Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1897 — Page 2

The republican. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER. - - INDIANA.

DIAMOND SMUGGLERS

CUSTOMS OFFICERS UNEARTH A GIGANTIC PLOT. Men Did the Work with the Clever Aid of Female Confederates—lllicit Trade Practiced Almost Openly—General Trade Reported More Animated. Moke a Rich Haul. Emanuel J. Lasar and his wife Helena were arraigned before a United States commissioner in New York upon a charge of having smuggled SIOO,OOO worth of diamonds into this country. The diamonds were seized by custom house officers and Deputy United States Marshals in the office of Max J. Lasar, a diamond merchant. Emanuel ,T. Lasar is the brother of Max Lasar. The custom hou.se authorities think that they have an equal interest in the jewelry store. Emanuel J. Lasar has made frequent trips to Europe and his wife always accompanied him. “There has been some wholesale smuggling going on,’’ said Collector Bidwell, “by what 1 think is an organized gang. Lasar and his wife, I think, are the most important members of the band.” Some of the leading jewelers insist that half a million dollars’ worth of diamonds has been smuggled into New York within the last six months. The success of the smugglers has emboldened them until it has been for some time an open secret in the trade that diamonds were smuggled ashore from almost every steamship. More Animated Trade. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “The monthly report of failures shows defaulted liabilities of sll,610,195 in November, a go* list $12,700,850 last year. Because of three large failures for $3,250,000, not due to present conditions, the aggregate in November was only $1,100,000 less than last year, and, except for these, would have been smaller than in August, September or October. Failures for the week have been 300 in the United States, against 379 last year, and 28 in Canada, against. 55 last year.” Bradstrcet's says: “General trade throughout the country has presented rather more animation, owing to colder weather and the approaching holidays. While clothing, dry goods; lia<s, shoes and notions, hardware and fancy groceries, have been in a little better demand from both jobbers and at retail in the region tributary to Chicago, St. Louis, Omaha, St. Joseph, St. Paul and Kansas City, the to*ideucy of business has been to slacken. Tills is noticeable in iron and steel and in further depression in cotton goods, print cloths having made a new low record in price. The total exports of wheat (flour included as wheat) from both coasts ol' the United States and from Montreal this week aggregate 6,699,900 bushels, 1,300,000 bushels larger than last week. Corn exports show a heavy gain over Inst week, aggregating 4,585,800 bushels, against 2,869,000 bushels last week. Exports of other cereals, such as oats, rye, barley and buckwheat, have also been very large, and the total value of our cereal exports during the week just closed promises to be fully $9,000,000.”

NEWS NUGGETS.

John S. Morgan. tMor scntenw t»f death at Ripley, W. Va., has escaped from jail. Murderer Virgil Staley escaped from jail at Huntington, W. Va., after a desperate battle with the jailer. Hoke Smith, of Atlanta, Ga., es-Secre-tary of the Interior, denies the report that he will remove to New York. George R. Blodgett, a prominent attorney of Schenectady, X. Y„ was shot and mortally wounded by a burglar. William Louis Winans, whose will has been filed for probate at Baltimore, left an estate valued at $20,000,000. President Pierola of Peru has vetoed the bill recently passed by the congress legalizing non-catliolic marriages. The trouble in the National Window Glass Workers’ Association has been settled, and in the future there will be two organizations. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones, who is now in the West, says the reports that the Indians have invaded the Wichita mountains are untrue. The cruiser Brooklyn, although ready to leave the New York dry dock, may be detained until the new year by some slight changes which are contempla.ted. The residence of State Senator Leesli, a few miles from North Yakima, Wash., was totally destroyed by fire. Mr. Leesh's 1-year-old daughter perished in the flames. The motion for new trial in the case of Frank A. Novak, convicted at Vinton, lowa, of murder in the second degree, was overruled and the court passed sentence that he be confined to hard labor in the penitentiary at Anamosa for the period of his natural life. M. N. Milliard, senator for the department of Eure, has been appointed French minister of justice in succession to M. Darian, who resigned owing to the state's rejection of his motion to shelve the decision of the removal of a magistrate, which had been denounced as illegal. The managers of the Joint Traffic Association have disapproved the recommendation of the Central Fassenger Association, looking toward the issuance by conductors of mileage exchange tickets on account of the Central Passenger Association's interchangeable 1,000-mile tickets for sleeping ear passengers passing westwardly through trunk line western territory. In the Federal Court at Chattanooga, Ten®., before Judge Clark, the ease of the . railroads operating in Tennessee, against the State Railroad Commission, has been begun, the railroads attacking the validity of the commissioner in the tax assessments, and asking for perpetual injunction restraining the commission from collecting the taxes assessed. The Yukon-Cariboo British Columbia Gold Mining and Developing Company, of which J. Edward Addicks is president, ham closed its offices in New York City and sobscribers to the stock are believed to be holding the bag.

