Marshall County Independent, Volume 6, Number 27, Plymouth, Marshall County, 15 June 1900 — Page 2

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THE WEEKLY IHDEPE11DEHT. CL W. METSKER, PuK and Prop. PLYMOUTH, - INDIANA. OUR CALENDAR.

tHU 7 14 21 28 HI 1 8 15 22 29 SAT 2 9 16 23 30 I EfitS Of It HEEK Items of General Interest Told in Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. Uncord of Happening of Much or Little Importance from All l'arts of the Civilized World Fricen of Farm Producta In Western Markets. Derby caused a score of suicides In England. J. T. Taylor won British golf championship. Panicky conditions prevailed on the Berlin bourse. Dr. Henry Wade Rogers, president of Northwestern university, speaking to students at Cleveland, says the money power must be taken out of politics or popular government will Admiral Dewey and wife are entertained in Detroit. The Colorado democrats name a delegation instructed for Bryan. Tom Sharkey knocked out Yank Kenny in first round. SilTerdale beat Miss Bennett in stake event at Hawthorne. Step3 were taken in the French senate to establish a colonial army. Gen. Pio del Pilar, the Filipino leader, has been taken prisoner. The Austrian reichsrath was kept in tumult all night by Czech deputies, the president being forced to close the ession this morning. Progress in the last week toward greater activity in business reported to have been slow. The week in financial eircleä has been stagnant. Wife of Thomiis Blythe Scott, former banker and a Chicago clubman, granted a divorce at St. Paul, Minn., for desertion. Divorce suit between prominent St. Louis couple based on wife's alleged affection for the ghost of W. J. Florence, the actor. A receiver is asked for the alley "L" road, Chicago, by a majority of the original stockholders, who charge that they were forced out by the reorganization. Commissioner of Public Works McGann of Chicago claims that the poor pavements of that city are due to the neglect of former city administrations. Gov. Tanner has ordered an investigation of the railroad and warehouse commission as a result of the elevator scandal. American Steel and Wire company will make its own billets. Campbell-Bannerman said liberals favor speedy self-government in South Africa. Guide led forty Americans into ambush near Taal. They escaped with two wounded. Colonel Gardner praised Hartigan's men's work against Maloles forces in Taybabas. Railroad crop reports point to a heavy harvest In Iowa, Nebraska, northern Missouri and northern Kansas. While speeding across the prairie near Oswego, 143 miles east of Wichita, Kan., at 1 o'clock Thursday morn ing at a rate of thirty miles an hour. west-bound passenger train No. 101, on the St. Louis & San Francisco rail way. Conductor Guiney in charge, was struck by a tornado and every car thrown from the track. Only the engine and tender remained on the rails. The following persons were injured: Will Davis, tramp, left cheek cut open; Henry James, tramp, shoulder dislo- . cated; Will Yetter, express messenger, ankle broken. Garry Hermann won Juvenile stakes at Hawthorne track near Chicago. While 200 extra police brought to Newmarket to suppress Irish meeting slept citizens held their gathering. American Medical association elected Charles A. Reed of Ohio president. Austrian parliament opened with Czech obstruction and the minister president threatened dissolution. England persuaded the khedive to refuse to visit the sultan, his nominal master. Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria will rlslt sultan at latters invitation. German naval bill passed second reading. Zionists meet In London on Aug. 13. American Fotindrymen's association, in national meeting at Chicago, elected W. A. Jones president. Stocks show but slight improvement as a result of the probable termination of the South African war. Americans took conspicuous part In unveiling a monument to Itochambeau, who fought for this country in the revolutionary war.

