Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 17, Number 37, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 27 November 1895 — Page 2

THE NAPPANEE NEWS. BY Q. N. MURRAY. NAPPANEE, : i INDIANA. i-' 1 1 The News Condensed. Important Intelligence Frpm All Parts. DOMESTIC. The argument for anew trial in the case of the convicted murderer, Holmes, was heard in Philadelphia, and during the proceedings Mr. Shoemaker, one of Holmes’ counsel, was found to have introduced a false affidavit and was held to answer. At Fountain Ferry, Ky., E. J. Berio, of Boston, broke the two-mile bicycle record, making the in 3:43 1-5. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 18tli was: Wheat, 00,320,000 bushels; corn, 4,300,000 bushels; oats, 5,072,000 bushels; rye, 1,287,000 bushels; barley, 4,047,000 bushels. The Nez Perces Indian reservation in the state of Washington was opened for settlement. Sun Chief, principal chief of the Pawnees in Oklahoma, is dead, and the whole tribe was mourning. Chief llazen of the secret service, in his annual report shows that during the year 803 arrests were made, with few exceptions for violations of the statutes against counterfeiting. Altered and counterfeit notes, counterfeit coins and the like were captured having an aggregate face value "of almost $5,000,000. "'V A convention to consider the question of statehood fdr Oklahoma will be held ' at Shawnee on December 4 next. Earthquake shocks were felt in portions of Missouri and Colorado. The Henry O. Shepard company, one of the best-known printing lirms in Chicago, failed for SIOO,OOO. In a test case Judge Kicks, of the United States circuit court, sitting at Cleveland, decided that a receiver of a defunct. bank can assess stockholders and recover in suits from those who refuse to pay. Fire destroyed the livery stable of n. P Ivoons and live dwellings in San Francisco and 30 horses were cremated. A Great Northern train crowded with passengers was held up four miles west of Clear Lake, Minn., but the bandits were scared away without obtaining booty. V ; ' A bright comet was discovered in the constellation Virgo by Prof. Perrinc, of the Lick observatory at San Francisco. David Henderson,, a young colored school teacher at Dunlop,. Kan., who assaulted Dora Kay, one of his pupils, was cited to appear before the school board, and while there fatally wounded Samuel Kay and his wife and two other persons with a hatchet. The National Grange in session nt Worcester, Mass., reelected J. 11. Brigham, of Delta, 0., as national master to serve his fourth term. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Grier, of Wilmot, Wis., died within an hour of eaco other. The husband was aged 73 and the wife 70. Last April they celebrated their golden wedding.

Fire in the Parker block at Lowell, Mass., caused a loss of $350,000. The president lias appointed John L.' Peak, of Kansas . City, Mo., United States minister to Switzerland, to succeed Minister Broaclhead, resigned. At the 27tli annual banquet of the chamber of commerce of the city of New York Secretary Carlisle spoke on national finances. He said the legal tender note was the fundamental vice of our currency system, was responsible for many Vagaries, and should be retired. At Purcell, 1. TANARUS., 32 buildings were burned at a loss of $150,000, and two, merchants were arrested for arson. Jesus Yialpando and Feliciano Chavez, convicted of murdering and bu uni fig the body of young Tomas Martinez, were hanged at Santa Fe, N. M. The magnificent new battle ship Indiana was accepted by the government from the builders. A great forest fire was raging on the Little Kanawha near Parkersburg, \V. Va., and large tracts of woods and barns and fencing had been burned. One hundred retail druggists of Kansas City formed a stock company to manufacture all proprietary remedies consumed by the local trade. Daniel 11. Breni/.er, cashier of the Citizens’ Trust and Surety company in Philadelphia, was said to be short $25,COO in his accounts. Two earthquake shocks frightened the residents of Cairo, 111., but did no damage. The Texas Paper company and the Peering Harvester company lost their plants by fire at Dallas, Tex., the total loss being $125,000. . As the result of a feud between the Handley, Jones and Kilgore families, near Birmingham, Ala., Joseph Kilgore and John Jones are dead and John Handley is fatally injured. The work of the United States weather bureau for the past year cost $378,439, and the warnings of cold waves secured from freezing more than $2,275.000 worth of agricultural products. The Linz block at Sherman, Tex., was burned, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. White railroad men at Moss Bluff, Fla., who resented the introduction of negro laborers, raided their cabins, killing tliFee and wounding many more. John White, a prisoner in the county jail at New Martinsville, W. Va., escaped, and fatally shot three men who attempted to capture him. The Choctaw Indian council has pe.Bsed a bill making it treason, punishable by death, to sell land to a noncitizen or to urge a change in the present government. A forest fire burned over 50,000 acres near Santa Rosa, Cal..destroying houses and barns and (fiber property. Albert England, a post office robber, was lynched near Velonia, Ark. by nine men to prevent him telling about a large number of robberies. •

