Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 17, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 September 1895 — Page 2

X. XoO. 8T00P8, Editor aid Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. Alexander Murphy. formerly * rich €olorado ranchman, committed suicide in Denver, Col., on the 27th, leaving his body to the cause of anatomical science. Princess Louise Sophie of Schles-wig-Holstein, wife cf Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia, and a younger sister of the empress of Germany, was accouched of a son on the 27th. The law officers of the government have under consideration the question how further to proceed with the case against the Bell Telephone Co. for the repeal of the Berliner patent , & O. Labadie, notary for several of ^ the richest estates in the province, has mysteriously disappeared from Montreal, Can. He is about 70 years* of There are fears of foul play. Secretary Lamont issued an order, ► the 27th, turning over to the state jaf Michigan, for use as a state park, phe military reservation, buildings and inds on Mackinac island, Michigan. i A dispatch from - Constantinople, on pe 28th, said that the sultan had made ^iplaint to the French and Russian Dvemments against the attitude of fland on the Armenian question. f The republican convention called the puroose of nominating a full eket for the new state of Utah to be |oted for in November, met in Salt ike City, on the 28th, 536 delegates sing present 1

■ Work was began, ou the 28th, on the Baltimore end of the Baltimore «fc Washington boulevard (Columbia & Maryland electric railway). Work on Ke Washington end was begun the Hrevious week. I Advices received in Hong Kong Brom Ku*Cheng, on the 28th, stated Ehat the inquiry of the investigating mommittee into the recent outrages nvas proceeding satisfactorily, the ChiInese officials giving the commission 'ample assistance. „ An Armenian newspaper published in Tiflis received a dispatch from Beyrout, on the 27th, stating that on August 10 a band of armed brigands attacked the Armenian monastery of St. John and brutally maltreated the pilgrims assembled there. On the 29th, Deputy Sheriff Sloan, of' Buffalo, N. Y., seized a train of sugar from Chicago, bound for the seaboard, to satisfy a claim held by the American Exchange bank of. Buffalo for ¥900 against the Chicago Sugar Co. The cars contained 100,000 pounds of sugar. For whipping an officer in the German army before coming to America, H. M. Romberg, a naturalized citizen of Decatur, Ind.,upon returning to the fatherland, has been sent to prison for twelve years- Under existing treaties the American government has no ground for interference. On the 29th Acting Internal Revenue Commissioner Wilson issued instructions to collectors of internal revenue extending the time from September 1 to October 1 in which claims for sugar bounty may be filed. The original date set was found to be too limited in which to accomplish the work. The visible supply of grain, in store and afloat, on the 24th, as compiled at the New York Produce exchange, was as follows: Wheat, 35,089,000 bushels; decrease, 1,804,000 bushels; corn, 5,287,000 bushels; increase, 44,000: oats, 8,719,000 bushels; increase, 88,000; rye, 890,000 bushels; increase, 06,000; barley, 46,000 bushels; decrease, 172,000. The war department will take no further steps in the Chicago drainage eanal matter until the engineer corps has had an opportunity to make observations and take measurements as to the probable effect the operation of the proposed waterway will have upon the level of the great lakes. This work will be taken up as soon as possible.

A special telegram from Kingston. Jamaica, on the 28th, said: “Capt.-(3en. Martinez de Gampos 1ms written to the Spanish consul here, it has leaked out, that the struggle against the insurrection in Cuba is hopeless. The conceding of autonomy, he adds, is the only means by which Spain can avoid losing the island. The Cubans here are jubilant.” The finding of what are believed to be the charred bones of the missing lad Howard Peitzel in a little frame cottage in the town of Irvington, a suburb of Indianapolis, Ind., on the 87th, furnishes strong circumstantial evidence of another awful murder and attempted cremation by H. H. Holmes, whom it is almost certain occupied the house in company with the boy for a few days last fall. Consternation was caused in Jefferson and adjoining counties in Washington, on the 27th, by the appearance of an army officer with a squad of men bearing instructions to all settlers on government reserves to vacate the same before September 15 or be removed by troops. The move is the outcome of a recent order' of the war department. It is estimated that 1,500 settlers will lose their homes. Four violent earthquake shocks were reported from Pipotepu and Nacional, in Oaxaca, Mexico, on the 29tli, causing wide-spread terror. Walls were rent and roofs caved in. The inhabitants of the stricken towns took refuge in the open country. The severe shocks were preceded by a loud roaring, homing from the sen, and it is believed in the stricken locality that a subterranean volcano is on the point o&ruption.

