Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1898 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIAN

KANSAS CITY BLAZE.

LARGE FURNITURE STOCK BADLY DAMAGED. Firs Burwed for Three Hours anti Caused a Loss of s2so,ooo—California Oil District Is Wrecked by a Heavy Windstorm. Gutted a Furniture Establishment. Fire in the furniture establishment of Robert Keith & Co. at Kansas City caused a loss on stock roughly estimated at from $200,000 to $210,000 and on the building of $40,000. The building, owned by Dr. John Bryant of Independence, was amply covered by insurance. The furniture stock was insured for $185,000. The Keith house was one of the largest of its kind in (he West and carried a stock valued at $250,000. The building is seven stories in height. The fire started at 4:20 in the morning on the top floor, which was stored with mattresses and other inflammable material. It burned fiercely and was not got under control till 7 o’clock. The fourth, fifth and sixth floors were gutted ami the remaining floors were soaked with water. The most valuable portion of the stock is in the water-soaked floors. The mammoth retail dry goods store of Emery, Baird, Thayer & Co., on the north, was threatened for a time. PILLORY AND LAfH. Pr isoners at Newcastle, Del., Receive Punishment of an Ancient Kind. The pillory and the cat-o’-nine-tails were used the other day at Newcastle, Del., to punish violators of the law. A furious snowstorm was in progress when the sheriff took Cato J. Pennington, Jr., and Joseph H. Bussell from the jail and locked them in the public pillory to receive the first installment of the punishment which had been meted out to them for attempted burglary. A large crowd assembled to witness the now almost obsolete punishment. Although the sheriff had permitted Pennington and Russell to wrap themselves in blankets, they were almost lifeless from the intense cold when their pillory sentence was served. From the pillory Pennington was led to the whipping post. His back was bared to the stinging cold and the sheriff seized the cat-o’-nine-tails and proceeded to give Pennington thirty lashes, every one of which brought out big red welts. From the whipping post Pennington went to the penitentiary, where he will serve ten years. Four other prisoners were next taken to the whipping post and thrashed by the sheriff while the crowd looked on and jeered at the evidences of pain given by the law breakers.

STEEL RAILS GO UP. Activity in the Market Due to Big Earnings l>y Railroads. Steel rails have been increased $1 per ton by the concerted notion of all the big steel manufacturing plants in the country. The new rate of sl9 per ton in Chicago and S2O in New York goes into effect at once, prior to the usual receipt of orders from the railways, which secure supplies in advance for next summer's construction. Within ten days orders have been booked by American steel manufacturers for 500,000 tons of steel rails alone. The activity in the steel market is due mainly to the enormous earnings of the railroads. Afraid of Son Jose Scale. France has notified the State Department that a decree will issue presently prohibiting the importation of trees, shrubs and plants front the United States, and requiring an inspection of till fruits, fresh anti dried, at the point of landing in France. France fears the tree pest known ns the San Jose scale. The trade affected is very small.

Will Raise Kciiiu Mercedes. The Navy Department has made a contract with the Merritt-Chnpman Wrecking Company to raise the lteina Mercedes. The Merritt company telegraphs the department that it will proceed in a short time from New York with a new expedition and powerful machinery to raise this wreck. I.leut. Hobson will superintend tlie work. Cabinet of Cuhu Resigns. The Cuban colonial cabinet formal ly resigned to (Jen. .limine* Castellanos, the new governor and captain general of Culm, their respective portfolios. (Jen. Castellanos, however, officially reappointed them and requested them to remain in office until the Spanish flag had been lowered in Cuba. Disastrous Prairie Fires. Prairie fires have played havoc in Oklahoma and Indiau territory. Millions of tons of hay in bale and bulk hafe 'been burned, and no less than MX) residences have been destroyed. Several lives have been lost iu these prairie tires. Ksrthqnake at Patras. At I’atras, Greece, a severe earthquake •hoek occurred, causing the inhabitants to become panic-stricken. Eorty minutes later a second shock was experienced. No fatalities have been reported. Burglars Open a Hank Vault. The vault of the Wrenthnm. Mass., National Bunk at W rent hum was blown open by burglars and rifled. About S2.(XH) and notes valued at $65,000 are missing. Itlanco Units Havana. Celt. Blanco and his aids, Gen. Solano •ud the stuff generals have left Havana for Spain on the transport Villaverdc. Hpnin Accepts Peace Terms. The Spanish members of the peace commission have accepted the terms of peace proposed by the United States. Assembly Is Buried in Kiiliin. At the opening of a new college at IV-resa-Argentina, near Turin, Italy, the great hall < ollnpsed, carrying down the asaembly iu the ruins. Three bishops were injured, one of whom lias since died. Score* of persona were killed or seriously hurt. Trsilt Knits Into the River. A fast freight on the Shenandoah division of the Norfolk and Western Bail way went through a bridge near Riverside. Vu. One man was killed, one fatally injured and another badly hurt.

