Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 4, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 June 1895 — Page 2

Cfetftfc imorrat —...— » X. MoO. STOOPS, Editor «nd Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. !> t The supreme , court of the United States, on the 27th, affirmed the constitutionality of /the supplemental Chinese exclusion act of 1894. Chikf of Police Thomas Byrnes was retired, at /his own request, on the 17th, by ^the New York city police Tjoard, on a pension of $3,000. Ik th/ British house fiords, on the 8th, L«>rd Halifax’s bill to empower chur/h officials to refuse to marry per•onsfwho have been divorced passed its Snd reading. (K dispatch from Hong Kong says lie Japanese landed at Kelong, Forr _aosa, on the 30th, and fighting began qext day, the Japanese war ships bombarding Kelong. The United States treasurer, on the •1st, mailed 1,113 checks, aggregating •126.823. for the payment of interest on United States bonds of the funded loan of 1891, continued at 2 percent Failures in the United States during the week ended the 81st, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., were 215, •gainst 183 for the same week last year. In Canada the failures were 34, against 17 last year. The North German Gazette, on the 10th, denied the report that the protesting powers have arranged for the floating of a Chinese war loan, or that the Rothschilds have been intrusted with the raising of such a loan. It was said at the treasury, on the list, that Secretary Carlisle would not cancel his engagement to speak at Ijouisville, Ky., where he intended to snake the last of the four speeches for which he was originally booked. A violent shock of earthquake was experienced in the village of Agikent, In the district of Baku, Russia, on the S6th. Ninety-five houses were wrecked •nd many of the inhabitants of the willage were buried beneath th,e ruins.

A tremendous avalanche of rock fell, on the 28th, from the Schwarz Moench mountain into the Lauerbrunuen valley, in Switzerland, destroying the entire forest on the slope of the mountain. Fortunately no one was injured.; r The cruiser Bennington left Mare Island navy yard, on the 50th, for Honolulu, to relieve the flagship Philadelphia, which is expected to return home with Admiral Beardslee, who will hoist his flag on the Olympia at Sun Francisco. In consequence of the death of Secretary Gresham, the receptions which were to have been given by Ambassador to England Ba\rard and Secretary Roosevelt were cancelled, and the flags over the United States embassy and Mr. Bayard’s residence were lowered to half-mast. On the 29th Dr. Luger, the antiSemite leader in the Austrian reichsrath and vice-burgomaster of Vienna, refused to accept the office of burgomaster, to which he was elected, because the majority he received was the smallest that was permitted by the law to elect. The emperor of Japan, after a stay of many months at Hiroshima, made a triumphal return to the capital on the 80th. The streets and houses were jraily decorated and the populace were ~'~,dntensely enthusiastic. Yokohama was Also enthusiastically en fete in honor of the occasion. The ^supreme court of the United States, in an opinion read by Justice Brewer, on the 27th, denied the motion for a writ of habeas corpus filed l»y Eugene Debs and his associates of the American Railway union, and they will have to serve the sentences, imposed upon them by the court.

The mayor and the members of- the corporation of Southampton paid a Visit to the United States training ship lAllianee, on the 27th, where they were entertained at luncheon. A salute of (thirteen guns was fired in honor of the visitors, and the ship’s band played 'British and American national airs. Three British war fchips were, on •the 31st, ordered to Jiddah, the seaport of Mecca, with orders to investigate the circumstances of the killing’ of the British vice-consul at that place •and the wounding of the British consul, and the French consular secretary, "by a land of Beduoins, and also to protect the lives and property of foreigners. ^ Advices received in Washington from * .'Havana by the surgeon-general, on the 96th, were to the effect that the situa- . ition in that city with reference to yel'low fever were; unchanged. A letter ‘ v from Santiago states that in that city all reg-ular lijMmtals are crowded, and that in the e^pStry thereabouts many hospitals have been improvised which are also full. With civic and martial honors and In the presence of a vast multitude, including notabfea, Grand Army and confederate veterans and common people, the remains of the late secretary of static, Walter Q. Gresham, were deposited in a crypt in the chapel at Oak wood 8 cemetery, in Chicago, on the •Oth, there to remain until the family decides upon the final place of interment. Walter Quinton Gresham, secretary of state in President Cleveland's cabinet, died, after a somewhat protracted illness, at 1:15 o’clock on the snorning of the 28th, at his rooms in the Arlington hotel in Washington. Although he had suffered much during ids illness, his last hours were passed ossly in the presence of his wife iter and the latter’s husband. ■ _ -

