Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1899 — Page 6

jfEEKLY REPUBLICAN. EL MARSHALL, Publisher. ~ fc €LAER, - • INDIANA.

G[?]H JOINS LOVERS.

SL SUICIDE OF A KANSAS I- GIRL. ■gp < ®-'Kills Herself on learning that B .r Affianced Husband Had Been ||si»ot Dead at Malolos—Proposed PotHnhes Combine Is Dead. WThe Filipino bullet which laid Alva Dix Hr on the battlefield of Malolos was a ■fesenger of death to Miss Mary AVilHb, the young woman to whom he was ■gaged. Robbed by the cruel fortunes of ■hr of her sweetheart, Miss Wilson comKtted suicide at her home in Augusta, Kan., rather than carry her grief longer ■lnis world. Alva Dix was a private in Khipany G, Twentieth Kansas volunHfefs. Before he enlisted to fight for his ■untry against Spain he was a prosper- / farmer in Wilson County, and one ■t the most popular young men of his ■ighborhood. He had been courting Miss Hnlson for some time previous to his en■fement, and just before he joined his ■giment became her affianced lover. A Kt days ago Miss Wilson saw her lover’s ■me in the list of the killed during the ■thting before Malolos. While making ■ effort to conceal her sorrow, she said ■thing to her parents to indicate that ■b contemplated suicide. The other night ■ben she retired she wrote a note to her ■per and mother, telling them that she Kd not care to live any longer since Alva ■as dead, and left it on a table in her ■am. Some time during the night she ■ok morphine and ended her life.

■BURNED HOUSE AND PATIENT. Bexan’s Horrible Treatment to Stamp H' Ont Smallpox. Ugifews was received at Temple, Texas, ® a grewsome affair occurring at Cop■feras Cove, a small village on the Santa A man named Chalk con■fected smallpox and died from the disHuse. It has not been learned whether ■pdical aid was in attendance, but it is ■attain that fear of the loathsome disease Raused his neighbors to shun his presence. MKer his death the people, being paniclltricken, set fire to the building in which ■e body lay, and everything was consum■L Smallpox has been prevalent in all ■hts of Texas the past winter, and nuraHtpus heroic expedients have been resortLA to, but none so extreme as in this case Hive been reported before. KPOTTERIES COMBINE FAILS. ■proposed Organization Falls Through I i: Because of Overcapitalization. [KiThe American Potteries Company, the name given to the proposed $27,000,■BO trust to include the potteries of the ■hited States, is dead. The projectors, it j Ksaid, spent $250,000 in trying to effect He organization, but failed because of Hwrcapitalization. They could not per■te investors to buy stock. It is said Be property to be included was intrinsic«ly worth $7,000,000, but had been apfor sale to the trust at $12,000,■9O. The trouble arose in convincing inBstors that dividends could be paid on ■5,000,000 more than the highest valuaR To Allot Creek Lands. B In accordance with the circular notice Kited March 7, 1899, the Dawes eommis■on has opened an office at Muscokee, ■ T., where citizens of the Creek Nation ■ad Creek freedmen whose rights to cit■pnship are unquestioned may select 160 Bbres of land from the Creek domain, as ■pvided by the rules and regulations Hade by the Secretary of the Interior unKr the provisions of the Curtis act. f L Big Money for a Husband. f Henry H. Croley, a wealthy farmer of K«a Salle, N. Y., announces that he will [give $50,000 to any man who will lead his Saughter, Miss Clara Croley, to the altar, She lucky man to be acceptable to both Hither and daughter. The candidate for ■he hand of Miss Croley must be honest, Bfoer, industrious and bear a good characFatal Accident at Joplin. ®Five men working in a deep, narrow Ech at Joplin, Mo., lost their lives by ive-in that caught them from both 3, Four of the men were buried unh? eighteen feet of earth and rock and Heir bodies have not yet been recovered, ■b* man named Neighbargar, was covKed to the waist and died from his inHgries before he could be dug out. Winter Wheat Badly Hurt. KWarm weather has enabled the Ne■aska State Board of Agriculture to get ■very fair idea of the damage to the winKr. wheat of the State. Reports from Ke various counties south of the Platte jHlicate that the loss is the heaviest in the Mate’s history, being more than one- | E Routed Out the Guests. ■Fire which started in the servants’ din■fe room of the Coates House, one of E|hsas City's leading hotels, at 2:30 in ■e morning. routed out all the guests, but extinguished before any damage of was done. No one was inft:' Ba rones# de Hirsch Dead. ■Bhroness Claire de Hirsch de Gereuth, ■glow of Baron Hirsch, the famous phi■■thropist, is dead at Paris. She had Hmn sick for some time- She leaves sev■mß'HWMop pounds sterling, chiefly beto charity. I K' Noted Railway Man Dead. |||l. 4. Waterman, treasurer of the MichCentral Railroad, died at his home in ■fc —————— g fJtcidiaiiß Kill Sixteen Whites, ?r-Bb* report of the murder of sixteen from Kentucky has been reiffcftd «t Juneau, Alaska. No details are Hj|*nd,but the story is to the effect that H&hld seekers were killed while asleep Bpbjdians, who wanted their kits and Murders Landl a<l y•

