Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1901 — Page 2

THE JOURNAL. LESLIE CLARK, Ed. and Pub. KBNSBELAKEL, - INDIANA.

MINOR EVENTS Of THE WEEK

Items of General Interest Told io Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY Record of Happening* of Much or Little Importance from All Parte of the Civilised World —Incident*, Enter prla**. Accident*, Verdict*, Crime* and Wan Chief Justice (McClellan, Alabama Supreme court, shot through shoulder by Jesse B. Beale or Phelan Bealet his son, who were searching for a person who eloped with Miss Beale. Bermudez Asphalt company said to be negotiating for vessels at Jacksonville, Fla., to land men and arms in Venezuela. , Vice-President Paul Morton of the Santa Fe, his wife, and Miss Howard narrowly escaped drowning in California. Citizens of Alton, 111., startled by details of blackmailing plot. Wealthy relations refused to go 'bail for prisoners. Three men arrested at Manilla, la., charged with stealing $40,000 from United States Express company’s safe. Mass meeting at Topeka, Kas., or- * dered saloons closed and fixtures shipped out of the city. North Atlantic squadron arrived at Pensacola, Fla. Maud Gonne. “Irish Joan of Arc,” arrived at New York on steamer La Champagne from Havre. Mrs. Sarah Krugman died while praying at New York on the grave o£ her husband. Insurgent chief in island of Calanduanes, Philippines, surrendered. Strike of women’s tailors in Paris assuming large proportions. Parisian scientist by use of liquid air made ice cut glass. Two battles reported in South Africa. Boer Gen. Spruit killed; Gen. Randemeyer wounded. Chinese empress preparing edict ordering reforms in every department of government. Rioting* in Spain growing serious. Students stoned convents and monasteries. , - Railroad presidents see benefit in healthy combinations of traffic lines. Commerce of great lakes for 1900 exceeded that of any previous year. President C. E. Perkins of the Burlington practically denied report of deal with Northern Pacific. Warrants issued for six women drug store raiders. George J. and Heren Gould appointed receiver for Count and Countess de Castellane. Latter’s income $200,000 a ; year. Andrew Carnegie, it is said, will devote $1,000,000 to benefactions. Meanwhlle plans are being made to form a giant steel trust. Senate amendments of Hay-Paunce-fote treaty unacceptable to Great Britain.

Infernal machine exploded in hotel at Jacksonville, Fla., creating nan 1c Crank of the starboard engine of the Furst Bismarck snapped 800 miles east of &mdy Hook; remainder of the voyage made with one engine. Story in New York that St. Paul road will be merged with Northern Pacific and Pennsylvania and J. J. Hill left out. Illinois Steel company awarded contract for 17,000 tons of steel rails, to be shipped to Australian government • Jules Verne again declined to apply for membership in French Academy. Arrest of Carranza and Carman in Manila said to be preliminary to exposure of treachery of American traders and government employes. Judgment for $10,206 entered at New York against the Castellanes in favor of a picture dealer. Edward will open Commons in state on Feb. 14. Negotiations under way in New York for consolidation of all surface street car lines in Chicago under control of the Union Traction company. Revenue officers at New York lost their lives in heavy sea while trying to board Standard Oil ship Astral to suppress alleged mutiny. Raid on Chicago drug stores on Wednesday night followed up Thursday night by five women, claiming to be Dowieltes, who invaded three stores in Milwaukee avenue. Proprietor of last chased them out with ammonia. T. Caranza, Spaniard, and D. M. Carman, American, arrested in Manila on charge of furnishing money to insurgents.

Charles Allen, postoffice robber, who escaped from Jail in New York in 1895, found in English jail. W. S. Ament, American missionary in China, arrested by French and German troops, released. Canada may object to United States placing another training ship on great lakes. Emergency board of Ohio authorized Governor Nash to incur any necessary expense up to $50,000 to stop JeffriesRuhlin fight. Report of Diamond Match shows net earnings of $2,014,838 for 1900. Denmark seeking authority to borrow 45,000.000 kroner. Cries of child saved thirty-four persons from asphyxiation in Philadelphia. " Mrs. Carrie Nation and three followers wrecked the finest equipped saloon in Topeka, Kas. Proprietor and Mrs. Nation arrested. Latter released ori her own recognizance.

LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Winter wheat—No. 3 red, 72%c; No. 4 red. 72c; No. 2 hard, 72%c; No. 3 hard, 72%c; No. 4 hard, 65@71c; no grade red, 44c. Spring wheat—No. 3, 65@73c; No. 4, 53@65c. Corn—No. 3, 37%c; No. 3 yellow, 37H<3*7%c; No. 4,37 c. Oats—No. 3 white, 2714 c; No. 4,2444 c; No. 4 white, 26%@27»4c. Cattle—Native beef steers, 34.504J5.50; Stockers and feeders, [email protected]; fed western steers, |[email protected]: Texas and Indians, [email protected]; cows, heifers, 33.50® 4.76; canners, [email protected]; bulls, [email protected]; calves, [email protected]. Hogs-Heavy, 36.30© 5.40; mixed packers. [email protected]; light, 35.15 @5.30; pigs, [email protected]. Sheep-Western lambs, [email protected]; western wethers, 34.25© 4.70: western yearlings, [email protected]; ewes, [email protected]; culls, [email protected]. Potatoes—Choice Rural* or Burbanks, 43@45c per bu; good, 40@42c; other varieties, 39@41c; mixed stock, 35@40c per bu. Apples—Greenings, [email protected] per brl; Ben Davis, [email protected]; Jonathan, 33.00® 4.00; snows, [email protected]; Kings, [email protected]; Baldwins, [email protected]; Tallman sweets, 32.00 @2.25 per brl. Dressed Poultry—Turkeys, selected stock, 9c per lb; common to good at 8@ B%c Chickens, B@B capons, large, 11 @ 12c; broilers, 10@llc; ducks, 9@loc; geese, 8@854c. Live Poultry—Chickens, 7%c per lb; turkeys 7c; ducks, B%@9c; geese, [email protected] per doz. Veal—Fancy carcasses, 9c per lb; fair to good, 7%@8%c; light weights, 5%@6%c. > Eggs—Strictly fresh, 19@19%c. Butter —Creameries, extra, < 20%@21c; firsts, 16@18c; dairies, choice,' 18c; firsts, 14@15c.

Mrs. Nation Addresses Legislature.

Mrs. Carrie Nation addressed each house of the Kansas legislature at Topeka Thursday evening and scored the lawmakers roundly. Thursday morning the case against her for joint smashing was dismissed in court. She presented herself at the door of the house at 5:30 o’clock with the request that she be allowed to speak. The request was voted upon, and by a large majority she was allowed to speak. Some few voted nay. “I heard those nays,” sdld she as she walked upon the clerk’s platform. “I wondered why those people voted that way. Have I ever offended you? Why do you object to. my talking? But then don’t I know that those nays come from the liquor traffic?” A storm of laughter swept over the house, and it was several minutes before Mrs. Nation could proceed.

To Complete Winner Bridge.

Thomas R. Morrow, attorney for the Kansas City & Atlantic railroad, said at Kansas City that the Winner bridge across the Missouri river at Kansas City, projected and half completed during the boom twelve years ago, will be completed in the near future by that- road. In addition, he said, the railroad may decide to build a new depot and terminals, as originally planned. The bridge will be used, it is said, to give entrance to Kansas City to the Chicago & Northwestern, the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, and other roads. It will also be available for electric roads from St. Joseph, Excelsior Springs, Liberty and other towns across the river from Kansas City.

Governor Scored by Son.

Harry Stanley, son of Governor Stanley of Kansas, has written an article for the Baker Orange, a paper printed at Baker university, where he is a sophomore student, severely criticising his father’s failure to enforce prohibition. He says: “When a joint has been allowed to continue iib open violation of the law, as the senate in Topeka has done, almost under the very eyes of those who have sworn to enforce the laws and uphold the constitution of the state, then the people welcome anyone with moral courage to do what the state and local officers, in direct violation of their oaths of office, failed .to do. Long live Mrs. Nation.”

Waging War of Ruin

General Kitchener’s policy of concentrating his troops and denuding the country of supplies is being steadily maintained in the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony. The British authorities say that, if necessary, this policy will be extended to Cape Colony, and that in the disturbed districts all the supplies will be commandeered or destroyed. According to the British officers, such a policy is absolutely necessary, as otherwise the Boers, who are constantly evading the troops, would return and appropriate whatever the troops left

Youtsey Sentenced for Life.

Henry E. Youtsey was sentenced Tuesday by Judge Can trill at Georgetown, Ky., and was taken to Frankfort to enter upon his term of life imprisonment. Youtsey was pale and weak when he stood up to receive the sentence of the court His wife sat near. Judge Cantrill outlined the case and asked Youtsey if he had any reason to give why sentence should not be pronounced.

