Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. - GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - .*-■ * INDIANA.

SHE TOOK A HEADER.

WOMAN FALLS FROM A FOURSTORY WINDOW.Though Almost Dying* Rosebery Refuses to Retire from Power—Chicago Brokers Forced to Sus pend - Income Tax Invalid—Wheat Market Strong. She Jarred Her Teeth. Mrs. John- Henry, who is big and stout and. Who lives on the fourth floor of No. 205 Adams street, Brooklyn, was enjoying a rest after her household labors Monday, and while looking out of a window fell asleep. A'few moments later something dropped on the roof of a news stand underneath the window, startling the new sman out of his dreams and causing a knot of playing children to scatter in affright. That something was Mrs. Henry. She rolled off the news stand roof to the sidewalk, -rose to her feet, calmly brushedL off her clothes, walked up the stoop, and disappeared- through the doorway. The startled vender of newspapers reported the remarkable occurrence to the police sergeant. An uftieer found Mrs. Henry pitting on the side of a bed calmly engaged in combing her hair. “Where is the woman who fell from the window a few minutes ago?” inquired the policeman. “That's me.” was the laconic rejoinder. "What of it?” “Ain’t you hurt in any way?” “O. I jarred my teeth a little, but I don't think any of them are loosened,” said Mrs. Henry. “I ain’t hurt any, but I'm afraid I may have a headache to-night.” He Sticks to Power. London dispatch: The House of Commons was greatly agitated Monday night -by renew.eiLrejjurts .of the impending. resigaation of the prime minister, Lord Rosebery. The. story went that despite the 7 .official report he has returned from his "sea trip worse in health than before, and that it is probable that his doctor may give imperative orders that ho immediately abandon the attempt to continue the leadership. At the same time the information comes from another well-posted political source that Lord Rosebery’s ailment is practically incurable. His insomnia was long antecedent to the influenza attack, its real cause being chronic dyspepsia, which has resisted ail medical treatment. In fact, Lord Rosebery is threatened with incipient loss of power in the digestive organs. Up to the present moment, nevertheless, lie is resolved to continue at the head of affairs until a general eleetion, though in the opinion of liis medical advisers every week lie passes as prime minister takes a year off his life.

Wheat Goes Higher. Wheat is stinboOtuiiig. Monday iivor-H----ing in Chicago the start was made/at-the closing prices of Saturday, ami~liy titful, nervous starts, interrupted h.v slight re-; lapses, tile price jumped to 74% centsTiT little more, than an hour of active trading. Corn, however, was not able to keep this fast company, although the advance of Saturday was re-established, and after a rise to 54% for July delivery and 55% for September over the prices at closing, there was an advance to 55 for July and 5G for September. But in other lines the fever was felt. Pork, which jumped to $12.55 Saturday, kept up its pace and reached sl3. It is no exaggeration to say that there has not been such a market as the present one for years. The most astute traders feel helpless in-t lie facc.oijt. Firm’s Money Is Gone. Suspension of the firm of Crawford & Valentine, stock brokers. Chicago, was made on the Stock Exchange Monday afternoon. The natalities are placed at $70,000 and the nomiiial assets in the neighborhood of SOO,OOO, of which $40,000 is said to be worthless. The firm ■has cut an important figilre in the stock market at times. Its trading has been sometimes on such an extensive scale as to load to a good deal of gossip about personal plunging by its members, but tbe firm has stood high "in the estimation of Stock Exchange members. Rioting at Cleveland. At Cleveland, 0., 125 lhmber shovers went to the Cleveland Saw Mill and Lumber Company’s dock Monday morning, armed with clubs and stones, to prevent the lumber steamer Gettysburg from being unloaded by non-union men. Frank Wentz, an employe of the mill, was mistaken for a non-union man and was viciously attacked nnd unmercifully clubbed. When the police arrived the mob had disappeared. Later the union men unloaded the boat at regular scale prices.

