Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — Page 6

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

A GIANT MONOPOLY.

SYNDICATE BUYS ALL ELECTRIC STORAGE PATENTS. New Revolution in the Black Republic—Fresh and Horrid Ontrages by Turks in Armenia—Missouri Bchool Superintendent's Cowardly Attack. Storage Battery Trust. The storage battery patents of this country have passed into the control of a trust. The trust’s official name is the Electric Storage Battery Company. It is lets are in Philadelphia. AY. AV. Gibbs, of gas trust fame, is its president. The backbone of the trust is the AA 7 idener-Elkins-Yerkes combination. Hamilton Disston, the saw manufacturer, is heavily interested in the deal. This combination controls not only the patents of the United States, but has bought the American rights to the Tudor patents, probably the most valuable of the foreign inventions in this line. It is an open secret in the electrical world that great improvements are expected in the storage of electricity and its transportation and use. It Is suspected that these improvements are already in sight, and that the trust lias read the future more clearly than any one else. Armenian Villages Pillaged. Another terrible, massacre of Armenians is reported to have occurred in the Baiburt district, between Erzeroum and to the news received at Constantinople a mob of about ,600 Mussulmans, and Lazes, the great majority —of whom were armed with Martini-Henry rifles, made an attack upon, the Armenians.inhabiting several villages of that vacinity, and set fire to their houses and schools. As the Armenians fled in terror frotn their dwellings they were shot dovvu as they ran, and a number of riven hnd women who were captured by the rioters, it is added, were fastened to stakes and burned alive. The Armenian women who fell into the hands of the mob. it is also asserted, were brutally treated and mutilated. The surviving villagers applied for protection to the Governor of Baiburt, who, after hearing their complaint, sent three policemen to the scene of the massacre after, the slaughter was ended,—The Turkish officials, it is claimed, know the ringleaders of the outbreak, but apparently no steps have been taken to arrest them. The number of Armenians massacred at Erzingja<j is now-said to be several hundred. The Turks, if is stated, have also attacked thi Armenians in the district of Gumushdagh, near Trebizond, and haver slaughtered many of them.

Hippolyte Proclaims a State of Siege. Nev's has been received at New York of a .evolution in Hnyti. President Il.ippolyre, it is said, has retired to his palace in Port nu- Priu«vv>where hb is guarded' by the aruiy which lie brought down front the north with him when he overthrew Legitii&e. Commercial houses, in New York which do business in Hayti have been expecting this outbreak for several weeks. When dispatches came saying that Hippolyte had proclaimed a state of sgige in Port an Prince they were not unprepared. Their private dispatches were to the effect that several of the leading men of Port an Prince had been arrested, as well as many who had come in from the country to help swell the army of the revolution. Hippolyte proclaimed the state of seige on Wednesday, and immediately ordered out a certain number of his flrisoners to he shot. Though the old friends of Legitime arc concerned in the present movement it is said that Gen. Mnuigat is not at the head of it. The army of Hippolyte has been‘concentrated about his palace aud he intends to make his final fight.

Flogged a Beautiful 1 oung tV Oman. Prof. A. Iv. At kin son. S» peri 11 tendent of the public schools at Itiishvillcj Mo., was placed under arrest Monday on the charge of -brutally flogging Miss Angie Van Hoozier, a beautiful young woman. 20 years old. wlio has been a pupil of Atkinson’s. Certain rules of the school are alleged to have been violated by the girl and Atkinson, arming himself with a hickory stick, assaulted her in the school-room. She fled and he followed her through the halls and out doors, where he inflicted wounds which are considered dangerous. The pupil is under a physician’s, care. Ribot Ministry Steps Out. The l-rench cabinet resigned Monday as a result of a government defeat in the Chamber of Deputies during the deb«>e on the Southern railway scandal. President Faure has accepted the resignation of the ministry. The ministry which has just, resigned was formed on Jan. 2(5 by M. Ribot, after the, fall of the Diipuy ministry.

BREVITIES.

