Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1897 — Page 2

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

WILL RAID SKAGUAY.

AUTHORITIES TO RAID CAMP OF DISORDERLY ELEMENT. Miners Who Can’t Get Through White Paas Are Heins Fleeced-Negress Afflicted with Smallpox Is Murdered at Columbus, Mies. Place la Full of Criminals. The authorities of Alaska have .awakened to the serious nature of the situation at the White Pass. They see in the continuance of the camp at Skagway, as now constituted, possibilities for crime and various other evils of great magnitude. Steps have been taken to break up the camp by dispersing the lawless element that has gathered there from every State in the Union. Col. F. S. Chadbourne, State Harbor Commissioner of California, v. ho was a passenger on the steamship Queen, brought down advices to the above effect. Col. Chadbourne says Collector Ives and a force of deputy United States marshals had determined to raid the town of Skagway and clean out the whisky smugglers and saloon men and rid the camp of the disorderly element. Heretofore the authorities have been utterly unable to cope with the disorderly people in the camp. It was the refuge of the worst class of criminals, confidence men and thugs on the coast. These, with the whisky men, had combined to block the trail, so as to keep the tenderfeet there all winter and fleece them as long as there was a dollar left in the camp. Serious as is the situation at Skaguay and White Pass, as portrayed by letters and by the men returned from the camp, disconsolate and appalling as is the condition of the trail over the mountain barrier between the 6,000 gold hunters and the paradise on the other side, the accounts published from time to time seem, to have but faintly portrayed the actual state of affairs. Need More Inspectors. The Agricultural Department is finding difficulty in supplying the demand from the live stock centers for inspectors required to examine the dressed meats for foreign shipment. There has recently been a very pronounced improvement in the European market for American meat, which the law requires should be inspected before it is shipped, and as a consequence inspectors are called for from Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha and ether Western points. The shortage in inspectors is due to the fact that the civil service list includes no eligibles for the work. The deficiency has been temporarily supplied by permitting"!he reemployment of persons who have heretofore been engaged as inspectors. Athletes of the Diamond. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: • W. L. W. L. Baltimore .. .77 33 Brooklyn ... .50 63 Boston .... .7!) 35 Washington .48 61 New Y0rk...71 39 Philadelphia. 50 64 Cincinnati . .64 46 Louisville .. .49 65 Cleveland .. .57 53 Pittsburg ... .47 63 Chicago ....51 63 St. L0ui5....28 86 The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. S 382 Detroit .....64 58. Columbus .. .76 43 Minneapolis. 41 85 St. Paul. ... .77 46 Kansas City.3B 89 Milwaukee ..73 49 G'nd Rapids. 35 85 Congress of Trades Unionists. The trades union congress met in Birmingham, England. There, were 390 delegates present, representing 1,250.000 unionists. The Parliamentary committee reported that the legislation in many decisions of the courts during the year 1897 was not based on the principles of equity and justice and was calculated seriously to injure the cause of labor and give capitalism an unfair and improper advantage.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Three ..thousand people attended the L. A. W. circuit meet races at Beatrice, Neb. W. L. Cook of Chicago was killed at Seattle by being crushed by a fly wheel in the city pumping station. The United States gunboat Castine ran aground outside the harbor of Montevideo and was considerably damaged. Minister Taylor and Gen. Woodford and family attended a bull tight at Sail Sebastian on invitation of the Duke of Tetuan. One person was killed and thirty-two were injured in a wreck on an excursion train on the Maine Central Railroad near Etna, Me. Miss Millie Comstock of Owosso, Mich., wrapped herself in a blanket, set fire to it and died in great agony. She was about to be taken to an insane asylum. Two little girls were killed and four other persons injured at Morton, 111., by the explosion of a boiler in an electric light power house and pumping station. The posse of men that started from Trinidad, Colo., oh the trail of the robbers who held up the Gulf passenger train on Twin Mountain early Saturday morning have taken into custody five, men supposed to be the perpetrators of the holdup. They were captured near Springer, N. M. At Columbus, Miss., a negro woman named Ann Hughes, who had been under guard and isolated, being suspected of having contracted smallpox, escaped and later attended a negro church and created a panic among the congregation. She was rpn out of the church and nothing more was heard of her until she was found dead, with her skull crushed, in an open field. ■ About 1,000 Apache Indians are off the reservation and are scattered through the Pinal and Superstition Mountains, in Arizona, killing deer and gathering wild fruits. None of them is provided with passes and all are armed. They have committed only minor depredations around the ranches of the region, but the settlers are alarmed and are on guard. Albert Jones, aged 20 years, of New Harmony, Mo., angered at something h>s 18-yenr-old sister said about him, shot and killed the girl. The murderer is sai l ..tolliave become insane since committing

EASTERN.

