Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 12, Plymouth, Marshall County, 1 March 1901 — Page 2

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a W. METSKEÄ, PuV. &d Prop. PLYMOUTH, - - IUDIAIA. 1 IHM Ii I'll Items of General Interest Told in Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY Record of Happening of Mach mr Little Importance from All Parts of the Civilized World Incident', Enterprises, Accidents, Verdict, Crimes and War. Pastor of Congregational Church, at Stillman Vallej', 111., resigned because members objected to his bowling. -Men operating In South Carolina under convict lease system turned loose twenty-one negroes. New star in constellation of Perseus almost faded from view. Cubans celebrated anniversary of beginning of revolution in. 1S33 and brought out animosity of leaders against United States. None favored constitutional gareement with American government. At rout of De Wet's forces on south bank of Orange river President Steyn told the fleeing Boers to scatter, and each man to look out for himself. Gen. French active in eastern section. Demands of powers as to punishment of leaders acceded to by ChinaExecutions deferred until tomorrow. Fiercest blizzard in for:y years raged this week in south Russia. The Morgan steel trust deal is closed and tne now organization is to be launched at once as the United States Consolidated Steel company, with a capital of ?l,liO,0)0,000. Wichita mats meeting condemns violent means of ending the liquor trafhc, but appeals to the mayor, council, county attorney and sheriff to close the "'joints." Alleged thief at South Bethlehem, Pa., fatally beaten by Hungarians. One killed and five badly hurt in coasting accident at La Salle, 111. Dr. Richard Dewey of Milwaukee declared young women are not able to bear the nervous strain caused by dramatic performances. Pat Crowe in a letter to E. A. Cudahy declares his innocence of the kidnaping of latter's sen, and offered to give himself up. Hurricane wrecked several ships ia Australian waters on Jan. 22 and -a. Revolt in Venezuela is growing. Several British steamers destroyed. French troops repulsed attacks by natives in AlgeriaEarl Roberts overruled Gen. Buller in the latter's criticism of the artillery tactics taught at Aldershot, and latter may resign in const-quense. Cuban constitutional convention prefers to reguiate relations with the United States by reciprocal treaty rather than by constitutional provision. Venezuelan murderer of acting British consul at Bolivar sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment. Count von Waldersee announced postponement of Singan Fu campaign because of Chinese concessions. Six Bulgarians and five Turkish soldiers killed in a fight near Ghevegheli, .Macedonia. Lord Metheuen's force defeated 1,400 Boers after hard fighting at Haartbeestfontein. Two new British cruisers, the largest of their class, launched in the Clyde. Spanish cabinet reported that tranquillity again prevaijs in Madrid. Twenty-eight Russian students sentenced to service in the army. China issued edict fixing punishment of anti-foreign leaders. Two men, charged with complicity in the Cudahy kidnaping, arrested in St, Paul. Pat Crowe believed to he. In the twin cities. üt. Paul buttermaker expelled from National Creamery Buttermakers as- j sociation for attempted bribery of but- j ter judge. Leonard Deweese and Mat Barnes, who were kidnaped near Petersburg, lud.., toiled In Evansville, Ind. '1 nomas J. l-'allou jumptd from a window in Boston and killed hirnselr while sick with the grip. Mrs. Carrie Nation will remain in lopcka ami become editor of the Smashers' Mail. Famous liarvard pump blown up by a bomb alter seventy years' service. ; Two negro robbers tortured an aged coupio near Baltimore, Md. j Two men shot in street light at McCormick, S. C. j Evidence brought to light that city ' of Milwaukee has been defrauded of sum that may reach $10ü,ÜUÜ by persons not yet named. Miss Frances Caspari, former schoolteacher of Baltimore, sentenced to five years' imprisonment for fraud. Frank Hamilton convicted of manslaughter at Minneapolis for killing Leonard Day. Six-year-old girl at Stephenson, Mich., killed her baby sister. Andrew Carnegie gave $50,000 to school board of Marion, Ind.. for a library. Arthur Hjer robbed bank cashier at Fisher, 111., stole a freight train, and was arrested. Several witnesses for state testified in Moser murder trial at Pekin, I1L. Bill classifying saloons as public nuisances passed by Kansas legislature. D.-j wager empress yielded to demand or powers and Yvaldersee's proposed j expedition will be abandoned. J. G. A. Leishman. Cnited States minister to Switzerland, transferred to Turkey. Miss Clara K. Longworth of Cincinnati, O., married to Count Adelbert de Chambrun of France. Thomas O'Donnell. nationalist member from Kerry, addressed house of commons n Irish language and was called to order by speaker. London foreign office waiting for Information before committing government to definite Chinese policy. Ambassador Choate had conference with Lord Landsdowne over England's attitude on canal treaty. Imitators of Carrie Nation smashed windows In three Chicago saloons.

