Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1899 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. OEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, ■ - INDIANA.

MANY ARE MIGRATING

BUSINESS OUTLOOK AT DAWSON IS UNPROMISING. ■Sh! - Hundreds of People Seek More Conganial Climes Government Belief Expedition Arrives—lnsurrection In Costa Rica Is Qnelled Without Delay.

L The business outlook for Dawson durI lug the year is most unpromising. HunKdreds of people are migrating to more conKputltl climes, and retail traders complain * that they have more outfits offered for ® sale than purchases sought. Even the |f saloons and gambling houses are reported ; to be making no profits. No new gold dis- | coverles of importance are reported. The ! first installment of the United States relief expedition reindeer arrived there in i; charge of the Lapland herders. The last | day’s run was sixty miles. Large num- | bers of the reindeer are said to have been slaughtered by Indians, who mistook them |-. for wild game. The remnant will be driven to Circle City. ENTIRE FAMILY 18 POISONED. | Mysterious Attempt at Wholesale Murder Puzzles Camden, N. J. iP ; . At Camden, N. J., the authorities have begun an investigation of what they bell* lieve to have been an attempt to kill a whole family by poisoning. Mrs. Rebecca ft. Morgan, a widow, resides with her son | Henry, his wife and two children, Mrs. '% Clara Carter, a widow, and Charles Ap--1 plebach. The latter is a street car motor- ’ man. The other morning Applebach, as was customary, ate his breakfast much ■ earlier than the others of the household, n After the others had partaken of breakfast they all became very ill and Dr. Wallace McGeorge, who attended them, says the symptoms were those of arsenical poi- ■ toning. The detectives refuse to disclose I the name of the person they suspect. OUTBREAK SOON QUELLED. Attempt at Insurrection In Costa Rica a Failure. I Bernardo Calvo, the minister of Costa Rica at Washington, has received the following cable message: “Last Saturday a large group of malcontents made an assault on the artillery barracks, which were surrendered by the officer of the guard, who was the son of the leader, ‘Frederico Velardo. The attack was immediately repulsed. Cols. Arreyo and Antilion were killed. The unfaithful officer was immediately executed. Public tranquility has been restored. Perez Zeledon, Secretary of State.” Wages of Many Men Advanced. The wages of all day laborers in the tin - plate plants of the Newcastle, Pa., dis- ¥ trict have been advanced from sto 10 per cent. The advance will affect between 1,200 and 1,500 men. The Reese-Ham-mond Brick Manufacturing Company at Jeannette has advanced the wages of its 250 employes from 5 to 20 per cent, and the Williamsport Nail Company has made a 10 per cent advance.

Twelve Hart in a Wreck. Train No. 10 on the Lake Shore road collided with a switching engine at Westfield, N. Y. Both engines were totally wrecked, but the engineers and firemen of both escaped without serious injuries. One mail car was overturned, but the clerks escaped serious wounds. The other coaches of the train remained on the . track, but the passengers were badly shaken np. Kill Three and Born Bodies. Ten miles west of Watonga, Ok., the charred bodies of three persons, with heads, hands and feet burned off, were found in the ruins of a burned house. The bodies are those of Mrs. Edwards, Parthenia Smith and Willie Jones, all colored. The evidence shows that they were murdered and the house burned to hide the crime. Valnable River Boat Sank. The Ryman Line steamer H. W. But- £ torff, valued at $15,000, one of the finest boats in the Cumberland river trade, was sunk near Clarksville, Tenn., after having been blown against a bridge pier. The passengers and crew escaped. Was Entering Wrong Bouse. Thomas Nolan, aged 18 years, son of a well-known oil producer, was shot in the back and probably fatally wounded while trying to effect an entrancelfifo the house of former Senator Lewis Emery at Bradford, Pa. Falling Wall Does Damage. By the falling of a high wall of the Odd Bellows’ bnilding at Kingston, Ont., burned recently, the furniture store of T. F. Harrison & Co. was damaged to the extent of SIO,OOO. Joseph Gould was injured. Merriam for Census Director. The nomination of William R. Merriam of Minnesota to be director of the census was confirmed in the executive session of the Senate without opposition. Kipling’s Daughter Die*. Josephine Kipling, the 6-year-old daughter of Rudyard Kipling and the oldest of Ms three children, died of pneumonia is New York. Confesses to Slaying Five. John Gilbert, in his cell in the county jail there, confessed to murdering his wife god four small children near Enterprise, Kan. • Storm’s Havoc in Tennessee. A cyclone which swept across east Ten- ’ nessee resulted in serious loss of life and [■ destroyed property valued at $3,000,000. Texas Banker Kills Himself. The body of D. P. Ewing, a member of the firm of the Tyler Banking Company, was found in the Tyler bottling works at Tyler, Texas. Near him was fonnd an empty morphine bottle, indicating suicide. > Deceased was under several indictments for violation of the State banking laws. Drowned in Swollen Stream, s The body of Nathaniel Mitchell, a prom- ■ * incut farmer, was fonnd in Upper Twin . creek, near Cblllicothe, Ohio. He waa drowned while crossing the swollen

