Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. KEKSSELAER, • • INDIANA.

HEAVY LOSS BY FIRE.

ALL SOUTH CHICAGO WAS IN DANGER. T _ Railroad Commission Gives the Windy City a Fine Lift-Last Year’s Output of Fruit —A, R. U. Leaders Must Serve Their Time. Bouth Chicago Blaze. The entire business district of South Chicago was threatened, with destruction by fire that started at 11:30 o’clock Monday night in the furniture store of Peter Young. Before the flames were gotten under control ten buildings were laid in ashes. The damage will reach about $200,000. The fire started in the rear of Young's furniture store, right in the heart of the business district. It spread west, destroying six buildings,- and the flames shifted north, laying four more buildings in ashes. Twenty minutes after the fire broke out the flames attacked the big department store of C. S'. Cave. This is the largest store in the town. The firemen fought the blaze at this point and succeeded in saving the structure, but the loss from water will be several thousand dollars. Fruit Crop of 1894. The review of the frutf'eondition oUHrecountry for 1894 by the pomologist of the Agricultural Department is printed for the first time in the year book now almost completed. It characterizes the season as peculiarly disastrous and unprofitable in most lines' of fruit culture. In the East and South the result was largely due to unfavorable climatic conditions. Fair fruit crops were harvested, however, in the New England, middle Atlantic and lake States and in portions of Missouri, "Kansas and Nebraska. West of the Rocky Mountains there was an abundant yield, but losses due to the paralysis of freight traffic during the railroad strikes in June and July, together with the low prices caused by the prevailing industrial depression, resulted in very low net returns to the growers and shippers of that region. The year was characterized by exceptional extremes of heat and cold, drought and moisture in different sections. The average value of apples per barrel exported was about,2o per cent less than in 1893, and exports of dried apples showed an increase of but 5 per cent over those in 1593, in which year exports were smaller than during any year since 1878. Peaches were almost a total failure in the commercial" peach districts of the South, except in Florida and Texas. Big Boon to Trade. Chicago merchants have just been given at least $7,000,000 of additional trade annually by the railroad and warehouse commission. Merchants in jobbing centers in Illinois other than Chicago will benefit proportionately by the same gift and to the extent of at Yeast $3,000,000. This enormous increase of trade to Illinois merchants comes through the decision of the State commission to establish between all Illinois points as low a mileage basis of rates as is quoted to them from points outside the State. In other words, the commission is now printing its revised classification which will remove from Chicago and other Illinois merchants the onerous exactions in freight rates which have turned over the jobbing trade within the State to merchants in Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Detroit, Toledo; Cleveland, etc. Debsto Return to Jail. Eugene V. Debs find his associate officers of the American Railway Union will return to the Woodstock, 111., jail. Monday the certified copy of the order of the Supreme Court was received by S. W. Burnham, clerk of the United States District Court, and the marshal was notified to return the men to the jail. The men who are affected by the order are: Eugene V. Debs, George W. Howard, Sylvester Keliher, L. W. Rogers, James Hogan, William E. Burns, Roy M. Goodwin, Martin J. Elliott. George W. Howard, the former vice-president of the union and nSw theexecutive officer of the American Industrial Union, which is a rival organization, desired to bo sent to some county jail in Indiana. Bbe Purloins While the Boy Weeps. Chicago police arrested Mrs. Loue with silks and clothing she had taken at L. Klein & Co.’s store. With her was Michael Masterson, 9 years old, who had evidently been trained as an accomplice. When the woman had all the plunder she could carry at any one place the boy was signaled to set up a piteous cry, which diverted the attention of l>y-standers and enabled Mrs. Loue to sneak out. This was his story. Both were held. Capt. Blackburn Drowned. George Richards, of Milwaukee, mate of the schooner Mabel Wilson, has received a dispat-ch from a son of Captain Blackburn, at Oswego, announcing the foundering of a yacht and the loss of his father and three others. Captain Blackburn was an old lake vessel master and once commanded the schooners West Side, J. E. Gilmore and Dan Lyons.

NEWS NUGGETS.

