Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. ■ ■ ■ '-- ' •== GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. Z REIB6ELAER, - ‘ - IMDIAKA.

AN IDEA FROM KANSAS

PENSIONERS URGED TO DEMAND GOLD. t - ®-j-- r i - . < The Wife of the Her. Dr. Taltnace Dies as the Result of Shock Sustained Last Year—Colliery Horror in Scotlatid. ~. "v- — Who Originated This? Monday was pension day at Topeka, Kan., and the following circular was distributed among the old soldiers of Topeka and Shawnee County who visited the pension office to get their quarterly allowance from the Government: “Comrades:—Halt. You are entitled to gold in payment of your checks. Demand it. Do not accept depreciated currency.” The pensioners are paid by checks, which are cashed at the Topeka banks. It is claimed the circular was prepared by a bimetallist, who wants to show that there is not enough gold in the banks to pay the .pensioners alone, aside from doing the other business of the country. It has also been suggested that this may be part of the Sovereign boycott of national bank notes. It is not known who distributed the circular. Dr. Talmage's Bereavement. Mrs. T. DeWitt Talmage died at Dansville, .._N, Y., at 5:30 Monday morning. Since the burning of the Brooklyn tabernacle last year Mrs. Talmage has suffered from nervous prostration and she has never £plly recovered from the shock sustained then. The fire broke out while the Doctor was holding his usual Sunday reception, and a large number of parishioners and visitors were in the church. They all made good their escape, but Dr. Talmage went back into the burning edifice for something he had left behind. During his absence Mrs. Talmage, who, with other members of the family, was outside awaiting his reappearance, became greatly excited and alarmed for the Doctor's safety. As soon as she was informed that he was all right she broke down completely. The sufferer was removed to the Dansville sanitarium about a year ago, with Miss Daisy Talmage as her constant companion. While Dr. Talmage was absent on a lecturing tour in the West he received a telegram summoning him to bis wife’s bedside. He at once canceled all his engagements and hastened back to find that there was very little hope for the patient’s recovery, and he remained with ’her until the end came. The deceased was the second wife of Dr. Talmage. His first wife was drowned while boating in 1862, leaving a daughter. Miss Jessie; and a son, who has since died. Jig the House Down. “Swing ,yo’ pahdners, balance all, hands around!” It was at Nancy Harris’ party at her house, No. 1725 Dearborn street, Chicago, Friday night, .and a dozen dusky belles and their beaus were mingling in the mazy dance. The fun waxed warm and furious. “Salute yo' pahdners. Down de middle!” and just as big Eph Miller, the “fiddler, got these words out of his mouth /he foundation. posts under . the house gave way and the crazy structure almost went “down de middle.” Nobody was hurt, but the loss was as follows: House, ?90: some insurance. Furniture and contents, 5125; not total. Eph Miller’s violin, value $4; no insurance. Susie Jones, dancing pumps, 39 cents; no insurance. Die in a Flooded Mine. The Auchen Harvie colliery at Salt Coats, Scotland, a town on the Bay of Ayra, twenty-four miles southwest of Glasgow, has been flooded. Sixty men were rescued and fourteen were entombed in the mine. Searching parties were unable to penetrate to the pohit where the unfortunate victims were buried.

BREVITIES.

