Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 29, Petersburg, Pike County, 23 November 1900 — Page 2

M. McC. STOOPS. Editor a&d Proprietor. PETERSBURG. ; INDIANA.

Charles A. Tyler, of New York city, the oldest letter carried in the world, died on the 16th. He was shout eighty years old, and had been in the em* ploj' of the post office department) about fifty years. A judgment of ouster against Mount Hope college, at Rogers, was given by the Ohio supreme court, on the 13th, and the college loses its charter. The ground upon which it was asked was 4hat the college had been selling diplomas. *4 At a cabinet meeting at the White House, on the 13th, President McKinley announced clearly and forcefully to the members his desire that they Should all remain with him during the four years of his coming administration. i A report is current in Hazleton, Pa., that negotiations are on for the sa$e of all collieries and washeries of the region owned by individual operators, and that the Lehigh Valley and Pennsylvania railroad companies are the prospective purchasers. The population of the state of Kentucky, as officially announced,is 2,147,174, against 1,858,539 in 1890, an Increase of 288,539, or 15.5 per cent. The population in 1880 was 1,648,690, showing an’ increase of 209,945, pr 12.7 per cent, from 1880 to 1890. The Minnesota state supreme court has decided that the so-called “jag cure law” is unconstitutional, because It applies only to counties of over fifty thousand population, and is limited in its benefits to a certain number in each county-—one per year to each 10,000 of population. Mr. Choate, the United States ambassador to England, on the 15th, distributed prizes to Students of the Mechanics’ institute .at Burnley. Replying to an address from the mayor and corporation of Burnley, he reciprocated the wish that Anglo-Americau ’ friendship might never be disturbed. The population of the state of Ohio, as officially announced by the census bureau, on the 14th, is 4,157,545, against 3,672,316 in 1890. These figures show an increase since 1S90 of 485,229, or 13.2 per cent. The population in 1880 was 3,198,062, showing an increase of 474,254, or 14.8 per cent, from 1880 to 1890.

Memorial services for Marcus Daly, whose funeral took place in New York, on the 15th, were held in nearly all the churches throughout the state of Montana, on that day, and business of all descriptions was suspended, including the operations of all the mines,smelters and mills of the Amalgamated CoppeV Co. The Central Passenger association, on the 15th, announced a I'ound-trip of one fare plus two dollars from points all over its territory to Chicago, for the international live stock exhibition, which begins in that city December. The I tickets will be ou sale for three days, and be good, returning, till December 10. Since the discontinuance of the military departments of Cuba, the former department of Eastern Cuba has been created a district and called the District of Santiago, with Col. Samuel M. Whiteside," Tenth cavalry, in command, with headquarters at Santiago. The officers and clerks of the former department Of Eastern Cuba are continued. Vernando Kempf, better known as “The Kentuckian,presumably the ringleader in the riot at Akron, O., on the night of August 22, pleaded guilty, on the 12th, to the charge of shooting to kill. Kempf had previously made a written confession of the part he had taken in t^e riot. James Brannan, a rioter, also pleaded guilty to the charge of burglary. Chicago is to have a subway on every other street in the business een- * ter. The men interested in the project have $50,000,000 of capital guaranteed, and declare that they can raise more money if it is needed to carry out the plans. Engineers are at work now on the plans, and as soon as they •re completed the city council will be asked for a 50-year grant. President McKinley, on the ,15th, reviewed/the annual parade of the police and fire departments of the District of Columbia. About eight hundred men in all were in line. The paxade included 15 fire companies and five trucks and fuel and police patrol wagons. Several fire companies gave • speed exhibition as they passed the White House reviewing stand. Dr. Wong Song, a Christian Chinaman and interpreter, on the 14th, sought the protection of the police of Kansas City, Mo., from a highbinder who, he asserted, had been brought to that, city to kill him for aiding the police in recent raids on Chinese gambling dens. Song sued out peace Warrants accusing four of his countrymen, one of whom he said has threatened to kill him. In reply to a letter from Bishop Henry C. Potter, to Mayor Van Wyck of New York, on the 16th, calling attention to the appalling vice of the city, and especially of the -East Side, and denouncing the police for abetting crime and defending criminals, ir opposition to their sworn duty, th* mayor pledged his best efforts to correct the wrongs pointed out, and immediately issued orders to the district attorney enjoining strict compliance with this resolve

NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The new feature in the case of United States Senator Cushman K Davis» announced on the 15th, was a slight delirium on first awakening. This indicated the mental,as well as physical strain under which the patient was suffering, being one of the stages of the kidney trouble, with which the senator ia contending. James Lynch and Robert L. King, convicted of murder of Godfrey Prowse, at the Sheep Ranch gambling house in Salt Lake City, Utah, on the night of September 24 last, were sentenced by Judge llooth, on the 13th, to suffer the death penalty, on January 11,1901. The condemned men elected to be shot. The Southern express between St. George’s and Saubusse, France, was derailed, on the 15th, near Dax, about thirty miles northeast of Bayonne. The .restaurant car was precipitated over an embankment. Thirteen persons were killed and 21 others injured, seven of them seriously. Five passengers are missing. The steamer Ruby A. Cousins, which sailed from Seattle, Wash., several weeks ago, loaded with a general cargo of government supplies for the soldiers at Port Valdez, Alaska, was wrecked in the narrows at the entrance to Prince William sound. The Saengerfest building, adjoining the Zoological gardens in Cincinnati, erected at a cost of $100,000 for the International saengerfest, last year, was sold to a wrecking company, on the 15th, at public auction, for $5,200. Yu Keng, the Chinese minister to France, asserts that Li Hung Chang and his colleagxies “can do nothing but intrigue and lie and attempt to save their heads. If they sign the treaty it will be a mere formality and will not afford a solution of the trouble,” and that no princes would b§ put to death “except by telegraph.” A correspondent of the Cape Times reports that 1,250 Boers are besieging a British garrison of 250 at Schweizerhencke, in western Transvaal, and that Lord Methuen and Col. Settle are believed to be going to the garrison's relief. «• H. C. Chubb, a Red Cross man who recently went to Lxtzon on a tour of investigation, is authority for the statement that Red Cross supplies, instead of being given to the soldiers are sold to the storekeepers, and that the cots sent by Miss Helen Gould are being sold for $2.50 each. A rumor is current in Rome that the illness of the czar of Russia is due to poisoning, and it is asserted that cipher telegrams have been received at the Vatican saying that an attempt was made to poison both the emperor and empress, but that the latter v^as

hot anecieu. i0 Miss Louise K. Pierpont Morgan, 1 daughter of J. Pierpont Morgan, and Herbert Livingston Saterlee were marmaried, on the 15th, at Sf, George’s church, .in. Stuyvesant square, New York city. The preliminary estimate of the average yield per acre of corn in 1900, as published in the forthcoming monthly report of the statistician of the^lepartment of agriculture, is 25.3 bushel§, as compared with an average yield of 25.31 bushels in 1899; of 24.76 bushels in 1898, and a ten-year average of 24.1 bushels. A report comes from Kalamazoo, Mich., that at least nine bodies have been disinterred by body-snatchers in Springbrook cemetery, Newaygo county. One body, that was too far decomposed to be of use, was left in a fence corner a quarter of a mile from the cemetery. George K. Crosthwaite, a physician of Hamilton, Qnt., blew out his brains, on the 15th, in the Railroad Men’s Christian Association hotel, Chicago. Despondency, due to being stranded in a strange city, Is thought to have been the cause. If the city of Pittsburgh, Pa., will furnish a site, Andrew Carnegie offers to build a technical school, in connection with the Carnegie institute, and endow it with $1,000,000 in five per cent, gold bonds. “Mogy” Bernstein, “king of the newsboys” of Omaha, was married, on the 15th, in the parlbrs of the Coates house. Kansas City, by Rabbi Mayer. Mogy’s bride is Miss Blanche Sunfeld, of Perry, Okla. One hundred thousand dollars’ worth of city waterworks bonds, bearing five per cent, interest, were sold at a special session of the Muscatine (la.) city council,on the 16th,to a Cleveland firm. After January 1 the city will own and operate the waterworks. A woman, believed to be insane, hurled a hatchet at Emperor William, on the 16th, as he was driving in an open carriage, in Breslau, with the hereditary prince of Saxe-Meiningen. The weapon missed the intended'victim, but struck. the rapidly moving carriage. The woman was rescued from the indignant populace and arrested by the police. Preston Porter, Jr., colored, who assaulted and murdered little Louise Frost, on her lonely ride home from Bchool, was burned at a stake, on the exact spot, at Lake Station, near Umon, Col., where he had committed his awful crime. Th^ international committee of the Y. M. C. A. sat down to its annual dinner at the Hotel Savoy, New York city, on the 16th. Some two hundred representative men from various walks of life were there to hear addresses and reports upon the worldwide interests of the organisation Frederick W. Royee, widely known as an inventor, electrician and veteran telegraph operator, dropped dead from apoplexy, on the 16th, in Washington.