The steamer Monarch, owned by Brydges & Durham, which left Rat Portage, Ont., for Fort Francis, loaded with passengers and freight, was wrecked and sunk at Satiit Rapids in the Rainy river. The passengers and crew were saved. At St. Jshn's, N. F., the whaleboat Kite has been chartered to carry an expedition of ten persons to Greenland to rescue Lieut. Peary, the Arctic explorer. Emile Diebitsch, Peary’s brother-in-law, will have charge of the party, which is to start about the middle of next month. A call has been issued for a meeting of the Mississippi Valley Lumbermen’s Association to be held at LaCrosse, Wis., and the Wisconsin Valley Lumbermen’s Association has been called to meet at the same time aad place. This means a joint meeting will be held and the price of white pine lumber will go up. The swearing In of the new Secretary of State by Ghief Justice Fuller Monday was a simple ceremony. During the day the chiefs of bureaus and divisions identified with the department paid their reaped* to the new Secretary.

EASTERN.

The latest report is that Howard Gould is engaged to marry Katherine Clemmons, the actress. John Eisiminger. was hanged at Waynesburg, Pa., for the murder of Samuel McCoy. A Merrimac, Mass., carriage firm has shipped to Constantinople a coupe for the use of the sultan. The General Lutheran Synod at Hagerstown, Md. t adopted a week of selfdenial for the sake of their missions. The hearing in the five suits in equity against the estate of Benjamin F. Butler, aggregating $215,000, has begun at Boston, Mass. By the explosion of a dynamite cartridge used in excavations at Erie, Pa., Charles Ilarrity was killed and four men badly injured. John Mullock, of Fountain Hill, Pa., was shot and instantly killed by Jacob Lucky=lnrtbe presence of the former's ll-year-old son. The murderer then committed suicide. Henry P. Schwartz, a merchant nnd a member of the firm of Charles W. Schwartz & Co., carpet manufacturers, Philadelphia, Pa., committed suicide. Continued illness was the cause. Mrs. Nancy Stark, aged 96, the oldest resident of Mystic, Conn., died Wednesday night. She leaves sixty grandchildren, one of whom is William Stark, Judge Advocate of Nevada. Mrs. Hetty Green has been sued for SIOO,OOO for slander by Miss Mary Irene Hoyt, of New York. The suit grows out of language used by Mrs. Green during the trial of the Robinson estate case. Tinsey McMillan (Mrs. Mark) was examined before a United States commissioner sit Buffalo, N. Y., on the charge of selling "counterfeit stamps. Chicago 'per-' sons appeared as the witnesses against her. The United Electric Securities Companw of Portland, Me., has applied for a receiver for the Louisiana Electric Light pany of Portland, Me., has applied for a with light. Charges of mismanagement are made. The big relay race between Chicago and New York started promptly at 9 o’clock Wednesday morning 1 . Two riders were started in each one of the relays, each man carrying a message to Gen. Nelson A. Miles in New York. At Lenox, Mass.. Miss Florence Adele Sloane was married to James Abercrombie Burden, Jr. The wedding took place at Trinity Church 'and was attended by men and women whose aggregate wealth Is nearly $1,000,000,000. Three men were killed by a rear-end collision at Shamokin, Pa. A Philadelphia and Reading freight ran into a coal train. The wreck occurred on a heavy grade and at a sharp curve in the road, and is one of the worst that have occurred there for many years. About thirty cars were piled on top of each other.

WESTERN.

