Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. ««QEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - * INDIANA.

ITS PRESTIGE GONE.

LITTLE BLACK SPIDER DOWNS JERSEY’S FAMOUS PEST. Bhort Shrift for Louisiana Firebugs— Child’s Wounded Vanity Leads to Suicide —Life Imprisonment for a Murderer—City Treasurer Short. Jersey Musquito Dethroned. The Jersey mosquito has been dethroned by a species ofjblack spider which is now running rampant in that State, and Whose victims during the tnst fortnight are numbered by the score. In three instances its depredations have been attended with serious results. Lawyer G. F. Fort, of Camden, while lying on his bed, felt a tingling pain in the foot, an<4 looking down saw a huge spider. Within a few hours his entire leg had swollen to an enormous size and it was only after confinement for a week that he was able to leave his house. A similar case was that of C. H. Folwell, of the same city, who was bitten on the temple. Harry Linn, of Williamston, was bitten on the hand, and the pain became so intense that he was thrown into hervous prostration, from which he has not yet recovered. Lynched a Firebug. Gretna, a small town just across the river from New Orleans, was the scene of a mysterious lynching Sunday night. The victim was John Frye, 22 years of age. Frye belonged to a gang of firebugs. In the gang were Frank Strahl, a nephew of the sheriff; James Whitesides, a nephew of the, chief of police, and Gustave Raphael. The gang was caught setting fire to a disorderly house occupied by negroes,—They defied the police and did their work right under the eyes of two policemen. Later Raphael, Strahl and Whitesides were arrested and lodged in jail. Frye was captured some hours afterward, and while being taken to jail his captors were overpowered and their prisoner taken from them. That was the last seen of Frye until his dead body was found.

| Goes Up for Life. At Chicago, Joseph Weiman was sentenced to imprisonment for life in the Joliet penitentiary by Judge Neely for the murder of Genevieve Minnie Dinger. A motion for a new trial was denied and the punishment prescribed by the jury was Imposed. Joseph Weiman shot Genevieve Dinger at Mrs. Anna Ziph’s house, 4857 Paulina street, Feb. 20 last, in a quarrel over a photograph. The two had been lovers and following the shooting of the girl her murderer tried to commit suicide. Weiman is a tailor by trade and 25 years old. Suicide for a Shirt Waist, Disappointed because her sister had not bought her a shirt waist, 14-year-old Katie McCoy committed suicide at Philadelphia by hanging. The child lived with her sister, Mrs. Mary Baker, who had promised to her the coveted garment on Saturday, ''tailed-ttHreep her word. Katie was much chagrined when she learned of her disappointment and Sunday night she quietly crept upstairs and, attaching a clothesline to her neck, hanged herself. Short $0,400. City Treasurer Stapf, of South St. Paul, has been arrested for a shortage in his accounts amounting to $9,400, the money having been used by him in his private business. The treasurer’s bondsmen will make good the shortage at once. This was Mr. Stapf’s fourth term as treasurer.

NEWS NUGGETS.

J. C. Davis, of Rochester, N. Y., arrested for obtaining money from San Francisco, Cal., merchants under false pretenses, was held to the Superior Court.

