Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1901 — Page 2

THE JOURNAL. ■ LESLIE CLARK, Ed. and Pub. BBNSSELAKB, - INDIANA.

MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Items of General Interest Told in Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY, Record of Happenings of Mueh or Little Importance from All Porto of the Civilised World —Incidents. enterprises, Accidents, Verdicts. Crlmee and Wars. Kentucky judge Issued Injunction forbidding collection of union funds to aid strikers, the distribution of food to them, and forbidding the asking of others to strike. Mrs. McKinley improved sufficiently to sit up a short time Sunday. Crisis believed to have passed and that she will steadily Improve. Man believed to be William Gardhouse of Brampton, Ont., jumped into Niagara River, going over the falls. Great strike of machinists in many cities began Monday. Gen. Chaffee issued orders for the last of the American troops to leave Pekin. They started for Taku Monday." German force may be sent to Cheng-Tlng-Fu district. > Sultan of Turkey apologized to foreign ambassadors for stopping their mails. Thirty-one Servian gypsies who arrived at New York on the Pretoria ordered deported. Mystery of Father Phillips’ death at New York still unsolved. Two killed and three fatally injured in accident at steel works in Youngstown, O. Gen. Mascardo, with 321 Filipino insurgents, surrendered in Zambeles Province to Capt. O’Neil. * British trying to persuade Viceroy Liu Kun Yi to permit landing of English troops at Nankin. Phillips sold 1,500,000 bushels of May corn on the Chicago board of trade, closing his deal in that option with a total profit of $625,000. May make $160,000 more. S. R. Callaway resigned presidency of New York Central to become head of the locomotive trust. American troops left in Pekin will be supplied with munitions and supplies for six months. Mrs. McKinley showed marked improvement Friday after passing a favorable night. She is not yet out of danger, but the doctors are more hopeful of recovery, j Passed restless night. Four boys killed, five others probably fatally burned, by exploding fireworks at Bemidji, Minn. Body of Father Phillips of St. Gabriel’s church, Hazelton, Pa., friend of the miners, found in rooms of quack doctor at New York. Murder suspected. Woman made SIOO,OOO profit on sale of 200 shares Northern Pacific, but would not take it because it meant wreck of someone’s fortune. Blanche Reynolds, aged 7, of Harbor Beach, Mich., beaten to death by three playmates. Hypnotic subject killed during an exhibition at Woonsocket, R. I. Michigan university to erect SIOO,000 building for medical department. Steamships Moana and Louise Lamont lost in storm off Australian coast and forty-eight lives lost. Two thousand merchants in Pekin petitioned for retention of American troops in that cltyi. American methods of preserving order highly praised. General Cailles negotiating for surrender of Filipino force. Aguinaldo flooded with letters from anti-imperi-alists and museums. Presbyterian general assembly at Philadelphia elected as moderator the Rev. Dr. Henry C. Minton of San Anselmo, Cal. Illness of Mrs. McKinley at San Francisco assumes grave nature, making necessary the abandonment of the trip of the presidential party. Patient is unconscious part of the time and takes little nourishment. Paris banks withdrew $40,000,000 from London to be used for the Russian loan. Five thousand dozen bottles of Queen Victoria’s sherry to be sold at auction. French forces compelled submission of native African tribes in the Tehad province. Mrs. Nation declared guilty of jointsmashing at Topeka. Will probably be fined. General Fitz John Porter dying at Morristown N. J. Gov. Yates vetoed the fraternal insurance and ejectment bills. Legal means sought to close the Buffalo exposition on Sunday. Thirty-fifth annual encampment Illinois G. A. R. opened at Peoria, with--4,000 veterans in attendance. Mrs. Martha Ewart of Denver attempted to kill Joseph E. Choate, cousin of Ambassador Choate. Federation of musicians in convention at Denver adopted resolution declaring rag time music rot. Gov. Odell of New York Tuesday ordered out state troops to prevent rioting by street car strikers and their sympathizers at Albany and Troy. Mob attacked non-union men. ‘‘The man with the musical heart” dies at Elgin. Examination shows organ to have been four times normal size and that sounds given forth were due to peculiar gland disease. Gov. Yates of Illinois has reappointed Adjt.-Gen. Reese and the entire mil* itary staff.