As the result of an agreement entered Into between American manufacturers of window-glass anil importers of the same product there will be an advance of 2% per cent, in prices. The importers have agreed to no longer handle the foreign product. The “Coochec-Cooc'liee” is under the ban in Georgia. The House of Representatives passed a bill making it unlawful to perform the dance In the State, The bill was introduced last year by Ed Jones, a society young man, who witnessed the dance a couple of years ago. Considerable sport was mnde of its author at the time, but the fact that the “Streets of Cairo" are now conducting t|ie business on the exposition grounds so shocked the members of the Legislature! l that their first action was to take up Mr. Jones’ bill and rush it through by an almost unanimous vote. A destructive fire raged in the oil regions south of Toledo, Ohio, but is under control. One estimate places the loss at $150,000. Cuban day at the Atlanta exposition has been postponed because of PresP dent Cleveland's objection to public expressions of sympathy for the insurgents •t this time. * V/-/ The population of lowa is 2,057,250. Patrick Callahan, of New York, known as “King” Callahan, jumped from the highest point of Poughkeepsie bridge, 212 feet, and was so badly injured that he died a few h#u« later 1

EASTERN.

A disastrous wreck occurred on the Pennsylvania Railroad At Newport, Pn.; Thursday morning. A disabled ear* on the east-bound freight track jumped the track just as mail train No. 7 -was at that point. ..The locomotive and tender of the mail train were hurled into the canal* and the postal and freight cars were piled up over the tracks. Eugineer Wilkill and Fireman Haines, of Harrisburg, were instantly killed, and eight or ten postal clerks were injured. Four mnilcars took fire and together with a large amount pf j mail matter were burned up. Passenger I trains are running by wav of the North- ‘ ern, Central and Sunbury and Lewiston divisions/" — The mail and baggage section of the southwestern express on the Pennsylvania Railroad struck a cow near Huntington, Pa., about 2 o’clock Thursday morning and was completely wrecked, Engineer Johnston and the fireman were crushod>to death, and it is reported that two mail clerks were also killed. The wreck caught tire and was consumed. Senator Thoiflas Henry Carter Wednesday issued this call for a meeting of the Republican National Committee on Dee. 10 in Washington: “Headquarters Republican National Committee, New York City.—The Republican National Committee is hereby called to meet at the Arlington Hotel. AVashington, D. C., at 2 p. m., Dee. 10, 1895, to designate a time and place for the meeting of the national convention in 1890, and to transact such other business as may demand consideration. “THOMAS H. CARTER, Chairman. “JOSEPH H. MANLEY, Secretary.” ' The option was-given to Chairman Carter to choose one of two dates, Dec. 3 or TO. At the urgent request of some of the committeemen who live in the extreme AA 7 est, and, to accommodate Joseph H. Manley, chairman of the Executive Committee, Mr. Carter decided on Dee, 10 as the date of the meeting. In either case it would mean an early convention, beginning about June 1, while it would be within the Interpretation - of the sixmonths rule to hold the' convention the Inst week in .May. aa Gen. James „S.~ Clarkson, AVilliam M. Hahn and Joseph 11. Manley desire. " • " .