With the advent of winter, which has now begun in earnest, a majority of the sawmills throughout the north* west have closed for the season, ai d nearly five thousand men have been thrown out of work in consequence. All of them can find plenty to do in the woods, however, and no suffering is anticipated. Thomas 11. Reynolds, a salesman employed by the Whiting Paper Co^ of New York city, on the 16th, filed a petition in bankruptcy with liabilities, incurred in various parts of the United States, amounting to $449,006, and no assets. Failures for the week ended on the 16th, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co„ were 217 in the United States, against 219 last year, and 33 in Canada, against 20 last year. « A severe earthquake shock was felt, on the 16th, in the Island of Curacao. Only slight damage, however, was done. An anarchist named Bagards, from New York has been arrested in Stockholm, Sweden.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Sanitary conditions in Pekin are #aid to be becoming serious. Since the foreign occupation many Chinese haTe died of smallpox and other infectious diseases. Fearing that their funerals would be interfered with, they have kept most of the coffins containing their dead in the houses and courtyards. These, together with an accumulation of garbage constitute an imminent menace to the city’s health. Contracts for over two hundred thousand tons of steel and iron Were taken during the week ended on the 17th, by Pittsburgh (Pa.) manufacturing concerns. They are for every kind of finished material, and make the best week’s business that the iron and steel firms have done since early in ,the year. A passenger train on the Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad ran into an open switch at Zanesville, O., on the 18th, bauly wrecking the engine. The engineer, John Somers, of Zanesville, jumped, but fell under the wheels and was killed. .Four trainmen were hurt by jumping. 4 Miss Edith Booth, 23 years old, an actress, formerly attached to Marc Burrough’s company, died in a New York city hospital, on the 18th, from the effects of injuries received by being, thrown from a carriage one week earljer. i'he tests of the new 12-incli naval j gun just made have resulted in some ; remarkable performances, entitling j 'he gun to rank ahead of any of'the | f2-inch guns thus far made in this I country or abroad. ■; Martin L. Irons, once leader of union labor organizations and who directed the great Missouri Pacific strike in the eighties, died, on the | 18th, at Bruceville, 20 miles south of Waco, Tex. Railroad tickets sold this year on account of Thanksgiving, Christmas and Yew Year’s holidays will have longer omits than have heretofore been allowed on tins class of transportation. Fire broke out in the Valley hotel ■ I 1‘hillippi, W. Ya., on the nth. and destroyed a large proportion, of the business area of the city. The loss ipproximates $100,000. A French syndicate, with a capital >f 12,000,000 roubles, will supply the •apital for a Russian railway from \vichala to Sakabo, in the Causasus. Pr. Loyds and Boer Delegates Wolmarans, Fischer and Wes^els, reached “aris on the 17th.

CURRENT NEWS NOTES. Joseph P. Licklider and Robert Ross were held up by two highwaymen at St. Louis. | Queen Julia, ruler of the gypsies of the west, is at St. Louis en route westward. An epidemic of malignant diph* theria at Grafton, 111., is said to have been caused by infected rabbits: There are upwards of 3,000 applicants for less than 50 appointments under the newly-elected democratic officials at St. Louis. A vigorous effort is being made to find Sheriff Frost of Chambers county, Tex., who is mysteriously missing. j The state department has instructed Minister Conger to insist upou more than degradation of the Boxer leaders. Three convicts outwitted the guards at the Leavenworth (Kas.) penitentiary and got out after a fierce battle, in which one of their number was killed. ’ j Dispatches from South Africa say 1 that Boer commandoes are continually interrupting Lord Roberts’ railway communication with Pretoria.. - Officer McGlasson of Metropolis, 111., captured Charlie Morrill north of Golconda. Morrill had a phaeton in his possession, stolen at Paducah, Ky. Robert Thornberry,fish warden, visited Massac county, 111., and arrested eight persons for violating the Illinois fish laws. The complaints are for fishing with nets in Long lake. Generals Shalter and Breekinridge have replied to the boast made by Gen. Weyler, that he would have driven Shafter into the sea had he remained in Cuba. Rev. Peter Slagel, pastor of the Methodist church at West Point, 111., dropped dead while en route to the post office. The canning factory at Canton, Mo., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $20,000; insurance, $14,000. Mr. and Mrs. William Lord North of Pana, 111., celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Of the 50,533 letters opened at the dead letter office in the last fiscal year, contained money, a total of $14,140 was found, and notes aggregating $1,136,645. Theodore Youngblood, aged S3, was shot and instantly killed in the publio highway, near Red Bud, 111., by Dan Doerr, aged 34. Domestic trouble.

