Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 42, Petersburg, Pike County, 25 February 1898 — Page 2

fchffifct&cutttgDmowat feL MeC. STOOPS, Editor ud Proprietor. PETERSBURG. • - INDIANA. Skxor Calvo, resident minister from Costa Rica, stated, on the 17th, that there was no foundation for the rumors of a revolution in that country.' Miss Frances E. Willard, president of the Woman's Christian Temperance union, died shortly after midnight, on the 18th, at the Hotel Empire, in New York city. The disaster to the Maine has aroused a feeling among members of congress in favor of extreme liberality in appropriations for the naval and military establishments. A dispatch from Washington, on the 15th, said: “Naval officers look forward with certainty to a brush at sea if not a prolonged war with Spain. Many members of, congress are of thf same belief.” ■. * Failures throughout the country, aa reported by lhin A Co., for the week ended on the 18th, were 295, against 3u3 for the corresponding week last year. For Canada the failures w ere 35, against 58 last year.

Secretary Wilson of the ogricui» tural department returned to Wash-ing-ton city, on the 15th. from a week's visit to Florida, where he went at the suggestion of the president to study the productions of that country. Kt. Hon. Sir James Stkmsfield died in London, on the 17th, at the age of 7$ years. He held the office of lord ol the admiralty, under secretary for India, lord of the treasury, and represented Halifax from 1859 to 1895 in parliament. «• Lieut.-Gen. WktLer, who arrived in Barcelona, on the 17th, expressed the opinion, in the course of an interview, that the ’disaster which had befalleu the United .States war ship Maine in Havana harbor was “due to the indolence of her crew.” Mr. George R. Hooper, well known as a large Stockholder in the Standard Oil Co., died at his beautiful home, “Elmwood,” near Unionville, O., on the 15th, after an illness of over a year. Mr. Hooper, who was 60 years of age. was noted for his liberality. Addresses on behalf of the democratic, populist and silver republican parties which are the result of the conferences which have been in progress among the leaders of those parties at the national capital, were issued on the 15th. They seek to unite the member* of three parties in future elections. Tub government lien on the Union Pacific railway in Kansas was wiped out. on the 16th. at the Union Pacific station in Topeka, Kas. The Kansas Pacific road was bought in by Alvin \Y. Krech, representing the reorganization committee, for 86,303,000. There was no competition at the sale, Mr Kitsch being the only bidder. — i ■— w*—■ ■ - — Admirai. Sicard, on the 17th, telegraphed Secretary Long as follows: “In the opinion of Lieut. Johu llood. of the Maine, who has just arrived from Havana, the Maine can never •gain be utilized as a ship. He describes the whole forward body of the tthip as completely collapsed, where the shock of the explosion was heaviest. On the 18th Sir Julian Paunccfote advised the secretary of state of Great Britain s consent that our military relief expedition to Klondike shall pass over British territory, provided the arms and ammunition go through Canadian territory as baggage. An escort of Dominion police will be furnished. The proposition will be accepted. Two members of the cabinet, whe spent soine time with the president, on the 1611/. stated that everything so far received indicated that the loss of the Maine was due to accident. Uapt. Sigsbee, in his telegram from Havana, of the same date, stated that he wa* not prepared to express au opinion on this pomt, but eoua.-led suspension ol judjment.

SrEAKJsa of the awful disaster to tht battleship Maine, liear-Admiral iielIcuap. on the lOtlj, said it was a very vigniticant thing that the Maine should have blown up in that particular harbor at this particular time. In the absence of information as to the cause of the explosion he thought that was the most significant indication in the whole matter.

FiKTKKN steamships were at Phils deiphia, on the 14th, loading, or waiting their turn to load, the grain that vras going to that city in great quantities. Their aggregate carrying capacity amounted tourer ) bushels. and all the grain elevators at Port Richmond, Washington avenue and tiirard Point were kept busy in meeting the heavy demands upon them. A special from Madrid, on the 15th, said the populace of that city was greatly enraged owing to the belief that the Spanish cabinet had apologized to the United States. The dispatch concluded: “ The people prefer war to an apology, thinking that Spain will suffer the least thereby, as war would be decidedly disastrous to the large commerce of the Unite*.' States. At 9:45 o'clock on the night of the 15th a terrible explosion took, place on board the United States battleship Maine in Havana harbor. Over 100 of the crew were killed outright and many were injured, while the vessel wa* probably totally destroyed, tire completing what the explosion had spared. JKo such disaster has happened to the American navy since the loss of vessels and men in the hurricane at Apt% Atarioa several years ago.

