Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1895 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. Gft). E. MARSHALL, Publisher. &EHSSELAER, INDIANA.

IS SHORT A FORTUNE.

DENVER HAS A STUPENDOUS SENSATION. Frightfully Fatal Accident at Attica, Ind. Death Accompanies Fierce Storms in the Missouri Valley—Little Ohio City Gets a Bad Scorching. Another Napoleon Goes Down. Henry J. Aldrich, who went from,, Bloomington to Denver, Colo., ten years ago after having had an experience in the grocery business to fit him for handling millions, is missing. He blossomed into a “Napoleon of finance” within the last few years and was caught in the crash three years ago when the bottom fell out of real estate and left him with more land than money. Aldrich is now supposed to be in Australia, having had a clean start of five weeks under the pretext of going East for the purpose of effecting a settlement with creditors. It is said that the failure of the Chamberlin Investment Company, which occurred at Denver threeyears* ago, and presented liabilities of 13,500,000 and assets that afterwards realized $250, will not be as bad as the final showing of the Colorado Securities Company. Quarter of a Million Lomu As the result of a fire Sunday night which started in a stable at the rear of the Winter block, Greenville, Ohio, the large wholesale store of Westerfield Bros, is in ruins, as are the steam laundry, Daily Tribune" and Courier newspaper offices, the Methodist Episcopal Church, Deutsche UWschuu, Dr. Matchett’s office, the large livery stable of H. E. Davis on the north side of Third street and the home of Mrs. William Sullivan adjoining. The fire was the work of incendiaries, and in the excitement thieves looted the town. Two ineffectual attempts were made to set fire to other buildings in different parts of the city. Two persons are reported injured. The losses and insurance are about as follows: Mozart store, loss SIOO,000; insurance, $15,000. Westerfield, wholesale grocery, loss, $30,000; insurance, $20,000; Dr: Matehett, loss, $8,000; no insurance. Methodist Episcopal Churcli, loss, $5,000; insurance, $2,500. H. E. Davis, livery stable, loss, $2,000; insurance unknown. Daily Tribune, loss, $4,000; insurance, $3,500. Steam laundry, loss $5,000; insurance, $3,500. Courier, loss. $2,000; insurance unknown, Mrs. William Sullivan, loss, $3,500; uninsured. Mrs. Ernie Farrar, loss, $2,500; insured. The entire loss at a conservative estimate will reach $225,000.

Two Killed by a Bursting Boiler. One of the worst accidents that ever happened in Attica, Ind., occurred through a boiler explosion at the home of Charles Peterson at 4:30 o’clock Monday afternoon. The dead are: Frank Peterson, William Smith, married, leaves no children. The injured are: J. W. Hamar, Alex Hamar, aged G. son of aboye^Leonard Stambaugh, aged 28, horribly scalded, cannot live; Henry Shumar. Contractor Perkins of Goodland had two men at work drilling a well. While they were discussing the work the boiler exploded. Smith was blown twenty feet away and instantly killed, every bone in his body being broken and his flesh being crushed to a pulp by the awful force. Indians Dance to Bring Rain. The Sac and Fox Indians at Guthrie, Ok., have adopted a new method to get rain. They appointed one day last week for all their tribes to meet at one placer and dance for rain, and at the same time they invited several neighboring tribes to join the ceremony for much needed showers. Large numbers of Indians met and danced until Sunday’s flood came, and this so buoyed them up that they are still dancing, that more rain may come. Before they commenced their festivities they moved their wigwams from the bottom to the high lands, saying rains would flood the low lands. Death in a Cyclone. Three different -Storms swept over the Missouri valley Monday, leaving death ind destruction in their paths. The worst pffects were felt at Kenwood, la., and Hartford, Kan. In the former place Mrs. Rose was killed, her husband badly hurt, and vast damage done to property. At Hhrtford six people were seriously injured and one will die. Kansas City was visited by a deluge and two boys were killed by lightning. Nebraska suffered in Richardson County and at Fayette and St. Joseph, Mo., the damage to crops will reach high up in the thousands.