INVADE AMERICAN TERRITORY. Canadians Alleged to Have Changed Alaska Boundary Line. Miners who have arrived on the steamer Tees from the north say the Canadian officials on the Dalton trail have seen fit to change the boundary line to suit themselves. They have advanced a considerable distance into American territory, and, according to the story, have planted the British flag within seven miles of Haines Mission, the entrepot for the Porcupine district. The point to which the Canadians have advanced will throw a big area of the recently discovered mines of the Porcupine district into British territory if the, new boundary is allowed to stand. News is also brought by the Tees that a number of miners were frozen to death on the Atlan trail during a recent terrible cpld snap. The mercury fell to 58 below' eight unfortunates are said to have succumbed to the cold. Their names could not be learned. Several others were badly frozen. ROBBERS LOOT POSTOFFICE. Said to Have Secured $20,000 at Covington, Ky. The Covington, Ky., postoffice was robbed of stamps and money reported to amount to $20,000. The work was evidently done by men who had secreted themselves in the stamp department, as it was possible to do, provided the watchman, who is charged with looking after the carriers’ door, under the main stairway, neglected his duty. This door is never closed. Through it thieves could enter and secrete themselves behind mail sacks and see the stamp clerk put away his stamps and cash when he closed for the night. The robbery was first discovered by finding the large door where the mail wagons load wide open when the first employes reached the bnilding in the morning. The thieves evidently escaped that way. COTTON MILLS IN VENEZUELA. American Company to Erect a Plant at Caracas. Within six months Venezuela will, as a result of American enterprise, aided by concessions from the Venezuelan Government, begin to manufacture its own cotton goods. This is learned authoritatively from Dean Shibley & Co. of New York, who have managed the financial end of a newly incorporated American concern, which will operate cotton mills in Venezuela. It is known as La Venezolana Agodonera Sociedad Anomina, and is incorporated under the laws of New Jersey. The erection of a plant in or near Caracas will begin soon, and it is expected that within six months the mills, which will contain 250 looms, will begin the production of cotton goods for Venezuelan consumption.

SLAIN BY HONDURAN SOLDIER. State Department la Investigating Death of an American Citizen. Mr. Hunter, United States minister to Guatemala and Honduras, has been in Washington in consultation with the officials of the State Department respecting the course to be pursued in the matter of the killing of Mr. Pears, a native of Pittsburg and resident agent of the Honduras Mahogany Company, near Porto Cortez, Honduras. Representative Dalzell of Pennsylvania has submitted to the department some data connected with the case from a brother of the deceased, who seeks reparation for his brother’s death. Pears was killed by a sentry owing to his failure to stop at the word of command. He did not obey because of his imperfect knowledge of Spanish. STEAMER MORAVIA WRECKED. Broken in Two on Sable Island —Nothing Known of Crew. The schooner Mondego, Captain William Corkum, arrived at Gloucester, Mass., bringing news of the loss of the steamer Moravia, Captain Witt, which sailed from Hamburg for Boston. Captain Corkum reports that he sighted the Moravia on the northeast bar of Sable Island, broken in two. The place where she stranded is twelve miles from shore, and as nothing could be seen of the crew two days after, when Captain Corkum sighted the wreck, he thinks the men are probably lost. New Veterans’ Association. A new association, to be known as the Spanish-American War Veterans’ Association, is about to be formed and a call has been issued for a convention to be held in Washington Sept. 4, 5 and 6. The proposed association will have for its objects the wiping out of sectionalism, the promotion of closer fraternal relations, the fostering of a more unselfish patriotism and the corporate effort to secure the enactment of legislation, in State and nation, in the interest of soldiers, the army and navy generally. Gen. Joe Wheeler (chairman), Brig. Gen. J. P. S. Gobin, Maj. E. C. Davis of Atlanta and Maj. Russell B. Harrison, provost marshal of the Seventh army corps, will act as executive committee. Cave-in Causes Fatalities. An extensive cave-in occurred in the Delaware and Hudson mine at Mill Creek, Pa., killing one man and severely injuring two others. A rescuing party found Thomas Coffield crushed to death, and hear by were Jacob Reinhard and Michael Yamroski, who had been caught under the same fall and badly crushed. They are still alive.