JUNE-1896. Ion, foe. Wed. 6 Fit Sat 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 : 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 CUEKENT TOPICS. — THE mm IS BBIET. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Mbs. Harry B. Smith, wife of the auditor-elect of Marion county, Ind., slipped and fell as she was entering1 her yard on the 27th. Both limbs were broken, one above and one below the knee, and one kneecap was splintered. She is a heavy woman and was returning after playing lawn tennis. Her tennis shoes were slippery and caused the fall. Moke cavalry regiments for Cuba embarked at .Cadiz on the 27th. A battalion of infantry which had been ordered to the Philippine islands was, at the same time, diverted to Cuba. Jacob Henson, colored, under sentence of death at Ellicott City, MtL, for the murder of Daniel F. Shea, was hanged by lynchers about 1 o’clock on the morning of the 28th. A placard was left pinned to the dead man's breast on which was written: “We respect our court and judges. Gov. Brown forced the law-abiding citizens to carry out the verdict of the jury. White Caps.” Burglars entered the store of W. M. Brown, United States trader at White Eagle Indian agency, a few miles north of Perry, Okla., on the night of the 27th, and stole $12,000 from the safe. Brown is head trader for four or five tribes of Indians. Clerks were sleeping in the store at the time of the burglary.

UKKAi ucbtibuuuu is repuricu iu a strip of country embracing a part of Grant county, Okla. While nearly all of the territory has had splendid rains, there is a distance extending1 from 4 miles south of Enid, north a distance of 20 miles, almost to Medford, and from 6 miles west of Round Pond east nearly to Lamont, a distance of 10 miles, where there had been no rain since October until quite recently. Tins trial of Herman Mudgett, alias H. H. Holmes, alias Howard, at Philadelphia, on thejjharge of conspiring to defraud the Fidelity Mutual Life association out of $10,000 by the imposition of a corpse as that of Benj. F. Pitezel, was brought to an abrupt ending on the 28th, whett the prisoner pleaded guilty. Sentence was deferred. Lafayette Prince, the Cleveland (O.) wife-murderer, was hanged in the penitentiary annex at Columbus, qn the 28tli. He had professed religion and was calm and unmoved to the last. H is neck was broken by the drop. * The Ohio republican state convention, which met at Zanesville, on the 28th. nominated Gen. Asa A. Uushnell for governor. The first issue of the Chicago Chronicle, the only democratic newspaper in Chicago, made its appearance on the 28th. The Episcopal convention for the diocese of Kansas, on the 28th, elected Dean Millspangh, of Topek&, bishop to succeed the late Bishop Thomas. On the night of the 28th Frank Ryan, for many years a prominent figure at the St. Louis Merchants' exchange, and whose operations were on so large a scale as to gain him a national reputation, died in his r ooms at the Southern hotel. Mr. Ryan had suffered for several years with diabetes and an enlargement of the liver. Erasmus Frederick shot and killed his former employer, John H. Lewis, superintendent of the Benton Manufacturing Co., St- Louis, because the latter insisted on putting Frederick off with $6.98 for $14 worth of work which had taken two weeks to accomplish.

