Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1897 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. ■ - ■ GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

NEW YORK FLOODED.

DAMAGE OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN ONE SECTION. Imminent Street Submersed in Some Places to a Depth of Fifteen Feet and More-Ex-Qneen Lil of Hawaii Is Reported to Be Very 111. Great Water Main Burst. ” A forty-eight-inch water main at the aoutheast't'utiKT of 48th street and MadiBcm avenue, New York, burst and flooded that select section of the city with 10,000,000 gallons of water. The flood ntretehed from 40th to -f-M street and from stli avenue across the tracks of'the New York Central Railroad to 4th avenue. It was the greatest and most destructive accident of the kind which has occurred in the history of the city. Within the area mentioned thousands of dollars worth of property was destroyed, residents were fearful that the foundations of their homes would be undermined, and the escaping water in many instances reached the gns meters and shut off the chance of seeing by gas light how much damage was done. In searching for the causes of this disaster there was a unanimity of opinion that it was date to the terrific blasting of rook at 48th street and Madison avenue. The Metropolitan Street Railway Company is laying an electrical conduit system in Madison avenue above 42d street, and the blasting was done by its men. It was this heavy blasting which cracked the 48-inch main at 48th street and Madison avenue. The great stream of water which flows through the p : ,pe at big pressure forced open the crack and caused a section of the pipe almost seven feet long and three feet wide to fall out. Beds of Silicon Found. A practically inexhaustible mine of silicon has been found near the line of the Carson and Colorado Railway in Esmeralda County, Nevada. There are hundreds of acres of the mineral, which is almost pure. A Pennsylvania company has been formed and will soon put up a plant to develop the mine. Test's have proved that a fireproof paint and plaster can be easily and cheaply made of it, and it is superior to asbestos as a boiler covering. Ex-Queen Lil Very Sick. Ex-Queen I.iliuokalani of Hawaii is reported as very sick at lier apartments in the Ebbitt House in Washington. The former monarch returned from a trip to San Francisco in bad health. She had contracted a heavy cold on the journey eastward and a physician “was at once summoned. She has since been steadily growing worse, and it is reported that symptoms of pneumonia have developed.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Pittsburg steel manufacturers propose to erect a colossal bronze statue of Tubal Cain. Prince BotkinC, the Russian delegate to the seal conference, has arrived at Washington. Two masked men held up an electric car near Oregon City, Ore., and robbed the thirty-five passengers of about S9O. The British steamer Hesperides, laden with iron ore, went ashore on Diamond shoals, Cape llatteras, and is a total wreck. The crew was saved. It is said in Washington that E. D. Kotzebue, the Russian minister, will not return to the United States because of family reasons and liis own ill health. The United States heard on geographic names has lived the spelling of many Alaska names. “Klondike” is adopted, and what is commonly called Dyea is spelled “Taira.” West Virginia -officials have called upon former Secretary of State Chilton to pay a balance of between $15,000 and $20,000, which he had collected as tax on charters, etc., and he has promised to do so. in a few days. The United States Government may protest against the action of Nicaragua in granting to r.n English corporation a concession that i-onHicls with that awarded to the Maritime Canal Company of New York. . At San Francisco John 11. Coville has been arrested on a tele.-rapine dispatch from Boston. He L> accused of embezzling $1,500 from Marshall I*. Pollard Of that city. When searched S4OO was found on his person. J. B. West, a student at the Texas State University in Austin, became violently insane. He was put in a cell with another lunatic, Thomas C. Dotige. and choked him to death, although four attendants tried to tear him loc-.se.-' It is rumoted among iron and steel men of Cleveland that John W. dates will soon resign the presidency of the Illinois Steel Company’lo become the head of the Consolidated Steel and Wire Company, with plants in Various cities. On Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Frank Early was in the company of Nannie Fry Early's wife appeared ar.d a disturbance followed. Early shot and killed his wife and fatally shot the Fry woman. Early and wife are colored and the Fry woman white. An eleetrie car on the Waterloo and Cedar Falls Internrban line left the track on the trestle approaching the Cedar river bridge, eleven miles from Waterloo. lowa, and fell fifteen feet. It struck on its ride, and was completely demolished. There were on board thirteen passengers and four railway employes. All the passengers and two of the employes were injured. The State Department is preparing a report on “Commercial Relations of the United States” that will be of great value' to all business men. Illinois Republicans at Washington complain because John C. Ingereell, appointed consul at Copenhagen, is charged to Illinois. They say he has never been « citizen of that State. George Morgan was hanged at Omaha for the murder of Ida Gasklll in November, 1895. Morgan died protesting his Innocence. His victim was but 11 years old and had been assaulted and choked to death.

