Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1895 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, • . * INDIANA.

BOATMEN IN BATTLE.

RIOT AT THE TONAWANDA, N. .' : y. t docks. ; Lake Captain Tried to Load His Yeneel Out of Turn—Train Robbers Get 85 Cents—Bad Wreck in BelginmBold Chicago Bandits. Capt. Phillips Killed. At Tonawanda, N. Y., one man was killed and another fatally wounded in a riot among boatmen. About one hundred and fifty men were involved in the riot, and several pistol shots were fired. Captain Phillips, owner of the boats. John Graft and May, was shot in the head as he stood upon his boat, and died Boon afterward. Phillips’ son was struck on the head with a club and knocked Insensible. His death is feared. Captain Phillips sought to load out of turn. The boatmen objected and gathered early at the dock to prevent him. A quarrel arose and soon shooting began. The Tonawanda boatmen say that Phillips began It. However that may be, Phillips was the first to fall. His son then cut the lines and the boat drifted down stream out of range of the pistols. Eleven arrests have been made. Turks Given Warning. The representatives of the six powers —have sent a collective note to the Turkish Government calling attention to the inadequate measures taken by the police authorities to maintain public tranquility in Constantinople and its suburbs, and demanding the prompt institution of a rigorous inquiry into the recent rioting and bloodshed, and wholesale imprisonment —of Armenians. In addition, -the powers demand the release of- all prisoners who are innocent of wrongdoing and the cessation of arrests. Said Pasha, the new Turkish minister for foreign affairs, has called at the different embassies in Constantinopleandhaspresenteiltotherep- « resentatives of the powers a communication from the Turkish Government repeating the assurance that a plan for reform In Armenia has been accepted by the porte. It is not believed, however, that this will satisfy the powers. There have been no further excesses, although a feeling of great disquiet still prevails, and fresh demonstrations upon the part of Armenians are feared. Many quarters of Stamboul have been placarded with notices inciting the populace against ‘‘the infidels.” Eighteen Are Dead. Dispatches received in Brussels from Wavre, where the collision between a crowded passenger train and an engine occurred, show that eighteen instead of ten persons were killed and that 100 persons, and not forty, were injured. Several of the wounded are so seriously injured that their lives are despaired of. There are no Americans among the dead or injured. The passenger train was just.passing the railroad station at Mousty when an engine coming from Ottiguies at full speed collided with it and telethree - -of gangs and medical assistance were promptly sent to the scene from all neighboring points and everything possible was done to succor the wounded, at least thirty of whom were in need of prompt anee. Bandits Hold Up a Train. The north-bound ’Frisco passenger train was robbed at Caston, I. T. Six men did the work. The express car was cut loose from the train and run up the track. The robbers failed to open the through safe, and got only 85 cents from the local safe. The passengers were not molested. The train was permitted to pull out after the bandits failed to open the big safe. It is thought to have been the work of the Christian brothers gang.

BREVITIES.