CURRENT TOPICS THE HEWS IN BRIEF. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Dr the senate, on the 14th, the amendment of M. Allen (Neb.) to the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill recognizing the belligerency of the Cuban insurgents was reported adversely. Mr. Morgan’s resolution calling upon the president for reports of United States oonsuls In Cuba and for information as to whether any agent of the autonomous government in Cuba had been aooredited to this government and recognized by it, was adopted without dissent. .In the house a resolution of inquiry, previously reported by the foreign affairs committee, as to the concentrados in Cuba, was adopted *vithout division. Much of the session was devoted to District of Columbia business. In the senate, on the 15th, the resolution calling on the attorney-general for the reasons which induced him to abandon his plan of redeeming the first mortgage bonds of the Kansas Pacific branch of the Union Pacific, ami having the road ope ated by a receiver, precipitated a lively discussion of the Pa ific railroad question, which oocupled much of the session. The resolution was finally passed in an amended form — .'.In the house the day was devoted lo consideration of bills and joint resolutions, under call of committees, 1® of which were passed. March 1, 2 and S was set apart for discussion of the Loud bill relating to second-class mail matter. In the senate, on the 16th. the discussion upon the coast defenses was the leading feature of the day’s proceedings, the trend of the speeches beta*. in favor of more liberal appropriations for the work, many senators taking the ground that the amount should he that fixed by the war department estimates instead of. as usual, nomi millions less.—-.In' the house, the debate upon the~baukruptcy bill, which occupied the session, attracted but little attention, m st of the members congregating in the cloak rooms and lobbies discussing the accident to the battleship Maine in the harbor at Havana A resolution of sympathy with the families of the lost men was unanimously adopted. In the senate, on the 17th, the resolution of Mr. Turpic (Ind.), declaring the senate’s opposition to the confirmation of the sale of the Kansas Pacific railroad was.after a spiriteddls- ] cussion adopted by a vote of *4 to 2s>. On the opening of the senate the blind chaplain delivered a touching invocation with reference to the awful.disaster to the battleship.Maine.— In ihe house the bankruptcy bill was the only measure considered and Interest in that measure was thoroughly overshadowed by the disaster to the Maine. In the senate.on the I8th,a sensational debate was unexpectedly precipitated by consideration of a resolution offe ed by Mr. Allen (Neb. ), di- j rectlng the committee on naval affairs to inves- j titrate the disaster to the Maine, the intimation being made and strongly resisted that an investigation by naval officers would be in the nature of a whitewash of de'.ln iu?jQt officers. In the house the deb ite on the bankruptcy bill was continued.several speeches for and against the measure being delivered. The session lasted until 5:54 p. m. PERSONAL ANO GENERAL. On the loth a member of the Spanish cabinet said, in relation to the l)e Lome letter: ‘’The ministers feel more aggrieved than President Melvinlev can possibly be. We are honest men j who have been placed in a false position by a fool.” The south wall of the Union Storage Co. building in Pittsburgh, Pa., which j was destroyed in the recent big lire, | fell on the 15th. A number of boys \ were playing about the ruins, and it | was thought that at least five of them j were caught by the falling wall and j buried under the debris. Thk. Maine was a battleship of the j second class and was regarded as one of the best ships in the new navy. She was built at the Brooklyn navy-yard and was 318 feet long. 95 feet wide; 21.6 mean draught and 6,682 tons displacement. She was commanded by Commander Sigsbee, one of this .most careful, officers in the navy. I)r. Andrew Sloan Draper, president of the University of Illinois, was offered the position of superintendent of public schools of New York, and has declined it, preferring to remain at the head of the Illinois institution. A Madrid dispatch, oj the 15th. say* tSiat Spain will demand an accounting from the retiring minister to the United States for that part of his letter which casts doubt upon the good faith of the ministry in respect to autonomy and the projected commercial treaties with ‘he United States. It was reported, early on the morning of the 16th. that two or more of the vessels of .(he North Atlantic squadron had been directed to proceed at once to Huvana. Secretary Long also cabled to the commander of other vessels in the West lmlie-s and at gulf ports, ordering them to hold themselves in readiness for any emergency. Lord William Nlvili.e was sentenced b/ Judge Lawrence, in the Central criminal court. London, on the 15th, to live years' penal servitude on his pica of guilty to a charge of fraud against Sam Lewis, a money lender, lie was taken to Wormwood Serubbs priso.i. ' Tus blowing up of the Mainecreated the greatest consternation in Havana. Windows in all parts of the city were smashed, and the frightened people at first believed.the city was being bomI barded.