EASTERN.

Jimmy Michael rode a mile in I:3G at Philadelphia. This is practically the world's record for a eyclisf. Henry George has again been nominated for Mayor of Greater New York, this time by the new Jeffersonian Democracy. The United States ship Y'antic has been ordered to proceed from Boston to Michigan, for the use of the naval militia of that State. Major Lewis Ginter's will has been filed at Richmond, Yt. It disposes of an estate valued at between $7,000,000 and $8,000,000. Frank Steele, Robert Campbell and James F. Quigley, found guilty of assaulting Thomas F. McGuiuness at Boston, Mass., were sentenced to fifteen years in State prison. Dr. Joseph W. Kelley. 23 years old, a graduate of the Holy Cross College and the Baltimore medical school, is said to be lying in a Brooklyn hospital suffering from yellow fever. Official figures of the New Jersey election show a majority of 102 for the antigambling amendments and 380 for the regulation —of —appointments—and—DUs- - woman suffrage. Cutting off his wife and son without a penny, Robert Ireland, a member of an old New York family, who died in Catskill, N. Y., loft liis entire estate to Miss Mary Reynolds, his housekeeper. At Glean, N. Y., A. H. Holmes, agent for a Chicago portrait company, arrested on a charge of appropriating $173 of the company's money, was found dead in his cell, having hanged himself with a handkerchief. At the recent Connecticut election the constitutional amendment requiring all candidates hereafter for the right to vote in the State to read the constitution and State statutes in English carried by a large majority. Emmet C. Gibson is under arrest at New York, and if the charges against him are true he is the most astounding financier, promoter, check “Jdter” and allround swindler of the century. He lived in Chicago at one time, and is said to number among his victims Henry Clews and John Wanamaker. The tinners and dusters at the New Castle, Pa., Tin Plate Works have struck because Richard Kissinger was discharged, the foreman alleging that he had tried to kiss one of the girls employed at the plant. Both Kissinger and the girl'make denials and it is claimed that the foreman reported Kissinger to the management because be wanted to get rid of him for other reasons. About 175 men and boys are out end the tin mill is idle. Because she did not keep her promise to become the wife of Arthur S. Melc-her, Mrs. Hadley, formerly Miss Louise M. Dingley, a relative of Congressman Dingley, was sentenced at Auburn, Me., to pay $1,789 damages. It is the first time in the history of the State that such an action has been brought by a man against a woman. Mrs. Hadley. who until a few months ago Was Miss Louise M. Dingley, is a cousin,, and, by marriage, a niece of Congressman Dingley, the father of the present tariff law. She had suitors by the score, and just when it was pretty well settled in everybody’s mind that Mr. Melcher was the favored one, she suddenly appeared as the wife of Mr. Hadley, to whom she had been married a few days after having met him at Poland Springs. Mr. Melchor is 50 years old and a widower. Mrs. Hadley is about 30 and a dashing blonde, and she is commonly reputed to bo the possessor of a mind of her own. Mr. Melclier made oath that Mrs. Hadley, while she was yet Miss Dingley, not only solemnly promised to marry him, but that the engagement was made at»her stiggestion; in other words* that it was Miss Dingley v.ho did the proposing.

