Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — Page 6

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

MADE RAPID GROWTH

TRAVELERS’ PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION FIVE YEARS OLD. Convention in San Antonio —Order Contains Over 10,000 Members.—Work of the Organization for the Promotion of Commercial Interested Knights of the Grip. The Travelers’ Protective Association of America, which was organized in Denver, Colo., in June, 1890, held its sixth annual convention in San Antonio, Tex., to celebrate the close of the fifth year of its existence. - It has had a remarkably rapid grcf/th in the last two years, beginning with a membership of 3,945 June 1, 1893, reaching 7,052 June 1, 1894, and closing with 10,600 June 1, 1895. The association is now organized in thirty-two States and in ninety-eight cities of the United States. Two new State divisions have been added during the year—Florida (reorganized) and North Carolina. Twen-ty-eight new posts have been organized, while" three posts have lapsed, leaving the association with organizations in ninety-eight of the principal cities of the United States. The object of the order is the protection and promotion of commercial interests, the promotion of social intercourse among the members and the payment of sick and death benefits. During the last year, through the influence of the Travelers Protective Association, Congress had amended the interstate commerce act, permitting railroads to issue interchangeable mileage, and through the insurance department over $55,000 had been paid. —•• < v 1 Sol Deals in Death. Twenty-one persons wore overcome by heat in and about Chicago Monday. Four of them are dead, others are not expected to live, while the rest will probably recover. The temperature was exceedingly faigfaathday, and most of the prostrations occurred when the mercury was hanging around the 95 degree mark in,the afternoon. This was the highest point touched during the day. Chicago was hot enough, but there were dozens of places worse off. New York had the same temperature and a much greater humidity. Most all of Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky were much hotter. Several weather bureau stations, including Indianapolis and Louisville, report an even 100 degrees at 3p. m. The following places reported 96 degrees at night: Detroit, St. Louis, Springfield, Ill.; Cairo, Nashville, Knoxville, Memphis and Cincinnati. It is safe to say that at least twenty-five persons died during five days at New York as a result of,the heat, and that over 150 were prostrated. A good many of those taken to the different public institutions will not recover. Gotham never before got such a scorching June.

Floods inforlorado. Heavy rains throughout eastern Colo* rado and rapid melting of snow in the mountains are making the creeks and rivers boom and causing much uneasiness among railway managers. So far the Rock Island has been the greatest sufferer. Four hundred feet of track west of Limon, Colo., was washed away by an overflow of the Big Sandy and traffic is suspended between Colorado Springs and Limon Junction. A bridge is also reported washed away on the Kansas Pacific branch of the Union Pacific near Oakley, 270 miles east of Denver. Clear Creek has risen, causing suspension of work on the placers. Crops throughout eastern Colorado have been considerably damaged by cloudbursts and hail. Ae Platte river is out of its banks in places and people living in the bottoms in Denver have prepared to flee from their homes. The Arkansas river has risen two feet at Pueblo, but no damage has resulted. Strange Suicide of a Dunkirk Belle. Miss Elsie Coleman, the 20-year-old daughter of the late William Coleman, a wealthy banker of Dunkirk, committed suicide by blowing out her brains with a revolver, after spending a pleasant evening with her friends. The family is wealthy and she was prominent in society. No cause is assigned for the deed. She is said to have been the fiance of ex-Forestry Commissioner Mac Lennon, of Pennsylvania. Big Expenditure* for Public Works. The publishers of “Paving and Municipal Engineering” have gathered statistics from the city engineers of 300 cities of more than 10,000 population which show that more public work will be done during the summer of 1895 than ever before, the expenditures for paving, sewering, water works and bridges approximating $200,000,000, while last year less than onefourth of this amount was expended.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Maj. William Hardiman, aged 74, was shot from ambush and killed on a lonely road near Esculapia Springs, Ky. A mob took James Freeman, colored, from a guard of four men at Columbia City, Fla., tied him to a tree and shot him to death. He had tried to assault Mrs. Consel, also colored. “Bad Tom” Smith, of Jackson, Ky., did not die on the gallows Friday for Rader's assassination. He has taken an appeal, which respites him for sixty days, or until the appeal is decided. While searching for washouts between Edison and Oxford, Neb., the engine of the repair train jumped into a washout about two miles east of Edison, aittf of the five men on the engine four were killed. This is one of the results of the breaking of Curtis Lake dam. has been received that the French Catholic and English and American missionary property at Ching Too, capital of the province of Szechuen, Western China, was destroyed by rioters. The missionaries are reported to be safe in the officials, Yuinens. The province of Szechuen has been termed the “Texas of China.” Ching Too is the capital city. , Janie Caldwell, the 18-year-old daughter of Farmer Josiah Caldwell Jiving near Birmingham, Ala., cut her throat in the presence of Joe Jennings because he took Another girl to a dance. She died in his •rma.