Four boys wrecked a train opi the New York Central road near Home, N. Y.> and N. N. Hager, the engineer, and an unknown man were killed. It was said that anew gold-bearing region had been found in Archuleta county, Col., which would eclipse anything known in the world. The catch of the Gloucester (Mass.) mackerel fleet the past season was only 25.000 barrels, against 50,000 last year. The post oflice department has issued a fraud order against the United Indemnity company of Los Angeles, Cal., a bond investment concern. Assistant Secretary Keynolds, of the interior department, has decided that where a pension has been obtained fraudulently the attorney procuring the pension is not entitled to the fee aid roust refund it. Indianapolis was flooded with dangerous counterfeit two-dollar bills. They are a trifle larger than the genuine, and in the portrait of Windom the eyes are larger than in the original. The business portion of Madisonvilie, Ky., was burned. Three fishermen, names unknown, were drowned near Harbor Springs, Mich. At a meeting in New York of the Silk Association of America the price of twisted silk was advanced five percent. One hundred and twenty settlers south of Ashland, Wis., are, by a decision from the general land oflice, made homeless. The schooner Shamrock of Key West, Fla., foundered off St. Martin's Key and six of the crew, all colored, were lost. The monthly out put of the gold mines at Cripple Creek, Col., was said to be $1,000,000. The American cruiser Minneapolis was‘ordered to sail for Smyrna, Asia Minor, to assist in protecting the lives of American m issionaries and other subjects of the United States in the districts now being ravished by the Mohammedan fanatics. The annual meeting of the National Civil Service Reform league will be held in Washington December 12 and 13. Thieves broke into the post oflice at Summit, N. J., blew dpen the safe and secured over $5,000 worth of stamps and ssoo.in cash.

Ex-State Comptroller Edward Womple, of New York, was* jtaken to the Utica insane asylum. His insanity has taken a bent toward arson. I)r. David J. Hill, o president of the University of Kochester, N. Y.„ resigned to take efleet at the close of the pres-_ ent college year. The secretary of the interior issued a requisition bn the treasury for $10,850,000 for t he quarterly pension payment. The First national bank of La Grange, Tex., which suspended, payment October 20 last, was permitted to resume,, business. John Tod, of Cleveland, was appointed of the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad company. Mrs. Theresa Fell, who was injured by a Chicago & Alton train, was awarded $7,000 damages by a jury at Bloomington, 111. •The constitutional convention at Columbia, S. C., made provision for the establishment of an industrial, mechanical and normal school for negroes. After a confinement of six months Eugene V. Debs, the president of the American Kailw ay union, was released from the jail at Woodstock, 111. Charles Hurd, a negro who killed Joseph 1). Kelley at Wartburg, Tenn., was taken from jail .by h mob and hanged. At the general assembly of the Knights of Labor in Washington a boycott was ordered against the establishment of Wanamaker & Brown; of Philadelphia, and against the beer output of breweries controlled by the English syndicates in St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Omaha and Philadelphia. Ten business houses and one dwelliqg were burned at (jeneva, Ind., and Oliver Martin was in jail charged with having caused the fire. Fire that started in the Excelsior

