Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 38, Plymouth, Marshall County, 1 September 1899 — Page 2

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THE WEEKLY I11DEPEI1DEI1T. CL W. METSKEE, Pub. and Prep. PLYMOUTH, - - INDIANA

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i! News of General Interest Told in Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. Record of IlapiHMiinff of Much or Little Importance from All Part of the ivilized World Frlees of Farm Proline In Western Market. . Evansville, Ind. George W. Newett, ex-chief of polite of this city and one of the best known democratic politicians in southern Indiana, died, aged 51 years. Dec fr n, Texas Judge Isaac Lindley die;! Ia.i night, aged 91 years. He was intimate friend of Abraham Lincoln, and had been a member of the Illinois legislature for several terms. He- was bcrn in Illinois. Cincinnati Dr. Max Thorner, a "widely known ear and "nose specialist, dropped doad suddenly at his Lome in Avondale of heart disease. Lexington, 111. Fire destroyed the home company's telephone exchange and I lineman's bicycle establishment. Loss cn 1 icycie sto k and telephone apparatus. $l.."i0; building, $.000. Armona, CaL Fire destroyed $00,000 -worth of property, inducing a large quantity of this season's crop of raisins. Hempstead. X. Y. Albert Golden of Greenwich Point and Furman Hicks, 40 years old, of Hempstead, were drowned while, sailing in Hempstead bay. Long Island. Higginsport, X. Y. William Schnyder. a miller, was shot dead cn the street in that town. John Donald and his son William are charged with the &hoctir.g. Little Rock, Ark. Xo continuation of a report received from Xewport, Ark., alleging the wipingout of Pleasant Plains by a tornado has been received. Cleveland. Ohio In response to a letter cf appeal from Rt. Rev. James H. Blenk. bishop cf Porto Rico, Bishop Horstmar, has asked his clergy and people to aid the hurricane sufferers. Scrantcn. Pa. The National Letter Carriers association has protested to the carriers against their permitting non-union carpenters to build the arches and columns which form the main feature of the decorations for the carriers' national convention. Boston The democratic state central committee decided to hold the state convention in this city Sept. 21. George Fred Williams will be chairman of the committee on resolutions. Washington The commissioner of internal revenue has decided that the 25-cent stamp must not be affixed to pawn tickets unless there is a bona fide agreement with the pawner for storage charges. Albany, Mo. James M. Chittim, a prominent stockman, was gored to death by a bull. Milan, Mo. Walter McAlister, 18 years old, committed suicide because a young woman refused to accompany tlm to a picnic. He firct tried to kill the young woman. Brooklyn. X. Y. The United States transport MeC'ellan sailed, carrying 1.600 tons of clothing, provisions, medicines and building material for the destitute In Porto Rico. Shanghai The Chinese authorities here say the French have revived their claim to the right of forming a settlement at Nanking, based upon the treaty of 1S5S. Xorihampton. Mas?. A temporary receiver has been appointed for the Florence Machine company of Florence. Nominal assets, $76.000; liabilities, ?50,(;00. Trenton, X. J Charles Howard Haven is dead, the result of a fall from a window. -He was 81 years old, and while living at Ht. Iouls organized the St. IxKiis Park of Fruits, which set out 400 vineyards an orchard?. Eau Clane, Wis. Frederick Sylvester of Chlcafo. aged 17 years, fell from a boom into Half Moon lake, while fishing, and vva. drowned. He was a brother cf Rev. Edward Sylvester of Kau Claire. Canandaigua, X. Y. The Seneca Point hotel on Canandaigua lake was destroyed by fire. The structure was valued at $;.",0'"j. All the guests escaped. ' Flint, Mich. Mr?. John M. Russell, Mrs. Karl Wilsen and Mrs, S. A. Wilson, while driving, were thrown out of their buggy. Mr. Earl Wilson died in fifteen minutes and Mrs. Russell may die. Xorthfield, Mss. The general conference of Christian workers dosed Its seventeenth annual session .f'er what is admitted to be the mo- Miccesrful series of meetings in the Xorthfield movement. Norfolk, Va. The four-mas-ted schooner Augustus Palmer, Capt. Haskell, from Xewport News to Bangor, Maine, went ashore and sank in four fathoms near Thimble light. Her crew Y.as saved. Detroit, Mich. The twelfth convention of the Bohemian Slavonical Benefit association was held. There are about 11,000 members of the association in the United States, representing 1S lodges. Dunkirk, X. Y. Rev. Father Stephen, rector of lh monastery, Wa3 eleettd provincial of the Order of the Passionist Fathers, now in session at St. Paul's monastery in Pittsburg. St. Louis, Mo. A voluntary petition In bankruptcy was filed by John P. Herrmann, Jr. Liabilities, $1G7,202; assets, $32,311. St. Louie, Mo. Since the advance in price of meat the demand for poultry has greatly increased. Pittsburg, Pa. The fifteenth annual convention of the Daughters of St. George, one of the best-known secret benevolent societies of women in the world, was held here, with about sixty delegates from all parts of the United States and Canada. , Saratoga, N. Y. Dtohop John P. ttewroan's will showe Ms estate to bu w.-th it.000.

