Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1897 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - -NDIaNA.

NATION IS SUPREME.

POSTMASTERS* SALARIES ARE EXEMPT FROM TAXATION. State* or Municipalities Cannot Le<alljr Fix the Emolument of Federal Servant*-Retail Trade and Manufacturing Is Aided by Colder Weather Nice Point Decided. The issue as to whether a State or municipality can levy an income tax on the salary or compensation of a postmaster, a subject of broad interest to the Federal service generally, was decided in an opinion rendered by Acting Assistant Attorney General Harrison J. Barrett for the Postoffice Department at Washington. The case arose on an inquiry from the poetmaster at Gastonia, N. C. It held that » State has no authority to tax the emoluments paid to any officers or agents which the United States may use and employ as necessary and proper means to execute Ms sovereign power. Mr. Barrett says: “The Government of the United States is supreme within its sphere of actioixjftn’l any act of State or municipality which attempts to tax the emoluments paid to the officers of the Government is unconstitutional and void. If the power existed in a State to tax the officers or agents of the Government it could thereby impair the power of the United States in the execution of its sovereignty.” Cold Weather Helps Trade. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: “Colder weather has done much to accelerate retail trade, so greatly delayed in many lines by unusually mild and open weather. The production increases on the whole, and many manufacturers are unable to take all the offers, while others are committed as far ahead as they are willing to be. Failures for the week have been 2G7 in the United States, against 334 last year, and 32 in Canada, against 40 last year.” Bradstreet’s says: “There is a moderate improvement in staple prices and in distribution of woolen goods, shoes, hats and hardware in the region tributary to Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and Omaha. Higher prices are recorded for wheat, corn, oats, sirup, hides, leather, shoes and for turpentine. The total exports of wheat (flour included as wheat) from both coasts of the United States and from Montreal this week aggregate 6,(153,792 bushels, against 5,445,542 bushels last week. Corn exports also show a gain aggregating 3.209,790 bushels for' the ■week, against 2,975,721 last year.”

BREVITIES.

Feri Seott, Kan., has been suffering from a water famine. Fire destroyed $25,000 worth of property at lia Grange, O. At Greenfield, Mass., John O’Neill, Jr., the murderer of Mrs. Hattie E. McCloud, was sentenced to be hanged on Jan. 7, 1808. Aid. George Durnam of Minneapolis, conviotcd of demanding a bribe of $lO,000, was sentenced to six years and a half at hard labor in the penitentiary. Attorney Van Martin,former prominent lawyer and politician, committed suicide in jail at Stillwater, O. T., while awaiting trial for embezzlement and forgery. Chas. EX Meuser, formerly city clerk of Durango, Cblo., surrendered himself to the police in Chicago, saying that he had embezzled SSOO of the city funds of Durango. Commodore Dewey, president of the naval trial board, has returned to Washington from the sea trial of the lowa, ■which he declares is the best ship of her class in the world. John D. Rockefeller telegraphed to the faculty of Mount Holyoke College at South Hadley, Mass., that he will add $10,600 to his previous gift of $40,000 to complete Rockefeller Hall. Mrs. M. A. Trigg, aged 52 years, and her 10-year-old daughter Ethel lost their lives,in a fire that destroyed their residence in Topeka, Kan. The mother perished in trying to save her child. M. Patenotre, the French ambassador, has referred the question of reciprocity with the United States back to his Government, and there is no immediate prospect of the conclusion of the negotiations. William Lsekridge of Kansas. City, whose sentence to five years in the penitentiary for robbing the Bank of Savannah St Savannah, Mo., two years ago, was recently confirmed by the State Supreme Court, lias disappeared. He was out eu a $3,000 bond. Jobs R. Scott, the colored politician and Ileiniblican leader in E'lorida, is in the county jail at Jacksonville, charged with the inorder of Rev. Obadiah Adams, pastor st St. James’ A. M. E. Church, in Brooklyn suburb. Seott and Adams had a revolver duel ti-.ere. When a jury in the District Court in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, acquitted twa murderers Judge Laughlin said: “Gentlemen, I find it is entirely useless to prosecute crimes in this county. It seems that murder is justified here. You can all be discharged permanently and go home.” A huge combination of capital, with St. Louis as the central figure, has been formed. The St. Louis interests are those of the Niedringhaus Brothers, known as the St. Ixtuis Stamping Company, and the Qranifie City Steel Company. The plan is to concentrate at that point the manufacture of <*nameled ware, which will hereafter be entirely under the patents of the Niedringhaus concern. The combine will have $25,000,000 capital. J. P. Morris, a young man, killed himself with a revolver in the Hotel Pfister at Milwaukee. He had registered as coming from Madison, Wis. The Hyland & Brown department store at Elmira, N. Y., has given chattel mortgages amounting to $65,000 to creditors. The assets and liabilities are each $150,000. The ohinook winds and rains are playing havoc throughout western Washington State. Telegraph lines are down in all dtrections, rivers and small streams •re awaHen, and railroads are suffering Crons washouts and flooded tracks.

