Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1897 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. v GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. MENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

BURIED A STRANGER.

SUPPOSED HIM TO BE THEIR OWN SON. tf-' - —■ 1 Man Thought to Have Died in the War Living for Thirty Years-Prisoners in Pennsylvania Penitentiary Have Been Making Bad Coin. A Singular Story. A remarkable and romantic case of mistaken identity has come to light at Akron, 0., with the information from Big Bug, Aria., that George Case, who was supposed to have died in the war and to have been buriedHhere. has in fact just died in Arizona, leaving quite a fortune to Akron heirs. George Case was the eon of an Akron carpenter, who, being refused permission to join the army, ran, away from home and enlisted In the SixtTT independent battery of Ohio, Jan. 15, 1864. His parents received information from Chattanooga, Tenn., that he was ill and in the general field hospital. Then came a letter from a comrade saying that George was dead. The parents ordered the body sent to Akron, but when it reached there the mother declared that the remains were not those of her son. The body was interred in Glendale cemetery, and, no further tidings were received. J. F. Seiberling, the well-known manufacturer, recently received a letter from Big Bug, Ariz., telling of the death of George Case, whose only relatives, so far as known there, lived in Akron. The man had long lived there, but died of rheumatism on his way to Hot Springs, Ark. Convict Counterfeiters. Warden E. S. Wright of the Riverside penitentiary at Pittsburg has discovered that a number of the convicts confined in the institution have been manufacturing counterfeit 50-cent pieces. He has unearthed the metal from which the “queer” money was made, the molds in which it was cast and the names of several convicts who were connected with the matter, brft as yet he has been unable to find the man who originated and earned opt the scheme. The counterfeits are magnificent specimens of the coiner’s art. The die from which they were made is almost perfect, and the milling of the coins, which is the Government's chief protection of metal money from those who would imitate it, is as near perfect as it is possible for human ingenuity to make it. The counterfeiters had already secured a connection with outside parties and some of the bad money is now in circulation. Warden Wright has a list of nearly a score of convicts and other persons supposed to be connected with the counterfeiting, and when the full story of the crime comes out it is said there will be some sensational developments. We Wait on England. ■ Unless the British foreign office of its own motion presses the negotiations in connection with the arbitration treaty, State Department officials in Washington say the matter will not again be taken up by this Government. In the past three months nothing has been done to expedite matters. When Secretary Sherman suggested to Sir Julian Pauncefote last June that the President would be gratified to see the negotiation of a treaty of general arbitration during his administration the latter expressed pleasure at the information and entered upon a discussion of the subject, which, however, was limited to generalities. Sir Julian then went to London to consult with Lord Salisbury on matters of importance and, acting under the instructions of the State Department, Ambassador Hay consulted with the British foreign office on the subject. Apparently the representations he made were not as enthusiastically received as were those of his predecessor. As a result the matter has languished, and now, department officials declare, Great Britain must be the one to revive the subject and push it to a successful conclusion.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Sir Edwin Arnold, poet and journalist, has married a Japanese lady in London. M. B. Tucker, an Associated Press correspondent in Alaska, died of exhaustion on a trail. " . ' < It is said Li Hung Chang’s health has failed and he is about to retire permanently from public life. All navigation upon the Yukon river is now closed by an ice blockade. Several vessels are frozen in. Fielder Keeler of Baltimore has an official battering average of .432, according to President Young’s figures. Lotta Crabtree, better known as “Lotta,” an actress, has sued the estate of Henry E. Abbey of New York for $20,000 and two years’ interest on promissory notes. Admiral John Lorimer Worden, hero of the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac and one of the bravest sailor fighters ever produced by the United States navy, died in Washington of pneu-mft-rfa. / Mill Creek, a small town in the Chickasaw nation east of Berwyn, I. T., was raided by thirty-five Chickasaw braves, ■Who terrorized the inhabitants, drove the merchants from their houses and engaged in a wild orgy which ended in a killing. The Indians drew up in front of a cider mill, broke it open and drank all the hard cider and other drinks they could find. Then they began a systematic raid on the stores, helping themselves to whatever struck their fancy. The redskins kept up a continual shooting, having supplied themselves with ammunition from a hardware store. Luxy Lewis and James McKinney engaged in a duel in which the latter was killed. A tramp was killed, fourteen cars ditched and two engines demolished by a collision of two freight trains near Mexico, John W’. Baker, formerly assistant city Sltseasurer of Butte, Mont., killed himself by shooting. He was formerly with the Northwestern in Chicago and Union Pacific In Omaha. Col. Peter C. Haines of the engineer corps of the army, at present in charge of ‘river and harbor improvements for the i fifaltfmore district, has been appointed to |be engineer commissioner on the Nicara-

EASTERN.

