Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 50, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 November 1901 — Page 2

THE WEEKLY INDEPENDENT.

C W. METSKEß, Pub. and Prop. PLYMOUTH, - - INDIANA. ti, IM I UK Items of General Interest Tcld In Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. Record f TTappeniax of Math or Llttl Importance from All ParU of th Clrlllzed World Incident. Enterprises. JLccidant. Verdict. Crime od War London commented favorably on epeeches of Thomas B. Reed and Ambassador Choate at the Lotus club in New York. Russian company seeking to outbid American syndicate for construction of electrical lints in St. Petersburg. Member of Canadian ministry denounced Monroe doctrine as unjust to rest of the world. Dutch fishing fleet in North Sea attacked a British ship because of proBoer sympathies. Moslems and Christians reported to have clashed at Beyrout, Scutari, and Albania. Colombian troops preparing to attack rebels on the Isthmu3 of Panama. Presideute of Taytay, two police officials, and a native priest sentenced to death for killing seven of their countrymen in obedience to orders from insurgent leaders. Priest s sentence commuted to twenty years' imprisonment. Ex-Mayor Morris of Ottawa declared his disqualification the result of a conspiracy on the part of interests he had antagonized. Gang of safe-blowers raided several stores at Milan, Kas., but were finally routed by citizens. New process of extracting gold from low grade ores showed satisfactory tests at Colorado mines. Conspiracy said to be under way to set up an independent republic in northwest Canada. Leonides seen and charted in large numbers at many observatories, Carleton College more than 1,000 during the night. Vessels forced to remain in lake ports by a gaie that rased three days. Many wrecks reported. Teacher in St. James Parochial school at Louisville, Ky., saved many children from injury at a fire. American mine owner in Mexico thrown into prison in conspiracy to deprive him of his property. Man charged with killing a woman in a joint raid at Leavenworth acquitted by a jury. Cudahy packing plant at Kansas City destroyed by fire. Loss, $lo0,000. Mary E. Wilkins secretly mairied Dr. Charles M. Freeman. Negro at Sumter, S. C, whipped a boy to death. Earthquake shock felt at Buena Vista, Colo. President Roosevelt explained to the Cabinet his plans for appointment in the public service. Men with good records will be retained in oflico wherever possible. Four British ships foundered in storm at the mouth of the Tyne. General Wejier may be made temporary premier of Spain. Three employes of bank at Williamsburg, L. I., embezzled $G0,000 of the bank's funds. Gathmann dynamite gun proved a failure in test at Sandy Hook, but a twelve-Inch army gun produced results that may revolutionize naval warfare. Its shell penetrated armor 11 inches thick and exploded. Twenty-two persons killed by earthquake at Erzeroum, Asiatic Turkey. Schooner F. M. Knapp, in tow of the steamer Nipigon, went ashore at Ashtabula. Twelve-foot python in the New York Central Park menagerie swallows an alligator four feet in length and weighing twenty pounds. Belief grows in Washington that there will be no tariff revision at the coming session of Congress and that action will be confined to a deep cut In, if not wholesale abolition of, the war taxes. President Roosevelt announces that civil service ruKs will govern his appointments in the insular possessions. Discovery of hidden dynamite and masks near Lincoln. Neb., believed to indicate plot to rob train. Nurse Jane Toppan declared Mrs. Gibbs. whom she is accused of poisoning, died of worry. Five known to have been killed and several others missing in a mine fire at Pocahontas, Va. Death list as result of gales on the British coast now reaches 180; thirtyfour vessels wrecked. Colonel J. H. Mapleson, the operatic manager, died In London. St&amer Emerald disabled by breaking of its machinery off Port Hope, Michigan, became waterlogged. Crew rescued with difficulty. Mine. Tsilka writes to her husband that sho exper t j herself and Miss Stcnto be liberated at Salonica. Lord Rosebery says he would like to see Great Britain experiment for one year with a government formed entirely of business men and instances Carnegie and Lipton. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland Is now said to be seriously sick, it being asserted that her condition is worse than officially reported. Speech of W. C. P. Breckinridge "at Lexington, Ky., at meeting of State Federation of Labor, disrupted that organization. Bank watchman at Minster. O., held gang of robbers at bay until citizens came to his assistance and drove them away after a fight Recent discoveries In England indicate that Stonehedge was built before 1500 B. C. Unconfirmed dispatch from Sofia declared that MIs3 Stone had been killed by her captors, who took this step to conceal their identity. Reports so far Indicate a loss of 116 lives In the storms now sweeping the British coast Shores strewn with wrecks.

