Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 27, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 November 1900 — Page 2

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Failures for the week ended vn the Sd, as reported by R. G. Dun ft Co., were 198 in the United States, against 188 last year, and 23 in Canada against 85 last year. Shakir Pasha, special envoy of Ate dul Hamid, sultan of Turkey, presented to Emperor William, on the 30th, a number of gifts, including a very valuable necklace for the empress. The Spanish battleship Pelayo, which had received orders to d'sarm, has been sen t to Barcelona. The troops at Saragossa, Burgos and Vallalolid are ready to leave for Catalonia. Bussia and Prussia, it is said, have reached an agreement by which Russian petroleum will obtain cheaper freight rates against lower freight rates for German iron upon Russian railroads. President and Mrs. McKinley joined a party of friends rfnd neighbors of long standing at a dinner party in Canton, O., on the 3d, at the home of Miss Buckingham, the daughter of the minister who married them. The Society of Ar'ts of London #as awarded its silver medal to Prof. R. W. Wood, of the physics department of the University of Wisconsin, in recognition of his work on “The Diffraction Process of Color Photography.” The Westphalian Zeitung says that the North German Lloyd Steamship Co. has ordered more than a thousand tons of structural iron in the United States for its workshops and foundry, as against Westphalian competition. „ Intelligence reached Pretoria, on the 31st,'= that Commandant-General Botha was marching, with a strong force, to invade Cape Colony, near Kenhardt, where, it is said, the irreconcilable Boers are ready to joii him. At a French cabinet council, on the 30th, M. Millerand, minister of commerce, obtained President Loubet’s signature to a decree prolonging the exposition until November 12, and fixing November 7 as a free day for the poor. Avondale, the estate of the late Charles Stewart Parnell, was sold at auction, on the 31st, by the land judges’ court. The purchaser was Mr. Boyland, a friend of Mr. John Howard Parnell, brother of the famous Irish statesman. Several bands of Cnrlists have appeared in the neighborhood of Barcelona. Three priests were arrested in that city, on the 30th, in connection with the Carlist activity. Their quarters were searched and important doc uments found.

Mr. L. Neumann, owner of the horse Eager, which recently defeated Mr. John Drake’s horse Royal Flush in a match rase, on the 1st, donated to the Rous hospital, in London, the £ 500won by himself and his brother on the occasion referred to. H. H. Ahlworth and others of Duluth, Minn., have sold a big tract of timber tributary to the Cloquet river to the Muscatine Lumber Co., of Muscatine, la. The tract is said to contain about fifty million feet, and the consideration of the transfer was $255,000. The American school, of classical •tudies has just opened in Rome with an enrollment of 24 students, comprising graduates from ten colleges and universities. The institutions represented are Yale, Cornell, Chicago, Colgate, Michigan, Missouri, Oberlin, Yassar, Wollesley and Wooster. ' Lord Wolseley, speaking at the Cutters* Feast, in Sheffield, Eng., on the 1st, touched on army reform, and said that the greatest need was that the public should be enabled to judge between a commander-in-chief who urged reforms and a treasury which refused to supply the money to csrrj them out. The Hamburg Boersenhalle says the gold seized on board the Bundesrath at Cuxhaven, ,on the arrival Of that steamer there from Delagoa Bay, wae at the instance of an international syndicate of mine owners whose product was taken by the Boers and Transvaal bonds of doubtful value given in exchange. The French frigates Cecille anc >8uchet arrived at Annapolis, Md., os ^ the 22th, and anchored in the roads, •bout six miles from the city. When the vessels arrived they fired a salute •f ii guns. The guns at the naval academy replied. A reception wai tendered the officers by Superintendent Wainwright later in the day. Dr. Von 8eimans, president of the Deutsche bank of Berlin, is in Paris, completing negotiations for financing the Swiss railroads. The transaction, tt is said, involves a loan of 300,000,000 francs, at four per cent., which will be raised principally by American banks, assisted by English, French German and Swiss financiers. The Indian bureau finds that the new system of transporting Indian supplies by dealing directly with the railroads, instead of through contractors, has effected a saving of 20 per cent, or $40,000, in transportation expenses for the last fiscal year. Here tofore the railroads have refrained from bidding for the transportation contracts, and private contractor! have received large profits.

NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. PERSONAL AND GENERAL Harvey Earl, one of the Akron (O.) rioters indicted by the special grand jury, was, on the 31st, convicted of illegally possessing and using dynamite. This was the first of the riot cases to be tried. i The United States transport Sheri man sailed from San Francisco, on the • 1st, for Manila, via Honolulu, with ; 230 soldiers and a large number of cabin passengers, mostly wives and children of officers stationed in the ' Philippines. * Spires, Worms and other Rhine ! cities have addressed a petition to the imperial German chancellor* Count Von Buelow, urging him to appoint a commission to examine into the pollution of the Rhine through sewage. Rush medical college, at Chicago, is to have a new $80,000 building, for which Dr. Nicholas Senn has just given $30,000. The new building will be principally used for clerical purposes, and will be named Senn hall. In hopes of stemming American and \ German competition, the leading iron j manufacturers of Staffordshire and 1 Worcestershire, Eng, have issued cir- ; culars announcing a reduction in price . of 20 shillings per ton. The United States government, acJ cording to a dispatch from Sydney, N. S. W., has intimated that it will be ; pleased to send war ships to attend I the inauguration of the commoni wealth of Australia. On the 31st burglars forced the safe in the office of James Doolittle, trus- | tee of Oil township, Tell county, Ind., i and decamped with $3,600 cash and t valuable notes. The money belonged | to the school fund. The Russian ministry of agriculture ! estimates the Russian crops for 1900 | as being considerable below the aver- ! age. These estimates are based on ! the reports of 7,100 correspondents. Dr. Campos Salles, the president of 1 Brazil, who had been visiting Gen. i Roca, president of Argentina, Jett Buenos Ayres, on the 1st, on his return trip to Rio de Janiero. A Chinese official telegram from i Signan Fu states that Prince Tuan ; has fled to Mongolia, with his head I shaved, and disguised as a Buddhist priest. It is reported that he intends to join the Lamas. The verdict of Parisian society is that Mine. Castellane, like other j American heiresses who choose to i marry French titles, should ‘‘pay the j pipfer,” especially as the expenditures in this instance w’ere all made in Paris.

j Prince Prosper Arenberg has been , sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment for murdering a mulatto servant in southwest Africa. This is the longest sentence allowed by the German J law for the offense. The sentence ini volves the prisoner's treatment as an , ordinary criminal. j The monthly comparative state1 ment of the government receipts and expenditures issued at the treasury department, on the 1st, shows that the total receipts for the month of October were $51,626,067, and the expenditures $47,993,637, leaving a surplus for the month of $3,632,430. The monthly circulation statement j issued by the comptroller of the cur- , rency shows that at the close of business October 31, 1900, the total circulation of national bank notes was $331,625,503, an increase for the year of $88,640,809, and an increase for the month of $3,289,530. Charles F. Jones, who was valet for William M. Rice, the millionaire who died so mysteriously in New York, made a confession, in which he charged Lawyer Patrick with causing the death of Rice by administering poison. After making his statement j Jones attempted suicide in the Tombs ! prison by cutting his throat. O. E. Atkinson, first assistant cashier of the Albany (Ind.) state bank, is reported missing, and Pinkerton ] detectives have been sent on his trail. It is claimed that he has been gone several days and that there is a big defalcation. The monthly statement of the pub lie debt shows that at the close of business on October 31, 1900, the debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to $1,104,402,320, a decrease as compared with last month, of $1,754,351. The residence of Rev. J. B. Wheatley, at Wheatley, Ky., was destroyed by fire on the 1st. Mrs. Wheatley'* aged mother; Mrs. A. J. Alexander, perished. Mr. and Mrs. Wheatley were seriously injured while escaping from the burning building. David Davis, one of the Akron (O.) rioters indicted by the special grand jury, was convicted of burglary on the 2d. Davis was one of the men whe broke into the store of the Standard Hardware Co., from which the mot secured the guns that wefe used in the assault on the city building on th< night of August 22. John Sanborn, of Yankton, one oi South Dakota’s oldest and most prom inent. settlers died, on the 2d, of paralysis