J. H. Honey, former coiner of the mint at Carson, Neb., and alleged to have stolen $50,000, was caught near Phoenix, Ariz., working On a railroad grade. J. A. Jones and Thomas Barnes, broth-ers-in-law, engaged in a pistol duel on horseback near Crawford, Neb. Jones’ horse was shot from under him. He continued the battle afoot and was killed. For the first time in almost a year the Missouri river is running bank full at Omaha, and is within ten feet of the danger line. Every river in Nebraska is on the point of overflowing, and all bottom lands are flooded. The President has denied the application for pardon in the case of George M. Van Leuven, convicted in lowa fo# violation of the pension laws, and sentenced Dec. 15 to two years’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of SI,OOO. The Bolt and Nut Manufacturers’ Association, in session at Cleveland, 0., advanced prices 10 per cent. The National Wrought Iron Pipe Association of Pittsburg, Pa., has made an advance of 10 pet cent in all lines of pipe. The Illinois State Bankers’ Association closed its convention at Rock Island after adopting a resolution denouncing the attempt to establish a silver legal tender currency at a ratio of 1G to 1. W. P. Halliday was elected president. Foui* members of the San Francisco, Cal., Civic Federation have been arrested on a charge of criminal libel. The complainant is Dr. Marie Livingston, candidate for health officer, upon -whom the federation had been making war. The steamer Santa Rosa arrived in San Francisco from San Diego and way ports with three shipwrecked mariners of the schooner Crest aboard. Captain Harlow of the Crest says that when off Point Conception the schooner was badly disabled by a fierce storm. All of the food was washed overboard, and after drifting about four days with nothing to eat a dog was killed and eaten to appease the hunger of the crew. A dead man kept guard over the Osbourne Chemical Works at Cincinnati Wednesday night. John Nelson, the night watchman, died of apoplexy in his chair in front of the open door early in the night, but his watch was effective and the. place was undisturbed. Brother officers who passed during the night saluted Nelson and it was not till mornyjg that he was found to be dead. Ptomaine poisoning nearly caused the death of the entire family of August 11, Christensen Thursday in Evanston, 111. Seven members of the family and also Samuel Wright, n guest, partook at dinner of Frankfort sausages purchased at Max Iluhn’s meat market and became shortly afterward deathly sick. Two of the children were past the help of a physician when one was called, but the other members of the family and the Wright boy, after several hours’ hard work in resuscitating them, were pronounced out of danger. Gov. Morrill of Kansas has removed S. W. Chase from the wardenship of the penitentiary and appointed J. Bruce' Lynch, of Chanute, as his successor. The removal was made at the suggestion of the investigating committee which recently found Chase guilty of immorality and malfeasance in office. Chase's lawyer has instructed him not to give up his office, claiming that Gov. Morrill’s action is illegal. He says he will carry the case to the Supreme Court. It was rumored last night that Chase and his adherents are quietly aViuing themselves, and that they will, if necessary, hold the office against Lynch by force. i The free silver convention at Springfield, 111., Wednesday declared unanimously in favor of the free coinage of sil-

ver at a ratio of 10 to 1 with gold. This declaration was adopted without a dissent, ing voice from the 850 delegates who com''posed the convention. The delegates also went on record as being in favor of the holding of a national Democratic convention, to take action on the money question. John P: Hopkins, of Chicago; W. H. Hinrichsen, of Jacksonville; George W. Fithian, of Newton, and L. B. Parsons, of Flora, were named as delegates-at-large from the State to attend such convention if one shall be called by the properly constituted authorities. -

WASHINGTON.

President Cleveland Friday afternoon announced the appointment of Richard Olney, of Massachusetts, to be Secretary of State and Judson Harmon, of Ohio, to be Attorney General. The announcement of Mr. Olney’s promotion caused no surprise, as it had been expected, but the nomination of Harmon caused a sensation, as his name had not been mentioned in connection with the vacancy; Mr.Harmon i,s about 50 years old, has been a judge of the Common Pleas in Clncinrnati and at present is one of the counsel of the “Big Four” and other roads. It is said at the Agricultural Department that there is no truth in the published reports that pork examined microscopically for export to Germany and France and found to contain trichinae is stamped by the inspectors as free from disease and r so transported and sold in interstate commeree trade. Early in February Secretary Mortem ordered all pork found to be affected with trichinosis tanked, but later it was decided that the present law did not give the Secretary this authority. The enforcement of the order was therefore postponed until July 1, when the new law goes into effect. It is doubtful if the law will give the Secretary the necessary powder audit is probable the only- relief-must come through the local authorities unless the Secretary secures from the shippers of pork to Germany and France (the countries requiring the inspection for trichinae) voluntary agreements, such as have been made with shippers of beef, mutton, etc.,, by which the latter agree to tank such carcasses as do not pass the Federal inspection. If such a regulation is put in force, however, it is feared that the pork exportation to Germany and France will cease. “The percentage of pork affected with trichinosis is so large,” said Mr. Salmon, “that if all the carcasses found to be affected went to the rendering vats the shippers’ profits would all disappear.” The amount of pork exported to Germany and France averages from 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 pounds monthly. It is becoming each day a more serious problem for the Navy Department to man the new ships with the small number of sailors allowed by law. In recent years there have been constant additions to the new navy, but Congress has not seen fit to increase in like proportion the -number of sailors allowed to man the ships. The modern ship, with its complex machinery and great size, requires more men than the small sailing steamers of the war period, yet with all the liberality which Congress has shown in appropriating money for the construction of new vessels it has failed to grasp the Importance of giving them effective crews. Last year Secretary Herbert appealed to the legislative branch of the Government to authorize the enlargement of the number of-enlisted men by 2,000, pointing to the number of new ships that will be completed and turned over to the navy in the course of a year or two as the basis of his application. The Appropriation Committee, llowever, saw fit to cut this number down to 1,000 additional men. The battleships Maine and Texas will be ready this summer to go into commission. To man these two ships about n 7OO men will be-re-quired, and as the Lancaster is also to go into service as a practice ship 300 men must be assigned to her. Thus the entire additional 1,000 men allowed by Congress will be absorbed. Meanwhile the big battleships Indiana. Oregon. lowa and Massachusetts are rapidly approaching completion, and there wifi be no sailors to place on them unless the department shall put out of commission some other ships and transfer their crews to the new vessels.

