Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1896 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. . GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, INDIAN A.

THEY WILL NOT FUSE.

THREE TICKETS THIS YEAR IN KANSAS. ' i Democrat* and Populate Will Fly Separate Bonner* Awful Lou of Life In a Weloh Colliery Hip caion—Chaplain "Pray* for Armenia. . - j No Fniion in Kama*. There has b4n a good deal of newspaper tails lately about fusion between the Democrats and HopiiliSts in Kansas this year, with George W. Gliefc as the candidate for Governor. While such a' combination is possible, it is not probable, says a Topeka dispatch. Many of the Democratic leaders are opposed to any kind of a coalition with the Populists, claiming that it would result disastrously to their organization, as did the arrangement of 1892. The Populist leaders also ■re opposed to fusion. Those who are outspoken lor fusion are Democrats and Populists who prefer anything to Republicanism. This faction is greatly ill the minority, but it is growing. However, if is the opinion of conservative Democrats and Populists that there will Tiot be any fusion on State officers this year, and . that- there yvill be three straight - tickets lit the field as in 1894. Invokes Divine Aid.’ Rev. Dr. Milburn, the blind chaplain of the House, prayed eloquently for bleeding Armenia Monday. "Hear the ery of our agony.’.’ he prayed, “in behalf of the people of Armenia, despoiled. tortured, their homes in ashes, their,men and women and children slain at the edge of the sword, their women Arouse and unite the j»owers of Christendom, the cineen, the czar, the kaiser, kings and princes, their ministers and people, that the sultan shall be forced to sheathe his bloody sword and stay the frenzied rage of his fanatical soldiery and subjec ts.” Sublime Porte Will Pay, •Uncle Sam, has brought the sultan to time, and there is now little likelihood that any of the American cruisers will have war practice in the Levant, with Mohammedan towns as targets. During the Armenian debate Monday in -the House, Mr. Hitt of Illinois, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that the Turkish Government had admitted the justice of claims for indemnity In the Kharput and Marsh outrages, and would pay the’sums demanded by Secretary Olney. These sums amounted tv ■bout $200,000. Death in a Welsh Colliery. A terrible explosion Las taken place in ■ colliery ut Tylorstown, near Cardiff. Wales. The shafts were shattered and the whole town'was shaken by the tremendous concussion, causing a scene of wild excitement. Fifty-four tinners were below the surface wiien the explosion took place. Twelve bodies were recovered from the colliery and twelve men arc still missing. Rescue parties jvere hurried to the scene, but their work was vecy dangerous, owing to the fact that the pit is on fire.

NEWS NUGGETS.

1. Fry, of Andres. I nd.. who sued the Wabash Railroad fur STO.OOO, alleging improper treatment at the hands of the company's physician when he was sick, lost his suit. —' ~ Louis Magnus was found frozen to death in his room in Quincy, 111. 110 was ; recently divorced 'from his wife and lived alone. He leaves a farm and several pieces of improved city real estate. Sheriff E. A. Baxter, of Springfield, 111., went to Sedalin. Mo.. with a requisition for Frt-d Brown, charged with forgery by the Fanners* National Bank of Springfield. Baxter was prevented ; from taking his man to Illinois by a writ of habeas corpus. 1, The sontli-bound Southern I’acifie passenger train on the coast division ran into a washout Sunday night twenty miles south of San Francisco,‘deraHfhg the locomotive and four ears. Engineer John Keyer was killed and several passengers Injured, but none seriously. Ex-President George F. Mngoun. of lowa College, is very ill at liis home in Griunell, lowa, and is not expected to live. He was the first president of lowa College and served for twenty years. He is a member of the American board, and is well known in religious and college circles East and West. At Swanse, Blount County. Ala., Frank Jones, superintendent of the Swanse Coal Company mines, shot and fatally wounded his wife, a young woman. IS) years of age. Jones was insanely, jealous of his wife. He escaped, armed, and defied anyone to arrest him. Jones has heretofore stood high. A double murder was committed at lioonah, Alaska, on account of the failure of leh-Ka-Ish, a inedieiue man of the lloonah tribe, to cure a young Indian. The medicine man blamed a young Indian, who immediately shot the doctor. Then the doctor'n cousin shot the slayer of the doctor. A few blankets squared the deal. Louie Graneitta. an artist, was found dead in bed at Washington. He had turned on the gas before retiring and was asphyxiated. Despondency was the probable cause for the act. Graneitta had nn to Saturday worked on the new congressional library building as a decorator, and was said to l>e an expert in’ his profession. He had been employed in Chicago and California. lie had traveled the world over and had exercised his talent In the principal cities. The suicide was about forty years of age and a Swiss by birth. , / James Gillespie was run over by a Panhandle train at Kiwood, lud.. and instantly killed. Advice? from Alaska say that the steamer Rustler picked up thirteen starving men in a rowboat. The men were on the way from Seward City to Juneau, and had not had food or water for two days. They acted like wolves. H. M. Hoon. professor of the high school in Mitchell. S. D., was thrown from a buggy and killed. Mr*. S. O. G. Hopkins was thrown from £.?•*“buggy in a runaway in Marshall, Mo, and was killed.

