Marshall County Independent, Volume 6, Number 32, Plymouth, Marshall County, 20 July 1900 — Page 2

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C W. METSKER, Pub. and Prop. FLY3XOT7TH, - - UTDIAITA. mwjm THE VEEK Items of General Interest Told in Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. Iiecord of Happening: of Much or Little Importance from All l'arts of the Civilized World Price of Farm Product tu Western Markets. Prof. Frederick E. Starr of the University of Chicago says New Britain cannibals were justified in eating German traders. Chicago women make complaint against Dr. Turck for subjecting pets to vivisection. Charles W. Barnes, arrested in St. Louis, confessed to taking part in the robbing of an Illinois Central train. The National Educational association, in session at Charleston, completed its work and adjourned. It wa3 urged that the Bureau of Education be given direct charge of schools in Alaska. China. Porto Itico and the Philippines. John Van Home, cousin of Sir William Van Home, chairman of the Directory of the Canadian Pacific railway, accused of vagrancy in Will county, HI. Orders placed with traveling men show excellent trade prospects in Kansas. Oklahoma, and Missouri. Bold highwaymen robbed the saloon cf Herman Heersche, in Fort Wayne, Ind.. and escaped. Tramps tried to capture a Big Four freight train near Indianapolis and were worsted. Mrs. Laura Grant May, artist killed herself with poison in Bloomtield, N. J. Transport Hancock arrived from Manila with 101 general passengers and 547 soldiers. Berbenno, Italy, visited by a strange light, which is unaffected by the wind, but vanishes before man. World's Christian Endeavor convention opened in London. Shah of Persia arrived in Paris. Mike Conly, arrested at Cairo, 111., confessed share in Illinois Central train robbery. Postoffice department decided to return the "diploma mills" mail to the writers. Epworth League of Illinoi3 voted against permitting dancing and card playing. Scarcity of cotton has caused British mills to run on half time. Federal court sustained Fayerweaber win s large bequests to colleges. Indian rising feared near Red Lake. Because of Sipida's acquittal British postal employes refused to attend international congress at Ghent. Cut in wages of American Paris exposition employes amounts to 50 per cent of former increase. Count Boni Castellane will attend army review in as great stvle as pw t .t . - King Oscar has offered rewards for news of Andree's baloou polar expedition. Cannibals on the coast of New Britain killed and ate a party of bushmen. Most of the gossips expect a dissolution of parliament in September. Gerauiw Richard, an editor, wound4 Deputy Lasies in a duel in Paris. Ibsen is seriously ill with erysipelas. John L. Thomas, undoubtedly the oldest resident of Wisconsin, died at Racine, aged 105 years. He was born in Wales, March 10. 179.';. West Virginia republicans nominated A. B. White for governor. Five masked men held up Illinois Central passenger train No. 4 at Mayfield Creek, Ky., beat the fireman, shot at the express messenger and robbed the safe. The part which religion should play in education was under discussion at the National Educational association meeting at Charleston, S. C. One bayonet wound, many heat prostrations and numerous powder burns made up the casualty list of the sham battle at Camp Lincoln, Springfield, HI. Katie Agnes Sheehan committed suicide on her mother's grave in Indianapolis after her sister's funeral. Epworth league of Illinois will elect the Rev. Thomas S. Marshal of Salem president. Elizabeth Root, a Chicago teacher, narrowly escaped drowning at the Isle of Palm. In trial of Caleb Powers in Goebel case judge held pardon by Taylor to b void. Charges against Controller Coler dismissed. Epworth league of Illinois laid on the table a motion to send greetings to McKinley, but later cheered his name. Reciprocity treaty ' with Germany signed. First brigade will fight a sham battle. Girl went from Austria to Montana to wed a miner, but chose groomsman at altar. Astronomers testing a telescope saw a man two miles away steal a tub of butter. New York man died of broken heart caused by his wife's death. Rioting renewed in St. Louis. Bids for fourteen ships of war, estimated to cost $50,000,000, are to be asked. Seventy-one vessels are now under construction or being designed. French Foreign Minister Delcasse received Boer envoys, but refused to allow them to make an appeal. Fitzimmons will fight Rublin on Aug. 10 and Sharkey about Aug. 2i. Root gained decision over O'Brien, who ltd in first three rounds at Chicago. French parliament adjourned for summer, leaving ministry in power until fall. Rather than face social storm In store for him William Waldorf Astor left London for Marienbad in Bohemia, where he will remain until end of London season. Swis3 newspaper suggests that Switzerland be annexed to the United States to gain trade advantage?.