A fraud order was issued by the Postoffice Department Monday against Chas. L. Borg & Co.. No. 1898 Carpenter street, Chicago, 111., for conducting a fraudulent book concern. The Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company applied for a receiver at Little Rock, Ark., for the Pine Bluff and Eastern Railway and for the Stuttgart and Arkansas River Railway. Seven men called James Mason, a negro, out at Dangerfield, Texas, and shot him dead. His wife ran into the house and got in bed with her child. They shot her through a crack in the house. The child will get well, but the-woman will die. The Secretary of War has awarded a medal of honor to Christian Albert, private, Company G, Forty-seventh Ohio Volunteers, now living at Brest, Mich., for gallant conduct as a member of the storming party at Vicksburg, Miss., May 22, 1863. An opinion favorable to the defendants has been filed in the case of Samuel Barber et al., heirs of John Barber, against the Pennsylvania Company, in which the plaintiffs lay claim to the property on Penn avenue, Pittsburg, Pa., occupied by the extensive office building of the Pennsylvania Company. The Woodrough & Hanchett Company, one of the largest wholesale hardware houses fat Chicago, failed Friday afternoon, and the store of the company was closed by the sheriff. The. failure occasioned a good deal of surprise among the wholesale houses in Lake street, as the company has been regarded as a most substantial concern, doing a-large business, but the collapse, they say, is the result of the protracted period of dull times. The liabilities of the company are about SIBO,OOO and the assets are placed at $240,000. Versailles, Ky., was thrown into excitement Monday afternoon by one of the bloodiest tragedies that ever occurred withjn her borders. It was the unprovoked killing of James Rodenbaugh, a young man of 22, and the mortal wounding of H. C. Rodenbaugh, his 60-year-old father, by W. N. Lane, a fence-dealer of Lexiugton, who was drunk. State Bank Examiner Gowdry closed the Citizens’ State Bank at South Sioux City, Neb. Liabilities are about $30,000; assets, $23,000, with affairs in bad condition- This bank was the county depository, and over $8 ,000 tvas on deposit.

EASTERN.

It la alleged that a number of smugglers of tobacco from Canada to the United States, at Rouse's Point, N. Y„ have been detected by -customs officers, and many arrests will follow. Vicar General J. J. Kennedy, of the see of Syracuse,- N. Y., has been invested ■with tire title of monsignor, the- honorcoming from Pope Leo XIII., on the recommendation of Bishop P. A. Ludden. Justice O’Brien, of the New York Supreme Court, has issued a temporary injunction to prevent the whisky trust reorganization committee from 'acquiring stock under the reorganization agreement. At Brooklyn an extensive fire was startled Thursday-noon by the explosion in the Columbia stores at the Toot Of Atlantic avenue. Bear’s wharf adjoining was destroyed before the flames were checked. A ship also burned. i 4 Henry G. Clark, 15 years old, was in the Municipal Court at Chelsea, -Mass., charged with breaking and entering. His case was continued in order to permit State Fire Marshal Whitcomb to prefer more serious charges against him. By his own confession the boy is one of the most dangerous firebugs im, Massachusetts. Last spring he started fires that caused a loss of more than $50,000. Eugene Blumenthal, a brother of the playwright, Oscar Blumenthal, committed suicide by taking poison in his room in the Great Northern Hotel, New York. Blumenthal had been ill for some time and unable to procure employment. A letter was found addressed to the coroner. It was dated July 29. In it Blumenthal stated that he intended taking his life, and asked that his body be given to some medical college fo'f study. The Hamilton Savings Fund and Loan Association, Pittsburg, with a’ capital stock of $30,000,000, was closed by the State bank examiners, and the Union Trust Company placed in charge as temporary receivers. The liabilities, according to the officers of the association, are. but $9,000 and the assets SII,OOO. The association is a national concern, but the depositors are believed to be all local people, mostly workingmen. The book's show about 1,000 shareholders. The statue of Chancellor James Kent, nearly a century ago justice of the New York State Supreme Court and the author of the famous commentaries on the American law, was visited at Poughkeepsie Wednesday by a number of his descendants and several members of the bar, who in this way recognized the 132 d anniversary of his birth. The statue, which is approaching completion in the studio of Sculptor George E. Bissel, will be placed next fall in the new Congressional Library at Washington.

WESTERN.