CURRENT TOPICS TEE HEWS IH BRIEF. SEPTEMBER—4895. Toe.’Wet i\n m 8 15 22 9 2 9 16 23 30 10 17 24 11 18 25 O 12 19 26 FA 6 13 20 27 Sat 141 2l| 28 PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The convent of Ribordaine, a village in the province of Turin, Italy, was partially destroyed by tire on the 27th. Eight women perished and four others were severely injured. The yield from general taxation in Spain for Jnly shows a decrease of 3,599,509 pesetas, as compared with the month of July, 1894. Queen Victowa, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, left Osborne house, on the 27th, for Balmoral. The American Bar association convened in eighteenth annual session at Detroit, Mich., on the 27th. The coroner and the police of Indianapolis, Ind., went to Irvington, on the*. 28th, to get together all the remains of the body of Howard Pietzel, and to collect the mass of evidence developing there against H. II. Holmes. Later the coroner began the taking of testimony in the case. HirpoLYtE Rammax, the dramatist, committed suicide in Paris, on the 27th, by shooting himself with a revolver. ^

A party of hunters hare found in Harlan county, Ky., a lot of skeletons, gunsnnd cartridges, which are believed to throw soufte light upon a missing party of soldiers belonging to John Morgan’s famous command, which -went into the mountains of Kentucky to cope with Union bushwhackers. Arthur Master, son of Col. Chester Master, of Cirencestor.Gloucestershire, and a cousin of the_jmarquis of Salisbury,4eU from a second-story window at Middlesborough, Ky., on the 28th, and was fatally injured. He had been in Middlesboroiigk five years, having come to Kentucky with a number tff other English capitaists when the famouB Middlesborough boom began. Lightning entered the telegraph office of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. at Whitewater. Wis.. on the night of the 27th, and instantly killed the operator, Joseph O’M ai icy. MM. Rexepitti and Alessandri, rival candidates for the canton of Pedicroce, Corsica, fought a duel with pistols, on the 28th, and Alessandri was killed. An important order giving full pro tection to foreign consumers of American meat products was issued on the 28th. It will prevent the exportation of any beef that is not inspected, and will cause the exporters of horse meat so to mark the packages that the nature of the contents shall be apparent. George Walters, a lineman employed by the Connellsville (Pa.) Electric Light Co., was instantly killed, on the 29th, $vhile making repairs to an arc light. The wire had been crossed with another daring a storm. The duke of Orleans, who, upon the death, last year, of his father, the count of Paris, became the head of the royalist party in France, and claimant to the throne, has become convinced of the futility of further fighting the republic. He has, therefore, decided to abandon the royalist propaganda and save the money spent in its maintenance. The factional fight that has lieeo goingon for some time in Chinatown, San Francisco, between the See Yup and the Sam Yup families, has culminated in the disruption of the Six Companies, the most powerful organization ever instituted by the Chinese in this country. Ex-Police Justice Patrick Gavan Duffy, of New York city, who was stricken with paralysis two weeks previous at Forked River, N. J., died there on the 28th. He was one of the most popular (with Tammany) justices that ever sat on the bench in New York city’.