EASTERN.

Mrs. Annie Lounigan, of Brooklyn, Is lying in St. Peter’s Hospital suffering from burns and bruises, while her husband, John Lounigan, occupies a cell in "tbs police station charged with Inflicting the injuries which will in all probability result in her death. From the statement which the woman made at the hospital it appears that her husband, after beating her severely, set fire to her clothing. Her face and body are in a terrible condition from the burns. Notwithstanding this, however, she would not at first disclose the name of her assailant. When she was told that death was imminent she gave the evidence against her husband, who was at once arrested. His only statement was that he had been too drunk to recollect anything that had occurred. Three hundred canal boats are lying rotting in the water at Buffalo as the result of the low freight rates on grain to New York. The shipment of grain from the West are fully up to the average this season, the terminal elevator having already handled 3,500,000 bushels, yet out of this the canal has had only three boatloads, notwithstanding the very low rates offered by the boatmen—ll-3 cents for wheat and 1% cents for”oats. The explanation given is that the railroads have agents ip every corner of the country, and by added facilities are able to keep cutting down the rates until a scale has been reached which is ruinously low. It is further said that 1,000 bushels are now being put into one car, while four or five hundred bushels were considered a carload a few years ago. Altogether, the old Erie canal, which originally, perhaps, made the Empire State what she is, is passing through a far from bright stage of its history. Following close upon the two score of apparently incendiary fires on the upper West Side during the last three months comes the startling revelation that there are three regularly-organized gangs of firebugs in New York, who are in the hands of insurance adjusters and bound by oaths to imperil the lives and property of New Yorkers for a paltry few dollars, and not to disclose their secrets under penalty of torture. Friday Morris Schoeuholz, the suspected firebug recently arrested as the result of Fire Marshal Mitchell's efforts to run down the gang, confessed to firing at least a half dozen houses in New York and Brooklyn by prearrangements for the insurance. Marshal Mitchell says he will be able to unfold one of the greatest schemes ever attempted in that line. Among those implicated in this latest firebug scare are women, several fire underwriters, and at least one lawyer. The lawyer is alleged to have advised the firebugs in many details; the underwriters acted as [go-betweens and played a most important part in mulcting the insurance companies. The women acted usually for their husbands after the latter had been burned out several times and the insurance companies refused them further insurance. He says the gang has cleared over $200,000 from insurances.

WESTERN.

Charles Doh shot and killed Joseph Boetcher in Richter Brothers’ tailoring shop at Columbus, Ohio. Doh fired at Boetcher four times, three bullets striking the breast. Sheriff Hancock, of Ava. Mo.,. .captured the robbers who "held up A. It. Turney, storekeeper at Rome. They were captured near Lead Hill, Ark. One of the bold thieves, and the One who appeared to be the leader of the gang, turned out to be a woman. Her name is Lydia Briston. Gen. Asa S. Bushuell, of Springfield, was nominated for Governor at Zanesville, Ohio, Monday night by the State Republican convention. Though his name was not formally presented, he received 58 votes on the first ballot and gained steadily until the sixth, when he received 95 votes more than were needed to nominate. At Duluth, Judge Edson has decided that there is sufficient cause to hold Mrs. S. D. Smith to the September grand jury on the charge of conspiring with her husband to defraud Mrs. Mary Cameron of $2,600 through a forgery of an indorsement on a certificate of deposit. Smith, the husband, is said to have played a similar game two years ago At Kokomo, lud., a distributer of circus dodgers attempted to throw a poster into a passing wagon Monday. The paper fell under the horses’ feet, causing them to run away. James L. Straughn, wife and daughter, of Alto, were thrown out and terribly crushed. Mrs. Straughn and daughter are believed to be fatally injured. Mr. Straughn will recover. John Welsh, sent from Morgan County, Ind., to the central hospital for the insane, made his escape by letting himself down from a fourth-story window by a rope and is terrorizing the country neighborhoods west of the institution. He escaped in an almost nude condition, and appeared at several farm houses and frightened the women nearly to death. Efforts were made to capture him, but he fought like a demon and succeeded in making his escape. He is 50 years of age and became demented over religion. The authorities are fearful that he will commit murder before he can be taken.

