Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 18, Number 29, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 30 September 1896 — Page 2

BLOOD IS SHED. Five Men Killed in a Mine Biot at v Leadville, CoL ■' ' ' V'V. . ~V Many Other* Are Wounded—Miners lay the Blame on Outside Kufflaus— State Militia Sent to the Scene. Leadville, Col„ Sept. 22.—Five men lost their lives in the uttacks upon the Coronado and the Emmett mines early Monday morning, four being of the attacking party and the fifth a city fireman, who wus shot down while in the discharge of his duty, dying during the day. The dead are as follower O’Keefe, foreman hose No. 2, aged 24, shot through the body; Beet Meier, 30 years, face riddled with buckshot; James Benson, aged 40, eight buckshot in abdomen; John Mahoney, bullet in abdomen; William Higgins, bullet in abdomen. It is believed a number, variously estimated at from six to fifty, were wounded during the attack upon the barricaded miners, but they were quickly taken away and secreted, even the physicians attending them being careful to make no report of their patients. Os the besieged men, no one was injured, except one slightly wounded in the foot as he escaped from the Coronado mine over the trestle, where he was the target for a hundred guns. Militia on the Scene. The state militia which has for the fourth time in two years been called out to stop rioting in mining camps is arriving, and will do merely patrol duty, for there is absolutely no evidence of rioting in the entire camp. The two militia companies of Leadville, a large company from Cripple Creek and two companies from Pueblo were on hand here before darkness came on, one company patrolling the powder magazines, three at the Emmett mine and the others on duty at the armory who will doubtless assist the deputy sheriffs and police department in patrolling the camp. The first regiment from Denver, with the Chaffee light artillery and a troop of cavalry, reached Leadville at midnight While no one can predict with certainty the outcome, the miners and mine operators who talk say that there will be no further trouble until the militia returns home. Vigilance Committee Formed. The miners deplore the whole matter and seem disposed to lay the blame upon outsiders, ruffians who have flocked to the scene of the trouble. The destruction of the Corouado has finally aroused the law-abiding citizens to take steps for a summary treatment of the trouble hereafter. Monday afternoon a meeting was held in the opera house and a document received 200 signatures, which is practically an agreement to stand together to protect life and property. In short, it is a vigilance committee. Martial Law Ordered. Leadville, Col., Sept. 24. —Gen. Brooks, in command of the Colorado national guard, declared martial law in this city at > three o’clock Wednesday afternoon. He has ordered a military court to meet to-day to investigate the assaults of armed forces upon the Coronado and the Emmett mines early Monday morning. At seven o’clock Gov. Mclntyre sent a telegram of instructions to Gen. Brooke at Leadville, giving that officer power to act as his representative in suppressing riot in that city and district. Gen. Brooks is specifically instructed to permit no interference from any source whatever, and to act with or without the cooperation of the local authorities. A warrant was issued in the justice court of P. M. Wall for the nrr*st of P. B. Turnbull, vice president of the Miners’ union; E. J. Dewar, financial secretary of the Miners’ union; Eugene •Gannon, one of the leading strike agitators and a member of the Engineers’ union, and Gomer Richards, a principal character in the union strike committee. The men qre charged with being principals in the riot which resulted in the killing of Fireman Jerry O’Keefe at the Coronado mine last Monday morning. Ail were placed under arrest. Antlcpnte an Uprising. Denver, Col- Sept. 24. —The impression that the presence of troops in Leadville would end the strike has been dissipated by the reports-which reached Gov. Mclntyre from Leadville. He is foid that miners from As[>en, Cripple -Creek and the Sau Juan are quietly gathering at Leadville, and that at nil opportune moment the strikers will wipe out the entire national guard and burn the town. llusHian Fleet Under Order*. Sebastopol, Sept. 22. —A portion of the Kussian Black sea fleet, consisting of four ironclads, three gunboats and several, torpedo boats, is cruising off Otchakoff, at the mouth of the Dneiper, under orders on receipt of a telegram from the Kussian ambassador at Constantinople to join the admiral, leaving here with the remainder of the fleet and going direct to the Bosphorus. The whole fleet has been placed on a war footing and has embarked three battalions of infantry and troops. The south of Russia has also been placed on a war footing. Army or Cumberland Elect Officer*. Rockford, 111,, Sept. 25. —The Army of the Cumberland elected the following officers Thursday: I’resident, Gen. W. S. liosecrans; corresponding secretary, Gen. 11. V. Boynton; recording secretary,.!. W. Stiel; treasurer. Gen. Fuller- . ton: historian. C. G, Mifla. Columbus, 0., was chosen as the next meeting place. / Held for J^nibezzlement. Chicago, Sept. 24.—George L. Magill, ■president of the defunct Avenue savings Lank, was held to the criminal court by Justice Wallace Wednesday in $5,000 bonds on the charge of embezzlement in connection with the failure of that institution. Magill furnished the bonds. Ward Again Indicted. Memphis, Ikbin., Sept. 24. —A. K. Ward, the $300,000 forger and embezzler, who has been out on bail for several months, was again indicted Wednesday for Inrirerv on three additional cohnts, is,h,onni mg lo ahout $35,000.' This makes 4)5 indictments all tolji.