The court house in Fresno, Cal., was burned. Only the hall of records was saved. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO, most of which is covered by insurance.,, A colored campmeeting near Cincinnati came near breaking up in disorder when it was discovered that some one had broken into the provision ttnt and stolen all the watermelons. Sanford Duncan, a prominent citizen of Stillwater, O. T., was found murdered on the Arkansas River bank near the line of the Pawnee reservation.. There is no clew to the murderer. Thousands of bushels? of peaches and apples will be lost in the vicinity of West. Plains, Mo., for tlte want of means to take care of them. There are 157,000 barrels of good apples in sight there. Oklahoma divorcees are left in a disagreeable situation by the decision of the Territorial Supreme Court that Probate Judges do not have jurisdiction in such cases and that their decrees are invalid. Indictments were voted Wednesday by the Grand Jury at Chicago against six election judges charged with fraudulent practices in the First and Second Wards last November. The indictments grow out of the evidence adduced in the investigation of the McGann-Belknap contest. An accumulation of gas caused an explosion in the cupola of the top mill blast furnace at Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, and pieces of irort,coke and cinders were blown 200 feet in the air. Samuel Cashnich, a filler, was - fatally burned and James Carman was badly injured by flying missiles. Augusta Mattland, who was shot at noon Tuesday in the Model Steam Laundry, Omaha, by Peter Volgreen, died Thursday morning. Volgreen confessed that he conceived the crime in 'Minneapolis and determined to execute it if he could not induce the woman to abandon her husband and live with him. Failing in this he shot her three times in the abdomen. The Milwaukee and Lake Winnebago Railroad Company has filed an amendment to its articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State of Wisconsin providing for an additional issue of 000 stock and for the construction of a railway line from Neenah in an easterly direction to Menasha and thence to Manitowoc * A San Francisco paper says that a suit for half a million dollars is to be brought against the city and the Spring Valley Water Company by owners of projierty destroyed during the great fire south of Market street about four weeks ago. The ground for the suit will be based on the inadequacy of the water supply, inconvenient location of hydrants and smallness of mains. Stark Siding, two miles east of Canton, Ohio, on the Fort Wayne, was the scene of a disastrous freight wreck at 2:30 o’clock Friday morning, in which three men lost their lives and eight more are lying in Aultman Hospital, more or less injured. The train, which was an extra, going west, broke in two at the Summit, and the rear portion ran into the front end when it stopped for water at the tank. Eight cars were smashed into kindling wood and traffic was delayed about two hours. The killed and injured were all tramps, riding on an empty boxear. The trainmen escaped without injury. During a knavy gale Tuesday morning the schooner Republic, in tow of the stea charge Swallow, coal laden, became water-logged and sank in forty fee*- of water, two miles off Lorain,' Ohio. The tug Cascade Succeeded in rescuing all of the crew of eight men, who were clinging to the rigging. The schooner and her cargo will probably be a total loss. The cargo of the barge was 618 tons of soft coal for Detroit. The barge was built in 1854 and was so old that the underwriters would not place aiiy insurance on her. A special certificate insurance was granted on the cargo. The Republic is so old and unseawdrthy that it is not

