Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 20, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 October 1893 — Page 2

tlw §ike County feratwat M. McO. BTOOPS, Editor tad ProprietorPETERSBURG. - - INDIANA. It is expected that the general elections in Australia on woman’s suffrage will be held December & Emperor William returned to Berlin, on the 27th, from his visit to witness the Austrian army maneuvers. » The president* sent to the senate, on the 27th, the nomination of Robert E. Preston, of the District of Columbia, to be director of the mint. How. Hannis Tati.or, American minister to Spain, has returned to Madrid from San Sebastian,, where he spent his holidays, quite ill of pneumonia. Robert Loris Stevenson, who arrived at San Francisco from Samoa on the 28th, states that affairs in Samoa are still unsettled and in a precarious state. Thirty thousand odd fellows from the United States and Canada kept the turnstiles at the World’s fair revolving on the 26th. one-third of the number, it is estimated, being in uniform. On the 27th Secretary Carlisle called for the resignation of J. R. Garrison, deputy first comptroller of the treasury, who has been more than twenty years in the treasury department. C. T. Sampson, aged 67, a veteran shoe manufacturer, and at one time famous all over the country as the first importer of Chinese contract labor, died on the 28th, at his home in North Adams, Mass. Owing to the uneasy nnd suspicious feeling prevailing everywhere on account of anarchist intrigues the state of siege in Bohemia has been extended so as to include all towns that have over 10,000 inhabitants. Marshal McDonald, of the United States fish and fishery commission, is arranging for an international oyster congress to be held in Chicago, October 16. All persons interested in fish culture are invited to be present. M. C. Purcevii.le, the defaulting cashier of the National Shoe and Leather bank of Lewiston, Me., who was sentenced in October, 1892, to ten years’ imprisonment, died, on the 28th, in the state prison at Tliomaston. Cholera has reappeared in Moscow, Kieff and northeast Hungary. In Moscow the outbreak is most serious. There were thirty-two cases and eleven deaths iirthe convict forwarding prison at that city between the 1st and 11th Hon, J. E. Russell, of Massachusetts, was unanimously nominated for governor by the democratic state convention in Boston on the 27th. James B. Carroll, of Springfield, was nominated for lieutenant-governor by acclnma- . tion. Lieut. Leuthener, an officer of the Ninety-third Austrian reserve regiment, has been degraded to the ranks and removed to the Fifty-ninth regiment, because he was found to be a member of the Workingmen’s Social society.

A correspondent in Santiago, Chili, telegraphed, on the 29th, that the government of Argentina had overcome the revolutionists in the state of Santa Fe, and had suppressed the turbulent element in the city and provinces of Buenos Ayres. It has been generally known that the Northwestern Guarantee Loan Co. of St. Paul, Minn., had floated paper in a fraudulent manner to the amount of $1,700;000; but from later information it appears that the amount reaches nearly $3,000,000. Louis Kins, a Chinese merchant, was denied citizenship, oh the 2Sth, by Judge Hanford, of the United States court at Seattle, Wash., on the ground that the applicant was of Chinese birth. The case is to be made a test before the supreme court. John Tcrpie, a brother of the Indiana senator, has returned to the old homestead at Delphi, Ind., after an absence of over forty-one years, during twenty-five years of which he had been mourned as dead. He had led a somewhat checkered life |ind grown rich on the Pacific slope. President Peixoto of Brazil has under his command in Bio de Janeiro 6,000 well armed troops, all loyal to him. This force is thought to be suf- - ficient to prevent landing parties from the rebel war ships effecting a lodgement in the city, should an attempt of that nature be made. Oty Clerk E. A. Cook, of McComb, ©., has been arrested by the postal authorities, charged with extensively advertising to sell for eight dollars ten «teel engravings, tinted, representing different events in the life of Columbus, and then sending to his dupes in return for their money a set of Columbian postage stamps. The venerable Julia Ward Howe opened the morning’s session of the World’s religious parliament in Chicago, on the 26th, with an address of ten minutes’ duration, in which she congratulated her hearers upon the success of the parliament, and prophesied that it would have a marked influence for good upon the whole of Christendom. The Michigan Central Railroad Co. has begun to arm the trainmen of all trains carrying American express or jnail cars; and other roads are expected to follow suit The employes have been supplied with Winchester repeating shotguns loaded with buckshot, and additional employes similarly armed have been put on, so that there will be at least ten fully armed men 4>b fftph mail and express train.

