat one of the boys was taken with a cramp. He tailed for help and his brother tried to nave him. An hour afterward loth bodies were recovered tightly clasped in each other's embrace. The boys' mother is prostrated with grief. Trains on railroads from the north due in Grand Rapids, Mich., early Wednesday evening did not nrrive until after midnight, having been delayed by forest fires at various places along the lines. On the Chicago anil West Michigan road the little towns of Wallin and Clary, between Thompson ville and Traverse City, have been entirely wiped out, and the residents have taken refuge at Thompson ville. The wires are down, and full particulars are ntt obtainable, but passeugers arriving

there report that no lives were lost. On the Grand Rapids and Indiana the village of Morley is threatened, and fires have been ranging along the tra'ck between Manton and Mancelona. The summer resort, Oden-Oden. was surro jaded by forest fires and was in danger of being burned. Wallin consisted of one hotel, one store, a saw-mill, warehouse, coalkiln and about twenty houses. People are without clothing or food. One child is missing. Many were overcome by the heat. Already a number of farmhouses have been burned and the people are coining into the towns with tears streaming down theii faces, because, as they declare between sobs, they have lost all the property they have on earth. Prom the ports along Lakes Michigan and Huron come messages that the smoke from the forest fires are proving a serio is menace to navigators.

SOUTHERN. Dr. Edward Jones, of the Kastern Kentucky Insane Asylum staff, was found dead beneath his window. It is thought he leaped out. Fears are entertained at Little Rock, Ark., that an overflow will result from the present unprecedented rise in the Arkansas River. William Walker, a notorious colored desperado, who has been robbing Mid terrorizing the people of his own race near Memphis, was killed by William Walton, colored, a member of a posse wlrch had besieged Walk.T in his own ho jse. At a meeting of coal .nine operators controlling seven-eighths of I he coal output of Alabama, and representing over $110,000,000 capital, held in Birmingham, the formation of a gigantic coal -oinbine was practically completed. The purpose of the pool, a leading operator says, is to put an end to ruinous competition, by securing better freight rates and 1he realization of such a profit on their product as will enable them to pay their miners good wages. It is the purpose of those in the pool to extend it so as to include all the mines in Tennessee and Kentucky. WASHINGTON. Ainsworth R. Spofford, for over thirty years librarian of Congress, has not rendered satisfactory accounts to the Treasury Department for the last two quarters of the fiscal year just ended, and as a consequence hn accounts are being investigated. Six magnificent steam yachts, such as could be owned only by the lucky possessors of many millions of dollars, will be built by the navy during the current fiscal year, and although they are to be finer than similar vessels of their class, they promise to be all around the most useful ships belonging to the United States (lovernment. By act of Congress, approved March 2, ISO."), provision was made for the construction of six light-draft, composite gunboats, the individual constructive limit of cost being $2.'i0, KX, exclusive of the cost of armament. Recent discussion 'n the iress of the gold reserve in the treasury and the action past and probable of the MorganRothschild bond syndicate recalled to a Washington man familiär with most of the inside history of the Cleveland administration the fact that Czar Alexander III. of Russia once offered to loan the United States all the gold necessary to maintain the reserve at any fijrure desired. 1 he friendly tender was declined by the President, because, after sever il weeks of consideration and deliberation, and telegraphic correspondence back and forth between Washington and St. Petersburg, it was decided that the President had not the authority to issue bonds or otherwise incur indebtedness on behalf of the government. Since then the power of the President and the Secretary of the Treasury to issue bonds has been determined, and if the offer were repeated by the present Russian ruler ;t might be accepted. The story of the proiosition made by the Czar and the way it was received by the President and his advisers was one of the best-kept secrets of the White House. Although the incident occurred some two years ago no hint of it reached the public until now. FOREIGN. The Xew York Herald's orrespondent in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, telegraphs that it is impossible to print the Jetails of the finding of the bodies of those who fell after Admiral Saldhana da lama's death. There is a profound sensation in Rio de Janeiro at the recital of the barbarities practiced. The Spanish foreign office has cabled to the Spanish Minister in Washington, Senor Dupuy de Iome, concerning the reported interview of Ambassador Fustis in the Paris Figaro with a view to having the Minister ask the State Department to disavow the reported utterances of Mr. Kustis. The Red Star Line steamer Westerland sailed for Antwerp Wednesday from New York with the second American national pilgrimage, under the auspices of the Fathers of Mercy, to the European shrines. The first pilgrimage took place last year and the present one was organized at the request of the Pope. Yellow fever is increasing alarmingly in the West Indies. The week ending June 20 recorded twenty-eight deaths in Santiago, while there is an average of live deaths daily at Puerto Principe, a city of 45.000 persons. There are 100 cases in the military hospital rt San Juan, Island of Porto Rico, and the disease is rapidly increasing. It is the belief among officials in Washington that Japan will use a large part of the war indemnity which China is to pay her for the purpose of materially increasing her navy. The fiirincial resources of Japan will bs very ab indant during the coming year, as she will receive over $100.000,000 before next May and thereafter about $20.000,000 a year for five years. This will be drawn entirely from China and will bo in addition to Japan's usual receipts fr-jm customs and internal revenues. The customs receipts promise to be very large, as the new treaties which Japan has effected vith leading nations will bring about a readjustment of tariff duties, so that much greater returns will be realized. It s owing to the assurance of an ample treasury that American ship-building firms have turned their attention toward Japan. The stringent relations of Germany regarding the inqtortation into that country of American oioducts have again been brought to the attention of the Agricultural Department in a report by European Agent John Mal tos, Jr., on American evaioratcJ or dried fruits in the German empire. Shippers of these fruits are given warning of the severe restrictions im loosed by Germany, which the department views rs commercial rather than hygienic, and merely intend. M to .;hut out American trade. The report cites a recent court trial at Frankfort-on-t he-Mr in to determine whether these dried pp es