;•[ Secretary Hay, on the 1st, cabled Commissioner Hockhill an appoint* men! as councilor of the American | legation at Pekin. He has been dii rected to proceed at once fromShang* hai to Pekin to assist Minister Conger in that capacity in the negotiations I for a final settlement. A motion for a new trial was filed J at Marysville, 0., on the 9d, by Ross- ; lyn H. Ferrell's attorneys, on the ! ground that one of the jurors said j Ferrell was guilty, and his life was no better than Lane's, his victim. It is also charged that Joseph Roff, another juror, is not an elector. The statement of the treasury bai-. ances in the general fund, exclusive of the $150,000,000 gold reserve in the division of redemption, issued on the 2d, showed: Available cash balance, $137,205,815; gold, $92,346,077. « Count Von Buelow, the imperial German chancellor, has received a telegram from the German merchants in Tien Tsin congratulating .him upon the conclusion of the Anglo-German agreement. ‘ 0

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Thomas Finley Brown, 12 years old, 'died, on the 4th, from injuries re* ceived while being1 hazed at the' Porter military academy at Charleston, S. C. The boys dropped him into a cemented swimming basin 12 feet deep. The basin was dry at the time, and.the lad received internal injuries from the fall, lie refused to give the names of the cadets who had ill-treated him, and, it is said, no action will be taken in the matter. The Cunard liner Saxonia, Capt. Pritchard, from Boston, October 27, which arrived at Queenstown, on the 4th, had on board 15 members of tha fishing schooner Mary Mosquito, which the Saxonia «ank off Gloucester, Mass., on the day of her departure from Boston. One member of the crew was drowned. The Cunarder was not damaged. Indian Agent Shoenfeld, in charge of Union agency, whose jurisdiction comprises the five civilized tribes, protests, in his annual report, against unlawful occupation of the Indian lands, and urges rigid congressional legislation to protect the Indian citizens against the encroachment of aggressive and grasping whites. The jury before whom Lloyd J. Smith was on trial in Chicago *ast week charged with irregularities in the management of grain elevators, reported a verdict of acquittal on the 4th. His wife, who was present, upon hearing the verdict, fainted, and it took the doctors two hours to restore her. - The cornerstone of the new Deaconess home and l[ospital at Lincoln, 111., was laid on the 4th. Bev. William L. Jungk, D. D., of St. Louis, delivered the address in German. Thejiome is being built under the auspices of the Evangelical St. John church. , Two electric cars on the Cincinnati, Lawreneeburg & Aurora electric railway collided, on the 4th, near Cleves, 0., owing to a ^misunderstanding of orders. The cars were wrecked and 11 persons were injured, soipe seriously, but none fatally. T * The October reports concerning the Egyptian cotton crop say they are unsatisfactory, both, as to yield and quality. - In a coal mine explosion at Berrysburg, W. Yu., on the 4th, 12 persons were killed and two fatally injured. Hugh S. Hart, a well-known writer on sports, died in Brooklyn, on the 4th, of a complication of diseases. CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