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Record of the Last Six Days at the Front GIVEN IN CONDENSED FORM. flrltlsh Drive lioers Kant of Ilroeukerspruit and Ke pulse 3.000 Men Capt. C'orri and Lieut. Kirk Killed KrltUu Capture Hethleheui. Mouduy. .July O. British drove Boers east of Broenkerspruit and repulsed 3,000 men. Boers attacked Rustenburg ineffectually, with serious loss. Capt. Currie and Lieut. Kirk of the Imperial Light Horse were killed. Tuesday, .luly lO. Boers fiercely resisted the British at Bethlehem in a battle that lasted for hours. The town was finally captured by Roberts' forces, but with considerable loss. AUXWPEK JESTER. The trial of Alexander .Jester at New London. " . is evidently destined to take a notable place in criminal annals. The crime of which he was accused was committed thirty years ago. Jester, It is known, was traveling in 1871 In company with a young man, Gilbert Gates, by wagon to his old home in Indiana. Jester arrived at his destination with some of Gates possessions, but Gates himself never reappeared alive. Relatives who set forth to find him discovered what they thought to be signs of blood on the snow and his body was said to have been seen floating down a stream, but Wednesday. July 11. The whole of the government of President Steyn of the Orange Free State has surrendered except Steyn himself. Collapse of De Wet's forces expected. Lord Methuen will return from south Africa because of differences with officers. Thursdav. .Inly I'-J. uu...i on an afi-uay Dattle and captured Nitral's Nek, near Pretoria, taking many of Lord Roberts' men prisoners. They took a squadron of cavalry and ninety infantrymen. Friday, .Inly 13. Battle at Niteal's Nek is described as part of a Boer plan to capture Pretoria, and the battle near the city was raging when the latest news was sent. Gen. Botha is fighting north of the Vaal in the effort to save Dewet's army from capture. L-eft In a Kef rlgerator Car. Detectives of the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad were hurried away from Milwaukee to Madison to investigate the robbery of P. H. Hartwlck, the station agent at Lone Rock. Hartwick was sitting in his office, which is in the passenger station, located at an isolated point, when two masked men entered. They bound him, placed a gag in his mouth and ransacked the office for money and valuables and carried the agent to a refrigerator car and left him, bound and helpless. The agent remained there an hour and a half, unable to free himself from his bonds until a passenger train arrived. Held for 1'a-fdrnj Had Cheeks. S. M. Mason, a young man in the uniform of a lieutenant of the regular j army, was presented in the police ' court at Louisville. Ky., on a security warrant and on the charge of being a fugitive. Mason, it is alleged, is wanted at Chicago, Columbus, 0., Indianapolis and other places for passing forged checks. Knd III Ilfe with Dynamite. C. Johnson, a carpenter and mason, blew off his head at Pomeroy, la., with dynamite. The tragedy occurred in the Roman Catholic cemetery, about half a mile from town. He had been drinking for several days, and it is thought he was afraid to go home. Corwt Steel Saves Her I.lfe. Darid H. Ilearns, a machinist, fired five shots at his wife at Saginaw, Mich. But one took effect, and that not seriously, a corset steel turning it aside. Immediately after the husband went to the wooddied, at the rear of their home, where the shooting occurred, and shot himself in the breast. His condition is serious, and he will probably die. Hearns is 28 and his wife 19. Jealousy is the supposed cause. Mrs. Hearns had just returned from a trip to Grand Rapids. Hoot CJets Decision. John Root was awarded a decision over Dick O'Brien after six rounds of sensational lighting at Tattersalls.Chicago. O'Brien, despised by the knowing ones, came within a scratch of knocking out the undefeated Chicagoan, and the latter barely pulled a victory out of the fire. JoliriHoit and Ills Ficht a Draw. - At Rochester, N. Y., Charley Johnson of Philadephia and Bobby Dobbs (colored) of Baltimore fought twentyfive rounds to a draw at the Falls Field Athletic club.

LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS. Winter wheat No. 4 red, 7o; No. 3 red. 74c; No. '1 red. new, -c; No. 4 hard, "Sli374ic; No. 3 hard. 72&75c; No. 2 hard. 7t;VtfT634c. Spring wheat No. 1 northern, 7SUö7?c; No. 2 northern. 7?c: No. S spring, 74c for ordinary; OOd wheat,. Tö 0c and choice to fancy. 7tf1457Hc; No. 4 spring. To-öT-'c. Corn No. 2, iShiUKc; No. 2 yellow, ICVuMic: No. 2 white. Kc; No. 3. 4.;'4''9c; No. 3 yellow, 4J;8 Clc; No. 4, 42Val3c. Oats No. 2, 24'2c; No. Ü white, 25 -ac. Cattle Native shipping and export steers. $4.7535.(3; dressed beef and butchers' steers, $l.5ör5.2t; steers under l.iMH) lb?, $C.S5?z4.75; stockers and feeders, $3.50 Ü4.S5; rows and heifers. $2.0. 5.00; Canners, Sl.50tf2.S5: bulls. S2.103-3.75; Texas and Indian steers. $3.04.S3; cows and heifers, J2.SU3.W. Hogs PigB and lights, J5.30fr5.45; packers. $5.255.45; butchers', J5.40fr5.50. Sheep Native muttons, $4.00 4.Zir lambs. $4.50.10; culls and bucks. J'.Ktfr 4.iA; stockers. $3.35ii3.t. Lard Prime steam. $C.Gö; choice, $3.65. Paultiy Chickens. fcUe; springs, 10c: turkeys. ate; ducks. 5!-jc; springs, 7fre; Ueese. 3c; springs. 7c. Ffc?s Sc. Butter Creamery, lCylvVic; dairy, Hellte. Blackberries. Michigan. Karly Harvest, 1 qts. $I.my.H; red raspbt-rries, 24 pts, $1. PC 1.25; black caps, Pi qts. N'1jc; 24 pts, lOtt'TOc; blueberries, 16 qts. Wisconsin. $1.251.50: Michigan. 51.50frl.75; gooseberries. 1 qt.s. 76c: strawberries. Jl-OO 1.50 for 16 qts. Cherries. It; qts, sour, $l..vifr 1.73; sweet. $1."xj2.X). Currants. 1' qts. small. 75frSic-: cherry. !vfr$1.00. I'lums, '2 qts. jnfi'T-V. A remarkable case of cure by faith is reported from Dimondale, Mich.

THE ALEXANDER JESTER TRIAL. MRS CORNELIA STREET. even that appears to be uncertain. Jester, after being arrested, managed to escape and lived under an alias for many years until his rearrest several months ago. His own sister, Mrs. Cornelia Street, strange to relate, was the cause of his recapture. In the middle of June. 1S99. the sheriff of Sedgwick County, of which Mrs. Street was a resident, received from her a letter, in which she wrote: I wish to make to you a statement in regard to my brother, whose name is Alexander Jester, who was arrested near Valley Center, Kan., in the year 1S71, May 2, for killing a young man for his team, watch and clothing. The Itryaii to He Notified An;. K. Indianapolis has a'readv begun to prepare for the exercises in that city on Aug. 8 at which William J. Bryan and Adlai E. Stevenson will receive formal notification of their nomination for the presidency and vice-presidency of the United States. The work began on the receipt Thursday afternoon of city that the exercises woud bo held here. One telegram was from Chairman Jones at Chicago, who said: "After a conference with Mayor Taggart this morning, Indianapolis was selected as the place and Aug. S as the time for notification of both men Bryan and Stevenson." Flad a Human Head in a Tail. A human head, cut clean from the body, was found in a minnow pail bobbing up and down near the electriclight works dock, on the shore below the Grand hotel, Mackinac Island. The ghastly discovery was made by Robert and Walter Brown and several other lads who were in wading. The head had been wrapped in a cloth and jammed down into the pail, the cloth being covered with dried blood. Found a Volcano at Son. A dispatch to the London Times from Sydney, New South Wales, says that while the cruiser Ringarooma was practicing off the New Hebrides she lost a torpedo. Three divers attempted to descend to recover the torpedo, but they encountered an active submarine volcano. The water below the surface was boiling. The men bled from their ears and noses, and their diving suits were injured by the heat. Insolvent National Hanks. The comptroller of the currency has declared dividends in favor of the creditors of insolvent national banks as follows: Ten per cent. Globe National Of Boston. Mass.; 10 per cent, Citizens National of Farpo. N. D.; 6 8-10 per cent, the Mutual National of New Orleans, I,a. Name Triplets for Dig Men. Mrs. David Radcliff. wife of a farmer living near Carroll. Mo., gave birth to three boys Thursday. The triplets, who are a healthy trio, were named by the father William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and Marcus Hanna Radcliff. Ireland to Visit Kmperorn. An important program was arranged for Archbishop Ireland before he left St. Paul a few weeks ago for Paris. It contemplates his presentation to Emperor William of Germany and Emperor Nicholas of Russia. Sugar Advanced Acalu. The American Sugar Refining company has advanced the price of all grades of refined sugar ten points. The price of granulated is now C cents. The independent companies all followed the advance. Kepubllcati Ficeutivc Committee. Senator M. A. Hanna has given a list of the names of the members of the executive committee which will manage the republican national campaign. They are: M. A. Heath, Ohio, chairman; Perry S. Heath, Indiana, secretary; Cornelius N. Bliss, New York, treasurer; Henry C. Payne, Wisconsin, vice-chairman; Joseph 11. Mauley, Maine; Richard C. Kerens, Missouri; Graeme Stewart, Illinois; Senator N. B. Scott, West Virginia; Harry S. New, Indiana; Fred S. Gihbs, New York; Franklin Murphy, New Jersey.