Saved in Nick of Time. William Goings, an Indian sentenced to death at South McAlester, I. T., for murder, was not shot according to the sentence of the Indian court. The habeas corpus writ issued by Judge Clayton of the United States Court was served on the Indian sheriff just in time to save Goixgs’ life. Goings will probably be remanded back to the Indian court for a new trial. Tried to Blow Up Train. Trainmen arriving at Chattanooga on the through passenger from Atlanta report having fonnd three large sticks of dynamite on the rear sleeper while passing Kenesaw, Ga. Recently several men were arrested below Kenesaw for car breaking, and it is supposed they placed the dynamite on the train to blow it up. Tried to Steal Cattle Train. H. L. Wells, who claimed to be president of the Mitchell (Neb.) Land and Cattle Company, has pleaded guilty of attempting to steal--a train load of cattle valued at $15,000 from Francis & Rowland of Newton, Kan., and was sentenced to a year in the penitentiary. Important Italian Invention. Big. Cordosa, a distinguished Italian inventor, announces he has Invented a screw propeller which will double the «*“* <*“*• « h *“ **“ O'”* o * consumption.

DEAD IN ENGINE CAB.

NEW YORK CENTRAL TRAIN RUNS WILD. Engineer’s Head Crushed In snd the Crew Not Informed of It—Preparing for the Entertainment of International Endeavorers at Detroit. A railroad engineer insensible and bleeding in his cab, the fireman unsuspicious that anything had happened to him, and the train with its load of passengers speeding on in the night to probable destruction, was the combination of circumstances that almost resulted in a tragedy on the New York Central road. The engineer had looked from his window to see if one of the driving boxes was again burning, forgetting the cut with its jagged rocks. Suddenly the back of his head was struck and crushed. He was flung against the side of the cab, and then, limp and unconscious, he hung from the window, his body almost half out. Glenwood, the next station, was approached swiftly and passed and as the train whirled by Nelson, the surprised fireman, called to the engineer and clambered out of his place. He found the body of his comrade hanging from the window, swaying and every moment threatening to fall. He quickly closed the throttle and set the air brakes and then dragged his companion back into the cab. Conductor Stone came hurrying up, the train was run ahead to Yonkers and the passengers never suspected that they had been taking a wild ride behind an uncontrolled locomotive with a strong chance of going off a curve into the Hudson river. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR PLANS. Part of the Program for the Coming Convention in Detroit. Secretary John Willis Baer of the United Society of Christian Endeavor has announced some of the details of the program for this year’s international Endeavor convention, to be held in Detroit July sto 10. Wednesday, July 5, will be given up to business meetings. July 6 the convention will listen to President Clarke’s annual address and the secretary’s report, and denominational rallies will be held in the afternoon. At night there will be two great tent meetings. For Saturday afternoon a grand outing to Belle Isle has been planned. ALLEGED NICARAGUAN COUP. Story that New York Capitalists Seek Permanent Control of Canal. The Kansas City Journal prints a lengthy story to the effect that New York financiers whose contract to build the Nicaraguan canal expires October next are believed to be back of a scheme to overthrow the Nicaraguan Government in order to secure from a new Government concessions which will enable them to permahently control the building of the canal. John Drummond of Virginia, who recently visited Kansas City, the story alleges, endeavored to interest Kansas Cityans in the scheme. Mutterings in bantiago. Considerable dissatisfaction is reported at Santiago because of Gen. Brooke’s order that hereafter only SIO,OOO shall be expended for public work in Santiago province every month. This has thrown 2,000 men out of work and mutterings of a crisis in Cuban affairs are heard as a result, but Gen. Brooke belittles it and says it is an old story of Santiago citizens wanting the use of all money received at that port. Few Concessions Asked. Contrary to the general expectation that American capital would seek early investment in the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico, following the American occupation, the fact as stated by officials of the War Department at Washington is that so far very few applications have been filed for grants, franchises or concessions for the construction of public works of various kinds. Depot and Warehouse Burns. At Charlotte, N. C., fire destroyed the Southern Railway freight depot, a cotton compress, the joint property of the Southern and Seaboard railroads, a large storage warehouse, 4,000 bales of cotton, intended for export to England and Germany and several hundred tons of commercial fertilizers. The loss will be about $400,000. Ohio Wheat Crop Condition. The crop report issued by the Ohio department of agriculture shows that wheat was materially injured by the recent cold spell, but the condition, compared with an average, is 89 per cent. The general average in January was 100 per cent, though there was a little damage from white fly and grub. Death of Lord Herschetl. Lord Hcrschell, one of the high joint commissioners from Great Britain, died at Washington. He fell on a slippery sidewalk and broke one of the pelvic bones several weeks ago, and this finally caused his death. Lord Herschell was lord chancellor of Great Britain.

