Marshall County Independent, Volume 6, Number 30, Plymouth, Marshall County, 6 July 1900 — Page 2

THE WEEKLY INDEPENDENT.

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MINOR HIM IDE REEK Items of General Interest Told in Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. Record of llapjH-nlnps of Much or Little Importance from All Farts of the Civ IIImmI World Frioe tf Farm Products In Western Market. The Minnesota republicans named Samuel Vansant of Winona for governor. Milwaukee's electric parade was cheered as the crowning spectacle of the carnival. Thielen resigned as Prussian minister of public works. Hayti adopted the gold standard. Germany plans a colonial army. Sidney Lucas won mile handicap. Senator lianna denies having had an $SOU diamond stud stolen from him in Philadelphia. Bricklayers and Stonemasons union at Chicago signs a three years agreement with the Masons and Builders association and chooses arbitration board. Four persons die and many others suffer injury from intense heat in Chicago. Winnebago Indian reservation buildings in Iowa were blown down during a windstorm. Forest fires do considerable damage in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Thursday was the holtest June day in New York in four years. Congressman Sulzer ami Richard Croker go tu see Bryan about the vicepresidential nomination. It is now reported that ex-Governor j rattison 01 Pennsylvania is Mr. Bry an's candidate for vice-president. The Michigan Republican convention is in a deadlock over the choice fcr candidate for governor. Wheat in the Northwest seriously injured by drought. Minnesota will have half a crop, South Dakota and Montana even less, and North Dakota practically none. Edward Atkinson denounced war before American Association for the Advancement of Science. Schooner Everett wrecked on St. lawrenee Island; five cf crew of six starved to death. Burlington road will employ Crow Indians to grade a section in Big Horn region. New York court decided ice trust must produce books and officers must testify. President starts on his vacation Friday. Czar's manifesto provides for complete Russification of Finland by 100". Premier Saracco promised Italian parliament to reform expenditures. Donaldson Smith explored region between Iake Rudolf and Nile Valley. Prince of Wales officially opened London's underground electric railway. German experts will confer as to regulations for meat inspection. Louis Klopsch estimates mortality through India famine at 2,000,000. Russia military authorities studying means for Invasion of India. Norwegian report that Andree, polar explorer, is safe. Frederick A. Maxse, British admiral, died. British chambers of commerce began a war on sugar bounties. Silas B. Cobb estate at Chicago worth $5.257.53.1. Bricklayers and Stone Masons union decides to desert the Building Trades" council. Dynamite explosion Sn Champion mine, near Ishpcming, killed four men. Lew's Amblo was murder d and his brother Samuel left unconscious by robbers in a western suburb of Chicago. Louis M. Stein, a South Bend (Ir.d.) merchant, is slugged and robbed of $1,000 while waiting for a street car in the heart of Chicago. Chicago recruits for marines are said to be destined for service in the war with China. During an address before American Association for the Advancement or Science Edward Atkinson talked politics, and his utterances were attacked as seditious. Health Commissioner Jenkins of New York, Croker's brother-in-law, is accused of using his office for personal profit. Surplus for fiscal year, $75,000,000. Schooner Alaskan and her fOO tons of cargo a total loss at Cape Nome. Mrs. Myra Conkling of Chicago suffocated her son with gas and attempted suicide. No reason. The pope congratulated Cardinal Vaughan on the resolutions adopted by the Anglican ritualists indorsing 'Roman doctrine.

Maj. Wilkinson Wounded. Col. Carter left Kiawassa on the morning of June 26 with the intention of re-enforcing Capt. Hall at Bekwai with 400 men, 200 carriers, a sevenpounder and a Maxim. When half a mile from Dompoassi be was fired upon heavily from the bush. Capt. Ron pell and several men fell at the first fire. The casing of the water Jacket split after half an hour's firing, and nine men, including Lieut. Edwards, who were working the sevenpounder, were put out of action half an hour later. Major Wilkinson, was shot. The casualties were six officers and eighty-seven men. The enemy's loss was fifty killed and many wounded. It was estimated that the natives numbered 10.000, one-half of whom had muskets.

