Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 6, Plymouth, Marshall County, 18 January 1901 — Page 2

THE WEEKLY II1DEPEHDEIIT.

C W. METrJKEB, Pmb. and Prop. rXY2I0UTH, . - HTDZA2TA. Hi Items of General Interest Told in Pararaphst COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY Record of H.ipM-nln of Much or Little Import nur frtm All Farts of the Civilized W,rld Price of Irui I'rudui'ti in Western Markets. General orders from Philippines doscribe (J;u;ri:a de Honor" band of natives organized for anamination. Pope approved Vatican budget for 10m 1 amounting to $l,7io,o: ). Contributions to t.v's pence $5,i oo.uoO. Total t o n t r : L a t '. i . ; ' . 0 . ' "j U ,0 c 0. Passeng r train on the Northern Pacific ..:::-.s through a culvert and coaches are totally wrecked. Judge iiichard Yates was inaugurated governor of Illinois at Springfield Monday. Highw a men at Chicago beat a bookmaker with revolvers and rob him of $300 in money and jewelry. Five ergons are killed and fcfty injured in a panic during a performance in We.st Twelfth street Turner hall, I Chicago. i Advices from Creat Britain are to j the effect that the queen's government ; will accept the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, ' amendments and all. Police of Wil kesbarre. Pa., inform-Tl ! from Chicago Pat Crowe may be j there. ! Two girls, servants, burned to death j in Buffalo, X. Y., apartment house. j Island of Tutuila, Samoa, prospering , under American rule. ' Burglais heat a man to death near ; Gorham. M. . St. Louis grand jury returned twenty four true bills; twenty suppressed sup posed to be against officials. "Wedding or Miss Elsie French and Alfred Vanderbiit at Newport Monday. West Point academy on trial and cadets must answer all questions. Maurice Thompson, novelist, Crawfordsville, Ind.. riously Li. Syndicate controls every theater In Broadway. New York. William Winter, the vfiei'an dramatic critic, protests acninst placing art on a commercial ha.-ds. Louise .-Vha f. r. teacher in public schools. N'- v Yi.rk, narrowly escaped being bum. d ;i!ive while in a trance. Mrs. C rus Taylor. Brazil. Ind., came to life after beh.g pronounced dead. Land await- oid soldiers on Comanche-Kiowa reservation iu Indian territory. Indig':i; natives in Southren Luzon will Le barred from overcrowded military hospitals. South American republic of Colombia tottering under the revolution. Owners of Manila railroad want $100.000 damages. Paul Kruger said to be seriously 111 at The Hague. Boers make daring raids daily near Pretoria. Frank Brill, Chicafo. won national contest for individual bowlers. President J. J. Hill of the Great Northern is said to be opposed to pasSage of bill authorizing pooling. Brooklyn man says his bride is held prisoner by her parents and seeks her release. Mrs. Margaret Buchanan, New York, broke will of her husband, Alexander, obtaining $200.000. Three Chicago thieves worked three days on a job realizing $10, and were arrested. Arguments on status of island possessions ended in supreme court. .Request made for garden seeds to send to Filipinos. Coinage of last year $141,331,900, largest on iword. j William Waldorf Astor gave magni- j ficent ball at Cliveden, indicating re- i turn to society. Six hundred and fifty-two of Thir ! ty-seventh Infantry sailed from Ma- ! nila for home. Atlantic liner Ethiopa went ashore in the Firth of Clyde; lies in bad position. Boers attacked five British garrisons in dense fog and were driven back. In introducing kidnaping bill in New York legislature Senator Plunkitt stated on judicial authority that Charley Ross was drowned by abductors in New York bay. F. Hopkins Smith, before Newton club, Boston, declared "Uncle Tom's Cabin" an "appaling, awful, criminal mistake." Sheriff tore up section of Chicago Southeastern railway in Montgomery county, Ind. Cadet explained boxing rules to congressional investigators at West Point. Gifts of apples and umbrellas to coupon ticket sellers caused row among western passenger agents. Distilling Company of America increased its capital by issue of $5,000,000 5 per cent bonds. The Wiener Tageblatt lays the de cadence of commerce and industry in Europe to militarism. Ex-Gov. Lind of Minnesota assaulted Managing Editor Henry T. Black of the St. Paul Dispatch. Bill to enforce capital punishment Introduced in Kan.sas legislature. General Manager Jarvis of Wisconsin Central resigned. New $5 notes from Honolulu's First National bank puzzle Chicago bankers. C. L. Alvord, Jr., pleaded guilty to embezzling $700,000 from First National bank. On Chicago board of trade January pork option bid up to $15 a barrel, by shorts trying to cover. Fort Sheridan officers say loss of canteen will hurt discipline. Cincinnati grand juiy may interfere in Jeffries-IIuhlin fight by indicting promoter?. Police force of 200 Americans to be organized in Manila. Cost cf Cuban government for December, 51.C1 J.C07.

