Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1898 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER DEMOCRAT. SHIELDS & DILLEY, Publishers. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

SHOT FROM AMBUSH.

FOUR COAL MINERS WAYLAID NEAR DILLONVALE. Wounded Men Were Poles, and Their Countrymen Thirst for Vengeance Plenty of Havana Tobacco on Hand to Last for Some Time. Four Poles Shot. Four con) miners, all Poles, were ambushes] as they were on their way to the Dillonvale, 0., mines. Stephen Geatsey was shot through the lungs, John Matshok was shot through the back and John Manzuk was seriously wounded. Another miner, who is uot known, was shot in the breast. The coal diggers declare the shooting was done by strikers who were not in favor of returning to work. A few hours after the shooting John McNeal was arrested and with great difficulty was lodged in jail. He is thought to have been connected with the shooting, but his fellow miners believe him innocent and are looking in other quarters for the guilty parties. The thousands of foreigners in the district, are thoroughly aroused and should trouble breu,k out the State will have to lie asked for help, the local constabulary being no match for the Poles and Huns, who are clamoring for Vengeance. National League Standing. - Following is the standing of the clubs in the Nutmnal Base-ball League: W. L. W. L. Baltimore... 7 2 Philadelphia.. 5 5 Cincinnati ..10 3 Pittsburg ... 7 7 Chicago .... 7 4 New York.... 3 7 Cleveland ... 7 5 Washington.. 3 7. Boston ..... 7 5 Louisville ... 4 10 Brooklyn ... 5 4 St. Louis 2 8 Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis.. 9 1 Kansas City.. 4 5 St. Paul 8 2 Milwaukee... 3 7 Columbus ... (J 3 Omaha * 2 7 - Minneapolis.. 4 4 Detroit 1 8 Fnpply of tobacco Cut Off. Americans will continue to smoke Havana cigars for some time yet, though the supply of tobacco from Culm is cut off. “All the big factories have enough material on hand to keep their workmen busy and the market supplied for several months,” said L. Sanchez, a New York manufacturer. “We all received our supply when exportation was resumed last January, and there is enough on hand and in the market now to keep us going for a long time. If we run out before the war ends we will have to take Mexican stock.”

Indiana Town Burned. Almost the entire business portion of Loogootee, lnd„ was destroyed by an incendiary fire. The torch was applied Joseph JlcAhrii saloon. Shirey & Co., implement dealers, lost $14,000. The Baptist Church and posteffice were burned. Other heavy losers are: Larkin Bros., general merchants, $2,000; George Shirey, general merchant, $2,000; G. A. Walker, druggist, $2,000; J. E. Porter, jeweler, SI,OOO. About twenty ether business houses were destroyed. The total loss amounts to nearly $60,000. Toanado Kills Thirteen. At Jerico, in Cedar County, Mo., a tornado. killed thirteen persons outright and fatally injured five or six more. The Methodist Church nnd several other houses were totally destroyed. Twelve houses were blown over at Walnut Grove, and one woman fatally injured. Waubleau, a village in Hickory County, suffered seriously from the same storm. Telephone wires are down.

BREVITIES.