NISSEN SHOOTS RAPIDS. Daring: Man Goes Through, the Niagara Whirlpool. Peter Nissen of Chicago, who prefers to be known as "Bowser," made a successful journey through the Nn--ara rapids and whirlpool Monday afternoon in his boat, the Foolkiller. The boat struck the first foam-topped wave and turned over as easily as if it had been a stick instead of having a 1,250pound keel. Man and boat disappeared The watchers thought it was all over, when suddenly farther down stream "Bowser" reappeared, clutching the boat with one hand and waving his jersey cap with the other. The boat had righted itself. This occurred three times in the rapid journey, for it took only two and a half minutes for the whole trip through the rapids. Then "Bowser" and his boat were flung into the whirlpool. He was carried straight to the vortex which sucked in the boat, casting it up a minute later, with the drenched but plucky fellow clinging to his seat. Here it remained for forty minutes while the whirlpool played with it, spinning it like a top, then rolling It round the outer rim of the

GILBERT GATES. murder was committed in Missouri, near Warrensburg. My brother waa arrested for murdering this young man and I know of my own personal knowledge that he is guilty of the charge. He was given a preliminary heading in Wichita and was sent to Missouri near where the crime was committed and broke jail. He is my own brother, but I want him punished for that crime. My brother is living in Shawnee, O. T., and is known by the name of W. H. Hill. Hill or Jester was arrested at once. He was then passing as a preacher and cattle owner. whirlpool. The man was finally rescued by three men who ventured into the water as far as they dared and caught a rope which he threw to them as his boat swung round on the outside of the pool. "Bowser" said the trip was mcr'i terrible than he feared, although he came out unharmed. .-..., i..i. rniiii Ticket. The Populists and Democrats have nominated the following ticket in South Dakota: Governor, B. H. Lein of Sioux Falls; lieutenant-governor, Abe Vanosdel of Yankton; secretary of state, Fred B. Smith of Brown; auditor, F. J. Tracy of Edmunds; treasurer, Charles D. Tedrick of Chamberlain; superintendent of lands. Edmund Cook of Roberts; attorney-general, A. E. itchcock of Davison; superintendent of schools, Miss Iena Aasved of Day; railway commissioner, W. T. La Follette of Brule; for congress, 1st district, Gov. Andrew E. Lee; for congress, 2d district, Joseph B. Moore. The nominee for governor is a populist. lusects F.at Indiana Crops. Central Indiana is experiencing a grasshopper plague. During the past two weeks millions of these insects have hatched out in the fields and they seem to be ushered into the world with full-grown appetites. On hundreds of farms the pastures have been eaten so close there is nothing left for the stock. The timothy crop has been destroyed and the insects are now moving on the oats. Many farmers are making hay of their oats in order to save them. It is feared that the growing corn will be attacked next. The loss already amounts to thousands of dollars. Taken at the Hayonet l'oint. The leader of the Belle Island strikers was arrested by police, with fixed bayonets, and conveyed to St. John's, N. F., by armed guards. The strikers succeeded in over-awing those men who had continued at work. In consequence the office staffs of the mining companies were employed to unload the coal schooners. Three of the leaders in the Belle Isle mining strike St. John, Shepperd and McCarthy are in jail and the police are keeping the remainder at bay. The strikers are becoming desperate and the situation excites apprehension. Force In the Philippines. A statement prepared by the adjutant general shows that the total strength of the United States army in the Philippines June 30 last was 63,426 officers and men. Of that number 31,821 are regulars and 31,605 volunteers, distributed among the different arms as follows: Infantry, 54,308 officers and men; cavalry, 3,492; artillery, 2,291, and staff corps, 3,276. The total strength given above includes 1,310 officers and men of the Ninth Infantry since transferred to China. Move Hours 1'iuler Water. The submarine boat Argonaut, invented by Simon Lake, made a trial trip-off Bridgeport, Connecticut, harbor with thirteen guests aboard. Three miles out the boat was submerged to a depth of thirty feet and the trap door in the divers apartment was then opened. The water was kept out by compressed air at twelve pounds pressure. Divers went out through the door. The boat was submerged for four hours and was propelled along for several miles. On board were a number of scientific men.