In a rear-end collision at Hyde Park, eight miles from Boston, on the Providence division of the Consolidated Road, Thursday night, a brakeinan was killed, two passengers fatally injured and nineteoii others seriously hurt. The New London express, on time, running at , a speed of fifty miles an hour on a down grade, came in collision with tlif rear end of ‘the Dedham local passenger train, telescoping a combination and a passenger ear in which were about 100 persons. The rear brakeinan 1 was so badly crushed that he died iii an hour, and two passengers, one a woman, were dug out from the*burning debris and removed to the Massachusetts general hospital in a dying condition.' Among the passengers who were within four feet of death and who escaped from the wreck through car windows were J. Montgomery Sears, the wealthiest man in New England, whose holdings aggregate $70:000,000, and Congressman Elijah' A. Morse, of Canton. The property loss to the railroad company will exceed $50,000" and the accident loss through injuries will without doubt be close on $500,000. Music-Hall in Bnltimure—was packed - to the doors at the closing exercises of j the National W. C. T. U. convention j Wednesday night.’ Hundreds of women ! were unable to get inside. The meeting | was both pathetic and enthusiastic. The womanly character asserted itself in alternate tears and smiles. Handkerchiefs i were waved frantically one moment and 1 the next used to wipe away the tears. The inciting cause was an address by j Frances Willard favoring a resolution ad- ! mitting Catholic and Hebrew women (o. : active co-operation is W. C. T. U. work. , One of the delegates suggested it might ! not be quire consistent for the “Women’s Christian Temperance I’nion” to ask Hebrew's to affiliate. She laid special emphasis on the word “Christian.” Miss Willard with a good deal of feeling said: “They have extended the hand of sympathy to our organization and onr cause. We should invite them to eo-operate. I want to welcome them to us if they want to come.” A dozen or more delegates tried to kill the resolution with amendments. but they were all voted down, and M ss Willard skillfully prevented the convention getting into a religious discussion. Finally the convention enthusiastically adopted the resolution, and Miss Willard said she thanked 'God for this act of the convention, and that she considered it nn honor and a pleasure to extend the hand of fellowship to Catholic and Hebrew women. v

WESTERN.

Forty buildings, chiefly business houses, were burned at Madison, Minn. The loss is$150,000; about $45,000. Two brick buildings saved the rest of the town. » The properties of the Raven Tunnel and Mining Company, on Raven Hill, at Cripple Creek, Col,, one of which is the Raven mine, which has produced over $200,000, have been sold to/C,. G. Hathaway, Ebon Smith, and D. 11. Moffatt. The price is understood to be more thttn $40,000. The First National Bank of Wellington, Kan., closed its doors Tuesday morniug by-order of the directors. The bank has been doing business since 1883 with a capital stock of $50,000. A gradual shrinkage of business is responsible for the suspension. The deposits amount to about $31,00(1.* At Alexandria. Ind., a receiver was appointed for the Artificial Ice Company. A* Gothenburg. Neb., the State Bank closed; asset*!, ;$25,000; deposits, SB,OOO. At Cincinnntj George C. Miller & Sons, carriage makers. have arranged with their creditors. At AVinonn, Mina., lthenberger Bros., dealers! in dry goods, assigned. Assets, $27,00Cr, liabilities, $35,000. The city Jl St. Paul must pay §2.700 damages so» the death,of the two little Anna Krueger afid Alice M. Puffe, whdi w»re killed in a sand pit on the West Side last spring. Such wns the verdict of the jury returned. The sand and rocks caved in and completely covered and suffocated the two girls, who were playing in the excavations of the hillside. Two more Wiombert. of Seth Wyatt's Oklahoma band of desperadoes have un-\ swered for their deeds ot lawlessness. They arc Jim Umbra uud “Mexican John," two Mexicans who have been engaged in cattle\ stealing and other lawless enterprises. \ They were lynched by enraged cattleman, who hare suffered greatly at their hands. Tne two men had rtoleu fifty head belonging to B. F. Chapman, and his cowboys gave chape. They closed in oa the desperadoes fifteen miles from Cantonment and after a fusillade of

bullets the bandits surrender'd. Tie cowboys identified the cattle, and taking a rope pulled the two men up to the first tree.- A label wns aitached to their clothing warning other members of the band to quit this work or suffer the same pen - alty. - A bitter- disappointment-was-expert-enced by the 4,605 judges and clerks of election who registered voters all over Chicago and Cook County Tuesday. The last Legislature passed a bill purporting , to increase the pay of these officials fronu s3'to $5 a day. The bill was introduced by Representative McCarthy, and when thlf. news of its passage reached Chicago there was much rejoicing among the simall-fry politicians who act as judges and clerks. They rose up and called McCarthy blessed. But the law is invalid. The pay remains the same, $3, nnd Cook County thereby saves nearly SIO,OOO on one day’s work alone. The bill as amended the law of 1872 instead of th§r later law, enacted in 1885, and hence,Me measure is hot Avorth the paper"!®”which' it is enrolled to the judges an<j clerks whom it sought to benefit, or to anybody else. ' - * ,

SOUTHERN.