TJTES ENTER A PROTEST. They Do Not Wish Government to Coerce Them Regarding Lands. A delegation of White river Ute Indians who have been in Washington several days had a hearing before the Secretary of the Interior. They submitted the matter of the lease of a large stretch of the Gilsonite lands in their reservation to the Raven Mining Company and asked that the lease be approved by the Secretary. They made a vigorous protest against the sending of any more Government commissions to treat with them for the allotment of lands, the cession of any portion of their territory or kindred matters, and they asserted very positively that what they wanted to do with their lands was to lease them for revenue-producing purposes, and not to cede or otherwise dispose of them. THREW DOLLARS AT LASSIES. Unusual Experience of Salvation Army Corps in Dakota. Two rounders found their way into the Salvation army barracks at Pierre. S. D., and as the services warmed up they began to show their spirit by throwing silver dollars at the lassies who were leading the meeting. They were encouraged in their work by the leader of the meeting announcing to them: “There is no limit on this game,” and they played it only to the limit of their cartwheel dollars. After the game was over the lassies gathered about S2O off the floor and the hallelujahs were none the less fervent from the size of the contribution. TRAIN ROBBER CAPTURED. Pat Moriarity Was Seen with tlic Man Who Was Killed. The identity of the train robber killed by Express Guard Blakeley in the hold-up at Daggett. Cal., the other night has been fully established. The dead man is Ignatius Elsler. The sheriff's posse has returned to San Bernndino, convinced that there were only two men in the hold-up. The sheriff took with him Pat Moriarity, the man found at Barstow, after the special arrived there. Moriarity was seen with Eisler the day before the hold-up.

Kchooner Held at New Orleans. The American schooner W. H. Swan was seized by the collector of customs at New Orleans for carrying contraband goods. Besides 3,050 cigars which were not down upon her manifest, she had on board, clumsily concealed, thirty-seven Manser rifles, fourteen bayonets, fortyfour belts of cartridges, forty-nine boxes of cartridges, one sack of cartridges and three brass cannon. The ship cleared from Santiago for a small Georgia port and put into New Orleans in distress, and when the customs inspectors boarded her they discovered the cargo. The ground is taken by the officials that not only are the ordnance and arms contraband by not being on the manifest, but they are the property of Spain. Race War in Arkansas. While a band of whitecaps at Black Rock, Lawrence County, Ark., had Henry White, a negro, accused of hog stealing, in custody, they were fired upon by the negro’s friends. One hundred shots were exchanged. Henry Hale was shot and killed, Chubby Spades was mortally wounded and George Warner dangerously injured. All arc white. The casualties on the negro side are not known. The alleged thief escaped. A coroner’s jury charges him with murder. Many negroes in the vicinity have been whipped by whitecaps recently and, a race war is threatened, Scalpers Are Victorious. The so-called anti-ticket scalpers’ law has been declared unconstitutional by the New York Court of Appeals, and is therefore inoperative. This law. wlflch was passed by the last legislative session in spite of bitter opposition, declared it a criminal act for any one to sell railroad tickets in that State except the authorized agents of the railroad companies.