1 BOKEBS Severe Battles in the Empire of China. MANY NATIONS TAKE A HAND. Dowager Km press Is Said to Hare Regained Control June 30 Chinese Ueport Legations Safe as Lte as July O -Chinese Shwll Foreign Settlements. Monday, July 9. Prince Ching, who has 10,000 troops, seized all artillery ammunition in Pekin and is opposed to Tuau and the Boxers. He iä preventing attacks on legations. The Dowager is said to be alive and working for peace. Presi dent McKinley is expected to abandon his vacation after July 12 because of Chinese complications. St, Petersburg papers approve American policy in China and say their interests are identical. Ninth regiment arrived at Taku. Two others will sail at once. Tuesday, July lO. Dowager empress is said to have regained control on June 30 and asked viceroys to protect foreigners at any cost. Legation at London declares Tuan entirely responsible for anti-foreign riots. Latest report issued by Chinese officials at Shanghai is that Pekin legations were safe on July 9. Emperor is reported to have sent dispatch on June 2 deploring recent occurrences and asking European aid to suppress rebellion. Collector Jackson of San Francisco refused to admit Chinese, declaring war exists. Washington reprimanded him. Text of Hay's note to powers shows America will not grab Chinese territory and will oppose dismemberment. Chinese shelled foreign settlements at TienTsin all day long on July 3 with little damage. More troops will leave Manila for Taku this week. Gen. Chiffee will have 3.374. Russia and Germany distrust Japan. Wednesday. July 11. Chinese government issued decre to powers on June 29 stating history of Boxer disturbances and efforts made to prevent them, declaring every effort Is made to protect legations from revolutionists, and complaining of powers'attack on Taku forts. Chinese defeated allies at Tien-Tsin and recaptured arsenal after six hours' battle. Fighting continuous since July 5. Allies are said to have suffered severely; 200 Russians killed. Japanese asked for aid. Chinese sacked and burned New-Chwang. tore up sixty miles of the Manchurian railway and are raiding outskirts of Port Arthur. Secretary Hay demanded that China restore communication with Minister Conger. New York Methodists received cablegram stating their missionaries at Pekin are safe. Li Hung Chang summoned to Pekin. He says Boxers in Pekin have dispersed. America may send two more regiments. Catholic missions at Moukden have ben burned and many priests and Christians killed. Thursday. July 12. Report in Shanghai that the last two foreign legations fell on July 6 after a terrific battle, Prince Tuan personally directing the assault. Allies at TienTsin air handicapped l)y lack uf a commander-in-chief. During the week they lost fifty men and gained nothing. Italy will send 2.000 men with 220 guns to join the allied army. Von Bulow In the face of general skepticism the nearest approach to aerial navigation actually under guidance was effected last week, near Berlin, Germany, on which occasion Count Zeppelin, its inventor, with four passengers, made a trip of 33 miles sometimes directly in face of the wind, sometimes with it, and part of the time obliquely across it. The whole country traversed was filled with wondering crowds of people, nobles and peasants, on foot, on Saale Yields trp Her Dead. Five more bodies were found on board the Saale by the divers, making a total of thirty-four taken from that vessel. Coroner Hoffman supervised the removal of them to O'Donnell'a morgue. The work of stopping up portholes and taking out the cargo advanced so well on the wreck that the pumping out may begin to-morrow. A careful search of the waters around the burned piers in Hoboken was made but no bodies were found. The whole number recovered so far is 151. Osteopaths to 3Ieet. The American Association for the Advancement cf Ostoopathy adjourned at Chattanooga, Tenn., and selected Kirksville, Mo., for its annual meeting next year. Other places in nomination were Milwaukee, Cleveland and Fut-in-Bay. Oraiit Gets Oreixioa Over Taylor. At Springfield, O., George Grant of Cincinnati received the decision over Frank Taylor, colored, of Dayton, in a six-round bout before the Senate Athletic club.