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LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS. Spring wheat Car lots, f. o. b 37?c; No. 3 spring, 61ti5c; No. 4, 6Sö-c. W inter wheat No. 2 red, f. O. b.. 690 :o;c; 3. CfeKta; No. Z hard, 66c; No. 2, 61Ge4c. Corn-Prices He higher; No. 2. 3sic; No. 2 yellow, 3Sc; No. J, 3S'fefi3SVic: No. 3 white. 3SV43Jic: No. 3 yellow. SSViftc: No. 4, 37ttg37ac. Oats -No. 3 white. 24ic; No. 2, 21i22c; No. 4 white, 24424c; No. 3 white. 244tf 244c; No. 2, 2214221,c: No. 2 white, 24&y 2540. Millstuffs-Bran. $12. Butter Creamery. extra. WAQWAc; dairies, fancy, 16c; packing, 14c Cheese -Full creams, dairie, 8c; Young Americas, new, 9c; twins, new, 8U3c; skimmed, poor to good. 2G7c. Eggs At mark. cases returned, fc10c Green fruits Apples, choice, $3.756 per large brl; fair to good. J2fi4. Blackberries, 51.50 61.75 per 24 pints. Cherries Sour. $1.250 1.75; Alton. $131.25 per 16 qts. Gooseberries. $!(fil.l5 per 24 qts. Strawberries. Michigan. C5'n85o Pr 16 .ts: nois, 9Ccfr$1.25 per 24 qts. Hides Heavy green salted, 71c; damaged, green salted, tiljc; green salted calf, 10c; No. 2 calf, damaged. S'Ac. Hay Choice timothy, $12 (51150; No. 1 timothy, $11&12; choice prairie. $3.5tt(jlO. Poultry Iced stock: Turkeys, Slit Vic; chickens, fc-gSc: springs. PJfjlSc; roosters, (c; geese, 50 6c; ducks, 5fi7c; springs. 12- 12ic. Potatoes Old, 31 g30c; new, $2.5017.25. Cattle Heavy native steers, f4.555S5.S3; stockers and feeders. $!fr5: butcher cows and heifers. $3.3'fi 4.J; runners, tJ.75Q3.30; fed westerns. $1.40 if; Texans, $3.tiU34.M). Hoffs Heavy. JJ.'.'GTi Ö.G5; mixed. $4.!51r3; lisht, $4.755: pigs. $1.504.75. SheepChoice to prime wethers, $5.255.60; medium to choice mixed wethers. $4.S0'JI5.20; pood to prime western muttons. $4.90? 5.4"); plain ewes and coarse lots, $4.20'j$ 4.75; culls, bucks und poor stock. $3.C0t? 4.10; good to choice yeurlinqs. .50g5.S5; poor to fair yearlings, $3.15'i5.40; lambs, poor to fair. Jl.WW ('..10; lambs, good to prime. $f.20fa .."; fat western lambs in tleece. Sti.&uji 7.40; spring lambs, poor to fancy, JlSOJjS.UO. MISCELLANEOUS.

