Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 46, Plymouth, Marshall County, 6 September 1895 — Page 2

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fye3nbcpcnbcnt LMMI-:itMA SMITH, Publishers and Proprie'ors

PLYMOUTH. INDIANA. BOOM IN IRON TRADE. ORE OUTPUT OF 1895 WILL GREATEST ON RECORD. BE Lake Steamer City of Louisville Disabled in a Gale, but Makes Tort Safely Two Occan-Goinc Vessels Have a Troublesome Time. Every Iron Mine Busy. So far as lake shipping is concerned the ore trade at the close of the present seaeon will undoubtedly surpass all previous records. The tonnage, it now seems undoubted, will exceed even the banner year of lS'Jl. To meet the demand for ore which has been created by the revival of the iron and steel business every mine m the Superior region except a few which arc temporarily prevented by special causes, such a strikes is being pushed to the limit. To carry the product to market all the available vessels of a largely increased fleet have been pressed into service. Responding to this condition of affairs lake freights have leaped upward. Irou ore has advanced the equivalent of $1 per ton. The supply of the higher prades is insufficient to meet the demand. Yet despite all this, the year 1S03 will not be, relatively, a prosperous one for the lake ore carriers so far as profits arc concerned. Their harvest will be reaped in 180(. The same to an extent may be said of the ore producers. They will make more money next year if the present prices of ore keep up. Stopped in Mid-Lake. Passengers aboard the translake steamer City of Louisville, St. Joseph to Chicago, spent an hour of horror Tuesday night in midlake. A gale was blowing from the southeast and the waves were rolling almost to the deck. The engines had stopped and the stanch little steamer was rocking at the mercy of the waves for a little more than an hon-, while Cupt. Simons and Engineer Brown repaired an accident to the engine's eccentric. Capt. Simons assured all that the steamer would withstand the straggle and weather the storm in spite of the accident to her machinery. As a result of the accident the steamer, which is due at her docks at Chicago at 10 o'clock, did not reach the landing until after midnight. Then about l.0 persons poured forth from the gangway, all suffering from sea sickness such as they had never before experienced. Steamert Meet the Karthquakc. At Philadelphia Captain Hendrickson, commanding the Norwegian steamship Gurly. reports meeting with the earthquake at an earlv hour Sunday morning. At the time it was "dead calm," and suddenly the sea rose up and the ship dived down deep into the water. The waves Hooded the decks and the sea bubbled up in a furious manner. All hands were terrified Mid the commotion lasted for fully thirty minutes. The American Line steamship Rclgenlnnd arrived from Liverpol with l."S sal.ion passengers, having passed through a terrific cyclone. All the passengers were badly frightened and many of the women went into hysterics. For hours the seas lcaicd completely over the vessel from all sides, but she escaped injury. Claims a City's Site. William II. Grant, of Trenton, X. J., has written to a lawyer in Oakland, Cal., to secure information alout an old deed to the tract of land upon w hich Uahway, N. J., is now situated, which was found in a pile of waste paper in Oakland two months ago. The document is dated April. 17Ö.'.. and purports to convey from William Morris to William Grant the land mentioned. Grant writes that he believes that the grantee was his grandfather, from the fact that his family was the only one of that name in New Jersey at that time. Held Up by Twelve Kobber. Twelve masked highwaymen held up a carriage load of men in z suburb of Omaha. Neb., early Wednesday morning and secured several hundred dollars. The robbers stopped the carriage a short distance from Benson and ordere! the four inmates out at the muzzles of revolvers. The victims lined up without resistance, and while they stood on tiptoes, with hands high in air, one robber searched them ami took everything of value, even to their hats and coats. Destructive Fire in Petersburg Ind. Tire Tuesday morning broke out in Fleming's livery stable at Petersburg, Ind.. and it was soon comph-tcly destroyed. Twenty-five horses were cremated and many vehicles burned. The opera house building and the Keal Hotel and contents were also turned into ashes. Losses aggregate $."i0,0OO; partially in8U red. NEWS NUGGETS. Hand & f Joshorn, retail .ry goods, failed at Charleston, W. Yu.. f)r $j.;,0i.H . The annual convention of the lumbermen of the United States opened at Buffalo. N. . Judge Henry F. lTuedy, who went to Arizona with the first set of territorial ofhV-rs in 1S5, li'l at Prescott Monday night of nervous disease. Judge Fleudy served as secretary of the territory and als as acting govcrur during the early history of Arizona. At Green Brier, Ohio, J. I. Johnson, an old sIIi-r, was swindle! out of .?.'." and gave his note for $HS, payable to the Unite! States. Two men drove to his house in a carriage drawn by two white horses. They represented themselves as I'nitcd States dtectives ami threatened to take him to Cincinnati ami put him in jail because, as they said, he had ob-tairo-d Iiis 'tension by fraud, unless he paid what was demanded. Fire destroyed the valuable cargo of the steamer Bawninre, which went ashore on the Oregon coast. The Farmers Bank at Ladonia, Mo., is again open and ready for business. The attorney general, bank examiner, receiver anl attorneys met m Me.xn-o and the mat ter was settled. The directors 'of the bank Iwive fully complied with the law. The nobles of the Mystic Shrine will meet next in Cleveland, Ohi, the third Tuesday in June, 1N.MJ. The Banquedu Peuple will probably re sume Oct. 1 at Montreal. Jue., with a cap ital reduced to .KAM"'-