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CHICAGO. Cattle, all grades $1.50 G.50 Hogs, common to prime. 2.50 4.90 Sheep and lambs 2.00 6.00 Wheat, Xo. 2 red .73 Oats, Xo. 2 white, new.. .21 .21?; Corn, Xo. 3 white .32 Rye, Xo. 2 cash .54 Vi Eggs 12 .13 Butter r. 13 .20 MILWAUKEE. Wheat, Xo. 1 northern.. .73 Corn, Xo. 3 .32 Oats, Xo. 2 white .1Z'2 Rye, Xo. 1 54Vi .54 ai Barley, Xo. 2 42 .42 Butter 10'2 -20 Egg3 11U .12 Cattle 2.00 5.00 Hogs 3.90 4.70 Sheep and lambs 3.23 G5.00 ST. LOUIS. Oats, Xo. 2 cash .22 Wheat, Xo. 2 hard CD .?0Vs Corn, Xo. 2 cash .31 Cattle, all grades 2.40 6.23 Hogs 4.50 4.S0 Sheep and lambs 2.25 (gG.OO KANSAS CITY. Wheat. No. 2 red .71 Oats, No. 2 white 22 .23 Corn, cash, No. 2 mixed .29 Cattle, all grades 2.40 6.25 Hogs, all grades 4.45 4.70 Sheep and lambs 2.50 (Qö.to TOLEDO. Wheat, No. 2 cash .71U Corn, Xo. 2 mixed .31 Oats, Xo. 2 mixed .21 Rye, Xo. 2 cash .56 Cloverseed, prime cash. . 3.97 XEW YORK. Wheat. Xo. 2 red .7G?4 Corn, No. 2 .39 Oats, Xo. 3 white .27 PEORIA. Oats, Xo. 3 white 20?i .21 Corn, Xo. 3 .31U CASUALTIES. London. A great forest fire is rag ing near Kothiemurchies, Invernessshire. Miles of superb woods around Loch Ellien are involved. Oshkosh, Wis. Fire destroyed the warehouse containing the finished product of the Paine Lumber company, with a loss of about $35,000, fully covered by insurance. Conneaut, 111. Fire destroyed Merriam's planing mill and adjoining buildings, with a loss of $9,000. .-t. John, X. B. While bathing at Lock Lomond lake, Melvin Stackhouse, aged 19, was drowned. Boston.Mass. Prof. George A. Hench of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, died at the city hospital, after undergoing an operation for a fractured skull. CRIME. Muskogee, I. T. Cyrus A. Brown and Matthew Craig were hanged for murder. They were the first white men to be executed in the territory. Peru, Ind. Mrs. Edith Quick was ar rested charged with having poisoned her husband. A brother of the dead man was arrested charged with being an accomplice. Bynum, Mich. George A. Fry, post master, has been found short $3,000 in his accounts, and upon being charged by Inspector Lance made a confession. Windsor, Ont. A colored man, be lieved to be Tom L. Johnson, a delegate to the Colored Masonic Grand lodge, drowned himself in the river. Xew Orleans The case of William A. Cox of Chicago, wanted for embezzlement in Cuba, and now under ar rest, has been continued to Aug. 30 to await important papers from Gen, Brook. MISCELLANEOUS. Xew York The death is announced ot Henry de Yllmorein of Paris, a famous seedsman, well known In the United States from his visits in the study of seed. Xew York William H. Bodwell. former president of the International Typographical union, is dead it Whitehall, X. Y., aged 67. Berlin. The Ixkal Anzeiger publishes the following from Constantinople: "A financial crisis is imminent. The Ottoman exchequer is empty." London. Edmund Rutledge, head, of the well-known publishing firm oil Routledge &. Sons (Incited), died suddenly. Warsaw, 111. Judge William X. G rover died suddenly, aged 83 years. Indianapolis, Ind. Secretary Smith of the Xational Association of Mexican War Veterans announces that the annual mce'-g will be held here Sept. 13 and 14. Deadwood, S. D. Mrs. Phoebe Hearst denies the statement sent out to the effect that she Intended to sell her Interests in the famous Homestake mine. Washington. The navy department