Albert Danten, a teamster, was run over and killed, at St. Louis, by his own wagon. The Pennsylvania Railroad Co.’s new pension system will go into effect January 1, 1901. A Chicago man has sued the managers of an asylum for $250,000 damages for illegal detention. George J. Mook, member of a wellknown St. Loius painting firm, died, Friday, after a long illness. American steel mills have captured contracts over European competitors, and will equip railways in South Africa. " > ~ . Gov. Roosevelt concluded his campaign tour Friday with the final day's speaking in New York towns. Ap immense steel bridge will span the Illinois Central yards at Glen Carbon, 111., for the use of electric railways. Five high dignitaries of the Roman Catholic church, it is reported, will be raised to the cardinalate at the next consistory. None are Americans. Mrs. George M. Pullman announces that she will not pay any debts contracted by her son, George M. Pullman; that he has plenty of money to pay his own debts. Roslyn Ferrel’s attorneys have filed a motion for a new trial, at Marysville, 0„ alleging that one of the jury which convicted him of the murder of Express Messenger Lane is not a qualified elector. It is now believed that two more men at least are concerned in the Rice plot in NW York. Jones, the valet, is in a hysterical condition, following his confession and attempt to commit suicide. The Boston Globe prints an open letter to Eugene V. Debs, urging his withdrawal in favor of William J. Bryan. The South African situation is improving, and Lord Roberts will short- i ly return to England with a majority of his staff. « In spite of the official denials, says , » St. Petersburg dispatch, there is no doubt that the inadequate harvest will produce a famine in the provinces of Kherson and Bessarabia. ! i Fred Erie and Ftfsnk Murray es* , caped from the jail at Savannah, Mo., , Friday night, by sawing through the roof. Erie is charged with the murder of Guy Speelman and K. K. Speeth.

WITHIN OUft LIMITS. Hews bj Telegraph from Various Towns in Indiana. Trte4 to Kill. Marion, Ind., Nov. 2.—Michael Pulley. aged 59, a prominent farmer who lives six miles northwest of Marion, has been arrested. The residence of Pulley’s wife in El wood was wrecked by dynamite Saturday night and the wife suspected her husband of attempting to kill her. She notified the Elwood> police; When placed in jail here Pulley acknowledged having attempted to kill his wife, stepdaughter and son-in-law. He said that this is his second wife, whom he married two years ago. She had persuaded him to sell his farm and then taken all the money and deserted him. Jle followed her to Elwood and attempted to kill her.

Tried to Shoot. Marion, Ind., Nov. 2.—Charles Stewart, employed at the Canton glass factory, was saved from being shot by a handkerchief catching in the hammer of a revolver. Stewart was married to Miss Edna Cook in Muncie a year ago. She was then 16 years of age. He recently deserted her and came to Marion. Mrs. Stewart, when seen at the jail, stated that she would kill her husband at the first opportunity. She is an orphan and' has made her home with Congressman George Cromer since a child. New Railway. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 2.—The To ledo & Chicago Transfer Railway company has been organized under the law’s of the state. The line is to extend from the western borders of Indiana. crossing the state to the east, through the counties of Newton. Jasper. Pulaski. Fulton, Kosciusko, Whitley and Noble. The capital stock is $100,000. Among the incorporators are J. A. Hamilton, of White Cloud. Mich., and William McIntosh and J. B. West;ott, of Goodland. Fight to a Finish. Clinton, Ind.. Nov. 2.—During a fight between James Douglass. Harry 11ammersley and Thomas Davis the firstnamed ^ak perhaps fatally cut in the neck, while Hanimersley received a severe slash across the wrist. The men are brothers-in-law. and the fight was the result of a dispute over $3.30. It is not known who did the cutting, as each if the principals denies using a knife. Douglass is likely to die. Crop Outlook. Indianapolis, Ind., !^ov. 2.—The climate and crop bulletin of the weather bureau in Washington for October says for Indiana : Wheat mostly sown and has germinated well, is growing rapidly, most 'fields green: rye looks fine; much grass sown: clover, timothy and pasturage In good condition; late potatoes dug. yield poor: large yield of sweet potatoes; cabbages and turnips abundant: corn husking continues yield and quality good: much corn fodder shredded. A Fierce Game. Rensselaer, Ind., Nov. 2.—One of the fiercest games of football witnessed here this season w’as played at Riverside Athletic park between the Rensselaer and South Bend: athletic teams. The visitors were defeated by a score of 12 to 0. The game was unusually interesting owing to the many brilliant plays by both sides. About 1.0O0 spectators witnessed the contest. Goins to Cuba. Richmond, Ind., Nov. 2.—Sylvester Jones and wife, of Iowa; Emma Phillips, of Fairmount, Ind.; Santos Trovino and Francisco Martinez, both of Mexico, left here for Cuba, where they will establish missions for the Friends’ church. They are sent out by the American Friends’ board of foreign missions. They begin work in the eastern part: of the island.