a »r.muio anmc cpiucuuu 10 in Hungary and in some districts in Austria. The mortality is 40 to 50 per cent., being1 the worst in Steinbrucken, where the loss has already reached over 4,000,000 florins. On the 29th Inspector Waterbury, at Salt Lake City* Utah, arrested C. W. Carter, accessory to the robbery of the post office at Rock Springs, Wyo. On the 2?th the steamship Colima, with 182 persons on board, including passengers and crew, foundered off the western coast of Mexico. Fourteen passengers and five members of the crew are all that were known to have been saved, though hopes were entertained that other boats,, containing all or nearly all of the missing, would yet make the land. On the 29th it was stated that the hull of the ill -fated steamer Chicora has been found lying at the bottom of Lake Michigan, about S miles from the pier at St. Joseph, Mich. On the 29th whilst the military were in line waiting the order to fall*in for the Gresham obsequies in Washington, Capt. Whipple, of the ordnance bureau of the war department, one of Gen. Ruger’s staff, was prostrated by a slight stroke of apoplexy. He was taken to the Emergency hospital, whence he was later removed to his home. On the 29th the fulminating house of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., at New Haven, Conn., blew up. An employe named Jeremiah Spillane was- killed. . That neither Marti nor Gome?, Cuban insurgent leaders, are dead or even wounded, was declared, on the 30th, to be positively known in Havana. It is said the report of their death was spread by the Spanish officers to raise the drooping spirits of their troops, and to inspire confidence in the money market and thereby assist Spain to negotiate a needed loan. ___

Tm: Gold Standard association of London has distributed circulars widespread, inviting memberships and pecuniary subscriptions wherewith to establish a propaganda for the issuance of pamplets, etc. Wiiilk reviewing the parade of the Grand Army of the Republic from the stand in Madison square, in New York city, on the 30th, Gov. Morton was prostrated by the heat, and was removed in a carriage to the Fifth Avenue hotel, where he so far recovered as to be able to be present at the ceremonies at the tomb of Gen. Giant during the afternoon. At the request of the governor Mayor Strong reviewed the parade. On the 30th John A. Chirr, a wellknown capitalist of Portland, Ore., was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for jury bribing. Carr was convicted of attempting to bribe a juror in the murder case of *'Bunc<^’ Kelly, who killed old man Sayers. 1 - A body of men guarding cattle which were being driven to Santiago de Cuba to supply the city with meat, was intercepted by insurgents, on the 29th, and a force of troops was sent to their assistance. A fight ensued, in which two rebels were killed and five wounded. The government loss was two killed and four wounded. A Central News * dispatch from Vienna, on the 30th, said the government had decided to dissolve the Vienna town council and to appoint an imperial commissary to administer the municipal affairs of tlie city. A gab pipe two feet long, filled with dynamite, And with fuse attached, was found, on the 30th, in the basement of the Grand Missouri hotel, in Kansas City, Mo. Miss Buklah Kknnaro, who prepared the missionary 1 calendar of prayer which is in use in .nearly all the Baptist churches throughout the country, and who Was one of the bestknown women connected with that denomination, died at her residence in Philadelphia on the night of the 3QJh Apoplexy was the cause of death. On the night of the 80th a sponging vessel, fully provisioned, was stolen from its moorings at Key West, Fla., and has since been missing. The vessel was presumably taken by Cuban sympathizers. A soldier deserted from the United States barracks at the same point and is supposed to have joined the sloop.

j.he steamers aormananao»ck were in collision in a dense fog near Middle island, Lake Huron, on the night of the 30th. The Norman sank, carrying down with her the steward’s wife, a watchman and a deckhand. The Jack was afloat at last accounts, but in a badly damaged condition. There was a collision, on the 31st, a few miles north of Escanaba, Mich., between an ore train and Lemon Bra’s circus train, in which five circus men were badly injured, a valuable horse was killed and several cars badly wrecked. The steam trawler Bittern foundered off Grimsby, England, on the 31st, and nine of her crew were drowned, i George Stephens Gough, second Viscount Gough, died ip London on the 31st He was 79 years of age. I During a thunder storm, on the 81st lightning struck and set fire to a number of sheds, containing 90,000 barrels of petroleum, on the island of VVillielmsburg, opposite Hamburg. The petroleum was owned by the Bremen Trading Ca, an Euglish firm. The entire stoek of 5,500 tons of oil in four tanks and 1,200 barrels was consumed. The loss is £500,000, covered by insurance. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Tbe London Daily News, on the 3d,' published a dispatch from Constantinople saying that Said Pasha, Turkish foreign minister, had promised the British ambassador, Sir Philip Currie, to reply before the Bairam festival to the proposals made by Great Britain, Russia and France for a reform of the Turkish administration of the Armenian provinces. It is expected that the powers will obtain the acceptance of their proposals.