Twelve hundred trousers-makers of Philadelphia have struck for higher wages, (shorter hours and the abolition of the sweating system. The Countess M. de Canavarro was made a Buddhist in New York, the exercises being conducted by S. Dharmapala. She will go a t once to Asia. The story that President McKinley was deceived ,into signing an indorsement of the goods of a big collar concern at Troy, N. Y.. is now absolutely denied. E. B. CuthbertCo., bankers and brokers of New Y'ork, made an assignment to Ernest IL Ball with preferences of $73,000. The liabilities may reach $500,000. »IhSLßJllSlinJ_ofhssets, is unknown. Mrs. John Drew, the oldest of American’ actresses. died in New Y'ork Tuesday. Her death was not wholly unexpected, as her failing health hal been a source of apprehension to her friends for some time. Train No. 4, the New Y’ork vestibuled train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, jumped the track at Blodgett's Mills, and the locomotive, baggage car and two coaches ran clear through the station. Mrs. J. 11. McQuillan of Philadelphia was killed and seventeen passengers injured. In the last six days there has been shipped from New York to western points over $7,060,000 in currency to meet the demands made on the New York City banks for money to move the crops which are now oil their way to market. Most of this money which the banks have sent has been in small bills. Scenes of riotous disorder, in which fists took the place of oratorical arguments, marked the State convention of Pennsylvania Democrats. The convention was called to nominate candidates for State Treasurer and Auditor General, but candidates were forgotten in the light to oust William F. Ilarrity from his seat in the National Committee. The anti-Harrity element won and Harrity will be succeeded in the. National Committee by James N. Guffey of Pittsburg. District Attorney Oleott of New York has a signed statement made by Herman Nack, whose wife and Martin Thorn are under indictment for the murder of William Guldensuppe, in which Mrs. Nack’s practices as midwife are recited in shocking details, Ever since the woman arrived in this country, in 1886, the husband declared, she has indulged in unlawful practices. Nack, who has been separated from liiS Wife’!since April, 1896, testified that the bodies of children had been disposed of at the rate of two and three a month for the last eight or ten years. Some of the bodies, he said, were crematel in a stove, and others were buried. A copy of Nack's statement was shown to Mrs. Nack in the Tombs. Her demeanor was unruffled, but when she came to any of his charges she branded it as a lie. Mr. Olcott admitted that Nack's detailed statement had no direct bearing on the trial of the woman and Thorn for the murder of Guldensuppe. He intimated, however, that the declarations of Nack might lead to a prosecution of several doctors whose names are used by Nack in the statement. Mr. Oleott would not discuss the rumor that Mrs. Nack would plead guilty when charged with the murder of Guldensuppe, but declared that no overtures had been made by her attorneys.

WESTERN.

