Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 27, Petersburg, Pike County, 15 November 1895 — Page 2

Till—il ®b fib ®onutg gjtmomi M. MoO. 8TOOP8, Editor tad Propriotor. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. J. W. Cadman, uncle of Mrs. Cleveland, who shot himself in Chicago several days ago, died at the county hospital in that city on the 8th. The secretary of the interior has approved the school indemnity selection by the state of Oregon of 20,369 acres of land in the Oregon City land district. A careful estimate places the total damage by marsh and forest fires in the five counties of Lake, Porter, Laporte, St Joseph and Pulaski, Indiana, at $150,000. _ Farmer Henrt Davenport’s 500 acres of land were sold at Knoxville, Tenn., on the 8th, because he mortgaged it to get money with which to buy bogus gold bricks. '» It now appears that the ram Katahdin may not be rejected by the navy department, as her failure was due to her model, with whichf- the Bath Iron Co. had nothing to doT The 30,000 white roses and 47,000 pink roses used in decorating the church for the Marlborough-Vander-bilt wedding were, distributed amoug the hospitals of New York city. Failures for the week ended on the 6th were: For the United States, 280, as compared with 261 for the corresponding week last year- For Canada the failures were 49, against 42 last year. With due ceremony the new Carnegie library, music hall, art gallery and museum, in Pittsburgh, Pa., an institution that has no known parallel in the world, was opened to the public on the 6th.

Advance: sheets issued by the Orange Judd Farmer, on the 6th, state that the potato crop in the United, States will be the largest ever known. The Farmer places the crop at 282,148,000 bushels. Amos C. Hkister, one of the proprietors ef the San Francisco Daily Report, died atjiis home in that city, on the 7th, of Bright's disease. lie was a native of Germantown, O., and came of a distinguished family. The city of Rome was again visited by an earthquake at 3:80 o’clock on the morning of the 6t'n, though the shock was not by any means as severe as that of the 1st. No damage of any material character was done. Hebr Luetgenau, socialist, who was, on the 6th, elected to membership in the German reichstag for Dortmund, was, on the 7th, sentenced to five months’ imprisonment for publishing an article insulting the emperor in the Dortmund Arbeiter Zeitung, of which be is editor. ^ The strike situation on the Great Northern took a new turn, on the 6tli, when United States Judge Hanford, sitting at Walla Walla, issued an injunction restraining the strikers from interfering in any manner with the property of the company or the running of the trains. The phyloxera, or vine pest, has struck twenty-six provinces in Italy, devastating vineyards aggregating 285,845 acres, and other vineyards, aggregating 188,845 acres, are on the way to destruction. Sicily has suffered most The damage done amounts to millions of dollars and the infection is spreading. On the 8tli, tlie secretary of the interior forwarded to the president for his approval the draft of a proclamation opening for settlement a potion of the Nez Perces Indian reservation in Idaho, and suggested that the date of the opening of the lands be named 1 three days later than the date on which the president signs the proclamation. f p At the annual roll call, on the 6th, of men enrolled in the reserves of the landwehr, but who are engaged in civilian pursuits, an order was read at the command of the German emperor declaring that the possession or distribution of revolutionary literature was forbidden to them, and also that barrackmen who disobeyed the order would be punished just as severely as active soldiers would be for the same offense.

Forty persons were killed, many of them by burning, and twenty more or less seriously injured, on the 6th, by the collapse of a five-story building occupied by the Detroit (Mich.)Evening Journal, caused by the explosion of a battery of boilers in the basement The scenes of horror at the wreck, as superhuman efforts were being made to rescue the pinioned, and in many cases, doomed victims of the accident, were indescribable. The great collection of paintings in the galleries of the new Carnegie library building at Pittsburgh, Pa., was opened, on the 4th, and will remain on exhibition for one month. Connoisseurs from all oyer the country pronounced the exhibit to be one of the most remarkable ever seen in this country. Mr. Carnegie has just given the magnificent endowment of 11,000,000, the interest of which is annually to be expended for works of art. What proved to be the most serious fire that has occurred in New York city in many years had its origin in the building at the corner of Bleecker street and Broadway on the evening of the 5th. The Manhattan bank building, valued at $1,000,000, with its stock, office fixtures, etc., valued at $500,000, was destroyed; also the old Keep- building, occupied by the Empire state bank, and several retail establishments. The total loss is estimated at $8,000,000. Some thrilllncr rescues were made bv the firenua

