Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1895 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

PHILADELPHIA FIRE.

FOUR HUNDRED THOUSANDS GO UP IN SMOKE. Concrete May Be Called by Cleveland —Some Astounding Revelations in the Cuban Revolution Ominous News for Spain. Fire inWhe Quaker City. A Philadelphia fire, which did damage amounting to between $350,000 and $400,000, started Monday morning in the five-story building occupied by Brown & Bailey as a paper-box manufactory, and before the Humes had been got under control the big gastfxture establishment ot Buck adjoining and a dozen dwellings which surrounded the two factories were laid in ashes. The fire originated on the first floor of the building occupied by Brown & Bailey, at 412 Franklin street, at 8:30 o’clock, but it was nearly 9 o’clock before an engine had responded to the alarm. The delay proved disastrous, as the iuflammaWe matter in the box factory was a mass of principal losers are Brown & Bailey and Buck & Co. The former’s’loss will reach . $150,000, with an insurance of $100,000; - Buck & Co.’s loss is between SIOO,OOO and $125,000, with an insurance of between $75,000 and SSO,OOO. Yeager & Bro., coal dealers, place their loss at about $20,000, while the loss on the burned dwellings will reach in the neighborhood of $50,000. Several firemen were injured, but none fatally. Campos Gives It Up. A Havana dispatch says; Campos has resigned the Captain Generalship of Cuba. —It is generally believed t*hat he strongly urges the home Government to grant the Island of Cuba self-government. As an outcome of his recent telegrams to Madrid the Ministers of War; Staje, Foreign Colonies, etc., have been holding long conferences, and although they could not make public the subject of their deliberations they have admitted that they will have some astounding revelations to make soon. Gen. Campos, while besieged in Bayamo, had such fears for his life that iir'order to disguise himself he had his long goatee shaved clean, hence his objection to showing himself in public. Mayari is said to have fallen into the hands of insurgents, and the Provisional Government of the Cuban republic Is reported to have been established there. Santo Espiritu and Trinidad, in Las Villas, are said to be in possession of the rebel forces. All telegrams from Madrid clearly show that not only the Government over there, but also the people, are greatly alarmed by the developmeuts in Cuba, and that Gen. Campos’ report to the Cortes must be unsatisfactory. • —— Talk of an Extra Session. Talk of an extra session of Congress is again heard upon the streets of Washington. Politicians who have heretofore contended .strenuously against tbe .idea are now beginning to admit that the President may issue a call if the withdrawal of gold from the treasury continues. Without the aid of the Belmont-Morgan-Bothschild syndicate the onslaughts upon the reserve will, it is claimed, compel the President either to issue bonds or call Congress in extraordinary session. The vacancy upon the bench of the Supreme Court, which meets in October, is urged as another reason for ap extra session of the Senate, as with the exception of Marshall no justice ever assumed his seat upon the bench until confirmed. Marshall Field’s Men Are Put Out. At Denver, Colo., Marshall Field tried to get possession of the dry goods store of A. Z. Solomon. The assignee representing local creditors and the First National Bank on a mortgage resisted the constable in the morning when the store was crowded. The police were summoned to guard the place. Every suspieous-look-ing customer was ordered to get out forthwith. Finally the store closed and a sign announced they were taking stock. Gully Re-elected. Mr. William C. Gully, member of Parliament for Carlisle, was re-elected Speaker of the House of Commons without opposition.

BREVITIES.

The worst street car accident in the history of Indianapolis occnrred Friday afternoon. There were no fatalities, bnt from twelve to twenty people were painfully injured. Harvey Merritt, recently pardoned out of the Georgia penitentiary, has entered suit for heavy damages against the penitentijiry company. Merritt recites a horinhuman and cruel treatment as the basis of his action. He was In for twelve years, but was pardoned after serving nine years because he was no longer useful to the lessees. TiKTTnvornble utterances of leading American papers regarding the annexation of Cuba to Mexico are attracting attention at the City of Mexico, and the newspapers arc reproducing the sentiments of the American press. Annexation would be preferred by Spain to selling Cuba to the United States, and the Mexicans would welcome Cubans to their union. Capt. Sproule, of the British stenmship which landed the survivors of the Prince Oscar disaster at Philadelphia, had another startling story to tell. It concerned the alleged murder of Capt. Peter Stegcr, of the American bark Edward Skinner, by four unknown seamen near a South American port. The supposed murderers escaped oh a stolen vessel, and it Is believed perished in a fire which destroyed the ship near Rio Janeiro. A terrific explosion occurred Monday afternoon at the Empson canning factory, at Longmant, Colo., The injured hre: John Baker, Albert Hanson, George Plair, Frank Printy, Herbert Vaughn. One of the ■team vats used for boiling peas exploded while the factory was ip full blast. Seven tpcn escaped only by a mirucle. At the war department the Bannock Indian scare is considered an episode of the past Genera] Vincent said Monday that nothing further was expected from General Coppinger until the final report was received. . „ • -

EASTERN.