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yellow, 37fc2Sc. Oats No. '4, ZSU'SZCc; No. 4 white, 2V$ZKc: No. 3. 2326c: No. 3 white. 2f.ii27ic; No. 2. 5c; No. 2 white, 2si'&2V.c. Cattle Native shipping and export steers. J4.5CK55.60; dressed beef and butcher steers, i3.70Ca5.15; steers under ans and Indian steers, $3.50üj4.50: cows and heifers, J2.35S3.3Q. Hogs Pigs and lights. fci.SOlSO: packers. $3.205.30; butchers'. $0.32-iö5.40. Sheep Native muttons, $4.10(04.50; lambs, $4.5015.30; culls and bucks, J3.50'24.25; western yearlings. $1.85; western sheep. S4.2SÖM.35. Eggs Fresh, 15(&16c. Butter Creameries, extra. 2l,(222c; firsts, l-Xö-Oc; dairies, choice, 18c; firsts. 14315c. Apples Greenings. $3.0053.25 per brl.; Ben Davis, S2.00ff2.75; Jonathan, $3.50ti4.50; Kings. $3.503.75; Baldwins, $2.75'i3.25; Tallman sweets, $2.2302.50 per brl. PotatoesChoice rurals or Burbanks, 4243c per bu.: good, &)&40c; other varieties, 35,i40c; mixed stock, S3'n3Sc. Live PoultryChickens. TViSc per lb.: turkeys. GVa'&Tc; ducks. 9c; geese, $5.008.00 per doz. Petrified In the Grave. At the cemetery near Fountain City, north of Richmond, Ind., when the grave of Mrs. Thompson Smith was opened, in order to remove the body to another cemetery, it was found to be Bolid stone. The features are plain, and the teeth and hair are the same as when the remains were placed in the grave. It took four persons to lift the body rrom the grave. The body is as white as chalk, and is intact, except a portion of one foot. It is said that the petrification resulted from the fact that the ground is a peculiar clay mixture, and that water stands there a considerable portion of the year. Her Contribution Limited. In a letter to Senator Vest at Springfield, Mo., inclosing a check for $500, her contribution to the Missouri Confederate Monument association, Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst says: "I note what you say in regard to my husband's generous donation to the confederate home in your state. "While he was living he was making money, and since he passed away I have been trying to accomplish a great many things which have consumed all my income. Besides, I have divided my estate with my son, giving him the better half, ind I am precluded from doing many things which otherwise I would be in a position to do." Drowni Her Six Children. Mrs. Rose Wurzer, a widow, in a fit of insanity, drowned her six children, iged 4 to 12 years, at Uniontown. Wash. Two were boys and four girls. She threw them Into a well thirty feet deep, containing two feet of water, then jumped in herself and held the heads of the children beneath the surface until all were drowned. Mrs. Wurzer was found aJive in the well with her six murdered children by the neighbors, who pulled her out with a rope. She is violently insane. The woman's husband died a year ago. since which time she has been supported by the county and the charity of neighbors. Deatti of David Kohertson. After a life of sixty-three years. more than half of which was devoted to ferreting out criminal cases, David Robertson passed away in Chicago Tuesday. For thirty-four years lie had been in the service of the Pinkerton detective agency rising from clerk to assistant superintendent. The deceased was born in Perth, Scotland, and came to the United States soon after the civil war. He was a graduated physician, but never practiced. Exile Die In Squalor. A veteran of the Franco-Prussian war and an exile from the fatherland because he wrote a poem criticising the policy of Blämarck, Hugo C. Schnitze died in squalor and poverty at 25$ East Sixty-fourth street, Chicago. The body was discovered by the police on Wednesday morning, two days after death. For the last live months Scliultze had lived over the candy store of Julius Fink. Arrested a C udahy Kidnaper. James Callahan is a prisoner in the city jail at Omaha charged with complicity in the Cudahy kidnaping case. Eddie Cudahy, the victim, has identified Callahan as the man who accosted him on the street and represented himself to be the sheriff of Sarpy county, and as the man who guarded him while he was a prisoner in the Melrose Hill house. Didn't Know It XV-.m I.ohIm1. Milton Hancy was accidentally shot during an initiation of Daughters of Pocahontas at Kokomo, Ind. In a discharge of revolvers with blank cartridges Mrs. David Downhour used tho one that had fallen from the pocket of a member, which proved to be loaded. Ilaney was shot in the shoulder, the bullet making a serious .but not fatal wound. St. .lovepti, Mn.. Carpenter Win. Union carpenters of St. Joseph, Mo., have gained a victory in their demands from the contractors, the latter