BOERS SURROUND BRITISH, Twenty-Two of tho Yeomanry Killed or Wounded London dispatch: Lord Kitchener in the following dispatch from Pretoria to the war office, reports two encounters with the Boers, in one of which at least the British fared rather badly: "Colonel Hickie, whose column is covering the construction of the blockhouse line on the Schoonspruit, reports a concentration to the west He sent out a strong patrol of yeomanry on Nov. 13 from Bakspruit to reeonnoiter. The patrol was surrounded by 300 Boers six miles from camp and six of our men were killed and sixteen wounded. Some who were captured have since been released. Colonel Hickie moved out to support the patrol and drove off the enemy. During the past week Elliott's column from Harrismith has been operating to the northeast of the Orange River Colony in conjunction with other columns converging from Standerton, Heilbron, Winberg. and Bethlehem toward the neighborhood of Reitz. The enemy were met in small parties. A few prisoners and much stock were captured. The rear guard of Byng's column, which was escorting the captures, was attacked by the enemy, 400 strong, stated to be under De Wet. After two hours fighting the attack was repulsed and the enemy retired, leaving eight dead. Our los3 was Lieutenant Hughes and one man kll'ed and three officers and nine men wounded." Middelburg, Cape Colony. Nov. IS. One hundred and eighty district mounted troops, composed largely of Dutchmen, with their arms and horses, surrendered to Smut's commando Oct. 13. The district troops fired most of their ammunition at long range, and then refused to fight further. Captain Thornton, their commander, believes the surrender to have been prearranged.

TEMPERANCE WOMEN PREACH. Roosevelt Instanced as Showing the Wisdom of Right loin. Sunday was presented the great religious feature of the W. C. T. U. national convention at Fort Worth, Tex. Thirty-four delegates occupied as many pulpits in different churches in that city, preaching, in most instances, morning and evening. Doctrinal discourse was tabooed. Some of the most prominent pulpit orators were Mrs. Mary Hunt of Boston. Mass.; Mrs. Margaret Dye Fllis of Washington, D. C; the Rev. Eugenie St. John, Kansas; Mrs. Clara Parrish Wright, Illinois; Mrs. Mabel L. Conklin. national lecturer and organizer, New York; Mrs. Addie N. Fields, world's missionary to Mexico; Mrs. Marion Dunham, Burlington, Iowa; Mrs. Howard Höge of Virginia; Miss Belle Kearney of Mississippi; Miss Christine Tenling of London, England. Chief interest centered in the annual sermon preached in the Christian tabernacle by Elizabeth W. Greenwood of New York. She said that all history teaches the wisdom of right doing and the folly of wrong doing. She said: "Politicians strive to make Theodore Roosevelt Vice President that they remove him as governor of New York, in the hope that they would no longer be hindered in their wicked schemes, and behold, a most signal and disastrous reversal of their plans. Roosevelt, a man of destiny, becomes President, while his successor. Governor Odell, develops ability to rise above aims and standards of machine politics. History emphasizes the exactness of God's justice." Wants Pay for L.ost Laugh. Because he laughed so heartily that the actors on the stage forgot their lines and the cornet player in the orchestra couldn't blow a note, Thoma3 Davis claims to have been ordered from a Lynn (Mass.) theater. He haa begun a suit, claiming that not less than $230,000 will appease his injured feelings and wipe from his memory tho funny scene he missed when placed on the sidewalk. He visited the theater on Friday night. An act on the stage struck his fancy, and he gave vent to a laugh, and in a short time the entire audience was in roars. Miner Itattlo with Union Men. Unio.i coal miners and guards at tht mines of the Providence Coal company, seventeen miles from Madisonville, Ky., clashed in a severe fight with arms. The battle lasted an hour and a half. As a result James II. Smith, a unionist, is dead; George Crouch, another union man, is fatally wounded, while John West, Hut Dawson, and Nathan Bush, all guards, are wounded, none of them dangerously. Two C. 8. Deputies Killed. John and Hugh Montgomery, both deputy United States marshals, were found dead in teh ruins of a cabin owned ty Will Mathis. twelve miles from Oxford, Miss. Their skulls had been crushed in, and the house apparently fired to hide the evidence of the crime. Will Mathis, who is now being pursued by a posse of citizens, was wanted by the federal authorities on the charge of counterfeiting. Plans of Charleston Fair. The exposition will open at Charleston, S. C, Sunday, Dec. 1, with a religious service in which ail denominations will take part. The formal opening of the exposition will take place on Monday, Dec. 2. Chauncey M. Depew of New York will deliver the principal oration and President Roosevelt will start the wheels moving by wirt from the White House. The President has accepteu an invitation to visit the exposition with his Cabinet on Feb. 12, Lincoln's birthday. Wants Theaters Open Sunday. In a sermon delivered in tho Protestant Episcopal Church in Germantown, Pa.. Sunday morning, the Rev. Henry R, Gummey said: "Tho religious observance of Sunday is seriously interfered with by tho popular custom of devoting Saturday night to pleasures. In view of this fact it would almost be better to have the theateis opened on Sunday evenings rather than on Saturdays." Mr. Gummey proposes to hold Saturday evening services In his church.

