Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1895 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. REdS&LAER, * ' INDIANA.

A JUVENILE BORGIA.

AN INDIANA GIRL. GIVES HER FOSTER PARENTS POISON. Dead Bodies of Pit z el’s Missing Daughters Found—Rifles for Cuban iHßUTtjentH—Bloody Deed of Peter Baser—Hora Millions in Sight. Ghastly Discovery at Toronto. Fleming Sarver and wife, of Uninntown, Ind., had an adopted daughter, Dollie Belknap, aged 14. The couple are (50 years old each and well off. , The. git;l has been keeping company with Hays Robins, the son of one of the wealthiest farmers of that section. Saturday morning Mr. and Mrs. Sarver were taken ill. Poison was found in the coffee-pot. It was learned the adopted daughter had purchased a package of the poison a few days before. She finally confessed-she had placed a teaspoonful in the coffee-pot Friday evening. When questioned as to why she committed the crime she produced a letter signed by her lover —HnyS Robins —in. which Jte. tells her if she would make away with her foster parents she would come into possession of all fheir property and they contd then get married and have “a good Old time:” Dollie says she took the letter to Josie Derringer, aged 1(5, and her sister Mary and let them read it, and they advised, her to purchase the poison. Mr. Sarver died Mo nday afternoon. When Mfs. Sarvef heard of her husband’s death she took a relapse and is not expected to live. Since the death of Mr. Sarver the girl says she did not intend to kill them, but only wanted to give them enough so they would think they would die and make her a deed to their property. She also says she does not believe Robins wrote the. letter, but that it was written by the older Derringer girl. ' 1 - J' "

To Purchase Discarded Arms. James M. Webb, of Brooklyn, has returned from Washington, where lie has been trying to secure some of the small arms which are being replaced by the new magazine rifle for use in the army. If the Captain’s negotiations with the War Department are successful the condemned rifles will find their way into the hands of the Cuban revolutionists. That is admitted by Webb and the local representatives of the Cubans do not deny it.—The Captain says: “It may not surprise our Spanish friends to know that small arms intended for Cuba are being sent out of Brooklyn and New York at the rate of about 5,000 every week. None of the laws of this country is violated by the shippers, but the arms get to the revolutionists in due course, nevertheless. _i '< Chicago Man’s Crime. Tired of life and disgusted with threatened divorce proceediugs. Peter Haser tried to kill his wrfw Monday, and, thinking he had done so, cut his own throat cleanly through with a big sharp knife and his worldly joys and sorrows were forever at end. Haser was a member of a planing mill firm and was quite wealthy. His murderous and- suicidal orgy was hold at 8:30 O’clock in the morning. His wife will bear several vicious scars as a result of the encounter, but she may discontinue her -divorce proceedings, for Haser is well dead. The woman was stabbed several times, but her injuries will not cause her death. Haser cut his throat and died an hour later. To Divide the Mora Money. As soon as payment of the celebrated Government and the attorneys for the claimants have deducted their share of the $1,500,000 which Spain has agreed to pay at once, Antonio Maximo Mora and his son, of Chicago, will divide among themselves what is left of the the money. Of the sum to be paid by the Spanish Government 40 per cent, will be given to a syndicate in New York which is composed of the attorneys who have been working in the interests of the claimants. Crime Is Laid Bare. The bodies of Alice and Nellie Fitzel, the two missing daughters of Beujamiu F. Pitzel, were found at Toronto, Ont., buried under the cellar of a house. The children are believed to have been suffocated by gas by H. 11. Holmes, the man who is supposed to have killed their father in Philadelphia. A third child, Howard, aged .8, is thought to have been murdered similarly in another City by Holmes, the desire being to rid himself of three beings who might rise to convict him of the other crime. Japs to Put Down Formosa Uprising. A force of 7,000 Japanese troops has left Tiiatula to attack the black flags at Tai-Wan-Fu, Formosa. A strong naval force will co-operate with the land force of the Japanase. Iteports received from the southern part of Formosa show that all is quiet there.