I'luy with Dead Men's linnet. The boys in the neighborhood bounded by Broadway, Park avenue and Seventh and Rutger streets, St. Louis, are enjoying themselves during the school vacation season with curious playthings. "Shinny" is their favorite pastime and the instruments they employ in the game are portions of the decomposed anatomies of what were once, perchance, their ancestors. A blackened, grinning skull serves for the ball and a grisly thigh bone or upper bone of the arm for a driving stick. The playthings of the boys of the neighborhood are the relics of past and almost forgotten generations of people whose bodies were buried in the old St. Joseph's convent cemetery. Ilomeopathlst in Session. The American Institute of Homeopathy began its annual session at Washington, D. C. The feature of the convention will be the dedication and presentation to the government of the statue of Dr. Hahnemann on the east side of Scott circle on Thursday afternoon. President McKinley will attend the dedicatory exercises, and addresses will be delivered by Attorney-General Griggs and others. The same evening the president will give a reception to members of the convention at the White House. President Walton in his annual address today earnestly advo cated uniformity of medical laws in every state in the union. Travelers' Council Slyotin'i The thirteenth annual session of the supreme council of the Order of United Commercial Travelers convened at Columbus. Ohio. Friday. The coun cil met in secret session, being called to order by Supreme Conductor W. L Day of Concordia. Mich. The report of the secretary showed a total mem bership on Jan. 1. 1900. of 14.000. a net gain of 1.270 for the year. The treasurer reported a balance of $72.000 in the funds of the organization, against a balance of $4tI.o:0 at the close of the previous year. The amount, in tin; widows and orphans' fund was reported to be $!7.00v). Iliin;ii rrnliiiatloi.Ut V Ticket. The Prohioitionist state convention of Illinois nominated the following ticket: Governor. J. (1. Cunningham, Irbana; licmenant-govoi nor. Jahn A. Henderson. Sparta; secretary of state, B. 'J. Radford. Fureka; auditor. James V. Stone. Bradforclston: attorney gen eral, Frank S. Regan, Rockford; treasurer, H. S. x-armalee, Chicago; trustees state university, George Bloomer, Elvira S. Stewart and Mrs. Mary Smith; electors at large, W. P. Throgmorton and H. M. Bannen. At the state convention held in Springfield Wednesday and Thursday, the Democrats of Illinois nominated the following: Illinois l'oliee Chief Confer. Fifty chiefs of police of Illinois gathered at Peoria Wednesday for a conference. Chief Kipley of Chicago was among the number. A parade occupied the morning, while there was an excursion to Chillicothe in the aft?rnoon. The business session was held on the boat. Its object was a discussion of a bill to present to the legislature providing for a metropolitan po. lice force to be uniform throughout the state, and for arrangements for the coming state convention. A banquet followed. At night the visitors were entertained with another excursion and a dance. Kill Ills Stepdaughter. A terrible tragedy occurred at Mar. shall, near Poplar Bluff, Mo. William Woodward, a farmer, shot and killed his stepdaughter, and in turn was clubbed to death by neighbors. After shooting his stepdaughter Woodward shot himself through the breast with his Winchester, inflicting what would have proved a fatal wound, but the man was smi living when fifteen men entered hi3 house and with clubs beat his head almost to jelly. Woodward shot his stepdaughter because she caused his arrest on a criminal charge. Monsoon Hunt In India. Private telegrams received at Manchester, England, from Calcutta say that the monsoon has burst, and there is abundant rain. The famine situation is unaltered. The governor of Bombay wires that there were 10.277 deaths from cholera out of 15.479 cases during the week ended June 1C. Itoth Slay Issue Itond. The supreme court in the Indianapolis school bond case, decided by a vote of 3 to 2 that in Indiana the civil city and the school city are separate corporations, and that each may incur indebtedness up to 2 per cent of the assessed value of property in its confines. The validity of millions of dollars in bends hinged on the decision. Had the court held an opposite view, a vast amount cf bonds would have been worthless, as ti e constitution specifies that such bonds in excess of the 2 per cent limit are void. Indians In Hostile MooI. There is a threatened uprising of Indians on the Rainy river, Ontario. One thousand Indians are gathered near the mouth cf Rainy river. Leach lake Indians are said to be among them, inciting them to murder and pillage. The settlers are sending out their women and children. The Indians are also gathering at Rainy lake. Indian agents say they know of no special grievance, but belief is ox?ressed that nothing else than a display of force by Canada and the United States will avert an uprising.