EASTERN.

Oil rock fit for fuel has been discovered on a farm near Carthage, Me. Six Mohammedan polygamists have been ordered deported from New York. While trying to save her little son at St. Jean Baptiste, R. 1., Mrs. Arthur Fortin was struck by a train and killed. Alfred Ordway, the portrait painter, died at Melrose, Mass., aged 78 years. He was one of the founders of the Boston Art Club. The-storehouse of the C. A. Woolsey paint and color works, in Jersey City; fell. No one was hurt. The loss to the company will be about $20,000. The Pennsylvania board of pardons has rejected the application for a pardon of Alexander Bcrkmann, the anarchist who shot H. C. Frick during the Homestead strike. William Sidney Wilson, a prominent lawyer and son of the late United States Senator Wilson, committed suicide at his home in Snow Hill, Md., while temporarily insane. Mrs. Susan Gessler Pague has begun suit at Lancaster, Pa., for divorce from her husband, who, while a lieutenant at Fort Sheridan several years ago, shot Col. Crofton. She alleges cruelty and non-support. Rev. David R. Breed, D. D., formerly of Chicago, and now pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg, has been requested to accept the chair of sacred rhetoric and elocution in the Western Theological Seminary. Joseph A. lasigi, formerly Turkish consul at Boston, convicted of embezzlement, has been sentenced to serve a term of not more than eighteen nor less than fourteen years in State's prison, with one day solitary confinement and the rest of the term at hard labor. Samuel J. K. Adler of New York has sued his double, Gen. Saul M. Arnold, for $500,000 damages. He charges that Arnold married a Nebraska girl under Adler's name, and that in consequence Mrs. Adler secured a divorce on the charge that Adler had committed bigamy. The problem of how State convicts shall be kept at Work without competing with free labor has seemingly been solved by lhe law which went into effect in New York Jan. 1 of this year. This law provided that all State institutions, departments and political divisions should purchase all their supplies and articles of equipment from the prisons if such could be manufactured there. Since the law went into operation requisitions have been received for over $750,000 worth of goods, which guarantees the continuous employment of convicts. As it costs but $500,000 annually to maintain the prisons, they are therefore made self-sustain-ing under the new system. Speaking of the matter at Albany, Gen. Austin Lathrop, superintendent of State prisons, said: “We are gratified with the result of the first year's working of the new system of convict labor, and I. shall so report to the Legislature. None of the methods of employing convicts during my administration of ten years have been self-supporting with the exception of the new one. An enormous amount of money will be saved to the State.”

WESTERN.