Publishing: Firm to Dissolve. William Rose has be*en appointed permanent receiver for the Brentanos, publishers of New York, Washington and Chicago, in a suit brought by Simon Brentano against August Brentano and Arthur Brentano, his partners, for a dissolntion of the firm. fewer Pipe Combine. Articles incorporating the sewer pipe syndicate were filed with the Secretary of State at Trenton, N. J. The corporate name of the company is the United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Company. The authorized capital is $30,000,000. Two Miners Fatally Bnrned. By an explosion of gas in the No. 1 shaft of the Kingston Coal Company at Wilkesbarre, B*-> David A. Thomas and Harry Evans were fatally burned and Wassill Shradack was killed. Wages Advanced in Cotton Mills. The operatives of all the cotton mills in in Lowell, Mass., were notified the other day that an advance in wages generally, restoring the reduction of January, 1898, will take effect on April 3. Buried Under Snowslide. Five men and a woman are buried under an avalanche of snow which came down Granite Mountain, near the Magna Cbarta mine, at White Pine, Colo. Dewey Mode Admiral. The President has sent to the Senate the nomination of Rear Admiral George Dewey to he admiral of the navy.

MISSOURI TROOPS IN WRRCK. " j.t ' Mobil* and Ohio Train la Ditched and Sixteen Soldiers Injured. The Mobile and Ohio train bearing to their homes the members of the Second Missouri volunteer regiment, mustered out at Albany, Ga., was wrecked two miles south of Tupelo, Miss. Four coaches were hurled down a 20-foot embankment and sixteen soldiers were hurt. That none was killed outright is miraculous. The position of the cars was extremely dangerous after the first crash, as they hung over the brink of a trestle that crosses a stream twenty feet below. Fortunately they held (heir position. Train Men Win a Strike. A strike of the train hands employed on the Brooklyn bridge. New York, occurred the other day, and after congesting traffic for twenty-five minutes ended in favor of the men. The cause of the strike was a new time and pay schedule prepared by the elevated railroad company which cut down the earnings of the men. About 5,000 people cross on the elevated cars to New York every hour between 6 and 9 o’clock in the morning. The strike started at 7 o’clock, and the thousands of travelers were compelled to either walk across the big structure or take the trolley cars. The surface cars soon became jammed with an impatient mass of disgusted citizens. The railroad company took down the new schedule and put up the old one, and at, 7:25 the strike was over and the trains running again as usual. Novel Tax for Canada. Mr. Harcourt, treasurer of Ontario, says that the increased taxation rendered necessary to cover the loss of revenue caused by the anti-TTnited States lumber regulations would be largely of a novel character for Canada. He proposes to tax on a mileage basis electric and steam railway lines, telephone and telegraph lines within that province and the gross income of banks, insurance, investment and loan companies and all other financial corporations. Big Walkout in Arkansas. Reports from the coal mining district in western Arkansas indicate that the wholesale walkout of the miners has begun and that the biggest strike of recent years in the Southwest is on. At the mines of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad, in the territory, the 1,500 union miners heretofore employed are out and their places are being filled as near as possible by 200 non-union men. Dying of fcnrvy at Dawson. Advices from Dawson say that men are dying of scurvy in the suburbs of that city. Recently John McPhail was found almost dead in a tent on Victoria Gulch. His food was gone and he was waiting for death, unable to do anything to help himself. His partner had been taking care of him, but was stricken with scurvy and hastened to Dawson for medical aid. Purchase of Oil Territory. It is announced at Scio, Ohio, that the, Allegheny Gas and