Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1885 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. 6. R MARSHALL, - - Ptmusma.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Petitions are in circulation in New York to abolish the postoffice in Brooklyn and place the mails for that city under the Erisdiction of the New York office.... The terocean Improvement Company, a Chicago concern, with a capital of $1,000,000, has filed articles at New York. It will build and equip elevated and surface roads. Eight thousand persons gazed on the dead face of John McCullough the actor, in St. George’s Hall, Philadelphia, and fully 10,000 people could not gain admission to the structure. The religious services were conducted by the Rev. Robert Hunter, hymns being sung by Miss Bertha Ricci and Mr. W. H. Morton. The collection of flowers, ferns, and palms was beautiful and tasteful. The remains were interred according to the rites of the Elks ,in Monument Cemetery Benjamin Franklin bequeathed £I,OOO to the town of Boston in 1791, to accumulate for a centary, when £IOO,OOO was to be expended in some important public work. It has been decided to devote $350,000 to the purchase of West Roxbury Park... .A misplaced switch caused the wrecking of a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train near Pittsburgh, Pa. No one was killed, but between fifteen and twenty persons were more or less injured. Congressman Boyle was one of the victims.

Sidney Dillon, of New York, has subscribed SI,OOO to the Grant monument fund. He expressed at the same time a hope that other members of the association who could afford it would follow his example. The friends of Mr. Stead, the imprissoned editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, are making arrangements for a monster demonstration on his release from jail. It is reported that he will start a new paper as the organ of the social-purity movement, now carried on by a number of organizations Tinder the patronage of the Methodist Church... .The expulsion of Russian Poles from Prussia continues unabated. In one settlement alone 2,000 Poles were ordered to settle their affairs and at once ?uit Prussian territory forever. While russia is driving thousands from their homes Russia has issued an edict refusing to receive them unless they’ can proven that they were bom on Russian territory. Many of those expelled have resided in Prussia so long that they have forgotten their native language. Two wars are now being Wagedin the Old World. The Servians have invaded Bulgaria and the British have invaded Burmah. The Servians want to seize and annex a part of Bulgaria, because Southern Bulgaria has annexed itself to Northern Bulgaria. The British covet Burmah for the additional trade it will give them and the trade route it will afford them into China.

"With the recovery of his voice Mr. Gladstone has apparently recovered all his intellectual adroitness. Because of a quarrel with her husband Mrs. Albert Fritz of. New York committed suicide after killing her two little children. ... .John a Philadelphia lad 13 years of age, killedffiimself with rat poison because he had wasted a week's wages in dissipation and feared disgrace. Horace Brigham Claflin, whose reputation as one of the greatest merchants of New York extended throughout the country and to Europe, died of apoplexy recently at his country house at Fordham. Mr. Claflin was in his 74th year.

THE WEST.

The National Butter, Cheese, and Egg Convention assembled at Chicago last week. Norman J. Colman, Commissioner of Agriculture, addressed the delegates in relation to the manufacture of artificial butter, and advocated stringent Federal legislation. J. W. Gould, of Ohio, stated that the Health Officer of Cleveland recently found 33 per cent, of vaseline an “butter” sold in that market, and he remarked that it disheartened a dairyman to compete with the oil wells of Pennsylvania. Colonel H. W. Hatch, a member of Congress from Missouri, thought butterine should be branded with a raw head and bloody bones. The Secretary reported that during 18831885 the receipts of butter in Chicago footed up 238,733,000 pounds, and the shipments 250,041,000 pounds. The fact that the shipments were greater than the receiptsi" was due to the shipment of 12,000,000 pounds of bogus butter. He had collated some statistics about butterine, which showed that from May 1 of this year to May 1 of 1886 the output will easily reach 20,000,000 pounds. The receipts of cheese in Chicago for 1883-1885 were 119,600,000 pounds, and the shipments 97,065,000 pounds. From November 1, 1883, to November 1, 1884, there were received 332.000 cases of eggs, against 429,000 the previous year. The shipments for 1883-1884 were 112,000 cases, against 188,000 cases in 1884-1885. The Governor of Indiana issued a proclamation quarantining the State against infected cattle. Illinois figures in the list as one of the States from which cattle cannot be imported unless certain guarantees are given... .A haif-crazed cobbler named Ritterberg murdered a Chicago policeman who attempted to arrest him, and then turned the pistol upon himself and blew his brains out.

