Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN, GEO. E. MARSHALL. Publisher. 7 '■ I- ' ■—Y—RENSSELAER, - • - INDIANA.

MOURNFUL TRAGEDY.

FATHER, MOTHER, ANO FIVE CHILDREN PERISH. . Povertylmpels*77vn icXiri Man To- ’ Wholesale Murder of Hie Family and Then toSuicide—Mr-. Morse's Strong Armenian Reaolntion. jf Kills All Hia Family. ■Driven fiendishly insane by despon <BenCy, Peter Hougaard, a Dane, ofit'hi-■cago.-took the lives of his wife and five sunny-eyed liUle^4?hndnm Ji .aml_when.„he_ had completed his horrible work he.coolly ' laid down in' the noxious gas-saturated air of his home and breathed the deadly fumes that swept an entire family from the list of the living. The atrocity of the father's awful crime could not have been greater had he used a Woody weapon. Death came to the children and the patient, plodding mother while they slept fiundajr night in lire little cottage at 731 61st street, that been the Hougaard residence for some time. Hougaard disclosed his murderous resolve in a letter, but with the cunning of a maniac he tool: good precaution to render the warning void by entrusting it tn the United States Tnails for delivery. This letter, written - tn Danish to a countryman of the murderer, was received Monday morning, and the horrified friend read of ILmgaard's determination to kill his family and end his life. A mad run by the police patrol wagon with a dozen.officers was vain, us the fatal work was accomplished. Shut Out by Turkey. The Turkish legation at Washington gave out Monday afternoon the following official communication: “The imperial government will not permit any distributinn among his subjects, in his own territory, by any foreign society or individuals, however respectable satia- may be (as, for Instance, the Red Cross Society), ofmoney collected abroad. Such interference no independent government has ever allowed, especially when the collections are made on the strength of speeches delivered in pubic meetings by irreconcilable enemies of the Turkish race and religion, and on the; basis of false aeeusa. ♦ions that Turkey repudiates. Besides, the sublime porte is mindful of the true Interests of its subjects, and. distinguishing between the real state of things and the calumnies and wild exaggerations of interested or fanatical parties, will, as it has done heretofore, under its own legitimate control alleviate the wants of all Turkish subjects living in certain provinces irrespective of creed or race.”

Loss of the Janet Cowan. Several members of.the crew of the British ship Janet Cowan. which was wrecked off the coast of Vancouver Island. attributed Mhe loss of the ship to the" incompetency of Captain Thompson. The captain is said to have been drunk when the ship-Strack and went to the bottom. Seven of the crew, including the captain, lost their lives. CaptahuThonipson and two other<men died of hunger anil exffosure after landing on Vancouver Island. •Shipping men have grave fears for the safety of the British bark Lorton, which is now out over sixty days from MazatlAh, hfexteo. forFijrtland. < tro. The bark was due a month ago. mid her wheat charter expired Dec. 31. . JTndiepcndeuCc for Armenia. Dr. Morse, of Massachusetts, present cd a resolution ;n tin- Hiiiisj- i!f--lff.pre,-<utt-ntives to tile effect that "the Committee on Foreign Affairs consider the expediency of n-porting forthwith some expression by this Government in denunciation of the Turkish atrocities. an,d if they find ww, p.s nTintwn. aTO pToy efless toilet, that we invoke the co-operation of the allied powers to wipe the Turkish Govern; <netit off the face of the earth, an d seen re the fretslom attd ie.d- ;irnd<nee of Armenia." The resolutionwas referred.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Keene. Sntterlee & Co.. of Philadelphia, one of the largest exporting and itnporting firms of riieeity. failed. It is said the liabilities will exceed $500,000. A posse of seventy-five prominent Niag ara County, New York, farmers cornered in a farm house and shot to death George IL SYuith, an ex-eon viet. who had before. Williuni -P. Rend. the Chicago coal operator, has admitted that his stateihgnt regarding William Warner, secretary of _■ IT strict N’o.s> ofthc Pittsburg. l*n.. eoal miner's organization, was made on hearsay and Warner has withdrawn his suit for slander. »• Monday was an unlucky day in Wichita, Kan., for seekers after divorce. The district judge of the county made the remarkable record of hearing twenty-one divorce cases inside of four hours. He granted only two out of the entire buneh. He is a new judge, and as his action js regarded as\an established policy, the’ gvorco colonists from all quarter” are picking up their duds preparatory to an exodus <o Oklahoma. A Ixipdon dispatch says: It was learned Monday afternoon that the cabinet council of Saturday last considered the question of re-establishing diplomatic relations with Venezuela, but no definite conclusion was arrived at. The Westminster Gazette, 'touching upon the tnisunderstandjug between Great Britain and the United States, says it sees a distant break in the clouds, and hopes that a settlement satisfactory to Great Britain and the United Stairs will .be effected with .Venezuela di reef, and Intimate's that the Brazilian minister is closely identified with the latest proposed solution of this controversy. •> Prof. Kiehard L. Gamer, who is in Africa trying to demonstrate the Correctness cf his theory that monkeys talk to each other, has written to his son in Baltimore, -Mil, saying that Ju# nH*denhas beenaceomplished.’ His researches have been carried on under the auspices of the African Research Society of Chicago. i At Indianapolis, in the dry goods house of JL S. Ayers & Co.. Miss Ruth Gordon, a clerk, fired two ineffectual shots at Hgiff Purviance, a floor waikeg. Miss Uftrdon charged Purviance with ungentle,•fffnly conduct inward