BREVITIES.

Stephen Webb, colored, shot and killed Emma Harris, 20, at Baltimore, Md. The Arkansas Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Lower Court nnd ordered a new trial in the case of State Treasurer Woodruff, who was $150,000 short in his accounts, and was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. .Judges Lurtou and Taft, at Cincinnati, held the Nichols State law valid and sustained the State Auditor, Treasurer nnd Attorney General, the State Board of Appraisers, in the assessment for taxes made under the act on telegraph, telephone and express companies. This law has been contested ju the State and lower courts, and i» now settled by this decision of the United States Court of Api>eals. It involves large assessments from the companies to the State. Charles B. Keehn, who. with convicts Donovan and Brjquelette escaped from Jackson prison Oct. 21), 181)1, has been captured at Lamar, Mo. The Governor of Wyoming was implored by settlers to send troops to prevent an Indian outbreak, which is now feared on all sides. Fort Washakie is the nearest military post. Texas fever is declared to lie carrying off the cattle in Henry nnd Jefferson Counties, Kentucky, J. T. Ebbs, P D. Table, and A. F. Heed were arrested ut Kansas City, Mo., for swindling farraerr

EASTERN.

The furniture of Mrs. Katharine Chncclate chief justice, and former wife of the late Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, has been seized for debt and is about to be disposed of at auction in Washington. Rev. Dr. F. Ernest Hauser, who for eight years had been professor of He~bre\v in the German Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Bloomfield, N. J., has been deposed from his position and from the ministry and expelled from the church for bigamy. „ Cadet Roberts, a member of the “plebe” class at West Point, is said to have been so badly hazed a few days ago that he fainted. Cadets Robert Jayne Maxey and Wallace Bryan Scales were placed under arrest, charged with being the offenders. Mr. and Mrs. James Britt, who live at Haldeon, N. J., reported to the Bloomfield police that they had been held up by two footpads who ’•ode bicycles on the Paterson road in Brooklyn and lobbed of ■ $1,700- in cash, besides some jewelry. After the robbery the thieves remounted their wheels and escaped. Rev. S. H.“ Phillips, of Durham, Pa., died of blood poisoning. Six weeks ago Miss'Cope, one of his parishioners; for a ; jest pricked him with a hat pin in the leg. Blood poisoning followed, and to save his life the leg was amputated, but he failed to survive the. ordeal. The young woman is almost crazed with grief. The social session tendered by Atlantic City, N. J., lodge to the visiting Elks at the Baltic a venue. Casino ended m a disaster in which fully 100 persons were seriously injured. The cession had just been heard wlicn, without the slightest warning, the building. Which had not been used for several years, collapsed and fully 1,000 persons were thrown to the floor beneath. One hundred and six acres, adjoining the grounds of the Chautauqua Assembly, at Chautauqua, N. Y., have been secured by the American Brewing Company of Chicago, Milwaukee, and Toronto, and it is the reported intention of the company to erect a beer garden and brewery thereon. Mrs. Kate Hunt, of Buffalo, who owned the property, will receive $30,000. The assembly tried to purchase part of the property this spring, offering .$15,000, for fifty acres, but Mrs. Hunt refused to sell a part. Great indignation is felt there over the sale.

WESTERN.

Secretary Smith has requested the treasury department to pay the $600,000 due the Nez Perce Indians in Idaho for lands. jOne robber killed, another fatally injured and a third in jail is the result of an attempt to break into the store of W. F. Kattmann, at Poland. Ind. General Francis M. Drake, of Centerville, was nominated for Governor by the lowa Republican State convention'after a stubbornly contested fight for six ballots. Law and order people of New Holland,' Ohio, administered a coat of tar and feathers to a young woman named Minnie Taylor and then drove her out of town. The insurance men of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho have formed an organization called the Northwest Insurance Association, to control insurance rates in the Northwest. The fifty-first annual session of the national division Sons of Temperance opened in-Cleveland, The principal business of the gathering consists in the revision of the constitution. Neat Ivnysville, Utah, Thomas, Boynton, a well-to-do farmer, was literally .chopped to pieces while in bed, by Nephi Blamiers, bis stepson. The two men had a slight jangle the previous evening. The Minnesota Supreme Court has granted a stay of execution in the case of Harry T. Hayward, uixler sentence of death for ImTiraTtcr the appeal can be heard in the October term.