EASTERN.

James W. Loveridge, who was injured In a foot-ball game at Hammondsport, N. Y., Thanksgiving afternoon, is dead. At Lowell, Mass., Frank A. Keith and Maggie Godfrey committed suittde together by inhaling gas. They were penniless. Josiah Quincy was nominated for Mayor of Boston on the Democratic ticket in one of the stormiest conventions ever held there. Every speaker, no matter what he had to say, was hissed and cheered, till the convention appeared more like a riot than a deliberative meeting. .. Martin Thorn, accused of the murder of William Guldensuppe, the Turkish bath rubber, was pronounced guilty by the jury at New York. Thorn received the verdict with a laugh, but he seemed to have lost his nerve as he was led back to jail. The court denied a motion for a new trial and set the day for the passing of the sentence. Hereafter immigrants who are steerage passengers will be forwarded by a “routing committee” of the western passenger pool over such route as it pleases. The immigrant may have a preference, and he may express it, but he will go according to the pool’s decision or stay in New York. This is the result of a contract entered into between the railroads and the steamship companies. The patent office at Washington expects to do a rushing business during the month, owing to the fact that the patent law passed during the Cleveland administration takes effect New Year's day. Heretofore it has been customary for American manufacturers wishing to engage in the manufacture of some new article to have an examination of all American patents until they find some attractive device. After the present month, however, they will be able to select for manufacture any foreign patent that has not been patented in this country. These ideas and inventions they can use without payment of any kind to the inventor, inasmuch as the foreign patent does not cover American rights. After Jan.-l no patent can be obtained in America for any invention already patented in a foreign country, save where the foreign application is of very recent date. Hence the present holders of foreign patents who desire to realize from their inventions will have to file their claims within the next few days: otherwise they will become public property on this side of the water.

The New York World’s first figures of Cuba’s starvation were timidly moderate. They showed the death rate of only 200,000. But every painful fact unearthed tends to prove them nearly double that number. When the grim returns are all in it is now almost certain that this Cuban massacre of the innocents will reach 400,000. And this awful number does not include those killed in battle or the thousands and thousands of women and children who have died of exposure, disense and massacre in the “managuas” and swamps. It now seems certain that more than half a million people, for the most part loyal subjects of Spain, have been killed by Spanish war in Cuba. The figures of Spanish official reports show but a part of the mortality. They only give the number buried in consecrated ground •—they do not give that fully. And yet these official ultra-Spanish reports of burial permits issued admit that in the Province of Santa Clara there have died and been buried since Weyler’s fiat 71,847 persons. The number of people for whose existence Weyler was directly responsible is 155,132 in Santa Clara Province. And of these he killed 56.21 G, or over one-half of them.

WESTERN.