Wilson & Harton, woolen manufacturers at Pittsfield, Mass., assigned. Brevet Brigadier General Edwin C. Mason, U. 8. A., retired, died at his home in fit. Paul, Minn. At Seattle, Wash., a Renton street car was held up by three masked men. About $l5O in cash and five watches were taken. The postoffice at Pepper’s station, Ohio, was looted by burglars. The postmaster has refused to <»ake public the exact extent of the loss. A general store and a mill were also entered in practically the same way and a large amount of booty secured. Bread riots continue in various parts of Italy, and the cabinet, availing itself of the authority which it retained under the conventions with th# railroad and navigation companies, has decided to reduce the transport rate« on articles of consumption 50 per cent. A carriage containing William Peters, Edward Linstead, Mrs. Walter York, Mrs. James Miller, and a child was struck b.v a gravel train at Lundy’s crossing, Ont. The men ami wome,n were instantly killed, but the child escajM-d with a big gash ia its headri The Clipper Gap powder works, seven miles from Auburn. Cal., were blown up. It is supposed that lightning caused the explosion. These works resumed operations a few days ago after several months’ Idleness. Figures on the amount of damage qre not obtainable. „ So far as can be leaned among the cotton manufacturers at Fall River, Mass., the closing of the large iron works cotton plant will not lead other local cotton factories to shut down. Although the selling prices are the lowest in mill history it is believed that the factories are being run, not at u profit, but as a defensive measure against Southern competitiou. The passage of the emergency war appropriation bill-was the feature of Monday’s action by the House at Washington.. The naval appropriation bill, with the Senate amendment providiug for the paynientof officers of the navy for the use of theiiw inventions by tin* Government stricken out, was reported from the conference and passed. The Alaska Commercial Company of Sen Franciace is in receipt of advices from its agent at Dawson City confirming the report of a new rich strike at the mouth of Ainsley creek, eighteen miles op the Yukon from thStj>lace.

EASTERN.

At Boston, the E. Howard Clock and Watch Company, Samuel Little, proprietor, has made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors. Samuel Little and his son, Arthur, also have made individual assignments. The liabilities of the company will reach $500,000. The six-story brick structure on Trinity place, Boston, known as thp architectural building of the Institute of Technology, was damaged SIO,OOO Uy fire. The fire started in the top floor. Students had to run for their lives to the roof, whence they were rescued by firemen. The town of Dover, N. J., and the country within n radius of twenty miles was startled by a series of terrific explosions, the first of which occurred in the Atlantic Kowder Company’s works, and the plant is now a mass of ruins. Six workmen were killed and four others were seriously injured. Lewis Warner, president of the New Hampshire County National Bank of Northampton, Musa., is missing, and a warrant has been Issued for his arrest on a charge of having embezzled large sums of the bank's money. The directors of the bank authorized a statement that the bank would be closed [tending an investigation. Mrs. Marie Vaughan Wilde was married to Henry Siegel, president of the Siegel-Cooper Company of Chicago and New York. Mrs. Wilde’S wedding day chanced also to be the day on which her first novel. "Juleps and Clovers,” was given to the public. Dr. Felix Adler, president of the Society for Ethical Culture, officiated at the wedding, which took place at the home of the bride's cousin, George Chasd, in New York City. The end of the Buffalo elevator pool has come at last. The organization has collapsed, and, for this season at least, will in all probability not be resumed. More than half of the elevator interests were out of it. All canal houses which had uo rail connections were excluded. This step was the death blow to the pool. Some of the canal houses, which had not turned a wheel for fifteen years, were being opened; and the Frontier, which is controlled by James Davidson, offered to Like grain at one-eighth of a cent. A lively tight is anticipated. Lightning played some curious pranks during a recent thunder storm. While the storm was at its height a bolt struck a l>arn on the place of Joseph Beckman at West Hampton, L. 1. Beckman and his 12-year-old sou. Felix, were in the kitchen of their house.-the father bending over the stove cooking their evening meal. The bolt glanced from the barn to the house nnd came down the kitchen chimney, striking Beckman. It took his right foot oft at the ankle joint as if with a knife. It left no mark on his shoe or clothing. His son was stunned and the neighbors who came in found the boy had been made totally deaf. Ida Houston, a white woman, while defending her sister, was shot and fatally wound««d by her negro brother-in-law, Andrew E. Strander, at her home, 8 Arthur street, Pittsburg, Pa. Strander in turn was shot twice by the woman. Strander is said to lie the notorious Taylar Strander of Wheeling, whose brutal murder of his first wife startled the State and caused one of the longest and most celebrated legal battles in the history of Virginia. He finally, after a iong imprisonment, escaped punishment on a technicality. Two years ago he married Kate Houston iu Pittsburg. Later she lieard of her husband's early career and refused to live with him. Strander went to her home, broke in the door and demanded an interview with bis wife. The wife's sister, Ida, confronted him and both began firing their revolvers. Both were wounded twice and both will probably die. Following close upon the sudden death of Cashier Lemuel T. Terry of the Mechanics' National Bank of New Bedford, Mass., comes the startling discovery that he was a heavy defaulter and a suicide. Cashier Terry was found dead in a chair in the directors’ room and the physicians declared death due to apoplexy. An investigation revealing a defalcation rising $125,000, an autopsy was held, and the medical examiner found that Terry had died from cyanide of potassium, taken with suicidal intent. Cashier Terry was of a fine family and was worth $50,000, when, a year ago, he exchanged the position of assistant with Cashier James W. Hervey, who desired to be relieved of responsibility owing to ill health. Terry had made his money iu Calumet and Hecla investments, and his simulations wiped him out. and then he used the bank's money and some $25,000 trust funds t#looging to the Sylvia A. Howland estato, the income of which hns been paid 'o Hetty Green. America's richest wonut.l. The bank is capitalized at $600,000, afld has a surplus of $350,000. William W, Crapo is president, and the directory cotuprises the wealthiest manufacturers- Of the city.