At New York, William Caesar, the WesT Indian negro Who, on March 29, murdered and dismembered Mary Martin, was sentenced to die by electricity in the week beginning July 29. Gus Loed and his wife, Julia, Hebrew peddlers, were murdered in Harlan County, Ky., by six masked men. Robbery was the only cause. The murderers have not been captured. Judge Simonton, of Charleston, S. C., has sentenced three dispensary constables to one and two months’ imprisonment in jail for seizing liquors imported into the State for private consumption. Col. William Winthrop, assistant judge advocate general of the army, will retire in August. His retirement will promote Lieut.-Col. Thomas Barr to be colonel and Major George B. Davis to be lieutenant colonel. At Colorado Springs, Colo., during an electrical storm, Mrs. Dolan, her children —Morris and Mary—and a group of visitors were in the dining room when a bolt of lightning struck the chimney. AH in the room were stunned. Mary, aged 0 years, was instantly killed. Charles P. Libby, president of the Libby, McNeill & Libby Company, died of Bright’s disease Monday morning at Chicago. Mr. Libby was one of the foremost of Chicago packers and the first to introduce the process of canning meat, which has since been put into use by all the packing companies of the city. Three Americans, Louis Deinond, James Crismore and Hal Jeffry, left E&calon, Mexico, for the Sierra Madre Mountains in search of the famous lost mine, La Fuente, which, according to tradition, contains a vast amount of ore of fabulous richness. The mine was abandoned by the Spaniards on account of the Indians over a Century ago, and although many attempts have been made to rediscover it, none has been successful. Farmers of Frontier and Perkins Counties held a meeting at Curtis, Neb., and denounced the stories of destitution that have been sent East concerning them. Lightning killed James Vochnsk'a, aged 20, at Montgomery, Minn., and a 3-year-old girl named Martin at Glendive, Mont. The girl’s mother and two children were Injured. Oil is reported from Findlay, 0., advanced two cents, the second time in a The walls of the old city hall at San Francisco, Cal.; caved in. One man was killed and three wounded. SsjETv •» 7

EASTERN.

Fire trans-Atlantic steamers, which reached their piers in New York Tuesday brought in the aggregate 1,844 steerage passengers. The Werra, which sailed from Naples, contributed 709 of these; the Alastia from Genoa, 464; the Fulda from Bremen, 312; the Friesland 'from Antwerp, 360, and the State of Nebraska from Glasgow, 59. ■ Police Inspector McLaughlin of New York has been sentenced to two years and six months’ 1 imprisonment in Sing Sing. One week’s time is allowed him in which to settle~uinfle affairs. The police com- - missioners Tuesday night reinstated McLaughlin to his rank in the police force from which the board dismissed him upon the finding of the jury that he was guilty Aug. Theis wrote Gov. Morton of New York that unless he at once inspects Theis’ patent machine for the healing of the nations and the abolition of death he will hold the Governor personally responsible for the deaths that ensue henceforth in New York State. A month ago Theis attempted to gain access to the Governor and present the merits of the machine. He is a crank. E. P. McDonough, of Boston, who has returned from a lengthy stay in Cuba, has no doubt that the Cubans will be granted home rule as an outcome of the present insurrection. Mr. McDonough also said he was informed that $10,000,000 of American money is now at stake at Santiago through lack of American war vessels. McDonough also declared that he knew Marti was dead beyond a shadow of doubt. He was killed on the west bank of the river at Ranaugaunos, a point between Santiago de Cuba and Bayamo. Every time the suit of William Laidlaw against Russell Sage is tried at New York the heavier grows the amount of damages assessed by the jury. Tuesday the jury gave the plaintiff $40,000. On the first - Laidlaw was nonsuited. Qn the second trial he was given a verdict of $25,000. On the third trial the jury disagreed. An appeal was taken each time. The suit Is based upon the allegation that Millionaire §age used his clerk, Laidlaw' as a shield when Norcross threw the bomb with intent to kill Mr. Sage. Instead of Mr. Sage being killed, Mr. - Laidlaw was seriously Injured. „ , A very long step forward was taken by the new woman at New York Thursday. Mrs. Catherine Mcllvaiue took.it. She keeps a stationery store and her husband, Alexander, lives with her. She is a handsome woman, well developed and muscular; he is wizened, subdued in manner and talks in a treble voice. Mrs. Mcllvaine had her husband before Police Justice Ryan charging him with ill treatment, failure to support her and drunkenness. “What have yon to say to your wife’s charges?” asked the judge. "It's all because I wouldn't do the cooking and washing any longer,” auswered Mcllvaine weakly. “She made me do the washing.. She stood over me with a horsewhip. I did a whole week’s washing Thursday, and on Friday and Saturday she threatened me with that whip unless I did the ironing.” Mrs. Mcllvaine said her husband was a loafer, and he was sent to prison for a month.