William Gail lard, of Palestine Comm^ndery, No. 6, Knights Templar, of New London, Conn., dropped dead from apoplexy on Washington street, Roxbury, Mass., on «the 28th. He was returning to headquarters after parade, apparently as well as usual, when the fatal attack seized him. The next triennial conclave of th e grand encampment of Knights Templar of the United States will be held in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1893. • The Paris Matin advises that Great Britain and Brazil submit the question of possession of the island of Tri nidad to arbitration. On the 29th the Belraont-Morgan syndicate deposited $1,500,000 in gold in the New York sub-treasury in exchange for greenbacks, which raised the treasury gold reserve to $101,700,000. A rolling rock struck a Colorado Midland passenger train near Fisher, Col, on the 28th, wrecking the baggage car and smoking car. One person was killed and two injured. A dispatch from Moscow, on the 29th, said that half the town of Yukhnoff, in the province of Smolensk, had been burned. A German torpedo boat capsized and sank in the North sea on the 28th. Thirteen of her crew were drowned. ■ Librarian Spofford, on the 29th, forwarded to the treasury department a statement of his accounts covering a period of several years. The report I specifies moneys received and disbursed for library and copyright purposes up to August 11, last. The figure . will not be given oat pending tae action ol the department on the report.

Th* coroner's Jury In the case of tha Gumrv hotel disaster at Dearer, OoL, say that the testimony was so conflicting that it was impassible to fix the responsibility for the disaster upo® I any one person, bat that the owners, Peter Gumry and R. CL Greiner, were blamable for requiring their engineer to work sixteen hoars oat of twentyfour, and for employ ing an inexperienced engineer, wnose habits were dissipated and unreliable. James F. Jot, 84 years old, and the oldest member of the Detroit (Mich.) bar, in some way lost his footing on the gang plank of a pleasure yacht, on the‘29th, and stepped off into therirer. Mr. Joy would probably have drowned had it not been for the promptness and | bravery of Judge Dickinson, of Tennessee, who gallantly leaped into the water and supported Mr. Joy until the officers and crew of the yacht came to his assistance. Ox the 39th a terrible explosion was reported from Lafayette township, in the extreme western portion of Alien county, Ind., in which two men were killed. John Ftaugh was at work in hjs father’s sawmill with another em-9 ploye, named Phaial, when the boiler exploded and hurled the men across the building into the yard. Both were killed. The drug with which Howard Pitezel is believed ,to have been killed before his body was burned in the big stove In the Irvington cottage, Indianapolis, was foupd on the 29th. A part of a bottle of cyanide of potassium was found buried in the barn. Official reports show that there were 40,000 deaths from cholera in Pekin during the month of August. O Wm. A. Harper, of Butler county, confined in the Allegheny County jail in Pittsburgh. Pa., on a charge of assault and battery preferred by his wife, committed suicide, on the SOth, by jumping from the top tier of cells to the stone floor * 45 feet below. He

struck squarely upon ius nean, anu death was almost instantaneous. Advices from Behring” sea by the steamer Bertha, arrived at San Francisco on the 80th, report the whaling catch as follows: Newport, 8 whales; Rosario, 4; Jesse IT. Freeman, 1; Win. Baylies, 4; Mary D. Hume, '; Wanderer, 1, and Triton 2. i The keeper of the Brough lighthouse, Orkney islands, telegraphed, on the 80th, that the Norwegian steamer Ansgarius had been lost bn Lowther rock. Six of her erew were saved, and seven were missing. The Paris Estafette protests against the action of the English and American newspapers in denouncing the sentence imposed on ex-United States Consul Waller, and says Waller ought to have been immediately shot for his treachery. Loris Wiixich, one of the bestknown German poets and journalists in America, died in St. Louis on the 30th. Deceased’s full name was Louis Willich von .Poellnitz, his family belonging to the German nobility. He was a plain man, however, and in this country was always known as Louis W’illich. Br the new Ontario game law the close season for, deer is from November 15, 1895, to November 1, 1896, and no moose, elk, caribou or reindeer shall lie hunted before October 25, 1900. Hounds found running deer in the close season may be killed by and person on sight. No more than two deer shall be taken in one season by one person. The provisions for the protection of smaller game are correspondingly stringent. LATE NEWS ITEMS. A distinctly perceptible earthquake shock was felt in many portions of New York. New Jersey and Pennsylvania about 6 o’clock on the morning of the 1st. The vibration did not last longer than a second or so, but it was severe enough to awaken people from sleep. The direction oi the shock was southeast to north-northwest. The statement of the associated banks of New York city, for the week ended the 31st, showed the following changes: Reserve, increase, $1,563,250; loans, decrease, $272,700: specie, decrease, $844,300; legal tenders, increase, $2,776,400; deposits, increase, $1,395,400; circulation, increase, $15,800. Mr. Marshall McDonald, of West Virginia, who for the last seven years had held the position of United States commissioner of fish and fisheries, died, on the 1st, at his residence in Washington, of pulmonary disease, after an illness of several tnonths.