R. S. Schwerin, superintendent at San Francisco of the Pacific Mail Company, Monday night received word that the Colima had been .wrecked. Nineteen of those on board were saved. The Colima carried about forty first cabin passengers and the same number in the crew. The Colima was commanded by Captain J. P. Taylor and was an iron vessel of 2,90 G tons. She was built in 1873 by Roach A Sons, of Philadelphia, and was owned §y the Pacific Mail Company. The wreck occurred between Manzanilla and Acapulco. The Colima carried a very heavy cargo of general merchandise. The ship’s boat containing five of the crew and fourteen of the passengers arrived at Manzanilla Tuesday. Assistant Superintendent Avery of the Pacific. Mail stated that the Colima carried 102 people and only nineteen were saved. Most of the cabin passengers were bound through to New York. One of the most remarkable military reunions in the histqry_of the world occurred at Chicago Wednesday, when the most famous surviving generals of the Confederacy met the most famous surviving generals of the Union arpjies at a banquet tendered by the Citizens’ Committee of Chicago Two hundred and fifty men, many of them prominent in the nation’s history, sat down to the feast. Opposite Mayor Swift and Gen. Fitzhugh Lee sat Lieut Gen. James Longstreet, the famous ex-Confederate chieftain. Gen. Wade Hampton chatted with Gen. John M. Palmer, and Geu. Butler, es South Carolina, pledged the health of Illinois’ favor-

ite soldier, Gen. John C. Black. When the band played “Sherman’# March to the Sea” the ex-Confederates led the applause, and when the inspiring strains of “Dixie” filled the hail the veterans of-the Union responded with a hearty good will. With flags at half-mast throughout the city, with most impressive civic and military pomp, Chicago has interred the nation’s dead. The remains of Walter Q. Gresham rest in a vault at Oakwoods cemetery, there to remain until a final burial place is chosen. All along the route from Washington the funeral train was greeted by sorrowing No stop was made except for fuel ancHtfater. The train was met by an infantry regiment from Fort Sheridan and the various representative bodies and organizations. In a hearse drawn by six horses the body was conveyed to Oakwoods. A salute of thirteen guns signalized the approach of the cortege to the cemetery gates, and, wrapped in a United States flag, with the President of the nation and his advisers, with the representatives of foreign nations, and with the high officials of State and city at the tomb, the body was laid at rest.

SOUTHERN.

South Carolina excursionists to Tallulah Falls, Ga., engaged in a riot, and the town marshal’s throat was cut, the sheriff had his throat gashed and a deputy was seriously injured. At Cornelia a posse ran the rioters into a swamp and captured four of them. They are now in jail at Clarksville. The sheriff of the county remained on the train and was shot at several times. The rioters were drinking. Judge W. R. Norwood, one of the judges of the Superior Court elected last November, has been indicted by the grand jury at Lumberton, N. C., for drunkenness. Last week was court week for the county, and Judge Norwood came Monday morning under the influence of liquor and continued drinking until, at the hour when court should have been opened, he was too drunk to hold court and remained in his room all day at the hotel. He continued in that condition all week. In the terrible flood that visited the Devil’s River country in Texas last Thursday four persons met their death by drowning near Ozoua. Two others belonging to the same family were drowned, but their bodies have not been recovered. The victims were George Velasco’s wife and the latter’s two brothers and three sisters. They lived on the bank of Devil’s river, which rose thirty feet within thirty minutes and swept their house and the whole family into the raging torrent. AH the houses on the Prosser ranch, between Juno and Comstock, were swept away, and several families, numbering in all about twenty persons, are believed to have been drowned.

WASHINGTON.

