Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1894 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

J - •■ — '■ ________. « The gold reserve now stands at $58,289,609. Ambassador Bayard will sail from Southampton Oct. 6 for the United States. . General Freight Agent Caven. of the B. &O. was mysteriously assasinated at Cleveland. Colonel Breckinridge announces that he will resume the practice of law at Lex ington, Ky. ■—t- ——. ■ ■■ Louis Young arrived at Tacoma, having ridden a bicycle from Pittsburg. He was six months making the, trip. George B. Anderson, of the District of Columbia, secretary of legation at Bio Janeiro, has resigned on account of 111- ■ heal th. r~-\ —-r-

The seal herds in the Northern Pacific are being rapidly depleted by the recklessness of hunters. Fifteed thousand skins 11 have been taken this year. Chicago will have a colony of Indians. There are now several full-blooded Cherokees, Sacs and Foxes in that city engaged [n various occupations, and others will settle there. Four hundred and fifty employes of Alox Crow, the carpet manufacturer, have gone on strike against a 20 per cent, reduction in wages, Thomas Flunshel, his wife and his son, of Chicago, ate toadstools, thinking them mushrooms. The son is dead and the others are not expected to live. In an address before the State Board of Equalization Gov. Altgeld said the Pullman company escaped taxation on property worth upward of $40,000,000. The democratic committee at Frankfort, Ky., Saturday, officially declared W.C. Owens to be the nominee in the seventh district to succeed W. C. P. Breckinridge. Mrs. B. F. Pierce, of Rock Springs, Wyo.. claims to be a daughter of Jay Gould, by a woman whom he married in 1853, and from whom ho was never divorced. Andrew Jackson Laird, a defaulting expostoflfice inspector from Atlanta, Ga., for whom the whole country has long been searched, was arrested at Los Angeles, Cal.. Tuesday. D. £LMills i .the.miUiona!ro,ef New. York, and San Francisco, and Col. Charles F. Crocker, vice-president of the Southern Pacific, sailed on the Oceanic for Japan, Wednesday. The shipments of standard silver dollars during the last week amounted to $909,888. Tho shipments! of fractional silver coin during the presentjnonth to date aggregated $1,014,075. In a letter to California A. R. U. strikers, Mrs. Leland Stanford says she has appealed to the railway managers to reinstate tho men who quit work, but her petition has been in vain.

Henry W. Etowgate,. Ox-Chief of the Weather Bureau, who embezzled over 1100,000 in 1879 and escaped, was arrested, Thursday, in Mew York, where ho was in business under the name of Harvey Williams, At Circievilie.O., the residence of Crawford Hedges, a wealthy bachelor, was entered by masked men and robbed. He attempted to protect his property, and now lies at the point death from injuries rcceived. _ A “mill” between Dan Creedon and Bob Fitzsimmons, at New Orleans, Wenesday night, resulted in a knock out for Creedon on the second round. Fitz, landed his left on Creedon’s jaw and Dan give it up. William Konkling, a beardless farmer boy of twenty, attempted single-handed to rob the bank of Bloomfield, Skiles & Co., at Mt. Sterling, 111., Tuesday. He secured 8400, but was captured after a lively chase. The Nebraska Democrats at Omaha, Sept. 26, indorsed the Populist ticket by a large majority, and adopted a free silver platform. Ono hundred and four “straight outs” bolted and reorganized. A ticket was nominated, headed by P. D. Sturdevant for Governor, and a platform similar to the fusion convention’s adopted, with the exception that it favors a gold basis. The political situation in South Carolina is growing serious. The alarm is by no means confined to the possibility of the defeat of the straight-out Democrats by the Tilllmanites, but is occasioned by indications that the election will be followed by a dual Government in the State, and all the riot and bloodshed that accompanies a perturbed condition. Under the Australian ballot law in Nebraska but one ticket for each party can be voted. The “rump” Democratic convention at Omaha, Wednesday, chartered a special train and stole a march on the “regular” convention, which indorsed the Populist ticket, and succeeded' in filing the bolters’ticket with the Secretary of State first. The regular ticket may be Hied “by petition.” The matter is likely to get into the courts. William Milne, the foreman who had his tongue and lower jaw shot away in the recent attempted train robbery at Kelsoe, I. T., has been taken to New York by his physician. An effort will be made to secure for the injured man a new jaw, »nd for this purpose the most eminent turgeons of New York will be consulted. The railway company is doing everything In its power to lessen the misfortune that befell its faithful employe and is paying him his full salary. W. J, Littlejohn, of Chicago, in delivering the annual address before the Fire Underwriters’ Association of the Northwest, at the Grand Pacific Wcdnes jay. declared that the recent forest fires had been started by the lumber kings They had taken that method, ho said, of covering up their stealings, and to them was directly due the death and destruction which followed. The speech caused a sensation among the 400 members present. A Caddo, I. T., dispatch. Sept. 24, says: Today at 2 p. m., at the Pushmatha district court ground, in Jackson county, thirty miles from hero, James Allen, a full-blood Choctaw, aged about twentyfour years, who was convicted in August, was shot by Deputy Sheriff Robert Jackion. He walked from the jail to the courthouse, a distance of about fifty yards, with comparative indifference. He went into the courthouse, knelt down over his eoffin and offered up a farewell prayer. Then he pulled off his coat, had rolled back the colar of his shirt and had painted a white heart on his breast over his own heart. He died almost instantly after the shot 'was fired. At Lexington, Ky., Sept 26. George Denny, jr., was nominated by the Bcpub-

