Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 41, Plymouth, Marshall County, 1 August 1895 — Page 2

(Lf?e3nbcpcnbcnt ZI3IMEHMA?)' Ac SMITH, Publishers and Proprleior

PLYMOUTH, INDIANA. EOADS AHE WAENED. MUST CARE BETTER FOR LIVE STOCK IN TRANSIT. Impressive Ceremonies at a Monument Unveiling at Louisville Loss of a Superannuated Schooner and Carso Youthful Firebus ConfessesMorton's Humane Order. Comparatively frequent complaints hare boon filed at the Agricultural Department alleging violations of the law by railway companies in keeping live stock in transit coniineel in cars for over twenty-four continuous hours, the legal allotted limit, or failing to give the stock five continuous hours of rest when unloaded. Most of the complaints involve Western roads. Secretary Morton is determined that the laws regulating the transportation of stock shall be enforced, and has sent to all railway companies engaged in live stock transportation a circular insisting on strict compliance with the law, in which he says: "The failure of the railway companies to conform to this law causes animals great suffering while in transit to points of destination, which it is the intention of the law to prevent. Railway companies will therefore make such arrangements as are necessary in their train service, and provide the necessary feeding and watering stations, to comply with the statutes, and any failure to do this will render them liable on conviction to the penalty provided in section 4288." Confederate Monument Unveiled. With an abundant waving of the stars nnd stripes, with patriotie'musie and stirring orations, punctuated by cheers from tens of thousands of feminine and masculine throats, the monument erected to the memory of Kentucky's Confederate dead was formally unveiled Tuesday afternoon at Louisville. The completion of this task is a tribute to the Women's Confederate Association of Kentucky, which for eight years has been working for a '.nemorial to the volunteers from the Blue Grass State who died lighting for the lost cause, and which, in spite of many obstacles, raised by degrees a fund of $20,000 to carry out this project. The city authorities declared a half holiday in honor of the occasion, and wageworkers and business-men alike turned out in thousands, while trains from different parts of the State, as well a.; from across the river in Indiana, brought thousand.- more. Crew Rescued from the Rigging:. During a heavy gale Tuesday morning the schooner Republic, in tow of the steambarge Swallow, coal laden, became water-lodged and sank in forty feet of water, two miles off Lorain. Ohio. The tug Cascade succeeded in rescuing all of the crew of eijrht men. who were clingiug to the risging. The schooner and her cargo will probably be a total loss. The cargo of the barge was G1S tons of soft coal for Detroit. The barge was built in 1854 and was so old that the underwriters would not plaee any insurance on her. A special certificate insurance was granted on the cargo. The Republic is so old and unsca worthy that it is not likely any attempt will be made to recover her. The coal may be scoured, however. NEWS NUGGETS. The National Wall Taper Company has passed the dividend due July 1. At Hencsdale. Pa., the Irving Cliff Brewery and the residence of August Härtung were destroyed by tire. The loss is $50,0!JO; insurance, $22,000. Oklahoma divorcees are left in a disa greeable situation by the decision of the j Territorial Supreme Court that Probate Judges do not have jurisdiction in sucU cases and that their decrees are invalid. Henry Smith, a retired painter living at Ilaledon, N. J., was stung on the hand by a bee nnd died almost immediately. Dr. Kinne said that the sting had reached a nerve that communicated directly with the brain. A San I'ranriseo paper pays that a suit for half a million dollar is to be brought against the city and the Spring Valley Water Company by owners of property destroyed during the. great lire south of Market street alut four weeks ago. Th? ground for the suit will be based on the inadequacy of the water supply, inconvenient Juration of hydrants and smallness of mains. Henry G. Clark, l." years old, was in the Muiiieipnl Court at Chelsea, Mass., charged with breaking and entering. His case was continued iü order to permit State Fire Marshal Whitcomb to prefer more serious charges pgainst him. By his own confession the ly is one of the most dangerous lire-bugs in Massachusetts. Iast spring he started fires that cause! a loss of more than $7 .0 " . , Charles Ring, stepfather of the two little Findloy children, who were murdered ami thrown into the Ohu River at Huntington, W. Va., March IS, confessed that he was an eye-witness to his wife murdering the children, and says he could withhold the secret no longer. The affair cause! a sensation, as it was one of the most brutal crimes which has ever happened in the county. The Union National Rank of Denver, Colo., of which R. W. WH,dbury is president, was closed Mondnj. It will liquidate its affairs ami go ut jf business. The Union Rank was closel during the panic in 1S0?. but subsciueiiily resumed business and later was consolidated with the State National Rank, which also closed during the pani. It is said the deios!tors will los nothing and business will not 1m serhmsly affected. Estimates place Nebraska's cirn Tor this year at 200, MV MM bushels. A gigantic conspiracy has been imearthMl at Beaufort, N. C, by which inBurante companies have been defrauded of thousands of dollars luriiig the last right years. Policies were taken out on the lives of aged and decrepit negroes without their knowledge. A vein of gold ore has been found at Vi-tor, Colo., which will assay $110,000 to the ton. John A. Drury, of South Rend. Ir-d., is paid t have fallen heir to a $500,Oi0 estate in England.