Four counterfeiters were captured at Cedar Rapids, lowa, while manufacturing bogus dollars. The chief of the quartet is George Harris, of Massachusetts.... The Piegan Indians have left their reservation for a thieving tour in Wyoming^.. .Jasper E. Sweet, indicted for the recent murder of Dr. Waugh, in Chicago, arrested in Kentucky, has been brought back for trial. William Sharon, ex-Senator from California, died in San Francisco, after an illness of a week, during whichJime he was unable to take nourishment. He was in his sjxty-fifth year. ' Promptly at noon of the 14th, in the I ' 0 jail at Chicago, the three murderers of Fiijppo Caruso were simultaneously executed, They spent the previous night in the libfhry with Italian priests. The bodies were interred in Calvary Cemetery, each of the condemned men having bequeathed his remains to a benevolent organization.‘<-''l The production of the “Mikado” at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, the coming week should attract the attention of admirers of comic opera everywhere. The pany engaged is exceptionally well having appeared for two months at the Standard Theater, New York, where it wqp generally conceded that the production sur-

passed any effort in light opera heretofore seen in this country. The entire company, chorus, scenerv, costnpies, etc., will be brought from New Ybrk intact, and Mr. Anthony Reiff will direct the efficient orchestra. ,z ■ ' ,

Alva L. Pound, the detective who shot Griffin for robbing the Shite Treasury of Nebraska, Was sentenced to the penitentiary’ for two years; but Gov. Dawes at once reprieved the prisoner for twenty’ days, in order to make out ail unconditional pardon. ...The Supreme Court of the State "Of Illinois has affirmed the judgment of the lower court which convicted Joseph C. Mackin of perjury... Maria P. Storey, the first wife of Wilbur F. Storey, has tiled a petition asking to be made a party defendant to the second wife’s bill so as to protect her interests in her former husband’s estate. She says that she was married to Mr. Storey the 22d day of June, 1847, and obtained a divorce from him Ifeb. 17, 1868, on the ground of desertion, with $2,000 a year alimony. He then owned real estate worth SIOO,OOO and personal property, consisting of the Chicago Times and its good-will, worth several hundred thousand dollars more. Some of the property he owned at the time of his death was the same he owned when he was divorced, and she claims a share in this. Rev. Dr. Clinton Locke, of Chicago, has been requested by a clergyman of Galveston to receive contributions for the sufferers by fire in that city. Jay Gould, the New York millionaire, was among the first to contribute for the relief of the sufferers, the amount of his donation being $5,000. C. P. Huntington gave a like sum. At an explosion in the boiler-room of the Bull Domingo Mine at Silver Cliff, Colo., ten men were killed. Hugh N. Broods, alias Maxwell, alias D’Anquier, was arraigned in the Criminal Court at St. Louis, and formally charged with the murder of Charles Arthur Preller. He pleaded not guilty.

THE SOUTH.

An incendiary fire destroyed the CourtHouse and County Treasurer’s office of Leon County, Texas, many valuable records, which cannot be duplicated, being destroyed.. . .At Fannin, Clay County, Tex., Valentine Sanford, 14 years old, deliberately assassinated his mother, and later assisted his father in searching for her. When the body was found the boy confessed the crime, saying he also had determined to kill his father, then sell the plantation, and become a brigand. The Department of Agriculture at "Washington, in its November report, says of the cotton crop: • The cotton returns of November are local estimates of the yield per acre. They are somewhat higher than those of the last two years, but materially lower than those of 1880 and 1882. The increase over the yield last year is most marked in Texas and Georgia. In Arkansas and Tennessee, where the average is usually high, the rate is depressed by the unfavorable condition of August and September. The rate of yield by States is as follows : Virginia, 152 pounds per acre; North Carolina, 157 ; SouthCarolina, 142; Georgia, 150; Florida, 105; Alabama, 145; Mississippi, 165; Louisiana, 223; Texas, 182; Arkansas, 200: Tennessee, 155. The weather has been favorable for picking, and killing frosts are only reported in the northern border of the cotton belt. The top crop is very light, and scarcely an appreciable quantity. The past month has been generally favorable for picking, which is well advanced, more than three-fourths of the crop having been picked. Rains have interfered with harvesting more in Georgia and Alabama than elsewhere. With good weather hereafter the proportion to be gathered in December will be confined to localities favored with a top crop worth harvesting.