EASTERN.

The Attorney General of New York has begun suit to prevent the American Tobacco Company from doing business in the State, holding that it is an illegal combination. Electric Lineman Harry Sherman, of the Brush works, Koch est er, N. Y.. received a shock of between l.UOO and 2 J K) volts. lie was picked up apparently dead, but after hard work was resuscitated. The directors of the Metropolitan Traction Company, of New York, have resolved t extend the undergrouml electric system now in opration in Lenox avenue to all the lines owned by the company in the city. William C.aillard. of Palestine Commandery. No. 0, Knights Templar, of New Luidon. Conn., droppel dead from aiopIexy at Boston. He was returning to headquarters after parade apparently as well as usual when the, fatal attack seized him. At Pittsburg .Tames Getty, an cx-coun-cilman and a wealthy liquor dealer, was shot and killel by Alexander Hutchinson, formerly proprietor of the Merchants Hotel, (ietty was the owner of the Hotel Willey and the murder was the result of a dispute over the leasing of the hotel to Hutchinson. Hutchinson gave himself up. The coroner's jury at New York which has been inquiring into the cause of the fall of the building in West Broadway on Aug. 8, by which fifteen workmen were killel, were charged by the coroner that it was the changing of the concrete from IS to Y2 inches that caused the collapse f the building. The ironwork on the pillar, while it was not of the best, he held, could not be held rt sponsible for the disaster. R. T. Allen, of Omaha. Neb., shot himself on a New York Centrail train a few miles out of Buffalo. He was traveling from New Jersey en mute to Omaha. The startletl passengers, hearing the pistd shirt, found Allen weltering in his blood. He was taken to the Buffalo accident hospital, where it is said he will recover. No explanation other than tenqiorary insanity can Im given. Allien and his wife recently went Fast to place their daughter in' the New York Conservatory f Music. They afterward went to Lindenhurst, N. J., where he tenqtorarily acted as organist in one of the churches. Mrs. Allen is still at Lindenhurst. WESTERN. It is reiortel at El Ueno. O. T., that Capt. Baldwin. U. S. A., acting agent at the Kiowa, (.'manche and Apache agency at Anadarko. was nmrdcrcl by Indians. The report hicks verification, but Federal officers credit iL The home of Paul Alonski. Cleveland, Ohi. was destroyed by fire ami his "V-year-old daughter, Polly, perished in the flames. In attempting to rescue the child Alonski was severely burned, and while looking for the body in the rooms Capt. McKenzie, of the lire department, was injured by falling into a hole tilled with burning debris. Theodore B. Gillum. of Indianaiolis. supremo organizer of the Oriental League, was stabbed in the neck and instantly killed by James Burnett at Louisville. The man who commit teil the murder attempted to gain admission to an entertainment without n ticket and hal been ejected by Mr. d ilium. The murderer escaped. Coroner Castor, of Marion County, Indiana, is in possession of the premises where the bones of young Howard Pitzel were found at Irvington. An examination of the bones by the coroner showed that the large ones, which could not at first be classified, nrc parts of the pelvis. Holmes will be indicted in Marion County for murder, but no effort will lie made to take him there, as evidence against him elsewhere is thought to be sullicient to convict him. When the Painesville, Ohio, Savings Bank collapsed four years ago among the assets found was $:2."0,.KH worth of stock in a Western mine. At that time the mine was thought to be worthless, but it now appears to be valuable. The mine is , paying a fair dividend, and the stck is nearly at par. The indications are that the depositors in the wrecked bank will be paid a good dividend, with the prospects that ultimately they may receive their deosits back in full. A largo number of prominent residents of cities along the projected route of the canal from Michigan City to Toledo were in Cincinnati for the purpose of effecting a permanent organization. The principal plan so far mooted contemplates a ship canal from Toledo to Lake Michigan by way of La iort e. South Bend, Elkhart ami Goshen. There is another projected route through the Michigan peninsula, but it is contended by giilogical experts that this would be impracticable. The thousands of people at the Blanches! er, O., fair mised the 1 est part of the balloon ascension. Prof. Tolbort, the aeronaut, had a narrow escape from being gored by :i bull in the field in which he descended with his parachute. The bast descried his red tights and the parachute before he reached the ground. As soon as the professor alighted the bull charged him. Tolbert flew for his life, and scrambled over the fence just in time to escajw the horns of the bull. The aeronaut says he wus never worse frightened in his life. Three little children of a Sullivan, Mo., widow named Jenkins went to a place near the barn ti gather eggs. The place was rather out of the way an! dangerous, owing to snakes, which are numerous in that region. One child thrust its hand into what it sup'oscd was the hen's nst ami quickly withdrew it, exclaiming that the hen peek d it. The other two children put in their hands with the same result. The mother ran to the assistance of the three children, who ha! been bitten by n rHttlesnake. During the excitement her little babe fell into the well und was drowned, ami the three other children also lied. Harry Brown, the well-known comic o'iera comedian, whose home is in Portland. Ore., after years of ill-luck has obtained a fortune in a peculiar manner. While tilling an unprofitable engagement in Cleveland he cured a hitherto incurable melancholia patient, the young son of wealthy parents. The boy was alllictcd with suic idal mania and accidentally saw Brown and laughed for the first time in his life. Brcwn became young Kellogg's physician and cured him. When Mrs. Kellogg diiil recently she bequeathcl a comfortable fortune to Brown. Brown will go to San Francisco and to the south of France, where lie will spend the winter. Thirteen miners in the Sleepy Hollow mine. Central City, Colo., were working Thursday afternoon in the drifts, when suddenly a torrent of water came streaming down the shaft, and, sweeping debris beforo it, choked up the entries and pas