The British ship Capac reached Philadelphia Thursday night with seventeen of the crew of the British steamer Prince Oscar. The latter was in collision July 18 with an unknown ship. Both vessels aunk and ffirtydir™ —- The will of the Duchess of Castellucia, just filed in New York, contains this queer paragraph; “Having already given my husband, Edward L. Dwyer, at various times, money and other property, I hereby give to him the sum of $lO, and—no more.” She left an estate worth S3IS,000. —Early Friday morning fire started in the lumber piles of the Skillings, Whitney & Barnes Lumber Company at Ogdensburg, N. Y. At 6 o'clock the department from PreScott, Ont., arrived in response to an" appeal for assistance, but from.ten to twelve million feet of pine lumber was destroyed. It is valued at $501,000. Papers have been filed in the United States Circuit Court at Boston, Mass., by the Bell Telephone Company asking for an injunction against the National Telephone Manufacturing Company, of Boston, to prevent alleged infringement of the Berliner patents held by the plain--tiffs. A hearing has been set for Sept. 2. Judge O'Brien, of the Supreme Court, at New York, appointed Courtlandt CClark receiver of the Lockwood Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of build-, ers’ hardware at South Norwalk, Conn., in a salt brought by William P. Foss, for a dissolution of the corporation. The liabilities of the corporation amount to -$280;900. - A Washington dispatch says; The Philadelphia Lexow Committee has begun its work. Senator Quay- bus evidence 4nhis possession strong enough to send to the penitentiary fifty of the men who arp fighting him hardest in the Quaker City under the banner of reform The bulk of this evidence relates to frauds in connection with the construction of the new city building, which has already cost $20,000,000, and to the aqueduct and other contracts. It will show how contractors have been obliged for years to make out bills for double the amounts actually earned and pay oyer the stolen half to members of the ring now clamoring for reform. A telegram from Bailcy’s Island, Maine; announced Wednesday the sudden death of George Frederic Hoot, whose home, for many years had been at Hyde Park, 111., and who bad composed the music for more Ilian a score of the most popular songs that have ever been enshrined in the hearts of the American people. His death is a tremendous blow to the musical circles of the entire country, but it is the whole people who will mourn his loss .vs a national calamity. On the field of battle his war songs of “Just Before the Battle, Mother,” “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!” “Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!” and “Rally Round the Flag, Boys,” have nerved the weary feet of. marching thousands and turned victory into defeat in mauy a hot charge. t Three persons were killed and two seriously injured in Philadelphia Friday morning. A. wagon driven by William Hasson was struck by a Pennsylvania Railway locomotive on the outskirts of the city at a grade crossing. The vehicle was smashed and Hasson was instantly killed. Edward Miskell and John Hasson, a younger brother of William, were seriously injured internally. They were taken to a hospital*. where the pliysicans say their condition is critical. About ’Hie same time, in another section of the city, Martin Ervin, while crossing the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, was struck by a locomotive and instantly killed. Willie H. Stanley, G years old, was ground to pieces under the wheels of a fast-flying trolley ear near bis home in West Philadelphia.

WESTERN.