Newly made sophomores at Princeton university listen to a speech by former President Cleveland. Women of national prominence start a movement to aid widows and orphans of soldiers. Richard Croker called from Europe Saturday and is expected in New York June 23. Some cars of the St. Louis Transit company were run under heavy guard. Settlement of the strike seeais remote. Mobs of St. Louis women denuded, beat and smeared with green paint three women patrons of the Transit car line. Women's congress at Milwaukee reelects Mrs. Ixjwe president and adjourns. Cornelius Vanderbilt's estate appraised at $49,926,S65 will pay JM9.26S inheritance tax. Boston's famous elm was blown down in gale and carried off by relic hunters. New York police arrested thirtythree women in a poolroom. Commercial club members reached Boston. Dr. Richard S. Storrs of Brooklyn died. New York man lost $56,716 at roulette. Neely's case was adjourned again. Joseph Wheeler appointed brigadiergeneral in regular army; first confederate to be thus honored. House and senate agreed to establish grade of lieutenant-general. Major Johnson's command captured forty Filipinos in Tablas island. Illinois militia to camp on July 23. Close and exciting finishes at Hawthorne. Alaska delegates instructed foi Bryan. Republican majority in Oregon ia 8,000. New York democratic convention elected Hill, Croker, Murphy and Augustus Van Wyck delegates-at-large, and instructed for Bryan. Credential committee of General Federation of Women's Clubs, in session at Milwaukee, demanded return of colored woman's credentials by Massachusetts delegation. Her stata will protest. Drought conditions have been gen erally relieved. Corn is late; wheat has made satisfactory progress. Gasoline explosion caused fire at Chicago, in which Mrs. Charles S. Leeds was burned to death. Abdel Karin arrived at Chicago from Cairo to depose Dr. Khieralla as leader of Truth Knowers. During reception of New York Kreigerbund Kaiser had American flag unfurled; first foreign colors displayed in his palace. Thirty-two Chicago couples wer married in St. Joseph, Mich., Sunday. Atchison non-union man killed two men who called him a "scab." Senator Wolcot says one years' experience with free trade cost Colorado wool growers $3.500,000. King of Sweden and Norway given an enthusiastic welcome to Pari3. Iowa state university was given $50,000 by A. Whitney Carr of Jordan, N. Y. Company seeking street-railway franchise in Detroit offers ten ridea for 25 cents. Italian government gained in elec tions for members of chamber of deputies. Dr. W. R. Harper and the czar talked with each other for half an hour. First general illumination of Paris exposition; attendance 500.000. Seating capacity of 22,200 for Kansas City's convention hall is approved. Iowa university- graduated 103 students. "Sport," the Bostock elephant that fell from a railroad freight car while the menagerie was en route from Scranton to Newark, was hanged at Baltimore by his keepers to end his misery. The execution took place at the Bolton freight depot, where "Sport" has been lying paralyzed and helpless since he was brought to this city. President McKinley's Canton (Ohio) home Is being fitted up for his reception July 4. Bangle beat Hermoso at Hawthorne. Cyclone blew down many houses and killed one man in Miami, I. T. Pope Leo Is reported to have had another serious fainting spell. American exports to islands will reach $45.000.000 for fiscal year, Union men plan neighborhood clubs as relief stations for strikers. cripple creek mines nave paia 821,998 in dividends since 1803 Several consolidations of Chicago banks are discussed. London discount rate likely to be lower. Boxers said to have killed an English missionary and two Belgian engineers.

SCENE OF COMPLICATIONS IN THE FAR EAST.