WESTERN.

Star Pointer paced a mile in 2:01% at Ottumwa, facing a strong wind, Henry Carter of Chicago, while temporarily insane from illness, attempted to climb on the stage of a New York theater and join in a ghost dance, and was taken to a sanitarium. While attempting to extinguish a small blaze which had been caused by a lamp explosion, Mrs. Della Klingenhagen of Chicago was burned about the hands and face. She will probably recover. Daniel B. Hubbard, one of Chicago’s early settlers and for nearly thirty years connected with the First National Bank, died of heart disease. He was 55 years old and leaves a widow and one son. The war between the coffee men, llavemeyer and Arbuckle, is on again. The trouble was precipitated by the Ohio Wholesale Grocers’ Association in an endeavor to induce Ohio jobbers to become members of the organization. The Ancient Order of Hibernians of Washington are formulating an appeal to Congress to rectify the mistake made in omitting the name of Thomas Moore from the roll of poets inscribed on the walls of the Dew congressional library. Frank A. Novak, who was brought back from the Klondike to answer to the charge of murdering Edward Murray at Walford, lowa, says Murray died from drinking from a bo,ftle containing whisky and morphine which Novak had put in his store as a trap for burglars. Mayor James M. Jones of Kansas City, with a gang of sixty men, tore up 000 feet of track on the river front which the Missouri Railroad Company had laid between Saturday night and daylight Sunday. The railroad company, it is claimed, had trespassed on city land. During a quarrel, George I’. Pfeiffer, a St. Louis stenographer, shot his father-in-law, Robert Delaney, through the brain and then killed himself. Delaney had been in the habit of coming home drunk and making trouble. On this occasion Delaney came in as usual and a quarrel with his son-in-law ensued. Three Chicago highwaymen fought with three Klondike gold miners at Clark and Monroe streets in that city. They beat the miners and robbed them of gold nuggets valued at SSOO. From one they obtained a draft for SI,BOO. The victims were John. Elmer and Alfred Larson, brothers. Their home is in Pennsylvania, to which they are returning after three years in the Klondike country. The Chicago and St. Louis express on the Chicago and Alton Railroad was held up within a few miles of Kansas Oity. This train has been held op three times within a year and at nearly the same place each time. Three mashed men did the work at what is known as Washington Park cut, six miles east of the cityj It is claimed they seen rod nothing. v Dexter Park horse market, the center of the Chicago stock yards horse trade and comprising the eldest of the stock

yords buildings, was destroyed in a fife that in twenty minutes swept over As many acres and threatened to engulf all the business and residence property of the district. Eleven men were killed. The loss will reach $117,500, which is partially covered by $103,000 insurance.

WASHINGTON.

Captain John S. Garland, retired, is dead in Washington, lie was appointed from Michigan iu 1847 and was wounded during the war and retired in November, 1801. President McKinley has made the following appointments: Laui-its S. Swenson of Minnesota, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Denmark; Edward Beclloe of Pennsylvania, consul at Canton, China. The Postoflice Department has adopted a policy of general extension of the money order system. First Assistant Postmaster General Heath believes that any postoflice wanting money order facilities should be given them. The total number of money order oflices now in operation is about 22,000, and the number- probably will be increased to 30,000 before the next fiscal year. The Washington police have recovered wliat they believe to he the pistol with which Guiteau shot President Garfield, and have put it in the cabinet at headquarters for safe keeping. The pistol was taken from police headquarters July 2, 1881, the day President Garfield was shot, by Col. George B. Corkhill, then district attorney. Subsequently it’disappeared mysteriously and trace of it was obtained only rocently.

FOREIGN.