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said Germany would oppose any plan for the partition of China. Germans sold Chinese 400,C0u stands ol arms within the last year. Gen. Miles wants to be sent to China. Friday, Jnly 13. The report of the general massacre of foreigners in Pekin on July C is neither affirmed nor denied. More fighting around Tien-Tsin. Rioting Increased in Manchuria. Russia is aroused almost to a state of frenzy by the report from Admiral Alexyeff that M. de Giers and the entire legation have been murdered after being subjected to most horrible torture. Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese minister in Washington, may be given his passports for saying the nations of the world have sacrificed their diplomats in Pekin for the purpose of forcing a crisis that would lead to the dismemherir.f r.r of China. Wu suggests that Secretary Hay write an oUlcial letter to Minister Co?srer nt IV-kin, and agrees to forv. r-ru it himself. Fio Keeeite .Moria! Wounds. Probably the weist J;;;ht with outlaws that has occurred i:i this county since the killing of th" famous Dalton gang at Coffeyville. Kan., some years ago, is reported to have taken place forty miles east of Gleneoe, O. T., on the Arkansas river at a ioint known as the Black Dog ford, entirely surrounded by huge bluffs thickly covered with brush. It seems that part of the country known as the Osage nation has l'feu infested for a long time with an organized band of cattle thieves and murderers, of which there seems to have been no riddance. One United States marshal and four desperadoes wore killed or mortallv wounded.

llohart Left a.OOO.OOO. The inventory of the personal estate of the late Vi-e-President Garret A. Hobart was filed at Paterson. N. J. It consists principally of stocks and bonds of various raü'oad and industrial corporations, and foots up $2.C28,941.03. according to the appraisal made by Robert J. Neiden and Edward A. Walton. It is estimated that Mr. Hobart's entire estate will amount to $3,OOU.OOu. He owned considerable stock in different gold, silver and copper mines, but the value of these is marked "doubtful" in the inventory. He left $1.000,000 to his wife, and the balance to his only child. Garret A. Hobart. Three Died yuiokly At Dayton, 0., while John Burns, aged 50, a painter, was arranging his ladder on the fourth story of a building, he slipped from the scaffold and fell fifty feet to the pavement, being almost instantly killed. Nearly every bone in hi body was broken. Burns moved to that oity from Decatur, 111., six months ago. He leaves a wife. Earl Wolf. 16. of Parker avenue, Dayton, was drowned in the Miami river, two miles south of the city. He was bathing with several companions. Joseph Weber, aged 72, a veteran at the Soldier's home and a former member of the Forty-fourth Ohio, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. lawlessness at Cape Nome. Gold seekers returned from Cape Nome with little gold. They say there is no law, order, or safety for property. Cape Nome is under martial law and tile place io described by some of those who have returned as a "hell upon earth." Killings are of daily occurrence and thieving is hard to guard against. AN AIRSHIP THAT REALLY FLIES.