EASTERNS

.1. ■ MartiJus Sievekihg, the young Dutch pianist, who wgs to hay«* made his NewYork debut about the midale of thia month, is missing and now nobody knows where to find him. „ ■ J'! ■v The liabilities of De Neufvill &-Co., brokers, Who recently failed at New York, are placed at $737,006. .The face value Of the assets .is $1,329,995, but the market quotations reduce them to $332,447. As New York, Judge Lacombe granted a mot io h to dismiss tUc suit brought by the Prescott and Arizona Central Railroad against the Atchison. Topeka and--taurta-Fe-Rail road for- $8,250,000 dam—ages. • ; Now it is reported tha|TV. K, Vaiiderbilt wilDfoitow IriKatjfe's example and marry. The ptospeidSwe bride is said to be M iss Amy-Bend. Thedatest rumor regarding 11m TD4hT<mFVah(leflMlt wedding is that it will take place';Jan. 28. In Lynn. Mass.. Mrs. Lamoire. aged 53 years, was burned’to death in her home, nnd Jier, daughlcrinJa w,- Amtie I.amoire. aged 28, was so terribly burned that she is lying at the point of death at the hospital. After the fire was put out the father and soinvere found in a closet connected with the house, naked and almost unconscious from intoxication. Both were considerably burned, but not dangerously so. The pedice say that a lump was upset during some kind of a fracas, and that the inmates of the house were too drunk to put out the fire. Watt Jones, alias Robert Montague, alias Stetson, alias Comstock, a wellknown bank thief, was arrested Monday in New York city. IVTITiam Pinkerton, pt' ■Chicago, says that Jones is not so desperate neri m i nal as some people make him out to be. "He would be more successful if he would leave drink alone, but it always downs him,” said the big detective. "The storyof his forcing a bank cashier in Denver, Cold;, to, sign and then cash a check for SIO,OOO is all bosh.” Jones stole SSOO in silver from John West in the West Hotel, Minneapolis, a few years ago, with “Kid" Harris for a helper. In August, 1879, Jones was with the “Jimmy” Carroll gang that robbed the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of Galesburg of $120,000. Carroll was captured by the sheriff, but»the gang waylaid the sheriff at East St. Lotiis, ami after giving him a terrible beating_rcsctied_ <2 a on Oct. ,2. 1891. was arrested with four other well-known bank sneaks for robbing a bank in St. Louis. He had escaped to Kansas City and was arrested theta. He has served seven years in the prison at Kingston, Ont., for a job done in St, Thomas, and he has also been* confined in St. Paul.

WESTERN.

