Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 32, Petersburg, Pike County, 15 December 1899 — Page 8

®he §?ike County jDcmocvat M. HoC. STOOPS, Editor and Proprietor. PETERSBURG, : INDIANA. Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire. on the 7th, introduced a bill providing for systematic athletic exercises at West Point military and Annapolis ' naval academies. A bill was introduced in congress by Mr. Penrose, of Pennsylvania, on the 6th, to pension Mrs. Gridley, wife of the late Capt. Gridley, of the Olympia, at $100 per mon^h. The success iu grain growing at tlie experiment stations in Alaska suggest the possibility that the territory may produce seed of early maturing varieties for use farther south. Queen Victoria has given a Union •^Jack for the American hospital ship ‘Maine, which the duke of Connought will present to the executive committee, on the 16th, when the vessel will be on view. The secretary of the treasury, on the 8th, ordered the purchase of silver bullion for the special mintage of the Lafayette souvenir dollar. It is almost certain that the coins will be delivered to subscribers before Christmas.

Purchases of mules in America by the British government seem, likely to upset the calculations of American live-stock men. It is said orders have been received to purchase 10,000 more animals. Almost this many have already been shipped from southern points. The venerable Gen. John A. McClernand, who was for several weeks last fall so seriously ill that for some time his life was despaired of, was on the streets of Springfield, 111., on the 6th, for the first time since he was taken ill. The general was still weak, but looking and feeling well. Cattlemen throughout the west are objecting seriously to the change recently made by the railroads of charging by weight instead of by the carload, as formerly. They claim that it works an increase in the rates whieh, they assert, are already as great if not more than they should be. The post office department has decided that it is incompatible with tne best interests of the service to retain married women as post office clerks. The department has, therefore, ruled that when a female post office clerk marries it will be necessary for her to resign from the service. The democratic caucus committee^of the senate, on the 8th, considered the reorganization of the senate committees. A disposition was manifested to resist the demand of the republican senators for increased representation upon the leading committees, but no definite conclusion was reached. The governor of the Province ol Shan-Tung, Ghina, has been dismissed in consequence of his inability to deal with the anti-missionary trotibles which have been rife througout that province. Yuan Shiska, formerly commander of the foreign-drilled brigade, has been appointed to succeed him. The Kentucky state election board gave out, on the night of the 8th, their official findings that W. S. Taylor, for governor, and the rest of the republican state ticket had been elected, on the face of the returns, behind which they had no right to go, end certificates were ordered to issue accordingly. Commissioner Poyntz dissented. Announcement was made, on the 8th, of a ten per eent. increase in wages in the mills of the Heston Duck Co., to take effect on the 18th. Thl*» includes the Otis company mills, at Palmer, Mass., employing 2,000 hands; the Warren mills, 500 hands; the Thorndike mills, 650 hands; the Three Rivers mills, 660 hands, and smaller ones.

The United States Deep Waterways commission was in session .at Detroit, Mich., on the 5th, preparing- a prelimniary report asked for by the secretary of war, requesting the commissioners’ recommtWlations as to regulation and sustaining of lakes levels and the effect thereon of the Chicago drainage canal ami other possible influences. There was filed in the county clerk’s office in Jersey City, N. J„ on the 7th, a mortgage for $12,282,000, given by the Guayaquil & Quito Railway Co. to the United States Mortgage and Trust Co. of New York, to secure an issue of bends in that sum payable in .33 years and bearing six per cent, interest, principal and interest payable jin gold. The George Washington Memorial association made public, on the 6th, a request that on December 14, 1899, the centennial anniversary of Washington's death, all the schools of the land cuspend the regular order of exercises at 11 o’clock a. m., and devote 20 minutes to a memorial programme, including a brief eulogy of the life and character of our first president, George Washington. Whether the pay of RepresentativeElect Roberts, of Utah, is stopped as % result of the action of the house in refusing him a seat, has not been passed upon by the house officials, and will not directly arise until the January pay certificates are issued. Mr. Roberts drew his pay up to December 3, the day before congress assembled, on the certificate of Clerk McDowell that was a member-elect