WESTERN.

Fire Thursday morning at Seattle, Wash., destroyed $200,000 worth of property of the Consolidated Street Railway Compnny.^r= The arrest and criminal prosecution of those former Chicago city employes held responsible for the payroll frauds have been ordered. Ex-Congressman W. A. Harris, of Kansas, has been sued by Barney Murray, a Topeka hotel keeper, for $20,000 damages for alienating the affections of the latter’s wife, who secured a divorce and married the ex-Congressman. At Victoria, Colo., Christian Pells, son of the manager of the famous Maxwell land grant, shot and killed himself in the Victor mine. He had forged the name of his brother and the superintendent of the mine and wound up a spree by suicide. A number of Stockton, Cal., people are on the qui vivo over the reported find of of over $1,000,000 of treasure on the Island of Cocoa, near Veragua, Colombia. There are some thirty citizens who think they have an interest in the millions of Spanish doubloons supposed to have been hidden on the island. At Denver, F. T. Atkins, ex-president of the Colorado Savings Bank, and Charles D. Atkins, ex-cashier of the same institution, have been arrested under indictments charging them with receiving deposits in a bnnk that was insolvent and had closed its doors to regular business, which is contrary to law. Lieut. Milton F. Davis, uqw stationed at the rresidio, has brought tjuit to obtain a divorce from his wife, Blanche Bates, the actress. The wedding, which took place a year ago, was a great event in San Francisco society, but, after living with her husband three months, Miss Bates deserted him to return to the stage. Prosecution of the men suspected of complicity in the attempt to cheat the city of Chicago by means of fraudulent payrolls in the street cleaning and pipe extension departments was begun by the arrest of four foremen and two timekeepers on warrants charging them with conspiracy to obtain mouey by false pretenses.

O. Dunbar, editor of the Phoenix, A. T., has been found guilty of criminal libel. The plaintiffs were Gov. Hughes, C. M. Bruce, secretary of Arizona; Francis J. Honey, ex-Attorney General of the territory, and United States Marshal W. J. Meade. The suit was based upon an editorial printed two years ago which severely scored the plaintiffs. The Creek Supreme Court has decided that the recent South McAlester, I. T., session of the council, being caljed for the specific purpose of adjusting the rolls, had no power to pass an act suspending the chief, treasurer and auditor, and that these officers are still in office. The decision of the Supreme Court being that payment can be no longer tied up. Treasurer Grayson expects to begin payment at once. There will be about 13,500 enrolled citizens, and the per capita will bo about sl4. For muuy months new Chinese arrivals at Cincinnati have been swindled out of all their money by their own countrymen. The scheme of the sharpers is to strike up an acquaintance with the new arrival and tell him any kind of a story to get his money. So nuuicrouz have been complaints at the legation at Washington that Dr. J. C. Thoms went to make an investigation. It is claimed that as much as (4<MJOO has been secured by two or three Chinamen of the city fu-m their un-