Judge Ford, of New Orleans, who is serving a term of twenty-five years in the Louisiana penitentiary for participation in the murder of A. H. Murphy, now confesses that he fired the fatal shot. Patrick Ford, his brother, who is under sentence of death, had made a similar admission. ... .Riley Pyle, who killed United States Commissioner McDonald in Pickett County, Tennessee, sixteen months ago, -has been captured, after a desperate fight in which he and two companions were wounded. / A fire which started on the Strand at Galveston, Texas, swept southeastward with great rapidity, destroying 400 dwellings and residences, many of the inmates narrowly escaping. A high wind which prevailed at the time aided the progress of the flames, which found easy prey in the wooden structures covering the burned district. One thousand families were rendered temporarily homeless, and the financial loss will approximate $2,500,000, with less than $1,000,000 insurance. The buildings on forty and one-half blocks, or one hundred acres, were swept away by the fire. ——— Because of family troubles William E. Stone shot and killed his wife at Baltimore and then shot hiniself. The couple had been married twenty years, nine children being the fruits of the union.

WASHINGTON.

Four notices of contest have already been received By the Clerk of the House of Representatives. These contests are in lowa, Indiana, Rhode Island and Ohio. Protests have also been received from citizens of California against seating the delegation from that State on the ground that they were not legally elected from the districts to which they were credited. The member who holds a certificate from the First California District is declared in one protest not to be a citizen of the United States. I Civil, war is still raging in Peru, and is likely to continue for some time. Engineer Menooae has submitted a report to the Secretary of the Navy as to the Nicaraguan Canal, estimating that the canal will be completed in six years at a cost of $04,000,000... .An official denial is made by the Department of State that the United States is one of the movers in a diplomatic .project to secure the neutrality of the islands of the Pacific which are now occupied by continental powers.... The report of the Sixth Auditor of the Treasury shows that nearly $14,000,000 was expended for*’railroad transportation Of mails, $5,500,000 to stage coaches, nearly $600,000 for internal transportation by steamboats, but only $325,000 for the encouragement of foreign commerce. Commissioner Abkins has returned from a visit to nearly all the Indian tribes in the Southwest, which he found in good circumstances.

POLITICAL.

The President has appointed William Hyde Postmaster at St. Louis. This appointment terminates one of the bitterest fights that have occurred since the present administration came in. Mr. Hyde has been opposed on the ground that he was not personally a suitable person Tor so important an office, and he has had the Missouri .Republican, of which be was until a few months ago the managing editor, dead against him*' It is also understood .that the Postmaster General was Wtoh more favorable to Mr. Pijest, but jlr. by all except Glover,

and he was strongly indorsed by St. Louis people, and it is said that the President regarded his indorsements as so mtich more numerous and weighty than those bt any other candidate that fronj,lhe first he had not been able to see how lie could appoint any one else, though he has delayed action out of deference to the wishes of the antiHyde men Samuel J. TiMen’. Jr., has been appointed Internal Revenue Collector for the Fifteenth District of New York, vice James S. Smart, resigned.

I The appointed Dr. John G. Lee, of Philadelphia, Secretary of Le-, gation at Constantinople. Dr. Lee is a friend of Minister Cox. apd is understood to have been appointed, on, his personal solicitation. He is familial- with the modern languages, and is said to peculiarly fitted for the place.... Major Bartlett, who 'lately resigned the office of Second Deputy Commissioner of Pensions because of his in-, ability to attend to the duties, is a brother of the Rev. William Alvin Bartlett, formerly of Plymouth Congregational Church, Chicago, and now of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington. Last week the President appointed as Maj. Bartlett’s successor Gen. Joseph R. Bartlett, of Birmingham, N. Y., .who is 'said to be another brother. .. .The President"appointed William H. Morgan, of Nashville, Tenn., member of the board of Indian commissioners, in place of Orange Judd, resigned. The President has made the following appointments: George W. Glick, Pension Agent at Toneka, Kan.; Erasmus Redmhn, Collector of Customs for the district of Frenchman Bay, Me.; Frederick F. Mans- ' field, of Texas, to be Secretary of Legation at Japan; James Burnes to be Surveyor of Customs for the port of Kansas City; Oscar Vale ton to be Assistant Appraiser of Merchandise in the district of New Orleans. The President has also made the folio-wing appointments in the navy: John J. Hunker, Lieutenant Commander; Milton K. Schwenk, Lieutenant; William H. Schuetz, Lieutenant; Waldemar D. Rose, Lieutenant junior class. It appears that Charier Foster, of Indianapolis, who has gone to Germany to be Consul at Eberfelt, was not a citizen of the "United States- when he took the oath of office. He will be recalled.

GENERAL.

