Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 40, Plymouth, Marshall County, 26 July 1895 — Page 2

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PLYMOUTH, INDIANA. HUNTING FOR FIRES. QUEER DELUSION OF CHICAGO PEOPLE. Caused by Smoke from Blazing Micliican Forests-May lie u Short Session of Congress-John Bull Wants Another Island Brazil Prolest. Dense Smoke on the Lakes. Smoke from forest fires in Michigan, which has interfered so seriously with navigation at the lower end of th? lake for two wccTis rast, was driven southWard hy the brisk north wind of Monday, end at noon Tuesday one eould not see over a mile out on the hike's surface from Chicago. The smoke rolled in out the city. Many people living near the shore were frightened Monday night by the mysterious smell of smoke which pervaded their rooms, and many a hunt for the source of the smoke was made through basements. Captains of incoming boats reported that the smoke extended all over this end of the lake. As n general thins it is not quite so dense as at Chicago harbor, and they could generally sec two or three miles through it. Reports from Mackinaw and the lower end of the lake indicate that the norther has cleared up the atmosphere through that region, something for which vessel captains are deeply thankful, for navigation for a fortnight past had been attended with considerable danger, and they were kept on duty throughout the entire ran from the Manitou Islands to Lake Huron. The Next Congress. Public men in AVashington are already beginning to discuss the probabilities as to the length of the next session of Congress. Opinion is generally favorable to a short session, and is based largely on the belief that both parties will be desirous of getting away for the campaign at ns early a date as issible. It is now believed by some that Mr. Heed, feeling practically certain that lie will be elected to the Speakership, has already virtually completed the House committee list, and that at any rate he will be able to announce his appointments very soon after the convening of the two houses on Dec. 2. Should the House committees be announced soon after the beginning of the session and that hody gets its work well under way before the Christmas holidays it would be a decided innovation. Few Congresses in recent years have begun the session without this plan ns a part of thei t program, and few have succeeded in putting it into execution. Bandits Loot a Trniu. Lake Shore and Michigan Southern train No. -7 going west, was held up and robbed at Reese. Ohio, at 12:40 Wednesday morning. It had pulled into a blind siding to allow a special to pass, when six masked men shot out the head and train lights and compelled the express messenger to unlock the safe and deliver the money. The amount taken from the car is not known, but it is estimated by the express officials at $8.000. Supt. Blodgett and Manager Cauiff. who were in Toledo at the time, left at once on a special train for the scene of the robbery, notifying the police officials at all adjacent towns to be on the hokout for the robbers. The officials :hink the robbery was committed by persons in close touch with the employes of the road, as they had positive information as to the trains meeting on the siding, and also of the unusually heavy express run. May Seize Trinidad. A corresiHUident in Rio Janeiro telegraphs Buenos Ay res that advices to the English Legation there declare that England claims the Island of Trinidad as her own. One cargo of coal, it is reported, has been landed on the island already. In view of this it was decided by Brazil's Cabinet to formally protest and ft message to that effect was at once sent to Brazil's Minister in London. Fiery articles have appeared in the Brazilian newspapers denouncing England for her appropriation of territory belonging to Brazil, as that country affirm. The corresiH.ndent says that these articles ask particularly, where the Monroe doctrine applies now. They desire to see it used as a political medium in settling this question. To Pay the Penalty. George A. Ilolzer will serve four years and Frederick Storms two years in the lenitentiary for aiding and abetting a conspiracy to deprive voters of their rights at the jolls. This is the outcome of the West Pullman. 111., election fraud case, and the verdict is a complete victory for the Civic Fnletatiou, which prosecuted the case. HEWS NUGGETS. San Francisco clergymen are making a vigorous protest against the production of "The Durrant Case," a play based upon the Emanuel Church murders. The contract for constructing the new court-house at Baltimore, Md.. was a werde! to John Gill fc Sons. Cleveland, Ohio. Their bid was $l.S4'd.0OO. At Angels Camp. Cal.. fire broke out in the interior of the Utica mine during the night and is still raging. The mine is being flooded now and the loss will probably be $100,000 or more. Harry Barnard, traveling for the Zehring Company, ierf timers, of Chicago, was fount! dead in his room in the Hotel Conrad, Massillon, Ohio. It is evident that he died in great pain. Barnard had suffered all lay Sunday with stomach trouble. No sound was heard when he was called in th morning ami the door was burst open, lie was found dressed, lying fa-e downward. He was about 40 years old. The American wire, rod. and nail mills nt Anderson, Ind., resume operations with a force of NflO men. It is officially announced that the union carpenters of IJston will demand, on and after Sept. 1, eight hours as the limit of a day's work anl an increase of 5 cents nn hour in a day's wages. The present rate is 30 cents an hour. CVdombia is in the thres of another revolution, uprisings being reported in three departments. The Canalian Parliament has been prorgued without taking any action on the Manitoba school question.