suspecting countrymen within the last two years. » At South Bend, Ind., Jonathan CrCed, an old citizen and one of the most prominent attorneys, was shot several times Friday morning by Daniel L. Mease, proprietor of a cider mill. The wounds are not believed to be serious. The men had business relations, and were about to discuss matters, when Mease covered Creed and began firing from a distance of a few feet. After the revolver was emptied Creed ran. Mease then picked up a bar of iron and would probably have murdered Creed had not the latter been more fleet of foot. Mease will be arrested as soon as found. Henry Bolin, city treasurer of Omaha; Neb'., is said to be short in his accounts many of dollars. He was apprehended "Tuesday ,aftera day’6&b&ehee T when it was thought he had committed suicide. His bondsmen, when they started to investigate his books, found a letter dated May 7, written by Bolin, where he stated he preferred death to dishonor, and if any -trouble came he would seek refuge in a suicide's grave. He directed that his life insurance, amounting to $37,000, be paid to his family. He added a postscript Tuesday morning.—Below .the former lines. was written: “The hour has come.” He appears to be crazy. . For a time Thursday night it looked as though n lynching would be had in St. Louis. “Lynch him!” “Brain the villain!” “String him up to a lamppost!” and other equally threatening shouts arose from all sides of a crowd gathered around a Salvation army detachment. An ieeman named Kerns tried to drive his wagon over the Salvationists while they were on their knees in prayer, and his conduct was resented by the crowd. Kerns was arrested. Just before the iceman hove in sight the steward of the Nicholson. House had ordered the porter to turn the hose on the men and women and drive them away. Developments of a most sensational character in the investigation of the fraudulent Chicago payrolls may be expected within a short time. Former city employes are falling over one another in their eagerness to tell what they know of the peculiar methods used in manipulating the payrolls. —Ar~J. tendent of the water pipe extension bureau, has made a statement to Commisof Police Badlenoch, telling how the payrolls were loaded with the names of ward heelers sent to him by his superior officers. His testimony, for such in effect his statement is, indicates that men who stood very high knew that men who never did a day’s work for the city were on the payrolls as laborers and drew pay as such, while their time was taken up in political work. The fact that Kowalski has told, all he knows is most carefully concealed by the officials making the investigation, but it is a fact, nevertheless. A smart young man who plays practical jokes with little regard for the safety of human life was abroad in the alleys near the Paris laundry, Chicago, early Wednesday morning, and with a white mask over his face, his form enshrouded in a white sheet, he assumed a ghost-like walk and delighted in frightening the young women employed on the night shift of tho laundry. So realistically supernatural were his antics tha.t three girls were thrown into hysterics and became unconscious. Falling like logs on the floor, the girls first screamed with terror, then writhed in paroxysms of hysteria, and finally when exhausted, succumbed to uneonseiettaaess. P.hysicians vvJiO were summoned by a policeman who discovered the serious work of the stalking sheeted youth worked three hours to restore consciousness. It was not until some time after the frightened girls had been removed to their homes that they recovered their faculties and nervous equilibrium.

WASHINGTON.

Nearly all the heads of the bureaus of the War Department, with Gen. Huger, have approved the new regimental flag designed by Assistant Secretary of War Doe. The flag will be adopted for the army. It is smaller in size, but longer in proportion than that now usled. At Washington, the Howgate jury brought in a verdict of guilty on each indictment, one indictment being for forgery and one for falsification of accounts. The jury added a recommendation to mercy. An appeal on a bill of exceptions has been taken to the district court of appeals and probably will come up in September. Captain Henry Howgate was charged with forgery and embezzlement from the Government while in the signal service bureau. A Washington dispatch says: The State Department has taken steps .according to the forms of diplomatic intercourse to exact from Spain the payment of the longstanding Mora claim, a claim admitted by Spain in 1888 to be entitled to payment, and which Spain promised to pay in December of that year, $1,500,000. Minister Taylor has been informed by telegraph of the insistence of the United States upon prompt payment of the indemnity and has boon directed to press for settlement and immediate payment. The expectation is that there will be a prompt and satisfactory settlement and payment at once. Extreme measures will follow delay.

FOREIGN,

The British bark Earlscourt, Captain Lewis, arrived at Queenstown from Portland, Oregon, and reports that in latitude 17 south, longitude 3 west, he passed the hull of a large iron ship painted black, with white ports, which had evidently been on fire. Mr. Gladstone has practically withdrawn his support from Lord Rosebery’s cabinet by retiring from the pairing agreement with Right Honorable Charles P. Villiers, M. P., because he wishes to be “regarded ns, having an open mind on the Welsh chu,rcu disestablishment bill.” The Norwegian bark Volo, Captain Nudson, has arrived at Falmouth, England, from Rosarto with Captain Jansen and nine of the crew of the Swedish bark Ponemah, which was abandoned in the Atlantic on March 26. The loss of the Ponemah was first reported at Buenos Ayres April 8. In January, February and March, 1894, the total British exports of tin plate was 80,881 tons, valued at £1,009,329, of which 48,616 tons wore exported to the United States. During the same period in 1895 the total export was 93,672 tons, vnlued at £1,097,055, of which 00,570 tons were sent to the United States. The imperial yacht Hohenzollern, with Emperor William and the princes on board, entered the western water gate of the Baltic and North Sea canal at 3:45 Thursday morning in order to formally