sageways, intomb n.i the workmen. Two Italians working above were caught in the mighty rush of ihe flood, and they, too, were sacrificed. The season has been unprecedented in the amount of rainfall. The hills have been soaked to repletion, and the .giant pumps of the big "mines have hal a difficult task to perform in beating down the waters. The disaster is due solely to greel f the operators. The danger was not unforeseen, but tin: mine is in litigation, and the operators would not spend money enough to properly equip the plant with pumping apparatus. The Illinois State Board of Live Stock Commissioners issued the following report of cattle inspection at the Union Stockyards, Chicago, during the last week: Number cattle inspected 175 Passed in the yards ln'J Held for post-mortem examination.. To" Passed on iost-mortcui examin:. tion. -0 Condemned as being unfit fur food ami ordered tanked 17 The board reprts that nn official inspectiou of the outbreak of Texas fever at Mount Sterling. Brown County, shws the disease to have been brought into Illinois by cattle shippeil from the stockyards at St. Louis, the cattle coming from the southern portion of Missouri. Those sent to Chicago -were thoroughly examinel ami five heal f cattle were condemned with the fever upon them. The disease is under control at Brown County and no further far is felt. At Cleveland James Beckmeister fell five stories, fnan the top of the World building to the sidewalk, ami was instant killed. The body of the falling man struck John Nickson. who was walking along the sidewalk, with terrific force, breaking the back and both legs of the latter, ami he is dying. Beckmeister was engaged with a number of other men in placing a large sign on the building. The accident was caused by the slipping of ropes supiKtrtiug a swinging scaffold. Two other men named Lewis ami Cormier, who were on the scaffold with Beckmeister, had a desperate struggle fr their lives, which was witnessed by horrified spectators in the street. Lewis was thrown from the scaffold and caught with his hands the narrow coping under the windows. He managed to work along till he reached the lire escape and was then easily rescued. Cormier clung to the rope for some time and was finally rescued by a man in the building, who stepped on the window ledge and swung him into the room with one hand. More peaches came into Chicago Wednesday by boat than on any previous day this year, and it is claimed that the record of any previous day in the history of the fruit trade was also broken. Shipments were not conti. led to any one particular point on the east shore of Lake Michigan, but every peach orchard from the Indiana State line to the pine regions of the north seemed to be represented. St. Joseph ami Benton Harbor were, as usual, the heaviest contributors, the City of Chicago bringing in an immense load, while the Puritan was well filled. By shipping points the receipts were as follows: Place Fifth bu. Half bu. Bu. st. Joseph iu.-ioo 2i;s i,:;oo South Haven. .1Ö.O00 ;V.O -10 Saugatuck ll'.OOO 1h 100 Glenn 5,11 LH) TAX)