Prince Hoheulohe, it is reported, has tlu-ice tendered his resignation as imperial chancellor of Germany, but each time has been induced to retain Office because no suitable successor could bo found. The Spanish cabinet has decided upon the immediate recall of Gen. We.vler from Cuba. A decree will be issued appointing Captain General Blunco y Arenas, marquis of Pena-Plata, governor general of the island. Anna Stiller, who was formerly a lady-in-waiting to the former Empress of Mexico (Carlotta, sister of the King of Belgium and widow of Emperor Maximilian), attempted to commit suicide by repeatedly stabbing herself in the neck and cutting off the end of her tongue. Senorita Eyangelma Cossio y Cisneros has escaped from the Casa do Recogidas, at Havana, where she had been confined for several months on a charge of conspiracy against the crown of Spain, and of an attempt upon the life of Governor Berez, governor of the Isle of Pines. The Indian Government, in reply to a further pressing invitation from the British cabinet to consider Senator Wolcott’s appeals, lias answered that it cannot reopen the question of the Indian currency, and it will not be a party to the reopening of the mints for the free coinage of silver. The new Spanish ministry was sworn into ofliee. It is constituted as follows: President of council, Senor Sagasta; foreign affairs, Gallon; justice, Groizard; war, Gen. Correa; marine, Admiral Bermejo; finance, Puigt-erver; interior, Capdepon; public works, Xiquena; colonies, Moret. The Spanish cabinet has decided to grant autonomy to Cuba under the suzerainty of Spain, and to continue the campaign as long as may be necessary. Senor Sagasta, the premier, has received a cable message from Captain General Weyler, who offers his services to the Government and says: “I shall not resign.” Through the efforts of Italian Consul Dr. Joseph Guneo, five innocent men serving a life sentence iu the Canon City, Colo., penitentiary have been set free. They wcre ! given a life sentence in Wal-senbtu-g in .1897 for murder. The real murderers bribed ail interpreter to convict the men by the payment of $175. The Guatemalan legation in Washington has received an official cable that the uprising was now practically ended. A baud of the rebels tied toward San Marcos, but are being pursued by the Government forces. It is stated at the legation that peace is restored save in the small district to which the rebel band has taken flight. The boule met at Athens, but its proceedings attracted little interest. M. Zaimis, the new premier, declared that the objects of his government would be to secure the evacuation of Thessaly and to reorganize the country in order to secure evacuation. M. Delyanuis, M. lvarapanos and M. Deligeosgis announced that their respective parties would support the government. The chamber then adjourned amid cheering for Geu. Smdlenski, minister of war. Great Britain's answer to the bimetallie proposals will be delayed. Arrangements have now been made to hold an informal conference with the chancellor of the exchequer, Sir Michael Ilicks-Beach, and other British officials on the one side, and the United States monetary commissioners and Col. Ilay, the United States ambassador, on the other side, for the purpose of securing a more definite understanding as to what the United States and France expect.

The news from the Indian frontier is favorable to the English. -Sir 'William Lockhart's forces will soon commence the advance of Tirah, the summer headquarters of the Afridis, from Peshawur, moving In three columns. Sir William Lockhart and Maj. Gen. Lord Methuen liaye already arrived at Kohat. The Mullahs of Tirah, on hearing of the advance contemplated, began their preparations to oppose it, but it is now also reported that they are prepared to offer terms on behalf of the Afridis, the Mohmunds and the Malakand tribesmen. United States Minister Woodford’s note to the Spanish Government asked the Spanish cabinet to say before Oct. 31, the date at which, according to the Spanish Government's judgment, Spain will be able to consider as finished the Cuban war. The note declared that the purpose of the American Government in asking Spain to make this declaration before the American Congress meets was to enable the United States Government to report negotiations. Senor Sagasta says: “We will answer the American note in terms to suit ourselves, but always within the bounds of friendship.” A severe fight has occurred between the insurgents and the Spanish forces of Plnajf del Rio at Llanadu Dolores. The insurgents finafty defeated the Spaniards, who retreated, leaving on the field fortyone killed and twenty-nine wounded. The Cubans lost six killed aud twelve wounded. The insurgents were under Col. Serafim Garcia. The forces of Aatigwerra had an encounter at Cuinaneyagun, in Santa Clara province. The combat lasted two hours and the Spaniards wore defeat-

