Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1898 — Page 6

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. GEO. B. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

DISTRESS IN RUSSIA.

FAILURE OF CROPS BRINGS ON A FAMINE. * Government la Striving to Relieve the People of the Sticken District*, bat Officials Are Slow-Short Corn Crop in Kansas. Famine Causes Suffering. Owing to the failure of the harvests in seven districts of the Government of Karan, Russia, and in the provinces of Samaria, Saratof, Simbirik, Viatka and Persia, where the crops are almost worthless •nd even the landed gentry are beginning to ask the Government for relief, the Government is adopting measures to relieve the sufferers. The distress, however, is becoming more acute every day. The peasants are denuding their cottages of thatches in order to feed their stock. In spite of all that can be done, cattle and horses are dying in great numbers. The Government officials are slow in getting the relief measures into effect and the only relief thus far has been the granting ■of permission to the peasants to gather fagots in the woods for fuel and to collect dried leaves for fodder. The peasants are exhausted from lack of food and unless the promised supplies are speedily •ent the suffering will be terrible. STOLE THE BANK’S MONEY. Cashier of a Minnesota Institution Confesses His Guilt. At Preston, Minn., M. R. Todd, the cashier who wrecked the Fillmore County Bank, has confessed the theft of all the bank’s deposit funds to M. T. Grattan, one of his bondsmen. Grattan told Todd that a lynching was imminent unless he made a full statement. Overcome by fear, he confessed that just prior to the bank’s assignment he had taken all the money on deposit and delivered it to a former partner. Farther developments are expected. It develops that Todd is a forger, a spurious note, having turned up in the bank’s paper. A note given by the Presbyterian Church, of which Todd was treasurer, was paid and Todd said he had destroyed it. The note now turns up as collateral In a La Crosse bank. Todd seems to have completely looted the bank and his mother-in-law’s large estate. The feeling •gainst him is bitter, almost to the point of violence. DECLARES BOYCOTTS LEGAL. Judge Valliant Renders an Important Decision at St. Louis. At St. Louis, Mo., Judge Valliant, who in all probability will sit on the Supreme Court bench of Missouri after Jan. 1, as judge in the Circuit Court indorsed the boycott and said that unions had a right to bring the attention of the public to their grievances through a boycott as long •s it was not by force or by intimidation. The decision was brought out in the case ■of Marx & Pass against Watson and others, representing the local tailors’ union. The firm employs non-union men, and for this and other reasons growing out of labor difficulties the union has declared a boycott. Judge Valliant quashed an injunction against the union. Standing of the Clubs. Following is the standing of the clubs tn the National Basebail League: W. L. W. L. Boston 70 40 Pittsburg ;.. .56 56 Cincinnati ..72 42 Philadelphia. 51 58 Baltimore ...67 39 Brooklyn ....43 64 Cleveland .>..65 46 Louisville ...45 68 New Y0rk...62 49 Washington. 39 70 Chicago 63 50 St. Louis 22 81 Following Is the standing of the clubs In the Western League: W L. YV T*Indianapolis. 69 45 St. Paul 63 52 Milwaukee ..72 47 Detroit 43 72 Kansas City.7l 47 St. Joseph... .39 72 Columbus ...64 45 Minneapolis. 39 80 Agreement Ratified by Indians. Official returns show that the ChoctawGhickaaaw agreement wns ratified by the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations at the late election by a large majority. A menis ber of the Dawes commission, a representative from the Interior Department, Agent Wisdomand Gov. McCurtain have met at Atoka to count the votes of the two nations on the agreement. Gov. McCurtain was elected by a safe majority on the agreement issue. Stanford Estate Must Pay. The California Supreme Court has reversed the decision of the Superior Court in the matter of the collateral inheritance tax on the Leland Stanford estate. The Superior Court had ruled that the estate need not pay the tax. Leland Stanford bequeathed $2,500,060 to the trustees of the Leland Stanford University and $2,200,000 to relatives. Short Corn Crop in Kansas. The opinion of grain men throughout the Kansas corn belt has been secured as to the late corn, and all agree that not more than half a crop need be expected. Continued dry and hot weather has destroyed thousands of acres. The corn blades have rolled up under the scorching beat, and the crop in many localities will not make good fornge. Child Killed in u Cyclone. In a cyclone at Justin, Texas, the plantation of Parker Terrill was devastated, dwellings demolished, barns rased, stock *he<ls wrecked and corn torn from the ground. An infant child of one of Mr. Terrill’s tenants was blown through the boards of a closed door, being the only fatality reported. Injured in a Collision. Three miles east of Alvn, Ok„ there was a collision between a west-bound working train and the dastl>oun<l passenger train on the Panhandle Branch of the Rnnte Fe. Eighteen 6r twenty people were Injured, but none seriously. Both unglues were badly damaged. Editor Hitchcock for Congress, The Democrats, Populists and free silver lU'pubFwans of the second Nebraska district have named Gilbert M. Hitchcock. publishgr of the Omaha World-Her-gdd, for Congress.