Vandals in San Jose, Cal., desecrated the vault containing the remains of Mrs. Spanger, once a resident of Chicago. Chicago saloon statistics for the last license period show the issuance of 6,264 licenses, with receipts of $T,044,020. This is a decrease of 354 saloons. Mrs. Thomas Coker and 9-year-old son were struck and instantly killed by a Santa- Fe train while crossing a bridge one mile cast of Cedar Junction. Fred McConnell, cashier of the State Bank of Ambia, Ind., is missing, together with funds of the bank estimated at any amount between SIO,OOO and $50,000. E. C. Little of Kansas, formerly consul general at Cairo, has received from the Khedive of Egypt the grand cordon of the Imperial Order of Mejidieh of the Ottoman Empire. According to the forty-third annual report of the Chicago Board of Education, just issued, 190,471 pupils attended the city schools in 1897, an increase of 50 per cent in five years. Guards on duty to prevent a jail delivery at Lidgerwood, N. IX,and a number of tramps armed with revolvers had a lively fight Monday night, which resulted in two,of the tramps and one of the guards being wounded. Fred Horton, a young flour miller of Los Angeles, Cal., has fallen heir to a fortune left by his father at Guaymas, Mexico, said to be worth $2,000,000. Philip Horton, the lad’s father, was divorced from his wife nineteen years ago. The body of E. W. Stump Was found at the Golden Fleece mine in Tombstone, the head split open with a blow from an ax. He had been missing several days. He was undoubtedly murdered, but by whom or for what motive no conjecture can tell. Mrs. Annie Kirk and her husband, W, S. Kirk, have sued W. A. Atwood, a dentist at San Francisco, for $250 damages alleged to have been sustained because he positively refused to examine the woman's teeth because she came to his oflice on her bicycle and wore bloomers. A boom is under way in the Kansas City hog market. Friday’s prices were the highest reached within nearly two years, going up 10 cents to 15 cents a hundred weight, on top of a similar advance Thursday. Prices advanced 70 cents since Aug. 1, and near a dollar higher than in the middle of July. At Wichita, Kan., the expert accountant employed to investigate the books of the late County Treasurer John A. Doran during his two terms’ incumbency of that office made his report for the first term Tuesday, showing a shortage of $32,178.79. The shortage for 1892 was $lO,118.98 and for 1893 $22,059.87. Miss Marie Henrotin of Chicago, after four days of terrible suffering, died at Montreal as the result of a partially successful attempt to cremate herself. She died at the Hotel Dieu Hospital, and there is no doubt that the attempt at self-de-struction was made while the lady, who is 46 years of age, was temporarily insane. Judge J. J. Sullivan, Democrat, was nominated for Supreme Judge by the Nebraska fusionists. Judge Sullivan was the second choice of the Democrats. After they had agreed upon him the silver Republicans also took him up. Thereupon the Populists dropped Judge Neville and Sullivan was declared the fusion candidate. George W. Adams of Cripple Creek pied in Denver from the gold fields of

South America. Fourteen months ago Adams left to try his fortunes In South American mines. He went to the gold fields, 300 miles from Georgetown, in company with eight Americans, remaining there eleven months." Of the e(ntire party of nine he alone escaped death from the fatal fever. " At Portsmouth, Ohio, a forty-ton flywheel at the Burgess Steel and Iron Works was burst by a 4,800-pound ingot stopping a roll. The mill was crowded With workmen, including day and night crews. . John Murphy was hurled thirty feet and badly bruised. The roof was riddled. Beams two feet square were cut in two like straws." The mill was set on fire and the furnace was destroyed. How the great crowd in the mill escaped is a -mystery. Mrs. Agatha Tosch, to whom Adolph Luetgert was wont to confide his business and marital troubles, took the-stand for the prosecution when the famous murder case was resumed in Chicago Tuesday, and gave damaging testimony against the prisoner. According to her evidence, the day after Mrs. Luetgert disappeared Mrs. Tosch had a long conversation with the sausagemaker, who, she asserts, was pale and laboring under excitement he vainly endeavored to suppress. In the course of their talk she boldly told him she believed him guilty of making away with his wife and that he thereupon manifested much excitement and begged her to help him, as he was in great trouble. Mrs. Tosch dilated on Luetgert’s disturbed condition of mind as much as the rules of evidence would permit and finally swore that the man, in the extremity of his distress, declared he was tempted to shoot himself and escape the trouble that hung over his head. Before she left the stand Mrs. Tosch also testified to the hatred felt by Luetgert for his wife and his significant threats to crush her.

WASHINGTON.

Brigadier General Ruggles will retire, having reached the age limit. The safe of the District of Columbia tax collector was robbed of about $9,000. Secretary Long, it is believed, will recommend the further enlargement of the navy. The Comptroller of the Currency was advised Thursday of the failure of the First National Bank of Greensburg, Ind. It had a capital stock of $190,000 and July 25 the deposits were $84,0007 Assistant Secretary Howell has instructed the collector at New York' to suspend the collection of discriminating duties under section 22 of the new tariff law pending the decision of the attorney'-gen-eral. These instructions were issued when it was ascertained that rhe collector at New York, had been collecting these discriminating duties on goods from Canada. The United States secret service bureau is struggling with an epidemic of counterfeits. Hardly a day passes without the arrest of from one to half a dozen persons detected in passing spurious notes or silver coin. It is evident that there is a large volume of counterfeit silver certificates of last year’s issue afloat and that the circulation is continually being diluted with that sort of material. When these certificates were first put out expert engravers predicted that counterfeiters would be tempted to resume activities, and the result shows that they were not wrong in their prophecy. As works of art these certificates may be very fine, but for purposes of money they were shockingly deficient in many of the safeguards which the department had provided against counterfeiting. Government detectives have been instructed to be on the watch for bogus silver dollars, the tip having been given the treasury department that a move was being made in some mysterious and unknown quarter for the minting of such dollars on a large scale, the coins to have the same amount of silver as the genuine and to be in exact similitude of the coin bearing the stamp of the United States mints. Thus far the department has not been able to locate any of this illicit product and it is not believed any of the bogus dollars of that sort are yet in circulation, but that is no guaranty that the country may not at any time be flooded with them. At the present price of silver bullion there is a margin of 60 cents on every dollar privately minted.

