Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 18, Number 38, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 2 December 1896 — Page 2

THE NAPPANEE'NEWS' BY G. N. MURRAY NAPPANEE. It t INDIANA. j DECEMBER—IB96. jj 3 Sun. Won. Tue. Wed. Thur. Frl. Sat. £ J__4 _s| I 6| 7 8 9 JO J 4 15 76 i? J® J?i J 27 28 29 30 3J £ The News Condensed. Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather bureau,“says in his annual report that timely warning’s of all severe storms likely to cause injury to shipping were sent to all maritime stations and resulted in almost incalculable benefit. The average percentage of verification of the bureau’s forecasts during the year was 82.4 percent.,an improvement of 2.4 per cent, over that of last vear. An unknown man and woman who registered as George Wilson and wife were found dead in their tied in a room at the Standard hotel in New York, having been suffocated by illuminating gas. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 23d was: Wheat, 54,971,000 bushels; corn, 18,150,000 bushels; oats, 12,208,000 bushels; rye, 2,057, 000 bushels; barley, 0,140,000 bushels. Mrs. Casper Laboy, of Nesquehoning, Pa., was stabbed to death and her husband fatally slashed by robbers. At Delmont, Pa., John Tarr, aged 25 years, shot and killed his wife und then committed suicide. They were not living together. Patrick Meagher, a justice of the peace at Gilberts, 111., and his mother were suffocated by coal gas at their home. A temporary prison at Mena, Ark., was burned and Tom Casey and 11. Hopkins, confined for disorderly conduct, perished in the flames. Miss Clara Barton, president of the Red Cross society, in her report of the work of the Armenian relief expedition in Asia Minor says that 50,000 Armenians will starve unless helped by * May 1. The report of Gen. J. C, Breckinridge, inspector general of the army of the United States, speaks highly of the army as being in as good condition in respect to instruction,'discipline,equipn ent and supplies as ever before in its history. .* For the first time in nearly 20 years the national republican party closed the campaign with all its debts paid and a surplus of SIOO.OOO in its treasury. At Weir, Mass., Frederick Luther, an electric fireman, shot his boarding mistress, Mrs. Abby F. Barber, and then killed himself. No cause is known. Mrs. F. A. Walker and her daughter Mabel and Mary Overland, a domestic, were fatallj burned in Minneapolis bv the overturning of a gasoline lamp. Mably & Cos., one of the leading retail clothing firms in Detroit, failed for $400,000. The Dakota national bank of Sioux Falls, S. D., closed its doors with liabilities of $230,000. The hoard of publication of war records has submitted its annual report to the secretary of war. This work has been in progress for 21 years and is about completed. It has cost thus far $2,334,328. Seven sophomores of Princeton (N. .1.) university have been suspended for the part they played in the hazing of 11 freshmen. Twenty-six banks in eastern and southeastern Nebraska have been burglarized with losses amounting.to Over $3(5,000 within the past two months. It is officially announced that Troop A, Ohio national guard, of Cleveland, will act as the military escort of Presi dent-elect McKinley at the inauguration ceremonies in Washington. Alf and Bob Holly brothers) were killed at a negro cake walk at Selma, Ala., by the Hayes brothers, Henry ancT Jack. A disastrous prairie fire swept over the Seminole country near Rochelle, O. TANARUS., and 16 persons were burned to death The Davies county savings association at Gallatin, Mo., an old banking institution, closed its doors. Joseph Green and Mike Inhofer, two W'est Newton (Minn.) farmers, were killed instantly by the explosion of a thrashing engine. Rev. James Miller, pastor of Grace Methodist church at Bloomington, 111., was murdered in Decatur, where he had gone to visit his son. Robbery was the motive. i _ The differences between the wiutfow glass workers and the manufacturers, which has kept the factories of the country idle since May 30, were settled at a conference in Pittsburgh and 15,000 men will be at work again December 15. Baltimore Methodists erected a bronze tablet to mark the site of the Lonely Lane meeting-house, where the Methodist Episcopal church was organized in 1784. . - Mrs. Swearnier, the wife of a rancher living in Lewis county, Wash., cut the throats of her three little girls, uged re spectively five years, three years and nine months, and then used the knife on herself. She waß insane. The body of the late George W. ti. Ferris, inventor of the Ferris wheel, was cremated at Pittsburgh in accordance with a request made by him fore his death. 5 L. Fire destroyed five of the best business houses in Atlama, Tex., the loss feeing SIOO,OOO. ,