THE OHIO IS LAUNCHED.

Big Battleship Companion of the Oregon Now tn the Water* The launching of the battleship Ohio took place at San Francisco Saturday. It was the great event which attracted to the Pacific coast President McKinley and his cabinet, the majority of the Ohio congressional delegation, Gov. Geer of Oregon, the governor of Nevada and numerous other state officials and congressmen. The steel clad hull slid from its cradle twentysix minutes after the hour of noon in the presence of the chief executive and several thousand spectators. The President met the employes of the builders at the wharf and was presented with a souvenir which the men prepared for him. When all but the last rope holding the ship was gone Miss Barber, niece of Mrs. McKinley, pressed an electric button, causing the knife to drop, severing the cord which held the last stay. As the ship began to glide down the ways, Miss Helen Deshler dashed the bottle of champaigne which hung by a ribbon from the bows and christened the vessel.

LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Winter wheat—No. 2 red, 70%@71%c; No. 3 red, 72c; No. 3 hard, 71%c; No. 4 red, 64c. Spring wheat—No. 1 Northern, 70% @7l%c; No. 2 Northern, 72@73c; No. 3, 69 @7l%c; No. 4, 65@68%c. Corn—No. 2, 52@ 53%c; No. 2 yellow, 53@53%c; No. 2 white, 53@54c; No. 3,43 c. Oats—No. 4 white, 29%c; No. 2. 28c. Mess pork, regular, [email protected]; old, [email protected]%; lard, regular, $7.87%@7.90. Butter, creamery, extras, 18@18%c; first, 15%@16%c; dairies, choice/' 14c. Cheese, new twins, 9%c; daisies, 10%c; Young America, 10%@llc. Live turkeys, 5@7%c; hens, 9%c; young roosters, 9(&.9%c; young chickens, 8%@9%c. Beans, hand-picked, »[email protected]. Apples, good to choice, $3.25@ 3.77. Potatoes, Rurals, 40®48c: Burbanks, 40@46c; Peerless, 38@43c; Hebron, 38@43c. Hebron, 38@43c. Cattle—Native shipping export steers, »[email protected]; dressed beef and butchers’ steers, [email protected]; steers under 1,000 lbs., »[email protected]; Stockers and feeders, $2.80@ 4.75; cows and heifers, [email protected]; canners, |[email protected]; bulls, [email protected]; Texas and Indian steers, [email protected]; cows and heifers, [email protected]. Hogs—Pigs and lights, $5.55@ »,75; packers, [email protected]; butchers’, $5.60@ 5.90. Sheep—Native muttons, [email protected]; lambs, [email protected]; spring lambs, [email protected]; culls and bucks, [email protected].

Dowie Denounces His Enemies.

‘‘Am I responsible for every death that occurs in Zion?” shouted John Alexander Dowie in his tablernacle at Chicago Sunday afternoon, while delivering a philippic against the press. “Answer me,” he cried, as the faithful kept silent. “No,” came feebly from about a hundred of the vast congregation. “I should think not,” said Dowie. Then he gave an exhibition of his Influence by asking a series of questions and demanding replies. “Do you believe in me?” “Yes.” “Do you uenevo *.<. doctors?” “No.” “Would you have a-doctor attend you if sick?’.’ “No.” “Do you believe in prayer?” “Yes.” Dowie gave statistics in an effort to show that the mortality among Zion’s disciples was far below the percentage given by the city health department. He then made an attack on the press in general. During one of his outbursts an- elderly man arose andywas quietly walking toward the doorwhen Dowie shouted: “Ah” There goes a coward. He’s been hit!” The man turned and pointing his finger at the speaker, cried: “No, sir; your harangue is merely tiresome.”