building in Chicago, owned by Warren Springer, destroyed property valued at $500,000. y* A negro accused <sf riding a horse over a little white girl nctir kryan, Tex., inflicting serious injuries, was lynched by a mob, but later developments showed that the mob got hold of the wrong negro. Hawley’s block at Danbury, Conn., was burned, the loss beingsloo,ooo. The annual report of the commissioner of internal revenue shows the receipts from different sources during tlie last fiscal year were $143,2Hi,077, a decrease of $3,922,371 over the previous year. At Whitinsville, Mass., 100 Armenians employed at the Whiting machine works refused to w ork because the firm would not discharge four Turks. Atchison, Kan., was being flooded withsl bills raised to $lO. The specimens were almost perfect. Six boys who had dug a playhouse in a steep embankment at Louisville were buried by a cave-in and Howard Kamage and Louis Snow were killed. The others escaped. Christ church in Philadelphia celebrated its 200tli anniversary, distinguished prelates from allover the country being present. The schooner Edna M. Champion, which sailed from Philadelphia October 12 for Port Tampa, Fla., was given up as lost with her crew of nine men. Mrs. Mary T. McMillan was found guilty at Auburn, N. Y., of making counterfeit two-cent postage stamps and was sentenced to the Erie county penitentiary for 18 months. The Troy. (N. Y.) Morning Telegram, established in 1553 as the Troy Morning Whig, has suspended publication. Col. Fitzgerald,4he New York restaurant man who was arrested for dressing his waiter girls in bloomers, has sued the city for SIO,OOO damages. Schools and churches at Mgysville, Jnd., were closed because of the prevalence of diphtheria. Jt is said that a car ferry between Cleveland and Port Stanley, Out., across Lake Erie, will be next season. • ‘= - '

In the National Hardware association’s convention in Pittsburgh resolutions were adopted asking the republican and democratic national committees to make the presidential campaign one of three instead of six months. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The funeral services over the body of Rev. S. F..Smith, D. D., famous as the author of the national hymn, “America,” were held at the First Baptist church in Newton, Mass. J. F. Doolan died at Jacksonville, IH., aged 107 years. Aleaens Hooper, the first republican mayor of Baltimore in 30 years, was inaugu rated. Congressman J. P. Dolliver and Miss Louise Pearsons were married in the First Presbyterian church at Fort Dodge, la. Senor Augusto De Saguira Thedim, Portuguese minister to the United States, died at Jiis residence in Washington, aged 38 years. v' L i FOREIGN. Dispatches received in London say that the Armenians were being massacred everywhere in Asia Minor, and ihat over 100,000 were dying of starvation and exposure. Dispatcher vfrom Constantinople announce that the anti-Christian agitation was extending throughout northern Syria and that many Christians Rad been murdered at Aleppo. Indians to the number of 200 were caught by troops in a canyon near Bogota, South America,and killed to a man by rolling stones on them from above. , Advices from Port Barrios say that American negroes live a terrible life in that country working on the railroads. Many of them have been beaten to death, and recently five of them werb found hanging to a tree. * Manager Short,of the Commercial bank at Sale, Victoria, shot liis \Vife and two children and then killed himself. The ninth-annual meeting of the national fraternal- congress (American) opened in Toronto. The societies represented by the congress include a benefit membership Os 1,337,570 and a social membership of 30,059, and the protection in force at the end of tiro year was $2,847,054,010. Premier Senor Canovas de Castillo declares that the persistent rumors regarding peace negotiations between representatives of the Spanish govern* meat apd the insurgents of Cuba aro untrue. The Italian bark Brom Carlo was lost off Cape. Horn and 15 persons wero drowned. Advices from*West Africa say that Capt. Bower, the British resident at .Ibadan, attacked and killed the,king of Oyo and many of his followers. In a battle near Santa Clara the insurgents defeated the Spanish troops, 500 of the latter being killed ahd wounded. The insurgents loss was small. A combined boiler and magazine explosion on the troop ship Kung Pai at Kin ( how, China, sent 000 men to death. Sir Henry Poll sou by, formerly private secretary* to Queen Victoria and keeper of the privy purse, died at Cowes, aged 70 years. Thanksgiving day in Canada was observed on the 21st. Chinese papers are bitter in their attacks on the Japanese authorities in Corea, w hom they blame for the murder of J:he queen. They say that there w ere 15 w omen of title in the court, the queen, her mother and 130„ladies in waiting and they w ere all soaked in oil and burned.