NEWS NUGGETS.

An additon covering .'{.">,ooo square feet will be built to the transportation building at the Cotton States and International Exposition. Obituary—At Burgos, Spain, Senor Manuel ttinz Zorilla, the noted republican leader, s(s.—At Jeffersonville, Ind., John McCullough, 70. —At Elkhart, Ind., Mrs. Mary A. Brady, 86; Mrs. F. Truman, 77. —At Burlington, lowa, Selig W. Greeubaunt.—At Huntington, Ind., Samuel Moore, 77; David Itearn, 69: The London Board of Trade after examining thoroughly all the reports regarding the sinking of the North German Lloyd steamship Elbe on the morning of Jan. 31, which resulted in the loss of about 870 lives, has ruled that the mate of the Crathie, the British steamer which ran Into and sunk the German steamship, was responsible for the disaster. Consequently the mate’s certificate was suspended. M, Svederup, the leader of the Norwegian Moderates, who was asked by King Oscar to form a new cabinet, has declined the proposition. At New Orleans, a boiler burst in the Union cotton press. A number of men were injured, among them being a sou of one of the owners of the press. Official dispatches received at Berlin deny the existence of a Franco-Russian written alliance. Dr, Todd, of Abbeville, 8. C. f a brother-in-law of President Abraham Lincoln, now 79 years of age, hn* gone ,blind. , .

EASTERN.

Forest fires are blazing fiercely in various parts of Pennsylvania, chiefly in the neighborhood of Oswayo, Bradford, Sharon Center and Watson Farm. At l’rebbledale, in Forest County, the woods are one mass of flames. The loss will be very be&vy. ■ —" Near Simpson, Pa., the forest fires are dangerously near the wells of Urquhart & Lavens, and that it will be difficult to save the property from destruction. Wednesday a force of 150 men bad a hard fight with the flames near Lafayette Corners. Netfrly 2,000,000 feet of lumber at W. D. Johnson's mill was destroyed, entailing a loss of $15,000. The lumber was partially insured. The mill was saved. Another fire near Taintor’s destroyed a large quantity of wood for Hamlin & Knowles. Fires are reported from various other parts. A" bad freight wreck occurred at 1 o'clock Tuesday morning three miles east of Kane, Pa. A heavily loaded eastbound freight train, on the Philadelpbia and Erie, while running at a good fate of speed, was ditched and nineteen cars piled up. A car of oil was in' the wreck and took fire immediately. The fluid spread to the wreckage and nineteen cars are ablaze. Oue man was killed, supposed to be a boiler maker from Erie, who was beating his way,- It is thought that there are others in the wreck. The loss to the company will be heavy. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, of Philadelphia, who married Miss Cordelia It. Bradley, of Pittsburg, Pa., presented to his bride as wedding gifts, besides jewels of great value and a check for $90,000, tontine insurance policies on his life written in her favor to the amount of $500,000. Mr. Biddle takes this means of providing for his wife’s future, as only in certain contingencies can she ever possess any of the principal of her husband’s fortune, which was inherited from the Philadelphia banker, Anthony J. Drexel. It is suggested as ini advantage of this method that should marital bliss prove a will-o’-the-wisp Mr. Drexel can let the policies lapse and save the premium, which amounts to nearly $12,000 a year. Four persons were killed and half a score were injured by the explosion of a new boHer in the Langley harness shop at Fall River, Mass., Friday morning, while the building was completely wrecked. The boiler was in the basement of the building, which is a four-story structure. The entire end of the building was blown out, allowing the upper floors to settle into a mass of ruins. There were about sixteen persons at work in the shop when the catastrophe occurred. The flames communicated with the ruins soon after the explosion, and they began to burn briskly. The firemen made heroic efforts to rescue the imprisoned work people. Shrieks from the girls in the ruins were mingled with the agonized cries friends, who had hurried to the scene when the first news of the horror spread. Ambulance, calls, were sent out hurriedly, and every physician who could be reached was sent at once to the scene. The offices and the houses in the vicinity were turned into temporary hospitals.