NEWS IN BRIEF, Compiled from Various Sources. FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. The first session of the senate of the Fifty-sixth congress fnet on the 4th. The usual routine resolutions were adopted, end the oath administered to new members. after which Senator Sewall, of New Jersey, announced the death of VicePiorident Hobart, and presented fitting resolutions, which were adopted, and the session suspended......In the house David Xh Henderson, of Iowa, was elected speak- [ er. and inducted into office. The administration of the oath to Congressman-Elect Roberts, of Utah, was postponed, pending Inquiry, the Reed rules were adopted, seats were drawn by members and the session ended. In the senate, on the 5th, the president's message was received and read, after which the death of Senator-Elect Monroe L. Hayward, of Nebraska, was announced, and the senate immediately adjourned as a mark of respect to deceased.......In the house, after a debate .of three hours, Ihe resolution offered by Mr. Tayler, of Ohio, on the 4th, for the appointment of a special committee to investigate the charges against Brigham H. Roberts, the Mormon lepresentatTve-elect from Utah, was passed by a vote of 302 to 30, interest in this event completely ovet shadowed the leading of the president’s message. In the senate, on the 6th, nearly eight hundred bills and joint resolutions, several important concurrent resolutions and petitions by the hundred were presented. Most of the bills were old timers. Among the new bills was the financial measure | of the senate finance committee. Resolutions were offered providing for an investigation by the judiciary committee of all i phases of polygamy recently presented In connection with what Is known as the Roberts ease; expressing the sympathy of the senate for the Boers in their war with Great Britain, and declaring that J Senator N. B. Scott, of West Virginia, is not 'entitled to a seat in the senate. Among the bills introduced! was one by Mr. Cullom, of Illinois, to provide a form of government for Hawaii, and another to pension war veterans over 70 years of age.The house was not in session. The senate was not in session on the 8th......In the house a special order for the consideration of the currency bill, beginning on the 11th, was adopted; the general debate to continue five days, when one day will be devoted to amendments undPr the five-minute rule, the vote to be taken on the 18th,. The democrats, populists and sllverites presented a solid front against the adoption of the resolution and every republican voted for it. In the senate, on the 7th, Mr. Chandler introduced a bill to foster athletic sports among the cadets at West Point and Annapolis. The senate adjourned until the 11th.In the house, Mr. Overstreet (Ind.), in charge of the finance bill, attempted to reach an agreement for its early consideration, but met objection on the ground that so important a bill should go through the regular channels. The speaker appointed the .committee on rules, and the house adjourned until the 11th.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The Mountain Valley house, a wellknown tourists’ hotel, near Hot Springs, Ark., was totally destroyed by fire on the 6th. A bill was introduced in the senate, on the 7th, granting pensions to persons who served in the -confederate service and afterwards in the army und navy of the United States. Representative Hepburn, of Iowa, reintroduced in the house, on the 7th, his bill of the last eongress to appropriate $140,000,000 for the construction of the Nicaragua canal. The expectation of catching Aguinaldo in the north of Luzon has been practically abandoned, and the probability now is that he will turn southward—if he is not already there—toward Cavite province, his home, where the insurrection began, and where it still has its greatest strength. Gen. Young arrived at Vigan, province of South Uoeos, on the 6th, after a hard but successful fight with a greatly superior force of. Filipinos, commanded by Gtn. Tino. The Americans lost one man killed and 12

wounded. The Republican national committee was slated to meet in Washing-ton, on the 12th, to select the time and plaee for holding- the next national convention, and to transact such other Hi«iness as might come before the committee, The grand jury of Seneca county, N. . Y„ is investigating the'death of Edward F. Berkeley, of St, Louis, the Cornell student who was drowned in i the Seneca canal, at Geneva, while be-! ing initiated into the Kappa Alpha fraternity. - Henry Fuermann, a German waiter, who arrived in Chicago a year ago, received a cablegram, on the 7th, from Munich, Germany, informing him that he had fallen heir to an estate valued At $1,000,000. The bequest, which came from an uncle, was a surprise. * With masks, gags and revolvers, fo.ir men raided stations along the Big Four railroad 60 miles from Chicago, on the 7th. Their plunder in money consisted of 50 cents at Coster, 111., plucked from the pockets of the tele* graph operator, and 60 cents at Gardner, rifled from a slot machine. I*eter A. B. Widener, the millioniare traction magnate of Philadelphia, announces that he has purchased 36 acres of land at Logan, a suburb of Philadelphia, os which he intends to erect and endow a home, hospital and school for crippled children, at a cost of $2,000/HX). The powder works of James S„ Miller, near Sunlneytown, Pa., were completely wrecked by an explosion on the 7th. Three men were killed and several others injured. Joseph C. Hoagland, the founder and president of the Royal Baking Powder Co., died in New York city, on the 8th, from acute kidney trouble.