bib Klines oil Hill and Harriman Interests Sign Momentous Truce.

VAST CORPORATION FORMS. Northern Secnrltles Company Is Licensed with Capital of 8400,000,000 Costly Conflicts Will End 11111 In Control of Group of Roads. New York dispatch: There has been incorporated at Trenton, N. J., a company with $400.000.000 capital, whose existence makes the most huge combination of railroad interests known in the history of the world. It is the Northern Securities Company, endowed by its articles of incorporation in general terms with the power to acquire, control and dispose of the capital stock of other corporations, but organized on purpose to take over the stocks of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads. Railroad Kings at Peace. The meaning of the appearance of this company is that Hill and Harriman, through Morgan, have come to such terms that they will act in the future as one. It means the final settlement of that great strife of the railroad monarchs which brought about In its most acute moments the Black Friday of the stock exchange, when Northern Pacific quotations soared toward the 1,000 mark. It means that Union Pacific and Southern Pacific, Burlington, Great Northern and NorthJAMES J. HILL. em Pacific, with a total of 34,000 miles of track, are in the future to be held in such close and Intimate ownership that conflicts between them will be out of the question. In short, it is the triumph of the idea of community of ownership, not merely on the smaller scale by which the two greatest railroad groups of the country were built up. but between these two groups themselves. Preferred Stock Retired. The birth of the Northern Securities Company was not the only event of the day which was full of meaning as a sign of this great harmony of the companies. There was a meeting of the directors of the Northern Pacific Railroad company, at which the preferred stock of the road was retired, to be replaced by bonds convertible into common stock. In this action both Harriman and Hill interests agreed, no longer having between them the hostility which last May, after the panic in Wall street, bade fair to make the fight upon this point a bitter one. James J. Hill has come out of the long struggle in control of his northern group of railroads. He has, through the Burlington properties, which were, so to speak, annexed by the greater power to the Northwest, brought his system down to Chicago with all its outlets to the East. He has built up his group of roads into one which might conceivably rival that other great group, the Harriman roads, which combine the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific, and, with the Northwestern and the Vanderbilt lines further east, make a transcontinental system. Two Systems Overlap. But he does not hold his transportation empire as one hostile to the sys-

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HOW THE RAILROAD COMBINE CONTROLS THE WEST.

Itallot Ilox Darned. Seale, Ala., dispatch: S. W. Peppers, returning officer for Crawford beat, while en route to Seale with the ballot box containing the returns of the recent election, was held up at the point of a revolver and the ballot box taken from him. The highwayman wore a mask and his identity is unknown. He retreated to the woods near by, where a search later revealed the ashes and pieces of the ballot box and papers, which had been burned. This is a capital offense In this state. William II. Russell Dead. Chicago dispatch: William II. Russell, who was among the first to be appointed on the drainage board of trustees in 1889, died at his home, 3120 Calumet avenue, after an Illness of several months' duration. He organized the cigar and tobacco firm of Best & Russell. Illinois Danker DlesJ Monmouth, 111., dispatch: William S. Weir, head of the Weir Pottery company and president of banks at Monmouth, Alexis and Littleyork, died suddenly here, aged 66 years.

tern to the south of him. Great amounts of the stock of his system will be held by the Harriman syndicate. Through its holdings in the new Northern Securities Company, for which the Union Pacific's interests in the Northern Pacific road will be exchanged, it gains also an Interest in the control of the Burlington line. In short, all these roads are now to be so closely bound together that rate cutting, indirect and stealthy, or open and fierce methods of war, will be impossible, and the stockholders, and probably the public also, will be Immeasurable gainers. As for J. Pierpont Morgan, he remains as ever the great controlling figure, the man who organizes, combines, harmonizes, who stands as the friend of both factions, and makes each oT them friendly to the other.