fKIN6T$L TiN-T3IN Gen. Dutton Dead. Gen. Everett F. Dutton died at his home in Sycamore, 111., Friday, after a short illness of three days, aged 62 years. Gen. Dutton held many offices of trust, including clerk of the Illinois Supreme court and clerk of the house of the thirteenth general assembly. He was a large stockholder and president of the First National bank of Sycamore and an authority on monetary matters. He served continuously four years and two months in the civil war, rising by his gallantry and meritorious service from private to brigadier-general in the One Hundred and Fifth. He was a favorite among the veterans and a member of the Loyal Legion and the Grand Array of the Republic. Falls Into Molten Metal. At Kansas City, Mo., Thomas Kern, aged 35 years, an employe of the smelting works at Argentine, fell into a large pot of molten metal and died a few hours later In horrible agony. Kern fell into the pot in a sitting posture. His companions shouted with horror while the man laid his hands on either side of the red-hot kettle and tried to raise himself out. Other workmen hurried to his assistance and removed him. Many Die In a Collision. A head-end collision of cars on the Oakland Beach electric road at Providence, R. I., Sunday, resulted in the Immediate death of four persons and the wounding of over a score of others, some of whom are in a precarious condition. Among the latter is Lieut.Gov. Charles O. Kimball. The list of victims follows: Arthur Liseomb, George W. Baker, 15 months old; Lewis C. Sanborn. Providence; Ed D. B. Burroughs, motorman. Death Due to 1'oUoned Cake. Mrs. Edward Snub- -t, residing In the town of Genoa, Wis., baked some cakes in which she placed rat poison, Intending to use them to kill rats in the barn and other outbuildings. Temporarily she placed the cakes in the pantry without warning the family. While she was out of the house her brother, Max Wolfe, ate one of the cakes. He died within an hour. Engagement with Chinese. Boxers are within three miles of Tien Tsin, after defeating government troops. Russian soldiers ordered to Peking to punish Boxers for killing two Cossacks. Admiral Kempff telegraphed to Washington: "Engagement has commenced. Have landed fifty seamen." Kngland Unwilling to Lead. The London Mail says American intervention would solve the Chinese problem. Other English papers say England must take lead, but foreign office i3 unwilling. Russians say czar and Americans are agreed. British landed 900 troops. Boxers revolt is spreading. Georgia Mob Lynches Negro. Simon Adams, a negro 20 years old, was lynched just outside the city limits of Columbus, Ga. He attempted to assault the two daughters or E. H. t Almond, who lives ten miles above the city. Adams was round in a closet in the girls' room. MrUlllan to Preside. Judge James II. McGlllan of Green Bay will be the temporary chairman of the Wisconsin democratic conven tion, which will meet in the Alhambra theater, Milwaukee, Tuesday. The chairman is but 30 years of age. n y month Ttor's Iby." Plymouth church for the first time In forty-five years has a "pastor's ! " !s ? ,?lnk tt, m.ite, &iri ' r . u! home of the Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight nillls at 29 Grace court, Brooklyn. The present "pastor's baby" arrived In the 1111113 home Friday night. Four Pmse Members Hurt. St. Louis rioters Tuesday mobbed a woman for riding in a street car and blew up a car with dynamite, injuring four members of the posse.

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THE MONTANA SEN ATORSHIP. Martin Maginnis, whom Gov. Smith of Montana, appointed United States senator, is well known in the political life of Washington, where he served six years as representative from Montana when that state was a territory. His appointment came about in a peculiar manner and has added to

SENATOR MAGINNIS. the complications in the Clark case. Mr. Maginnis is a journalist of note and a prominent citizen of Helena, Mont., where he has lived since the close of the civil war. While he was still a child he went to Minnesota with his parents from his native state of New York. Cheaper Ice for New York. Somebody has cut the price of ice in New York city, but the hih officials of the American Ice company say they did not do it. In widely scattered sections of the city agents and drivers were offering ice to all householders at the old price 40 cents a hundredweight. Contracts were being made at that figure instead of CO cents, and icemen on the upper west side announced that they had general orders to that effect. Kill Ship Despite Itounty. Lyon county, Minnesota, is almost confronted with the dilemma whether to permit its treasury to become bankrupt or to permit the wolves to abolish stock-raising. During the months of March, April and May the county paid for the killing of eighty-five full-grown wolves and 779 whelps no less than $2,953. And there is no evidence that the wolves are appreciably reduced in numbers. Keane for the Dabaqoe See. In a letter received in Sioux City, Iowa, Friday from one who is in a position to know the statement is made 'that the Most Rev. John J. Keane will be the next archbishop of Dubuque. It is further declared that Archbishop Keane is not being and will not be considered in the matter of a coadjutor for Archbishop Feehan of Chicago. Boxers Mnrder Twenty Christians. Twenty native Christians were murdered by Boxers at Feng Tai and Huang Tsun, and American missionaries appealed for aid. Iondon reported negotiations looking to concerted action by England, America and France In suppressing the Boxers in China. It is reported from Chinese official sources that 4,000 Boxers surrounded 1,600 Chinese troops between Lofa and Yong Tsun Friday. Officials say that 500 Boxers were killed, but give no account of the Chinese casualties. Insane Man Burns HI Bonds. W. D. Bender, who died at the College Hill sanitarium, Cincinnati, last Sunday, destroyed $43.000 worth of government bonds before his relatives could interfere. He accumulated a fortune in California years ago. About six months ago he became violently Insane and a guardian was appointed. When search was made for the bontJa Bender possessed he threw them Into the fire. The property Is lost, becaus j the bonds were not registered.