At City of Mexico some excitement has been created by a rumor that Protestant missionaries had conspired to blow up a church containing the miraculous image Virgin Guadaloupe with* dynamite bombs or to set fire to the structure. A section of the city fire department is at Guadaloupe near the church. The North Atlantic squadron will go to sea again in a few days from Chesapeake Bay to resume evolutions. It is probable that the entire squadron, reenforced by the Main and Texas, and perhaps the battleship.lndiana, will continue these evolutions on a larger scale in southern waters during the approaching winter. ** Four masked aud armed men held up a street car on the Evanston and Chicago electric line at 8:110 Monday night in true Western style. They succeeded in carrying off between S2OO and SBOO, besides several gold and silver watches. Of the twenty-three* persons aboard the car only three offered resistance, and one of these was shot aud the other two badly beaten. The date of Illinois and Chicago days at Atlanta was fixed for Nov. 11 and 12, and arrangements are now underway to make it the biggest double event of the exposition. Nov. 12 is also “Georgia day" and “Grady day," and everybody is looking forward to a tremendous “blowout.” The Governors of all the neighboring States, with their staffs and bodyguards of State troops, will attend. At Myrtle, a small town thirty miles east of Toronto on the Canadian Pacific Uailway, several masked men entered the station and ordered Agent Courtney to throw up his hands. Courtney showed fight and was knocked insensible with a coupling pin. The safe was then forced open and $2,500 of the Dominion Express Company’s fuuds and S4O belonging to the railway company taken. Courtney is seriously'injured. Three vessels, one French and two English, have been lost on the south coast of Newfoundland, aud five men Were drowned. In the Indianapolis National Bank case against Francis and Percival Coffin, for conspiracy, the jury returned a verdict that Francis Coffin was guilty as eburged, and tfiat Pcrdval was not gnilty. 'The United States has called upon the Siamese Government to settle what is known as the Cheek claim. Instructions have bean gent to Sir John Barrett, Minister resident at Bangkok, to request uu Immediate settlement of this claim.

EASTERN.

John Czech was executed fit - Jersey City, N. J., for the murder of his wife. At Rochester, N; Y., because of the tobacco war, cigarets dropped in price to twenty for 5 cents. Jacob Serkes lias been added to the gang of counterfeiters arrested in Philadelphia. Greenberg lias made a full confession. Fires at Philadelphia destroyed the gas - and electric fixture plant of Horn, Brannon. Forsythe & Co., and the brickyards of A. H. Dingee. The first-named firm list SIOO,OOO and the latter $85,000. A man about 35 years old, dressed like a laborer, registered at Sweeney’s Hotel, New York, as Hugh Molony, of Chicago, and in the toilet-room drank from a bottle of carbolic acid. He was taken to a hos*pital and died ill an~honrrr ; -■ ■=--- Surrogate Fitzgerald, of New York, in his report on the Jay Gould estate as a basis for levying the collateral inheritance tax, values the personal property at SBO,934,580, and the real estate at $2,000,000. The residuary estate amounts to $73,224,547. One of the largest fires-ever known in Southeastern New England broke out at 7 o’clock Thursday night in one of the mills of the Warren Manufacturing Company, situated-near thecenter of Warren, R. 1., and before it jeas got under control it had swept through three large cotton . mills, two warehouses, small sheds, freight cars and other property, causing a loss which is estimated at more than $1,000,000. . An immense assemblage of Pennsylvanians and New Jerseyites took part Tuesday in the exercises attending the dedication of the monument of Washington’s crossing. This monument is at Taylorsville, formerly known as Mclvoney’s Ferry, and marks the spot whore Washington and the patriot army crossed the Delaware River on a bleak December night and routed the British and Hessian troops at Trenton, N. .T. The exercises consisted of the singing of patriotic songs, and reading of a poem and of historical papers and an oration by General W’illiam S. Stryker, Adjutant General of New Jersey.

WESTERN.