CONFBSSBD AN OLD CRIME. A. O. Hewitt Telle of the Poisoning of Samuel Penn at Chillicothet Ohio. Allen O. Hewitt, once a prominent attorney, died at the Soldiers’ Home at Chillicothe, Ohio, the confessed murderer of Samuel Penn, another young attorney. Some years ago Penn was mysteriously poisoned, a large quantity of strychnine having been placed in medicine he was taking. Hewitt was presumably his friend, but it seems he determined to murder him, and happened into the doctor’s office just as he was preparing some medicine for Penn, in which, while the doctor was absent. Hewitt placed the poison. The murder has always been one of the deepest mysteries of the county. Hewitt became a wreck in mind and body from remorse for his crime, and finally died at the home. DRIFTED FOR TWENTY HOURS. Fishermen Caught in Dake Erie Ice Floes Rescued. Five fishermen of Sandusky, H. C. Passon and his three sons, James, John and Charles, and Louis Roberts, have reached their homes after a most thrilling experience on Lake Erie. They went out in a small sail boat to lift their nets and were caught in a terrific storm, which carried away the spar of the boat and drove the ice down upon them so that they were for nearly twenty hours drifting helplessly about in a heavy sea among crushing and grinding ice floes, and in momentary danger of going to the bottom. They were t finally rescued. STEAMER NORSEMAN ASHORE. Crew of 102 Rescued by Life Savers Using Breeches Buoy. The Warren Line steamer Norseman, Captain Rees, bound from Liverpool to Boston, went ashore just inside Tom Moore’s Rock, about one hundred yards off the Nanepashemet Hotel, Marblehead Neck, Mass. Captain Charles of the lifesaving crew saved twenty-one men in the breeches buoy before daylight, and the remainder of the crew were taken off as rapidly as possible. The Norseman carried a crew of 102 men and no passengers. NBW PLOT AGAINST THE CZAR. Report from Copenhagen Says Frhperor’a Mother Is Implicated. L’Echo de Paris publishes a sensational dispatch from Copenhagen saying that a plot against the Czar, in which his mother and M. Pobyedonotzeff. the head of the holy synod, are implicated, has been discovered, the object of the conspirators being to take advantage of the condition of the Czar’s health to remove him from power and confide the government to his uncle, who is classed as a notorious reactionary.