have thus far been recovered of the victims of last week's cloudburst near Adelaide, Colo. William Meila, aged 7, and Jesse Melia, aged 3, have been found guilty of. horsestealing at liockport, Ind. The ninth annual convention of the United Typothetae of America, an organization of employing printers, opened at the State Capitol in St. Paul with a large attendance. The Detroit Dry Dock Company has closed a contract with the Russian Government to build three car ferry boats for wtafer traffic on Lake Batkul, Siberia. Each boat is to cost SBOO,OOO. “Commodore” Inglis, owner of the mythical yacht Sunbeam, who was recently entertained by Chicago yachtsmen, is said to have served terms in Manitoba prisons for swindling and stealing. As a result of a drunken orgy at Joe Campbell’s roadside station at Turkey Creek, Ari.. Ernest Arnez, a mining man, lies dead; Joe Campbell, the station keeper, lies at the point of death, and Ed Fayne, a young cowboy, has a bullet in his right leg. Thomas Phelan, who at o~>e time was one of the leading attorneys pf Albuquerque, N. M., has been held to the grand jury on a charge of perjury. His arrest was made upon complaint of his brother, James Phelan, of Fargo. S. D., who alleges that he made oath that their father left no wilt, the oatlTßeiTig received before Thomas’ appointment as administrator of the estate. The three skeletons found west of Waukomis, O. T., three weeks ago, have proved to be the remains of two Fowler boys and their brotlier-in-lnw, who were killed by the Indians in 1873. The remains were identified by an ankle brace which was found near the remains. Relatives of the Fowlers are wealthy residents of Canton, Ohio, to- which place the remains will be taken for burial. Within the next few days Chicago time warrants drawn in anticipation of the tax levy of 1895 will be placed on the financial market in Chicago and in New York. The first issue will be for $500,000 and is expected to sell at par. If the result is satisfactory and in conformity with the financial policy of the adminstration warrants to the amount of more than $2,000,000 will be advertised from time to time and sold to the highest bidder. The officers of the Spanish men-of-wnr Sanchez Barcaiztequi and Maria Christnnin report at Havana that near the Colorado reefs they met a monstrous fish of great length. The Maria Christania collided with some unknown substance, injuring her bottom plates. After a thorough search they found the monster, which was followed by others of the same species, but smaller. The officers declare that the fish was almost the size of the bruiser. The report of L. W. Bryan, United

States mine inspector for the Indian Territory, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1895, has been received at the Interior Department. Mr. Bryan says that he. found a general disposition on the part of mine owners to comply with the law nndsaggestions as to the improvements wppi ifirnfiv required hv law have been as a rule adopted. The ventilation in nearly all the mines has been' increased and the air-courses have-all been well timbered and cleaned. Friday evening Thomas Barnes, a prominent and wealthy farmer near Muncie, Ind., retired enjoying his usual good health, and when he was £ wakened next morning he was totally blind. Numbers of physicians have examined him, but are unable to account for the sudden blindness.—Although an aged man, his eyes have never required the use of glasses when he was reading. The 'balls and pupils still retain their action and are natural, but everything remains dark to Barnes. Prominent opticians have examined his eyes and are puzzled. Following is the ticket nominated by the lowa Democratic convention at Marshalltown, Wednesday: Governor. .7..... .W. I. Babb, of Henry Lieutenant Governor . : 777777 777. .. . .8. L7”Bestow, of Lucas Superintendent of Public Instruction.. ........... L. B. Parshall, of Jackson Railway Commissioner G. L. Jenkins, of Dubuque Judge of the Supreme Court., T. G. Harper, of Des Moines The platform advocates license for the liquor trade, reform in State charities, and opposes silver. A boom in lake shipbuilding is on the cards for the faH and winter. pany closed a contract with a Cleveland syndicate for the construction of a stool schooner of the G,OOO-ton class. The new boat will be an exact duplicate cf>rhe twet stoelschooners which will be built at the Calumet shipyards for the Minnesota Steamship Company, the lake branch of the Great Minnesota Iron Company. The schooner will be 352 feet keeel, 365 feet over all, 44 feet beam and 2G feet depth of hold. Her cost will be about $175,000, and the new boat will be ready for business at the opening of navigation next spring. “There wjj| be no whalebaek nor straight-back, nor any other kind of Mr. Brown said, in speaking of the new boats, “but it will be a common everyday ship built on the old lines, after the models, with no newfangled ideas, except modern improvements in the way of towing engines, electric lights and that sort of thing. The channel construction will be followed, of course.”

SOUTHERN.

James Rodenbaugh was shot and killed at Versailles, Ky., and his’father, James Rodenbaugh, mortally wounded by W. M, Lane. The latter \yas drunk. Sidney F. Parker, a young , farmer of Scott County, Kentucky, celebrated his marriage by getting drunk and was sent to jail for ten days by the judge who performed the wedding .ceremony. Judge Howell E. Jackson, of the United States Supreme Court, died Thursday at "his hbnie near Nashville, Tenu. He was appointed in 1890 by President Harrison and had been in failing health for the past four y’Sdrs. W. A. Gilbert, a former employe of the rujaski Iron Company at. Eekrnan, W,_ Va., who was shot by Coke Boss Stroud, died from the effects. Owens, who was also shot by Stroud at the snmfe,t).nje,„wiil. not live, so the doctors say. Feeling among the miners is extremely bitter. Great excitement prevails at Scottsboro, Ala., over the arrest of Dr. May and a mining expert named Dunn on a charge of salting the gold mines on Santa Creek in Marshall County, Alabama, by which a number of citizens of Scottsboro and Chattanooga were induced to invest.