Charles E. Brown, the first schoolmaster that ever taught in Chicago, died Tuesday. - - Margaret Mather, the actress, horsewhipped and beat .her husband, Col. Gustav Pabst, in full view of many pedestrians at Milwaukee Wednesday. Joseph Tiernan, of St. Louis, Mo., who died Sept. 1, has been discovered to have been short $33,000 in his accounts with the Security Building and Loan Association. Another case of a dual life has come to light by the death of D. A. Martin, a prominent grain dealer of Chicago and Milwaukee, who, it has developed, left a family in each city. At Cleveland, Ohio, Peter Crawford, 22 years old, has been asleep for the last eight months with the exception of a few hours. He fell from a wagon a year ago and received injuries to his spine. The North Nebraska Methodist conference, by unanimous vote, enacted the Hamilton amendment and declared in favor of the admission of women to the general conference on an equal footing with men. The National Woman's Protective As.-, sociation lias concluded its second annual convention in Denver. The sessions were secret, but it is understood the principal busiuess was the adoption of amendments to the constitution and by-laws. The mother of Maud Steidel, of St. Joseph, Mo., lias consented to her daughter’s marriage to Father Dominick Wagnqr, who confessed to abducting the girl. The priest has agreed to settle all Ins property, amounting to SIO,OOO, og the bride. William Henry, the Wabash engineer who fatally shot his wife at Springfield, 111., and eseai>ed, was found dead in a cornfield southeast of the city. He had cut the artery in his left wrist and shot himself through the left temple* and then through the heart. The Red Cloud, Neb., roller mill, elevator and warehouse, one of the largest plants in the State, were destroyed by fire. The loss will amount to $40,000, with $20,000 insurance ou building and machinery. The mill has been idle since the high water in June took part of the dam out, but the steam plant was used to generate electricity for the city lights, and the city will be in darkness for some time. About 3,000 bushels of wheat in the elevator also burned. Letters aud telegrams continue to pour into the telegraph* and postofliee at San Jose, Cal., addressed to Hip Sing Lee, the mythical Chinese merchant prince, in whose name an advertisement recently appeared in a San Francisco paper offering flattering inducements to any respectable white map who would marry his daughter, Moi Lee. There are at present nearly five hundred letters in the postofliee addressed to the mysterious Hip Siug Lee. all presumably in answer to the ad vertisement referred to. The Bank of Mouett and the Bank of Purdy, both Barry County, Mo., institutions, have been closed by Secretary of State Lesucur upon notification by the State bank examiner of their insolvent condition, and are in the hands of receivers. This makes thirteen banks closed by the Secretary of State since the execution of the new bank law began on .Inly 1, besides some half dozen others that anticipated the exnmiuation by making assignments. An unknown burglar wbo has rifled regularly homes in Ferubank, Delhi, and Home City, Ohio, every Saturday night for two months made a rather unusual “haul” Saturday night He entered a residence where two young women were sleeping alone. He stoO through the house, ransacking drawers, and found in a dresser a jewel case containing a fat roll of bills. The burglar left-scape valuable silverware lying in plain sight and fled. There was SBOO in the roll, but it was Confederate money. si'irst Lieutenant Samuel S. Pague,' .Company F, Fifteenth Infantry, tried to kill Col. Crofton Thursday afternoon at Fort Sheridan, Chicago. He shot at him three times. Two bullets pierced the Colour's overcoat, the other went into the ground. Pagoe was disarmed by hi's wife, Col. Crofton, and officers, and was placed in the guard house. By some Lieut. Pague's attack is attributed to alcoholic dementia. Others intimate there are personal differences between the two m<>n - „ .... ■ The Furmers and Merchants’ Bank of Creighton, Mo., has made an assignment. The statement filed shows assets to the

amount of $124,000 and liabilities of $60,000, mostly in real estate paper. The officers of the institution say that the suspension Is only temporary, and that the depositors will be paid in full. The cashier of the bank, D. B. Wallis, iS assignee. The State Bank of Hemingford, Neb., was taken charge of by the State Bank Examiner. No report of the institution’s condition is made, but the cashier asserts that the bank will reopen soon. Reports of Chicago public school principals of the enrollment of pupils for September gives gratifying evidence of the : substantial growth of Chicago and evidence not so gratifying of the inability of the Board of Education to provide suitable school accommodations for the large number of new pupils. The total enrollment is 183,749, an increase of 11,092 overt he enrollment for September, 1894. To accommodate the rapid and steady growth in school attendance about twenty new buildings are erected annually and .forty have been built since Jan. 1, 1894. But in spite of this activity the reports for the last month show that the schools are so crowded that although sittings are rentedin othcrbuildings for 11,606 pupils, there are 20,124 who are unable to get more than half a day’s schooling daily.

SOUTHERN.