Murder and Rob n Gnniblcr. Mark Murphy, 25 years old, a gambler, who wont to St. Louis recently from Chicago, was killed in the resort ho conducted at 16 A North Twenty-third street. His skull was beaten in with a blunt instrument and be died shortly after his bleeding body was discovered by James Johnson, son of the assistant prosecuting attorney of St. Louis. lowa Railway Accident. A throe-conch and baggage passenger train on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern road was wrecked six miles north of Burlington, lowa. One of the ears, containing thirty passengers, rolled down an embankment, turning three times in 150 feet. Two persons were fntnlly, three seriously and seventeen slightly injured. Trouble In an Ohio Regiment. Col. C. V. Hard, commanding the Eighth Ohio regiment, was asked to resign in a “round robin’’ signed by a number of regimentnl officers, and refused to do so, scoring the signers bemuse of their taking action without making any charges. He charges their only reason is that they are seeking promotion. Caused a Loss of $250,000. The most disastrous prairie fire that ever ravaged the Indian Territory has been brought to an abrupt stop by heavy rains. The fire started in Chickasaw and Choctaw nations, and it is estimated that property valued at $250,000 lias been destroyed. An area of seventy-five miles square was burned over. $1,100,000 for Pnbllc Uses. The wifi of the late Edward Austin of Boston bequeathes $1,100,000 to public uses. Harvard College will receive $500,000, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology $400,000, Itadcllffe College $30,000, ltonnoke College $30,000 and the Tuskegee, Ala., Normal and Industrial School $30,000. New Receiver Appointed. At Toledo, Judge Taft accepted the resignation of Receiver Pierce of the Clover Leaf Railway. It is to take effect Dec. 1. Samuel Hunt of Cincinnati, an official of the Cincinnati. Portsmouth and Virginia road, was named liy the court for the vacant receivership. Wrecked by an Kxplosinn. The powder mill at Lainonte, Mo., blew up, blowing six men to atoms and wounding several others. The explosion took place in the packing house, and was of such force ns to he heard and felt for a distance of twenty-five miles. Printers and Pressmen Unit. Printers aud pressmen went out on strike the other day in three cities: Iu Columbus, Ohio, aud Minneapolis for s ninehour day at ten hours’ pay, and at Galveston, Texas, for a raise to 35 cents an hour.

JURY DID NOT AGREE.

RIEGER AND COVINGTON TO GET NEW TRIAL. Tidal of an Important Casein Coilnection with a Bank Wrecking at Kan* sas City—Providential Coming ot Aid Eaves an Alfcskan Vessel. Will Be Tried Again. A jury in the United States District Court ot Kansas City, which has been trying I>. V. Rieger, ex-president, and Robert D. Covington, ex-cashier of the failed Missouri National Bank, on indictments charging embezzlement and misappropriation of that institution’s funds, disagreed and was discharged. The jury had been out for two days. A new trial will doubtless be set for the April term of court. The doors of the Missouri National Bank were closed by the United States bank examiner Oct. 26, 1896. The bank had between 2,200 and 2,300 depositors, and carried $1,500,000 in deposits. It failed in the. panic of July, 1893, but was promptly reopened. Shortly after the second failure Messrs. Rieger and Covington were indicted by the grand jury on three counts, embracing embezzlement, abstraction and willful misapplication of the moneys nml credits of the bank. When National Bank Examiner Foreman took charge of the institution he had Expert E. B. Moxey examine the books. Mr. Moxey was the principal witness for the Government. .He attempted to show how thousands of dollars of the bank’s money had been used by Rieger and Covington to support enterprises in which they were interested. The receiver has been able to pay but a small dividend to the depositors^