Scalds Drunken Man to Death.

William Hall, a bachelor coal miner, 64 years old, died at Washington, Ind., from the effects of being drenched with boiling water, which was thrown upon him from a second story window. Hall was in a helpless state of intoxication at the time and was never able to explain from what building the water was thrown. When found by the police he was still drunk, but was suffering terribly from his burns. He was taken to Walter’s Hotel, where death relieved his sufferings. The police think some woman is responsible for the old man’s death, and are working on that theory.

Offer Reward for Student.

Nothing has been learned of C. E. Starbuck, the Harvard student who disappeared last Thursday. His parents and the police of Andover, Mass., have offered a reward. Starbuck lived with his parents at Andover and went to Cambridge every day by electric cars. w Thursday he left his home at the usual hour and was seen in the Harvard yard about 11 a. m. He did not attend any of his recitations or lectures that day. It is believed he was so worried over this slight deficiency that it produced melancholia and that he wandered away while despondent.

Senator Found Not Guilty.

Senator S. D. Stokes was found not guilty of the murder of Rev. J. J. Woll, the Presbyterian minister, killed at Williamson, W. Va., last November. The trial, which'bade fair to last all week, was brought to a sudden close by the failure of the prosecution to make a Case.

Suicide at a Fishin Frolic.

Miss Julia Davis, aged 30, committed suicide at Quincy, 111., by throwing herself into the North Fabius river near West Quincy. When she plunged into the water she said, “Here goes nothing.” She was out with a fishing party composed of men and women.

Jockey Britton Is Dead.

Thomas M. Britton, the once famous jockey, committed suicide at a lodging house in Cincinnati, by drinking carbolic acid. Britton left a note asking that his body be shipped to his mother, Mrs. Susan B. Franklin of Lexington, yK. Britton was born at Berea, Ky., twenty-eight years ago and began to ride at the age of 12 for James Williams of Louisville. He had ridden for W. H. Laudeman, W. 8. Barnes, J. E. Pepper and James Murphy.

ASKS THIRTY YEARS' TIME

China Offers to Pay Indemnity, Demanding Terms. IS SILENT ON INTEREST. Vnlted State* Still Favors a Reduction of the Amount —Commissioner Rockhill Is Instructed to Continue Dis Efforts to Secure an Abatement. The state department at Washington has been informed in a cable dispatch from Special Commissioner Rockhill that the Chinese peace plenipotentiaries had informed the foreign ministers at Pekin that the Chinese government would assume the obligation to pay the indemnity of $337,000,000 demanded by the powers, but desired thirty years in which to do it, as the resources of the empire would not permit a better arrangement. Acting Secretary Hill sent instructions to Mr. Rockhill to continue to use his influ-

WIFE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, CRITICALLY ILL IN SAN FRANCISCO.

ence with his diplomatic colleagues to secure a still further reduction in the aggregate amount of the indemnity. This government adheres to its assertions that China is not able to pay more than $200,000,000. Nothing was said in Mr. Rockhill’s dispatch in regard to the interest. The answer of the Chinese plenipotentiaries is accepted at Washington as evidence of China’s willingness to comply with any demands for indemnity made by the powers, and to that extent the international situation is simplified. Navy department has sent orders to Rear Admiral Kempff, acting commander of the Asiatic station, to send home the ships Concord, Marietta and Castine during the latter part of the coming summer.. This is in pursuance of the policy announced some time ago of reducing the naval strength in the east. The Bennington, Petrel, Oregon, Newark and Brutus have already been ordered home, so that with these three ships there is a total reduction of the fleet in Asiatic waters to about fortytwo vessels.

Omaha Girls Hire as “Supes.”