LATEST (HI Hi Record of ths Last Six Days at the Front

GIVEN IN CONDENSED FORM. Duller Occupied Stunderton, Capturing Railway Kolling Stock Heidelberg Taken, and Hoers Chased Seven Allies Boer Defeat at Wynberj. Monday, June 25. Clements defeated Boers at Wynberg. Tueday, June 20. Lord Roberts failed to report his latest movements against the Beors, but London believed a battle was in progress in the Free State. Dr. Reitz said annexation of Boer territories would mean enslavement of burghers to pay cost of war to British. Cape Colony north of Orange river is quiet. Last force of Boers surrendered on June 20. Kruger is not in good health. Wednesday, Juue 27. The Boers still light. It is stated an agreement exists between the forces of the two republics not to submit individually while both of them have an army in the field. It is rumored that President Steyn has forced his way through Gen. Bundle's lines southward. Thursday, June JS. Boers are said to be urging President Kruger to surrender on promise of parole. Fighting continues in South Africa. Within four days Boers surrendered 4,000 rifles. British won two small fights. Friday June 20. British official in the house of commons admits soldiers in South Africa suffered severe hardship and ascribes suffering to a faulty military system. Attack on a British convoy by Boers repulsed, the English losing fourteen killed and fifty wounded. Roosevelt is negotiating for a house. THE ISLAND The Boer prisoners taken in the war with Great Britain are to be deported to the island of Ceylon, one of the Asiatic possessions of the qiin. The island is a little more than half as big as New York state, and it has about half as many inhabitants, mostly Singalese. It is a representative colony, and the garrison numbers about 1.G00 men. Tue Boers wrho, as a people, are said to bank on their God-fearing qualities will find themselves lonely as not more than a tenth of the populaI leatli of Martin J. KiiskcII. Martin J. Russell, editor of the Chicago Chronicle, died at Mackinac Island. Mich.. Tuesday. At 10 he became a reporter on the old Chicago livening Post. W'ithin a year he was city editor, and served for two years. In 1873 he went over to Wilbur F. Storey's Times, where he became a paragrapher in the days when to be a paragraph writer for the Times was to call from a man all that was in him of invective, force and satire. It was In thi3 old school of journalism that Martin J. Russell was graduated. When the old Times had passed into history Mr. Russell, with Horatio W. Seymour, founded the Chicago Chronicle. Mr. Russell became president of the company and editor-in-chief of the paper. Under President Cleveland he served one term as collector of customs at Chicago. Brought In a Desperado. A posse arrived at Globe, Ariz.. with a heavily ironed Mexican who is believed to be one of the gang of four which killed two station keepers at New River Wells, robbed a stage coach and committed numerous other depredations two weeks ago. Officers refuse to talk, but there is eason to believe they came upon the gang and killed three. KllleU by Cigarette Smoke. Charles Krackaka, a young man, met the most peculiar d2ith that has ever been recorded in Philadelphia. He went to Willow Grove park to attend the concert given there nightly by Damrosoh's orchestra. A cigarette smoker puffed smoke in the face of Krackaka, who was taken with a violent paroxysm of coughing, the blood running from his mouth, and In a few minutes he w?.s dead. The man who was smoking the cigarette escaped during the excitemcn'., and his identity is unknown. General Wheeler In Command. Gen. Joseph Wheeler formaily took command of the department of the lakes at Chicago Vuesday, and Gen. J. F. W'ade relinquished it. The little general arrivcU at his office in the Pullman building about 10 o'clock, accompanied by Gen. Watle, and the two officers went redly to the commandant's office. After signing the orders in which one assumed coramauu of the department and the other withdrew from the position Gen. Wade returned to the Auditorium and Geo. Wheeler held an informal levee.

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Illinois Prohibition Ticket. At the First Regiment armory in Chicago the Illinois prohibitionists nominated the following ticket: For governor, Visseher Vere Barnes, Lake county; lieutenant-governor, John A. Henderson, Randolph county;

CEYLON, EXILE HOME OF BOER PRISONERS.