Little Rock municipal authorities refuse to allow Col. Ingersoll to lecture in that city on Sunday. United Stales Senator Calvin S. Brice has been renominated by the Ohio Democratic legislative caucus. Judge Shiras, in the Federal Court at Omaha, has decided that the Flournoy coni pa ny's lea ses of l tid ian la nds are void. At Hennessey. O. T.. Mrs. Delose Nelson’s clothing took tire while she was washing, and before the flames could he -exttagiiisliefl-she-tt-as faially burttedr—Her husband in attempting to rescue her had his hands burned to a crisp. Great excitement prevails at Boulder. Colo., over the new gold fields situated between South Boulder creek find Magnolia. and there are rumors of riches beiug uneovered-by prwpeetors ill holes-not over five feet. deep. this? strike is alleged to'be worth SIOO,OOO, and an offer jofjthis amount is said to have been made and refusiai. Fight masked men. dynamited the safe Of the Eiiritters’ Bank.at .Ygyima, Mu., ami escaped with $9,000 in ’Cash, all it contained. The robbers are supposed to In 1 pyojessionals. They entered the city mu horseback, secured Night- Wttteh man - Hoover and bound him to a tree across the street. They’ then easily forced the front doors of the bank and in a. short, time literally ble vault atiiUssafe to nieces with dynamite. Tin bafH'r Francisco, will soon be ready for sea. The last of the armor plates for the turrits have been shipped from the Bethlehem works and, according to the contract, the vessel is to be completed within ninety, days after the receipt of the plates. Nearly, all that reniAins to be done is to complete one turret. The engines and other machinery have been tested and found to be perfect and the big battleship cam be maje ready for service in a few days. A terrible accident occurred on the Akron, Bedford and (.'leveland electric railroad. near Cleveland, Ohio. A'heaiy” motor car and a eoal car plunged through the trestto-owe Tisfeev’s creek, swrwKy--five feet into the ehagm beneath. Two

men were instantly killeil and-one seriously injured. \Vh«n about half way aergs/ the trestle the trainmen felt a swaying motion. moment th<> light steel structure collapsed, and the ears with their human l<»ad went with a crash to the cii.k bi’-iw. Tfie ears were eompletely wrecked. It is generally believed now tlqtt the cars jumped the track and that the jar caused the iron girders of the bridge to snap. There were no on the motor ear—only the crew of three men. The bridge that collapsed was a frail trestle structure and was built on an incline, one end being considerably higher than the other. The span across the creek was about one hundred and seventy-five feet long and the train was in the center when the structure opened up as though it were cardboard and allowed the train with its human freight to plunge to the ravine below. The statehood convention opened at Oklahoma City, O. T., Wednesday morning. more largely attended than any of its predecessors. An influential committee was appointed to open headquarters in Washington for the purpose of securing an enabling act during tbe present session of the Fifty-fourth Congress. The committee was instructed to use every possible effort tp that end, on the ground that unless action is taken at the. present session it tmjy be at least three years before the people of Oklahoma can enjoy the great boon of statehood. A* draft of the memorial to Congress, which was submitted to the convention, contains, among others, the following arguments:- “We •have a popnrlatinn 'of nesrriy thre» WtG" dred thousand people. We hare wealth sufficient to meet the necessary expenses of a State government We are an intelligent. industrious, progressive, patriotic people. We have better homes, a better ay stem of public schools and in many other respects are far in advance Of many of the States that write admitted into this Union more than a s'ore of years ago. We have reduced the fertile acres of Qk-

laboma from the state of nature to a high stat? of civilization. We have laid out and constructed, highways.We have builded cities and towns, school houses and churches. That we have accomplished all this in spite of the, wrong-doihgs and numberless privations which because of unfriendly legislation we have been forced to undergo proyes beyond question our capacity

WASHINGTON.