Look to Uncle Sam. Advices received at the Cuban revolutionary headqnnrters in New York say that Gomez has instructed all insurgent bands of 100 men and upward to send a delegate to the general assembly, which will meet at Yara in June, to put into execution the declaration of independence and to form a definite provisional government. The Cuban chiefs have great hopes Ihat the United States Government will recognize them as belligerents at the next session at Washington.

NEWS NUGGETS.

The President has signed an order directing that Admiral Meade be retired on liis own application, and in doing so administered a severe rebuke to him. The Ann Arbor I'niverHity faculty lias to a Detroit paper, of which he is correspondent. The paper will contest in the courts, the power of the university to expel its correspondent. Mrs. James Nelson, 20, is in the Crawfordsville, lud., jail for murdering her child. She concealed it in her room, claiming to believe it had been kidnaped. The body was accidentally discovered, and the mother confessed. She says tin* child’s crying awakened her, so she deliberately choked it to death. Her husband is in California. Near Crank’s Pass, Ora., Charles A. lister, a teamster, threw his wife into a pool of water and held her head under until she was drowsed. Three of his small children were standing near and witness‘7^*4l,!t/.'v -* m ** * *** yßtßr'wlifiirf* •• •- * -■ r •

EASTERN.

James Gibbous, a prominent capitalist of Cleveland, has undergone an operation for appendicitis at Portland, Me., and is reported to have an- even- chance for- recovery. Fire at Coney Islijnd caused a loss of $200,000. Tlfg lltow»iaSofce--out in a building attached to a large toboggan slide in; Sea Beach walk opposite Felttuan’s Hofei. General Freight Agent 'Wight, of' the Baltimore road, was found guilty in the United States District Court at Pittsburg. violnting the interstate commerce law in granting freight rebates. At Providence, It.. 1., a two and a half Btbry~woodeiv Tenement- house, owned by Joseph- Lemoine. and occupied by several families, collapsed, and three persons were killed and eleven injured. It is thought two of the latter are fatally hurt. The building had been raised and workmen were building another story beneath it. Julius A. Palmer,, the New York correspondent who went to the Hawaiian Isift uds three months ago, has arrived in San Francisco. He believes that there wilt soon be a crisis there, and, that the end caii only be the restoration of the monarcliicnl form of government. He says there never will be harmony until the monarchy is Restored and Princess Kaiulani placed upon the throne.

The syndicate of capitalists living in Haverhill, Mass., who bought the Good Hone mine, near Riverside. Cal., nearly a year ago for $250,000, have come to the conclusion that they have paid too much for the property. They now desire the courts to aid them in throwing off #109,000 from the purchase price. The Eastern men claim that when they bought the property they were duped outrageously by means of the old device of “salting.”

James W. Murray,'assistant stage manager of Dave Henderson’s “Aladdin Jr.” company, took a long drink of absinthe Thursday afternoon in his room at No. 270 West Thirty-eighth street, New York, pat down at a table and criod like a child, wrote farewell notes, calmly drew" a revolver from his hip pocket, thrust it inside his vest, shouted “Good-by,” and in the presence of two of his most intimate friends delibernteiy tircd a bullet into his heart. Murray was 23 years old and went to New York six weeks ago from Chicago, where a widowed mother lives. One of the letters writteu Q by Murray was to his two friends, as follows: “What I am about to do will cause you to think. Your troubles have been my troubles: my troubles belong to me. We have had good times and all tlm«t, but this is my time.” Another letter was addressed, “To whom it may concern,” as follows :_“Tliis_ or these letters will convince any. jury that no blame is attached to my friends.” The dead man's friends knew he had been brooding over some secret trouble. They guessed he had had. a love affair on hand, and that he had been jilted. But they never questioned him in that direction.

WESTERN.