The United States Supreme Court has denied the application of Eugene V. Debs, the strike leader, for a writ of habeas corpus. This is a victory for the Government. It is intimated in official circles at Washington that Secretary Gresham’s successor in the cabinet will not be named for ■several weeks, and that in the meantime Assistant Secretary Uhl will perform the duties. Grave international problems are pressing for solution, but the President has always taken such a deep interest in every detail of State Department affairs that a Secretary is nos a strict necessity of the moment. Many names figure in the calculations as reasonable probabilities for Secretary of State. Don M. Dickinson is easily at the head of this, having declined the office at the cont* meneement of the administration; William C. Whitney occupies a place in the minds of many, while, not a few believe that Bayard may be transferred from the court of St. James to his old post as chief adviser to the President. All honors that are for a dead soldier were accorded Wednesday at Washington to the remains of Walter Quinton Gresham. That surpassing tribute—a military funeral —all the nation can do for the very best of its sons in death, wa's paid to mm. The wheels of .the Government at home and in the remote corners of the earth where it is represented by ministers and consuls, stopped still while the ceremonies of the burial progressed. Every official flag on the department buildings, on the far-away frontier posts, on post offices and on custom houses all over the United States fluttered at half-mast. The President and his ministers laid aside their bore away the body to its last rest. The fondest wish of statesman or soldier could ask no more. All through the ceremonies President Cleveland’s gaze was riveted upon the casket which contained the remains of his friend. Mr. Cleveland was greatly affected, and of all those in the great room none showed more clearly his depth of feeling.

FOREIGN.

The Duke of Orleans, head of the royal house of France, has so far recovered from the injuries which he received while out hunting as to be able to leave Seville for London. The French steamer Dom Pedro, bound for Carrilo, Spain, has been wrecked off Currubedo. Eighty of those on board were drowned. The disaster was caused by the bursting of a boiler. A special from Athens says two Armenians, editors of the Journal Vatan, have been arrested there for blackmailing the Turkish minister and publishing articles insulting to the sultan. The Loudon Daily News correspondent at Berlin telegraphs that paper that there iff a belief in some quarters that the Formosau republic is a Chinese maneuver, backed by France and Russia, to trick Japan out of the fruits of her victory. It is feared that it will reopen the war. Advices received at Constantinople from Moosh state that the residence occupied by the French. British and Russian envoys has been forcibly entered by the Turkish gendarmes, who attempted to arrest a servant of the envoys. The gendarmes used abusive lauguuge and were with difficulty expelled. A special dispatch to the Pall Mall Gazette from its correspondent at Shanghai snys that alarming rumors are current at Shanghai. It is stated thnt a renewal of hostilities is imminent. The viceroy of Formosa is said to have rebelled against the Government of Peking. Tie Japanese ships are reported to have been cleaned for action, and the French ships at Tamsul, Formosa, are also said to have been prepared for fighting. In addition, rumors of Russian intervention are current at Shanghai, and steamers have been ordered to Tien-Tsin with provisions in view of the probability of Russian hostility. Captain General Martinez de Campos

has assured the newspapers of the province of Puerto Principe, Cuba, that the Government will contribute the snm of $20,000 per month for the construction of the railroad between Puerto Principe, the capital of that province, and the port of Santa Cruz, pn the western coast of that province. The Government has decided to undertake .this work in order to give employment-to about 700 laborers," in view of the fact that it is determined to finish the war soon, even if it is necessary to bring more troops from Spain for that -purpose. The captain-general has received a dispatch from the Government at Madrid saying the Spanish minister of war has ready 25,000 additional troops for transportation to the island of Cuba. But do Campos was asked to advise the Gov--ernment first whether reinforcements were necessary. He replied saying •no more troops were needed to suppress the insurrectioh at present.

IN GENERAL

The body of an American, literally cut to pieces, was found at Juarez, Mexico. He had evidently been murdered by robbers. - ■ - An interesting ceremony was witnessed in Montreal when Archbishop Fabre, assisted by three priests, blessed the new branch of the Hochelaya Bank, just opened. The ceremony, which is of an imposing nature, and one seldom seen in Montreal, consists of the assisting priests immersing a vessel in Tioly water and presenting it to the archbishop, who proceeds to sprinkle the water throughout the building, followed by the priests, who make the responses to the benediction. During a heavy fog Thursday night the Canadian steamer Jack, bound down with lumber, collided with the steamer Norma off the Menomonee river, opposite Middle Island, Lake Huron. The Norma irnmediatcly sunk. The cook, wheelsman and fireman were drowned. The barge

