Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1899 — Page 2

EEKLY REPUBLICAN. ■ GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. I Bnsselaer.• - Indiana. s ■trr l --

NAVAL SCHOOL SHIPS.

I I UNITED STATES NOW HAS THIRis ® teen OF them - gSKanapolia and Vicksburg Found Too II Hhnall for the Service—Fatal Riot K>Betw«a Prohibitionists and Liquor ■ EMen in an Oklahoma Town. ' I? ~ ~— IK instructions given by Secretary iKgltng, the gunboats Annapolis and VicksHkir* are to be placed out of commission Hnd refitted for service as gunboats in9K»*d of as training ships. Experience demonstrated that these vessels are ■O’ 0 small for the traiuiu K service, and |Ur places will be taken in this service by I j|o and Pensacola in Pacific ■Sliters. Not counting these ships, ten ves■■Hte Vvill soon be engaged in training boys be sailors, landsmen to be seamen and to be expert gunners. The Amand Lancaster will soon come Bgaorth, and the men who have undergone giSuning in S unnery exercises for the last B Stat months will be transferred to other I SttHß, and new classes will take their MUINMEN OUTWIT A SHERIFF. —— I B|^* I>ccemfnl Attempt to Attach a ■ ’ 'Train In Ohio for Back Taxes. | Toledo and Ohio Central extension HMjtilroad, which passes through Bishopg|ftßße. Ohio, owes the county about $5,000 gSHch taxes. As a south-bound local was ■Kissing through Amesville, the sheriff of KfgLthens County and his deputies held it up gMmd attached it. Strong chains were progßttced and the engine and cars securely looted to the track. The crew of the gHprth-bound, however, knew a thing or | Bro, and, getting wind of the proposed |Kjild-up, stopped. The mail car was taken | Brom its usual place at the head of the ■ Bain and placed at the rear, and so the |Main P rocee ded without further interrupI Bion. An excursion train was due in a I ®BW minutes, but the conductor, getting a g®p as to the proposed scheme, shot |Kkrough the station at the rate of a mile a IKfanute and pulled into Morgan County, ISMtere tbe sheriff could not follow them. ___ | Bparson shoots saloon man. I ■Riot in Oklahoma Between ProhibiI tioniats and Liquor Dealers. L LThere was a riot between the prohibi- | jpnists and the liquor element at Alva, Npk., apd a dozen citizens have been nursI Hag wounds in consequence. The pastor | ||ff 'the First Methodist Church, the Rev. J BpJifctander Ross, entered Gene Hard- | Bick’s saloon and commenced shooting at I Hardwick quickly returned the tire IHmd both fell mortally wounded. Others, I Birtisans on both sides, quickly gathered, I Had before the officers could get the crowd control six others had to be carried |Hway.' They were wounded seriously. |HBie prohibitionists have been making ev|Bry effort to get the saloons closed, but IMikve failed. . ■■■ ■ ■ ■ ■ I WsK? Face for the Pennant I ||The standing of the clubs in the NaI Shoal League race is as follows: | W. L. W. L. I Louis... .18 6Baltimore ...12 13 lUtfcago .....17 7 New York.... 9 14 | Siiladelphia. 17 BLouisville ... 9 14 ||®rooklyn • ■••15 BPittsburg .... 8 15 IBEincinnati ..15 BWashington.. 5 20 Kpatbn 14 11 Cleveland.... 320 I is the standing of the clubs 180 the Western League: W. L. W. L. I Hmdianapolis. 10 7 Milwaukee ... 9 8 | gfet. ’Paul..... 9 7Detroit 8 9 I gwuffalo ..... 9 7Kansas City.. 7 11 Minneapolis.. 9 BColumbus ...6 10 I :«■ Wife Saved His Money. KDaniel Mahoney sued his wife Mary for 0600 at Kansas City. They were separatHifl, but were not divorced. Mahoney | claimed that his wife had saved the money Orom his earnings. The case did not get r| to trial. Mrs. Mahoney’s lawyers simply | to the case, saying it had no Blanding in court, because a husband could jjbot sue a wife, although either one might Iwue or be sued by a third party. The : Hndge dismissed the case. Trusted Attorney Flees. ETrafford N. Jayne, a prominent attorjHfey, society man and churchman of Min■Mapolis, has been missing several days, file left the city presumably on business I Hnd when it became necessary to open his I ISesk a letter was found stating that his fHKcounts with several estates in his charge ■ |Sore wrong and intimating that when the Hotter was found he would be dead by his ■Km hand. . China Near to War. soldiers and warships from ■;.Mong Kong have taken formal possession / .H|:'sjKow-Loon, opposite that city. The fgHfcsent trouble is the result of a sudden ’Pffimewal of the native opposition to British Ejptrol of the ceded territory. ■ Many Persona Badly Hurt. E-At Paris, Texas, a reviewing stand on were seated 4.000 persons, witness■RH • display of fireworks, fell with a No one was killed, but a great Hfeber were injured, some probably RWidow Acquitted of Murder. Kyit Georgetown, Colo., the trial of Mrs. , Kpe Fish, accused of having murdered Es husband, Gaylord Fish, by chloroferming him while he slept, ended in her Famous French Critic Dies. ■gPrancisque Sarcey, the famous dra- . Hue critic, died at Paris, in his seventyIlf Km H—r L C «“ h °® New York Central. < iThe Southwestern special was run into |KEbie .New York Central depot at Utica, by an express train. A Wagner engine and one car of the ex-