EASTERN. The Y. M. C. A. Building, on New York avenue, Washington, near the Treasury Department was almost destroyed by fire Wednesday morning. C. C. Bryan's fine grocery store adjoins the Y. M. C. A. Building on the west nnd was badly damaged, while the hardware store of James B. Lamie was also damaged. The total loss is about $33,000. Five mimites after an interview with his intended bride, Yolney Barrett, a prominent Binghamton, N. Y., merchant, lay dying from a bullet wound inflicted by his own hand. Some mouths ago he became engaged to Miss Georgia Karl, a schoolteacher. Recently an artist lately returned from Italy palled on Miss Karl and was seen driving with her. This is supposed to have aroused Barrett's jealousy. "Every mail, since the Baltimore Sun published that my mother's family expected to receive $2:1,000,000," says Charles W. Gallagher, of Baltimore, "has brought me stacks i letters. I am firmly convinced that all I will have to do will be to go over to Germany and prove the heirship of the lescendants of Ludwig Wilhelm von der Schmidt, living in this country, and we can get the money. The revival of interest in the fortune is due to the visit of a German count to a Chicago lady who is one of the heirs." Captain Quick, of the Morgan line steamer Kl Rio, which arrived at New York from New Orleans. reiorts that while about one mile south of the Scotland lightship a shot from the United States Government prving ground at Sandy Hook crossed the ship's bows close aboard, and landed about one-eighth of a mile to the eastward. Another shot fell astern of the ship and immediately in her wake. The weather was somewhat hazy at the time. Captain Quick says that had either shot struck the El Rio the chances are that the ship would have been seriously damaged, if not sunk. Several complaints of a like nature have been previously made. After a battle of three-quarters of an hour Thursday night, during which he stood off three ofheers who were trying to arrest him, John Spcllisey, of Union Hill. N. J., was killed in his own house. Spellisey was 43 years old, and one of the most desperate men in that section. He ended up a carousal by beating his wife, and Roundsman O'Brien, Sergeant Kreuger and Patrolman Ball were sent to arrest him. They found the doors locked, and when they broke down the obstructions they were greeted with three bullets. For half an hour the officers and Spellisey exchanged shots. Then the three rushed in upon the desperate man from difrerenj directions. Spellisey startel toward one of the officers firing again, but suddenly sank to the floor blceling from the neck, still clutching his revolver, and died a few minutes afterward.