Without a Saloon. Wabash, Ind., Nov. 2.—The Wabash county board of commissioners has re* jected the application for liquor license of Charles Parmenter, of Roann. This is the twelfth saloon applicant knocked out by the temperance people of Paw Paw township, and Roann is yet without a saloon. Banker Mission. Hartford City, Ind., Nov. 2.—O. C. Atkinson, of Albany, assistant cashier of the Albany state bank, has mysteriously disappeared. The affairs of the bank have not yet been exatnined. Atkinson is married and his wife is one of the social leaders of Albany. Braall Purified. Brazil, Ind., Nov. 2.—Police Chief Prince has closed every ill resort in the city, driving the inmates out of town. Many of them sought shelter at Terre Haute. This step was taken because of the murder that occurred at Mrs. Harman's place on Sunday morning. For Release. Greensburg, Ind., Nov. 2.---Dr. Conde Beck, who is in jail awaiting trial for killing William Barton at Waynesburg, has instituted habeas corpus proceedings to be released on bail. The proceedings will be heard November 15. Farmer Killed. Lebanon, Ind., Nov. 2. — Daniel Schench, a farmer of Perry township, died from the effect of an accidental fall from his hay loft. He was nearly 80 years old. Won the Prise. Hanover, Ind., Nov. 2.—Lorin A. Handley was successful in winning the Voris prize of $50. He will represent Hanover college in the state oratorical contest. Still MUsing. Lebanon, Ind., Nov. 2-Miss Nora Belt, the 15-year-old girl who left homo last Saturday night, is still missing. The search still coi t'nues.

11 Of I ifll. Ai Appeal in Their Behalf Sent by Lord Roberts to His Countrymen at Home. 00 NOT DEBAUCH THE 6ALLANT LADS. He la Proud of Their Conduct Darina the Arduous Cainiinlgn, and Doea Not Wlah to See Them Degraded by Betas Led Into Exceue* at Thetr Homecoming.

London, Nov. 4.—Lord Roberts sends { from Pretoria a striking appeal to his ' countrymen to refrain from turning j the homecoming of troops into a j drunken orgy. He expresses the sin- ; cere hope that the welcome will not | take the form of treating to stimuI lants, and “thus lead to excesses tha* ! will tend to degrade those whom the cation delights to honor and lowe. the soldiers of the queen in the eyei of the world, which watched with undisguised admiration the grant work they have performed for theit sovereigns and country.” ! “I, therfore, -beg earnestly,” said Lord Roberts, “that the public will frain from tempting my gallant com lades, but will rather ai$ them to up hold the splendid reputation they have won for the imperial army. Proud ot Ilia Army. “I am very proud to be able to record, with the most absolute truth, that the conduct of this army, from ’ first to last, has been exemplary. Not | a single case of serious crime has ; been brought to any notice, indeed, | nothing deserving the name of crime. 1 I have trusted to the men's own soldierly feeling and good sense, and , they have borne themselves like hej roes on the battlefield, and like gen"tleinen on all other occasions. Moat Mallelons Falsehoods. “The most malicious falsehoods were spread by the authorities of th< ; Transvaal of the brutality of Britj ain's soldiers, but the people were J soon reassured that they had nothing to fear from the man In khaki, nc matter haw battered -and war-stained his appearance. Grntifylas to the People. “This testimony,” concludes Lore 1 Roberts, “I feel sure will be vert j gratifying to the people of Great i Britain, and of that of greater Brit ain, whose sons shared to the fullest | extent the suffering as well as I glory of the war, and who helped s< I materially to bring it ta a suecessfu close.” Reason For the Appeal. i Lord Roberts explains that he thu: appeals because of The distressing am j discreditable scenes resulting fron injudicion friends speedingthepartinj soldiers by shoving bottles of spirit! | into their hands and pockets. WAS IT WILLI A MSCH R E IDE R V A Bit of Information That May Prove a Clew to .William Schrether’a W hereabouts.