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Proceedings of Six Days in National Congress SENATE POSTPONED PETITION For Ind'an Famine Funds Fending Answer s to "What Kngland Is Doing for the Sufferers Trust Measure Falls In House. Tuesday, June 5. In the senate Bacon (Ga.) quoted Pettigrew's charge that Cramp3 contributed $400,000 to republican campaign fund in 1892 upon promise he would receive shipbuilding contracts. Hanna and Carter denied charge, and Pettigrew charged Ohioan secured election to senate by bribery. Hanna said he thought Pettigrew insane. House judiciary committee favorably reported bill to limit power of courts In granting injunctions during labor disputes. Committee investigating immigration bureau at New York charges bribery, brutality and indignities to women. Wednesday, June C. Congress has enacted 1200 laws, of which four are creative the financial bill, with provisions for refunding public debt: the formation of complete territorial government for Hawaii; the enactment of a complete code of laws for Alaska; the law creating a temporary government for I'orto Rico. Adjournment of congress is delayed by disagreement between senate and house as to whether navy or coast survey should make ocean surveys. Debate in house was one of the most bitter during the session. Appropriations for session will be about $7')Ii,729,47C, indicating a billion and a half for the whole congress. Senate confirmed J. R. Hazel's appointment as district judge, despite New York Bar association's declaration he is unfit. Thursday, June 7. Congress adjourned; de-j.dlock was broken by house's agreement to senate proposition leaving ocean surveys under naval direction. In closing hours popular songs were sung in house. Yv'ays and means committee will meet before reassembling of congress to consider reduction of war taxes. Knvoy I'isher on Hoer Cause. At the Chicago reception. Abraham Fischer, chairman of the Boer delegation and high in the councils of the Orange Free State, raised his hand and said: "Our caue is a holy one. We give to America the message that we love our freedom not less than she does hers. And so long as there is an Afrikander left so long as there is a boy to grow up on the plains Great Britain shall not stamp out our liberty." Briefly sketching the causes of the present strife and asserting the right of their position before Cod and man. the envoy closed his address with the reiteration that death alone could drive the image of liberty from the hearts of the righting burghers in faraway Africa. Mexicans Kol and Murder. Anton Olsen and J. Stewart, proprietors of a small store on the desert, forty miles north of Phoenix. Ariz., were murdered by a gang of four Mexicans, who have cut a wide criminal swath through several sections of Arizona in the last few days. The storekeepers were killed within their cabins, and rifles lay beside the dead bodies. A trail of blood indicated that one of the assassins was wounded. The same gang held up a prospector on the road the night before and relieved him of considerable gold dust. A few days ago four Mexicans meeting the description of these raided a gambling house in Globe, Ariz. Posses are scouring the country for the fugitives. Three Killed by Posse. Striking street car men were shot down in St. Louis by prominent citizens Sunday evening. The citizens, acting as part of a posse comitatus. came into collision with a marching band of strikers. The killed are: Edward Burkhardt, former conductor on Delmar avenue line; side of head shot away; died at hospital. George Rine, formerly motorman on Delmar avenue line; lives at 2S0S Kossuth avenue; shot through abdomen; died at hospital. Edward C. Thomas, former conductor on Chouteau avenue line; shot through left lung; died on way to hospital. Jirl's Long Wand-rtng F.nds. Elsie Fry, the young girl whose home is in Junction City, Kan., but who mysteriously disappeared from Kansas City, Mo.-, where she had gone to visit her sister, was found at the little town of Jarbalo. about fifteen miles west of Leavenworth. She wandered into the hotel of the place exhausted and shortly afterward became unconscious. Her disappearance baffled the police of Kansas City, who have been searching for her since Monday. She was in Ieavenworth Tuesday night, when she visited a hair dresser and wanted to sell her beautiful hair. She then disappeared and was not heard of until found. Money Kecelved In India. The Chicago India famine relief committee received the following cablegram from Lady Curzon, vicereine of India: "Simla, June 5. Indian Famine Committee, Chicago: Generous contribution of 111,000 gratefully received. Could not be more opportune. "MARY CURZON." The Chicago committee is raising a second 1.000 and hopes to be able to Bend it to the famine-stricken districts before the suffering grows worse. Double Killing " Indiana. Thomas Jefferson Johnson, known as "Cyclone" Johnson, a street preacher, was shot and instantly killed at Carmel. sixteen miles north of Indianapolis, after he had killed Deputy Sheriff Carey, who was trying to arrest him for assault and battery. Johnson had been attacking different persons in his street talks, and those attacks had brought him into several fights. He renewed his attacks, Carey tried to arrest him, was shot dead, and an unknown person In the excited crowd shot Johnson.