A party of forty society girls combining economy with a lark have hired out as “supes” for Mansfield’s performance of “Henry IV.” at Omaha, Neb. Under the leadership of an Omaha newspaper woman they applied in a body for employment and were taken on for the great London bridge scene in the fourth act. The jgirls after two hours’ drill were able to give voice to their greeting in a fairly creditable way. The girls engaging in the venture belong to a well known set which has given a number of charitable entertainments and is possessed of more or less dramatic ability.

Texas Editor's Crime.

Friday evening Major J. F. Penn, proprietor of the Laredo, Tex., Daily Times, ‘mortally wounded W. R. Pace* of that city, vice-president of the Texas Real Estate association. He then killed himself. He was undoubtedly laboring under a fit of recurring insanity. The deceased was a brother-in-law of the late Governor Ireland, and well and favorably known throughout tba state.

Takes Too Much Morphine.

C. S. Sutton, auditor of the Santa Fe and Pacific railway, lies at his home in Los Angeles suffering from the effects of an overdose of morphine. It is reported that he will recover. There are two surgeons in constant attendance. It is rumored that Sutton was a heavy loser by the crash in Wall street. His friends will neither confirm nor deny these rumors. Even the officials of the road have their lips sealed.

Teller Shot; Money Spilled.

Philip Schumacker, paying teller of the Teutonia bank, a state institution at New Orleans, was shot in the calf of the leg while at work in the bank counting the cash p'revious to a meeting of the finance committee. When assistance came he was lying on the floor, badly bruised, a pistol near him, and money scattered on the floor. said he was attacked and fired on by two men, and that he had returned the fire. Although the bank is in the heart of the city, the men could have entered and escaped by the rear. The police have been unable to find any trace of the thieves. An examination of the books tonight seems to point to a shortage of SIB,OOO. The bank of Danforth, 111., was broken in£o Wednesday. The steel vault andoSibe fixtures are a wreck. The outer door of the burglar proof safe was completely destroyed. The burglars failed to get the money chest open, though they knocked one layer off the door with explosives. The damage to the safe, furniture and fixtures was about $2,000. The work was evidently that of experts.

MRS. WILLIAM M’KINLEY.

Kills Woman and Himself.

T. C. Ellzey of McComb City, Miss., shot a woman companion and either killed himself immediately afterward or was killed by officers. Ellzey and the woman arrived at Wells Point, Tex., and after leaving an officer learned that the man was wanted by the authorities in Louisiana. Armed with a warrant, two officers started after Ellzey and his companion. They were overtaken near Elmo hnd Ellzey shot the woman dead and began a pistol duel with the officers. When the smoke of battle cleared away Ellzey was found dead, but it is not known whether he was killed by the officers or by his own hand.

An earthquake shock was felt at Portsmouth, 0., and in many towns in that vicinity Friday morning. It was the severest seismic disturbance in the history of the city, houses shaking like leaves. Hundreds of persons rushed into the streets in their night clothes, thinking there had been au explosion. No serious damage was done, but many chimneys were broken. There was a succession of violent undulations, almost merged, lasting thirty seconds, and passing from west to east. Ironton. Wellston and Zanesville, 0., and Huntington, W. Va., fel‘ t’ e shock.

America Gets Danish Isles.

It is reported at Copenhagen that negotiations have been concluded with the United States by which the latter acquire the Danish West Indies. The purchase price agreed upon is $4,000,000. The Danes will trade under the same tariff as the Americans. “The United States government is trying to persuade Portugal,” says the Lisbon correspondent of the Morning Leader, “to cede an island in the Azores for a coaling station.”

Cudahy Will Double Reward.

Eward A. Cudahy of Omaha is quoted as saying he will if necessary double his reward of $25,000 to secure the capture of Pat Crowe, the alleged kidnaper of his son. “I want the satisfaction of having the matter cleared up as well as of seeing Crowe punished,” said he. “If necessary I will double my reward.”