The public school building at West Unity, Ohio, was destroyed by fire. Mrs. M. A. Dorn of Selma, Cal., laughed so heartily that she ruptured a blood vessel and died. At Newark, €)., Mrs. Mcllissa Yates died from an overdose of morphine taken for rheumatism. H. Compton and his young wife were killed by the cars at Compton, Cal., while crossing the track in a wagon. The Montana Supreme Court has sustained the constitutionality of the inheritance law passed by the last Legislature. Anton Kozlowski, Polish priest of Chicago, has been consecrated a bishop of the Independent Catholics of North America, Lars Olsen, a pioneer of Howard, 8. D., was found dead in bed. He was asphyxiated. Mrs. Olsen was unconscious, but is recovering. Recent fires in the girls’ quarters at the Carlisle Indian school, it has been discovered, were set by girl pupils, who have been arrested. The new owners of the Cincinnati Com-mercial-Tribune say that Murat Halstead will have nothing to do with the management* o's the paper. According to a New York dispatch George Wheeler Hinman is to succeed William Penn Nixon as editor-in-chief of the Chicago Inter Ocean. The Territorial Press Association, in session at Hennessey, O. T., adopted resolutions favoring the creation of a State from Oklahoma Territory. Suit has been begun at Toledo, Ohio, against the Woolson Spice Company for over SIOO,OOO ’back taxes alleged to be due on credits and cash not listed for taxation. The Missouri Supreme Court has affirmed the judgment of the criminal courtin the case of George Thompson, a negro, convicted of murder, and set Jan. 7 as the date of his execution. Chief Justice Corliss of the North Dakota Supreme Court declares that Condot, the half-breed who was lynched by a mob, was innocent of complicity in the murder of the-Spicer family. The Short Line Railway from Colorado Springs to Cripple Creek, a distance of forty miles, will be built by a company composed of Franklin D. Rogers, Woodman S. Eaton and other Eastern men. S. M. Folsom, former president of the Albuquerque National Bank, serving a five years’ sentence for falsifying the published statements of the bank, has been granted a full pardon by the President. Col. Leopard Hein, a Bavarian, died penniless and of a broken heart at St. Louis. For twenty-five years he had been searching for a sweetheart from whom he was parted by his parents in Germany. He was 55 years old. The Ohio Supreme Court has decided that the Clark law passed by the last Legislature, requiring that in filling appointive county and city offices preference should be given to honorably discharged Union soldiers, is invalid. A passenger train on the Cleveland, Canton and Southern Railway was derailed on the approach to a bridge over the Pettibone brook. Two of the passenger coaches rolled over the embankment into the ditch. Sixty persons were aboard, but only three were injured. The little village of Rozel, Kan., has completely disappeared from the face of the earth. The ground sank beneath it

and the whole village sank into a chasm, which the next morning was found filled to within seventy feet of the surface with dark, stagnant-looking water. Dr. Mulholland, a physician at Junction, 0., was held up and robbed on the bridge over the Auglaize river in Pauldjng County. Dr. Mulholland had been called into the country. When returning in a buggy he was stopped by two masked men. He was Wounded in making resistance. An immense claim embracing, 7,000,000 acres of land in the Northwest and including the cities of Minneapolis and St, Paul, has been brought before Commissioner Hermann of the general land office at Washington. The claimants are C. B. Holloway of Holland, Ohio, and A. U. Gunn, of Maumee, Ohio. A panic was caused in St. Xavier school in Cincinnati by the upsetting of a stove. Some of the frightened children jumped from the windows, while others were thrown down by the maddened efforts of the stronger ones to escape. The fire was quickly subdued and the four seriously injured pupils were sent home in patrol wagons. George Seagraves, proprietor of a St. Louis restaurant, reproved his two grown sons for some trivial offense and they made a murderous assault on him. One of the sous drew a revolver and used it to club his father into insensibility. Both then fled, but one was captured and lodged in jail.*. The father’s skull is crushed and he cannot live. The Montana State Trade and Labor Association has adopted resolutions condemning the interference of the United States Court with the Chinese boycott there and other boycotts elsewhere on the ground that the boycott of organized labor is a defensive instrument, an expression of the right to extend patronage to those who, by employing union labor, patronize labor. George M. Hughes of Anadarko, I. T., has arrived in Wichita, Kan., on a trip to secure 20,000 colonists for the Wichita country to settle in and about the Wichita Mountains before Jan. 7 and by sheer persistency and force of numbers compel Congress to open the country to settlement. Hughes is one of twenty men who are now making a systematic canvass in Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas for “boomers” to locate in the new country. The plan is to inaugurate a promiscuous immigration into the Indian country at once and begin to hunt for gold, demanding of Congress, at the same time, the opening of the Wichita reservation. The movement promises to surpass the famous colony expedition into Oklahoma by Captain Payne. A deputy sheriff, a Santa Fe deputy and a policeman, while attempting to arrest a dattle thief in the postoffice at Emporia, Kan., -were all three disarmed by the single man, who escaped. Sheriff Gaughan had received a telegram asking that a man named Kooken be arrested. Deputy Sheriff Fred Wagner, Santa b e Detective Laws and Policeman Al Randolph went to the postoffice and placed Kooken under arrest while he was reading a letter. “All right,” said Kooken, “I’ll go with you in a minute,” and commenced placing his letter in his pocket. Like a flash he pulled a revolver in each hand, shoved one into the face of Wagner ami coolly said: “Cough up your gun,” and almost in the same breath covered the other two officers. In a moment the three men were disarmed. Shoving -the pistols into his overcoat pocket the man rushed for the door and disappeared. A posse of deputy sheriffs and the entire police force are now out hunting him. A decision that is of interest throughout the country to organized labor has been rendered in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis. Ac--eevding to the opinions, of Judges Thayer and Sanborn, the boycott is not a legal weapon. Judge Caldwell, however, takes exception to the views of the other two judges, and sets forth his opinion in emphatic terms. In his opinion Judge Caldwell says: “Whether organized labor has just grounds to declare a strike or boycott is not a judicial question. They are labor’s only weapons, and they are lawful and legitimate weapons, and so long as in their use there is no force or threat of violence or trespass upon person or property, their use cannot be restrained. In the case of a strike or boycott, so long as each side is orderly and peaceful, they must be permitted to terminate their struggle in their own way, without extending to one party the adventitious aid of an injunction. All capital seeks to increase its power by combinations, and to that end assumes the form of corporations and trusts. The struggle is constant between the laborers whose labor produces the dividends and those who enjoy them. The'manager is tempted to reduce wages to increase dividends, and the laborer resists the reduction and demand living wages. Sometimes the struggle reaches the point of open rupture. When it does the only weapon of defense the laborers can appeal to is the strike or boycott, or both. These weapons they have an undoubted right to use so long as they use them in peaceable and orderly .manner.”