CURRENT TOPICS THE SEWS IS BRIEF. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS, -r (Extra Session.) In the senate, on the 85th, the resolution, previously offered by Mr. Stewart (Nev.). as to the co-ordinate branches of the government, was laid before the senate, and Mt. Stewart proceeded to speak upon It His speech lasted nearly four hours. Speeches against* the repeal bill were then made by Messrs. Cameron and Bate, after which Mr. Stewart resumed his speech and occupied the remainder of the day.In the house Mr. Hudson offered a resolution for the appointment of a committee to investigate the recent killing of settlers in the Cherokee strip by United States troops, after which the printing bill was again taken up. In the senate, on the 16th. Mr. Stewart secured the floor early, yielding it to Mr. Perkins, who delivered his maiden speech (except when he pronounced an eulogy on the life and character of his predecessor. Mr. Stanford:!. Mr. Stewart then resumed the floor and indulged in a bitter attack upon the chief executive. Messrs. Morgan and Voorhees made personal explanations, defending the democratic senators and the president.In the house several motions and resolutions were introduced, none of them, however, securing consideration, and then the house proceeded to the consideration of the federal election law repeal bill. In the senate, on the 27th. after routine business, the resolution offered by Mr. Dubois to postpone action on financial, tariff and federal election measures until next January, when the states of Washington. Montana and Wyoming may be fully represented in the senate, was taken up, and led to a long and bitter colloquy between Messrs. Gorman and Aldrich and Mr. Wolcott, the latter having accused the former of “steering,” and the former accusing Mr. Wolcott of eavesdropping or employing eavesdroppers. The repeal bill was then taken up. .In the house the bill to repeal the election law was taken up and furter debated. In the senate, on the 28th, the resolution calling for information as to the anticipation of interest on government bonds since July, 1880. was further considered and adopted. Consideration of the silver-purchasing repeal bill was then resumed.In the house the bill relating to the disqualification of registrars and receivers of land offices was passed, after which the federal elections repeal bill was taken up and further considered. In the senate, on the 29th, a petition signed by Mr. Wharton Barker and many business firms of Philadelphia, asking senators to legislate so as to preserve the protective character of the tariff and the integrity of silver as a money metal, was offered and ordered printed as a document. The silver purchase repeal bill was then taken up .In the house, after consideration of routine business, the federal election repeal bill was taken up. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The railroad guard and the law may succeed in exterminating the Jameses, the Youngers, the Daltons, the Renos, the5 Burrows and other gangs of professional robbers, but if the railroad hand turns traitor and goes to the work of robbery with murder in his heart, the perplexities of the question are multiplied. Many railroad corporations have decreed that no man shall be employed by them who uses intoxicating liquors. It is becoming necessary to enlarge this rule, to exclude all whose integrity has not been proved by well-established character. Barhett Scott, who fled with $70,000 belonging to Polk county, Neb., and had been lying in jail several weeks in Juarez, Mexico, voluntarily gave himself up to Frank Campbell, the Nebraska extradition agent and crossed the border to El Paso, Tex., on tfce 29th. Twelve persons indicted for participating in arranging for prize fights in Portland, Ore., pleaded guilty, on the 28th, and each was sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000 or imprisonment in the state penitentiary 500 days, the lightest sentence provided by law. The resignation of M. E. Smith, assay er of the United States mint at Denver, Col., has been accepted. Fire, on the 26th, destroyed the best business block in Sabetha, Kas., causing a lqss Of $40,000.