One of the most appalling fires that has ever visited Reading, Pa., occurred on the 7th, when the extensive hosiery mill .of the Nelde & Horst company was destroyed, causing the death ot one person and injuring 60 other employes. The executive committee of the American Woolen Co., of Boston, voted, on the 8th, to make a general increase of ten pet cent, in wages of employes. The increase will affect mills in all sections of New England, and will benefit 26,000 hands. The advance will take effect on January 1. The commissioner of Internal revenue has decided that aerated distilled water is entitled to exemption from tax, even if advertised as a remedy or cosmetic. The statement of Hie condition of the treasury issued on the 8th showed: Available cash balance, $286,691,080; gold reserve, $239,611,475. The steamship Umbria, sailing from New York, for Europe, on the 8th, took out 435,000 ounces of silver. LATE NEWS ITEMS. i _ . The earl of Dunrnven, lord lieutenant of Limerick, acting under instructions from Dublin castle, on the 10th, removed from the office of deputy lieutenant of the county Baron Emly, who was recently removed from hU position as magistrate by Lord Ashbourne, lord chancellor of Ireland, because of his anti-British comments on the war in South Africa. The British war office published the following from Gen. Forest ierWalker, at Cape Town, on the-11th* “Gatacre reports: ‘Deeply regret to

inform you that I met with a periods reverse in the attack on Stormberg** J was misled as to the enemy’s position by the guides, and found impracticable ground.’ ” A long list of casualties follows. Mr. Roberts, the director of the mint, in his annual -report, says: “The mint and assay offices operated upon more [bullion and in the aggregate more coinage was executed during the last fiscal year than in any previous year, amounting in value to- $143,497,190, against $147,693,194 in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1898. O. M. Welburn, ex-collector of internal revenue, has been acquitted in Sau Francisco of the charge of embezzlement, on his third trial. JsVhile under indictment Welburn fled (and enlisted as a private in the army, going to Cuba. While on his way tot the Philippines he was recogflized^aml arrested. The French government hjns formally demanded the djagra^alion of the viceroy of Canton because the order t» execute the Chinese magistrate who was responsible for the murder of two French officers at MofitSt^had not been carried out. The tsung-li-yamen will probably refuse. Some 50 metres of the Place de L’Etoile, in Paris, fell, on the night of the 9th, into the Metropolitan railway tunnel. Ten trees were carried down and two persons w ere buried in the debris. They were quickly rescued. The Yananda group of miues on Olive creek, near Baker City, Ore., has been sold to British Columbia capitalists. The purchase price is $1,500,000. The company will immediately erect a large mill. It is now’ certain that the Canadian ‘ | steamer. Niagara, Capt. Henry MeCleary, foundered, on the 5th, about eight miles east of Long Point, Lake Erie, with all hands, numbering 16 ionaCURRENT NEWS NOTES.

William Richardson, of Parkersburg, W Va., has identified Ellis Glenn, ia 'jail at Hillsboro, 111., as the E. 11. Glenn wanted in his state on the charge of swindling'. Republican National -Committeeman Payne, of Wisconsin, favors Chicago for the national convention. He thinks New York should have the vice-presi-dency. Contracts for 1,000 mules, to be used in the South African war, have beeu let at East St. Louis, 111., by Col. Marshall, of the British army. The seizures and vexatious inspection of American fruit have begun again in Germany. The secretary of the treasury has* ordered the purchase of silver bullion for the special mintage of the Lafayette souvenir dollar. Valentine Krauss, of Maseoutah, 111., while returning from his nephew’s funeral was injured in a runaway, and can not recover. Henry Telgemann, Jr., of Strasburg, IlL, fell dead while siting in a chair reading a paper. The New York board of aldermen adopted an ordinance making it a misdemeanor to sell cigarettes to persons under 18 years of age. H. C. Frick’s management of the Homestead (Pa.) strike, it is now stated, was the beginning of his troiv* ^le with Andrew Carnegie. The work of disinterring and placing in sealed zinc caskets the remains of the victims of the Maine, who were buried at Havana, will be completed by the 15th insL The Austin (Tex.) cotton exchange has completed its estimate of the probable yield of the crop this year, and they figure it out at 8,000,000 bales. The United States subtreasury at St. Louis hus come into possession of a $100 counterfeot silver certificate which was manufactured by the notorious Burns gang in Philadelphia. At n meeting of the mill managers of the Augusta (Ga.) Manufacturers’ association the association increased the wages of operators ten per cent January 1. At the sale of the effects of Mine. Alice Barthier, in the Hotel Dronot, Paris, Friday, a sum of 18,750 franca ($3,700) was found between the leaves , of a music score purchased for a mere trifle. .4