The Chinese government proposes to establish a school for Chinamen in San Francisco. The Supreme Court of Missouri overruled the motion for rehearing in the case of George Thompson, a St. Louis negro sentenced to be hanged on Jan. 7, 1898, for the murder of a church sexton. In his cell in the county jail at Liberty, Mo., William Carr, under sentence to be hanged next month for drowning his 3-year-old child in the Missouri River, tried to commit suicide by swallowing a quantity of pounded glass. At Lincoln, Neb., Eugene Moore, exAuditor of State, charged with the embezzlement of $23,000, was declared guilty as charged. Sentence was deferred. Moore and his attorney admitted the shortage, but contended that it was not embezzlement. The ever popular Bostonians, than which there is no better light opera company in America, are now playing an engagement at McVickcr’s Chicago theater, with the new comic opera, “The Serenade,” as the bill. This opera is already well known to music lovers by its great success when first produced in New York. Since its original presentation it has been heard in other cities and the New York verdict has received this further endorsement. The cast of this opera, which is by Victor Herbert and Harry B. Smith, will include the full singing and acting strength of this organization. From all accounts “The Serenade” is said to be a most highly diverting and humorous entertainment. E. B. Thompson, who lives in the western part of Routt County, near the scene of the recent fight between Utes and game wardens, arrived in Craig, Colo., and gave the startling information that the Indians were again invading that section. Mr. Thompson says that although he has not seen any of them, he has heard the shooting, and on Douglass Mountain he has seen moccasin tracks and the tracks of ponies. The mail carrier, whose route lies between Maybell and Lily Park, reports having seen four Indians who were some distance from the road. Residents of Brown’s Park also report having seen several Indians, and say that they are evidently killing game, as they heard a great deal of shooting. Dr. T. J. See, one of the staff of observers at the astronomical observatory maintained at Flagstaff, Ariz., by Percival Lowell of Boston, has described the recent important work undertaken at the observatory. The study of Mars is the chief work, and the problems to be solved in the planet involve the measurement of fine lines supposed to be canals, which are found ok its surface. Since 1890 the work has been prosecuted with the new 24-inch telescope. It was announced at Harvard College that since August, 1890, Dr. See has discovered with the Lowell telescope about 600 new double stars, besides measuring some 700 objects noticed by previous observers. The new double star discoveries are interpreted by Dr. See to suggest that this formation of rings is only an exception to the rale; that the more usual method of the formation of a

system from one great original mass is that central mass divides en masse, the satellite beginning life as it were in nearly its ultimnte form. From Washington comes the news that some interesting reports have been made by Indian agents in their annual review of in their fields. At the Pottawatomie and Great Nemeha reservations in Kansas there are about 16,000 acres of surplus lands in the Prairie Band reserve that arc likely to be a subject of contention in the future, and there seems to be a growing sentiment in the tribe favoring their sale. At the Omaha and Winnebago agency in Nebraska the assumption and dissolution of the marriage relation at will, without form of law, is common, and it is predicted will necessarily cause endless trouble. Maj. A. E. Woodson of the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, in Oklahoma, reports: “The mother-in-law is much in evidence among these people. She makes herself a ‘holy terror’ unless the family affairs are conducted according to her ideas. Much of the jigent’s time is occupied in the settlement of family quarrels.” Many of the Indian agents recommend discontinuance of the issuance of rations and clothing and urge the substitution of a policy of making cash payments to the Indians for a time. At the Green Bay agency, in Wisconsin, the tribe is reported as retrograding, mowing to factional troubles. A special front New Kensington, Pa., states :Tf what Hiram S. Maxim claims is true, aerinl navigation is an accomplished fact. Mr. Maxim, who is the inventor of the Moyim gun, says he has traveled across the continent and back to his starting place in such an airship. Indeed, it was his strange craft which aroused such extraordinary interest last summer and which was reported having been seen at Denver, Chicago, St. Louis and other Western cities. Mr. Maxim's craft is cigar-shaped, conical at both ends, with an upright aeroplane at the stem for steering apparatus. The skin of the ship is double and filled with hydrogen gas. Every part of the ship and motive power is made of aluminum; the motive power being naphtha. The whole thing weighs 5,000 pounds, occupies 106,000 cubic feet of space, can attain easily a speed of 100 miles an hour, and will carry passengers and freight parcels. New Kensington aluminum furnished the material. Mr. Maxim’s company is the Atlantic and Pacific Aerial Navigation Company, of which C. A. Smith and M. A. Terry, wellknown business men of San Francisco, are respectively president and secretary. A trip to the Klondike will be made soon.

SOUTHERN.

Ex-United States Senator : Patrick Walsh has been elected Mayor of Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Dora Clay, the child-wife of Gen. Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky, has decided to return to her husband. The Dodson hill, providing that after the first year all life -insurance policies shall l>e non-eontestable, has passed the Georgia House of Representatives. Andrew Carnegie, the great Pennsylvania iron manufacturer, has written a letter saying he will give SIO,OOO to the endowment of the Mechanics’ institute at Richmond, Va. General Cassius M. Clay’s child wife, Dora, is seriously _ sick at the cottage of her brother, Cecil Richardson. She has peritonitis, the result of being thrown from a horse several weeks ago.

WASHINGTON.