CITY BUILT IN A DAY. ' Prairie in the Morning and Organised Before NightfalL The greatest town-building record in Oklahoma has been won by Mountain View, Washita County. The other day the town site was a prairie. The same day it was surveyed and platted and a large portion of it sold and settled upon. Washita river was bridged and a vast amount of accumulated freight was moved and located. The town was organized and officered and all lines of business and professions started. The town in one day became a city of nearly SOO, with W. T. V. Yates as Mayor, Senator G. W. Bellamy as treasurer, and Col. John Kerfoot as police judge, with a full complement of councilmen and minor officers of an organized town. Some of the lots sold as high as S9OO within thirty minutes from the time the surveyor drove his stakes. Mountain View is the western terminus of the Rock Island extension across the Comanche and Apache country. NEW GOLD DISCOVERIES. Snake River, in Alaska, Reported to Exceed the Klondike in Richness. The San Francisco Examiner prints a story regarding the new gold discoveries at Point Nome, in Alaska, which its advices declare to exceed in richness those of the Klondike. The strike is on the Snake river and its tributaries, about twenty miles back from, Cape Nome and 120 miles from St. Michael’s—just outside the St. Michael’s military reservation of the United States Government. The mines are all in American territory. Reports from miners on the ground say that it is only six feet to bedrock and the ground is alleged to pay from the surface. A stampede from Dawson and St. Michael’s to the new gold field is predicted. EIGHT KILLED BY A CYCLONE. Hondo Coal Mine Buildings in Mexico Are Demolished. A terrific cyclone struck the Hondo coal mines, 100 miles south of Eagle Pass, on the Rio Grande, in Mexico. The offices, the hotel, the depot and other buildings were wrecked, and a number of freight cars were blown into the prairie. Eight are known to have been killed, among then?! Lawrence McKinney, son of the superintendent. Others are believed to be in the ruins. Superintendent McKinney and many others were badly bruised. CROWDED ROOF GOES DOWN. Fifty Persons Are Precipitated Thirty Feet, and Three Are Badly Hurt. During the performance of the Buffalo Bill show at Cumminsville, Ohio, the roof of old Turner Hall, which commanded a view of the show from across the street, was covered with 300 spectators who had paid 5 cents each for the privilege. When the show was half through a portion of the roof, with fifty people on it, went down, a distance of thirty feet. Three are known to be dangerously hurt. All the others were more or less bruised and cut. Horrible Affair in Michigan. At Howard City, Mich., Joseph Harvey killed his wife, his uncle. Robert Pierson, and his grandmother, and mortally wounded his 3-months-old child and his father-in-law, John Logenslayer, and finally shot himself, inflicting a wound which is not expected to prove fatal. Harvey’s uncle and grandmother lived a mile north of town. The murderer went there in the evening. He asserts that Pierson, his uncle, was quarreling with his grandmother and that he interfered; that thereupon Pierson stabbed and killed the old lady, aged 70, and that he (Harvey) retaliated by shooting his uncle. After shooting Pierson Harvey stabbed him three times. Harvey then returned to his home, two miles southwest of town. Arrived there he shot his wife twice, killing her. He then fired at his 3-months-old baby, the ball going into its arm. Next Harvey entered his father-in-law’s room and shot him twice, inflicting, however, no fatal injury. He then turned the revolver on himself, shooting himself in the neck. Harvey’s wife, when attacked, was sitting up with the remains of her mother, who died a few hours before. Harvey was arrested. American Wants Damages. After a confinement of about six years in a political prison in the republic of Colombia, Archie McCarter, a civil engineer and contractor prominent in Fort Scott, Kan., until 1891, when he left for Yucatan, has been liberated and returned there. He has made a demand upon the Colombian Government for $150,000 indemnity, and has gone to Washington to enlist the aid of the Government in collecting it. McCarter had been absent from his home city about three years'before any word was received from him, and then a letter addressed by him in a Colombian jail was received by a friend. It bore the censor mark of the commander of the prison, who, in a postcript, said that no communication would be allowed to pass to or from the prisoner touching the cause of his confinement. Supposing him to have offended the Government in the promotion of some big enterprise, no serious effort was made by his friends to learn the facts in his case, and he being a man of no family, there was no one deeply enough interested to appeal to the Government for an explanation. He claims to have been thrown into jail on suspicion of being a filibuster, for which suspicion there was no ground, and declares he was denied a hearing. Sultan Has to Pay. , Rear Admiral Howison, on boa,rd the United States cruiser Chicago at Tangier, demanded of the Sultan of Morocco a settlement of the claims against him by American citizens. The admiral gave the Sultan notice that he would have to settle within twenty-four hours or the city would be bombarded. The threat was effective, as soon afterward the claim was settled. Cyclone in Kansas. A cyclone visited Mulvane, Kan., and blew down twelve frame business houses •nd the Methodist Church. A small cyclone passed over Wichita, and five miles east of there it dropped to the earth and picked up five farm houses. Mr. Jacobs, while out feeding stock, was hit on the head by flying debris and fatally hurt. Pastor Now a Millionaire. Rev. Edward Morgan, late assistant rector of the Church of the Good Samaritan in San Francisco, is reported to have been made a millionaire by the death ot an aunt in New York. Wrecked on an Island. The British ship Loch Sloy, from Clyde for Adelaide and Melbourne, was