LATER. There were 320 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 22d, against 279 the week previous and 322 iii The corresponding time of 1894. Winebrenner Bros., oyster packers in Baltimore, made an assignment with liabilities of over SIOO,OOO. Advices from Turkey say that the Kurds destroyed 20 villages in the northwestern portion of the district of Aleppo, and the 10,000 inhabitants were massacred. The new census of Wisconsin shows the total percentage of foreign-born population of the state to be 27.04. Nancy and Fannie Armstrong and Mollie Whitney (all colored) were burned to death in a cabin at Stony Point, Ky. John lied fern, the well-known ladies* Tailor, whose reputation is world-wide, died in London. o Thomas Mabe and liis two sons were burned fatally in a fire which destroyed their brandy distillery near Danbury, N. C. Mrs. Phoebe Woodward celebrated her 102d birthday anniversary at Charlestown, Mass. The National Hardware association in session at Pittsburgh, Pa., elected W. W. Supplee, of Philadelphia, as president. Miss Ella Tickle, the smallest woman in Ohio, was buried at Miamisburg. fie was 33 years old, 30 inches high, and weighed only 31 pounffs. Prof. Brooks, director of Smith’s observatory at Geneva, N. Y., new comet. This is the 20th comet discovered by Prof. Brooks. The Puget Sound Loan Trust and Banking company at New Whatcom, Wash., failed with liabilities of $60,000. Amanda Cody and Florence English were hanged at Warrenton, Ga., for the murder of the ’Cody woman’s husband. Florence is a man. H. W. Smith, associate justice of the supreme court of Utah, died at Ogden. Eugene V. Debs was given a reception in Chicago upon liis arrival from the Woodstock jail and spoke to a large audience in Battery D, his subject being “Liberty.** A 40-ton meteor fell on a farm near Round Head, O. In a fire in the Exchange building in Chicago which caused a loss of over $300,000 Patrick J. O’Donnell, Martin Sherrick, John Downs and John lirendergnst, all firemen, and Kittie Landgr&f were burned to death.

OUT OF JAIL. Eugene V. Debs Is Released from Prison at Woodstock, IIL The Great Strike Leader Has Served HU Full Term—He Still Champions Organized Labor—Big Railroad Strikes Belong to the Fast. Woodstock, 111., Nov. 22.—When tha clock struck 12 last night, Eugene V. Debs became once more a free man. He was in bed in the cell in the jail which he had cfccupied for IG3 days when his time of freedom came, and was sleeping soundly. At five a. m. he arose and after a bath and shave left the cell, never to return. He ate breakfast with Sheriff Eckert and family. Debs* last day as a prisoner was a busy one for the great strike leader, and he put in his time packing his trunks and filling boxes with letters, newspapers, books, and hundreds of other things, valuable and otherwise, w hich had been accumulated by him during his incarceration. In no degree changed in his convictions, in no wise repentent of liis atti-