WITHIH OCR LIMITS, Hew* by Telegraph from Various Towns in Indiana. To Sell Stock. Indianapolis. I mi., Not; 16.—Directors | of the Indianapolis Southern have'officially announced that they had decided to put on the open market $1,000.,000 of the preferred stock of the road. Accompanying- the announcement is the first official statement as to the route j of the hew road. It is to run to the following** county seats: Nashville, Brownstown, Salem, JRockport and Paoli; also West Baden. French Lick. Ferdinand and Greenview. The road will furnish direct connection with Evansville, and with Qwensboro and Louisville, Ky. Ultimately the company will build a branch to Bloomitog-ton and into Greene and Sullivan counties.

To laettMf Salaries. Indianapolis. Ind., Nov. 16.—The state fee and salary commission has completed its bill to be presented to the next legislature. With relation to state office^ the bill will recommend an in* crease in the salary of the governor from $5,000 to $8,000. The salary of the governor’s private secretary will be increased from $1,800 to $2,400, and the salaries of the supreme judges will be increased from $4,500 to $6,000 and the j salaries of the appellate judges fN>tn $3,750 to $4,000. The secretary of the state board of health is to receive a straight salary of $2,400. A Lawyer Suspended. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 16.—The supreme court has suspended' for two years Attorney William Keister,* of Evansville, for' contempt. It was charged that after the supreme court had made a ruling unfavorable to clients of this attorney and had called attention to a defect in his transcript the record was altered by slipping in a sheet of paper remedying the defect, and1 the court was then said in a brief not to have stated the facts as to the record. Wants HU Wife. Shelbyvillei lnd.. Nov. 16.—Armed with a writ* of habeas corpus. Addison Fields, in company with Constable Crosby, went to the home of Benjamin Bake after his young wife, who is being hekl by l)ake. They were forbidden the premises at the point of a shotgun, and no amount of persuasion would induce the grandparent to release the young bride, who married without his consent, and who, he says, will only leave his home over his dead b°dy. _ Death In the W>ter. Terre Haute, lnd., Nov. 16.—-County Physician Tolbert has received) the report of the analysis of water from a well on dhe Sheets farm, west of this city, froAi the state chemist, which show s that the water was full of poison. This accounts for the death of three members of the family in quick succession, concerning which there was much speculation. i

Decapitated. Mishawaka. Inch, Nov. IP.—Oscar Moyer, of Vicksburg', Mich., who was a passenger on the eight o'clock Grand Trunk express, was found on the track decapitated soon after the train started. He had considerable money on his person, axul the manner of his death is a mystery. Some assert it was suicide. Precious Metal. Evansville, Ind., Nov. 16.—Gold and silver have been discovered on the farm of Dr. J. A. Wilde, near Lynnville. in AYarreck county, and the wildest excitement prevails. Specimens of the ore were sent to a Cincinnati chemist and they tested $15 per ton gold, $3.60 per ton silver. Heat Without Fuel. ! Hartford City, Ind.. Nov. 16—011 men say ,they have discovered a new natural heating agent. After a depth of a mile had been reached in the oil sand hot water gushed forth like lava from a volcano. This is to furnish steam heating for business blocks and residences. No Sign of Settlement. Brazil. Ind., Xov. 161—Nothing in sight indicates that a settlement will soon be reached in the block coal field, as the operators insist that they cannot pay the demands made by the engineers, because the conditions here and those in Illinois are vastly different. Official Vote on Governor. Indianapolis, Ind.« Nov. 16. — Indiana’s complete official vote on state* officers has now been received at the office of the secretary of state. The missing counties reported. The official vote gives Durbin (rep.) for governor over Kern (dem.) 25,166 plurality. Loit u L>ev. Linton. Ind., Nov. 16.—Daniel Brown, of this city, a brakeman on the Indianapolis & Vincennes railway, had a leg cut off at the New Summit mine. He was making a coupling on the side of a hill, when his foot slipped and he was thrown under the wheel. Goins to Rhode Island. Fort Wayne, Ind., Nov. 16.—Rev. Dr. F. L. Henson, pastor of the First Baptist church, has tendered his resignation to accept the pastorate of the Creston Street Baptist church at Providence, R. L, next month. Fox Chase. Wabash, Ind., Nov. 16,—A grand fox chase, the first of the winter, is to be held near Erie, just west of Rich valley, this county, on Thanksgiving day. Post Oflice Robbed. Danville, Ind., Nov. 16.—The post office safe here was blown open and $200 cash and $100 in stamps taken. The Interior was wrecked.