NAVAL STRENGTH IN CHINESE WATERS.

The following table shows the names, tonnage, complement of men and the guns of the foreign ships in Chinese waters, compiled from the latest available data: I'nited States. BattleshipOregon Cruisers Brooklyn New Orleans . Newark Gunboats Bennington ... Concord Helena Marietta Nashville Petrel Castlne Monooacy Princeton ... Yorktown Isla de Luzon Isla de Cuba , Monitors Tonnage.Men.Guns. 10.2SS 473 42 9,ns 3.437 4.WS 1.710 1,710 1 .357 1.000 1.371 1.777 1.700 1.1 OU 1.710 i,i:; 1.030 S16 341 1S1 181 165 133 167 122 142 146 Iff? 10 120 14 35 24 14 8 1 14 17 11 15 1$ 13 IS 14 14

Monadnock 4. dir 17 14 Monterey 4.04 1S9 17 Totals 51.554 J, 770 312 Japan. Battleships Tonnncre.Men.Guns. Phek.shima 14. vr.it 741 4t5 Fuje 12.3. Ukj 3S Yashima 12.S:") an 3 Chin Yen 7.4 u 250 14 Klrst-class cruisers Asa ma f).7"0 7G 37 Tokiwa J.750 676 37 S'H-.ind-vlass cruisers Tükas.;go 4.1v 4ro Zl Fourth of Julv 4.o " 41' SO Kasagi 5.411 4-5 2J (Miitorc 4.7 4"f 32 ltukushirna 4.277 3. 2S HashMat,- 4.J77 4-5 30 Matsushima 4.-77 r. 3S Yosliino 4.1" 3." 35 Xaniwa 3.'"." ' 3.V 14 Takachiho 3.7'1' IX" 1) Akitsushima 2.150 33 L'J Sum a 2.7 2 1 2') Akashi S75 1 6 i'hivo.ia 2.4.T 22 I 2o Id zu mi 2.1C ) 200 10 Totals 121,4i 8,7tC 553 Kii'-sia. 15a ttk ships Tonnage. Men. Guns. Navaria 0.47". 5' 2') lMropavlosk 10.9".'' 7' 52 Sissiii Vi 1 ke S.S3i 55' 2'J "ruisi-rs Hossia 12.2V. TT