LONG FIGHT IS WON.

CATHOLIC KNIGHTS WILL ADMIT WOMEN AS MEMBERS. Convention at Kansas City Takes Important Action—Complete Change of Front—Big Western Buyers Form a Poultry and Egg Combination. Catholic Knights of America concluded a ten-year fight at Kansas City when they voted to admit women to membership in the order. At first the resolution proposing this change in the constitution was voted down, failing by thirty-four votes to receive the necessary two-thirds majority. The next day there was a complete change of front. A reconsideration of the previous action was moved and carried and a vote retaken without debate. The result was the surprising total of 432 votes in favor of the women to 29 against them. The convention greeted the result with tremendous applause. Though women will be admitted under the amended constitution, they will be permitted to carry but SI,OOO insurance, or one-half the amount that is allowed to men. Women will be permitted to join between the ages of 18 and 40 years. TRUST IN CHICKENS AND EGGS. Poultry and Produce Shippers to Control Western Trade. A poultry and produce trust organized at Fort Scott, Kan., is the latest and most unique evolution of modern commerce. J. B. Jean of Wichita, W. B. Hurst & Co. of Fort Scott and W. B. Redfearn of Springfield, Mo., the three largest exclusive poultry and produce shippers of the West, who hate buying stations in the principal towns of Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and other States, have consolidated business in a stock company, with headquarters at Springfield. They will control the poultry and produce market in all communities where they have stations. They deal principally in -chickens and eggs and handle many train loads daily. SPEAKS AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS. Columbus, Ohio, Man Breaks a Long Involuntary Silence. For the first time in fifteen years, R. W. Wagner, a prominent citizen of Bucyrus, Ohio, was able the other day to speak. In 1885 he was afflicted with illness which left him mute. Long treatment by skilled physicians failed to restore the power of speech, and he had despaired of ever recovering, but while holding a little child on his lap, he was seized with a sudden desire to speak to her, and to his surprise was able to do so. His voice has an unnatural sound, but aside from this he speaks as well as ever. Would-Be Poisoner’s Trick. Mrs. Charles U. Martz, wife of a prominent Kirksville, Mo., man, received a beautifully chased silver wine flask, filled with what purported to be sweet wine. No marks other than the address were upon the package. The wine was given to a chemist, who analyzed it, finding enough arsenic in the contents to have killed a dozen persons.