EASTERN. Sunday afternoon witnessed one of the most fearful accidents that have ever occurred in Williarustown, Mass., when a carriage was struck by a train at the "Dunaway" crossing, and four of the six occupants were killed. John Goode and William Freeman, two negroes, were Ixcnged in the Greensburg (Pa.) courtyard. Goode killed Max Slaughter, a fellow cokeworker, over a game of "craps." He maintained nil along that he shot in self-defense. Freeman shot a hd killed his mistress, Gertie Timberlake, on July 25, 1SU4, because ehe refused to give him money. Harry Bowden. a Pennsylvania operator, was killed by tramps at Bucyrus, Ohio, and his body placed upon the tracks, where it was struck by an engine and decapitated. Bowden hal received his monthly pay a few hours before the murder, ami it is believed that the crime was committed for the purpose of robbery. The deceased was 25 years old and unmarried. His parents reside in Crestline, where the remains will be taken for burial after the coroner has held an inquest. At Syracuse, N. Y., Maj. T. L. Poole denied the report that Gen. Harrison had said to Joseph I. Sayles and himself that he would under no circumstances Le a candidate for the Presidency. Maj. Poole said: "The report is made absolutely out of whole cloth. Mr. Harrison never spoke or even hinted at such a matter. The truth is that he did not speak uion the matter directly or indirectly. You cannot say too strongly that not one word was said by Mr. Harrison that could be construed into an allusion in any way to his position in regard to his possible candidacy for President." The 250th anniversary of the foundation of Mi nchestcr-by-thc-Sea, Mass., was celebrated Thursday. Crowds of people thronged the streets. The feature of the day was the representation of the lauding of Governor Winthrop and party in 1045. The ship Arabella was seen coming up the harbor and was greeted by a salute by the Wnltham battery. Assembled at the landing place were 150 people dressed in Indian costume. Governor Winthrop was impersonated by R. II. Dana. The party was conducted to the arena, where the "pipe of peace" was smoked. A war dance followed. A representation of the Boston tea party was a feature of the historical parade in the afternoon. The entire celebration was a great success.