AMERICAN BANkEftS. The Association Meets In St Loots—lts Declaration of principles. St. Louis, Sept. 2a.—The twenty-rec-ond annual convention of the American der In the Olympic theater at 10:15 o’clock Tuesday morning by President E. H. Pullen, of the National Bank of the Republic, New York. About 375 delegates are in attendance, representing nearly all of the principal backing institutions in the middle and eastern states,. The south and west has but few representatives present. Rt. Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle, of the Episcopal diocese of Missouri, invoked Divine blessing upon the proceedings of the convention and was followed by Mayor VValbridge in an address of welcome which met with hearty applause. Mr. W. H. Thompson, president of the Bank of Commerce and of the St. .Louis clearing house, welcomed the delegates on behalf of the latter institution. President Pullen then read his annual address. Hon. Joseph C. Hendrix, president of the National Union bank of New York, and chairman of the executive committee, read the declaration of principles as adopted by the executive council. A synopsis follows: It declares that the existing commercial depression Is Immediately due to the attacks which threaten to overthrow the present gold standard of value, and believes that our full measure of national prosperity will not be gained until the whole world understands that the dollar of the United States Is 100 cents worth of gold, and that the nation Intends to keep It at that value. It warns the nation against the rash proposition that we should single-handed attempt to legislate silver to a parity with gold at a iletitlous ratio, declare.! that the free coinage of silver means monometallism, with gold at a premium, all other forms of our currency at a discount, and the value of the dollar an uncertain quantity depending each day upon the gold price of sliver bullion, with corresponding fluctuations In the value of all kinds of property; denounces as utterly false the claim that the gold standard is a devlc* of bankers, creditors and financiers, and declares that the gold standard Is an edict of commerce translated Into law, and dictated by those who conduct the commerce of the world rather than those who handle the money of the world. It asserts that mere "money changers" have always found more profit in a fluctuating than in a fixed currency, and continues: "Bankers are not mere money changers; they are trusted custodians of the money of the world. As bankers, we are debtors to the extent of our deposits. We have received these deposits in money as good as gold. We desire to return them In money of equal value. It will bo impossible for banks, life Insurance companies, mutual benefit orders, building and loan associations to return to their creditors money equal in value to that which they have received if our currency Is depreciated to the bullion metal composing our national standard of value which is not shared by every fnan who owes a dollar, or has a dollar due to him. We desire to have debts uue us paid In as good mouey as we have loaned. We desire to pay our debts In the same way. St. Louis, Sept. 25.—Thursday was the last day of the twenty-sixth annual convention of the American Bankers’ association, and the important part of the proceedings was the election of oflicers for the ensuing year. The first matter presented was a proposed amendment to the constitution whereby trust companies be admitted as a section of the association. This was unanimously adopted. Robert J. Lowry, of Atlanta, was elected president, and J. C. president National Union bank, New York, vice president. CLOSED UP. Poor Business Causes lUg Mills In Cleveland to (Jult. - Cleveland, ()., Sept. 26. —The Broadway Flour Milling company shut up shop and went out of business Friday afternoon, and its plant, machinery and stock are now for sale. This is the result of a long season of bad business and still worse prospects for the future. The company decided, after a long deliberation, to close up its affairs before it got*any deeper in the hole, and liquidate its present indebtedness. This news crcuted a great stir in commercial circles about town, as it was understood that the Broadway Mills company was one of the soundest institutions of the city and was supposed to