Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1901 — Page 2

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

MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Items of General Interest Told in Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. Becord of Happenlaff* of Much or Little Importance from All Part* of the Civilized World —Incident*. Enterprises, Accidents, Verdicts. Crimes and Wars. Steel workers issued order extendIng strike immediately to all branches Of the industry. Corporation decided to reopen plants with non-union men at once. Clash feared. Executive board of association went to New York on Invitation of combine officials. Shaffer’s recent action criticised by colleagues, George H. Phillips, late corn king, offered aid, but declined it because he has money enough to.settle his affairs. Then he will resume business. Clothes sorter in the laundry of the Auditorium Annex, Chicago, found , SIO,OOO worth of diamonds and was rewarded with $lO fop returning them to 1 the owner. Deposits in New York savings banks increased $43,865,053 during the last year. Fire at Hammond, Ind., destroyed several big plants and threatened to wipe out the business section of the place. Further reports from Guam indicate that eighty marines deserted, but after wandering about the island several days returned to duty. Charles Davis, who was on trial at Nashville, Tenn., for attacking a girl, taken from the courtroom and lynched by relatives of his victim. Michigan peach crop will be onethird less than usual because of the drouth following a cold, late spring. Two grain elevators at Chicago belonging to Grand Trunk Railroad company burned. Charles Anderson of Talbot, Mich., while hunting was killed by the accidental discharge of his shotgun. Charles Baxter, aged 25 years, was run over by an Illinois Central train south of Ludlow, 111., and killed. He was sitting on the track apparently asleep. Anthracite coal advanced 10 cents a ton. United States transport Lennox, with seventeen cabin passengers and forty-five second-class passengers, disabled off the California coast. Provisions nearly gone and machinery out of order. Celebration of the quarter centennial of Colorado’s admission to the Union begun at Colorado Springs. Thirty-eight insurance companies to fight claims arising from Luce Block fire in Grand Rapids. Boer sympathizers at Albion, N. Y., burned a British flag strung across the street. Minneapolis and St. Louis road to absorb the lowa Central preliminary to consolidation with Illinois Central. Chinese paid July interest on Northern railway, thereby preventing the line reverting to the British. President Kruger to make a tour of American cities, beginning the latter part of August. Christian Science denounced as a fraud and a sham by a Boston lawyer. Maryland Democratic State convention adopted platform declaring it the purpose of the party to eliminate the negro from politics. Proceedings directed by Gorman. King Menellk of Abyssinia seriously ill. In a with boot-leggers at Wa«thena, Kan., Constable Livermore shot and Instantly killed Lou Henderson and captured John Williams,, an accomplice. Mark* L. Wilson, a theatrical manager, committed suicide at Philadelphia by inhaling illuminating gas. While crossing a field, George Humerlckhouse, a farmer of Wells county, Indiana, was attacked by a mad bull and killed, Martin Fry was hanged at Carlisle, Pa., tor the murder of James Edward Collins, his brother-in-law,- of whom he had been jealous. A young man aged about 20. supposed to be Frank Webber of Howard City. Mich., was killed by the cars at Alleran. Mich. Tralnknd of home-seekers returning from El Reno wrecked near Kremlin’ Ok. T. One killed and twenty-four injured.

LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.

I Winter Wheat—No. 2, red. 68%®68%c; No. I red. 68c; No. 2 hard, 68c; No grade red, I 68c; No 4 red, 67@G7t4c; No. 3 hard, 67'4® ' 68'4. Corn—No. - yellow. 52'4@53c; No. 3 yellow, 62@63%c; No 4, 48t4®4U’40. Oats.— No. 3, 3244 c! No. 2, 32%®33Vtc; No. 4, whits, new, 34V4@35c; old 34$t®36c. Cattle—Native shipping and export steers, $4.85®5.75: dressed beef and butcher steers, [email protected]; steers under 1,000 lbs., [email protected]; Texas and Indian steers, $3.15® 4.40; cows and heifers. $2.30®3,45. Hogs.— Pigs and light, [email protected]; packers, $5 50® 5.65; butchers'. $5.7506.00. Sheep.—Native lambs, [email protected]; with culls, [email protected]; native sheep, [email protected]; grass Western sheep, f3,[email protected]; grass Western yearlings, $3 [email protected]; feeders. 70-lb sheep, $2.05. Eggs, 12t4c; cheese, Amer., 10@10'4o; cheese, twins. 9143>9%c; Iced chickens, scalded, 74J7'4c; iced 1 chickens, dry picked, 7c; iced chickens, roosters, s'4@6c; Iced turkeys, 6@Be; live turkeys. lb, 5@714c; chickens. 8c; mess pork, sl4 [email protected]; lard, [email protected]'4; short ribs, [email protected], according to weight; beans, navy, hand-picked, $2.50.