Total too 2.;.sjo 2.:t."o This makes a grand total of S'J,7."i0 baskets, or 'Jö.t.lO bushels. It is doubtful if receipts of peaches will exceed these figures again this season. SOUTHERN. Lampton, Crane & Ramey, dealers in paints, oils and varnishes at Iyiuisville, were burned out. Loss, $l0O,O00. The breeding establishment at Castletoll, Ya., of James K. N: F. P. Kcene was burned to the ground. A number f valuable horses, including the imMjrtcd Kallicrates and Hyderabad, perished in the flames. Loss about $70,000. Near Texarkana, Ark., Jim Thomas and Bishop Lane quarreled over a guitar on a train. The train was in motion ami Thomas drew a pistol and shot Lane as he was running to escape to the next coach. Lane fell between the cars ami was horribly mangled. Albert Dean, LMJ years old, has Wvn landed in jail at Hudson, Ky. He was arrested at Canaan, Conn., charg'l with being instrumental in attempting to abduct little girls. He was identified by one of the little girls, and her father, Herman Preusner, attempted to kill him, but was restrained by the otlicers. There was almost a lynching in Newport, Ky., Wednesday night. Billy Timberlake, a white man, nged 50 years, was charged with attempting to assault. A crowd of millmen chased Timherlake for twelve bhx-ks, but he fell int the hands of the police and was quickly jailed, out of the reach of immediate vengeance. The Secretary of the Treasury extended the time for filing sugar bounty claims from Sept. 1 to Oct. 1, INI).". According to the regulations issued to govern the payment of the sugar bounty appropriation, nil claims were to be filed by S'pt. I, but the time was found inadequate and Secretary Carlisle therefore granted the extension of one month. The city of Philadelphia received judicial consent to sein! the old Liberty Bell to the Atlanta Kxjosition. President Judge Thayer, of the Common Pleas Court, delivend a lecision dismissing the bill in equity recently tiled by a number of prominent citizens. In this an injunction was asked to prevent the proosed trip on the grounds, among others, that it would be putting the bell to other than its proper and legitimate uses. Judge Thayer in dismissing the bill characterized this proposition as preposterous. An excursion train on the Southern railway carrying the Knights of Pythias excursion from Macon, Ga.. to Indian Springs for a picnic left the track between liolton ami Pope's Ferry. The baggage cr and two passenger coaches turned over. The killed a're: Mrs. Hancock, Aincricus, Ga.; T. A. Kennedy, Macon. Ga. Almost every person in the two coaches was hurt more or less seriously. Several of them are likely to die. Then is no way f ac-ouuting for the accident, as it is said the track was in perfect condition. föreignT The Mos-ow Gazette is informed that Japan has consented to accept ,",0.t O0.000 taels as indemnity for the relinquishment of the Lino Tung peninsula. Li Hung Chang has been aptointcl imperial i lia nccllor of China, by imperial docree, in place of viceroy of the Province of Chi Li, which office he formerly hell. Otlb'i.tl advices received at Paris are to the effect that the Chinese Government has granteil the French missions in the Province of Sze Chuen an indemnity of -1,000,000 francs. According to a Kingston dispatch Capt. Gen. Campos ha wiittcn a letter declar