General Clinton B. Fisk and other committeemen selected at the recent conference at Lake Mohonk called upon President Cleveland to express their ideas in regard to the improvement of the Indian race. After listening to suggestions, the President remarked that lands should be given the red men in severalty rather than to place schools and agricultural implements on the reservations, and- that he hoped to make a beginning in the right direction. An exploring schooner reports the discovery of a field of coal’ on the Russian shore of Behring Straits Sixty families at Point aux Esquimaux, Quebec, are said to be starving, and will die of hunger unless relief speedily arrives. - A singular case showing the contagious nature of small-pox was discovered at Montreal the other day. A child who died with small-pox had a pet cat which it fondled during its illness. When the health officials came to disinfect the house the cat was found to be covered with small-pox postules, and was taken out and shot and its body burned. A SYSTEM of drainage for the City of Mexico and the surrounding country is contemplated which will cost $4,000,000, and will, it is thought, reduce the death rate one-half. • In its commercial summary for the week, Bradstreet’s says: “The past week is con'i spicuous for shewing a remarkable increase in the number of failures throughout the country, the total/being 227, against 156 last week, a gain oi 71. As compared with like weeks in the tnree preceding years, a like increase is noted, excepting in the second week of in which the total’was 205/ ThegSYeral trade situation throughout the country presents few new features. The movement of merchandise has not increased at any point. In certain lines business continues good; in others only fairly active, and in some it is dull and declining.”

FOREIGN.

The nineteenth annual session of the National Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, was opened at Boston in the sixth degree. All the officers were present except D. Wyatt Aikep, of South Carolina, who wa confined at home by illness. The Committee on Credentials reported that- twentynine States were clear upon the Treasurer’s books and entitled to representation. Worthy Master Woodman’s annual address and the yearly report of the Executive Committee showed the order to be in a prosperous and healthy financial condition. Over 150 dormant Granges were revived during the year. “Not unfrequently,” says the report, “the Executive Committee is appealed to l by individuals for protection from ‘mutual aid associations,’ or other similar Corporations, with which they have no connection. The committee suggests that the National Grange publish a deliverance upon this subject, renouncing its responsibility for any association of whatever character, unless such as may be found recognized by the constitution and by-laws.”

. iN’the Eliza Armstrong abduction case at London the charges against Mr. Bramwell Booth, leader of the Salvation Army, were withdrawn. The other defendants were found guilty of indecent assault and sentenced as follows: Mr. Stead, three months’ imprisonment, Rebecca Jarrett six months, and Sampson Jacques one month —all without hard labor —and Mme. Louise Mourey six months with hard 1ab0r.... Henry Mosier, an American artist residing in Paris, hasreceivedfromH. H. Warner, of Rochester, N. Y., an order to paint two Indian scenes and an American farm within five years, the compensation being $75,000. Mr. Mosier will soon visit the far West to make the necessary studies.... Members of the Royal Rifles at Limerick broke out of the barracks and attacked with bayonettf many people residing in the vicinity, in revenge for assaults by civilians. The Mayor and police suppaessed the riot... .William B. Carpenter, F. R. S., who ranked high as a physiologist, died in London from burns caused by the upsetting of a lamp. William N. Carpenter, a leading citizen of Detroit, was killed by being thrown from his carriage... .Relief committees at Glasgow find it difficult to supply the unemployed ship-builders with food. In the hold of a vessel about to sail for New York were discovered no less than fortyseven stowawiSyo .... .Charles S. Parnell, in acknowledging the receipt of £I,OOO from Treasurer O’Reilly, at Detroit, writes that the money will shortly be of enormous service in the Parliamentary campaign. Advices from Constantinople say that M. Nelidoff, the Russian Ambassador, has been ordered by his Government to press the demand of Russia before the conference for the immediate disarmament of Servia, Greece, and Bulgaria, and the deposition of Prince Alexander,’lfie ruler of Bulgaria.

King Theebaw, of Burmah, has issued a proclamation declaring that lie will not accept the proposals of the Indian Government, at the same time calling on the Burmese to defend their country. The resignation of Prince Henry, of Battenberg ap a Lieutenant of the Prussian Guards has been accepted... .The French courts have at last pronounfled a divorce between Mme. Nicolini and her husband, the well-known tenor, who is married to Patti under the law of other countries.... Harwood’s cotton mills, at Bolton, England, were destroyed by fire. The loss involved was about $200,000.,

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A statement made in the Chamber of Deputies by Premier Brisson indicates the Collapse of the French enterprises in Tonquin and Madagascar... The Servians, having turned the Dragoman pass, are now headed for the line of intrenchments at Sofia. Five hundred Bulgarians have been taken prisoners. The Servians had 200 wounded and fifty killed. The government of Servia, has forbidden telegraph officials to receive war dispatches from foreign correspondents. Turkey has ordered 200,000 tons of coal from Newcastle and sent $150,000 to Hungary to purchase artillery horses. The delegates to the Balkan conference seem to deem it possible that the war may be localized through the efforts of Germany. Greece has contracted for sixty mitrailleuse and Nordenfelt guns, and made, S’war loan of $380,000.