WESTERN. Arthur Melcher, a painter, 22. was drowned at Milwaukee, Wis. Engineer Mark Wickens, who went down with the Santa Fe bridge at Monument, Colo., died, making the total number of fatalities thus far four. Brakeman Gardner is rapidly failing and is not expected to survive. The others injured are doing well. The I)eadwtod Terra mine, situated a few miles above Deadwool, S. D., which for seventeen years lias been worked as a low-gralo property and which during that time has paid dividends amounting to over $1.500.000, is again in evidence as a gold producer. At St. Louis Arthur Busch drop cd dead, because of the excessive heat. He was 35 years old, the sou of a millionaire brewer of Burlington, Iowa. He was a bookkeeper for A. Graft & Co., liquor dealers, secretary of the Western Rowing Association and secretary of the St. Louis Turnverein. Specials from St. Joseph, Benton HarKr and other ioints in the fruit belt of Western Michigan report a terrific gale early Wednesday morning, reaching a velocity uf seventy miles an hour. Many small buildings and forest and fruit trees were blown down, and thousands of barrels of apples, pears and peaches blown from the trees. Two masked men held up a faro-bank in Fred Steer's saloon at Wallace. Idaho. The bank had just closed and the proprietor was cashing up when two men entered the saloon and ordered all hands up. The robbers then took all the money, about $4e, and waikeil out. Several shots were fired after them, but they disappeared in the darkness. Rev. T. J. Irwin, a clergyman from Xorth Pond Creek, Oklahoma, is ii Denver, seeking aid for the lrught sufferers of that region. He represents a most deplorable condition of affairs in the territory. A large portion of the people are living on cracked wheat or eornmal ami water, and some of them have no longer money to buy even these. David J. Martin, ex-member of the Denver fire ami police loard, committed suicide by shooting, lie was one of the commissioners whom Gov. Wnite attempted to remove and who insisted upon holding their office until a decision had be'ii obtained in the courts sustaining the Governor's action, thereby precipitating the famous city hall warfare hist year. Financial reverses and ill health are supposed to have been the cause of his suicide. Surveyor of the Port English nt San Francisco has appointed an inspector of the meal customs house to investigate the charge made by United Stales District Attorney Foote that iniorts are undervalued by the Federal inspectors. The District Attorney recently wrote to the Attorney General at Washington informing him that imiorts were not only being undervalued but large quantities of goods were being smugglel. On account of Ins failure to make specific charges the Attorney General refused to appoint a special inspector as requested. Potter, Lovell & Co., of Boston, are accus"d in a bill filed in the United States Circuit Court at Chicago Wednesday of making a fraudulent transfer of securities whose face value is $12,830,000 to John V. Farwell & Co., on the eve of their assignment. The bill is an echo f the one tihvl by the assignees of Potter, Ijovell & Co. to secure a reconveyance of the securities or an accounting from John V. Farwell & Co. The disastrous failure of the Boston firm was the sensation of the brief panic of August. 1800, when 200 per cent, was offered for money on call in Wall street. Edward Larue, a barber nt Oakland, Cal., was whipped by his angry wife in the presence of a large crowd of potpl. Ii rue was sauntering up Broadway and was pursued by his wife and her sister, who supposol that he had n niooling with a woman. Mrs. Larue thought she saw her husband going to speak to a woman, so she drew out a horsewhip from the folds of her dress and made a rush for him. The sister acte! as a second to the wife and kept shoaling, "(Jive it to him! Give it to him!" The appearance of the police saved Iarue from a worse whipping than he received. The registers of deeds In Kansas are fiettiznf ready for a big bonfire. These

bonfires will burn in all of the 105 counties of the State, but whether a certain day will be set apart for the destruction of old documents is not known. The last Legislature passed a law providing that chattel mortgages which have become outlawed or released for a certain length of time, and other worthless instruments filed in the office of every register of deeds in Kansas, might be destroyed. The bill is one that will afford great relief to these officials in Kansas. Their offices have been stocked and crowded with these documents and it will be a relief to get rid of them. At Cincinnati, Ohio, two firemen were killed and fifteen injured in a fire in the extensive feed store of Ilermesch &. Co. at Water and Walnut streets. It started from some unknown cause. The aggregate loss of property will not exceed $100,000 