M il EVENTS Of 1 1

LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS. Winter wheat No. 3 red, 77c; No. 2 red, 7Sc: No. 3 hard, 70:371c; No. i white, Gc. Spring wheat No. 3, TUvic; No. 4, oT&COc; No. 2, Jbc. Corn No. 3, 3737ic; No. 3 white. 37'ic: No. 3 yellow, SIc. Oat? No. 4. 2Gc: No. 4 white, :c'c; No.

No. 3 white. .c. itye rso. i?.c. Provisions Mess pork, regular. iH.lSSH.f,); old. $13.2113.50. Lard, $7.200 7.2i'12. Short ribs. H.i 7.10. Native slapping and export steers, Jt.IS Ci 15; dressed lif t' and butcher steers, Jl. ley 3.3'.: steers undtr l.K'O lbs. $3.40$ 4. t'O; stockers and feeders. $-'. 40'i4.4j; cows and heifexs. " 4-73; canmrs, Jl.l'J 1 L'..o;; bulls. i2.öi''tJ.::ö; Texas and Indian steers, ?3.2'y 1..V. cows and heifers. $3.23 rir3.4). lJr.s l'irs and lights. $."..fx',j Ö.15; packers. Jj.luy 5.2": batch. -is. Jj.1". ni.Z7. Sheep Native' muttoiis. ''''! l-3"; lambs, ti.lö'uö.w; culls and bucks, $2.73U4.-3; sstnekers, 52.0' 'y 2.73. Kuus. !:' 2uc: butter, creamery, extra. 22':!c; nists, ity2vc; dairies, etc., 13 Ui'c. Poultry- Live turkeys, per lb. CpC'.L-c; ehu ker.s. 4''7'c; geese, per doz, lec-r I 3..".": dressed turkeys. TV-'f'c; dressed ! chickens. T'T'.jc: dn ssed ducks, 7',-yjc; J dressed geese, CiiTc Apples, gcod to choice, $2.(172.00: apples, fancy. $3.00ü 1. 3U; beans, navy, handpicktd, S-US. Plan for Irrigation. Gov. N. O. Murphy of Ariz. ma, who was in Chicago, stated that it had been decided by the governors of several of 1 tiie western states to make Chicago 1 the headquarters 01 the National Irrii gation Association this winter. "We I are of the opinion." he said, "the gov- ! ernment should not neglect the opporI tunities of development oM'ercd in sr.v- ! eral of the western arid states by aid- ; ing in providing for a national system j of irrigation. want an appropriaI tlon of $23.000 for surveys." Gov. I Otero of New Mexico was also in Chi1 cago on his way to Washington to work against the Culbertson bill, which provides for the damming of the Rio Grande River at El Paso. Knoek-Out Mlow I fatal. Frank Welch, the pugilist, died Tuesday at Easton. Pa., from the ; effects of his fight at Cedar Park, Phil- ! lipsburg. N. J., on New Year's eve with 1'addy Donovan. Welch's case is one of the most remarkable cn record. He j had not been conscious from the time I he collapsed in the ring until he died, i a period of over a week. Welch, whose ! real name was Frank Grabfelder, was ; 21 years old and lived in Philadelphia. I Warrants are out for the arrest of i about thirty men connected with the j fight, and Donovan and several others r are In jail &t Brlvidere, N. J. Miner Have Marrow Escape. A landslide or cave-in occurred at 1 Santiago mine, &ome six miles from here, entombing sixty men. The main entrance to the mine, which is on the tunnel plan, was completely stopped. The mine was enveloped in total darkness, and the entombed miners had to crawl and feel their way to a small entrance or air tunnel nearly a mile frcm the main entrance, where tip1 cave-in occurred. Fortunately no one was seriously hurt. Train t'.u?1it by a Snuwslide. The Colorado & Southern train from Gunnison. Col., was caught by a snowslide at the Alpine tunnel and has been snowbound ever sime. The report from the tunnel is to the effect that the snow is falling hard and being driven with the winds. The train is a mixed freight and passenger. How many passenger.