The Washington police are making slow progress in clearing up the mystery attending the murder of James Seymour Ayres, the young census clerk from Michigan who was shot to death in the Kenmore hotel Wednesday morning. They are convinced that Ayres was shot by another guest of the Kenmore hotel, that the murderer was probably a man who felt that he was avenging a wrong and that a woman was mixed up in the affair, but that is as far as their investigations have led them.

Earthquake Shakes Ohio.

Not Worried by Murder.

BLOODY DEEDS OF A MANIAC

Succession of Tragedies in Evansville Sunday Morning. THREE DEADj THREE INJURED. Marder er. After Killing a Married Couple, Faially Wounding a Policeman and Seriously Hurting Others, Kill. Him•e f—Foretell* His Plans in Letter. Three persons dead, a fourth dying, a score of men and women wounded, a barn burned, nine cows killed, a siege by police, and a mob of citizens demanding the life of a murderer are features of a tragedy enacted in Evansville, Ind., Sunday. All these unusual events are results of a fit of madness, caused by brooding over fancied wrongs, which took possession of Everett Conway. The series of crimes culminated when Conway, driven to bay and facing certain death at the hands of infuriated men, kissed his wife and babies good-by and fired a revolver bullet into his own heart. Conway, who lived next door to William Garrison, has long been at outs with his neighbor, claiming the latter worsted the elder Conway in the purchase of a dairy business two years ago. He had threatened to square accounts, and the prosperity of the dairyman preyed upon his mind, until he determined to avenge the supposed wrong. Taking a repeating rifle, Conway Sunday went to his neighbor’s place. Meeting Garrison in the yard, he took careful aim, and sent a bullet through the dairy owner’s heart. Conway’s father, whose home also adjoins the Garrison place, was in the barn, and, attracted by the report of the shot, he ran out to learn tlw rea-> son. The madman turned the rifle upon tne eldeo - man and fired, but the father was not shot and he fled, sopn distancing his pursuer. Mrs. Garrison was the next to appear and become an object for Conway’s fury. As she approached the man shot her, and she dropped dead at his feet. Ki'ls Cows and Burnt Barn. Conway entered the dairy barn, where he found nine milk cows. These he killed, reloading his rifle from a supply of cartridges he had in his pocket. When the last of these animals went down before his bullets the madman piled hay against the sides of the building and ignited it in half a dozen places. As the flames swept up the walls of the dairy Conway turned to seek more vicitinjs, but all intelligent persons on the premises had fled. Barricading himself in the house Conway opened fire upon the officers with a repeating shotgun. By this time a crowd of several persons had assembled, and the tiny leaden pellets scattered among the spectators. Officer Walks was struck five times and cannot recover, while fully twenty men and women were wounded by the shot. Write* Letter Telling of Plan*. The deed was premeditated, as Conway had sent the following letter to a local paper, asking its publication: “Well friend readers, what I will do will be a plenty. I will tell you why. This man Garrison has bulldozed the whole ranch since he has been here,

SCOTLAND’S WORLD’S FAIR.

VIEW OF THE PRINCIPAL BUILDINGS AT THE GLASGOW EXPOSITION, WHICH WAS OPENED MAY 7.

Must Obey Eight-Hour Law.

That the eight-hour law must be enforced by contractors for the city of New York was made known in a decision rendered by the appellate division of the Supreme court. It was in the case of Eugene Lentilhen, who made a contract with the city in June, 1899, for removing the Forty-second street reservoir. Comptroller Coler refused to pay the contractor because he had made his men work more than eight hours and had not paid them the prevailing rate of wages.

but he run against a snag when he landed on me, so I think he will sink. He got the ranch under control, and he got it for nothing. My dad gave him everything he got He run the whole family away and has caused my dad to disown me. I am from Kentucky and you know what’s in them people. He threatened to kill me, and you know the jig is up. I need not tell you what I am going to do.forit will be in sight, so come and see.**

MRS. LYMAN J. GAGE IS DEAD.