open it. The gate was magnificently decorated and the Hohenzollern passed through amid ringing cheers from the miL itary associations, students’ delegations and masses of the populace, the bands playing the national anthem, and accompanying the music were the voices of the crowds assembled, who joined heartily in the chorus. His majesty stood on the deck of his yacht and bowed his thanks with visible emotion. At 4 o’clock the Hohenzollern severed the "threads stretched across the canal and commenced the passage of the new waterway. The defeat of the Government in the British House of Commons Friday evening has occasioned a serious crisis, and' may result in the dissolution of parliament. It was quite unexpected. The motion was that.the war secretary’s salary -should be -reduced by £4OO- because he declined to state the quantity of reserves and ammunition at the command of the War Department in case of emergency. The announcement of the- vote was received with great applause by the opposition, and the war secretary instantly wrote out his resignation, which he forwarded to the prime minister to present to the queen. An informal cabinet meeting was hurriedly summoned by Lord Rosebery, but no decision was arrived at as to whether-the Government should dissolve or ignore the defeat as being the result of a snap vote.

IN GENERAL

The Manitoba Legislature has voted to refuse to re-establish separate schools. Nearly one hundred buildings were burned at Tottenham, Ont., Tuesday. Loss, $150,000. have been issued from the Canadian marine department ordering the release of the tugs and scows seized on the Niagara river while dumping dredgings in Canadian waters. All the expenses incurred, however, must be paid before the vessels are released. This means a fine of about S2OO against the owners, in addition to the penalties exacted from the men arrested. * F. W. Lowry and Charles Simpson, two American mining engineers, who left Jiminez, Mexico, about three weeks ago on a visit to mines in the Sierra Madre mountains, 100 miles southwest, became involved in a quarrel with the Mexican servant who accompanied them. The Mexican shot and killed Simpson and fETttmr was fatally shot by Lowry. Lowry and Simpson went to Mexico from New York. Ovide Lorrain. a boy aged 16, was stabbed to degth during the progress of a dramatic entertainment at Champlain school, Montreal. He took the part of the brigand in a play entitled “The Young Captives.” M. Desjardins, about the same age, accidentally stuck a dagger into Lorrain’s neck while taking part in a fight with brigands. The jugniar vein was severed and the victim only lived long enough to receive the last rights of the church. In the investigation before the public accounts committee at Ottawa, Out., concerning the Canadian Sault Ste. Mario contracts, the following facts have been elicited: Four tenders were received for power pipes. Ryan got the contract at $55,000, notwithstanding the Central Bridge Company tendered for $42,000. The' lowest tender for lock gates was the Hamilton Bridge Company, at $64,000, but the Government insisted on their unwatering the Jock and as the company could not do this the contract eventually went to Ryan at $67,000, and he received $70,000 additional for the unwateriug, •which the •GefmnimenVw&'irted the bridge* company to do' for nothing. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: Per Clubs. Plaved. Won. Lost. cent. Boston .46 29 17 .630 Pittsburg 50 31 19 .620 Baltimore 44 26 18 .591 Cleveland .......51 29 22 .569 Chicago 53 30 23 .566 Brooklyn 48 26 22 .542 New York 49 26 23 .531 Cincinnati.. .... .48 25 23 .521 Philadelphia 48 25 23 .521 Washington 47 20 27 .426 St. Louis 51 17 84 .333 Louisville 47 7 40 .149