x UK comparative statement oi government receipts and expenditures for the month of May shows a gradual diminution of the deficiency during the last ten days of the month; but it is not expected that under the most favorable circumstances the deficit at the end of the year can be brought be* low §45,000,000. Judge Baker, of Chicago, has decided against Attorney-General Moloney of Illinois and in favor of the Pullman Car Co., in the suit brought by the attorney-general to have the charter of the Pullman company declared forfeited for alleged violations of its provisions. The steamer Washtenau, bound from New York to San Francisco to take the place of the steamer Keewana, which was recently lost off that coast, was reported, on the 2d, to have been stranded in the Straits of Magellan. No particulars were learned. H. H. Bryant, a citizen of Cambridge, Mass., has been held in $500 for the United States grand jury for sendiug a scurrilous postal card through the mails to the judges of the United States supreme court at Washington. Postmaster-General Wilson visited his home in Charlestown, W. Va., on the 2d. From there he went to Oxford, Miss., to deliver the annual address at the commencement of the University of Mississippi. The grand three days’ festival and tournament of the turner societies oi the Missouri valley began in Kansas City, Mo., on the 1st, with fine weather and the impetus of 400 ‘‘actives” from St. Louis. A public subscription was started, on the 2d, in the Christian church at Columbus, lnd., for the benefit of the invalid widow of ex-Gov. Chase, who is left destitute. The movement is ]x>pular. The Carnegie Steel Co. has voluntarily increased the wages of all tonnage, day and turn men in its various

INDIANA STATE NEWS. The jury at Indianapolis, in the Copeland shooting’ case, found him not ?uilty. Thk Pike County Democrat is a quarter of a century old and still growing. Vioo county will resist the schoolfund tax in order to test the law’. Smallpox scare at Tell City is over and the schools have reopened. Indian ai^li s’ Commercial club „ :is to discuss how to reduce the death rate. At Evansville John Earner, aged 17, killed John Smith, aged 27, with a billiard cue. They had quarreled during a game of pool. A Laporte man has invented a paper rim for bicycle wheels.Anderson has a firm of three female paper-hangers. They have been asked to join the paper-hangers’ union. Rev. Hayden Rayburn, of Logans* port, has married 1,247 couples Shelby county’s courthouse has been repainted and papered. Pearls are being found in the White river near Gosport. Clinton county farmers report very little wheat left. About 150 Italians are working on the roadw’ay of the Indianapolis, Rockport &. Chattanooga railroad between Rockport and Newtonville. The new First Methodist church, of Terre Haute, costing over $40,000, was dedicated the other day. Bishop Joyce and Rev. T. I. Coulta, of Indianapolis, preached. Nearly $15,000 was raised at the services to apply toward paying the debt. The church seats 3,000. Wm. Bowman, while plowing on hia farm near Oswego, Kosciusko county, found several Indian relics, among the number being a perfectly-formed spear-head and an implement resembling a hatchet. They were discovered near the surface, the hatchet bdlng broken and the parts lying 25 yards apart. There are 77 attorneys at Elkhart Loxgwood's depot is now a heap of ashes. One-third of Mt Vernon’s school children are colored. So says an exchange. Indiana stands fifth in the list of states as to the appraised value of property for taxation.