GOVERNOR VERSUS MAYOR. The Three-Sided lee Trast ud Mayor Vu Wyek’i Con meet lorn Therewith.

Albany, N. Y., Not. 19.—Gov. Boom* relt has prepared the following memorandum of the charges against Mayor Van Wyck of New York city, in the Ice trust matter: “There are three wholly distinct sides to the lee trust matter. “In the first place there is the general question whether the American Ice Co., dealing, as it does, in a necessary of life to the poor people of New York, was one into which it was proper for a public-spirited man to enter. This is, of course, not a question for legal action in any shape or form. Moreover, it is unnecessary to point out that whether the corporation is legal or illegal, proper or improper in character, it is an act of utter hypocrisy on the part of any public man to denounce trusts in general, and this trust in particular, in the platform and on the stump, while he, at the same time, in his private capacity held stock or has held stock that he thus denounces. “Attention is called to this feature simply because an effort has been made to show that unless legal action against the trust or some of its stockholders cSfcxbe taken, these same public men are to be exonerated. “Second. There is the question whether or not the existence of this so-called Ice trust is in violation of the anti-trust law. This, of course, can only be decided by the courts. “On May 28, 1900, the attorney general instituted proceedings to annul the certificate of :he Ice company under this law. The corporation, through it counsel, has fought the action at every Stage on technicalities, not on the merits of the case. The decision before Judge Chester was in favor of the state. An appeal has been taken by the defendants* which was argued weeks ago, and the attorney general is daily expecting a decision by the appellate division on this appeal. The defendants obtained a stay of proceedings pending the appeal. All possible diligence has been shown by the attorney general in the effort to secure the annulment of the certificate, and nothing could have been done by the state to expedite proceedings, which has not been done. The delay is due, of course, to the action of the corporation itself, whose stockholders include the public men above alluded to. “We now come to the third side of the matter, the only one in which the governor, in his official capacity, has any power whatever to act, vjz: The charges against Mayor Van Wyck: “Inasmuch as the question as to whether the Ice corporation is or is not a trust or monopoly is be-^ fore the courts for decision, until they have acted, action by the governor can only with propriety be taken under the Greatet New York charter. So far as the (Charges are brought under this charter it makes no difference as regards the mayor’s conduct, whether the aforesaid corporation is or is not a trust within the meaning of the law.”

FOSTERING DEATH IN PEKIN. Smallpox and Other Infections Corpes, with Filth of All Kinds Kept in Houses and Yards. Pekin, Nov. 16, via Shanghai, Nov. 19—Sanitary conditions here are be* coming serious. Since the foreign occupation many Chinese have died of smallpox and other infectious diseases. Fearing that their funerals would be interfered with, they have kept most. of the coffins containing their dead in the houses and courtyards. The question of removing the garbage has become one of grave importance. As the natives are forbidden to deposit refuse in the streets, there is now an enormous accumulation in their dwellings and yards, which threatens a serious epidemic. In view of the large number of troops in and near the capital the consequence of such an outbreak would be frightful. Smallpox, which is always prevalent, is much more malignant during the winter season, and the danger here is now alarming*y increased. FATAL FLAMES IN A HOTEL. Seven Live* Loat in n Fire Caused by an Explosion of Gas—Opera House Burned. Williamsport, Pa., Nov. 19.—A dispatch to the Gazette and Bulletin, from Coudersport, says: The McGonleal honse, at Oswayo, 15 miles north of here, was destroyed by fire at six o'clock yesterday morning, caused by an explosion of gas. Seven lives were lost. The gas permeated the entire house and the explosion was of frightful force. There were many narrow escapes. The fire spread to the opera house adjoining, which was destroyed. The occupants of the hotel were in bed at the time of the explosion, and those who escaped did so in their night clothes. - | TO PACIFY THE BOERS. Lord Kitchener Has Decided to Puv: ~ Lord Roberts* Reeoaeeatrado Plan ta Operation. Durban, Not. 18.—The Natal Mercury reports that among the measures to be adopted in order to paciiy the Boers is the reconcentrado plan Df Lord Roberts. Lord Kitchener has decided to take this step, owing to the difficulty of dealing with the armed Boers while hampered by the civilian population in the Outlying ■mall towns.