■ The pension bill reported to Congress carries an appropriation of $141,325,820. A bill has been introduced in the United States Seuqte to revive. ta«Lgri|de.<tLllmu tenant . general in the interest of Gen. Miles. An echo of the Associated Press- dispatches from Venezuela was heard in the House of Represeutafives Thursday. As soon as the journal had been read Mr. Livingston (Dym.) of Georgia sent to the cldrk’s desk and had read the following resolution: “Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, .Ahe . Senate- concurring, that the President of the United States is. hereby requested to forthwith ascertain whether Great Britain is advancing her outposts on the territory 7 in dispute between her colony of British Guiana and the republic of Venezuela, or is reinforcing posts heretofore established with troops, police or ordnance; and should the President‘‘become cognizant of the filet that British military or police force is advancing to Invade qrreinforce, or since the 17th of December last, has invaded or reinforced posts formerly occupied within said disputed territory, he. deinand the immediate withdrawal of ' said soldiers and- the reduction of the policeforcc in said territory to'nbt a greaY er number than were dccwpying the British outposts on the aforesaid 17th of December, 1895.” Mr. Livingston-asked for unanimous consent to make a brief explanation of the resolution, but Mr. Boutelle (Rep'») of Maine objected and. the resolution was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. The three territorial delegates—Messrs. Flynn ms Oklahoma, Murphy of Arizona ami Catron of New Mexico—are waging a vigorous campaign in Congress to secure favorable action upon their bills for the admission of the territories represented by them to statehood. Each delegate considers the achievement of statehood the chief mission of his congressional career and his energies are bent'upon securing it. They are anxious to have the bills before the territories committee reported to the House and disposed of in some way, and having made a canvass of the committee, believe that more than two-thirds of will veto for favorable reports. The bills for the' admission of Arizona and’New Mexico before this Congress are enabling acts modeled upon the act by which Utah was elevated to statehood, with certain modifications demanded by local conditions. Arizona's bill stipulates for immediate statehood on a constitution which has already been formed by the people, but there is doubt concerning the legal standing of the convention, Mr. Flynn's new Oklahoma bill differs from the former one in giving authority to Congress to attach any or all of the Indian territory to Oklahoma when the lands have been allotted and made subject to taxation. Ex-Gov. Murphy,.of. Arizona, who is now the territorial delegate. says he finds a strong sentiment for the abolition of the territorifri system, but there is much opposition to the admission of Arizona, New Mexico or Oklahoma, on the part, of Western members who object to increasing the free sHveri-strcngrh of the: Senate.

FOREIGN,

-■--London had an antr-German riot Monday night. Shops of German Jews in the Hast End were attacked and several German cloths were closed. ’ _ - It is reported that near Havana a pitched battle was fought, and that the insurgents v.h-fe routed by the bayonet, losing fifteen killed and 'many wounded. The troops suffered slight Josses-.- —- Jt_is said that_iiev.einsmce--t4ie days- rrt.England been so mightily' . extitvd.. The leading papers grow met-.■ belligerent in tone; the whole nation expresses. the greatest bitterness toward Germany for the Kaiser’s action in the Transvaal matter, and the latest apparently authentic report that France an 1 Russia will sustain the Emperor has but added fuel to the flames. The'war spied is high also in Germany. Press dispatches Saturday bore strangely contradictory news. One from London was to tlie effect that England was determined upon war: that the TransvJhl prisoners were to be held by the Boers as hostages; and that Parliament was to be summoned to declare war. Another from London asserts that the' Queen is in receipt of an autograph letter from the Gerwish nor intention to engage in war. Two earthquakes occurred in the Dis trict oLKhalkhal, Persia, the first Jan. 2. The large village of Janjabad was de"stfbyeff, several others were partially destroyed and 300 persons killed. The second occurred Jen. 5 and was felt over an area of 100 miles. The town of Goi was destroyed and a thousand houses were 'demolished. In addition great damage was done to many villages. The loss of life was very great. There were 800 killed in Goi alone, and large numbers of cattle and sheep also perished, . Berlin dispatch: At a special audience which Dr. W. J. Leyds, the Secretary of State of the Transvaal, had with Emperor William Tuesday his majesty declared that he would not recognize any claim of suzerainty over the Transvaal. Great Britain by the treaty of 1884 claims suzerainty over the Transvaal Republic. A semi-official denial was issued -of the statement from Cape Town, contained in a dispatch from the Times, of London, that Dr. W. J. Leyds, the Secretary of State for the Transvaal, with a secret fund at his disposal, had floated a German colonization company, with the intention Of introducing 5,000 German military settlers into the Transvaal. A special dispatch from Berlin says that Russia’s co-operation with Germany the Transvaal matter has been assured anil that France will aet with Russia. This, appart'iit.ly, tends to confirm the report of an anti-British alliance, and that the action of Emperor William toward the Boer republic was a thoroughly weighed step. The dispatch from Berlin to the ■that Germany desired only to protect German residents and Its consulate at Pretoria by dispatching an armed force from Delagoa Bay. and that np arrangement on the subject had previously been made with Portugal, tended to produce a better feeling. But this slight change for the better was counteracted by the receipt of a special dispatch from Pretoria, capital of the Transvaal, saying that the