WESTERN.

The Illinois Legislature has referred to the Court of Claims the bill appropriating $30,000 to Mrs. John A. Logan, W. W. Wiltshire and Isaac R. Hitt for services in getting a refunding of the direct tax to the State of Illinois. Maud Pensera, of Denver, who has for two years suffered from malignant multiple sarcoma that has turned her body into a mass of bone, is at the point of death. An offer of $5,000, it is said, has been made for the body by the Bellevue Hospital, New York, and it has been refused. W. H. Huff, recently removed from the office of secretary and treasurer of the Florence, Colo., Oil Company, has been held in $5,000 bonds for trial on the Charge of secreting valuable papers, mortgages, bonds, money, etc., belonging to the company. Huff claims that he was not legally removed from officeSeventy thousand dollars’ worth of furniture and household goods stored in the Oakland Storage Warehouse Company’s building, Chicago, was burned in an hour in a fire which started shortly before 10 o'eloek Friday night. The building, which is practically a total loss, is valued at SIB,OOO and is insured for $12,000. Contents were insured for about $50,000, onefifth in the London and Liverpool company.

The jury in the Scott case is being impaneled at Butte, Neb. A committee of citizens waited upon the Attorney General and urged him to dismiss the case on the ground that it would unjustly entail a heavy burden of expense upon the taxpayers of Boyd County. Gen. Churchill informed the committee that he was acting under the instructions of the Governor and both branches of tlig Legislature, and had no choice but to go ahead with the case. It is thought that the work of securing a jury will consume several weeks.

An alarming state of affairs exists in the Coeuir d’Alenes, in North Idaho, owing to trouble between the miners’ union and the law and order men, who have organized to protect laborers in their rights to work if they can get employment. A man who incurred the enmity of the miners’ union was killed there recently, and the corouer’s jury returned a verdict of suicide. Gov. McConnell has secured severnl hundred stands of arms, and over 200 volunteers are drilling at Boise, to prepare for coming conflict, which seems imminent. Idaho has no State militia.

Two hundred pupils of the East Side school, at Main street and Forest avenue, Evanston, 111., were driven into a panic Wednesday afternoon by the fall of a section *of ceiling plaster in one of the rooms. Several children barely escaped instant death beneath an avalanche of mortar aud old lath, three were bndly bruised and cut, scores were partially blinded aud choked by the great clouds of lime and dust that filled the rooms and corridors after the crash, and many of the bewildered pupils, stampeded by the foolish cry of fire, would have been trampled tQ death by their more powerful companions but for the heroic efforts of the teachers to restore order.

It now seems probable that there will be war to the knife in the coke regions. W. J. Itainey, of Cleveland, the largest coke operator in the country, has defeated the efforts of the coke operators to combine for the purpose of advancing prices. Mr. Rainey says: “Yes, it is true that I have refused to join the syndicate, whose object is to raise prices. In the first place, Ido not believe in syndicates. I believe in every one standing on his own foundation. I am opposed to the workingmen combining for the purpose of defeating the

operators and am likewise opposed to the operators combining for the purpose of defeating the men and to advance prices. I am a firm believer in fair competition. The other operators have gone ahead in The ppt without me. They can put the price up to where they please, but It will not make much difference to me" „ The Distilling and Cattle Feeding Company, known throughbut the length of the land as the whisky trust, was*Thursday struck dead by the' hand of the Illinois Supreme Court. The court affirms the decision rendered by Judge Gibbons in the quo warranto proceedings instituted against the trust by Attorney General . decbiriiig vL to cbe illegal and void and ousting it of its franchise. A sweeping and emphatic denunciation and condemnation of trusts, monopolies and combines is contained in the decision. Opinions upon the immediate effect of the decision as expressed by the attorneys of the different parties in interest differ widely. All that seems certain is that a cloud of fresh litigation must follow in whlch the,leading features will be a petition for a judicial sale to be filed immediately by the reorganization committee, and actions by the former owners and present lessors of property making up the aggregation of plants in the trust. A small army of deputy marshals went into service to resist any forcible attempt on the part of the lessors to seize plants, but their efforts will be made through the courts. A bill to recover the $504,000 lost in speculation and alleged to have been paid by the trust was filed by Receiver McNulta against Greenhut, Morris and other directors.