EASTERN.

New York society has snubbed Mrs. Oliver!!. P. Belmont, formerly Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt. A musical in aid of a host pital has been declared off, the patronesses refusing to serve when they learned it was to be held at her house, An-explosion qf gas oceurted Tuesday in the factory of Frank P. Pflagar & Co., New Haven. Conn. One man was instantly killed by the explosion, two pthers lost their lives in the fierce fire which followed. The buildings and contents were destroyed, and a loss of SIOO,OOO was caused. William' Foster. Jr., of New York city, engaged in the business of mining and manufacturing, lias made an assignment to his son. The liabilities are expected to be about $400,000, and the assets are 'largely ill excess of that amount. The assignment is made in order to enable Mr. Foster, who is in ill health, to retire from business. s The steamer Seaguarauce, at New York, from Mexican port; and Havana, lauded four sailors from the wrecked Norwegian bark Borghild, which, while proceeding down the Mexican coast on Jail. 12, was knocked down by a norther and capsized. All hands were saved. Two seamen of the schooner O. W. Jones, which was wrecked on the bar at Santa Anna. While bound for New Orleans, also arrived on the Seagnaranoe. Gon. Thomas Ewing, ex-member of Congress from Ohio, died Tljetplay morning at New York, from the effects of injuries received by being struck by a cubic car. Gen. Ewing, who was a member of the law firm of Etying. Whitman A: Ewing, tff New York, was born in Lancaster, Ohio, in 1829. lie was admitted to tin* bar m CiuciuunU in 1850 and went to Kansas during the free soil struggles. When.the State of Kansas was admitted to tlni Union, he was appointed chief justice, but resigned to enter the Union, army in the civil war as Colonel of the Eleventh Regiment of Kansas. lie rose to the rank of brigadier general, and nfterward was breveted major genera! and' had command of 1 he - Department of the Missouri, lie went to Washington in .1800 as the assistant of ex-Seeretary of the Interior Browning, and returned to Ohio in 1870 and entered politics. He was a member of Congress from 1877 to 1881 and in-1879 rim for Governor on the Democratic ticket, but was defeated, 11l 1881 he went to New York to practice law, and for many years he was president of the Ohio Society there. Gen. Ewing had live children, all grown up. Mrs. Ewing is still living.

WESTERN.