Ice formed in some parts of lowa, Wisconsin, and South Dakota Tuesday night, and at Sioux City the mercury stood the lowest recorded in July siuce ihe weather bureau was established. No damage to crops is reported. The twenty-seventh annual session of the American Philological Association, whose membership is made up of college professors almost exclusively, met at Adelbert College, of the Western Reserve University in Cleveland. The Colorado State Board of Cattle Inspection, has decided, in view of the fact that a movement of 25,000 cuttle is expected from old Mexico within a short time, that all such cattle must be inspected before they eun.be admitted into the State. The Indiana Association of Veterinary Graduates closed a two days’ semi annual mooting at Marion, Ind., and the delegates assembled in the Commercial Club case, where thirteen sat down to a ban<l net of horseflesh. There wore porterhouse steaks, bailed meats, roasts and stews. The flood situation in Snlina, Kan., has grown steadily worse. The waters of the Smoky have now swept over the entire eastern portion of the city, and about 500 persons have abandoned their homes. The river valley for miles m each side has beer, made desolate aud crops and live stock swept away. Fire destioyed $120,000 worth cf property in the Parry storage warehouse. Nos. 158 and ICO West Monroe street, Chicago, the other night. Household goods belonging to over 500 people aud valued at $50,000 were totally consumed. Little of this property was insured. Norton Pope owned the buildings, which were worth $35,000 and insured for $20,000. George Parry, the warehouse man, had a furniture store at No. 160 with a stock and warehouse fixtures valued nt $35,000. Only charred walls ..re left standing in front and rear, the larger part of the west wall having fallen during the progress of the lire. The origin of the lire is unknown. The only explanation is found in the fact that a large open barrel of kerosene oil stood in the middle of the ground floor. From this barrel the men filled their lamps. The flames seemed to originate there, and carelessness on the part of the employes is alleged as the cause of the fire.

Trains on railroads from the north due in Grand Ilnpids, Mich., early Wednesday evening did not arrive until after midnight, having been delayed by forest tires at various places along the lines. On tbe Chicago and West Michigan road the little towns of Wallin nnd Clary, between Thouipsonvillc and Traverse City, have been entirely wiped out, and the residents have taken refuge at Thompson ville. The wires are down, and full particulars are not obtainable, but passengers arriving

there report that no lives were lost. On the Grand Rapids and Indiana the village -of Morley is threatened, and fires have" been ranging along the track between Manton and Mancelona. The summer resort, Oden-Oden, was surrounded byfarest fires and Was in danger of being burned. Wallin consisted of one hotel, one store, a saw-mill, warehouse, coalkiln anil __ahmit -twenty -bouses,—People' are without clothing or food. One child is missing. Many Were overcome by the heat. Already a number of farmhouses :have been burned and the people are coming into the towns with tears streaming down theii faces, because, as they 'declare between sobs, they have lost all ihe property they have on earth. From the. ports along Lakes Michigan and Huron come messages that the smoke from the forest fires are proving a. serio is menace to navigators.

SOUTHERN.

Alexander Simms, colored, was hanged at Jacksonville, Fla., for the murder of Policeman Ed Minor. — —■— Jacob Bamnbarger, of Wheeling, W. Ya., while talking on the street wasAntled" by a rifle ball fired by an unknown person. William Walker, a notorious colored desperado, who has been robbing and terrorizing the people of his own race near Memphis, was killed by William Walton, colored, a member of a posse wlrch had besieged Walk ‘r in his own honse. At a meeting of coal .-nine operators controlling seven-eighths of Ihe coal output of Alabama, and representing over $20,000,000 capital, held in Birmingham, the formation of a gigantic coal combine was practically completed.— The ;<nipose of the pool,- a leading operator says, is to put an end to ruinous competition, by securing better freight rates and Ihe realization of such a profit on their product as will enable them to pay their miners good wages. If is the purpose of those in the pool to extend it so as to include all the mines in Tennessee and Kentucky.