ALL OVER THE STATE. Events in Various Portions of Indiana Told by Wire. Indiana la Congress. Washington, Dec. 8.—Senator Fairbanks has set the machinery in motion to recover to Indiana $714,470 paid out by the state in interest and discounts on $2,000,000 bonds, sold in 1862, to equip, transport, feed and pay soldiers employed in suppressing the rebellion. Under a ruling of the treasury department in 1883 the claims of Indiana and other states were knocked out. The senator has also introduced a bill to increase the limit of the appropriation for the Indianapolis federal building to $2,500,000 and make $609,000 immediately available to pay for the site. Want* No Salary. MishatvakaHffid., Dec. 8. — Rev. C. D Royse, one of the best-known divines in the northwest Indiana conference, has notified his congregation that he has repudiated the Scripture text which says that “a laborer is worthy of his hire,” and he hasabsolved his member?, ship from salary^obligations. Heftafter he will accepf whatever the charitable inclined members of his flocw are disposed to give./Rev. Mr. Royse is/the third minister ip the conference tp4abf this radical departure. /A Block Burned, j Warsaw, Ind., Dec. S. —Anire which broke put in, the Meyer hotel at Silver Lake spread rapidly and sapn an entire block of puildings was enveloped in flames. HelpwmTs&TTghf'iromWabash, North Manchester and Warsaw, but as there was no water supply no help i could be given. Among the principal • buildings destroyed were a residence ! belonging to Mrs. Sarber and a mi Hi- j nery store. Nothing was saved. The loss will amount to $12,000, with little insurance. Son of a Governor. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. S. — Winston Parke Noble died at his home in this city of paralysis. He was the youngest son°of Noah Noble, one of the early governors of Indiana, and was born in this city November 30, 1834. During the civil war he served as assistant quartermaster general, with rank of captain. He was a thirty-second degree mason and a member of the Grand Army oJ the Republic.

Will Pay Oftener. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec 8.—An adjustment was effected between the .Republic Iron & Steel Co., which has 11 plants in Indiana, employing 5,000 men, and the state, whereby the company agrees to pay its employes 28 times each year, instead of 24, and not to hold back more than seven days’ pay at anjr time. Saes tor Damages. Laporte, Ind., Dec., 8. — The English Lake Land company, composed of Chicago sportsmen, has been made the defendant in an action brought by Joseph Trynoski for $10,000 damages. Trynoski was arrested for alleged trespass and was confined in jail for several days. He was acquitted on trial. Deeded In Trust. Michigan City, Ind., Dec. 8. — Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell, of this city, has deeded in trust property .valued at from $120,000 to $140,000 to be distributed, at her death; Chicago university to have $10,000 and Oberlin (O.) eSllege $20,000 for instruction in oriental literature as related to Christianity. A Hot Fight. Portland, Ind- Dee. 8.—The AntiSaloon league is making a hot fight against the publicans of this city. Remonstrances have been filed before the county board against a number who have applied for licenses, and charges of violations of the law have been made Served Eight Years. Mishawaka, Ind., Dec. 8.— John C. Protsman died here, aged 51 years. He was for eight years a member of the Mishawaka council, serving longer than any other man ever elected to such office. He leaves a widow, four children and a sister. Still Very Active. Montpelier, Ind., Dee. 8.—The cold snap has not done much damage as yet to st^p operations in the Indiana field. The operators are still actively locking for the precious fluid, and leases are very active in all portions of the state.

Emheuler Sentenced. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 8. — Henry Howell has been sentenced by Judge Haker to 18 months’ imprisonment in the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus. He was convicted of embezzling a registered letter from the Monrovian post office. Death of a Veteran. Fort Wayne, Ind., Dec. 8. — Aurora C. Keel died at his home here, aged 65 years. Hemorrhage of the brain-was the cause of his death. He was a retired merchant and a veteran of the civil war, having been mustered out as a captain. May Revoke His License. Marion, Ind.. Dec. 8. — An effort will be made to revoke the license to practice medicine of Dr. John F.‘ Curry, of this city, who is now in Michigan City prison, convicted of the charge of receiving stolen goods. Died Suddenly. Kokomo, Ind., Dec. 8.—Frank Joh, of the eastern part of the county, was found dead in bed by his wife. He was apparently in usual health when he retired. Almost a Centenarian. Hagerstown, Ind., Dec. 8.—A notable event here was the birthday celebration of Wayne eounty’s oldest citizen, Tames Park McCown, who is 90 years did. .> _ '

MUTI1 The Hill at Lambardskop, Near ! Ladysmith, Carried by the British. FORCE ADVANCING TOWARD C0LESBUR6. The Howltser Batteries and Additional Cavalry Have Joined Gen. Metkaen, aad It is Preiamed that Hla Advance Will No Longer be Delayed.