ing that the struggle against the CuDan insurrection is hopeless and that the conceding of autonomy is the only means by which Spain can avoid losing the island. It :js reported at Hong-Kong that all the members of the .Ku-Cheng commission are in gool health, ami it is said that the Chinese officials are assisting actively and thoroughly in the investigation being made into the recent massacre of missionaries. Ten Yegctarians. it is added, have already been convicted, and the trial of others is procceling. There is said to be no danger of any fresh disturbances in that district during the sitting of the commission. The Paris Estafette protests against statements made in some of the American papers relative to the sentence and imprisonment of ex-Consul Waller, saying that if Frenchmen sold arms to the enemies of the Unitel StaU's, Am US Would in-ver tolerate any interference on the part of the Cabinets of Europe. "Moreover, our line of conduct should be clearly marked." continues the Estafette. "We need nt pay any attention to the ille complaints of these American papers. Indeed. Waller ought t have been immediately shot for his glaring treason.' IN GENERAL Marie Burroughs, the actress, has been granted a divorce from Louis F. Massen.

TorpiMo-hoat. No. 14. capsized in the North Sea. Thirteen persons are reported t have been lrownel. The steamer Bertha. Capt. Hays, arrived at San Framisco from Ounalaska and Bering Sea. bringing one of the most valuable cargoes that ever came into harbor. It is c imposed of s'a!skins. furs, whalebone, ami gold Iiis, and it is estimate! to be worth 5?1.nmi,hio. The passengers rejtort the almost utter failure f the whaling fleet. The of.icial report on emigration of the English Government for the month and the seven months ending Aug. 1 show that the movement tf wageworkers toward the United States is on the increase. For the month of July departures for the new world from England. Ireland and Scotland aggregated t.r!, an increase of li.tMKl over the same month of last year, while (,f U emibrants from continental countries embarked at English ports. The total British emigration during the last seven mouths to the United States was 71,:?U. as against 41,711 for last year's correspomling period. To Canada during July, the total British emigration amounted to l.."."7. of which only one-tenth were Scotch and Irish. R. G. Dun & C..'s weekly review of tral says: Improvement in markets and prices continues, ami whereas a few months ago everybody was nursing the faintest hopes of recovery, it has now come to b the only question in what branches, if any. th ris- in prices and the increase of business may go too far. A strong conservative feeling is finding expression not yet i-ontrlling the markets or industries, but warning against too rapid expansion and rise. In some directions the advance in pries clearly checks future business, but encouraging features have great Mwer. Exports of gold continue, but are m't by syndicate deposits and are cxpectel to cease soon. Anxieties alK.ut the inom tary future no longer hinder. Crop prospects, except for cotton, have somewhat improved. Important steps towards th reorganization of great railroads give hope to investors. Labor troubles are for the moment Iss threatening, and some of im'iortaiicc have been definitely settUl. The industrials in not only loing better than anybody had expected, but are counting ujhui a great business for the r-st of the year. The following is the standing of the clubs in the National League:

Per P. W. L. cent. Baltimore lot (7 .'17 JJM Cleveland 114 71 4l JYS Philadelphia ...K 01 4." .r7." Boston lot; co 4; .r.i;; Br.K.klyn 10S (1 47 . Pittsburg lOO f'. ."O .."41 New York 10" T7 r0 ..".'.' Chicago loo r.7 ri! .ni:: Cincinnati Hn iV Tl ."10 Washington . ... I'll Ö.' N ."'21 St. Loiis 1O0 H7 74 ..TJl Louisvill 107 L'7 SO

WKSTF.KV I.F.AOrK.

The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: Per P. AY. L. cent. India naiolis ....107 70 IM .5T4 Kansas City llo ;ft 40 J,S2 St. Paul 107 01 40 .."70 Milwaukee HO .r7 .4S2 Torre 1 1 ante lit ,r.O 01 ,4." Minneaiwdis 111 40 Oil .4. Detroit 117 i 07 .421 Grand Rapi.ls. ..Ill Ml 75 ..TJl

MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, .'..7." to $C.'J"; hogs, shipping grades. $:i.00 to $4.7.": sheep, fair to choice, $'2.0 to i?:..7ö; wheat. No. 2 red, (fjc to Ute; corn. No. 00c to M7c; oats, No. 2, Ilk to JOc; rye, No. 2. 40c to 42c; butter, choice creamery, 10c t 21c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, per bushel, o0c to "ITe: broom corn, common growth to fine brush. IW to ."'jC per jMiund. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $".00 to $..r0; hogs, choice light, $.'J.OO to $4.7."; sheep, i-oinmon to prime, $2.00 to $.'.."0; wheat, No. 2, 01c to 02c; corn, No. 1 white, .'!0c to ö7c; oats, No. 2 white, 2Tc to 27c. St. Louis-Cattle. $:..00 to $0.00; hogs, $..."( to $.".0O; wheat. N. 2 red, " to 04e; corn, N. 2 yellow, ,'4c to ,ltc; oats. No. 2 white, ISc to 10c; rye. No. 2, .'Sc t 4oc. Cincinnati Cattle, $.".."0 to $.".r0; hogs, $."!. Ml to $1.7."; slu'ep. $2.00 to $1.00; wheat. No. 2. ." to iöc; corn, No. 2 mixed, .,." to .".7c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye. No. 2, 41c to 4:h-. Detroit Cattle, S2.."o to $0.00; hogs. $4.'00 to $."..00; sheep, $2.00 to $..r0; wheat, N. 2 r'U VClc t 04c; corn, N. 2 yellow, We to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 2.5c to 24c; rye. 41c to 4.,,c To!elo Wheat. No. 2 red. Ote to 00c; corn , No. 2 yellow, ÖSc to 50c; oats, No. 2 white. l!c to 21c; rye. No. 2. 4oV to 44c. Buffalo Cattle, $2.."0 to $0.20; hoc. $:.00 to $.".."0; slurp, $2."0 to $:.7."; wheat. No. 2 red, iKc to 08c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 42c to 4oV; oats, No. 2 white, 2Cc to 27c. Milwaukee Wisent. No. 2 spring, 01c t 02 ; corn, No. lTc to .17c; oats. No. 2 white, 22c to 2:.c;J.arley. No. 2. 41c to 42-; rye. L 42c to 4.'?c; pork, mess, $S.7." to $0.2.'. New York-Cattle, $.'1.00 to $0.2."; hogs. $4.00 to $.".70; sheep, $2.oO to $:.T.1; wheat. No. 2 red, 00c to 07c; corn, No. 2, 42c to 4.'5c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 2Tc; butter creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, Western, 11c to lGc.

NEW WOMAN SCORED.