SOUTHERN.

Senator John W. Daniel denies the report that he is to stump Virginia for fr.ee silver. Alex'. White and John Cherry (negroes), alleged murderers, were lynched at Keno, Texas. Lorenzo Dow Covington, the American pronounced a dangerous lunatic and confined in an asylum for threatening to throw vitriol over Cardinal Vaughan, is a native of Kentucky. Three more negroes have been lynched in Lafayette County, Fla., for an assault. In the eighteen months fourteen negroes have been put to death in Lninyette" County fbr the same crime. The ten-stall road house, shops, seven locomotives, Corliss engine, lathes and tools of the Santa Fe Railroad Company in Arkansas City were destroyed by fire Sunday night. The loss is estimated at $125,000; fully insured. The cause of the fire is said to have been spontaneous combustion. A fishing party from Stuttgart, Ark., consisting of a Mr. Thompson and another man, their wives and three children, camping on White river, five miles below St. Charles, were attacked Saturday night by toughs, their tent shot into, one woman and child killed, and a man and a boy seriously wounded. John Kemp, one of the toughs, was killed by Thompson. Great indignation prevails. There is no known cause for the outrage. The mail car on train No. 4, International and Great Northern, arrived at Palestine, Texas, Thursday night without a postal clerk. A masked man crawled into the car just after leaving Tucker and at the point of a revolver demanded the safe keys. When told he was not in the express car, he demanded the registered mail keys. Upon their surrender he ordered the clerk to jump out. Clerk Orrin Davis was badly hurt by the jump, being badly bruised. Eight registered packages are known to have been taken. Bob Young, a farmer near Richmond, Mo., was taken by a mob and strung up to a tree in an effort to extort a confession from him which would lead to the capture of the incendiary who recently burned barns in the vicinity. The mob seized Young at the house of a neighbor add took him to the woods. Upon his denial of any knowledge of the crime they tied a rope about his neck, threw it over the limb of a tree and drew him up. He was let down, and, still persisting in’ denying bnbwmg "any thing' about -tl«rfires.was twice more strung up. Not making any damaging admissions, he was theuipermitted to depart. Young says he knows the men, but will not divulge their names.

WASHINGTON.

J. Walter Blandford has been appointed private secretary to the Secretary of State, to succeed Mr. Landis. He occupied the same position with Mr. Olney while the latter was at the head of the Department of Justice. C. L. Tompkiuson, an American resident of Mexico, interested iu mining there, in explaining the new regulation concerning the taxation of mines in that country, said Ut Washington that it grew out of the fact that the Mexican Government had recently decided to resume control of the mints. It appears that the mines have for several years been leased to private individuals, who, while they have charged n mintage tax, have put it on a soipewhat different basis from that proposed by the Government. The charge for minting gold and silver has been almost 4% per cent, while the Government has collected iu addition a tax of .01 of 1 per cent, making in all a tax of over 5 per cent to be. paid by Mexican mine owners having their ores coined into money iu Mexico, while those who sent their products to smelters either in Mexico or the United States escaped the payment of the bulk of the tax. The Government, upon resuming control of the mints on July 1 next, proposes to levy a uniform tax of 5 per cent on tho gold and silver contained in all the ore mined in the country, without regard to where it is tfeated. The promulgation of a treasury department circular carrying into effect the joint resolution of Congress excepting from the operations of the alien coutrnet labor law all foreigners brought to this country by foreign exhibitors or owners of concessions at the Cotton States Exposition at Atlanta has called attention to the results of a similar resolution passed on behalf of the Chicago World’s Fair. Both resolutions authorized such foreigners to remain in this country only one year after the close of the exposition. Iu neither case, however, did Congress make any appropriation or provision for the nrrest and deportation of such persons. The exact number who remained in this country in violation of the law is not known, but it is believed that not more than three-fourths of the whole number ever returned to the country whence they came. Owing to the want of funds the Government took no steps to ascertain how many remained, nor is it likely to do so after the close of the Atlanta exposition. The necessary result will be that many foreigners will take this opportunity to come to the United States with

the Intention of remaining, knowing that Congress has made no provision for their deportation.