INDIANS TO GO TO MEXICO. Creek Tribe Dissatisfied with the United States’ Treatment of It. Many members of the Creek Indian nation, dissatisfied with the United States Government for abolishing the Indian Government and interfering in their tribal affairs, are making elaborate preparations for establishing a large colony in Old Mexico. The Creek tribe consists of about 15,000 members, who are the exclusive owners of some 3,000,000 acres of the finest and richest farming lands in Indian territory. Fully 3,O<X) of the Indians will emigrate with the first expedition. Charles Douglass of Fort Scott, Kan., who has large financial interests and mining lenses in the Creek nation, and is founder of Creek City, has been engaged by the Indians to take charge of the colonization and exchange their lands for property in Mexico. Mr. Douglass, the Governor of the Creek nation and three prominent members of the tribe, already selected, will leave soon for Mexico to secure a location and land concessions from the Mexican authorities. It is claimed that as soon as the first party is settled another and much larger number of Indians will be ready to go. BIG FIRE IN NEW YORK., Hundreds of Sleeping People Bewildered by the Flames. The explosion of a large ammonia tank, used in the making of artificial ice, set fire to Jacob Hoffman’s Crescent brewery, a five-story brick structure in New York. The flames spread with marvelous rapidity, and the Central Bottling Company's plant soon caught fire. Within a very short time the entire block, surrounded by Third avenue, Fifty-fourth and Fiftyfifth streets, seemed to be doomed. The surrounding tenements, all filled with sleeping people, next ignited, and the bewildered tenants began to pour out into the streets by the hundreds. Alarm after alarm was turned in by the police and the earlier arrivals of firemen, until four alarms had been sounded and eighteen engines and five hook and ladder trucks were on the scene. Many thrilling rescues of frightened men, women and children were made by the firemen. STRIKE QUICKLY BROKEN. Hazleton Miners Return to Work When Threat Is Mode to fchut Down. The 700 coal miners and laborers employed in the Audenreid and Honeybrook strippings of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company at Hazleton, Pa., who went on strike the other day, returned to work the next morning. The men struck because of what they claimed to be the unjust discharge of two Hungarian laborers. The prompt and decisive action of Superintendent Richards in posting a notice that if the men were uot at work in the morning the mines would be shut down for the balance of the year produced a wholesome effect on the strikers, although they claim the two discharged men will be reinstated. Marine Horror Feared. Mute evidences of a great ocean disaster in which one vessel and perhaps two may have gone to the bottom were seen ten miles off Fire Island by the crew of the incoming British steamship Algoa, from Hamburg and Shields. The Algoa passed through a vast quantity of wreckage in which were steamer chairs, trunks, boxes and bedding. Captain Hansford expressed the opinion that there had been a collision near where he saw the wreckage. and that at least one of the vessels in it had gone down. Captain Hansford thinks the vessel was a steamship carrying passengers and that there must have been loss of life. The trunks and furniture were scattered over more than five miles. No bodies were seen by Captain Hansford or his officers. Captain Hansford is positive that the wreckage had not been in the water more than twentyfour hours. The captain did not pick up any of the wreckage or attempt to identify it. He supposed that the disaster was already known in New York. Forest Fires in France. A pine forest twelve miles long, at Marchfe Prime, near Bordeaux. France, is on fire. The fire' was caused by the carelessness of a peasant who was burning weeds. A still more serious conflagration. involving the forests of Luxey, Lipostey, Labouleyre and Ichoux, in the department of Landes, is in progress. An excursion train bound from Bayonne to St. Sebastian was compelled to turn buck because of the fire. It waited for two hours at the Labouleyre station and then, with the windows of all the cars closed, a second attempt was made. ' Upon nearing the forest the engine driver found that the sleepers were burning, but resolved to make a bold dash at full speed. He succeeded in getting the train through, but the passengers were half-suffocated and many of them fainted. * Ht. Louis Bank Ryatqmutically Robbed A St. Louis bank, one of prominence throughout the West, has been for several months the victim of systematic robbery. By means of a booked wire, reached through an orifice at the bottom of a steelwalled vault, the culprit or culprits have worked a highly lucrative game, until from the best information obtainable the authorities believe the bank’s losses will foot up into five figures. The cashier of the bank has no explanation to make. Detectives have the bank employes under surveillance. Menocal !■ Now Out. A. G. Menocal, civil engineer in the navy, who was court-martialed tome mouths ago and sentenced to suspension from duty on furlough pay for three years for neglect of duty in connection with the construction of the Brooklyn dry dock, has been pardoned by the President, which restores him to his former status in the navy. Mr. Menocal retires from active service on Hept. 1. Jewish Colony in Porto Rico. Barnet Pruaen, a well-known Kanins City commission merchant, is at the head of a movement to form a Jewish colony in Porto Rico. “I already have,” he said, "the promise of nearly fifty families to | join me. Those families can raise from SS(X) to SS.(XX) each to put into the venture, and if all agree we will form a communistic colony. We hope to leave by Jan. 1.” ' No Trace of Mr. Andie. The expedition of Theodor Lerner, which started in May last to search for Andre and to proteeuje scientific investigation. has returned to Hammcrfest, Norway, in order to enable his ship, the Heligoland, to rydit prior to starting on another voyage. Lerner found no trace of the missing aeronaut, but achieved intereating geographical and scientific results