New York, Nov. 4.—According to c dispatch from Albany to the Journa. and Advertiser, a letter received there from David Mattoon, a resident who is traveling in Cuba, says that, i seemirtgly, William Schreiber, the defaulting clerk of the Elizabethpors bank, arrived in Santiago, Cuba, on October 11, and left, on the 17th, fo\* Manzanillo. The letter which wai written at Santiago, on October 2C, says in substance that a man wan brought to the hotel there from the Ward line steamer Santiago De Cuba that left New York on October 4, arriving on the 11th. He gave the namu of Blunt, but he did not put his name on the register. He stammered. He told some of the guests that he was in great financial difficulties and was being followed. He had expected the affair to be patched up, and, finding that it could not be, his attorney had advised him to go to Cuba. He was bordering on nervous prostration, and would come down stairs at midnight and pace the floor. He finally told one of the guests who had gained his confidence, that detectives would be on the steamer Saratoga which left New York, October 6. So he took n steamer that left October 17 and was to stop at Manzanillom Cienfuegos, Caiesda, and all other principal south side ports. Before leaving he told the people that his name was not Blunt. HIS MIND AS CLEAR AS EVER. The Report That Valet Joaea* Mi I at i Has Become Unbalaaced Boated by Physlclaas. New York,Nov. 4.—Charles F. Jonet, secretary-valet of the late Wm. M. Bice, who was arrested on a charge of forgery, and who attempted to commit suicide in the Tombs by cutting his throat, passed a very comfortable night. The report that Jones is mentally unbalanced is denied at the hospital and it is declared his mind is as clear as ever. Declared Oatlaws. Vancouver, B. C., Nov. 4.—The Australian police have been baffled b/ the Geelong murderers. Seven months ago the entire colony was startled by a series of murders which took placa within 100 miles of Sydney. Two well known desperadoes, Jimmy and Jo: Governor, half breeds, were the only ones of the murderers who escapee . Since then they have killed two offcers and a woman. \ proclamation has been issued by the chief justice of New South Wales, declaring th j men to b* outlaws. 1