Had Murdered Five Persona. E. Bates Soper was hanged at Harrisonville, Mo., the other day. He fell a distance of seven feet, breaking his neck, dying without a struggle. The execution was private and was witnessed by only forty persons. Soper was executed for the murder at their home at Archie of his wife and their two daughters, aged 4 and. 6 years respectively. Soper ran a butcher shop. One day in April, 1891, he announced that he had learned that there was a “blind tiger,” or an illicit saloon, in town and'that he could not live in a place so wicked. He sold his shop and disappeared. Four days later neighbors found the mother and children dead in bed. The heads of all had been crushed with an ax. Soper had left a note saying he could not properly support his family and that he believed they would be better off dead. Soper went to Portland, Oregon, and, taking the name of Prentice, married a respectable widow. In April, 1897, he deserted his second wife, taking their 2-year-old child with him. He afterward killed the child, choking it into insensibility and burying it alive. Later Soper, under the name of Homer Lee, leased and worked a small fruit farm near Ashland, Cal., where he was captured June 11, 1897. After being landed in jail at Harrisonville Soper confessed not only the killing of his wife and two children in Missouri and his child in Oregon, but admitted the murder, in 1880, of his father. Killed by a Mob. A special from Hollen, Kan., says: “Henry Sanderson, the young farmer who attempted to murder his sweetheart. Myrtle Fleisher, near Mayetta, and instead wounded Mrs. John Fleisher, her aunt, who was at her side, so that she died, was lynched by a mob from Mayetta. The mob. with Sanderson, marched to Banner creek, tied a rope around his neck, and fastened the other end to a beam. His neck was disjointed by the fall of twelve feet and death must have come almost instantly. The mob then quickly dispersed. The body was cut down by Sheriff Haas. None of the mob is known by the officials.” Stirring Up a Revolt. The American Indians of St. Regis reservation are egging on the Canadian Indians to revolt against the Canadian Government. It is expected that the Ottawa Government will look to the State of New York to aid it in quelling the disturbance. Between 200 and 300 of the Indians disarmed, beat, maltreated and nearly killed Inspector Hogan and Dominion Policeman Chamberlain and chased them and Constable Morris of Dundee from the reservation and kept the Indian agent. John Long, a prisoner for five hours. Bays a California Road. At Los Angeles, Cal., the Mount Lowe Railway was sold under foreclosure proceedings by the court commissioner for $190,000 to Arthur L. Hawes, who acted as agent for Valentine Peyton of Danville, 111. A majority of the stock was owned by the Singer heirs and A. B. Cody of Chicago, while Andrew McNally was also one of the committee that has been financing the enterprise.

Will Fail in a Tiny Craft. Capt. William A. Andrews, who crossed the Atlantic to Paris in 1878 in a small boat, the Nautilus, will on June 17 of this year start on another voyage across the Atlantic in a tiny craft. The boat will be constructed of aluminum and canvas, and will be small and light enough when collapsed to carry under the arm. The voyage, Capt. Andrews calculates, will take him sixty days. Many Hnrt in Train Wrecks. The south-bound Burlington passenger train from Omaha was derailed three and a half miles north of Parkville, Mo. Seven persons were hurt Several others received slight bruises. The whole train except the dining car rolled down a twenty-foot embankment. S. B. Armour Dead. 8. B. Armour, read of the Kansas City packing house of Armour & Co., and brother of Philip D. Armour of Chicago, died at his home in that city, of pneumom j j.

UNITE TO SAVE SOULS

COMBINATION FORMED FOR EFFECTIVE WORK. Protestant Denominations Will Cooperate in the West Indian FieldSection of Wyoming to Be Turned Over to Sheep Raisers. The secretaries of the Baptist and Presbyterian Home Missionary Societies, of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church and-American Missionary Association, representing Congregationalists, at the joint convention in New York, at which they arranged for interdenominational fellowship and co-operation In Porto Rico and other island territories, elected Thomas J. Morgan, D. D., Baptist secretary, as chairman, and C. J. Ryder, D. D., Congregationalist, as secretary of the convention and of conventions which are to be held. These officers will meet in September in order that they may keep each other advised of all steps taken toward the Christian occupation of Porto Rico and will agree not to duplicate forces in the same community beyond manifest necessity. They have also arranged that in the opening of evAngelistic work in Porto Rico a statement shall be published to the people of Porto to be signed by the representatives of the different societies expressing fellowship and unity of these societies in this work. LARGE SALE OF SHEEP LANDS. Breeders. Purchase Tracts from the Union Pacific Railroad. The land department of the Union Pacific Railroad has completed one of the largest deals of recent years, by which it sells 28,000 acres of land east of Fort Steele, Wyo., to Cosgrove Brothers, sheepmen. The purchasers of this land also leased from the railroad company 81,950 acres of land in the same vicinity. F. C. Miller, also a sheepman, has purchased 5,000 acres north of Fort Steela and leased 20,000 acres in the same vicinity. Negotiations are also pending with a number of other large sheep raisers for the sale of other large tracts in that part of Wyoming. If the sales are completed it will result in practically turning that section of the State over to the sheepmen.