FOREIGN.

A dispatch from Simla, India, says news has been received from Cabul that the Ameer of Afghanistan has imprisoned Umra Khan, thereby removing the reproach that the ameer was receiving England's enemy as a guest. A letter received by the Manzanillo agents of the Pacific Mail says that two women and one man, Americans and. Colima passengers, landed at Naraganzastilla, fifty miles southeast from ManzaniUa, on May iD' ana have been nursed by the Indians. The story is corroborated by A. Daana Martima, the customs collector at Manzanillo. News has been received at St. Malo, France, of the abandonment, on dire and with her passengers on board, of a British vessel, the Why Not, bound for the Island of Jersey and loaded with fodder. The crew of the Why Not, it is said, deserted the passengers when the vessel caught fire, and, taking the boats, succeeded in landing at Erquy, department of the Cotes du Nord,-not far from St Milo. The fate of the passengers is not known. A dispatch from Shanghai to the London Times says the English, French, Canadian and American missions were wrecked at Ching-Too-Foo, Kia-Ting, Yachou, Ping-Shan and Sinking. Some of the missionaries are missing, but no lives are known to have been lost. Suifu and Luchou are threatened. A riot is. considered inevitable at Chting-Tang. AH the whites left Ching-Too-Foo yesterday. A firm policy is now more than ever necessary.

A Berlin dispatch to the London Standdard says the Chinese loan which Russia has guaranteed forms a part of the war indemnity and was raised in accordance with the terms of a recently Com eluded secret Russo-Chinese treaty. Japan has agreed that if £15,000,000 is paid forthwith the remainder may be paid within six years. It is therefor* likely that the whole of the indemnity Will be advanced by French and Russian bankers, only China hopes to induce Russia to be satisfied with 4 per cent interest. A dispatch from Panama says: There is little chance thut the Ecuador Government at Quito will last much longer. The patriots are intrenched securely at Guayaquil, and, certain of nearly all the Guayas province, are only waiting for Alfaro's arrival to coytinue their victories. The radical change in the Government which is expected renders measures of precaution imperative, and the Caucn troops are instructed to make a special call at Buena Ventura. Gen. Ulloa, meantime, awaits advices from Bogota. In all this one detects a cause for suspecting that Colombia may have an intention to intervene in Ecuador. Guayaquil advices confirm the news of Gen. Eloy Alfaro’s departure from Nicaragua.

IN GENERAL

Obituary: At Anna, 111., Captain Hugh Andrews.—At Washington, Major Riehard Oulahau.—At Bagdad, Ky., J. M. Nunn. The Manitoba Government will refuse to comply with the order to establish separate schools and has given notice to the Legislature of a motion to that effect. Robert McCallom sailed from New York for Queenstown Thursday in a nineteenfoot sloop on a wager of $5,000. He has made a side bet of $175 to S2OO that he will make the voyage in forty days. His only companion is a French poodle. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: —— . ; _ .... Fer Clubs. Flayed. Won. Lost. cent. Boston 39 25 14 .G4l Baltimore 38 23 15 „ .605 Pittsburg 45 27 18 .600 Cleveland 44 26 18 .591 Chicago 47 26 21 .553 Cincinnati 43 23 20 .535 Philadelphia 42 22 20 .524 New York 43 22 21 .512 Brooklyn 42 21 21 .500 ■Washington 39— 23 .463 St. Louis 46 15 31 .326 Louisville 42 7 35 .167 WESTERN LEAGUE. Following is the standing of the clubs of the Western League: Fer Clubs. Flayed. Won. Lost. cent. Indianapolis .....38 24 14 .632 Minneapolis 38 22 16 .579 St. Paul 40 23 17 .575 Grand Rapids... .39 22 17 .564 Milwaukee 42 21 21 .500 Kansas City 42 19 23 .452 Detroit 37 16 21 .432 Toledo 38 15 23 .395