Mrs. Biglev, late hospital nurse in Dubuque, is soon to be married at Los Angeles, Cab, to Lord Arthur Hepburn, the possessor of large estates in England and New Zealand. Two prisoners esenped from the penitentiary at Laramie, n-tuiu. nel which they dug. They placed dummies in their cells and thus successfully blinded The guard. A Tacoma, Wash., dispatch says: Facts have come to light which indicate that the late Paul Schultze’s defalcations 'amount to nearly $500,000, making his total embezzlement the largest ever known on the Pacific coast. Twelve inches of snow is reported between Trinidad, Colo'., and Baton, N. M. This is the first snow or rain in that territory for nearly six months, and it is hailed with the greatest delight by the stock growers and others. William Smith, the last of the Battle Creek, Mich,, train wreckers, was arrested at Hotly, Mich. Detectives have followed Smith all over the world. He was the leader of the wreckers, and since last October men have been on his trail day and night. The coroner's jury at Cripple Creek has returned a verdict tiiat the killing of Jack Smith, leader of the Bull Hill miners during the strike last summer, by Marshal ■Kelly, at Altman, Colo., was justifiable homicide. Smith’s companion, George Popst, who was also shot by Kelly, is dying. The right of a man to sit in his buggy while the vehicle is standing in the street and witness a ball game was settled in the negative in an Omaha police cotirt. H. E. Cole was driving past the association grounds and hearing a great hurrah over a home run, stopped his turnout and peeped over the fence. He was arrested and the court fined him for obstructing the streets. He appealed the case. For a radTus""bf fiTtceiTTnTles"Tn“TFfe' neighborhood' of Buckley, Wash., the fir forest,is afire and at Tacoma, thitfy-six miles away, the atmosphere is heavy with smoke. Superintendent J. McCabe, of the Pacific division of the Northern Pacific, says nothing short of a heavy rain will check the 11 nines. A special train was held at Buckley to carry away the inhabitants in case the fire should close in about that town. About 900 persons reside there. At Port Townsend, Wash., unexpected orders have been received for the revenue cutter Grant to immediately prepare.for sea. This movement is thought to have been actuated by the refusal of the British authorities to renew the Bering Sen regulations, nnd the desire of the United States Government to communicate with its cutters now patrolling the sea. Under the present complicated arrangements, should our cutters seize British sealers upon the high seas for violation of the j modore Perry hurried out of port at San I Francisco. She will make nil haste posai I hie in order to reach Bering Sea in time j to prevent the fleet cutters which are now heading for the sealing grounds, from seizing any armed vessels, as is the present intention. Upon the flcctuess of the Perry depeuds the warding off of serious complications with England. The latter Government has practically decreed that any interference with armed sealing vessels flying the British flag will meet with retaliatioti in the shape of claims for heavy damages. Lake Michignu unleashed itself Monday night in one of the worst storms known for years, nnd only most fortunate circumstances prevented a repetition of the series of wrecks and disasters that occurred

* - May IS, 1594. The lilt of boats lost is a large one. and in all thirteen lives arc known to have been sacrificed. The shipping list follows: Quickstip, wrecked off Racine; Willard, from Alpena; J. B. Kitchen, wrecked at Middle Island; Viking, driven aground with three consorts at Sand Peach, Mich.; Unknown steam barge,- ashore six miles north of Sand Welch; steamer Unique, wrecked at St. jClair; three schooners, wrecked off East -Tawns, Mich.; schooner Reindeer, reported stranded at Black River; unknown schooner, wrecked off Racine; three-mnstr ed schooner, wrecked near Milwaukee. July wheat sold up to 68 cents Thursday on tlie Chicago Board-of-Trader-and-matiy speculators predicted that 75 cents would be reached by the July option in a few days. Some of the more enthusiastic “hulls” declared that wheat will keep on its upward way until the dollar mark is towelled, but only the most sanguine believers in the future of the cereal let their dreams of higher prices climb to such a height. As it was. the market was strong enough to 'Warrant roseate hopes by the friends of wheat. Every one wanted wheat, and the most daring “bear” was ready to sell but little, and that little he bought.back within a few minutes, as he saw his losses piling up with every quarter cent advanced Conservative truders' thought the market very hazardous and moved with caution. The day was entirely in favor of the bulls, and the prospects seemed good for a continuation of their