be doing a thriving business. The capital stock of the company, of which George'V. Lewis was president, was $150,000. The plant, including machinery, was valued at $145,000. Horrors of Insurrection. Madrid, Sept. 25. —A dispatch to the lmparcial from Iloag Kong says that steamers which have arrived there from Manilla, the capital of the Philippine islands, brings the announcement that Cavite is occupied by 15,000 insurgents. Over 100 monks have been murdered in the islands since the breaking out of the insurreetiou. Many of the victims have been fastened to trees, their clothing having been soaked with kerosene oil and then ignited and burned to death. Two Men Hanged, Tierra Amarilla, N. M., Sept 25. —perfecto Padrilla and Rosario Ring were hanged here Thursday morning. Ring killed a young man in a drunken brawl on the streets here on September 16, 1895. Padrilla’s crime was the assassination of John Yiporid in August, 1894, when the latter was in camp near Copper City. Gales lix. English Channel. London, Sept. 24. —Fierce gales prevailed in the English channel Tuesday evening and the passenger and mail boats plying between Calais and Dover werd greatly delayed in consequence. A number of fishing boats at Cornwall were badly damaged, and isolated cases of drowning are reported. Use Corn as Fuel. _—M Cherokee, la.. Sept. 24. —Owing to tho high price of hard coal a great many jxiople in this locality will burn corn this winter. Hard coal is now selling for $10.59 to sll, while comwill bring but 11 cents a bushel. Business men will use corn for fuel. _ '■ Northwestern Wheat Crop. Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 24.—C. A. .yyjfsbury, the big miller, has received reports from 1.280 thrashings of farms in three northwestern wheat states, covering about half the total acreage. They indicate u crop of 105,000,000 bushels. •

A CLOUDBURST. It Causes a Great Amount of Damage at San Marcos, Tex. San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 28. —A tremendous cloudburst struck the city of Sau, Mucos, a|>out 00 miles of here, at ten o’clock Saturday morning and washed away a large portion of the town. The Missouri, Kansas & Texas and International & Great Northern railway tracks were washed away for .throe quarters of a mile and the joint depot badly wrecked. The damage to these two roads will reach $20,000. The cloudburst struck the lower portion of the city and swept everything before it. Latest information is that a pant of the city is covered with from five to twenty feet of water. All business is suspened, but the work of relief progresses slowly, because the town is divided by a raging torrent, and traffic, except by boat, is impossible in the flooded district. Many people, including whole families, were rescued from tree tops by men in boats. Had the storm occurred at night the loss of life would be appalling. As it is, four people are missing, and all hope of their being found alive has about been abandoned, as the house in which they were Jiving was washed away and completely wrecked. FAIL TO GET METEORITE. Steamer Hope of I’eary Expedition Return* to Vort. North Sydney, C. 8., Sept. 28. —The steamer Hope, of the Peary expedition, arrived here at *ll o’clock Saturday morning from its exploring trip north. Capt. Bartlett reported all well on board; but it was added that the main object of the expedition, that of bringing to the United States the 40-ton meteorite discovered by Lieut. Peary at Cape York upon a previous trip, had not been accomplished. It was found impossible to rig a derrick strong enough to move the meteorite. In spite of all this, scientists on board have obtained great results from their voyage. All on board expressed themselves as being delighted with their trip, although unexpected ice difficulties compelled them to return earlier than expected. The expedition touched at a number of points hitherto unexplored. Scientific observations were made and valuable records were made from the investigations. TOLON IS RELEASED. Peremptory Demand of the United States Conceded by Spain. Washington, Sept. 28. —Samuel T. Tolon, an American merchant of some prominence, recently arrested by Spanish authorities in Cuba, was liberated Saturday, according to a message received at the state department from Consul-General Lee. The