Jack Henderson, a farm laborer who attempted assault at A'inegnr Bend, Ala., was found hanging to a tree riddled with bullets. Captain Gaskill, his wife and the crew of the steamer City of St. Augustine,, which was burned at sea, arrived at Boston f)n the steamer City of Macon, having been picked up by the latter. Advices from Fort Bend, Texas, and other sections give gloomy accounts of this year’s crop of sugar cane. The freeze of last winter seriously damaged thje cane stubble, causing it to mature dry and hard. Land in Fort Bend County which last year produced twenty to thirty tonS of cane this year prodhcW only three to ten tons. The cutting will be finished in thirty days, whereas it ordinarily takes a hundred. One of the results of the great gathering of AA’estern men in Yickstanrg incidental to the waterways convention has been the -organization of the .Vicksburg" Natigpal Military Park Association, whose character is now in course of preparation itiidwliose ineorpocu tor s ureauch _ men as General Lee, General R. A. Alger, General John B. Gordon, cx-Governor Hoard, of AVisconsin; Colonel Fred D. Grant, and many others of equal prominence in civil fife or the great conflict between the States. The object of the organization is to foster the foundation of a national military-park there similar to those at Gettysburg and Ckieknumuga Park.

WASHINGTON.

Washington is planning to have a national exposition in 1900. General Thoipas Ewing fainted while making an argument before the Federal Supreme Court. —— _ The appropriation for the loss on the recoinage of worn and uncurrent silver coin for the current fiscal year is exhausted and the work will be stopped. The Secretary of the Treasury will not resume, for the present at least, the coinage of silver bullion purchased under the “Sherman act.” The New Orleans mint will be closed, but the Philadelphia and San. Francisco- mints will con tine to coin gold. The treasury flow’ holds of silver bullion purchased under the “Sherman act” 137,044,000 fine ounces. It is not thought that the coinnge of silver dollars will be resumed at the mint until there is some action by Congress on the currency question. The statistics of the mining regions, which will be included in the forthcoming report of the Department of" Internal Affairs, show the production of coal for 1894 in the anthracite and bituminous districts of Pennsylvania to have been 85,300,389 tons, a decrease of 5,295,072 tons from the production of 1893. The production of anthracite coal was 45,500,179 tons, as against 47,179,503 tons in 1893, a reduction of 1,073,384 tons. The bituminous production was 39,500.210 tons, as against 43,421,989 tons in 1893. a reduction of 3,021,179 tons. While the production shows this great falling off, the total number of employes in and about the mines hns increased. The number employed during 1894 was 226,872, against 219,821 in 1893, an increase of 7,051.

<T’be announcement that Rear Admiral fcifkland is to bo relieved of the command of the European squadron has caused a sensation in naval circles. For some time past it hns been rumored that Secretary Herbert was not pleased with the conduct of Admiral Kirkland. Dissatisfaction was first caused by the action of the admiral in sending a letter of eon; gratulation to' President Faure of France on his election. Secretary Herbert construed this as entirely wrong, holding that the official position of the admiral precluded him from making any comment whatever with reference to French politics, and sent a letter of reprimand. Admiral Kirkland responded by appealing to the President to overrule Secretary Herbert’s strictures on his conduct. He claimed in his own defense that he had known President Faure personally, and he had merely congratulated him iu a personal capacity and not ns an officer of the United States navy. It is not known what action the President took, but the detachment of the admiral indicates that the secretary was sustained by Mr. Cleveland. Admiral Kirkland next came into public notice through a newspaper interview in which he made somewhat insulting comments on the character of American missionaries in Syria, whither he had bees sent to give them protection during the Armenian troubles. .

FOREIGN.