Queen of Sweden Very Ill.

The Copenhagen correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph says the crown prince of Sweden and Norway, while passing through Copenhagen from London, where he attended the funeral of Queen Victoria, received the gravest news regarding his mother, the queen, and that it is feared her early death is inevitable.

Threatens a Gigantic Strike.

President John Mitchel of the United Mine Workers intimated at Columbus that failure to reach an agreement upon the scale at the present conference of miners and operators would be followed by a strike which would •ause “a suspension of mining throughout the country."

Strike in Spain Serious.

The Spanish strike on the railroad to the Portuguese frontier is causing a great dislocation of traffic. Only a-few trains are running, and they are worked by military engineers. The engines and cars are lying deserted on the tracks.

Valuable Pearl Among Oysters.

While eating an oyster stew at Hopkinsville, Ky., Green H. Champlin found in his mouth a pearl the size of a navy bean. An expert pronounced the gem worth SSOO.

MANY DIE IN BLAZING OIL

Russians Overtaken by Fire at Meal Time. MANY UNABLE TO ESCAPE. Thirty Ar* Reported to Have Perished, bat th* Exact List I* Not Known— Fir* Said to Be Work of a Discharged Employ*. A dispatch from Baku, Transcaucasia, reports that a disastrous fire destroyed some 40,000,000 poods of naphtha belonging to the Caspian Black Sea company’s naphtha works. The fire started in the magazines, which contained 6,000,000 poods of petroleum, destroyed these and spread to the naphtha depots. The oil poured out like a stream of lava,' inundating and setting fire to the dwellings of the workmen nearby. These were totally destroyed and many persons perished. Twenty charred bodies have been found and upward of fifty persons are terribly burned. Four hundred families lost everything they possessed. All the available hospitals are filled with people injured by the fire, while the sheds on the fair grounds are filled by those made homeless by the conflagration. The fire broke out in the evening at meal time and spread so rapidly that many people were unable to escape from their homes. The fire also cut off the retreat of the spectators, thirty of whom perished. It is believed the conflagration was started by a discharged employe, for the pur-

CITY OF BAKU, THE SCENE OF THE GREAT FIRE.

pose of revenge, and it is further reported that the naphtha reservoirs had been previously filled with water which in overflowing carried the flaming fluid over the town, involving all the houses as far as Police street. The stream of fire was several yards high. Numbers of people were seen attempting to escape while burning like torches. The total number of victims is not ascertainable at present.

To Form a Cereal Combine.

O. C. Barber, president of the Diamond Match company, is at work at Columbus, 0., upon a scheme to combine all the independent cereal mills of the country, and it is said that negotiations have already proceeded far enough to assure the success of the venture. The new combination will be a formidable competitor of the American Cereal company. The Akron Cereal company, whose plant is one of the largest in the country, is to be in the new combination. Mr. Barber’s plans also include the erection of a large mill at Barberton.

Big Fire in St. Cloud, Minn.

A big fire raged at St. Cloud, Minn., Friday morning before daybreak. The West hotel and several other buildings were destroyed. The fire started in the West hotel. It burned Deben Brothers’ grocery store, Myers’ laundry and the California wine store. The public library, which was located in the hotel, was destroyed. The opera house is among the burned buildings.

Blind from Cigarette Smoking.

Blindness is the penalty paid by Frank Jefferson of Upper Roxborough, Pa., for disregarding repeated warnings of his physician and relatives, who attempted to prevail upon him to give up the excessive use of cigarettes. Jefferson, who is 19 years old, contracted the habit of cigarette smoking several years ago.

Anti-Semites Aroused.

In the lower house of the Prussian diet, during the debate on theestimates of the ministry of justice, Herr Crueger, Radical, charged the ministry of Justice, Dr. Schonstedt, with infringing the constitution and imperial legislation in regard to the appointment of Jews as assessors and notaries. In replying the minister declared that it was those who contested the right of the king to fill all appointments in the administration who were guilty of a breach of the constitution.

Addison Cammack Is Dead.

Addison Cammack, aged 74 years, at one time one of the most prominent speculators in Wall street, died at his home in New York Tuesday. Mr. Cammack was known as the “Prince of Pessimists.” He was the last of a great quartet—Henry N. Braith, Charles J. Osborn, Charles F. Woerishoffer and Addison Cammack. For twenty years this quartet dominated Wall street. Mr. Cammack was always a bear, and after a long career, in which he made and lost millions, he retired with a fortune estimated at $4,000,000.