licans of the Ashland district to oppoM Owens in the race for Congress. Nothing sensational occurred until the Judg< made his speech of acceptance. Aftei thanking the convention for iteunanimom action he. said, in part: “Glancing over the history of the grand old district we find that it has been represented in Congress by great and ndbh men. Your present Congressman I consider the superior of any of them, and, la my judgment, is to-day the best equipped man in Kentucky or elsewhere. They may say what they please about him, bul he is the most eloquent man in the country to-day.” Judge J. B. Combs was assassinated al his homo in Hazard, Perry county, Kentucky, Sunday morning at 7 o’clock. Judge Combs is the father-in-law of J. O. Everson, who was killed- by the French faction some years ago. He was shot from a corn patch on the opposite, side o! tho street from his residence. Two unknown men were seen running from the spot, and they joined a third man at the rear of the town. This is not the first attempt on Judge Combs’s life. Unknown persons shot at him twice early in May, 1894. Both shots took effect in the doorcasing where he was standing.

FOREIGN,

Cholera exists at Archangel. Russia. The drought in portions of Italy is serious. ; ; Gen. Eguss Quiza has been elected President of Paraguay, to succeed ex-President Gonzales, whose term has expired while he is in exile.The Czar’s health is said to be improving slightly. Joseph Trnskey has been sentenced at Sandwich, Ont., to hang Dec. 14 for the murder of a police officer last spring. His trial took but three hours. M. Buchfmont, radical, has been elected, a member of the French Chamber of Deputies to succeed M. Casimir-Perler, now President of the Republic. Emperor William hasj issued an ordci thanking the officers of the navy for the pains they took during the recent nava; maneuvers and for the completeness of the movements of tho German warships. 4 It is said that Premier Crisp! is ready tc make any concession to the church compatible with the maintenance of Italy as a Sovereignty dver^vtTry^oorbf’Tlie m soK' but Italy will not concede temporal pbwei to the Popo. Dispatches received from the German colony in southwest Africa say that Majoi Leutweln, on August 27, stormed Chief Witbois’s camp at Naukluft. Chief Witbois retreated and afterwards sued foi peace. The German loss was nine killed and eleven wounded. The Tong Ilaks, a powerful religious sect of Korean rebels, have attacked the Japanese troops at Taiku, in southern Korea. Reinforcements have been sent to the Japanese from Seoul. The Tong Baks constitute one of the most powerful revolutionary elements in Korea. Thej ascribe the precarious condition of Korear trade and commerce to the presence oi foreigners. The Tong Ilaks, early in tin year, undertook the task of ridding Korea of foreigners, and threatened the Japanese as well as the people of other nationalities. Last year, incited by the Tong Ilaks, thirty thousand Koreans threatened to march on the Korean capital and foreigners therefrom. The movement was suppressed, but the feeling which then existed led to the disturbances which eventually brought about th< war between China and Japan,

CHAIRMAN WILSON ABROAD.