Joe Aronson, a brother of Rudolph Arortson, the’well-known operatic* manager of New York, was found dcud at the foot of the stairs of the lodgings which he occupied In Warwick street, London. His neck was broken and it is supposed that he fell downstairs while suffering from an affection of the heart. Fierce disturbances, accompanied by ?ci/gus bloodshed, arc reported to have taken place at Erxingjau. Sijtty Armenians are said to have been killed. The Turkish Government has sent a circular note to the representatives of the powers and to its representatieva abroad announcing that the outbreak was provoked by the Armenians. Madrid dispatches via Havana allege that President Cleveland had promised the Spanish minister to veto any action by Congress favorable to the Cubans. A Washington dispatch says: It can be stated positively that no such promise has liecii made, and that such a promise would be so irregular and unprecedented as to be beyond the range of probabilities. William BlaUdeli, a capitalist and pro- (

motor of Honoluljr, has been In Ohio, engaged Ml Interesting Cleveland capitalists in a Joqjfschemer to obtain control of the best#iypr-can{!(> producing land in the A number of wealthy gentljpijfin haw taken hold of the projeetjand aMmpyfy will be formed at once afld at S3JK)O,OOO. The land of 15,000,000 aoVesjfflcaMp fifteen miles fromHonolulu/' ilej/ggi&wt a «.# sperate battle in the San Juan CjbfiVSe-grof.'ing valley, bitween Holguin a/udPßura|ugim.- were confirmed by dispatjl-Ips revived by the (Aiban junta at New York#? The forces engaged were led by xlenerffl Antonio Maceol with 3,(XXL Cubans. agjn General Echaguei with 1,800 Span*aTfi e greater portion of the CuMuft# were nut actually engaged,' ae-? e«rt|pg to the report, but continued the s|rance toward the west after the battle. Only 500 cavalry defended the rear St the Cuban army and kept the Spaniards from advancing About 000 of the Spau-

ish troop were killed. / : e_ A special dispatch received aft’rtfwondon from Constantinople says that a plot has been discovered among the officials of the Sultan's palace. In consequence, it ds added, numerous arests have been made, and the residences of the ministers are now guarded by troops. Vienna advices from ConstantinopjeTiay that the liberal movement among met Turks is spreading. Seditious placards have been discovered posted in different parts of the city and the disappearance is reported of several softas and other notablitios. The government is making military preparations in anticipation of trouble. It has been learned that the representatives of the Spanish Government in this country have discovered what is said to be a new plan on the part of the sympathizers with the Cuban insurgents to ship ammunition from the United States to thoir compatriots in-Cuba. The Spanish Government’s representatives heard of the scheme some time ago and employed a detective agency to investigate it. The friends of the insurgents, according to the story, have sent large consignments of toys to Havana. These toys consist mostly of large and unusually heavy dolls. Their weight is for by the detectives by the assertion that each doll contained a dozen rifle Cartridges. »'