LAND OF OPHIR IS FOUND.

Dr. Peters, Egyptologist, Is Sure lie Has Laioatecl It. The golden land of Ophir, the lost El Dorado of King Solomon, has been discovered by the noted German explorer and Egyptologist, Dr. Carl Pe-

ters. He adduces proofs that his researches have resulted in a triumph for which other explorers have vainly striven for centuries. The vast tract lying between Zambesi and the Sahi is declared by Dr. Peters to be the lost Ophir. It is one of the finest and most fertile regions in Africa, but it has never been suspected by African explorers that here are burled the inexhaustible mines from which the riches of gold and Jewels were drawn to make up the regal magnificence of the court of Solomon. From a commercial standpoint. therefore, the discovery of Dr. Peters is of incalculable value.

Queen Escapes Assassins.

Maria Pia, Queen Dowager of Portugal, sister of the late King Humbert of Italy, and mother of the present King Carlos, has had a narrow escape from assassination at Alx-Les-Bains. Her Majesty was takihg a course of the baths, but was so perturbed by the attack upon her that she left Aix hastily for Rome. Details of the attempted assassination are not obtainable at present. The police are said to have a clew. News of the affair is causing a deep sensation, for the Queen Dowager was known personally to a considerable number of people.

Copper Trust Loses Point.

The Supreme court of Montana has vacated the order of survey granted by Judge Clancy to Burdett O’Connor, against the Anaconda company. O’Connor and F. Augustus Heinz are plaintiffs in a suit for $2,000,000 damages on account of the alleged extraction of ore by the Anaconda company from the copper trust claim. Judge Clancy’s order gave them the right to survey the Anaconda workings for forty days.

Indians Dying of Smallpox.

Private advices and messages to Dr. F. C. Suiter of La Crosse, member of the state board of health, state that unless something is done to stamp out the smallpox which has again attacked the tribe of Winnebago Indians on the reservation near Black River Falls, and scattered on private farms between there and La Crosse, half of the once great tribo will be wiped out in a short time.

Sliver Ticket Named in Ohio.

In a convention at Columbus, 0., the Progressive Democratic party nominated the following ticket:. Governor, Dr. Rudolph Reemelln; lieutenant governor, Henry C. Cordery; supreme judge, Rial M. Smith; state treasurer, J. C. Shepard; attorney general, S. L. Clark; clerk of supreme court, Charles Bonsall; member of board of public works, R. B. Connell.

May Fight In Georgla.

It is possible that a prize fight between Jim Jeffries and Gus Ruhlin for the championship and a purse of $25 - 000 may be arranged to take place during the state fair at Savannah, Ga. next October. The leading sporting men of the town and the fair promoters are bapking the plan and they have the indorsement of the Merchants’ Association of the city.

Double Tragedy In Texas.

Shortly after 1 o'clock Tuesday morning John T. Vaughan, a moneylender. shot and instantly killed Patrolman William Weiss at Houston, Tex. Vaughan ran in an endeavor to reach his room, and was mortally wounded by a detective as he started up the stairs. He died within an hour.

Freight Train, Collide.

Two heavy Clover Leaf freight trains collided on a sharp curve in the center of Trilla, a village nine miles south of Mattoon, 111. The trains were running at a rate of twenty : five miles an hour when they met. The engines telescoped and with twelve freight cars rolled down an embankment, completely Wrecked. The men on the engines leaped tn time to save their lives. The damage to rolling stock wa. over $50,000.