TOWED OUT OF DANGER. Steamer Utopia Nearly Meets with Disaster in Alaskan Waters. The steamer Farralon, Captain Roberts, has arrived at Port Townsend from Skaguay, bringing news of disaster to the steamer Utopia which nearly sent that vessel and all on board to the bottom of Gastineaux channel. As the Farralon was entering the channel she found the Utopia drifting helplessly toward the reef extending from Point Ardena on Admiralty Island. The Utopia had lost her propeller and a terrible gale was blowing, with the thermometer below zero. The Farralon succeeded in getting a hawser aboard and the Utopia was towed out of danger and taken to Juneau. On her up trip the Utopia, while rounding Cape Fanshaw, thirty miles west of Wrangcl Narrows, was set on fire by a lftmp exploding. The fire destroyed the pilot house, wheql gear and several staterooms. Captain Roberts reports the weather in Alaska unusually, severe. LAKE BOATS IN COLLISION. Colgate nml the Globe Seriously Damaged at Duluth—Nobody Hurt. There was a serious head-end collision in the Dulutli harbor at 1:30 the other morning between two very large steel steamers just inside the canal piers. The vessels were the Globe and the whaleback James B. Colgate, and both are badly damaged. Their forward bulkheads kept them from sinking on the spot. The Colgate is resting on the bottom near the Inman tug office, and the Globe was towed into the Omaha slip, where she rests on the bottom. No one was seriously hurt, although some of the crew asleep forward had narrow escapes from drowning. Panic in Paris. While n religious ceremony was in progress in the vestry room of the Churoli of St. Germain des Pros, at Paris, where many girls from the schools were in attendance, the cinematograph lamps were suddenly extinguished and a fearful panic ensued, everybody instantly recalling the charity bazaar lire. The priests finally succeeded in allaying the panic, but not before forty girls were injured by trampling, many being seriously hurt. Candy Poisons Young Women. At Youngstown. Ohio, Miss Katherine Williams and Miss Gertrude Schuinau are seriously ill from eating chocolate creams. Both were taken sick within a short time of each other and physicians called in pronounced the young ladies suffering from the effects of eating poisoned candy. Race Riot Is Fatal. At Anniston, Ala., negro soldiers, members of the Third Alabama (colored) regiment. lay in ambush, shot at individual white soliftors and forced a squad of the provost guard to retire after an armed conflict. When the squad returned with re-enforccmcnts the negroes had disappeared. Workman Will Lose Both Legs. Joseph Schroppler, while being chased by a workman in a factory at Trenton, N. J., tumbled into a vat of vitriol. Not realizing his danger, after Ixfing helped out, he started for home, but on the way the acid began eating into his flesh. Both legs must be amputated. Eastern Shoe House Assigns. The firm of Colburn, Fuller & Co., l>oot and shot manufacturers of Boston and of Dorry. Mass., made a voluntary assignment. The liabilities are estimated at $300,000, largely in notes. Gold Drowned. A party of fifteen gold seekers, including Rev. Mr. Webber, a Mornvinn* missionary, was drowned by the wrecking of the schooner Jessie at the month of the Kuskowu river in Alaska. Great Fire lit Ban Francisco. The Baldwin Hotel and theater in Snn Francisco was destroyed by fire. There were 800 persons in the building. Many are supposed to have perished. The loss Is about $2,000,000. Thousand* Burned to Death. Oriental advices say that the houses destroyed by the recent grout lire at llaukow numbered more than eighteen thousand. and that 3.500 persons were burned to death. Hobson to Have a Sword. The Alabama House of Representatives has ratified a joint resolution appropriating SSOO to buy a sword for Lieut. Hobsou ot Mcrrimnc fame. Two Women Burned to Death. At Huntington, W. Va., Mrs. Nancy Staley and Minnie France, her niece, were burned to death by fire in the flats on the river front.

FATALLY BEATEN BY GIRLS. Miss Bitner of Allegheny Punished for Making Unpleasant Romarks. Miss Nora Bitner, a highly respected yotmg woman of Allegheny. Pa., was beaten so badly by three girls, none of whom is over 15 years of age. that she will probably die. Her assailants—Mamie Wright, Eophie Mickle and Victoria Bennet —are in jail. Miss Bitner, with a young woman companion, was walking along East Ohio street, and -in passing a group of young girls at ploy made some jocular remark concerning the party, whereupon one of the youngsters grabbed her by the' hair and pulled her to the ground. While prostrate. Miss Bitner was kicked on the head and beaten into insensiblity. TRIED TO KILL THE CZAR. Wreck His Train While Returning '■* from Denmark. A dispatch from Elbing, the seaport of West Prussia, says an attempt was made upon the life of the Czar while his majesty was returning from Copenhagen. Just before the Czar’s special train crossed the bridge between Boehmenhoefen and Lagern a switchman discovered that the bridge had been barricaded. By almost superhuman efforts, as a result of which he is now in a hospital, the switchman succeeded in removing the obstacles sufficiently to permit of the passage of the imperial train. Wind Wrecks Oil District. A terrible windstorm in the oil district of Los Angeles, Cal., caused much damage. Two oil tanks, holding 1,000 gallons of oil, were punctured by falling derricks and the oil ran through the streets. Houses and barns were crushed under the falling derricks. No casualties are reported.