- :b nre are on the train it is impossible to find out. They are in great danger from cold and starvation. Mr. Nition IlemaiiM In -lall. In the District court at Wichita, Kas., Judge D. M. Dale overruled the writ of habeas corpus tiled there by attorneys of Mrs. Carrie Nation, asking her release from the county jail. Immediately after rendering an adverse decision he told her attorneys they might appeal the case to the Appellate court, then in session in the same building, which was done. A decision there is not expected for some time. I'ortu Itiro Centi4 Return. According to the figures of the official census of Porto Rico, just compiled, the total population is '.)33,1M3. with 8.7'l more women than men. somewhat more than three-fifths arc pure white and two-fifths are partially or entirely negro. Porto Rico has 2G4 persons to the square mile. This density of population is about the same as in New Jersey, nearly twice that in Pennsylvania and thrice that in Illinois. GirU Uavft a Cla Rtnli. Two hundred girls participated In a class rush at Ohio Wesleyan university at Delaware, O. The trouble, was percipitated by a junior girl wearing a senior cap and gown into chapel. A lively struggle between rival class girls for possession of the cap and gown ensued, but was soon stopped by President Bashford and members of the faculty, who rushed from the plat form and secured the battered cap and torn gown. Iter. C M. Sheldon's Crnsade. Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, author of "In His Steps," resumed his church' work in Topeka, Kan., after an ab.-ence in Europe and the East. Mr. Sheldon is preparing to make a vigorous entry into the law enforcement campaign of the state. He will start this work in two weeks with an address before the state convention of the State Temperance Union. Transport Brings In Sick. Gen. ShaTter has Informed the war department that the transport Sherman, which has arrived at San Francisco, had on board 431 sick soldiers, six insane soldiers, forty-two prisoners and twelve remains of deceased soldiers. Fire Kvlet FiMy Familie. Fire evicted fifty families from the McLennan apartment building, a fivestory brick structure at South Park avenue and Thirty-first steet, Chicago, at 8:30 o'clock Tuesday morning. Steamer Sinks: ISO Drown. One hundred and fifty lives were lost in an accident which occurred four weeks ago to a passenger steamer plying on West river between Samchau and Canton. The steamer was overloaded, having on board 500 passengers. (rts fill First I.lon. Colonf-l Theodore Roosevelt, now in Colorado, has the pelt of a magnificent mountain lion to show as a result of hia first day's hunting in the foothills.

PERISH UWlii One Hundred and Twenty Lives Are Lost.