WASHINGTON.

Ainsworth R. Spofford, for over thirty years librarian of Congress, has not rendered satisfactory accounts to the Treasury Department for the last two quarters of the fiscal year just ended, and as a consequence his accounts are being investigated.

Ileceut discussion ’n the press of the gold reserve in the treasury and the action past and probable of the MorganRothsehild bond syndicate recalled to a Washington man familiar with most of the inside history of the Cleveland administratiort'the fact that Czar Alexander 111. of Russia once offered to loan the United States all the gold necessary to maintain the reserve at any figure desired. The friendly tender was declined by the President, because, after sever il weeks of consideration and deliberation, and telegraphic correspondence back and forth between Washington and St. Petersburg, it was decided that the President had not the authority to issue bonds or otherwise incur indebtedness oil behalf of the government. Since then the power of < the President and the Secretary of the Treasury to issue bonds has been determined, and if the offer were repeated by the present Russian ruler { t might be accented.. The story of the'proposition made by the Czar and the way it was received by the President and his advisers was one of the best-kept secrets of the /White ■ House. Although the incident occurred some two years ago rio hint of it reached the public until now.

FOREIGN.

The Corrcll crew won its first heat in the race for the Grahd Challenge cup at Henley-on-Thames without being forced to show what it could do. The Leander crew, the present holders of the cup, were not ready when the umpire gave the word and did not start. Their fluke gave the American boys the heat without a struggle. Yellow fever is increasing alarmingly in the West Indies. The week ?ndi'ng June 29 recorded twenty-eight deaths in Santiago, while there is an average of five deaths daily at Puerto Principe, a city of 45,000 persons. There are 100 eases in the military hospital at San Juan, Island of Porto Rico, and the disease is rapidly increasing. Havana advices say: Gen. Gasco has had a three days’ fightwith the insurgents in the Sierra Maestra. The insurgents lost a great many killed and the troops captured a quantity of arms, ammunition and horses. No further details of the fighting have been yet received. Gen. Navarro is pursuing the insurgents under Garzon, recently defeated near Minas Daiquiri, province of Santiago de Cuba. After being driven from that place the rebels occupied positions at Alto Vill.alon atid later at Matayeguas, from which place they retreated before the advance of the troops with heavy loss. Peru has answered Bolivia’s ultimatum. refusing to accede to the latter’s demand for satisfaction. Bolivia’s .Minis-, ter to Peru is said to have asked for his passports. The ultimatum which Bolivia has presented to Peru demanding an answer within twenty-four hours, was based on an alleged insult to the Bolivians by the Peruvians during the latter’s war with Chile, in which, it is said, Peru “violated” Bolivian territory. As a matter of fact, however, Bolivia is ambitious to possess a strip of coast on the Pacific, as it did years ago. It believes, if it can provoke a war with Peru, it may with the aid of Ecuador, repossess itself of the Provinces of Taena and Arica. War will doubtless be declared at once. It may eventually involve Chile, Argentine anil Brazil.

It is the belief among officials in Washington that Japan will use a large part of the war indemnity which China is to pay her for the purpose of materially increasing her navy. The financial resources of Japan will be very abundant during the coming year, as she will receive over $100,000,000 before next May and thereafter about $20,000,000 a year for five years. This will be drawn entirely from China and will be in addition to Japan’s usual receipts from customs and internal revenues. The customs receipts promise to be very large, as the new treaties which Japan lias effected with leading nations will bring about a readjustment of tariff duties, so that much greater returns Will be realized. It >s owing to the assurance of an ample treasury that American ship-building firms have turned their attention toward Japan. The stringent relations of Germany regarding the importation into that country of American oroduets have again been brought to tbe Attention of the Agricultural Department in n report by European Agent John Mattos, Jr., on American evaporated or dried fruits in the German empire. Shippers of these fruits are given warning of the severe restrictions