BANKER SENTENCED TO PRISON. Misapplied Funds While Acting as Agent in Liquidation. William S. Jewett, a well-known Boston banker, has been sentenced to the jail at Lawrence for a term of seven years. He was convicted some time ago on two counts charging him with misappropriating SB,OOO while acting as agent in liquidation of the Lake National Bank of Wolfboro, N. H. Jewett was formerly president of the Lake ,National Bank and at the time it went into liquidation he was made agent. He was the first person ever prosecuted for misapplying funds while acting in that capacity. The court, in imposing sentence, took cognizance of that fact, and said it purposed making the prisoner an example so as to deter others who might occupy a similar office from pursuing the course he did. NEARLY $1,000,000 PLEDGED. Entire Stock of St. Louis World’s Fair Will Be Disposed Of by May 1. Nearly $1,000,000 of the $5,000,000 that the citizens of St. Louis have been called on to subscribe for the World’s Fair in 1903 has been pledged. It is now evident that the entire stock of the exposition corporation will be disposed of before May 1, the date ex-Gov. Francis predicted as the limit for having raised the entire amount. From authentic sources it is learned that SBIO,OOO has been subscribed. The finance committee has not yet made the list public. Big Fire in Fan Francisco. A fire which started in the engine room of the Pacific folding paper box factory, at San Francisco, spread to the building occupied by Miller, Sloss & Scott, wholesale hardware dealers, totally destroying the factory and the hardware warehouse. The printing and publishing house of the Hicks-Judd Company was also damaged by fire and water. The loss will probably amount to $500,000. Advance of Wages Demanded. At a conference of ’longshoremen at Cleveland, at which all ore-receiving ports were represented, it was decided to demand that the ore unloaders’ scale be advanced to 11 cents. Subsequently a joint convention of the ore shovelers, lumber and coal handlers was held, and unanimous action was agreed on by the three branches of the organization.

Loubet’s Narrow Escape. A wealthy gentleman named Tourret was shot -dead on the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, by a man who mistook his victim for President Loubet. to whom M. Tonrret bore a striking resemblance. The murderer, whose name is Ozouf, and who Is 38 years old, is thought to be insane. Crisis in Samoa. Mataafa and his chiefs in Samoa continuing to defy the treaty, the English end American admirals were forced to back their authority by bombarding native coast villages, several of which have been destroyed. The Germans are said to be supporting Mataafa. Equal Suffrage Convention. Extension of woman suffrage and laws to promote the welfare of the women in Cuba and the Philippines will be discussed at the thirty-fiYst annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association at Grand Rapids April 27 to May 4. Crowded with Work. All shipyards on the Delaware are so busy with work at present that the owners report they are not prepared to take new orders unless work is not to begin for some months. There are now under construction forty-six vessels of many types. Big Hock Falls at Niagara. At Niagara Falls, N. Y., a mass of rock estimated to weigh over 100,000 tons fell from the cliff to the building of the Buttery Whirlpool Rapids elevator and the tracks of the Gorge Railway. California Policeman Killed. At Nevada City, Cal., Policeman William Kilroy was shot and killed by Ed Moore, whom he was trying to arrest. Moore escaped to the hills. Hundred Lives Lost. ’ The passenger steamer Stella sank in a fog in the English channel. One hundred and twenty lives were lost.