Assistant Secretary Day of the State Department has declined to accept the attorney generalship. Senator Cullom of Illinois declares that he will not resign to accept a place on the interstate commerce commission. He is urging David T. L:tt!cr for the position. The Secretary of War at Washington has given a medal of honor to Thomas I. Higgins of Hannibal, Mo., who was colorbearer of an Illinois regiment during the war. At the siege of Vicksburg Higgins literally obeyed orders not to turn back, and alone, pushed clear into the rebel breastworks. The medal was issued on information given by Confederate soldiers who witnessed Higgins’ heroic deed. The Postofflce Department is taking a firm stand against the so-called “missingletter” and “missing-word” contests which are being conducted by a number of publishers to increase the subscriptions to their papers. The lottery law directs that the Postmaster General, upon evidence satisfactory to himself that a concern or person is operating through the mails a lottery or scheme offering prizes dependent upon lot or chance, to prohibit the delivery of all mail matter to it. All newspapers and periodicals containing advertisements of this character are forbidden transmission in the mails. This law, it is now announced at the Postofflce Department in Washington, will be applied to all schemes which are violations of it, if they are continued iu operation or advertisements of them are published. Miss-ing-letter contests are held to be such violations, because many correct answers can be giveu, but only one list is deemed the “correct list” by the promoter of the scheme. The chance consists in guessing what words compose the so-called “correct list.” Such schemes are held to be especially obnoxious, owing to the skillful wording of the advertisements, which makes the chance for obtaining n prize more remote than in the defunct Louisiana lottery.

FOREIGN.

Race riots continue in Bohemia, where the Czechs in numerous towns attacked the houses of Jews and Germans. The French court of appeals has decided against the application of Mile. Hauvin to be admitted to of Paris. Gales have caused numerous shipwrecks on the English coast. Lord Nelson’s old flagship, the Foudroyant, has been dashed to pieces. Gen. Pando, in charge of Spanish military operations in Cuba, is reported to have been killed in an engagement with insurgents in Santa Clara province. A rumor is current in Paris that the late Dr. T. W. Evans did not possess the ' immense fortune which was credited to him, and, in fact, was comparatively poor. The Dreyfus-Esterhazy affair is expected to result in a large crop of duels at Paris. Emile Zola is already involved in a quarrel with the editor of the Journal. United States Minister White has been instructed to ascertain Germany’s intention toward Hayti and to enter a protest should they include annexation or an excessive demonstration. China i a reported to have practically

agreed to cede to England a strip of territory near Hong-Kong and all the sur-' rounding islands in order to enable England to fortify them securely and to increase the garrison. An unconfirmed rumor says 200 members of the Germaq force occupying Kiaochou Bay have been massacred by Chinese. Russia, according to a London dispatch, is inclined to join With France and oppose German action in China. Information has reached the administration that France, while ostensibly engaged in negotiations with this government looking to the conclusion of a reciprocity treaty; is taking steps to place a prohibitory tariff upon a number of articles of American production. A cable dispatch from England indicates that the sale of the large Willimautic thread works at Willimantic, Conn., probably to foreign parties, will soon be consummated. The company has $2,000,000 capital. An option on its entire stock at $31.25 for each share of $25 par expires Dec. 15. An officer of the guards named Clay isbeing sued at London by a money lender for £11,113, due on two promissory notes cashed for Lord William Nevill. Clay charges that Nevill secured his indorsement by a trick and says he supposed he was witnessing Nevill’s signature to family documents. A frightful hurricane has ravaged the coast of Great Britain. Ships without number have been driven upon the beach and broken to pieces by the waves, and great masses of wreckage were thrown up on Goodwin Sands, telling of other crafts gone down. No estimate of the loss of life and property is possible at present, but it is said to be unprecedented. A tidal wave drove up the Thames, inundating Woolwich arsenal and part of London.

Charles Sonnenberg, formerly of New York, now a resident of Vryburg, in British Bechuanaland, Africa, and a member of the Cape Parliament, is on a visit to this country. He is chiefly interested in the plan of the British Government, to come up at the next session of the Cape Parliament, to break the present treaty existing among the nations of Germany, Great Britain and the United States in relation to South African goods. The United States, England fears, is getting too much of the importing business of South Africa, and it is itself anxious to take some away. Canada also wants to get a slice of the business, and is waiting to have the treaty broken that it may begin shipments of its own goods to South Africa. The commercial treatyha s been in existence many years. Under it a great quantity of machinery, petroleum, furniture, agricultural implements,hardware, canned and dried fruit, fish, boots and shoes and cigarettes and tobacco arc sent to South Africa by the United States. The goods are better and cheaper than can be procured in Germany and England. Many merchants do not want to pay higher duties, as the English wish them to do, according to the prospective new treajy, and they are already preparing to fight the matter. Mr. Sonnenberg says that it is of the greatest importance to the United States that this Government should take some steps at once to meet the coming fight.