unconditional release of Tolon was demanded several days ago by the consul-general on instructions from the state department. Gen. Weyler hesitated at first, and the American minister at Madrid was instructed to make a demand of the Spanish authorities there and incidentally to state the arrest was highly irregular and that the government of the United States would not take no for an answer. This stern demand evidently had a good effect. The question of demanding an indemnity for the arrest will be considered by the state department after liis arrival. DARING HOLD-UP. Paymaster of a West Virginia Concern Kobbed of 53,800. Charleston, W. Va., Sept. 28. —The paymaster for the Longdale Coal & Iron company, W. T. Wilson, was en route to Cl iff top by a short line road with money to pay the miners there and he was attacked by Joe Thompson, who with a drawn revolver in each liapd competed all on the pay train to throw up their hands, and proceeded to grab the packages of „mqney, amounting to $2,800. Wilson began firing at him when about 50 yards away, but the shots failed to take effect. Thompson returned the fire and shot Wilson in the groin, inflicting a fatal wound. A posse and bloodhounds are in pursuit of the robber. SEVEN DROWNED. Disaster to a Boating Party Reported from Shields, -England. London, Sept. 2S.—Seven lives were lost Saturday at Shields by the foundering of a boat that was overloaded. The party that entered the boat sank her almost to her gunwales, but as they were in perfectly smooth water there was no great danger. When, however, they got some distance out in the harbor, they encountered a small sea, which broke over the boat, and despite the efforts made to bail her, soon tilled her and caused her to sink. Other boats went to the rescue, but before they could reach the people struggling in the witter, seven of the party had been drowned. BASEBALL. National League Season Closed—Standing of the Club*. The National Baseball. league's season practically closed Saturday. The following table shows the number of games won and lost and the percentage of each club. Clubs. Won. Lost. Per Ct. Baltimore 90 39 .698 Cleveland 80 -lg 625 Cincinnati 77 50 . 606 Boston 74 57 . 565 u. h A C! J B0 C. 71 - 7 .565 Pittsburgh 66 63 .512 New York 64 67 4 Rq Philadelphia..... 62 CS .47F* Washington ....69 <2 Brooklyn 58 73 43 St. Louis .......40 90 308 Louisville 3S 92 . 292 Victim of a Labor Riot Hurled. Cleveland, ()., Sept. 28. —Sunday afternoon Evans, the striker who was fatally shot on August 14 by nonunion men during the recent labor troubles here, was buried in Woodland cemetery. He died last Thursday. It rained all day, but despite the weather, over 5,000 trades unionists marched in line to the Xortb>4 , resbyterian church, where the funeral services were held, and afterwards accompanied the body to the grave. The deadman is looked upon as a martyr to the cause of Inbnp. and, the feeling against Jus slayer is intense,

SPREE ENDS IN DEATH. A Brutal Father Chased by a Mob Drowns Himself. Cleveland, 0., Sept. 28.— Just before dark Sunday night Edward Wald, a ship.carpenter reaid ing ,afc 53 MUAlfitti street, narrowly escaped lynching at the bands of an infuriated mob of west side citizens.. Wald came home under the influence of liquor, quarreled with bis wife and finally struck her. The 14-year-old son Edward seized his father’s arm and entreated him to quiet down, whereupon the brute became enraged and threw the boy down the stairway leading to the street, a distance of 20 feet. The little fellow screamed for help and rolled out of the open doorway into the street writhing in convulsions and frothing at the mouth. Dr. C. A. Turner was summoned to attend the boy, and a crowd quickly collected to revenge the brutal outrage. Rev. John McHale, a Catholic priest, was hastened to the scene and administered the last rites of the church to the dying boy. Meanwhile the crowd increased to a mob, which was goaded into fury by the sight of the helpless child struggling in convulsions on the pavement until the clamor for revenge swelled to an ominous roar. An impromptu delegation of 40 forced their way into the house to drag out tl).e inhuman father, and others were dispatched for a rope. Wald had locked himself in a bedroom. The door was broken open, and the brute dragged into