PRICES ON BICYCLES.

WILL BE NO LOWER THAN AT PRESENT. Corner on the Tubing Market Will Prevent Any Reduction Next Year— Japan Is Not Disgruntled Over Our Annexation of Hawaii. Bicycles Will Be No Cheaper. A special from New York says that bicycles are not likely to be any cheaper next year. Indeed, manufacturers may advance the prices, although the chances are that the various grades will remain at the same figures as they sold for in 1898. A corner is reported on the tubing market, and the price of tubing has been raised by the syndicate controlling a large quantity of the output. On ordinary wheels the advance is such as to be felt more by the maker than by the purchaser. It is not quite enough to bring about a radical advance in price, and yet sufficient to increase the cost of making a bicycle. The advance in tubing will hit the smaller manufacturers harder than the big concerns, and it is not improbable that some of the smaller makers will be crowded out of business. It is claimed they are responsible for cutting the price of bicycles, and this is to be their punishment. LOSS 18 CONFIRMED. Stickeen Chief Wrecked by Explosion and All on Board Lost. News has been received confirming the reported loss of the stern wheeler Stickeen Chief. A letter received from Juneau brings the confirmatory news and further said that the disaster was doubtless caused by an explosion, and that the crew and passengers, numbering forty-three persons, were undoubtedly lost. The Dora saved a dog which was floating on a piece of wreckage. THat it was an explosion that caused the loss is inferred by the Dora’s crew from the fact that most of the wreckage was broken into small bits. The wreck was found in latitude 38.38 uorth, Ibngitude 142.13 west. JAPAN SATISFIED. No Bitterneaa Over the Annexation of Hawaii. Minister Buck, at Tokyo, Japan, writes the Department of State at Washington that he has observed no dissatisfaction there in consequence of the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States, since annexation has become accomplished. The Government and people alike seem to be satisfied that our Government will fully protect the rights and interests of Japan and of Japanese subjects in those islands. On the-part of the public press he has known of no unkind expressions because of the United States annexing these islands. Carterville, Hl., Is in Ashes. The citizens of Carterville, 111., were aroused the other morning by the fire alarm to find their much-prized city in a blaze. The fire originated in the rear of Lauder's saloon, and all of the buildings from the railroad to Eiles’ store were completely destroyed, with the exception of Hampton’s drug store. The 1 >ss is estimated at $250,000. Dynamite Wrecks a Car. An electric car, carrying fifty passengers, was wrecked at Indianapolis, Ind., by the explosion ,of a dynamite stick which had been placed in the curve groove. No one was injured, but several women fainted. The force of the explosion tore a great hole in the one-eighth-inch sheet-iron bottom of the car. Its Assets Are Small. A bank at New Richland, Minn.,, failed, claiming that the cause of thsir failure was the fact that the Fillmore County Bank had SIO,OOO of their money to loan for them. The liabilities are increasing all the time, now footing up to SBO,OOO, with but $75 cash and $250 in small notes as assets. Bailey Is Renominated. Congressman J. W. Bailey was unanimously renominated at Sherman, Texas, oil a platform which declares that the State convention has no right to instruct its representatives in Congress on the question of expansion or any other question of national policy. To St"»p Its Importation. The imperial ministry nf the interior at Berlin, by a circular to the different German governments, calls attention to the fact that American wheat flour is frequently mixed with corn and asks that steps be taken to prevent the importation of such flour. Trolley Car Struck. During a heavy thunderstorm at Pittsburg, l‘u., lightning struck a summer car on the Second avenue traction line as it was passing Greenwood avenue, and as a result one passenger is dead, another will probably die and four others are badly hurt. liusiuge by Storm, $15,000. A severe Windstorm leveled ten tobacco barns in the northern part of Suffield. Conn., blow down many trees and crippled the electric light service. The damage caused is estimated Ht SIS,(XX), confined largely to ruined tobacco. For Radical Changes in Colombia. The New York World correspondent cables from Colon, Colombia: Congress Is considering the advisability of reducing the army one-half, restricting the President's enormous power and the abrogation of foreign treaties. Poisoned by Ice Cream. At Middletown, N. Y., ice cream prepared with lemon extract purchased from a traveling salesman a few days ago, has caused the death of three persons, and a score of others are sick, and more fatalities iut expected. French Fchooner Rank. The Thingvalla line steamer Norge sunk I the French fishing schooner Laeoquette of Bayonne. France, on the Grand Banks. The captain and eight seamen were saved. Sixteen went down with the unfortunate vestal. Bayard It Reported Very 111. The lion. .Thomas F. Bayard, ex-am-bassador to England, is reported seriously ill at "Karlttein." the summer home of his daughter, Mrs. S. D. Warren, in Dedham, Mass. Fntnl Fnn for Foldiert. Morris D. Kano and Christopher Jurgensen. privates of the Seventy-first New York volunteers, were killed while skylarking on a train near Westbury, L. I.