NOVEMBER—1896. 1896. I M Sat I SDL IlE Tub. VeLliH 2 : 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 :^7 18 19 20 21 22 24 25 26 27 28 29 23| 30| CURRENT TOPICS. THE HEWS IN BRUT. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The University alumni of Kansas City. Ma, met on the 4th, to take action on the death of Eugene Field. A motion was made and carried that, in view of Mr. Field's fondness for children, the entire contribution for the intended banquet to have been given to Mr. Field on that night be turned over to the Children’s home. The secretary of the interior has decided a case between the settlers in Oklahoma territory and the territory, which deprives the former of lands they settled upon when that country was opened by presidential proclamation. The land involved aggregates 18,520 acres on the Kickapoo reservation. John Coi.lert and John Mclvan were instantly killed and Frank and Harry Jones frightfully injured at Manor, \V. Va., on the 5th, by their train jumping the track and plunging into the Potomac river. Emperor Francis Joseph has granted amnesty to all political prisoners in

Bohemia. All the Welshmen in the mills of the National Tin-Plate Co. at Anderson, Ind., went out on strike on tiie 5th. The cause is said to be the employment of Americans where Welshmen had been at work. The United States Leather Co., known as the Leather trust, has shut down for two months the 100 tanneries under its control, and thrown its more than 15,000 employes out of work. Pittsburgh, on the 5th, not only received a gift of & Sl.OOaoOO library, music hall and art gallery from Andrew Carnegie, but the pleasing announcement, was made that Mr. Carnegie would endow the art gallery with St, 000,000, and also proposed erecting for the greater Pittsburgh free libraries at Duquesne, Carnegie and Homestead. Mrs. Florence Mavbrick, the American woman who is undergoing sentence of imprisonment for life in England after having been convicted in 1889 of poisoning her husband, James Maybrick, and ou behalf of whom repeated efforts have been made to secure a reopening of the case, was transferred, on the 5th, from Woking prison to the jail at Aylesbury, with other female convicts. At Prenselow, Prussia, on the 5tli, Herman Springstein and his married sister, Augusta Bock, charged with poisoning Springstein’s wife last March, and with having committed a series of murders between 1888 and 1892, were both, condemned to death. Andrew D. Mellick, author of the “Story of the Old Farm,” and a writer of newspaper articles, died at his home in Plainville, N. J., on the 6th, aged 51 years. Herr Lederer, once a famous singer in Wagnerian opera, and also notable as the first to seize the would-be murderer Kullmann when he fired at and slightly wounded Prince Bismarck at Kissengen, July 13,1874, committed suicide, on the 6th, at Fraukfort-on-Main, by shooting himself with & revolver. He was driven to the deed by extreme poverty, having lost the savings of his life through the defalcations of the absconding banker Sehoenfeld. The New York, Lake Erie & Western railroad was sold, on the 6th, at Ramapo, N. Y., under foreclosure decree to C. H. Coster, Louis Fitzgerald and Anthony J. Thomas, the reorganization committee, for $20,000,000. Forest fires raging near Ligonier, Ind., have desolated a number of farms and made many families homeless. The pope has fixed the 25th as the date of the next secret oonsistory and the 28th as the time for holding the next* public consistory. Mrs. D. P. Bowers, the well-known actress, died in Washington city, on the 6th, of heart failure superinduced by pneumonia.