Louis Riel was executed at Regina at an early horn on the 17th. None of his associates in rebellion found their way to his cell. His last hours were spent with Fathers Andre and McWilliams. He appeared on the scaffold in moccasins and a loose woolen shirt and,surtout. The guard consisted of twenty mounted policemen. The priests restrained his inclination to voice his grievances in the presence of the hangman. About twenty persons witnessed the execution., Riel died ■without a struggle. His body was interred beneath the scaffold, but will soon be removed to St. Boniface Cemetery. The executioner was a freighter named Jack Henderson, who was once taken prisoner by Riel, and who traveled 100 miles to beg the chance to get even. The rope was destroyed by the Deputy Sheriff, to prevent relichunters from obtaining it. Five hundred French students paraded the streets of Montreal cheering for Riel, and the City Council adjourned as a tribute of respect to his memory... .Between the '27th insL and the 28th of December eleven persons are to be executed in Ontario and the Northwest Provinces.

In making several appointments to Federal offices in the Territories President Cleveland relied upon home talent.... The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that during the month of October $61800,000 worth of beef, perk, and dairy products was exported abroad from the ports of this country, being a decrease of $672,000 as compared with the corresponding month last year. The value of the total exports of beef and pork products for the_twelve months ending Oct. 31 was over $86,000,000, being an increase iff hearty $2,600,000 as compared with the previous year. About two months ago, in Harlan and Knox Counties; Kentucky, twenty-nine moonshiners wtere arrested by H. W. Rogers, a Deputy Marshal, and most of them are now serving sentences. 'Sunday evening Rogers was fatally wounded by a ball fired through his bedroom window in Harlan village. A corrected report shows that 568 residences at Galveston were destroyed bj- the r ecent fire, and that the loss is fully $2,500,000. At a mass meeting it Was resolved to accept proffered aid from other cities, the distress being much 7 greater than at first estimated. Thus far $68,000 has been received, of which $23,500 has been paid out. The Rev. Mr. McLean, pastor of the Ninth Presbyterian Church at St. Paul, Minn., is charged with having criminal relations with a young woman of 17, and the doors of his church have been closed against him... . The decision of Justice Miller in the Brighton ranch case will compel the company to remove its wire fence from 52,000 acres of Government land in Custer County, Nebraska. A AVAR against “scalpers” is being pushed with vigor by railway passenger agents at Buffalo. They now contemplate a series of prosecutions under the State law; and, if convictions foil<>w. the offending “scalpers” may get terms in either the penitentiary or county jail....A shoemaker of Lynn, Massachusetts, claiming to be a sou of the late Thomas W. Pierce, the Texas railway king, appeared in the Probate Court at Salem and petitioned for an equitable division of the estate.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves... 84.00 @6.00 Hogs 3.50 @4.25 Wheat—No. 1 White 97 @ .99 No. 2 Red 94 @ .95 Corn—No. 2.. .53 @ .55 Oats—White.34 @ .39 Pork—Mess 10.00 @11.50 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 5.50 @ 6.00 Good Shipping. 4.50 @5.25 Common 3.25 @ 3.75 Hogs 3.50 @4.00 Flout.—Extra Spring 5.00 @ 5.50 Choice Winter.., 4.50 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red Winter9o @ .92 Corn—No. 243 @ .44’4 Oats—No. 226 @ .27 Rye—No. 2.........60 @ .62 Barley—No. 2.66 @ .68. Butter—Choice Creamery2l @ .24 Fine Dairyl6 @ .18 Cheese—Full Cream, newlo @ .IOUj Skimmed Flatso6’4 @ .0714 Eggs—Fresh2o @ .21 Potatoes—Car-lots, per bu4s @ .52 Pork—Mess—. 8.50 @ 9.00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat-No. 2 87 @ .88 Corn—No. 2 .44 @ .45 Oats—No. 2 .26 @ .27 Rye—No. 1 .60 @ .62 Poßk—New Mess 9.50 @IO.OO . TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 294 @ .95 Corn—No. 2...,44 @ .45 Oats—No. 2.26 & .27 ST. LOUIS. Wheat-No. 2 Red .92?4@ .931$ Corn—Mixed39 @ .40 Oats—Mixed 26J4@ .27’4 Pork—New Mess. 9.50 @IO.OO CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red. 91 @ .92 Corn—No. 2.45 @ .46 Oats —Mixed .28 @ .29 Rye—No. 265 @ .66 Pork—Mess 9.25 @ 9.75 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 4.25 @5.25 Hogs 3.25 @ 3.75 Sheep 3.00 ,@ 4.Q0 Wheat—No. 1 White 91 @ .92 Corn—No. 2.47 & .49 Oats-No. 2.29 @ .32 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red9l @ .92 Corn—Mixed...’ .42 @ .44 Oats—No. 2 26 @ .23 ■- EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best...... t 5.00 @ 5.50 Fair 3„75 @ 4.50, Common: 3.25 @3.75 Hogs'.J..... 3.50 @<oo Sheep.., 1 3.50 @ 4.50 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 HitoL. 100 @ 1.01 Corn4B @ .49 CattlbJ....«... 4.25 @5.75