FOREIGN.

Wayue MaeVeagli, United States minister to Italy, has arrived in London. There were 10G cases of cholera and 33 deaths in the Department of the Volga, Russia, from April 14 to April 27. The republic proclaimed in Formosa has collapsed and President Tang has escaped. The Chinese forces in North Formosa are disorganized at the approach of the Japanese. A Tegucigalpa, Honduras, dispat,ch says: Fugitive Schnaubelt, alias Itipdskopf, the man who is said to have thrown the bomb at the Chicago haymarket riot, was badly wounded in a fracas at Pinalajo Ville. ll* will die. It is officially announced fatalities resulted from the cloudburst over the Wurtemberg portion of the Black Forest. At Ballingen alone thirty houses were demolished by the rise of the IJiver Eyach, and many other buildings were damaged. > Advices received in Constantinople from Jiddah, Arabia, a seaport of Mecca and the scene of the recent murderous assault on the consular officers of Great Britain, Russia and France, announcer that a panic prevails there and that it is feared the Bedouins wHI attack the town. The latter are held responsible for the attack upon the consuls, which resulted in the death of the British vice-consul, and a 'number of them were arrested in consequence. This has caused an angry feeling among the Bedouins, who demand the release of those apprehended, and threaten to use force if their demnnd is not complied with. The situation is so serious that the Europeans of Jiddah are hastily seeking refuge on board the merchant vessels in the harbor, taking with them all they possibly can of their belongings. It is also stated in the advices from Jiddah that the arrival there of the British Mediterranean , squadron, numbering seventeen warships of vnrious classes, is anxiously expected even by the Turkish authorities, as the garrison is very weak. There was a tremendous cloudburst over the Wurtemburg portion of the Black Forest district in Germany, causing destruction of property. The downfall of wuter caused the river Eyach so rise, and many houses at Ballingen, Frommern, Dirrwaugen and Lanien were swept away. Xfauy persons are missing, and it is feared they were drowned in the flood. Ten persons were drowned at Ballingen, seven were killed at Frommern gnd nine persons at 1 * missing in addition from the last-named place. At Lfflnfen ten persons were killed. The Black Forest is a mountainous region of southwestern Germany,

in the grand duehy of Baden and the west of Wurtemburg, separating the basins of the Rhine and Neckar, In manyplaces it is 3,700 feet above the sea, and the Feldberg, 4 > 675 feet high, ls she ldftiest mountain in western Germany. The Danube, Neckar, Kinzig, Murg, Eltz and other rivers rise in this region. The inhabitants are mainly engaged in rearing live stock, trading in timber and manufacturing wooden clocks, toys and woolen fabrics.