acceding to the men. The minimum price per hour is to be 30 cents, and eight hours shall be considered a day's work unless the men care to work overtime at Increased pay. Crzl ly Killing. From the steppes of Siberia to prosaic New York the face of a beautiful woman, whom he slew, has followed Col. Otto Biernath. He shot the woman when a pack of wolves was ready to tear her limb from limb. He gave her, as he believed, a merciful death, and at the same time saved her from a living death, as an exiled prisoner of the czar. But that has not taken from him the mental torture he has since suffered, and in despair he surrendered himself to the authorities and was placed In the Bellevue insane hospital. Excitement KlIU Cup tain Freemtn. Captain R. H. Freeman died suddenly at Fergus Falls, Minn., of apoplexy following as a result of excitement in assisting a school teacher to remove from her room an. unruly 13-year-old boy nameji Simeon Furgerson, who will probably go to the reform farm as a result. Captain Freeman, a3 a sailor and vessel owner, visited all parts of the globe, but has lived here for twenty-five years, being prominent In Masonic circles. lie lost hs vessel and all his property In a storm in the Mediterranean.

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L Big Vessel Sinks and 122 Persons Drown. CONSUL WILDMAN IS LOST. The Steamship City of Rio de Janeiro Strikes Upon MUe Rock In a Foe:, Backs Off and Settles Down Struggle for Life Boats. The Pacific Mail company's steamship City of Rio de Janeiro, while entering the San Francisco harbor from

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the orient during a heavy fog Friday morning, struck a sunken rock and went down in about fifteen minutes in thirty fathoms of water off Fort Point. A large number of lives are known to have been lost, but owing to the confusion following the terrible accident and the failure of those who managed to get ashore to report their safe arrival at the Merchants' exchange or the Pacific Mail emce, it is impossible to fix the exact number of those who went down with the vessel. It is thought that 13U perished. Capt. William Ward, the ship's master and an old employe of the Pacific Mail company, went down with his ship. As nearly as can be learned, there were 201 poisons on board the ship. Vessel Striken a Kock. The City of Rio de Janeiro was on her way in from the oriental ports via Honolulu with a valuable cargo. It sailed from Hongkong Jan. 22 for San Francisco via Yokohama. Quartermaster Frederick Lindstrom gave the clearest idea of the striking of the craft and let it be known that the mass of rock with which the iron prow camin contact was Mile rock, against which a pretty stiff current was setting. The rock is in a line off Fort Point with Point Lobos, and two-thirds of a mile? from the San Francisco shore. His explanation was that the vessel struck head on, crushed in her bows and filled Immediately. Instantly the decks were crowded with the passengers and crew and the Chinese steerage passengers rushed up from below and tried to crowd into the boats. The members ol the crew, headed by Capt. Ward anc his assistant?, kept the Chinese an?' the white men off while the boats wer being lowered. By this time the sh:p had 'backed off and was settling down by the head. Struggle to Urach the float. A number of women were hurried into the lifeboats, but as the ship was going down fast confusion got the- j tter of heads that were not cool, and there was a struggle to get into the smaller craft. Some of the Chinese and male passengers on the aftcrdock jumped overboard. No one can t-ay just how many took to the water, but it is reckoned that about forty went over the side. The fog kept settling down on the bay and it became Jifiicult to see a ship's length aiaft the Lows. Rounseville Wildman, United States consul-general to Hongkong, Iiis wife and two children, were among those, who perished in the wreck. Otis Assume New Duties. General Utis arrived in St. Paul from Chicago Thursday and assumed temporary charge of the Department of the Dakotas. Inspector General C. H. Murray is with General Otis as aid-dc-camp. Fear Dynamite at Wood took. Woodstock is undergoing a dynamite scare. In a wreck which took place i on the Grand Trunk railway there last , week forty tons of dynamite were spilled and has been carried to different points about town. E. C. Rice, a telegraph operator, found a stick sufficient to blow up saveral houses in his coal bin. An open window near by faced the street, and someone evidently had thrown the dynamite in. Of the forty tons four are missing and are scattered about town. Horclars Sentenced to Prison. J. S. Berry, James Hopkins, Harry Devett and J. P. Montague, wLo last December were routed from an attempt to rob the? Stevens Bank at Montfort, Wis., and were next morning captured In a hay mow out beyond Dodgeville, after a fusillade with pistols, were sentenced at Lancaster to three years In state's prison. Jacksonville Man Killed lv Train. George Urowu, a well-known citizen, was killed at Jacksonville. 111., while, attempting to board a moving j Wabash train.