MRS. MAYBRICK IS RELEASED.

King Edward of England Liberate* Sb* Noted Prisoner. The gates of Aylesbury prison swung open Monday and Mrs. Florence Elizabeth Maybrick walked out a free woman. The news that the new king had granted the appeals made by those who have been stanch friends of this woman during her long trial and her term of penal servitude became noised about The greatest praise was heard on all sides for this act of King Edward. It is understood that In thus granting clemency to Mrs. Maybrick he wished to emphasize the character of his regard for America. Many of Mrs. Maybrick’s friends and admirers were at Aylesbury prison when she was released.

Grabs Satchel with 88,000.

Peter Woll, an aged and prominent manufacturer, was knocked down on the street in Philadelphia by a highwayman as he was leaving a national bank and a satchel containing SB,OOO was wrenched from his hand. The money was recovered by a policeman, who captured the thief after an exciting chase. The highwayman said his name was Joseph Edwards, but this is believed to be fictitious.

Oppose Duty on Tin Plato.

At the final session of the Western Canned Goods association in Chicago, resolutions were adopted asking congress to remove the duty on tinplate. The resolution is in anticipation of the absorption of tin can manufactures by the tinplate and steel trust, which, members of the association expect, will be consummated within the next sixty days.

Five Killed in a Wreck.

Train No. 5, the New York-Chicago limited, on the Erie railroad, was wrecked Thursday morning within the town limits of Greenville, Pa. Five passengers were dead when taken from the wreck, several are missing and there are a score badly injured. The dead are Sergeant Major Harry A. Hart, Fort Wood, New York;’ George W. Patterson, Philadelphia, private, company I, Tenth United States infantry, carried card of Iron Molders’ union; Peter J. Curry, Coboco, N. Y., private, Tenth infantry, aged 21; unknown man, aged 25 years; unknown man, only papers on person were a postal card that had been sent to the Adams Produce company, Rushville, Ind., and a ticket from New York to that point. His face was literally torn to shreds.

Murder the Town Marshal.

Thursday afternoon, while Marshal Gus H. Crouch and Policeman John McGlasson were attempting at Metropolis, 111., to arrest Clem Ferguson and Les Taylor, two desperate Kentuckians, a fight ensued in which the marshal was shot through the head and killed, and Policeman McGlasson slightly wounded. Both men are now in jail. Ferguson had threatened to kill the officers if any attempt was made to arrest them.

Plague Reaches Cape Town.

Two cases of the bubonic plague have been discovered on the docks at Cape Town, Africa. Every precaution is being taken to prevent the spread of the plague. The authorities are reticent regarding the cases that have appeared. Several thousand rats which spread the disease have been killed. The municipality is offering 3 pence per head for the rodents.

Big Fire Loss at Evansville.

Fire destroyed the dry goods house of Laher, Bacon & Co., one of the largest establishments in Evansville, Ind., entailing a loss of $150,000. The loss is placed at $125,000 on stock, with SIOO,OOO insurance, and $15,000 on building, with $13,000 insurance. Losses to neighboring firms will be SIO,OOO, with partial insurance.

Fire Destroys a Church,

The First Baptist Church, situated at Oshkosh, Wis., was destroyed by fire. The loss is $15,000; insurance, SIO,OOO on building and SI,OOO on organ. The edifice was one of the oldest in the city, having been built in 1875. Dr. J. M. Abbott is the pastor In charge.

Legislators Count the Ties.

Eight members of an Arkansas legislative joint committee had an experience Friday that made them the laughing stock Qf their friends. The eight dignified lawmakers were compelled to walk ten miles through mud five inches deep, following the railroad line back to town. The members of the committee were on their way to the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and boarded the Hot Springs train by mistake. There was nothing to do but leave the train and walk back to town.

PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS.

Summary of Legislation in National Body. MEASURES IN BOTH HOUSES. Monse Committee on Military Affair* Complete* Army Appropriation Bill — It Carrie* Approximately 5118,000,000 as Against •130,000,000 Estimated Tuesday, February 5 Senate: Passed District of Columbia appropriation bill and partly considered bill making appropriations for support of West Point Military academy. During the day ship subsidy bill’ by .vote of senate was formally laid aside and superseded as unfinished business. House: Continued discussion of controverted questions In connection with postoffice appropriation bill. Mr. Griggs (Ga.) spoke against organizations of postal employes formed with view to forcing legislation In their Interest. Mr. Moody (Mass.) discussed question of railway mall pay from standpoint of member of joint postal commission. Mr. Bromwell (Ohio) and Mr. Gaines (Tenn.) assailed appropriations for special t mail facilities from New York to New Orleans, and Mr. Catchings (Miss.) and Mr. Meyer (La.) defended these appropriations as necessary for expedition of southern mail. Wednesday, February 6. The senate passed the military academy appropriation bill and the war revenue reduction measure. Considered the shipping bill at a night session.