BIGHT ARE BURIED ALIVE. Disaster in the Carnegie Tunnel on the Pan-Handle Road. Eight men were killed, possbly ten, and five more injured, two fatally, at the Carnegie tunnel, on the Chartiers divison of the Pan-Handle Railway near Pittsburg, Pa. The accident was due to the wall of the tunnel earing in on a number of workmen. Five men were injured. One of these, a negro, name unknown, was taken to the West Penn hospital in a dying condition. One of the others is also expected to die. The men were engaged in tearing out the tunnel on the Chartiers valley branch of the Pan-Handle Railroad, just west of the town of Carnegie. They were preparing to pull down the west wall of the tunnel, had fixed a rope for this purpose and were preparing to drill holes In it for blasting. Suddenly the wall fell over on them. Every man standing at that end of the big excavation was buried alive. The other workmen at once began the work of rescue. Seven of the men were taken out dead. GRAIN FAMINE IN RUSSIA. Even the Landed Gentry Are Asking for Governmental Aid. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Times says great uneasiness is felt over the repetition of last year’s failure of the harvest In seven districts of the province of Kazan and largely in the province of Samara, Saratoff, Simbirsk, Viataka and Perm the crops are almost worthless. Even the landed gentry are beginning to ask the Government for relief and the prospects of a famine are most grave. The ministers of the interior and of finance are sending out agents to make inquiries and to purchase corn. The Zemestvos are bestirring themselves to meet the situation. It is reported that in . some districts the peasantry are breaking into the communal granaries and helping themselves. Series of Coincidences. A curious fatality seems to hang over the office of Assessor of Lawrence County, S. D. Two years ago James Bullock was nominated on the Republican ticket for the office, and while on an election journey he fell down an abandoned mining shaft and was killed. Joe Schaler was appointed to the vacancy on the ticket, and he died a horrible death from an overdose of some drug. Brad Wood, the Populist nominee for the office, w’as elected, and soon after the election, he, too, met a violent death. The county commissioners then appointed W. W. Giddings to fill the vacancy. Giddings was killed a few days ago in the terrible tragedy at Central City by Ed Shannon because of jealousy, the murderer also killing Jack Weare, a friend who interfered, and pounding his wife’s head with hik revolver so that she died, and finished by shooting and killing himself. Candidates for Assessor to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Giddings are naturally not very numerous. Fire at Logansport, La. At Logansport, La., fire broke out in the Chicago Lumber and Coal Company’s building and in a very short time communicated to adjoining buildings until there is not a business house, hotel or depot in town. The loss at present is estimated at $90,000, about half that amount being covered by insurance. Drowned in Switzerland. Word has been received in Chicago of the drowning in Lake Geneva, at Lausanne, Switzerland, of Miss Jennie Baker, formerly of Chicago and late of Pasadena, Cal. The jacket and gloves of the young woman were found/in the water near the spot where she had been rowing. Accused of Fending Poisoned Candy. Mrs. Ada Botkin was arrested in Stockton, Cal., by Detective Gibson on a charge of murdering Mrs. John P. Dunning and Mrs. Deane. She is held to await extradition papers from the Governor of Delaware. Three Hundred Miners Drown. A dispatch from Vienna to the London Daily News says that 300 miners were drowned by the flooding of the Kasimir coal mine at Nience, near Schnowiz, Silesia. All Escaped but the Pilot. The tugboat Marian of the Pennsylvania Railroad sunk at South Amboy, N. J. All the crew escaped except the pilot, James Hennesby, who was drowned. Kirk Phillips for Governor. At Mitchell, S. D., the Republicans of South Dakota nominated a full State ticket, with Kirk Phillips for Governor. Henry Gage for Governor. The California State Republican convention nominated Henry Gage, a Los Angeles attorney, for Governor.