Boer Head Laager, Ladysmith, Friday, Dec. 9.—The British troops made a sortie between one and two o’clock in the morning. They crawled up a ravine and stormed and carried Lo abardskop, which was held by the Boera and on which were placed a Creusot gun and a howitzer. These guns were destroyed with dynamite. The BriiJsh captured a Maxim gun and then retired. The lancers, hussars, and guards made a sortie west of Ladysmith at day break, under cover ot a heavy artillery fire, which the Boera returned briskly. The British afterwards returned to Ladysmith. The Boer losses are reported to have been slight. ]A strong burgher column has crossed the Tugela river at Colenso with the object of attacking the British Eseourt column. GB-V MBTHIBX REINFORCED. The Howitzer Battertea and Additional Batteries at the Front. London, Dec. 10.—While so far as the actual British advance is concerned, late dispatches show little change in the situation. The authorities anticipate from the announcement that howitzers and cavalry have reached Gen. Methuen, and that Gen. Buller has received the heavy artillery for which he was waiting, that the advance will no longer be delayed. News of important battles by both generals is expected soon. The fact that Gen. Buller has ordered 200 stretchers bearers from Pietermaritzburg to assist the regular ambulance corps indicates that he anticipates sharp fighting. ^ - The latest pigeon from Ladysmith furnished Gen. Buller with an important map sent by Gen. White, presumably showing the disposition of the Boer forces and the”' vulnerable points.

A REVERSE AT ^STORMBERG. Gen. Gatacre, Misled by Treacherous Guides, Falls Into a Boer Trap at Stormberg. London, Dec. 11, 4:45 a. m — It is hardly too much to regard Gen. Gatacre's repulse near Stormberg as the most serious defeat the "British arms have yet sustained in the whole campaign, Already the official advices show that two men were killed, nine officers and 17 men wounded and nine officers and 596 men are missing. But it is evident that the worst is not yet known. The proportion of wounded and killed is so small when compared with the missing—who are undoubtedly prisoners in the hands of the Boers —that the supplementary list of cusaulties is waited with serious misgivings. It is also feared that there were serious losses of guns and equipment. The most serious aspect of the affair is the effect it is likely to have on the Dutch in Cape Colony who have been wavering as to whether to throw7 in their lot with the Boers. Hosts of the northern farmers are now likely to join the rebellion. Defeat is now also serious because it will delay the junction of Gen. Gatacre with Gen. French at Naauwpoort. The plan w7as for their combined forces to relieve the pressure on Lord Methuen’s column. The disclosure of such a strong force at Stormberg was quite unexpected. Doubtless Gen. Gatacre was the victim of treacherous guides. But the result points also to the absence of prope* cavalry scouting. The British troops who recently occupied Arundel are advancing. They have had several skirmishes, but no casualties. Three miles north of Arundel they found the Boers 2,000 strong. The Pretoria reports of renewed fighting at Modder River originated from the fact that the British, with a team of 32 oxen, hauled a naval gun to the top of a high ridge north of Modder River town, whence they fired lyddite shells. Gatacre Acknowledges Defeat. London, Dec. 11.—The war office publishes the following dispatch from Gen. Forestier-VValker, at Cape Town: “Gatacre reports: ‘Deeply regret to inform you that I met with a serious reverse in the attack on Stormberg. I was misled as to the enemy’s position by the guides, and found impracticable ground.’" A long list of casualties follow’s. The Enemy’s Position Impregnable. Molteno, Cape Colony, Dec. 11.—Gen. Gatacre left Putter’s kraal by train for Molteno and then proceeded by forced march 12 miles toward Stormberg. He had 2,000 men, including the Northumberland fusiliers, the Royal ; Irish rifles, and two batteries of field artillery. The engagement began at 4:15 a. m. At 7 a. m., after a sharp artillery duel, The British retired. They are now inarching toward Molteno. Gen. Gatacre found the enemy’s position impregnable. It was impossible for the British infantry to get at the Beors. j