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 78c;’ corn, No. 2,49 cto 51c; oats, No. 2,29 c to 30c; rye, No. 2,68 cto 69c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to JBc; eggs, fresh, 11c to 12c; potatoes, new, per barrel, $1.50 to $2.25; broom corn, S6O to $l2O per ton for poor to choice. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, 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 53c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 35c.

St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 81c to 82c; corn, No. 2,47 cto 48c; oats, No. 2, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 2,67 cto 09c. Cincinnati—-Cattle, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs. $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,80 eto 87c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; rye. No. 2,64 cto 66c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.00 to $4.50: wheat, No. 2 red, 81c to 82c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 51c to 53c; oats, No. 2 white, 34c to 36c; rye, 67c to 69c. Toledo—Wh'ent, No. 2 red, 81c to 82c; corn, No. 2 'mixed, 51c to 53c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 3-Je; rye, No. 2,68 e to 70c. Buffalo —Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 1 hard, 82c to 84c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 55c to 57c; oats, No. 2 white, '35c'46 360. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 78c to 79c; corn, No. 3,50 cto 51c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; barley, No. 2, 50c to 62c; rye, No. 1,68 cto 69c; pork, mess, $12.00 to $12.50. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 81c to 82c; corn, No. 2, 55c to 56c; oats, No. 2 white, 35c to 86c; butter, creamery, 14c to 10c; egg«, Western, 12e to 14c.

W. W. TAYLOR HOME.

GOES BACK TO ANSWER FOR HIS CRIME. Good Times Are Here —Ohio Wins a Bis Railroad Suit—Many Killed and Injured at an Austrian FuneralBig Gold Find. Taylor Gives Himself Up. W. W. Taylor, ex-State Treasurer of South Dakota and fugitive from justice these many months on account of a shortage of $375,000, was in Chicago Saturday and Sunday, but kept so closelv under cover that only his intimate friends saw him. He left for Pierre Sunday night' to surrender himself to the State authorities. One of the reasons ascribed for keeping Taylor concealed was that the State of South Dakota had offered a large reward for his arrest, and it was feared some officer or private detective might attempt to arrest him and lay claim lift the reward. It ft understood that the terms of the settlement are tnat Taj lor return to the State SIOO,OOO, surrender his property to his bondsmen, who will pay the remainder of the deficit, and plead guilty to a charge of embezzlement. There is said to be an arrangement for a short sentence and a pardon before its expiration. Taylor, who is a young man, has a wife, but no children. Good Times Are Here. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “It is no longer a question whether business improves. Net for a long time have our reports from all parts of the country been so uniformly favorable. The daily average of bank clearings in-June is 24.8 per cent larger than last year, though 11.4 per cent less than in 1892. The most potent influence has been receipt of. more favorable advices regarding growing crops. Labor troubles are getting out of the way, wages in many establishments are rising, and with the Iron industry just now leading there is 'general improvement in manufactures. The monetary condition also helps. The time draws near when, with good crops, exports wtll bring gold hither, and 'foreign operations in stocks and bonds have been insignificant, the effect of the previous transactions has not been exhausted. Much diminished receipts of money from the interior indicate better .employment in business, especially at the west, and the volume of commercial loans, steadily rises, and is now fair for this season, even in a good year.”

Flocking; to .Oklahoma Gold Fields. The exeiterfient over the gold find in “G” and Washita Counties, Ok., increases daily, and over 8,000 people are now digging in the new fields. An assay shows that the gold will run S2B to the ton. All the ore found so far has come from the surface gulches, but three mining companies have already been organized to put in plants and mine for the yellow metal. The appearance of the mining camps resembles scenes in the Colorado mineral regions or early California days, The towns of Arapahoe and Cloud Chief are absolutely depopulated, and everybody has joined the rush.