GONE TO THE BOTTOM.

The Canadian Steamer Algoma Wrecked on Isle Royal, with Little Warning. .Thirty-seven Lives Reported Lost, . Meeting Death L'rifler Lake Superior’s Waves. A terrible marine disaster, resulting in the loss of thirty-seven human lives, occurred near Port Arthur, on Lake Superior, on the night of the Bth inst., the particulars of which are embraced in the following telegraphic reports from the scene of the calamity: The Algoma, one of th6iron-clad transfer steamers of the Canadian Pacific, left Owen Sound, Ontario, last Thursday. While rounding Isle Royale the steamer Athabasca sighted the fragments of a wreck on the treacherous reef. A rescuing boat was manned, and, after considerable difficulty, made the shore, rescuing the crew — thirteen men—and two passengers of the ill-fated Algoma. They reported that thirtyseven passengers had perished in the wreck. The survivors could’' not have endured the hardships of exposue and hunger much longer. When they were landed at Port Huron by the Athabasca late this evening many of them were dangerously prostrated. Port Arthur is on the extreme northern coast of Lake Superior and distant from here nearly 500 miles. The scene of the wreck is southwest from Port Arthur thirty miles or more. All the facts known here are gathered from personal dispatches announcing the loss of relatives or friends, and from two telegrams to the Canadian Pacific officials, briefly outlining the manner of the catastrophe. It appears that a heavy storm prevailed on the lake Sunday night, one of its features being a dense fog. Shortly after the Algoma rounded into the straits which Isle Royale skirts she crashed into a concealed reef, and a few moments later the boat was shivered asunder. It collapsed so quickly that many of the victims perished in their cabins, where they had taken refuge from the inclement weather. O'thers, who reached the deck, were given no assistance, and clung to the rigging in despair until ingulfed or swept away. The crew, frenzied by the disaster, thought only of saving themselves. With a quick rush for the nearest boat, they flocked in and swung it from the davits before the passengers, could follow. Two, however, contrived to crowd in, leaving the abandoned ones, among them several women and children, helpless and hopeless on the deck of the doomed steamer. The boat was capsized several times by the waves, but was righted again. The survivors succeeded in reaching land, almost dead from exposure and exhaustion. The scene of excitement is terrible. It is impossible to get any well-defined or completely connected story of the terrible disaster which has brought gloom to hundreds of Canadian households. Mate Simpson and W. B. McArthur, one of the passengers who survived, were interviewed, and a story obtained of which the (following is -afair synopsis: The steamer left Owen Sound last Thursday afternoon with thirty-eight passengers, chiefly Canadians, hut there were some few-Americans. All went well during the early part of the voyage, and the vessel passed up St. Mary’s River and Sault Sto. Marie, where she coaled. It was Friday about noon when she passed the latter place, and soon after steamed out into Lake Superior. The weather was calm, but as evening advanced signs of a storm were brewing. When spoken to by passengers Capt. Moore shook his head ominously, and all realized that a storm of unusual severity-was blowing. All trusted in the stout steel craft, which was deemed of equal strength to the average seagoing vessel. Evening closed in, and the Algoma held her course toward Port Arthur, while the storm increased in fury and caused the great waves to pound the vessel, which was tossed about like a feather. The timbers were heard to creak, but little danger was apprehended on the score of unsoundness. As night wore on the storm seemed, if possible, to increase in violence. Snow and sleet descended, and ments appeared in their angriest mood. Some retired to their berths, but the majority,- who were suffering from nausea, kept watch. At the time when day should under ordinary "circumstances have broken, darkness continued, for the snow-storm had not abated ana the air was terribly dense. The steamer still held on her way, and as fair progress had been made notwithstanding the severity of the storm, it was thought that the Isle Royale, which is located a short distance outside of Thunder Bay and about fortyfive miles from Port Arthur, must be near at hand. The island is long, but comparatively a narrow, rocky one, and its vicinity is treacherous, owing to the large number of bowlders which exist about it. The channel by which the bay is entered, runs close to the island, and Capt. Moore realized the necessity of progressing with the utmost care. Fog-horns were blowed and signals of distress sounded. The speed of the boat was reduced, hilt as the storm continued to rage, it was impossible to determine absolutely what course the boat was pursuing. Suddenly a great crash was heard, and the vessel rebounded and quivered like an aspen leaf. “Good God t” said the Captain, “she’s struck. Our doom has come!” Ten seconds later all was the wildest confusion and alarm. Those who were on deck roared their alarm, while the shrieks of the milder sex were terrible. Crash, crash, and the stout vessel pounded the rdeks. The crackling of the timbers and the swaying of the vessel warned all that death in a terrible form was upon them. The relentless wind seemed to scream its satisfaction. while the snow and sleet drove against the half-dad passengers. “It's no use to describe the scene," said one informant. “Nothing worse ever occurred on earth. In their madness, when the waves were washing the deck, a number threw themselves ihto the foaming billows. Others, when a great wave would pass over the deck, which was swaying from side to Bide, were swept into the sea like feathers. A few hung on to ropes or to the masts, but the majority seemed to abandon themselves in the wild alarm and despair. • “Even the crew seemed powerless, so stricken were they with the awful suddenness and stupendous character of the disaster, Meanwhile the boat rapidly went to pieces, dashed against the rocks. The crew, all of whom except the waitresses had clung to the rigging, managed, during a slight lull in the storm, to place themselves in a life-boat, cut the fastenings, and in an instant a wave swept them from the ill-fated wreck. Amid the awful cries of the dying and the terrible dashing of the waves the boat was borne onward. Two of the passengers had managed to place themselves in the boat before it was out away from the wreck. Any efforts that had been made to launch boats during the early confusion and horror had failed. Meantime the life-boat and its occupants had a terrible experience on the open, storm-tossed lake. All who could bound themselves to the boat, while the remainder held on like grim death to the sides. Expecting every moment to meet their death either by drowning or from exposure or cold, which Was intense, the halfdead inmates were borne on. Once th® boat was turned over with the waves, and one of the crew washed away, but the frail craft righted itself and was swept on in the comparative darkness. ’ ~