The Holman friction-geared locomotive has been tried successfully under favorable circumstances, making 56 miles in 55 minutes over a poor track. The New York Court of Appeals has confirmed New York City’s title to the tideway land around the Island of Manhattan, valued at 145,000,000. Mrs. Maria H. Dosch, an aged Hoboken widow who has lived in abject poverty, has fallen heir to an-estate in Holland valued at over $5,000,000. John F. Boynton, a well-known resident of Leominster, Mass., shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide. Family troubles are believed to have been the cause. The 2,500 miners of the Pennsylvania river district, who have been idle for two weeks, owing to a dispute over the differential, have resumed work, pending a settlement by arbitration. Captain Robinson of the Baltimore team denies that the Temple cup game funds were divided equally. He says each Oriole will get $3lO, while the Bostonians receive $207 each. William Daniel, one of the leaders of the Prohibition party in the United States and its candidate for the Vice Presidency in 1884, died suddenly at his home in Mount Washington, a suburb of Baltimore. Col. J. Thomas Scharf, Chinese inspector at New York, has sent in his resignation, declaring that the Chinese exclusion act is a farce, cannot be enforced and results in the corruption of the Treasury Department. The Trenton Iron Works has begun the construction of an aerial tramway from Dyea to Lake Linderman, for the Chilkoot Railroad and Transportation Company. The contract calls for completion of the road by Jan. 15. At the meeting of the new board of directors of the Western Union Telegraph Company in New York, Thomas F. Clark, formerly assistant to the president, was elected as acting vice-president, to succeed John Van Horne. Ex-Bunker F. V. Rockafellow, convicted of receiving deposits at his bank at Wilkesbarre, Pa., after he knew the bank was insolvent, has been sentenced to pay a fine of $1,400 and serve one year in the Eastern penitentiary. The prisoner is over 70 years of age. At Harrisburg, Pa., Judge Simonton handed down an opinion dissolving the temporary injunction against the Capitol building commission in the equity proceedings brought by certain architects who competed for the prizes for making the best design for the proposed new capitol. The deputy sheriffs at the De Armit coal mines made a raid on the strikers at Sandy Creek and arrested fifteen men, including the members of the brass band. The strikers were marching on the public road and were halted by the deputies about a quarter of a mile from the tipple. The band refused to stop playing and the entire party was placed under arrest without resistance. The prisoners were taken to Pittsburg and to the sheriff’s office. The members of the band took their arrest good-naturedly and played their instruments as they were escorted from the railroad station to the sheriff’s office. Chief Deputy Evans said the men were riotous and he feared trouble. This is denied by the strikers. Superintendent De Armit claims that the three mines of the company are now running to their fullest capacity.

WESTERN.