Dlned by the London Chamber of Com merce. Congressman.W. L. Wilson, author o£ the “Wilson bill,” now traveling in Eng* 1 and, was entertained by the London Chamber of Commerce, Thursday evening, About seventy guests were including J. Sterling Morton, Secretary) of Agriculture, and his two sons. Pant and Joy Morton; Congressman Isidor) Straus, of New York; Sir Courtney Ei Boyle, Permanent Secretary of the Board of Trade, and a number of leading men iii trade and commerce, Mr, Wilson, rising to respond to a toast, after acknowledging the honor conferred upon him, said: All the people saw that our tariff system was generating a breed of monopolists so powerful as to defy the la,w, and which used part of the wealth they drew front sharing in the power of taxation to increase their privileges, debauch elections and corrupt legislation. lam quite sure that our protective policy has already served to promote the trade of other nations, and if continued it would still further promote such trade, and pre-emi-nently your own. So, standing before yoit a representative of those who are striving for a freer commercial policy for the* United States, 1 fear I cannot ask you td rejoice at its adoption, except as you may prefer right principles to selfish advantages. Protection lias seen our voluntary withdrawal from tne seas and from the neutral markets. Our protectionists have been building defenses to keep you and. other nations from competing with us in our home market. The tariff reformers are breaking down these defenses. Let us compete iijal) the markets of the world. Not only Is our production of cotton and! food products growing more rapidly than our consumption, but we have to-day a manufacturing plant which, urged to its foil capacity, can, in six months fully, meet our demands for a year. After referring to the growth of American trade returns “even under protection,” Mr, Wilson predicted that “now, when released Irbm such vicious laws, there will bo a new era and a revival of a steady increase in our exports, both of food products and manufactured articles. The nations of the world are drawing into nearer* and more neighborly intercourse, and the manufacturing supremacy of the world musteventually pass to that nation which, having the largest supply, shall apply it to the highest intelligence and enterprise. We are constantly confirmed in the belief,” continued Mr. Wilson, “that our supply of materials is more exhaustless and more cheaply handled than that of any other people, and if we continue to be underlings it is our own fault.” Secretary Morton also addressed the asaemblageand indorsed tlie'sentiinents expressed byMr. Wilson.

Miss M. E. Bradon, who has written fifty-four novels, quails before the eamera. One hundred dollars and a royalty on every picture sold have been offered to her if she will consent to be “taken," but she is not tempted. She knows and fears the resources of the snap shot, and when she is abroad is constantly on the alert to protect herself from a fossible, indeed, a probable, kodak. n these days of übiquitous buttons to be pressed, however, Msss Braddon cannot hope to escape much longer. .

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The steam forge-works at Elwood has started up. Frank Bell; near Roanoke, was fatally kicked by a horse. There is an epidemic of distemper among horses in Laporte county. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan-Porley, of Goshen, have celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. While Frank Clifford was in the act of •having M. Eveland, at Mendon, lightning struck the razor, severely shocking both men. John McJohnston, of Logansport.claims the distinction of being the last man twonnded in the civil war, He served with th e Thirty- sou rt h Indi an a. ; Postmaster A. O. Mayfield, of Lebanon, Mo., had his ear bitten off, Wednesday, in ■a rough and tumble tight with Clarence (Vernon, a rustic. Vernon was fined $1 for the offense. L A second flow of gas has been struck at Colfax at a depth of 100 feet. It is believed that the gas at that place is only fen “pockets,” but a company will be formed to put down a regular well. L James Vanlaninghain, of Terre Haute, narrowly escaped death at the hands of a stranger, who plunged a knife into his breast. The injury is a dangerous oue, the thrust barely missing the heart. “Cowboy Evangelist” Justin R Rice, who created a. furore in Atlantic City by preaching in the middle of the principal streets, in defiance of the authorities, was adjudged to be a common nuisance and fined $25 and costs.