FOREIGN.

The Sultan of Turkey has sent rich presents to the Ameer of Afghanistan. Mayor I’astoureau of Toulon was stabbed and dangerously wounded by a Corsican. Nicaragua business men have petitioned the government to put the country on a gold basis. It is rumored that Murad Bey, loader of the young Turks, has either fled or been done away with. The Spanish government is formulating a plan to bring about the banishment of all Anarchists from Spain. The-Spanish, cabinet has decided to call out 80,000 reserves, more than a third of whom will be sent to Cuba. A Buenos Ayres correspondent says that reports from all agricultural centers indicate an increase of fully 20 per cent in the wheat area of the country. The'Czar is said to have decided upon the partial abolition of the exile to Siberia of criminals and the substitution of confinement in large central prisons in Russia. Lord Salisbury’s proposal for a joint guaranty of the indemnity to be paid to Turkey by Greece has fallen through owing to Russia’s reluctance and Germany’s jealousy. An outbreak is reported among the Moplars, or fanatical Mohammedans, of the Malabar coast. It has not yet assumed serious proportions. Malabar is a district of India. A dispatch from Montreux, Switzerland, announces that an asylum for the insane which was in course of erection there collapsed, burying a number of workmen in the ruins. Japan is secretly negotiating with the diet of the Greater Republic of South America for the construction of the Nicaragua Canal, independent of and in defiance of the interests and influence of the United States. The thunderstorms and rains which have prevailed for the week throughout Great Britain and the continent culminated in a severe gale, which did much damage to trees and crops, resulting in numerous shipping casualties to the English channel and. flooded many parts of the Thames Valley. A very silly story has been published about Japan intriguing to get control of .the Nicaragua canal. It is so pronounced at the State Department and the

Japanese legation. Some time ago Japan received a communication from the greater Central American republic that she assist in guaranteeing the construction and neutiality of the canal project. But Japan, instead of taking steps to that end, immediately replied that she would do nothing in the matter without the consent and co-operation of the United States. At the same time Japan notified this country of the communication.