--success. ... • ' * Win. Naiigle was killed and two others Seriously, perhaps fatally, injured by the falling of a ruined wall at Henry and Brown streets, Chicago, Friday afterNanglo was a man who figured somewhat prominently during the Irish agrarian troubles fifteen years ago, and when lie came to America his attempt to land caused no little excitement. In April, 1880, a decidedly unpopular landlord of County Longford, Ireland, was shot and killed. Xangle was arrested for the crime. He remained in jail in Dublin seven months and was finally tried and sentenced to twenty-one years’ penal servitude. He served twelve years of the sentence. His friends sought a pardon for him and succeeded in getting it. When lie landed here the-doors of the republic were closed to him because he was an ex-convict. As the offense for which he was sentenced to prison was in a Sense political,- it was held that it was no bar to his admission. His brother, Policeman Joseph Nanglo. of Chicago, went to New York at the time to assist him in his efforts to land. Nanglo came on to Chicago when admitted and has been living there since. All doubts concerning the fate of the Kate Kelly were cleared away Wednesday when the tug Jesse Spalding reached Chicago from Kenosha with wreckage of the vessel. The Spalding sighted the tug Charm off Kenosha. The Charm had picked up beams, yawlboat and timbers from the Kelly. On one jiiece of timber was painted the name of the boat. This and portions of the hull of the Kelly furnished conclusive evidence that the vessel had been wrecked. Captain Hatch and the crew of five men are undoubtedly lost. The boat had a history that surpassed that of most craft sailing the great lakes. She was built in Tonawanda, N. Y., in 1807, by Martel. The first owner of the boat was a woman of somewhat wide repute who lived in Buffalo. She was eccentric ~nnd wall off, but she did not belong to Buffalo's “four hundred.” The Kate Kelly was known amoiig marine men as the “Jew peddler,” but she had not traded on Lake Michigan until the last few years. She was a schooner of,the old class fast going out of service. She was of 246 tons, rigged fore and aft. In 1886 she was completely overhauled and rebuilt, so that she has been kept in serviceable condition. She was sold by Edward Gable, of Os,wego, three years ago to Captain Hatch. He had sailed her in these regions for two seasons past and had managed to make money out of her.

FOREIGN.

A strong shock of earthquake was felt at Corfu, Greece. No damage was done. The Spanish steamer Gravina, bound from Antwerp for Lisbon, has been lost during a typhoon and only two of those on board were saved. The required $2,500,000 has been raised in London for the construction of an immense irrigation dam across the Bio ’Grande at Rincon, N\ M.„ above El Paso. Word lias come from St. Lucia, West Indies, announcing that an epidemic of yellow fever has- broken but there among the British artillery. Thirty soldiers have died. —~ A dispatch from St. Petersburg says that, despite the pressure exerted by the powers, Japan persists in~declining to fix the date for the evacuation of the LiauTong peninsula and Corea. John Carter, an ex-seaman of 11. M. S. Royalist, arrived in San Francisco Friday on the steamer Australia from Honolulu. -Carter came to Hawaii from Sydney, where the Boynlist is now stationed. England, according to the seaman, took very drastic measures in the punishment of the natives of the Solomon group of islands, nnd the villages at the mouth of the river Soy were cannonaded. A landing party started out from Verne, an adjacent town, and the savages were driven miles into the interior. A number were slaughtered. For four hours Soy was under tire. The trouble and the subsequent bombardment were brought about by the murder of s Mr. Donald Guy last April and tbe subsequent murder of eight English sailors, who went ashore nt the Island Mnlaytn to enjoy a good time. The commission which has been investigating the atrocities in Armenia traversed the devastated villages hud arrived at Jellygooznu, where 120 houses were found to have been burned. The people were sheltered in miserable huts. Ample proof was found of the truth of the stories told I regarding the massacre of Armenians and | ing Wa I and setting tire to the oil. The flames, i however, failed to consume the mass ami i a stream was dam mud and diverted from Its course in order to wash away the halfburned bodies. But even this failed to obliterate the terrible evidence against the Turks, and the local authorities wero compelled to remove the remains piecemeal. The villagers bad removed the bulk of the bodies and interred them in consecrated ground before tho arrival of tbe commission at .Teilygoosan. The dread yellow fever season is on in Cuba, and its ravages will severely deplete the ranks of tbe regular troops who are unaccustomed to the climate, and who are a dissolute, careless lot of men. Then the sugar factories will be closed and the thousands of idle Cubaus will be turned