Choeera has appeared at Rowley, a village in Staffordshire, England. Paid admissions to the World’s fair on the 26th were 194,943. A heavy electric storm passed over Cape May, N. J., on the night of the 25th. It was accompanied by a ■'tremendous downpour of rain and hail. Several fishing boats were wrecked, and the switch back at the steamboat landing was blown down. John D. Hyer, of Pennsylvania, and William Bourke, of Wisconsin, principal examiners in the pension office, have resigned. ! The ^formation of one of the most gigantic trusts known in the commercial history of the country has been brought to light by the filing at Clinton. Ia., of the articles of incorporation of the Mississippi Lumber Co. with a capital stock of $1,500,000. The new concern embraces every lumber and log magnate doing business on the Mississippi and its tributaries between St. Paul and St Louis. On the 25th a solid cast-steel projectile was fired through seventeen inches of steel armor plate at the government proving station at Indian Head, and came out unharmed. It is considered by the officials of the navy ordnance bureau to be the most satisfactory test yet made. The projectile was impeled with a velocity of 1,800 feet per second, and with a striking energy of over 18,000 tons. The French flagship Naiade and the cruisers Nielly and Rigault are in New York harbor. Rear-Admiral Lamornaix flies his flag aboard the Naiade. The men and officers will have a few days’ vacation and visit the World’s fair. The returns of the week [ended on the 26 th show that eighty-eight deaths from diphtheria occurred in London during the seven days. This is not only three'times as high as the average rate of mortality for this disease, but it is higher than has ever occurred before. u A statement prepared at the treasury department shows the collections from internal revenue for July and August of this year to have been $25,092,884, as compared with receipts of $28,577,641 during July and August of 1892. • It is understood that President Cleveland intends to discontinue his receptions to the public, which have heretofore occurred on t^ree days of the week, substituting special receptions to visiting bodies whenever the occasion justifies

Chirp Swenie of the Chicago fire department was badlyi injured, on the night of the 36th. while superintending the fight against a planing mill fire. A heavy timber fell on him, breaking his right leg and badly bruising him about the body. Chief Swenie is one of the best-known firemen in the country. Postmaster Potteh of Giles City. Ariz., and Robert Roberts were murdered there, on the 25th, their skulls being beaten in by unknown persons. One body was found in the post office and the other near it. The murderers are believed to have been Indians, who were mining near Gila. On the 27th the bodies of five murdered men were found near a camp in the Arkansas valley, Cherokee strip. The camp had been plundered of all valuables, and every means of identification removed from the bodies. Eighteen new cases of yellow fever were reported at Brunswick, Ga., on the 27th, by physicians. A southeast wind blowing from the rice fields caused the large increase in cases. Sixty new cases of cholera and twenty-three deaths from the disease were reported in St. Petersburg on the 26th. 7 Ex-President Harrison was accorded an enthusiastic reception at the World’s fair, on the 27tl), Indiana day. Six new cases of cholera occurred in Hamburg during the twenty-four hours ended at noon of the 27th. The paid admissions to the World’s fair on the 27th were 195,801. France is said to be preparing the way to force further concessions from Siam. After many delays the trial of the noted Glendale train robber, Marion C. Hedgepeth, occurred at St» Charles, Mo., on the 28th. It resulted in a quick conviction, and Hedgepeth was sentenced to twenty-five years imprisonment. Grand Master Sargent, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, of Terre Haute, Ind., received a dispatch from Cincinnati,on the 28th,saying that the men on the Big Four accepted the proposition for reduced wages and that the threatened strike was oil. Many striking miners in the Mons and Liege districts of Belgium resumed work on the 2Sth. The Italian government has decided to refuse to grant exequaturs to all Italian bishops nominated in the last papal consistory because the pope refused to recognize the right of Kiug Humbert to nominate the patriarch of Venice. By the bursting through of the waters of the Michigamee river into the Mansfield mine, six miles from Crystal City, Midi., on the night of the 28th, twenty-eight men, who were at work directly under the bed of the river, were drowned. Eighteen others who were working in a lower lever, had a narrow escape from the same fate. It will be impossible to recover the bodies of the dead except by diverting the course of the river and then pumping out the mine. In the Ford's theater disaster case, before Justice McComas, in Washington, D. C., on the 29th, the defendants, Messrs. Ainsworth, Covert, Sasse and Dant, withdrew their formal plea ol not guilty to the second indictment and filed a demurrer to it, substantially the same as the one previously - entered to the first indictment. The outlook for a peaceful settlement of the dispute between France and Siam is said to be more hopeful. The paid admissions to the World’s fair, on the SOth, were 151,887.