WESTERN.

At Chillicothe, Ohio, Mrs. Anna Whaler died from effects of lye thrown on ’<er by Mrs. Elizabeth Shull. “Bull” McCarthy of Philaijelphia, who was knocked out in a twenty-round glove contest in Sacramento, Cal., died twentyfour hours afterward. United States officers at Jefferson Barracks, near St. Ixuiis, Mo., have been ordered to purchase 1,500 small horses, 500 wagon mules and 500 pack mules. In a fire at Worthing, S. I)., the armory was burned to the ground and the ammunition, uniforms and guns of Company I>, National Guard, were totally destroyed. The Supreme Court of North Dakota, at Bismarck,’has passed-on the first important divorce appealed on the ground that the plaintiff was not a bona fide resident of the State, and not only reversed the finding of the lower court, bitt ordered the case dismissed. Capt. H. G. Stahl of Fremont, 0., late of the Third Ohio cavalry, who is an expert swordsman, has sent a challenge to Lieut. Carrnnzu of the late Spanish legation to fight a duel iu place of Fitzhugh Lee and Capt. Sigsbee, who have already been challenged by Cnrranza. >' At Monroe, 0., Mrs. Charles Harkrader shot and killed her husband. They were masried but two months ago. She dreamed that the officers had come to draft her husband into the army, nnd she took bis revolver from under his pillow and began to shoot. She is subject to somtfiuubnlistn. Between fifteen and twenty men, it is believed, perished la an explosion that wrecked the works of the California powder mill, two miles from Santa Cruz. There is g belief that a Spanish spy may have caused the flame that led to the

terrible loss of life, for the plant was one of the heaviest producers of smokeless powder, which is now in such demand for the navy. The Indiana Supreme Court, in session in Indianapolis, handed down an opinion in the case of Lewis Baum and others against Ella Thom that is of great interest to persons who loan money on chattel mortgage security at high rates of interest and to borrowers. Attorneys say that the effect of this decision is to permit any one who has mi id interest at a higher rate than 8 per emit per annum within the past six years to recover back the excess in an action against his creditor, provided the loan is first repaid. Not for years has the Northwest been as short of wheat as now. Country stocks have reached a very low point, there being probably less than 2,000,000 bushels held at this time by country houses, only a very small portion of which is contract wheat. This explains why the Minneapolis wheat market advanced over 20 cents in one week. The wheat to fill contracts is not in sight. Not for years have Northwestern millers had to meet such a situation. High premiums hav«* been paid for choice milling wheat. Armour took a good deal of this wheat to Chicago. Leiter bought about 3,000,000 bushels and put it iu store iu Minneajtolis and Duluth. the country supply must go the wheat for country milling, which increases the tightness of the situation, with no new wheat to come for grinding until September. A supply for about seventeen weeks must be found. Minneapolis mills are grinding over 1,000,000 a week and Duluth mills are adding to the consumption. Minneapolis and Duluth together only have 13,000,000 of all grades in public houses, as against over 20,000,000 last year. In view of this somewhat startling situation there are not a few who predict $1.50 tor May and July wheat in Minneapolis. Overcome with grief at the departure of his son for the war, John W. Reid of Chicago attempted to commit suicide by throwing himself in front of a West Madison street cable train. The gripman of the train, warned by the shouts of several bystanders, threw his weight on the lever in an endeavor to stop the train. Reid's body rolled against the fender of the grip car, and the onlookers uttered a cry of horror. Detective Riley, a bystander, sprang forward, grasped the collar of the prostrate man and dragged him to one side. Reid was considerably bruised, but not seriously injured. He was placed under arrest and taken to the police station. Here he broke down and wept. He told the police that his son Arthur, who is 21 years old, belonged to the First Illinois Regiment and had left with his regiment during the afternoon. He had begged and pleaded with his son not to go, but the young man was determined to accompany the regiment to Springfield. “He is an only son,” sobbed the father. “I could not go to the station to see him off; I was afraid I would btei k down. His mother is prostrated. I s'iu afraid I will never see my boy agf-.1n,” and the man hid his face in his ha’jds and sobbed as if his heart would break.