Frank J. Cannon and Arthur Brown -have -been elected to the Utiitrd States" Senate by the Utah Legislature. Bertram E. Atwater, the Chicago artist and designer, was shot and killed byhigh WHyntenTrUa'St. Louis suburb. The Westliclie. Post, of St. Louis, the leading German Republican paper of the central west, carnq, out strong Wednesday morning in favor of McKinley for presidential nomination. Lord Sholto Douglas, son of the Marquis of Queensberry. found fault with the orchestra leader of Lady Douglas’ troupe at Orville, Cal., and as a result was thrashed by the musician. Charles M. Henderson,"senior, member of the large shoe firm of C. M. Henderson & Co,, one of the best known business men of Chicago, died Thursday morning at the age of U 2 years, of brain trouble. Children and grandchildren of James Rogers, of Pomona, Cal., have been amazed by the information that "he married on Sunday last Miss Ida Nelson at the home of the bride’s parents near Prescott, A. T. The groom-is 77 years old and the bride will be 15 next May. The mammoth gas pumping station of the Ohio and Indiana Pipe Line Company, located one mile south of ltedkoy, !nd„ exploded and caught fire Tuesday evening at 7 o’clock. The shock of the explosion caused buildings to shake uud sway as by an earthquake. Two men were killed and four injured. An explosion of chemicals in the laboratory of the Swanson Rhe'flniatic Cure Company, lit room 21!) of the old Stock Exchange Building at Chicago, caused a fire that wrecked all the offices on the second floor, frightened into pauic or hysterics the occupants of the building and resulted iu the severe injury of two persons. „ •*" The secretary of the Oakland, Cal., branch of the American Railway Union has received a letter from the private secretary of E. V. Debs in which the statement telegraphed from the East that Debs is to resign the presidency of the union is denied. He says Ih'bs will win the fight In which he ia now engaged o»i behalf of organized labor of die in the attempt. Mine. Modjeska, who was taken ill at Cincinnati Mtihfftry, is suffering from the same disease of which Lawrence Barrett died. The glands of the throat are badly swollen and the trouble extends down into the lungs and,’by sympathy, the physicians say, to the shoulders amt arms. What the nature of the disease is no one pretends to define precisely, but it is certain there is reason for alarm. The engine of the New York and St. Louis .express on the Little Miami Railroad exploded Wednesday morning forty miles from Columbus, Ohio, killing Clark A. Trimble, engineer, and George Waters, fireman, both of Columbus. No other persons were killed or injured. The t’-aqk was all torn up, requiring transfer of passengers temporarily at that poiut. All of the ears were wrecked except the sleepers. That not a pupil was injured in a blaze which started.. Thursday morning on the first floor of the Dodge Street school at Omaha, Neb.', 'Was due to Ossie Downs, a IG-yenr-old boy. Ossie is the head drummer in the tire drill. He handles the drum, to keep the children in marching order. As soon as the alarm was given he harried I down to the principal’s offll-e, got his drum 1 and, stationing himself near the doot\ ! pounded out the times while the children i marched out of the building. , , As the result of a tire iu the building at No. 415 Broadway, St. Louis, Mo., j Tuesday night live firemen were buried in : the rains. Owuey Hines, foreman of truck ! No. 0, who was taken from the burning : building soon after the fire started, badly suffocated and cut, died while being taken ! to Mercy Hospital iu an.ambulance. The dead are: MUton Curly, Capt. Glanville, Owner Hines, James Rlioddy, - Staunton. The total loss caused by fire and water is estimated at $200,060, fairly insured. Webster Grove, the St. Louis suburb, was wildly excited Over the tragedy, when Bertram A. Atwaleiy the young Chicago artist who had gone to vijit his betrothed, was waylaid by highwaymen. One of robbers,*John Schmidt, wounded

to death by the plucky Chicagoan, will Idle. The other thug, Sam Foster, a colored ex-convict, whofired the fatal shots, apd Peter Schmidt, who arranged the tt*np Into which Mr. Atwater was unsuspectingly lured and then slain, are In custody. At their examination they tried to escape, and only ‘determined action by ’ the officers prevented a mob from lynching them. ♦T did the deed. 1 killed George Wells and don’t want anyone else to suffer for the crime but myself,” said Henry C. Foster, as he stood upon the scaffold at the Cook County jail at Chica'go Friday noon. Three: minutes later the murder for which the young colored man had been tried ..wa* aventjeo. The "Black Bear” died with the exemplification of the nerve that he has so often declared he would . display u|>on the gallows.—Not-once didlic betray weakness durjnjg the ordeal which preceded the adjusting of the noose and the paraphernalia oK death. There was an absence of the bravado manner that the young inan'k varied life migbf have instilled'in him.

WASHINGTON.