does not look with favor on the proposition to have the historic warship Constitution take part in the Dewey demonstration at New York. Washington. The secretary of the treasury has authorized the commencement of condemnation proceedings to secure lot 36, in Indianapolis, for the erection of i public building. Xew York. Xotice has been given by the different producers of foundry coke that the prica of their product will be advanced 25 tents a ton on Sept. 1. This wlu make the quoted price $2.75 a ton. Philadelphia James A. Rappe, aged 84 years, of Marinette, Wis., rode a bicycle 1,200 miles to attend the encampment of the Grand Army of the RepubÜC Tientsin The bubonic plague has appeared at Xew Chwang. It is feared the disease will spread to the Tientsin and other places In north China. Tangier The sultan of Morocco has notified the power3 that he is destroying the native boats on the Riff coast and is establishing a gunboat service In order to protect foreign shipping from piracy. Lima, Peru Revolutionary chiefs who have been taken prisoners declare that their cause found no support in the towns or among the country people Ramsey, 111. Chauncey O. Baker, dealer in agricultural implements, haj been adjudged a bankrupt by Judge AI fca of tbe United States Dtetrict courjt.

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Prompt Ending of Philippine Trouble Not Looked For. INSURGENTS ARE WELL ARMED During the Rainy Season They Have Keplenisheri Their Stocks of War Material Will Use Kvery Effort to Frolong the Struggle. Advices from Manila received at Washington say that talk of the ending of the Philippine war deals no longer with weeks, but with months and even years. Unless affairs take some unforeseen turn the Filipinos will resume the war this fall with fresh spirit and a replenished stock of arms and ammunition. Of money the leaders of the insurrection have no lack. Reports brought through the lines to Spaniards and Filipinos in Manila are that the spirits of the insurrectionists are improving. Their policy after the rains will be as it was before, a campaign for gaining time and wearing out their opponents. To whip them while they are pursuing such tactics an army will be needed that can move rapidly and strike day after day, following up a defeat without having to wait for rations, and thus giving the enemy time to reorganize. ATTENDANCE WILL BE LARGE. Grand Army Kneampment Attracting the Veterans. The prospects are that there will be 1,000 veterans at the Grand Army encampment from Illinois. Wisconsin is expected to tend 500 men. Iowa COO, Indiana 500 and Minnesota 200. The estimated total to be at the encampment is 4,500. The date is Sept. 4 to 9. 250,000 PERSONS DESTITUTE, 2.3 1 2 Iturlals of Hurricane Victims Have Keen Made In Porto Klco. An official report has been issued in Porto Rico showing that there have been 2,312 burials of victims of the recent hurricane. One thousand families are missing, together with their houses. The report states that the number of destitute persons is 250,000. Farmers Form a Combine. Prominent Kansas farmers and business men have organized "The Farmers' Federation of the Mississippi Valley," with a capital stock of $20,000,000. The purpose is to control the price of farm products, and especially of the enormous corn crop of Kansas. Window-Claas Trust Abandoned. The organization of the $37,000,000 window-glass trust has been abandoned, because of the action brought in the Indiana courts by the Glass Workers Xational association enjoining the Indiana manufacturers from entering the trust. Regiment of Colored Infantry. Lieut.