IN GENERAL

John A. Lee, of Missouri, was elected president oF"ffie Naflohal Travelers’ As-' soeiation. - The National Wrought Iron Pipe Association has made an advance of 10 per cent in all lines of pipe. : Carl Browne proposes to have a reunion of the commonweal army at Washington on July 4, and says he will be there if he is not in jail. The Standard Oil Company and the Scotch Oil Company have concluded an agreement, which is to last three years, for an-advance in the price of candles. A special from the City of'Mexico says that five more passengers of the Colima have been added to the list of saved. The five were picked up by one of the rescue crews on the beach at Mauquily, and three of them are now at Pueblito on their way to Colima. Prof. T. Nash, chief of the British Educational Bureau of India, committed suicide Monday by jumping overboard from the steamship City of Topeka in Alaska waters. It was done in the presence of his wife, who is the daughter of an Indian prince. She was jealous of him and they had quarreled. * The State Department has received from United States Minister Taylor at Madrid the complete and final answer oi! Spain to the demand of Secretary Gresham for a disavowal of the firing on the United States merchant ship Allianca. The document has been awaited for some time with interest, and it was one of the main subjects which Acting Secretary Uhl brought to the attention of the cabinet at the meeting Tuesday. The answer is most cordial in tone and is expressive of the fullest disavowal of the course of the commander,of the Spanish gunboat which fired on the Allianca. It is said to be entirely'satisfactory to this Government, ns it fully meets in letter and spirit the demands made. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: Per Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. cent. Pittsburg 40 26 14 .650 Boston 33 20 13 .606 Chicago 41 24 17 .585 Cleveland 38 22 16 .579 Baltimore 33 19 14 .576 Cincinnati 39 21 18 .538 New York .37 19 18 .514 Philadelphia 36 18 18 .500 Brooklyn 36 17 19 .472 Washington 37 16 21 .432 St. Louis ..40 15 25 .375 Louisville ....:..36 6 30 .167 WESTERN T.EAGUE. Following is the standing of the clubs of the Western League: Per Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. cent. Indianapolis 33 23 10 .697 Minneapolis 31 19 12 .613 Grand Rapids.... 34 19 .15 .559 Milwaukee 37 18 19 .486 Kansas CTly. ... .35 16 19 .457 St. Pau1........ .33 14 19 .424 Detroit .31 12 19 .387 Toledo ...... k... 34 13 21 .382

According to the Government weekly crop report, the warm weather of the past week has been favorable for cotton, which is reported as doing well in Tennessee and Oklahoma, and as improved in Arkansas and North Carolina, though still backward in the last-named State. In Louisiana the stand has been affected by the cool weather of the preceding week, hut it has commenced to grow again. In Texas the early part of the week was unfavorable,but the warm weather of the latter part was favorable for cultivation, which was badly needed. The warm weather has also been beneficial to corn, replanting of which over the northern portion of the corn belt is about completed and it is coming up and doing well. Reports from Southern States indicate that corn in that section is in excellent condition. In Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and southern Illinois corn would be greatly benefited by rain. Winter wheat is in less promising condition in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Missouri, and rust is appearing in Illinois. It is nearly ready to harvest in Kansas and is heading in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Arkansas and Kentucky report improved condition, and prospects in Oregon are excellent.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 81c; corn, No. 2,53 cto 54c; oats, No. 2,30 c to 31c; rye, No. 2,68 cto 70c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 12c; potatoes, car lots, per bushel, 35c to 50c; broom corn, SOO to $l2O per ton for poor to choice. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; bogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,83 cto 85c; corn, No. 1 white, 51c to 53e; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 35c. St. $4.00 te $4*75; wheat, No. 2 red, 82c to 83c; corn, No. 2,40 cto 50w, oats, No. 2, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2,67 cto G9c. Cincinnati—-Cattle, $3.50 to $5.75; bogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,86 cto 87c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; oats, No. 2 mixed, S3c to 34c; rye, No. 2,64 cto 66c. - Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.00 te $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 85c to 86c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 52c to 53c; oats, No. 2 white, 34c to 35c; rye, GCc to 68c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 85c to 86c; corn, Ns. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c; rye, Ns. 2,62 e to 64e. Buffalo—Cattle, $2-50 to $6.00; hogs. $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 1 hard, 85e to Bfic; corn, No. 2 yellow, 57c to 59c; bats, No. 2 white, 36c to 37c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 82e to 83c;-corn, No. 3,51 cte 53c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 34c; barley 1 , No. 2, 48e to 52c; rye, No. 1,67 cto 69c; pork, mess, $12.25 to $12.75. New York—Qattls; $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; Wheat, No. 2 red, 84c to 85c; corn, No. 2, 58c to 59c; oats, No. 2 white, 30e to 38c; butter, creamery, 14c to 19c; eggs, Western, 13c to 15c.

GOLDEN’S GOLD GONE.