"Yv. T. Stead had a long' article Tucs day afternoon hi "the Westminster Gazette on “Monroeism,” during the course of which he says: “Englishmen "would do well not te belittle the» significance of the ebullition of Aiherican sentiment on the question of the Venezuelan frontier. It must be taken with the usual discount and is no doubt due to the system by which foreign affairs are discussed by bawling journalists rather than by suave diplomats; but it is serious nevertheless. Its gravity consists in two facts, neither of which have anything to do with the merits of the question in dispute. In the first Jlace, for the first time since the civil war, the Americans have built a navy of which they have some reason to he proud and wliibh sooner or later thoy will use against somebody. In the second place, it is equally significant that the American press assures the United States that the Monroe doctrine has been informally adopted as a national faith by the American people and the dispatch sent to the New York World (referring to the reported Bayard-Salisbury interview) probably lias a basis of truth.” The dispatch from Shanghai announcing the departure of a fleet of nineteen Russian warships from Yladivostock for Chemlupo and Fusan, Corea and the dispatch from Hqng Kong, announcing that Russia has obtained the right to anchor he-r fleet at Port Arthur and construct railroads on the Liao-Tuug Peninsula, have caused intense excitement in official circles in London as well as in those having commercial relations with the far -East. These most important statements are looked upon generally as being a sudden reopening iu an unexpected quarter of the far Eastern question iu its widest sense. The Shanghai dispatch added that the Japanese fleet in Formosa waters had been recalled, that several British warships had been ordered to Corea and that preparations for a struggle were visible on all sides. The Hong Kong cable message caused the Loudon Times t.o remark, editorially: “Russia can not possibly imagine that the great powers will view with indifference such a destruction of the balance of power, which is.almost unparalleled in its audacity.” It is admitted here that the situation presented is so grave that should the news prove true, it would make war in which several nations will take part more than probable. It should be-added that there is every reason to believe that the story from Hong Kong is authentic and all sources-of information agree that the powers interested in the far East will find themselves confronted by n condition of seriousness which can not be overestimated.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, §3.75 to $0.50; hogs, shipping grades, §3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 59c to OOe; corn. No. 2,31 cto 33c; oats. No. 2, ISc to 19c; rye, No. 2,38 cto 39c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 16c to 18c; potatoes, per bushel, 18c to 25c; broom corn, common growth to choice green hurl, 2 1 / < t C to 4c per pound. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to prime, §2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,64 cto 66c; corn, No. 1 white, 30c to 32c; oats. No. 2 white, 21c to 22c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 64c; corn. No. 2 yellow’, 27c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2,36 c to 37c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $5-00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; w’heot, No. 2,65 cto 67c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 19c to 20c; rye, No. 2,40 cto 42c. \ Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 60c to 67c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white 22c to 24c; rye, 4Fc to 43c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 red. 6Tc to 69c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, Mb. 2,41 cto 43c. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to ,$5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 70e; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 38c; oats, No. 2 tvhite, 23c to 24c. , Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 58c to 59c; corn, No. 3,31 cto 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; barley, No. 2,40 cto 41c; rye. No. 1,40 cto 41c; pork, mess, SB.OO to’sß.so. V New York—Cattle, SB.OO to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to* $4.75; sheep, $2-00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2, 88c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 23: to 25c; batter, creamery, 16c to 24c; tfgit, Western, 18c to 21c. t ' * »■' 1

BIG SWAMP ON FIRE.

FLAMES SWEEP OVER THE KAN. KAKEE MARSH. ,* • a ' . Two of a Mob Shot Deaid—Exploding Tag Boiler Brings Death to Three- ' Georgia's Capitol Suffers by Fire— Shipwrecked Sailors Rescued. Swept by Flames. Kankakee marsh, the famous hunting grouml in i lilnois, was swept by a prairie. Jire Saturday, and trees, brush, and grass to the ground. The roaring blaze, headed so as to include towns and farmhouses in its destructive sweep, had its course changed by a fortunate shift in the direction of the wind. This gave the homes of the farmers on the border of the marsh a chance. This swamp fire is responsible for the Grand. Trunk disaster near South Bend on Saturday, in which eleven persons were injured:Tbecause oftlie^reckwasa weakened culvert, which was burned, but which owing to the dense smoke that swept across the tracks was obscured from the view of the engiheer. Crown Point, Hammond, and Kouts, Tnd~ were threatened by the tires. Kouts had the closest call, and was saved only by the extreme efforts of the citizens, who fought the flames until the wind aided them and changed the course of the flames. Blackened aiid weftry the men. who maintained for twenty-four hours the unequal tight against the fires, which were fanned by a wind,that at times blew almost the violence of a cyclone, retreated in dismay.

The Prussian Census. Prussia has just published the result of "the recent census. The entire population June, 14.1895, was 31,491,209, an increase of, 1,535,928, or 5 13-100 per cent, since December, 1890. The males increased 773,051 and the females 702,877. In Berlin the increase of females was two and one-half times that of men. One of the surprises of the new census was the small increase of Berlin's population, all the more startling owing to the unprecedented increase pf Berlin for the years between LB7o—ttnd 1800,- Jt was-tmly--36,288, or 2 2-10 per cent., for the l«*t four and a half years. The census shows a continuance of the movement towards cities from the country, in which Berlin had not its.usual share. Would-Be Lynchers Killed. A mob, composed chiefly of farmers, stormed the Seneca County jail ut Tiffin, Ohio, early Sunday morning in an effort to lynch Lee F. Martin, the murderer of Marshal Shultz. The Sheriff's jail force fired on the mpb, instantly killing two men. Several more men were- shot but not fatally wounded. Sunday was the day of Shultz’s funeral, and the sentiment against Martin broke out with redoubled fury. The mob was composed mostly of neighbors of the murdered marshal, and the marshal's brother acted as leader. Martin was a prominent Dunkard. and killed Shultz while resisting arrest for a trilling offense.* The militia was called out to guard the jail.

