Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 3, Petersburg, Pike County, 26 May 1899 — Page 6

% i c ^ikc County §rmaccat M. «<C. STOOPS, Editor and Proprietor. PETERSBURG; : : INDIANA. The Connecticut senate, on the 17th, ▼i ted, 12 to 9, to reject the measure providing for woman suffrage. * Aguinsido’s peace commissioners, who arrived at Manila, on the ISth, o ily offered the twice-rejected proposition for. an armistice. This Gen Ctis again promptly rejected. Havana is in a ferment again ovei t a idea that the Washington administ tition has determined to take the arms of the Cuban troops and retain tiem in military possession. nien. Joseph Wheeler will deliver a x tentorial address before the Edward V. Kingsley Post 113, G. A. R., bn Memorial day, in Boston theater, Boston. It will be Gen. Wheeler’s first visit to that city. The peace congress assembled at the * House i» the Woods,” in the suburbs «i! The Hague, on the 18th, the czar’s lwrthday. M. De Staal, Russian amItassador to Great Britain, was made |,resident of the conference. Maj. John A. Loganv who resigned from the army has returned home,ami will leave shortly for Cuba, where he will represent a large party of capitalists in developing the sugar and mineral resources of the island. A cablegram from Miss Agnes Slack, in London, to the officers of the-Na-tional W. C. T. U., received in Chicago, on the 18th, announces the re-election of Lady Somerset to the presidency of the British Woman’s Temperance association.

At only one point on his voyage home will Admiral Dewey have to sajttite first. That will be at Malta, where Admiral Sir John O. Hopkins, commanding the British naval station, will be met, and his commission ante* dates that of Dewey. Mrs. Martha R. Baker, of Galva, Henry county, 111., was found dead in a berth of a sleeping car on the £ickel Plate road at Buffalo, N. Y„ on the 19th. She was 71 years old, and was on her jvay to New York. Heart failure was the cause of death. Official notice was received, on the 17th, from Lieut. J. D. Carter, of Prescott, Ariz., secretary of the Society of Rough Riders, to the effect that the first annual reunion will be held in Las Vegas, X. M., June 24. Gov. Roosevelt and staff will be present. Free entertainment will be given all Rough Riders. Co. F, Third regiment, Kentucky volunteers, returned home, to Owensboro,^ on the 18th, with a remarkable record. . Of 106 enlisted men, but ono died, and he of consumption, a few weeks after entering camp. They did garrison duty at several points in Cuba, Not a man was dishonorably discharged. Women of Boston, headed by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, issued a call, on the 17th, for a meeting to be held in that city, on the 20th, to protest against “the barbarism of lynching.” Beside Mrs. Howe, the call for the meeting was signed by many women well known ,in connection w’ith the reform movements of the day. W. C. Hunts W. A. King and W. F. Wilcox, chief statisticians in the census office, have been appointed a commission to make practical tests of electric counting or tabulating machines, which may be presented for consideration by the directors of the census. The competition will begin at the census office June 7.

W. W. Rockhill, United States minister to Athens, arrived in Washington, on the 18th, and called to pay his re* sjjects to Secretary Hay. After settling mp some private business Mr. Rockhill will assume the duties of director of the bureau of American republics, to which he has been elected by the executive committee. M ' '- Director Rathbone, in charge of the postal service in Cuba; Assistant At-torney-General Tyner and Law Clerk Barrett*-of the post office department, have drafted a preliminary code of criminal laws for the postal service in Cuba. It comprises the statutes in force in the United States with minor changes to meet local conditions. Resolutions petitioning the peace conference at The Hague to* take initial steps in establishing a supreme court of nations, and asking the senate to ratify an arbitration treaty with Great Britain, were adopted at a public meeting held in Philadelphia, on the 18th, \>nder the auspices of the Evangelical alliance and the National Reform league. At the session of the Mazet investigating committee, held in New York city, on the 17th, James A. Mahoney, with whom Mayor Van Wyck admitted he had had some business transactions, was put through a long series of questions. Mahoney admitted being a booaxnaker, but declined to answer the question as to whether he was conducting pool rooms. An eminent member of the peace conference at The Hague saya it ia simply an act of politeness to the czax and will yield no practical result, simply because it can not. The powers, he asserts, are too disunited and watcfi each other too closely to arrive at any understanding in their programme His prediction is that there will be a Song discussion and then a “first-clas# Virial of the czar’s peace proposals.” ■ ' .

NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Var eras Sources. PERSONAL ANi: GENERAL. The steamship Monawa, which sailed from San Fra tciseo, for Australia, via Honolulu and Samoa, on the 17th, carried important dispatches from 'Washington to the American commissioner and Admiral Kautz. Her. Daniel Moore, ehaplain-io-ordi-rary to Queen Victoria since 1870, died in London, on the 17th, in his ninetieth year. ! M. Deschanel, president of the French chamber of deputies, has been elected a member of t;he French academy, in succession to the late Aime Marie Eduard Herve, editor of the Soleii, who died on January 4 last. The Maryland Steel Co. shipped, on the 18th, on the steamer Falls of the Dee, 250 tons of steel rails for the Australian government. The same concern is shipping eno her consignment: to th~ same government. Maj. John A. Logan, assistant adjutant general of volunteers, tendered bis resignation, on the 18th, und waa honorably discharge d. About 1,000 ltutTaln (N. Y.) grain aeoopers, on the ISih, repudiated arrangements made for settlement of the strike by llishop Q tigley and passed resolutions discharg ng the committee acting with the bis nop. The resolutions call upon President McMahon to deal directly with |.he Lake Carriers’ association.

Dan Scully, the a*'tor ami theatrical manager, filed a pe ition in bankruptcy on the 18th. Ida nlities, $30,ll8; aa-f sets, $23, including the copyrights of six plays valued at $1 each. • AVer department officials expect that Within two months the Pacific transport fleet will be on its way home from Manila with the last of the volunteer regiments. The entire Pacific fleet is now being overhauled and provisioned for the voyage to Manila and return. The jury at Muscogee, I. T„ in the ease of ex-Deputy United States Marshal Nelson M. Jones, charged with being a member jof the mob which burned the two Seminole Indian boys in Oklahoma, in January, 1S9S, re- | turned a verdict of guilty. Arrangements have l**cn made to put the cruiser Olympia in dock when she arrives at Hong Kong so as to ! scrape her and put her in trim for ; her long voyage home. Her “ginger- : bread” work,owhich was removed and | stored before she started for Manila : bay, will also be replaced. Dr. BoWe Howard and her husband, I George^Mr Howard, wanted in Peoria, ! Ill,, for the murder of Etta Binkley, ; v ere arrested at Tacoma, Wash., by ; Sheriff Venule venter, of Seattle. The rheriff had been cm the trail for three | months, working under instruction* from Sheriff Kin sey, of Peoria. Charles E. Til sley, an engineer in a Kansas City (Mo.) apartment'house, who had been exposed to smallpox, locked himself in his house, on the 19th, and defied :he officers to remove him to a tent eja j the city hospital grounds set apaii for suspects. A man was ki led by a. West Shore train at Fort Montgomery, N. Y„ on the 19th. The body was furled into the air, and one of the victim’s legs became entangled in the telegraph wires, the body swingin g there until removed by the coroner. > The funeral ship Crook, which has been transformed into a regular army transport, sailed from New York, on the 20th, for Savannah, Ga„ where she will embark the Second regiment of infantry for transportation to Cienfuegas, Cuba. *