SOUTHERN.

A terrific gale swept up the Atlantic const. Much damage was done along th? Virginia aud North Carolina coajtfs. Several vessels were wrecked iu the st Tin. Blind tigers in which former saloonkvei<ers of Dogtown and Board Tree, W. Vi., sold intoxicants after a no license policy had been voted, were blown up v ith dynamite. The dynamite magazine at New Origins, in which explosives £er the city defenses are stored, was broken into and a quantity of dynamite abstracted. The theft was committed, It is supposed, by Spanish sympathizers.

WASHINGTON.

Prof. John B. Moore has qualified at the State Department in .Washington as Assistant Secretary of State. The President has named Francis M. Rathbun for register of the land office at McCook, Neb., and James King for a similar position at Boise. Idaho. The debate on the war revenue measure was begun iu the House of Representatives Wednesday morning. Representative Diugley made the opening speech. The war revenue bill passed the House at Washington by a vote of 181 to 129, six Democrats voting with the Republicans. There were no exciting incidents attending its passage. Warren 11. Reid of Michigan has been nominated by President McKinley for Indian agent at Cheyenne River agency, fi. D., and Daniel C. Miles of Massachusetts at Cheyenne and Arapahoe agency, O. T. The army reorganization bill has become u ia»«. The conference committee of both Rouses came to an agreement, which was promptly ratified, and the President lost no time in affixing bis signature to the bill. A Washington dispatch states that a favorable re[wrt lias been made by the Committee on Public Lands on a bill authorttlng the appointment of a commission to make allotments of lands in severalty to Indians upon the Uintah reservation iu Utah, and to obtain the cession «f lands to the United States. The report says: “The Uintah reservation contains more than 2,600,000 acres of land, much of which,, by irrigation, can be made productive and valuable for agricultural purposes, it being estimated by the surveyor general of Utah that 60 per cent thereof is unsuitable for agriculture. Numerous streams of water traverse the reservation, which, at considerable expense, can be diverted from their natural channels and appropriated upon lands contiguous thereto. The greater portion of the reservation is unoccupied and is not required by the Indians residing therein, but without legislation it cannot be occupied, and must remain sterile nnd unproductive. The Uintah, or the Utes, as they sre frequently called, reside in the extreme eastern portion of the reservation and number less than 800. Notwithstanding generous treatment by the Government, they are rapidly diminishing. In recent years the Government has allotted lands in severalty to ii portion of them with gratifying results. All of them are desirous of taking lauds in severalty, and so far as is known they are impressed with the advantages that will result from an abandonment of tribal relations and entering upon an industrial growth founded upon landed ownership. It is believed that the policy of allotting lands in severalty will conduce to their preservation ns welt as civilization. Notwithstanding liberal provisions made for them In this bill, there will be a large area for cession to the United States. After each head of fam-

ily has received 100 acres of farmhit land and Ute same amount for grazing purposes nearly 2.000,000 acres wilT be added to the public domain.”