Cattle Die in a Blizzard. Reports from the cattle and sheep raising districts of northwestern Texas, Oklahoma and the Indian Territory show heavy losses because of the blizzard In those sections. Thousands of head of sheep, half-grown calves and cows have perished. Perished In the Blizzard. George and Ed. Cotter, married farmers, were found frozen to death near Ash Grove, Mo. The day before they went to Ash Grove and drank considerable. They started to their farms and were caught in the blizzard. It is supposed they fell from their horses. thi Id Frozen to Death. A man named Cranwell, his wife and child, 7 years old, were caught in the blizzard some miles from Viola, Kan. . The horses could not move in the sleet and the family remained in a wagon for two nights and a day. The child was frozen to death. Double Tragedy Results from a Fend. A report of a double murder comes from Hartshorne, I. T., where two brothers named Green shot two Russians named Morris and Buttawinski. killing both of them. The tragedy is said he the outcome of a feud having its origin in Russia. Ohio Bank Robbed at Noon. AtHJtica, Ohio, the Wilson Bank was robbed while the officials were absent for a period of fifteen minutes at the dinner hour. Two thousand dollars in registered bonds and $5,600 in coupon bonds nnd $5,600 in gold and currency were taken.

Big Blaze nt Racine. The plant of the Racine, Wis., malleable and wrought iron works was destroyed by fire. Loss, insurance, $40,000. Perfume Factory Burns. The soap and perfume factory of Allen B. Wrisle.v, in Chicago, was burned, entailing a loss of $105,000. Carlist Arms Seized. A quantity of arms destined for the Carlists has been seized in a house in Bilbao, Spain.

America’s Indians.

There are at present 250,000 Indians in the United States, distributed unevenly throughout twenty-five of the States and Territories, tne largest number, 72,000, living in the Indian Territory, with 35,000 in Arizona, 18,000 in South Dakota, 13,000 iu Oklahoma, 12,0(H) in California, 10,000 in Wisconsin, 5,200 in New York and 2,800 iu North Carolina.

Silver States.

The chief silver producing States and Territories of the country are now Colorado, Montana, Utah, Arizona, Idaho and Nevada.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice. $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 2,32 cto 34c; oats, No. 2,25 c to 27c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 53c; butter, choice creamery. 21c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 21c to 23c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 68c to 69c; corn, No. 2 white, 32c to 84c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.50; hogs. $3.50 to $3.75; sheep. $3.50 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 38c; oats. No. 2,27 cto 28c; rye. No. 2,51 cto 53c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep. $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2. 69c to 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 85c to 36c: oats. No. 2 mixed, 27c to 20c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 58c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50: hogs. $3.25 to $3.75; sheep and lambs, $3.00 to $5,25; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats. No. 2 white, 29c to 30c: rye. 55c to 56c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 71c to 73c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats. No. 2 white, 25c to 27c: rye, No. 2. 53c to 55c; clover seed, new, $4.60 to $4.70. MjLvaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring, 67c to corn, No. 3. 33c to 35c; oats. No. 2 white, 28c to 30c: rye. No. 1,52 cto 54c; barley. No. 2,43 c to- bOe; pork, mess, $7.75 to $8.25. , Buffalo —Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice wethers. $3.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $5.50. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 78c to 80c: corn. No. 2,40 cto 41c; oats. No. 2,30 cto 31c; butter, creamery, 16c to 20c; eggs, Western. 23c to 24c.

CATTLE KING FAILS.

G. C. GILLETT OF WOODBINE, KANSAS, MISSING. Live-Stock Operator and Proprietor of the “Model Farm" Is Gone, and Creditors Claim that His Debts Reach Nearly a Million. Kansas Failure Creates Excitement. An attachment suit for $40,000 filed at Abilyne, Ivan., by the Gillespie Commission Company of Kansas City against Grant G. Gillett of Woodbine precipitated great excitement among cattlemen and commission men. Gillett has been the cattle king of the State for three years. Starting with nothing, he has shipped over 200,000 cattle from Texas. Of late he had been hard pressed and a few days ago he made an assignment and deed of trust to D. W. Naill and went to Texas. Naill refused to accept the trusteeship and papers are not filed. The register’s office shows more than $1,000,000 of his paper, about one-third being “blanket” and unreleased mortgages, the remainder covering cattle being fed. The commission firms claim that many cattle have been mortgaged more than once. About 5,000 head are at his ranch. Gillett is 31 years old and has startled the old cattlemen by his bold methods. Elmore & Cooper, the Gillespie Commission Company and Trowers & Sons, Kansas City, have handled most of his paper, but a dozen or more Kansas City firms besides these have been caught for varying amounts. GENERAL ADVANCES IN PRICES. Cereals, Provisions, Cotton, Fteel and Pig Iron Rule Higher. Bradstreet’s views the business situation thus: “Winter storms and a holiday have interfered with wholesale demand and distribution, but later clear, cold weather is a compensating feature, inducing heavy retail business in '.seasonable goods. In general business circles most developments have been favorable, notable among which might be mentioned general advances in prices of cereals, provisions, groceries, cotton, steel and pig iron, the latter chiefly at Eastern and Southern points; continued heavy general export trade, a better tone in the market for hides and leather, more firmness in cotton goods and active stock speculation, all of which are reflected in the heavy bank clearing total. Unfavorable features are few, prominent among which is the continued dullness at wholesale of wool and woolen goods. The movement of wheat and other breadstuff’s continues large. Wheat (including flour) shipments for the. week aggregate 5,824,723 bushels, against 5.079.14 J bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 3,993,846 bushels, against 3,331,724 bushels last week.”