Near Zionsville, N. C., n mob captured a man named Mitchell, accused of assaulting a five-year-obi girl, and hnngeil him. The annual report of Secretary of War Daniel S. Lnmont shows that the total expenditure of the year were $y ,803,298, and the secretary’s estimates for next year are only n little more than $1:000,000 in excess of that uniount. The desertionsduring the year numbered 1,365. The army consists of 25,426 officers and men, or 284 below the legal maximum, and the discipline of the troops was never better than now. It turns out that Rev. James Miller, who was supposed to have been murdered at Decatur, Til., took his own life. Reports showing favorable results of the rural free delivery experiments of the government are reaching the postoffice department in Washington. Nearly the entire business portion of the town of Leavenworth, Wash., was destroyed by fire. Col. Jose Reyes, aid de camp of Gen. Maceo, who passed through Jacksonville, Fla., said that the most sanguinary battle of the war in Cuba was fought in the Rabi hills in Pinnrdel Rio and 2,000 of Weyler’s men were killed and 4,000 wounded. The fertilizing plant of Treston & Sons in Blissville, L. 1., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $200,000. In football games in Chicago on Thanksgiving day Chicago university defeated University of Michigan by a score of 7 to 6, and the Chicago Athletic association won from the Boston Athletic association by a score of 12 to 6. Within the last 30 days there have been 13 murders in Mingo county, W. Va. Inman, Poulson & Co.’s sawmill at Portland, Ore ; , was burned, the loss being SIOO,OOO. Reports from North Dakota announce the first great blizzard of the year. Railroad trains were in a hopeless tangle from Fargo west to Mnndan. and most of the telegraph wires were down. Business at. Jamestown, Valley City, Lari mare and Devil’s Lake was suspended. In football games in various, places on Thanksgiving day one person was killed and 27 others were injured, some seriously. Contracts for over $3,000,000 worth of new vessels for the lakes have been closed in Chicago since the election, giving employment to 3.500 men. The Naval Veterans’ association unveiled its monument to the United States navy at Loudon Park cemetery in Baltimore, Md. G. W. Nelson, leading tenor in the choir at Thanksgiving services at the First Baptist church in Chattanooga, Tenn., dropped dead in the choir. Einpey & Woodard’s grain elevator at Farmington, Minn., was burned with 40,000 bushels of grain. Thanksgiving dny was universally observed throughout the country. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 27th aggregated $935,053,113, against $1,235,782,141 the previous week. The increase compared with the corresponding week in 1895* is 6.9. There were 300 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 27th, against 344 the week previous and 279 in the corresponding period of 1895. . R. G. Dun & Cos. in their weekly review of trade say that reports from all parts of the country show clearly the enlargement of trade, not at all points in the same branches, but everybody helped by a more confident feeling. Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Reynolds, an old couple living nt Fredonia, N. Y. t were suffocated by coal gas. Shoninger, Levy & Cos., wholesale lace dealers in Chicago, failed for SIOO,OOO. t A cyclone near Wneo, Tex., devastated a strip one mile wide and eight miles in length. A number of farmhouses were demolished and one person was killed and several others injured. J. C. Watts, cashier of the State bank of Neola, la., is said to be a defaulter in the sum of SIO,OOO. He is supposed to be somewhere in Colorado.

Domestic trouble in the home of Henry L. Bowers at De Kalb, 111., culminated in the murder of the wife and the suicide of the husband. In various places in Decatur county, Ind., on Thanksgiving day two people were killed, two fatally injured and several others seriously hurt in accidents. While temporarily insane George Wilbur, 53 years of age, shot and killed his nephew, a' hoy of 17, and then committed suicide at his home near Augusta, la. Two hundred thousand head of cattle are perishing from cold and hunger on tlie ranges west of the Missouri river in South Dakota. Three men were fatally shot and sev : eral others more or less seriously wounded in a drunken riot at Duryea, Pa. A severe blizzard prevailed throughout the northwest the thermometer in portions of Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas ranging from 20 to 30 degrees below zero. A cyclone passed through the northwest corner of Tunica, Miss., wrecking a church and several houses and killing Sarah Clay and injuring several other persons. The elevator of the St. Paul Warehouse <£.- Elevator company in St. Paul was burned, the loss being SIOO,OOO. L. E. Irwin, chief of the Kansas City (Mo.) police department, died of blood poisoning, aged 52 years'. President Cleveland has purchased the old Slidell property in Princeton, N. J., with a view to making it his permanent home. Meyhr Bros., cloak manufacturers'-in New York, failed forisloo,ooo. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. *-• Official returns of the vote on presidential electors in Illinois show the following totals: McKinley. 605,124: Bryan, 464,109; Palmer, 6,299; Levering, 9,808. McKinley’a majority, 124,908. t.