FOREIGN.

An armed clash between Nicaragua and Costa Rica seems inevitable at this time. A Spanish bank iuTorto Rico has suspended payment, and affairs there border on a panic. A dreadful state of affairs prevails in Porto Rico. In the interior of the island people are perishing of starvation, and smallpox is epidemic and fatal. The suspension of the firm of Sherwood, Thompson & Co., cotton brokers, was announced in Liverpool. Sherwood, Thompson & Co. operated throughout the Southern States under the firm name of John Sherwood & Co. The firm had few outstanding obligations in the United States.

IN GENERAL.

There is increasing evidence that the Santa Fe Railway management is working to close up the gap in its road between Mojave and Bakersfield and gain an entrance into San Francisco. News has reached San Francisco of a terrible explosion of powder that was being carried by pack train to Col. Dan Burns’ Candelaria mine in Mexico. The explosion took place on the road near Saß Vicente, State of Sinaloa. The pack train was unusually large. It consisted of over 110 mules, and the attendants numbered some forty Mexicans. A part of the freight consisted of ammunition, caps and boxes of powder. It is reported that 218 boxes of powder and 20,000 cape exploded with such force that fifteen men and sixty mules were killed. The cost of maintaining the amalgamated regular and volunteer armies is a good deal more than most people appreciate. The item of subsistence alone will be an enormous one. The subsistence officers have reported to Secretary Alger that the provisioning of the army in the field to Aug. 31 will involve an expenditure of nearly $5,000,000. The estimate for subsistence is 20 cents per day per man, and is for an army of 185,000 (consolidated force of 60,000 regulars and 125,000 volunteers) $37,000 per day. It has been recognized now that the estimates prepared must not contemplate the maintenance of an army for a less period than a year. This means an annual cost for subsistence alone during that period of $13,505,000. Ninety pounds of Klondike gold dust, the property of three men, two of whom are 6*. J. Neville and E. M. Canary, came by »J.ie steamer Discovery, Capt. Grant, wbirA arrived nt Seattle, Wash., from Lynn canal. Neville and Canary were in ',he Klondike about fifteen months, and it is their purpose to purchase supplies and return to the district via St. MJehael and the Yukon, taking passage on the first vessel to ascend after the opening of the river. John Kill, who has' been constructing double deck barges on Late Bennett, was a passenger on the Discovery from Skagnny. It is his purp.j.«e to try the feat of delivering 600 head 0/ live sheep at Dawson City. He will strip them to Taiya, and thence undertake to drive the sheep over Chilk»x>t pass to the lakes. After a battle with fire for over nine hours the crew of the wooden steamer Servia were forced to see their ship go down in Lake Superior. The shipwrecked men were taken on board the steamer Alberta, and carried to the Soo. The Servia loaded corn for Kingston at Duluth, and had in tow the schooner F. D. Ewen, with a similar cargo. The steamer Argonaut was sighted from the Servia flying signals of distress, as her machinery was disabled. • A line was given the Argonaut from the Ewen, and with her additional tow the Servia was started on her voyage again. Two hours later fire broke out on the Servia in the forward end. In spite of the efforts of the crew the blaze gained headway steadily. The steamer Alberta of the Canadian Pacific line, bound up, arrived on the scene at this time. The combined efforts of all the crews were not sufficient to master the fire, however. The dry corn of the c-srgo added a fierce fuel to the flatAes, and the heat was terrific. When it was se?n that nothing more could be done the ort'er to abandon ship was given and all hands made for the Alberta, which was still’lying alongside. A few minutes after the steamer was deserted she sank, going down bow first. The Alberta then tool the Argonaut and Ewen in tow and assisted them to reach Waiskni Bay. The Servia belonged the Hawgood & Avery fleet, hailing from Cleveland.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, S3.W to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, S3.OC to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.59 to $4,75; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.19 to $1.21; corn, «No. 2,33 cto 34c; oats, No. 2,30 e to 31c; rye, No. 2,60 cto 61c; butter, choice creamery, 16c to 17c; eggs, fresh, 9c to 11c; potatoes, common to choice, 60c to 85c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.28; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.51’; wheat, No. 2, $1.05 to $1.07; corn, No. 2 white, 54" to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, Sic to 33c. St. I,wuis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, SI.OB to $1.10; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2,30 cto 31c; rye, NY 2,58 cto 60c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 lo $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat No. 2 red, $1.06 to $1.08; corn, No. 2 mixf j, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32r rye, No. 2,64 cto 66c. Defi'dit—Cattle, $2.50 to S’».SO; hogs, $3.25 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, $1.09 to $1.10; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; rye, 60c to 62c. Tokdo—Wheat, No. 2 red, $1.13 to $1.14; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 36c; oa*s, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; rye, No. 2,60 cto 62c; < lover seed, $3.05 to $3.15. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, SI.JO to $1.12; corn, No. 3,35 cto 36c.; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 33c; rye,'No. 1,60 cto 62c; barle f , No. 2,47 cto 52c; pork, mess, $10.55 to $li ? 00. Buffalo—Cattle, $3.60 to $5 50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to s4.fto; wheet, No. 2 red, $1.14 to $1.16; corn, Ko. 2 yellow, 88c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 34c to 36c. N&w york—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs. $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.60; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.20 to $1.21; corn. No. 2,40 cto 42c; onto, No. 2 white, 34c to 35c; bztter, creamery, 15c to 18c; eggs, Western, 11c to 12c.