-Col. William P. Duvall of the Twenty-Sixth volunteer infantry will command the regiment of negro infantry which the war department has decided to organize. It is probable that all the officers will be white. Illness of Admiral Watson. Recent letters from Manila mention the illness of Admiral Watson as the source of great anxiety to his officers. Xo one but his physician is allowed access to him, and all business of the .fleet is forbidden. Little Hope for Peace. Special dispatches from South Africa and elsewhere show that preparations for war are actively in progress on both 4!de6 to the dispute between Great Britain and the Transvaal. ltond Issue Not NecfarT. Secretary Gage says he does not believe the Increase of the army by twenty regiments will force another bond issue or make it necessary to levy additional war taxes. Congress to Settle CJnestlons. It is believed that many of the important questions relating to Porto Rico will be left for congress to deal with, instead of being settled by executive action. Wealth of South Dakota. The assessed valuation of the state of South Dakota is $158,722,704, an Increase of $40,142.208 over last year. In the total about $13,000,000 is corporate property. Transport Ohio Arrives Safely. The transport Ohio has arrived at Manila with companies C and L. Xineteenth United States Infantry, and recruits eleven officers and 72C enlisted men. Soldler Amlinnhed by Native. Four men of the Twenty-third regiment, station-id at Cebu, in the Philippines, were ambushed ly natives in the hills and thr?e of them killed. Fire Sweeps Reading, Mich. Fire swept the business and residence portions of Reading, Mich., and before it was under control twenty-one buildings were destroyed. Fear Trouble In Height in. Fear of a general strike throughout Belgium grows dally. Infantry garrisoned at Bruges has been dispatched to the mining districts. Quarantine Against Mexican Town. Cases of fever have broken out at Orizaba, Mexico, which are suspected of being yellow fever. Quarantine ha3 been established. Will Sail Oct. 15. The first ten volunteer regiments, from the Twenty-sixth to the Thirtyfifth, Inclusive, will leave San Francisco by Oct. 15. F.x-Gov. Merrill Is Dying. Former Gov. Samuel Merrill of Iowa suffered a stroke of paralysis and Is thought to-be dying. He is at Los Angeles, Cal. Old Clay Mansion Ilurncd. The hlstorio old Clay mansion, near Paria, Ky., was destroyed by lire, believed to bare been, caused by an in-ccfibfary.

WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE. Large Increase in Payments Through Clearing House. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: "Actual payments through the principal clearing houses for the week were 23.1 per cent larger than last year and 56.2 per cent larger than in the same week in 1S92. For the month thus far the daily average of payments has been 26.3 per cent larger than last year and 5G per cent larger than in 1S92. "Strength in prices and steadiness of demand are stin the saMent features of the trade situation. Fall demand is expanding at most markets, particularly good reports being received from the northwest and that portion of the corn-growing country which this year seems likely to be notable for surplus production."