MAY MAKE UP A CABINET. Spain's Oaten Will Auk SUvela to Form Ministry. The queen regent of Spain, Maria Christina, is sadly perplexed as to the selection of a new 'premier. She desires above everything to avoid a renewal of the anti-clerical disturbances and demonstrations. For this reason she fears to call on Senor Sagasta, the liberal minister, to form a cabinet, as his anti-clerical ideas are well known. A cablegram from Madrid says the regent will not hear of anything being done that might displease the pope and play into the hands of the pretender, Don Carlos, by giving offense to the religious orders, especially the Jesuits. She has therefore determined to

ask Senor Silvela to form a Whatever government may power the queen regent will the re-establishment of the tions with the church and the orders. ministry. assume insist on old relareligious General Weyler will be con his command as well as all tinned in the genough his erals recently appointed th influence. SuioMen at Peace OfTerln-. The ministers were approached at Pekin by attaches of the Chinese Peace commission, who inquired if the compulsory suicide of Chao Shu Chao ami Ying Lien, whose heads are demanded by the powers, would be satisfactory to the foreign re preventatives. It ia understood that all the ministers said that the suicide of Chao Shu Chao and Ying Lien would be satisfactory, if the other punishment were inflicted. It is probable that tho action of the Chinese in this matter is based on instructions received from the dowager empress. Chao Shu Chao and Ying Lien are. the only officials whose punishment is raining trouble. Sell .Sand for Nupwr. Chicago police are looking for a Sang of sugar swindlers which has been operating on the west side. Barrels mostly filhd with sand and stone, with a top layer of sugar, have been old for $3 each. Mrs. Bertha Ault, oG7 West Van Buren street, was one of he victims. She purchased a barrel of he alleged Sugar for $S and soon disovered that she had paid for a barrel ;f sand. After discovering the fraud, he woman went to the D.splaines troet station and swore out a warrant gainst a man named Brueker, who he said was the peddler who had sold her the barrel. Fertilizer Output Cornered. The Virginia-Carolina Chemical company, the $12,000.000 which controls practically all of the fertilizer output in the south, has entirely wiped out all danger of opposition by purchasing the plant of the Charleston Mining company for $1.. "00,000. The purchase includes 27.0C0 acres of phosphate land. Farmers fear the price of fertilizer, an absolute ncce.-sity for the cotton Industry, will be advanced. Philip Godley is president of the Charleston Mining company, and nearly all of the stock is owned by Philadelphia capitalists. Woman Shot AVMle In Hiding. Everett S. Richards, an iron worker at Minneapolis, Minn., chased his wife, from whom he had separated, from the rooms of a dancing teacher into a closet near by and fired several bullets into her body. When the police arrived they found the woman had bled profusely. Mrs. Rk hards wras removed to the hospital, where it Is thought she will live. The husbind was arrested. itutterinikers Award Prizes. The National Buttermakers convention came to an end at St. Paul, Minn., the closing hours being devoted to discussion of topics of interest to the delegates. The choice of a place for the next convention was left to the executive committee. Over 4,000 delegates attended the convention, which is said to have been tho most successful in tho history of the association. Minnesota secured tho highest award, and three out of four medals. Kansas won tho silk banner for the highest state average, 89.11 per cent. Kays II I Wlllln-c to I.oe a Ieff. Jeffries, when seen at Cincinnati Thursday, as to the condition of his knee, said: "I do not feel any ill effects. I can give it proper rest now that I am not In training. You can rest assured I'll never quit the ring, even if I lose my leg, until I get another crack at Fitzsimmons." Kill. Foreman with Cm Pipe. Frank Gilmer, night foreman of the tinplate mills at Middletown, was struck on the head with a gaspipe by Vincent Gynn. Giltner died from tha Injuries, in three hours.