SOUTHERN.

William Moody of Augusta, Ga., killed himself after a quarrel with his young wife. Robert Sims (Colored) was hanged at Jonesboro, Tenn. Sims shot and killed Walter Galloway July 9. William Mays, who'shot and killed C. D. Messingill on June 15, in Sullivan County, Tenn., was hanged at Blountsville. Mrs. Joseph Wilmont, the wife of a well-known farmer living near Hubb'.e, Ky., shot down a negro burglar who was forcing his way into the house. At the Allen farm, near Bryan, Texas, while gambling for pecans, a negro named General Chetham was stabbed twice and killed. Another negro, Tom Sweat, was arrested for the crime and while being conveyed to Millican by a posse was taken from his guards and strung up to the limb of a tree. The vigilantes are said to have been negroes. A train on the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad was derailed just west of Williford, Ark. The combination coach, chair car a.nd sleeper went over the bank, the combination car going into Spring river. The chair car and sleeper were both consumed. One passenger was fatally injured and twenty-two others more or less seriously hurt.

WASHINGTON.

John Addison Porter, private secretary to the President, denies the report that he will be a candidate to succeed Senator Hawley. Secretary Alger has issued an order for the retirement of Lieut. Col. W. £.

Waters, deputy surgeon-general, under the thirty years’ service act. The secretary of the navy has ordered an investigation of charges that discrimination against Grand Army veterans is practiced in Che employment of men at Mare island navy yard. The question of more economical, efficient and responsible administration of the volunteer soldiers’ homes will be made the subject of investigation by Congress as a result of the recent inspection of these institutions by Brigadier General J. C. Breckinridge, inspector general of the army. That officer will urge in his report the necessity of greater accountability of the board of managers of the homes for the expenditure of money received, and that their status with relation to the Government be definitely established. Gen. •Breckenridge will suggest the advisability of a complete transfer of the administration of the homes to the jurisdiction of the Secretary of-War and the creation of a new bureau of the War Department to manage its affairs.

FOREIGN.