The canal boat w. n. swat, lo&aea with hay, was burned at. Whitehall, N. Y., on the Cth, and the captain, Larry Sutton, of Rondout, and the steersman, James Burke, of Waterford, were both burned to death. John B. McGoldrick, clerk of the New York city court, secretary of the Tammany society and a candidate for the democratic nomination for congress in the Tenth district until he withdrew in favor of Amos J. Cum miugs, was dangerously stabbed, on the6th, by Wm. Dowling, a bartender. The nuptial ceremony that joined the houses of Vanderbilt and Churchill and made Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt duchess of Marlborough and mistress of the famous Blenheim estate in England, was performed in St. Thomas church, New York city, on the 6th. The couple are spending the honeymoon at “Idle Hour,” William K. Vanderbilt’s country seat on Long Island. The final obsequies over the remains of Eugene Field were performed on the <5th. The sad, yet beautiful, services were held in the Fourth Presbyterian church, at Rush and Superior streets, Chicago, and were attended by hundreds of the poet’s friends and admirers, and those who most dearly loved him. The Irish National league of Great Britain beld a meeting, on the ?th, and removed the name of Timothy Healy from their executive committee, substituting that of Miehael Davitt therefor, ,

Up to 6 Vdpril on the evening ot > the 7th thlrfjFthree of the thirty-nine | dead bodies lied been removed from ! the Journal office ruins in Detroit At j that hour Work was suspended until | the tottering' walls of the remaining building could be shorted up to insure the safety of the searchers. HabidIIafil Pasha, late Turkish minister of the interior, has been appointed grand vizier, in place of Kiamii Pasha, dismissed. A heavy snow-fall, on the 7th, the j first of the season, quenched the for- ) est fires in the ltlack River Falls see- ! tion of Wisconsin. ! The Greek vessel Mahdi was struck ! by a waterspout near Tunis, on the 7th, and sunk. Seven persons Were drowned. Reaii-Admibai, StiirrELDTdied at his residence in Washington city on the 1 7th. Ox the 6th the people of the Kanka- ! kee, region in Inddiana assembled in the village churches and prayed for rain. That night the distressing six-ty-days’ drought was broken by a copious downpour. The liquidating trustee of the I Standard Oil trust, at*their regular | quarterly meeting, held in New York ! city, on the 7th. declared a special dividend of 5 per cent in addition to their regular quarterly dividend. The governments of South Australia. West Australia and Tasmania have declined to co-operate with the other interested governments in pushing the project for a Pacific submarine