Mayor Harrison will permit no knockout boxing contests in Chicago. Superintendent Greenwood of the Kansas City schools is planning to use newspapers as text books. In Chicago, Frederick V. Bowers, who plays a part in "McSorley’s Twins,” eloped to Milwaukee with Miss Blanche Louise Barrett, daughter of Charles R. Barrett. Joe Wallace was instantly killed and David McElroy fatally injured at the St. Lawrence mine, Butte, Mont. The engineer failed to stop the engine, and the cage was carried up into the timbers. Leigh Hough, brought to Owatonna, Minn., from Guthrie, Ky., charged with murdering Joe M. Clark, has made a full confession to Sheriff J. Z. Barncard and several witnesses. His confession clears three companions. Thomas Coffey, manager of the Detroit office of the Vermont Marble Company, has been missing since Oct. 3 and his family and friends have become anxious about him. So far as known there is no shortage in his accounts. Plans contemplating the investment of from $500,000 to $1,000,000 by Eastern capitalists in sugar factories and refineries have been consummated in Denver, and an agreement has been signed by 100 farmers pledging themselves to the cultivatioin of 1,000 acres of sugar beets. At Portland, Ore., Francis Seely, Government tea inspector, condemned 830 chests of tea which arrived from the Orient on the steamship Monmouthshire. Several days ago he condemned 422 chests consigned to a Chicago firm. The entire lot was found to be old, trashy tea, unfit for use. At a meeting of the California board of university regents, the resignation of Director E. S. Holden of the Lick Observatory was presented and accepted, to take effect on Jan. 1 next, when his leave of absence expires. Meantime Prof. James S. Haberle was appointed acting director of the observatory. An attempt was made to murder Editor Moffat of the Bismarck, N. D., Settler, five shots being fired by some unknown person. This is the second attempt on his life, and three weeks ago his presses and type were dumped into the Missouri River. Ho has been making a bitter war on the saloon and gambling element. There was a riot among the prisoners in the St. Louis jail, during which twenty desperate negroes engaged in a fight among themselves. Deputy Jailer Wagner turned in the riot alarm to the police, who overpowered the combatants and placed them in dungeons. The fight started over a game of craps, in which 80 cents was involved. in a lecture delivered before the chemists of the University Science Association on “The Transmutation of Metals,” Edmund O’Neill, associate professor of chemistry at the University of California, declared the possibility of making gold from silver, and said there was an excellent basis to support the claim for the union of metals and that the ultimate solution of the problem was an achievement science expects. News just received from Long Valley, Idaho, says that there has been a battle

between the settlers and the shepherds, in which three men were killed and one dangerously wounded. Details are meager, but it seems that fifteen of the settlers warned the sheepmen to leave the valley and when they refused, made an attack upon the sheep camp. Thirty shots were fired by the settlers and a man named Barber was wounded. The sheepmen then returned the fire, killing three of the settlers. The rest of the attacking party fled. It is thought that Barber was killed. Victory for the laymen marked the opening hour of one business session of tire Rock River conference at Chicago. Boon after the ministers had been called to order in the Western Avenue Methodist Church Rev. P. H. Swift, secretary of the committee of five, made his report It recommended the adoption of the proposition for a constitutional change granting equal representation in numbers of preachers and laymen at the Methodist general conference held every four years. This proposition was favored by a unanimous vote. In addition the conference passed the resolutions favoring the laity, which was also presented Monday, after the laymen’s association committee had been heard by the clergy. As the action was expected, it did not arouse much enthusiasm, but the church members present, when the report was made and the action was taken, joined in hearty applause. At Dubuque, lowa, by a vote of 141 to 8 the Upper lowa Methodist Episcopal conference declared for the proposition to increase lay representation at the quadrennial general conference.

SOUTHERN.

Four men held up the cannon ball train on the International and Great Northern Railroad in daylight and but twelve miles from Austin, Texas. They robbed the passengers of S2OO and wounded the conductor and another man, but couldn’t break open the express safe. The jury in the famous ease of Mrs. Atkinson, on trial at Glenville, W. Va., for forging her former husband’s name, disagreed and was discharged by the court. The jury stood seven for acquittal and five for conviction. It is not believed that the case will be tried again. John R. Branyon, a wealthy cotton planter and well known as a Democratic politician at Mechanicsville, Ga., was awakened one night recently by a noise in the rear of his house. He took his gun and went back to investigate and saw a man entering the main body of the house from the kitchen. He demanded to know who it was, and, failing to receive an answer, sent two loads of buckshot into the body of the intruder. Then obtaining a light he stooped over his victim and recognized his 16-year-old son, Robert. The boy was dying, but had strength enough left to wrap his arms about his neck and say that he forgave him for the shooting. Ever since the appearance of yellow fever in Texas refugees from Galveston, Houston and other cities in the Lone Star State have been flocking to St. Louis. A special train, carrying sixty-five passengers from Houston and Galveston, has lately arrived there. Among those on board was Dr. John Guiteras, the yellow fever expert of the United States Marine Hospital service. He said there was absolutely no danger in allowing these refugees to come to St. Louis. Dr. Starkloff, health commissioner of St. Louis, takes the same view. A majority of these passengers will stay in St. Louis, while the others will scatter about the country on business or pleasure. Dr. Guiteras said he was en route to his home in Philadelphia, as he had finished his tour of inspection in the South. He will make an exhaustive report of his inspection to his chief, Surgeon General Wyman. The Knights of Honor in New Orleans have organized a relief committee and notified the grand jurisdictions throughout the country jthat they are prepared to look after any members of the order Who may be sojourning in that city pending the prevailing fever and see that fraternal care and attention be accorded such members as may become afflicted.