SAID BY MRS. BOOTH TO BE A REVOLTING CREATURE. Chinese Soldier Forced to " IJeat' Their Way Home-Capture of Life Insurance Swindler Frakcr Excursionists Uii ti Down by a Wild Engine The Mannish Woman. The address of Mrs. Ballington Booth before the Salvation army em-ampl at Prohibition Park. L. I., on "The New Woman" is attracting considerable attention. Mrs. Booth said in part: "The revolting creature, gaudily attired in man's clothing, possessed of strange notions about the home, wifehol and motherhood, scorned and shunnel by the men, is not my idea of the n-v woman. The new woman, according to the popular acceptance, speaks of children as 'brats,' says they tire and aggravate her, nnd so she bestows all Ii r love upon some ugly little pug-nosed dog. which she carries in one of her mannish rackets. She Is also a man-hater, ami in going forth to seek emancipation and a world-wide rule for her sex she declares it to be her mission to down and h4itllc him. As for religion, it is too simple for herstrong mind. She is entirely imlependent ami a free thinker. I believe in the advancetl woman. I believe she is capable of making ns good a nmther and wife as though she had never stepped upon the platform nor been admittc! to the bar. Let th education of women go on, only, while you are training the mind do not forget to develop the heart." Work of Diäbacding Soldiers. Chester Ilolcomb, who has just retwrned from China, after twenty-one years serice in the American legation at Peking, says the recent massacre is traceable to the result of the recent ChinaJapanese war. "At the commencement of the recent war between China and Japan," said he, "it wus generally feared the lives of foreigners in China would be in great danger as long as the war lasted. As a matter of fact, there was practically no danger as long as the war lasted, and it is only since the hostilities ceased that the danger has commenced. We have proof of the fact in the recent massacres, nml 1 think I can explain the reason. In the first place, the gr-at mass of Chinese nre disappointed with the result of the war ami are taking revenge on all the foreigners whom they can kill with impunity. In the second place, the killing and pillaging receive great encouragement by reason of the depredations committed by hordes of disbanded soldiers all over the country. The Chinese Government has a peculiar method of disposing of its troops at the close of a war. When the sIdiers are no longer needed, they are discharged from service at the place where they happen to be at the time. The fact that an army may bo several humlred or a thousand miles away from home when it is disbanded, and the fact that the soldiers may not possess any means of getting home, does not inteivst the government in the least. That they should pillage and commit depredations is therefore natural, nnd tranquility will not reign in China for Borne time to come." Frakcr I Not Dead. George Frakcr, of Topelia, Kan., who was supposel to have been drowned in the Missouri River lv years ago. was captured in the woods near Tower, Minn. Eraker's life wus insured for .SÖS.CMM. and the heirs brought suit in the Kansas courts to recover. The case went to the Supreme Court, and was on of the most famous insurance cases of the country. The insurance companies were defeated in the final decision, which wa3 record el last mouth. It was always maintained by the companies that Frakcr was alive, but his whereabouts were unknown. Recently it became known in some way that he was near Tower, whore he was known tinder the alias of Schnell. Attorney Robert T. Harris ami Deputy Sheriff Wilkinson, f Topeka. went there and organized a party to search for him. Frakcr was found in the woods and his capture was effected by strategy, lie was taken to Top ka at once. Frakcr went without a requisition. He has bcn living near Tower for six months. He admitt'd his identify and said he did not leave home on purpso to defraud the companies, but that while he was near the Missouri River he fell in. He swam across the river and got on land. The next day h read in the papers that he had leon drowned and conclude! to carry out the deception ami allow his heirs to collect the insurance. Appalling Disaster nt Sen Fcacli, Due hundred persons were injured by nn appalling disaster on the New York Sea Beach Railroad at :!:4 o'clock Monday afternoon. Twenty of the injured are expected to li. A train of seventeen ear on its way to Coney Island had stopied at Woodlawn Station. The cars were packed almost to suffo-ation. l"p the track tin re came thundering a wild engine, with no one at the trottle. The locomotive crashed into the rear car, which was broken Into splinters. Its human freight was buried in the wreckage. No one was killl, but Brooklyn hospitals are filled with maimed and dying, ami hardly a person on the train escaped a terrible shaking up. BREVITIES. A London Chronicle dispatch from Berlin snys the Yossischo Zeitung has news from i'iflis that 5,000 soldiers and 10.000 Kurds under Sako Pasha attacked the Armenian town Kemakh ami several villages. They plundered the churches and monasteries and burned the houses. At Hickman, Ky., William Butcher, a desperate negro, was taken from jail nnd lynche! by a mob. His heiol was shot off and his body rhldlcd with bullets. The Atlantic coast was starth'd by three earthquake shocks. No serious Inning' was lone, though many windows were broken and n few people were thrown out of lied. William AIsup, driver of a hearse, was kill'I by lightning in a cemetery near Baltimore. Marshall McDonald. Knited States fish commissioner. li-l In Washington. He was bom in Yirginia fifty-eight years ago. At Rochester, N. Y., the wholesale clothing stre of Sheil, Rosenbaum & S tec fei was burned. The total loss is estimated at $nr,oo. The Circuit Court nt Pnrkersburg. W. Ya., in a decision held a doctor was entitled to his fee whether he cured or not.

OLD VETS INVITED.