! cable. The London board of trade returns for, October show an increase for the month in imports of £1,190.000 and an increase in exports of £1,080,000, as ; compared with those for the corre* j spending month last year. Rev. Wm. E. Hinshaw, convicted oi ! having murdered his wife, was received at the Indiana state prison south on the 7th. Chaplain AVood made him principal of the prison school.' After repeated failures a partially successful attempt was made by incendiaries, on the 8th, to burn the Sheed Home for Friendless Children at Cleveland, O. The entire second floor oi the building, a large frame structure, was burned out. There were twentyseven children in the home at the time and many of them had narrow escapes from incineration. Tom McCarthy, who was concerned in the attack upon the Dawson family, near Omaha, Neb., and for which investigation was requested by the British government, was sentenced, on the 7th, to fifteen years’ imprisonment. The 'president has taken the first step toward putting fourth-class postmasters in the civil service by amending civil service rules to that end. The discovery has been made that the courthouse at Brazil, Ind.,a threestory brick structure, was rendered unsafe by the recent earthquake. The British admiralty have decided to increase the strength of the Mediterranean squadron by the addition to the fleet of six ships. The political police of Berlin made a seizure, on the 8th, of the entire edition of the newspaper Der Sozialist before the paper was issued to the public, upon the supposition that the publication contained a seditious article. The British government has deputed Mr. Gerald Balfour, chief secretary for Ireland, to use his influence with the Belfast and Clyde ship builders to induce them to arrange terms with their dissatisfied employes, the Belfast strikers and the locked-out Clyde engineer* and other workmen.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. The management of the Birmingham (Ala.) Rolling Mills Co. and the Alabama Rolling Co. have closed down their mills, in conformity with an agreement entered into with the Bar Iron association. The mills will remain closed uutil trade conditions become more settled. The weekly statement of "the New York city associated banks for the week ended on the 9th showed the following changes: Reserve, increase, §1,665,650; loans, decrease, §4,768,600, specie, increase, $310,500; legal tenders, increase, $973,500; deposits, decrease, $1,936,800; circulation, decrease, $9,900. A dispatch from St. Petersburg, on the 10th, said: “All hope of recovery of the czarina has been abandoned, and her death is said to be but a question of hours. She failed to rally from the effects of the caesarian operation, and has been steadily sinking since she underwent the terrible ordeal.” John Shoonmakeb, an American engineer, who was held at Guaymas, Mexico, for running his engine over and killing a drunken Mexican has, by the intervention of the state department of the United States^ been released, and has returned to his home in Nogales, Ariz. Loud Salisbury’s installation as lord warden of the cinque ports, the office recently resigned bg Lord Dufferin, British ambassador to France, will be made the occasion of an unique revival &f the old style of procession and other historical practices. A VEBY serious mutiny of Chinese soldiers has taken place at Kiu-Kiang, a city and treaty port of the province of Kiang-Si The troops refuse to disarm and defy the local officials, who are powerless to enforce their commands. Rev. Cyrus T. Brady, rector of St. Paul's church, Manhattan, Kas., and archdeacon of Kansas, has been named by Bishop Whitaker to be archdeacon for the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania. Consul Rawyese writes the department of state from Warsaw, Poland, that the second hygienic exposition of Poland will be held at Warsaw from May 15 to July 15, 1896. On the 9th the associated banks of New York city held $19,2:60,050 in excess of the requirements of the 25-per-I cent. rule. The pi esident has appointed Arthur K. Delaney, of Alaska, United State# I Judge for the district of Alaska.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. A C9\1pant of Chicago capitalist* ha** signed contracts to locate a steel plant st Alexandria in consideration of a 950,000 bonus and a free gas fuel franchise They are incorporated under the laws of Illinois, and will begin work at once putting in the plant. It is to employ five hundred men before the bonus is paid. Rev. We E. Hisshaw, convicted a month ago of the murder of his young wife, Thurza, at Belleville, on the 10th of last January, was refused a new trial by Jndge Hadley, who reviewed the case at length and found that the evidence given was admissible and that the defendant was not entitled to a new trial The case will be appealed to the supreme court. Considerable excitement has been caused iu Michigan City by the discovery of a secret cave for the biding of stolen property, and the apprehension of a gang of six bors who are members of the best families, and who, it is charged, have been guilty of the robberies. The youthful thieves range in age from 8 to 13 years. The plunder recovered consisted of lap robes, whips, groceries and miscellaneous articles, and is valued at $300. Tiie authorities have ordered Andersonians to part with their cats. It has been found that the animals have in many cases diphtheria and are spreading it. Ax Shelbyville Nor» and May Porterfield were thrown from their buggy and possibly fatally injured. They are prominent young ladies Their animal took fright at a bicycle. The case against Win. G Winstand- ; ley, charged with embezzlement for receiving a deposit in a bank about to assign, has been nollied at Paoli. The following fourth-class postmast- i ers were appointed for Indiana: Ha- ] zelrigg, Boone county, G. W. Kessel- i ring; North Liberty, St. Joseph coun- ! ty, L. H. Gouser: Nutwood, St. Joseph county, fC. J. Foursyth. - At Madison Wm. Colvin was sentenced to five years in the Jeffersonville prison a few days since for horse stealing. His companion, Donahue, was sent up for five years last spring. Colvin and Donahue lived in Clark county. They went into Jefferson county under pretext to arrest Charles Arbucle, a wealthy farmer, and by intimidation got a horse and bill of^sale from him. They sold the horse at Charlestown for $20 and fled. Cole, a weak-minded accomplice,was not pros