Carnegie & Co., of loungstoAvn. 0., bought 50,000 tons of pig iron from the Mahoning and Chenango valleys, on the 10th, paying therefor $16 per ton. Lieut.-Col. Edward J. McClernand (assistant adjutant general) has been ordered to Matarzas, Cuba, as adjutant general of that department,: It G. Dun & Co report failures jfor the week ended on the 10th: 147 in the United States, against 250 last year, and IT in Canada, against 29 last year. 'a ExdJnited States. Senator Charles Duekalew died at his home in Blooms-] burg, Pa., on the 10th, after an illness of less than a week. Bussell Sage has contributed $50,000! toward the fund of $400,000 needed to build a home for the Woman’s hospital of New York city. His gift brings the amount subscribed up to $300,000. Two military and tAvo civil Filipino commisisoners, appointed to cq-oj>er-ate Avith three citsens of Manila-dn negotiating terms of peace, arrived at Manila on the 19th. They submitted no new proposition, but waited an armistice pending the session of the Filipino congress. It was refused. The honor of entertaining Gen. Funston and the Twentieth Kansas on their return home has de\*eloped a hot fight between Topeka, Leavenworth and Kansas City as. the place for muster out. Thomas Emberson, Avho is said to be a wealthy jobber in laces, of New York, Avas arrested at Niagara Falls, N. Y., by United States treasury agents. Customs officers say that; he has smuggled millions of dollars’ Avorth of lace over the border in the last ten years. A vein or ore carrying $10,000 in free gold has been discovered on a ranch near Custer City, S. D. The vein is 14 inches wide aid has been uncovered for a distance of S5 feet, but no linking has been done yet. The strike has created intense excitement. An autopsy an the remains of the late Mrs. Rose ] think, wife of lion. Geo. W. Funk, of Bloomington, 111., rACaled the fact that she \vn<5 the victim of myxodermu, ohe of the rarest diseases knows to the medical world. The subcutaneous tissues had beootir ossified, making the skin hard aftui dry like bone. . *

0 A. J. Countain has returned to Santa j Fe, N, M., from a trip to the interior j of Peru, on a gold-prospect inf venture. The party with which he start U numbered 20, but during the trip 18 succumbed to tropical fever or were killed by the natives. The tanks containing the poisonous refuse of the Greenville (Ind.) rtrtwboard >joiks burst, on the 19&. and, emptying into Brandywine creek, killed tons of fish, sandbars and bonks being lined with them. The business portion of Jerome, Ariz., a town of 3,500 inhabitants, was practically wiped out by fire on the li'th. The place experienced a similar fate last September, and had since been more substantially rebuilt. There was only a nominal insurance on a few of the buildings. Dispatches from New York announce the engagement of Gladys Wallis, the actress, who has just closed an engagement with W. H. Crane, to Samuel Insull, a millionaire of Chicago, president of the Edison Electric Co.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. A report on the plant products of the Philippine islands issued by the agricultural department is authority for the statement that the Philippines, although an agricultural country, do not produce enough food for the consumption of its inhabitants. In order to supply the deficiency, it is the custom "to draw upon other rice-produc-ing countries, notably the French colony of Cochin-China A copy of the Skaguay Alaskan, received in Victoria, B. C., on the 21st, contained the following: “Another disastrous fire has visited Dawson City, this time fairly wiping out the entire business center of the town, creating losses that will aggregate $1,000,000, with not a dollar’s worth of insurance." The fire occurred on April 21. Another account estimates the loss at $4,000,000. There was a rumor in Washington, op the 21st, that there had been a hostile meeting at llluefields between the Nicaraguan gunboat San Jacinto and the United States cruiser Detroit, which is looking after the interests of Americans in that vicinity. The report lacked confirmation so far as ofiieiai were obtainable. The monument to the late Marie Francois Sadi Carnot, fourth president of the third republic of France, was unveiled at Dijon, France, on the 21st, in the presence of the president, Emile Loubet; Premier Charles Dupuy, Minister of War Camile Krairtz and pther distinguished personages. The town of Porosow, In the Russian government of Warsaw, was destroyed by fire op the 21st. 'Twelve lives were lost and 3,000 people driven from their homes. It is believed that the fire .was of incendiary origin. The United States auxiliary'cruiser Yosemite, carrying Capt. Richard P. Leary, U. S. N., the newty-appointed governor of Guam, and a garrison of marines, has arrived at Gibraltar; en route for that island. Two hundred war recruits of the Fifth United States infantry left Santiago de Cuba, on the 21st, on the transport McClelland, for home, their time having expired. Gen. A colas, former Spanish military governor of Havana, while at the theater in Valencia, Spain, on the 20th, suffered an apoplectic stroke. The reclaimed Spanish naval cruiser Reina Mercedes, iu tow of the tugs Merritt and Rescue, arrived at Cape Henry, Ya., on the 21st. CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