SIRIKE IS A TUG OF WAR

The Steel Workers Are Full of Determination. THE STRIKE TO BE EXTENDED. There Will Bo No More Meetings of the General Executive Boar I of the Unions Unless the Steel Corporation Asks for One. The greatest labor war in the history of the nation is about to begin. The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers'has decided to measure its strength against tihe greatest combination of capital that the world ever saw—the $1,100,000,000 steel trust. “Tie up every mill of the United States Steel Corporation’’ is the order that has gone forth from the advisory committee, the workingmen’s organization. Every member has been called upon to aid in the coming struggle for the life of the union. The last chance for peace has vanished. When J. Pierpont Morgan delivered his ultimatum to the representatives of his men he delivered a challenge srhich was Immediately courted a contest, and the Amalgamated Association promises to give it. President Shaffer said Sunday at Pittsburg: “I have not yet issued the ’order extending the strike, but will do so as soon as I can. There are certain contingencies or conditions depending on the extension of the suspension movement, and as soon as they can be shaped up the order will go out. What they are I don’t care to say, but the public can rest assured that the strike will spread. When the general executive board adjourned at the meeting in New York it was to no stited time. There will be no more meetings of the board unless the United States Steel corporation should ask for a conference. They left the whole matter of the extension of the strike entirely in my hands, and I will act as promptly as possible under the circumstances. When the order goes out officials of the combine and others will be surprised at the way It is obeyed. Certain mills now considered non-union will stop running. I am ndt telling what they are or where they are located. Every man who is union in name and heart will walk out. I have no fear of the result of the attempt to tie up other mills In our fight for independence.” It is reported that the United States Steel company officials will publish the agreement alleged to have been signed at the first conference with Morgan to settle the strike on the basis existing before July 1. According to one of the persons present at the last conference Morgan presented this agreement, and demanded if a document signed for the association by its president and secretary stood for anything. When the members of the executive board in reply presented their counter proposition the conference came to an end.

Mob Lvnches Another Negro.

The armed mob which has been in the laliferro, Miss., neighborhood for two days looking for Sallle Layton and others, killed Will Price, the negro who worked for Mr. Taliferro and lived within two hundred yards of his residence. He was found dead in the road on Mr. Duke’s place, some distance from any trees or anything to which to hang any one, with a rope around his neck and mutilated by gun shots.

PLAN TO LINK CONTINENTS BY RAIL AND FERRY.

A gigantic trans-Alaskan and Siberian railroad project is to be unuertaken by French, Russian and American capitalists within the next few years, according to plans outlined by L. De Lobel, a French mining engineer. who left Paris July 13 and started from Tacoma, Wash., for the Klondike Sunday night on the Dolphin. He says a company with a capital /Of $200,000,000 is planned to build nearly 4,000 miles of railroad, besides spanning Behring Sea with immense steam ferries. The United States government will be asked for a land grant in the Yukon country and M. De Lobel on

Rainmasers Halted by Strike

W. F. Wright’s bojnbardment of the clouds with a battery of twenty-four mortars in the hope of causing a rainfall, was interrupted at 5 o’clock Thursday morning by a strike of his corps of assistants. The rainmaker went to Lincoln, Neb., during the day, and with entreaties, re-enforced by a temperature of 101 and a parching south wind, was able to ar cure a new force and renew his efforts. He will continue the bombardment

SMALL BOY HANGS HIMSELF.

Mock Execution In Ark*u*a« Blamed Public Hanclng Law. The fatal injury of a small boy who was playing at hanging at Little Rock. Ark., will result lq Governor Davis recommending the repeal of the public execution law. Ten thousand persons saw Jim Anderson, a negro, hanged at Little Rock last Friday. There were ffrty fakirs doing business with exhibitions which bordered on the sideshow variety. Among the spectators was young Lemoyne Jayne, a son of Porter Jayne, a carpenter. After the execution the lad inspected the scaffold, and Tuesday completed a miniature scaffold. He invited his playmates to take the rope of the condemned man. Failing in this he sought to take the place of the executioner as well as the person condemned. He adjusted the noose, and stepped on the trap. He had figured that he had enough rope to reach the ground. The sight of his body dangling in midair caused hi^*playmates to spread the alarm, and neighbors reached the scene in time to cut the body down before the lad was strangled to death. His neck was not broken, but he is unconscious, and doctors give no hope for recovery. For this and the scenes enacted Governor Davis has made known his intention to recommend the immediate repeal of the act which permits the public to witness hangings.

Four Drowned by Boat Capsizing.

In an effort to save a child Mrs. Fannie Hemming, aged forty-five, lost her life and three others of a boating party were drowned at Central City, Ky., thirteen miles above Ashland. The boating party consisted of Mrs. Hemming, her daughter Kathleen, fourteen; granddaughter Imogine, and Thomas Aperton, aged four and six years, and Miss Thelma Apperton. Waves from a steamer caused the boat to rock, throwing out the youngest child. Mrs. Hemming jumped in and the boat capsized and all were drowned, except Miss Apperton, who managed to reach the shore.