li.irik I'amyat Azova Dimitri I'onskoi lO.M i r, "im 7.7m: 5.751 1,4 V2 1.2'.'r 1213 95'. 1.2::. y5o 4 0 4t . i 28 3S 2H .i; 57' F..-.7 550 W0 177 177 172 100 V 15 1(10 f.l a Admiral Wa-himo ft Vladimir Mouoma Cissoi Vol iky Admiral K'orniloy Coast d '-f e list CrTniatsohy ... , Otvinv , 3 ur boats Kreysser Marsdsohur , Sivootrh Xabiak.i I'.o-r Torpedo-boats Yzadnik (Jaidamak h 8 8 14 11 13 V.i 13 9 9 Totals 101.0S1 British. 7.S94 4SS battleships IlarMeur Centurion Victorious Cruisers Aurora Ilonaventure ... Urisk Kndymion H'ermione Iphigenia Orlando Terrible Undaunted Gunboats Linnet Peacock Pigmy Plover Rattler Redpole Torpedo-boats-Fame Whiting Sloops Algerine , Daphine Phoenix Tonnage. Men. Guns. 10,:ei 606 43 10.5 " 14.1" H) 4.c;f 1.770 7.350 4.3'U 3,"U0 5iu0 14.2oO . 5,600 7T.C 755 755 755 715 $05 622 757 4 SI 2 273 544 312 273 4S4 M0 4.S4 S2 7 76 76 76 7f SO so ltv, 133 106 43 5t 25 1 16 2S 1! IS 2i 44 23 6 10 10 10 6 6 6 6 10 8 10 300 1.050 1.14 l.uSo Totals MS''"' (ieriiiuny. 6.953 455 Cruisers Teiitsfhland Kaiserin Augusta. Hertha Tor.nage.Mer..Gun9. 7. 31 'J 6.231 5,r5 4.4. 4.4ua 4.2' '7 .1 ,o. 1.641) S59 6'W 24 22 30 IS IS 24 15 8 427 440 35 35 210 267 2t" 110 Iron. Princess Cefion .. Arcona . Comoran Itlis Wilhelme Totals 37.179 3,03-S 167 France. Tor.nape. Men. Guns. Battleship Van ban Cruisers Dugnay Trouin Descartes Pascal Gunboat Styx Totals

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Wholesale Murders ii China. Sir Claude Macdonald, Ilritish minister to Peking, sent the following telegram to Shanghai on June 7: "The movement against the foreigners, which has been allowed to grow to such an extent, has resulted in the burning of railway stations and in the interruption of railway communications for five days. Two liritish missionaries and several foreign missionaries have been murdered in the district near Peking. In the country round numbers of converts have been murdered, and chapels have been pillaged and destroyed." One Holt Kills Four. Tom Jenkins, Peter York, Harry Davis and Peter Wiggins, all colored, employes of the Merrill-Stevens Engineering company, were killed by lightning at Jacksonville, Fla., Thursday, while at work under the steamer Commodore Barney, hauled out on the ways at South Jacksonville. Fourteen other men were shocked, some of then seriously. lloer Knvoy at Milwaukee. Abraham Fischer, the peace envoy of the Transvaal, arrived in Milwaukee Friday from St. Paul. He was given a royal reception. Mr. Fischer speaks at the exposition building under the ausDices of the German societies and the Wisconsin Transvaal Red Cross association. Inten. Cold Injur Crop. A hard frost in the neighborhood of Minnewaukan. N. IX. formed a quarter of an inch of ice. Much wheat was cut back to the ground. The damage is hard to estimate, but the crop cannot exceed one-half of the ordinary yield. Is Uuittt-il from the Ministry. The Itev. J. C. Little, pastor of tha Haptist church at Uossville, Ind., was dismissed from the ministry by a trial board composed of thirty-five ministers. He was accused of unbecoming conduct . Th-e Killed In Texas Court. Sheriff Noel Roberts was fatally wounded and his brothers Felix and Sidney were shot dead in the courtroom at San Augustine, San Augustine county, Texas, Monday morning. The shooting was done by the friends and relatives of King Borden, who killed Sheriff Ned Wall a few weeks ago, and who was to have an examining trial. The entrance of the Roberts brothers into court was the signal for a volley from twenty of the BordenBrocks faction, with the result as st? ted

RODERTS ISJJKBI. Transvaal Capital Surrenders to the British.