Oil Company of Pittsburg, Pa., has closed a deal with the United States Oil Company of West Virginia for 500 acres of valuable oil territory owned by the latter concern in that field. There are twenty-three producing wells on the property, and forty-five more are being drilled. Granite Cutter* Strike. At Quincy, Mass., the conference committee from the Granite Manufacturers’ Association and the Granite Cutters’ Union failed to agree on a bill of prices and as an outcome about 1,200 granite cntters struck. The cutters insist as a minimum price 30 cents an hour. The manufacturers offer 25 cents as the minimum. Assets Are Nothing. Halsey C. Post of Sandusky, Ohio, filed a petition of voluntary bankruptcy in Toledo, giving liabilities of $325,000 and no assets except some stock in Toledo enterprises, which he says are of no value. Pacific Steamship Foundered. The Pacific Mail steamship Starbuck, Captain Brugiere, foundered twelve miles from Amapala, on the Island of Tigre, off the coast of Honduras. No lives are reported lost. Lumber Dealers Fail. George Leoffert & Sons, lumber d&alers of Sharpsburg, Pa., have filed a petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities $126,000, assets $6,000, principally open accounts. Jealonsy Causes Murder and Suicide. At Endicott, Neb., Burt Grandy shot and killed Clyde Cole and, escaping to the woods, put a bullet through his head. B&>t.b loved Miss Gertie Hickey. Sagaata Has Resigned. Premier Sagasta and the Spanish ministry have resigned.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4:00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2,36 cto 38c; oats, No. 2,28 c to 29c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 57c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 20c to 22c; potatoes, choice, 55c to 65c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2 white, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 76c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2,28 cto 30c; rye, No. 2,59 cto 61c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2,74 cto 76c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2,62 cto 64c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 34c; rye, 61c to 63c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats. No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye. No. 2. suc to 58c; clover seed, new, $3.75 to $3.85. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 72c to 73c; corn. No. 8,32 cto 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 32c; rye, No. 1,56 cto 58c; barley, No. 2,45 cto 51c; pork, mess, $9.25 to $9.75. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice Wethers, $3.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.50. New York —Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 85c to 86c; corn. No. 2,44 cto 46c; oats. No. 2 white, 36c to 88c; butter, creamery, 16c to 22c; egg*, Western, 26c to 27c . .

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Asa Lyons* Debts Too Heavy—Attempt to Kill a Night Watchman*—Officers for the Foresters—House Wrecked by Explosion of Natural Gas. Asa Lyons, who has been conducting a butcher shop in Anderson for nearly a year, has employed an attorney to file proceedings in bankruptcy. He says that he is indebted in the sum of $218,000, his principal creditors being in Chicago, Omaha, Cincinnati, Austin, Fort Worth, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Lafayette, Winchester, Muncie and Anderson. Lyons says he lost heavily on Texas cattle ranges, mainly because President Cleveland ordered the land cleared on which Lyons was herding 18,000 head of cattle. Cowardly Crime at Anderson. A cowardly attempt to assassinate John Hefferman, night watchman of the American Straw Board Company’s plant in Anderson, was made the other morning. Hefferman was making the rounds of the factory, and in passing a window received the contents of a shotgun in the back of the head. The night engineer summoned assistance, and the man, with an ugly wound, was removed to the hospital.