Wife of Secretary of the Treasury Succumbs to Illness. Mrs. Lyman J. Gage, wife of the secretary of the treasury, passed away at 9:30 Friday evening at Washington. In spite of her illness of nine weeks death came suddenly, and it has greatly shocked the official and social community here, for it is no disparagement to the other women in official life to say that Mrs. Gage was the most popular and best known woman of the McKinley administration. Beyond all question she had given up her life to her official station, and her name must be added to those who have been sacrificed in the relentless treadmill of political and social life in Washington. Mrs. Gage was peculiarly a martyr, because she went to Washington with no previous official experience. The .result was that she entered upon her social duties with such a scrupulous regard for other people, that she, who had scarcely known a sick day in her life, broke down under the strain last fall and never fully recovered. After the funeral services at Washington Secretary Gage will accompany the body back to Chicago, and the burial will take place in the family lot at Rosehill. The services there probably will be private.

Nine Killed and Many Will Die.

Nine men were killed and probably a score fatally injured by an explosion in the shaft of the George’s Creek Coal and Iron company at Farmington, W. Va. At least ten men are still in the mine, and as the shaft was still ablaze tonight it was impossible to make an effort to rescue them. It may be a day or two before the flames can be subdued. One dead body has been recovered, and fourteen miners have been taken out, a number of whom are not expected to live. Known to be dead: Carl Hunter, Daniel Alferie, Tony Romenic, I. H. Everson, Joseph Nichols, Manor Beatty, three Italians, names unknown.

Match Factory Destroyed.

Fire totally destroyed the entire plant of the Walkerville, Ont., match factory, consisting of a three-story brick factory and a one-story brick warehouse; also a large quantity of match stock in the yards adjoining the buildings. The total loss is given by Peter Steinus of Detroit, one of the partners in the concern, at $115,000, with $73,000 insurance. About 100 men were employed.

Shot by Daughter's Suitor.

Dennis Reed, an 18-year-old boy, shot and seriously wounded George Williams at Metropolis, 111. Reed had called on Williams’ daughter against th,e father’s orders. Williams stepped into the room, objected to the young man’s presence in his house, and the shooting followed.

Smallpox Epidemic In Alaska.

Following are private advices received by mail at Seattle from Sitka, Alaska, dated May 11: “Drs. Moore of Skaguay and Linhart of Juneau have been investigating the smallpox epidemic here and at the Indian ranch. Russian town, and the Indian mission. Dr. Moore said there could be no question of the seriousness of the situation. At the mission there were found over thirty children suffering from smallpox.”