In- the house debate on the postoffice appropriation bill consumed the day. It was agreed before adjournment that the debate should close Thursday at 12:30 p. m., when the votes should be taken upon the several amendments which are pending. Thursday, February 7. Senate: At the day session the pension appropriation bill, carrying $144,000,000, was passed after a few minutes’ consideration. The ship subsidy bill- was then taken up, and Messrs. McLaurin and Morgan, both Democrats, made speeches upon it. Mr. McLaurin announced his intention to support the bill, and Mr. Morgan opposed it in vigorous language. At the night session the debate consisted largely of protests by the opposition against night sessions. The house passed the postoffice appropriation bill. Friday, February 8. Republican leaders are losing hope of passing the subsidy bill. It is proposed: to avoid an extra session of congress by adopting an amendment to the army appropriation bill containing gist of the Spooner bill. House committee rejected senate amendments to revenue reduction bill. Delegate Wilcox of Hawaii explained speeches and letters, urging Filipinos to fight. President sent large list of promotions in army and revenue cutter service to senate. Saturday, February 9. Washington, Feb. 9.—Chairman Dick for the congressional committee which has been investigating hazing at West Point today submitted the report of the committee to the house. The report reviews the practice of hazing at the academy and condemns it in the most emphatic terms. The fights under the West Point code are described as more vicious than under the Queensbury code and are described as felonies according to the laws of many states. A bill making stringent regulations against hazing, fighting and all brutal practices accompanies the report. * Taking up the Booz case, the commitee states that his conduct at the academy was strictly correct, although under the- offensive class despotism it was viewed -as meriting chastisement.

Motor Car Strikes a Sleigh.

A motor car crashed into a sleighing party of twenty-two persons at Cleveland, 0., and eleven were more or less injured, but none fatally. The party had >been to a dance in the country, and were returning to their homes. The motor car was running at a high rate of speed, and it struck the sleigh as It was half way across the track. A number of those in the sleigh saw the car in time to jump, and escaped injury. The names of those injured are: May, Lillian and John Earley, Christian and Thomas Kelly, Albert Hopkins, P. J. and M. McGuire, C. J. Dorsey, P. R. Hickey, William A. Nunn.

Death for Boxer Leaders.

The Foreign Ministers at Pekin voted to demand the death of twelve officials named in note, except Prince Tuan, Duke Lan, and Tung Fu Slang. Two foi'fher may be banished to Turkestan.

Says Trust Is Doomed.

“The great steel trust will fall of its own weight,” says former AttorneyGeneral Frank S. Monnett of Ohio in an interview at Columbus. .

Gets a Draft for $25.000,

Dr. Cyrus J. Dove of Muskegon, Mich., has fallen heir to $25,000. Cyrus Fry of Liverpool, England, willed that amount and a draft for that sum was received Friday. Fry died seven years ago. Dove went to Chicago to cash the draft.

C rnegie's Offer to Mankato.

Andrew Carnegie has agreed to give Mankato, Minn., $40,000 for a library if the city will furnish a building site and $4,000 perpetual income to maintain the institution.

EIGHTY-SEVEN KILLED.

Fvpissliwi of Dya.mlto Demolishes • Vlll*«e in Mexico. Word has reached Chihuahua, Mexico, of a terrible mining disaster. An explosion in the San Andres mine, situated in a remote locality of the Sierra Madres, in the western part of the state of Durango, caused the death of eighty-seven men, women and children, and injured many others. The catastrophe was due to the explosion of several hundred cases of dynamite, stored in an underground chamber of the mine. Electric wires connecting with the hoisting machinery passed through the room in which this dynamite was stored, and it is supposed that these wires became crossed, thereby causing a fire which set off the dynamite. All of the killed and injured were on the surface, most of them occupying residences immediately over the underground workings of the mine. The explosion tore away the whole top of the mountain, on which tne village of miners was located, and men, women and cnildren were blown into pieces. Among those who were killed were Herman Luetsman, the superintendent of the mine, and all the members of his family. Qus ran tin* 14 Men In a Car. Fourteen men are quarantined in a passenger coach between Third and Fourth streets in Merrill, Wis., Tuesday. Conductor Gid Little, on. train No. 2 on the Milwaukee road, discovered a man supposed to have the smallpox before the train reached Tomahawk. He wired to the board of health in that city and police removed the patient at that place. All who had been exposed were locked in the smoker and taken to Merrill.