Elected by Indiana Foresters. The State meeting of Indiana Foresters closed at Anderson. The newly elected officers are: Chief ranger, C. W. Ennis, Union City; vice-chief ranger, J. W. Baily, Anderson; secretary, W. W. Wilson, Logansport; treasurer, W. L. Austill, Elwood; councilor, J. E. Teagarden, Anderson; auditors, W. P. Gephart, Evansville; B. H. Stiger, Terre Haute. The next meeting will be held at Peru. Wrecked by Natural Gas. The residence of Mrs. Mary Nichter at Fort Wayne was wrecked by an explosion of natural gas. The pipes were leaking and the gas ignited from a candle which Albert Nichter, aged 15, carried into the cellar. The boy was fatally burned. Mrs. Nichter was slightly injured by flying bricks. Dunkards Going to Dakota. Eastern Indiana Dunkards held mass meetings the other day and formed colonies to go to North Dakota and carry on the national colonization scheme being worked out by the church. During the last three years 23,000 have been colonized in the selected territory. Within Our Borders. Columbus will have a city library. Brazil will have free mail delivery. Upland will have a window glass factory. Clark County peach and cherry crop reported ruined. Bee industry injured by cold weather in Clinton County. Charles Pumfre, injured in a gas explosion at Marion, is dead. The Noblesville and Hartford City electric railroad scheme is dead. Marion had a double wedding at which mother and daughter were the brides. The table factory of Stewart & Blakely, Shelbyville, damaged SIO,OOO by fire. 4. patent exchange has been established at Marion for the benefit of inventors. Albany is excited over a spotted fever case that has developed in a 10-year-old child. Evansville and Newburg electric railroad will be extended to Rockport, forty miles. Hamilton County farmers have organized a short-horn and polled Durham association. i Cyrus C. Boyer, Waterloo, who had both legs cut off by a Lake Shore freight train, is dead. Henry Sutton, Marion, has gone for a two to fourteen years’ visit with friends at Jeffersonville. At Terre Haute, Mrs. Eva Van Pelt was granted a divorce from Lient, Van Pelt of the Salvation army. At the State meeting of Indiana foresters, Anderson, it was decided to admit women to the lodge on the same basis as men. Aaron Cox, a brakeman on the E. & T. H., Evansville, was badly burned by a gas explosion. He entered a box car where there were some empty gasoline tanks with a lighted lantern. At Fort Wayne, the Randall Hotel, owned by Frank J. Stutesman, formerly of Chicago, has gone into the hands of a receiver. Stutesman owes about $15,000, of which $9,000 is in mortgage notes. The yield of maple syrup and maple sugar in northern Indiana this spring will be the heaviest in many years. Because of the severe cold the buds have not started and the sap for this reason is of much higher quality than usual. Oscar Felton struck Edward Vance, a fellow workman in the Upland zinc works at Marion, with an iron bar, which crushed his skull. Felton escaped. Five shots were fired at him by the marshal. Bloodhounds and a posse of men are after him. Stephen Glawser, a German farmer living two miles south of Poseyville, killed his wife and mother-in-law, Elizabeth Kinchloe, and after setting fire to the bnilding shot himself in the heart, dying instantly. Glawser and his wife had lived on Mrs. Kinchloe’s farm since their marriage a year ago. They often quarreled over religion, it is said, Glawßer being a Catholic and his wife a Protestant. There has later developed a strong belief among the farmers living around Poseyville that Stephen Glawser did not kill his wife and mother-in-law and commit suicide, as reported, but that the three were murdered and their house set on fire. A young man who formerly worked for Glawser <m bia farm had a falling ont with him and is said to have threatened to kill Glawser and his family. The -young max has disappeared and cannot be found. Pearl Cutting, member of the Aooth Indiana, in Cuba, is in prison for writing a letter to his parents in Decatur, in which he made threatening remarks concerning his officers. The letter was published. ▲ supposed meteor found sticking In the roof of Henry Siscoe’s bam, Smith ville, occasioned modi excitement. It developed that It was only s piece of metal Mown tram the exhaust pipe of a Monon engine. Michael Gerbrisk, father of thirty-two children, died in the Montgomery County