NEW YORK CONVENT BURNED. Many Children Ilellcvcd to Have Perished in the Flames. St. Ann's convent, at Sparkill, X. Y., was destroyed by fire Aug. 2S. The convent consisted of nine' frame buijdings, close together. There were more than 500 children and 250 adults on the place. It is reported that a great jnany children are missing, and that a number are known to have perished in the flames. The buildings, for the most part, were old and burned like tinder. Sparkill is in Rockland county, New York, and is located on the west side of the Hudson river, opposite Dobbs Ferry, and about twenty-five miles from X-ack, X. Y. Steel Trust ICeaching Out. The Union Steel and Chain company Is buj'ing up blast furnace, bessemer converters, ore mines, rolling mills, and chain and iron works of the country. The company has a capital stock of $60,000,000. Senator Morgan on Kxpansion. Senator John T. Morgan of Alabama thinks there will be no platform declaration against American retention or other recent insular acquisitions by either of the next national conventions. Want Annexation to Hritaln. The Vienna Politische Correspondenz says that a deputation of American merchants from Manila has gone to Washington to promote a scheme for ceding the Philippines to Great Britain. One Hundred Lives Lost. It is now thought that the number of people who lost their lives by shipwreck during the West Indian hurricane which recently passed up the coast of Virginia will reach 100. American Yacht Is Victorious. The Canada cup, captured in 1896 at Toledo by the Canadian yacht Canada from the Chicago yacht Vencedor, was won by the Chicago yacht Genesee from the Canadian Beaver. Dewey Leaves Sept. lO. Owing to the change in Admiral Dewey's program, advancing his arrival at New York by one day, he has decided to sail from Gibraltar Sept. 10, instead of Sept. 12. California Keglment Welcomed Home. The California regiment landed from the transport Sherman at San Francisco. Immense crowds lined the streets for miles and gave the soldiers a rousing welcome home. Consul ltedloe Is Suspended. Consul Edward Bedloe. who has been stationed at Canton, China, has been suspended by the 6tate department and granted permission to return to the United States. Farmers' Congress at Poston. The national farmers congress will meet at Boston, Mass., Oct. 3 to G. This is the first time the congress has nv t. in Xew England, and a large meeting is expected. Monument to Von Moltke. On the coming lOütli.ciniversary of the birth of Field Marshal von Moltke, Kaiser Wilhelm will unveil a magnificent monument to his memory at Berlin. American II rakes for Itussia. By January, 1903, all freight rolling stock on all the Russian lines, both state and private, are to be fitted with the Wostinghouse quick-acting brake. Ir. Oronhjrateklia Klected President. Dr. Oronhyatekha, a Mohawk Indian, was elected president of the national fraternal congress. The next annual meeting will be held at Atlantic City. Immense Copper liflt Found. An immense copper belt is known to extend from White Horse rapids on tho Yukon river to a point on the Dal ton trail, forty miles from Lynn canal. F.tideavor to Orcanlze Miners. The United Mine Workers of America are endeavoring to organize the anthracite miners of Pennsylvania, whose union collapsed twenty years ago. Chinese Kxrluded from Philippines. The state department has been Informed through a diplomatic channel that Gen. Otis has applied the Chinese exclusion laws to the Philippines. First California Iteglment Home. The United States transport Sherman, bearing the First California regiment of volunteerj, arrived at San Francisco Aug. 23. All were well. Disease Appears In Ponce. Thirty cases of acute malaria and three of typhoid fever developed at Ponce, Porto Rico, as a result of the flood carrying filth into the city. Property Loss In Chile. Property valued at more than 1,500.000 ($7.500,000) has been de1,500,000 ($7,500,000) was destroyed during the severe storms in Chile. Cotton-Duck Mills Org a I med. The cotton-dnck consolidation has been completed. Fourteen mills have been acquired. Tbe total capttejicatioo oCjthe Bfew oott$aay'b $2X,6W1900.

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Rural Guards Fire Into a of Ex-Soldiers. Crowd FIVE KILLED, TEN WOUNDED. Iin1eulty Arises Over a Humor That the United States Would Reject Certain Claims Authorities Expect No Further Disturbances. The rural guard and a number ol Cuban soldiers had a conflict at Cuevitas, a small town near Santiago, in which five were killed and ten were wounded. The difficulty was the result of a rumor that the American authorities would reject all applications for a share in the $3.000,000 that had not been filed before the payment at Guantanamo last month. Xo further disturbances are expected. FILIPINOS DISTRUST OTIS. Aguinaldo Will Not Negotiate Peace Terms with Him. A prominent Filipino asserts that Aguinaldo will never negotiate with Gen. Otis for peace. Otis is blamed for precipitating hostilities in February, when an amicable arrangement was possible. The Filipinos express profound trust in Admiral Dewey. They apparently believe him to be the only ma who can achieve a peaceful settlement. BROOKE STOPS PAYMENTS. Will Not Distribute Any More of the Money Appropriated. Gov.