Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 24, Number 42, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 24 December 1902 — Page 6

THE NAPPANEE NEWS. MURRAY A POSTMA, Publishers. NAPPANEE, : : INDIANA HSfpi All ttie News of the Past Seven Days Condensed. HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS News of the Industrial Field, Personal and Political Items, Happenings at Home and Abroad. THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD CONGRESSIONAL. f In the United States- senate on the 16th • Joint resolution Introduced by Senator Wetmore was adopted appropriating *3,000 for the purchase of a bronze bust of the late President McKinley. Debate on the •t&tehood bill discontinued until January 6. At 6:15 the Venezuelan situation discussed b> executive session In the house the bill to transfer from the treasury department to the secretary of agriculture the power to make regulations to suppress and extirpate dangerous contagious diseases among live stock was passed without division. The legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill further considered In committee of the whole. In the United States senate on the 17th the pension appropriation bill was passed. It carries *139,847,000. An urgent deficiency bill was also passed. The amount carried by this bill Is *1,118,400. It includes an Item •f *500,000 to enable the secretary of agriculture to stamp out the foot and mouth disease, which has become epidemic In the New England states In the house the legislative appropriation bill was passed practically without amendment except the Insertion of a provision appropriating *600,000 to enforce the Sherman anti-trust law And directing the attorney general to pro'ceed to the prosecution of all violators of the law. On the 18th the senate was not in sesston. ....The house passed a bill to reduce the duties on the products of the Philippine Islands coming into the United States from 75 per cent, of theDlngltey rates (the present duties) to 25 per cent, of those rates. The McCall resolution, calling for the correspondence In the Venezuela Imbroglio, was adopted.

DOMESTIC. President Baer, of the Reading raflToad, made a statement deprecating the course pursued by the independent coal operators, who, it is alleged, have forced the price for their coal up to sll .50 a ton to dealers, equal to sl4 to the consumer. By the explosion of an acetylene gas tank the residence of John Puglughi, at Fort Lee, N. J., was demolished, his five children instantly killed and his wife seriously injured. President Roosevelt has signed the commission of Hon. A. B. Anderson, recently appointed and confirmed as United States district judge for Indiana. Representative Martin, of South Dakota, introduced a bill in the house making October 21, the anniversary af the discovery of America, a legal loliday, to be known as Columbus day. The senate in executive session ratiBed the treaty of friendship and general relations between the United States and Spain. John Bartlinger, or Utyler, as his name proves to be, has confessed that he murdered Mrs. Robert Garrison, who was found shot dead in her home In Bedford township, Mich. The bank at Clarence, in Ford county, 111., was opened by robbecs at night and $3,000 taken. James Ossman, of Williamsport, Pa., la dead as a result of injuries received In the explosion in the waterworks tunnel at Cleveland, 0., last Sunday. This makes four fatalities among Shose injured in the accident. Hamilton (O.) ministers voted to shut out Santa Claus from Christmas entertainments, declaring that ehurches are not justified in fostering even so innocent a superstition. The mine workers, after occupying 19 days in presenting about 160 witnesses, practically closed their case before the anthracite v coal strike com- . mission in Scranton/ r The official vote of Michigan in the recent election gives Bliss (rep.) for governor a plurality of 20,105. Three cliildren -namedDorke were burned to death at Pellston, Mich. Washington has sent a note to Berlin on the subject of interference with American vessels in carrying out the blockade programme. Eight thousand Pullman (111.) car shop employes served notice they would refuse to work on Sundays hereafter. New York banks have pledged a $50,000,000 fund as a safeguard against a money panic. John Mitchell \yas given a public welcome at Spring Valley, I!!., and declared in a speech that the anthracite ■trike settlement is the beginning of a movement, backed by public scnlimentr to abolish the necessity for strikes. Chief Justice Fuller announces that the supreme court will take a recess on the 22d inst. for two weeks. A band of 200 Indians in the state of Washington have taken the warpath between Little Salmon and the Pelley river. Figures compiled by an experienced wholesale grocer in Chicago show that cost of food necessities has increased 25 per cent, within the last 12 months, and at least 33 1-3 per cent, during the last two years. # Mayors of 25 of the leading Illinois cities declare in favor of a movement to confer upon womemtaxpayers the right to vote for tax officials and upon tax matters. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who has been differing with typhoid fever at New York, has developed peritonitis and jfci* condition is considered grave.