“After half an hour the boat suddenly struck some rocks. The inmates feared all was over with them, as the eraft capsized, but, to their surprise, when thrown, out, the water was only a foot deep, arid they discovered that they were on land. After remaining there an hour or more, exposed to thp elements/, the storm abated, and the sky cleared. It was then discovered that thev were on Isle Royale, and that the vessel had been wrecked about a mile from shore on the great bowlders that exist near the channel. It was about 10 o’clock in the morning, and the half-dead crew remained there until late in the afternoon, when the Athabasca came along and picked them up. They were then token to Port Arthur."

Helmbold, of buchu fame, who was got out of an insane asylum by ex-Judge Curtis, looks well and hearty, though showing signs of increasing years. One of his alleged “freaks” was the erecting of a mast and spar over his store. 1 When she is home, Judic, the French actress, bathes in a silver bath tub, which has her monogram in gold.

THE INDIAN PROBLEM.

Friends of the Untutored Savage Lay His Grievances Before the Great Father. The President and Secretary Lamar Outline the Indian Policy of the Administration. The members of the committee appointed at the Lake Mohonk Conference to call on the President and the Secretary of the Interior were very much pleased by their reception by both functionaries, though neither unreservedly assented to all that the committee asked, and the Secretary differed radically from the committee in certain important particulars. Gen. Clinton B. Fisk headed the delegation, and presented the members to the President. Hon.. Erastus Brooks, of New York, read an address embodying the views of the conference as to the best methods of improving the condition of the Indians. He reminded the President of his remarks on this subjectinhis inaugural, in which he said the Indians should be “fairly and honestly treated as wards of the Government, and their education and civilization promoted with a view to their ultimate citizenship.” He also recalled the words of Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson in her death-bed letter to the President, to wit: “I am dying happier for the belief that it is your hand that is destined to strike the first steady blow toward righting the wrongs of the Indian race.” The questions, Mt. Brooks said, which seemed to them to demand most immediate attention are those ~ relating to land and education, homes and families. "What is now needed in regard to lands, he said, is severalty and individuality, with the protection of law for persons and families. This would result in • settlements, in homes, and in land cultivation, and in that way make the Indian a self-supporting citizen, endowed with all the rights, privileges and duties of citizenship. The proof of the ability of the Indian to work profitably for himself and for the Government is found, said 1 he, in the’ fact that those who are the most civilized now have under cultivation more than 250,-. 000 acres of land, upon which in a year was' raised 1,000,000 "bushels of corn, 1,000,000 bushels of wheat, and nearly 1,000,000 bushels of oats and barley, besides 103,000head of cattle, 1,000,000 sheep, 235,000 horses and mules, and 68,000 swine. These figures, he said, do not include the products of 60,000 civilized Indians, ready for Territorial government. The speaker dwelt eloquently upon the evil effects of the lack of laws to protect the Indians, and said they needed just what the white man has—the force of law in their behalf and the freedom of the ballot. To secure these ends, it was urged that the tribal relations and reservations be abolished, and the diffusion as speedily as possible of the Indian in the United States encouraged, so that he may secure, by association with his white brethren, pure civilization and full citizenship. Remarks were also made by Rev. Lyman Abbott, Mr. M. E. Gates and Ges. Fisk, each of whom advocated the abolition of the present system of Indian reservations, and favored the adoption of a policy in re-gard-to them similar to that so successfully employed in the case of the colored population.