WESTERN. John Brady, one of the bandits who held up a Southern Pa.-ilic train in Tehama County. California, and murdered Sheriff I toward a few v'k ago. is said to have been surrounded by a posse near Sacramento. In response to an appeal from Rev. J. T. Irwin, of Pond Creek, 0. T., who is in Denver, the secretary of the Denver Chamber of Commerce lias appealed to the public to contribute generously for the people in that territory, The Oregon Democratic State Central Committee will not -all a convention to take action on the silver question. The secretary has received replies to his circular from the chairmen of seventeen county committees who are oppsed to such action. This is a majority of the county committees. Reuben Lloyl. of San Francisco, attorney for two of the heirs of the Fair estate, is authority for the statement that Special Administrator Good fellow had been offered $250.000 to withdraw from the case. Mr. GoodMlow declined the offer, lie refuses to teli who tried to induce him to resign his position. At Syracuse, Kan., the bridge across the Arkansas River was washed away by a sudden rise in the river. The two shore setions were carried lowii by the current, leaving the middle span intact. There were seven nu u on the middle span and they were threatened with drowning. They managed to build a raft, however. Heavy damage was cause! by fire Friday in the Heering Harvesting works, at Chicago. The fire started in the fiberroom ami was soon spreading itself all over the building in which this room is located. Two volunteers who attempted to fizht the lire had a narrow es-ape lrom death, while many others were more or less injured by the smoke. Wheat went soaring in price on the Chicago Board of Trade Wednesday, the advance being caused by higher figures abroad and remarkable falling off in the "receipts at winter wheat receiving points. It is thought by many operator. that the trenl of the market from now n will be upward until the SO-eent mark shall have been reaehe and passe! again. J. II. Bobbins, of Millersburg. Ind., died before the funeral escort had returned frm the burial of his wife. Mr. Bobbins had reputedly expressed his determination to Ii as soon as his wife should have passe away, ami he requested that his funeral sermon should be preached at the same time as that of his wife. His wishes were gratified, and the unusual incident of a man listening to his own funeral discourse was witnessed by those present. After listening to the testimonv of C. B. Shedd, L A. Shedd and J. II. Williams, the grand jury at Chicago unanimously voted this indictment: W. I). Miller, for attempted extortion by threats. Miller is the man who. it is said, acte! as go-lx-tween for the Aldermen, Kinkier ami Martin, who were imlicted by the recent spcial grand jury for soliciting bribes from different ieo companies. The penalty for the off'iise of which Miller is ace-used is a fine not exceeding $500 and imprisonment not exceeling six months. A sträng' and bloody murder was committed Thursday night on the farm of Kniest Lange, seventeen miles west of Minneapolis. The body of Maggie Craigie, the 1 t-year-old daughter of Captain Charles Craigi, of the Minneapolis fire dcpartinnt, was f;und with the top of he-r heal blown off by a charge from a shotgun. Futile efforts had been made !o remove the traces of blood in the upstairs room where the murder was committee and on the stairs where the boly had been dragged down. The Lange shotgun was found with one recently iirc-d shell in it. Mrs. Lange claimed to have been away frm the house at the time, ami later her 8-year-old son, Freddy, confessed that he had killed the girl by accident. The story of an Indian uprising at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, told Saturday by an Associated Press dispatch and pub

lished by every daily paper in Ajnerica and most of those in the civilized wo'rld, was utterly without foundation. Not a white settler had been killed; and all the bloody, hair-raising detail which accompanied the yarn was tho output of the over-heated imagination of some tenderfoot correspondent at Market Lake, Idaho. Latest information is to the effect that many Bannocks, Lemhis and Utes are yet off their reservations, and th.it troops are in the near vicinity. Kvery effort will be made by Unitcel States authorities to arrest the lawless whites who murdered the party of Indian hunters. This wanton butchery was the cause of nil ensuing trouble. Myrtle Nelson, a child, was found wandering about the streets of Chicago. She said her father had taken her downtown ami intentionally lost her. Mrs. Christina Nelson, 125-1 Dunning street, whose child. Myrtle Nelson, had been taken from home by her father ami had not returned, went to the station to claim her daughter. When the woman and child faced each other the one exclaimed, "This is not is;v child!" ami the other, "This is not my mother!" There are two Myrtle Nelsons, each 12 years old, blonde, of Norwegian parentage; the parents of each have quarreled, each taken from her home by her father, and with him each has visited Norway and been sent into the country to live on the return to America. One was then told her father was deael and one that her mother was dead. One is searching for a father and the ther for a mother. A terrible storm swept over the town of Three States, on the Mississippi River, forty miles