the street, fighting desperately. The police arrived before the rope appeared and thus intercepted a lynching. The mob gave battle to the police, determined not to allow Wald to escape flhem. During the scrimmage the prisoner broke loose from those who were holding him and ran down an alley toward the river. The mob was close at his heels and when the fugitive reached the river, knowing that his chance for life was less than even if captured, plunged into the cold, muddy water of the Cuyagho and was drowned. His body has not been recovered. The boy will die and the wife’s injuries may also prove fatal. “ . . . ■ - :■ MORE FIGHTING AT LEADVILLE Strikers Attack Bon Air Shaft, But Are Repulsed by the Guards. Lendviile, Col., Sept. 28. —Renewed rioting has occurred. At ten o’clock Sunday the military guard at the Don Air mine on Carbonate hill was attacked. The pickets were driven in behind the stockades by a fusillade of lead fired from one of the dark recesses of the mountain. Buckshot riddled the timberwork of the mine and whistled close to the ears of the militiamen. The fire was returned, the heavy ring of the Springfield rifle sounded on the air, and In a few moments all Leadville was awake. Lieut. Yerdeckberg telephoned Gen. Brooks that the guard had been driven in, and a few moments later the troops were turned out and started to the Bon Air on double time. The shots from the Bon Air sounded like a hail. Lights flashed in'all the windows of the town, and within half an hour the streets ware filled with men, armed and ready to go to the mine, which is some little distance away. The exchange of shots was lively and lasted for fully 15 minutes. The attacking party was located in one spot, while the fire of the military was scattering and from different points along the guard line. A squad of infantry with fixed bayonets charged into the brush, but the assailants retreated rapidly before them and were soon silenced. This attack occurred at a time when the union was consulting for peace, and will have the effect of causing renewed enlistments to the ranks of the militia to-day. A BABY’S HORRIBLE FATE Partially Devoured by Rats in Its Cradle —Dies of Its Injuries. Baltimore, Md., Sept. 2S. —Three big rats attacked the two-months’-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Asher, of 1150 Low street, Saturday night, and gnawed its face, head and neck to such an extent that the infant died in a short time. Mr. Asher lives over his store. He was looking after his business and Mrs. Asher had gone to market when the rats started to make a meal of the helpless infant which was snugly tucked in its crib in the second story. Hearing the baby crying, the father hurried upstairs and, as he entered the room in which the infant was lying, three large, viciouslooking rats jumped out of the crib and scampered off. The horrified father found that the flesh had been torn from the babe’s tender face, head and neck. Before a physician could be summoned the baby died. WORK OF THE FLAMES. Fire Causes a Loss of Over 8160,000 at Mount Holyoke College. South Hadley, Mass., Sept. 28.—Mount Holyoke college, the pioneer institution for the higher education of women, received a severe blow Sunday afternoon in the burning of the main building, with a probable loss o-f over $150,000. The buildings have cost over $300,000, and could not be replaced to-day for a less amount. Fortunately none of the 400 students or faculty were injured, there being ample time for their escape with part of their personal effects. It .is supposed that the fire originated in the bran'dry from an 'overheated -steam pipe, as no one had been in the laundry during the day, nor-lhad there been a fire there: The building and its contents were insured for $154,000. Fatal Storms in Germany. . > ' Berlin, Sept. 28. —The gale Which prevailed Friday and Saturday caused great damage to property and considerable loss of life along the North sed coast and far inland. The river Elbe rose 12 feet on Friday, as a result of which the cellars of many buildings near the river were flooded and scores of vessels were carried away from their moorings. river Ems was also forced over its banks and thousands of acres of land were submerged. A barge was capsized by the force of the wind in the upper Elbe and six persons were downed.