A GREAT STORM IN RUSSIA. Eighteen IT n ml red Person Huddled Together in a Railway Station Unable to Communicate with th Ontslde World for Five Days Great Suffering. Communication with the world has been reopened at Odessa. Russia, after ten days' isolation. The snow blizzard continued .unceasingly for 100 hours, and it is reported that 120 persons perished. The Odessa correspondent of the London Daily Mail describes the sufferings of the railway passengers who were overtaken by the POLICE CHIEFS HOLD A WUHim A. Pinkerton, J. H. lLuucr. Chicagro. Louis viile. Ky. Frank J. Oissada, J im- s K. juinley. Elmira, N. Y. Indianapolis. Ini. .lev. pii Klpley, ni'tiri. J1E.MCERS BOARD OF GOVERNORS CA' The annual meeting of the board of governors of the national outeau of identification, which is composed of police chiefs of the leading cities of th" country, was hr!d in Chicago, beginning Wednesday. Among the chiefs who attended were Col. Phi! Ditscii of Cincinnati. Ohio, piesident cf the board; Richard Sylvester. Washington, D. C; George E. Corner, Cleveland. O.; James F. Quighv. Indianapolis. Ind.: Fiank .1. Canada. Elmira. N. Y ; D. S. slorm. Hundreds of persons left St. Petersburg. Moscow. Kieff, and elsewhere for Odessa on Jan. t'. for the Russian Christmas, which as the event proved they were doomed to spend isolated from the world. For live days and five nights they were half-starved and half frozen. The first train struck the blizzard south of Razdyelnaia and was soon stuck in a twelve-foot drift. The passengers were not alarmed, expecting that the line would be quickly cleared. They made themselves as comfortable as they could at the station. The expected help did not come, and in the course of twenty-four hours three more trains arrived. There were then 1.S00 persons huddled in the station with vanishing hope of relief. The food stores readily dwindled, and the passengers became alarmed. They clamored that something be done. A telegram was sent demanding help, but there was no response. Another 24 hours passed, and two more trains laden with terrified and hungry pasfiengrs arrived. They had occupied sixteen hours in covering forty miles. The late arrivals stormed the buffet. struggling ravenously, and consumed what food was left. A horrible night "was passed. The passengers were virtually without food. In the morning a peasant volunteered to carry telegrams to the nearest station, which was six miles away. He arrived with several of his fingers frozen. The dispatches begged for help from St. Petersburg and Odessa. Sixty pas sengers, including Count Kapnist. resolved to trudge and seek sledges rath er than to spend another night on their train, where the stench was almost unendurable. Count Kapnist and forty other succeeded in reaching Odessa on Friday. The fate of the others who started with him has not been learned. Kooevelt In Colorado. Vice-President-elect Theodore Roosevelt arrived at Colorado Springs, Colo.,! over the Rock Island from Chicago Thursday, "s No Merry to Bandit. Copies of general orders from the Philippines received at Washington show that a large number of native FIHplnois have been convicted of murder and other crimes and sentenced to be hanged or to long terms of imprisonment . Porch Climbers In Louisville. Porch-climbers at Louisville, Ky.. broke open a private safe at the residence of Aaron Kohn, an attorney, and robbed it of $3,000 worth of jewelry and money. Sympathy for 1 1 of rs. The Nebraska senators have passed the resolution commendatory of the Boers in their struggle with Great Britain which was introduced last week by Senator Trompcn of Lancaster county. The measure was first amended, however, so as to contain a tribute to President McKinley for his course in relation to the South African war! ir 1 1 u,l V. w fnra. Frank Burke of Fort Wayne, Ind., attempted to get on a moving train at ,Llma, Ohio, and was crushed to aeatn.

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Thlrteea I Fatal Again Jacob Cole, a wealthy real estate dealer and an old-time resident of Fordham, N. Y., died at the Fordhain hospital just thirteen hours after he had been stricken while playing a game of pinochle at the Roosevelt club. There fell to his hand the "suit of death," and though the old man nerer believed there was any prophecy in cards the peculiar circumstances just before he was stricken laust have impressed him. W'Ucomln Punk Tlirtvin? A great striae forward in the banking business in Wisconsin during the last year is shown by State Bank Examiner E. I. Kidd. The increase in the deposits in the state, private and savings banks for the year is $2,S51.C29.19. the increase in resources is $2,500,490.75 and the increase in the resources of all classes of banks in the state is $10,917,354.20. The total resources of all the banks cf the state are $133,2C0.-' 131.12.