THE ACTOR TAKES THE POOR DEBTOR’S OATH. t Milwaukee Loses a Million by Fire 'Reported Massacre in China—Tide of Business Steadily Rising Fast Time on the Wheel. Mnst Have Had a Good Time Abroad. Richard Golden, the aetor, took she poor debtor’s oath before Judge Forsaith in the municipal court at Boston, Mass. The Springer Lithographic Company of New York has sued Golden for $3,500 for a balance alleged to be due on a contract made in 1890 for posters furnished the “Jed Prouty” company. It developed that last season the gross receipts on the “Jed Prouty” company were $30,000, of which 65 per cent fell to Golden. He accounted for the loss of a good portion-of this by a trip to Europe. Many Missionaries Killed. A London cablegram says: A special dispatch from Shanghai, says that it is almost certain that a massacre of all the persons connected with the English, French and American missions at Chengte has occurred. Neithei men, women nor children have been spared. It is admitted that telegrams have been intercepted by the Government, the object being to conceal the news of the massacre. A French gunboat is en route to Woenchang to investigate the report. Chengte is situated in the province of Pe Chi Li, 100 miles northeast of Pekin. The people composing the population of the city are of a low order. The fact that Chengte is so near Pekin, the seat of the Chinese Government, makes the outrage all the more flagrant. When the news of the massacre arrived in Shanghai a French gunboat was promptly ordered to Wreng Cheng to investigate. There are several English warships here, but noue has been ordered north. The Americans and English will, however, make a thorough investigatiofi. ,

Boom in All Lines, R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “The tide of business is rising, even as it was falling just two years ago, with surprising rapidity. The gain has gone so far and so fast in some branches that the more conservative fear It may not be maintained. But the period of dullness which comes in each market after an unusual rise brfilgs as yet nothing like a corresponding decline. Industries gain much, halt or fail back a little and then gain once more. The demand for consumption steadily increases as the employment and wages of the people increase. Demand for money expands, one bank reporting 29 per cent larger in the discounts for the country nnd another 23 per cent more commercial loans than a year ago, and all but two report some gain. The serious question remains whether the crop will be full enough to sustain a large business, but the worst reports to-day are better by far than the estimates recently current.” Relay Race Breaks All Records. The great relay bicycle race of the red and blue between Chicago and New York was finished at 1:56 o’clock Saturday morning. The actual time of the race was (55 hours and 53 They broke all American records for a relay race. The start was at Chicago at 9:30 o’clock Wednesday morning. The race was organized practically by Gen. Nelson A. Miles to demonstrate the effectiveness of bicycles in military service. The “blue” riders represent the military, the “red” the postal serviee. The red message was followed at 2:359 a. m. by the blue message. Lumber Yards Ablaze. Fire early Monday morning in the center of the Milwaukee, Wis., lumber and tannery district, and only eight blocks from the business center of the city, did $750,000 damage. At 3 o’clock the flames were under control. Foster’s and Uhrig’s lumber yards, Gallun’s tannery, the steambarge Raleigh and the steambarge Lucy Graham were destroyed. The Sehlitz brewery had a narrow escape from being burned. Other shipping was damaged, as was considerable other property in the neighborhood.

BREVITIES.

Three murderers were hanged at San Quentin, Cal., Thursday. Five men were to have been executed, but Gov. Budd granted respites in the cases of two. Two elevators, with 150,000 bushels of malt and barley, belonging to the Wisconsin Malt and Grain Company, at Appleton, were burned. Loss, $150,000. The Canadian steamer Jack, which sank the steel steamer Norman on Lake Huren, got away from Alpena, Mich., at noon Friday, just one hour ahead of a libel for SIOO,OOO in a suit instituted by the owners of the Norman. At Lexington, Ky., George Green, colored, shot and killed his wife and her stepfather, Henderson Weakes, and then attempted suicide. Green’s.wife had left him, going to the home of her mother. The woman was killed While asleep and her stepfather upon going into the'room when attracted by the pistol shots. Green is still alive, but has two large holes in his head. After three weeks of the highest prices on record during recent years, dressed meats have taken a tumble at Cleveland. Friday the best native beef sold at $8.25 to $8.50 per hundredweight, a drop of from 50 to 75 cents. Texas beef also went down 50 cents per hundredweight, while dressed sheep are $1 lower. Dressed lambs are 50 cents below the selling price Thursday. Rudolph Schnaubelt, the Chicago bpmb thrower, iB reported to have been fatally wounded in a fracas at Pinulajo Villu, Honduras. The manufacturers of iron and brass bedsteads who have been meeting at the Victoria Hotel, Chicago, disbanded. No organization was effected, as was at first expected. A portion of the Doe Run lead mino at Flat River, Mo., caved in, killing three men. Forest fires, parted by railrbad men burning old ties, have destroyed 300 acres of timber near Brazil, Ind. Gen. Eloy Alfaro has been proclaimed supremo chief of the revolution in t Ecuador. He is preparing to leave Nicaragua for Guayaquil. Joseph Sampson web. expelled from membership in the City Council at Sioux Falls, S. D., for converting $7lO from the city to his own use.