or "ring apples" were impure and Injurious to public health and subject to seizure under the provisions of the pure food law. Government experts testified that they were sprinkled with a tinge of acetate of zinc to give them a bright color and more inviting appearance. Apple so sprinkled, they claimed, brought on indigestion, dyspepsia, and in children vomiting ami diarrhea. The Am?risin goods were ordered destroyed as unwholesome. The exporters are advised that if they .wish to increase the trade with Germany, now assuming largo proportions, they should be-careful not to dry the fruit on zinc grates, but to use grates .nade of canes. The department officials say they are confident that if any zinc is introduced in the fruits the amount is infinitely small and cannot be injurious. It is denied that the practice exists here of drying fruit on zinc plates, as claimed by Germany, and the warning to discontinue the galvanized iron trays ased for drying is intended to do away with the possibility of introducing the zinc, and thus giving opportunity for foreign criticism on that score.

IN GENERAL, Lytton Taylor, United Stares attorney for Alaska, has resigned 10 go into the mining business. Mrs. Coleman Drayton has sailed for Europe, and it is said she is to become reconciled to her husband. It is not anticipated that the Window Glass Workers' Association will affiliate with the Knights of Lalor. The German stamer Norstrand loaded 323 tons of Alabama coke at Mobile for Mexico. It will be tested in one of the furnaces of the Mexican Smelting Company. The exports from Vancouver Island to the United States for the year ending June SO amounted to $2,5O0,(O0. The value of coal exported amounted to $1,I'OO.OOO, while gold bullion conies next with a total of $325.000. r. H. Fitzgerald, of Indianapolis, organizer of the soldiers' colony, which is to go to Georgia from the Northwest 00,000 strong, has arrived in Atlanta to close the contract for 30.000 acres of Georgia farming lands. Mr. Fitzgerald savs the colony will start South in the fall. R. D. Dun & Co.'s weekly review ol trade says: "A business Hood so stronv and rapid that the conservative fear i may do harm is out of season in July. But the seasons this year lap over ani crowd each other. May frosts anc frights, it is now evident, kept back much business that would naturally have been finished before midsummer, and the delayed accumulation of one season gets in the way of efforts to begin another on time. But the volume of business, however, it may be assured, is remarkably large for the month, even for a good year. The exaggerated fears about crops have passed, the syndicate is believed both able and determined to protect the treasury, and the time draws near when the marketing of now crops will turn into a national balance if speculation does not hinder. The week has been notable for a sensational fall in wheat of 8 cents in two days, followed by recovery of 5 cents, though neither affords any interpretation of the quite disregarded Government report. The sudden drop in prices was the result of speculative rather than commercial influences, though exports not half as large as last year, 2.O07.'H5 bushels (flour included) from Atlantic ports for two weeks of July, against 4.227.015 last year, had their effect, as well as Western recipts of ,f37,474 bushels, airninsl 2,1.1(;.91$ last year." Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Base-ball League: Pet P W. L. cent. Baltimore 59 37 22 .027 Boston Gl 30 23 .50O Pittsburg 08 40 23 .."88 Chicago 73 41 32 .502 Cincinnati 00 37 29 .501 Cleveland 70 30 31 .5.17 Brooklvn GO 30 30 .54. Philadelphia 03 31 20 .040 New York 04 32 32 .000 Washington 50 24 30 .40) St. Louis 70 24 40 .345 Louisville 04 12 52 .1SS WKSTEKN LEAGUE. In the Western League the clubs close the week in the following order: Per