Kural free delivery will be establish* ed at Dixon, 111., June 1. C. D. Wolff is dangerously ill at his home in Clayton, Mo., with acute indigestion. The facilities of the United States mints for turning out gold coin are to be increased. Joseph Marshall attempted suicide, at St, Louis, by leapiug from a ferryboat into the river. Bill Matson and three members of his outlaw gang were captured, Friday, in Oklahoma. Several business men of Perry, Okla., have been arrested on the charge of violating the war stamp tax act, J. W. Pruett, one of the pioneers of ; Marion county, 111., died at his home, | Friday, 0« his eighty-third birthday, j President McKinley has received replies to his messages of congratula- , tion from Czar Nicholas and Gen. Otis. Failures for the week have been If? in the United States, against 250 last year, and 17 in Canada, against 29 last year. Four companies of the Sixteenth ! regulars, now stationed at Jefferson barracks, St. Louis, expect soon to 1 leave for Manila. The chairmanship of the arbitration section of the .Peace conference, at The Hague, has been offered to and accept- J ed by Sir Julian Pauncefote. a The St. Louis Presbyterians are j planning to have the assemblies of the j church south meet there simultaneously with the church north in 1903. The stonecutters on the courthouse, at Charleston* 111,, about 40 in number, went out on a > strike, Friday. Their grievance was working overtime. The Nicaraguan canal commissioners have settled their differences, and shortly will submit their report on the Vost and feasibility of the undertakes- -Iff. England has protested against the action of the United States in sending more troops to Alaska. England asks for arbitration of the boundary dispute. • The exports of merchandise from the United States to China in the fiscal year about to end will be larger than those of any preceding year in our history. Through a decision of the supreme court of Venezuela, new iron fields, supposed to be of inexhaustible richness, have been opened to an American syndicate.

HOOSIER HAPPENINGS Told in Brief by Dispatches from Various Localities. Elope to liootsvtlle. Martinsville, Ind., May 20. — Giles Dickson and Elizabeth McCracken eloped to Louisville, Ky., and were married. Mr. Dickson left home presumably to continue his studies at the medical college in Cincinnati, while Miss McCracken, went -to Indianapolis for a brief visit. They are now quartered at the Hotel English in Indianapolis, having returned there immediately after their marriage at Louisville. Mr. Dickson is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Myron Dickson, and a nephew of Dr. Giles Mitchell, a physician of Cincinnati. His bride is the daughter of ^fr. and Mrs. C. A. McCracken. Both families are well connected. ’ , Sale Was lltearal. Alexandria, Ind., May 20.—The sale of the Union steel plant last Monday, by which the plant was sold to Thomas Wright, of St. .Louis, for $415,000, has been declared illegal and orders have been issued for another sale on June 14. It was claimed by the creditors that the sale last Monday was merely a scheme to allow the Republic Iron and Steel company to get control of the plant. It was also said that there were others who wished to bid on the plant, but were prevented from doing so by the action of Receiver Allen in refusing to allow an examination of t he property.