below Cairo, Sunday afternoon. The killed are George McClellan, Mrs. George McClellan, three McClellan children, Mr. Thomas, at Barnes Ridge; Mrs. Thomas, at Barnes Ridge. Tho funnel-shaped cloud whirled through the dense timber, cutting a swath 100 yards wide, uprooting huge trees and tossing them high in the air. Just before it reachel the village the cloud seemied to rise sufficiently to clear the cottage houses, but it caught the high smokestack of the Three States mill and twisted it to the ground as easily as if it had been built of straw. The power of the wind may be imagined when it is known that this stack was considered the strougest in the world. It was maele of sheet steel, ami anchored on an iron base by ten iron guy rods. Almost na entire skeleton was founl Wednesday by the crew of men working in the cellar of the Holmes building, Chicago. Shovels and picks were dropped when suddenly Detectives Fitzpatrick and Norton ordered every man to stand back while bones which had been unearthed from the wet slrme and quicklime in one corner of the wall were taken out. Several ribs protruded from the earth after about two feet of dirt had been dug away at the corner of the east and south walls. Upon digging carefully around with their hands the detectives took out seven ribs, and several sections of the vertebrae were found and a piece of bone which appeared to bo a fractured upper jaw, to which two teeth were 6till attached. Upon digging further several more ribs were found and a portion of a woman's jacket, with a large sleeve, upon which was a bunch of matted hair, too much discolored to ascertain its original hue. William Fredericks, who murdered Cashier "William A. Herrick in an attempt to rob the San Francisco Savings Union Bank in farch, 1811, was hanged at San Queniin Friday. Frenlericks was one of the most notorious desperadoes in California. As an associate of Evans and Son tag. the train robbers, he took part in some of the most sensational crimes that were ever committed in the State. He is known to have murdered three men. While serving a term in the penitentiary at Folsom he conspired with a number of other desperadoes to lead a jail break. At the expiration of his sentence Fredericks smuggled a number of weapons into thf prison, and in the outbreak that followed three convicts were killed. A few months later Fredericks killed a brakeman in Nevada County who attempted to put him off a freight train, and when Sheriff Pasco tried t capture him Fredericks killed him. After he was convicted ami sentenced to be hanged for the murder of Cashier llerrick, Fredericks feigned insanity. SOUTHERN.

Phillip Norman Nicholas was hanged at Richmond Thursday morning. He made no confession. Nicholas murdered William J. Wilkerson and James Mills by drowning them. He ineluccd them to cross the James River with him in a boat in which auger holes had b'en bored by Nicholas. The boat sank and Wilkerson and -Mills could not swim. Martinez, the cscapv.l Trinidad. N. M., murderer, and a companion held up a Baton saloon Tuesday morning, compelling eight mc:i to stand in line while they swept .550 off the faro table into a sack. They backed out, keeping the ramblers covere! with revolvers, and escapee to a part of the country where .Martinez has many friemls and the oi'.i'.vrs are afraid to follow them. George Robinson, keeper of the poorhouse in Meaele County, Ky., was shot and kille'd Thursday morning by Bland Shacklett, one of the commissioners of that institution. They met em the turnpike and Robinson bgan firing. Shacklett rushed uion Robinson anil took the pistol away from him and shot him through the heart. Shacklett is not seriously wounded. He is a prominent fanner. WASHINGTON. Vhe Secretary of the Interior h is requested the SeTeMrv of War t semi troops te the scene of the Indian d ist Urbanen, Wyoming, anI it is u?iderslool that troops will be orderec. instantly to tlve vicinity of the trouble. At Wasldngton Attorney General Harlon announced that he had decided to appoint an warden of the United States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth. Kan., James W. French, of Indiana. Mr. French was for five years warden of th Michigan City, Ind., penitentiary, I ut was recently legislated uit r ollice. He is said to be efficient and progressive, jmhI is well knowu as a prison reformer. Mr. Harmon has had an extensive correspondenee with the best knowu prison officials throughout the country with a view t getting suggestions as to administrative reforms, ami it is his purpose to make the first United States penilentiary, if p,ssiblo, the moelel of all other penal institutions of the country. A portion of the army was not jmd for June, 1S05, as a result of the failure of the last Congress to make sutlicient appropriation for the salaries of officers ami enlisted men. Unless the next Congress takes some steps to obviate it there will be a similar story the latter part of the

present fiscal year, but on a larger scale. Last year's deficiency was $75, WO, and an estimate made at the War Department shows there will be a $300,000 deficiency in the pay of the army for the present fiscal year unless the next Congress sets matters straight. The War Department has been compelled to suspend payments of the salaries of the officers and enlisted men at many frontier posts, especially iu the Departments of the Platte and Texas.