President Pierola of Peru has had a relapse and his condition is now critical. Countess Teresa Ulfeld of Russia committed suicide in an Edinburgh police station. Loreto, Ecuador, has been destroyed by a hurricane. It is reported that the loss, of life was very heavy. The sultan of Turkey has declared his willingness to give Austria full satisfaction for the Messing incident. An official denial is made of the report that Gen. Weyler is to be appointed governor general of the Philippine Islands. The Trans-Siberian Railway is completed, with the exception of a short section along the Arnoor river and around Lake Balkan. Turkey has promptly yielded to Austria’s demands and has dismissed the officials responsible for indignities offered to an Austrian merchant at Messina. In a thicket in the upper Harz mountains, Germany, a granite monument has been found with the inscription: “Here in the year 1747 the first trials were made with the cultivation of the potato.” A tunnel ten miles long, which will be the longest in England, is to be cut through Shap Fells by the London and Northwestern Railroad, in order to shorten the west coast route to Scotland. The Competitor prisoners have at last been released from Cubana fortress by order of Captain General Blanco, acting in accordance with orders from Spain. The men will all sail direct for New York, Consul Machride at Edinburgh says, in a report to the State Department at Washington, that it is claimed in that city that American frozen beef has a great sale, but that it is made clandestinely. The Spanish newspaper Nacional asserts that Spain will grant Gen. Weyler the grand cross of Saint Ferdinand and a yearly pension of $2,000, besides appointing him captain general of the Philippines. Several cargoes of American'" cereals which recently arrived at Buenos Ayres could not be sold and will be taken to Europe. This refusal of American cereals is due to the fact that Argentina’s crop is more than sufficient for home use. The sentence of the lower court against Dr. Peters, charged with cruelty to natives while German high commissioner to Africa, has been confirmed by court martial. He is dismissed from the service and ordered to pay costs of prosecution. In order to punish the inhabitants of the town of Kong, capital of the kingdom of Kong, in the Mandingo region, of Upper Guinea, for their refusal to supply his troops with provisions, Chief Samory has razed the town and massacred several thousand natives.

IN GENERAL.

Charles Sommer, general agent for Me.fico of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, committed suicide because his management was criticised. A snowslide occurred on the Noble Five mountain range near Gannon, in the Slocan district, British Columbia. Two miners were caught and one was crushed to death. An order in the Canadian council has been passed permitting American fishing vessels to land cargoes in Canadian ports on the Pacific coast and to have fish shipped thence in bond to the United States. The order is for six months only, and is to be tried as an experiment to please the people. At Vancouver vessels are not permitted, however, to purchase supplies.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to-$5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 94c to 96c; corn, No. 2,26 cto 27c; oats, No. 2,21 c to 22c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 48c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 17c to 19c; new potatoes, 40c to 55c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,91 cto 93c; corn, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,96 cto 98c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 25c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2,45 cto 47c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2,92 cto 94c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2,46 cto 47c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25: wheat, No. 2,91 eto 93c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye, 48c to 49c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 94c to 95e; corn, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 28c; oats. No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 49c; clover seed, $3.20 to $3.30. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 86c to 87c; corn, No. 3,26 cto 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c; barley, No. 2,40 cto 44c; pork, mess, $7.00 to $7.50. Buffalo—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 95c to 97c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.50 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 98c to $1.00; corn, No, 2. 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c; butter, creamery, 15c to 24c; eggs, Western, 21c to 23c.

FOUND FOSSIL BONES

RELICS OF MEN WHO HUNTED THE MAMMOIH. Prehistoric Arrow Head Has Been Found by Scientists Near Kimmswick, Mo.—Lay Near Fossil Bones American Missionary Arrested. Scientists Are Interested. T. W. Beehler of St. Louis has unearthed a lot of prehistoric bones near Kimmswick, Mo. Some of the relics have been examined by archaeologists and scholars who found in them food for much scientific speculation and discussion. Three of the relics promise to be of great scientific value. One is suposed to be ft bone of a prehistoric animal known as boslatifrons. The second resembles the shin bone of a man, while the third is a crude arrow point. Gustav Hambach, instructor of archaeology at Washington University,'examined the relies and prevailed upon Mr. Beehler to postpone further excavations until he and other scientists could be present and observe the position in which they were found. An exploring party under his direction will make a trip to the diggings and take photographs of the bones, after they have been carefully exposed. With the three important relics were discovered a number of mastodon bones in a splendid state of preservation. A mastodon tusk was unearthed which measured 18 feet in length and 10 inches in diameter near the base. A ball joint, possibly of the knee or hip, is as large as a football, while the teeth of the beast are incredibly large. Missionary Aids Brigands. The American minister at Constantinople has sent a full report to the Department of State at Washington giving the details of the recent attack on Turkish villages by Armenian brigands, who came over the Persian frontier. The acts of these brigands were horrible. The portion of the dispatch which will create a sensation in this country is the arrest of an American woman missionary near the scene of the trouble, who had in her possession an apronful of cartridges intended for the brigands. She had a school there, and many of the scholars had their pockets filled with cartridges, and confessed that they had been acting as spies for the brigands under orders from the teacher. The report contains many other matters which will startle and surprise the friends of foreign missions in this country, and as it comes from Dr. Angell, who was appointed minister to Turkey through the influence of the American board of foreign missions, it will bo all the more astounding to church people. An Indiana Wreck. Twenty-three men were hurt in an accident on the Chicago and Indiana Coal Railroad nine miles north of Brazil, Ind., near Coal Bluff. The miners’ train on its homeward journey, bearing about 500 miners, was wrecked on the Gladstone switch and two cars left the track, rolling down the embankment. The accident was caused by running over a horse. Eighteen of the injured men live in Brazil and five in Coal Bluff. Three were fatally injured and five others seriously hurt. One Revolt Ended. Two principal rebel chiefs in the Philippines have agreed to submit. Rizal, however, brother of the man shot, still remains intractable. This result was effected by means of negotiations conducted by the natives themselves, and also with the use of native trqpps. ' !. . Great Fire in London. The most serious fire of recent years raged in London, England. It was in the business district, and the damage done is enormous.