DEED OF CRUEL ROBBERS. Jacob Mominee Ducked in a Cistern and His Wife Strung Up. The terrible treatment of Jacob Mominee and wife, living near Touissant, a French settlement, has been reported in Toledo, Ohio. The old man was ducked into a cistern until he fainted and then the woman was strung up by a halter until she revealed the hiding place of their money which they had hoarded for years. It is alleged they were robbed by three masked men of about $11,700. A grandson escaped and aroused the neighbors, who gave chase and shot one of the men in the leg, but he was helped to escape in the big marsh.

Diamond la Found in Ohio. While plowing a few months ago William Taylor, a farmer residing near Milford, Ohio, found a stone which has proven to he quite a treasure. Taylor took it to a diamond cutter and when informed that it was a diamond he was paid a price that pleased him, but he little dreamed of its real value. Then the stone was taken to Europe and placed before experts, who declared it to be one of the finest ever found in the world. Three Men Killed in a Duel. At Hughes’ Springs, Texas, Edward Wilson in a spirit of fun cut off a button from Benjamin Boon’s overcoat. Boon took offense at Wilson’s act. Constable James Driver and his son David and his son-in-law, Marcus O’Neill, attempted to quell the disturbance and Boon opened fire on them. Constable Driver and his son were shot dead. O’Neill in return shot Boon, who died in less than an hour. Baby Attacked by a Monkey. At Perry, Okla., a baby was attacked by a monkey and almost killed. The monkey belonged to a show which is wintering in town and it got out of its cage, ran into the house of A. M. Patterson and attacked his 2-year-okl girl. The child’s face was lacerated and one arm and hand badly chewed up. Thief in the Kunnaa Treasury. At Topeka, Kail., the private deposit boxes in the State treasury have been robbed. Investigation shows that the locks on as many as six or eight boxes are alike and one key will unlock several of them. Earthquake Shock Ta Felt. Many points in south and southwest Virginia and North Carolina report buying experienced an earthquake shock. Charles W. Conldock la Dead. Charles Walter Couldock died at his home in New York City, after an illness extending over several weeks. Ohio Town Swept by Flames. Almost the entire business portion of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, was destroyed by fire. The loss will be nliout $20,000. rhort of Coal In Kansas. Kansas has been experiencing n coal famine, the worst ever known in the State. Hundreds of the smaller towns have been without coal. Missouri and Illinois coal was shipped to the State, but this, with the Kansas supply, did not meet the emergency. Yount Husband la Shot, Elmer Munsell, aged 20. was shot accidentally by his 18-year-old brother-in-law at charivari festivities tweuty-four hours after Mansell's marriage. The tragedy occurred In Dry Grove township, 111. Hoasted Alive by Steam. Six persons were killed, ten dangerously wounded and fifteen to twenty others badly injured by the explosion of one of the boilers in the river steamer T, C. Walker, near Fourteen Mile Slough, Cal. Escaping steam udded to the horrors of the disaster.

HAVOC ON ATLANTIC COAST.