imposed by Germany, which the department views as commercial rather than Hygienic, and merely intend ad to shut out American trade. The report cites a re-; cent court trial at Frankfort-on-the-Main to determine whether these dried apples' or “ring apples” were impure and injurious to'-public health and‘subject to seizure under the provisions of the pure food Taw. Government experts testified that they were sprinkled with a tinge of acetate of zinc to give them a bright color and more inviting appearance. Apples iso sprinkled, they claimed, brought on indigestion, dyspepsia, and in children vomiting and diarrhea. The American goods were ordered destroyed as unwholesome. The exporters are advised that if they wish to increase the trade with Germany, now assuming large proportions, they should be careful not to dry the fruit on zinc grates, but to use grates made of canes. The department officials say they are confident That if any zinc is introduced in the fruits the amqpnt is infinitely small and cannot be injurious. It is denied that the" practice exists here of drying fruit on zinc plates, as claimed by Germany, and the warnihg to discontinue The galvanized iron trays jsed for drying is' intended to do away with the possibility of' introducing the zinc, and thus giving opportunity for foreign criticism on that score.

IN GENERAL

Lytton Taylor, United .for Alaska, has resigned 10 go into the mining business. Mrs. Coleman Drayton lias sailed for Europe, and it is said she is to become reconciled to her husband. It is not anticipated that the Window Glass Workers' Association will affiliate with the Knights of Labor. The German stamer XorStrand loaded 325 tons of Alabama coke at Mobile for Mexico. It will be tested in one of the furnaces of the Mexican Smelting Company. zzzzzrz~ P. H. Fitzgerald, of Indianapolis, organizer of the.soldiers’ colony, which is To go to Georgia fropi the Northwest tk),000 strong, has arrived in Atlanta to close the contract for 30,000 acres of •Georgia farming lands. Mr. Fitzgerald savs the colony will start South in the fail. A terrible accident occurred at Craigs Road Station on the Grand Trunk Rnfl way, about fourteen miles west of Levis, Can. 0 A very large pilgrimage were bound for the shrine of St. Anne De Beaupre. There were two sections of the train, one running a few minutes behind the other. The second section dashed into the rear of the first, section, smashing it to kindling wood. The number killed is placed at fourteen and the number injured thirty-four. Among the dead are three priests.

Judge Woods Tuesday morning ordered that the sentence of Debs and the other officers of the American Railway Union be made concurrent, as directed in the original sentence. Jadge Woods directed that commitments be made out : n the case of Debs for six months and of the others for three months each, to expire at the same time as the sentence in the government contempt, case. In commenting upon liis action the Judge said that he did not desire any opinion to be formed to the end that he was seeking to: punish the men for acts committed in the strike, but that the punishment was simply for contempf of court’; that he had originally fixed concurrent sentences and saw no reason why they should not be reinstated, inasmuch as they had been separated in OiMerMrrponrrit a vital issue to go before” the Supreme Court. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Base-ball Lettgue: Per P W. L. cent. Baltimore ......59 37 22 .627 Pittsburg 68 40 28 .588 Boston 60 35 25 .553 .Cincinnati 65 37 28 .569 ..Cleveland —.. .70 39 —. .31 .557 Chicago 72 40 32 .556 Philadelphia ....62 34 28 .518 Brooklyn .65 35 30 .538 New York 63 81 32 .492 Washington ....60 24 36 .400 St. Louts 69 24 45 .348 Louisville 63 12 51 .190 WESTEKX I.EAOUE. In the Western League the clubs close the week in the following order: Per P. W. L. cent. Indianapolis ... .62 40 22 .6-15 Kansas City 6-3 40 28 .556 Detroit 64 35 29 .547 Grand Rapids....6s 35 30 .538 Milwaukee .....66 35 31 .530 St. Paul 63 33 30 .524 Minneapolis 62 28 34 .452 Terre Haute 63 25 38 .397