WASHINGTON.

Senator Tillman is suffering from a severe attack of catarrhal jaundice. Commissioner of Immigration Powderly will try to bar out Louise Michel, the French anarchist, when she comes. It is believed the representatives of United States and Russia will be raised to the rank of ambassador this winter. First Lieutenant George L. Anderson, Fourth Artillery, has beeu appointed military attache to the legation at St. Petersburg. Maud G. Badgley, a clerk in the general land office at Washington, committed suicide by jumping from Cabin John’s bridge, about six miles west of the city. The drop to the ravine below the bridge is about 125 feet. The comptroller of the currency has declared dividends in favor of the creditors of insolvent national banks as follows: Twenty-five per cent., the Merchants’ National Bank of Helena, Mont.; 12% per cent., the First National Bank of Mount Pleasant, Mich.; 12 per cent., the First National Bank of Port Angeles, Wash.; 10.167 per cent., the First National Bank of Dayton, Tenn. Chief Justice Fuller, when the Supreme Court met at Washington, announced that the Joint Traffic Railroad Association case from New York and the Laclede Gas Light case from St. Louis had been assigned by the court for argument on the first Monday in next January. The arguments had been set for this month, but Justice Field's retirement leaves the bench with only eight members, and, in view of the important constitutional questions presented by these two cases, it was desired that they should be heard by a full bench.

FOREIGN.

The sultan is making efforts to obtain the withdrawal of American missionaries from the interior of Asia Minor. The rebellion in the eastern part of Guatemala is becoming very serious and the insurgents are encamped not far from the capital. The London Daily News says thqre is a good prospect of a general treaty of arbitration between Great Britain and the United States. Oil is now used as fuel for the Cromer express on the Great Eastern Railway in England, which runs 130 miles at the rate of 78% miles an hour. The steamrhip Hesperides is ashore on Outer Diamond shoals, off Cape Hatteras, and the vessel will be u total loss, with her cargo of pig iron. Rheinbold Stenzel, editor of the Hamburg Echo, has been sentenced to eight

months is jail for leze majesty against King Leopold of Belgium. A German shop keeper in Valparaiso, Chili, has been fined and imprisoned for exhibiting a small copy of the famous group, “The Three Graces.” It is stated in Paris that an association has been formed in the United States to secure the escape of Captain Albert Dreyfus from his prison on the Isle du Salut. Spain’s reply to Minister Woodford’s note has been prepared, and says that while Spain cannot set a date for the ending of the Cuban war, it believes its new plans will soon result in pacification of the island. The Berlin correspondent of the London Standard says it is asserted there that Russia, Japan and the United States have already assented to the assumption of the title of emperor by the King of Corea, but China intends to protest The British foreign office officials appeared to be astonished at what they termed the “tone of surprise” assumed by Secretary Sherman in his reply to the note of the Marquis of Salisbury expressing Great Britain’s declination to be represented in the conference with Russia and Japan. The officials reiterate that the Marquis of Salisbury agreed to join in a conference of sealing experts representing the United States, Canada and Great Britain, but, they add, he did not agree to take part in a conference nn the subject with Russia and Japan. The foreign officials will be unable to say what the British Government is prepared to do until Secretary Sherman’s latest dispatch on the conference is received. The Times comments as follows: “Allowing for the peculiarities of American diplomacy, there is no reason to quarrel with Secretary Sherman’s reply on the subject of the Bering Sea conference. We entirely disbelieve that Lord Salisbury in his oral communications with Ambassador Hay ever departed from the position adopted in his final note of July 28. But it is unnecessary to deal seriously with expressions of astonishment obviously intended to cover the failure of an attempt to bluff the British Government in a manner disapproved by the leading organs of American opinion.”