The battleship Texas has been given a djrief trial trip since receiving its new machinery. The Texas Legislature, in just three hours Wednesday, passed a law to prohibit the Corbett-Fitzsintmons prize fight at Dallas, Oct. 31. The State Board of Liquidation at Baton Rouge, La., ordered the treasurer to purchase $200,000 of State bonds. It caused the bonds to reach par for the first time since the war. The famous still run by Tom Blair, who -was lynched -New Year's morning—at Mount Sterling, Ivy., was taken in the mountains by revenue officers after a search of five years. At Vernon, Ivy., the jury after forty hours’ deliberation gave Rev. W. G, Ciipps two years in the penitentiary for shooting his wife five times three months ago. She had applied for divorce on account of cruel treatment. James Cornell, a well-known prospector and rancher of San Mateo, N. M., was shot from ambush and killed by one of a small band of renagade Apache -u----“dians wEcTha.ve keen prowling about in -the mountains ht-that vicinitrr ......... b

WASHINGTON.

Gen. Nelson A. Miles has been appointed geneial in command of the army to succeed Gen. Schofield, retired. Gen. Ruger gets command of the department of the East. Rev. Dr. Itooker, the private secretary of Mgr. Satolli, has been appointed to the chair of ethics iu the department of philosophy at the Roman Catholic University at Washington. The monthly statement of the director of the mint shows coinage during the month of September as follows: Gold, $7,543,572; silver, $473,160; minor coins, $61,414; total coinage, $8,078,653. Secretary Olney positively refuses to say anything touching any correspondence he has had or intends to have rela* five to the settlement of the Venezuelan boundary dispute, so jt cannot be positively ascertained whether he has taken any steps recently to induce Great Britain to submit the matter to arbitration. It can be stated, ■fcjwewr, Chat sliwe Secretary. Gresham's death and up to a very recent date the department had not made a single move in that direction. But inasmuch as Congress by resolution directed the executive to use its best efforts to bring the dispute to arbitration, it is very probable that, having in mind the near approach of the assembling of Congress, Secretary Olney has been giving the subject the attention it demands and is formulating his views to be communicated to Ambassador Bayard upon the return of the latter from his vacation in Scotland. The Hon. S. W. Lamoreux, Commissioner of the General Land Office, has made his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior. The decline of the landoffice business, as noted in the last report, still continues. Compared with 1594 there has been a decrease in land entries 19,095 and of 6,016,685 acres entered upon; a decrease of final entries to the number of 6,584 and 356,059 acres entered upon, and a decrease of cash receipts of $734,370. The business of the office for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1895, was as follows: Cash sales, 417.87 S acres; homestead entries, 5,009,491 acres; State selections, 626,169 acres; railroad selections, 1,967,479 acres; swamp land patents, 244,774 acres; Indian allotments, 85,455 acres; Indian lands sold, 42,548 acres; total cash receipts, $2,033,454; patented or certified with the effect of patenting to railroad companies, 8,184,336 acres; surveys accepted by the land office, 11 10,123,653 acres.

FOREIGN.

It is announced that China has Accorded full satisfaction to France for the recent attack made upon the French missions in " China. Montevideo advices say General Estevan has started with a force of cavalry for the frontier. He goes to try to suppress a revolution which was started by the Blanco party, aided by men who had been engaged in the rebellion in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Le Forban, a new torpedo boat constructed at Havre for the French government, has just completed her official speed test at Cherbourg. During the trials she accomplished 3L32 knots an hour, which is the highest 1 achwd speed recorded for this classof vessel. Herbert BurrovpyoTXondon, has written a letter annouitcing/that he has left the Theosophists’ Stoefety owing to recent disclosures whVn have convinced him that deception in file society has been rampant for years by both Messrs. Olcott and Sinnett. He says he helieveß that Mine. Blavatsky was.partially fraudulent! The tramp steamer Sylvia from Messina and Palermo has just brought 26,1)00 boxes of lemons to New York. Owing to the entire failure of the Florida crop, together with short production in Sicily,' lemons had jumped to $10.25 a box and sl2-50 a case. A box holds from 130 to 100 lemons and a case just ns many, only the fruit in ihe latter is largtr and finer. The steamer Victoria from Malnga, Spain, is due with 22,000 boxeH of lemons. Prices will drop. The nominal rate is from $8 to $4 a box. Last year Florida supplied New York with 150,000 boxes, nnd the total consumption In the metropolis was 2,000,000 boxes, or about 140 lemons for every man, womnn and child. A spell of intense beat in England cul-