Postmaster Charles Meighan, of Ogden, Utah, who was recently found guilty by a federal jury of embezzling government funds, was sentenced to one year a*nd a day confinement in jail. J. D. Rockefeller gave a Christmas gift of $1,000,000 to the University of Chicago, with an addition of $228,000 to make up a deficit in the budget. Admiral Dewey’s fleet will be ordered immediately to Trinidad island, near La Guayra. Other warships will be sent to CuTacoa. President Roosevelt believes the trouble will be settled by arbitration, but a close watch against territory grabbing will be kept. Decision has been reached to place the remains of Mrs. Grant in the tomb with the body of her husband at Riverside park. Chairman Gray, of the coal strike commission, suggests that steps be taken to secure a law in Pennsylvania forbidding employment of children at night. Because of jealousy John W. Williams fatally shot his wife and killed himself at St. Joseph, Mo. Fire at Huron, S. D., destroyed the Huron opera house, owned by W. L. Miner and valued at $25,000. The interstate commerce commission’s annual report declares that railroad mergers practically have suppressed competition. Grave danger exists unless the law is amended to fit new conditions. Injunctions against rate cutting react on shippers. Senator Depew introduced a bill for emergency currency, allowing national banks to issue circulation to the extent of 50 per cent, of their capital in time of stringency. A shipment of gold bullion worth $185,904.64 has just been made by the United States assay office in Deadwood, S. D., to the mint in Philadelphia. The president sent to the senate the reciprocity treaty recently negotiated between the United States and Cuba. The United States will recognize the blockade of Venezuelan ports. The government’s attitude will be that of a neutral power toward belligerents. The bank at Mullens, S. C., was broken, the safe dynamited and about $6,000 in cash stolen. A material increase in the number of cases of pneumonia and severe colds among the people of Washington is attributed to the coal faminfe. • The total assessment of all property in the state of Illinois is $1,030,127,030, of which Cook county gives $430,810,072. The terminal station of the Long Island City railroad, at Long Island City, was destroyed by fire; loss, $60,000. Mathias H. Utzler, alias John Brantlinger, pleaded guilty of the murder of Mrs. Robert Garrison in Johnstown township, Michigan. He was sentenced to solitary confinement at hard labor for life in the state prison at Jackson. * PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Solomon Hirsch, former United States minister to Turkey, died in Portland, Ore., aged,63 years. Benjamin F. Dennison, treasurer of the American Baptist Publication society, died in Philadelphia, aged 67 years. John W. Ela, president of the Chicago civil service commission, died at Philadelphia from an apoplectic stroke, aged 62 years. “Gen. Peanuts,” who for a number of years was one of the best known midgets and clowns connected with Barnum’s and Forepaugh and Sell’s circuses, was found dend in bed at New York.

Gen. Wagner Swayne died in New York of a complication of diseases. Charles P. Griffin, one of the best known politicians in Ohio, and former speaker of the Ohio legislature, dropped dead of heart disease in his office in Toledo. FOREIGN. The propaganda at Rome has selected Bishop Quigley, of Buffalo, as arfchibishop of Chicago. Great Britain is said to have ordered cessation of hostilities in Venezuela pending consideration of arbitration proposals. Prcmierßalf our, speaking in the house of commons, declared the willingness of Britain to submit claims to arbitration. The seizure of Margarita island in the Carribbean sea is believed to have been planned by Germany. Eighteen Gypsies, who were encamped at Blaseney, near Arad, Hungary, have been frozen to death. Many persons in other parts of the country also have met death as a result pf the intense cold weather prevailing. Premonitory symptoms of another eruption of the Soufriere have been experienced on the island of St. Vincent. Colombia is secretly preparing to invade Nicaragua. Possession of the Mosquito strip and control of both isthmian canal routes is sought. Leading men of Caracas urge President Castro to yield to force and commission the United States minister to make the best terms possible with the allies. An agreement on this line is reported to have been reached. Premier Balfour i&id in the house of commons that war existed and that the blockade soon to be announced will be conducted on a war basis; — It is said in Berlin that, Germany and Great Britain have decided to reject the arbitration proposal made through Minister Bowen. According to dispatches from Hungary, 63 persons were frozen to death there during the last three days. Wolves ne devastating the sheepfolds and huve devoured three shepVevds. ' Parliament was prorogued by royal commission until February 17,