adrift into the army. The sentiment inj favor of the rebellion is growing steadily, ana the insurgent leaders *4vill tie stoutly: supported. The report has gained credence in Havana that Gen. Salcedo is dead, having been seriously wounded a few days ago. Col. Tejarizo is also reported to hoys been mortally wounded at Ramon do In's Jaguas. LiemrCol- Arizon is also badly wounded. snd in Havana it is reported his wound was received in attempting to intercept Gen. Gomez's marchto Caniagney. James Purman, who has just returned to New York from Cuba, gives some interesting information concerning the progress of the rebellion against Spanish rule. According ’to his account, Gen. Campos has a herculean task before him in bringing Cuba to a state of subjection. According to advices received in Washington, important British documents have been found at Hawaii relating to thq pending British-Venezuelan boundary question in which the United States lias, urged arbitration as a means of settlement. Assistant Surveyor General Curtis J. Lyons, of Hawaii, has examined them, and has made a map, accompanied by a statement, which, it is said, supports the Venezuelan contention, even on the evidence thus far presented by the British! Senor Andrade, the Venezuelan minister, says it is the first time that the documents sent out by the British, foreign office have been made available in the controversy.’ The records now brought to public attention by Air. Lyons were furnished to Hawaii by the British foreign office at a time when Hawaii was a monarchy and largely under British control. On comparing this with the map furnished by the foreign office twenty years ago he found that the boundary line had been entirely changed. The first map gave the line as Venezuela claims it should be. The last map shifts the line far westward and includes ns British territory about 10,000 square miles which the first map showed clearly to he Venezuelan territory. This intervening 10,000 square miles is the subject of contention.

IN GENERAL

Australian colonies are enthusiastic over the British Pacific cable scheme, and each will vote a bonus to aid its construetion. j Obituary: At Philadelphia, ex-Senator Eckley B. Coxe. —At Dubuque. lowa. VictorMay.—At Suffield, Ohio, William Paulas, 70. : - The total immigration into Canada during 1894 was 27,911, against 08,447 for 1892. Immigrants from the United States numbered 850. The tug Mogul, of Victoria, B. C., valued at #25,000, was sunk off Cape Flattery while attempting to recover a heaving line worth 75 cents from a schooner. Prof. George F. Becker, Prof. William H. Dali and Geologist I’urrington, of the United States geological survey, have gone to Alaska to investigate the undeveloped mineral fields.

Pressure is being brought to bear on the Dominion Government to take steps 1o prevent, if possible, the construction by Americans of a waterway from Lake Michigan to the Ohio river. In the House of Commons George Cockburn, member for Toronto, asked the Government to act with the Chambers of Commerce in Cleveland and other American cities in protecting the interests of the lake cities. John Hngff.irV,'minister nf railway? and canals, stated in reply that the Government would protect Canadian interests in every way possible, and would communicate with the United States Secretary of War on the subject. Following is the standing of the clubs of tho National Baseball League: Per Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. cent. Pittsburg ....22 15 7 .382 Cincinnati ... .24 1G 8 .GO4 Boston 19 12 7 .G 32 Chicago 24 15 9 .025 Cleveland ....22 12 10 .545 Philadelphia . .19 TO —9 —.520 New Y0rk....20 10 10 .500 Baltimore ....17 8 9 .471 SL Louis. ... .25 IQ 15 .400 Brooklyn ....20 7 13 .350 Washington ..20 G 14 .300 Louisville .... 20 5 15 .250 WESTERN EE AGEE. Following is tho standing of the dubs of the Western League: Per Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. cent. Minneapolis ..14 11 3 .78G Indianapolis ..13 11 4 .733 Detroit 14 7 7 .300 Kansas City. .1G -8 8 .500 Toledo 1G 7 9 .438 Grand Rapids. 15 G 9 .400 Milwaukee .. .10 6* 10 .375 St. Pau1..... i .14 5 9 .375