Trotting; AxMoelatlon. Terre Haute, Ind,, May 20,—The new Trotting and Fair association, which is to succeed both the old trotting association and the Vigo Agricultural society, has organized, by the election of W. 1\ 1 jams as president; Councilman Dean McLaughlin, vice president; Frank McKean, treasurer, and Forrest,. Kendall, secretary. The association will have the lease for the fair grounds from the county on the same terms it was held by the agricultural society. By these terms an agricultural fair must be given at least every other year. Prefer* Congrre**. Indianapolis, Ind., May 20.—Congress man Charles B. Landis, who has received the most favorable mention of all the candidates for the republican gubernatorial nomination, has announced that he would not be a candidate in 1900, but would seek a renomination for congress. He said that the Indiana delegation to congress would in all probability go as a unit for either Henderson of Iowa or Hopkins of Illinois for speaker. The Tax Duplicate,. Indianapolis, Ind., May 20. — The footings of the tax duplicate for the state have been completed and represent returns made, on January 1, 1899. The net increase of taxable property for 1898 over that of 1897 was $15,342,052, of which $12,950,467 was in personal property. The decrease in the taxes on the duplicate of 1898, as compared with 1S97, was $2,554,170.31. * Stay* Out. Terre Haute, Ind., May 20.—The In* diana Union of Literary Clubs elected officers, had a bitter debate and declined to enter the National Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. Emma Mont McRae, of Lafayette, was chosen president and Lafayette was selected as the place of meeting next year. Another Vnion Fight. Muncie, Ind., May 20.—A local greenglass labor union is being organized among the employes of the, SkillenGoodin glass works at Yorktown, and the proprietors claim that if the organization is made and union prices demanded they will “bank” the fires and close down indefinitely. The Only Survivor. Rushvllle, Ind.. May 20.—The serentyfifth anniversary of Miami university at Oxford, O., will be celebrated June 13 with a reunion of the old students of the college. Dr. John Arnold, of this place, is probably the only survivor of the large class that attended the university in 1S30.

Attempted Assault. Morristown, lnd., May 20.—Clyde Lingenfelter* Alonzo Nigh and Earl Boring. three boys about 16 years old, have been arrested on the charge of attempting to assault Maud Fleetwood, the 14-year-old daughter of George Fleetwood, who caused their arrest. Run to Earth. Rushville, lnd.. May 20.—Deteetive C. C. Vaughn, of the Pinkerton bureau at Chicago, has succeeded in landing Pete Cassadv, of Rushville, after a fivemonths’ chase over the south and west. Cassady is wanted on the charge of embezzling $S00 at New Albany. After Recruits. Terre Haute, lnd.. May 20. — Capt. William Black, United States army, has opened a recruiting office here. It is announced that the enlistments will be for service in the Philippines. The plan is to muster the men in by squads from the same locality. Substitute for Rubber. Anderson, lnd., May 20. — Charles Dennis, a laborer in an Anderson factory, has been wording for ten years to perfect a process of making a substitute for rubber and has succeeded so well that many persons mistake his product for rubber. Cow Hue Triplets. Columbus, lnd., May 20.—A cow belonging to Henry Hailway, of near Xewbern, this county, gave birth to three calves and they are all three living and look perfectly healthy. The mother cow is in as fine trim as previously. Closes Its Coal Mine. Crested Butte, Col., May 20.—The Col orado Fuel and Iron company has closed its mine at this place indefinitely, throwing 300 men out of employment.

g:*eat fire at dawson city. | Lo*?e* Anregatlkf m Billion Dollar* m4 Sot (lae Cent of !«• . ■truce-Towa Pi ralyirf. Victoria, B. C„ % S3,—A* extn ecition of the Skaguar Alaskan, received by the steiimer Lees, contains the following report, w ired from Bennett, to Skhguay, just ;previous to ths sailing of the steamer. Wiped Ont the Baataea* Center. ‘‘Another disastrous fire has visited Dawson City, this tin** fairly wiping out the entire bu finest center of the town-, creating losses that will aggregate $1,000,000, wi1 hoht a dollar’s worth of insurance. The ne\Vs was telegraphed from Bennett yesterday afternoon by the special c<i >r respondent of the Daily Alaskan, v ho received it from a man named To kales, who had just reached Bennett irbm a long and perilous trip out from l>uwson over broken trails, open risers and dangerous lakes.” ! Loumla of the Bnmed District. Hr. Tokales reports that the fire occurred on April 21, iz. the very heart of the business center.of tbe city, commencing near the opera bouse on the water front, and spreading with unusual rapidity, driven bjr a strong wind, destroying everything• in its way on that street down to and including Donahue <Sr Smith's establi shment, ami taking in all‘of the wate r front buildings abreast of the same block. The fire crossed the street, burned through and spread over to Second street, covering the principal business portion of Dawson, leaving it all in ashes ,with the firemen helpless tnd powerless to