IN GENERAL.

John A. Chanler, former husband of Amelie Rives, has been sent to Bloomingdale, suffering from paresis. A plan is on foot to make the Yukon Valley a separate territory under the name of Lincoln, with Eli Gage of Chicago as its first governor. The Sons of the American Revolution and Sons of the Revolution have agreed upon a plan of union under the name Society of the American Revolution. A jury has awarded Mrs. Lang $20,030 damages against the city of Victoria, B. C., for the death of her husband, Dr. Lang, in the Point Ellice bridge disaster in May- 1896. The United States steamship Philadelphia arrived at San Francisco from Honolulu. She will transfer her crew to the Baltimore, which is being fitted out for a cruise to the Hawaiian Islands as speedily as possible. Commander-in-chief Gobin of the G. A. R. has made the following appointments: Inspector general, Alonzo Williams, Providence, R. I.; judge advocate general, Eli Torrence, Minneapolis, Minn.; senior aid-de-camp, Milton A. G. Herst, Lebanon, Pa. . The American board of commissioners of foreign missions elected these officers: President, Charles fit. Lamson, D. D., Hartford, Conn.; vice-president, D. Willis James, New York; treasurer, Frank H. Wiggins; auditors, E. H. Baker, E. R. Brown and Henry T. Cobb. The international court of arbitration which is to pass on the British-Venezuela boundary has been completed by the selection of M. Maertens, a distinguished Russian jurist, as umpire, and arrangements are being made for the assembling of the court at Paris during the late summer or fall of next year. M. Maertens will act not only as umpire, but also as president of the court. The Bessemer Steamship Company of Cleveland, John D. Rockefeller’s big line of lake steamers and tow barges, closed a contract for the three largest ships ever constructed for service on fresh water. The contract went to F. W. Wheeler & Co. of Bay City, and is for one steamer and two consorts. The three must be completed by next May, and all together will carry over 20,000 tons of iron ore on a single trip on a draft of seventeen feet. The boats will cost between $500,000 and $600,000. They will be equipped with everything modern for the rapid handling of a cargo, and will be very speedy.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 91c to 92c; corn, No. 2,25 cto 26c; oats, No. 2,18 c to 19c; rye, No. 2,44 cto 46c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 15c; new potatoes, 40c to 50c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,92 cto 93c; corn, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; bogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,95 cto 97c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 24c to 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2,42 cto 43c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,90 cto 92c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 48c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,92 cto 93c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, 46c to 48c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 93c to 94c; <vrn, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 26c; oats. No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 48c; clover seed, $3.30 to $3.35. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 85c to 87c; corn, No. 3,25 cto 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 1,45 cto 47c; barley, No. 2,40 cto 43c; pork, mess, $7.50 to SB.OO. Buffalo—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 92c to 94c; corn, Jo. 2 yellow, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c. New York —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 95c to 96c; corn, No. 2,31 cto 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; batter, creamery, 15c to 23c; eggs. Western, 16c to 18c.

CHANGES IN CABINET.

JUSTICE FIELD’S RETIREMENT MAY NECESSITATE THEM. The President Will Await Results in Ohio and New York Before Making Appointments—Fatal Collision in a Kentucky Horse Race. May Be a Shaking Up. As to President McKinley’s intention* regarding the appointment of a new Attorney General in case Mr. McKenna is promoted to the supreme bench, the general opinion in Washington is that Judge Day, the first assistant Secretary of State, will either be made Attorney General and a new assistant secretary selected or that Sherman will retire, Day be appointed to succeed him and other changes and promotions made to fit the circumstances. So far as can be learned by Washington correspondents, however, the President has no intention of asking Mr. Sherman to resign, and the Secretary has said that he had never given the idea a moment’s thought, and that he would remain to the end. The result in-both Ohio and New York will have a direct influence on the President’s action in reconstructing his cabinet. Dun’s Weekly Report. R. G. Dun & Oo.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “Foreign trade in September, the heavy increase in iron production and consumption and the largest payments through clearings ever known in October are indications which outweigh hesitation in some markets. The increase in employment of labor has continued with further accounts daily of works opening, increasing force of hands or raising of wages, and at every point where actual production can be tested it appears greater than ever before. Sales of wool for two weeks have been 24,331,600 pounds at the three chief markets. Wheat has been fairly steady, but moving more largely than last year from the farms and from the country. Failures for the week have been 223 in the United States, against 328 last year.”