CLIMATE AND CROP BULLETIN.

.Farm Work Retarded by Cool Weather and Moisture. The United States Department Agriculture issued the following climate and crop bulletin for the past week: The week has been too cool for best results in New England, the central valleys and east Gulf States, while excessive moisture has retarded farm work generally in the States northward of the Ohio river and in the east Gulf States. In the middle and south Atlantic States, Texas, the Dakotas, generally throughout the Rocky Mountain .region, and -on the north Pacific coast the weather conditions have been more favorable. No rain has fallen in California during the week, and consequently the severe drought previously reported continues unbroken. Drought also continues in Florida, though partially relieved in localities in the northern portion of the State. The bulk of the coru crop is planted southward of the northern boundaries of Arkansas, Tennessee and the Carolinas, but northward of this line, except in Kansas, slow progress has been made, owing to excessive rains and the cool weather. None has yet been planted in Indiana, but planting has begun ip portions of Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. A little planting has also been done in Nebraska. Poor stands are reported from the South Atlantic States, :uid but light growth has been reported generally in the Southern States. In southern and central Texas, however, the crop is growing, and is now receiving its second cultivation. Over northern Texas the crop is late and irregular. The winter wheat crop continues in promising condition in the principal wheat States in the central valleys. Further improvement is rejtorted from Ohio, and in Michigan the crop has been benefited by recent rams. In the Southern States it is now heading. As a result of the severe drought In California the grain crop Ims been injured beyond recovery, except in the northern coast counties and in some of the foot hill regions and over the southern portion of North Dakota. Seeding is well advanced over the northern portion of North Dakota and in Montana. In Oregon seeding is complete, but considerable is yet to be dome in Washington. The early sown over the spring wheat region is coming up and is generally in promising condition. Slow progress has been made with oat seeding where unfinished iu more northern States. In the central and southern portion of the country the cr<x> has made favorable progress during the week. * In Alabama .the early sown is nearing maturity. The general outlook for fruit in the Northern States continues promising, and the prospects in the middle and southern sections appear more favorable. There is abundant supply of tobacco plants. Transplanting continues in South Carolina, and has commenced iu North Carolina, Tobacco is suffering from drought in Florida.

BIG POWDER MILLS BLOWN UP.