DAINTY PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES. How to Make the Popular Book-Shaped Kind. The simple, always popular, hookshaped frames, to hold two, four, six or even more photographs, are useful. They may be kind of material, though of course tn handsomer the material chosen, the more dainty the results will be. These frames may be closed like a book to lie on a table, thereby taking the place of the obsolete album, or they may be extended screen fashion, partly open so as to exhibit the pictures they contain. It is almost necessary to buy the foundations for these frames, as it is nearly impossible for a novice to cut out the cardboard and have it perfectly exact, and unless they are exact they are not at all pretty. The foundations are sold for a few cents apiece, and consist of two pieces of heavy cardboard for each division or leaf of the book. The back and front are the same in size, eight inches by six, but the front piece has an opening 5y 2 inches by 3% for the picture. For a frame capable of holding four pictures, eight pieces of cardboard will be required, four of which must have the opening as already described. There will also be necessary half a yard of material, 27 inches wide, a sheet of batting, a sheet of white watered paper and some good glue. Begin by making the back of the book first. To do this divide the silk lengthwise, so that there will be two pieces, each 27 inches long. From the end of each piece cut off two inches arid place aside for subsequent use. Extend one of the 25-inch nieces, right side down, on the table. Rate a layer of batting over the silk, and on the batting adjust at equal distances the four back pieces, allowing sufficient space between each to permit the frame to be folded in book form. Then turn tHe edges of the material being used for the cover and the batting over the back pieces and gli* firmly in place. The end pieces of the silk are now brought into use. Divide them through the center, so that there will be four pieces, although only three are to be used. These pieces are to be glued in neatly between the card-boards to hide the exposed batting at the hinges. The tops and bottoms of these strips will be, of course, turqed under so as to avoid raw edges. To finish the backs glue over the cards pieces of watered paper, covering the ends of thSfc, silk which have been previously glued to the boards. The object of this is to give the frame a finished appearance when completed. This finishes the back of the book frame, and it may be laid away to dry while the front pieces are being covered. To cover the front pieces proceed in the same way, omitting the hatting. M hen all are covered glue them in position to the back pieces, leaving the bottom free to admit the photographs; place under a heavy weight and let remain under pressure for 24 hours, so that the glue may become well set. Brocade, China silk, crepe, duck, denim and embroidered linen are all used in the manufacture of these useful photograph holders. Pretty frames of this sort may be made as gifts for friends, or brothers, sisters or cousins who are at college, utilizing the college colors when selecting the covering; yellow and white for Bryn Mawr, rose and gray for Vassar, blue and white for Barnard, blue for Wellesley, orange and black for Princeton, crimson for Harvard, dark blue for Yale, carnelian and white for Cornell, blue and white for Columbia, purple and white for Amherst, red and blue for Pennsylvania, brown and white for Brown and black and blue for Johns Hopkins.—Ladies’ Home Journal. THE LIFE-CAR. The First One Built Saved Tjvo Hundred Lives from a Single Ship. He had been planning for several years for a life-car, a closed vessel or covered boat, which could be sent out to a stranded vessel 011 a rope and pulled back and forth. It was to carry two or three people. He could not see his way clear to make this of wood; but now the iron problem was solved, he could carry out. all his.plans. The ear “was built according to the plan made by him, an inclosed, torpedolike affair, and along in the terrible winter of-1849-50 it was placed in the care of some untrained fishermen on the New Jersey coast, at Squan beach. An English ship, the Ayrshire, was wrecked here, one day, in the midst of a blinding storm. The men on the beach could do nothing with their ordinary boats. The life-car was brought out. A small cannon, or mortar, was loaded with a piece of smooth iron, several inches long, attached to a pile of cord. This was shot out over the spars of the ship. The people on board hauled in the cord and drew along through the surf a stronger rope. This was fastened to the mast and the life-car was swung from the beach, with the rope running through the two rings at each end, and pulled out to the vessel. There were 201 people on board, and all but one of the number were saved. The story of this rescue went round the world. All that had been said in praise of the inventor’s powers was nowjustified. All Europe was interested. He was recognized by the nations of the world as one who had done a marvelous work for humanity—who had, as some one said, robbed the ocean voyage of its terrors. The making of these boats followed, but the original boat Mr. Francis prer served. Its holme is now- in the National museum at Washington. It has been sent to many places for exhibition, to London among others, and it was an interesting feature of the life-saving exhibit of the government at the world’s fair.