IN GENERAL.

The steamer Dauntless has again eluded the officials of the Government, and is off for Cuba with a cargo of arms and munitions of war. Canada’s postmaster general announces that after Jan. 1 the rate of postage on letters from Canada to all parts of the British empire will be reduced to 3 cents an ounce. The North German Lloyd steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse made a new eastward record on her last trip from Sandy Hook to Southampton, her time being 5 days 17 hours and 45 minutes. The plan to consolidate the wire rod, wire nail and other wire industries of the United States is reported to be near conjpletion. It is understool that each mill is to be purchased outright and that the enterprise will involve $00,000,000. A monthly steamship service has been established between New York and India. The first steamer, the Sahara, has arrived. Heretofore American trade with the far East, has been usually done by transfer iu English or Mediterranean ports. The British City Line steamer Exeter City, which has arrived at New Y/>rk from Bristol and Swansea, fell in with the British schooner, Elite, dismasted and in a sinking condition, and rescued her crew of five men and brought them safely to port.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to priniv. $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 9Ge to 97c; corn, No. 2,25 cto 26c; oats, No. 2,20 c -to- 22c; rye, No. 2,40 eto -47 c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 18c to 20c; new potatoes, 45c to 60c 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 $4.50; wheat, No. 2,93 cto 94c; corn, No. 2 white, 20c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25e. - St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs. $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50: wheat, No. 2,97 cto 99c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 24c to 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2,45 cto 46c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,93 cto 95c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 28c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 24c; rye, No. 2,45 cto 47c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs. $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25 wheat, No. 2,89 cto 91c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 24 to 26c; rye, 46c to 47c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 red. 94e to 95c: corn, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2,46 cto 48c. clover seed, $3.11 to $3.15. Milwaukee—W’heat, No. 2 spring, SO« to 88c; corn, No. 3,26 cto 2Sc; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2,46 eto 47c; barley, No. 2,39 cto 43c; pork, mess. $7.25 to $7.75. Buffalo—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs3.oo to $3.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 95c to 96e; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hog> $3.50 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00 wheat, No. 2 red, 98c to 99c; corn, No. 2,83 cto 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 2Cc to 27c; butter, creamery, 16c to 24c; eggs, Western, 22c to 24c.

AFTER PANAMA CANAL

ENGLAND WOULD LIKE TO CONTROL IT. Consol General Gudger’s Report on the Condition of the Enterprise and the Probable Cost of Finishing It— Russia Must Want to Fight. The Isthmus Waterway. Consul General Gudger at Panama has made a report to the State Department at Washington on the condition of the Panama canal. He says it is whispered that England is doing all in her power to obtain control of the canal. France may not push the work forward, but some other nation or some other company will surely do sq if those in charge forfeit their rights. The canal when completed will extend from Colon on the Atlantic to Panama on the Pacific, fifty-four miles. All along the route are sheds full of new and costly machinery. It is estimated the latter cost $100,000,000, and that there has been expended on the canal a total of $275,000,000. A conservative estimnte is that the canal is about one-third finished, but with the new machinery on hand it is said the remainder of the work can be completed for $150,000,000. The report is that a force adequate to finish the project in from seven to ten years will be put to work. During the next sixty days a committee is to investigate'the progress of affairs and an effort will be made to get more money to continue operations. The canal is practically completed from Colon to Bajeo, fourteen miles, but this is the least expensive part. The great difficulty is in passing the Calabria ridge. The width of the canal will be ICO feet at the top and 72 feet at the bottom, except through the ridge, it will be 78 feet wide at the top and 29 feet at he bottom.