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. lx the senate, on ttie 30th, Mr. Chandler called up the resolution inquiring' -into the appointment, powers and conduct of the Fairchild commission, which was discussed at length, amended and adopted. The silver-pur-chase repeal bill was taken tip and Mr. Camden made an argument in favor of the bill, and Mr. Peffer resumed his speech against the measure.......In the house a joint resolution extending until the 30th of June, 1894, the time for the completion of the work of the eleventh, census was passed, and the house resumed consideration of the federal election repeal bill. Kkv. Amory 11. Bradford, D. D.. for twenty-three years minister of the First Congregational church of Mont Clair, N. J., one of the . editors of the Outlook, and widely known as a preacher and author, has received an unanimous call to the pastorate of Westminster chapel, London, the largest Congregational meeting house in the world. Justice John M. Harlan, of the United States supreme court, says that, in his opinion, on the occasion of a future difference between England and the United States, the intervention of strangers will not be invoked, but an equal number of judges of the highest courts of both countries will be appointed to settle the difference. Robert Kincaid, the banker of Lina county, Kan., whose failure in July involved half a dozen banks «nd ruined scores of farmers and business men to whom he had given notes bearing 8and 10 per cent, interest, has returned to Mound City, Kan., and declared that he will settle up. <*■ The liabilites of Isaac C. Atkinson, manufacturer and dealer in furniture at Portland, Me., who failed sometime ago, have been made public. The amount owed is $”90,806, and the assets of $4,703. The imports, exclusive of specie, at the port of New York, for the week ended on the 30th, were $6,243,588, of which $1,515,54S were dry goods and $4,727,905 general merchandise. The imports of specie at the port of New York for the week ended on the 30th, were $528,571, of which $431,978 were gold and $91,593 silver. It is now certain that the case of Rev. Dr. Briggs will come before the Bynod of New York state at its session in Rochester on the 21st. In a written opinion Attorney-Gen-eral Little, of Kansas, says that women are eligible to election to any county office in that state.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Diamond, the ten-ton elephant ol Wallace,^ Col's circus, in winter quar-ters-^Seai&#eru, broke loose from his chains, twixdd down the heavy doors of the buildtjM| broke the heavy gates of the yard and fording the Mississinnewa, crushed through everything in his way, wire and other fences proving no obstacle. Farmers cutting corn along his line of march fled for their lives, and pandemonium reigned for many hours. Patsy Forepaugh, his keeper, with the assistance of twenty men, finally managed to subdue the brute after much damage was done, and landed him at the farm. Two unknown colored men shot at the train hands on the Vandalia road between Terre Haute and Indianapolis. It is thought that robbery was the motive of the attack. The father of the Robinson brothers, the Valparaiso bandits, fully identified the one in prison and the dead one in the morgue both as his sons He is an old soldier and appears broken-hearted. Hon. Wii. H. English, while ill at his home in Indianapolis, attempted to -get out of bed and fell, breaking his nose. At Xoblesville, Miss Marie Thompson, aged 60 years, who was so frightfully burned by her clothes catching fire from a pile of rubbish, died the other morning. John King, of Wabash county, was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for forging the name of Rudolph Rife to a seventy-five dollar note. A carload of provisions for the relief of the yellow fever sufferers at Brunswick left Evansville over the Louisville & Nashville, the other day. The donations are from Evansville business men. Two hundred dollars in cash was sent by express. Peter From let, W. J. Brophy, J. N. Tonnelier and Peter Xutler were arrested and brought before the mayor at Anderson for selling liquor without a license. Each was found guilty, and in addition to the required $250 for license, was fined f 100. It was decided by the school trustees of the various townships in Bartholomew county at a recent meeting that they would not comply with the law in turning back into the county treasury all tuition money in their hands except $100. Samuel Wallace, an agent of Atty.