iluam u. moody, an employe oi tne firm of Dunlap Bros., was -arrested in Chicago, on the 15th. on the charge of embezzling S-tbOOO from the funds of the Oak Park Building and Loan association. The passenger and freight steamboat Ericsson, which plies between Philadelphia and Baltimore, sank in the Delaware river, off Wilmington, Del., on the 16th. Sixty passengers were rescued. A filibustering expedition, destined for Cuba, was intercepted, on the 16th, by the authorities at Kingston, Ja- ; maica. and a quantity of arms and ammunition seized. Mil Gladstone left Cannes, France, for England, on the 17th. Five men, giving their names as R.A. Williams. Jaa. Downey, Harry Church, Charles Howard and Paddy Byan, are under arrest at Lafayette, Ind., charged with the Lebanon (Ind.) post office robbery. A large number of pension checks taken from one of the rifled pouches were found in their possession. Uoward has confessed. While assisting to serve luncheon at her home in a fashionable portion of Fort Scott, Kas., on the 16th, Mrs. S. F. Letcher was arrested by a deputy United States marshal, charged with •ending -obscene letters through the < oaails assailing the character at Mias j Anna Guilford.

Thu Compagnie Generale Transat* lantique line aieomqr Flachat, bound from Marseilles for Colon, was totally wrecked on Anaga'point of the Canary islands, at one o'clock on the morning. Of the 16th. Her captain, second officer, ll of her crew * and one passenger were saved. Thirty-eight of the crew and 49 passengers were lost. The fueling at Madrid over the bar* suggestion that the disaster to the Maine might have been due to Spanish treachery, is one of the greatest indignation at the thought that the Americans should believe Spaniards so lost to honor and hospitality as to be guilty of such baseness. ' A terrible explosion of fire damp occurred in the Vereinigte Carolinenglueck colliery at Hammerly, Prussia, on the 17th. Thirty-seven bodies were recovered. In addition many miners were seriously injured. It is believed that 50 persons perished. Ox the 17th Spain officially disclaimed n positive manner the reflections contained in the De Lome letter, and the state department declared the incident satisfactorily closed, Tue statement of the United States treasury, on the 17th, showed: Available cash balance, $219,262,037; gold reserve, $166,645,739. The Russian auxiliary cruiser Tamboff passed through the Bosporus, on the 16th, with 2.000 soldiers and 16 cannon,bound for Vladivostoek. A special from Juneau, Alaska, of the 12th, confirms the news of the loss of the Clara Nevada, and says: .“The cause of the disaster was doubtless the explosion of her boilers. Of the 50 people on board, none are believed to have been saved. London newspapers make sympathetic references to the death of Miss Frances E. Willard, all agreeing that it will be a serious blow to the societies with which she was connected. Up to the 18th not one word of assurance had been received from Madrid oi Havana that the Havana harbor is not mined, as has been repeatedly charged in this country and in Havana. The Dominion goverriment has decided not to issue free miners’ certificates at Lake Tagish and American ports. The miners will have to get them at Vancouver or Victoria. The Italian third-class cruiser Giovanni Badsani was expected, on the 18th, at Las i’ulmas, Canary islands, on her way to Cuba. The appointment of Count Cassini as ambassador to the United States, instead of minister, was gazetted iu St. Petersburg on the 18th. President McICinley, on the ISth* received Senor Dubose, charge d'affaires of Spain, who had been commanded by the queen regent to bear in person to the president her expression of profound sorrow over the calamity to the Maine. The message was brief and heartfelt, expressing the sorrow of the queen and her people. , The supreme court of Nebraska, handed down an opinion, on the 18th, reversing the decision of the trial court in the case of ex-Auditor Eugene Mcorc, and dismissing the case. Moore \^as convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to eight years in prison. The supreme court declares the statute under which he was coavieted unconstitutional. The following summary was given out by the navy department on the 18th: “Total officers and men on board Maine, 355; total officers. 26; total men. 329; total officers saved, 24; total men saved, 76; total officers lost, 2: total men lost. 246; total officers injured, 0; total men injured, 57; doubtful (men), 7.__. LATE NEWS ITEM 8. The senate wa§ not in session on the 19th. ...In the house, after four days’ consideration, the bankruptcy bill, reported by the house committee on judiciary as a substitute for the Nelson bill passed by the senate at the extra session last summer, was passed: Ayes 1;>8. nays 135, a motion to recommit with instructions to strike out all the involuntary features except those for actual fraud, having been lost. Messrs. Henderson (rep., ia.), Ray (rep., N. Y.) ami Terry (dem., Ark.) were appointed Conferees on the bill, i Nat C. Goodwin, the aetor. and Miss ! Maxime Elliott, the leading lady of i>..; company, were married in Clevelauo, ! O., on the 20th. Three weeks before Goodwin received- official notice that his former wife had secured a divorce from him in New York. By the decree he was prohibited from marrying again during the life of his divorced wife. ; This prohibition, while legally operative in New York, has no effect in the state of Ohio.