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $0.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2,50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, G9c to 7t)e; corn. No. 2,51 cto 52c; oats. No. 2,28 c to 29c; rye, No. 2, GGc to 08e; butter, choice creamery, 15c to 17c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13c; potatoes, cur lots, per bushel, 50c to 00c: broom corn, per It), common growth to fine, brush, 4c to 7c. f Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime. $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, GGc to 08c; corn, No. 1 white, ole to 52c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 33 %c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $0.25: hogs, $4.00 to $4.75; wheat, No- 2 rgd, G9e to 70c; corn. No, 2. 49c to 60c; oats, No. 2, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2, G7e to G9e. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs. $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2. 73c to 75C; corn, No. 2 mixed. 53c to 54c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 30%c to 31%c; rye. No. 2, GGc to GBe. Detroit—Cattle, $2.5t) to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.00 to $4.50; wiirnf \n '2 it fl, 74r to 7. r uv <H>rn \o 1! corn. No. 2 mixed, 52c to 53c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to rye, No. 2,07 c to GBe. i Buffalo —Cattle, $2.50 to* $0.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 1 hard, 75c to 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 55e to D7c; oats, No. 2 white, 35c to 3Bc. •"‘Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 70c to 71c; corn. No. 3. 51c to 53c; oats. No. 2 white, 3Sc to 33c; barley, No. 2, 48c to 50c; rye. No. 1, (We to 67c; pork, mess, $11.75 to $12.25. New Tork—Cattle, $3,00 to $0.50; hogs, $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. t red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2, G«e to 57c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 37c; butter, creamery, 12c to 18c; eggs, Western, 13c to 15c.

COLD DELAYS TRADE.

ADVANCE OF WAGES THE MOST CHEERFUL NEWS. *ren«cotlouß Fire Sweeps Through a A’ermbnt Town Worst-Diaaster of Centuries in Italian Towns—New Find in Alabama-Spain Compliant. Wages Advancing. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “The severe cold snap,..with extensive frosts and in some States snow, has fortunately done little damage to the grain crops, though much to fruit, but has considerably retarded retail trade. The best news is the advance of 10 per cent in wages by the Carnegie wbrks, followed by the Jones & Langhiiii establishment, and evidently implying a similar advance by many other concerns. Th'e Illinois Steel Company is starting its furnaces without granting the demands of employes. No advance has been found, practicable in the woolen mills. In other departments of labor troubles are not serious, and-the-demand. for manufactured products increases. With material and steady —enlargement in—domestic —trade there is still great want of employment in the interior for money, which, with the millions distributed by the syndicate on bond aceoant, stimulates speculation. Accordingly wheat lifts risen 5, cents, although reports-of injury by frost do not appear to concern 'any considerable proportion of the growing grain.”