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. tanallpox at the Indiana State Nsrasi School Make* * Panic Amons the Student* —Evan*’rille Got* State Medical Meeting for 19OS. Indiana De-ctor* Convene. Evansville has been selected as the city for the meeting of the Indiana State Medical society. The nominating committee which was in session at the Oliver hotel at South Bend, chose Dr. J. M. McLean Moulder president and Dr. D. Stevenson secretary. It also recommended the following as the officers for the ensuing year: Dr. A. W. Brayton, Indianapolis, president; Dr. J. B. Berteling, South Bend, vice president; Dr. F. C. Heath, Indianapolis, secretary; Dr. W. H. Gilbert, assistant secretary; and Dr. A. E. Bullson, Fort Wayne, treasurer. Action on the report will be taken at the close of the session. The chief features of the programme were the addresses of Dr. John A. Wyeth of New York and Dr. G. W. McClasky of Fort Wayne. The 'addresses were given at Oliver theater. A big ball was given at the Oliver hotel, at which several hundred guests from all parts of the state were present. The affair was one of the most brilliant ever given in the city. Congregational Convention. Anderson was selected by the Congregational church and ministers for the convention next year. The Rev. A. J. Ellemau of Amboy led in the opening exercises. Rev. J. Perry Ratzell of Orland And the Rev. O. C. Helming of Indianapolis discussed the problems arising in the ministry in country and city fields. The Rev. Dr. W. A. Waterman of Terre Haute discussed Professor King’s book, “Reconstruction in Theology.” The Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Roy of Chicago reviewed the interesting work of the American Missionary society, showing, he said, that it was extending the "imperialism of Jesus Christ” into lands of the yellow, brown, red and black races. The Rev. J. Webster Bailey of Fort Wayne was elected delegate to the national convention to be held at Portland, Me. The delegates visited the State School for Feeble-Minded Youth. The Rev. A. N. Hitchcock, Chicago, delivered the closing address on “The Truth About China,” with stereopticon views. Endeavor* at AndersonThe eleventh annual convention of the Frankfort district of the Indiana Christian Endeavor union began its session in the auditorium of Central Christian church, Anderson, Thursday. Delegates from a score of towns and cities attended. The counties represented are Clint&n,' Boone, Hamilton, Tipton, and Madison. The district secretary and treasurer, Miss Lena H. Bryant of Frankfort, is present, as is the state secretary, the Rev. S. C. Johnson of Indianapolis- The session opened with a praise service conducted by Miss Ora Evans of Noblesville. Mayor Dunlap welcomed the young people to Anderson and the Rev. R. V. Hinshaw of Hortonville responded. State Secretary Johnson, the Rev. M. W. Hawkins of this city, the Rev. C. E. Huffer of Tipton and Miss Jennie T. Masson of Indianapolis made brief addresses. The service this evening indued a talk on Palestine by the Rev. L. E. Brown of Frankfort. Student* Fear Smallpox. The authorities of the Indiana State Normal school at Terre Haute and the health authorties are trying to head off a stampede among the 1,100 students beepuse of a case of smallpox. Last Sunday it was found that Miss Hall, from Daviess county, had the disease. Her boarding-house, in which there were six other students, was quarantined and placed under guard, but that night Miss Richards, who lived in the house, slipped “by the guards and traveled to her home at Pendleton, whence the report comes that she has the smallpox. A number of students have gone home, and when two of them, Miss Stine and Miss Vane, arrived at their home in Martinvine, though unaffected by the disease, so far as known, they were met at the depot by the local health officers, march'ed to their residences, and placed in quarantine. Plumb*r* Still Out. The Terre Haute master plumbers and journeymen have held another futile conference, and both sides seem to regard it as the last that will be held. The master plumbers have begun writing to /Other places for men, and it is understood that the old journeymen will be asked to remove their tools from the shops. The men insist on the advance of pay from 30 to 33 1-3 cents per hour for the nine-hour day and pay for certain work at journeymen rate which the master plumbers say they can have done at 15 cents an hour. Blaze at Merom. The business section of Meron, Sullivan county, seat of the Union Christian college, suffered an SB,OOO loss by fire. The fire originated in Cushman’s bakery. Four business houses were burned out Assistant Fa*tor te Hl* Bon. Rev. George Link, Sr., of Rose Bud, IIL, accepted the assistant pastorate of St. John’s German Lutheran church of la Porte, of which his son, the Rev. George Link, Jr., is the pastor.

TROOPS USE BULLETS.