A lunatic claiming to have a divine mission to kill Cleveland was arrested at Alexandria, Sept. 24. He says he is the Bon of God, and after he has laid out Grover he proposes to cross the Atlantic, and take the life out of the Pope. The jury in the case of Mrs. Cordelia Coleman, of Boone county, indicted for burning property belonging to her divorced husband, brought in a verdict of acquittal. Mrs. Coleman has still another suit to face, her ex-husband demanding damages for losses incurred, The oil fever in Grant county is epidemic. In Van Buren township, on the Burris farm, lite biggesr well yet found was brought in Sept. 24. It yields sixtyfive barrels of oil every twenty-four hours. All the land in the township is now held by leases to New York parties. John Moore, who keeps a grocery store at Deming, Hamilton county, and Jones Bailiff, while returning from Indianapolis with a load of groceries, were “held up’ two miles south of Broad Ripple by two highwaymen and relieved of SIOO in cash. The robbers then escaped. There is no -dueß-

The Republican legislative convention atlndianapolis, Sept. 22, nominated Wm. U. Leedy, W. C. Van Arsdale, John McGregor, J. G. Adams, Clemens Vonnegut and Omar Boardman for Representatives from Marion county, and W. M. Blakeley, of Shelbyville, for joint representative) (or Shelby and Marion counties. A Big Four special, Sept. 21, made thq run from Chicago to Indianapolis, 195 tuiles, in four hours and eight minutes. Deducting the time taken to take water and slow down through city limits, the Actual running timn was about fifty-three miles an hour. Big Four officials consider It a remarkable run. Last Saturday night, while C. P. Hinds, nigh,t operator for the Indianapolis & Vincennes railway company at Spencer was sending a messsge, and a friend, Guy Williams, was standing near, an unknown assassin fired five shots through a rear window, all of which struck uncomfortably close. It is unknown whether the would-be assassin was trying to kill Williams or Hinds. Tuesday night Robinson’s circus pitched its tent at Winchester, but when time came for the performance Fred Lamont, the clown, was missing. Soon after he was found outside his dressing tent with his skull crushed and his money belt gone. He was known to carry considerable funds about his person, The injured man was taken to the home of John Robinson, at Terrace Park, Cincinnati, where he lies in a critical condition.

The American Wire Nail Company, at Anderson, the largest manufacturing concern in the gas belt and one of the largest of its kind in the United States, broke all previous records in the wire department last week. During the entire week 953 tons of finished wire was turned out. The banner night wire run was on last Wednesday, when 210.400 pounds were turned out. A great majority of the wire was made into nails by the end of the week. The capacity of the nail mill is about 25,000 kegs per day. The following Indiana patents were issued Tuesday—C. H. Dale, Hartford City, continuous cut-off register for steam engines; J. A. Hadley. Brazil, assignor of one-half to W. F. Mauer, Harmony, lamp; J. F. Hatfield, 'Dublin, combined grain cleaner, fannlng-mlll and elevator; W. Lash, Avilla, sliding door-lock; C. F. Parks and A. A. Hamilton, Muncie, fenep; P. Shellcnback, assignor to Liberty Manufacturing Company, Liberty, machine for finishing eccentric surfaces; G. H. McLiii, Huntington, trademark. Nineteen “wild” freight cars broke from a train in the L. E. & W. yards at the top of the hill at Lafayette, Thursday, and ran north three miles to the station at South street, where a Big Four passenger train was standing. Fortunately Yardmaster Brighty heard them approaching and turned a switch and saved the passensenger train. The wild cars dashed into the depot and demolished the structure. A terrible wreck resulted. One hackman was caught and seriously Injured. The accident was very similar to the one last year at the same place. The proposed short line railroad from Muncie to Newcomer. Wheeling and Cumberland seems to be a sure thing. The line will be eighteen miles long. It will be a standard gauge track, equipped to Randle the rolling stock of any company, but not a large number of regulation box or stock cars at one time. The propelling power wiU be the steam motor engines used a year ago as street car propellers in Muncie. Small flat, box and stock cars will be built, so that the motors can handle a good string of them. The shops necessary will be constructed nt New Corner.