IN GENERAL

The corporation of Brown University has backed down and asked President Andrews to withdraw his resignation. It is said the United States government now claims Dawson City is in Amer-i<-an territory and has instructed Alaskan officials to act accordingly. The government has cut off all rations to Apache Indians except flour. They are threatening an uprising and the settlers near the reservation in New Mexico are very much exercised. The great Victorian Era Exposition and Industrial Fair was formally opened at Toronto with imposing exercises, participated in by representatives of the province and municipality. Mrs. Guthrie,-wife of Luther Guthrie, a prominent citizen of Walnut Grove. Ga., was killed by lightning. Mrs. Guthrie had one of her children in her arms when the bolt fell. The child was burned, but not seriously injured. Ice at Dawson is selling at 56 cents a pound. So writes Edgar Mizner. His letter was dated June 28, and the thermometer on that day was 90 to 100 in the shade. Miners last winter were too busy digging gold to cut ice. Near Appleby station, Texas, the trucks of the sleeper, on the south-bound Houston, East and West Texas passenger train jumped the track near a curve, carrying the sleeper and day coach off the track, practically demolishing both. One man was killed. Leroy Tozier, writing from Skaguay, says: “As a blockade is on and with those now here and coming 5,000 people will be compelled to remain here until spring or return home. Some have horses and wagons, and such are making from S6O to SIOO a day.’’ President De Armitt figures that the strike has so far cost the miners of the country $8,000,000. He bases this statenreirt'OTf t^e' supposition that' iOO.UOO men were out and that they averaged $lO per week. His men have forfeited $15,000 in wages to the company by breaking their contracts. The fight of the De Armitts -against the miners has also been a very costly one. Already about SII,OOO has been spent by the New York & Cleveland Gas Coal Company for wages and board of deputy sheriffs. The Farmers’ National Congress decided on Fort Worth, Tex., as the place for the meeting in 1898. More than an hour was given to the discussion of the matter, and on the roll call only Kansas, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska and South Dakota were solidly for the Omaha proposition. There were scattering votes from New York, North Dakota and Wisconsin, but fully two-thirds were for Texas. Before the result of the ballot could be announced, on motion of the Nebraska delegates Fort Worth was selected. An invitation was extended from Niagara Falls for the congress of 1899 and ftom Boston for the congress of 1900. A letter has ben received in Vancouver from Henry Behnson, who left for the Yukon via Skaguay, with a well-equipped party in July. The party consisted of eight, but one grew faint-hearted under the hardships and returned. They had reached the summit on Aug. 22 and expected to arrive on Stewart river before winter sets in. Dead horses are reported along the trail and at one spot, where their party-lost one horse through falling over a precipice, six horses were killed in the same day. Two men were caught stealing and were shot. Large numbers of people are turning back and outfits can be purchased cheaply. But he advises no one to go up depending on purchasing, outfits. He says horses are an absolute necessity. Ex-Sergt. Haywood of the Y’ancouver police force, who went up to Dawson City in the spring, says in a letter that “God only knows what will become of the crowds now heading this way.” At the time of his writing provisions were very scarce in Dawson, but a steamer was expected daily. News received in letters to the Alaska Commercial Company that famine is almost certain on the Klondike next winter, receives confirmation from Mr. Goodhue, a newspaper correspondent at St. Michael’s. He states that the Y’ukon is unusually low, and that the chances of getting enough food to Dawson to support those now there and those flocking in are slender.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 93c to 94c; corn, No. 2,30 cto 31c; oats, No. 2,18 c to 20c; rye, No. 2,50 cto 51c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; new potatoes, 55c to 65c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4-75; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,90 cto 92»; corn, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 19c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat; No. 2,96 eto 97c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 51c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,95 cto 96c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 50c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,93 cto 95c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, 49c to 51c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 94c to 96c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 51c; clover seed, $4.00 to $4.05. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. “2 spring, 92c to 93c; corn, No. 3,30 cto 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 1,50 cto 51c; barley, No. 2,42 eto 45c; pork, mese, $8.75 to $9.25. Buffalo—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 99c to $1.01; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, SI.OO to $1.02; corn, No. 2,35 cto 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c 25c; bntter, creamery, 12c to 19c; eggs, Western,lsc to 17c. ———■—-

GIVEN A LONG CHASE.

Man Wanted in lowa Brought Back from the Klondike Country. , Frank Albert Novak, under charges of murder and arson, has arrived at Walford, lowa, the scene of his alleged crime. YVhen interviewed Novak deified being guilty of the charges laid up against him. He confesses, however, that he is Frank Albert Novak, and not J. A.. Smith, as he represented Himself when entering the Klondike mining country. At first he insisted that C. O. Perrin of the Thiel detective service of St. Louis was mistaken when he accused him of having murdered Edward Murray at Walford last February, setting fire to the store and taking flight, hoping thereby to make it appeay that it was Novak that had been burned alive. Had he established that-as a fact his wife and others whom the detectives believe were confederates would have cleaned up $30,000 of insurance which Novak had taken but on his life in his wife’s favor. All that Novak really confesses is that he is Novak and that he is from Walford and had a wife and two children there. The insurance companies will not therefore have to pay the $3’0,000 of life insurance which they have brought suit to recover. If the State of lowa ca.nnot convict him of the murder of MurrAy or of having set fire to the building occupied by him he will escape. Detective Perrin traveled 20,000 miles to capture Novak, and in getting into the Klondike country he made" the quickest trip on record, traveling from Juneau to

FRANK A. NOAK.