ed with heavy losses. The volunteers on the island are making threats of leaving the service of Spain if Gen. Weyler is recalled. They have cabled to Madrid, asking that Weyler be permitted to remain. Gen. Weyler says the revolution will be ended in a few weeks more. One thousand seven hundred Spaniards left for Spain in one day. The town of Guayabuo has been attacked and captured by the insurgents. It is in Pinar del Rio province. The Spanish garrison surrendered. All the stores in Havana were closed and large signs were displayed: “Long Live Spain.” “Long Live Spanish Cuba.” “Cuba Will Always Be Spanish.” “Death to Traitors.” “Death to Uncle Sam.” The officials of the British foreign office in London have communicated to the United States ambassador, Col. John Hay, the final decision of the Government that Great Britain must refuse to take part in any sealing conference with representatives of Russia and Japan. The British Government, however, asserts its ■willingness to confer with the United States alone, but it insists that Russia and Japan are not interested in the Bering Sea Seals to a degree entitling them to representation at the conference. The -British Government does not suggest any date for a conference with the United States, and it is thought probable in London that Great Britain’s withdrawal will result in two meetings, one-between the United Slates, Russia and Japan and the other between the United States, Great Britain and Canada. It cannot be too strongly reiterated that the withdrawal of Great Britain from the Washington conference is due to Canada’s insistence, and that until the Canadian officials informed (lie foreign office in London of Canada’s objections to meeting Russia and Japan, out of fear of being outvoted, Great Britain fully intended to enter the conference. The British Government's answer to the proposals of the United States and France for bimetallism by international agreement will probably be ready soon. There is evidence that the ministers are disturbed by the prolongation of the controversy over the monetary question in the press and wish to put an end to it. Two months ago they were strongly disposed to make such concessions to the United States and France as would have enabled those powers to convoke a monetary conference. Sir Michael IlicksBeach obtained from the governor of the Bank of England a qualified assent to the conversion into silver of one-fifth of the reserve the redemption of the note issue. The Indian Government was also consulted respecting the expediency of reopening the mints to the free coinage of silver. If the answer to that proposition had been as favorable as the reply of the governor of the Bank of England on the miftor point of a larger use of silver in the reserves, Senator Wolcott's mission would have been completely successful in opening the way for a new session of the conference. That answer has not yet been officially revealed, but it has been received in London, and is believed in diplomatic circles to he unfavorable to reopening the Indian mints.

IN GENERAL.