IN GENERAL R. G. Dur. & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: "It is not the season for the tide of business to rise, but there is perceived scarcely any shrinkage except that which comes naturally with midsummer heat. The volume of new business is small compared with recent months, but large enough to encourage more openings of bng closed works and more advances is returns to labr. Important strikes show that the advance is not enough for some, but the strikers seem not more threatening than before." Grand Master Workman Sovereign, of the Knights of Labor, was in Kansas City, Mo., on his way South. In an interview he was inoted as saying he is on an expedition Icking up good farming lands for laboring men. His aim is to have as many Knights of Labor as possible go to agricultural and fruit lands for permanent settlement and occupation. The overcrowded condition of the cities, he maintained, is the cause of so much idleness among workmen. Speaking of his recent boycott circular he said it was taking "like wild fire" and was being carried out to the letter by the Knights of Labor. An experimental line for the propulsion of canalboats by electricity, contracted to be built by the Trenton Iron Company, is to be along the banks of the Erie Canal, and will be four miles in length. This line is to be completed within sixty days, nnd work will begin within a few days. The system to be trieel is known as the cableway or traction system. Frank W. Hawlcy, vico president of the Cataract General Electric Company, said this method of application of power was in operation in the logging elistrict of North Carolina. Mr. Hawley said if the experimental line about to be built was satisfactory all the canals of the State would be equipped with the same system of electric propulsion. This, he said, wouid involve an expenditure of $2.000,000. Capt. Quick of the American schooner Carrie E. Lane upon his arrival at Breakwater, Del., had a tale to tell about a thrilling encounter iu Cuban waters with a Spanish gunboat. Two shots were fired at the Lane by the man-of-war, and one of the schooner's crew narrowly escapel being killed Uy one of them. The vessel was mado to heave to and give an account of itself. The Lane soon came to a deael stop, and the gunboat drew up under its quarter. A boat was lowered and four Spanish marines, under the comniaml of a Lieutenant in the Spanish navy, came alxiard. They were fully armed and the leader civilly liftel his hat and lcmanded to know from what port the Lane hail sailed and whither it was bound. Capt. Quick gave the required information and no further search was made and the vessel was permitted to continue on its course without further molestation. Capt. Quick says he could not get the name of the gunboat. He adds that after the first shot was firel at the Lane h caused the Stars and Stripes to be hoisted at the pea k, but the only response the Spanish made was a second bot. The gunboat did not hoist its colors until after the first shut was fired.