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $15.25; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to &4.U0; Wheat, No. 2 red, tioc to 07c; corn. No. 2,45 cto 4Gc: oats, No. 2,23 c to 24c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 54c; butter, choice creamery, Hie to 17c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13c; potatoes, new, per barrel, $2.25 to $2.75; broom corn, common growth to fine brush, 4c to O'/oc per lb. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 -to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, (53c to (55c; corn, No. 1, white, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 2Sc to 30c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $4.00 to $5.25; wheat. No. 2 red, (55c to G7e; corn. No. 2 yellow, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 24e to 2(Jc; rye. No. 2,4 Go to 48e.~ Cincinnati-—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs. $3.00 to $5.25; sheep. $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, GGe to GBe; corn. No, 2, mixed, 48e to 49c: oats. No. 2 mixed, 27c to 28c; rye. No. 2,49 cto 51c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $(5.00; hogs. $4.00 to $5.50; sheep. $2.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 44e to 4Gc; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; rye, 47c to 49c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 red. 70c to 72c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 4Gc to 47c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye. No. 2,48 cto 50c; clover seed, prime, $5.50 to $5.<50. Buffalo—Cattle. $2.50 to SG.OO; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 1 hard. 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 51 to 52c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 33c. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring, G7c to GBc; corn. No. 3,47 cto 48c; oats. No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; barley, No. 2,47 cto 49c; rve- No. 1,53 cto 35c; pqrk, mess, $ll.OO to $11.30. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to SG.OO; hogs. $4.00 to $5.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2, 50c to 52c; oats, No, 2 white, 33c to 34c,‘ butter, creamery, 15c to 18c; eggs, Wastern, 13c to 14c.

ONE DAY’S DARK LIST.

53 5 CHICAGO’S SUNDAY RECORD OF FATAL ACCIDENTS^ Enormous Business for Thia Time of Year Marauding Indians Stir Up Trouble—Uncle Sana Will Have a Fine Fleet of Yachts. Long List of Casualties. There was an unusual number of fatalities and serious accidents in and near Chicago Sunday. Seven people were killed in a variety of accidents and several of the nine injured will die as a result of injuries received. The deadly trolley got in its work as usual and helped swell the list of killed and injured. There were one or two suicides and several accidental drownings. Probably the most pathetic of the fatalities was the drowning of two brothers, John and Andrew IJpner, aged 17 and 15 respectively, in Lake Calumet. They went there to catch fish, but, growing tired of the sport, decided to take a swim. While in the water a short distance from their boat oneof the bays was taken with a cramp. He called for help and his brother tried to save him. An hour afterward both bodies were recovered tightly clasped in each other's embrace. The boys’ mother is prostrated with grief.

Dun’s Weekly Review, R. D. Dun &,Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “A business flood so strong and rapid that the conservative fear it may .do harm is out of season in July. 'But the seasona. this year lap over and crowd each • other. May frosts and frights, it is now evident, kept back much business that would naturally have been finished before midsummer, and the delayed accumulation of one season gets in tlie way of efforts to begin another on tiijkp. But the volume of business, however, it may be assured, is remarkably large for the month, even for a good year. The exaggerated fears about crops have passed, the syndicate is believed both able and determined to protect the treasury, and the time draws near when the marketing of new crops will turn into a national balance if speculation does not hinder. The week lias been notable for a sensational full in wheat of 8 cents in two days, followed by recovery of 5 cents, though neither affords any interpretation of the quite disregarded Government report. The sudden drop in prices was the result of speculative rather than commercial influences, though exports not half as large as last year, 2,097,045 bushels (flour included) from Atlantic ports for two weeks of July, against 4,227,915 last year, had their effect, as well as Western recipts of 1,937,474 bushels, against 2,150,91 S last year.” Fight in Prospect. War between the settlers of Jackson Hole, Fremont County, iff; Wyoming, and the Bannock Indians is imminent. The dispute has already reached the stage where one of the Indians has been killed and several others imprisoned, and their friends are threatening revenge. The trouble was occasioned by the Indians from Idaho, who, finding game scarce in their own country, organized a marauding expedition into Wyoming.