GREAT CATCH OF SEALS. British Sealer Genera Secures 1,243 Skins in a Short Cruise. Fur-bearing seals have been unusually plentiful off the California coast during the past winter. The British sealer Geneva put into Monterey after a cruise of a little over two months off shore with 1,243 skins. The British schooner Mermaid sailed from Victoria with the Geneva and she was reported having good luck. The Zilla May and Diana sailed from Victoria about a- month ago and three weeks after they were out they had an average of 300 skins each. From all reports recently received, the fleet of sealers is heading for Fort Ross, where they will provision and fit out for cruises in the Bering sea. TRADE in the orient. Heavy Increase in Commerce Between America and Eastern Asia. The British steamer Ettrickdale arrived at San Francisco from Hong Kong and Yokohama with a cargo for the Pacific Mail Steaipship Company, but no passengers. The Ettrickdale will take back a cargo of cotton. She reports there is so much freight in the Orient and in San Francisco for transportation to and from the United States that the steamship lines can scarcely handle it. 'The market for al] goods in China and Japan has increased to such an extent that the English are seriously alarmed over trade conditions. Torture Well-to-l'o Couple. At Dennison. Ohio, six masked burglars entered the house of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Crocker, an aged and well-to-do couple, and bound and gagged them. Mr. Crocker was tortured by having lighted matches put to his feet to compel him to reveal the hiding place of his money, but refused. Mrs. Crocker was subjected to barbarous indignities. The robbers secured only $97. Youthful Firebug Arrested. In the person of a boy only 15 years old the police of Williamsburg, N. Y., discovered the firebug who-has terrorized the district covered by the police of the Ralph avenue station for more than two months. A most remarkable degenerate is this boy, who confesses to having started thirteen fires “to see the engines run.” The boy’s name is Irving Taylor. Live Wires as Weapons. Live trolley wires were used as a means of defense during a riot between traction men at Homestead, Pa. Right of way over McClure avenue was disputed by the United and Monongahela traction companies. The wires were cut by employes of the United company. There was a clash between employes of the two companies. Gift from J. D. Rockefeller. John D. Rockefeller has notified the trustees of Dennison University at Granville, Ohio, that if within the ensuing year they will raise $150,000 he will present the institution with SIOO,OOO. The members of the endowment committee of the university are confident of success. Sues Her Husband's flayers. At Bowling Green, Ohio, Mrs. E. H. Westenhaver, whose husband was killed by John and Paul Zeltner, has filed suit against them for SIO,OOO damages on account of the death of her husband. She has attached the farm of the brothers. Kansas City Murderer Hanged. James Reed, aged 22 years, colored, was hanged at Kansas City. Reed shot Mrs. Susie Blakesley to death in her home in a fit of jealousy. He died on the same scaffold on which his father, Martin Reed, died in 1894. Murderer Sentenced to Death. At London, Ont., “Peg Leg” Brown was found guilty of the murder of Policeman Twohey and sentenced to be hanged on May 17. Brown was arrested nt Port Huron, Mich. Are Married at Elyria, Ohio. Miss Antonette Cary, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Cary of Elyria, Ohio, and Frederick William Shipley of Chicago were married the other day. . Stike at Adulterated Milk. The Missouri House has passed a bill prohibiting the sale of milk nr cream treated with chemicals. The penalty for so doing is a fine not to exceed SIOO. Malolos Has Fallen. Maj. Gen. MacArthur has entered Malolos, the seat of the so-called insurgent government, the natives burning the city and simultaneously evacuating it. Akron Street Railway Sold. The Akron, Ohio, Street Railway and Illuminating Company property, appraised at $095,000, was sold to a reorganization committee for $1,050,000.

MARKET QUOTATIONS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2,35 cto 37c; oats, No. 2,26 c to 28c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 57c, butter, choice creamery, 20c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13c; potatoes, choice, 58c to 65c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 72c; corn, No. 2 white, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 33c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.15; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 77c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2,29 cto 30c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 58c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 31c; rye, No. 2,59 cto 61c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 74c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 35c to 36c; oats. No. 2 white, 32c to 34c; rye, 59c to 61c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 74c to 76c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; rye. No. 2,56 c to 58c; clover seed, new, $3.45 to $3.55. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 70c to 72c; corn. No. 3,32 cto 34c; oats. No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; rye, No. 1,55 cto 57c; barley, No. 2, 46" to 48c; pork, mesa, $9.00 to $9.50. 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 $5.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $6.25. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 5 red, 82c to 83c; corn, No. 2,42 cto 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 35c to 40c; butter, creamery. 17c to 23c; eggs, vs tSIPaU, Alt lO XtJL.*

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Tries to Kill His Under Vigo County- Kokotfio Boys Arrested for Serious Crime—Killed in a Boxing Bout-Tin Plate Plant Sold. While visiting his dying father near Shelbyville, Edward Bernheimer became desperately insane. Going into the house, he threatened to kill the little child of his sister, but was prevented, and apparently became quieter. Later in the evening he had another seizure, and in bis frenzy secured an ax and tried to brain his brother George. As he lifted the ax the other brother jumped behind him and succeeded in grabbing the handle of the weapon. The three men then engaged in a rough and tumble struggle, in which the crazy man freed himself and once more securing the ax drove his brothers, sisters and stepmother from the house, they being compelled to flee to the house of a neighbor for safety. It was feared the furious man would kill his father, but he made no attack on him. The officers were sent for and Bernheimer was placed in jail. Excitement Over Oil Find. There is much excitement in Terre Haute over the preparations being made to commence boring for oil east and south of the city. A month or so ago oil was struck by men who were boring in an endeavor to locate a vein of coal and, although the flow was not large, experts profess to believe that there is much oil underlying Vigo County. A company headed by Crawford Fairbanks, president of the American Strawboard trust, is securing options on a large number of farms and it is understood that drilling will commence as soon as the frost is out of the ground.