The following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: Per P W. L. cent. Cleveland SO 52 34 .1503 Pittsburg 70 47 32 .505 Baltimore 74 43 81 .."SI Boston 74 42 32 .50S Cincinnati SO 43 25 .3iV Chicago S3 47 öS .555 Philadelphia 74 40 34 .541 Broe.klvn 70 41 35 .XV.i New York 75 30 3 5 .520 Washington 70 25 45 .357 St. Lonis K2 28 51 .311 Louisville 75 10 51) .213 WrSTEUX I.EAfit'E. The following is the standing of the clubs iu the Western League: Per P. W. I. cent. Indianapolis 7-1 -15 29 .00S Kansas City 75 44 31 .5S7 Milwaukee 70 45 34 .570 Detroit 75 38 37 .507 St. Paul 77 33 44 .12!) Minneapolis 74 35 30 .17.'! Grand Raphls. .. .70 30 43 .450 Torre Haute 77 20 43 .377

MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to ?0.00; hogs, shipping prades, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, fair to e-hoicc. .."V to $1.00; wheat. No. 2 red, Sc to 0c; corn. No. 2, 43c to 44c: oats. No. 2, 21c to 25c; rye. No. 2, 4Se to 50; butter, choice creamery, 17c to l'Jc; eggs, fresh, 10c to 12c: potatoes, new, per barred, $1.25 to $2.00; broom corn, common growth to fine brush, 4e to Wfa per lb. Imlianapolis Catth shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, 00c to 07c; corn. No. L white, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 2Se St. Louis Cattle, $3.00 to $(5.00; hgs, $3.50 to $5.25; wheat, N. 2 red, 07c to OSe; corn. No. 2 yellow, 30c to 40c; oats. No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; rye, No 2, 44c to 40c. Cincinnati Cattle, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 t $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, UOc to 71c; torn, No. 2, mixe, 43c to 41c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 2Sc to 20e; rye, No. 2, 4 to 4Sc. Detroit-Cattle, $2.50 to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 rel, 07c in 00c; corn. No. 2, yellow. 43c to 45c-; eats, No. 2 white, 2Se to 20c; rye, 47c to 4 Sc. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 red. 71c to 75c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 41c to 45c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 40c to 31 el BuffaloCattle, $2.50 to $0.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $1.50; wheat, No. 2 reel, 75c to 77c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 4Sc to 50c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c t 3lc. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 spring, 70e to 71c; corn, No. 3, 43c to 15c; oats. No. 2 white, 20c to 2Sc; barley, Ne. 2, 40e to 4Sc; rye, No. 1, 51c to 53c; pork, mess, $10.25 to $10.75. New York-Cattle, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $.5.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn. No. 2, 47c to 4.0c; oats, No, 2 white, 32c to 33c; butter, creamery, 17c to ISc; eggs, Western, ISc to 14c.

THE COPPER OUTPUT.

INDUSTRY SUFFERED FROM GENERAL DEPRESSION. Spanish Troops Annihilate a Cubagaii Town Wells-Fargo Lx press Company Digs for IJuried Caßh Death of Judt;c Geo. F. Cl a ukc. Figures from Copper Mines. The review of copper and copper mining for the year 1804 made by the United States geological survey Las been completed. Copper mii-.ing suffered from -he general depression of the year. Still consumption was in advance of 1803. but an enlarged production could only be marketed by means of lower prios. On the whole, copper mining resisted the tension better than the other metal trades. Th exports were less than 1813 and were ulinost entirely of the refined metal. The production of copper for 1804 was 15S.120 tons. A little over half of this came from Montana and two-thirds of the remainder from tho Lake SuHrior mines. Other sources of supply Included Arizona, 44,5(o,0O0 pounds; Colorado, 0.5( iO.OT) pounds; Southern States, 2.400,0 X pounds; Utah, 1,100.000 pounds. The available copper supply in 1801 is placed at 105.000,000 pounds, not including stocks from previous years. The exports from the United States for 1S04 were 173,000,000 pounds, valued at over $10.000,000. Murder Is Avenged. An official dispatch received at Madrid from Manila, capital of the Island of Luzon and of all the Philippine Islands, says that the natives of Cabagan, in the Province of Cagayan, at the north extremity of the Island of Luzon, recently treacherously