One Suicide Causes Another. The suicide of Mary Vlack, a farmer’s daughter, at Beemer, Neb., was followed by another, that of a young man who is said to have cherished a tender affection for her. Young Jos. Hamby called at the Vlack home and asked permission to see the young woman’s remains. He entered the death chamber and immediately shot himself, dying instantly. War Over County Seat. Hearing that a force of 500 citizens of Elkins, W. Va., was on the way to Beverly to remove the county records pending the settlement of the question of the location of the county seat, citizens fortified the county buildings and prepared to resist the Elkins people. The latter turned back on hearing of these preparations. Racing Steamers Collide. As a result of a competition between McConnellsville and Zanesville river packets, the Valley Gem and Zanetta, in racing for Taylorsville locks on the Muskingum, collided, and the whole side of the Zanetta was crushed in. By heroic efforts of the crew the boat was kept afloat and no lives were lost. Terrible Chlorate Explosion. A fearful explosion occurred at Kurt’s chemical works, St. Helen’s, England, killing four persons and seriously injuringtwenty. Fire broke out in the chlorate house and eighty tons of chlorate exploded. Subsequently the boiler burst and the whole works were razed. The total loss was about SIOO,OOO. Many Die in a Wreck. A collision of passenger trains occurred on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad at Exeter, about six miles south of Reading, Pa., and a great number of people were killed and injured. The number killed is stated to be twenty-five. Fully fifty others are injured. Dreyfus la to Return. 'The Paris Petit Bleu says that ten members of the republican guard and four gendarmes left St. Nazaire, France, on board the steamer Lafayette recently to form an escort to bring Dreyfus to France •nd that his return may be expected by the end of June. Thieves Rob a Brewery. Six burglars, masked and armed, at the point of their pistols, overpowered Emi) Meyer, the watchman, and Frederick Festing, the engineer at the Bavarian brewery, at Wilmington, Del., and then blew open the safe in the office, securing over $1,400. Indians Attack Herders. Weasel Skin and some other Indians have terribly beaten a number of Mexican herders near the lower Florida mesa, near the Animas river, Colo., and kiDed five head of horses and a large herd of sheep belonging to the Mexicans’ employers. Four Killed in a Wreck. ' A construction train on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad went through a trestle near Newcastle, Pa., killing four men and injuring a number of others. The train went over a 70-foot trestle into Spangler’s run. Ex-Governpr Flower Is Dead. Ex-Gov. -Boswell P. Flower ®f New York died at his club house at Eastport, L. I. The immediate cause of his death was heart failure superinduced by acute indigestion. He was ill for only a few i hours, |