APPOINTED BY THEPRESIDENL Two Consols Are Namrd Among the Various Offices Filled. Washington dispatch: The President has made the following appointments: State Edwin N. Gunsaulus, Ohio, consul at Toronto, Ont, Canada; William L. Sewell, Ohio, consul at Pernambuco, Brazil. Treasury William Haverstick, Wisconsin, general inspector, treasury department. War Jesse M. Lee, colonel, infantry: Henry Wygant, lieutenant colonel, infantry; Zevan W. Torrey, major, infantry; Blanton Winship. first lieutenant, infantry; William N. Campbell, Isaac W. Molony, Louis J. Rancourt, Arthur F. Halpin, Alfred C. Arnold, Charles S. Frank, Robert W. Adams, Douglas Donald, Kent Browning, second lieutenants, infantry; Henry J. May, quartermaster, rank of captain; Samuel J. Smith, chaplain. Wade H. Westmoreland. Robert Sterrett, Walter J. Scott, Winston Filcher, Harry J. McKenny, Frederick M. Jones, second lieutenants, cavalry; Starkey Y. Britt. first lieutenant, artillery corps; William A. Covington, second lieutenant, artillery corps; Harry A. Eberle. assistant surgeon of volunteers, rank of captain. Navy Lucien G. Heneberger, medical inspector; Harold H. Haas, past assistant surgeon. EARTHQUAKE IN UTAH. Severe Shocks Felt at Several Points In the State. Salt Lake City, Utah, dispatch: Reports from various points in southern Utah give meager accounts of a severe earthquake shock shortly after 9:30 o'clock p. m. The shock, which lasted fully thirty seconds in some places, created consternation among the inhabitants. The vibrations were northeast to southwest. So far as reported, no loss of life and comparatively little damage to property resulted. At Oasis, in Millard county, the people rushed into the streets, expecting their homes to collapse. At Beaver, in Beaver county, the shock damaged the county courthouse and a number of residences. A slight shock was felt in this city at 9:37 o'clock. Wedding of Miss Foraker. The wedding of Miss "Florence MarI garet Foraker, daughter of Senator Foraker, and Randolph Matthews was celebrated at Cincinnati in tho Church of the Advent, Walnut Hills, near the Senator's residence, and was followed by a reception. Mrs. May Rogers Lovell was matron of honor, and Miss Louise Foraker maid of honor. The six bridesmaids were Miss Julia Foraker, Miss Louise Deshler of Columbus, Miss Matthews, Miss le Boutillier and Miss Reba Wallace of Philadelphia. Merrill Hubbard of Pittsburg served as best man. The ushers were Francis King Wainwright of Philadelphia, Captain J. Beethon Foraker, Jr., Charles P. Brown, Benjamin F. Ehrmann, Denton Stevens and Russell Wilson. Forty Monkeys Are Horned. Toledo's winter quarters for the zoo were burned. The loss will be heavy, for the monkeys and birds and all the tender animals of the collection were stored in the building, and it was impossible to save any of them. About forty monkeys perished. Two horses, also belonging to the park, were burned. It is not possible to estimate the loss. Debts of Raffalo Fair. At a meeting in Buffalo of the creditors of tho Pan-American Exposition. Treasurer Williams' presented his financial report. It shows that the total cost of the fair was $S,S69,757, and the total receipts from admissions were $2,4G7,0G6, and from concessions $1,011,522. The company owes for operating expenses and construction work $578.000. Its liabilities now are $3,326,114, assuming that assets of $140,000 are collectable. Fierce Tribal War In Morocco. Fierce fighting has occurred in Morocco between the Benmisara and Mesmuda tribes, resulting iu the killing of many on both sides. Tho Benmlsaras razed a number villages on the plains and carried off eighteen Mesmuda girls. They had been threatened by the sultan with punishment for abducting a Spanish boy and girl, and took this method of demonstrating that they were prepared to fight any force that might be sent against them.