uo anything'. Were Dry nn Powder. The fire consumed everything from the Simmons' Koval i*afe down to and opposite the Fairvien* hotel. All the buildings burned like tinder, dtie to the fact that the}' hid been standing for nearly two years and the logs were as dry as powdc r. The fire spread with sueh rapidity 1 hat the people were uuable to save anything in the way of furniture, golds or clothing, so that the losses when footed up promise to be even greater than at first estimated. 5 Prominent Firm* Burned Oaf. Among the prominent firms burned out were: The ltoyal cafe, Donahue & Smith, MeLellan & MeFeely, Parsons Produce Co., Aurora saloon. Bodega saloon, Madmen house. Hotel Victoria, McDonald bloek. Bank of British North America and scores of smaller firms and business houses. At a .Bout Inopportune Time. ~ The fire e,ame at a time when the mills and dealers in building materials had exhausted their winter supply and were waiting the cpening of navigation to replenish their stocks. The results are that there is a famine in all kinds of building materials and furniture, such as sash, doors, locks, hinges, etc. • Prices Quadrupled. The few articles still remaining outside of the burned district have quadrupled in price. Doors are selling for $35 each, door loeks $8 each and everything else in propo rtion. The town is paralyzed l>ecause n othing can be done until the opening of navigation, which will not be for several weeks. A MADMAN AND HIS REVOLVER. A Kam.uK City Mu Fatally Shoots His Former Sweetheart aad Two Other Women. Kansas City, Mo., May 22.—Levi Moore, a clerk in the city market, shot and perhaps fatally wounded Mrs. Jennie Campbell, Mrs. Ella Landis and Mrs. Anua Meek, at six o’clock yesterday morning, in a jealous rage. ! The Campbell -woman had deserted Moore for another man. He had re- | quested her to return his photographs. She did not answei his letters, and yesterday morning Moore armed himself

ana. went to ner rooming nouse m Wyandotte street. Mrs. Campbell answered the ring ot the door, and when Moore angrily demanded his pictures she ran baek into the house. Moore sent a bullet inti her baek, and the woman ran screaming through the house. In Mrs. Landis’ room she appealed for help, ’.'his further enraged Moore, and he fired two shots at Mrs. Landis, one takirg effect in the abdomen. On into another room Moorc followed the Campbell woman. Mys. Meek, awakened by the shots, arose from bed just as Moore entered her room. Without ** moment's warning he opened fire upcn her, one shot piercing her baek. At this Moore ran from the house and down the street, flourishing his revolver at a crowd that followed. He shot at a negro, out missed his mark and was arrested » moment later when he snapped his now empty revolver at a policeman. When removed, to a hospital half an hour later, Mrs. Meek was completely paralyzed. _ All aic considered mortally wounded. Moore feigns nsanity. He is 38 years old and haii a wife and child in Anniston, Ala. Mrs. Campbell, who is 32 years old, ist a divorced woman; Mrs. Meek is 36 years old and comes from Turner, Kas. Mrs. Landis is 31 years old, und his a father in Marce\ine. Mo. A Russian Town Destroyed by Fire. Warsaw, May 2!!.—The town of Porosow, in the government of Warsaw, lias been destroyed by fire. Twelve lives were lost and 3,000 people, driven from their homes, are now camping in the fields. It is believed that the fire was of incendiary origin. Gen. Arolss Strti ken With Apoplexy. Valencia, Sptiin, May 22.—Gen. Arolas, former Spanish military governor of Havana, while at the theater here Saturday evening suffered, an j apepleptie stroke.

THE STEAMER PARIS AGROUND Hard aad Fut Off Lovrlaad*ft r«5u«« Tlie Puteacen Safely laaded > ta the Lite Boats. 5;c>;' line steamer Paris, Capt. Watkins* from Southampton, May 30, via Cher* bourgr, for New York, Is hard and fast aground just off Lowland’s Point, t\y<jr miles east of Corerack. The vessel went aground in a dense fogs TL«f passengers were landed safely at ltl> mouth. It Is not yet known to nb&k extent the vessel is damaged. ;g|f§v Capt. Watkins reports that she lies in a comfortable position in a smooth sea. It is thought she may be floated at the next high tide. When the vessel struck, assistance was summoned by means of rockets. As soon as the signals of distress were | seen at Coverack, the rocket appurten* anoe was made ready, and a crew of | four men put out. in a lifeboat, and ; proceeded to the stranded vessel. They report that when they reached ! the Paris they found not the slightest | sign of excitement aboard the ship. I All the passengers were below at the j time. As there was evidently no im> I mediate danger, the lifeboat crew left I the Paris and came to Falmouth tc summon assistance.