Awful Disaster in Italy. More than three thousand residences in Florence, Italy, alone are in ruins from earthquake, and buried under the debris arc the mangled remains of victims. The survivors wahder about the streets, bemoaning the less of their friends, yet afraid to search ,the ruins for fear of more violent visitations of the earthquake. Florence does not mourn alone, for from the adjacent cities come stories of waste and loss of liTe. At Sail Matino, the principal church was filled with worshipers when the-shock came, and before any of the congregation could escape the stately edifice l ,fell, crushing many to death. Ycry few escaped without injuries. The disaster is the worst, experienced by that section in hundreds of years. Morton Says He Cannot Answer. A letter on the beef question from Secretary of Agriculture Morton appears in the National Provisioner of New York, which replies to the question if he favored placing beef on the free list. The Secretary says lie does if it is manipulated by a combination of the packing houses, but that question is being investigated and is not determined, so lie cannot say what his recommendation will be to tin? executive. But. lie asks, if business is depressed; why do they suddenly and arbitrarily raise -prices- -and lessen - consumption? -

Ricli Mica Eeposita Found in Alabama A rich mica lead has been discovered in Clay County, Ala,, in the foothills of Talladega Mountain. The vein can be followed two miles by outcroppings. A company of Chattanoogans are purchasing options on all the country in the vicinity. A vein being,opened is four fed thick and tips at an angle of 55 degrees. The finest commercial mica has already been taken out, the largest take weighing 24 pounds and cutting into pieces 7xß inches. Vermont Town Fire-Swept. St. Albans. Vt., was visited Sunday afternoon by the most destructive fire in the history of Vermont. The loss is estimated at $750,000, and the possibilities are that amount niay be increased when the accurate figures are had. Practically six streets in the business portion of the town are laid waste, and, with the other sections burned over, seventy-five acres of ground are ooveF£d~~by—smoldering ruins. About 500 people are homeless. New York San Jo Mulcted in The libel action which the Renter Telegram Company brought in London against the New York Sun and the Central News, as the distributors of the Sun, for an article which appeared in the Sun Oct. 28, 1894, headed “Spurious News of the Eastern War.” has -resulted in a judgment against the Sun in the Queen’s Bench division of the High Court of Justice. the Sun not appearing. Action is pending against the Central News. Spain Accedes to Gresham's Demand. : Madrid dispatch: The Spanish Goveruhient has completed its final answer to Secretary Gresham’s dispatch concerning the Aliauca incident, and it will be cabled by Minister Taylor to Washington. The text of the reply will not be given here, but it is known to be entirely responsive to Mr. Gresham’s requests and to be in a most cordial and friendly spirit.

BREVITIES.

Five miles of nets, said to belong to E. R. Ed son, of Cleveland, were seized by the Canadian Government cruiser near Rondeau, Out. Fire broke out at Methuen, in Clous’ cotton mill, and in spite of the combined efforts of the departments of both Methuen and Lawrence, from where aid had been sent, the building \V»s burned to tho ground. The loss will be heavy. A report from Washington is to the effect that the income tax law is pronounced unconstitutional. Justice Jackson, it is said, upheld the constitutionality of tho the lrtw ns a whole, but exempted rents and bonds. This apparently secured the standing of the law; but one of the other justices changed front, giving a majority against it. In Lawrence County, Ala., while a crowd of mountaineers was sitting around reached the cover of n large oak when lightning struck the treo and shattered it, killing the three men. Henry Bier, n lending financier, was convicted of perjury at New Orleans in u municipal Investigation. The rise in the price of crackers is credited by the trust officers at St. Louis as in sympathy with the rise iu flour.

Mike King was hanged at Helen Tenn., for the murder of W. A. Beck. The barkentine Josephine, Captain McLean, which sailed from Itio Janeiro April 14 with a $200,000 cargo of coffee for Baltimore, went ashore on Little I*l--and shore, eighteen miles south of Cape Henry. The crew was rescued.

AMERICAN MEDICS MEET.