CONGRESS

The last possibility of an extra session of Congress disappeared Wednesday when the House passed the Senate army reorganization bill. The bill passed 203 to 32. The decks were also cleared of many other important matters. The general deficiency appropriation bill, carrying $21,089,000, was passed nnder suspension of the rales, without a word of criticism. The Senate amendments to the river and harbor bill were nonrconcurred in and it was sent to conference. The conference reports on the omnibus claims bill, the naval personnel and many other less important measures were agreed to. The Senate bill making Dewey a full admiral was passed. The naval appropriation bill, which ordinarily consumes the time of the Senate for several days, was passed by that body after less than five hours of debate. One of the first acts of the Senate when that body convened was the consideration of the bill carrying $20,000,000 with which to pay Spain for relinquishment of the Philippines in accordance with the treaty of Paris. Mr. Allison (Iowa) reported the measure from the Committee on Appropriations and asked for its immediate consideration. The bill was laid before the Senate and in half a minute was passed without a word of debate. The Senate concluded the day’s session by pronouncing eulogies upon the late Representative Dingley. In the House on Thursday two public building bills attached by the Senate to bills for public buildings in other cities were agreed to, one appropriating $250,000 for a bnilding at Los Angeles, Cal., and the other $75,000 for a building at New Brighton, Pa. A number of conference reports on minor bills were adopted. Mr. Payne (Rep., N. Y.), the floor leader of the majority, moved the passage, under suspension of the rules, of the bill appropriating $500,000 for the Pan-American exposition to be held at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1901. The bill was passed, 141 to 10. Mr. Southard followed this motion with a motion to suspend the rules and pass a bill to appropriate $500,000 for the Ohio centennial exposition to be held at Toledo. The bill was passed, 120 to 19. Mr. Mercer (Rep., Neb.) moved to suspend the rales and pass the Senate bill appropriating $1,000,000 for a new bnilding for the department of justice in Washington. At Mr. Cannon’s request an amendment was adopted limiting the cost of the building to $1,000,000, and as amended the bill was passed. During almost the entire session the Senate was engaged in routine business. Three score or more of minor bills were passed, the calendar being cleared entirely of private pension bills and of measures correcting military and naval records. Two measures of national importance were passed—the fortifications appropriation bill and the bill providing a code of criminal laws for the. district of Alaska.

Friday was the last day of the congressional session. Sessions in both houses were prolonged through Friday night. During the day the army bill brought Senator Foraker to the front with his amendment to prohibit the granting of franchises in Cuba and led to debate participated in by half the Senators on the floor. The overwhelming vote by which the amendment was passed after the provision for the withdrawal of the troops had been stricken out indicated a decided opinion that will have weight in the labors of the colonial board. The bill was passed as amended. The river and harbor bill from conference led to filibustering, headed by Senator Carter, to secure an appropriation for irrigating the arid west and threatened the passage ofshe bill. There was considerable debate on the sundry civil bill, which was finally passed. A bill providing for a Government exhibit at and to encourage the Ohio centennial and northwest territory exposition to, be held at Toledo, Ohio, and appropriating $500,000, was passed. The following bills were passed: To incorporate the National White Cross of America, amending the internal revenue laws relating to distilled spirits, authorizing the construction of a bridge over the Tennessee river at Sheffield, Ala.; authorizing the Washington and Gettysburg Railroad Company of Maryland to extend its line of road into the District of Columbia. A bill providing a site for the Washington public library building. In the House the army bill was passed with all the Senate amendments.

Told in a Few Linen.

The customs receipts of the Government are reported to be $560,000 a day. A monument to George Washington, to cost $25,000, is to be erected in Chicago. The former Spanish' gunboat Baracoa, sunk in the Mayari river, Cuba, has been raised. Alfred Nading, a prominent farmer living north of Richmond, Mo., was found dead in his bed by his family.* One hundred and forty-six more bales of cotton were brought to sight in the past five months than in the same period last year. Lieut. B. W. Wells, Jr., Admiral Schley’s private secretary, has assumed command of the naval recruiting station at Chicago. Orders have been issued to break up the old Austrian frigate Novara, which conveyed Emperdr Maximilian to Mexico and later took his body home. The New York Assembly has passed and the Governor has signed a bill to prevent the desecration, mutilation or improper use of the national flag. Gen. M. P. Miller, who commanded the United States forces at the capture of Iloilo recently, will be retired in a few days, having been forty-one years in service. Gen. Wood has decided that one regiment is sufficient to garrison Santiago city. All is quiet in the surrounding country, and cane is being ground on all of the sugar estates. The Cubans who insulted the memory of the late Gen. Garcia by refusing to pa« rade at his funeral have petitioned the President to remove Gen. Brooke from command at Havana. Some time ago the water in a well near Berlin,