EPWORTH LEAGUE.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. AT CHATTANOOGA, TENN. Becond World’s Meeting of the Methodist Young People’s Societies—SunI rise Prayer Meetings on Lookout Mountain—Program Complete. Followers of Christ.

—cal in doctrine and spirit and even in methods. Of this unity the Epworth League is a striking illustration. Its functions and place in Methodist churches is similar to that of the Christian Endeavor in Congregational and Presbyterian churches. It is the young people’s society of Methodism. The session will begin June 27, 1895, and continue four days. It will embrace the leagues of all of the Methodists in the world. The program is in the hands of the general secretaries of the M. E. Church, the M. E. Church South, and the Canadian Methodist Church. There will

LOOKOUT MOUNT AIK.

also be department conferences daily for the discussion of the practical work of the league in its several departments. Bishops Joyce, Vincent and Thoburn, of the M. E. Church; Galloway, Hendrix, Fitzgerald and Hargrove, of the M. E. Church South, and Sir McKenzie Bowell, premier of the Dominion of Canada, are on the program. These great leaders,

with many other men of eminence, as well as a large number of the talented and promising young workers of the variou s Methodisms, cannot fail to make*" the discussion of the different topics the highest interests and profit. The mu-f sic will be a feature of the conference. It will be

under the direction Founder of the League, of Prof. Rowland D. Williams, assisted by the Park sisters, of Boston, and a chorus of 500 voioes. An immense chorus of children from the public schools of Chattanooga will also participate. Sunrise prayer "meetings will be held eachmorning in the churches and on Lookout Mountain. Sunday morning will be devoted to sermons by the bishops and visiting ministers in the churches of the city and suburbs. Sunday afternoon there will be mass meetings in the largest churches, addressed by eminent ministers and laymen. The regular conference meetings will be held in the great tent, capable of holding 10,000 people, where the opening sermon will be preached by Bishop Galloway, and the closing sermon and consecration service by Bishop Joyce.

NEW SECRETARY OF STATE.

Attorney General Richard Olney la Chosen by the President. Richard Olney, of Massachusetts, the present Attorney General of the United States, is to succeed the late Walter Q. Gresham as Secretary of State. Edwin F. Uhl, of Michigan, will continue in the office of Assistant Secretary of State. Richard Olney was born in .Oxford, Worcester County, Mass., Sept. 15, 1835. He was prepared for college at Leicester Academy, in Worcester County, and was graduated from Brown University, Providence, R. 1., in 1856. From that year to

RICHABD OLNEY.

1859 he attended the Harvard Law School, when he was admitted to the bar and entered the office of the Hon. B. F. Thomas, of Boston, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1874. Since the year of his graduation at the Harvard Law School and his admission to the bar in 1859, he has been continually in the practice of the law in Boston. He received his appointment as Attorney General of the United States March 0,1893, the date upon which President Cleveland entered upon his second term of office. Having an execution against W. K. Lowrey, Sheriff Archibald snatched some money as Lowrey was drawing it from a bank at Cincinnati. The sheriff was mistaken for a robber and was severely handled before he could prove his legal right to the money. Through the kindly offices of a number of personal and political friends of the late Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase tho grate of the distinguished statesman at Spring Grove, 0., will be marked by a handsome monument.

THE second interna* tional conference of the Epworth League is to be held in Chattanooga July 27-30. There are many divisions of the followers of Wesley, but they are essentially one family, differing indeed a tittle in government, but identl-

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