JEFFRIES

Champion Forces His' Man from the ,tart AND HE WINS ALL THE WAY. Knhlln's Manager Throws Up the Sponge at the End of the Fifth Kound to Have Ills Mau PunUlnuent The Fight bj Hounds. Last year's champion of the world continues to do business at the old stand. Gus Ruhlin, after standing the batter of big Jim Jeffries' fists at San Franci.-co Friday night, for what seemed a short time for a championship candidate, went crouching to his corner at the end of the fifth round and Madden tossed up the sponge. It had been announced as a twenty-round fight for the hevy-weight championship of the wo: LI between Jim Jeffries of Los Angeles and Gus Ruhlin of Akron, O. At 9:10 tho stools were whipped out of the ring and the men stood up and tested the mat with their feet. The Fight Kound hr Round. Round 1 Ruhlin led with left, and they clinched. Jeffries' loft went round Gus" head twice. Jeffries drove Ruhlin to ropes and put hard left to stomach. Clinch. Ruhlin ducked in clinch. Then Jeff forced him to ropes, and got in upper cut. Ruhlin put in good, solid heart blow. Each missed left and clinched. Ruhlin tried right for jaw, but was blocked. Clinch. Jeff tried feinting. Ruhlin stepped up quickly and put right on ribs. Jeff put in solid left on body. Clinch. Jeff got in a left on chin as Ruhlin ducked. Ruhlin was breathing heavily as he went to his corner. Round 2 Clinched. They let go smothered lefts and clinched. Jeff pressed in and Ruhlin caught him hard on ribs. Jeff put in hard heart punch. Jeff appeared anxious to fight in a clinch and Gus anxious to free himself. Gus asked referee to make Jeff step back. Ruhlin put right on ribs. Ruhlin put a left to face and right to ribs. Ruhlin struck Jeff a right hander under heart. Jeff sent in left swing on ear. Many of Jeff's blows fell short. Ruhlin sent left to free and clinched. Gus draws blood from mouth. First blood for Ruhlin. Jeff reached Ruhlin twice on face with left. Jeff's mouth bleeding. Ruhlin fiddled with left and right cross on chin. As gong sounded Ruhlin led and Jeff got in a good right body punch. Ruhlin was the cleaner in delivery all through the round. His punches were more forceful. Round 3 Jeff rushed in and let 0 right at body, scoring cleanly. Ruhlin clinched. Ruhlin landed left on face and Jc!T countered on chin. Ruhlin tottered to the ropes. Jeff got in another left. Clinch. Gus backed away; Jeff followed him. Ruhlin looked rattled. Jeff smiled as Ruhlin ducked; he caught Gus fair on the mouth. Gus staggered. Jeff looked like a winner. Ruhlin wanted to clinch and save himself. Gus was on the defensive now in good shape. Ruhlin clinched. Jeff caught him an uppercut with left. Jeff chased Ruhlin around the ring. Jeffries cornered him and got in another uppercut. A clinch followed as the gong sounded. It looked as if it was only a matter of minutes now when Jeff would win. Round 4 Ruhlin ducked and threw In right. Jeffries smashed Gus on temple with left and sent left to stomach. Clinch. Jeff landed a hard right on jaw. Clinch. Ruhlin got a hard punch and Jeff got several lefts to face. Ruhlin's right eye was blackened. His ginger seemed gone. Jeff was forcing. Ruhlin landed solidly when Jeff rushed, but he got left and right in return. Ruhlin was rattled. Ruhlin dipped under one savage left. Clinch. Jeff caught Ruhlin twice with left on chin. Jeff got right to stomach twice. Ruhlin got in light left. Jeff let go right on Ruhlin's jaw. Gus dropped to his knees to avoid punishment. This was Jeffries' round. Round 5 Ruhlin's face was bruised. Jeff sent left to face. Jeff jolted left to face. A left swing from Jeff took Gus above ear. Ruhlin got in a straight left, but without force. Jeff got in right and left to face, followed by left to stomach. Ruhlin backed away. Jeff kept after Gus and landed two left swings on ribs. Jeff got left to face twice. Ruhlin ducked into left hooks, some of them punishing. Jeffries forced Ruhlin to ropes. Jeff sent left to chin. Kiihlin's eyes closed and he tottered to his knees. He was up at the count and got another left cn jaw. Jeff rushed him to ropes. Ruhlin's eyes rolled and he seemed all but out. Madden threw up the sponge. Madden said, "What is the use of seeing him murdered?" He was virtually out Stage-Coach Robbery. Guthrie, Ok., dispatch: The stage and mail coach running between Marlow and Bailey, Ok., was held up by highwaymen. Mail pouches were rifled and the passengers and driver robbed of all their cash and valuables. General Dodge Is President. Tho Society of the Army of the Tennessee elected tTTese officers: President, General Greenville M. Dodge, New York; corresponding secretary, A. Hickenlooper, Cincinnati; recording secretary. Colonel Cornelius Cadle, Cincinnati; treasurer, Major A. M. Van Dyke, Cincinnati. John D. Black, büii of General John C. Black of Chicago, and Isaac E. Burt of Minneapolis, son of Capt. R. W. Burt, were named to succeed their fathers in membership in the society. A banquet was held at the Denison Hotel. Shows Civic Iuty of Clergy. Mount Vernon, O., dispatch: Bishop Potter of New York addressed the Sandusky Convocation of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio on municipal reform. His address dealt almost entirely with the relation of the clergy to politics and political movements. He held that the clergyman has the same rights as a citizen as his brethren of the laity, but that as a minister of God he has no business on the hustings or as an intermeddler in or aggressive leader of political controversies.