Secretary Moore and the Kansas state sanitary board are wrestling with several cases of Texas fever. All the cases located have been quarantined and an investigation instituted as to the origin of the various outbreaks. A dispatch from Washington says that a well-equipped and thoroughly^ organized movement, having for its object the placing of all fourth-class postmasters in the classified service, is approaching maturity. Buffalo, N. Y., was visited by a $500,000 conflagration, early on the morning of the 1st. The fire started in the Academy of Music, which, together with several business houses, was consumed. The socialists carried their banner through the streets of Chicago in their parade, on the 1st, notwithstanding the orders of the mayor, but its redness was concealed by a covering of black. The United States treasurer mailed 1,107 checks, aggregating $176,822.50, in payment of the interest due on the 1st on the bonds of the funded loan of 1891, continued at 2 per cent. A dispatch received at the state department from Mr. Cooper, United States dispatch agent at San Francisco, confirms the news that cholera has broken out at Honolulu. Ox the 31st the associated banks of New York city held 839,149,925 in excess of the requirements of the 25-per-cent. rule. The. Russian minister of the interior has received reports that cholera is pre1 valent in Vladivostock.

INDIANA STATE NEW& Alt appeal will be made to the state board of agriculture for assistance in exterminating* the Russian thistle, which is spreading* over northern Indiana. Patches hare been found cores ing acres on many farms. Experts at I*urdne university pronounce the weed as the most dangerous pest,to farmers in existent. Mbs. Emily Pritchkt, widow of the late Dr. John Pritchet, aged eighty- five years, fell down stairs at her home in Centerville, breaking her right hip bone. At a festival at Bryant Chapel, three miles southwest of Centerville, a buggy whip thief was there and relieved about fifteen buggies of their w lips and robes. Thomas Shoemakkr and Carl CJarrett, of Emison, while attempting to cross the railroad at Oaktown, five miles north of Emison. were struck by a south-bound fast freight Shoemaker was instantly killed and Barrett seriously injured. The buggy was torn to splinters,but the horse escaped injury. Shoemaker leaves a wife and one child in Harrison county. At Portland, Bracey Brothers and McNair, of Chicago, railroad contractors. have brought suit to foreclose that lien of S3S,000 against the Cincin nati, Union City & Chicago railroad. The road has been hanging fire for four years, and this late move will hasten it one way or the other. John B. Sacre, of Fayette county. Is lying at the point of death from injuries sustained on a barbed wire !enee while trying to check a runaway Seam. At Indianapolis Judge McCray, in charging the grand jury a few days ago, directed a rigid investigation into the attempt recently made by the citizens of West Indianapolis to ynch a young man named Patterson. The latter was charged with criminal assault. John* Friday, trustee of Center township, Vanderburg county, has brought suit to recover 8620 which Christian W. Kratz, his predecessor, paid out for office rent, buggy hire, etc. The plaintiff claims that the law dees not warrant the expenditures made by de