CONVENTION AT CHICAGO. Richard Syh ester, George E. Corner, "Washington. 1. C. Cleveland. O. Col. l'hil Deitsch U'resd- D. H. Gaster dent). Cincinnati. O. New Orleans, La. Course M. I'erteous, Chicago, 111. , NATIONAL IJVRKAU OF IDENTIFIi'lON. Oascr, New Orleans, La. and J. H. 1 laager. Louisville. Ky. Chief Kipley of Chicago anil William A. Pinkerton assisted Superintendent George PorteoMP to receive and entertain the visiting members of the bureau board The bureau, wl'lch was perfected by George Porteous. is a syst m for the exchange of photographs and L'M'tillo;i measurements of criminals throughout tlie country. The central otlice is in Chicago in eha-gr- rf Mr. teous. Castellanes in Supreme Court. The Countess de Castellane, who was formerly Miss Anna Gould, in debt for $4.000.000 and insolvent. Count de Castellane. alleged to be a perpetual deceiver of dealers in art objects, buying these for the Castellan" palace with notes ever renewed by th dealers and selling the art objects for cash to others; the countess familiar with his deceptions and united with him in them; the trustees of the Gould estate informed of all this these are the amazing things that were said in the Supreme court of New York Thursday. Sold State Farm Products. The state of Indiana by Joseph Coffman, superintendent of the counry almshouse, has sued John Ott. ex-superintendent of the institution, his bondsmen. William Marr and Frank Crump, and the county commissioners, charging that Ott while at the institution sold and converted to his own use numerous farm products, in all about $1.000 in value. All the defendants are Republicans. Fight Feared at Panama. Consul General Gudger, at Panama, cables to the state department at Washington from Colombia that the Colombian government anminces that the revolutionists are approaching Panama and making preparations for a fight, which is likely to occur soon. The state department intends taking vigorous action if the city is threatened with bombardment to protect American interests. Destroy Camps of Itehel. Several insurgent camps were captured and destroyed recently in various districts of Luzon and Laroe. One camp was captured in the mountains of Marinduque. A scouting party of the Forty-sixth regiment captured a score of ladrones near Silang. Arrests of suspected insurgents continue numerously in Manila and vicinity. Four on Trial for Murder. Jacob Winne, Annie Bryan, Charles Burns and Ellie Barrett were arraigned at Philadelphia charged with participating in the murder of Father Riegel, who was found dead on Saturday night last In the hallway of a lodging-house in the "tenderloin" district of that city. Johnson (iets the DeeUlon At Findlay, ()., Grant Johnson, cap tain of the Chicago Giants, colored ball team, was given the decision over "Con" Riley. "Kid" McCoy's ex-train er, after six rounds of clever boxing Largest Mining Ltore Aflame. At Aspen, Col., the Great Coven Hoven tunnel, the longest drain age or mining bore in the world, is on fire. The flames have spread over ten miles of workings supported by tim ber. The estimated loss Is $500,000. Tried to Kill Ills Family John Ilausch of Rural township near Rock Island, 111., while in drunken rage, attempted to kill hi! family, then drank laudanum and died He was a well-to-do farmer and leave a wife and six children.