minated Tuesday in a sudden drop of 25 degrees in temperature. -This was followed by a heavy gale, which caused, much damage along the coasts. Two steamers were driven ashore on. the treacherous Goodwin Sands. At Ilfracombe, on the north coast o| Devonshire, six would-be life-savers were drowned while attempting to rescue the crew of the ketch Arabella, which was ashore in hi dangerous position. Several vessels are reported ashore on the Gore' Sands. Their - crews have been rescued by the lifeboatmen. Three fishing-smaeks bailing from Blackpool foundered, and in spite of the efforts which the lifeboat-men made to assist them five of the fishermen were drowned. Irving M. Scott, president of the Union iron works, is coming home on the China, which is due in San Francisco next week, but he is not bringing any contracts to build batleships' for the Japanese Government. On board the China is also Gen. \Villiams, one of the agents of the Cramps, who was in Japan for the same purpose as Mr. Scott and whose mission met with the same result. The Japanese Government has not let any contracts for additions to its navy to American or other foreign shipbuilders for the reason that until the imperial diet meets in November the Minister of Marine will not know just what money will be at his service. Even after appropriations are made it is doubtful if any contracts will be made with American shipbuilders, at least not for some time, the reason being that the people of the Mikado’s empire have become suddenly impressed with the idea that they can construct their own battleships and cruisers. This decision, of course, shuts out British and German shipbuilders as well from a slice of the Japanese maritime patronage. A slight earthquake shock Wednesday added to the reign of terror prevailing at Constantinople. This, with the* bloodshed and rioting, the imprisonment of about 500 Armenians, the killing of prisoners in eoid blood and the presence of troops under arms at all points, is well calculated to excite even the most phlegmatic Turk. The rioting and blood-letting which began on Monday was renewed on Tuesday evening, in spite of all the precautions taken by the authorities. On Tuesday the principal rioting was the work of the Softas, Mohammedan theological students, who chased and beat with bludgeons every Armenian they met. During Tuesday night a mob- of- Softas and Turks attacked the house of a leading Armenian, storming the building, threatening its destruction and killing several persons who were unable to escape. This mob also sacked a case frequented ,by Armenians, and twenty of these unfortunate people who were found there were beaten to death with bludgeons. To the disgrace of the authorities not a single policeman appeared on the scene and no attempt was made to save the lives of the Armenians,