PR0CED1NG8MHC0NGRESS. Summary of Legislation in National Body. MEASURES IN BOTH HOUSES.

President Isiues a Proclamation Re quiring Meeting of the Senate SajThat Public Interests Reqnlre Socli m Meet! ox on March 4. Tuesday, February 19. The senate, by vote of IS to 42, rejected conference report on military academy appropriation bill. This action came at conclusion of spirited debate upon provisions against hazing inserted in bill by conference committee. Report of conferees was rejected because regarded by large majority of senate as too drastic. Mr. Deboe delivered his announced speech upon Nicaragua canal, advocating construction of waterway by United States. Effort was made to obtain consideration for bill reviving grade of vice admiral of the navy for benefit of Rear Admirals Sampson and Schley, but it was unavailing. The house devoted the day to consideration of sundry civil appropriation bill, debate being chiefly upon national irrigation of arid lands. Passed resolution calling upon secretary of state and secretary of treasury regarding shipments to South Africa of horses, mules and other army supplies. Vfeduesday, February 20. The senate spent the day on the postoffice appropriation bill. Th3 amendment of Mr. Butler proposing a reduction of about '.) per cent in the pay for railway postal service was defeated 18 to 51 after a debate in which Mr. Depew answered Mr. Butler's criticisms on the large profits made by American roads. The house passed the sundry civil appropriation bill and entered upon consideration of the general deficiency the last of the general appropriation bills. Thursday, February 21. The senate considered postoffice appropriation bill. Amendment providing for pneumatic tube service killed. The old controversy over the special appropriations for fast mail service engaged much attention. It was decided to begin holding night sessions Friday night. The house passed deficiency appropriation bill, after day of exciting debate. Friday. February "2. Senate passed two of the great svl?ply bills the postoffice and the diplomatic and consular appropriation. During the greater part of the session a proposition to discontinue the appropriations for fast mail facilities from New York to New Orleans via Atlanta, and from Kansas City, Mo., to Newton, Kan., was under discussion. By a decisive vote the appropriations were continued. An effort was made to obtain an appropriation to continue the pneumatic tube service in New York, Boston and Philadelphia, but it failed. House devoted an hour to unanimous WHIPPING POST FOR The Chicago Bureau of Charities has come to the conclusion that Illinois would be benefited by some more effective legislation to punish men who desert their wives and families. The number of deserted families needing public aid in Cook county apparently exceeds 2,000, and they assert something should be done to check the evil. Under the present laws, when a man deserts his family, he can be arrested and ordered by a court to give a Prominent Virginian's Suicide. Major Randolph Harrison Finney, a man of means and a member of one of the most prominent families in Virginia, hanged himself to the transom of his chamber door at his residence in Richmond, Va., and was dead when found by his wife. A wound received while at tho head of a liattalion in the confederate army resulted in blindness some years ago. and this, with bad health, caused him to take his life. One of his sons 13 secretary to the secretary of tho navy. James II. Tetlatnn Is Hunted. James H. Tettaton was executed at Kennett, Mo., for the murder of his stepmother, Mrs. Jane Tettaton, and her four children, near Maiden, on the night of April 25, 1SÜ0. The condemned man exhibited wonderful nerve and went to his doom without a tremor. Ex-Senator S. M. White Dea.l. Ex-United States Senator Stephen M. White died at his residence in Los Angeles, Cal., Thursday morning after a short illness. He had been suffering from ulceration of the stomach.