likely any attempt will be made to recover her. The coal may be secured, however. ' The United States cavalry reached Jackson’s Hole, Wyo., Friday. The infantry was stopped en route, as there were no Indians in sight. The scare existed along the route the Indians took in returning to the reservations. Notwithstanding the threats made against the Jife of Agent Teter and his, chief clerk, Ravanel Mcßeth, they went ahead of the troops into Jackson’s Hole to warn the settlers not th attack the redskins and to obtain the names of all the parties concerned in what Agent Teter insists on calling the massaerif 6f the Indians. -Captain Jim, chief of the Shoshones, will ask all the Indians to go back to their reservations without fighting. If they will not go he will assist the soldiers in removing them and will call uporihis tribetohelp. Cloudbursts and floods in New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas and Wyoming did great damage Tuesday night, causing much loss of life and great destruction of property. The dead“ai - CT At Socorro, N. M. , the infant son of E. Baca, and six members of the Duran family. At Caspar, Wyo., two Harrison children and Mrs. S. Newby and child. At Fort Scott, Kas., Waiter Austin and Willie Gould. At Adelaide, Colo., Mrs. Carr, Mrs. Tracey, and an unknown woman. Four men are missing, thought to have been caught in a landslide .near Adelaide, ‘ The greatest damage seems to have been done at Socorro, N. Al., where seven lives are known to be lost. Three small towns near by may have been swept away. The surrounding country is devastated. The property damage is said to be over sl,000,000. At Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., while the steamer Alva, bound down with iron ore, was aground below the dyke Thursday morning, she was run into and sunk by the whaleback barge Hundred and Seventeen, in tow of tlfff steamer E. AL Peck,iroubd' d<sWrc wlth’iron eTe. back took a sheer when near the Alva, which caused the collision. Her nose punched a hole in the Alva at the engineroom gangway, three feet belowlhe main deck, filling the engine-room with water. Steam pumps will be put on board, after temporary repairs have been made, so that she can proceed on her way to Chicago. The whaleback barge is badly -damaged in the-&tem and her ballast tank forward is full of water, but as she can free herself with her own pumps she is still afloat. The Alva’s stern is on the .bottom, and the bow is in four fathoms of water. The San Francisco Chronicle publishes an article in regard to alleged frauds in the railway mail service on the Pacific coast, which, it says, promises to lead to one of the most far-reaching Federal investigations ever held. It is alleged by Railway Postal Clerk E. S. ‘ Colver and others that United States mails were fraudulently stuffed, with the advice and consent of Supt. Samuel Flint, of the eighth division of the railway mail service, during June, 1894, in order that weights carried during that month, which formed the basis for estimating the compensation to be paid the railroads for the next four years, might appear unduly large. Railway postal clerks of long experience say there are great opportunities for stuffing cars in such a way as to rob the Governmentof millions each year. The Chronicle adds that his local scandal opens up a wide field for Congressional investigation.

SOUTHERN.

An unknown mamras murdered at the mouth of Hart’s Creek, in Lincoln County, Tennessee, the locality infested by the Bromfield and McCoy factions. In a shooting affray at Fort Worth, Texas, Frank Rippy was Shot dead and Frank Thomas, a “trusty” in the Cityprison, probably fatally wounded. The Alabama health officer has called Gov. Oates' attention to the frightful death rate at the Coalburg mines among the convicts, it being ninety in every 1,000. George and John Pierce, who were sentenced by Judge Parker to Fort Smith for murder, have been granted appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States, and their execution will not take place. The non-union men arc being forced to leave the Bluefields, W. Va., coal fields by the strikers, who threaten personal violence to those who don’t quit work. Gov. MaeCorkle has reached there and his hasty return is attributed to the threats. Serious trouble is expected within the next few days. Jolin Enhart, a farmer, of Robinson, Ark., was killed Wednesday night at his home, his head being crushed with an ax. Enhart and his wife quarreled because he whipped two of her first husband’s children, ‘anti as there is nothing to. indicate a motive for the crime outside of the household, an investigation is being made on the supposition that the murder was committed by some member of the family. With an abundant waving of the stars and stripes, with patriotic music and stirring orations, punctuated by cheers from tens of thousands of feminine and masculine throats, the monument erected to the .memory of Kentucky’s Confederate dead was formally unveiled Tuesday afternoon at lyouisvillc. The completion of this task is a tribute to the Women’s Confederate Association of Kentucky, which for eight years has been working for a memorial to the volunteers from the Blue Grass State who died fighting for the lost cause, and which, in spite of many obstacles, raised by degrees a fund of $20,000 to carry out this project. The city authorities declared a half holiday in honor of the occasion, and wageworkers and busi-ness-men alike turned out in thousands, while trains from different parts of the State, ns well as from across the river in Indiana, brought thousands more.

FOREIGN.