Ask Annexation to Alabama.

A committee of a dozen leading men in West Florida, headed by Colonel J. J. Sullivan' of Pensacola, appeared before the Alabama legislature to urge that the part of Florida lying south of Alabama be annexed to this state. They urged that commercial convenience and necessity impelled their application and promised that the west Floridans would arrange to break away from Florida if Alabama would take them in.

Governor’s Wife Against Cigarettes.

It seems that Mrs. Bliss, the wife of Michigan’s new governor, had a hand in shaping the pronunciamento against the cigarette, which formed a part of the inaugural message. She has been connected fbr some years with an industrial home for girls, and has found many of the girls sent there to be habitual cigarette users. Moreover, she has noted that girls who have the cigarette habit fixed rarely respond to the efforts for reformation. •

Insult Ends in a Tragedy.

Charles W. Carter, a pressman, 28 years old, attempted to force his way into the home of Charles R. Casey, Chicago, Frank Casey, Manville Perry and John Wall, boarders, who had been summoned by Mro. Casey after insulting language had been used, overpowered Carter and tied his hands and feet. They then sent for the police. When two officers arrived they found that Carter was dead. Perry, Casey and Wall were arrested.

A Queer Street Car Line.

A curious street car line is that between Atami and Yoshihoma, two coast towns in the province of Izie, Japan. The line is seven miles long, and the rolling stock consists of a single car and the motive power is furnished by a couple of muscular coolies, who push the car along wherever power is necessary. When the car comes to a down grade they jump on and ride.

Rockford’s Giant Policeman.

Officer Frank Sully of Rockford, 111., is the latest one to enter the great interurban contest for giant policemen. Chief Bergen had the big officer weighed, measured and examined and his dimension! noted. The official figures are: Age, 32 years; weight, 497 pounds; height, 6 feet 3 inches; hip girth, 73 inches; thigh, 42 inches; calf, 25 inches; shoe, No. 12; cap, 7%.

Fire Drives Out 250 Pupils.

The William Kimball Public school on Conners Point, West Superior, Wls., was destroyed by fire. The walls are partially standing. There were nine women teachers and about 250 children —most of them very young—in the building at the time of the fire. Every child in the building got out in an orderly manner.

Edward to Visit the Kaiser.

It is stated at Portsmouth that the royal yacht Victoria and Albert is being prepared to convey King Edward to Flushing after the meeting of parliament on Feb. 14. The king, it is said, will visit his sister, ex-Empress Frederick, and at the same time return the kaiser’s visit to England.

Attempt to Rob a Bank.

Three masked men entered the bank at Andover, Ohio, bound the watchman, Alonzo Root, and blew open the safe. They were, however, frightened away by persons attracted to the scene by the explosion. The safe was blown to pieces and the building was badly wrecked. The men escaped.

Earl of Galloway Is Dead.

The earl of Galloway died at Cam loden Thursday. Sir Alan Plantagenet Stewart, Bart., early of Galloway, was born in London in 1835, and succeeded his father as tenth earl in 1873. He represented Wigtonshire in the house of commons from 1868 to 1873, and acted as high commissioner to the general assembly of the church of Scotland in 1876 and 1877. He was married to a daughter of the second marquis of Salisbury, sister of the British premier.

THE INDIAYA LEGISLATURE

Reports of Proceedings and Bills Introduced. MEASURES IN BOTH HOUSES. ladieatloaa Are That the Agnew AaUTrnst Bill Will Not Pass la JU Present For at—Bill May Be Greatly Changed. Tuesday. February 8. The joint republican committee on congressional apportionment united on a bill and will submit It to a joint republican caucus Friday. It makes four changes. Johnson county. 800 democratic. Is taken from the seventh to the fourth district; Blackford, 200 democratic, goes -from the eighth to the eleventh; Howard, 1,600 republican, is moved from the eleventh to the ninth, and Decatur, 400 republican. 1* taken from the fourth and put In the sixth. The measure leaves nine republican and four democratic district* by th* last vote Congressman I-andls is greatly strengthened, as Is Congressman Watson, Overstreet and Cromer, while the fourth Is made still heavier democratic. Wednesday, February 6. Th* Republican* of the Senate will have a caucus on the Agnew anti-trust bill today, and it Is expected that the Republican representatives will be called in for consultation. Every Republican senator has been deluged with telegrams and letters, urging him to vote against the bill In its present form. Senator Burns alone received thirty telegrams from South Bend against, the bill. A number of party leaders from different parts of the State ar* demanding that the bill be not passed because, they say. to pass It would be "bad polltlca.” The Indications now are that the bill will not be passed In Its present form, and that if It becomes a caucus measure it will be so amended that little of the original will be left.