Boys Cause $50,000 Damage. Eleven schoolboys, aged from 11 to 16, were jailed at Kokomo, as part of a gang of thieves who have been dismantling machinery in shops and factories and selling the brass at junk shops. They are sons of prominent residents and business men. They sold two car loads of brass before detection and destroyed $50,000 worth of machinery. Tin Plate Plant Is Sold. For a consideration of $1 the American Tin Plate Company’s $2,000,000 plants at Elwood—the largest tin plate plant in the nation —have been turned over to the tin plate trust through D. W. McCarghey of Chicago. The valuation of the plants was placed at but $250,000 and $650 worth of revenue stamps were attached. Blow Bursts Boxer's Heart. Charles McCoy and Carl Comer, each about 17 years of age, were boxing at Center, when Comer struck McCoy a blow over the heart that burst a vein, and allowed all the blood to pour out into the abdominal cavity. Death was almost instantaneous. Within Onr Borders. Trolley line will be built from New Albany to Wyandotte cave. Deadlock at the miners and operators’ meeting, Terre Haute, over wage scale. Lewis N. Noble and wife, Goshen, celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary. Robert Gortne’r, Goshen, appointed district attorney for four counties in New Mexico. An all-night cocking main was given on a barge near Lawrenceburg, feixty-two birds fought. At La Porte, Barney & Bowen’s livery stable was destroyed by fire. Five horses were cremated. Kokomo Council has let contracts for street improvement, contrary to the dictate of the Mayor. Case of Walter S. Randall, Shelbyville, against Big Four, for $5,000 damages, decided for defendant. Kokomo will fill the gap in the proposed Indiana baseball league, made by the withdrawal of Marion. Lafayette soldiers’ home has the oldest and youngest inmates of any similar institution in the country. Krein Chain Company, Marion, will move its factory from St. Mary’s, Ohio, and consolidate the two. Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, the Indian baroness, refused the parole granted her by •Gov. Mount and it has been revoked. Deputy Coroner Weaver of LaPorte has rendered a verdict that Blanche Thomas came to her death as the result of eating a banana. The case is interesting the medical fraternity.

J. H. Bissett of Anderson, formerly of Battle Creek, Mich., has made application for patent covering the latest idea in perpetual motion. The machine which he has constructed has, it is claimed, been given practical tests and worked perfectly. Instead of following the time-beaten path of resorting to balls, weights or sliding gauges, Bissett has constructed his machine on condensed air principles. By turning the flywheel once enough air is compressed jo drive it ardund again. It automatically compresses and discharges the air, and will run until stopped. A gauge regulates and holds speed at any desired notch. Willis R. Gosnell, a wealthy .citizen of Montgomery County, lent a widow a large sum of money to pay off certain incumbrances on her land and subsequently they were married. He held her notes for the money loaned and it was not questioned that she used it to pay off her debts. She died a few years later and Gosnell presented the notes against the estate that she left. Payment was refused and he brought suit to recover the amount. The Supreme Court has decided that he could not collect the money and held that it was clearly a common law rule that a woman discharges all her indebtedness to her creditor when she marries him, and that this rule has not been abrogated by statute in this State. In an explosion at the Aetna powder works at Miller’s Station, Superintendent Harrington and two employes were badly injured. Harrington will lose the sight of both eyes. At Fort Wayne, Jipnes Jacobs, former proprietor of the City Trucking Company’s barns, recently destroyed by fire, was found guilty of arson and sentenced to the penitentiary. Michael Shea, supposed to be the oldest man in Indiana, died at his residence in ■-»1I 1 , . < ’ - • 'Sr.:.', ?

SNOWFALL OUT OF TRASON.