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a half each to the passage of private claims bills and private pension bills. Nine bills were passed by unanimous consent and twenty-nine claims bills and 139 pension bills were- passed. Among the latter was the senate bill to pension the widow of the late Gen. Henry W. Lawton, who was killed in the Philippines. Saturday, February 23. The president has issued a proclamation calling a special session of the senate for executive purposes immediately upon the dissolution of the present congress, March 4. The text of the proclamation Is aa lollows: "By the president of the United States of America A proclamation: Whereas, Public interests require that the senate of the United States be convened at 12 o'clock on the 4th day of March next to receive such communications as may be made by the executive: Now. therefore, I, William McKinley, president of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the senate of the United States ao convene at the capitol in this city of Washington on the 4th day of March next, at 12 o'clock noon, of which all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice. Given under my hand and the spal of the United States at Washington the 23d day of February, in the year of our Lml one thousand nine hundred and one, and of the independence, of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fifth. "WILLIAM M'KINLEY. "By the president: JOHN HAY, "Secretary of State." Nine Die in a Tr;ln Wreck. A bad collision occurred at Rusling's siding near Bcrdentown. X. j., nd about eight miles south of Trenton, on the Pennsylvania railroad. The "Nellie Bly" express from New York for Atlantic City collided with passenger train No. 330, running from Camden to Trenton. The number cf dead so far known is nine and the seriously injured twenty-three. Tht dead are: James Birmingham, baggagomastcr of the local. Walter Earl, engineer of the express. John Gates of Trenton, a passenger on the local train. Frank Hill of Whitehill, a railroad employe, who was a passenger on the local train. Four Italians, whose names have not been learned. TblrtT Mills May Combine. A number of milling plants in the neighborhood of Hanover have been secured by Philadelphia promoters to be combined under one management. Among the thirty mills said to have been secured are the York Milling Company, the Philadelphia Milling pany, the Lancaster Milling Company, pany, the Lakeside Milling Company of Chambers dim John D. GraybilTs mill at Carlisle, the Steeltcn Flour Milling Company, the Paxton Milling Company of Harrisburg and the mill and warehouse of E. T. Moul at Felton. WIFE DESERTERS. certain proportion of his wages for his family's support. If he fail to do thL he can be imprisoned, but in jail he is idle, so that his family continues as destitute as before. The Bureau of Charities has investigated the Delaware plan of using the whipping post for such cases and look with much favor upon the idea. Another practical plan is that of placing the delinquent husband in prison at hard laboi and applying his earnings to the support of his family. Stade Hysterical by "Cibo Because a rival for the favors of a young lady played "ghost" Fred Harmon is critically ill at his home near Montrose, 111., with nervous prostra tion. In going to see his sweetheart J young Harmon was obliged to pass the spot where a peddler was mur dered several years ago and which is ' reputed to be haunted. The rival took ; advantage of these circumstances and of the credulity of Harmon and imper- j sonated the ghost. Harmon at times becomes quite frenzied. Katlway Depot Is Ilurned. The new Union depot building, erected jointly by the Santa Fe and Huston & Texas Central railroads, iu Fort Worth, Tex., at a cost of $30,000, burned Thursday. It will be reconstructed at once. Tho loss is covered by insurance. ItlC Fire at Atlanta, i. Fire destroyed almost an entire block in the wholesale district of Atlanta, Ga., entailing a loss of $500.000, on which there is insurance amountln to ntrrly $450,000. I

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He Takes Bank's Cash and Steals Train. RASH ACTS AT FISHER, ILL Arthur IIyer Take I.GiO from Kankev Vennum, SteaN a Train and I tempting to Etcapn When OTertakeav by Six lieu and Arretted. A reckless farmer boy armed with. long-barreled revolver, robbed a bank, stole a freight train, defied a pes-, and in two hours put more thrills late life in the sleepy village of Fisher, I1L. Wednesday, than had been know In a half-century of its existence. He Is Arthur Heyer, 22 years of age. At 1ft o'clock a. m., young Heyer entered ttt private bank of Vennum & Co. Only one person, F. B. Vennum, was la th bank. Mr. Vennum was busy counting money and sorting out bills. He nodded to Heyer and went on counting. When he looked again, he saw tha long-barreled pistol within two feet of his head. The "banker thought it was a joke and said: "Put that down; It might go off!" "It'll go off sure it you don't pass over all the money you've got in there," was the answer. "I backed away," said the banker la discussing the affair later, "hut he just kept coming, and backed me against the wall. I gave him JS00 I had on the counter, but he wasn't satisfied. 