fendant. The long1 continued drought which has pre railed at Eiwood was broken the other day by a steady downp our of rain which will be worth thousands of dollars to farmers. The watc r famine is ended. The family of Walter Johnson, of Richmond, were prostrated by drinking milk which stood for several hours in a refrigerator which contained vegetables, among other things, p art of a water melon. The doctor pronounced it involuntary pxrisoning due to tyrotoxicon. The Madison county federation will run a special train to Indianapolis on the occasion of the Labor; day demonstration. Jaco$ Fbxdjuck, ap escapied inmate of Marion county asylum, was run dow;n by an east-bound passenger train one mile west of Lebanon the other day, and his body was crushed almost beyond recognition. The*Postal Telegraph Co. has begun building its lines south from Terre Haute to Evansville, and expeot to be in operation by the middle of September. The Long Distance Telephone Co. has recently completed its line to the same city. Altogether fifty-one farms in Putnam and Hendricks counties have been.. quarantined against the glanders. Muxcie papers want bicyclers to go slow on the streets. They cum plain that there is too much fast riding. At Cl arion Joseph Lugar, father of Wm. Liigar, the alleged assailant of an old woman, swore out an affidavit against his son, charging insanity. The bituminous miners of the state, after a month’s suspension, have won their p>oint and the operators have agreed to pay the 60-cent scale. James Dev ax, an old man who does not believe in banks, iwas knocked down the ether .day up>on his farm' near Crawfordsville, and SI29 taken from him. Several months ago he was also robbed of nearly S100. The other day a man slipped up behind him and hit him on the head with a club, knocking him senseless. No clew to the guilty party. A great building boom is reported at Evansville. Bedford will be liberaUy represented at the Louisville encampment. The Columbus Stove and Range Co. will locate at Cicero.

Thk scarcity of pasturage is causing a butter famine at Xoblesville. Wm. Keller has escaped from the insane hospital at Long Cliff, and is thought to be following the Barnura & Bailey circus. He was injured when a young man while tumbling in a circus ring, and was mad on the circus question. At Moorefield the people expect a large attendance at the annual celebration. This has been held for many years, the attendance sometimes reaching S.OOQ. It is one of the best known gatherings in the state. It will be held August 31.1 James Burris, an old farmer living three miles west of Lebanon, and Bert Reese, 14 years of age, who also lives in the same vicinity, had a serious quarrel at the former’s home, in which | Burris was fatally stabbed. A petition for'rehearing in the Roby case has been filed in the supreme court. It is claimed that the new racing law is void. A Kokomo girl baby, born recently, has the strange pedigree of being the fourteenth daughter of the fourteenth | daughter. The drought in eastern Indiana is becoming quite serious. The Salamonia and Wabash rivers are mere rivulets. Small pools of water J.re found here and there. Many large fish are found in these pools, and they furnish amusement to boys who wade in and kill them with clubs. The water supply of this city shows nc scarcity. Ora Starbuck, of Newcastle, fell from his bicycle at the northern Indiana meet, Warsaw, i»nd broke bis arm.

.' ' ' ".—■ - ' " ANARCHY'S RED FLAG. CwrM by SorlmlUti Throa(h the Streets •t Chleaio. In SpUe of the Mayor'* Prohibltlea. But !t» B)eed-Sn«c**tlns Color wm Shrouded bv o Corertopof “No Quarter” Block—A Flo* Presentation—Michael Schwab's Speech. Chicago, Sept. L—The knights of the Red flag- carried their banner through the streets of Chicago to-day notwithstanding the orders of the mayor, but its redness was concealed by a core ring of black. They held a celebration this afternoon in the back yard of a saloon on Clybourn avenue, at which Oscar Npebe and Michael Schwab, two of the anarchists pardoned by Gov. Altgeld, and Lucy l*ar» s sons were present The day was made the occasion for the presentation of a handsome red flag to the “socialist labor party” of Chicago, by the wives and daughters of socialists. At the grounds it was unfurled amid great cheers, but it was not waved according to orders. The gathering of socialists, some of whom declared themselves to be anarchists and others who would be insulted at the name, was not so large or enthusiastic as similar assemblages have been. The speakers of the day were M. V. Britzeus and Michael Schwab. After the presentation. Mr. Britzeus scored Mayor Swift for interfering with the liberty of American citzens by refusing them the right to march through the streets with a red flag, the “symbol of oscialism." Mr. Schwab disappointed those who expected him to say much regarding his being put in prison. The speaker did say that his followers would succeed if 100.000 of them were thrown into prison, but he failed to make any personal remarks. He urged those present not to go home and sleep, but to go to work and rally their people and teach their children to fight against oppression. BUFFALO’S BIG BLAZE.