BURNED TO DEATH IN MINE. Scores Entombed by Terriflo Fir and Heavy Explosion. Blueflelds, W. Va., dispatch: Five dead bodies have been taken from the Baby mine at Pocahontas, Va. Several other persons are unaccounted for and are believed to be dead, and twentyfive persons have been rescued more or less severely burned. All this is the result of a fire and terrific explosion in the mine. The list of the dead so far recovered follows: Louis Woolwine, John Bernhart. Will Montgomery, M. D. Koontz and John Urico. At 3 o'clock a. m. it was discovered that the Baby mine of the Pocahontas Coal Company at Pocahontas was on fire. An alarm was sent in and the fir company responded promptly. In a short time after the fire fighters had reached the mouth of the mine and were attempting to extinguish the flames, some of the firemen and others, having rushed inside of the mics to ascertain the extent of the trouble and to assist miners entombed therein, a terrific explosion occurred and many miners and their friends were more or les injured. It is supposed that the mine caught fire from a defective electric light wire.

Killed by a Highwayman. Richmond, Va., dispatch: John W. Scott, one of Virginia's wealthiest and most eminent lawyers, was attacked by a highwayman at 1 o'clock a. m., receiving wounds from which he died at 9 o'clock in the evening without having regained consciousness. Mr. Scott had left the Commonwealth club on Franklin street half an hour after midnight, and half an hour later he was found unconscious and dying on the veranda of Major E. D. T. Myers' home, with his skull fractured by several blows from some blunt instrument. When found his watch and purse were gone, and this substantiates the theory of robbery. Scott was a son of the late Major Frederick R. Scott, and for many years the family has been one of the first in Virginia society, in banking and railroad circles. Denies a Xegro Is Human. St. Louis, Mo., dispatch: In Judge Douglas' division of the circuit court Robert S. McCallen, manager of the American book and Bible house, 221 North Seventh street, made the statement when examined as to his qualifications to serve on a jury In a case where a negro woman is suing the Suburban railway for $5.000 damages"I do not believe a negro is human. I do not think he has the same rights as a white man, and I frankly state that if I went on this jury I would do so with a violent prejudice against the plaintiff because she is black, and therefore, according to my notion, not entitled to the same privileges and immunities that a human being is." McCallen was excused from jury duty. Defrauded by His Double. New Orleans, La., dispatch: When James H. Manning of San Francisco, western manager for the Standard Pneumatic Tool Company of Cnicago and a member of that firm, arrived at the St. Charles hotel he discovered that someone had preceded him and haa claimed all his mail. The swindler who impersonated Manning cashed a check for $342 found in the letters with Payne & Joubert, the concern where Manning was to have inspected some machinery. He then borrowed $300 more of a Baronne street firm and was out of the town when Mr. Manning arrived. Dairymen Klect Officers. Dubuque, la., dispatch: The Iowa State Dairy association closed its convention here with the election of the following officers: President, S. B. Shilling, Mason City; vice president, H. R. Carpenter, Elkader; secretary, J. C. Daly, Charles City; treasurer, M. W. Ashby, Hazleton. The association endorsed E. Suddendorf of Elgin, 111., for superintendent of the dairy exhibit at the St. Louis exposition. Keith Hanged for Murder. Michigan City, Ind., dispatch: Joseph D. Keith was hanged here at 12:10 o'clock a. m. for the murder of Nora Kifer. Keith confessed that he committed the crime. He had the prison chaplain with him from 8 o'clock in the evening to the time he was removed from the cell. He ascended the scaffold singing, "I am going home to die no more," and finished the song before the drop fell. Bridge Falls as Train Passes. The Chicago Great Western passengen train on the Redwing and Seumbrota line miraculously escaped being wrecked near Good.e, Minn. As the train was passing over the bridge the structure fell to pieces behind the cars, while in front it swayed, TTut stood until the train was safely over. The passengers were badly frightened. Ship Sighted on a Shoal. A square-rigged vessel was sighted ashore on Handkerchief shoal off Chatham, Mass. The bark Benjamin F. Hunt. Jr., from Rosario. for Boston, has been anchored off the Handkerchief and possibly she may have attempted to get under way and was carried onto the shoal. Snlcide In Colorado Canyon. The body of a well dressed man, supposed to be II. Fletcher of Chicago, was found hanging to a stump in Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado, near the railroad track. Letters were found In a pocket showing correspondence with Lyon & Healy, Chicago, while an entry in a notebook told of being robbed of $1,005.50 by a woman in the tenderloin district. The man was about 60 years old. He must have been determined to commit suicide, as great effort was necessary to make a rope stay tight about his neck. Changes Her Name and Sex. Application will be filed before County Judge William Ross at Syracuse, N. Y., by Clara Herriman for permission to change her name to Horace Hartson Herriman. The application will lay bare a remarkable story of mistake made at the time of her birth In 1873. Clara Herriman was brought up as a girl. When her voice deepened and her face sprouted whiskers tha mistake was discovered. Her hair has been cut to the masculine length and a suit of men's clothing is awaiting her.

FINDS WILL AND FORTUNE. Laboring Man Comes Into Money'