NEWS NUGGETS.

The Georgia Senate has passed the anti-football bill. Guiseppi Verdi, the celebrated composer, is dangerously ill at Rome. Secretary Sherman has appointed a woman temporary consul at Edmunstone, N. B. ' During the decade 1887-1897 the Unitarian churches increased by 13. Ten are self-supporting. For the murder of Vinie Bell George Weston, alias Winston (colored) was hanged at Paducah, Ky. - Thomas Edwin Cook, who was a leading circus clown, is dead at his home in Paterson, N. J. He was 96 years old. The Illinois grand lodge of Odd Fellows has voted to continue the construction of the old folks’ home at Mattoon. It has been discovered that the system of distributing pencils and penholders in Indianapolis schools is responsible for spreading diphtheria. Prof. William Ulrich, the founder andprincipal of the preparatory school for Lehigh University, died of Bright’s disease at Bethlehem, Pa., aged 50 years. Gen. Cassius Marcellus Clay’s young wife left the Clay mansion, Whitehall, Ky., ten days ago, and went to the home of her brother, “Clell” Richardson, at Valley View. It is said she will not return. -—s— Pecuniary embarrassment has reached an acute stage at the Yildiz Kiosk. Salaries of Turkish ambassadors are left unpaid for months. Since the departure of Galib Bey, ambassador at Berlin, another envoy has written Tewfik Pasha, the Turkish foreign minister, declaring that he has sold nearly everything and lives almost entirely on dry bread, adding that he even fears he will be unable much longer to borrow that. At Lincoln, Neb., Secretary of State Porter has been fined $6.20 in police court for violating the health ordinance by butchering hogs within the city limits. Lieut. Alfred B. Jackson, Ninth United States Cavalry, military instructor of cadets at the University of Nebraska, died as the result of an operation for appendicitis. United States Minister Woodford has sent a letter to the Spanish cabinet expressing the satisfaction and gratitude of the United States Government relative to the settlement of the Competitor ease and other current questions. An attempt was mode to wreck the fast New York and Chicago express on the Erie Railroad at Greenville, O. This is the second attempt to wreck a train there. At Minneapolis, Mina., Aid. George A. Durnam, charged with solietthig a bribe of SIO,OOO from Halvorson & Richards for a contract, was found guilty.

REPORT ON BIMETALLISM.