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horseback and in carriages, gazing with the utmost astonishment upon the giant messenger of the air as it floated high above. Count Zeppelin, the designer of the airship, was on hand early, and In conversation was not disposed to be oversanguine as to the results of the experiment. As a Locomotive Boiler Mows I'p. The north bound express on the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati and Louisville division of the Iike Erie and Western railway was wrecked as it was leaving Beeson station, Indiana, by the engine boiler exploding. Engineer Bob Kelley had a leg broken and his head cut, but Fireman Otto Simmers escaped. The passengers were badly shaken up and a rain of flying iron fell on the cars, but no one was injured. Kelley was taken to his home In Fort Wayne. Seventv-Flve 1'eople lturned. People gathered in large numbers in the freight yard of the Boston and Maine railroad in Somerville, Mass., Friday night, to watch a fire among some cars. About seventy-five persons mostly boys, stood on an oil tank car near the blazing freight cars, when a spark set the oil drippings on fire, and in an instant there was an explosion. Thirteen men and boys, several burned fatally, were removed to the Somerville hospital, nine to the Boston hospitals, and others to their homes. Two died of their burns.

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Spldo, the youth xho triff, to k'A the Prfnce of TVs.Ks sjtA vt wax practically acquitted t Brjtels tbe other day, id not, it is said, ecap across the fpontier, as reported, bui has been taken to a Belgian townHe will probably be left mimo!es:ed. as he is regarded as harmless, and has been terrorized by the ordeal of the trial. Nelma.ka Fusionist' Ticket. Nebraska has nominated a fusicnist ticket a follow?: For governor, William A. Poynter, pop.; for lieutenantgovernor, B. A. Gilbert, sil. rep.; for secretary of state, C. V. Sooboda, pop.; for treasurer, S. B. Howard, rfl.; for attorney-general, Willis D. Oldham, dem.; for auditor, II. S. Griess, pop.; for land commissioner. P. T. Carey, pop. The three state central committees, to whom had been delegated the selection of presidential electors, reported the following before the conventions adjourned and their action was rati-fied: Frank Hanson, J. II. Felber. W. A. Garrett, W. G. Swan, Peter Ebberson, Robert Oberfelder, L. M. Wente, J. Hughes. Ilijf lire at ATalnut. I1L Fire Tuesday destroyed half the business portion of Wainut, Hi. Losa $100,C00. The largest losses are: The Walnut Bank. $13,00; Henry Guither building; Ennis, Wet &; Co., elevator, $10,0vö; 80,000 bushels of corn. $32,C00; John Faber, dry goods. $11,000; opera house building. $3,000; Mail and Express printing office, 1,200; George Sample, restaurant, $2,000; W. A. Mercer, drug store, $3,000; Fisher hotel. $l,DO0; John Knight building, $1.000; Jacob Thum building, Jl.eOu. Sehrefller Will tio Tree. Mrs. Edith Zenstarski, the complaining witness in the SchrefSer murder trial at Jollet, Thursday practically admitted on the stand that she dkl not understand all the charges contained in the complaint at the time she affixed her signature to the document. This testimony, together with the statement of the daughter of the accused man and his own seared face, will, it is thought free the prisoner from the charges brought against him. Western Cnlon Fleets Officers. Thursday the stockholders of the Western Union Telegraph company held their annual meeting at the company's offices in Jersey City, when the following directors were elected: Thomas T. Eckert, Charles A. Tinker, A. R. Brewer, A. B. Bertholf. The directors subsequently elected Thomas T. Eckert, president; Charles A. Tinker, vice-president, and Thomas F. Clark, secretary. description of the vessel may be of interest, it might bo said that in Its external appearance It resembles a huge over-head cylinder over four hundred feet long, underneath which is the platform, on which rests the passenger car, and at both ends are the propeller wheels, of great diameter By the side of the cars arc the planes, whose incline gives the ship its soaring or floating ability, ofttimc? independent of the great lifting power of the gas in the seventeen-compart-ment cylinder. Our illustration is from description. Trays and Plunges to Death. An unknown man, after kneeling for some minutes and praying aloud on the end of the Oraceland avenue pier, Chicago, arose, stretched his hands heavenward and jumped into the lake. Many persons standing near were startled and men rushed to the end of the pier In the hope of saving him. Policeman M. J. Kelly dived into the water with his clothes on, but to no avail. After a two hours search with grappling hooks the body was recovered. lloers May Settle in Texa. The Southern Pacific Railway company owns over 0,000.00 acres of land in Texas, that donated by the state as a subsidy for the building of the Galj veston, Harrisburg & San Antonio and other roads. A prominent official of the Pacific company, who was at Austin Tuesday, said that negotiations for the colonization of several thousand Boers on these lands promised to result successfully. It Is proposed to locate the first colony In Valverde an3 Brewster counties.