Thr)a;h Freak of Chance. Nashville, Tenn.. dispatch: A willj was dug np at Echols, Ky., Ixst even-' Ing. Here it is: ' "The last will and testament of Ben 0. Mansfield: "Paradise, Ky., Nov. 17, 1ST1. I know me life air short In this world,an as I haint got no relatives here and not meni frenz I bury me money and the man who fines it kin have it. I have some rehks here also, you can have them two. "Ben O. Mansfield." While repairing an old building: James O'Connor noticed a piece of wire partly buried, and when he pulled it up he found that it had been fastened to a tin bucket, now almost eaten t pieces. O'Connor, after removing a little earth, found an old bucket. The lid was removed and a few old papers were taken out. At the bottom was ?1,S13 in gold, wrapped In a paper upon which was written the above Till. PARKHURST TO AID SALOONS. New York Tastor Urges Sale of Beer on Sunday. New York dispatch: Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst came out today unreservedly for Sunday opening of saloons during certain hours. An abstainer himself, he feels that other people have a right to their pleasure and recreation, even if they care to take it in a saloon. "Yes," said he, "I am for Sunday opening of the saloons. I should bar whisky and liquors, but let the people have beer and light Wines. A man who wants whisky on Sunday can keep it at home. People cannot have draught beer on tap in their houses. I consider the Germans as a mo?t valuable part of our population. They want their Sunday beer with their families. Once we can convince the Germans that we are for their ideas regarding Sunday beer and we will have them with us in our fight against indecency." LATEST "MARKET QUOTATIONS. Winter wheat No. 1 red. 72rft'7:P4: No. 3 red, 72&74've: No. 2 hard, 7-u7oV: No. 3 hard. 72'- T-.o. Xvvin wheat No. 1 north rn. No. north ern. 72'vc: No. spring-, CSft71Ue: No. 1 spring-, f.Cä7ic. 0rn No. 2 nbout 53"ic: No. 2 yellow, al'out e.ö"sc; No. 3 cloied 5?7sc: Nc. 3 ytUow. t-,e. Oats No. 4 white. 42!,4c: No. 3 white. Al'c; no pradö, 4'"'?Hl1.Lc; No. 4 whit. -i2V l-1- c. HayChoice timothv, Jlv'tf 13.50: No. 1. J12'f 12.50; No. 2, fill ll.öc; No. 3. S&yll; choice iralri. SlZitU.lK Ilojrs Liüht. " .so fr.-,. 73; mixed. 5r.451 5.?5: heavy, $5.4:.'.j:..!71jc: rcu,h, J3.4Cci5.Gt). Cattle Lieevps, $2.;"i6.73: cows anJ helN rs. $1.?5 Texas terrs. $3.1'&3.S5 stotkers ar.d feeders, wMms, tZ.0iL.2Tj. Sherp Native ph-ep. J-tiM?: westerns. $(::.Te: native lambs, t..?i 4.65; westerns. 53j4.4o. Butter-Extra creameries. 22j"2Uc: firsts. i "ii.-se Full cream, choice twins :'4;:ti. c; daisies, rhoire, V)f 10J4c; young America. 10c. He:. 22 ft 23 e. Live poultry Turkeys; Cobb'ers antl hens, 7i&e: young-, lüii-c. Chickens: Hens. 6c; roosters. r.M an l st;.Cijy your?, TjC. Ducks: Good. per lb. C c: Ordinary, pr doz. J4 4 r.. Vrils-Carcass, weisrhinp: lio i!.s, 'r; r-fl.7. iv.s. i'iSc; 85ft k-0 lbs. ;l'rv7e. Potatoes White stock, 7Sc; red stoek. 