The President listened attentively to the speakers, and assured them of his deep interest in the Indian question. He reviewed briefly the many difficulties encountered in dealing with the question, which he acknowledged was a very important one, and said the great trouble to his mind was as to the first practical steps to be taken in improving the condition of the Indian. Shall we give them more schools and churches, and agricultural implements for use on their reservations, or shall we deed them lands in severalty arid leave them to their own resource? One trouble he found was to get rid of the influences of the old chiefs. Then, again, if w r e leave them to themselves, and one ~gets hungry, a loud cry goes up that they are starving. How are we to get the Indians to mingle with the whites? We certainly cannot drive them off their reservations. Is it better to keep them under tutelage where they are, or could their civilization be better accomplished in some other way? “The question is surrounded with difficulties,” continued the Presidents “and the most important consideration to my mind at present is, ‘What is the most useful thing to be done?’ ” He said that while it might not be well for the cause to disturb the Indians in their present homes, - he said that their reservations would ultimately be given to them in severalty, and the Indians thrown on their resources. The President reminded the committee that the cause which they advocated would require years to consummate, but intimated that he hoped to be able to make a beginning in the right direction during the remaining years of his administration. The committee after leaving the White House proceeded to the Interior Department, where they had a long interview with Secretary Lamar, and through their chairman presented him a written statement of the view of the conference. In reply to a brief address by General Fisk, Secretary Lamar said he would, in his forthcoming annual report, acknowledge his obligation to the philanthropic and benevolent associations and individuals in the work he had to carry on. The ultimate object was the civilization of the, Indian. A crisis had been reached in the history of that race that must be met by some methods different from those heretofore pursued. His own knowledge of the Indian’s wants was as yet too limited to papnit himjto formulate a general policy adapted to the present and the exigencies of the future. M The process must be one of improving the Indian out of his present condition into civilization, and it would be a gradual process. The first point should be to secure their reservations to them (either as now located or compressed into a smaller space) in fee simple so that their title shall be inviolable. At the same time he did not advocate the division of the entire reservation among the Indians, and believed the abandonment of the reservation system at this time would be premature. It was the end to be sought, but the first step would be, after bringing the Indians, with their consent, into limits proportionate with their numbers, to protect them from the destructive influences of the stronger civilization surrounding them- Whites should be rigorously excluded, and when the reservations had been partially subdivided a considerable portion ought to be left undivided and undistributed. In the transitioh state the tribal system must be adhered to. It was the normal condition of the race, and to take the Indian out of it would be to change his social condition before he was fitted for higher civilization. He was impressed with the belief that the Christian religion was the instrumentality for the elevation of this race. He knew that from his own experience, in the South and his knowledge of the tribes in the Indian Ter. ritory. The Indian coqld npt stand it to be thrown out unprotected into the civilization of this country. It Would be almost as bad as extermination. He should be improved out of one condition into another.