The House Committee ott Public Lands has received from Secretary Smith a 'strong adverse report against the free homestead bill. The measure is a sweeping one and land office its passage would involve at least $30,000,000 of cost to the Government and $18,000,000 in Oklahoma alone. This is the amount paid to the Indians for the. relinquishment of their lands there. Washington dispatch: Col. 11. E. A. Crofton, commander of the* Fifteenth Regiment of Infantry at Fort Sheridan, 111., has neen mriforf In retire fnom the arm*. Secretary Lainont sent him a letter saying that on account of certain evidence revealed in the Pague court-martial trial the President would be pleased to grant his application for retirement. In six months more Crofton could have retired upon his own motion. Much anxiety is shown at the State Department over Clara Barton’s Red (’toss expedition to Armenia, in face of the orders from the sublime porte. Miss Barton has been denied special passports, and will be given no recognition by tlie representatives of the American Government in Constantinople. Secretary Oluey regards her mission under the circumstances as a grave mistake, which is likely .to embroil this country in further difficulty with the Turkish Government. If Miss .Barton is peacefully ejected the Secretary of State will not enter protest. If she is maltreated our Government will undoubtedly Interfere. While Secretary Olney approved of Miss Barton’s mission when at first proposed, and, in fact, suggested it, he does not approve of undertaking it iu face of the protests of the sultan.

Ex-Congressman Hatch, of Missouri; J. Ilcwes, of Maryland, and H. C. Adams, of AVisconsiti; have established in AA’ashington in behalf of the National Dairy Union, Which represents interests aggregating $0,000,000,900, for the purpose of procuring the passage by Congress of a bill to limit the effect of the commerce clause of the constitution with respect to the oleomargarine, and filled cheese, or what is known to tlie dairymen as the Hill-Apsley-Grout bill of the fifty-third Congress. Another bill aims at the regulation of the manufacture and sale„of filled cheese, while a third provides for the registering of State .trade marks. It is thought that all three measures can be successfully pushed through Congress at its present session, although strong opposition is anticipated from the manufacturers and wholesale venders of fraudulent dairy products.

FOREIGN

Rumors are current at Bilbao. Spain, of greatly increased activity in Uarlist circles; where it is hoped that the reverses which the Spanish forces have suffered In Cuba and the failure of Gen. Campus to put down the insurrection may nurse the Spanish people against the Government of the queen regent and afl i.al ;.n opportunity for Don Carlos, or Don J.-Ume, his sou. A dispatch from Ekaterinoslar. capital of the Government of that name iii South Russia, gives the details of a fire that occurred iu a theater there, causing large loss of life. The lire was discovered while a performance was going on. The spectators became panic stricken and made a wild rush for the exits. Forty-nine bodies have already been taken out. A number of persons who are known to have been hi the theater are still missing. Prince Henry of Buttcnberg, husband of Princess Beatrice of England, aho went to Ashantee in a special capacity aud who contracted fever there, is dcnJ. The news was received at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, early Wednesday. The queen and Princess Beatrice are prostrated with -I-rifL ~ The greatest' sorS&iF is manifested throughout the Isle of Wight at the death of Priuee Ilenry and the flags everywhere are at half-mast. A dispatch received from Osborne. Isle of Wight, says that the health of Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice is affected by the shock experienced when the nows of the death of Priuee Henry of Buttcnberg was made known to them. The remains of the priuee will he interred at Windsor and the ceremony to be followed will be similar to that used at the burial of the remains of the Duke of Albany. Queen Victoria’s youngest son, who died in T" \ The Paris Figaro says it -has Weeivcd private information that the Abyssinia ns captured Makalle, the Italian poSition, Sunday, l'revions'to this report, the latest news from Abyssinia was that King Mcuetik hail invested Makalle, and that Gen. Karatieri. the commander of the Italian forces, was at Krythrea and unable to succor Makalle, the three approaches to that place being almost impassable from natural-causes, besides being guarded by (>O,OOO Abyssininiis. A dispatch to the Loudon Pall Mall Gazette from Constantinople, dated Wednesday, says that an offensive ajnl defensive'alliance has beep concluded between Russia, and Turkey; The treaty was signed Jan. IS at Constantinople, nud the ratifications were exchanged at St. Petersburg between Aarej Paslm and the czar.. The basis of the treaty is declared to be on the lines of the Uukiar-Skelesaf agreement of 1853, by which Turkey premised, in the event of Russia goiug to war. to close the Dardanelles to .warships of Hi nations. The Pull Mall Gazette's correspondent adds that the treaty must soon be abandoned owing to the refusal of the powers to recognize it. He also says the French ambassador, M. oambou. conferred with the sultan yesterday, nml that it is probable France will be included in the new alliance. B. Argos, an Armenian resident of New Britain, Conn., is ji reeejpt of a letter