OF CEYLON, SHOWING HAPPY lion profess Christianity. Yet the place to which the Boers by thousands are to be sent is so beautiful that it is called the Happy Valley, or, in Singalese, the Diyatzalawa Valley. The English say the climate there is perfection. The Happy Valley is at the Bandarawela end of the great Haputale Valley. Just now the site selected is barren ground, but buildings vail be put up to accommodate the prisoners from South Africa. The locality has been inspected by tho secretary of state, Benjamin A. Radford, Woodford county; auditor, James A. Stone, Sangamon county; attorney general, Frank S. Regan, Winnebago county; treasurer. Henry C. Tunison, Morgan county; trustees of the state university, Elvir S. Stewart, Chicago, J. E. Bettinger, Fulton county, Mrs. Clara Harford, Grundy county; elec-tors-at-large, W. P. Throgmorton, Du Quoin, Henry M. Bannen, Rockford. The platform adopted, besides deploring the evils arising from the sale of liquor, condemns the national administration for its maintenance of the army canteen system, points to the fact that the consumption f liquor is increasing in Cuba, the Philippines, and Porto Rico, and calls on all for support in the fight of the party to suppress the evils named. Illinois Democratic Ticket. For governor, Samuel Alschuler of Kane county; for lieutenant governor, Elmer A. Perry of Brown; for state treasurer, Millard F. Dunlap of Morgan; for secretary of state, James F. O'Donnell of McLean; for attorney general. James Todd of Cook; for auditor, George B. Parsons of Gallatin; for university trustees, Julia Holmes Smith of Cook, Charlea W. Bliss of Montgomery, Joseph Schwartz of Warren. . C. T. V. i:ieet Oflleer. The World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union congress re-elected the president, Lady Henry Somerset, and the other officers. Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens of Maine was elected an additional vice-president. The congress heartily approved the action of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of America relative to the temple in Chicago, and a greeting was cabled to the two mothers of the crusade movement. Mrs. Stewart of Springfield, Ohio, and Mrs. Thomson of Hillsboro, Ohio. Killed In a lloxln? Contest. J. W. Stansbury and Robert Council engaged in a friendly contest near Roanoke Rapids, N. C, which resulted in the death of the former. The young men were the warmest personal friends and laughed and chatted before beginning the friendly bout. News of Arabl's Release. News of Arab! Pasha's pardon and release is expected from Colombo dally. His son, who has been his sole companion in exile, is to be released at the same time.

Might Overrun the World. Lord Wolseley, in an interview published in London, says: "China possesses every requisite for overrunning the world. She has a population of 400,000,000. all speaking the same language or dialect, readily understood from one end of the empire to the other. She has enormously developed wealth and still more enormous natural wealth awaiting develcpmenL Her men, if properly drilled and led, are admirable soldiers. They are plucky and able to live on next to nothing. Moreover, they are absol