NEWS NUGGETS.

New York Naval Veterans are plnuning for a naval parade on next Memorial day. "Six lives Were tost'by ra..cloudburst in the mountains above Tuluapautla, Mexico: • ————^ —— f — • Chung Woy tvas mysteriously shot at San Francisco, and a highbinders’ war is feared. " Fire caused a loss of $23,000 to the building of the Augusta, Ga., steam laundry. The body found dead in a field near Toledo is supposed to bo that of Amirovich Lassilla from Latavia, a Russian province in Finland. He is supposed to have been a wealthy tourist. The Hubbard House and other buildings in the business section of Clayton, N. Y., were burned; loss about $75,000. There were forty guests in the Hubbard House, all of whom escaped. It was developed in court at Cincinnati that W. D. Bender, who is in a sanitarium, had some weeks ago actually burned up $45,000 in cash and $13,250 in United States bonds. Some weeks ago Bender became ill and is now partially insane. Recent desertions from Fort Logan, at Denver, have been traced to the presence of a recruiting agent from Cuba. During the past month it is reported that 200 men have been forwarded from Denver, and the preference has been given to those with military education tutd a knowledge of tactics.

Railway men now declare they know why Calvin S. Brice bought the Pittsburg, Akron and Western Itoad a short time ago. They claim to know with certainty that he is forming a great railroad system, which will be the shortest route between Chicago and New York and have ramifications to many of the great business centers. The line will be between the Vanderbilt system on the north and the Pennsylvania on the south, and will cross the Erie in several places. Six magnificent steam ynehts, such ns could be owned only by the lucky possessors of many millions of dollars, will be built by the n&vy during the current fiscnl year, and although they are to be finer than similnr vessels of their class, they promise to be all around the most useful ships belonging to the United States Government. By act of Congress, approved M a roll 2, 1895, provision was mndo for the construction of six light-draft, eomI<osite gunboats, the individual coustructive limit of cost being $230,000, exclusive of the cost of armament. Fears are entertained nt Little Rock; Ark., that an overflow will result from the present unprecedented rise in the Arkansas River.

J. K. Hudson, editor of tbe Topeka Capitol, was arrested a second time charged with criminally libeling Judge Foster, of the United States District Court. A company was incorporated at La Porte, Ind., to manufacture papier maehe bicycle rims. The New York f'ity directory for this year contains 399,128 names, air Increase over last year of 11,717. Willfsm G. Meyers, of Philadelphia, has been elected Grand Exalter Ruler of the Grand Lodge of Elks at Atlantic City, N. J. Dr. Edward Jones, 6# the Eastern Kentucky Insane Asylum staff, was found dead beneath his window. It is thought he leaped out.

DRAKE IS THEIR MAN.