Three Men Are Dead. The explosion of the tug T. T. Morford nil •Clci iico River, resulted in :1m deutir of John Erickson, fireman; John Ferguson, captain, and Charles Dick, engineer. The Morford had in tow the grain steamer lonia. The tug is a total loss—slß,ooo. Destruction of the Morford deprives Chicago harbor and Lake Michigan tills winter of the protection afforded for the last eleven years to storm-tossed and wrecked vessels by that remarkable product of the shipbuilder’s art. On Lake Michigan there is no boat to take her place, either in the “bucking” of ice or iu the power to steam through ice to the rescue of a disabled vessel. Heavy Loss at Augusta, Gn. Augusta. Ga., was visited by the largest fire in years Fridny afternoon. The lumber mill of Jesse Thompson & Co., the largest in the South, was burned to the ground, with 2,000,000 feet of lumber in the yards. The loss to them is $75,000, one-third insured. The fire then spread for two blocks. Forty-two dwellings occupied by operatives were entirely consumed. Three hundred are homeless. The loss oil these buildings is $40,000, with little insurance. The entire fire department was called out, Blit owing to the distance from water and a gale from the south nothing could be done. The flames stopped when everything iu line was burned. Crew of Parthia Safe. The nineteen men of the burned American ship Parthia have reached Valparaiso, Chili. The Parthia, Capt. Carter, with a crew of nineteen, was bound from Liverpool, which port it left June 25. to San Francisco. It burned in the Pacific Ocean Oct. 1. The crew landed at Juan Fernandez Island, all safe. The ship belonged to Ilaughton Blips, .of Bath, Me., and was a double-decker of 2,371 tons, 250 feet in length and 44-foot beam. It was built four years ago.

NEWS NUGGETS.

At Philadelphia the transcontinental railroad of Russia has placed an order for locomotives to be delivered in December. At Tacoma, Wash., members of the G. A. R. refused to adopt resolutions in favor of admitting Confederates to National Soldiers' Homes. At London Sir Robert Peel has compromised with his creditors at 50 per cent. Mrs, Langtry, who, it was rumored about a month ago, was contemplating marriage with Sir Robert as soon as she obtained a divorce from her husband, was among the persona to whom he was indebted. He owes her'about £4,500. It is reported in the South the-Swedcs will establish a large eoiony in West Florida. President Lane of the Southern Cbtton Growers’ Association has just returned from a tour of the South, and says the cotton crop will be six and one-half million bales. He predicts January cotton will sell for 10 cents a hundred. At London the trial of Jaber. 8. Balfour was begun for alleged wrecking of the Liberator group of companies. At London a verdict was rendered that the Marquis of Waterford committed suicide while in a fit of temporary insanity. The the Wilke Star steamship line has obtained the American contract for carrying the mails for a decade through the Majestic of ita the St. Louis in placing the New York mails in London. It is stated that the rate of the contract ia to b# 16 shilling* per mile. [■* * . - 1

PVLSE of the PRESS

Shadi w. Cast Before. AVe will defy it, says Mr. Chamberlain. Let him proceed if he wants a col- > lision. This nation was never more ready for one.—New York Journal The partition of Africa has been accomplished, the partition'trf Asht is being figured out and it is time for Unde Sam to-keep a sharp lookout over nil America. —San Franeisch Call. Great Britain does not care to discuss the Monroe doctrine with reference to A 7 enezuela any more than to submit the boundary dispute to arbitration, and for precisely the same reason. She knows she is in the wrong, and that her iniquitous act is best to be accomplished, if at all, in silence and in darkness.—New York It is to be hoped that A’enezuela, backed by our Government, will demand the arbitration of England’s entjre claim, and will not allow it to be limited to recent encroachments. If our Government does not take this stand It will admit the right of any European power to dismember or take possession of any of our sister re/‘ publics in this hemisphere.—Atlanta Constitution. There is really but one course open to . Iho Government and that is to insist at the proper time—which seems to be-very near at hand—that Great Britain either submit its claim to A r enezuelan territory to arbitration or recognize the fact that if forcibly asserted tho force must be large enough to overcome not A’enezuola alone but thd United States as well.— Detroit Free Tress.