Helen Gould is reported to be engaged to Alonzo Potter, eldest son of Bishop Potter. Edward Langtry, former husband of the “Jersey Lily,” has been sent to an insane nsyluig. The villages of Casselman, South Indian and Cheney, southeast of Ottawa, on the Canadian Atlantic Railway, have been destroyed by bush tires. Canada is negotiating a loan of $lO,000,000 in London for the purpose of taking up outstanding obligations of Canada and to assist in the railroad and canal developments of the dominion. A terrible accident occurred twenty-five miles south of Monterey, Mexico, where a tunnel is being constructed by the Mexican National Railroad. A premature explosion of a blast occurred, killing four men outright and wounding ten others seriously. A great schism is threatened among the Masons of Canada. A new lodge has been started, composed of French and Italians, under a charter of the Grand Orient of France, which does not believe in the Bible. Other lodges disown them and have written to the Prince of Wales for instructions. The British war ship Imperieuse, which recently sailed from Victoria, B. C., for Guatemala, carried, as a guest of Rear Admiral Palliscr, Ernest Harris, a real estate man of Victoria. It is asserted that he went south to secure part of the treasure which Charles Hartford says he has located on Cocos Island. Hartford claimed to have located $30,0<j0,000 in gold, silver and jewels.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chica go—Cattle, common to prime, 93.00 to 95.50; hogs, shipping grades, 93.00 to 94.115; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to 94.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 89c to 90c; corn, No. 2,27 cto 28c; oats, No. 2,18 c to 19c; rye, No. 2,45 cto 47c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; uew potatoes, 3Se to 50c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, 93.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, 93.00 to 94-50; sheep, common to choice, 93.00 to 94.00; wheat, No. 2,91 cto 93c; corn, No. 2 white, 2Sc to 30c’; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c. St. Louis—Cattle, 93.00 to 95.50; hogs, 93.00 to 94.00; sheep, 93.00 to 94.00; wheat, No. 2,97 cto 98c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 20c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2,42 cto 44e. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to 95.25; hogs, 93.00 to 94.50; sheep, $2.50 to 94.25; wheat, No. 2,93 cto 05c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; tye, No, 2,40 ets 48c. Detroit—Cattle, 92.50 to 95.25; hogs, 93.00 to 94.00; sheep, 92.50 to 94.00; wheat, No. 2,91 cto 93c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, 47c to 49c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 93e to 95c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 49c; clover seed, 93.15 to 93.25. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring, 85c to 87c; com, No. 3,27 cto 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23e; rye, No. 1,46 cto 48c; barley, No. 2,40 cto 44c; pork, mess, $7.25 to 97.76. Buffalo—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 winter, 95c to 97c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 20c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, $3.50 to $4.75; sheep, $3,00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 97c to 99c; corn, No, 2, S3c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; butter, creamery, 15c to 23c; eggs, Western, 16c to 18«.

THE INDIAN FAMINE.

LARGE RELIEF FUND RAISED IN ENGLAND. There Are Still 1,500,000 Persons Receiving Relief-Millions of Pounds for the World’s Philanthropy Thanks to an American Lady—Good Business Lord Mayor’s Report. At the final meeting of the committee of the Indian famine fund at the Mansion House in London the lord mayor, Sir George Faudel-Phillips, announced that the total subscriptions amounted to £549,300. For every pound collected 19s lll£d had been remitted to India, demonstrating that the expense of administering the fund had been most minute. There are still 1,500,000 persons receiving relief. The total of subscriptions from Great Britain, the United States, the British colonies and India, the lord mayor concluded, amounted to nearly £1,500,000, and the total cost of the famine was over .1-10,,000.000. The lord mayor, in replying to the address of thanks of the secretary of state for India, referred gratefully to the efforts of Mrs. Hauser of Chicago as having been the initiator of the plan for sending large quantities of clothing to the sufferers in India from the famine and plague, adding that the clothing so collected was distributed with remarkable success. Dun Is Optimistic. R. G. Dun & Co/s Weekly Review of Trade says: “While failures were the smallest ever known in any quarter since 1892, and business payments through banks the largest by $208,000,000 ever known in September, the speculators who profess anxiety about Cuba, or fever at the South, or a municipal election, still have some influence. Yet business is still increasing. The productive force steadily enlarges, the distribution of wages affords an increasing fund for purchases, and the foundations are laid for a larger business hereafter. Crop reporters who have widely differed now agree in putting the yield of wheat from 580,000,000 to 590.000,000 bushels, which is nearly 200,000,000 bushels more than will be required for home use, keeping stocks as they were July 1, # the lowest for seven years. With less favorable reports of yield, corn exports fall short slightly, with small difference in price. Cotton is unchanged in price, with larger consuming demand, though l>ig crop estimates do not appear to be disputed. Building of more vessels on the lakes and seacoast, heavy orders for sheets, bars, rods and pipe have caused advances averaging half of 1 per cent on all classes of iron. Wool lias now reached an average of 20.37 cents per pound, a rise of 8 cents since a year ago, with a much heavier rise on some qualities. Speculative sales still account for most of the aggregate. Failures for the week were 213 in the United States, against 290 last year, and 29 in Canada, against 40 last year.” Japs Going to Hawaii. Twelve hundred Japanese laborers are on their way to Honolulu from Japanese ports to fill contracts for plantation laborers, and it is asserted by jirominent Japanese in that city that about 9,000 Will be shipped there by the Ist of December. It is claimed that if the islands are annexed in December, under tile laws of the United States, Japanese laborers who are there under contract cannot be forced to return to their own country upon the expiration of their contract, and that they will have the same citizenship rights as will be accorded to the present-citizens -of the republic.