♦ " Tire diplomatic corps in Washington is watching with especial interest the settlement of the question of the evacuation of. Port Arthur by the Japanese, in view of the demand which Russia, France and Germany are reported to have made upon the Japanese to evacuate the entire LiaoTung Peninsula without reference to China’s fulfillment of her part of the Shimonoseki treaty obligations. It is made quite clear at the Japanese Legation that Japan will not accede to this demand, if really made, without a vigorous protest A semi-official statement issued in St. Petersburg disposes of the rumors that Russia would probably recognize Prince Ferdinand ns ruler of Bulgaria. The statement is to the effect.that Russia will never enter into relations with the exist-

ing illegal Bulgarian Government which has been forced upon the principality by a usurper. Russia simply demands that a prince shall be chosen in accordance with the provisions of the Berlin treaty, with the concurrence of the Porte. The London Daily News prints a Vienna dispatch saying that this declaration of Russia’s position is held to signify the removal of JtodiDand. wd..th.e-jewting. _Bulgarian Government at the shortest possible notice. A dispatch from Madrid says: Republican and Carlist Senators and Deputies have addressed a protest to the Government against the payment of the Mora claim without the sanction of the Corteo. The protest declares that the Government’s precipitancy in settling the claim of the United States is unconstitutional and humiliating to Spain,- and that the cnnduet~ot the United Sfates in taking advantage of the Cuban insurrection to press the claim is an exhibition of an unfriendly, disposition. The Government: has decided to pay the Mora claim in three installments. Z It is Hip intention afterwartl to induce the United States to recognize Spanish claims for damages to property in Florida of citizens of the country whieh-n*ereincttrred"duringtheTeivil war in America. Fontura Xavier, the Brazilian Consul General in New York, believes that the Island of Trinidad, which was recently taken possession of by the British, will be regained by Brazil. He said the Brazilian Government was making every effort to settle the difficulty by diplomacy, but if these means failed he believed Brazil would try to take the island by force. “My < country's navy cannot, of course, compare in strength with that of Great Britain,” Air. Xavier said, “but our citizens are determined to assert their rights and have no fear of England.” When asked what position he thought the United States would take in case of war, Air. Xavier declarejr that it could not rema in neutral without violating the Alonroe doctrine, and that, he thought, the administration would be unwilling to do.

IN GENERAL

The National Wall Paper Company has passed the dividend due July 1. Prof. Wiggins says the water in the great lakes is decreasing every year «ndthat the time is near at hand when Niagara Falls will cease to be. Isaac Gauthier, a Alontreal, Que., ci-gar-maker, 23 years old, emptied five chambers of his revolver into a beautiful young girl to whom he was engaged to be married, Celina Consigny, also 23 years . old, killing her. Gauthier, after his arrest, said he bought the revolver for the express purpose of killing his sweetheart. He also, he said, intended to take his life, had he not used all the bullets in the revolver in killing the girl. It appears thathe is dying of consumption. The forthcoming review by the geological survey of the mineral resources of the country will show that the production of ■aluminium in the United States in 1894 was 550,000 pounds. The imports were valued at $4,110. Bauxite, which is an oxide of aluminium, has been found in sufficient quantities to be commercially valuable in only three localities in the United States. These are New Mexico, and the Coosa Valley of Georgia and Alabama. Aluminium, the review will say, has now found the position in the arts predicted for. it,, and the demand is increasing. Its metallurgical use has proved more valuable than was expected. The following is the standing of the clubs in the-National League:

Per P. W. I/. cent. Cleveland .......89 53 36 .596 Pittsburgß4 50 34 .595 Baltimore 78 46 32 .590 Chicago 90 51 39 .567 Boston 79 44 34 .557 Brooklyn 81 44 37 .543 Cinqinuafi 83 45 38 .542 Philadelphia ... .80 43 37 .538 New Yorkßo 41 39 .513 Washington 75 27 48 .360 St. L0ui5...87 28 59 .322 Louisville 80 21 59 .263 WESTERN EEAGUE. The following is the standing ; of the clubs in the Western League: P. W. L. cent. Indianapolisßo 47 33 .588 St. Paulß2 48 34 .585 Kansas Cityß3 48 35 .578 Detr0it,,...83 43 40 .518 Minneapolis 81 41 40 .506 Milwaukee 82 40 42 .488 Terre Hauteß4 33 51 .393 Grand Rapids....Bs 29 56 .341

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 68c; corn. No. 2,42 cto 43c; oats, Noy 2,21 c to 22c; rye, No. 2,45 cto 47<jjfbutter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 12c: potatoes, new, per barrel, SI.OO to $1.30; broom corn, common growth to tine brush, 4c'to 6%c per lb. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,66 c; to 68c; corn, No. 1 white, 41c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c. St. Ixtuis—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $3.50 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 69c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 38c to 39c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2,43 c to 45c. v Cincinnati —Cattle, $3.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; Sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn, No. 2, mixed, 42c to 44c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 28c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 51c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; rye, 48c to 49c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22<t to 24c; ryo, No. 2,49 cto 51c. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 48c to 50c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 69c to 70e; corn, No. 3,42 cto 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; barley. No. 2,46 cto 47c; rye, No. 1,48 cto 49c; pork, mess, $9.50 to SIO.OO. New York —Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.75} sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c. to 74c; corn, No. 2, 48c to 49c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; butter;, creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, Western, 13c to 15c.

TRADE TAKES A REST.

MIDSUMMER QUIET RULES IN COMMERCE. Enraged Italians Shoot Down NcSgro Miners—British Subjects Killed by Brutal Chinese—Tragedy at Washington. Cause of the Quiet. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “There is a perceptible halt which may deceive if attributed to wrong causes. Trade two months date in the spring pushed forward into July a large share of business belonging to April or May. . Seeing a rush of orders out of time, many imagined it would continue, and hurried to give other orders. The jam of two months’ business into one lifted prices —Then other orders came to * anticipate a further rise. But the midsummer halt was inevitable, and-it is yet somewhat uncertain how much improvement will appear after it. The crop of corn promises to be the largest ever grown, and is almost out of harm’s way The crop of wheat appears, perhaps 20,090,000 bushels less than was expected a month ago, and bad the best hopes been realized it would have been more than 100,000,000 bushels short of a full crop. Cotton has lost a little, and more people seem to believe in 7,500,000 bales than believed in 8,000,000 a month ago.”Carniyal of Blood. Fourteen negro miners fell victims to the fury of an Italian mob at Spring Valley, 111., Sunday. Three probably will die, and the result of the wounds of many of lire others is doubtful. Fully 1,000 Italian miners armed with all sorts of weapons and preceded by.a band of music marched on No. 3 location, where a colony of. negro miners and their families are domiciled. The mob was bent on revenging one of their countrymen, who had been killed in an altercation with some negroes. The negro colony was completely misled as to the intentions of the’mob on account of the band, and some of them flocked to see the supposed parade. They -fell—efisy and defenseless yietime-t<>-the-fury of the crowd.* It Was an attempted massacre, and in the anger of the foreigners no discrimination as to age or sex was made. The feeling of hatred which has existed toward the negroes ever since their importation during the strikp a year ago was fierce vent, and -it was with the ferocity of long-restrained malice that the mob leaped to its work. That dozens were not killed seems almost miraculous.