Boers demanded the surrender of a 0 British rights and suzerainty dyer the Transvaal, and the pre-emption jot Delages Bay amt the cancelipg.of.lhe charter of the British South Africa Company. It Ja, farther stated that the Boers have arrested, on the charge of treason, eight leaders of the recent movement among the Uitlamlcrs at Johannesburg. <- . Dispatches received in Ixindon after midnight T ueß< i a y -from Berlin reiterate in terms which almost .compel belief that it is Germany's intention to declare the independence of the Transvaal republic. London morning papers credit the announcement, and (hey interpret that, it London journals were invited to meet Mr. Chamberlain Tuesday. The results of the inspiration received at these interviews are words that will send the country to arms as soon as they are read. The Gov - egnmeut aanqunces that several regiments from the First army corps will leave land at once for the' cape. A fleet has been ordered to Delagoa Bay, where German Cruisers are now lying. It is plainly intimated in the inspired editorials that England is prepared to deal both with the German emperor and with'any Dictator, plainly meaning Mr. Rhodes, who, may assert himself in British South Africa. These allusions strengthen the belief that a revolution has been attempted br is now existing in. Cape Colony under Rhodes’ leadership. The news of the surrender Of Johannesburg after being in the possession of the insurgents for three or four days is confirmed. The authority of the Boer government is fully re-established.

That the bitter anti-American utterances of the London Times and other newspapers of that city in connection with the’ Ven ezuehin, cbrnplication, which have been so lavishly cabled to this country, do not represent the real sentiments of the great-mass of the wage workers and toilers df the mother country is abundantly demonstrated by editorial utterances of the/weekly press in line with that element. ;In England, as in no other country, the ’wdijking class organs reflect rather than dictate the views and ideas of their constituencies, and hence their expressions of opinion may be accepted tfs those of the great army of wage workers into whose homes they enter. Reynolds’ Newspaper, the great radical organ, which goes every Saturday and Sunday into more than a million families, says: “We are bound to say that, in insisting on arbitration in this 'ease. President Cleveland is right; and ill objecting to It Lord Salisbury is wrong. It is not the question whether the Venezuelan government did or did not decline certain arbitrations gbout other territories in the past; ibis a question of what is right and politic now. We Should not refuse arbitration with Germany, or the United States itself. Why pounce on .this weak and helpless state and hold up, so to speak, a revolver at her throat? If numbers of Englishmen, as we are told, have settled on disputed territory, that is their affair, not ours. They went, with their eyes open, for gold, and it is not our business to every marauding Englishman who wants to line his poekets auQ bring his gold and his vulgarity with him to London. We sny again, let this matter be submitted to arbitration, and if the territory is really British it will be awarded to Great Britain. And we further say that heavy will be .the responsibility of the Brilish prime minister if he declines 10 arbitrate. England is unpopular enough, we might almost say detested enough, in most parts of the world as it is. We have n6t an ally in Europe, save bankrupt Italy, and our press still chooses to treat ■France.Jind Russia as hostile. If, while our hands are so full in the East, we - <lelißerately stir up animosity in the West also, we shall be encircled by an army of powerful foes and find ourselves Checkmated everywhere. Is this the object for which the British electors put Eord Salis bury, in power last July?”