Half a Million Dollars* Worth of Property Destroyed. Buffalo, X. Y.. Sept l.—One of the most serious tires that has visited Buffalo for several j*ears started in the basement of the Academy of Music at 1 o’clock this morning. At 1:45 o'clock the firemen, believing that they had the fire under control, withdrew part of their working force. A few minutes later a blaze broke through the rear of the academy and rapidly spread to the adjoining fur and hat store of George W. Comstock. This was soon totally destroyed. The fire then spread to Glenny Sons’store, the largest importers of chinaware in the United States, and burned through two stories before the firemen were able to drive the flames in the opposite direction, where they found material to feed on in the drug store of Lyman *fe Sloan, the American Express Cot’s building and the Western Union Telegraph Co., the three latter places suffering slight damage. The Jeffreys Lewis Dramatic Co. was booked to play this week at the academy but had not yet transferred their effects from the depot to the theater.. A conservative estimate places the total loss at $500,000. A GIGANTIC FRAUD. Couuterfeltlnc Southern Pacific Railway Tickets—Arrests Made aud Pending. New Orleans, Sept. 1.—A gigantic fraud of counterfeiting Southern Pacific railway tickets was unearthed here yesterday with the arrest of i Charles J. Barnett, of Barnett & Wenar, Canal-street ticket scalpers. A 1 warrant is out for Wenar. It is also understood that an arrest has been made in New York, through a private detective agency, and another arrest in an eastern city, but the names of the prisoners are, for the present, withheld.. The tickets were counterfeited in New York by a printing and lithographing house in that city, and the printers, it ib said, are also to be arrested. Inspector Fegan of the Southern Pacific railroad has been at work on the case for $even months. The Southern Pacific, since General Passenger Agent Morse came here, has discovered counterfeiting going on, and a plan was mapped out to capture the alleged criminals. Fegan worked with the crooks, and was offered as his share of the swag 825,000. United States Deputy Marshal Leblanc arrested Barnett yesterday morning.

TROOPS CALLED OUT To Pr*»err© the Peace Attimt Striking Miners at Ishpeming, Mich. Lansing, Mich., Sept. 1.—Gov. Rich returned to the capital last night from Elba in post haste upon receipt of a telegram from the mayor of Ishpeming saying the situation in the iron ore miners’ strike was hourly growing warlike. The sheriff also fears trouble even before the shovels are started and has called for troops pt once. After considering the request. Gov. Rich issued formal orders for the fifth regiment state troops to proceed to Ishpeming at once under command of Col. Lyon. (■ The regiment will reach Ishpeming to-day. One hundred tents have been forwarded to Ishpeming and Assistant Quartermaster-Gen. Avery will be on the ground with every preparation for a prolonged siege. Lieut.-Col. Burnett, of Muskegon, has been advising with the governor. Philadelphia, Sept 1.—A distinctly perceptible earthquake shock was felt here this morning about 6 o’clock. The vibration did not last longer than a second or so, but it was severe enough to awaken people from sleep and to shake ornaments hanging on walla The direction-of the shock was from southeast to north-northwest. Advices from High Bridge, Atlantio Highlands, Englewood, Rahway and Trenton, N. J.; Chester, West Chester and Easton, Pa.; Port Jefferson and ftorthport, N. Y., and other places report the disturbance, but no damagp. 1

THE WAR IN CUBA. TW ImareMt* C«dtlna« to B» WIIltaMt *•* lickt-rmk Troops Arrive mt litnuieA Troop or Spooled Soldi*re ASmaM Wlpod Out to i PfctrmUh—The C«bu«Cepsere m Qoootltr «f Arms. A rninail* •too aatt t*rorUlon», Havana, Sept 1.—A dispatch from. Santa Clara says that Col. Palanca, with his command, has had sharp bat* ties with the rebel bands under Snarer, and Zayas at Cariblanea. The rebels, were dispersed, and their camp captured. Their loss is unknown. CAFTIHRD RIGHT NEGROES. A dispatch from Earned ids says a squad of Havana volunteers detailed to protect a plantation at Convetffo, yesterday captured eight rebel negroes*, of the class called “Plate&dos. ” MURK TROOPS TOR SPAIN. The steamer CaValuna arrived here this morning with fresh troops from. Spain. The city was decorated inhonorof her arrival. . SPANISH BAND Al.HOST WIPED OPT. A dispatch from Santa Clara says, that Lieut Coboz, who, with his command, is detached at Mata, learned that on August 28 a band of rebels attacked a plantation at Macagua. Cobor started for the plantation with seventeen then, and on the way met a forceof 300 rebels under the leader Bermudez. A stubborn fight followed, in. which Lieut Coboz and fourteen of his men were killed. TUB REBELS GOT THE REST O? THIS. A band of 300 rebels surprised the post of the civil guard at Mordazo on August 23. The guards were supported by volunteers enlisted from that locality, but through the treachery of these volunteers the rebels werO enabled: to penetrate the fortifications. Two of the guards were killed and four wounded. One of the latter, the sergeant in command, is very seriously hurt.. The rebels captured all of the civil guard's arms, ammunition, provisions, etc., aud burned the fort. Troops have been seat in pursuit of them.