The fire burmnl steadily and fiercely for two hours without serious accident to any one. It progressed northwardly and at the northeast corner met the walls of the new Simmons & Ncrris commission house. The firemen were warned but rushetl under it to save the property of Nelson Morris & Co. of Chicago. This had been saved and the firemen were turning to retreat when the wall fell across the street, burying the men beneath the ruins. For a month a gang has been at work rebuilding a bridge on the Santa Fe at Monument, Colo. Wednesday morning the east-bound passenger train, heavily loaded, passed over the bridge. The vibrations caused by the train had not ceased when a freight train of twentyfour cars followed. The train passed in safety until within three spans of the end, when suddenly, with lightning swiftness, a trestle gave way and the whole train fell through the opening, piling up in a most frightful manner, grinding the cars into kimll'ig wood and heaping the immense weight on the body f Mrs. Albert Cooper, who had just brought her husband's luncheon and was sitting under the bridge. J. C Childers. of Kansas City, and a tramp were also killed. Gov. Richards, at Cheyenne, Wyo., received a telegram signed by the justice of the peace and constable of Maryville, in the Jackson Hole district, saying: "Nine Indians arrested; one killed; others escaped. Many Indians reported here threatening lives and property. Settlers are moving miles away. Want protection immediately. Action on your part absolutely necessary." Gov. Richards forwarded the message to the Secretary of the Interior ami asked him to take immediate action. The Governor says the entire trouble can be stopped by the Secretary of the Interior instructing the Indian agent nt Fort Hall, Idaho, to send out his Indian police to call in all hunting parties of the Indians who are in Wyoming. If it becomes necessary to send State troops to the region ee npanies will be sent from Kvauston and Lamlcr. Prompted by the finding of the children's bolies in Toronto, the police of Chicago began a systematic search Friday of the building in Englewood built by II. II. Holmes, the insurance swindler, and once occupied by him. Neither digging in the cellar nor tearing down of wall will disclose the bodies of the Williams sisters if the suspicions of C. E. Davis, who afterward occupied a room in the building, shall prove true. Mr. Davis says that the emptying of a stove which had been Holmes' property showed that a body or bolies had probably been burned in it. Remnants of what looked like human bones rattled out n the floor, together with a gold watch chain, which he ideutifie! ns having been worn by Minnie Williams, hooks ami eyes and other incidents of a woman's apparel. The stove was amply large enough to have contained a hotly. Holmes had been a doctor, and was a chemist of some ability. To disp.se of the lodies was no difficult matter for him. The motive for the murder of the sisters was to secure control of property in Fort Worth. Texas, which had been left to Minnie Williams by her father. Holmes heard of the property and the girls while he was in Eng!ewool. Nine imprisoned miners at the Pcwabie mine, at Iron Mountain, Mich., were released about midnight Thursday. Not one of them was injured in any mamnr and none suffered any great inconvenience from the thirty-six hours confinement. All heard the cra?h of the breaking timbers in time to make th'ir way to a dry drift on the first level. Their miraculous escape is considered one of the most remarkable in the history of mining. It was a most difficult task for the hysterical wives and children of the imprisoned miners to fully comprehend the joyful shouts of the rescuing party when the last mass of debris and timber had been pulled aside, disclosing the nine miners who hal but a few hours previous been given up as lost. Fr an instant the rescued men were staggered by the influx of fresh air and light, and then their haggard faces were lighted by the smiles that only humanity and love of the dear ones at home can produce. The meeting of the miners and their families renewed the hysterical joy )f the women. Children hugged the big, brawny limbs of their fathers and cried their joy. Miners who had labored all night in the rescuing relays, with pick, shovel and tamping rod, smiled grimly and endeavored to disparage their own heroic work by remarking: "We knowel that the boys was all right in the first level air chamber, and a blast or two would help us dig 'em out."