Dawson City in three weeks, during which time he had 1 to raft logs five miles and Saw them up for material for a boat. He then started down tne lakes and Yukon river, shooting all the rapids, a thing he says he would not again do for all the gold in the Klondike country. In his haste he passed in the middle of Lake Bennett the man he had already traveled thousands of miles to capture. Novak, under the name of J. A. Smith, was going leisurely down the lake with a party of miners as Perrin passed., Perrin talked with members of the Novak party, but did,, not recognize the fugitive behind his heavy growth of whiskers. At Dawson City Perrin could find no trace of Novak, as he had not arrived. For a day br two he was afraid he had traveled all the way to Dawson on a blind trail. But inside of two days he had located the wife of a member of the party Novak was known to be traveling with. She relieved Perrin by informing him that her husband was expected the next day. On the third day after Perrin arrived Novak’s party came in. The mounted police were summoned to make the arrest through courtesy. Perrin pointed out Novak and had him brought to headquarters. Novak stoutly declared he w 7 as not from lowa. Perrin then sent for the mounted police doctor and had him examine the fillings in Novak’s teeth. In every respect the maijks of identification on his teeth tallied with those given out by the lowa authorities, and it was deemed satisfactory proof that the prisoner was Novak. Up to that time Perrin had passed in Dawson City as the representative of a big Colorado syndicate that was going to buy half of the new gold district. When his true errand became known, he was given an ovation. Novak had no money,’ although he had earned s4l carrying other people’s supplies on his back over the Chilkoot pass.

PRICE UPON THEIR HEADS.

Reward Offered for Arrest of Murderous Moonshiners. Governor Jones of Arkansas has offered a reward of SIOO each-for the arrest of the moonshiners implicated in the murder of the party of deputy marshals. The murder of the revenue officers was the result of a deliberate laid plan on the part of the moonshiners to exterminate all deputy marshals attempting to invade their region. The information given to the officres by one of the moonshiners arrested a week ago was for the purpose of decoying the officers back into the mountains in order to slaughter them. Attorney General McKenna has offered a reward of SSOO for the arrest of the murderers, and has authorized the expenditure of S2OO in payment of the expenses of the posse to be summoned by the marshal.

FAILS FOR THREE MILLIONS.

Decline in Silver Brings Disaster te a Central American. Private advices have been received at San Francisco to the effect that Enrico Mathou, the well-known banker and promoter of several gigantic schemes in Central America, has failed for over $3,000,000. His principal creditors are said to be Europeans, but a San Francisco firm is said to be a sufferer to the extent of SIBO,OOO. While Mathou’s assets are estimated at $2,500,000, they consist for the most part of property in the vicinity of Guatemala, which cannot be disposed of for half its assessed valuation. The cause assigned for, the failure is the heavy depreciation of silver and the collapse of the real estate boom inaugurated by President Barrios several years ago.

Names Beth Low for Mayor.

The Citizens’ union nominated Seth Low as an independent candidate for Mayor of Greater New York. He was nominated by the votes of the delegates from the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, Richmond and the Bronx. The Brooklyn delegates withdrew before the vote was taken; in fact, they did not participate in the proceedings. It is calculated that the products of the American cycle manufacturers will reach ' the 1,200,000 mark this season.

FARMERS ELECTEX-GOV. HOARD

National Congress Also Indorses Pos- ' tai Savings Banks. The features of the second day’s session of the National Farmers’ Congress at St. Paul were the election of officers, the re-

W. D. HOARD.

the fight began when Secretary .Stahl was also nominated. Delegate Emery of Mon tafia placed the name of ex-Gpv. Hoard of Wisconsin before the convention. All three nominations received many seconds, and vigorous speeches were made by enthusiastic delegates. A five minutes’ recess was asked by several States for a caucus, and the delegates grouped together and indulged in excited talk. Candidate Hoard’s eligibility questioned by Maj. Wagner of DHnois, but he’ was overruled. The roll-call proceeded slowly and cheers greeted the gains of each candidate in the voting. The vote showed a good majority for Hoard: 176 to 85% for Stahl and 60 for Clayton. The effort to make the vote unanimous in compliment to the ex-Governor was futile, many delegates voting against such motion. Secretary Stahl was re-elected by acclamation, and, there being no other candidates, N. G. Spalding of New York was likewise honored for treasurer. The paper of Dr. Sateldo was in part devoted to the question of establishing a colony of American farmers in Venezuela. He was tendered a rising vote of thanks. J. J. Hill, president of the Great Northern rttilroad, read a paper in which was em-bodied-some advice, on the subject of transportation. A series of resolutionscovering a variety of subjects were adopted, such as favoring postal savings banks, free mail delivery in country districts, etc.

CROP REPORT FOR THE WEEK.