BOERS ARE REFUSED TERMS. Sharp Fighting l'ret-eded th U Macro fenruent of Control by the IUirglicr Lord Koberu Reports the Capliiiijr 4 tlx Irish Yeomanry. Lord Roberts has taker. Pretoria, th Transvaal capital, but he followed the report of his victory with a dispatch telling of the iosä of an entire battalion of Irish yeomanry ia a battle in the Orange rivt-r colony, bo recently annexed by the Uritish comir.ander. .Sharp fighting preceded the surrender of the Boer stronghold. The Briiih casualties: at Fab wspat were lift en killed, inc'uding Col. b'pence, änu thirty wounded. Iigland has been celebrating the fail of Pretoria very much as she did the relief oi Mafeking. Drunkenness lias been a tri lie U:.-i than when Ila-('.eii-l'ouell was tbo hero of the moment, but in London and in other larre towns the scones were practically a repetition of thos which marked the other victories, and long : ftrr ir.idnight n; ro irious ycüir.p:. the tooting of horns and :i -.-ordar.t chants ascended from city streets usually at such an hour as si'ont as t':e grave, L'jrd Rob' i ts reports: "I regret to itT'Tt that the Thirteenth imperial yrnm.it.ry had to surrender to a very superior force uf the enemy on May '1, near Lindley. On receiving information of the battalion being attacked I ordered Metk:e:i to proceed with all speed to its ass: -tar.ee, but he was too late to rcscur Col. Spragcs yeomanry. Mcthutn attacked the Roers, who wore between 2,000 and S'Oti strong, r.nd after a running light of live hours completely routed the enemy, it is a very regretable circumstance, but I irut it will not be very long before the Irish yeomanry are released from captivity." Later details show Boors took 1.G00 prisoners from Pretoria and made orderly retreat with all their guns. Boers are now said to be massed at Hatherley, twelve miles oast of Pretoria. Kruger. when interviewed in private railway car. which is his capital, said Boers intend to fight to bitter end, and probably will retire to Lydenburg. Gen. Buller, after a slight battle. ha obtained a position which he be'ieves will render Laing's nek untenable to the Boers. CUBAN TEACHERS TO VISIT US Alexis E. Frye, superintendent of schools in Cuba, has been in this country for some weeks, perfecting the arrangements for the pilgrimage of 2.00C Cuban school teachers this summer to Y ALFXIS E. FRYE. this country. They come at the invitation of President Eliot of Harvard, and they will attend the sessions of the summer school of thr college, wherf they will meet a large body of American teachers who annually attend the session of the summer school. It will cost upward of Jioo.000 to defray th6 expenses of the trip. This will be raised by a committee of loading citizens of Massachusetts, head, d by Henry L. Higginson. The war department La? offered free transportation. Say Strike Are I.:fal. "Oar law recognizes the right cf men and women to work or not to work, as interests or fancy Incline them, and if any number of employes determine to strike there is nothing unlawful in their doing so. If by combination they can obtain shorter hours or higher wages they may do to." Justice James Fitzgerald of the New York Supreme court handed dowa tlir above opinion Tuesday. Killed In Mine F.tploIon, By an explosion of gas Friday in mine No. 2. a colliery near Glouster. Ohio, three men are reported to have lost their lives. Two hundred miners were imprisoned, but all have been rescued. The following aro dead: Even Joseph, fire boss; John McLelland, miner; Aron Swanson, miner. Joke Drive n AVoinrin Insane. Mrs. Herman Stibbe, w ife of a prominent German citizen at La Porte, Ind.. has become violently insane. Her condition is attributed by physicians to a scare given her by a practical joker. It Is said there is no hope of recovery. I. M. MiiHer 1 literal CiifW P. M. Musser, a well-known lumberman and banker of Muscatine. Iowa, presented the Public Library association with a building, to be constructed by him at a cost of $30.000. Women lmlc Color Onowt loiv. The General Federation of Woman's clubs, in Ression at Milwaukee, has refused to take further action la the color controversy. "We of the south have sympathy for the negro," said Mrs. John K. Ottlcy of Atlanta. Ga. "We believe the negro children should be trained In kindergartens, and we are working for that. We believe negro women make the best servants in the world." Here there came applause from the southern states only.

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