Ox the 20th the queen regent of Spain gave a farewell audience to Senor Polo ;y Bernabe, the United States minister. On the 21st she received United States Minister Woodford, who presented President McKinley's dispatch of thanks for Spain's expression of sympathy with the United States in the misfortune that befell the Maine. ! The weekly statement of the New ; York city associated banks for the week ended on the 19th showed the following changes: Surplus reserve, decrease, $6,748,600; loans, increase $7,r I T08.S.J0; specie, increase. $1,865,100; legal tenders, decrease. $8,654,500, deposits, decrease. $123,300; circulation, decrease. $130,600. United States Ambassador White and the American colony in Berlin were present in the American church, on the 20th« at the requiem service for the victims of the Maine. A commemorative discourse was delivered by Rev. Mr. Dickie. The body of former Police Commissioner Leonard Welles, of Brooklyn, was found in the woods near Scotch Plains. N. J.. on the 20th. The throat was cut. a d it was evident Welles had committed suicide. Judos Gaby, on the 19th, denied the motion for a new trial in the Luetgert case and formally sentenced the wife murderer to life imprisonment. An appeal will be made to the state supreme court. Robert Wellington’ Stapleton-Cot-ton, Viscount Cambermere, died in Loudon, on ike 21st, aged 33.

STATE NEWS HAPPENINGS

AT BUTLER, IND., In Old Gaos Renew Their Work of Robbing Freight Cars. Butler, Ind., Feb. 14.—For several months no robberies have been reported on Lake Shore freight cars. Previous to that an apparently well organized gang succeeded in looting cars of many thousand dollars’? worth of merchandise and always escaped arrest. The company had been in hopes that they had by close watch frightened these thijyres away, but in this they were mistaken, for Friday night one train, as it was leaving the yards here, was robbed of several hundred dollars worth of merchandise, which was thrown from the cars along the track and much of. it afterward picked up and carried away. No clew was left by the thieves and the company’s officials fear that the old gang has commenced operations again.