BREVITIES,

Allen W. Van Deuzen, art editor of Outing, of New York, Is dead at Gowanda, N. Y. Cecil Rhodes, the former premier of Cape Colony, is seriously ill at Intanga, South Africa. A'tfcAtlanta, Hoke Smith, former Secretary of the Interior, has been elected president of the Board of Education. Sister Gonzaga, the oldest sister of charity in the United States and for over fifty years the superior of St. Joseph’s orphan asylum, Philadelphia, is dead. Sister Gonzaga was born near Emmetsburg, Md., in 1812. Francis Gambler and Annie Lower, while buggy riding in Milwaukee, were run down by an electric car. Gambler was killed instantly, and Miss Lower is so badly injured that there is little hope of her recovery. State Senator F. Q. Felts has filed with the secretary of the Nebraska State board of transportation complaints and applications for orders to compel the express and telegraph companies doing business in this State to reduce their charges one-third. Ethel Sprague Donaldson, granddaughter of Chief Justice Chase and daughter of ex-Gov.' Sprsgue of Rhode Island and Mrs. Kate Chase, who was the belle of the court during the Lincoln administration, has gone upon the vaudeville stage. The drouth which has prevailed in Colorado, Wyoming, Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kansas, Nebraska, the eastern portions of the Dakotas, Minnesota, lowa, Wisconsin, Northern Michigan, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and other portions of Illinois, has been broken by abundant rains. At Philadelphia, the representatives of twelve breweries located in the central eastern part of Pennsylvania signed an agreement for the consolidation of, the twelve concerns into one corporation, to he known as the Central Pennsylvania Brewing Compnny. The company will have a capital of $10,000,000. Fire destroyed the flouring mill and warehouse of John M. Cain, at Atchison, Kan., together with the eon-tents; the flouring mill and contents belonging to the Central mills; the Cain block, a two-story brick structure, containing four stores, and five small frame buildings. The aggregate loss is about $75,000; insurance about one-third. A girl in the St. Paul Hospital is being kept alive by artificial respiration produced by attendants constantly working her arms. The patient is suffering from Laudry’s paralysis, and the physicians think there is a chance for her recovery. President McKinley lias appointed George H. Bridgemau of New York minister to Bolivia. Ambrose W. Naulin was appointed collector of internal revenue for the sixth district of Indiana. I)avl4 W. Henry wa»s appointed collector of internal revenue for the seventh district es ' Indiana.

IN DANGER OF FAMINE.

Opelousas, La., Cut Off from Food Sup* plies by Quarantine. For fear of fever Opelousas, La., is face to face with famine. The food stores in that town are all but exhausted, and shotgun quarantine in a close cordon of neighboring. towns makes it practically impossible to bring in supplies. The population of the town is divided on the question whether starvation is better or worse than death from yellow jack. This question docs not trouble the quarantine authorities, whose restrictions have caused the shortage in Opelousas. Vicksburg, Miss., has placed an absolute, embargo on the operation of all trains of the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific road on the ground that the company had violated the established quarantine regulations. It is more than likely that the general quarantine in effect throughout the cotton belt will have an appreciable effect upon the price of that staple and will cause heavy losses. The quarantine has been very strict against this character of freight, and only n few of the towns interested have as yet relaxed the severity of dnginal conditions. Even in these cases no cotton coming via infected cities is allowed to pass. Atlanta is becoming restive under the failure to receive mails, and it is claimed that more than $1,000,000 in’bank checks and drafts for the Georgia city are held up in the mail-gorg-ed postoflice of Mobile .for lack of sufficient facilities to handle the fumigating plant. There is a probability of a hitch between the State officials of Mississippi and the Federal Government. Gustavus Foster, Government lighthouse keeper of the Merril Shell Beach lighthouse, near Bay St. Louis, had refused to comply with the quarantine restrictions by the ' Mississippi town council. He was arrested and sentenced tc fine and imprisonment. Mayor Arbo, who made the ruling, reconsidered the case and ordered Foster to leave town immediately. Foster went.