Missionaries Are Victims. ~A" "Shanghai dispatch’ to the London Times says that the mission and sanitariuth at Wha Sang, near Ku Cheng, Province of Fokein, was attacked and ten British subjects killed. The Rev. Mr. Stewart, wife and child were burned in their house. Miss Yellow and Miss Marshall, two sisters named Saunders, two sisters named Gordon, and Steetie Newcombe were murdered with spears and swords. Miss Codrington was seriously wounded about the head, and Stewart’s eldest child had a knee cap badly, in-. jured while the youngest had an eye gouged out. The Rev. Mr. Phillips, with two Americans, Dr. Gregory and Miss Mabel C. Hartford, were both "wounded, but arrived safely at Fu Chau Fu. The Prefect of Cheng Fu, who was on the inquiry commission, is seriously irnplL cated in the Cheng Fu outrages. Mies Flagler Kills a Negro Thief, Miss Elizabeth Flagler, daughter of Gen. Flagler, chief of ordnance of the army, and well known in Washington, D. C., army and social circles, shot and killed a 14-year-old negro boy named Ernest Green Friday yit her home iii the suburbs of the city. The Flaglers and other families in the vicinity have been annoyed greatly of late by boys stealing their fruit and damaging the trees of their gardens. Miss Flagler discovered young Green on the fence stealing fruit and fired at him from the second-story -window^—TJre~butlet entered "iris right breast and, passing through his body, inflicted a wound that caused death in a -short time. The coroner's jury exonerated Miss Flagler, and she was released. Reward for Thief, DeuJJ. or Alive. Secretary Lovejoy, of the Carnegie Steel Company, in Pittsburg, has developed a bloodthirsty quality of which he was never suspected. It all came about since he took to bicycling. This advertisement in the papers explains the case: “Twenty-five dollars reward— Stolen, from the corner Dithridge and Bayard streets, Victor bicycle No. 66,329, full nickle finish, 1894 model, raised handle bar, wood rims, two-inch tires, scorcher saddle, rat-trap pedals, toe clips, bell, and Spalding cyclometer; no brake; Pittsburg license No. 347. The above reward will be paid for wheel and thief, dead or alive. F. T. Lovejoy, 612 Carnegie Building.”

NEWS NUGGETS.

The Coulterville stage was held up six miles from Mercer, Colo., by a masked robber, who secured the Wells-Fargo treasure box, with its valuable contents. F. E. Wilson, alias C. B. Walts, William A. Black, C. C. Woods, and F. H. Woodward, awaiting trial nt Pueblo, Col., on a charge of forgery, is said to have operated throughout the West and Northwest. The detectives who have worked up the cases against Wilson say there are few towns of prominence in lowa, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming where he has not swindled people by means of raised checks. James Graham was assassinated by moonshiners at Birmingham, Ala. He had been informing on them. The marriage of Edwin Holt and Mabel Eaton, the well-known theatrical people, has been indefinitely postponed because of the arrival at Toledo, Where they are playing, of Mr. Holt’s wife and three children. Disappointment in love caused Valente Aragon to blow out his brains at El Paso, Texas. ' Cuban insurgents are reported to have captured the towns of Baire Jiguani and Guantanamo. Lee Thomas was hanged at Corsicana, Texas, for the murder of J. M. Farley. The murder was the result of a game of cards. Four children of M. S. Trimble in Bayou Rapids, La., were poisoned by morphine given them by their mother in mistake for quinine. Two have died.