The town of Andijan, Russian Turkestan, was totally destroyed by an earthquake Tuesday. The number of fatalities is net yet ascertained. The population is threatened with starvation. Admiral Dewey cabled information that he has assigned American wardships to positions near the Venezuelan coast. President Castro through the United States legation, formally asks for arbitration of the .dispute between Venezuela and European countries. Nearly 9,000 Boers it is said are preparing to “trek” to America dhd will settle in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. The French authorities have become convinced that the death of Mrs. Ellen Gore was accidental and have decided to drop the case against M. De Rydzewski. Three officials, taro soldiers and 150 natives, mostly children, were killed by the earthquake which destroyed the town of Andijan, Russian Central Asia. Over 300 were injured and 9,000 buildings-destroyed.

LATER. The United States senate was not in session on the 19th. The house passed the pure food bill by a vote of 72 to 21, the point of no quorum not being raised by the opponents of the measure. The senate on the 20th passed a bill authorizing the payment of judgments amounting to $1,000,000, to be paid on account of the destruction of property in Hawaii in connection with the fight on the bubonic plague in those islands in 1899. The senate adjourned until January 5, 1903. The house agreed to the senate amendments to bill fixing the sum to be paid for compensation and expenses of the coal strike commission, and the measure was passed. Adjourned until January 5, 1903. The German government reversed its decision not to accept arbitration unless payment is guaranteed, and will submit its demands to a commission. Great Britain and Italy also accept the proposal to. arbitrate. France asks equal treatment with other powers in the settlement of her claims against Venezuela, but explains that coercion is not intended. John A. Sheridan, Charles J. Denny, Charles Gutke, Edmund Bersch, and T. E. Albright, ex-members of the St. Louis house of delegates, were convicted on charges of bribery in connection with the passage of the Suburban street car bill. Each man was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. William Mabee and John Wallace, both firemen, were killed as a result of a collision at Little Ferry Junction, N. J., between two freight trains. A burglar shot by Rev. D. B. Shellenberger, at Bannerville. Pa., on November 30, died in his cell at the county jail. A pitiful plea from Daisy Lawrence, aged ten, indueed Gov. Savage, of Nebraska, to pardon her father, who is serving a three years’ sentence in the state penitentiary for embezzlement. Nonunion men, some of thefr relatives and others to the number of 30, appeared before the coal strike commission and told their stories of alleged boycotts, intimidations, dynamiting and violence in various forms, during the late strike. Four hundred thousand persons are reported to be destitute and stnrving as a result of the crop failure in Finland. Because he thought he had failed to pass his examinations, Everett Harman, of Malcom, la., a student at the lowa W’esleyan university, committed suicide. The president has concluded that it will not be necessary to send the Cuban reciprocity treaty to the house of representatives. Gov. A. T. Bliss, of Michigan, will not permit the McGovern-Corbett fight which was to have been held in Detroit next month before the Metropolitan Athletic club. M. and Mme. Humbert, ,Eva Humbert, and the three D’Aurignacs connected with the Humbert swindle in Paris, were arrested in Madrid, where they have been since May'9. President Roosevelt and representative officials from all branches of the government 'and the diplomatic corps attended the funeral services over the remains of Mrs. Julia Dent Grant in Washington. The remains were taken to New York and placed beside those of her illustrious husband, Gen. U. S. Grant. The twentieth century thank offering fund of the Methodist Episcopal church, amounting to $20,000,000, is now filled, according to announcement made by Secretary Mills, of Rochester. Charles F. Griffin, former secretary of state of Indiana, who last week was stricken with paralysis, died at his home in Hammond, 2nd. The princess of Wales gave birth to a son, this being the fifth child she lias presented to the prince since their marriage in 1893. The baby is the fifth in succession tt> the throne of Great Britain. The next annual meeting of the national bureau of industrial statistics will be held at Washington April 28, 29 and 30, and May 2 and 3, 1903. The pope lias signed the appoint- - ment of Bishop ,1. E. Quigley, of- - N. Y„ as archbishop of Chicago. Asa result of a rear-end collision between the Stockton flyer and the “Owl” train on tile Southern Pacific, at Byron, Cal., 16 deaths have already been recorded. \ After January 1 Indianapolis, Ind., will be the labor headquarters of over half a million union workers in America. Officials of over 450,000 American and Canadian workmen will locate there.