Government Information n« to Bar--"’veats •» -nxM’uJe' Vt'estern The climate and crop report for the week as issued from the Chicago office of the Department of Agriculture is in part as follows: Illinois—Temperature below normal nortSv ern, nearly normal extreme southern anS above normal central and south central counties. Only light scattered showers anti good general rain much needed'-ln all sections. Corn making slow growth, some ripening prematurely and dry weather and. bugs have damaged many fields. Potatoes ana pastures are poor,; but little plowing can be done; fruits and melons abundant; fair crop broom corn being cut. Winconsin—Dry weather and cool nights retarded growth of corn. Early plantings and varieties wl 1 mature in about two weeks, but bulk of crop requires from three to four. Cranberries late, but promise well. Vines heavily loaded. Picking will begin In ten days. Potatoes poor. Pastures short and rain needed. Michigan—Corn maturing very slowly, because of cool temperature. Soil rather hard and dry for plowing. Kain also needed for pastures and potatoes. Beans a fine crop and pulling begun. Buckwheat remains promising. Fall seeding commenced. Minnesota—Cool we’ek except on three days. Light and scattered showers In southern half. Wheat harvest finished Sept. 1. Stacking and thrashing general. Corn advancing well. Plowing begun, with ground getting hard. Indiana—Nights too cool for corn and beneflclal rains fell only in localities of the central and northern portions, and corn In general needs rain. Early corn Is maturing well; late corn Is yet small. Potatoes are a failure. Good crops of clover seed and millet secured. Fall plowing retarded south, but progressing well north. lowa—Warm, bright days, cool nights and. drouth generally unbroken. Corn on dry uplands badly fired and early planted fields making rapidly. Lateco'rn needs more in'olsture and warmtit and rain much needed for potatoes and pastures. Weather favorable for harvesting prairie hay and quality superior. Nebraska—Corn has ripened very rapidly and in most sections too rapidly to fill out well. In places corn damaged by this week's dry weather, especially late corn. Ground generally too dir for plowing. Ohio—Generally favorable week for crops and farm work. Early corn maturing nicely, but nights little too cool. Late corn slow. Garden truck plentiful. Considerable wheat ground harrowed. Missouri—Drought still unbroken. Hot winds did much damage to corn and fruit. In most northern countle's corn maturing well, but needing rain, and In southern section drying up rapidly and now beyond help tn many counties.

MONTHLY DEBT STATEMENT.

Increase Is Shown, with a Decrease of Cash on Hand. The monthly statement of the publio debt issued at the Treasury Department shows the debt less cash in the treasury to be $1,008,335,121, which is an increase for the month of $14,888,475. This increase is accounted for by a corresponding decrease in the amount of cash on hand. The debt is recapitulated as follows: Interest-bearing debts 847,365,540 Debt on which interest has ceased since maturity... 1,336,280 Debt bearing no interest.. 378,194,507 Total .$1,226,896,327 This amount, however, does not include $593,961,053 in certificates and treasury notes outsta'nding, which are o’ffset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury. The cash in the treasury is classified as follows: G01d5181,234,105 Sjlver 519,368,486 Paper’.... 139,427,064 Bonds, disbursing officers’ balances, etc 18,115,651 T0ta1...5858,145,367 Against this there are demand liabilities outstanding, amounting to $689,584,160, which leaves a cash balance in the treasury of $218,561,206.

Nominated After 6,021 Ballots.

The record-breaking deadlock in the Tenth District Republican Senatorial convention was broken in die nomination of Colonel D. J. Palmer. He was chosen by acclamation on motion of W. F. Kopp, his opponent. The end was reached after 6,021 ballots had been taken, each resulting in a tie.

Given the Chicora’s Location.

Mrs. Sarah Bromwell, the Chicago spiritualistic medium, who claims to have discovered the location of the spot where the steamer Chicora was sunk, Jan. 1, 1894, now describes it as being one mile south of the St. Joseph harbor and five miles out in the lake. She says the steamer lies in ten fathoms of water. The treasury is to be guarded by charged electric wires, but no connection has yet been made to give Congress a shock when it is extravagant—St. Louis GlobeDemocrat

consideration of the motion selecting Fort Worth as the place for holding the next convention and the indorsement of postal savingsbanks. The congress had a lively time electing its officers, principally over the choice for president. A. V. Stout of lowa renominated President B. F. Clayton, and