Secretary of War Asks that They Attend the Services tit Cliicka manga. Secretary Lament hns issued an order outlining the öllicial program for the dedi atory services of the Chickamauga and; Chattanooga National Military Park. It. is as follows: "Pursuant to the net of Congress approved Dee. 10, 1MM, the national dedication of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will take place on the 10th and UOth of September proximo. The veterans, those who have been invited, and the public will assemble at Sn.nlgrass Hill on the battlefield of Chickamauga. At noon, Sept. 10. orations will bo delivered by en. John M. Palmer, of Illinois, ami Jcn. John B. Gordon, of Ceorgia. "The exercises on the "0th will begin at noon in the city of Ch:ittauioga. Orations will be delivered by t'en. William B. Bate, of Tennessee, and Charles H. (irosvonor, of Ohio. The evenings of both lays will be devoted to meetings of the veterans of the armies participating in the two battles. The complete program in detail will be hereafter announced. A waterprof lent covering eoats for 10,M0 people- v.-ill he erected io Chattanooga fr the mooting of the 20th, ami both night meetings. "The participation in these ledicatory exercises has been roqimsted of the President, of Congress, f the Supreme Court and of the heads f executive l'partments, and invitations to be present havcv been sent to the Governors if the Stat'Sami their staffs. Like invitations nre hereby extended to the survivors of the several armies that were cugagl in the battles of Chick.'imuuka and Chattanooga. It is obviously impracticable for the Secretary of War to issue individual invitations. "The act loes not make provisions for transportation, quarters. r entertainment. In view f the Jorge attendance which now seems assure!, it is suggested that all who exjK-ct to be present mako immediate engagem'tits for quarters. These can lo secured through the Chattanooga Citisiens Kxecutive Committee. Gen. J. S. Fullerton, chairman of theChickamauga ami Chattanooga Military Park Commission, is des:gnatel as grand, marshal of the eercmoiii s. ami will appoint such marshals ami assistants asmay be n-quirod. "The band and one battalion of th6Sixth Infantry. th band ami ne battalion f the Seventeenth Infantry, the banc ami one battalion of the Third Artilleryall under the common! of the lieutenant colonel of the Third Artillery will encamp on the field of Chickamauga about" Sept. 1, proximo, and remain until after the ceremonies. The troops will be used In preserving order in the park and thfc protection of public property. "DANIEL S. LA MONT, "Secretary of War." LIVES LOST IN THE STORM. Deaths Caused by Rain. Wind and; Liichtninu Crops Destroyed. A tornado, accompani-! by a genuine -cloudburst, swept over Blo;mingtn, 111., nnd vicinity. A ravine one mile southwest of the ciy adjoining Miller Park,, was tilled with a racing torrent, which swept across nnd filled the valley traversed by the Morris avenue rad. Two ladies f Heyworth, Mrs. Riddle ami' Mrs. Roberts, with their infant daughters, were driving home, and while attempting to frd the stream their horse -nnd buggy were swept from the bridgeinto the whirling waters. Both the children were drowned. fc The women worcheroically rescued by Henry Weber, whoplunged into the stream after them. When the storm struck the lents of Pawnee Bill's Wild West show at the fair grounds a panic ensued, the Ö.OOO peoplerushing down from tho scats. An accident occurred n tho St. Clair -River, near Mnrysville, Mich., during asquall ami rainstorm in which four perpons lost tlu'ir liviti. A picnic was being: held at Stag Island, opposite Marysville, . and Mrs. Michael Derufg, Frank Derufg, . her brotluT-in-la w. ami thr' young ladies. Miss Celia Choniski. Minnie Schver. hart ami Edith Connors. rw'! over early in the day. When the storm was seen coming up they starte! back for home, but when within -loo feet f the shore the soc.all struck the little -raft and capsized it. .Miss Sehvetihart. a girl of IT, clambered upon the boat, but the other threo all got hold of Frank Derufg. For a while he held n to tl:o upturned boat with one baud ami made a heroic battle for life, but when otic of the women, in her desperation, got hold of his fre hand, h had to let go ami all four sank. Tho Schvcnluirt girl was rscuel latr by some boys. Blazing buildings and ruined crops showed a severe storm pussi'd through Rock County. Wisconsin Tuesday night. Lightning caused a dozen lin-s, while many fields of standing corn were fl.it-t'ii-l out r washl away by the wind nnd rain. Three tirs are reprtel in thevicinity of Afton. ami five are said to have-oc-urred alut Evansville. The suggestive remarks about bloomershave gone far enough. Cut them short. B'fre the troops are withdrawn from Jackson's Hole we hope they will drive the correspondents back to their reservation. A cablegram says that Nat Goodwin is luiving a glorious time touring England on a wheel. We are glad Nat left his skates at homo. At Greenwich. Conn.. Miss Anna Mercy and .losej ih .lust ice were married. It isn't often that the law tempers mercy with justice like that. A dispatch from Philadelphia snys that II. hues is looking thin and dejected. Well, It's 'iiough to wear out any man. to keep track of the detectives' clews in that case. A Flornla dispatch says that a picnicking party lown there "was pursiun! theother day by a snake which in diameter resembled a beer barrel." Perhaps that'swhat it was. A valul New York eonteni'voraiy which says that "Mrs. Corbet t has found marriage a failure" should guess again. A humlred dollars a week for life doesn't look much like a failure. Mr. Davis, of New York, has ben Cnel $0 and costs for selling a collar button on. Sunday. If he hudsld a suit of clothesprobably lie would have been, scutcnccdi to the penitentiary for life. ' ,

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