-Gen. Brooke has virtually decided not to make any payments to Cuban troops on the basis of additional rolls. The first payments brought to light such an amount of thievery and attempted swindling that he has ceased to consider the question of distributing what is left of the $3,0C 1,000 in supplementary payments. Forest Fires In Colorado. Great forest fires are raging in the vicinity of Denver. Colo., above the Platte canon of the national forest reserve. Settlers are fleeing from Deer creek. Otis liars Filipino Junta. Gen. Otis has frustrated the attempt to establish a branch Filipino junta In Manila. Senor Lichauco, who was the prime mover, has been arrested. Does Not Want Cavalry. Major-Gen. Otis says no more cavalry is necessary to the conduct of the campaign in Luzon. The country is not suitable for cavalry operations. President Hack In Washington. The president has left Lake Champlain and gone back to Washington. Both he and Mrs. McKinley are improved in health by the trip. Jollet Firm's Large Contract. Contracts amounting to 2,000,000 and calling for 2.500 steel gondola cars have been received by the Fox Pressed Steel company of Joliet, 111. Miners Still Hold Out. Pana (111.) miners have decided not to go to work unless the operators pay them 40 cents per ton. This the operators say they cannot do. Now Itlshop of Marquette. Father Frederick Eis, the fourth bishop of the diocese of Sault Ste. Marie and Marquette, was consecrated at Marquette, Mich., Aug. 24. Fight at Coney Island. It is said Jeffries and Sharkey will fight at Coney Island, in the same ring in which Fitzsimmons lost his honors to the present champion. Laurler Oolng to England. Sir Wilfrid Laurier will leave Canada for England in a few weeks to discuss the Alaskan boundary question and other matters. Chicago Wants Ci. A. It. KnriMiipment. CWcago Grand Army posts w411 make a great effort to have the national encampment of the Grand Army in that city in 1900. New Yellow Fever Cases. Two new cases of yellow fever at Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, have been reported to the marine hospital service. Iowa Insurance Company Falls. The Iowa Mutual Fire association has failed, State Auditor Merriara revoking its authority to do business. Naples Free from Plague. A dispatch to Ixmdon from Xaples says the report that the plague has made its appearance there is false. Deny Trouble al Pantlsjro. Both Gen. Brooke and Gen. Wood deny to the war department reports of riots and disturbances at Santiago. Cure for llnbonlc Plague. Prof. Bandi of the University of Messina claims to have discovered a serum that will cure the bubonic plague. Dyniamlte Monopoly to Stand. The volksraad of the Transvaal republic has decided that the dynaniito monopoly shall not be canceled. I4tmltug Convenes In January. The German landtag will be reconvened in January, when the canal and franchise bilk; will be revived. Will ltalse Full Force. President McKinley has decided to enlist the entire force of 35,000 volunteers provided for by congress. Soldier Has Yellow Fever. Two new cases of yellow fever aro reported in Havana. One American soldier has the disease. CavsUry do to Manila. The transport St. Paul sailed from San Francisco for Manila with 750 mn of the Third cavalry. Thlrrr-flrst P.eRlnirnt Break Camp. The Thirty-first regiment lg Fort Thomaa. Ky., for Baa FpaaclsooU m-

UNIQUEWINDOWIN CLUBHOUSE Made to Order for a Man Who Wa Separated from His Wife. In the Kinloch club, at St. Louis, there iö a stained glass window with an odd history, says the St. Louis Republic. It is not an ordinary window, with its parts joined by frames of lead, but is of the finest kind of colored cathedral glass, so perfectly joined that the seams are not vit?ib:e. It is paneled in shape, and in the colored glass appears the face and form of a beautiful woman. She is in the costume of a dancer, and her skirt? fall but little below the knees. The figure is perfect in Its proportions, and the face is one of surprising beauty. When the clubhouse was finished the art committee looked aroTind for something unique in the way of decoration. They found it in Chicago, where they had gone exploring. Entering the art store they told the dealer they wanted to see the choicest thing lie had. The dealer replied that he had a beautiful colored window panel, which was left on his hands through a pei-uiiar chain of circumstances. A rich Chicagoan had. immediately after marrying, decided that as a part of the decoration of his new home he would have a window in which the face and form of his wife would appear. He got together the necessary photographs in appropriate costumes and brought thorn to the glass window concern, where estimates were made as to the probable cost. He wanted naught but the best, and was not content to have the picture painted or burnt into the glass. He wanted the work done in the actual colored glass. The dealer was obliged to t-end the photographs and an extended explanation of what was wanted abroad. and there the window was made. It took months for its completion, and when it was finished and returned the dealer notified his rich patron. But the window never found a place in the rich man's house. They had been married long enough to become estranged and divorced. The rich man had completed the house he had built for his bride and was living alone in it. There were enough sad memories about the house without having the face of the woman from whom he had separated looking down on him from one of the great windows, so the work was never accepted. That is the reason the members of the Kinloch club were able to get such a truly beautiful and original window as a decoration for their mantel.