'You've got more than this,' he said. "He made me go into the vault anÄ swore he would shoot me and lock th door if I didn't bring out all the money. I brought out $S20 and told hiz& that was all except some silver. To h 11 with the silver!' was his comment. "He began backing out of the place, keeping me covered all the time. He told me if I came out Inside of a halt? an hour I would be shot, as he had a. friend on guard. I gave the alarm within five minutes.. Two men observed Heyer leave the bank, revolver in hand, and mount hii horse. They suspected a robbery and met Vennum coming. In five minutes, a dozen armed men. several of them mounted, had begun pursuit. Heyer galIoied for half a mile toward the Illinois Central station. He had passed the station, when he saw a freight train coming in slowly from the north. He galloped up. dismounted, and caught a car near the engine. Running over the top. he leaped on the tender, and, pulling the big revolver, levelled it upon the engineer and fireman. "Get out of that cab d n quick," h cried, "or I'll kill you both." Tnt trainmen jumped off. Heyer entered the cab and pulled thethrottle open. There was a clear track ahead right past the station. By the time the pursuers had reached the station and were following the road north they were attracted by shouts and gesticulations of the evicted trainmen. It was a heavy train, but it soon began to make speed. As the engine puffed past the station Ileyer crouched down in the cab, holding his weapon ready for instant use. The pursuers were not yet aware the quarry was in the cab. Before half the traia had passed they knew it. The rate of speed was then nearly fifteen mil aa hour. Eight men attempted to board the caboose. Six succeeded, and threeof them were armed, one with a short Winchester, with a magazine flllei with shells. There was one revolver in the caboose, in possession of a brakeman. When Heyer observed the success of the posse he hurried back over the tender and tried to uncouple theengine. This he found impossible to dc without stopping. When tihe train slowed up Heyer jumpoxl from the engine and surrendered. He was put io. the caboose and the brakeman reversed the engine and ran the train baxk. tc town. The J1.C20 was all recovered. Theonly explanation Heyer would make was: "I needed the money." His family is influential and prominent. Heyer was immediately taken before the village squire, where he was given a preliminary hearing and bound over to the grand jury in $3.000 bond. He could not furnish bond, and he was taken to the jail at Champaign to await th6 action of the grand jury. Fatal AVreok at Kust St. timlv The fast express on the Vandalia. ran into an open switch at the St. Clair crossing, near Fast St. Louis, 111., probably fatally injuring John Van Cleave, engineer, and Henry Rickelman, fireman. John Gregg, mall clerk, was seriously hurt. All live in St. Louis. When the express struck the open switch it ran into a car loaded with long bridge timbers. Some of the timbers were jammed Into the engine head and boiler a distance of six feet. Escaping steam and boiling water flew in every direction. The mail car was wrecked and Mail Clerk Gregg was caught behind the safe. The passenger coach next to the mail car wa partially wrecked, but none of the passengers was injured. Old Physician F.nds Life. When tho Old Dominion steamship Jamestown arrived at Not folk. Va.. from New York she brought the body of a well-dressed man about 70 year old, who is probably Dr. C. 1... Warren of Portsmouth, N. 11. He was found dead on the steamer's deck, a bullet holo through his head and a revolver grasped in his right hand. It is to all outward appearances a case of suicde. He had a pocket lance and a first-class ticket from New York to Newport News in his pocket and $11.65. Adopt the Single Degree. The regents of the University of Michigan adopted without any division the recommendation of the literary faculty that the bachelor of arts degree bo granted as a substitute for all those who, from this date on. complete the requirements for the A. B., Ph. B.. B. S. and B. L. degrees. Its taking immediate effect makes those seniors who have been working along the lines of the three latter degrees very happy, and the "A. B." FtudcnU a trifle exasperated at the good luck, cf their classmates.