frbrn a friend in Armenia, In which fits tails are glven bf (the awful massacies perpetrated in the district' of Harpoot. The letter, which was secretly mailed and came via Persia, says that* between nine and ten thousand Armenians have been massacred, and upward of one hundred thousand are starving and destitute in the district.' Snow lies to the depth of several feet. Sojne-of the Armenians iiavi taken to eathig grain. Of-the 300 villages in Harpoot, five have been sacked and burned by Turks and Kurds. The rest arc* occupied by the butchering soldiers; There were twelve American missions in the iistfict, but eight of them have been burned. Toe lives of the Americans have been are in great want, and in some instances t they are starving. Cuban affairs came to the front in the Senate in a new- guise Tuesday when Sen-ator-Call read fp. telegram fromr Key West telling of the arrest of American citizens by the Spanish authorities. telegram is as follows: “Marquis RoiL, jriquez was taken from steamer Olivette last Wednesday. Louis Samallien. and son also taken at Havana. AH American citizens. Get them opt of grasp of Spanish authorities.” Senator Call offered .-. resolution reciting the arrests and directing the executive authorities to ascertain if any just cause for the arrests existed, and if not, to demand their ini: mediate,release. Senator Hoar suggested that the toue of. the resolution was too imperative. There seemedto be an idea, he said, that the Senate of the United States is a constantly loaded cannon, which can be touched off at any time by a Senator. The Senator urged an inquiry of tlie State Department before a demand. Owing to the energetic representations of United States Minister Terrell, -Miss Barton and her party will be permitted by the Turkish Government to distribute relief to the distressed Armenians, although the Red Cross will not figure in the work. This news came to the State Department Friday in a cablegram from the minister to Secretary Olney, in which he say* that while the porte refuses such permission to the Red Cross, or to the members of the Red Cross, as such,, and thereby declines to officially recognize that society, it will permit any person whom the minister names and approves to distribute relief in the interior of Turkey, provided . the Turkish authoxities are kept informed of what they are, doing. There can be no question that Miss Barton and her party will be so designated by Mr. Terrell. Bnt it is apprehended that they will encounter almost insurmountable obstacles in reaching the field of action, as the mountain passes between the seaboard and the Interior are. now practically impassable owing to the deep -snow.' — : —--•- ——---

IN GENERAL.

Mine. Modjeska is so seriously ill that all her engagements have been canceled. Mica Clara Barton and the staff officers of the Red Cross Society sailed Wednesday from Now York for Constantinople. The wife of Hon. George N. Carzon. who was formerly Miss Mary Letter, of Washington, was delivered of a daughter Monday. . - „ Jennie Goldthwaite, the “Kitty Glover” of the Princess Bonnie Opera Company, is engaged to marry Frank Murphy, the Chicago broker. Eugene A’. Debs says lie is going to retire from the A. U. U. and become a newspaper man, and that he will probably locate in Chicago. The China ships, Clarence S, Bennett, Captain Franck, and AA’illiam H. Connor, Captain Pendleton, crossed the New York bar together AVednesday night outwardbound. The John Currier, Cajitain Lawrence, and the Josephus, Captain Kilkey, left later for the same port—Shanghai. The ship that first reaches her destination wiil win a purse of S4OO, which the captains have made up. The ban placed by the Roman Catholic Church upon the' orders of Knights of Pythias, Sons of Temperance and Odd Fellows is absolute and admits of no further discussion. This is the mandate of the pope, through his official representative, Cardinal Satolli. The three’ orders named have a Roman Catholic member ship iu round numbers of nearly a hundred thousand.- One month ago a number of prominent Catholics connected with the Pythian order organized a committee of appeal in the hope that a proper presentation of the case before the papal delegate would result iu a recall of the interdict. In response to invitations the committee received a 1 thousand letters from prominent' Roman Catholics in all parts of the country heartily indorsing the movement and pledging moral and financial aid.