BI-METALLIC LEAGUI|. William J. Bryan Will Attend the Contention at Indianapolis. IxniAXAPOLis, Ind., Feb. 16.—Allen W. Clark, secretary of the Bi-Metallic j League of the Ohio Valley, Tuesday re- j ceived a letter from William J. Bryan announcing that he will attend the convention, of the league here April-6 and j | T. In the letter Mr. Bryan says:, “You j [•may announce that I wiil attend, and t I hope that you will have a big convention." Secretary Clark has also acceptances j from George Fred Williams, of Massa- | ehusetts; Chairman Jones, of the dem- ! ocratic national committee, and ex- | Congressman Bartine, editor of the I Vational Bimetallist Murder and Suicide. PRIKCETON, Ind.. Feb. 16.—Word has come here that John Curran has killed himself and wife at Bellmont, I1L, Tuesday night. Both have been residents of .this city until recently. Curran was employed by the Louisville, Evausville and St Louis railroad. He has been jealous of his wife for some time which seems ! to have been uncalled for. Tuesday | afternoon Curran, in a fit of jealousy, shot his wife and afterward shot himself. Both are dead. Mn. Kirkpatrick Admlte Her Guilt. Terre Haute. Ind., Feb. 16.—Mrs. Maria Kirkpatrick, of Pueblo, Col., ; who was arrested here Sunday on a charge of forgery and who made her escape Monday, was captured Tuesday morning in the country 12 miles west. She now admits her guilt. Sheriff Beaman, of Pueblo, is here and left for that place Wednesday with the : fugitive. Beaman says Mrs. Kirkpat- | rick’s ; forgeries amount- to several thousand dollars. Dragged to Death. Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 16.—Jacob Van Dyke, aged 25 years, of Sljadeland, was driving a spirited horse attached to a si ngle# buggy, and going down a steep hill the animal ran away. The runaway hors j collided with two other vehicles. When the collision oej cur red with the second one Van Dyke ; was hurled out of the Vehicle. Ilis arm caught in the breeching of the harness and he was dragged to death. Van Dyke was industrious and highly esteemed. HU Own Finger for a Mascot. Fraxktox, Ind., Feb. 16.—Some time igo Wink De Lane, an actor, lost the fingers on the right hand. He had them preserved in alcohol, and one j week ago a physician and surfc%on of I this place cut the little finger from the rest and by chemical process pet- | rifled it. De Lane had it mounted with gold and now wears it for a ; watch charm, and declares it a much ; better mascot than a rabbit's foot. The Will Ueli! as Valid. Wabash, Ind.. Feb. 15.—Judge S. T. ! McGonnell, of Lognnsport. rendered 1 his decision in the John Whisier will * contest case Monday. Mr. Whisier the vice president of the First ha- ( i ■ ...u. bank here and left an estate of i luu.oOO and the will was contested by j his son Clinton. The judge held that j the will was valid in all its parts. The | case will probably be appealed.1

To Smoke Out a Detprntda Terre Haute, Ind., Feb. 16.—John Carrington, the desperado who murdered two men near this city, is hiding in a deserted coal shaft. Tuesday a sheriff's posse entered the mine, but were compelled to retreat, as the outlaw fired several shots at them. The sheriff returned the fire, but missed the man. and it is now the intention of the authorities to set fire to the mine. , Indiana Poetmatter* Nominated. - Washington, Feb. R—The president sent the following names to the senate to be confirmed ws postmasters in Indiana: Frank W. Career, Angola; Alfred Welshan, Danville; Morton Kilgore, Goedland; Harry A. Mrohm, Kent land. _ _ A Work boose for Evansville. Evansville, Ind.; Feb. 12.—Judge J. G. Winfrey, of the police court, has recommended a workhouse. The structure will probably be located two miles from the corporate limits, and will cost in the neighborhood of $75,000. ITuutual Double Wedding. Richmond, Ind., Feb. 14.—-There was i double wedding here with some nn- j usual features John Weavinger, aged 82, married Mrs. M. D. Erk. and Wm. H. Erk, son of the bride above mentioned, and Miss Minnie S. Lncer, granddaughter of Mr. Weavinger, were united in marriage. New Giant Factory to Be Built. Hartford City, Ind., Feh. 15.—J. Hurrie, of Toledo, O., will break ground here Monday for the erection of a 15-pot window glass factory to em- ! ploy 150 men. It will be in operation : I May L i

AT FEVER PITCH. Great Excitement Over Mrs. Stoltx’s Slnrda at Portland^ Portland, Ind., Feb. 13.—The excitement caused here by the discovery of the murder of Mrs. Louise Stoltz, whose body was found in her home in the northern part of town Saturday evening', is still at fever pitch. The element of mystery, too, is by no means eliminated. Mrs. Stoltz, a widow who lived alone, was about 72 years old. Her husband has been dead for several years. Since his demise she had ' occupied their home. She was known to be quite wealthy, possessing perhaps 525,0100 or $30,000. and this no doubt led to the crime. She was ve,ry small of stature and quite frail, but very plucky, as was once evidenced when her house took fire and three men were required i to hold her.