Sicken was near by and picked up the remainder of the crew. The Norma was valued at $200,000 and insured for $175,000. The Jack is afloat but badly damaged. The Norma was a steel propeller of 2,304 tons gross. She was built in Cleveland in 1890 and is owned by Capt. Geo. P. McKay, of Cleveland. The Canadian steamer Jack is a new boat and the vessel which damaged the locks in the Welland canal so badly about three weeks ago that navigation in the canal \yas suspended for three days. Following is the standing of the clubs _in.the NatimiaL Baseball League: Per Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. cent. Pittsburg 34 22 12 .647 Philadelphia 30 18 12 .600 Baltimore .... *£. .27 16 11 .593 Cincinnati 34 20 14 .576 Cleveland .' 33 19 14 .576 Chicago 35 20' 15 .571 Boston 28 15 13 .536 New York 31 15 16 .484 Brooklyn 30 13 17 .433 Washington 32 13 19 .400 St. L0ui5........34 12 22 .353 Louisville .......30 5 25 .167 WESTERN LEAGUE. Following is the standing of the dubs of the°Western League; Per Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. cent. Indianapolis 28 21 7 .750 Grand Rapids.. ..29 18 11 .621 Minneapofiij 27 15 12 .556 Toledo.. ..29 13 16 .448 Kansas City 29 13 16 .448 Detroit 27 12 15 .444 Milwaukee .30 13 17 .433 St. Paul.... 27 9 18 .333 A scheme to make an important change in the system of crop reporting is about to be put into operation by the Agricultural Department. A correspondent will be located in every township, and he will be required to report promptly to the Department. The plan will embrace only twenty States, ranging from New York to the innermost of the Central States, but these comprise 90 per cent of tJie wheat area. They include 1,389 counties, and the greatness of the scheme is apparent when it is taken into consideration that the number of townships in a county averages about fifteen. This will be used In conjunction with the system now in vogue, each set of reports acting as a check on the other. Steps looking to the organization of the new Correspondents have been taken, but the new plan cannot be put in operation before next year. The plan was suggested by a committee of the National Board of Trade. Another plan, that of licensing all thrashers who are to be required to make the reports, has been under consideration, but it is not regarded as feasible by officials. The thrashers would have to be licensed by the State. This would cause a very material delay in transmittal.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 78c; corn, No. 2,51 cto 52e; oats, No. 2,29 c to 30c; rye, No. 2; 66c to 67c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13e; potatoes, car lots, per bushel, 45c to 60c; broom corn, per K), common growth to fine brush, 4c to 7c. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, common to prime. $2.00 tp $4.25; wheat, No. 2,83 eto 85c; corn, No. 1 white, 52c to 54c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 35e. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 82c to 83c; corn, No. 2,49 cto 51c; oats, No. 2, «28c to 29c; rye, No. 2,67 cto 69c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $3.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,85 cto 87c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 53c to 55c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; rye, No. 2,71 cto 73c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 83c to 85c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 53c to 54c; onts, No. 2 white, 34c to 35c; rye, C9c to 71c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 82e to 83c; corn, No. 2 mixed, SJJc to 54c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; rye, No. 2,67 c to 69e. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00 - v hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 1 hard, 84c to 85c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 58c to 60c; oats, No. 2 white, 35c to 37c. - Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 77c to 78c; corn, No. 3,51 cto 52c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 33c; barley, No. 2, 50? 52c; rye, No. 1,65 cto 67c; pork, mess, $12.50 to $13.00. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; whea\ No. 2 red, 81c to 82c; corn, No. 2, 58c to 60c; oats, No. 2 white, 36c to 38c; butter, creamery, 14c to 19c; eggs, Western, 12c to 14c. e

SPIKED THE CANNON.