FOREIGN. The London Times has a long telegram from Havana, which says that Government troops continue inactive, alleging that they have an onler to act only on the defensive. The troops are suffering from yellow fever and other diseases. A dispatch from Sofia to the Loudon Times pays that the newspapers there have alarming news from Maeelonia. It is asserted that the revolution is spreading, and that two towns ami three villages have been huructl by insurgent bands, who are successfully operating in the districts of Strumit.a, Mnlcshevo nnd Drama. It is snil that the Turks have sent a considerable for-e of Kurdish cavalry into the first named listrict. M. Stambouloff died at Sofia, Bulgaria, Thursday morning, not having uttered a word since the death struggle began. Symptoms of cerebral affection developed at that time and he rapidly sunk into comatose state. The ex-premier was attaekotl by assassin Monday evening, while returning frui f he Union Club. He received several knife wounds about the lieal and both of his arms were so badly cut that amputation was necessary. His left eye was gouged out and his right one so severely injured that he was blinded. The British bark Florence, which left Newcastle, Australia, on Jan. 20 for Panama, has not yet reached her destination, am! she has been given up as lost. Nothing has been heard of her since

she sailed from the colonial port and a month ago reinsurance was freely offered at 00 per cent. She was a stanch iron vessel of about 1.500 tons burden and was in command of Capt. Iliggins. She should have made the voyage by the last of April nnd now she is posted as three months overdue. She was loaded with Australian coal. Prof. Garner will be sent back into the wilds of Africa with his iron cage to learn more of the language of apes. A company including Prof. S. II. Pea body, of the University of Chicago, will donate the funds necessary to the expedition in the interest of science. Prof. Garner will take his departure for the jungles as soon as preparations which are In progress have been effected. A luncheon was given in his honor at the Union League Club, when he took the opportunity of speakin? of his plans before those who are interested and backing the trip. It is said that $12.000 has been subscribed and that unlimited support wiil be afforded the Professor. The Italian steamers Ortgia and Maria P. collided off Isela del Pint at the entrance of the Gulf of Genoa Sunday. The latter sank and 148 people were drowned. The Maria P. was entering the Gulf of Genoa at 1 :30 o'clock in the morning when she met the Ortegin. outbound. They only noticed each other when a collision was inevitable. The bow of the Ortegia crashel into the starboard side of the Maria P.. penetrating six yards, and ripping up the Maria 1. like matchwood. The water rushed in through the hole, and the Maria P. sank in three minutes. The majority of the passengers were asleep at the time and had no time to escape after the alarm was given. They were engulfed with the vessel. The Ortegia remained on the spot until 0 o'clock, in order to pick up the survivors. She rescued fourteen of the crew and twenty-eii,ut of the passengers.

IN GENERAL R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of business says: "The week's news is not entirely encouraging, but is all the more natural becausethere are signs of midsummer dullness. Wheat prospects are not quite so gool as last week. The exports of gold and the less favorable treasury returns for July are not unexpected nnd mean nothing as to coming business. There is a perceptible decrease in the demand for most manufactured products, nnd the actual distribution to consumers nat urally lessens in midsummer. Much of the recent buying was to anticipate a rise in prices, and such purchases fall off when prices have risen. There are still numerous advances in wages, but strikes grow more numerous and inqortant." The third daughter of President and Mrs. G rover Cleveland was Friday formally named Marion, the name selected by Mrs. Cleveland in honor of the town where she and the President spent the first summer vacation after their marriage. It was n the shores of Marion, across Buzzard's Bay, that Mrs. Cleveland spent what must have Veen one of the happiest summers in her life, ami she has always been more than fond of its sands, its pretty cottages, its rocks and beautifully shaded tlrivos. So that the selection of the name will not cause surprise, and will undoubtedly tend to make Mrs. Clevelai d the more iopular, if that is pssiblo, among the permanent inhabitants of Cape Cod. As in the case of Ruth and Esther, the new little one has no middle name, ami in this fact is again seen a lemonstration of the simplicity and old-fashioned beliefs of Mrs. Cleveland in her treatment of her children. The following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: Per P. W. L. cent. Cleveland 70 47 32 .WS Baltimore 00 41 28 .501 Pittsburg 74 43 31 .581 Boston (IS Si) 20 .574 Cincinnati 74 42 32 .508 Philadelphia 70 38 32 .543 Brooklyn 72 39 33 .542 Chicago SO 43 37 .538 New York 71 37 34 ..r21 Washington 14 24 40 .375 St. Louis 70 28 48 .3(18 Louisville 71 14 57 .11)7 WKSTKKX I.EAfifK.