Thursday, February 7.

After a hard fight the house advanced to engrossment the bill to require railroad companies to sell 600-mile mileage books at a rate of 2 cents a mile, th* books good for us* by any member of the purchasers’ family. Representative Treet Introduced a bill providing that passengers on railroad trains and street cars, if not provided with seats shall pay only half-fare. Where payment has been made In advance. as on railroad trains, and a seat is not furnished him, the conductor must furnish him a statement in writing In order that he may collect the rebate. Th* house and senate have reached a compromise as to the proper method of authorizing the employment of additional help for the house. The speaker of the house and other members have held that employes in addition to those provided by law could not be employed unless their employment was authorized by bill. Hitherto it has been done In both houses by resolution. The, senate resented the attempt of the house to control methods of doing business in the senate and killed the bill providing for an additional page, two stenographers and an assistant postmaster for th* house.

Friday, February 8.

The senate, by a strict party vote, decided to make the Investigation of the Indiana reformatory secret Th* valued policy insurance bill was considered favorably by the senate. Senator Dausman has introduced a bill to revolutionize criminal trials. Under it the jury Is to be the final authority, and Is to answer, first, did the prisoner commit the crime charged? and. second, can he be permitted to go free without peril to the state? If not, he is to receive an Indeterminate sentence of from dne to ninetynine years, but may be paroled after one year. Colonel Eli Ritter, the leader of th* temperance movemnt in Indiana, threw a wet blanket on all temperance legislation by urging the committee* not to recommend any laws whatever. He wanted the authorities to enforce the present laws. In the house, all anti-trust bills introduced by the Democrats have been killed. The Republicans will handle this matter to suit themselves.

NOTES OF LEGISLATURE.

B. F. Shively, of South Band, paid tbe senate and house brief calls the other day. He took occasion to say a word now and then against the proposed amendments to the South Bend charter, against which all the members of the South Bend council, with one exception, have paused a resolution. Representative Hopping has withdrawn his bill to provide free text books for school children, tn order to amend IL A section fixing a tax for a fund for the books was left out and as soon as the change is made he will again present it. Mr. Hopping figures that the bill would entail a special tax levy of one-half of 1 per cent. It is expected that there will be a majority report against the bill by the house education committee, but there will also be a minority report. The house committee will report unfavorably on Mr. Maxams bill providing for tbe election of county school superintendents by popular vote. Mr. Carmichael, of Delaware, expects to introduce In the house, in the near future, a bill, prepared by Dr. W. A. Spurgeon, a member of the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination, which prohibits colinty commissioners granting liquor licenses to any person who has pot held such a license and operated thereunder a saloon for a period of one year previous to the application The purpose of the bill, according to tbe author. Is to confine the liquor bust ness to men of experience, who will not commit the social wrongs that a new man to the business might commit in his desire to build up his trade Dr Spurgeon says that he believes that the temperance people will favor this bill when they have become familiar with its provisions. Mr. Scott (Montgomery) also has a temperance measure which he will introduce in the house. This bill was preparted by Eli F. Ritter, of Indianapolis, and embodies the ideas of the Anti-Saloon League as to correct temperance legislation. The bill amends the Nicholson law by providing that a remonstrance of the majority of the legal voters of any township against the granting of a liquor license to any one man shall prohibit the county commissioners from granting a license to any man In that township, for a period of two years from the date of the tiling of the remonstrance. The bills already presented to the legislature show that there are varied and peculiar ideas about the laws of the state.—Muncie Times. In the senate the Kentucky question was brought up again by Senator Stillwell. who introduced his former resolution in a slightly altered form, expressing the sentiment of the senate that Taylor and Finley, Kentucky refugees In Indiana, should be returned to Kentucky on a requisition by Gov. Beckham Stilwell conferred with some of the Republican members, and an agreement was reached by which President Gilbert was to hold the resolution In order, and, oa motion of that Republican member, it was te be made special order for discussion sna day this week

ALBERT D, SHAW IS DEAD.