Finds Gold in Wisconsin.

Thomas Whelan, who owns an elghty-acre farm on the south side of Holy Hill, Washington county, Wisconsin, reports that while repairing the interior of his limekiln he noticed gold in some stones that, were loose on the floor. Whelan, who is an old forty-niner and knows gold when he sees it, at once began to investigate its source. On examining closer into the composition of the rock he discovered further trace and later sent a few samples to Milwaukee. The sample when assayed proved 0 be unusually rich and it was estimated would run from SI,OOO to $5,000 a ton.

Actor Has Queer Mania.

Thomas Mallay, an old-time actor, who had for years played in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” was committed to the Rochester insane asylum from St. Paul. Mallay had so much of Uncle Tom that it affected his brain, and now he imagines that Simon Legree is constantly pursuing him with bloodhounds. It is not on record that he ever played Eliza in the piece, but he seems to have got the parts somewhat mixed. ,

Prisoner Cuts His Throat.

John Gulick, who is confined in the county jail at Shamokin, Pa., charged with the murder of his mother and brother, cut his throat with a table knife which he had secreted in his cell, and was dying from loss of blood when he was discovered Dr. Stoner Peitzer sewed up the wound and he may recover.

his return will visit President McKinley to ask him to recommend to Congress the granting of the concessions. In order to build the road it will be necessary for the United States to annex that part of Canada known as British Columbia. The proposed road Is to start at Circle City, Alaska, and run 2,000 miles to Behring Sea. After crossing the straits by car ferry, from the Siberian coast to Vladivostock 1,800 miles of road will be required. Ferries are to be constructed large enough tq transport loaded trains, making it possible to go from Circle City to Moscow and Paris by railroad.

P[?]s[?]an End to Three Lives.

Fred Yost, a farmer who lived east of Sherburne, Minn., shot and probably taxaiiy wounded Eliza Kunkle, killed her 10-months-old babe and then committed suicide Yost was recently held by the grand jury on a charge of Illegal parentage preferred by the woman, who had housekeeper for about two years. Feaiing Yost’s vengeance. the woman had taken refuge at another farmhouse, where Yost found her.

TOWN DOUBLIS IN A DAY

Thousands Camp on the Site of Lawton, Ok. MANY (jAMBLERS ARE THEREStreeta Ara All, Laid Ont and Maur Bnslneoi Hons* Con*trncted-<~Thlrteen Thousand Homas of IflO Aore.4 Each Hare Been Drawn. Lawton, O. K., named after the lamented General Lawton and seemingly destined to be the metropolis of the new country soon to be opened following the lottery drawing at El Reno, was Friday night a city of 10,000 people. Three thousand arrived Friday and as many more arrived Saturday. It is located just outside the limits of Fort Sill. The town site proper, half a section reserved by the government, bears only building erected there by special favor and the land office. All the other buildings and 1,500 tents occupy adjoining lands, many of them being on the two quarter sections that Mr. Woods and Miss Beals, who drew the capital prizes at El Reno, will un-

REGION OF SOUTH AMERICAN TROUBLE.

Venezuela is again on the eve of a revolution. Not only is that unfortunate republic approaching a state of civil war, but serious complications will in all probability arise between the governments of Venezuela and Colombia. President Castro, while facing the uprising against his own authority, is also accused of furthering secretly the revolution against the Colombian government, of which Gen-

doubtedly select. These claims have been considered worth $20,000 to $30,000 each, but if Lawton is half the town that it promises they will easily be worth two or three times the largest estimate. All the grafters and gamblers have moved over from El Reno in a body and one can find any kind of game and may choose his own method of being separated from his money. Nearly 1,000 Comanche Indians got their “grass money” Friday, S4O each, and they spent it like princes. - The 13,000 homes of 160 acres each in the Indian lands have been drawn, and from now on the drawing of additional names of those registered as claimants will attract no attention. Among the 13,000 lucky ones probably 25 per cent do not intend to occupy the land they have won. While they are not all land speculators, many of them were attracted by the gambling feature of this scheme and put their names on the list just to see what luck they would have. The fact that registration cost nothing and carried with it a chance of getting 160 acres of land worth from $1,500 to $4,000 drew many persons to El Reno and Lawton who never intended co stay in the country. Perhaps 1,500 to 2,000 claims will be left for the wagon emigrants and others who have been in the country for months and failed to draw a number. At the end of the sixty days these persons can go immediately to the land office and file, or if they settle upon a homestead in advance of any other person they can remain thereon three months before filing their entry. Mfiny persons wul squat upon homesteads in the hope that they will not be taken by persons who draw numbers. If the homesteads are not taken when the land office closes the squatters are safe.