IN GENERAL

A large unknown steaniMiip is ashore on the. Drumhead rocks, near Canso, N. S. Jennie Goldthwaite announces that she will leave the stage to marry F. M. MurTJiy, the Chicago broker. The British tank, steamer, with a crew’ o fthirty-fflon; ’which" s ailed fit > m Phi la ffelphia. on Dec, 11, with 1.173,626 gallons of oil, for Rouen, France, is believed to have blown up or foundered at sea. Obituary: At Louisville, Ky., Cripite Palmoui, the actor, 36. —At Bedford. Ind., Editor Frank R. Hitchcock, 49. —At ( M. D. Leggett.- 71. At Washington, Gen. AVilliam P. Lasello, 59. —At Quincy. 111,, Abram Beilton, 82.—At Janesville. Wis.. Abram W. Parker, 76. At Cincinnati, Mme. Sophie Hebr'gel. who followed the Ninth Ohio Ilegiment through the rebellion, S 3.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 57c to 58c; x-orn. No. 2,26 cto 27c; oats. No. 2, l£c to 18c; rye.. No. 2,_3Ge—to 37c; biitiSk choice creamery, 23c to 24c; eggs, fresnj 17e to 19c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c '.o 30c; broom corn, S2O to $45 per ton for poor to choice. A Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,64 cto 65c; corn. No. 1. white, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 20e to 22c. St. Lottis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00: wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 25c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2,35 c to 37c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,68 cto 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 20c; onfk. No. 2 mixed, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2,38 cto 40c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 65c to 67c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c;‘rye, 36c to 38c. Toledo—Wheat, No.. 2 red. 66c to 68c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 26c to 28c; oats. No. 2 white, 19c to 21c; rye, No. 2,37 cto 39c; clover seed. $4.15 to $4.25. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 57c to 58c; corn, No. 3,25 cto 27c; oats. No. 2 white, 19c to 20e; barley. No. 2,33 cto 35c; rye. No. 1,36 cto 38c; pork, mess, $9.25 to $9.75. Huffzlo^Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 73c; corn. No. .2 yellow, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.90 to $4.75; sheep. $2.00 to $4-00; wheat, Ao." 2 red, 67c to 68c; com. No. 2, 85c te 36c; oats. No. 2 white. 23c to 25c; butter, creamery, »7c to 26c; eggs, Western, ?lc to 25c.

BASIS FOR BIDDING.

WHAT THE NEW 4 PER CENTS. WILL YIELD. Net Rate Per Annum Calculate d from Two and One-Half to Four Per Cent. —Death of Nichols, a Magazine Writer, in Denver. What Will You Offer? The Secretary, of the Treasury Friday prepared and gave out for publication a table Showing the amount which should be bid for the new 4 per cent. biAds in order that the investor might realize any rate_qTlntgrest between 2~% per cent nnj 4 per cent, per annum. Following is the table: 2% per cent 130.8749 2% per cent. 124.9294 3 per cenft .119.3229 3 116 per cent. .7. ■ .117,9749 3% per cent . Z ,, „.. .... .116.6471. 3 3-16 per cent. ~. ~.. .115.3391 3% per cent,.........,. 7..... .114.0506 3 5-16 per cent. .112.7814 3% per cent 111.5310 3 7-16 per cent 110.2992 3% per cent. 109.0850, 3 9-16 .. ■■■■■,. .107.8900 3% per cent. 106.7121 3 11-16 per cent. 105.55 W 3% per cent .104.4082 3 13-16 per cent. 103.2816 3% per ceht. .102.1716 3 15-16 per cent. 101.0778 4 per cent. , , , WODOOO

Dead in His Bed.

Walter Clark Nichols, who arrived in Denver Thursday from New York City, was found dead in a. bed in his room at the St. James Hotel under circumstances which 'indicate foul play. Mr. Nichols was sent to Colorado for the express purpose of writing up the Cripple Creek gold country by the publishing house of Harper Brothers, New York, and was prepared for a long stay. He had long suffered from heart trouble, which threatened to result seriously, Mr. Nichols was supposed to have spent the evening af - tlie“l7niversity Club and returned to his room after midnight showing the effects of dissipation. Closer investigation develops that he missed his way to the club and wandered into the toughest district of the city, where he was drugged and nibbed. He is the son of the proprietor of the Times of Buffalo, N. Y.