- DR. SMITH ON WOMAN LABOR. A Champion of *ke Future Mothers of America Point* Ont the Evil of the Age. ,St. Paul, Minn.. Dec. 11.—Rev. Dp. S. G. Smith, pastor bf the People’s church in tliis city, \\ hose recent statement in regard to women wage-earners and. their interference with men workers has attracted wide attention and criticism, last night replied to his critics in a sermon. Dr. Smith said in part: “The subject at first arouses mirth, but when it is better understood, tears will take the place of laughter. The problem is red with the life-blood of the nation. War is a curse and an evil. But war is sometimes better than

cowardice or dishonor. There is need HHi for woman's work and good in it, but as society is at present organized, the evil far outweighs the good. It was in savage times that woman was the slave and served her master in menial tasks. We are fast on the road to » * new savagery. The problem began when the discovery of machinery and factory system took the place of the man and the tool. Greedy employers bade the delicate fingers ot women and the dimpled hand of childhood grasp the fallen task. I have watched ». woman and a cow yoked together drawing a heavy load in Europe. 1 § have seen the haggard faces of thd f| factory girls here and there. God never intended women to look like that. l»ut economic conditions have no ehiv*; airy, and human avarice has no sense: of honor. - : ^ ‘"The majority of the working women in this country, how four mil* Homs of them, are between the ages of: 14 and 23. The great fact of the las decade, however, is the enormous increase among them of girls under years of age. In the clothing trad alone the increase has been^ 23H cent., in cotton and woolen goods Ida per cent. The tendency is towai childhood. It is Cheaper. Meantir we are devouring the possible strei of the nation by draining the life its future mothers. Forty-five cent. of the manufacturing iu the eu States is now done by women. “We nfiiy well be ashamed to use tl appliances o^jjodern civilization wt we remember that they mean the lif blood and agony of delicate woma hood, the paralysis of our homes at the stopping of that abounding At ican physical vigor which has marl us for a century, because America hitherto been the paradise of w Make our women beasts of burden, the doom of our strength is at hat No army is any more vigorous it the mothers who bore them, tendencies of the time and the ous increase of woman labor and immature young women, is the nomie social, moral and physical of our time, and it is the most sex menace to the nation's life."

LOST WITH ALL ON BO. The Almost Certain Fate of Steamer \ limu ru A*o«nalii« by Searching Tag*. -i&'A — Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 11.—It is now certain that the Canadian steamer ||i| agara, Capt.Henry McCleary, foundered on Tuesday evening last abotut eight miles east of Long Point. Lake Erie, with all hands, numbering 16 per song. Tugs sent out from Port Colburne and fro a* Buffalo to search for the missing steamer have returned, bringing with them great quantities , of wreckage' picked up near where the steamer is supposed to have foundered, wreckage includes a part of agara's deck, portions of the deck beams and other material ant quantity of shingles marked Sound,” from which port the N tag sidled for Buffalo. Judging from amount of wreckage that has found the Niagara must have broken up badly in the storm. It is the opinion of lake gaptains that the boat went down iu <lgep water about eight miles' east qfr-SajEbg Point, as none of her spars has tjfeeu found, and if she had gone down in shallow’ water they would be sticking up. The storm whieh destroyed;'the Niagara was one of the worst that ever raged over Lake Erie. The win&j|yas blowing a gale of to miles an hbur. Even the largest and strongest bbats made for shelter, and it is the opinion of vesselmen that Capt. McCleary attempted to turn his boat around and run under Long Point, and in doing so encountered the full force of the storm, his craft going to pieces^'|^| Dr. Lange, the Chess Player, Dead. New York, Dec. 11.—A dispatch to the Starts Zeitung from Berlin says that Dr. Max Lange, the famous German chess master, theoretician/ and problemist, is dead at Liepsic. He was born in Magdeburg, on A\igustfi|feiS32, and was known as a chess player in 1S49, when he founded a chess>club among the boys of the gymnasium. He also edited periodical at the1 same time. S made a great name for himself ; numerous chess publications. J3 the co-founder of a great man chess associations, and wli died was manager of the Gei association. Commander Howell New York, Dec. 10.Charles I. Howell, chief the United States battleship when that vessel was blown vnna harbor, is dead, at his this city. He died from an _ff stroke. He was 50 year old. Another Indictme Lansing, Mich., Dec. 10.Jury returned another ini adjourned until Monday, the person indicated is suj It is surmised that the former state official.