WHOLE FAMILY IMPLICATED* toil* Arrested tor Xmrder of Hia fO> tier, Confesses ssd Implicates All Members of Family.

Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 19.—A special l© the Times from Poplar Eluff, Mo, says: Walter Alexander, the 15-year-old sots of Richard Alexander, a farmer living1 across the line in Arkansas, is nucier arrest on suspicion of being implicated in the death of his father; who was shot and killed Saturday, Young Alexander, who was arrested pending an investigation, is said to have confessed the crime and to have implicated his mother, sister and the laltter’s husband, James Hogan, all of whom have been arrested and placed in jail at Corning, Ark. Citizens are aroused, and Hogan, whom they profess to believe is at the bottom of the affair, will be taken to the county jail at Paragould, Ark. Alexander was killed with a shot gun, receiving the contents of both barrels in the breast and stomach and dying almost immediately. His family informed the officers, who had previously been notified of the, affair, that he had accidentally shot himself while loading the gun. The nature of the wounds and the report of the neighbors that the family had quarreled frequently with the dead man led to the detention of the son. Young Alexander, it is stated, admitted in his confession that the killing had been planned deliberately, and that he fired the fatal shot as his-father appeared suddenly around the corner of the house. Alexander was well to do. owning taluable farm lands in the v:cinity of Corning. ANOTHER BANK WRECKED. lore than the Reserve, And All tha Assets, Including the Real Estate, Missing. Cincinnati, Nov. 19.—United States tank Examiner Tucker yesterday :ook possession of the German national bank at Newport, Ky.. and posted a notice that the bank would remain closed pending an examination. Examiner Tucker also announced officially that Frank M. Brown, the assistant cashier, was missing and that a partial investigation showed* that Brown was short about two hundred and one thousand dollars. Brown had been in the bank IS years, was one of the most trusted men ever connected with this bank, and it is stated by the experts that his alleged operations extend back as far as ten years. The eamfrU stock of the bank is only $100,00?h Brown's alleged shortage is double that amount and more than the reserve and all the assets including the real estate. The First National Bank of Newport was wrecked two years ago by Cashier Youtsey, and now, with the German national' bank closed, Newj port has only one bank left. For two weeks there has been rumors that Brown was short, and some depositors withdrew their accounts. Three weeks ago the bank examiners made a good statement for the bank and the officers and directors allayed suspicion by referring to the report of this examination and to their last statement in which all of Brown's alleged defalcations were covered up by him.

THE LIMON ATROCITY, MMi'Meetlng at Denver Denounces the Awful Tragedy Enacted at Lake Parle, Col. Denver, Col., Nov. 19.—At a massmeeting held here yesterday strong protests were made against the actions of the Limon mob. that burned John Porter, the negro ravisher. and murderer, at the stake. The meeting was presided over by t. M. Hobbs, persident of the Y. M. C. A., and speeches were made by Gov. G. &. Thomas, Mayor H. V. Johnson, of Denver, President Slocum of Colorado college, Rabbi Friedman, Rev. Dr. Coyle, Mrs. Sarah Platte Decker, prominent in National Women’s club circles, and others. 4 They all spoke in strong terms, condemning what was termed the “Limon atroeity,” and also denounced the sensational display of newspaper stories concerning it COLLAPSE OF AN ORE DOCK. Two Persons Killed and One Injured —Sixty Thousand Tons of Ore Disappear Beneath the Water." Buffalo. N. Y., Nov. 19.—A section of the Minnesota ore docks, situated on Blackwell canal, in this harbor, collapsed, yesterday morning, under the weight of 60,000 tons of ore. Two boys were killed and one man was badly injured. The property loss is estimated at $150,000. The crash came without warning, 300 feet of the dock disappearing beneath the surface of the water, and the top of the great pile of ore which had stood 25 feet high on the dock just showing above the water. -——— v' Will Rentes His Bishopric. Washington, Nov. 18.—It is learned at the papal delegation that, by reason of infirm health, Dr. Alexander MacGavick, the coadjutor bishop of Chicago, has sent his resignation te Rome. This will necessitate the appointment of another assistant prelate in that arch-diocese, as its incumbent, Archbishop Feehan, is also suffering from chronic illness. Since his accession to the ranks of the hierarchy, four years ago, Bishop MacGavick has done considerable mi*sionary work at Chicago.