The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: Per P. W. L. cent. Indianapolis ( 43 20 .123 Kansas City 71 40 30 .H71 Milwaukee 74 41 33 .551 Detroit 71 38 33 .535 St. Paul 70 37 33 .520 ('.rand Rapids. ...7o 30 .TT .-M Minneapolis C.) 31 3S .44'.; Terre Haute 70 L'T 43 .3SG

MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, 3.75 to J?i.25: hogs, shipping grades. i?3.00 to 5.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $1.75; wheat, N. 2 red. C5e to 00c: corn. No. 1!, 43c to 44c: oats. No. '- 23to 24c; rye. No. 2. 4('c t 4Sc; butter, elm ice creamery, l(Ic to ISc; eggs, fresh, lie to 13c: ofatoes, new, k r barrel. $1.50 to $2.25; broom orn, common growth to fine brush. 4c to tHc 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, (J3e to G5c; corn. No. 1 white, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30-. St. Louis Cattle. $3.00 to $G.0(); hogs. $3.50 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, tile to (J5e; corn. No. 2 yellow. 40c to 41c; oats. No. 2 white, 24 e to 25c; rye, No. 2, 43c to 45c. Cincinnati Cattle. $3.5 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep. $2.50 to $3.75: wheat, No. 2, 07c to lSe; torn. No. 2. mixe!, 43c to 45c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 2c to 2S-; rye. No. 2, 44c to 4tc. Detroit Cattle. $2.50 to $(.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 01 c to 71c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye, 47c to 41e. T)lelo Wheat, No. 2 rod. 00c to 71c; rn. No. 2 mixed, 4Ce to 47c; oats. No. 2 white, 23e to 25c; rye. No. 2. 48c to 50c: clover seed, prime, $5.70 to $5.75. Buffalo-Cattle, $2.50 to $0.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.75; shocp, $3.O0 to $4.50; wheat, No. 1 hanl, 70c to 72c; con1. No. 2 yellow, 51e to 52c; oats, No. 2 white, 30- to 32c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 spring, 07: to OSe; corn, No. 3, 47c to 48c; oats. No 2 white, 20c to 27-; barley. No. 2, 47c U' 4Sc; rye, No. 1, 53 to 54c; iork, mess. $10.50 to $11.00. New York Cattle, $3.00 to $0.25; hogs, $4.00 to $0.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn, Ko. 2, 49c to 50c; oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; butter, creamery, 15c to 18c; eggs, Western, 13c to l ie.

DEATH IN THE ST0EM.

OHIO AND KENTUCKY REPORT FATALITIES. Decision Invalidates $00,: 00,000 in Bonus Murdered for u Waiter's Tip'-Aiuerican Petroleum Trade Tli rea t en ei Indian War Tli reatencd. Three Lives Lost. Dispatches from different parts of Ohio and Kentucky report severe storms Sunday night. These storms seined to visit certain sections, while adjacent districts are as dry as ever. Other points report cone-shaped bursts like the one near Zamsville which killed Mrs. Clem Wilson and George Deselm in the camp-meeting. At Howard's Mill, near Mount Sterling. Ky., Green G arret t was struck by a cloud burst while riding along the highway, lie and his horse were killed. Throughout the Ohio Valley Monday the heat was intense. Grave Trouble in Wyoming. On July 13 thirty men left Jackson's Hole. AVyoming. to arrest all Indians breaking the game laws of Wyoming. In Ilohack Canon they surprised a camp of seventh n Indians and took them all prisoners and started with them for Jackson's Hole. In the canon the Indians tried to escape and all the Indians were killed cx-opt one papoose. John N. Carnes. a squaw man and the oldest settler in Jackson's II do, has gone over into Idaho and says every settler in Jakso:is will be buthchered. There were 300 Hannock warriors on Hoback River when fames was there, and he says all squaws have been sent away ami that the bucks are daily joining the main band. Waiters Quarrel Knda in Murder. - William Buford shot and instantly killed Gonlon Ewing at the Southern Hotel, Chicago. Monday evening. Both men were employed as waiters at the hotel ami are colored. The men had quarreled in the kitchen and coming to blows Buford chased Ewing from the room. The basis of th'ir piarrel was strife between them as to who should serve a guest of the house known