Boy Accused of Murder. Thirteen-year-old Johnnie Matthews was arrested at Guthrie, O. T., charged with murdering the 5-year-old son of Capt. L. L. Bridges, a well-known attorney, formerly of Sedalia, Mo. The boys quarreled and a few hours later the murdered boy was found dead lying in front of his father’s house, with a bullet wound in his head. The bullet came from across the street, apparently from the Matthews house, where a recently fired rifle was found. Collide at a Horse Race. At Green Grove, Ky., Sam Smith of Kettle Creek and a son of Will Henry Ross of New Albany, Ky., while racing their horses collided, killing both animals instantly. Smith’s right leg was broken three or four times above the knee and once below. He is injured internally and terribly bruised. His eyes are badly injured and his right arm crushed. Ross is in about the same condition.

BREVITIES.

Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, died at his home in Glencove, Long Island. Merchants and manufacturers of France gave President Faure a great banquet in honor of his recent visit to Russia. Gov. Tanner has accepted the resignation of H. B. Gilman as ensign, second division, Second battalion, naval militia of Illinois. The town of Windsor, N. S., was fireswept and 3,000 people are homeless. The direct financial loss is $1,500,000, with about $500,000 insurance. A. O. Jones, owner of the Jones Brick and Terra Cotta Company of Zanesville, Ohio, has made an assignment. He will be able to meet all claims. Douglass Bolte, a negro leader, was lynched at a small settlement on Bayou Barataria, about fifteen miles from New Orleans. His offense was running the quarantine blockade. Eugene V. Debs has played the first card of his Social Democracy scheme down in Tennessee by bidding in the name of his organization for the contract to build a $300,000 railroad for the city of Nashville. Judge Foster in the Federal Court at Leavenworth, Kan., sentenced Joseph W. Oliver, convicted of dynamiting the residence of Gov. Smith of the Soldiers’ Home, to six years’ imprisonment at Fort Leavenworth. At Montreal, an organization known as the Canadian Independence Club has issued a manifesto which was distributed throughout the city, stating that the time had come for Canada to throw off its connection with England. United States Senator Gorman has issued an open letter to Edwin F. Abell, publisher of the BaltimoreJSun, in whic& he offers to relinquish the leadership of the Democracy in Maryland, providing Mr. Abell will accept it. The prompt manner in which the Dauphin County, Pa., courts declared unconstitutional the anti-fusion law passed by the last Legislature cause widespread interest in Illinois and neighboring States which have similar laws. In all probability test suits will be entered in other States as a result of the ruling of the Pennsylvania court. The anti-fusion law was passed in the shape of an amendment to the Baker “blanket” ballot act It is stated that Gov. Hastings would not have approved the anti-fusion amendment if it had stood alone. The trial of Martin Thorn, accused with Mrs. Augusta Nack of the murder of William Guldensuppe in New York, has been postponed until Nov. 8. Mrs. Charles Lonergan of Syracuse has identified the body of a man found on the track at Mntteawan, N. Y., as that of her husband. The body was sent to Chicago, where his mother resides. Evangelina Cossio y Cisneros hasWopted this country as her home. She haa signed her declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States at New York. Under the terms of her oath she has renounced all allegiance to Spain. Rev. Francis E. Marsten of the Broad Street Presbyterian Church, Columbus, 0., has accepted a call to the First Presbyterian Church of Boston. George Greenwood, for many years a prominent business man of Duluth, Minn,, committed suicide by shooting. No cause is assigned for his action.

THE FORT SHERIDAN OUTRAGE.