Cot. Franklin 'Penny, for nearly 85 years the proprietor of the National hotel in \Vualiington, died at the age of 89 years. Rev. Charles M. Rowen. the oldest Methodist preacher in Chicago, died at the age of 90 years. Lafayette Lane, Congressman from Oregon from 1874 to 1876, died at his home in Rqsebtijfg. Rev. Dr. William T. Gibson died in Utica, N. Y., aged 75 years. For many years he was the editor of the Gospel Mewenger, an Episcopal paper. The democrats of the Third Georgia district have nominated for congress Charles R. Crisp, eldest son ex-speaker. * The state board of canvassers have changed Virginia’s electoral vote to 11 for Bryan and one for McKinley. Gen. E. VV. Pettus, of Dallas, Ala., was elected United States senator to succeed Senator Pugh on March 4 next. Edward Eddy, n multimillionaire and one of the best-known mining experts of the world, died in Denver of pneumonia, aged 57 years. The official canvass of the vote in Missouri at the recent election is as follows: Democratic,363,6s2; republican, 304,940; prohibition, 2.169; socialistlabor, 610; Palmer-Buckner, 2,355; national (prohibition), 292. Benjamin Apthrop Gould, famous as a scholar and astronomer, died in Cambridge, Mass., from the effects of a fall, aged 72 years. FOREIGN. Advices from the Island of Martinique, in the West Indies, report extensive floods there, causing great loss of life and damage to property. Advices from New Hebrides say that natives of the islands are being sold to the masters of trading vessels at from six to ten pounds apiece. Itnlo Cam pan inf, the famous tenor, died in Parmii, Italy, where he was born 50 years ago. Capt. Gen. Weyler returned from the field in Pinar del Rio to Havana. It is openly asserted that Weyler became frightened because Maceo had set a price upon his head or his capture. Webster & Benny, London warehousemen, failed for $900,000. The total popular vote at the recent election is given as follows: McKiuley, 7,057,450; Bryan, 0,283,379; Palmer, 133,360. , Official returns show that 446,037 votes were cast in Wisconsin for president in the recent election, a gain of 64,456 in four years. McKinley’s plurality is 104,570. A cable from Genoa, Italy, announced the death there of Gov. Fraser, of New Brunswick. Coventry Patmore, the well-known author, died in London, aged 73 years. Antonio Lopez Coloma, former leader of the revolutionists in Matanzas, was shot in Havana, having remained for 24 hours previously in a chapel, according to law. t A revolution is tinder way in the Uruguay republic. Terrible storms and floods occurred at Athens, Greeqe, and the low-lying quarters were inundated, many persons being drowned. Thirty persons were killed in a colliery explosion at Zengorze, Russian Poiand. Miss Matliilde Blind, the author and lecturer, died in London, aged 50 years. Gen. Hereaux has been reelected president of Santo Domingo. A fresh massacre with 500 victims occurred near Dinrbekir, in Armenia. Capt. Gen. Weyler left Havana for Pinar del Rio. It is officially announced that Egypt is free from cholera.