ecu ted. Two fire engines collided at Indianapolis. Several firemen were badly hut, and “Frank,” a magnificent horse, was so badly hurt it had to be killed. H. J. Humphrey's dead body was found near Brownstown, partially devoured by hogs. \Vm. Iiipx, of Hortoavillc, has fallen heir to $50,000 in British gold. At Warsaw Jacob Goshart, a farmer aged 45, committed suicide by hanging, while in a fit of temporary insanity. A bogus post office inspector was run down at Chesterton. He entered the post office and wanted the books, claiming to be in search of a missing money order. He failed to show the proper credentials, and Postmaster Maroney had him arrested. He was taken to Valparaiso and placed in jailHe refused to give his name or residence. Highwaymen' at Anderson held up Dr. Stafford and got a watch and $100. John and Charles Hudgele were also held up. The supreme eourt has advanced the apportionment suit on the docket. A petition to advance the case of Helen M. Gougar, relating the right of women to vote in Indiana, was denied. W. R. Covert won the damage suit brought against him by Mrs. Dr. Hillgass at Anderson. The Howe Co., of Indianapolis, has begun work on the water works it is putting in at Rushville,and has a large force of men employed. The works will cost $60,000. The confession of James Brown, the Kessler train robber, was confirmed the other day when Sheriff Simons, of Noble county, went east of Rome City by the description of the bandit, and dug up a large number of express money orders which they secured in the robbery. A $2,000 organ was crushed at New Albany by a falling church wall. Gxe spark from a locomotive set fire to 350 acres of ground near North Madison.

Ax Evansville woman has just been divorced from her seventh husband. At North Bend, William Nordoroff is under arrest, charged with forging the name of his brother, George J. Nordoroff, who resides in Germany, to a note for $400. The post office at Plate, Lagrange county, has been discontinued. Dr David Thompson, aged 71, of Wabash, is dead. ' A mastodox tooth was dug up in Fulton county by Tom Mclntire. The earthquake affected t.»e oil wells near Marion, increasing the flow. A post offce has been established at Kozion, Jefferson county. Hox. Hiram Brown i.ek, of Marion, spoke at the Cuban sympathizers’ meeting held in Wabash the other night * Dr Gard, clerk of the Clinton cir* cuit court for eight years, turned the office over to his successor, Mr. P. C. j Clark, the other evening. At Vineennes Mrs. Kate Brown was arrested on complaint of her mother. Mrs. Lavina Bevins, on a charge of forgery. The 5-year-old3 daughter of Charles Chambers, who lives 10 miles &outh of Brazil, got hold of a curling iron during the absence of the family. It is supposed that it fell into the child’s lap after being heated and ignited the tot’s clothing. When found she was dead and the body frightfully burned. Three distinct and heavy shocks of earthquake were felt at Bloomington. Windows and doors rattled and many people sought the open air.

IN THE PAR CAST. A* Alliance Between America, Great Britain and Japan Smnarr to Avert a Grave Crisis, tne Declaration of a Ureat Ambassador—His statement Reviewed and Its Falscy Pointed Oat-Japan la Corea. Washington, Not. 11.—A recent diapatch from Paris states that an ambassador of one of the great powers has expressed the belief that a grave crisis in the far east is imminent, and that it can only be averted by an alliance between the United States, Great llritain and Japan. The ambassador is quoted as saying that “it is impossible for the United States to remain neutral, as they cannot abandon their China trade to Russia withou t a struggle” It is of course difficult to obtain an expression of opinion concerning this statement in an official quarter, but it is easy to see that it is not credited by these who have the best means of accurately judging the real trend of affairs in the east They say that Russia, strictly speaking, is not a commercial power and consequently there is little if any probability of commercial rivalry between her and the United States. 'Petroleum is her only* commercial export of any importance to China and Japan and the preponderance of Russian influence can make little or no difference in the trade in that article. Japan's case is, of coarse, different, 1 but there is nothing in the present: situation to indicate that Japan is ] seeking an alliance with Russia or ' Great llritain. In certain cases Rus- , sian and Japanese interests might clash in Corea, bat the recent declara- | tion of the Japanese gevernment regarding its policy in that country ; must have disarmed any possible jeal- j ously on the part of Russia A precedent for the action of the ; Japanese might be taken if it were needed in the fact that both Great ; llritain and France stationed troops at , Yokohama for the protection of lives ; and property of their people during I the serious civil commotions which j preceded the restoration and retainfci|l j them there for several years. Rut (mjls , is a minor poiut. The significant fact is the Japanese governmen t has sternly j repressed certain of its over-zealous , officers and subjects in Corea, and has I frankly declared that its policy toward that country is strictly one of noninterference. This is the most notable development of the eastern situation that lias re- | cently occurred. The news of Japan’s action was doubtless as welcome at St. Petersburg as at London, and so far at least may be regarded as'a deterrent to anything like an alliance between Great Britain and Japan against Russia. On the other hand it may be taken for granted that Russia is too sagacious to wantonly provoke an alliance or to needlessly forfeit the friendship of either the United States or Japan. _ j