A strange thing connected With the iffair occurred Saturday afternoon, svhen City Marshal Mont Mahan received a postal card through the Portland office stating to him that Mrs. >toltz had been robbed and for Irina to please go and see after her at once. He went-to the house, but seeing nothing suspicious came away. In a little over in hour the awful deed was kno^sn. The strangest circumstances in connection with the affair, except the postal-card incident, is the fact that Thomas Head came to Officer Fremont Carr a few hours after the crime was jut, ami stated that on Friday evening U'm.'Jarrett had come to him and asked him to join in an attempt to get some money. He . asked where, and was told at a “widow woman's house.” Acting on this information, a posse of officers arrested Jarrett at his home, five miles from here, and brought him to jail, he all the time vigorously protesting his innocence. He said that he could prove an alibi by at least five persons. Head was also locked up to await future develppments. Telegrams have been sent out for the arrest of Frank Cullom. who is suspected of knowing something of the murder. He is of heavy build, with sandy hair and mustache and freckled. Will Doable Its Capacity. Nkw Albany, Ind., Feb. 14.—The plans for the new clothing factory of J. M. Robinson, Norton & Co., to be erected in this city, have been completed and work on the new structure will be commenced at once. It is intended to have the new building ready for occupancy about the middle of May. - The building will be of brick. SO by feet, two stories high and well lighted and ventilated. Three hundred and ninety machines will be put in. employing000 operatives, which is about double the capacity of the present plant. Third Attempt at Sniclde. Indianapolis, Ind.. Feb: 12.—Mrs Lizzie W. Huffman, of lirightwood, is dead from the effects of a narcotic poison taken with suicidal intent. Iseveral weeks ago her daughter Edith committed suicide. Previous to Edith's death her lover, llarr\- Phillips, committed suicide. The daughter was despondent over her lover's death; the mother could not stand her sorrow ov^r the daughter's death. Mrs. Huf-> man had been a constant visitor to her daughter's grave, and Thursday night's attempt was the third within eight weeks. _ Empty Mail I’ourbM Found. Lebanon. Ind., Feb. 14. —The raid in this city, made by the burglars Friday night, turns out to have been more extensive than was at first supposed. One of the mail pouches taken from the post office contained registered matter, and it will be several days before the exact amount it contained can be learned. Conservative estimates place the amount of pension checks taken at $5,000, but it may exceed that amount considerably. Piece of Bone in Her Throat. Columbia City, Ind,. Feb. 15.—While the family of Rev. Jungkuntz, pf this city, were at dinner, Mary, the 12-year-old daughter, swallowed a piece of bone about an inch in length, which lodged in the lower portion of her throat, and so far has bafiled all efforts of the best physicians to dislodge it, and they seem to be unable to locate it with certainty. The child is in a precarious condition.

Sew II<so»irr Font masters. Wasuixotos, Feb. 15.—The following fourth-class postmasters in Indiana were commissioned Monday: Clarksville, Hamilton county, Louis M. Iloagland. vice John J. Bryant, resigned; Parr, Jasper count}', W. L. Wood, vice C. U. Harriott, removed; Wilson. Shelby county, John H. Eadicott, vice Albert Crigler, resigned. * Girl Orator Wins. Richmond, Ind., Feb. 12.—At the contest held Friday night to choose a representative from the local high school for the state oratorical contest. Miss Juliet Hollingsworth won first prize. Will Cook for Miners. Floka, Ind.. Feb. 14.—Anna Young, a young lady of Monticello, will leave in a few days for the Klondike, where she expects to make her fortune cooking for the miners. State Committee to Meet, Indianapolis, Ind.. Feb. 14.—Chairman Pickens, of the State Central committee of the national (gold) democratic party, has issued a call for a meeting of the state committe Febru ary 22. In it he says the necessity which called the party into existence in 1696 still exists. Death of Abbot Fmton, C. 8. B., St. Mein rad. Ind., Feb. 14—Rt. Rev. Abbot Fintou, C. S. 11. % died Monday evening and will be buried at St Meinrad on Thursday morning. A large number of clergymen will attend the EaaaraL