WASHINGTON.

Statistics received at the Indian Bureau show that gaged in farming, stock-raising and other civilized pursuits. During the year they raised over 1,373,000 bushels of corn, and other grain and vegetables in proportion. They own 200,000 head - of cattle and 1,284,000 sheep. About 22,000 Indians voted at the last election. It is estimated that 30,000 out of the total Indian population of 247,000 are church members. Out of the 247,000,189,000 are self-supporting and 35,000 pay taxes. There has been received at the navy department a sample of steel, three-fourths of an inch in thickness, which had been pierced by a rifle bullet of a caliber less than that of the present army rifle, or about The sample is interesting in that it shows the -torpedo-boats may be rendered useless by good shots from such rifles. The distance from which the steel sample was pierced was about two hundred feet. A torpedo-boat armor, her boiler and explosives, might easily be pierced at this distance, or before she could make her projectile dangerous to a ship. The bullet was of steel and pointed. It made a remarkably clean hole in the steel. Secretary Morton has issued a special order regulating the importation of sheep and lambs from Canada for immediate slaughter. These will be admitted into the United States hereafter when accompanied by certificates having the following new and more liberal provisions: “A certificate from the official'veterinary inspector of the port of export or district in which the animals were raised or fed, stating that no contagious disease affecting sheep has existed there during the last three months. An affidavit from the owner or importer that such animals are from the district covered by the certificate; that they were not elsewhere during a period of three months preceding shipment, atffi that when not driven they have been shipped direct to the port of import in clean or disinfected cars.” The Navy Department has determined to give */ie cruiser Atlanta a thorough overhauling next winter if Congress can lie induced to appropriate the necessary funds. It will cost about S3OO,(XX) to do this, but if the plans in contemplation are carried out the Sid Atlanta will be practically n new ship when she emerges from the hands of the workmen. She will be given new boilers, perhaps some of them of the tubular type, new triple expansion engines, and with twin screws instead of the single screw she now carries. The result will be to make the vessel a sixteen-knot ship where she is now capable of only thirteen, tminerense her horse-power from 3,000 to 5,000, and in addition to iucrease her cold capacity by at least 100 tons. The changes will not stop here, however, for the present bat-V tery will give way to rapid-fire guus of the

most modern type, making the Atlanta as good a fighting ship as any of her size in the navy, . .

FOREIGN.

-if- : ; The City of Melbourne Bank, Victoria, has failed. Its Uapßal stock was $5,00Q,Consul Doederlein, at Leipsic, reports that plows are 'operated by electricity mnch cheaper than by steam. Sixty lives are believed to have been lost by the sinking of the steamer Catterthun off New South Wales. Lord Rayleigh and Professor William Ramsey, of I»ndon, have been awarded the SIO,OOO Hodgkins prize by the Smithsonian Institution awards committee for the best treatises on discoveries in air. Two welhknown British ships, one bound from Melbourne for London, and the other from Newcastle, N. S. W., to Panama, are long overdue and insurance men have given up both for lost. The bark Florence sailed from Newcastle on Jan. 26 and has not been heard from since. The supposition is that she has foundered or gene ashore on the South American coast. The Stoiieleigh therefore is How out 159 days. Havana dispatch; Gen. Campos could only muster about six hundred men on arriving at Bayamo out of the 1,500 that he claimed to have had at the fight at Peralejos. General Garcia Navarro, who went from Santiago to Manzanillo with 1,500 men and joined General La Chambre, returned a few days later minus 500 men, Moss of them had died of disease, principally of dysentery and yellow fever. It in understood that Gen. Campos has cabled home advising the government to be prepared for important and unfavorable advices in the near future; General Salceda lias been ordered back to Spain on “sick leave.” But the real reason was his massacre of unarmed Cubans. Learning that sixteen young Cubans had left Santiago to join the revolution, he had them intercepted and summarily shot. It is well-known also that he executed Cuban prisoners. The Shanghai Mercury publishes a dispatch from FooMJbow saying that the position of the Europeans is critical, owing to the open hostility of the natives and native officials. IF is added that if an outbreak occhrs the native officials will b* unable to cope with the mob. FuKhien Province is said to be in a state of rebellion, and the American mission at in that province, has been burned. The Europeans and Americans have telegraphed for gunboats to protect the foreign settlement. In an interview with- some of the survivors of the KuCheng massacre they declare that the outrage was carried out in the most diabolical manner, and that it was evidently a premeditated and carefully arranged attack, entirely unpro\;pked, made upon the occupants-of the missionary station while they were asleep. The bodies of the victims were buried at .Foo-Chow.