WESTEBX LEAGUE. Faliowingisthe standing of the clubs of the Western League: Ter Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. cent. Indianapolis 44 29 15 .659 Milwaukee 48 20 22 .542 Kansas City 47 25 22 .532 St. Paul 45 23 22 .511 Grand Rapids.... 46 23 23 .500 Minneapolis 44 22 22 .500 Detroit ...' 43 21 22 .488 Toledo 43 16 27 .488

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. £ red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2,48 cto 49c; oats. No. 2,28 e to 29c; rye, No. 2,62 cto 63c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 12c; potatoes, new, per barrel. $2.50 to $3.00; broom corn, S6O to $l2O per ton for poor to choice. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $4.00: wheat, No. 2,82 cto 83c; corn. No. 1 white, 50c to 52c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 35c.

St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $4.75; wheat’ No. 2 red, 75c to 76c; corn, No. 2,46 cto 47c; oats, No. 2, 28c to 29c; rye. No. 2,67 cto 69c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,77 cto 78c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 48c to 49c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 32e to 33c; rye, No. 2,61 cto 63c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 49c to 51c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 35c; rye, 55c to 57c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 47c to 49c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2,01 c to 63c. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs. $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 1 hard, 76c to 77c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 52c to 54c; oats, No. 2 white, 34c to 35c. Milwaukee—Wheat, Nft. 2 spring, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 3,49 eto 50c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c; barley, No. 2, 49c to 51c; rye, No. 1,62 cto 64c; pork, mess, $11.50 to $12.00. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 7Ce to 77c; corn, No. 2, 54c to 55c; oats, No. 2 white, 34c to 35e; butter, creamery, 14c to 19c; egg* Western, 120 to 14c.

JURY OF WOMEN ONLY

NOVEL SITUATION IN A KENTUCKY COURT. Receives 2,000 Volts of Electric Fluid and Lives—Salisbury Succeeds Rose-bery-—Death on an ier Dies at His Post. Will Have a Jury of Women Only. Circuit Judge "M.C.Saufley.of Lancaster, Ky., proposes to try a novel suit before a novel jury. It is an action for breach of promise brought by W. C. Stivers, a Lancaster widower, against Miss Katherine West, a vcftipg school teacher, \ and Judge Saufley says that the jury before which it shall go must be composed of women. Under the new constitution they sire eligible for jury service. The case will be interesting in other respects, for Stivers threatens to have Miss West’s letters read in court, and her friends say that if he does there will be trouble. Miss West has engaged W. O. Bradley, the Republican nominee for Governor, to defend her in the suit.

Irover Finds the Dynamo Loaded. Frank E. Grover, foreman of the Rochester, N. Y., GaS and Electric Company, Friday leaned against a dynamo at the lower falls power house, where he is employed, and fell writhing to the floor. He had received a heavy charge of electricity, and was apparently dead. A physician and assistants worked over his body fortyfive minutes before there was a sign of life. Then natural breathing began, and in half an hour more the man opened his eyes and recognized those about Jiim. In Mr. Grover’s leg a deep hole was found, and on his side a burn seven inches long. When the machinery was stopped his clothing and flesh were burning. Between 2,000 and 3,000 volts of electricity passed through his body. The current is .considered, three times that necessary to kill in a State prison.

Robbera Loot a Bank. Rainy Lake City, Minn., is intensely excited over a daring and successful robbery of the bank late Friday evening by two masked men, who, after a desperate struggle with the cashier, in which he was finally beaten into insensibility, -secured $30,000 and escaped through a crowd of bewildered citizens wRo had been attracted to the bank by the struggle and pistol shots. ’Several posses have taken up the search, and there is some hope of overtaking the desperate robbers.