-Gen. Smith, came here and began examining the reports of" the trustees preparatory to making a demand on them for the excess in tuition funds over $100. II. P. Hughes has been compelled by the appellate court to pay Annie Nolte $2,500 for breach of promise. The coroner’s inquiry into the supposed suicide of Frank Linschmidt, whose body was found in the river near Columbus, leads to the conclusion that he was murdered. .j Wm. Simms was fatally wounded by the accidental discharge of a gun while hunting near Columbus. A young man named Bayne was in a boat on the river at Marion, while a brother on the bank was throwing stones in the water to splash the water upon him. One of them struck the boatman upon the head, throwing him forward over the side, where he hung until rescued. The skull is fractured, and the victim may die. Coax Killer, and Henry Frank, each about 17 years old, were killed at Marion by a Pan-handle train. They were in a buggy and attempted to cross the track on Western avenue, where Miss Ihrig was killed and Mrs. Heath severely injured by the same train eight weeks ago. The wife of Dr. Charles Pratt, living ten miles south of Anderson, committed suicide. She placed a revolver at her forehead, pulled the trigger, and the bullet lodged in the base of the brain. Jealousy caused the rash act. Mrs Pratt had heard that her husband took an Anderson woman to the World’s

When the circuit court convened at Columbus the other morning- Judge Hord at once called the grand jury into his presence, and in a clear and concise manner instructed them as to their duties. He called their attention to the fact that the county had been disgraced and a reputable lady had unlawfully, at midnight, been dragged from her home and unmercifully whipped, and that it would be the duty of the grand jury to use every effort to bring the guilty parties to justice. He then read the law covering such offenses. Other instructions were also given, after which the jury retired and began the investigation of the Whitecappers at once. Stella Clipp, while returning from school in company with other little girls, played with a turn-table near Bedford and got her left limb caught between the table and the track, and may lose the limb as a consequence. Decatur has secured another factory. T. M. Talbot, of Pennsylvania, will locate his egg case and filler factory there. It will employ about seventyfive hands. Natural gas accumulated in the joint cellar under the establishment of C. C. Porter, druggist, and Jones & Perry, grocers, fronting the State Blind institute, Indianapolis, and a boy with a match caused an explosion whioh ruined the grocery and damaged the druggist $1,200. William Schultz was badly burned, Dr. Potter was hurled against the wall and severely bruised, and Minnie Purcell, colored, who sprang through a second floor window through fright, had a leg broken. Three gas weU drillers, Jesse Gordon, Jack Weir and Bob Kern, were brought in from a well near Kokomo totally blind. While standing over the well fishing for lost tools the sulphuric gas or other substance burned their eyebaUs until they looked as though they had been seared over with a redhot iron. Kev. J. F. Booker, of the Evangelical German Lutheran church, Anderson, has been elected president of the Synod of Indiana, in session at Frankfort Mrs. Henrt Niebrugge, living near Dillsboro, was seriously if not fatally injured by a cow while milking.

WEEKLY BUSINESS REVIEW. The Condition of BoiIomi end the Money Market Shown by R. O. Dan * Co's Weekly Review—The Quarter1* List of Business Failures a Record F reaker— The Delay In Congress Making Confidence Slow of Growth and Business Drags In Consequence. New York, Sept. 80.—R. G. Dun St Co.‘s weekly review of trade, published this morning, says: A complete statement of * failures for the quarter which will close to-night is not possible. but the number thus far reported is at out 4.000, and the aggregate of liabilities about flSJ.OCM.O0O. greatly surpassing the record of any previous Quarter. For the past week the failures have been i329 in the United States, against 177 last year, and in Canada 34. against 31 last year. ‘ Hope deferred,” explains the past week in part, and it is doubtless true that many indulged in reasonable hopes, but business has not entirely answered expectations. A feeling of disappointment is commonly ascribed to delay of action on the silver bill In the senate. It is also true that many works which have resumed operations do not And orders as large or the demand from customers as vigorous as they anticipated, and will cause some question whether they will not close again. While money on call has been abundant and cheap and about $4,500,000 clearinghouse certificates have been retired there is perceptible greater caution in making commercial loans here and at some western points. Confidence, proverbially slow of growth, has somewhat diminished,in part because advancing exchange suggests the possibility of gold exports. Enuring most of the week speculative weariness has found expression in lower prices. Stocks were more active but lower; railroads declining on the average $1.4*2. and trust stock* $1.63 per share to Wednesday night, snd the recovery has since been small. Railroad earnings for September show a decline of half per cent, compared with last year, which is not better than the August report, though the returns for the second and third weeks were better than for the first week. On western llnea and trunk lines the decrease is somewhat smaller, but southern and Pacific roads do not materially improve. and eastbound shipments from Chicago show a decrease of 14 per cent, for last week. Wheat receipts decreased again and fell far jbehind last year’s, but stocks in sight are too heavy and the price for December fell nearly 1 cent. Corn continues to come forward freely and crop reports are not more favorable, but the price fell 1?