Twenty Persons Relieved to Have Been Killed in California. At 5:15 Tuesday afternoon Santa Cruz (Cal.) wna startled by u tremendous explosion. Buildings were shaken as though by a violent earthquake and the first thought was that one had occurred. Hardly had the rumblings died away when the second shock occurred, not so violent as the first, nnd soon small boughs from redwood trees, shingles, bits of powder cans, nnd other debris began falling in the streets of the city. They cleared up all doubts as to the cause of the shock. The California powder works had been blown up. The second shock was followed by a third and then a fourth, more violent thau the others. Between fifteen and twenty people, mostly young boys, employed at the works, were killed, aud as many more were injured. The first explosion occurred in the guncotton works. This was followed by the destruction of the nitroglycerin house, and then -a numlier of buildings used in the manufacture of smokeless powder for the Government. Then the inside powder magazine blew up with a terrific roar. Although considerable powder was stored there, the amount was small in comparison with last week, as over 100 tons were shipped to Chicago Sunday last to fill the order of thQ. Government. Nothing is known ns to what caused the explosion, but it was probably due to spontaneous combustion. There were many wild rumors afloat to the effect that Spanish sympathizers did the work, but the stories are probably based on the fact that a number of persons of Spanish descent live in the wicinity of the works.

FRESH BEEF FOR THE KLONDIKE.

Two Thousand Steers Will Go Over the Dalton Trull in Jane. Two thousand beef steers nre being gathered in Montana for shipment to Dawson in June over the Dalton trail. They will comprise two expeditions in which fully $300,000 will be invested. A Tacoma dispatch says: 0. Wi,Thebo,, backed by Butte (Mont.) men, has shipped 1,300 steers to pastures here, where they will be fattened until May 20. Jack Dalton is arranging to drive 700 more steers over the same trail. Each hundred steers will be in charge of six cowboys, eacli cowboy being provided with pack and saddle horse, the two expeditions employing 120 cowboys and 240 horses. Thebo has chartered the big barge Skookum to carry 900 steers and 3,000 tons of freight to Pyramid Harbor, landing there iu June. The balance of his band will be shipped from Vancouver on a barge now building. The steers will be driven by easy stages to Fort Selkirk, whence they vFill be rafted to Dawson, arriving in July. His cattle will cost $130,000 landed at Pyramid Harbor, the feed, equipment and wages bringing the cost of the expedition to $200,000. The Daltons expect to receive 25 cents per pound live weight on the Klondike, which should make their receipts over SBOO,OOO, leaving $500,000 profit. Men have been sent to wntch the Dalton trail, the.indications being that it will oixAi early.

State Items of Interest.

Fessenden, N. D., has 300 inhabitants and four newspapers. . J. P. Maresh, a pioneer business man of Denison, Texas, dropped deau at his place of business. Senator Morrill of Vermont celebrated his 88th birthday anniversary in Washington a few days ago. Hugh Fraser, charged with murder, was acquitted at Bessemer, Ala. Fraser was with Thomas Collins when J. L. Howell was shot in the Bessemer prison in December last.

President Faure a Worker.

President Faure Is a tremendous worker. Following the custom of hl» earlier life, he arises before dawn, and has accomplished much long beforefashionable Paris is awake. He giveshis personal attention to countless mato*? ters which are ordinarily looked after by secretaries, and he conducts the manifold affairs of the government on strict business principles. All letters t are answered the same day they are re* ' ceived.

Bad Pay and Hard Work.

The bad pay and hard work of trained nurses has often been made the subject of remonstrance by medical men. It is well for an invalid, before he needs a nurse or doctor, to tine Hostetter’s Stomach Bitter* if he has chills and fever, constipation, rheumatism, dyspepsia or nervousness. Use it regularly.

The Queen of Portugal.

The Queen of Portugal, who Kas studied medicine, -while walking recently In a wood near Lisbon with a lady of honor, w.as startled by the sound of a cry. Proceeding to the spot, shefound that a woodcutter had been Injured by a falling branch. The queen attended to the man’s Injuries, and then with her companion assisted bint to reach his cabin. Emile Zola was born at Paris on April 2, 1840. His father was Italiar and his mother French.

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. AU Druzgttte refund the money It It fail* to cum 25c. Why should the wearer of a stovepipe hat take cold in his head?

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