COLOR SCHEME. .Should lie Carefully Studied in Furnishing Various Hooinn. There are rooms in some houses that produce a sense of irritation on nerve and brain on those who are sensitive to color, so crude and harsh and jarring are the arrangements of the same. Go into another room in some other house, where all the colors soothe and delight, and you will find soft olives and dull blue and blue-greene, having an indescribably gentle influence. The bluegreen or olive prevails in the carpet, the ground being deep blue and the allover pattern soft olive and dull blue. The olive prevails in the long curtains, and takes on rather golden tone, while the sash curtains are entirely of the softest dull blue India silk, trimmed with tassel braid to match. The Holland shades are in ecru. There is an absence of conspicuous figures, pattern and ground. A bit of pale rose or yellow, or old gold, or dull red, may be used in such a room. An old fan, for example, ornamented with a bow of pale rose satin and displayed against a light olive wall, tells for much more than against a wall flowered or figured conspicuously in a dozen different colors. Spanish Cave Dwellers of To-day. We commonly refer the cave dwellers to pie-historic times, but there are still some of these people in parts of Europe that are considered civilized. Their primitive dwellings are, in some cases, natural caves, and in others have been hewn out of the rocks. Some of these homes in Spain are described by a writer. He says: "There is no need of an alms house in Alcala. One side of the hill above the town is honey-combed with caves, which are used by the poor as dwellings, free of rent and taxes. These caves run .in tiers, with paths between them, and before each is a garden in which grow the prickly pear, fig, vilas, maize and vegetables. The combination of rock and foliage gives the whole hillside that singular appearance of rocky Vertility seen only in southern lands, and particularly in the presence of cactus growth. The people seemed quite as comfortably situated as many who lived in houses, and in general appearance the alms house hill of Alcala was more attractive than the gipsy quarter of Granada. Doubtless these caves have the advantage over ordinary houses of being warmer in winter and cooler in summer." Stronger Than Steel. It is difficult to realize that so fragile looking a concern as a spider's web is proportionately ore of the strongest things in existence. The ordinary spider's thread would support without breaking a weight of three grains. Now a bar of steel one inch in diameter will sustain fifty ton. If you take the diameter of a spider's thread, and calculate what weight tbe same thread an inch in diameter would support, tbe conclusion arrived at is no less than seventy-four tons, which means that the strength of tie seemingly feeble thread is. as near as possible, as much as one and a half times that of the steel. I'd Choked on a Kat. A monster eel has been found dead in Hempston Leat, one of the Dart tributaries of England, it having apparently been choked by a water rat it had tried to swallow, and which was partly protruding from its mouth. The eel also contained a young moor hen. In trying to swallow both bird and rat the eel lost hte life. Czar's Military Household. The military household of the crar is composed of 98 officers of various rankt, 83 of whom belong to the army and 15 to the navy. Nineteen members of (he royal family are included in (his list,

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il President McKinley Announces Administration's Policy. LIBERTY AND CIVIL RIGHTS. Suppression of the Itt-bcllioti Will I5e Followed by the IXaMUhuie nt of a (iovenimenl of Kaw and Order Our Flag the Symbol of Advancement. President McKinley made an adires at the Methodist strongnold at (Kean Grove in whk.h he outlined his imücy rc-yarding Cuba. Porto Rico and the Philippines. Ho eaid: "I believe that there is more love for our country and that more peop'.e love the flag than ever before. Whref vor that flag Is raised it stands not for despotism and oppression, but for liberty, opportunity and humanity and what that flag has donrt for us w. want ir to do