to be liberal with his tips. Loses His Life in a Bicycle Fall. GHrge Lacy Strnnahan, sou of Dr. Charles W. Stranahan, a prominenl Erie, Pa., surgeon, died Monday night in conseuence of a fall received in a bicycle accident. The young man was in his last year's studies in the Buffalo Motlical College, and had already aojuirod a reputation as a surgical operator. He received his fatal blow in a sacrifice fall to avoid a collision with a young woman cycler. Wright Law Not Constitutional. At Los Angeles, Cal., Judge Ross, in the United States District Court, deIared the Wright irrigation law unconstitutional. Under the Wright act bonds have been issued to the extent of $50,(MO.OO0. and are held all over the United States nrnl Europe. The decision invalidates $5(M00,000 of bonds f irrigation districts in which confirmation pro--ediugs have been taken. BREVITIES. Won Kee. a Chinaman, was mysteriously murdered in Montreal, Qu. The sloop Restless of Santa Barbara is report ed lost off Santa Cruz Island with sixteen persons on board. At Bruox. Bohemia, a remarkable sinking of the earth causel the collapse of eighteen houses and has done damage to tin amount of a million and a half crowns. At Cleveland 4X men employed at the Lake Shore foundry went on strike Monday. They demand a restoration of the wages paid previous to a reduction, which took place about two years ago. Two hundrel and fifty of the men are laborers, while the remaining 150 are cupola men. A treaty has been conludcd between Greece and Russia by which a fixcl import luty has been determined upon for Russian cereals, and by which Russia is given the monopoly of the keroseue trade in (iree'e. It is exp'ct'd that this will have the effect of driving American p'troleum from the Grocl: market. It has been learned that Frank L. Hart, a notormus bunko-stcerer. who broke jail at Seattle, Wash., last March with the desperado Tom Bin nek, made his escape by being sent in a box to Pasco, on the Northern Pacific. When the box was deliverel the hour was midnight and cs-ape from the lonely freight house was easy. Nine skeletons have been found in wi? of the prehistoric mounds near Frankfort, Ohio. The bones were those of short, heavy, muscular m-n. The skulls are thi-k anl rather round and the facial angle is low. Several skulls give evidence of artificial flattening of the base during infancy. No skeletons found i Ohio present a more inferior tribe physically. At Los Angeles, Cal., John G. Luck enterel his wife's room at the Westminster Hotel and finding her in bel cut her throat. Her screams arused other boarders and Lu-k jumped to the ground from a window in the second story, severing his own wind pipe before he loapol. Both are still alive. Luck is said to be the son of a wealthy family in Nashville, Tenn. Peter Belleque, an old fisherman living at Woods, Ore., on the Neucesta River, has received notice that he has fallen heir, with three other relatives, to the snug sum of $200,000 in Canada. Belleque is alKut 00 years old, and for years has lived alone in the mountains. He lost track of all his relatives and never communicatel with any of theirs Sin'0 the news of his gd hmk has been actually 'onfirintHl lie lias had nuumrotis offers of marriage. Dr. P. J. Gibbons, of Rochester, N. Y., who was present at the oloctrocutmn of the negro, Johnson, at Auburn, declares that the condemned man was partly resuscitated after being taken frm the chair, when the wanlen prevented further attempts to restore consciousness. Shortly aftor an autopsy was performed on the body. The new nildition of the American tinplate factory at El wood, Ind., was opened, 250 men being employed. All labor and industrial organizations of Texas have been invited to meet in joint session at Lunpasas Aug. 20. r . .;.-'. Southern coal prolucers are organizing a big combine to control prices. The capital stock will be $50,0O,(o0. A lone highwayman held up n Wichita (Kan.) electric street car in the sight of fifty persons, ami after robbing the nly passenger and the conductor, made his escaie.