11 Summary of Legislation in National Body. MEASURES IN BOTH HOUSES. Army Reorganization Takes Prom"nent Place in the Work of the Senate, While the House Is ai Work on River and Harbor. Tuesday, .January 8. In the Senate: Day occupied by discussion cf committee amendment restoring canteen provision ia army reorganization bill. Amendment supported by Messrs. Sewell, Hawley, Money and Carter and opposed by Messrs. Gallinger and Hainsbroush. The arguments on each side were along the customary lines, opponents of the amendment ass. r:ing the canUen let' to drunkenness, immorality and consequent lack of discipline, while its advocates declared the post exchange promoted discipline and good order in the army, as well reduced drunkenm ss to a minimum. The House by a vote of 1C3 to 102 passed Burleigh reapportionment bill, which increases house membership from 237 to 3S6. Wednesday. January 9. Reapportionment bill, passed by house, provides for 3SG members and goes into effect in 1903. Many states gain. Representative bhafroth or Colorado predicted construction of Nicaraguan canal will cause endless scandals. Senate by a vote of 34 to 13 agreed to house amendment abolishing sale of liquor in army canteen. Thursday. ,Iaiiurv 1 0. In the Senate: Discussion of the army reorganization bill occupied the day. The House: Devoted the day to further consideration of the river and harbor bill. Friday, January 11. The senate passed house reapportionment bill without objection and devoted rest of day to continuation of debate on army reorganization bill. The house passed 170 private pension tills, among them being one to increase pension of (leneral Americas V. Rice, formerly member of congress from Ohio, from ?3G to $100 a month. Saturday, January Vi, After an hour spent in miscellaneous routine business, during the course of which several bills of minor importance were passed, the house devoted the day to a continuation of the debate upon the river and harbor appropriation bill. The main feature was an elaborate speech by Mr. Catchings of Mississippi in defense of improvement of the lower Mississippi river. The senate devoted the session to services in memory of the late Senator Cushman K. Davis of .Minnesota. Nouroulah Hassan, another "Terrible Turk." brought to America by Martin Julian.

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THE PERIHELI0NS OF EROS, MARS AND THE EARTH.

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t MARS 1 PCRMityOr. J Q' J?? i EARTH V slF The planet Eros has come to the aid of the astronomers. Though Eros was only discovered in lS'.'G it has been found that photographs of th heavens taken three years earlier show the little planet. Only the moon, of all the planets, is now nearer the earth than Kros. and the new measurements of planetary distances will be made, with Eros as a base. The importance of the discovery of the exact location of the orbit of Eros and the distance of that planet from A Page Escapes Quarantine. A sensation was caused among the senators at Lincoln, Tuesday, by the announcement that a fugitive from smallpox quarantine was in their midst. Leavitt Ashenfelter, a page, was last Saturday caught In a quarantine which was placed over his boarding house, where a case of smallpox was discovered. Here he was confined with thirty others, but he escaped from the house, evaded the police and reported at the senate chamber for work. BrltUh Leader Shoots Self. Sir Edward Spence Smyes, chief secretary to the government of Burma since 1890, and a member of the legislative council of India, shot himself In the head in a carriage at Ragoon. He is lingering between life and death. Suddenly Struck Dumb. While eating supper at Turin, Wis., Fred Shcrinbow, a young lumberman, was suddenly struck dumb. He has been unable to utter a word since. His comrades are unable to assign aay cause for the affliction.

Says He Sold Horse Meat. Jacob J. Memmesheimer of Hempstead, who has been doing a thriving business in the horse-killing industry and who is known as Jack the Horse Skinner, was arraigned ia New York charged with conducting a horse-slaughtering establishment without a license. Memmesheimer pleaded guilty and was fined $3. As he was leaving the court he remarked: "Long Island is getting too hot for use. Gucs we will have to go over into New Jersey in some outengaged in the industry and that ha has shipped thousands of pounds of of-the-way place." Memmesheimer admitted that for some time he has been horse meat to the sauage-mnkers of Switzerland every year. Dm ing the past week he has killed over thirty" horses at h is place and has shipped over 1.2Ö0 pounds of cured horse flesh abroad. Fatal Ilead-On Collision. An eat-boiu-d F-ire Marquette passenger train on the Saginaw division met a tr iuhr tpr-Jr.-" in a head-nn collision at Plymouth, a village about 43 miles northeast of IVtroit. with the result that Fngitner Alexander Moore of Saginaw, the engineer or the passenger engine, was killed outright by being pinioned against the boiler of his engine. Express Messenger Warner of the . ame train is, perhaps, fatally hurt. William lllisehe, the fireman of the freight engine, was brought to this city shortly after midnight on a special train. lie was so badly injured that he died live minutes after he arrived at St. Mary's hospi'al. The fireman of the passenger engine was John C. Kennedy of Saginaw. He was also killed.