* cents. Changes in pork products were obviously due rather to manipulation than to any change in the outlook. Cotton declined about 3-16 with no great change in the movement or In crop prospects and with increasing work by the mills in this country. When stocks are unusually large their very weight overbalances all other considerations. The cotton market is gaining more than any other, and there is a stronger market for print cloths and prints while some reduction has helped to stimulate trade in other goods. The enormous decrease in production for the past two months begins to -be felt, and sales are larger, though much below the usual quantity. Trade in woolen and dress goods is better, and there is a little more demand for men's woolens, though not enough to keep employed the increased number of mills now running. Clothiers are cutting up more goods, it is said, but the change is not greater than preparations of samples for another season might cause, and there are noticed attempts to clear off old stocks by opening retail stores and selling at manufacturers' prices. Sales of wool last week were 4.629.450pounds, against 6,648.600 last year; and for four weeks 14.473.275 pounds, against 31,080,500 last year; but it is believed that many purchases are for investment rather than manufacture. While seventy-eight manufacturing concerns are reported as starting wholly or in pa*, against twenty closing or reducing force, more than a third of the increase has been in cotton mills, and another third in machine shops, nail mills, manufacturers of stoves and hardware, tools and cars, while in the iron manufacture1 proper only seven concerns have started, against three that have stopped, and the outlook does not seem brighter. Chicago is adding to her marvelous buildings. and in structural and some other form* the demand at the west is clearly increased. But the closing of the largest iron mine in the country, the Norris, which ordinarily produces a million tons yearly, indicates the limited character of the business. At least the demand

It»r prouucirS is I’uuiiuu.v iiiuucquttic v»cu tot the scanty force now ut work, and the lowest prices on record attract little business. It in said that one sale of steel rails has been effected by a sharp reduction in price. The contest between the Amalgamated association and works in the Pittsburgh region has teen settled, but too late for most of the men. The glass workers have not agreed as to wages, and stocks are growing low. In l oots and siloes the marked activity seen in New York is not found in the cast: the business is slow and few establishments are resuming, and shipments front Boston* are still 3> per cent, smaller than last year, but the rubber works are all fully employed, and the demand for their product is large. Clearinghouse exchanges indicate a little gain, the volume of business being 19.1 below those of the same week last year. In foreign trade exports again exceed last year's and for the month about 21.6 per cent., while imports show a decrease for the month of about 6 per cent., yet foreign exchange has risen so far that exports of gold to Germany might be mdde with little loss, and it is believed that calls for repayment of gold obtained on loans from Europe in July and August afreet the rate more than current business. Though a return of part of the gold has been expected and the banks have now on hand more than they need, the treasury stock Is so low that a renewed outflow would be regarded with some apprehension. The return of money from the Interior continues and largely reflects less activity than usual at this season In domestic trade and industrv. JESSE POMEROY Discovered Preparing for Another At. tempt to Escape from Prison I Boston, Sept. 30.—Some days ago it was discovered bv an officer of the state prison that Jesse Pomeroy, the boy-murderer of twenty years ago, who is serving a life sentence in solitary confinement, had been digging out the mortar in which the'stones of his cell were laid, and a search of his quarters revealed, . hidden away in crevices between the stones, an iron bar weighing two pounds or more, a rasp, a piece of steel wire and a small piece of tempered steel. How he obtained the articles is a mystery. Not long ago it was discovered that Pomeroy had a string which led out of the window to the prison yard, where some fellow-convict at work attached a piece of iron and steel, which Pomeroy drew into his cell. This source of supply was stopped, however, and the articles seized, bub'the route of his new underground railway has not yet been discovered. Fickle Annie Harper Wei* the Other Fellow. Newark, N. J., Sept. 30.—The wedding of Assistant City Councilor Samuel J. McDonald, was to have taken place two weeks from yesterday. Yesterday morning word was received that Miss Annie Harper, his intended bride, was secretly married Thursday afternoon to a young man of the name of Hunter, a resident of Wyoming. Miss Harper is a resident of Cincinnati and the marriage to McDonald was to have taken place in the First Unitarian church in that city. Mcrtjaald is to be coeurratulated.