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, J 3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 67c to 68c; corn, No. 2,29 cto 31c; oats, No. 2,19 c to 21c; rye, No. 2,43 cto 45c; butter, choice creamery, 16c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 18c; potatoes, choice, 33c to 45c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.26; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red. 64c to 66c; corn, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 28c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.50 to $4.25; sheep, $3.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 70c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 29e to 31c; oats, No. 2,21 cto 23c; rye, No. 2,44 cto 46c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; bogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2,65 cto 67c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 21c to 23e; rye. No. 2. 45c to 47c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.25 to $4.00; sheep. $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,67 cto 69c« corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats. No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye. 42c to 44c. Toledo- Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 68c to 69c; corn, No. 2 mixed. 3Oc to 32c; oats. No. 2 white. 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2,42 c to 44c: clover seed. $3.25 to $3.35. Milwaukee- Wheat. No. 2 spring, 65e to 67cu corn. No. 3. 30c to 31c; oats. No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2,43 cto 44c; barley, No. 2. 40c to 44c; pork, mess, $8.75 to $9.25. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice wethers,’ $3.50 to $5.00; lambs, c<Jfla>on to extra. $5.00 to $6.25. New York—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; Sheep. $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2 red. 73c to 75c: corn. No. 2. 35e to 37c; oats. No. 2 white,, 31c to 32c; butter, creamery, 15c to 20e; eggs. Western, 14c to 16c.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Claims He Killed McCart in Self-De-fense—Fighting to Break a Will— Ruined Theatrical Manager Takes Hie Own Life. Snow Caught in New Albany. Isaac Snow, who shot and instantly killed William H. McCart near Bedford, was arrested in New Albany by Patrolman Nick Seery. Snow states that he was on his way home to surrender. He did not know that his victim was dead and was very much surprised when he learned that the shot had proved fatal. He claims self-defense and says that McOart waylaid him as he was on his way home. To uphold his claim of self-de-fense Snow exhibits an ugly hole through his coat and vest which was made by a bullet, which he claims was fired by McCart. Suing to Break the Will. Suit has been begun in court at Columbus to contest the will of Mrs. May D. Hill, the mysterious Mrs. Everett, who killed herself in the Colonade Hotel, New York, in April, 1896, being the wife of E. E. Hill, or Senor Zeerega, then and now in London. She was the daughter of Col. John A. Keith of Columbus. By her will, made three years before her death, all her property, real and personal, was devised to her husband. Col. Keith resisted the probate of this will and 'was defeated in court. It is now spught to have this will set aside and the one next latest substituted. Fred Bradbury Takes Poison. At Anderson, Fred Bradbury, at one time prominent in Elk and theatrical circles, took poison in an endeavor to kill himself. At one time he was considered wealthy, but has lost heavily in the last three years. The climax came two years ago, when he took “Lost in Egypt,” an extravaganza, out of Chicago and stranded in Cincinnati. After taking the poison he went to au undertaking