The Tories Triumph. Lord Rosebery tendered his resignation to the queen Saturday evening. He advlsed the queen to send for Lord Sails-" bury, the former Tory premier. By a technical ruse almost impossible to explain to American readers, because of the totally different procedure in parliament as compared with our Congress, the new ministry will avoid declaring itself before parliament and may force dissolution and a general election within the next three weeks. Die of Their Bnrns. The wlialeback steamer Christopher Columbus made its first excursion of the season from Chicago to Milwaukee Saturday. On the return trip, while off Waukegan, a valve connecting one of the vessel’s hoHers with “the steam pipes leading fo'the engine burst, causifif ffie deatff'lli" two firemen and scalding more or less seriously ten others of the passengers and crew. It.is said a race was on with the Virginia, a rival boat. His Trust Cost His Life. C. B. Birch, receiving teller for the West Chicago Street Railway Company at its Armitage avenue car barns, was shot four times by a masked robber at 2:30 o’clock Sunday morning and died three hours later at St. Elizabeth Hospital. The murderer escaped, after securing but a little cash. A former employe has been arrested on suspicion-,.

BREVITIES.

Mrs. D, F. Holman, of Aurora, Ind., wife of the ex-Congressman, was stricken with paralysis and is not expected to live. The full amount of the shortage of City Treasurer Bolin, of Omaha, Neb., though not yet known, will, it is thought, exceed $25,000.

Lightning struck the Orphans’ Home building at Galveston, Tex., killing Fred Seifert, a young man employed on the building. Mr. Gladstone says the statements regarding his attitude toward the Rosebery cabinet and the Welsh disestablishment bill are untrue and declares that the Government had canceled his pair without his request.

An unusual summer congestion in coal can be seen now in the harbor of Pittsburg. While markets in all directiohs south and west are short of supplies and in many cases almost denuded, no less than 600,000 tons of coal are tied up waiting for a rise in the river.

According to the Hungarian crop report, cereals have suffered from the rust. It is estimated that the yield of wheat will amount to 37,000,000 meter centner. The yield of rye is estimated at 9,000,000, barley at 11,000,000 and oats at 8,000,000 meter centner. Rape seed is being harvested; the yield Is light. The boiler of one of the steam launches of the United States cruiser Columbia exploded at the Kiel parade Friday. The cylinder head was blown off and carried overboard with it the smokestack and other portions of the launch. Four persons were injured by the explosion and were taken to the naval hospital. Robert Quinn was killed rind two others badly hurt by an accident to an elevator in the Swift packing house at Omaha, Neb.

Obituary: At Creston, lowa, William Groesbeck.—At Woodstock, Vt., J. Sinead Purple, fbrmerly of Chicago.—At Louisville, 111., John C. Etchison.—At Bruceville, Ind., William D. Piety, 88. John Lincoln, a near relative of the martyred President, died in the Reading, Pa., poor house. Physicians report Gov. Atkinson, of Georgin, is holding his own, and are hopeful of his recovery. Alonzo Whitman, ex-millionaire and exState Senator from Duluth, Minn., has been convicted of forgery at San Francisco. • Ex-Police Superintendent Byrnes, of New Yiufc, has declined an offer to enter the service of a foreign government at a large salary.

ROSEBERY GOES OUT.

ENGLISH PREMIER TENDERS HIS RESIGNATION. Lord Salisbury, the Former Tory Leader, Called In —Irish Leaders Are Profoundly Disgusted with the Present Tarn of Affairs at London. Crisis in Great Britain. Lord Rosebery tendered his resignation to the queen during his recent visit to Windsor. He advised the queen to send for Lord Salisbury. The former tory premier went down to Windsor and accepted the task of forming a governifiehf in the present parliament. Lord Rosebery and Sir William Harcourt announced the resignation of the liberal ministry in their respective houses Monday afternoon. By a technical ruse, almost impossible to explain to American readers because of the totally different procedure in parlia-. ment as,compared with the American Congress, the ministry wilL avoid declaring itself before the present parliament and force a dissolution and general election within the next three weeks. If this is successful the real purposes of the resignation of the liberal ministry will be defeated. This was to compel the tories to submit a policy to parliament before going to the country. Whether or not the libcan checkmate this programme remains to brseen; If they still have a majority they can possibly do so. Certainly the next few weeks will make an epoch in the parliamentary history of Great Britain, since Lord Rosebery cannot now withdraw his resignation. The Irish leaders are urging their liberal allies to stand firm in demanding a declaration in parliament of the tory program. The truth is, however, that they are profoundly disgusted with the situation. Rosebery’s Brief Term as Premier. Earl Rosebery was offered the office of prime minister by the queen on March 3, 1894, Mr. Gladstone having offered his resignation on account of his failing eyesight. Lord Rosebery had occupied the position of foreign secretary in Mr. Gladstone’s cabinet and had been prominently considered for ten years past as the probable successor of Mr. Gladstone in The leadership of the liberal party when the time for the retirement of that gentleman should come. About the only objection urged against the appointment as premier was that the leader of the party should be a member of the house of commons and that the party cannot be managed from the house of lords. Lord Rosebery, upon assuming the premiership, took the place of first lord of the treasury in the cabinet and called the Earl of Kimberley to succeed himself as foreign secretary. The leadership in the house of commons was intrusted to Sir William Vernon Harcourt, who retained his place in the cabinet as chancellor of the exchequer. The retirement of Mr. Gladstone was "considered a severe strain upon the government, and many persons looked for the defeat of the liberals and the resignation of the cabinet at that time. 5