IN GENERAL

Gov. Chapleau of Quebec has been offered a seat in the Dominion Cabinet. Mexico’s imports for the year ending June 30 were $61,200,792 silver, and exports, $99,854,953. Imports from the United States amounted to $30,000,000 silver value. «*-’ Obituary: At Leavenworth, Kan., ex- " United Stales Senator Robert Crozier. — At .New York, ex-Police Justice Solon B. Smith, 53. —At Hampton, Conn., Prof. Eli Whitney Blake, recently of Brown University < .JLt ••45a» < Rankin, a pioneer milioiiaire.—At South Bend, Ind., Michael Steel.—At Denver, Colo., Dr. Richard’F. Adams, formerly of Illinois, 83. The latest report from the Mariposa wreck shows her to be still holding together. The weather is calm and the salvors are busy taking put the cargo. Indignation is increasing in St. John’s over the charges of piracy made against Newfoundland fishermen in connection with the wreck. The Government will probably take prompt steps to secure a retraction of the falsehood. According to .a report to the State De.partment from United States Consul Bigelow at Rouen,, the world’s production of wool available for commerce was 1,012,000,000 kilograms, as against 1,002,000,000 in 1894. In France the product has steadily diminished from 32,151,430 kilograms in 1840 tq 20,275,716 in 1893. The quality of wool does not improve, and owing to the high price of meats sheep are being raised for that purpose instead of for wool. Horace Lee Washington, United States vice eonsul general at Cairo, calls attention to the opening in Egypt for American furniture. He says the demand is good and retail prices of simpler grades are double or triple those ruling in New York, while the duty is’but 8 per cent.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, edmmon to prime, $3.75 to $5.75* hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 59c tc 60c; corn, No. 2,30 cto 31c; oats, No. 2,18 c to 19c; rye, No. 2,41 cto 42c; butte.’, choice creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 15c to .10c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom corn, common growth to tine brush, 2%C to 4c per pound. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,62 cto 64c; corn, No. 1 white, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.50 to $4.50; wheat, .Xo. 2 red, 64c to 65c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 260 to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2,37 c to 38c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $5-25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,68 cto 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2,45 cto 47c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 64c to 65c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34e; oats, No, 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, 42c to 44c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 red, 65c to 66c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 34e; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2,43 cto 45c. Buffalo —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red. Otic to 67e; corn, No. 2 yellow, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 whito--25c tv» 26c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring; 57c to 59c; corn, 3,32 cto 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; barley, No. 2,42 cto 44c; rye, No. 1,41 cto 42c; pork, mess, $8.25 to $8.73. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs. $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 65c to 66c; corn. No. 2, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; butter, creamery, 22c to 24c; eggs, Weat* era, 17c to 19c. i . f

UNCLE SAM STEPS IN.

WILL PROSECUTE DISHONEST BANK CLERKS. Scrlona Accident at the Laying of a Corner 3tone Famous Norwegian Author Expires—Good Tone to Trade —British Bubble Collapses.-- = - Clerks in the Net. The United States Government, represented by United States District Attorney John C. Black and National Bank Examiner John C. MeKeon, Friday took Steps at. Chicago to teach defaulting bank employes a salutary lesson. Harry J. L. Martin, for four years teller of the Commercial National Bank, was arrested on a warrant sworn out by Mr. MeKeon, chargiug him with embezzling $4,100 Martin confessed to the bank examiner he was skort, And an examination proving the truth of his admission, Comptroller of thc Currency -Eckels ordered the La w Department to take the case in hand. Joseph 11. Wilson, paying teller of the Illinois National Bank, who, with Receiving Teller Benjamin Jones, stole $19,000 of that concern’s money, was dumfounded when placed under arrest, ns the guarantee company which was on his bond and personal friends had made good the amount he stole from the bank. But this is no palliation of his offense in the eyes of the Government, and he will be prosecuted just as vigorously as if he had notr returned one cent of the stolen money. The penalty is 'not less than five, nor more than ten, years’ Imprisonment. Country Fairly Prosperous. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade tjays that eommereial failures m the third quarter of 1895 were 2,792, with liabilities of s32,lo7,l79,Rveraging sll,521 per firm, against $10,028 last year, or about 15 per cent. more. The rate of failures for every 1,000 firms in business is lower than last year, and the proportion of defaulted liabilities to the solvent business represented by payments through clearing-houses Is hut 2.49 per 1,000, against 2.77 last year. The defaulted liabilities per firm in business average $2G.92, against $26.39 last year. The defaulted liabilities of the manufac-iwinwelncom-oraoo COQ onK CIO cxn xirg xittmMi t agaiitot 763- in the same quarter last year; in trading $8,577, against $6,443 last year,, and the banking failures, not included above, have been thirty-one, with average liabilities of $114,000, against $110,036 last year. In the third quarter, when failures are usually low, the average of liabilities in prosperous years falls below $10,000; the number below two in 1,000 firms; the defaulted liabilities below $2 per SI,OOO exchanges, and below $25 per firm in business. Thus the analysis indicates a condition approaching, but not yet reaching, one of general prosperity.