LATER. The annual report of DanieLN. Morgan, treasurer of the United States, shows the net ordinary revenues of the government during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1896, to have been $326,9776,200, and the expenditures $352,175,446, leaving a deficiency for the year of $25,203,240, or $17,601,977 less than during the preceding year. The public debt outstanding was $1,769,840,323, against $1,076,120,983 on June 30, 1895. The Citizens’ batik of Midlothian, Tex., has suspended business. Francis Murphy celebrated in Pittsburhg, Paj- the twentieth anniversary of his temperance work, which he began in that city. W. E. Coe, county treasurer, was fatally shot by burglars in his office at Dallas, Tex, and robbed of $6,000. Henry Powers, aged 33 years, a farmer living near Marion, CL, killed his wife and then took his own life while temporarily insane. George Y. Coffin, the famous cartoonist, died in Washington. Twenty-nine persons were killed and 35 injured in a crush at Baroda, India, to witness the arrival of the earl of Elgin, viceroy of India. John Tyler, aged 78, inventor of the famous Tyler water wheel, died at Claremont, N. H. The total collections of internal revenue for the month of October were $13,275,205, a decrease as compared with October, 1895, of $575,008. The ehtire plant of the East Clayton 4().j Brickmaking company was destroyed by fire, the loss being SIOO,OOO. A cyclone struck the town of Ralston, O. TANARUS„ and nearly wiped out the 200 houses in the place. Several persons were injured. The official vote of Minnesota at tffe recent election was: McKinley, 193,501; Bryan. 139,626; Palmer, 3,230; Levering, 4,305, and Matchett, 895. McKinley’s plurality, 53.875. * Luther Greenmnn. aged, 40; his wife, aged 37; and their children, Aimee, aged six;. Lottie, aged three, and Arthur, a baby of 11 months, were burned to death at their home near Perry, N. Y. Carl and Ernest Densaw (brothers) were drowned at Ahnapee, Wis., while skating. The official* canvass of the vote on president in lowa shows thp following result: McKinley, 289,293; Bryan. 223,741; Palmer, 4.516; Levering. 3,192; Bentley, 352; Matchett, 453; McKinley’s plurality, 65,552; McKinley,'s majority, 59,939.

THEY DIFFER. Views of Dun end Bradstrcet on the Com merclal Situation. New York, Nov. 28. —It. U. Dun & Cos lo their weekly review of trade kay: “When the rush of orders after the election slackened, many began to think business dwindling. But subsidence of deferred orders Is not decrease of business. Disappointment Is observed In the Iron and steel Industry because various combinations have been and are still retarding orders by prices vfhieb buyers believe cannot be maintained,'and the same Is true In boots and shoes and In a few branches of textile goods. But business Is on the whole enlarging and the employment of many more hands will extend purchasing power. The settlement of the window glass controversy, starting many thousand hands, and the collapse of some Important iron combinations with the same effect, give promise of more business. Broadly speaking the gain has been greater than anybody expected, and it Is not surprising If a small part of It Is In excess of the present consuming demand. “Reports from all parts of the country show clearly the enlargement of trade, not at all points In the same but everybody helped by a more confident feeling. Monetary difficulties have vanished us If by magic, and banks with an uncomfortably large supply of Idle money are hunting borrowers, as the borrowers were recently hunting lenders. Enormous gains In bank deposits, $37,000,000 In two weeks, Indicate something of the amount of funds recently hoarded. "Wheat has risen over 6 cents for the week without material change In foreign advices, which have been on the whole less stimulating. Corn has sympathized with wheat only a little and is coming forward freely. The most important factor in the wheat market is that the visible supplies do not gain as much as has been expected. “Wool was and is still bought largely for speculation, and earlier purchasers are unloading, but the mills are not yet doing much more than in October. A few more have started, buUhere is scarcely more demand apparent for staple goods. “The boot and shoe industry is still hindered by the general refusal of dealers to pay the advanced prices demanded by manufacturers, except for the limited quantities which are immediately required and while most manufacturers are working on erders taken weeks ago at lower prices, which will keep them busy for some weeks to come, very little new business is com ing. No further advance of importance has been made in leather, and the market for hides has sharply reacted, so that the average of prices is slightly lower than November 12.