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tnde in- times past, and with the same opinion that tlie federal courts have yet to learn how to administer justice, Mr. Debs finishes liis sent epee in about the same condition, both mentally and physically', ns w hen Sheriff* Eckert took him in charge. He is the same earnest and magnetic champion of organized labor as in days gone by. No More Great Railroad Strikes. Air. Debs in a short talk Thursday: evening said: It is highly probable—in fact Air. Debs acknowledges—that he will bi ing himself in closer touch with the criminal classes in the future; that he will seek to become a humanitarian in the broadest sense of the word. "All thes.e poor devils need,’’ he says, “is a kind word and a helping hand, and ninetenths of them can be reformed. I tell you/’ he continued, “we are only half civilized. Our reformatories—or, more properly speaking, these deformatories—are each year breeding criminals that will soon overthrow society and plunge this country into a vast tube of blood, to which the Paris commune will be but the flickering light of a pine torch to an electric glow of numberless volts. There is as much caste in this country as there was in India, and the Brahmins are Pullman, Carnegie, Rockefeller, and the Goulds, Asters, and Vanderbilts.” SENSATIONAL TRAGEDY. Alan Killed for His Insurance Money by Ills Mistress and ller £ou. Wichita, Kan., Nov. 19. —Alonday morning at six o’clock Henry 11. Leonard, a prominent merchant was found murdered in an alley' two blocks away from the police station. The body was lying near a sewer manhole that the murderers tried to uncover. The police being notified, sent to the home of Irene Williamson, his reputed mistress, GOO feet away and found her burning bloody clothes in the stove. They also found that she had turned the carpet upside down w hich even then could not hide human blood stains. A trail of blood was traced through the woman’s yard and stable into the alley and tlience to where the body was found. She and her 19-year-old son Orville w T ere arrested, but not before they had a story made up in the event of discovery'. Mrs. Williamson said in confession that her divorced husband, hearing that Leonard came to her house, followed lii-m Sunday night at ten o'clock and killed him w ith a piece of gas pipe; and that on toward morning he dragged the body into an alley with the intention of throwing it into a sewer manhole. Her divorced husband was arrested, and is able to prove a strong alibi. The wounds show that two parties committed the murder, as they were made with a hatched and a club. “ -— ——— — _

About a month ago Leonard wanted to marry the woman, but as she had not been separated from her husband the statutory length of time (he- probate judge refused to marry them, lieonard at that time made his insurance policy of $5,000 payable to her, with whom he was greatly infatuated, and the evidence is overwhelming that she conspired with her son to kill Leonard for the insurance money. It was the most cruel and cold-blooded murder committed here during the last 25 years, end the people are greatly excited. FIF7EEN DROWNE D. Italian Bark Sunk In Collision Off Cape Horn. San Francisco, Nov. 20. —Particulars of the loss of the Italian bark Brom Carlo, off Cape Horn, have reached this city. The bark collided with the British ship Condor, and it is now known tlat not only was the Brom Carlo sent to the bottom, but only four of her 19 men were saved. The news of the disaster is recorded in a letter from one of the crew of the United States steamship Alert,which was at Guayaquil, Ecuador, where she was undergoing repairs. Fire firings lluln. Chicugo,Nov. 22.—A fire which caused a property loss of $500,000 and imperiled the lives of 500 persons, mostly young women, broke out at three o’clock Thursday afternoon on the third floor of Charles Emmerich & Co.'s feather and down goods factory, 175181 South Canal street. The conflagration was attended by scenes of intense excitement and a score of firemen narrowly escaped being killed by fire and falling walla. ~ ■

WANT TO BE CREMATED. Peculiar Requegt Made by Many Americans Abroad. Speaking of the numerous deaths abroad of Americans and the difficulties often encountered in getting remains transported across the ocean, owing to the superstition of sailors, many of w hom would not sail on a vessel which they knew to have a body on board, a prominent Milwaukeean who crosses the ocean" about once a year states that a large majority of leading Americans carry about their persons written requests that their bodies be cremated in case of death while in a foreign land. “There are several reasons for this,*’ added tlie traveler. “One great reason is that the laws of most foreign countries do not permit of cremation unless there exists a written request of the person w hose body is to be disposed of in that w ay'. Less than a year ago the daughter of a gentleman from Wisconsin died while traveling in Europe with her parents. Notwithstanding the fact that personally she preferred cremation, and her parents desired to carry the idea out, it could not be done there because they' could not produce a written request signed by' the daughter stating that such was her wish. Under these* circumstances the remains were brought back to this estate. “In most eases persons traveling in foreign lands who prefer cremation have in tlieir possessions small cards bearing in print or writing the message: ‘ln the event of my unexpected death while traveling away from home I desire that my body be cremated.* This bears the signature of the person carrying it, and in some instances the particular crematorium preferred is mentioned on the cards.”—Milwaukee. Wisconsin.