utely fearless of death. Begin with the foundation of millions upon millions of such soldiers as these men are capable of being made and tell me if you can where the end will be." Kseaped Lion Cause Panic. At Milwaukee, Wis., a lion escaped from its cage at the Coney Island menagerie and frightened the pleasure seekers in the park. The attendants were teasing the beast by offering meat and then snatching it away, when the lion dashed so violently against the bars that the cage fell over and freed the animal. It knocked over the kangaroo, but could not reach the men, for they all climbed tent poles. Then the lion ran through the park, where people were drinking beer. The women fainted and the men climbed trees. The cowboys in the show chased the king of beasts, lassoed it and dragged it back to its cage. Michigan Itepuhlican Ticket. The Republicans of Michigan in convention at Grand Rapids. Thursday, nominated the following ticket: For governor, Aaron T. Bliss of Saginaw; for lieutenant-governor, O. W. Robinson of Houghton: for secretary of state, Fred M. Warner of Farmington; for state treasurer, Daniel McCoy of Grand Rapids; for auditor. Perry F. Powers of Cadillac; for attorney-general, II. M. Oren of Sault Ste. Marie; for land commissioner, Edward Wildley of Pawpaw; for school superintendent, Delos Fall cf Albion; for member beard education, James H. Thompson of Osceola. VALLEY. officials of the colony, and work ere this has begun. The first thing to be done was to convert the footpath from the station to the site, a mile and a half distant, into a cart path. There is a natural lake at the foot of tho valley which can supply all the water necessary for washing purposes, though not for drinking, and a practically unlimited supply can be drawn from the streams above the valley. Fifty buildings over 100 feet long will be built, each one of which will accommodate about 100 men. Woman Kills With a IIa or. Presumably inspired by jealousy, Miss Jessie Morrison. Eldorado, Kan., attacked her successful rival, Mrs. Olin Castle, formerly Miss Ciara Wiley, during the absence of Mr. Castle, and inflicted wounds with a razor which proved fatal. After killing Mrs. Castle Miss Morrison ran to her home and turned the bloody blade to her own throat. She is still alive, but her wound is probably fatal. Rex 1 In Milwaukee. Ilex arrived at Milwaukee Tuesday, and as his visit was anticipated there were thousands at the wharf and along the streets to greet him. It was the opening day of the third annual carnival, and the coming of Rex, who is supposed to have great quantities of fun stored away somewhere in his clothes, was the first real event on the program. The carnival closes Friday night. Jiatlve Troop io to Anhanti. The English government has received dispatches from Ashanti Indicating that the relief of Kumassi should be accomplished this week. About SGO men of the British central African forces sailed on June 22 fo: Ashanti, where they will be employed to quell the rising. Kscur.tlon Train n n Wreek. The west-bound Chicago & Alton passenger train dashed into the excursion train cf the St. Louis Sunday School Superintendents' union, laden with 400 people luesday morning at the east approach cf the Merchants' bridge. Two of the coaches, crowded with women and chiidicn, were thrown from the track and overhung the top of an embankment thirty-live feet high. A panic ensued, but tha occujiants were all taken from tho over turned cars in safety. None were injured. Filipino Leaders Iteloined. Nine of the insurgent leaders, including Gens. Pio del Pilar, Concepcion, Garcia and Alvarez, were released at Manila upon taking the oath of allegiance to the government and renouncing all forms of revolution in the Philippines. Shot Down During "narrd. Tony i.ongo. a peddler at Chicago, was shot and Instantly kltlü Tursdtv night whiic qiaireling with his father-in-law In the alley of the latter' house.