—W. S. Harwood, in St. Nicholas. A Chance of Proving It. “I wouldn’t mind helping you if 1 thought there was anything in you.” “Jes’ you gimme the dime, mister, an’ see how quick there’ll be sumthin’ in Journal.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —One newspaper for each of her birthdays is the odd collection which a young woman of Hiawatha, Mo., owns. —Workmen putting in a telephone and when they tested the instrument the department was called out and the firemen were unable to tell what the trouble was. —Unusual facilities for matrimony are offered at Americus, Ga. Justice Graham, while walking on the street one evening, was approached by tt negro man and woman who asked to be united, and he joined them in the solemn bonds then and there. —A gray wolf was killed recently at Cave Hills, Wyo. The creature is said to have measured five feet eight inches from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail, and was 34 inches high. From the point of the nose to the top of the head was 12 inches, and the hide und head bone weighed 20 pounds. —A Georgia man who lives in Cochran catches alligators in a novel way. He ties a rope around his foot and lets a man stand on the bank and hold the rope while he goes down into the ’gator’s hole and catches one by the tiii. When he gets his hold he gives a kick and the man on the bank pulls him up and he pulls the ’gator up. —The largest permanent store of coined money in the world is in the imperial war treasury of Germany— a portion saved for emergencies from the £200,000,000 paid by France after the Fmnco-Prussian war, and locked up in the Julius tower of the fortress of Rpandau. It amounts to the value of $30,000,000. —England’s five new battle ships, the contracts for which were recently given out, are to be called after famous old war ships: The Canopus and Goliath, which fought with Nelson at the Nile; “the Ocean, Collingwood’s flagship in the Mediterranean; the Glory, which shared in Lord Ilowe’s victory, and the Albin, which fought at Algiers and at Navarino. —Military Gazette.-- - —Cincinnati has consolidated her street car lines and claims that she is going to have the finest street railway system world. The company will be required to make improvements which will cost $2,500,000 during the next 18 months. The revenue to the city from the company will be $175,000 a year. All night cars, free transfers, illuminated signs, lower steps and other improvements are guaranteed. The list of routes occupies 214 ■ pages in the Cincinnati Enquirer. ANTARCTIC POSSIBILITIES. Borciigrevink Dreams of a Future for Commerce in the Ice Land. The recent Antarctic expedition was a commercial one, and commercially it vgas a failure, because we did net find the right whale so valuable for its whalebone. The Antarctic was fitted out for the hunt of that peculiar kind ot whale. Nevertheless, I have no doubt that the commercial results of the expedition would have been much better had we worked under more favorable auspices. I do not by any means consider the fact of our not having met with the light whale in these seas as conclusive proof of their non-existence in the bay at Victoria Land. The Antarctic found the right whales at Campbell island in the winter time; the boats fastened to five of them, of which, however, only one was caught. Now to me it does not seem improbable that these whales go south to the bay ar. Victoria land, where Rose saw them in the summer, and return north in the winter. It would seem incredible that a man of Sir James Rose’s standing, supported as lie was by the able scientists and experienced whalers, should have made a grave error when he said this valuable whale was to be found in large numbers in those latitudes. The difference in the appearance of the blue whale, as ,we found it there, and the right the method ot, spouting is so striking lhat even the most casual observer could not easily be deceived. Vepy possibly,, had we penetrated fugthfer into the large, open bay, discovered 1 by Ross in the vicinity of the Volcano peaks, Erebus and Terror, we, too, would have found the right whale in great numbers. We saw many blue whales, but had not the appliances to take them. , As I remarked at the international geographical congress, we found few seals. They increased in number, however, in number as we worked eastward; they seemed afraid of the lan . All the seals that we met on the shore showed much uneasiness and speedi } made for the water, a fact whic strengthened my belief in the exis - ence in a large enemy of the seal on t e continent. I do not doubt that t e seals congregate together in large num bers at some places on the hay. . _ I consider the guano beds which we discovered of great commercial imp tance, and they ought to bevwell vor the attention of enterprising b ' isine f! men. The specimen which I broug back with me contains a large percen age of ammonia. . , Furthermore, from the analysis 0 the specimen of rock which I broug back with me, the possible and proha presence of valuable minerals on t e continent is proved, although the and volcanic extent of the coast do not speak favorably for the P res ence of heavy metals near the surface. —Century. f A Change of View. “Want to go home, Charlie? Bhj, my dear little boy, I thought you to < me yesterday that you thought the farru was the only place to live?” “W-well, I dud-did,” sobbed Charlie“■But to-to-day I—” , “Well, go on, little man. What 1 you do?” “To-to-to-day I sus-sat dud-d-d-down on a pup-pitchfork 1” —Harper’s Roud Table.