P. W. L. Indianapolis 03 40 23 Kansas City 04 30 28 Detroit 04 35 20 Milwaukee 07 30 31 Grand Rapids... .Oil 35 31 St. Paul 03 33 30 Minneapolis .. .. .03 28 35 Tcrre Haute 04 20 38

cent. .UJ5 .nos .5 17 .037 .530 .r.24 .44 t .400 MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $0.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 00c to o7e; corn. No. 2, 45c to 40c; oats. No. 2, 23c to 2le; rye, No. 2. 52c to. 54c; butr, choice creamery, Hie to 17c; eggs, fresh, lie to 13c; potatoes, new, per barrel, $2.25 io $2.75; broom corn, common growth to fine brush. 4c to Oe per lb. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 0.3c to 05c; corn. No. 1, white, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 2Se to 30c. St. Louis Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $4.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, (5c to 07c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 40c to 41c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 20c; rye, No. 2, 40c to 48c. Cincinnati Cattle, $3.50 to $5.50; hoes, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, 00c to 08c; corn. No. 2, mixed, 4Se to 40c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 2Se; rye, No. 2, 40c to 51c. Detroit-Cattle, $2.50 to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 70e to 71c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 44c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; rye. 47c to 40c. Toledo Wheat. No. 2 red. 70e to 72c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 40c to 47c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye. No. 2. 4Sc to 50c; clover seed, prime, $5.50 to $5.iO. Buffalo-Cattle, $2.50 to $0.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 1 hard. 73c to 74c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 51 to 52c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 33e. Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 spring, 07c to OSc; corn, No. 3, 47c to 48c; oats. No. 2 white, 27c to 2Sc; barley, No. 2, 47c to 40c; rye, No. 1, 53c to 55c; pork, mess, $11.00 to $11.50. New York Cattle, $3.00 to $0.00; hoes, $4.00 to $5.75; sheep, $2.50 to $1.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 73e to 74c; corn, No. 2, 50e to 52c; oats, No. 2 white, 33e to 34c; butter, creamery, 15c to 18c; eggs, Western, 13c to 14c.

A JUVENILE BORGIA.