Ii Ii HIE BOXERS Severe Battles in the Empire of China. MANY NATIONS TAKE A HAND. Combined Force or 3,.oo Men Entered Tien-Thin Concentrated Moement Tpon 1'ekln lUi-n of Terror 1 Sow Feared. Mondav. June .!.. Rear Admiral Kempff reported combined forces of 3.."i!0 men entered TienTsin Saturday with sm.ill loss. They started Sunday to relieve Admiral Seymour's troops, i tli'vcd to bo surrounded near Pol in. Japanese report of Seymour's capture and dpparture of ministers under Chines? escort to place of safety. President McKinley refused Chinese minister's rvjues: for armistice and recall of troops. Power? will treat China ks if it had no government. Ambassador Choate's conference with Lord Salisbury showed England and America in accord. Lieut.-Gen. Miles may b" sent to China, as he would outrank any army officer there. Troops will bo rushed from ManKa and others sent from America to take their places. United States may have to furnL-h lO.fl'O men. Shanghai believes worst has happened to legations at Pekin and to Seymour's force. No authentic news from Pekin since Jane 14. Concert of powers is now formal. Tuesday. June 'id. Brig.-Gen. Chaffee has been ordered to proceed at once to Pekin and assume command of American military forces in China. Residents of Canton fear a worse uprising than has been shown in China except during the Tai-Ping rebellion. Missionaries :n southern Chinese centers have been warned and are fleeing for their lives. Heliograph communication established with Admiral Seymour, who is surrounded by Chinese, and sends urgent request for relief. Legations with him are safe. Americans were first in Tien-Tsin. Powers may seize Shanghai. Wednesday. June '! 7. Confusing dispatches reach London regarding Admiral Seymour's party. Relief forces left Tien-Tsin Monday, but somewhat disturbing reports are received as to their success. Emperor William, with Italy and Austria as allies, is reported to be planning war against the yellow race and is sending a great army to China. Thurnday, .lone 2K. Admiral Seymour's force fought fifteen days on quarter rations and lost sixty-two killed and CI 2 wounded before rescue. Chinese forced him to turn back before reaching Pekin. Czar is said to plan retaining dowager empress in control for his benefit. Rumor that all Russian troops are to be mobilized. Empress dowager announced burning of palace at Pekin by Chinese troops on June 10. Ninth infantry sailed from .Manila. War department received many offers of troops. Russian general and lO.Ostl foreign troops are now marching to Pekin. Powers are believed to be averse to a general war with China. Whereabouts unknown. 01 Ij;v:g;i nnni-Jtcrs Minister Conger has net ben heard from and Washington authorities are uncertain whether a stite of war or mere rioting exists in China Friday. June Seymour lost sixty-two killed ar.d wounded, of whom four killed and twenty-five wounded were Americans. Tinvrrc vri,t .lv,,,,.,, nt vM. It'Mlit .III I iiil (I i S. pJ I läge. Expedition saved from starva- 1 tion because Americans nok two weeks' rations, while others ha i them for only five days. Powers said io have agreed Russia and Japan shall provide 12,000 soldiers each, great Britain 10.000, France S.cOJ. and Germany, America and other powers r.0i)0 each, Battleship Oregon is reported to have gone ashore fifty miles north of Chefoo. A ship has been sent from Shanghai to its relief. Viceroys of Nankin and Hankow submitted conditions upon which foreigners would be protected. Russia is anxious to avoid appearance of unfriendly attitude toward China. No news of Pekin's fate. Mysterion Loses on a Foul. At the Broadway Athletic Club. NeT York, Jimmy Handler of Newark was awarded the decision on a foul over 'Mysterious Billy" Smith of New York in the fifteenth round. It was a vicious battle, and another punch by either man would have brought it to a conclusion without the refcrce'a interference. News is received that Trinidad is dissatisfied with the delay in the ratification of the treaty with the United States and that the legis'ative council has passed a resolution declining to agree to the delay and setting forth that it considers itself at liberty to make other arrangements. Woman Jumps to Her Death. At Peoria, 111.. Mrs. Ja nett Dnsberger, 3ä years of ag?, jumped from their third-Iloor fiat. She landed on her head on the stone pavenunt. Her neck was broken and her tkull mashed to a pulp. 8l:iln hy nit A-tstso'i. Gabriel Green, who on the 8th of , last January siiot and k.litd his ca tsin, Louis Wicsncr. on Main street in Stevens Point, Wis, was himself the victim cf an assassin's bullet. Green was 70 years old. Indians to Work In Vineyard. A Pima Indian chief, in conference with a representative of California fruit growers, agreed to permit several hundred starving Pirnas to leave the reservation and work in the vineyards at Fresno. Cal. Indians Will Dance July 4The Indians have been preparing for six months for a grand celebration at Fort Yates, N. D., July 4. They will indulge in old-time dances and parades, and there will be between 2,020 and 3.000 lodge3 at the agency.

Boy Finds OoM In s Ce:Ls. At Cincinnati Tuesday a weman excitedly entered Bremen street police station and, turning over S22Q in gold to Sergeant Jueggling. informed him that her little boy, George Kramer, had found it in a cellar in Wade street, near Plum. The boy aid two companions, Alfonso Churerch and Kuby Herz, were in the rear of No. 213 Wade street, and Kramer, espying a )ot of gold pieces, suggested playing marbles, using the goid as chips. They played and Kramer won all the money. When he took it to bis mother she nearly had hysterics. She is poor, and at first, she says, thought of keeping the money, but later concluded to give it to the police. Gov. Atkinson's Grave I);iu;r. Governor George Wesley Atkinson, of West Virginia, while atteadig thEpworth league convention, had a narrow escape from receiving personal violence at the hands of displeased citizens. V year ago Vallo Bougner cf nj!kb;n- hot and killed I'd Youn of thi city. Hungrier was rent to the penitentiary for seven years. A few weeks ago Governor Atkinson pardoned Bougner. A gentleman beard a (ht'A-n men, including Young's father, plotting to s?ize the governor u left tho league meeting. A dozen officers escorted the governor to the train.