Indianapolis sanitary omcers win come out in new togs June 2,. Then look out, epidemics. » Michigan City high school boys are being taken through a course of military discipline. At Shelbyville John Poland took a dose of laudanum by mistake and came near dying. Mrs. Nei.uk Cleggett, on trial at Greenfield, charged with killing her infant child, was the other morning found guilty. Her punishment is five years is the Woman’s Reformatory. A traveling man went up against the electric dice game at Indianapolis. Lost 5200. Bartender in hoc. The New Richmond bank has decided to discontinue its deposit department and has paid its depositors. T. E. Davidson, an attorney of Columbus, received notice of his appointment to a foreign mission as assistant treasurer at the Pekin (China) Methodist school. He will sail for his new post August 13. While a gang of men were clearing the farm-of Charles Stewart, near Bobtown, the other day, a large stone was turned over and thirty-two large flints, In the shape of arrowheads and hearts, w£re found. Bobtown is pear Johnsville. TnE police raided one of ths crap joints which have spung up in the suburbs of El wood, since gambling houses were closed, and captured twenty of the inmates, among them several society men. They where heavily fined and released. Indianapolis is to have a woman deputy sheriff. Frankfort has opened brick streetpaving bids. Stephen Clancy, Elwood, who went insane from being hit on the head with bricks during a fight, has become a raving maniac. Rickert, Randolph county, now has a post office with Sam C. Rickert as postmaster. ,

Minnie Stanley, the seven-year-old daughter of George Stanley, of Mitchell, was fatally burned while playing with fire. The C., H. &, D. railroad depot at Longwood, a small station four miles west of Connersville, burned at noon 'the other day. Three well-known Anderson women have formed a firm and are doing paper hanging, and doing it fully as well as the men. They have been asked to join the paper hangers’ union. An Auburn barber has a hot and cold set of pictures to hang in his shop. In summer he puts up winter scenes, and vice versa. Mrs. Dr. Far her, Noblesville, has fallen heir to a 875,000 fortune in Philadelphia. Mrs. Margaret Cason, mother of Ex-Congressman Cason, died at Lebanon. aged 95 years. A female street fakir is a Richmond novelty. A couple of Elkh&rters are said to have traded wives. Post offices in Indiana to be discontinued after May 31: Ivis, Harrison county, and Rapture, Posey county. * The New Richmond bank has decided to discontinue its deposit department and has paid its depositors. A rousing revival meeting was held at Brazil in the opera house, the other afternoon. Evangelist Munhall, of Philadelphia, delivered the sermon. All the business houses, including the saloons, were closed and the opera house was crowded. Dorcas Lucien, 8-year-old daughter of Prof. Wm. Lucien, of Nappanee, while playing about a sawmill the other eight, was caught by a rolling log, which crushed her chest, and inflicted injuries which resulted in her death a few hours later. A Loganspqrt man attended a ball game and then wont home and tool) Rough ... . . .gSS *■ :

AN AWFUL EXPLOSIQN. A L»rg» QtaatllT of NltroflfMrtB*. Whilt •Wins Carried In a Skiff to the Hurtling spring* Oil Field*, Let* Go with Trentwndoo* Force, mnd Spread* Destruction in All Direction*, PA rkkbsburg, W. Vl, June 3.—Two hundred mnd fifty quarts of nitroglycerine which were being taken from Pittsburgh, to the Burning Springs oil field in a skiff by an employe of James Hinds, the oil driller, exploded at 5:30 o’clock last evening just as the boat had turned into the little Kanawha from the Ohio river. The explosion occurred directly opposite the Parkersburgh’s mill, the sides of which were blown in and the boilers driven out of position and nearly all of its machinery misplaced. Sparks from the furnace were driven among the shavings setting the mill on fire, which was extinguished, however, after a short fight The damage in the immediate vicinity of the explosion is very great buildings driven from their foundations, their walls crushed in and otherwise wrecked. The damage throughout the city will aggregate from $75,000 to $100,000. Every plate-glass window on Market, Third and Smith streets was wrecked, the plate-glass loss alone amounting to $35,000. The explosion was felt in every part the city and windows, crockery and bric-a-brac were broken miles from the river front. Citizens thinking it was an earthquake, rushed to the streets in great confusion. Across „ the Kanawha there is not a residence that is not damaged, several having their roofs crushed in, and all having their walls torn down .or windows blown out. The steamer Heatherton, which was tied in the mouth of the Kanawha, was an almost total loss, while coal barges were sunk along the river for miles; as though they were sria?ffed. Although there was a large number of persons hurt, none are fatal except Hinds’ employe, whose nume is unknown. Those most seriously injured are * Mrs. Henry, Miss Emma Houchen, Miss Katie Nolan, Mrs. Ida Rhodes and George Muhn.