Charles Clendennen. eighty-one yean old, of Ellettsville, where he located on the farm upon which Ho still lives seven-ty-one years ago, took his first ride onth« railway cars last week.

AMNESTY TO SAINTS.

?olygamons Mormons Pardoned by the President President Cleveland, Sept 27, issued the following proclamation: <■ Whereas, Congress, by statute approved March 22,1882, and by statutes in furtherince and amendment thereof, defined the trime of bigamy, polygamy and unlawful :ohabi,tation in the Territories and other places within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, and prescribed a penilty for such crimes; and Whereas, On or about the 6th day of! October, 1890, the church Of the Latter-* lay Saints, commonly known as the Mor-i mon Church, through its president, issued t manifesto proclaiming the purpose ofj >aid church no longer to sanction tha practice of polygamous marriages, ami :alling upon all members and adherents of said church to obey the laws of the United States in reference to said subject matter; ind

Whereas, On the 4th day of January, A. D., 1893, Benjamin Harrison, then President of the United States, did declare and rrant full pardon and amnesty to certain Offenders under said acts, upon condition, pf future obedience to their requirements, is is fully set forth in said proclamation )f amnesty and pardon" and Whereas, Upon the evidence now ftiraished me,l am satisfied - that the members" ind adherents of said church generally abstain from plural marriages and poly"g<, imous cohabitation, and are now living in obedience to the laws, and that the time has now arrived when the interests of public justice and morality will be promoted by the granting of amnesty and pardon to all such offenders as haye complied with the conditions of said proclamation, including such of said offenders is have been convicted under the provisions of said acts; Now,* therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, by virtue’ )f the powers in me vested, do hereby deilare and grant full amnesty and pardon to all persons who have in violation of said acts committed either of the offenses )f polygamy, bigamy, adultery or unlawful cohabitation under the color of polygimous or plural marriages, or who, having been convicted of violations of said lets, are now suffering deprivation of :ivil rights in consequence of .the same, jxoepting all persons who have not complied with the conditions contained in said executive proclamation of Jan. 4, 1893.

Profit in Beet Sugar.

San Francisco Examiner. Richard Gird, the owner of the Chino ranch, San Bernardino county, and the principal owner of the snonnous beet sugar factory at Chico, is at the Occidental. He says beet sugar making is a great success. About $300,000 worth of improved machinery, including the Steffens process of extracting sugar from the beet molasses, has recently been put in, making the plant cost fullysl,-000,000. There are, Mr. Gird says, 4,000 acres of beets on the Chino ranch and 2,000 more in the vicinity. The crop will amount to about 55,000 or 60,000 tons. It would have reached 100,000 but for the dry weather. He says there is money in beet growing. The gross value per acre of the product of the beet land is from SBO to S9O, and the net profit from S3O to S4O an acre. Last year he got 174,000 pounds of the best seed from abroad. Mostly from France. This ..cost $20,000. “There is enough good beet land in California, from San Francisco south, to supply sugar for the whole world,” said Mr. Gird. “The consumption ,is increasing fast. Two years ago we used on this coast 90,000 tons of sugar. We are now using seventy pounds to each person on the coast.”

Albino Bats.

Philadelphia Record. “If you wish to know the most curious thin" I saw during my vacation, it was a colony of white bats,” said an Arch street artist, just returned with others from a sketching tour along the Capes of the Delaware. “One day we found in the woods a deserted old hut with a huge chimney, which we were told had been an illicit whisky still, and we made it our headquarters and slept there one night. “Judge of our surprise when, at twilight, we saw numbers of white objects fluttering in the air over our heads and ’dentified them from their manner of flight, as bats. We traced them to their home in the dilapidated chimney. Whether they were natural' albinos or artificially bleached by the fumes of the still was a question that puzzled us considerably, but they were bats —of that we were all certain. One of our party thought they were covered with chimney lime or ashes, but they were too intensely white for that.”