Prize Collie Dog Commits Suicide, J. Pietpont Morgan’s prize collie, Iloslyn Wilkes, deliberately committed suicide at West Point, N. Y. The animal was. bought in England and is reported to have cost SIO,OOO. The dog came over decorated with many prize ribbons. When Bob Armstrong, the kennel keeper, took the dogs out for exercise Roslyn Wilkes went to the pond for a bath, but when the others came out the prize winner wouldn’t. Then Armstrong walked into the water. When-the collie saw him coming the would-be suicide dived and staid under until dead. Gets Property Worth a Million. The Ohio Supreme Court handed down a decision in the case of the State of Ohio against the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Company. The State lays claim to property in Cincinnati on which are located the passenger depot, the tracks and other terminal facilities of the Pennsylvania Railway Company. The Supreme Court gave judgment of ouster. The property is estimated to be worth over $1,000,000. Frightful Accident in Austria. Seventy people gathered Friday in tho death chamber of a young man at Rovigno, a seaport town of Austria, on the Adriatic. The flooring of the chamber collapsed and all fell to the ground floor. Fourteen of the mourners were killed and thirty injured. The unhappy young woman who had been the dead man’s fiance was found dead in the ruins in a position dose to the coffin.

BREVITIES.

A St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Times telegraphs it is almost certain Russia will take no action to compel reforms by Turkey in Armenia. Captain F. S. Ingalls, United States deputy surveyor at Yuma, A. T., received instructions to resurvey the Yuma Indian reservation for the purpose of opening it to settlement. The Colorado River Irrigation Company’s great canal passes through this property. At a meeting of the university regents at San Francisco, the resignation of E. E. Barnard, astronomer nt Lick observatory, was rend and accepted. The resignation is not to take effect, however, until Oct. 1, as Prof. Barnard has under way some work which he wishes to complete before leaving. Prof. Barnard will then go to Chicago and take up his work in 1 the Yerkes observatory. The Htibinger-Carroll Cnsh Register Company of New Haven, Conn., the only one out of the combiue, is in the hands of a receiver.” Chili is to coin 10,000,000 silver dollars per annum and issue gold in SO, $lO and S2O pieces. Silver is not to be a legal tender In amounts above SSO, but the mint will exchange gold for silver. The San Francisco schooner Norma is reported lost forty miles north of Manzanillo. Friday’s statement of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $183,812.413; gold reserve, $99,503,567. - r The Gloucester schooner Robin Hood, Captain Boine, reports at Halifax, N. 8., that four meu Went astray from his vessel 100 miles off St. Peters, O. 8., in a dense fog, and nothing has since been seen of them. Their names are John McDonald, Samuel Lowry, Herbert Power and pa unknown. ‘'T’-T**! .•-r /-V W-—* • .lAra

IOWA POPULISTS.