IN GENERAL

The United Typothetae of America has elected E. R. Andrews, of Rochester, N. Y., president. The British steamship Brawnmor sails from San Francisco for Peru, calliug at Central American ports. o This is the first "actual opposition to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s Central American route since the New York courts enjoined the coast line vessels of the Panama Railroad Company. The rates charged will be 40 less than the Pacific Mail tariff. ' The following is the standing of the clubs in the National League; Per P. W. L. cent. Cleveland .... .‘. .94 57 37 .GOG Pittsburg .......90 54 3G .600 Baltimore 85 50 35 .588 Boston ....85 49 36 .570 Cincinnati 87 49 38 .563 Chicago 95 53 42 .55S Philadelphia 86 46 40 .535 New York 87 46 41 .529 Brooklyn 87 45 42 .517 Washington 81 28 53 .346 St. Louis 92 29 63 .315 Louisville S 7 22 65 .251 WESTERN LEAGUE. t The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: -■ Per P. W. L. cent. Indianapolis .....88 54 34 .614 St. Paul 89 52 37 .584 Kansas City 91 53 a 38 .582 Minneapolis 88 46 42 .523 Detroit ..' .92 47 _45 .511 Milwaukee .88 40 4$ .455 Terre Haute 91 34 57 .374 Grand v ßapids.. . .91 32 59 .352

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $0.25; hogs, shipping. grades, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.00: wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 68c; corn, No. 2,30 cto 40c; oats, No. 2,20 c to 21c; rye, No. 2,43 cto 44c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; potatoes, new, per barrel, SI.OO to $1.30; broom corn, common growth to tine brush, 4c to per lb. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, common to prime. $2.00 to $3.75: wheat, No. 2,64 cto 65c; corn, No. 1 white, 39c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $3.50 tp $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 69e; corn, No. 2 yellow, 36c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2,42 c to 44c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3 00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.5» to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 71c; corn, No. 2, mixed, 43c to ’44c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2,46 cto 48c. Detroit —Cuttle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 41c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, 45c to 47c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 41c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye. No. 2,50 cto 52c. Buffalo —Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to ss.so;'’ sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 1 hard, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 44c to 46c; oats, No. 2 white, 27e to 29c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 67c to 69c; corn, No. 3,40 cto 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; larley, No. 2,45 cto 47c: rye, No. 1,44 cto 46c; pork, mess, $9.00 to $9.50. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.00; sheep. $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2, 46c to 47c: oats, No, 2 white, 28c to 29c; butter, creamery, 19e to 21c; eggs, Western, 13c to 15c/

SMASHED HIS BONES.