establishment and told the proprietor, a personal friend, what he had done. A doctor was called, but it was announced that Bradbury could not live. Strikers Hold Up a Train. The striking Chicago and Southeastern shop men at Lebanon sidetracked the eastbound passenger train No. 3 to hold the train for their wages. The road is about eight- months behind with the men in wages. Two hours after the train was sidetracked they were offered one month’s wages if they would release the train and return to work. The offer was accepted with the understanding that their wages were to be paid hereafter on the 25th of each month. The wages were paid and the train was released. Within Our Borders. Ex-Sheriff Robert P. Jones, aged 74, is dead at Valparaiso. In a runaway at Brazil, Miss Meda Howard was fatally injured. At Peru, Walter Ullman, 10 years old, was killed with a shotgun in the hands of a playmate. Twin boys born to William Gregson and wife at Knightsville were named Dewey and Hobson. About 15,000 uniformed Knights of Pythias attended the recent encampment at Indianapolis. At New Albany, two young sons of Harrison Mason were drowned in a pond on the farm of Jacob Friedley. Near Champion, a train struck a carriage, smashing it and probably fatally injuring a man named Graham. While walking in her sleep, Mrs. Riley Rife of Poplar Grove fell out of a secondstory window. She is likely to recover. Mrs. Anna Wilson, aged 53, was struck by a Wabash fast freight at the Benton street crossing in Peru and fatally injured. Jahn Long of Gas City, 26 years old, was instantly killed by driving in front of a north-bound freight train on the Big Four crossing in Jonesboro. The young man who was killed by the train between Farmersburg and Pimento has been identified as Charles Watkins, aged 29, a grocer of Terre Haute. Some miscreant set fire to a number of stacks of wheat belonging to George G. Pell on a farm near Harmony. The fire spread rapidly and soon consumed his entire crop of over 600 bushels. Norman Bovee, an engineer in the employ of the Michigan Central Railroad for the last eighteen years, committed suicide n the city park at Michigan City by shooting himself in the head. He has been in poor health for four months. Seven thousand people were assembled at the Newbern farmers' fair near Columbus in Deep Woods, when a violent storm came. The lightning and thunder were terrific and the rain poured down bi a deluge. Trees were blown down, horses broke loose and ran away, children screamed, women fainted and general panic prevailed. Charles Hayman was struck by a falling limb and badly hurt; he will probably die. His wife and son were slightly injured. Mrs. Samuel Copper was also struck by falling timber and badly-hurt; will probably die. Fire broke out in Frank Wright's restaurant ut Pennville, destroying a bl<g*k of buildings valued at $25,000, and causing injuries to several persons. The Injured are Mrs. Frank Wright, who jumped from the second story, dislocated hip and broken ankle, recovery doubtful; Frank Wright, burned while rescuing bis children, not serious; infant child of Frank Wright and wife, badly burned, but will recover. The fire spread to the Pennville Gas Company’s office, Dr. Mason's office. J. D. Smith & Sons’ hardware and furniture store, the Lupton building, Mrs. Jenkins' block and residence, A. T. Place's grocery. Will Allman’s barber shop and the Morrow barber shop. The buildings were all frame. The remains of John Rullinsou, who lived a hermit’s life in GreenvlUe township, were found in an advanced state of decomposition on the floor of lhe little house on his farm. During n heavy electric rainstorm the two-story residence occupied by James Wells and family nt Edinburg was struck by lightning and set on fire. Mr. Wells had just retired in an upstairs room and was severely shocked. His wife, daughter and one son. who were still down stairs, wore also stunned and blinded by the stroke, but none was dangerously injured.