Reaffirm the Omaha Platform Making Silver an Incidental Isaac. f The Populist State convention of lowa, 1 which met in Des Moines, followed tha : middle-of-the-road course and rejected all; advances from those who would make silver the only issue in the next campaign.' Gen. J. B. Weaver, who led the wing oft the party in lowa who wished to assist' in the formation of a silver party, was defeated. The convention adopted a plat-’ form which caUs for the free coinage of silver, hut along with that other Populistic measures. When Chairman R. G. Scott, of the State Central Committee, called the assemblage to order there was an attendance of 300 delegates, making jt the largest convention for several years. Aside from the delegates 300 visitors were present from outside the city. A. R. Starrett, of Humboldt, was made temporary chairman. The temporary chairman spoke for forty minutes roundly denouncing the two old parties for their “duplicity on the money question and their- subserviency to trusts, corporations and'the money power.” He advised the convention to adhere to past party platforms. Ex-Con-gressman E. H. Gillette, of Des Moines, Was made permanent chairman. The report of the Committee on Resolutions was received and adopted by an overwhelmng vote. The platform reaffirms the principles of the Omaha platform; denounces the decision of the Supreme Court on the income tax; denounces recent acts of Government by injunction in the interests of corporate wealth, and the issue of interest-bearing bonds; recognizes with satisfaction the expression of individual opinion, irrespective of party, in favor of the restoration of Bilver to its constitutional place in the coinage of the country at the ratio of 16 to 1, and extends the right hand of fellowship to all willing to join in the dethroneinent of the _ money power of Wall street and Europe and the emancipation of the producing classes of the world; declares for the adoption of the initiative and referendum; demands that all banking institutions be required to give security to depositors for all moneys received; demands legislation for inspection of workshops and factories where more than ten persons are employed for preservation of the lives and health of the employes fdemands reduction of salaries of officers to a basis to correspond with reduced prices for products of labor; favors a graduated State tax upon incomes, also a State inheritance tax and a State tax of 10 per cent on all contracts made payable in gold, to be paid by tho holder. A State ticket was nominated, as follows; For Governor, Sylvester Crance, oft Davenport; for Lieutenant Governor, A. It. Starrett, of Humboldt; for supremo Court judge, F. W. Ivory, of Glenwood; for State superintendent of instruction, L. B. Tabor, of Guthrie Center; for railway commissioner, E. J. Stason, of Woodbury County.

DON’T DRESS LIKE WOMEN.

Even If» to Be Dlfferentf You Have to Put On Skirts. Much comment has been caused during the among bicyclists and in religious circles by the sermon of Rev. Kittredge Wheeler, pastor of the Fourth Baptist Church, Chicago. The words that aroused the discussion were: “In discussing this subject I shall hardly venture to touch upon the bicycle costume, for the reason that if I were addressing a company of eyclists in the latest and most up-to-date uniform _I would be in great doubt as to the sex of my audience. I will, however, venture a single suggestion to wheelmen who aro males, and not wheelmen who are females. “Here is the suggestion. See to it that your costume is as masculine as possible. Distinguish and emphasize your sex in some way. Wear a mustache, let your beard grow, or sew upon the back of your costume three big, red, capital letters, M-A-N. “You have no right to appear on the streets in a costume worn by females. If there be only two costumes suitable for bicycle riding, the single, closed skirt and the knickerbockers, I say to the men, ‘Be gallant, let the women have the choice, and if they take the knickertfockers, do you take what is left. Be a man and put on the skirt.’ Make it universal and let the public understand it. This will distinguish the sex on the wheel. Remember, I am speaking only to men. Never dress like a woman, not even on tho wheel."

FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

A local uprising in the Province of Oorrientes, Argentine, is reported. The manufacture of dolls has been Introduced in the prisons in the Thuringian principalities of Germany. Prince Bismarck’s health would not permit him to attend the ceremonies at the opening of the canal at Kiel. Anthrax, a disease of sheep, is prevalent in some parts of Australia in a most fatal form. The doctors can find no remedy for It. The British steamer Davaar, previously reported ashore on Briggs* reef, has been floated, towed to Belfast and safely decked there. Freiherr von Bergen, the German Minister to Guatemala, has beeu gazetted German Minister to the Republics of Central America. Prof. Dougherty, of Mages College, Belfast, has been appointed assistant under secretary for Ireland, vice Sir William S. B. Kaye, retired. A daughter has been born In London to the Countess of Essex, who before hee marriage wfls Miss Adele Grant, daughter of Mrs. Beach Grant of New York. A fire which broke out at Meriny, Hungary, was not under control until 829 houses were destroyed. Several persona lost their lives during the conflagration. Big. Ferrari, who was recently elected a member of the Italian Climber 0 f Deputies, defeating the socialist candidate In his district and who was shot by unknown men, is dead. The Brazilian cruiser Teradcntes haa been dispatched to French Guinea. Admiral Gullobel will then proceed to Parla with a view to securing a settlement ot the frontier dispute.