THE MONROE DOCTRINE Aa Interpreted by Ex-Senator Edmunds, of Mew Hampshire. Philadelphia, -- Nov. 11.—An informal talk, as he called it, was given Saturday night by ex-United States Senator George F. Edmunds to the members of the Union League club "rfnd their friends on “International Relations in Central and South America.” The prominent position occupied by the speaker for so many years iu the senate, coupled with the present difficulty over the boundary between Venezuela and British Guiana, added more than usual interest to such a discussion. On a map hung alongside the speaker’s platform. Senator Edmunds pointed out possessions of Great Britain which encircled the globe. This great expansion, he said, j was not a conquest of blood, but' trade, business and English civilization. He then gave a history of the origin of the Monroe doctrine: “That doctrine declared,” he said, I “that we would not look with uncoo- j cern (which in my Vermont dialect means, we would not tolerate) the interference of any foreign power with respect to the autonomy or existence ! of the American republics. That was the Monroe doctrine and it has stood as a standing menace to all foreign countries from that time to this.” I Senator Edmunds called attention to the way British claims in Honduras 1 had grown from almost nothing to several thousand square miles. In British Guiana, in 1859, their claims included only a few towns, with np I boundary at all given on the border ; toward Venezuela. In 1870 this small claim had grown to 7rf,000 square miles, and in 1892 to 109,000 square miles. That is British expansion, he added. But I hope and believe that the president and his secretary of state will not let Venezuela be squeezed out of the Orinoco. I hope the president will see thaf all our southern neighbors are protected in their just rights.” Senator Edmunds also urged the great advantages of the Nicaragua canal under American control. After referring to«many matters to be considered when discussing the annexation of Cuba, for instance, lie paid a compliment to President Cleveland, saying that no president had ever been found lacking in patriotism in looking after our relations with foreign countries, and republican though he was, he could say that of both Mr. Cleveland’s administrations, as would no doubt be demonstrated to all when all the facts came out. __

SERIOUS MUTINY Of Chinese Soldiers at Kiu-Klang In th« Pi-ovine* of Klaag-SL Shanghai, Not. 10.—The Shanghai Mereury says that a very serious mutiny of Chinese soldiers has taken place at Kiu-Kiang, a city and treaty port of the province of Kiang-Si. Thf troops refuse to disarm and defy the local officials, who are powerless to enforce their commands. The latest reports received from Kiu-Kiang saya that affairs there are in a very critical stage. The natives ore in a condition of panic. f