THE SUPREME COURT Will Meet Next Tuesday wit! a W|l»'> cued Dtieket, Do inoast ratlac tbe Itlliif of the New Court of Appeals Washington, Oct. 3.—The October term of the supreme court of the ,U nite d. States will begin a week from to-day, the 9th inst- The court will open the term with a docret that,in itself demonstrates the advantages of the ne'V, court of appeals. While the docket for the October term, in 1893,*at tie opening contained X,8I3 case5,there aie but 1,021 awaiting the court’s attention at this time. If this rate of progression is maintained the court will be confronted with nothing but current cases seven years hjnee. Tie new cases docketed for th -s terra include a number of interest to the country. Prominent, among them are tie appeals by Ah Sing and four other Chinese from the • judgment of tie United States court for the northern district of California; which will bring up for review the Geary Chinese lav.-. The Mormon case is another of importance. Upon the decision will depend the disposition of the funds arising from the sale of church property under the Edmunds-Tucker act. Three railroad eases will a ttract general attention, one of them is the a peal of Lemon, one of the Lake Shoie engineers who refused to haul his train because it contained some cars- fro n the Ann Arbor railroad upon which a. strike was in progress. The other twoare similar in nature and present tie question how far the states may go in the matter of assessing rail rodd property and finding freightrates Besides these the court will have eleven mutder cases from t ort Smith, Ark., to d<termine, and the mineral -land case t f Borden vs. the'Northern Pacific rairoad from Montana affecting a large •portion of the la nd grant. The confirmation of the nomination of W. H. Hornblower. of New York, tobe an associate justice of the cour vice Samuel Ulr.tchforii, deceased, has not yet been announced, and the probabilities seem to be that, the court will be short one member when it meet's unless confirmation is made in the meantime. .Justices Field, lirown, Brewer an3 Jackson are already in the city and the remainder of the court will reaert Washington this week. The court, will meet at noon on the 9th inst., and after the induction into office of Judge Hornblower, if , he shall have been confirmed, and the admission of attorneys, will ad journ to pay their respects to President Cleveland. The next day the call of the docket begin * TH E~YE LLOWHF! V E R. Many New Canes and No Encouracemeitlrat Brunswick, |Ga.—The Only Hope la Frost. Brunswick, Ga.,' Oct. 2.—Twelve aew cases of yellow fever were reported yesterday. Sixty-five patients are now under treatment. Surgeon Murray returned yesterday morning at 10 o'clock from Jesup, ard reports that the autopsy on C.vK. Wa rren, the deputy sheriff who died there Saturday, proved by the inquest that he had yellovv fever. It is stated thatWarren had not been in arty infected district within the past few w^ek >, and if this be true the theory that itrequires only ten days' incubation for the fever to develop will be proved unreliable. The idea that negroes are by nature exempt from the disease is also dissipated. The negroes to date have been the greatest sufferers, and so many fatal cases have developed among them that scientists are investigating.

No cheering- words can be truthful]y written on the subject. T he scourg e is sure to stay until frost. Four-fifths of the 5.000 people here will have the fever before frost comes.' This is E® idle statement, but the result of careful consultation with the physicians on the ground. Surgeon Murray is working day and night. Saturday afternoon he visited Miss Orilla Dart, on St Simon's island, and found her much improved. He returne l at midnight, and left on a special train yesterday morning at 1,0 o'clock for Jesup, held t n ■ autopsy there, arid returned to Brui^wick at ill o'clock. _jj JEALOUSY’S VIC11MS. / One Man Self-Desroyed and Another liei— perately Woandec,. Chicago, Oct. 3.—Yesterday afternoon William Smidtha, while in a f t of jealousy, shc-t Henry Miller in the \ right thigh and then went into h s room and cut bis throat from ear to ear. causing almost instant death. Both of the young men have been been paying attention to Mary Pols a German girl, aged 23. When Smidtha. went home Saturday he saw the objee t of his adoration in the company (t Henry Miller.* Sarly yesterday morn- - ing the two nrer met in the street ia front of the boarding house, and a heated argument took pk.ce, which, terminated in a fight. Smidtha wis badly worsted in the encounter, aril retired to repair damages and nurse plans of vengeance. Smidtha again met Miller, and without a word of warning drew a revolve r and shot him. The infuriated man then jumped upon and struck him until he fell over unconscious. Smidth a was evidently under the impression he had killed his rival and .vent into his own room before anyone could reach huh and cut his throat, severing the jugular vein, death following almost immediately. Miller is inapri!carions condition. Deferred to the Ministers. Lkjndon, Oct. 1.—A dispatch receive 1 . by the Exchange Telegraph Co. hei» states, that Admiral de Mello, eon.mandingfhe rebel Braziliar fleet, intended to attack one of the forts at tha^mouth of the harbor of Rio d s Janeiro yesterday morning, but desisted <5wing to the representations of theoommanc - ers of the foreign war ships r ow in the harbor. The d spatch adds that M:-. G. Hugh Windham, British minister to Brazil, and the other ministe rs areien-. deavoring to bring about a cessation of hostilities. Minister Windham bu~ lievcs that the effort will be successful.