Floor a Death Trap. A temporary floor gave nay at the cere mony of laying the corner atone of five | new St. Mary’s Catholic Church at Lorain, Ohio, Sunday precipitating many men, women and children into the basement. Two were killed outright, nine were fatally injured, and between thirty and forty others were badly hurt. The services were just about to begin when the accident happened. Fully 3,000 persons were assembled on and around the across the foundation of the edifice. Fully 300 persons were thrown into the pit fo'rmed by the sagging in the middle of the floor. The old Catholic church and i parochial school were at once turned into j hospitals. A score of doctors’were called, ! and they were kept busy for hours caring j for the injured, several of whom will die. j The accident was due to defective timbers. The contractor was told the plat- | form was insecure, but he said it would i hold all the people that could be crowded upon it. Death of Hjalmar H. Boyesen. Prof. Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, of Coj lumbia College, the noted Norwegian au- : thor, died at New York Friday of rheuI matisrn of the heart after an illness of but two days. Prof. Boyesen was born in Norway in 1848. When he came to this country in 1869 he went to Chicago, where he became editor of the Scandinavian paper, Fremad. Five years after coming to America he published his first novel, “Gunnar,” which was an immediate success. In 1881 he was appointed instructor in German at Columbia College, and in 1883 he was appointed to the Gebhard professorship of Gorman and literature. The chair of Germanic lan-’ guages and literature was created for him in 1890. He established a reputation ns a lecturer as well as a novelist aud essayist, and among his friends numbered such men as Victor Hugo aud Tourguenoff. He leaves a widow ahd two children/ Break in Africans. While South African and other mining shares suffered a considerable decline Friday at London there was a sufficient rally before the r dose of the market to apparently shoijDthe) bull control of the situation. ATT theymarkets were demoralized, heavy sales fjpm Paris being the cause, as then* iafa desperate campaign going on there Wrreeze out the small fry. To this is aded.the pronounced opposition ,of the French Government, which is trying to stop the mad craze of the public to invest iu mines at a sacrifice <j| investments in rentes. The ultimate smash,, however, is considered inevitable.

NEWS NUGGETS.

At Charleston, W. Va., A. J. Scott was hanged for the murder of his wife. At Cole City,' Ga., Neal Smith, negro, was taken from the jail and shot for assault. . George W. Whitecotten, a well-known contractor of Anderson, Ind., after a search of eleven years, located Ills daughter at Indianapolis. She was a child when she was kidnaped. Now she is married and has a comfortable home. Tho father threatens heavy damage suits against various parties. He has spent $3,000 in hunting for his daughter. Captain G. A. Armes, who sent an insulting letter to General Schofield, is to be tried by cqun martial. Mrs. Mary Coffey, aged 104, the olderft immigrant ever landed, has arrived at New York fraui Ireland. - At Fleming, N. J. f King Pyatt, aged 80, the “original Jersey peach grower,” was burned to death with his residence. Mrs. Hires, a lodger, was injured. Every. liquor dealer in Manchester, N. H„ has beea fined for a second offense of violating the license laws. The penalty for the third offense is imprisonment - '