OUR NEW NAVY. W«> Hire the ▼«■*•<• sad Are fieildiaf Mors, Bat Now Ceww tk« I tom of ft*pair*. Which la No Mere BagateM*. Not* to Spook of the NoooMltjr for Adequate Dry Dock KMcItltleo on Both Coasts. Washington, Sot, II.—Tita first/ ship of the new nary was pat in commission over nine® years ayo, and according to Chief Constructor Hichbora the demands for ordinary repairs oik the earlier vessels, for the preservation and maintenance of their equipage in proper state of efficiency, areyearly becoming more serious, and congress must hereafter make much larger appropriations for this pnrpiise. Commodore Hichborn, in his annual report, declares thatmodern steel ships, with their extreme subdivision and elaborate systems of ventilation, drainage and mechanical auxiliaries of all kinds, require much greater care, both when in commission and in ordinary, thau was formerly the case with the old wooden stripe. Neglect is follower! by much more serious and far-reaching deterioration, and it is absolutely es&ent-&l that the most careful supervision should be exercised at alln times and remedies promptly applied in order that the efficiency of the vessels as men-of-war-may be properly maintained. For several years, past the construction bureau has been compelled toeconomize nearly to the danger point, being limited by a repair appropriation of less than 3 pyr cent, of thooriginal cost of the vessels, while in the British navy the figure varies from 4 to ft per cent., the lower figure applying to heavier armored vessels. Constructor Hichborn insists that SI.500,000 is needed for this year, where only SOQft,000 was secured from congress for the current year. A significant feature of Commodore Hichborn's report is that he officially recommended the construction of only two new vessels to be authorized by - congress at the next session instead of the great increase to our force of heavy battleships which was unofficially suggested by his paper read before the naval architects in New York three days ago as being promptly needed by the navy.

The vessels he recommeiuls are two small composite sailing' vessels of 1,000 tons displacement, to cost only . £250.000 each. These, if authorized by congress, will bo the first two vessels without steam power that have been placed in the naval service for many years. No argument regarding this recommendation is submitted by Constructor Hichbpru. Commodore llichborn devotes considerable spaed to pointing out the necessity for greatly. increasing the number of dry' docks at the navy yards, the efficiency of our cruisers being seriously affected by the difficulties encountered in cleaning* their submerged portions. He recommends new docks at Portsmouth, N. H., Boston. Mare Island, Cal., and Norfolk, Va. Until the indefinite time in the future when the big dry docks at New York, Puget Sound and Port Royal are available for deep draught vessels the new battleships must remain undocked. Chief Engineer Melville and Constructor llichborn coucur in the estimate that $5,895,679 must be provided for disbursing next year on account of the vessels authorized by the last congress. for which, however, no appropriations were made. For repairs on the Chicago $300,000 is required, and for the Hartford $170,000. s Constructor Hichborn renews with emphasis the request he has frequentlymade to congress for an experimental tank to cost $100,000, which it is proposed to use to test models of ships before the vessels themselves are built. CHICAGO'S DEAD ANARCHISTS. The Question of Their Cremation lie In g Considered by Their LIvIiik Admirer*. Chicago, Nov. 11.—A- proposal' to »ell Chicago anarchists ten acres of ground for a cemetery is receiving much attention at present. The offer came at an opportune time because Waldheim cemetery has beeu denied the anarchists for further annual celebrations. The offer was first broached at a meeting of anarchists held last. Friday and has since been the absorbing topic in red flag circles. - The cremation of the bodies of the dead}anarchists. Parsons, Spies, Engel, Ifisher and Lingg. should they be removed from Waldheim, has been proposed. Sentiment is divided upon the plan, however, many declaring that the families of the dead will never agree to it.

A HOOSIER IN LUCK. He U One of Six Heirs to « Sixty MIlllo:*DollMf Estate in Holland. Elkhart. Ind., Nov. 12.—Sylvester W. Shumard, a retired business maa , of this city, has just established the * fact that he is one of six heirs* who* have 'inherited a $60,000,000 estate in Amsterdam, Holland. An attorney from this city will leave for Ainster-. dam at once in Mr. Shumard's interest The estate was founded by Shumard’s grandfather, who was an officer in the American revolution. At the conclusion of the war the grandfather went to Holland, became very influential with the authorities and received many substanial favors, which formed the nucleus of • the estate* which now descends to the six heirs. Included in the property are many paintings by the old masters. REV. CYRUS T. BRADY Chosen Arehdeneon of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Nov. 10.— Rev. Cyrus. T. Brady, rector of St Paul’s church. Manhattan, Kas., and archdeacon of Kansas, has been named by Bishop Whitaker to be archdeacon fortiie Protestant Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania. The appointment was somewhat of a surprise to the clergy of this city. It is also somewhat of a disappointment to the local candidates. Key* Mr. Brady la about 39 years old.