SAY 20,000 WERE LOST.

Great Floods Ravage China, Leaving Thousands Homeless. The steamer Victoria brings news of the most disastrous floods that have visited China for many years. Six£y villages near Tung Chou, containing over 80,000 inhabitants, have been destroyed by floods and the people drowned or forced to flee. There Is no means # of finding how many thousands have been drowned, but the number is estimated by Chinese authorities at 15,000 to 20,000.^ The flooded district is within twelve miles of Pekin, the capital of China. As a rule Chinese officials make very little stir when a calamity like this happens, but the proximity of the disaster hits resulted in its being brought to the attention of the emperor, who has ordered that all possible relief be given. Survivors from the villages nearest Pekin have been allowed such shelter as they can find on the city walls, but thousands are without protection against the rain, which continues to fall. The distress of these people is most pitiable. Public spirited and wealthy meu of Pekin and Tung Chou are actively assisting the authorities in providing them with food. The floods have greatly damaged a large number of estates belonging to Pekin nobles. The unusual rains began July 23 and continued until Aug. 15. The crops in the flooded district were destroyed. The prefects, local magistrates and people of the flooded district prayed for the cessation of the rnin seven days before they were finally driven out of their homes.

DISASTER ON THE SEA.

Appalling Incident of a HurricaneShip and Fifty Men Go Down. The British barkentine St. Peter, before reported having been passed at sea and making for Halifax in distress, arrived there Sunday. She was partly dismasted in a hurricane that struck her on the night of Sept. 8, compelling her to put about for Halifax in order to repair the damage. Capt. Skaling brings the startling report that the storm through which his vessel passed was the enuse of sending to the bottom a four-masted iron sailing ship, which must have carried a crew of at least forty-five or fifty men. The St. Peter and the other vessel had been sailing within sight of each other all day Sept. 8, but never came within hailing distance. The name of one could not be distinguished from the deck of the other. When night closed in the big ship could be plainly seen 0 from the deck of the St. Teter. Her lights were in sight for some time after dark. Then the hurricane swept the ocean and on the 9th nothing was to be seen of the four-masted ship sighted the day before, but shortly after the barkentine passed the floating -wreck of a ship’s deck and deckhouse, which the crew identified as belonging to their sailing companion of the previous day. Capt. Skaling is satisfied that the other vessel went down with every man on board.

CURRENT COMMENT

It turns out that the lasi Arizona man appointed to office is an Ohio man.— Washington Post. Spain has reached that trying and distressing jjoint where she can neither quit nor keep on with safety.—Kansas City Journal. Gen. Miles is about to start for home, probably for the purpose of having a new supply of photographs taken. —Cleveland Leader. Of course, Greece is in mourning. The moral of it seems to be that it is better not to be too bumptious tbun to be sorry.—. Boston Herald. Is it possible there is no way to satisfy the Mikado but to call him into the woodshed for an interview wilb the old manl —Chicago Tribune. If Greece did more burning of gunpowder at critical moments and less burning of treaties, she would occupy n lesi pitiable position 1n the eyes of the nations —New York Press?V Cleo de Merode will have no king in hei train while in this country, but she can catch any number of jacks if she considers them worthy of her bait.—San Francisco Examiner. The six great powers of Europe are stilLengaged in pacificating the Turk, who will submit to it «o long as It continues profitable to be pacificated.—Cincinnati Gomnertfi&l Tribane.