MILITIAMEN ARE TIRED OF CONDEMNED ARTILLERY. Encouraging Business Conditions—- " Water Spout in Texas and Cloud--9 burst in Nebraska Do Immense Damage—Chinch Bugs Fattening. No Cannon in Kansas Now. Kansas, is without artillery. Thursday night several National Guardsmen whose names are unknown crept into the Read: quarters of the Wichita artillery company, where till the cannon in possession of-the State were stored, and spiked every gun with rat taiffiles. The cannon were used in the memorial services, and are old-tim-ers, many having been condemned by the Government. During the firing of a salute one of them exploded, tearing off both arms of Private Fennel and the fingers of Private Walker. The accident caused considerable adverse comment upon the officers in permitting the condemned cannon to be used, and last night's action on the part of the incensed soldiers was the result. The cannon are damaged beyond repair. Trade Gets Better. If. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “More far-reaching than any, change during the past week, if really warranted by facts, is the continued rise in prices of wheat and cotton. Real scarcity of either would affect all business. Happily there is still room to hope that tales of injury are greatly exaggerated. although there has been some evidence during the week that both the great crops have suffered more than at first appeared. Other changes are almost all favorable and some - highly troubles are clearly less threatening. Monetary conditions are satisfactory, and the substantial increase in the commercial demand is a good sign. Exchanges through the clearing houses have been greatly inflated by speculation, and at this time last year were cut down by the coal strike and toward the end of May, 1893, greatly reduced by bank failures, hut for the week exceed last year’s by 19 per cent, and fal only 5.6 per cent below those of 1893, while the daily average for May is 26.9 per cent larger than last year, but 7.1 per cent less than in 1893.

Mad Sweep of Water. A torrent of roaring water swept down the Medicine valley in Frontier county, Neb., Sunday, carrying death and destruction in its path. Curtis lake burst its banks, and the accumulated drainage of thirty miles of territory rushed over hamlets and farm lands lying in its path. It is believed several lives have tjeen lost. Stockville, seven miles down the Medicine creek, which is the outlet of Curtis lake, had 250 inhabitants. The people at Cambridge, where the Medicine flows into the Republican river, were far enough away to escape death, although they may lose property. At Curtis a fine roller mill was destroyed and much railroad property destroyed. Heavy rains for several days were followed by a cloudburst, and the dam at the lake could not stand the pressure. Down the valley many farm dwellings and outbuildings were swept awav. ______ Makes Chinch Bugs More Plentiful. Since May 1 Dr. Paul Schweitzer, chemist of the Missouri State experimental station, has been issuing packages of diseased chinch bugs, to be distributed through the crop fields of the State for the purpose of creating an epidemic among the healthy bugs, thus exterminating them. Since that time the chinch bugs are more numerous this year than ever before. The wheat crop is being literally devoured. The experiment with the infection made at the station has, however, proved thoroughly successful. Waterßpont Creates Great Havoc. A waterspout struck near Hillsboro, Tex., Thursday night. It caused an eightacre lake to burst through a dani. About six hundred feet of the Misouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad tracks were washed away. Similar damage was done to the Cotton Belt road. Rails were twisted in all sorts of shapes. All wires were torn down. Several hundred cattle were drowned in the Hackberry bottom near Hillsboro and one house was demolished and one man was drowned. No estimate can be made of the loss.

BREVITIES.

The Comptroller of the Currency has given authority for the organization of the First National Bank of Ryanql, Ind. T., and the First National Bank of Roswell, N. M. Three British warships have been ordered to Jeddah with instructions to protect the lives of foreigners and to investigate the killing of the British yjce-consul and the wounding of the other consular officers. A dispatch to the London Times from Hong Kong confirms the news contained in the Associated Press dispatch of Thursday night from Hong Kong announcing that hostilities between the Japanese and republicans on the Island of Formosa have commenced. The provincial government of Quebec has had to go to borrowing again. Premier Taillur announces that $1,500,000 has been obtained from the Messrs. Coates, the London bankers, at 3% per cent. This amount was required to pay .earned railroad subsidies and also to settle temporary loans from some local financial institutions at 4 per cent. The money Will be drawn as required and no bonds were issued to secure the amount, which will be payable on notice. Almede Chattele, who murdered little Jessie Keith last October, was hanged at Stratford, Ont. The murdered girl’s father attended the execution. It is said that notwithstanding the recent court decision Gov. Javans of South Carolina has directed the dispensary constabulary to seize all the liquor they can find. Sensational charges are expected in the fight on Gov. Hughfes of Arizona, and his removal Is looked for. ” ■ - | The qbinnge at the United States mint,' Philadelphia, during the month of May' amounted to $2,251,802. [ A fraud order was Issued from Washington against W. P. Burnham & Co., of Chicago, debarring them from the use of ithe mails. Commissioners of Sedgwick County, Kansas, have issued $50,000 refunding jbonds, from the sale of which they expect to take up outstanding county warrants.