ambushed a party of Spauish troops, killing aud wounding several of the soldiers. Consequently a Spanish punitive column was sent to Cabagan, where it attac ked and burned that town after a fight in which 110 natives were l.ille1, including the principal lealer. The Spanish lost a captain and sixteen soldiers killed and had several men woumleel. To Hunt for the Rooty. .Tdin Brady, the train rbber, went to Maryvillo, Cal., with two Sacramento detectives and endeavored to show them where Browning, his companion, buric! $53,000 which they st.de from the Wellsl'argo Kxpress CVmipany a few months ago. Brady says he does not believe the money will ever be found, as he has but a faint recollection of where it was buried, and Browning was killed while trying to commit another train robbery by Sheriff Borard. An unsuccessful attempt was made Sunday to fiud'the hidden treasure box. Lmiucnt Jurist Dead. George F. Blanke, one of the judires of the Superior Court, die! sutldenly of heart disease at Chicago Sunday night. The .Tmlge seemed to be in his usual health Saturday and held court as usual. Ho was at home all day Sunday, retiring for the night shoitly before 11 o'clock. He had been in bed but a few minutes when he complained of feeling ill and asked that a physician be snt for. In lss than five minutes aud before medical help arrived he was dead. BREVITIES. As a result of a 15-cent drop in the price of oil the last few daj-s "wild catting" has been stopped and the oil boom is considered ended. About 20,000 members of the Brotherhool of Tailors are ci strike in the cities of New York, Brooklyn and Newark. There has been no eiisorder in connection with the strike. Cherokee Bill got his hands on another revolver and used it in an attempt to liberate prisoners confined in murderer's row of the United States jail at Fort Smith, Ark. His attempt resulted in the death of Larry Keating, the oldest guard of the force. The steamer tender L'lla Uohlffs arrived at Port Townsend, Wash., from Alaska with news of the loss ef the ship Raphel at Tanglefoot Bay. The ship and cargo are a tctal loss, but the crew was savenl. The R iphel sailed from San Francisco April 21. The alininistr:!tors of the estate of Mrs. Theresa Fair have made ailidavits that the personal property of the estate in California is worth only $:W0.K. The lessor has included railroad bonds ami assess..! the estate at $1.000,J0O- The executors are John W. Mackey and Richard V. Dev. Marion Miller, a pioneer rancher residing at Azusa, Cal., fell asleep while his 5-year-old granddaughter set her clothes on tire. When the mother returnd sh found her child dying by the side of the shaping grandfather. MilleT was bi nned with the -hild's condition and shet liinisclf through the head. L. M. Cox, who droppel dead of heart ilisoase in Chicago Wednesday, was to have been married in a short time t Miss Sarah Atkins, of Mum ie, Ind. Four years ago Miss Atkins prepared for her marriage to a prominent citizen ef P.nn-e-roy, Ohio. Two days before the wedeling he died suddenly of heart trouble. At New York Referee Jacobs, in hire ort in the suit for divorce brought by Mrs. Ollie Corbet t against her husband, James J. Crbett. the pugilist, finds Mrs. Corbett entitled to a divorce, and reommends that the agreement entered into by her and her husband at the time of their separation, by which he agreel to pay her $lO0 a week for life, be continued. Sam Wolner Jr., the Peoria distiller, charges that members of the Illinois Legislature tried to extort a $3,000 bribe from Peoria ami Pekin distillers. The estate of the late Paul Schultz, the defaulting hind age'iit of the Northern Pacific, has been suel for $700 for wines alh'grd to have been stolen from the Union Club of Tacoina. Uhler Hiram M linger, a b'ading Second Adventist. piophcsies that the etui of the world will come in 1807. William C. Whitney says he would not turn his hand over to secure a nomination and election to the Presidency. Schalles Bros., toy dealers, and Jacepiin & Co.. millinery, New Yerk City, were burneel out. Ix.ss, $220,000. Recent discoveries show that the Honduras treasury was rebbel of ?2,500,C"-H during President Bogran's administration. The defalcations during the Vasauez regime amounted to over $3,000,000.