for all people and ai. lands which by the fortunes of war have ccme within its jurisdiction. "That flag does not mean one thi.g in the United States and another in Porro Rico and the Philippines. There has been some doubt in somo qua. era respecting the policy of the government in the Philippines. I see no harm in stating it in this presence. Peace firit; then with charity for all establish a government of law and order, protecting life and property and occupation for the well-being of the people who will participate in it under fhe stars and stripes." FORM TWO BIG COATtBUSTS. Joint Capital Is SS 1 O 4.IIOO.OOO ;ls;aiitic Interests Involved. Two consolidations of coal-mining interests have been completed. One is the Monongahela River Coal and Coke company, the other the Pittsburg Coal company. The total capitalization of the two concerns will be $1"!.000.000. of which the railroad combination hari $04.000.000 and the river coal $40.000.000. Thousands of miles of coal lands will be controlled by the combine. Want Pardon fr.r Hinsliaw. An appeal will be made to Cov. Mount of Indiana for the unconditional pardon of the Rev. William Hinshaw, who i serving a life sentence, for the alleged murder of his wife. Rxeluslon Is Only Temporary. Gen. Otis' course in excluding Chinese from the Philippines i.- said to be only a temporary military expedient, leaving the general question to be determined by congress. Volunteers Have Due N'otiee. Secretary Root ays he thinks every man belonging to the twenty regiments of volunteers now being recruited will eat his Christmas dinner in the Philippines. Kefuse the Advance Asked. The joint wage conference of the glass cutters and manufacturers adjourned without reaching a settlement. The workers demanded an advance of about 5 per cent. Convention of l"lre Chiefs. The convention of fire chiefs chose Charleston, S. C, as the place of meeting of the next convention. Chief J. P. Quigley of Syricuse ;as elected president. Mississippi Democrats for Ilryan. The Mississippi democratic convention indorsed the declarations of the Chicago convention in 1S9G and declared for Col. W. J. Bryan for president. Anti-Imperialism the Chief Issue. Anti-imperialism will be the chief democratic issue in the coming campaign In Iowa. State Chairman Ieort;Q Huffman so definitely announced. More Volunteers Cuilu Home. The transport Grant, having on board the rcturmnr volunteers of tht Idaho, Wyoming and North Dako: i rgiment. left Tokyo Aug. 14. AlRer Itenles an Interview. Gen. Russell A. Alger denies the alleged Interview with himnelf in a Montreal newspaper In which he was made to say he was out of politic?. Acknowledges I'nited States Supremacy. The t-ultan of Sulu has signed the treaty presented to him by Gen. Bates, acknowledging the supremacy of the United States government. (ien. Fniiston t'smln; Home. Gen. Frc-deruk Kunston is coming home to receive treatment necessitated by the reopening of a wound received while in the Cuban army. Carter May ;. Free. It is rumored that Capt. Carter is to go free. He will be dismissed from the army and may be fined JlO.OoO. but he wiil not be imprisoned. Ilortt Order Kngllsli Cart ridge. An English firm has received an order from President Kruger for 14.000.(00 Mauser cartridges for urgent delivery to South Africa. Iteinteruient of llrnwn'i Followers. The bodies of the followers of John Brown, who met death at Harper's Ferry, Va., in 1S.'9, were reburied Aug. 2S at North Klba. Killed by Iynamlte Fi plosion. By an explosion of dynamite at Joplin. Mo., six men were killed and tho plant of the Marguerite mine was totally destroyed. Germans Help KrocT. German residents of the Transvaal hae expressed their willingness to volunteer for service with the Boers in the case of war. New Charge Against Oreyfns. It is said th.it Dreyfus' prosecutors on the general staff will take the ground that he and Iisterhazy were accomplices. Fire Kages at Milwaukee. Fire in the yards of the B. Uhrig Coal company and the Foster Lumber company at Milwaukee caused a Iocs ol $140,000. W1U Attend . A. It. Fn ramp meat. Major-den. Nelson A. Miles and AdJL-Gen. Corbln will attend the G. A. R, eaoaxopmeat at Philadelphia Srpt. 4.