gro Slayers Are Hanged George Ward and James Jones, colored, were hane.ed at Washington. Pa., Wednesday. Tin crime for which tin y were executed was the murder of Samuel Wustlich. an aged (lernian of Stockdale. I'a.. on the night of Sept. 29, lSDy. The two men enter. d VVustlich's bou.-e for the purpose of robbery and were surprised by Wustlich and his wife. Wustlich was shot and almost instantly killed and his wife was seriously wounded, but recovered. About 300 persons witnessed the execution, while outside the äUeelS Surrounding the jail were black with curious people. Many Cle'l:tnd Saloons Close. Nearly" 5o0 saloons have gono out of business in Cleveland within the last six months, and the revenue of the city from this source lias decreased $10,000. Tlie leport of the city treasurer to the auditor of state shows that at the beginning o'J the last half-year there were l,t'Ji saloons in Cleveland, and that since then L'33 have received refunds on their licenses, and that the last half of the license was remitted to 234. drip Kügin? in New York. It is estimated that there are 2Ö0,000 cases of grip, bronchitis and pneumonia in New York City. The city hospitals and private institutions arc full to overflowing and physicians in many instances find it difficult to make their rounds. The disease has assumed a catarrhal tendency, which is new. CR03 imps . i 1 1 --p. J! 0ß the earth lies in the fact that with such knowledge astronomers will he able to accurately compute the distance of every heavenly body from this globe," says Forest Itay Moulton, professor of Astronomy University cf Chicago. "Compared with the distances measured the present errors are very small, but with Eros' distance a known quantity these errors will be nearly eliminated. Eros now occupies the unique position of being the nearest heavenly body to the earth except the moon." Kccentrlc Bllaer Is Dead. George W. Keed, an eccentric bachelor and recluse, died near Brazil, Ind., in a modest little dwelling on his large river bottom farm, in the southern part of the county, aged S2 years. Mr. Heed spent his long life in seclusion, with dogs as his only companions. He had not cut his hair for thirty years and it hung in profusion about his waist, while his white beard almost reached his knees. He had but few, if any, relatives and he left a fortune amounting to more than J70.000. Grip Fpldemie Spreads. According to the New York board of health, la grippe has developed into a serious proposition in that city. The hospitals are all overcrowded, and it is said that there are more cases of the disease in the city now than there ever was at any time during any previous epidemic of la grippe. The records of the police department id that 420 members of the force were oft duty Saturday on account of the dis ease. The total represents about 10 per cent of the entire force of tha city.