N'o II inn for Dollar Wheat. Wheat i.s not going to a dollar this month. The upward movement which began three weeks ago and carried prices up 22 cents to bS cents. ha been checked, and speculators are now wondering whether it would not sell back to cents for July. Crop conditions in tho northwest have not changed. Senator Washburne. th miller, who has been out through the Dakotas and Minnesota, says that there will not be over 50.Oöü.oOu bushels raised in the three states. This is a reduction of 25.060,00U bushels less than that mae by others a week ago. Myslery A boat Insane Girl. Davenport. Iowa, is exercised ovor the mystery surrounding the identity of a young woman suffering from mental aberration who ha.-: been given sh?lter by farmers nejj- Lp Claire, this county, for severi'l days past. The young woman is mentally deranged, but is a person of j evident wealth and refinement. i When she appeaud she was shoeless I and bore some evidence of exposure. -u wd.M ieuiy umiis aim sa sht slr)t "Ui-r blackberry bushes ! ,he nl:it bpfl,rp- 1ars in ner Pse l .... i Ii l . ... :i i : j i s:on snow rer to uo .miss .Marion uynee i of San Francisco. Killed at tirade CroHsin. Miss Nina Wilcox, daughter of FreW Wilcox of Galesburg. 111., and Cti. Fox. son of J. Fox. a resident cf Ilailcy. Idaho, were killed instantly by a Chicago. Burlington A: Quincy fast train northeist of Galesburg as they were attempting t diive across the track. Miss Wilcox was a member of the freshman class of Knox college. Mr. Fox had just entered the ft caiman class. A eorener's jury investigated the grade crossing i whre the two were killed and recommended that it be abolished. Mr. Fox was a nephew of Judge N. C. Sears of ChUn'ro. Adilrei of lloer laivny. The lloer nvoys who have bem la ,1,5 ,.,,:intrv for the nasr tw mmuhi have issued an address t the people of the Fnitod States. Alter expressing regrets at their inability to aeecp; many of the invitations extended to them they expressed their thanks to the American public for "the deep fyninaiby ihcy have hown for the ! -f t' struggling republics, ; T1-J f'bivess includes by saying that 1 the uvo.vs fU not ask the direct or forcible ip.Ui vention cf the United States, but a continuance of public j cj. I.,,!,! MjIi Chac a Womau. j Thursday Miss M.iry Murray i j;ast St. Louis was pursued by a i bowling :nob in North St. Ixjuis. j she found refuge in a drug store. At . . i. .. .1 she alighted from a Transit oar eobhj young men yelled "Scab!" and that brought the mob together. "Tear ff her clothes!" shouted several TOicc?-. but the young woman beat the mob in the rac- to the drug store, a kloek away. The police dispersed the wk Fierce Ficht with croe. A hont fifty negroes from Padwcak. Ky., went to Metropolis, III., a steamboat excursion ami attempted to take possession of tki town. They were armed and had ee drinking. The police force her engaged them in a pitched battle at tin water's edge. Over 100 shots ch tired. Three of the negroes wX2 Ittally wounded. None of the oIQmm was injured. sltot k Kill .lohn S. Mat halt. John S. Mathias, a wjll-known siv builder of Camden, N. J., was takes suddenly ill Thursday while swimming in the Delaware river opposite the shipyard and died after being can-le out of the water. It is supposed that the ihock of the cold water bronslt on an attack of heart disease. TklvKinley Is at Canton. President and Mrs. McKinley left Washington Friday night for Canton, Ohio, where they are to remain lor several weeks. With them also wcci Secretary Cortclyou. Dr. P. M. Risry, the president's physician, and a stenographer from the White Hous- Th? McKinl.y home at Canton has biv thoroughly renovated and rofurnW-;ht and the president hop to enjoy a .reason of comparative rtst nd quiet ko fore returning to the capital. Ituhlln Is Victor. Coached by former Champion Cer bett and displaying remarkable fighting ability himself, Gus Ruhlin, the "Akron Giant," upset all calculations Tuesday nijht when he knocked tut Tom Sharkey, the noted sailor-pugilist, in the fifteenth round at the Seaside Athletic club of Coney Island. More than C.C00 spectators went to iht arena expecting to s?e Sharkey makt a chopping block of Jtuütcv who wai knocked out in a punc2: ! the sailoi two years ago.