7.".70c. Casualties In I'liiUpnin?. Washington. D. C. dispatch: General Chaffee reports to the War Department the following casualties since the last report, dated Sept. 12: In engagement near Candelaria, Luzon, 4 p. m., Sept. 24 Allen T. Crockett, lieutenant Twenty-first Infantry, killed in action. In engagement near San Antonio, Samar, Sept. 1 Jacob Stettler, Company G, Ninth Infantry, chest, mortal. In engagement at Lilio, Luzon, Sept. 9 William Rice, Company M. Eighth Infantrj', hip, severe. In engagement at Jagua, Bohol. Sept. 4 Howard M. Reiley, Company I, Nineteenth Infantry, chest, slight; Andrew S. Rowan, captain Nineteenth Infantry, leg. severe; Benjamin F. Davidson, Company I, Nineteenth Infantry, leg, slight; Peter W. Scanlon, sergeant Company I, Nineteenth Infantry, thigh, slight. Meteor Iitnlle Lako of Oil. A brilliant display of shooting star occurred until daylight. Several meteors fell into a lake of oil, one of a number formed near Tulsa by recent trikes of gushers, and the fluid was Ignited, burning all day. The shooting stars were in great number and traveled in almost every direction. It was almost as light as day while the shower lasted. Occasionally a meteor would explode and send out hundreds of fire balls, which would illumine ths sky and die out almost instantly. Each explosion was accompanied with a distinctly audible report. William Molllllan Dfail. St Louis, Mo., dispatch: William McMillan, president of the American Car and Foundry Company, died here, aged 60 years, as the result of pneumonia. He was born in Hamilton, Ont., and was a brother of United; States Senator James McMillan of Michigan. Ulli nerid of Kallroad. New York dispatch: In line with the prearranged plan, James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern company, has been elected president of the Northern Securities Company, the great railroad combine incorporated In Trenton test Wednesday, with a capital of f400.000.000. Fortan for I.nnbrrmig, A lumber jack, John Iquelnce. who has had headquarters at the head of the lakes for the last two years, has received formal notice of having fallen heir to 1,500.000 francs ($350,000), says a Duluth dispatch. The woodsman refuses to discuss the matter. But it is known that he has placed the claim in the hands of an attorney to make the collection, through the French Consul at St. Paul. Minn. Lequelnce, in the face of his good fortune, has returned to work in the woods. Wild Ran by Trolley Cr. Pittsburg dispatch: Five persona were Injured, one fatally, by Jumping from a runaway traction car on the hill above New Homestead. They were: Mary Ellen Roach, aged 10 years, skull fractured; will die; William Kelly, conductor, aged 32 years; John Lacey, aged 15 years; Martin Lacey, aged 11 years; James Lacey, aged 9 years. All but the girl will recover. The car did not leave the tracks, and the motorman, who stuck to his post, was not Injured.