AN INDIANA GIRL GIVES HER FOSTER PARENTS POISON. Dead Bodies of IMtzcl'a Missing Daughters Found-Kiflea for Cuban Insurgents Bloody Ieed of 1'ctcr Ilascr Mora Millions in Sight. Ghastly Discovery at Toronto. Fleming Sarver and wife, of Uniontown. Ind., had an adopted daughter, Dollie Belknap, aged 14. The couple arc 00 years old each and well off. Hie girl has been keepimr companv with Hays Rol ins, the sou of one of the wealthiest farmers of that section. Saturday morning Mr. and Mrs. Sarver wore taken ill. Poison w;; found in the coffee-pot. It was learned the adopted daughter had purchase 1 a package of the poison a few days before. She finally confessed she had placed a teaspoonful in the coffee-pot Friday evening. When questioned as to why she committed the crime she lroduced a letter signed by her lover Hays Robins in which he tells her if she would make away with her foster parents she would come into possession of all their property and they could then get married and have "a good old time." Dollie says she took the letter to Josie Derringer, aged 10. and her sister Mary and let them read it, and they advised her to purchase the poison. Mr. Sarver died Monday afternoon. When Mrs. Sarver heard of her husband's death she took a relapse and is not expected to live. Since the death of Mr. Sarver the girl says she did not intend to kill them, but only wanted o give them enough so they would think they would die and make her a deed to their property. She ulo says she docs not believe Robins wrote the letter, but that it was written by the older Derringer girl. To Purchase Discarded Arms. James M. Webb, of Brooklyn, has returned from Washington, where he has been trying to secure some of the small arms which are being replaced by the new magazine rille for use in the army, if the Captain's negotiations with the War Department are successful the condemned rifles will lind their way into the hands of the Cuban revolutionists. That is admitted by Web! and the local representatives of the Cubans do not deny it. The Captain says: ' It may not surprise our Spanish friends to know that small arms intended for Cuba are being sent out of Brooklyn and New York at the rate of about 5,o: m) every week. None of the laws of this country is violated by the shippers, but the arms get to the revolutionists in due course, nevertheless. Cliicajjo Man's Crime. Tired of life and disgusted with threatned divorce proceedings. Peter Ilaser tried to kill his wife Monday, and. thinking he had done so. cut his own throat cleanly through with a lig sharp knife 11 nd his worldly joys and sorrows were forever at end. Ilaser w::s a member of a planing mill firm and was piite wealthy. His murderous and suicidal orgy was held at S:30 o'clock in The morning. His wife will hear several vicious scars as a result of the encounter, but she may discontinue her divorce proceedings, for Ilaser is well dead. The woman was stabbed several times, but her injuries will not cause Her death. Ilaser cut his throat and died an hour later. To Divide the Mora Money. As soon as payment of the celebrated Mora claim can be made by the Spanish Government and the attorneys for the claimants have deducted their share of the $1,500,000 which Spain has agreed to pay at once, Antonio Maximo Mora and his son. of Chicago, will divide among themselves what is left of the the money. Of the sum to be paid ly the Spanish (lovernment 40 per cent, will be given to a syndicate in New York which is composed of the attorneys who have been working in the interests of the claimants. Crime Is Laid Dare. The bodies of Al;ce and Nellie Pit seel, the two missing daughters of Benjamin F. Pitzol, were found at Toronto, Out., buried under the cellar of a house. The children are believed to have been suffocated by gas by II. II. Holmes,-the man r ho is supposed to have killed their lather in Philadelphia. A third child, Howard, aged X. is thought to have been murdered similarly in another city by Holme-;, the desire being to rid himself of three beings who might rise 10 convict him of the other crime. Japs to Put Down Formosa Uprising:. A force of 7.000 Japanese troops has left Tuatula to attack the black H:'gs at Tai-Wan-Fu, Formosa. A strong naval force will co-operate with the land force of the Japanase. Reports received from the southern part of Formosa show that all is quiet there. BREVITIES. Stephen Webb, colored, shot and killed Fmnia Harris, 20, at Baltimore, Md. The Arkansas Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Lower Court and ordered a new trial in the ?ase of State Treasurer Woodruff, who was $150,01)0 short in his accounts, and was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. Judges Lurton and Taft, at Cincinnati. Iu4d the Nichols State law valid and sustained the State Auditor. Treasurer and Attorney General, the State Board of Appraisers, in the assessment for taxes made under the act on telegraph, telephone and express companies. This law has been contested in the State and lower courts, and is now settled by this decision of the I'nitod States Court of ApjM'als. It involves large assessments from the companies to the State. Charles B. Keehn. who with convicts Donovan and Briquelette escaped from Jackson prison Oct. 11. 1S01, has been captured at Lamar. Mo. The (iovernor of Wyoming was implored by settlers to send troop: to prevent an Indian outbreak, which is now feared on all sides. Fort Washakie is the nearest military Kst. Texas fever is declared to be enrryiHg off the cattle in Henry and Jefferson Counties. Kentucky. J. T. Kbbs, P. 1). Tabic, and A. F. Rod were arrested af Kansas City, Mo., for swindling fanners. Joshua Powell was arrested at Klvrond, Ind., with counterfeit coins in his possession. He says he got them from New York. Twenty-eight freight cars were thrown down an embankment at Carey, Ohio. An oil tank exploded and the can were burned.

DRAKE IS THEIR MAN.