Formerly Commaader-le-Chief es tbe Grand Army. Representative Albert D. Shaw of Watertown N. Y.. formerly command-er-ln-chief of the Grand Army of th* Republic, was found dead Sunday morning In his room at the Riggs house, Washington, D. C. A physician summoned immediately after th* discovery of the body pronounced death due to apoplexy, occurring probably about 2 o’clock in the morning. Colonel Shaw had returned about 1:30 o'clock from a banquet at the Dbbitt house in honor of his successor. General Rassieur, and before he left the banquet hall had responded eloquently to a toast and appeared to b* in excellent health and spirits. Colonel Shaw was born in Lyme, N. Y., Deo. 27, 1841. He served a term of enlistment in the Thirty-fifth New York Volunteers and as a special agent of the war department at provost marsh aj headquarters during the civil war. Later he was a member of the assembly for one term, was appointed consul at Toronto in 1868 and promoted to Manchester, England, la 1878, from which latter place he was removed by President Cleveland in 1885 for being “an offensive partisan.” Afterward ha filled the office of department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic for the state of New York, wn-mander-in-chlef of the national body and a representative in congress, succeeding the late C. A. Chldkerlng, who met a tragic death in New York.

Tombs of Kings Bobbed.

A painful impression has been made by the report that the tombs of King Victor Emmanuel 11. and King Humbert have been profaned by thieves, who entered the Pantheon at R/wn* and carried away a number of ornaments, one of them gold, adorning th* madonnas, together with facsimiles o< the various orders of the Iron Crown, and a badge of the Annunclado. Other objects were taken, though not of great value.

Pingree Goes to Europe.

-■ Ex-Governor Hazen S. Pingree left Detroit Sunday over the Michigan Central railroad for New York on his way to England. He will sail from New York on Tuesday on the steamer Cymric. Hazen 8. Pingree, Jr., will accompany his father as far as Southampton, where he will board another steamer for South Africa. Ex-Governor Pingree, who is making the trip for business reasons, will spend several weeks in England.

Over issue In Mine Shares.

An official examination of the book* of the Goldstone Mining company at Colorado Springs, Colo., has disclosed an overissue of 3,000,000 shares, and as the stock sold for 2 cent* a share the shortage amounts to SOO,OOO. C. P. Bentley, who is now serving a sentence of six months’ imprisonment for overissuing 5,000 shares of Astor stock, was secretary of the Goldstone company when the over-issue was made.

Battle with Rebel Indians.

The federal troops in Yucatan havehad another battle with rebel Indiana, who were strongly Intrenched, but the Indians were unable to withstand the charge made on their position and fled in all directions. Many of the Indian* would like to be released from th* tyranny of chiefs who inflict the death penalty and torture and who commit many barbarities to infuse terror into their adherents.

Find Midget Pair Starving.

In a miserable shanty, the window* of which are boarded up, and through the sides of which the wind whiatles, Frank Bailey and wife, two 72 years of age, who have been exhibited as freaks in all parts ot the United States, were discovered Mondaynearly starved to death. TTie hut is located three miles east of Niles, Mich., In Howard township, Cass county.

Shoot. Wife la sleigh.

George Brown, while driving with his wife in a sleigh about five miles from Butte, Mont, shot aad killed hl* wife, then put a bullet in his own head. He will die. No cause for the act can be learned. Nobody appears to know anything about the couple, but the supposition is that they were rancher* who had been to town on business and were on their way home.

Yooth Is Found Shot.

Walter Heberer, aged 22, was found dead near Red Bud, 111., by a party of hunters. He left home in th* morning to visit some animal traps, and. tailing to return at noon, a search was Instituted and he was found with a gunshot wound through the heart.

Rebels Roated by Troop.

The federal troops on their march to Chan, Santa Crux, encountered rebel Indians bolding a small fortified hill and carried it in a dashing charge, the Indians scattering in all direct tiona. The rebel loss was able.

Contest. Rich Man's Win.

The will of tbe late James M. Alto who left a very valuable estate at Richmond, Ind., is to be contested. Neither wife nor children surviving him, other relatives were remembered with small bequests and large blocks of stocks and bonds were left to charitable institutions. The dissatisfied heir is Mrs. Hannah Leeds ot New York, formerly of Chicago, a sister of the deceased. Starr also made a bequest to the city ko be used for park purposes.