THE MARKETS.

Sept 29, 1391. Indlanapolta. CHAIN AND HAY. WiiiCAT—43%e; corn, 5Cc; oats, 32%c; rye, 40c; nay, choice timothy, 18.50. LIVE STOCK. Cattle — Shippers, s2.so'<ik4o: Stockers. [email protected]; heifers. cows, f1(a>3.35; bulls, milkers, sls.(X)(ss 35.00. Hooe—Ss.oo(tff>.4s. Sheep—Sl.«ktf3.«). POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. (Prices Paid by Shippers.) Poui.TRY-Hens, 7c per h>; spring chickens, 7c; cocks, 3c; turkeys, toms,3c; per lb; hens, 5c per lb; ducks, 5c per lb; geese, $4.80 per doz. for choice. Egos—Shippers paying 13c. Buffer—Choice, 12@14c. Honey—!S<tf2oc Feathers— Prime geese, 30@32c per tt>; mixed duck, 20c per lb. Beeswax—2oc for yellow; 15c for dark. Wool—Medium unwashed, 12c; Cottswold and coarse combing. ll@12c; tubwashed. iT/tf 18c; burry and unmerchantable. 5® 10c less. Hides—No. 1 G. S. No. 2 G. S. hides, 1 calf hides, 6%c; No. 2 calf hides, sc. ? Chicago. Wheat —SMjC; corn, 53% c; oats, 29,'<£c; pork, $13.67%; lard, 18.80. New York. Wheat—s7%e; corn, 62:; oats, 35% c. Ualtlmore. Wheat—s3%c; corn, 58c; oata, 35% c St. Loot*. Wheat—47%c; corn. 54%c; oata, 30%c. A*hll«delphU. Wheat—ss%c; corn, oats, 36%c. Minneapolis. Wheat—No. 1 hard, 66%c.

NEW YORK DEMOCRATS.

Remarkable State Convention at Saratoga. Senator Hill Nominated for Governor— Hill’s Speech. ** Temporary < Chairman. The New York State Democratic convention convened at Saratoga, Tuesday, Sept. 25, Senator D. B. Hill was chosen as temporary chairman and made a lengthy speech on taking the chair. He said:

DAVID BENNETT HILL.

The unterrifled Democracy of tho Empire State assemble here today undismayed at the premature boasts and assumed confidence of our adversaries. We are accustomed to their annual and moss-covered game of political bluff, although renewed this year with vehemence and unblushing effrontery. If vain boasts alone could bring victory their battle is indeed won before it is actually commenced, but we beg to remind them that there has not been a campaign in this State during the past, twelve years when they did not assume in August and September that they had carried it, when, in truth and fact, during that whole period, with a single exception, victory has perched upon our banners on the first Tuesday of November in each year. We win our victories on election days and not by exuberant braggadocia in convention halls. Continuing, the Senator said that New York was a democratic State, and challenged.ccimpMfeui.ot re?ojrds of the two parties in State affairs. Proceeding, he discussed the McKinley bill, which he characterized as the culminating atrocity of Republican legislation, and said that without retracting a single word of what he had said, he considered the Gorman bill a great improvement. Indirectly he condemned tho A. P. A., and gave the administration of Gov. Flower his endorsement. At the conclusion of Senator Hill’s speech the convention adjourned until Wednesday. Wm. C. Whitney had been regarded as the probable nominee for Governor, but he was interviewed at quarantine, having just returned from Europe Wednesday morning, and positively declined to accept. When the convention assembled at noon, as soon as the nominations were reached there was a wild stampede for Senator Hill, which he was not able to check, and he was nominated with enthusiastic zheers. Delegates were standing on ihairs, crowding the aisles, pushing toward the platform and yelling themselves hoarse, and shouting “Hill!” ‘Hill!” Senator Hill stood pounding the tavel, his face pale and his lips shut. He hammered vigorously, but as he did so the iin Increased. “Three cheers for the next governor of the State!” shouted a man in the rear, and up went a mighty shout. After five minutes of this remarkable icene, there was some order restored, and Senator Hill said: “I am grateful to Democrats for this showing of their good will and faith, but I cannot accept the nomination you offer me.” At 3:30 p. m. Daniel Lockwood, of Buffalo, was nominated for lieuteuant-gov-srnor. A full State ticket was also nominated. The platform congratulates the people an the improved industrial conditions; soncurs with President Cleveland that the new tariff law does not embody the full issue of tariff reform, but with him also indorses its provisions for cheaper and free raw materials, and lower taxes, as a substantial recognition of Democratic principles, and bespeaks for the law an Impartial trial, confident that its successful operation will convince the people of the wisdom of the Democratic policy. While favoring such wise modification and readjustment of particular schedules, by the enactment of separate bills, as future conditions and the fulfillment of Democratic pledges may require, it deprecates any further general tariff revision, which under present, conditions would be likely to retard improvement in business, and thereby prolong the evils brought upon the country by Republican folly.