Precipitation Kxtcnda All Way from Santa Fe to Detroit. A snowstorm extending from Santa Fe to Detroit, accompanied at many point* In its course by high wind, swept up from the southwest at midnight Wednesday and continued until dark Thursday evening. Reports from points in Kansas, Missouri, lowa and Illinois indicated that the storm was severe for this time of year, and in many cases a record-breaker. In Chicago the fall .was three inches. In< some cities the atorffi was accompanied by such high wind, as to resemble a blizzard, and the fall of snow was so great as to effectually blockade street car traffic for hours. From Galesburg came the news that all traffic and business was stopped by the blizzard. Peoria reported the first real snowstorm of the season. Good sleigh riding was reported from Monmouth, a foot of snow having fallen within twelve hours. . Outside of Illinois the greatest storm seemed to be in Kansas and Nebraska. Chillicothe, Mo., reported the worst storm in many years, with snow a foot deep and the storm still raging. Between Atchison and Omaha a heavy snow fell, drifted by a strong wind. The Missouri Pacific, expecting blockades, had equipped engines at different points with snow pl< ws. From six to twelve inches fell between Atchison and Grafton, and two feet at Blue Rapids and Waterville, Kan. Street car traffic in Leavenworth was impeded. lowa told much the same story as Illinois. Muscatixe, Burlington and Ottawa correspondents all told of “the worst storm this time of year for many years,” and of impeded street car traffic and railroad blockades and abandoned trains. At St. Joseph, Mo., the temperature was 22 degrees, and the storm was so severe that street cars were unable to run. But in St. Louis there was only two-hundredthn of an inch precipitation. Kansas City, reported that rain, snow and hail fell successively, accompanied by strong wind and falling temperature. In South Bend, Ind., snow fell to a depth of eleven inches, and the thermometer dropped fourteen degrees in nine hours. Down in New Orleans, Memphis and Chattanooga and other Southern cities the blizzard was transformed into a thunderstorm, and at New Orleans a precipitation of 1.7 inches of rain fell in twelve hours. In Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Nashville also rain fell.

MADE FAMOUS BY M’KINLEY.

Georgia House Where the President Has Been s taying. President McKinley has brought fame to the winter home of Mark Hanna, at Thomasville, Ga. It was here that Mr. McKinley’s first presidential boom began, and here his campaign managers laid their plans. Now that the President has again been there, the political writers have been telling all sorts of tales about arrangements for McKinley’s second campaign. The Hanna residence at Thomasville is far from being a splendid mansion. It is a large cottage, with a small flower garden around on one side, but is very cosily fitted up within. Mr. Hanna has been interested in the town for a number of

MR. HANNA’S HOUSE IN THOMASVILLE.

years, and has induced his broth’er, Mel Hanna, and his brother-in-law, J. Wyman Jones, to build winter homes there. They have spent many thousands of dollars beautifying the surroundings of the little Georgia town, one of their ventures being the establishment of a beautiful park of many acres, with a country club house in the center. To the itannas much is due in heralding to the world the advantages of the climate of the Georgia pine forests in winter time, and it is largely to this that Thomasville has become so favored as a wintering place.

NEARLY 100 PERSONS DROWN.

Epgiish Excursion Steamer Stella Finks in the Casquets. The steamer Stella, with tourists for the islands of Jersey and Guernsey, struck on the Casquets, a few miles off the French coast, and sank in eight minutes, her boilers exploding with a tremendous report as she went down. There were 176 passengers on board, only eighty of whom are reported saved. Captain Reeks went down with the ship. The Stella was crowded with Easter holiday excursionists from London and Southampton. A thick fog prevailed and the Stella got out of her course. When the vessel struck the Casquets the people on board became greatly excited. The officers of th<* vessel, aided by a few cool heads, made their way among the frightened excursionists and checked a threatened panic. The people were crowded into small boats as fast as possible, the womenand children taking precedence. The steamers Lynx and Vera, which happened to be in the vicinity, rescued several boat loads of the shipwrecked people. All available boats at Guernsey, the nearest point, went to the scene of the wreck. Despite the efforts of the ship’s officers the incredibly short time in which the steamer settled caused great confusion, and there was not time to distribute life preservers to all the passengers. Some of these did not wait for the boats, but r'jumped into the water. Several of them were picked up clinging to pieces of wreckage. The rescued passengers are unanimous in their praise of the conduct of the crew.

Otis’ Shrewd Scheins.

An odd game of cross purposes between the army and the navy at Manila has come to light. It was reported some time ago that the navy was trying to buy the uncaptured Spanish gunboats in the Philippines, but it was explained that Admiral Dewey failed because Sjfttin had refused to sell them to the United States, and disposed of them to a foreigner at Hong Kong. It turns out thht the Hong Kong buyer was an ngeot of Gen. Otis, who shrewdly resorted to this scheme to