TORRID TEMPERATURE. A Terrible Harvest or Death In Phlladel* phia. Philadelphia, June 3,—The tropical heat prevailing since Thursday has reaped a terrible harvest of death in Philadelphia. The prostrations from heat number several scores, and on Friday there were two deaths, three on Saturday, and the climax was reached yesterday, when seventeen* persons died of heat prostration^ The thermometer yesterday in the weather bureau office, at itfs maximum at 2 o'clock p, m., registered 95 decrees, two degrees lower than Saturday’s maximum. The lowest point touched by the thermometer yesterday was at 5:30 a. m.* when it stood at 79 degrees. From that time bn until 2 o’clock^ the mercury went booming upward till it reached 95 degrees. To the gasping thousands compelled to breathe the superheated ait from the bricks of the houses and the scorching asphalt from the streets, the difference of 2 degrees in the mercury from Saturday was not noticeable, and the suffering among the residents of Philadelphia was as great as it has been on any day of the prevailing hot spell. Fortunately the day was Sunday, and the workers in the mills and manufactories were able to seek what coolness they could. But for this the mortality would have undoubtedly been much higher than it was. Reports ^received from points throughout eastern Pennsylvania show that the heat in that section has been as great as it is in Philadelphia. A FOUL MURDER

urougni 10 Lignc oy neceamg waters at Cleveltadi O. , Cleveland, O., June 2.—A special to the Press from Ironton, O., says: The body of a large woman, about 45 years old, was found in the river here yesterday morning. It is supposed to be that of Beck R. Turner, of Memphis, Tenn., who- lived on a family boat. There was a quarrel over the possession of the boat two months ago, and the woman has not been seen since that time. One of the men on the boat has been arrested on suspicion of causing the death of Miss Turner. The features of the body found yesterday morning were unrecognizable. There was c rope tied about the neck and fastened to a large stone. The falling of th» river caused the body to float. UNCLE SAM'S MANEY BOX. The Monthly Statement Show* a Net Decrease in the Public Debt. Washington, June 2.—The debt statement issued last evening shows a net decrease in the public debt, fess cash in the treasury during May, ol $5,436,611.86. The interest-bearing debt increased $100; the noninterestbearing debt decreased $884,527.50, and cash in the treasury increased $4,552,184.38. The balances of the several classes of the debt at the close of business May 31 were: ( Interest-bearing debt, $716,202.01; debt on which interest Jias ceased since maturity, $1,734,920.26; debt bearing no interest, $379,836,461.90. Total, $1,097,773,893.18. EX-CONFEDERATES Enter and Capture the Clity of ClnelnCincinnati, June 2.—The special train bearing the ex-confederates who attended the dedication of the confederate monument in Chicago reached here at 7:30 o'clock yesterday morning. A committee from the chamber of commerce escorted them to the Grand hotel, where breakfast was served. Never in the history of the exchange was such an ovation tendered to visitors, and every speech was Hundreds of G.‘A. R.

HORRIBLE TRAGEDY, Mother and Daughter Murdered at Xte» neopolis— A Cntsjr Soa and Brother at the Two, Recently Beteaaed From aa Asylum. Sappueed to Have Committed the Crime. As He Had Been Seen Lark* ln| About the Premises. Minneapolis, Minn., June 3.—A terrible tragedy occurred at 1229 Nicollet avenue. Mrs. Martha M, Elias and daughter lives there over Hart's drag store. About 4 a. m. people in the vicinity heard a pistol shot and in a few minutes later another. Soon afterward investigation showed that a double murder had been committed. The daughter was found dead in bed. There had been no struggle and she lay as if asleep, but when raised up the back of her head was found to be nearly shot away.. The body of the old lady was found lying across the bed outside the covers. Her fuce and head had been frightfully mangled with a shot from a 44- caliber Colt's revolver fired into the head between Hie eyes. The mother was at first supposed to have been insane and to have killed her daughter and then shot herself. But the coroner thought the deed might have been done by consent of both. They lived alone aud were employed in a laundry. Later developments, however, indicate that instead of “murder and sui- . cide” it was a double murder committed by the son and brother of the (lead people. The young man was released from the insane asylum the first of May, and was seen about the premises yesterday. In the room was found a satchel containing S1U9, and the curtains were torn by the murderer jumping from the window.