MARKET REPORTS.

* Uotwrsb—-Cattle, ‘ ffihJiiftra 'tc ' jjamt, ‘ $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, Ole to 02c; corn, N’o. 2,27 cto 28c; oats, No. 2,18 c to 19c; rye, Xo. 2,38 cto 39c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 20r; eggs, fresh, 15c to 17c; potatoes, per bushel, 18c to 25c; broom-corn, 2c to 4c per pound for poor to choice, Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.50; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.00; wheat, Xo. 2,05 cto 07c; corn, Xo. 1 white, 20c to 27c; oats, Xo. 2 white, 22c to 23c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, Xo. 2 red, 64c to (16c; corn. Xo. 2 yellow, 25c to 26c; oats, Xo. 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye, Xo. 2,34 c ■>«k3Cc. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs. $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, Xo. 2,69 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 29c; oats, Xo. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2,41 cto 43c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $4.7p; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50: sheep. $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, Xo. 2 red, 70c to 7Jc; corn, Xo. 2 yellow, 27c to 28c; oats, Xo. 2 white, 21c to 22c; rye. 38c to 39c. Toledo—Wheat, Xo. 2 red, G9e to 71c; corn, Xo. 2 yellow, 27c (o 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; rye, Xo, 2,38 ctj 39c; clover seed, $4.25 to $4.35.' Milwaukee—Wheat, Xo. 2 spring, '/to to 61c; corn, Xo. 2. 26c to 27c; oats. Xo. 2 white, 19c to 20c; barley, Xo. 2,33 cto 35c; fye, Ko. 1,39 cto 41c; pork, mess, $10.25 to $10.75. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs. $3.50 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, Xo. 2 red, 73c to 75c; corn, Xo. 2 yellow. 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 2,y. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.73: sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 72c to ’rlc; corn, No. 2, 36c to 37c; oats, Xo. 2 white, 24c to 25c; butter, creamery, 18c to' 21c; eggs, West* ern, 16c ito 18c.

OUTLOOK FOR TRADK.