CRACK A SMILE. She—“lt takes two hours to dock an ocean steamer.” He—“So? Aly uocs can dock me in two minutes.” —Detroit Free Press. Ethel —“Why do y'ou go to the sewing society if they gossip so much and you dislike it?” Maud—“ Because I’m afraid they' will talk about me if I’m not there.”—Harper’s Bazar. TnE trouble in the world is nearly all duo to the fart that one-half the people arc men, and the other half women.—Atchison Globe. THE MARKETS. New York, Nov. 23. LIVE STOCK-Steers $2 10 © 4 67% Sheep 2(• © 325 1 Lo.fc's 4 00 © 420 FLOPR Winter Patents.. 350 © 870 City Mill Patents 4 10 it \ 25 WHEAT-No. 2 Red 67%© 77% No. 1 Hard 66 %© 77*4 CORN—No. 2 36 C >i) 36% December 35%© 35% OATS—No. 2 23 © 23% PORK - Mess 9 50 © 10 00 LARD— Western Steam 595 © 6 00 BUTTER—West’n Cr.m'y. 14 © 23 Western Dairy...’ 10%© 15 EGGS.... : 21 © • 23% CHICAGO. CATTLE Beeves. $3'25 'ft, 405 • - Stockers and Feeders... 225 © 275 Cows.. 1 35 @’*3 50 Texas Steers 2 50 ©. 365 HOGS—Light 3 35 (ft) 3 60 Rough Packing 3 30 (fi) 340 SHEEP 1 60 (fi 3 50 BUTTER-Creamery 11 (fi 22% Dairy 11 © J 9 Packing Stock 6 (<i) 12 EGGS - Fresh 15 (fi 20% BROOM CORN (per ton)... 20 00 ©SO 00 HOT A TOES (per bti) 15 (fi 23 PORK —Moss:- 7 87%® 8 00 LARD Steam 5 42%© 5 45 FLOUR—Spring Patents.. 315 © 350 Spring Straights... 2 65 (ft) 2 90 Winter Patents 3 00 (fi 3 50 Winter Straights 3 00 f 3 20 GRAlN—Wheat, Dec .. 56% Corn, No. 2. 27 %© 27-% Oats. No. 2 IS @ *lB% *Kye, No. 2 36 (<i 36’4 Barley, Good to Choice. 32 © 40 MILWAUKEE. GRAIN—Wh’t. No. 2Sl>’g.. 56%© 57 Corn, No. 3 28%@ 28% Oats, No. 2 White 19>/© 19% Rye, No. 1 38 © 38% Barley, No. 2 34 (O' 34% PORK—Mess 7 85' © 7 90 LARD 5 40 © 545 ST. LOUIS. CATTLE—Native Steers... $3 30 © 470 Texas .'. 310 © 390 HOG 3 00 © 3 65 SHEEP 2 25 © 340 OMAHA. CATTLE Steers . $2 90 © 4 00 Feeders -. 2 40 © 3 50 llOGS—Light and mixed... 330 © 340 Heavy 3 35 © 3 45 SHEEP 2 50 © 3 60

Grace before Meat There’s a difference between being full of thanksgiving, and being full of Thanksgiving dainties. But the one thing generally leads to the other. How can it be helped when the, turkey is so good, and the pie so enticing? Here’s a helpful hint. For that full feeling after Thanksgiving take a pill. Not any pill, mind you. There are pills that won’t help you. Take the pill that will. It’s known Ayer’s Pill —and it’s perfect. It is sugar-coated, pleasant to the palate, and its operation, like that of nature, is effective and without violence. Keep this in your mind if you want to enjoy the holiday season: Grace before meat, but a Pill after Pie.

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