The United States is so fully committed to the Monroe doctrine that it cannot afford to give it up permanently. In the event that circumstances should compel “It to forego Its assertion" for the time be. ing, it would be in duty bound to return to the doctrine after it had placed itself -in a position-to maintain the theory in the — face of whatever opposition might he developed. To do otherwise would be to lose its prestige as a great power.—Denver Republican. if" our understanding' of the matter Ijs correct the United States Government has served notice on < treat Britain that the Monroe doctrine wijl for the future be asserted—and maintained—with promptitude arid vigor; that European encroachment on American soil will be forbidden; that the Corinto incident will not be repeated, and that the proposed - looting of Venezuela must be indefinitely postponed. The only question that need concern us, therefore, is that of England’s strict compliance with our program. AA r e are always glad to hear from England, of course, hut we can wait. She must keep hands off in Venezuela, that'is all. — AVashingtou Post.

Exit—Manly Art. The Corbett-Fitzsiuimoiis fight succumbed to public sentiment.—Pittsburg Gomnierci a l-'G a zet te. This episode niay bc 'salfftocnd prize fighting in America. No State will tolerate it.—M inneapolis Tribune. Prize fighters begin to think that the Governor with the marble heart is just about unanimous in this glorious country of ours.—Detroit Free Press. Speaking of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fiasco, does not the result look somewhat like immorality can be legislated against successfully?—Memphis Commercial-Ap-peal. Isis a victory over the lower passions of men, a triumph of conscience. For once the better element in human nature has scored a knockout.—Kansas City Journal. Corbett and Fitzsimmons have made costly nuisances of themselves. But if the curtain which drops on them is never to be raised again on prize fighting they will hnve been of some use in the world. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. But another fight was fought and won. It. was the fight between the United States of America and Corbett and Fitzsimmons, and foremen the United States came off victorious, it was a bigger battle than even these great names indicate. For it was a fight between civilization and barbarism. —St. Paul Pioneer-Press. The inability of the -Wealthy managers of the Florida Athletic Club to find a lawful battleground for the Corbett-Fitzsim-nious prize fight is proof positive that professional pugilism has received its death blow ip this country. Public sentiment 1b against these exhibitions, not alone because of their brutality, hut by reason of the thugs and rowdies which make up the greater part of the people who support them. No respectable community cares' to be invaded by such an elcfccut.—New York Hcruld.

John Sherman's Book. The tendency of John Sherman’s boos is to cause a toppling movement-on the part of certain monuments.—St. Louis G4obeDemocrat. The only moral that can lie drawn from the present book is the saddening picture it presents of the littleness of human greatness.—Kansas City Times. We fear John Sherman has failed to recollect aome of the most interesting events in his career. There is his terrific war on the Pnllman company, for instance. —Washington Tost. Senator Sherman is an able, wise, man and a statesman'of long and ripe experience, but he seems to have forgotten Job’s desire “that mine adversary had written a book.” i -Indinnnpolis Journal. The book is a kind bf history of the Republican party, of its periods of success, and of its failures, too. Sherman has tried to he frank, and once or twice he ia abusive of public men.—New York Journal Those who know Senator Sherman are well aware that he has n long memory for injuries received. He may apparently forgive what he conceives to be treachery to his interests, but he never forgets. That Indian trait in his composotion ip displayed in his book. —Cleveland l’laindealer. We have great respect and admiration for Senator Sherman; but, until proof to the contrary ia produced, we shall fear that he has made the mistake, in thia instance, of promulgating a charge whtetr rests on no firmer ground than suspicion bom of personal disappointment—Milwaukee Sentinel. <