Russia’s Significant Purchases. The report that the Russian Government is buying large quantities of army supplies in the" United States has been verified at San Francisco. Cable messages from Vladivostock asking that merchants bid on large lots are frequently received. Dodge, Sweeney & Co of San Franpisco received a Vladivostock cable to figure on 1,200 tons of supplies. Travelers arriving from Asia report that the garrison at Vladivostock lias been largely re-enforced by the arrival of troops on steamers and sailing vessels from the Black Sea. The concentration of Russian troops at that point and the haste that Japan is making to increase her power on the sea lends some of the merchants to predict that the impending conflict between Russia and Japan may. open as ehrly as next summer. The recent heavy orders for army supplies to be forwarded to Vladivostock are regarded as significant of important movements in the orient. It is believed that the completion of the Transsibcrinn Railroad, with its terminus at Vladivostock, will largely increase the trade of San Francisco, and there is talk of establishing a line of steamers to that place, touching at Alaskan ports. A loenl subsidy of $3,000 a month has already been subscribed for an Alaskan line.

BREVITIES.

The Greater Kansas City scheme was carried. At Mexico, Mo., Joe Jess, 25 years, hanged himself. Deposits in North Dakota State banks have increased 7G per cent in sixty days. The three great cracker trusts are reported to have agreed on a plan of consolidation. J. J. Smith and Dr. Smith, brothers, were killed by W. W. Milwee in a street dud at Horatio, Ark. Rev. John Lewis of New York has decided to accept the call to the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Chicago. Three farmers of Huntsville, Ark,, fought over a young woman they were in love with and all three were fatally injured. Judge Day, now assistant Secretary of State, will soon retire from public life to resume the practice of law at Canton, Ohio. John Lucas, a wealthy stockman of St. Joseph, Mo., was fatally gored by a mad bull. Lucas wore a red bandanna handkerchief about his neck. Haytians are greatly excited over a report that two German war ships are on their way to Port au Prince to enforce demands in the Lueders case. At Marshall, Mo., William Haley was found guilty of murdering his brother-in-law, John Pinknrd, and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Martin Thorn, or Torccswisky, convicted of the murder of William Guldensuppe, was sentenced at New York to be electrocuted in the week beginning Jan. 10,1898. An American syndicate, in which Andrew Carnegie Is interested, has'applied to the Corean Government for three important railroad concessions, which the syndicate proposes to develop in connection with the Seoul-Chomulpc line. The Italian chamber of deputies has appointed a commission of five to inquire into the charges against Sig. Francesco Crispi, former premier, in connection with the Bank of Naples scandals and the alleged illegal traffic in decorations. In the United States Court for the northern district of the Indian Territory at Muskogee, I. T., Judge William M. Springer rendered his decision in the matter of the applications of certain persons to be enrolled as citizens of the Cherokee nation, and held that bona fide residence is essential. Two masked robbers entered the home of John Hartong, a fanner 89 years old, near Akron, O. They tortured and threatened the old man into insensibility, but he refused to give up his money. When he was unconscious they searched the house and found in a belt the farmer wore night and day SBOO. Hartong lives alone and is wealthy. The Government bas decided to qualify as a bidder at the sale of the Kansas Pacific Railroad Dec. 16, in case the reorganization committee fails to guarantee the Government what is regarded as a fair and just figure for Its interest. Secretary Gage has decided that the Netherlands Government pays a bounty on all raw and refined Bugar exported from that country, and hence, under the new tariff act, all sugar from the Nether lands entering the United States is subject to a discriminating duty equal to the export bounty paid.

DEALS DEATH AND RUIN.

Furious Hurricane Lashes the Island* of Great Britain. . It is believed that thirty -Vessels, large and small, and 100 lives have been lost in the hurricane that for twenty-four hours lashed the British Isles. The damage to other property is extremely heavy, especially at the watering places, where the invasion of the howling waters has swept walks, gardens and parades and carried off fencing and small cottages. The Government loses heavily at the Woolwich arsenal and the Sherncss dockyard, ) The loss in Government stores will reach thousands of pounds. In London, the squalid region below London bridge was submerged;-and hum dreds of houses and cellars have been rendered uninhabitable. The marine disasters will be keenly felt by the insurance companies, which already are serious sufferers by the recent big fire. The storm was one of the severest in recent years. All the const towns suffered heavily. Falling walls and flying debris added to the loss of life. Vessels were reported ashore on every part of the coast, and many ships are known to have foundered, with the probable loss of all hands. At Lowestoft, Yarmouth and elsewhere the sea has flooded the quays and neighborhoods, washing away the esplanades and doing other serious damage. The sea wall at Scarborough was washed away, and the passenger and mail services across the channel had to be suspended. At Liverpool the squalls blew off the roofs of several houses, threw down chimneys and tore up trees. The Mersey flooded its banks on the Chester side and deluged the shore district for miles. Similar disasters occurred at HoljiJieud, where a number of valuable yachts were sunk at their moorings. Scarcely a vestige remains in sight of the wreck of Lord Nelson’s old flag ship, the Foudroyant, long fast in the sands off Blackpool. The scenes at such popular resorts as Yarmouth and Margate were of great grandeur, but the damage done was enormous.