Burglars Steal a Safe.

Enterprising burglars entered William Cheeseman’s hotel in West Allis, Wls., loaded a heavy safe on a wagon, and drove away without being seen. The fcafe contained about SIOO. The three men in a wagon containing something that was covered with a blanket, and which is thought to have been the missing safe, were seen twelve miles southwest of the city at daylight. They were headed for the Mukwanago swamps.

Will Keep Midway Closed Sunday.

Tue board of directors of the PanAmerican Eposition has decided that the Midway at the exposition should be closed tight next Sunday. Moreover, the board voted that, it necessary, the Midway shall be fenced off and no visitors allowed to traverse it on Sunday. Shortly before the directors acted the concessionaires sent an ultimatum-to the director general’s office which in effect was an announcement of their Intention to open next Sunday when the exposition gates opened.

Bituminous-Coal Trust Now.

It was learned at New York that an underwriting syndicate of pchsibly $50,000,000 had been formed to finance the consolidation of the bituminouscoal properties along the Norfolk and Western, Chesapeake and Ohio, and possibly also the Hocking Valley, Baltimore and Ohio, and other railroads in West Virginia, Western Pennsylvania, and Ohio. The syndicate will include prominent banking interests of th.s city, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and perhaps Pittsburg and other western cities. Judge E. H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel corporation, is understood to be one of the leading spirits in the deal, and this is interpreted by some as meaning that the steel trust will control the output. The design is to run the softcoal business in harmony with the anthracite trade, which Morgan, in a measure, controls.

calls, Aguinaldo Brother.

A man who asserts he is the brother of Emilio Aguinaldo, late insurgent chief of the Philippine Islands, is working at Cape May, N. J., as head bell boy at the Hotel Lafayette. He is known as John Dravry. He is 23 years old, of rich copper skin, straight hair, and intelligent features.

eral Uribe-Uribe is the prime promoter, and of conferring with the Colombian leader at a secret meeting recently held in Caracas In consequence of the resignation of Senor Pulido it is feared that President Castro of Venezuela, as proposed to the cabinet, will declare war against Colombia, notwithstanding public opinion against such a move. It is feared the most serious complications will follow the present situation.

Mob Hangs Three Negroes.

Three negroes, two women and one man, mother, daughter and son, implicated in the murder of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Taliferro, were taken from the jail at Carrollton, Miss., and hanged. Ten more negroes, implicated by the confession of one of the women hanged, are in jail and may meet death at the hands of the mob. Governor Longlno, hearing of the threats of violence, rushed here by special train. He was too late to prevent the triple lynching, but with the aid of leading citizens may save the ten others. The negroes hanged were Betsy McCray; her son, Belfield McCray, and daughter, Ida McCray. The crime for which they were hanged was the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Taliferro, on the night of July 30.

Corn King in Trouble.

George H. Phillips, corn king at Chicago, has suspended active trading, except through a manager, and is now attempting to determine whethhe is solvent or not. It is estimated that the George H. Phillips Company has lost $400,000 on account of irregularities in the books and of too generous extension of credit. Phillips said: “In figuring average on May corn deal clerks failed to take into account charges of almost two cents a bushel against 5,900,000 bushels cash grain, so that in settling at 48 cents on account with customers about SIOO,OOO too much was paid out. The man in charge of customers’ margin ledger allowed customers to get into us for over $200,000 in addition to above. Besides this, some losses were due to trading of clerks.”

New York Leads in Asses.

New York has more asses than any other city in the United States, according to the census just taken of live stock kept in inclosures. It has 188 asses, as against Philadelphia’s 155. The whole United States has only 12,870 asses. When it comes to swine, Chicago puts all other cities to open shame, having a total of 52,423. while Cleveland, Buffalo and other cities are feeble "also rans,” with 5,000 each. New York admits 2,131 swine. New York as a goat center leads all other cities, having 1,487 goats. Chicago has 1,627, but most of them are in the suburbs.

Bridish and Boers in Fight.

Details received at Durban, Natal, of what at first seemed an ordinary skirmish between a British column and a Boer commando near N’Quta, in Zululand, July 28, shows that a hard, all-day fight occurred in which the British narrowly escaped the loss of a gun of the Sixty-seventh field battery. Four hundred Boers repeatedly rushed the British position, killing Major Edwards and Gunner Carpenter The gun was limbered up and* taken at a gallop for three miles under heavy fire. Five British were killed.