CRUEL DEATH OF AN INSANE PATIENT. Encouraging Reports of Business— Goad Showing rs Fall River Mills— Wilmington Flooded with Spurious Coins—Taylor’s Light Sentence. Insane Asylum Horror. With his body racked and torn, his breast bone broken in two places, eight ribs fractured, three of them in two places, his skin black and blue, a gash 6n his forehead and the cavities of his chest and abdomen filled with blood from internal hemorrhages, George Pueik, or Buditick as he was entered on the books, died at the Dunning, 1111., insane asylum. Before reaching, there he had been a patient in the Alexian Brothers’ Hospital, was sent by the physicians there to the detention hospital for the insane, where he waa taken into court and committed to Dunning. All this time, covering a period of four duvfl. not & single plivsicißQ at any,'of the institutions discovered his condition. When he was dead an examination of his body was made, and then the fearful bruises and broken bones were seen. Attendants George Goff and Anderson, of the Dunning asylum, after repeated denials, admitted to Supt. Morgan that they had beaten Pueik in order to control him. They are alleged to have said that they did it to save their oWW lives, the patient first attacking them. President Healy, of the County Board, will call the attention of the Grand Jury to the charge. Business Still Booms. R, G. Dun & Co. ip their weekly review of trade say: Business continues unusually active for midsummer, and though there is perceptible relaxation there are no signs of reaction. The one change of great importance which the last week has brought is eminently helpful—the amicable settlement between coal miners and employers in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. -It is said that about 100,000 men will have their wages increased after Oct. 1 by this adjustment, and while the enlargement of purchasing power Js of consequence it seems even"more important that a chronic cause of controversy lias been removed by the new agreement as to company stores. There is no important change in crop prospects and at this time no news is eminently good news. Fall River Mills Prosper. The report of the Fall River, Mass., mill returns for the July quarter shows it has been prosperous. Thirty corporations representing $19,170,000 in capital paid regular dividends amounting to $358,475, an average of 1.87 per cent. The average for the April quarter was 1.72 per cent. The Border City mills paid nn extra dividend of 10 per cent., SIOO,OOO, and the Sagamore mills an extra dividend of 3 per cent., $72,000, from the surplus funds. The Anna wan Manufacturing Company, Bnrnaby Manufacturing Company, and Stevens 'Manufacturing Company passed their dividends. The Bourne mill paid dividends amounting to 4 per cent. The Troy paid 6 per cent., the Union 3 per cent., and ten corporations paid 2 per cent. each. Taylor Gets Two Tears. The statute on which it was thought Taylor, the defaulting South _ Dakota Treasurer, would be sentenced for twenty years, is found defective and two years will be the maximum. His bondsmen and himself turned over to the State Treasurer SIOO,OOO in checks and -drafts as agreed upon, and also a list of properties in which the defaulter held equities or owned prior to his skipping to South America. The value of the properties will be assessed by the State Board, and the amount agreed by them and the SIOO,OOO v.-ill be credited to the deficit. The bondsmen will make up the balance. Flood of Counterfeit Dollars. Wilmington, Del., is fairly flooded with counterfeit silver dollars. About ten days ago one Was presentetLat the Farmers’ Bank by a depositor and detected. Since then the banks have been on the lookout and dozens have been found and turned down. They were presented by innocent depositors, who hud accepted them in the course of business. The spurious coins are thicker than the genuine dollars, but ,„of lighter weight. The composition of which they are made is soft and can be readily cut with a knife. # Two Disastrous Vires. At Lockport, 111., the postoffice, opera house, newspaper, jail, school house, K. I*. Hall, and several residences were destroyed by lire Saturday. It was caused by a careless tinner upsetting his charcoal stove upon the roof of Mayor McDonald’s building. Joliet and Chicago sent aid, which saved the town. The total loss was $200,000; insurance light. Fire in the plant of the General Stamping Company at Newark, N. J., Sunday, caused a loss of $530,000. Insurance, $200,000.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Mrs. Mary Bourke, daughter of the late Thomas Corrigan, who at his death was the wealthiest man in Kansas City, has asked for a divorce from James O. Bourke, charging cruelty. Bourke is a lawyer of some note. A big Newfoundland dog belonging to W. A. Alexander, of Highland Park, 111., capsized a boat on the lake off that summer resort Friday night, drowning Mosher T. Greene, president of the Chicago Lumber Company, and Sorn Sorenson, eonehman. Two men were fatally hurt and two others dangerously injured by the caving in of the banks of a deep trench for underground telephone wires at St. Joseph, William and Andrew Thatcher, father and son, the latter 17 years of age, were arrested at Kansas City, Mo., for safe blowing. Thatcher, senior, is un old offender. Fremont Smith was hanged in San Quentin prison, California, for the murder of two fishing Companions. Admiral Ammen, who was stricken with vertigo Wednesday, is resting easily at his home at Ammeudalc, Md. C. C. Clark was appointed receiver of the Lockwood Manufacturing Company at South Norwalk, Conn. The liabilities are $280,000. John Buchanan, a mill-worker of Pittsburg, Pa., killed bimself, after fatally injuring his mother. His wife la missing, and it is feared he killed her.

TWO SHIPS GO DOWN.