A - 1 . '. ' - y i Easiness Transacted at Session ir Washington. The final day of the great national convention of physicians in Washington .was, as is usually the case, given up largely to the transaction of routine business. The most important business don'e was the election of officers for the ensuing year and the reading of the annual paper oa State medicine by Dr. H. D. Holton, of Vermont. Dr. Holton’s address dealt generally with some of the problems the State must deal with 1 to protect its citizens from disease. Among the points emphasized was the importance of State boards of health'. He insisted that they should be given ample power and latitude in carrying out what they considered for the best interests of the people. He endorsed heartily the action being taken by the association to secure a national department of public health. He also ad-

DR. CHISOLM, Ist Vice President, DR. LE GRAND, 2d Vice President.

vised a uniform and national system of quarantine, and that the quarantine laws should be more stringently enforced and carried out. “Educate the press, and through them the people/’ said Dr. Holton, “to the necessity for the foregoing, sanitary medical reforms. Great amountsof money are spent by the Government in armaments, ironclads and other military works, to keep out foreign invaders; but It would be a good thing if more were spent on keeping out invading diseases. Congress should be made to recognize the importance of sanitary legislation.” Dr. E. 11. Woolsey, of California, made a motion, which was carried, that as much disease was carried by paper money, the section on State medicine at the session next year should inquire fully into this important snbjeet. The list of the new officers of the American Medical Association is as follows: President, Dr. It. Beverly Cole,, of San Francisco, Cal.; first vice-president, Dr. J. J. Chisolm, of Baltimore; second vicepresident, Dr. J,ohn C. Legrand. of Alabama; third vice-president, Dr. Augustus B. Clark, of Massachusetts; fourth vicepresident, Dr. T. P. Sutterwhite, of Kentucky; treasurer, Dr. Henry P. Newman, of Illinois; secretary, Dr. W. B. Atkinson, of Pennsylvania; librarian, Dr. G. E. Wise, of Illinois. Members of the board of trustees, Alonzo Garcelon, of Maine; Dr. T. N. Love, of Missouri, and Dr. .Tames E. Reeves, of TeffneSTsee. The next annual session of the association will be held at Atlanta, Ga.

MEN AFFAIRS.

There is a probability that President Faure will shortly visit England and be a guest of the queen. Sig. Crispi, it is said, wears a shirt of chain mail, made by a Milanese armorer, when lie goes out of doors. Mr. Rudyard Kipling, it is announced, is on the point of returning to India—not to live there, however. The Rev. I’hilo IL Hurd, who died lately at Detroit, was worth only $7,000; yet he left S7OO to n faithful servant. Silver Dollar Bland announces that he is now in good health and expects tp circulate at par among his Eastern friends next month. Dr. Frederick Andros, who was the first practicing physician to locate west of the Mississippi river, has just died in Minneapolis at the age of 92. William R. Moody, a son of the evangelist, who is in chnrge of a department in Mount Hermon school, has developed considerable aptitude ns a public speaker. Gen. Wade Hninpton, who will visit Charleston, S. C., soon, will be received by a military escort, in spite of the rumor that this demonstration would be opposed. Mark Twain has signed a contract for a lecture tour around the world. He will undoubtedly come back with personal recollections of Noah’s flood and “Forty years with Moses.” The Sultan of Turkey is delighted with the success of the fine china manufactory which he installed some time ngo in his palace nt Constantinople. He is a great amateur of the ceramic art. Dr. de Bossy, of Havre, who is the dean of French physicians, and 102 years old, uses snuff regularly and drinks two largo cups of black coffee every day, besides drinking wine in moderation. Kaiser Wilhelm has forbidden the offi cers and men of the Berlin garrison to smoke in the principal streets of tho city, in consequence of irregularities in the salute offered to his majesty and the members of the royal family. render each year of increasing value, for our Indians niuFtheir ways will soon be things of a past generation. Gov. Evans, of South Carolina, who Is a rising man in Southern politics, is a few years past SO. He is n graduate of Union College at Schenectady, comes of excellent stock, and is bold, fearless, alike, and full of nervous energy.

A correspondent asks: “In view of tha recent Louisville tragedy, is it ever allowable to mnke love to n inJirriod woman?” It is tiot only allowable, but emiueutly proper; but you should marry her tlrst. ~ Russia has forked the shell game on Japan.

DR. NEWMAN. Treasurer. DR. ATKINSON, Secretary.