RESULTS IN TWO DEATHS.

Accident on the Whaleback Christopher Columbus. The result of the accident on the whale- • back steamer Christopher Columbus on a “WSJrtßgfffKmr Mtlwatfee to Chicago Satiir** day night was the death of two men, fatal injury to another, three seriously scalded aqd seven slightly burned. The accident was caused by the bursting of a steam pipe. It was the homeward runTof the whaleback in its opening summer excursion to Milwaukee. About 350 souls were aboard. Flying flags, with music and dancing, was the order of the evening. The accident on the Christopher Columbus, according to the engineering authorities, is one of the unaccountable things that occasionally occur in steam plants. A cast-iron pipe eight inches in diameter and three-quarters of an inch thick suddenly cracked around its entire circumference under a steam pressure of less than 165 pounds, after haviug previously stood a test pressure of 255 pounds to the inch. The stories of the accident being caused by straining in a race with the Virginia are denied by every officer of the Columbus. <

The circumstances, as related by the boat’s officers, were as follows: The cylinders of the engine were entirely new, and it would be destructive and dangerous to run them at high speed until the parts wore down. Two representatives of the engine builders were on board and constantly reminded the engineers not to use speed. Chief Engineer Webster says the speed was ninety revolutions, whereas the boat has made 130 a minute, and steam pressure was 160 pounds to the square inch, while the government allows 170. Captain Robert Smith says that he had reckoned the speed just before the explosion and it was about sixteen miles an hour. The whaleback has made twentyone miles an hour. As further evidence of the fact that there was no race the statement is made that the Virginia had passed the whaleback and was two milea ahead.

Newsy Paragraphs.

Rich gold fields have been found on Boggy creek, Ok. Comte Paul Chuudron de Brialles, head of a well-known champaigne firm, is dead at Epemay, France. John Brown was killed by T. B. Bacon during n dispute about a team of mules nenr Emporia, Ivan. u Jean Grenier, of Minneapolis, Minn., has disappeared at Montreal. He had $2,000 in a belt on his body. Mrs. Mary McCoy was struck by a Burlington train at St. Joseph, Mo., and so bndly mangled Bhe will die. The distinguished guests who sat around Chnuucey M. Depew’s table the other night should look out for trouble “in their midst.” Chauncey himself would take the office if-all the other candidates were incapacitated. j Freiherr von Bergen, the German minister to Guatemala, has been gazetted German minister to the republics of Central America. Two vandals entered the Thaddeus gallery on Bond street, London, and mutilated a life-size portrait of Gladstone. They escaped without difficulty. Abbott & Katz’s brewery at Brooklyn was seized by internal revenue officers. It is alleged that revenue stamps were used a second time upon beer kegs. The brewery is valued ot $600,000, and before the proprietors can regain possession they will have to pat up a bond of SIOQ,OOO.