IOWA REPUBLICANS NAME HIM FOR GOVERNOR. Six Ballots Were Necessary Parrott for Lieutenant Governor The PlatformOne Thousand Fall with an Atlantic City Convention Hall Floor. The Ticket. Governor Francis M. Drake Lieutenant Governor Matt Parrott Supreme Judge Josiah Given Supt. Public Instruction. . . .Henry Sabin Railroad Com George W. Perkins The Iowa Republican State -onvention met in Des Moines for the purpose of nominating candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Judge of the Supreme Coirt, Suori.atendent of Public Instructior, and Railroad Commissioner. There were 1,242 delegates, requiring 022 to nominate. The auditorium of Calvary tabernacle, the scene of the convention, was plentifully decorated with flags and bunting, and when the chairman of the State Central Committee, J. E. Blythe, called the convention to order at 10:54 every teat was filled. There were 2,000 visitors in addition to the delegates. Senator Allison appeared on the utage nnd the entire assemblage arose and united in a series of tremendous cheers. Senator Allison bowed his acknowledgments, but maintained silence. Chairman BIythe named J. R. Lane, of Davcniort, as temporary chairman. Mr. Lane's speech was short, but its delivery was delayed by almost Incessant applause. The Hon. Lafe Young was made permanent chairman and made an exceedingly brief but epigrammatic address. When the chair .announced fhat balloting for Governor was in order there were no nomin iting speeches nor presentation of candidates, and no changing of rotes while a ballot was in progress. This facilitated matters greatly, and the six ballots required to decide the nominee for Governor were taken in about two hours. There was intense interest manifest throughout the tiresome ordeal. (Jen. Drake made a ten-minute speech accepting the nomination. The convention then proceeded to the nomination of Lieutenant (iovernor. and a ballot was taken resulting as follows: Dungan Parrott Ormsby t Kauirar :uo (m 211 so During the second ballot Dungan 1 name was withdrawn and the nomination went to Parrott. late Superintendent Sabin, Supreme Judge Given and Railway Commissioner Perkins were quickly renominated by acclamation. The resolutions were read and adopted and the convention adjourned sine die. Platform Adopted. The plat form :n brief n affirms the fealty of the party in Iowa to the national party, congratulating the people upon the 'evidence of returning prosperity, labor reestablished on a prosperous basis, all of which is attributed to the prospective return of the Republican party to power. It deplores the destruction of the reciprocity agreements by the Democratic party, allirms the declaration of the Minneapolis national convention on -.he currency question, quoting that plank entire, and urging an international agreement on the silver problem; welcomes the honest and industrious immigrant '.nd declares no other should be peraiitted to come; favors liberality to the nation's defenders in the ..way of pensisons; congratulates the people that the State will be represented in the next Congress by two Republican Senators and clev.Mi Republican Congressmen, and "with especial pride remembers the services f our senior Senetor, whose long and honorablo record entitles him to full confidence rnd enduring affection, and bails with satisfaction the universal desire of ihe Republicans of the State to continue lrm in his present field of usefulness un'il called to the larger services of the nation." FALL WITH A FLOOR. Two Hundred People Maimed at an Llks' Social Session in At antic. More than 100 men and women were seriously hurt at the social session tendered by Atlantic City, N. J., lodge to the visiting Flks at the Baltic Avenue Casino Wednesday evening. The session had just ojened, and only one of the speakers had been heard, wh"n, vithoüt the slightest warning, the building, which has not ben used for several years, collapsed, and fully I.00O persons wcto thrown to the floor beneath. Many women, the wives of the visiting Flks, went down in the ruins. Fully 20O persons who were on the first lloor of the building, and immediately beneath he banquet hall, were crushed beneath the timbers, and lay heirless. One man was killed in the crash and many were desperately wounded. The fact that all the tlectric lights went out at the time the building gave way, added to the --on fusion. An alarm was immediately turned In and the city's force of 200 firemen and every available police olli -er in the city were callel to the scene as a hospital corps. The police ambulance :nd carriages of every description were utilized to convey the injured to -hir hospital and to the hotels. When the iolice and firemen arrived on the ncene the excitement was intense. Within a f-w minutes they succeeded in clearing he space in the immediate neighborhood of the building and placed ropes around to keep the crowd back. In the meantime ihe firemen had set to work to extricate the wounded from beneath the miss of timbers, ami they were aided in their work by the hotelkeepers and residents near the scene. Fvcry house was thrown open for the reception of the injured and every available conveyance was pressed intoservice to carry them to their hotels. Telegraphic Brevities. The excise law was igidly enforced In New York. Brazil is said to be again on the verge of a rebellion. Dr. Kester, of Hammond. Ind., nded his life with chloroform. Thomas R. Mieksell. the murderer of Phil Metsinger, at Milton, Ky., has been captured. , Receiver McNulta, of the whisky trusty has been authorized to offer the ropertj In St. Paul for sale.