Largre Failure at Columbus, Ohio.

A. C. Ady, dwelling house builder, at Columbus, Ohio; assigned Friday. ' Assets, $554,000; liabilities, $400,000. The assignee is Ben Monett. Ady has 160 or TiU pieces of property. He has been a builder of what were called cheap houses. The houses had all modern conveniences, but were put together with nails, looked well, had good tenants when not sold, and his career as a builder was looked upon as remarkable. People all over the city are living iu houses bought from Mr. Adj, and which have not been fully paid for. More local persons are interested in this -assignment than would have be'en in that of any <> 1 lier lirm <>r iullivi< 1 u:i lin the oily. The annual income of the property is $40,629: interest on. mortgage indebtedness, $19,982; valuation of jiroperty. $554,000; incumbrance on property, $279,000; floating debt, $121,515.

Real Battle Reported.

-A, , big Cuban battle is reported, with killed or wounded. Collazo is said to have stormed the’ city of Guira and Gomez came to his aid. Tire Spanish troops wore —tfrireft into —a —cathedral —after a fierce street tight, and the insurgents forced surrender on the threat of burning the structure. ■ _

BREVITIES.

Gov. Jones of Nevada is dying of cancer of the stomach. , Minnie Palmer, the actress, is to marty the Duke d’Estelle of Navarre on May 15. Gen. Ezetg. and his .filibustering expedition pgainst Salvador are reported to have been captured. At Richmond, Va., Jacob Hackett and T. K. Hackett assigned to-day. Liabilities $25,000 and SIO,OOO respectively. The New York Board of Health censusshows that there are 10,942 old maids in that city, and that there are 24,055 more women than men of marriageable age. The Spanish cabinet has refused to accept the resignation-of Captain General Campos, in command of the forces in Cuba, and has decided to send him large reinforcements. A high officer of the Government is authority for the statement that unless Turkey makes prompt reparation for the burning of American mission buildings at Harpoot the United States will collect the $40,000 indemnity by force, probably by seizing the Smyrna custom house. k Eight imtsked men dynamited the safe of the Farmers’ Bank at Verona. Mo.. Friday morning and escaped wi£h $9,000 in cash, all it contained... The robbers entered the city on horseback, secured Night Watchman Hoover, and bound him to a tree across the street. They then easily forced the front doors of the bank, and in a short time literally blew the vault and safe to pieces with dynamite. ’ The anti-English manifestations continue in Venezuela. At Valencia the Venezuelans divided themselves into two parties—one English invaders and the other the patriots- and began a sham-tight. Those on the Venezuela side became so excited they went at in earnest, with the result that several who were enacting the rule of Englishmen received severe stab wolmds; . The police had to be called in to stop it. At an adjourned meeting of the shareholders of the Bank du People at Montreal, Que., it was 'decided to go into voluntary liquidation; $490,000 bas to be met at once and $4,000,000 of deposits in two year's. The directors have given a guarantee of $2,000,000 for the $4,Q00,000 deposited, for which they drexpersonally re«i>ousible, v John J. Ramage, ex-Auditor of Delaware County, Ohio, was sandbagged by three men near Marysville. He was robbed, thrown on a railroad, track, aud. run over by a train. He will Ipse an arm and leg and may die. The Farmers and Merchants’ Bank of Platte Center, Neb., failed. The capital -stock of the bank whs shown by the last report to be $12,000. Howard A Haynie, of Duluth, Minn., owners of one of the largest retail dry goods houses at the bead of the lakes, made an asngsHent. (

DIDN’T GET WHAT SHE WANTED.