LORD GOUGH DEAD. He Wa a Solilicr Whom Great Brltaio Delighted lo Honor—HI* Sucrraor. Washington, June 3.—A cablegram receives! at the British embassy Friday announced the death of Lord Gough, the hero of India and father ©| Mr. Hugh Gough, first secretary of the embassy here. As a result of this Mr. Gough, being the eldest son, now becomes Lord Gough, succeeds to the titles and estates, becomes a member of the peerage and has conferred upon him the unusual honors which parliament conferred on the elder Lord Gough and his two successors, because of his conspicuous service in subduing India, and. in effect, establishing the British empire in India. The new Lord Gough has been i» Washington aboitt a year, coming here from St. Petersburg. Ilis wife. Lady Georgians Gough, is a daughter of the earl of Langford. Lord Gough, the elder, who has just died, was one of the most conspicuous military men England has produced of late years. He went to India as colonel of fhe Grenadier Guards, but showed such brilliant abilities that lie was made commander-in-chief of all the forces in India. For his services in India, parliament twice thanked him, raised him to the peerage, and gave him the unusual honor of a permanent annuity of £3,000 ($10,000), which should go not only to himself, but t® his son and his son's son. The new~ Lord Gough now succeeds to the handsome annuity from parliament Lord Gough, now in Washington, is a graduate of Oxford. He entered the llritj ish diplomatic service in 1876, and ha^ been first secretary at S tockholm, St Petersburg and Washington. He is * man of courtliness and quiet dignity. It is probable that he will return tAi England at an early day. ■ SUDDEN DEATHJ

1 rhaj Of Gan. G. M. Mitchell, Followed br XI of HU Widow at Charleston, HI. Chaiu.eston, 111., June 2.—The citi zens of Charleston received a great shock Friday in the sadden death oi Gen. G. M. Mitchell and his wife. Mr. Mitchell was working in his garden in the morning, when about 9:30 o’clocl he> fell dead. Mrs. Mitchell was s overcome with grief that she died at p. m. The funeral of both will occs Sunday under the auspices of the loci G. A. R. post. G. M. Mitchell was born in Warre county, Ivy., in 1835. He removed Illinois in 1851, and was married id I860 to Miss Katie Miles, of Charles ton. He entered the army in 1861 captain of Company C, First Illinoi volunteers, was promoted to the ran! of colonel in 13C3, and was mustere* out of service November 3, 1865, brigadier general. At the close of th war he was elected sheriff of - Col county, serving turn years. He wa postmaster at Charleston from 1877 1885, and was warden of Chester pei tentiary from 1S8G to 1890. Since tli he has been in business in this cit; At the time of his death he wa£ a men her of the board of education. FATAL FRACD Between a Conple of State Liquor Con bles at Clinton, S. C. Columbia, S. C., June 2.—At Clint State Liquor Constables S. M. Dune and Workman’ the former chief of constabulary forces in the upper tion of the t. state, had a tal shooting affray. Workma charged Duncan with being caused of his removal from the for The lie passed and Workman killed, bnt not until Duncan had brought down by two bullets hips. He is hot thought to be fat injured. A ••HORIZONTAL RAISE* Wade by the Carnegie Steel Co. 09 nage. Day and Tarn Men. Pittsburgh, Pa., June 2. Carnegie Steel Co. has voluntarilj creased the wages of all tnd turn men in its various mi per cent, the advance to date fr iay. About 20,600 men part the increase. Secretary Lovejoy Carnegie company terms the •a horizontal raise, whieh svery man ineludecKn the 1 receive an increase >of 10 ■esDective of his position or advance]