COMMERCE S+ILL WAIT? UPON CONGRESS." Some Prices Rises Solely Because of Shcrt Supply Philadelphia Line Proposes to Resist Spanish Cruisers Steamer St. Pant on the Qeach. \' - ' Dun & Co.’S Review. Il.'G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Tra>le says-, ~Uhe week has boon marked by improvements apparent rather' than real, - Prices of some products have risen, but only because supplies are believed to be smaller than expected. The Senate still injures all business by doing nothing and the treasury cannot expect to gain in gqld. as yet, but loses less than was expected. It is generally assumed that '•the new loan will be placed without difficulty, though the successive payments may cause continued disturbance. A deluge of foreign reports favorable to wheat speculation found ready answer'iu an advance of over 5 cents here} in spite ’ of Western receipts 50 per cent, larger than last year.” to Kingdom Conic. The Hart Line steamers, plying between Philadelphia and Cuba and the West Indies, will in future be armed with cannon and Maxim guns. Capt. Ker, counsel for the owners, has notified the Collector of the Port that they will carry bow-chasers, and will blow tlie exotic Spaniards to kingdom come should they give any more trouble. The two vessels first on the list for equipment are the Ilorsa and Lauradu, both of which have gained no little notoriety from their alleged connection with filibustering expeditious to Cuba. Casts. Ker avers that both vessels will need arms for self-protection, the Laurada from the pirates which infest the coast of Africa, the Horsa from the Spaniards gunboats. The Spanish authorities in the city, will, it is said, exert every influence to prevent the Hart boats from leaving the port of Philadelphia with arms on board. Capt. Ker said: “I am told thaVthe Spanish authorities have said that if they catch ally Of the vessels of the Hart Line in Cuban waters they will make it hot for them,.this information may not lie true, but I have every reason to distrust the Spaniards. The verdict in the case of Capt. Hughes shows that our vessels have not done anything: wrong. We are not going to give up the AA’est Indies trade, and we know there are no United States war vessels to protect us. We have concluded to go into the protecting business ourselves and we will put guns on our boats and use them if necessary. There are lots of young men from our naval training vessels who would-be only too glad tb get positions where they could show their capacity, and there are no better gunners iu the world than they are.” Raced Into a Sand-Bar. It was during a spanking race to make New York port ahead of her fleet rival, the Gummier Campania, that the Ame*rican liner Bt. Paul ran her hose 100 feet into the white sands of Long Branch Friday at midnight. Stories differ about the Campania, it being declared and denied that she, too, ran aground, but was able to release herself. The .stranding of the St. Paul, it was learned when her passengers arrived in the city at 7 o’clock Saturday evening, occurred at the close of a seventeen-hour race, called off ou account of the heavy fog. This is vouched for hath by . tlupt ain \Valker of the- Campania and she, passengers of botli ships. AA T nlker came near going ashore himself off Hibbron, but was warned by the men of the life-saving crews and dropped anchor in time to save bis sliii>. It is possible the St. Paul cannot be floated ill time to save her. Rich Field in China. The Chinese Government has agreed to open the AA’est River provided China is allowed to retain the territory ceded under the Burmah-China convention in 1894. The cities of Canton and Hong Kong are situated on the lmy into which the West River empties. The news occasioned no small satisfaction in Hong Kong. The trade of the rich province of Cunnnj. had begiin to be diverted by the activity of the French iu Tonquiu from its natural channel down the river. Decide Against Kenefick. Tlie Cook County Commissioners lit Chicago ’canceled the contract with I’. Kenuefick & Co., who are charged with delivering short-weight coal to the county’s dependents, voted to withhold further payments to that firm and appointed it-eoi««wttw><w present the case to the Grand Jury.

BREVITIES.

Theodore Itunyon, United States am bassador to Germany. expired suddenly and unexpectedly at Berlin at 1 o’clock Monday morning of heart failure. At London Ambassador Bayard sent Queen Victoria a message from President Cleveland expressing sincere condolence with her Majesty on the death of Prince lieury of Batteuberg. The first assay of rock taken from (he. new Bonner District in San Diego County, California, assayed $167,250 to the ton, or $83,625 to (lie pound. The field closely resembles that of Cripple Creek. The American ship Roanoke, Captain Joseph Hamilton, which left New. York 217 days ago. has reached San ’Francisco after a season of disaster and delay. Three of her original crew were lost in the Atlantic and sixteen were left in the hospital al Rio Janeiro. lit was announced Thursday from Paris that by the terms of a treaty signed Jan. 18 the Island of Madagascar is declared a French possession. i The conference of silver leaders at Washington resulted in a decision to put,a national ticket in the field. The convention to make nominations will be held at St. Louis on July 22. The general merchandise and hardware store of J. Q. Burchfield Jr. and the residence of Murk Mcßee. at Howard, Kan., seventy-two miles south of Emporia, were totally destroyed by tire. The loss is SOO,000, insurance $40,000. Ex-President Harrison called at the White House about 3 o’clock Friday afternoon la pay .his. respects to President Cleveland, thus returning a similar call made by the latter upon him while he was tlie occupant .of the White House, and, like liimsclf, an ex-President. The interview lasted about ten minutes.