A Young Woman Who Undertook to 7T Squelch a Grocery Clerk. Two pretty young women entered a large uptown grocery one evening last week, From their conversation it was evident that they belonged to some boarding school in the neighborhood, and had stolen out for a few minutes to buy dainties, which they meant to smuggle to their rooms. ‘There’s.one thing I don’t llke-about the clerks in this store,’’ said one of them, while they waited for the salesman, “and that’s the way they insist on telling you that you don’t want what you do want and that you do want what you don’t want. Every time I come in here I have the same experience, and I’m just tired of It. The next time it happens I’m going to tell the clerk just what I think of him.” At that moment a’Cierk approached and asked the young women what they wanted. The one who had so much to complain about pointed at one of a row of cracker tins and said: “I w ant a pound of those.” “Oh, no, you don’t,” said the clerk suavely, “you want, one of these, or these here; they’re all very nice.” ' The young woman threw a glance which said, “What did I tell you?” at* her companion, and turning to the clerk said fiercely: “No, I don’t, anything of the kind, f w*ant these and no others.” “I beg your pardon,” he began, “I thought ” “Never mind what you thought,” said the young woman. “I guess I know w’hat I want Now, just let me hqve a pound of those, please,” and she turned to her companion with a look of triumph oh her face, which plainly meant, “Didn’t I squelch him (*£' ..“Very well, madam,” said the clerk humbly, “but may I ask whether they are for yourself?” ',‘Well, of all the impertinent questions ” began the young woman, when her companion interrupted, and, turning to the clerk, said; “Why do you ask?” “Oh, because they’re dog biscuit,” replied tjie clerk, indifferently. “Still, of course, if you want them you can havo them.” “Never mind,” faltered the young woman who had fnslsteit on having what she wanted. "I guess I don’t W’ant anything at all,” and she strutted out of the store looking very much ashamed and followed by her companion, w r ho was struggling to hide her laughter. The clerk didn't say -anything, but there was a satisfied smile on his face as he banged the cover (Town on the can of dog biscuit and walked away to wait on another customer.—New York Sun.

Cheaper Alcohol.

M. Molssan, the noted Freneh oUjoinb. Jan, expects to revolutionize the distillation of alcohol. He has discovered an inexpensive method of ohfainlngj alcohol from acetylene, which is the’ new gas that came to the front so prominently a few months ago as a probable substitute for ordinary illuminatinggas, owing to its chcaimess. M. Moissan pursues the same method of producing the acetylene gas by subjecting a quantity of coke and quicklime to the heat of an electric ’’’••.rnaco In order to effect a dii'ect union of their elements and produce calcium carbide, which decomposes when thrown in water into acetylene. Ammonia-chro-mous sulphate absorbs this gas, and by the aid of.heat transforms it into ethylene. The ethylene Is passed into hot sulphuric acid, and sulphovlnic acid Is obtained, which, by the addition of boiling water, produces the alcohol that thgn only demands reetiflcatlon. The costb{ best quality of alcohol produced by this method is stated to be from 5 to G cents per quart.

Childhood.

Tlte qualities that are the most attractive in childhood are not by any means the most valuable' in maturity. We look for determination, will, decision of character, firmness in the niau, and refuse IjJtp onr respect if IteQizwaUteiu not. But, when the child exhibitsthese qualities, even in their incipient stages, we are annoyed, and perhaps repulsed. ' Instead of rejoicing in his strength of will and guiding it into right channels, we lament, it as a greviouu fault in him and a misfortune to us. It is the meek and yielding child who cares not to decide anything for himself in whom wa delight, and whose feeble will we make still feebler by denying it all exercise. Yet, when he grows up and enters the world and yields to temptation, an l perhaps disgraces himse]| and his family, we look at him in ithbecile'wonder that so good a child should have turned out to be so bad a man, when, in truth, his course has been only the natural outcome of his past life and training.

The Pope’s Salary.

The Pope has no salary; his principal, source of income is the Peter’s'Pence, a collection taken up each year in every Roman Catholic Church. The amount received varies, but the Pope’s income is as a rule In the neighborhood of sl,500,000. Of this he retains about $106,000; the rest goes' to jhe cardinals, poor bishoprics, the administration of the church, diplomatic expenses) schools and the maintenance of the Vatican and Its dependencies. y

Pocahontas.

Pocahontas was married at Jamestown, Va., on April 5,1614, to Mr. John Rolfe. She went to London in Aprfl, 1616, reaching there June 12. On March 21, 1617, when 22 years old, she died In London of small-pox and was burled In the parish churctaffanl at Gravesend. She left one son. Thomas, from whom some of the “first** tamllle*. tra«« their deaden L 4