Inhuman Cruelty Perpetrated Upon an Enlisted Man. ‘ There has been as much solemn pondering at Washington over the LoveringHamanond outrage at Fort Sheridan an

CAPTAIN COVERING

saw the same report he thought of hi» general commanding the army and suggested that it be laid before him. Gen. Miles read the report and returned it to the Secretary of War with a few oral comments on the action which the Secretary proposed to take. Then Gen. Alger carried the report under his arm to the cabinet meeting, and the much-handled document was discussed by that body. Captain Lovering’s act at Fort Sheridan is very generally considered as one of inhuman 1 cruelty. —The Fourth regiment of infantry, Col. Hall commanding, is located at the fort near Chicago. Saturday Capt. Lovering was officer of the

DRAGGING PRIVATE HAMMOND TO COURT

day. Among the prisoners confined in the guard house was private Hammond. Hammond is not connected with the Fort Sheridan command. He is stationed at Plattsburg, N. Y., and a few weeks ago asked for leave of absence to visit his mother, who lives in Chicago. It was denied him and he left without permission. There is a rule which makes it desertion for a soldier to be absent from his

post longer than nine days without permission. Hammond came to Chicago, and on the ninth day surrendered himself at Fort Sheridan, and asked the officers to notify the Platts-, burg Post. He wasp placed in the guard’ house to await thej reply. The following morning he was notified by the officer of the day, Capt. Lov-1

ering, to report for work. He refused on the ground that he was not a regular prisoner. Capt. Lovering sent four men to take him out of the guard house. Hammond lay down and refused to move. Lovering then directed the men to cross his legs and tie them with a stout rope. This was done and then, under direction of the captain, the men dragged Hammond out of the guard house. Down the steps of the guard house Hammond was bumped. The four soldiers soon became sick of their task. They hesitated when they had crossed the road and got on the stone sidewalk. The captain would have no delay. He prodded the prisoner several times so that in pity the four soldiers hurried on with their terrible task. None of them had ever seen a soldier treated in such a brutal way and they obeyed through fear of similar punishment. Hammond’s face was distorted with pain and blood was oozing from several wounds as he was dragged along up the stairway to the summary court. There a light punishment was meted out to him. It is said that Lovering prodded Hammond with his swotd as he was dragged along the road.

STRANGLED BY BURGLARS.

Farmer Adam Hoffman Is Murdered Near Brimfield, Ind. Adam Hoffman, a wealthy bachelor farmer, living near Brimfield, Ind., wa» murdered by two men, whose intention it was to rob him. Hoffman sold a large amount of wheat and stock the past week and it is asserted that the men, thinking he had the money at has home, committed the crime while seeking the money. At midnight a farm hand living with Hoffman was awakened by a noise in an adjoining room, which sounded like the tramping of men. The boy quickly crawled under the bed and shortly after the men entered, a lighted match was thrust under the bed and the boy was ered,. He was ordered from his hiding place nt the point of a revolver and placed on the bed, bound hand and foot and securely gagged. He was warned that If he attempted to give an alarm he would be killed. The men’ next went to the old man’s room. Hoffman was ordered to pass over his money. He denied that he had any money in the house, saying that he never kept money there. The men began to threaten and choke him to force him to disclose to them his hiding place. His aapds were firmly bound together and tied to his legs; his feet were likewise bound and then fastened to the bed. It is thought the men continued the choking until life was extinct. The men then searched the house from cellar to roof, but failed to find any money.

News of Minor Note.

Daniel S. Lamont has been elected president of the Northern Pacific Express Company. Rev. Dr. Newell Salbright, professor of Biblical and historical theology in the Iliff school of theology, died at Denver after a brief illness. One hundred carpenters employed at the Trans-Mississippi exposition grounds struck work pt Omaha. The men ask that the carpenters’ union be recognized and that skilled labor alone be employed tn the carpenter work.

if the captain’s life hung in the balance. When Maj. GenBrooke’s report from his chief aid-de-camp’s point of view tvas received by the Secretary of War that official consider,ed it well and wrote rout his recommendations to lay before the President.' The adjutant general also examined the report. When the President

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