A WHARF RAT.

dne Seen in a Walk Along South Street.' “I had read about wharf rats, and heard about them often,” said a man.. ♦‘.The other day*l saw one. I was walking along South street, and I saw a Sound boat whose sailing hour was about due, and I, thought I’d like to see her start out. You couldn’t see much of her from the wharf at which she lay, on account ofi tlie pier shed; and so I Went round and down the wharf on the other side of the ship. The wharf Was bad the usual open-_ ihgs in tlie sides, and from one of them I got a good view of the boat I wanted to see, directly opposite at work taking on the last of the steamer’s load. Over there it was all activity} where I was (t was all quiet. There was no boat on either side, and only a truck, or two and three or four men on the wharf. “AA’hile I stood there in the broad opening looking at the boat and at the flags floating over it a rat apeared six ■or eight feet away, on that side of tlm opening toward the river end of the wharf; it came out from alongside of or under the stringpiece, where it was cut off so that the floor of the wharf might in tlie opening be unobstructed to the edge. ‘‘l don’t know how big wharf rats grow, but this was the biggest rat I evet saw; it was a big rat, ahd yet, big as it was, it didn’t seem monstrous; that is, it didn't seem like a rat of unusual size for the place, for it acted as though it belohged there and was perfectly familiar with the place and its surroundings. It was quick and smooth tc its movements, bnt not hurried. Tim instant it appeared it started across tlm opeuiug. It crossed in front of me, within a few jnches of where I stood, but without deviating from Its course, and disappeare<J under the correspond; ing end of the stringpiece on the other side. “In the prosencVof that rat I felt like a stranger. AVhere lie came from and where he was going I didn’t know, nor what his errand was, but it was plain enough from the ease and certainty with which he moved that he knew that wharf from bulkhead line to pierhead in every spile and brace, and probably he knows all South-street just as well, lie didn’t stop to look at the boat; he .wasn’t interested in it, as I was, for lie lives there and sees it every day.”New York Sun.

Some Rare Minerals.

“Once in a while,” remarked a mining man last evening, “you hear of a man who claims to have found a mine of bismuth, and basing Ids calculations upon a price of say $2 a pound, he heralds his find and thinks he has a fortune within his grasp. The t fact Is, there is no bismuth produced iu this country and there are only about thirty tons imported. So if any one could put 100 tons on the market dt would bring the price down to 25 cents, at least. “Of cobalt not more than 200 tons are used annually in the world. “In regard to mica—l am speaking now of the uses it is put to In electrical appliances—the East Indian product is driving the Canadian product out of the market. Mica that is iu the least associated with iron is useless for this purpose. It is much the saine with some of the rarer minerals. Were tellurium found in large quantities its value woulil lessen, bnt, as pniy a few ounces are found each year, not enough towsupply the demand, why the value ia enhanced.” Three-fifths of the nickel produced in the world comes from Canada. The. production in other portions of the world is so small as to cut no figure iu the statistics of mineral productions.— Spokane Review.

Novel Use of Searchlight.

The electric searchlight was used, recently to put down a riot in Lancashire, England. A manufacturer, whose men had struck, was determined to keep his mill going, and he promptly secure 1 new hands and set them to work. AI the same time he fixed a searchlight on the factory building to prevent the strikers from setting fire to she sheds erected for the n?w hands. During the continuance of the strike.this light was used nightly in con junction with the police established in the works, to scour the country and to illuniiuiirc the part where pickets were placed. It was jfound so effective thnt-a large number of temporary police were dispensed With.

Fear of Death.

The absence of fear of death which la such a striking character as the Chinese nature has a logical explanation. The Chinese are taught that pnly those who face death fearlessly enter*into happiness In the other world. Foreign-, ers who have witnessed executions lit China hear witness that, as the executioner with his sword mows down the kneeling ranks, the convicts Invariably meet death with jest.

Lions.

The Mesopotamian lion Is usually without a mane, although upon the Karun River some have been found with a long black one. Such a lion, a recent traveler tells us, Is, called a Kafflf, or Infidel, the maneless lions being Mussulmans. These latter, If properly adjured 1 , may, say.thc lnhahltants, be Induced to spare life on orthodox confession of faith, while the unbelieving lion has no mercy.

Likes the Country.

James B. Robertson, a young Englishman who recently arrived In this country, Is thus quoted: “This is my first trip to the United States, and I a m charmed and Interested with the coun* try.aud Its people. I was up On Ijikw George, where' I consider tin? scenery as fins as anything in Scotland." The dirtier a dog is, the aioec friendly he Is to his master. i