Official Documenta Concerning th* Subject Are Received. The official report of the correspondence in regard to the bimetallic proposals of the United States monetary commission to the Government of Great Britain, together with the report of the proceedings at the conference of the British premier, the secretary of state for India, the first lord of the treasury and the chancellor of the exchequer, with the French ambassador and our commissioners, has reached this country. It fully confirms the reports cabled to America Oet. 21 and 22. The negotiations fell through, notwithstanding the expressed willingness of the French Government to open its mints, owing to the rejection by the British Government of the proposition to again open the Indian mints to the free coinage of silver. None of the other propositions were replied to, because that one, the most important concession requested of Great Britain, could not be acceded to. The Government of Great Britain, in making her answer, deferred to the wishes of the Government of India, to. which the proposal was referred, and the reply of the Government of India, therefore, is the most important communication in the correspondence. It is a lengthy document, in which the advantages pro and cod to India are argued and a very strong case from their standpoint is made out in favor of the rejection of the proposal. The disturbance of values in India, with the attendant paralysis of trade, at least temporarily, the fall of silver prices in India, concurrently with the increase of gold prices in Europe and America, etc., are advanced, but the most potent reason urged against the proposition is that the burden of failure, if failure should come from the experiment for thei re-establishment of bimetallism by France and the United States, must fa> evitably fall on India. Both the United States and France, the reply urges, with their supply of gold could to a greater or less extent protect themselves if the experiment did not succeed. In other words, the Indian Government, as a preliminary proposition, declared that it could not risx the success of the suggested measures. This definite and absolute rejection of the proposal was fully set forth in the cable reports of the correspondence, but the document contains a reservation which would seem to indicate that if the scope of the proposed experiment were sufficiently broadened India might be willing to reconsider her refusal.

HAVE FAITH IN WEATHERS.

Depositors Believe He Will Make Good Their Losses. John 11. Weathers, president of the failed banks at Leavenworth, Marengo and English, Ind., who has been in hiding in Louisville, Ky., and New Albany, Ind., waiting for the excitement caused by the bank failures to die out, returned to Corydon and made'a statement anent the failures to the committee of depositors who held a meeting at Corydon to devise means for a settlement. The statement of Mr, Weathers is to this effect: While at Corydon recently attending Im his law practice Mr. Weathers received a telephone message from Leavenworth to come there at once, as there was something wrong with the bank. He immediately left Corydon and went to Leavenworth, where he and Nolan Barnett, tho cashier of the Leavenworth bank, examined the institution's books and found that the funds of the same were at a low ebb. It was decided by them to close the three banks at once. President Weathers was ndvised by friends to leave the town until the sensation abated, which he did. lie, however, thought he might yet bridge over matters, and took some collateral with him, but after deliberation he decided it would be better to return the same and have an assignee appointed. He thereupon made a' general assignment, with R. C, Arnold of Leaven worth as assignee. Mr. Weathers said further that all he wanted was a rea scalable support' for his wife and child while the settlement was in progress, and that he would spend one year without compensation to facilitate matters, to the end that dollar for dollar be paid. Mrs. Willett, wife of the missing cashier, is almost prostrated with grief, but is not dying, aa has been reported. The people of the various communities in which the banks are situated are much relieved and express confidence in Weathers’ ability to settle up matters in a satisfactory manner. The consensus of opinion is that Weathers was the victim of Cashier Willett, and is himself innocent of any wrong doing. Nothing has been heard from Willett. Telegraphic advices from English, Ind., are to the effect that Willett’s kinfolk are willing to unite with his grandmother to donate sufficient funds to cover his short) i age, provided he proves himself not gui!> ty of any intentional wrong doing and will return. His grandmother will donate $50,000 and other relatives have pledged themselves for $75,000 additional. Cashier Rothrock of the Huntingburg bank, it is said, has pledged himself to stand by both Weathers and Willett.

Three Arrests at Lansing. Three arrests were made in the defunct People’s Savings Bank case at Lansing, Mich.,jand more are promised by the prosecuting attorney. The persons first apprehended are: Charles 11. Osband, late cashier of the bank, and Christian Breisch and Charles Bros®, directors. Osband is charged with making five false entries in the books of the bank with intent to deceive bank officers, the officials of the State banking department and to defraud the bank and its depositors. The law requires that each director shall own ten shares of the stock of the bank in his own name and unpledged in any way. Directors Broaa and Breisch are charged with having subscribed to this oath at a time when all the stock in their names on the books of the bank was pledgee to other banks as collateral. Bankers Accused of Perjury. I. A. Winstanley and C. J. Frederick, president and cashier, respectively, of ths defunct New Albany Hnd-) Banking] Company, were arrested and taken t<3 Jeffersonville to answer indictments than have been returned against them, chargJ Ing perjury. It is charged in the indict-] ments that Winetanley and FredericJ swore falsely several months ago whej they prepared affidavits asking for a conJ tmuance of the cases charging them wfctlfl the wrecking of the New Albany bank. I The offender never fergiven. |