PINES FOR HIS BRIDE.

Gen. Cassius M. Clay Yearns for the Return of His Wife. Dora Richardson Clay, the child wife of the famous abolitionist, duelist, soldier and war minister to Russia, Gen. Cassius Mareellus Clay, lias left her husband and returned to her home in Valley View, ten miles away on the Kentucky river. The marriage of Gen. Clay to Dora Richardson, a dependent in his home, which occurred Dec. 13, 1894, was a groat sensation. Dora was then. 14 years old and Gen. Clay, now in his 87th year, was seventy years her senior. His relatives made strenuous objections to the marriage and the general converted his magnificent mansion at Whitehall into a regular fort. He armed his army of employes on his farm with shotguns, rifles and revolvers and planted cannon around the place to warn off intruders. Amid these surroundings he married his child wife. The years seem to have passed happily enough to this strangely mated couple. Gen. Clay provided for every comfort of his wife, carefully educating her and treating her more like n father than a husband. Mrs. Clay, on the other hand, administered to his every want and anticipated his slightest wish. During this time Dora's brother, “Clell” Richardson, was overseer of the Clay property and made his home at the Clay mansion. But about six months ago he and Gen. Clay quarreled and “Clell” left. Then Gen.' Clay went to Cincinnati to have his eyes ~ treated. During his absence Nannie Biggerstaff lived at the Clay mansion to keep Mrs. Clny company. Beaus called to see her and Mrs. Clay for the first time since reaching girlhood enjoyed the society of persons of her own age. On the general’s return Nannie went home and Mrs. Clay became unhappy. Three weeks ago she went home to see her brother “Clell,’' and now Gen. Clay fears that she will remain away permanently. He snys she is a free agent, free to remain away or to return, but he would give much if she would again take up her home in the Whitehall mansion. Unless Dora returns to him soon it is believed the old hero will quickly give up life's struggle, and that the end will not be far off. Mrs. Clay will not say whether she will return, but states that shj may go home when she gets ready.

DIRE DISTRESS IN CUBA.

Shocking' Conditions Observed in the Devastated Island. Deplorable ns the condition of the reeoncentrados may be, Spain’s first duty Is clearly to relieve the sufferings of her own troops, writes a correspondent of the New York Herald. To begin with, the Spanish soldiers have received no pay for many months, and consequently they are not able to buy anything on their own account in the small towns in which they are stationed. Then, too, the credit oC the troops has been in most instances exhausted, the shopkeepers refusing to deliver more goods unless they were paid what Is long due to them. If the captain general were to go to the country he would see ill soldiers lying by the wayside, he would find many forts that in reality are nothing more than hospitals, and hi many of the small towns he would experience difficulty in getting together a force of any size that would b» able to tackle an ordinary band of rebels. I am not in any way exaggerating when I write this, for I have seen these*” things myself. I took the train for Artemisa. early Sunday morning. At every smalt station that we passed I saw ill soldiers. Iu many insutanees the mark of death was plain!y~'visible in their faces. I visited a church that had been turned Into a jail. Half the guards were invalids,, and had the prisoners not be*»n weaker than the guards there was little to hinder their escape. One of the prisoners watched his chance and slipped me a note begging me for God’s sake to give him some money to buy clothing. Another prisoner, who had evidently been at one time a well-to-do planter, was allowed to roam about the church on a sort of parole.

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Since the incoming of the present ad' ministration at Washington tweuty-seve* American prisoners have been released in Cuba. The Indiana State Supreme Court ha* decided that a wife may recover by legal; proceedings money lost by her husband In gambling. Angel Paz, who betrayed Gen. Castillo to the Spaniards for $5,000, was captured by the insurgents on his way to Cienfuegot, court martialed on a drumhead and hanged.