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William Black started out as a portrait painter, and might have been a success had ho not found greater success as an author. Over 073,750 ccples of Pickwick" Have been sold by Dickens' own publishes since its first publication. The sales have very decidedly increased during the past few years. Sarah Grand, the novelist, married at the age of sixteen. For some time she lived with her husband in China, and afterward traveled all through Japan with no escort but her maid. R. D. Blackmorc made up his mind originally to storm fate as a ioet. and not as a novelist. His first five books were all poems. His novel "Clara Yaughan" did not come put till he had been publishing; for ten years. It was to M. Auguste Yacquerle, who recently died in Paris, that Yictor Hugo handed not long before his death the following memorandum: "I give Iilty thousand francs to the poor. I wish to be carried to the cemetery In their hearse. I refuse the prayers of all churches; I ask for a prayer from all souls. I believe in God." F. Frankfort Moore, the novelist, has been trying his hand at a play. "Kitty Clive" is Its title, and it is a dramatization of a magazine story published net long ago by the author. Mr. Moore is a quick writer. His new book, "Tho Sale of a Soul," was written in eight days. This 3'oung man was born in Ireland, and he is an accomplished journalist and something of a traveler. The Pope has granted the French author, Boyer d'Agen, permission to write bis biography, and for this purpose has jrlven him access to the family archives of the Counts Pecci in Carpineto. M. d'Agen has found, among other things, a number of interesting letters which the Pope wrote to one of his brothers while a student of the Collegium Ilomanuni. He was then nineteen years old. Chambers' Journal, telling of tho earnings of those novelists who have been or who are to-day at the top, says: "A man in vogue may command from 1,000 to 1,500 for a romance. Mr. Froude made more money than Alfred j Tennyson, the estate of the poet having been valued at 57,000. Yictor Hugo's 'personal estate in England was 92,000 For 'Edwin Drood Chapman had agreed to pay Dickens 7,500 with a share In the profits. George Lliot was paid in cash down 40,000. No wonder Mr. Grant Allen turned bis back, In 1SS5, 'on the fight against poverty and scientific writing and took to penny-a-lining at vulgar stories.' But the prizes are not for the many. No one did better or more conscientious work that Mr. J. A. Symonds, and for the eleven years of labor he put on Tho Renaissance in Italy he received 50 a year. The English and the American reader of novels is a fickle personage and ever craves for the new." Odd ami Uflective. A coal merchant who has an ofiice ri Jefferson street near Fifth, Louisville, has gotten up a rather unique window attraction. He put a kitten and a puppy into the window and there was fun. The kitten backed up into one corner, drew her back up ami prepared for war. The dog got back into one comer, but he was on the retreat all the time and there was no chance for a liffht. A man who saw the animals thought that he would see a light if he waited long enough, and ho stopped. Of course in a few minutes the window was surrounded by a group of people, and some even wantoil to wager that the cat would lick the dog. All day the space In front of tho window was crowded with people waiting to see the fight. But it was like tho fight Fitzshr.nions and Corbett have been talking about. It never came oil. Bloomers in the Ballroom. A tailor in New York has made up his mind that the knickerbockers so much in evidence during the sunnier months will appear next winter la the ballroom. The reluctance mta have shown regarding the introduction of this style of evening dress ho explains by saying that the average leader of cotillons is not altogether happily constructed as to his underpinnings and has refrained from giving his sanction to the change. But the use of knickerbockers in summer, especially for bicycle riding and now for golf, has broken down the prejudice and a new roginio will come in. Knickerbockers w ill afford the greatest liberty of dressing according to individual taste. The severity of the present trousers will no longer obtain. It Went. Her hat went with her complexion. Everybody who saw her noticed that. "Oh, dear," she protested. It was In vain. Wftid of considerable violence accom. panied the rain, and in that way It happened that her bat and her complexion went together. Detroit Tribune. None Anywhere. "Have you any friends in this city?" asked the paying teller at the bank. "No," be replied; "I'm a baseball umpire." Washington Star. She What made you so late coming home night before last? He Humphl You have been a long time remembering to ask me. Yes; I thought I would give you time enough to get up a good excuse. Indianapolis Journal The grandfather of the Rothschilds Is said to have scarcely owned a peunj In 1S00.