TRAINS COLLIDE. the Sonthw* Paeritc Road to Which Sixteen Perooao Are KBIoL Martinez, Cal., Dec. 22.—As a result of a rear-end collision between the Stockton flyer and the “Owl” train on the Southern Pacific, at Byron, Saturday night, 16 deaths have already been recorded, and there are indications that the total will soon be raised to 20. Most of the wounded passengers who were too severely injured to be taken to their homy were taken to the Southern Pacific hospital at San Francisco Sunday, and on the way to that place five victims died. Eleven of the dead have been identified, as follows: Elizabeth L. Smith, Fresno, Cal., aged 38; Clarence D. (fluffs, Fresno, aged 22; Miss Birdie Elliott, San Francisco, aged 22; Mabel Vezey, Modesto, Cal., aged 19; George Sessions, Oakland, Cal., aged 50; Charles Owens, Fresno, aged 55; Miss Myers, Fresno; Robert Renwick, San Francisco; Len Irwin, Oakland; W. F. Temple, and Tung Tia Yong, a Chinese girl, of San Francisco. The unidentified dead include one white man, evidently a sailor; two Chinese, one Japanese woman and a Japanese child. The dead were brought here. An inquest will be held to-day. Most of the corpses are terribly mutilated. This made the work of identification very difficult. The injured were taken to Oakland. It was a rear-end collision, the engine of the local plowing its way into the last coaches of the “Owl” which was filled with Fresno people. The passengers who escaped death were hurled to the fore part of the coach crushed in between the mass of debris, their sufferings and danger intensified a hundredfold by the clouds of scalding steam that poured - out upon them from the shattered boiler of the Stockton engine. After the “Owl” left the Oakland Mole it was noted that there was a leak in the flue of the engine. This increased to such an extent that it was deemed advisable to stop here to take up a freight engine f(*r relief. The train officials knew that the Stockton local train was following a half hour behind, and a flagman was sent back down the track to give warning of the presence of the “Owl." It is said that the Stockton train, in Oharge of Engineer Maguire and Fireman Joyce, got the warning signal in due time and gave the usual response with whistle blasts. Why the incoming train was not checked, however, has not been thus far explained, the men who could give the facts being numbered among the badiy injured. On came the train, with apparently scarcely any diminution of speed, and the Fresno coach was completely telescoped. So forciblj- did the local meet the rear of the “Owl” that 'the end of the second car, the dining car, was smashed in and the three cooks were seriously hurt. It seems miraculous that the horror of fire was not added to the direful disaster, but the victims were with seemingly Providential intervention, spared from flame, for the oil burners were extinguished when the crash came.

THE HUMBERTS CAPTURED. Notorious Pnrlo Swindlers Are All Taken In a Bunch at Madrid. Madrid, Dec. 22.—Mme. Humbert, other members of the Humbert family, and M. and Mme. d’Aurignac, the brother and sister-in-law of Mme. Humbert, who became notorious in connection with the great safe frauds in Paris, have been arrested here. They had been in Madrid since May 9. Later it became known that the police made a clean haul of the whole family, Mme. Humbert, her husband, Eva Humbert and the three d’Aurignacs, Romain, Efnile and Marie. The police suspected a house on the Calle Ferray. Some time Friday Romain d’Aurignac was seen to enter the building, a search warrant was obtained, and the house was surrounded. After some difficulty the police were admitted and arrested the long-sought-for defaulters. The prisoners protested that they were the victims of Infamous proceedings. They threatened to “get even” with certain persons iu France, and said they had come to Madrid direct from Paris. Mile. Eva became hysterical and Mme. Humbert clasped Marie d’Aurignac and her daughter in haer arms, pleading with the ptolice “for the love of God not to separate me from my daughter.” The police made an inventory of the contents of the apartments and found a parcel of jewels valued at $2,000, a couple of lottery tickets and about slls in cash. Seals were then attached to the house and the whole family were removed to jail and were placed at the disposition of the French ambassador. The police suspect the Humberts of having disposed of important papers in the lavatories while delaying the entry of the officers. The family tried, to escape by the windows but failed. The Humberts maintain they are innocent, declare they themselves liaVe been victimized, and say they desire to return to France and defend themselves against the charges. Kina Hum New Grandchild. London, Dec. 22.—The princess of Wales gave birth tjg jLson, this being the fifth child she has presented to the prince since their marriage in 1893. The baby is the fifth in succession to the throne of Great Britain, having three elder brothers. The royal patient and child are doing well. Sncceaafallj’ Inaugurated. South Sydney, N. S., Dec. 22. —A wireless telegraph system across the Atlantic ocean has been successfully Marconi.’ Messages were sjnt from Glace Bay, N S., to Cornwall; England, 2,300 miles. _ -