“The collapse of the nail combination and probably of the beam combination and considerable reduction in quotations for nails and beams, give reason to look for n larger demand for products of iron and steel, but at present the sales against speculative purchases made some time ago are depressing prices, and Bessemer pig has sold at $12.25, and according to some reports a little lower at Pittsburgh. The demand for such products as are not controlled by the combinations is somewhat Increasing, but by no means as rapidly as expected. “Failures for the week have been 300 In the United States," against 279 last year and 3S in Canada, against 47 last year." Bradstreet’s says: “Last week’s disappointment at the lack of demand in general lines continues, the Intervention of a holiday having made trade quieter and the volume smaller. At some points of distribution there is no change in the situation. Mild and unseasonable weather prevents a more active distribution of clothing and heavy goods, and the volume moving Is smaller. Where business has been more active it ts due to filling in orders and to a demand foi holiday goods. Confidence In a revival of demand, which has not yet appeared, was responsible for the starting up of some mills and factories which are dissatisfied with their prospects. The most encouraging reports are of an improved tone of trade and a favorable outlook f0r1&97.” FAVOR INTERVENTION. Bonrke Cockran Makes an Eloquent Flea for Cuba in New York. New York, Nov. 28.—A commemorative service, was held in Chiclcering hall Friday night, whbch was crowded. The meeting was cqliqd to order by Dr. Lincoln de Zayas. The speakers of the evening were Bourke Cockran, Charles A. Dana, Emanuel Sanguilly, Enrique J. Vurma, and Dr. Enrique Barnett. Bourke Cochran’s speech was one of the most eloquent ever made by him. He urged intervention by this government in the interest of civilization and humanity and said that the annexation of Cuba would put this country on a footing with barbarous Spain. It is time, he declared, that the executive should make known his views upon the Cuban question, and if the word was spoken freedom would be secured without the firing of a single shot. But if armed interference should become necessary in the cause of humanity he favored final resort to arms. Tragedy at Indianapolis. Indianapolis Ind., Nov, 25,—Five-dead bodies of Herman Meyers and Nora A. Richardson were found lying on the ground in front of a vacant house on Downey street Tuesday morning. Each was lying in a pool of blood and n revolver was lying close to the corpse of Meyers. Two gaping wounds in the girl’s back and one in her breast told the story of a murder, while a hole in Meyers’ left temple indicated that he had killed himself after taking the girl’s life. Little is known of the couple, but from letters found on Meyers’ body it is apparent that he had beteayed the girl under promise of marriage. All of the letters begged Meyers to make his promise good “before her shame should become known to the world,” und the letter of most recent date threatened him with prosecution if he did not speedily make good his werd. It is supposed that they met Monday night and that the tragedy was tbe outcome of a quarrel. Chicago Lure Dealers Fall. Chicago, Nov. 28.—Shoninger, Levy & Cos., wholesale lace dealers, 270 Fifth avenue, confessed judgment in the superior eourt Friday morning for $53,000. The liabilities are said to be between $75,000 and $100,000; assets not stated. The firm attributes its failure tc slow collections and lack of business. Holler's Defalcation. Lebanon, Fa., Nov. 28. —The amount of money stolen by Cashier John H. Hoffer from the First uationalbank of Lebanon is $110,173. There were other transactions with Lebanon blinking institutions which, it is stated, will swell the total amount of his defalcations to $200,000. Prussian Bonds Altered. Berlin, Nov. 28. Isudtag ■> Friday the govgfnmen? proposal for the conversion pf the Frussian four per cenl. bonds into thTfee and onehalf per cents, was carried without a division.

"THE DAYS OF M 9” Equaled by the Wonderful Find of Gold In Western Mexico—Choice Mining Lauds Owned and Developed by Chicago Capital* The “golff fever” days,-whew rich in a day and millionaires in a month, are strikingly recalled by tho present discovery of gold deposits-the richest known in vears in the vast mountain ranges or tho Sierra Madro Experts have made careful inspection and they invariably report the deposits unlimited. It is confidently stated by those whoknow that this will shortly become the gold mining center of the'•world. Already miners and Investors from everywhere especially from the West, are flocking to Mexico, confident of enormous success, but Chicago capitalists, with their customary World Fair City hustle, got in on the ground floor and secured the most valuator tract in the entire rantre. The result was tho lncorporation of the Gold Hill Mining Company of Mexico, with a capital of $5,000,000. No one can doubt the soundness and promise of the enterprise of which such well-known bust-ness-men as these are the head and 1 rout. Tho President of the company is Robert Weems Tansill. the well-known capitalist of New York and Chicago, who made a trip for himself to see the possibilities of gold mining in Mexico, and who returned enthusiastic over the result of his journey; Vice-President, John C. Shaffer (I resident Kl node wood and Chcago Electric Street railway); Secretary and Treasurer, Ben j. N. Ffbenmn, the Denver banker: Directors, Israel F, Rumsey (Rumscy, Lightncr & C.x, Cnicago, grain commission); Edwin r. Getchell, Chicago (real estate and loans) ; and Charles I-lenrotin, Chicago (stocks and bonds). ... 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In order to provide for a much larger plant and an increased development two million shares have been placed in the treasury to be sold as tho directors may determine. They now offer for public subscription 250,000 shares of this stock, which is l ull paid and non-assessable. This organization has been made purely mutual, so that each subscriber for stock in this company shares tho benefits from his investments in exact proportion to the largest stockholder. The officers and directora.are gentlemen of national reputation, whose names guarantee wise and economical management, making it the safest investment that lias ever been offered as a mining proposition. The Gold Hill Mining Company’s offices are at 811-814 Marquette Building, Chicago. They have issued a prospectus giving a complete description of their properties, which they will mail upon application. 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