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' tRoroni Protest of Indian Vtceat Shoenfeld Agalait Unlawful Actto» of WbltM. Washington, Not. 5.—Indian Agent ihoenfeld, in eharge of Union agency, vhose jurisdiction comprises the five livilized tribes, protests, in his annual report, against unlawful occupation jf the Indian lands, and urges rigid rongressional legislation to protect ;he Indian citizen against the encroachment of aggressive and grasping whites. Of 2.000 complaints filed against non-citizens by Indians in the past fiscal year a large majority were against white men who in the past had intrudecrsthemselves upon the Indians, and hatrgained theitaconfidence to a large degree to secure possession of their prospective allotments, and after having secured possession refused either to pay rent or vacate, thus preventing the Indians from receiving any rents or profits Therefrom. Many of the Indians are too poor to institute suit for possession, and, therefore, are left helpless. The total population of** the five civilized tribes is estimateil^nt 84.750, comprising 20,250 Choctaws amOfeedmen, 10,500 Chickasaws and freedmen, 16,000 Creeks and freedmen, 35,000 Cherokees and freedmen. and 3.000 Seminoles, and their lands comprise a total of 19,776,286 acres. 'lhe rgent says that there is now every reason to believe that the Indian depredations and disturbances in the five tribes’ region are at an end. A few full-blooded Creeks are strenuously opposing the allotment of lands and have banded together and refuse to appear to select their ail • - merits. A large majority of the I Creeks, however, have made selections. The report recommends that congress appropriate out of the Cherokee funds a sufficient amount to pay the indebtedness of the nation: that ^ : a law be passed compelling the live tribes to adopt a uniform system of taxing nen-citizens residing and doj ing business in the limits of their nation, and that a workhouse or ruforraj atory be established,, AN EXCITING SCENE AT SEA. —- Flihlnz Schooner Ran Dow a Uy it Cnnartlcr— Rescue oC the Schouuer'» Crew. Queenstown, Nov. 5.—The Cunant liner Saxouia, Capt. Pritchard, from ! Host on, October 27, which arrived here yesterday morning, orotjght 15 members of the fishing schooner Mary Mosquito. which the Snxonia sank oil , Gloucester on the day of her departure from Poston. One member of the new was drowned. The Cunarder was not damaged. ' Dr. Pond, of Chelsea. Mass., one of the Saxonia's passengers, made the j following statement regarding the ae- ~ - cident: I ‘“We were proceeding at reduced 1 speed in the fog and blowing lhe whistle, when, about 6 p. m., the .look- ; out man reported a sail ahead. The engines were stopped, but the steamer's v way carried her into the Mary Mosquito, making a big opening aiuidship and i’ooeoig the schooner. ; “P«y this time all the Saxonia's passengers wei e on deck. The scene was one of great commotion, while np-i | palling shouts proceeded from liie - j schooner, whose crew, however*, i worked vigorously and got out two [ boats. “Into these 15 of the crew scram-" | bled, and put off from the fast-sink-i ing vessel. j “At the moment of cqUision tha j Saxonia lowered three lifeboats and . i scattered life belts. Fortunately tha ! sea was smooth. Twenty minutes ! later a dory came alongside with ten ' men and a lifeboat of the "Saxonia with five, four of whom had been rescued from a sinking dory and the oth- - er of whom had fallen into the sear— and narrowly escaped drowning. All the men are Portuguese.” ’ ; >

STRUCK A SUBMERGED WRECK. Serious Accident to the Americas Line Steamer St. Panl—Six Months t r Repairs. New York, Not. 5.—The American line steamer St. Paul limped into port__ yesterday morning under the port engine, after having incurred the most" serious experience of her career. On October 31 the St. Paul struck % supposed submerged wreck, carrying away the starboard propeller, causing the engines to race so fiercely that the shaft broke and all connections snapped. The starboard engines were bo severely wrecked that they are useless, and it will take six months to replace them with a new set. The after outboard shaft tubing was carried away. The ship is leaking considerably. When the accident occurred the v cabin passengers were quite excited, but they were soon restored to quiet by the prompt report that the steamer was in no danger. The wind was blowing heavily from the northeast, with a high cross-sea. The engineers examined the breaks and disconnected the starboard engines, and the St. Paul proceeded on her voyage under the port engines at a reduced speed. BLOWN BY BOLD BURGLARS. ! The Farmers* and Merchants* Rank at Jackson Center, 0„ Raided and Robbed ot $5,500. Bellefontaine, O., Nov. 4.—The ; Farmers’ and Merchants’ bank at 1 Jackson Center was blown at two | o’clock Saturday morning, and it is stated $5,500 was secured. Citizens, aroused by the explosion, poured into the streets, only to be driven in by heavily-armed and masked men, who escaped on a hand car over the Ohio Southern railway.