Terrific Storms Sweep the East, Bringing Death'and Disaster. Reports from all parts of the Atlantic? coast show that the terrible storm of Saturday night and Sunday wrought widespread havoc. In New York City the storm was the worst sinceithe memorable blizzard of 1888, m which Roscoe Conkling lost his life, it filled the streets with huge drifts, lnaije the country roads impassable, and in fact" blocked everything. Having finished with the city, ilie mad combination of wind and snov», the storm rushed off to New England, where its force was severely felt in Boston and many other coast cities. It will be some days before all the details of suffering and distress are made known. Front all points in the States of New York and New Jersey came reports of snow blockades. The telegraph and telephone, wires were down in all directions. On Long Island trains were not running, and on many other railroads trains were abandoned or greatly delayed. The storm began shortly after noon Saturday. It started in with a mild fall of snow, this storm having its center i» Michigan. In the evening a coast storm came up from the south, and, joining that from the west, gave New York its biggest snow storm in ten years. Twelve inches of snow fell. The wind, most of the time, blew at the rate of fifty-eight miles an hour. The lowest temperature was 25 degrees above zero. Railway trains and street cars were stalled everywhere, A score of outgoing steamships and hundreds of other vessels were weather bound in the bay. In New York City eight lives were reported lost and sixteeir people injured. The New England States felt the full fury of the storm. Railway traffic was blocked everywhere. Boston reported’ that thirty vessels were wrecked in the harbor, and that twenty-five lives had been lost. While the storm was heaviest in the southeastern part of New England, the whole district was affected, and ex-j perienced a snowfall of from eight to twenty-four inches. Fortunately, the storm was heralded sufficiently in advancq by the weather bureau to detain most of the coastwise shipping in safe harbors, but the warning was entirely unheeded; and ignored by those on shore.

WARNED TO SHUN HAWAIL.

The Islandh Are Overrun -with Im - peCnnious Adventurers. “Tell all workingmen to keep away fro;n> Hawaii,” is the warning of Robert W. Shingle, the Hawaiian commissioner tothe Omaha exposition, who has been in. Chicago for the purpose of conferring, with Commissioner General Peck relative to the display that is to be made at the Paris exposition by America’s new territory in the Pacific. “Since the visit of the United States, troops on their way to Manila there has been a great rush for Honolulu, and the city, and, in fact, all of the islands are now overrun with impecunious strangers. I have just received a letter from ,1. B. Atherton, president of the Sugar Planters” Association, in which he urges me to. make it understood that there is no field for commercial employment in Honolulu' or the islands, and that the only possibleopening is for a limited number of farmers, to do plantation work at $lB or S2O a month.”

THREATEN POOR OLD SPAIN.

Followers ojf Don Carlos Preparing for Uprising. A Carlist agent in London has contributed an unsigned statement to the Pali Mall Gazette, in which he says the followers of Don Carlos in Spain are prepared for a general uprising against theGovernment which will be signaled by thesigning of a treaty of peace with the United States by the Spanish commissioners in Paris. A big loan has been raised, equal amounts having been subscribed by friends in London, Paris and throughout Spain. While the'feeling in the peninsula is at present quiescent, he says, the Carlist army lias been organized at secret meetings. The article says the Spanish army is honeycombed with Carlist agents. The London agent asserts that the Government is panic stricken, and also that Don Carlos is ready to cross the frontier when the moment for action arrives.

SENATE TO HOLD UP TREATY.

Senators Pettigrew and Hale Will Fight Annexation. Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota is opposed to the annexation of the Philippines. “If our policy should happen to annex any territory north of us,” he said, “I would he heartily in favor of it. But I don’t think it will be to the advantage of this country to take in the people of the tropics.” Senator Hale announces that he will most vigorously oppose the annexation of the Philippines, as he did the Cubans. Hale says the peace treaty cannot possibly pass the Senate this winter, if it includes the proposition to annex the Philippines. This statement, n Washington dispatchm says, causes a general feeling in, legislative circles that President McKinley will be compelled to call an extra ses pion of the Senate at least to handle the treaty.

WILL FIGHT CANAL PROJECT.

Pacific Kail roods Closely Watching, Moves Made. A Washington correspondent says that the administration party is giving the most earnest attention to the subject of the Nicaragua canal. It is certain that the presence of President Inglesias of Costa lUca in Washington is fraught with, importance. He is receiving the most distinguished consideration at the hands of the United States Government. The State Department is worried over the alleged concession granted by Nicaragua to the Euyre-Cragin syndicate to construct the canal. Stockholders who have, invested in the Pacific railroads and their feeders will not see their property impaired by the influence of a ship canal without a fight.

Pugilist Badly Injured.

Tom Lansing, the middleweight pugilist, former sparring partner of Jim Corbett, is at his home in Louisville, Ky„ almost, totally paralysed ns the result of a knockout blow delivered by Jack Boot in their recent fight in Chicago. Ilia recovery ia doubtful. Kenr Admiral Joseph N. Miller, who hoisted the American flag over Hawaii Aug. 12 last, has been placed on the retired last, after spending forty-seven years in active service. Of this about twenty years have been passed at sea.