MAKING PROGRESS. Encouraging Report of the National UaK vcrslty EnterprUe—Opposition Gradually Giving Way and Powerful Friends Rallying go the Support of the Scheme That was Close to Washington’s Heart—Material Aid Promised. Washington, Feb. 21.—In reply to tn inquiry into the present status and. prospects of the national university enterprise, ex-Gov. John Wesley Hoyt,, chairman of the national committee* says good progress seems to be making* in all quarters unless it bo in the senate. There opposition has occurred, of ecclesiastical origin, in committee, and this, in connection with the other circumstances has simply delayed action. Nevertheless, the friends of the measure are confident of early and favorable results. Meanwhile the work of the national committee, says Mr. Hoyt, has been vigorous and frui tfnl of good to the ca osein many ways; in the addition of many distinguished names to its already formidable list of members, includingthose of eminent statesmen and of some; 60 college and university presidents, besides the great number already enlisted—among them the heads of the. University of Virginia and of a dozen or more institutions of the religious, denomination for a time supposed to be against the national movement,, but now known to be, for tbe most part, in sympathy with it; in the awakening of deeper interest throughout the country, as well as among public journals in all sections; and, finally in the enlistment of a number of patriotic men and women of fortune*, some of whom are seriously considering ythe offer, in advance, of endowments of departments, professorships, lectureship.and fellowships in the com- | ing university. j The most notable of the manv aids actually rendered to the national university committee in the recent past are these: 1. The voluntary gift of Si.500 by 1 Mrs. Phoebe A. • Hearst, of California and district of Columbia, for the salary of the chairman's secretary during the year just passed. 2. The support accorded by the j George Washington Metnoria1 assoeiai tion, under the lead of Mrs. Ellen A. | Richardson, Mrs, Phoebe A. Hearst, j Mrs. Calvin T. Brice, of Ohio, and other distinguished women of the country—an association which has ! among its ofiieers the presidents of I the National Council of Women; J the World's W. C. T. U,; the General Federation of Women's Clubs; I the National university Committee of | the Daughters of the American Revo- | lution; the Columbian Daughters of i America; the General Society of United I States Daughters of 1776-1812; the Dames of the Revolution; the Ladies of the G. ! A. R.; the King's Daughters, and perhaps yet other national organizations; President Charles. A. Bell, of the American Security and Trust Co., Washington, D. C.. acting as treasurer. ^ The immediate object of this G. W. M, association is the raising of §250,000 for the first national university building, to be erected on the site selected by Washington himself and reserved for university purposes by the pending bill. To this end, and for the further support of the national university cause, it has formed state and congressional district committees of influential women in nearly every one of the states, all of which are preparing for* special contributions in small amounts on Washington's birthday and until the whole amount is raised. It is believed by Mr. Hoyt that they will succeed, and that ere the final date, december, 1899, congress will have done its part also. 3. The offer is just now made by Gen. J. B. Henderson, LL. D., late United Statessenator from Missouri,and now of this city, to be one of the 100 to p3y into the treasury of the university 3100 each until congress shall have done as raueh. liis object is to encourage the creation of a special fund of S100,000 for some important chair in the university, and there is no objection on his part to the taking of any number of such shares by any one contributor, while preferring, in the interest *ot the cause of the university, that the distribution should be afi wid' as the country itself. The nationa*committee assumes that this example of Gen. Henderson will be promptly followed by liberal friends of-the enterprise. and that the institution, when onee established by congress will, as Washington believed, become so popular as a center for patriotic gifts as for the most part to relieve congress of demands of government appropriations. Persons wishing further information are referred to ex-Gov. John Wesley Hoyt, chairman of the National university committee, Washington.

MiSS WILLARD’S WILL. Her Little Fortune to Go Ultimately to tlieTemple Fund. \XjKtfAGo7 Feb. 21.—By the terms of the will of Miss Frances E. Willard, late president of the W. C. T, U., her estate will pass into the Temple fund, after the life interests of her secretary. Miss Anna Gordon^ and of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary B. Willard, have expired. The property consists of “Best edttage” at Evanston, valued at $16,000, a small cottage in the Adirondacks and $3,000 in cash, which was presented to Miss Willard on her fiftieth birthday. By the original will the estate waa. to pass to tW YV, C. T. U., but a codicil, dated after the Buffalo convention, diverts it to the Temple fund. TWELVE FISHERMEN MISSING. The Storm Too Severe to Search for Them— Snowdrift* Twenty Feet Ulgh. Marinette^ Wis., Feb. 21.—Nothing* aas been heard from the 12 fishermen, who started from Green Island to? thia city Saturday. The storm has continued so severe that no one has ventured on the ice to-day. Friends of the missing fishermen believe that they must have found shelter in some of the fish shanties on the bay. The Sturgeon bay stage, which left here yesterday for the east shore, hast not been heard from