GREAT STRIDES MADE. Wlrfal Richness of the Soil of Western Canada Has Turaed the Tide of Imml*ratloa. The great strides which Western Canada is making, and the wonderful richness of the soil, is_ creating considerable excitement, not only in Canada, but in the United States and Great Britain. The large crops of the past two years, with phenomenal yields, have enacted a movement towards the west, which will pot be checked until every available homestead is taken. The Ediptaton Bulletin, one of the “farthest north” newspapers, in a recent article on the Northwest as a wide and open, field, says: “There must be fertile soil, there must be a suitable climate, there must be the possibility of building up a modern civilization; and the conditions must be such that labor can reach the land; or in other words, land must be cheap. The Canadian Northwest contains the largest unbroken area of country on the continent, or in the world fulfilling these conditions. In its thousand miles of plain which stretches from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains Canada is able to offer land to the landless of the continent, and of the world. This year (1902), the only complaint, over all the vast stretch of tawitory, of the farmers and ranchers, is that the railways have not sufficient rolling stock to move to market the returns of the past season.

The area under crop in Western Canada in 1902 was 1,987,330 acres. Yield 1902, 117,922,754 bushels. Wealth waits on industry in Canada. There is Plenty of Room. Prices have advanced in Western Canada 50 per cent, in the last two years, and the upward movement seems still on. The migration into Canada is becoming notable. Some body has estimated that 25,000 acres of Canadian land are sold a day to people from the United States. Whatever doubts there have been as to the suitability of the Canadian Northwest for settlement, those doubts have been set at rest by the successive yields of previous years, and by the crowning glory of the past year (1902), which gives solid assurance as to possibilities that would not otherwise have been believed. The fact of the grain production of the past season in Manitoba and the Northwest, 117,922,754 bushels from 1,987,330 acres, and that a certain number of farmers have produced a greater value of wheat, oats, and cattle for sale than any other equal nupiber anywhere else in the known world, is the best possible answer to the question: “Is there wealth in the Northwest?”- Not, only in the Northwest but in the whole country has there been prosperity. The Canadian Northwest is not all alike in its production. Wheat growing is the specialty of one part, cattle ranching of another, and mixed farming—the growth of grain and live stock together—of still another. Speaking roughly, the southeastern parts of the Territories and-Manitoba are wheat growing; the southwestern part of the Territories is ranching, and the northern part of the Territories is mixed farming. Differences of soil, climate, and other conditions are the causes of these differences in agriculture in the various sections. But it is safe to say that in no other area of the world is there an equal possibility of the production of wealth from the soil, whether by one branch of agriculture or another. Fickle. Tommy—Lil Greenup, you told me last week you liked me better’n you did any other boy, and now you’re lettin’ Dick Trotter shine up to you! Lil —-I did like you best last week, but I’ve changed my mind. Does your papa keep a candy store? Tommy—No. Lil—Well, -Dick’s papa does.—ChU cago Tribune, r SMjliiHltMrt Home. Wise —Don’t you think you might manage to keep house alone for a Week, while I go off on a visit? Husband—l guess so; yes, of course. “But won’t you be lonely and miserable?” “Not a bit.” “Huh! Then I won’t go.”—N. Y. Weekly.

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