EXCITING FLIGHT FROM INDIANS

A Frontiersman Followed Six Miles by Picgane in War Paint. In August of ’66 1 was running a bull train between Helena and Fort Benton, on the “down trip,” and at noon went into camp where the house, of John D. Brown now stands. At about 2 o’clock camp was broken and we moved on toward Priest Crossing, the Water being too high at Sun River. After going about two miles I shot and wounded an old doe antelope, accompanied by two fawns, and. I determined that I would have all three of those animals, and* gave chase, firing whenever I could get within range, until I had exhausted my. ammunition. This was before the days of breech-loading guna I-finally got the two fawns and tied them on behind my saddle and started to catch up with the “train.” Zl Was as much aa slx mlles behind, without a cap or a bullet, only two empty six-shooters and a rifle. I paced along until I came to what is known as the Signboard Coulee. I noticed that my saddle pony kept turning to the left Finally I looked over that way myself and could see the head and shoulders of a person down in the coulee. I spurred up into a gallop and in a moment could see that there were eight persons Instead pf one, and also that they were Piegan Indians in full war paint and feathers. They immediately gave chase, and for the next six miles occurred one of the most exciting races that I ever took part in. Seeing that the weight of the fawns was telling on the speed of my horse I cut them loose and at the same time threw away myovercoat, and taking the ramrod out of my rifle used it as a whip and gained a little on my pursuers. The last two miles of the race was in plain view of the train. The train halted, and I supposed- that one of the drivers would come to my assistance, but no relief came. They dropped their whips and jaws at the same time and waved their bats and hands and halloed “Run.” I was doing the best I could. The Indians chased me to within 150 yards of the train, when Bob Chestnut, now of the Chestnut Valley, camo in sight from the direction of Sun River, and opened fire on the Indians. They stopped chasing me and ran the other way. It never occurred to the drivers* that they had guns until after Mr. Ckestnut commenced firing. There are many old-timers in Montana who will rejnember this incident well.—Sun River (Mont.) Sun.

Some Forms of Fungl.

Scarcely a day passes In which we da not see some forms of fungi, so common are they—inhabiting every nook and corner.lf we walk in the fields, the woods, even in the dooryard, we see the little white, gray and brown umbrellas of the toadstools and mushrooms. Going to the preserve closet,, we see that on the tops of many of the bottles a white growth has formed. Our old slices hidden away in the dark have a greenish dust upon them; thisis another fungus; and the “mother” in vinegar claims cousinship with the yeast which raises our bread. The paste-pot is flecked with pink, green and gray spots, all fungi. Some of the grain crops are often subject to partial or complete destruction from different kinds of fungi—the “smut” of wheat and corn, ergot of rye and others. Silkworms are destroyed in vast numbers by a me:.!. Its spores, entering their bodies, fill tlie whole interior, and cause death in from seventy to a hundred and forty hours. The hop crop is often ruined by “mildew.” One strange fungus attacks a kind of caterpiller, growing like a tree from his back until it is much larger than the poor worm, that crawls about with his unwelcome guest until it kills him—St. Nicholas.

Luminous Mushrooms.

A man traveling in Australia found a large mushroom of this genius weighing five pounds. He took it to the house where he was stopping and hung it up to dry in the sitting-room. Entering after dark, he was amazed to see a beautiful soft light emanating from the fungus. He culled in the natives to examine it, and at the first glance they cried out in great fear that it was a spirit. It continued to give out light for many nights, gradually decreasing until it was wholly dry. Dr. Gardner, while walking through the streets of a Brazilian town, saw some boys playing with a luminous object, which he at first thought was a large firefly, but he found on inspection it was n brilliant mushroom (Agaric) which now bears his name. It gave out a bright light of a greenish hue, and was called by the natives “flor de coco," as it grew on a species of palm. The young plants emit a brilliant light, and the olde’r ones a pale greenish light. Many kinds of fungi are phosphorescent. Hiynboldt describes some exquisitely beautiful ones he saw in the mines. The glow In rotten wood is caused by its containing the threads of light-giving fungi.—June St. Nicholas.

Needed Praying For.

“The chief of police of Athens, Ga,’* said Supt. Eldridge, of Boston, “is a delightful man to meet, but he is a Methodist —one of the old, sincere style. At the last convention in Boston ho proposed that the association have a chaplain. That roused the Western men, especially one from Omaha, who didn’t want prayers: But the Georgia man got up, and looking solemnly over the gathering of police officials, said:. ‘Gentlemen, I think if anybody in this country needs the guidance of AlmightyGod, it is the heads of the police departments in our large cities.’ He won and we made him chaplain."—Boston ’traveler. j A girl who has a good vigorous steady seldom becomes a whist fiend. .