lne tirst intimation of the vcsst-l't striking the rocks was a slight grat‘ng sound, which Was followed by a second and more pronounced shock. The lookout gave a warning shout, but before the engines could be reversed the ship had gone on the rocks. A majority of the passengers were ? not aware that an accident had hap1 penetl until they were summoned oc deck, when they found the boats ready to receive them. The sea was calm at the time, and the passengers were safely got aboard the lifeboats with* out difficulty. From the boats; they were transferred to tugs, which had gone to the assistance of the distressed vessel, and brought to Falmouth. VeMitela Seat to the Re»e«|$| Plymouth, May 22.—The admiralty has sent several fast government ve$» sels from Davenport to assist the Paris. Among the vessels sent to |Hje as* distance of tfjte stranded .steamra| is a gunboat, and Admiral Sir Edmund Koberl Fremantle, comma sitter-in-chief at Plymouth, has orde redanumber of torpedoboat destroyers ^ hold themselves in readiness to proceed tc the scene of the wreck at a moment’s notice. Great Anxiety In leni London, May 22.—The news of the disaster to the Paris spread, rapidly • in London, and great excitement and alarm was felt until the arrival of the information that all on board were safe. The company’s offices wfelre besieged with inquirers, anxiously asking for news regarding friends or relatives on board the steamer. BURNED TO THE WATER’S EDGE - wr A Burning Baric Communicate* Fir® to the Pier With Considerable Lo»» of Property. ' New York, May 22.—The German oilcarrying bark Ariadne, Capt. Ehler, was burned to the water’s edge near the docks of the Standard Oil Co., at Bayonne, X. J. Hans Kenck^Sjyears of age, is missing, and it is believed; that he lost his life in the fire. The fire started from an unknown, cause on the bark, and in a Very short time spread to the pier and to a large • building on the pier. The vessel was hauled out into the stream, UraC short, i ly afteward beached, where she was | destroyed. The pier, to which the fire communicated, was destroyed iiiS was also the large building. Two.Mother ! piers were badly damaged. • '|Bhe loss on the piers and ship will amount to about $25,000.

MYSTERIOUS TRIPLE TRAGEDY Mother Md Brother Bordered and Burned, and Another Brother Fatally 'Wounded. -' - 'W& : • V': Toledo, 0., May 22.—A mysterious tragedy was enacted yesterday moroing at the little village of Middleburg, Logan county. * . Mrs. Rachael Austin and her son, Austin, were murdered in their homo and their bodies were burned in the house where the deed was committed. Ernest Austin, the youngest son of the widow’, is lying at the home of a neighbor with a bullet wound in Ids chest from which he can not recovery The crime is openly charged against Ernest, but he states that he was called to the door by robbers, who/ after shooting him, looted the house; murdered his mother and brother and covered up their tracks by burning the* house. He reached a neighbor^ house In his night clothes, and has since been unable to talk. Were Quarreling*. i A servant who left the Axistin home Saturday night says the two men and', their mother were then quarreling over the property, the mother declaring that she would, on Monday, apply to the courts for a settlement, and Ernest had declared that he would! never permit that. A Bleh Gold Vein. Deadwood, S. D., May 21.—A vein of ore carrying $10,000 in free gold has been discovered on a ranch near Custer City. The vein is 14 inches Wide, and has been uncovered for a distance of 35 feet, but no sinking has been done yet. The strike has created intense excitement. ' Fouud Dead i& Bed. Minneapolis, Minn., May 21.-Rev. H. M. Robertson, D. D., of the Presbyte^r of Des Moines, la., was found dead in bed at the home of his son-in-., law, T. E. Tenny. > - j