lOWA REPUBLICANS NAME HIM FOK GOVERNOR. ~ Six Ballots Were Necessary—Parrot* for Lieutenant Governor—The Platform—One Thousand Fall with an Atlantic City Convention Hall Floor. The Ticket. Governor .....Francis M. Drake Lieutenant Governor..... .Matt Parrott Supreme Judge .Josiah Given SnpL Public Instruction.... Henry Sabin Railroad Com .George W. Perkins The lowa Republican State convention met in Des Moines for the purpose of nominating candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Judge of the Supreme Court, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Railroad Commissioner. There were 1,242 delegates, requiring 622 to nominate. The auditorium of Calvary tabernacle, the scene of the convention, was plentifully decorated with flags and: bunting,' ' and when the chairman of the State Centra) Committee, J. E. Blythe, called the convention to order at 10:54 every sent was filled, There were 2,000 visitors in addition to the delegates. Senator Allison appeared on the stage and the entire assemblage arose and united in a series of tremendous cheers. Senator Allison bowed his acknowledgments, but maintained silence. Chairman Blythe named J R. Lane, of Davenport, as temporary chairman. Mr. Lane’s speech was short, but its delivery was by almost Incessant applause. The Mon. Lase Young was made permanent chairman and made an exceedingly brief but epigrammatic address. When the chair announced that balloting for Governor was in order there were no nominating speeches nor presentation of candidates, and no changing of (rotes while a ballot was in progress. This facilitated matters greatly, and the six ballots required to decide the nominee for Governor were taken in about two hours. There was intense interest manifest throughout the tiresome ordeal. Gen. Drake made a ten-minute speech accepting the nomination. The convention then proceeded to the nomination of Lieutenant Governor, and a ballot was taken resulting as follows: Dungan 346 Parrott - . ....(>OO Ormsby „.-.; 211 Kamrar •_• • • . • 80 During the second ballot Dungan’s name was withdrawn and the nomination went to Parrott. State Superintendent Sabin, Supreme Judge Given and Railway Commissioner Perkins were quickly renominated by acclamation. The resolutions were read and adopted and the convention adjourned sine die.

Platform Adopted. The platform In brief reaffirms the fealty of the party in lo\ya to the national party, congratulating the people upon the evidence of returning prosperity, labor reestablished on a prosperous basis, all of which is attributed to the prospective return of the Republican party to power. It deplores the destruction of the reciprocity agreements by the Democratic party, affirms the declaration of the Minneapolis national convention on the cur-rency-question, quoting that plank entire, and urging an international agreement oil the silver problem: "Welcomes the honest and industrious immigrant J .nd declares no other should be permitted to come; favors liberality to the nation’s defenders in the way of pensions; congratulates the people that the State will be represented in the next Congress by two Republican Senators and eleven Republican Congressmen, and “with especial pride remembers the services i f our senior Senator, whose long and honorable record entitles him to fpll confidence rnd enduring affection, and hails with satisfaction the universal desire of ihe Republicans of the State to continue him in his present field of usefulness until called to the larger services of the nation.”

FALL WITH A FLOOR.

Two Hundred People Maimed at an Klka’ Social Session in At antic. More than 100 men and women were seriously hurt nt the social session tendered by Atlantic City, N. J., lodge to the visiting Elks at the Baltic Avenue Casino Wednesday evening. The session had just opened, and only one of the speakers had been heard, when, without the slightest warning, the building, which has not b len used for several years, collapsed, and fully 1,000 persons were thrown to the floor beneath. Many women, the wives of the visiting Elks, went down in the ruins. Fully 200 persons who were on the first floor of the building, and immediately beneath the banquet hall, were crushed beneath the timbers, and lay helpless. One man was killed in the crash and many were desperately wottnded. The fact that all the electric lights went out nt the time the building gave way, added to the confusion. An alarm was immediately turned In and the city’s force of 200 firemen and every available police offi ter in the city were callel to the scene as a hospital corps. The police ambulance and carriages of every description were utilized to convey the injured to -heir hospital and to the hotels. When the police and firemen arrived on the scene the excitement was intense. Within a few minutes they succeeded in clearing the spnee In the immediate neighborhood of the building and placed ropes around to keep the crowd back. In the meantime ihe firemen hnd set to work to extricate the wounded from beneath the mass of timbers, and they were aided in their work by the hotelkeepers and residents near the scene. Every house was thrown open for the reception of the injured and every available conveyance was pressed intoservice to caTy them to their hotels.

Telegraphic Brevitics.

The excise law was rigidly (nforced' -in New York. Brazil Is snfiptu be again on the verge' of a rebellion. Dr. Kester, of Hammond, Ind., ended, his life with chloroform. Thomas It. Mieksell, the murderer of' Phil Metsinger, at Milton, Ivy., has been captured. Receiver McNulta, of the whisky trust, has been authorized to offer the uroperty in St. Paul for sale.