SIXTEEN SAILORS DROWNED.

Ocean Steamship Collide* with French Fishing Schooner. The Thingvalla liner Norge sank the French fishing schooner La Coquette cBayonne, France, on Saturday on the • Grand Banks. Captain Guiguere and eight seamen were saved. Sixteen men went down with the unfortunate vessel. The Norge sailed from Christiansand Aug. 12 with seven first and thirty-three second cabin passengers and 143 persons in the steerage. The weather was fine to the banks of New Foundland, when thick fogs were encountered. Saturday between 3 and 4 in the afternoon the weather was foggy, but not so thick that the vessel’sspeed was reduced. Captain Knudson said he could see about three cable lengths ahead. Suddenly a vessel loomed up from the north with sails full and stood directly across the bow of the steamer. The bells were rung to stop and back at full speed, but were too late to check the steamer’s headway. The stranger, a fishing schooner, fell across the bow, and with a crash was forced over and sunk.

CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE.

Link of Railway for Which England and Russia Are Contending. The heavy black line shows the route of the proposed railroad from Nieu Chwang to Shan-hai-kwan, which British subjects have a concession from China to build and which Russia says they shall not, build. This line is a most important part of the railpad system now projected and developing in China. At Nieu Chwang the line will connect with the Manchurian railroad -which is to connect China with the Transsiberian railroad. At Shan-hai-kwan it will be

BOTH ENGLAND RUSSIA WANT IT.

connected with Tien-Tsin by the railroad now building, as shown on the map. Contracts are now letting and material is being purchased for the railroad* that is tojoin Tien-Tsin with the great valley of the Yangtse river. The disputed railroadis, therefore, a link in the great system that is to unite Siberia with the rich valley which is the chief field of China's productivity; and both Russia and England are bent upon having the exclusivecontrol of this connecting link.

MAD RUSH IN WIND STORM.

Men and Women Trample Over Each . Other with Fatal Effect. Two persons are dead and several severely injured as a result of a panic during a severe electrical storm at the county fair at Columbus, Ind. Mrs. Samuel Cooper was trampled to death by a crowd which was hurrying to get from the grove into an open field. Charles Haymen was killed by being struck on the head by a falling tree. Ten thousand persons werepresent when the storm broke. They made a rush for the open field and many were knocked down and trampled on by the panic stricken crowd. Exhibition tents and buildings were blown down or crushed by falling trees and the property loss will amount to $40,000. Two deaths will probably, result froim the wind storm which swept over Syracuse, N. Y., wrecking buildings and entailing a loss of more-than SIOO,OOO. Besides '’wrecking fifty dwellings, the power house and the warehouse, the storm unroofed the Alhambra rink and destroyed nearly all the buildings in the New York State fair grounds.

MRS. BOTKIN UNDER ARREST.

Woman Accused of Poisoning Mrs. Dunning with Candy. Mrs. D. A. Botkin, who is accused of sending the poisoned candy which caused the death of Mrs. J. I’. Dunning and Mrs. J. D. Deane of Dover, De!., is in the city prison at San Francisco. She remains self-possessed, and protests her innocencein the face of damaging evidence against her. Frank Gatrell. salesman in a Stockton candy store, says that a woman answering Mrs. Botkin's description bought a box of candy of him and had him put in it some chocolates which she furnished.. Postoffice inspectors are tracing the box through the mails. They learn that a woman mailed it at station B, San Francisco, and have traced it from there toOmaha and thence to Denver.

FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

The number of foreign students at German universities is this summer 2,350. Mexico claims the largest locomotive in the world. It weighs, with the tender, 285,000 pounds. The average weight of a brain is greater in China than in any European country, excepting Scotland. The Riescngehirge, or Giant mountains of Germany, are to be covered with a network of electric railways. A special professorship for Bavarian history has been established at the University of Munich. The Incumbent is Dr. Siegmund Rieslcr. A line soldier in England costs $275 a year, nnd even then, says a writer in Blackwood, he is often a more boy or an invalid and weakly man. There are 2,300 church bell ringers in the diocese of Oxford. This is the largest numtier in any diecese. Exeter comes second and Devon third. Russian papers complain that the Siberian railway, instead of civilizing the regions through which it passes, is teaching the natives the art of rubbing trains. In an article in the Rpvue des Deux Mondes M. Fouille ylerlares that, while the modern Greeks are not descended wholly frpm Slavs, as some have maintained, they certainly are not lineal descendants of the great peoples who made Vreece famous.