MME. FURSCH MADI,

The prima donna, who died near Plainfield, N. J., last week, spent her last days in abject poverty at a farm house far removed from other habitations. A year ago last spring the Madame was receiving 1400 a performance. Her health failed and she was compelled to abandon the stage. In times past Fursch-Madi had earned a great deal of money and was a popular star, but sheMvedfnothing. The opera queen's funeral was pathetic in its exhibition of poverty and in the meager attendance. Not one of her legion of fair-weather friends was present.

"ON TO PEKIN,"

Advices received at Washington, Sept. 26. from Tok io, state thpt a second Japanese army of 30.000 njen has sailed fox .China. The Japanese legation regard this a>tbo first move in a general advance on the Chinese capital, Pekin.

THE FAIR SEX.

One of the most popular applications of amateur photography is that made during the summer by a welllyiown and popular hostess, wbos< summer home is filled with guesta difrlng the warm weather. She has a photographic guest book, and with the first house party the pleasant labor of filling it began, snap shots showing the visitors at their best and in characteristic poses, and each person had a copy of the picture’ is which he or she figured. She made it a practice to develop and print each set of photographs immediately after each party of guests departed, arrange ..the in the blank book, and beneath each places the name of the person pictured. —New York Tribune.

When bicycles were something of a novelty the Sultan of Morocco used them as a means of punishing his wives? A number of the wheels were presented to him by a French officer. The offending women of tha harem were placed upon the machines and bidden to ride around a track in the palace grounds. They fell repeatedly, a proceeding which greatly amused the Sultan. Patti will spend the winter at Europe and sing in opera at Nice in New Years.

Miss Josephine Jarvis, fourteen years old, of Valiev, Spokane county, in three hours, Wednesday, caught sixty-seven trout for the Spokane market. At the beginning of the fishing season, this year, she earned sl2 in one week and invested the money in a 22-caliber rifle, with which she killed fourteen grouse in ;me day.— Oregonian. “Mrs. Mackay has a $190,000 dinner set.

Not Such a Fool After All.

PbilaJelphia Record. “What is your last name?” in* * quired a teacher of a new scholar. “Peter, ma'am,’’ replied the smalt boy. ‘‘Peter.” echoed the teacher- “ What is your other name?” ‘‘Fairbanks,” responded the boy; “Then Fairbanks is your last name of course,” said the tefifeher, 'eyeing the round-eyed, vacant-faced Peter with considerable severity. “No'in.” replied the child, respectfully. “My name was Fairbanks when I was born, but mother says .they didn't name ine Peter for ’most six ’

Free Tin.

Texas Siftings. An Irishman walking up the street and scheming how he l could get a little sugar, spied and picked up a tobacco tin tag; started immediately for a barroom.and asked for a drink, and after downing three fingers ol rye he presented his tin lag and started out. Bartender—Here, here, this is tin. Toper—Tin is it? I thot it was a five. Take sometiog yourself.