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1 III Diplomatic Negotiations Are in Progress. SOME CLASHING INTERESTS. A Paris Currepoudent Süts the tnlt4 States' Kflort Will I5e Demoted to Securing Commercial A(H.iMta;ei In China Other Nations Waut Trade. I ued ty, January S. Li Hung Chang d-.-lared h ana Prince Cl.;ng would gn;re certain 's di?: for tte clauses of filiate rule: good of the country, enpress tlowag. r ml;:: ministers. impress hir.g to honor the hp :. executed" .'. :r::: T.ox r cause thev favored f.u'e 1 1 w , .lor and by hostile z .- p;an11 , be1 11 - I : y , Ja n 11 ;i ry Count vo:i Wa Me:.e... :;. 1 : on; Chi::. In Mcc".. A :. f.lals an:u'.:.c' llaiop a-. . r w l a . n tialian ofcp; ositica to Hays proposal as to China. Tliur. y, January UK Officials iu Paris say the Chinese have sigue.j the joint no-?, but that clashing intmsts of the p.;w-is now laise almos: insurmountable obstacles to peace. The Uniud S'ate? efforts, apparently, a Paris dispatch savs. will be devoted to securing commercial advantages, while Franc and 'rmany will desire to inciease their trade generally and their political inMuence in certain provinces. Friday, .laiuiary 11. Death of I.i Hung Chnr.g s ill to be imminent Said Salisbury will c:de to Russia railway from N w Cawang to Shang Hai Kwan. Compensation is not known. llu.-s'an :-t cf finance savs Russia and Aire vi a have been agreed trouble. dl-ihroah. r'.iine-e Saturday, January 12 Li Hung Chang and Prin Ching, under telegraphic edict from imperial court, signed preliminary note of powers. French kill 1,000 Lexers. LI Hung Chang very ill. I5lo- Ip Tw Ilri le.,. Two bridges on the Chicago and Southweastei n railroad, one -i:y feet Inng and nxep.ty I'm h!i:li, r.ear Crawlorusville. Ind.. wer.- dynamited and destroyed by farm rs. The company's roadbed across Wesley Grantham's farm has been leveled with p':.e.s. and i.umerous wugonlouds of its r:.: have been removed. car:e,I there mil- s from the right 01 way and are now pil?d up behind a ehoo'.hnuse. Trail; cn the road is en i'.ely supt p. led. uv.n cannot be resumed for at 1 as: a we k the length of time iL will l'.yaae to ondemn a right of way anoss the farm and t pair the damage that ha3 been done. Smallpox Closes the Schools. Murray, a town of ! ,i inhaMtmits, ' wenty-thrt e mi;, s east of Creston, Iowa, has hern InoeuintM with, smallpox and the authorities have .lose, "lie public schools and churches and, forbidden the holding of public meetings. A portion of the town is under strict quarantine. The village of GateMills. Ohio, is cut off from communication from the outside world because of an epidemic of smallpox. The number of cases is about forty and it is feared the disease is beyond control of the doctors. The village reached only by suburban trolley cars to Cleveland, and the cars have refused to stop at Gates Mills. Crash on a High ltrldj;e. A frightful wreck occurred at Eversion, Pa., on the Monongahela division of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and six men were killed. An engine-driver, in saving the life of his fireman, lost his own. Engine No. running without cars, going across the nttyfoot high trestle at Everson. collided with engine No. 2M0. drawing forty empty cars. The dead are William Bowman, er.Rine driver; John Devinny. fireman; William Parrish, conductor of 339; Wiliam Parrish. brakeman; Joseph King, conductor of "V.O; William J. O'Neal or Leading Creek. W. Va.. passenger. Wins S10,."00 at a Mngt Roll. Winning the largest single wager ever made against roulette in New York City Michael Meagher on one roll of the ball took $i-j.5öO from the Savoy club. He had placed Sit'" upon the number "1." When he won ho became anxious to force Iannis Ludlam. the club proprietor, to quit and laid the entire $10.ru0 on the red. Ludlam refused the wager and said the house was closed for the night. I'er pet ual-Franchise Test. The attorney general has brought suit in the supreme court at Columbus to test the validity of perpetual franchises in Ohio. The case in point Is that of the state against the Cincinnati Edison Electric company, being an action in ouster. The important feature is that the supreme court will be called upon to pass on the pcr-petual-franchisV claims of various corporations in streets of municipalities. Hurled Train I ltelleved. The train which was imprisoned by a snowslide near the Alpine tunnel for the past forty-eight hours was relieved Thursday night. The train eotained several loads of coal, so there was no lack of fire, but it is not believe there was any food. Little Hope for Cervera. A dispatch from Puerto Real, near Cadiz, where Admiral Cervera Is lying ill, says his condition has grown worse and that his recovery is almost hopeless. Four Head In Tenement Fire. Four lives were lost in a lire which broke out in the cellar of the fivestory tenement house, 3a7 East One Hundred and Thirteenth street. New York. The Mora family, who are all dead, lived in a llat on the fifth floor. Favor Antl-Hutterloe ltlll. The Illinois State Dairymen's association at its session at Aurora passed resolutions in approval of the Grout antl-butterine bill. A copy of the resolutions was telegraphed to tbe senators from Illinois.