PREACHER TO PRISON

HINSHAW FOUND GUILTY OF MURDERtNG HIS WIFE. Jury Oat Only Two Hour* When It Brings in a Verdict Defendant Killed His Wife and Said a Burglar Did It. Sentenced for Life. Rev. William E. Hinshaw is guilty of the murder of his wife and will spend the remainder of hi» life in prison. Bach is the verdict of the Danville, Ind., jury after being out two hours aud twenty minutes. Jan. 10 last William E. Hinshaw was found on the road in front of his house in Belleville, Hendricks County, with seventeen razor Cuts on his person and two pistol wounds. He said robbers had entered the house and shot his wife. Ho had engaged in a deadly encounter with them and they had inflicted the before leaving. He directed those who found him to hunt his wife, and she was found unconscious with a bullet in her head. She lived sixteen hours, but never spoke. Hinshaw lay in bed for ten days and was then well. His story was believed at first, then suspicion began to grow that the burglar story was not reasonable. In the snow on the ground his tracks could be seen, but no tracks of a .burglar. His conduct was flippant and ho continuecLjo preach. He was popular with the women and it was common talk he was a very light-hearted widower. The grand jury Convened and he was indicted, arrested, and lay in jail since May. friends gathered around him and visited him- constantly in jail. Sept. 4 his trial commenced. The trial has covered four weeks, one week of which time was lost through the sickness of a juror. The trial has been most bitterly contested,' there being expert testimony of the highest order on the point of whether the woman could have walked and talked after receiving the fatal woundJn. the head. Both sides had expert testimony on this. The case was argued five days and onehalf most exhaustively aud the short time the jury was out showed that the-_ -jury dctcrmiiH'd eveTy point'as they went along. The verdict meets public approval. When the defendant refused to go on thestand in his rwn behalf there was nothing more needed to convince most peoplethat he was guilty, although a hanged jury was the most they expected out of the trial. Hinshaw’s attorneys will file an application for a new trial, which, if granted, will result in a change of venue, MILES GETS THE COMMAND. Formal Order IssnetU bj" Lamont Assigning That Duty. Secretary Lamont issued an order Wednesday afternoon detailing General Miles to duty in Washington ns general of the army, and General Rugt’r, now on special duty in Washington, to the command the department of the East, with headquarters in New York. Colonel Thoipas M. Vincent, who has been Lieutenant General Schofielcf s chief of staff, has been assigned to duty in the

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office of the adjutant general in charge of. the information bureau. Colonel Samuel Beck, who has been General Miles’ adjutant general at New York, is ordered to Washington to fill the place at headquarters vacated by Colonel Vincent. Lieutenant Colonel Ilenvy C. Corbin, who has been the ranking assistant adjutant at the department, is transferred to New York, to become adjutant general of the department of the East.

EXPOSITION IN FULL BLAST.

Atlanta Peop'e Ready to Care for All Wlio V.sit It. The Atlanta Exposition is now in full swing, the exhibits are in shape and the city has wide arrangements necdssary for the comfort of visitors. Reports to the committee on, public comfort show that at the hotels rates range from $1.50 to $5 a day on the American plan, nnd from 75 cents to $5-a day on the European plan. Many private Ileuses, however, are open to the public, and in the best parts of the city there are hundreds of rooms iff private houses to be had for 75 cents a day, some of these houses being located ors Peach Tree street, the fashionable thoroughfare of Atlanta. Railroad facilities are adequate and special rates are given to the exposition.

Seeks Death in the Lake.

J. P. Tillotson, a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, committed suicideWednesdfly afternoon by throwing himself into Lake Michigan at the foot of 22d street. Financial losses, the result of an unsuccessful speculation in wheat,, are said to be the cause of his self-de-struction. Policemen from the CottageGrove avenue station recovered the body within a short time and tried to restorelife, but were unable to do so. Mr. Tillotson was 45 years old and leaves a. widow’, to whom he was married only six months ago. Miss Elizabeth Houston Wickes, a society girl, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Chambers Wickes, and niece of Judge P. L, Wickes, of the Supreme bench of Baltimore city, will make her debut at the Academy of Music, Baltimore, with the Digby Bell Opera panyThe marriage of Gen. Justus MeKinstry, aged 81. wno was the iron provost: marshal of St Louis during the war, stvl' Miss Adelaide J. Dickinson, aged 3s. and wealthy, took,place at the Church of thq> Holy Communion in that city.