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. AntomoliHe Sa It* Ron from . Chicago to Buffalo C™ M the State Line of Indiana Talk with the TiarbU at Kendallville—Detective*' Work. Sharp Work of Detective*. By shrewd work on the part of private detectives it is said that between $15,000 and $16,000 which was stolen from an Akron, Ohio, bank recently was recovered through arrests made at Goshen a few days ago. Fearing that a run would be caused should the robbery become known, the bank officials did not report their loss to the police, but hired detectives themselves. Ons of tne robbers was not an experienced hand at the business and became talkative. He afforded the detectives a clew wnich resulted in their rading a local gambling den last Saturday morning. Taking their men quietly into custody, the detectives forced them to go to Elkhart, near where the money was said to be hidden. There it is claimed that the money in bills and gold coin was turned over to the officers. The robbery, which occurred about ten days ago, was not reported to the Goshen police, but they partly verified the story of the recovery of the money. One of the men implicated is said to have served time in the Jeffersonville, Ind., prison for burglarly and to live in Leavitt street, Chicago. Begin* Auto Run to Buffalo. Arthur J. Eddy of Chicago, who Is making the run from that city to Buffalo on an automobile, reached Kendallville at 8 o’clock Thursday night, having covered 170 miles on the first day of his jourpey\j\lr. Eddy started from the Rush street bridge at 7 o’clock Thursday morning, and was favored by pleasant weather and fairly good roads. His plan for the trip contemplated a speed of 100 miles a day, easy running under favorable conditions, so that the first stage of his travel finds him far ahead of schedule time. At one point in his ride he crossed on his machine a stream sixteen inches in depth. Mr. Eddy is accompanied by a friend, who, however, Is not a mechanic or an expert. Mr. Eddy said that the most annoying delays he encountered were caused by stops to inquire the correct and best roads.

Insanity Inquiry Ordered. The State Board of Charities has begun the investigation of the four State hospitals for the insane ordered by Gov. Durbin. The investigation is being conducted on the recommendation of Attorney General Taylor, who declared in an official report to the governor that evidence collected by a-as office would lead to the belief that tne law in Indiana had been abused, and that many sane people are confined in the asylums and should be released. Additional trouble has arisen over the efforts of the State Board of Charities to hold its investigations in secret sessions. It is argued that the purpose of the examination is thus frustrated. Held for Death of Wife. The wife of Fred Cooper died suddenly at Evansville and the husband is under arrest, awaiting an investigation. The physician who was called says the woman died from poison. A post-mortem examination was held. Cooper was arrested a few days ago for assaulting his wife. For Tattooing* Boys* William Thompson, a tramp, was sentenced to the State prison from Evansville for an indeterminate period for tattooing small boys. The lads stole money for him with which to buy beer, and he in return disfigured their arms. Jesse Cate* I* Derftt. Jesse Cates, aged 86, president of the Union National bank at Richmond, is dead at his country home. State New* tn Brief. Marion—Miller & Harley, claiming to have been victimized by the Regal Manufacturing Company, of Chicago, at Kansas City, caused the arrest of William C. Reid, president of the company. It is alleged that Reid secured $14,400 through fraud and misrepresentation. Washington—lt is said that the People’s National Bank has been swindled by a clever forger, who cashed a check for $405, made payable to C. E. ■ Lewis, and signed “Bob Brown." | Richmond—Thoma's S. Porter and Miss Stella B. Johnson, daughter of Mrs. Peter Johnson, have been united in marriage, the Rev. Elwood O. Ellis . Glaciating. I Marion—The Oyster Bay Hotel, with case and barroom, has been sold to Mertimer Wallett and Clayton Mullen by Graham & Rippey; consideration $12,000. Newcastle—Dr. Daniel H. Stafford, an old practitioner of Henry county, is dead at his country home near here. He settled in this country in 1832. | Greenfield —Charles Andis, injured while in the employ of the Greenfield & Indianapolis Rapid Transit Company, is suing for SIO,OOO damages. E. Haise & Son’s flour mill at Saltillo, was burned. The firm had ignored demands for cash under threats of setting fire to the mill. Rockport—The burning of Jaeob Scammerhorn’s home, at Richland, caused $3,500 loss, with S9OO insurance!