PVLSE of the PRESS

Opinions of Gresham. The administration of the State Department under Secretary Gresham will be regarded by the historian of the future m equal to any.—Milwaukee Journal. In each of three fields —war, the bench and the cabinet, as soldier, jurist and secretary—he attained a distinct and enduring fame,—Grand Rapids Democrat One" of his best characteristics was hostility to the growth of corporation influence in political affairs, and to this was duo most of his strength with the masses. —Buffalo Express. Personally Mr. Gresham was probably the most democratic man that ever occupied the State Department He was mors accessible than any of his clerks.—St Louis Post-Dispatch. While Gresham won no especial, distinctionin either cabinet, he was a painstaking and conscientious oflicinl, and deserved more credit than the country has accorded him.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat Republicans cannot but believe that his uncertainty of political faith was unfortunate and that he was in error when he cast his lot with the Cleveland administration, but he can be credited with honesty and a desire to do Mis duty.—Duluth News-Tribune. A man has died who .has deserved well of his fellow citizens. The Secretary of State was a brave soldier and a just judge. In his later career many of his countrymen find things to disapprove, and find other things that stamp him with the same patriotism that won him fame-in bygone years.—Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. There are those who were closely attached to Secretary Gresham and who were cemented to him by years of personal friendship, who will feel that a light has gone out of their lives, and that grief has come in to sit where hope of the future of the dead statesman had held its place and joy at his success was genuine and the outgrowth of appreciation and true sympathy.—New Albany Ledger. Utah’s New Constitution. The Utah constitutional contention provided for no lieutenant governor In the list of State officers. Utah should provide for such an.emergency, so that when the people elect officials representing one party or policy there wifi be some one to slip in when a Governor dies and carry on the work as it was begun.—Chicago Inter Ocean. ; A glance at the new constitution which Is to be submitted to the people of Utah In November will suffice to show what a tremendous advance is In store for womanhood in that territory when it shall become a State. Not only Is the Federal statute prohibiting polygamy confirmed, but woman suffrage is established at one sweep.—Chicago Herald. The constitution which is to be submitted to the people of Utah in November prohibits polygamy, as do all the States; It provides for woman suffrage, as does Wyoming; it does away with the grand -jury system. as does Michigan, and it does not provide for a lieutenant governor, In which it is like Delaware, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Maine and some other States. It incorporates some new features in trials by jury, providing for petit juries of eight persons, six of whom can render a verdict, except in criminal cases, when a unanimous verdict is required to convict. Tho constitution provides for a school system that Is comprehensive, and if well carrjed out will give the new Stato a high rank in educational matters.—Chicago Record.

The Russian Squeeze. If Japan was about one-fourth the size of Russia the latter wouldn’t be offering it any advice. —Chicago Tribune. Japan, like Cuba, may not have the sympathy of the United States Government, but both have the cordial sympathy and good will of the American people.— New York Advertiser. Russia is inclined to crow over what it regards as a diplomatic victory in forcing Japan to agree not to demand any of the Chinese mainland. It is hard to see wherein the victory lies, for Japan was clearly made the victim of bulldozing by three of the most powerful nations of the world.—Kansas City Star. Russia’s tender regard for “those principles on which rests the concert of civilized nations,” and her agonized fear lest Japan, by violating them, should imperil the progress of civilization in the East, almost make one forget the part Russia took in the dismemberment of Poland and her more recent treatment of the Jewß. New York Times. The Lion's Grab. It will be England’s next move to cultivate an impression that the Monroe doctrine is a theory and not a condition.— Washington Stnr. The nnvage is not far beneath the skin of this Christian nation. The instinct that leads England to enter up judgment without arbitration, to refuse mediation and ts chastise the quaking antagonist !■ the instinct of the aborigine.—Chicago Post. England’s conduct in the Nicaragua matter is arrogant and cowardly, but it Is characteristic. It is the course she has always taken in dealing with small nations. She is a swaggerer and a bully except when the other party is a country of her own size.—Globe-Democrat. If this method of procedure should take place between two individuals, one a big man and the other a little boy, we should apply epithets to the big man that would not be flattering. Why should not the same methods of justice exist between nations as between individuals?—Boston Globe. Col. Goldsmith W. Hewitt, the most prominent criminal lawyer in Alabama »nd member of the Forty-fourth, Fortyfifth, Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses, from the Sixth Alabama district, died at his home in Birmingham of neuralgia of the heart. Ho waß 61 years of age. The late trolley strike cost District Assembly, No. 75, Knights of Labqr, New York, $13,739. , Dress Is the table of your contents.— La voter.