SYSTEMATIC STEALING, I'hlraeo Kobbrd to the Amount of MU Ilona by “Hlliul" Witter Pipe*. Chicago, Sept. 2.—Ample evidence^ of Systematic stealing of city water bymeans of “blind” pipes has been discovered in the Union stock yards. The beneficiaries have been certain packers, and the investigation, whieh has. only just begun, is expected to disclose wholesale' secret tapping of the mains in the old town of Lake, in which the stock yards are located. Subordinate officials of the water department, acting under secret-or-ders of the commissioner of public works, and assisted by a guug (if workmen, discovered a six-inch pipe from a city main to one of the big packing house:, which was divertingwater from the meter. It is estimated by the investigators, that the city has lost millions of dollars in water revenues by reason of the secret appropriations of water for many years;. The investigation is. hampered by the fact that there are no maps of the town of Lake water system and it may be necessary to uncover four miles of mains and cut off every pipe leading.to the stock yards territory to stop the suspected leak aSHEEP AND WOOL. tome Figure* that Will Be of Intercut to Sheep-Owners. Boston, Sept. 1.—The National Association of Wool Manufacturers will publish in its September bulletin the results of its investigations concerning^ the wool clip for 1895. The wool product is put at 294,296,726 pounds, washed and unwashed, including 40,000,000 pulled wool, against 325,210,712 pounds in 1894. Reduced to* a scoured basis, the total product, is. placed at 125.718,690 pounds. The number of sheep on the 1stof April is estimated at 89.949,388, and the average weight of i^ece was 6,395 pounds, the slight variation arising chiefly from the reduction in weight in Pennsylvania, Colorado and Oklahoma. In most cases where the? weight of fleeces has been reduced there will also be a reduction in the shrinkage between the condition of the wool as sheared and its scoured state. This is caused in most instances by the crossing of merinos with other breeds, the result being a fleece of less, weight and containing less yolk or saint, and therefore of lighter shrinkage, although the change has in some cases resulted from a dry season.

OCTAVIUS COKE. Secretary of State of North Carolina. Dead. Uat-KIGH, N. C., Aug. 31.—Secretary of State Octavius Coke, after an illness, of five weeks, died Friday afternoon. He had been gradually sinking for several days and his death was not unexpected. [Octavius Coke was born in Williams-^ burg, Va., October 4, 1840. He served, with gallantry in the confederate army during the war. being twice woundedHe moved to Edintou, N, C., in 1867r where he practiced law uutil 1876„ when he became a citizen of RaleighHe was in 187*2 a democratic presidential elector. In 1884 he was a candidate against Scales for the nomination! for governor. He was appointed secretary of state by Gov. Fowle in 1S9L upon the death of Mr. Saunders, and. was'elected to the same position in 1894/ He is a brother of Senator Coke. X The St. Loots a Fast Boat. Nxw York, Sept. 1.—There was a is interesting race between the American line steamer St. Louis and the Hamburg American liner Augusta Victoria for the last 1Q0 miles of the passage from Southampton. The St Louis overhauled the German boat, and at12:52 a. m. both vessels crossed the bar. The American diner was some lengths ahead when the race ended at Quarantine. Through a mistake the Augusta, Victoria was boarded aud cleared first by the health officer, and started for* her pier half an hour before the St» Louis. r