Albany Marchant Killed aad Two Other Maa Receive Fatal Injuries. Riot and bloodshed, coming Thursday night at the close of a day of comparative peace, added a long list to the victims of the strike en the United Traction company’s lines at Albany. One citizen was killed and another was fatally wounded, while one nonunion workman had his skull fracturW and cannot recover. A large number of others were wounded more or leas seriously. Obedient to orders to shoot if assaulted, guardsmen of the Twsntythird Regiment opened fire at dusk upon a mob of strikers, sympathizer* and innocent bystanders. The hurling of a stone against the soldiers was the • signal for the attack. William Walsh, a merchant, was fatally shot by national guardsmen while sitting in front of a store on Broadway; removed to hospital, where he died during the evening. The fatally injured are: Leroy Smith, merchant and prominent citizen, shot while sitting in front of his store in company with Walsh. William Marshall, a non-union motorman, skull fractured. Others Injured are: George Booze, citizen, cheek slashed open by bayonet. Gilbert Hall, non-union motorman, shot by mob. William Rooney, citizen, shot by national guards. An incident of Friday was the arrival of the Ninth regiment from New York city. More non-union men arrived also, and cars were started from the North Albany barns, as well as from the Quail street barn, the company operating fourteen cars, seven from each barn, and opening up th* Central avenue branch. The Ninth regiment came to Albany with 524 officers and men, in command of Colonel William C. Morris. E. Leroy Smith, who was wounded by a bullet discharged by Lieutenant WHstou of Company E, Twenty-third regiment, died in the Albany hospital. Albany’s Committee of Thirteen, which is much like the Citizens’ union in New York, issued an address severely condemning the police for their inability to sup-, press the disorder and charged them with being in league with the strik- I ers. _

Murder Mystery in Washington.

The entire Washington (D. C.) detective force is engaged on a murder case which has all the contradictory and mysterious elements of the Sherlock Holmes stories. An uproar was heard in a family hotel —the Kenmore —Wednesday morning about 2 o’clock; three shots were fired; a voice cried twice for help; a wild commotion ensued; and in the morning the police found in one of the hotel rooms th* dead body of James Seymour Ayres, Jr., 21 years old, of unoffending disposition and apparently unblemished record. He had been shot three time*. The victim was a clerk in the census bureau and was appointed from Michigan. His father, J. S. Ayres, Sr., is an Insurance agent and lives at Grand Rapids.

Oil Strack in Illinois.

For several years it has been generally known that the southern portion of Coles county, Illinois, lay within the oil and gas belt which extend* from Findlay, Shelby county, east to the Indiana fields, but no particular attention was paid to thb fact until a. few days ago, when three prominent Indiana experts and capitalists, who'' have Inspected the nounced their findings. At Findlay both gas and oil have been struck. At Windsor one well on the Smyser farm was opened that expelled a current of gas, which, when lighted, could be seen here, a distance of twelve mile*. Last Tuesday, while drilling oh th* Sargent farm, crude oil was struck, which readily burned.

Stranger Commits Suicide.

A mystery developed at Burlington, la., in the suicide by shooting of a. well-dressed middle-aged man, a stranger, in Crapo park. His handkerchief bears the name of F. Shephard. An envelope of a Chicago druggist containing morphine was found in his pocket, but not a cent in money or valuables. The first joint of th* man’s forefinger is missing and may be the only clew to identiucatlon.

Marriage Stirs the Elite.

Society circles at Cincinnati werestirred by the announcement that Mia*. Marjorie Harmon, daughter of Judson. Harmon, ex-attorney general of th*Unlted States, was secretly married to George Heckle of Boston. Miss Harmon was a brilliant debutante of last year and had met Mr. Heckle during a visit of the family in the east.

Knockout for Oshkosh Fight.

The Jack Root-“ Kid” Carter twelveround contest, which was to have taken place at the rink in Oshkosh, Wis., Thursday night, was declared off by Adjutant General Boardman, who, acting for Governor La Follette, notified Manager Moore of Appleton that under no consideration would he permit the contest to be held.

Edwin F. Uhl Dies.

Edwin F. Uhl, former assistant secretary of state and ambassador toGermany under the Cleveland administration, died Friday at Grand Rapids, Mich. He had been ill nearly 3 year, suffering from a complication of diseases, among them Bright’s disease. Mr. Uhl was president of the Grand Rapids National bank, director in the Fifth National, and had large interests in various manufacturing institutions His wife, two sons and two daughter •urvive him.