Tbe Dead Stninbuloff. A generation hone Bulgaria will honoi Btnmbuloff as a national martyr. Buffulo Press. He was n strong man nnd used strong measures, which gave his enemies their opportunity. New York Herald. A thousand StnmbulofT should take the place of the one foully murdered by Russian sympathizers. Philadelphia Ledger. The assassination of the cxioncnt of a popular cause, however, will not suffice to suppress the aspirations of a nation. Philadelphia Record. There is little reason to hope that the murder of Stauihuloff will heal the feud and recomile the courts of St. Petersburg and Sofia. New York Tribune. We presume that if he had not interfered with Russian plans in regard to Macedonia he might be alive to-day. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. He (Stambuloff) seemed the one strong man in a nation of weaklings, and Le commanded not only obedience at homo, but respect abroad. New York Sun. The assassination of Stambuloff, the Bulgarian Minister, was clearly the result of as wicked a conspiracy as tho political history of Europe has known. Memphis Commercial Appeal. AYhether by connivance of the Prince or by friends of Panitza. or by one f half a dozen other possible causes, Stambuloff is dead, and with his b-ath, it is ;mlly to be doubted, lies the hope f Bulgarian independence for many years to come. Syracuse Post. Modem life has had no more sinking example of the essential vulgarity and brutality of undemocratic power and usurpation than this startling tragedy of Southwestern Europe. Stambuloff was slain without doubt, if nt by the dirct orders of the Russian Czar, certainly then in pursuance of a poli-y which was hatched in the brains that tcrve him. New York Journal. Grover'n Girl. G rover always was partial to girls. Pittsburg Press. Baby M-Kce has one more chance of becoming G rover's soii-iu-law. Iloxawottamie Herald. Presidents have to meet with disappointments just like the common run of mortals. Jackson Whig. That sign of "Boy Wanted" which was hung out at Gray Gables is still out. Grand Rapids Herald. In course of ti:n Undo Sam may look for a President among the President's daughters. Boston Herald. President Cleveland sings it this way: "There's just one more girl in this woiid for me." New York World. Although a son failed to arrive, Mr. Cleveland has the satisfaction of grtetifig another new woman. Indianapolis Journal. There is another dimpled darling in tho Presidential houshoM. Ruth becomes a sister every two years now. Augusta Chronicle. If this thing of girl babies being born to President nnd Mrw. Cleveland ke-ps up, the ratio will soon be more than 10 to 1. Ohio State Journal. We feel it a duty to caution Mr. Cleveland against the free coinage of girls as a thing likely to destroy the parity of tho sexes. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Girls are much more valuable than boys, especially at this time, when tho new woman is taking possession f the earth. Memphis Commercial-Appeal. As there is no politics in this the entire country, without regard to sex. age. or condition, sends its most hearty congratulations and good wishes. The WhiteHouse has a trio of charming children. Elgin News. While ex-President Harrison is discouraging matrimony by declaring that women on the bicycle repd th' admiration of the male sex. President Cleveland is promoting matrimony by proving that marriage is not a fails re. Bloomington Bulletin. The Kndcavnr Convention. Only fourteen years of history -md 2.500.000 numbers! That is a marvelous record and a marvelous promise for the future. Courier-Journal. The success of the great convention is n line commentary .n the safety, speed and comfort of the American railway system. Philadelphia Ledger. The record of this organization is most gratifying. It stand as a refutation of the ideas advancel by cynics and others that the world is growing worse. Kansas City Times. The Christian Endeavor meetings furnish conclusive evidence that the institutions of Christianity are maintained with their old fervor ami that men's lives are vitalized by a living faith. Chicago Tribune. These earnest, self-denying young men and women gathere! together to advance the spiritual kingdom of righteousness preach to the world a sermon far more effective than the most iolishcd effort of the mere pulpit e rator. New York Tribune. In the face of thrn grat armies likethe Sunday school children, the Societr of Christian Endeavor and the Young Men s Christian Ass cia:io:i. the spectatormay well ask himself what there is to tho talk of a decay of the r'ligius spirit. Buffalo Express. The churches are rapidly finding out that if they want to retain their hold on the young people of the land they must put forwanl something more than theethical and moral attractions of religion. lliiy must npjtcal to the social side of human nature, it is the develooment of this sentiment which accounts in a largo measure for tl.e growth of the Christina Endeavor socictms. Brooklyn Eagle. Ex pulsion f Modjcskn. Mme. Modjeska, in viw of her expulsion, will add to the list f her American admirers by her vigorous denuncia tion of the government which lias so longdominated Polaml. Chicago Tribune. So Mme. Mljcska has been expelled from Russia on account of a speech in favor of the lVlos. which she made a long time ago in Chicago. It seems that Russia not only intends to punish free speech in Russia, but whenever there is a possible opportunity she prposeB to pun ish free speech m America. Dostoo Globe.