AT LEAST TWENTY-SIX LIVES ARE LOST. British Vessel Prince Oscar Strikes Both Go to the Bottom—One Entire Crew and Six of Another Lett, Horror in Mid-Ocean, The British steamer Capac, from Val« paraLso, brought to Philadelphia Thursday night seventeen shipwrecked mariners and the news of a terrible disaster that occurred on July 13 a short distance south-of the equator. The mariners are the survivors of the crew of the British ship Prince Oscar, which waa sunk after collision with an unknown vessel, which also went down, but with all hands on JbonriL Six of the Prince Or- ’ car’s crew were drowned soon after they left the sinking ship by the capsizing of the small boat into which they scrambled. From the size of the unknown vesleast twenty men. The seventeen survivors were huddled into one small boar, with neither food nor water, but were fortunately picked up by the British ship Dharwar, from Melbourne, Australia, for London. Froni that ship they were transferred to the.steamer Capac and, without money or clothing, they were landed. Captain Clipperton, the English consul, will care for them until they can be sent to their homes. Midnight Disaster. The disaster occurred shortly after midnight in latitude 9:30 south, longitude 28:20 west. The Prince Oscar, which wasbound from Shields, which port she left May 27 for Iquique, laden with coal, was. going at a clipping gait on the port tack before a brisk wind and with all canvas set. It is estimated by the crew that she was making about six and a half knots an hour when suddenly there loomed up directly under her bows a font-masted vessel. The mate asserts that thq stranger had no lights burning, and aftershe was sighted it was impossible to alter the course of the Prince Oscar. The iron hull of the latter struck theunknown full amidships, knocking ter almost on her beam end and crashing; through the woodwork until her prow was more than half buried. The stranger went over almost on her beam ends asthe Prince Oscar backed away'from therebound. As the crew of the PrinceOscar stood peering through the darkness they saw the stranger partly right herself and then she rapidly began to sink. They listened in vain for some signs of life,, but not a cry for help nor a word of command came from the stricken vessel. Three Days of Hardship. Both boats hovered about the scene of the wreck until daylight came, when they headed they knew not where. Twentyfour hours later a heavy sea .struck tlfe boat comma-nded by the mate and capsized’it. The occupants, eight in number, were thrown into the sea, and the already overcrowded craft which Captain Henderson commanded put quickly to the rescue. They were successful in getting four of them aboard. The rest were drowned. There were now seventeen men in tjie small lifeboat, with nothing to eat, nothdrink ami barely room to stretch their weary limbs. The sun was broiling hot, and their hunger and thirst were almost unbearable. Toward evening of the" second day one of the crew discovered a small cask of fish oil stowed away in the boat. This was dealt out to the survivors In small doses, and they used it to moisten their parched lips and tongues.

SUPREME JUDGE DIES.

Justice Howell K. Jackson of Tennessee Passes Away. Howell Edmunds Jackson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died at his residence at West Meade, six miles west of Nashville, l’enn., at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon in the C4th year Q.f._Uis._agc, of eonsuinp- - tlon. Judge Jackson was appointed by President Harrison in 1890. He had been in failing health for the last four yenrs, but it has been only in the last eight or nine months that the progress of the disease began to cause his family and friends Uneasiness. Quite lately he seemed to improve slightly. He went to Washington

JUSTICE HOWELL E. JACKSON.

to sit in the second hearing of the income tax cases. He stood that trying trip only fairly well, and after hieaeturn home appeared to lose strength rapidly. Judge Jackson was twice married,, the first time to Miss Sophia Malloy, daughter of David 3. Malloy, a banker of Memphis, who died in 1873. To this union were born four children, ns follows t Henry, Mary, William 11., and Howell, Jackson. Henry Jackson is at present Soliciting Freight Agent of the Southern Railway, with headquarters at Atlanta, Ga.; W. H. Jackson is District Attorney of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad at Cincinnati; Howell E. Jackson is manager of the Jackson cotton mills at Jackson, Tenn. In ,1870’Judge Jackson married Yiss Mary E. Ilnrdiug, daughter of Gen. William G. Harding. Hans Hanson was sentenced in the Rolled States Court at San FraniUeo ,t» bn hanged Oct. 18 for the murder of Maurice Fitzgerald, mate of tine bark Hesperia. Hanson and Thomas St. Clair killed the mate as the first step in u mutiny. St. Clair will die the same day ag Ida companion in crime. Dr, Clifford J. Wright, a young physician of Covington, Ky., a member of oue of tine wealthiest Kerftm fcy families and prominent in society, died In convulsf.vu. The attending physician said the trouble«ras doe to the excessive use <y! cigarette*.