THEY ARE GAMBLING DEBTS. Board of Trade Deals So Construed by the lowa Supreme Court. The Supreme Court of lowa has decided that a note or account for moneys involved in board of trade deals cannot be collected at law in the State. E. W. Gifford gave a note for $425 to J. T. James & Co., Des Moines, to pay for margins advanced by the firm. The note was sold to the People’s Savings Bank, which sued. The court holds that the transaction was purely gambling. It says: “Any purchase of property not intended to be actually delivered, or in which the settlement is to be made by paying the difference between the market values at the time of the deal and the time of settlement, is gambling, and debts thus incurred cannot be enforced at law.” “TICK-TACK” MAN IS KILLED. Postmaster McLaughlin Shot by His Friend at Jamestown, Ohio. At Jamestown, Ohio, Postmaster Geo. A. McLaughlin is dead as the outcome of a thoughtless piece of “pleasantry,”i killed by his most intimate friend. The Postmaster late the other night, with some boy friends, was putting a “tick-tack” on the window of the home of E. E. Ginn. Mr. Ginn, hearing the noise and thinking to frighten the boys, fired a shot through the v in d° w > killing Mr. McLaughlin instantly. McLaughlin had been recently appointed postmaster. She Whipped the*Mayor, The most sensational scene ever enacted in Bellefontaine, Ohio, took place on Main street the other day when Miss Minnie Crawford, a milliner, assaulted Mayor John R. Cassidy and unmercifully lashed Jiim with a rawhide. Some weeks ago 'Miss Crawford was subpoenaed as a witness in a case in the Mayor’s court. Miss Crawford did not testify in the case and afterward threatened to bring suit against those who had subpoenaed her. Mayor Cassidy was asked some time ago to vindicate Miss Crawford, but refused and, it is said, she has since been on the warpath. She stationed herself at the People’s Bank, and when Mayor Cassidy was about to start up the steps to his law office she rushed at him and, drawing the whip she had concealed in the folds of her dress, rained blow after blow on his head and shoulders. Mayor Cassidy sought refuge in a drug store, but the woman followed and only desisted when caught and held by employes of the store. When released she walked out, disheveled and triumphant. Heavy Floods in Germany. Incessant rains have produced disastrous floods in Germany, especially in the eastern Oden district. At Oderouin, Austrian Silesia, an immense district has been inundated. At Bitterfeld eleven persons were drowned in attempting to cross the river Muldo. Values Laborer’s Life at SIO. Judge Robinson of the Superior Court at New Haven, Conn., named $lO as the value of a laborer’s life. The verdict was rendered in the suit of Antonio Petrillo, employed on the Consolidated road and killed by a passing train, instant death being proven. Kansas City "Warehouse Burns. The big five-story warehouse of the Newby Transfer and Storage Company, at Kansas City, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at over SIOO,OOO. James G. McNollis, a fireman, foreman of No. 4 truck company, was killed. Anti-Trust Law Passed in Texas. The Texas Senate has passed finally its anti-trust bill. When originally introduced the bill was identical with the Arkansas law. It has been materially amended, however, and is decidedly more drastic in its provisions. Five Persons Burn to Death. The residence of Dr. L. C- Bagwell,, east of Dalton, Ga., was burned. Dr. Bagwell, his three children and their negro housekeeper were burned to death. It is supposed a lamp exploded. Klondike Warehouse Burns. The North American Transportation and Trading Company of Chicago lost $30,000 in a fire at Hamilton, on the Yukon. Over three hundred tons of valuable goods were burned in the big warehouse. Defaulting Teller Sentenced. William N. Boggs, the defaulting teller of the Dover, Del., National Bank, has been sentenced to five years in the Trenton, N. J., penitentiary and a fine of $6,500. Fatal Boiler Explosion. Three men were seriously and two probably fatally injured by the explosion of a boiler at the works of the New Jersey Irou and Steel Company at Trenton.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2,33 cto 34c; oats, No. 2,26 c to 27c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 59c; butter, choice creamery, 16c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 white, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2,27 cto 29c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 58c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 2,63 cto 65c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 75c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 33c to 34c; oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 33c; rye, 61c to 63c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, No. 2,57 c to 59c; clover seed, new, $3.65 to $3.75. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 3,32 cto 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; rye, No. 1,59 cto 61c; barley, No. 2,40 cto 42c; pork, mess, SB.OO to $8.50. 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 $6.50. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 82c to 83c; corn. No. 2,41 cto 42c; oats. No. 2 white, 85c to 39c; butter, creamery 15c to 19c* egp West"

MANY DIE IN WRECK.

TERRIBLE RAILWAY DISASTER ON EASTERN ROAD. Pleasure Seekers Meet Awful Death at Exeter, Pa.—Express and Excursion Trains Collider-Twenty-five Reported Killed and Fifty Injured. A collision of passenger trains occurred on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad at Exeter, about «ix miles south of Reading, Pa., Friday night, and the number of killed was stated to be twenty-five. Fully fifty others are injured. The regular express train from Pottsville to Philadelphia connected at the station in Reading with a train from Harrisburg, which was crowded with excursionists who had been to the State capital to witness the ceremonies in connection with the unveiling of the Hartranft monument. Many of the Harrisburg passengers at Reading went aboard the Philadelphia express, but, it being found that all could not be accommodated, it was decided to send an extra train to Philadelphia to run as the second section of the express. The extra train left twenty minutes later than the express. At Exeter the express stopped for orders, and while standing still the extra train crashed into it while moving at great speed. Three of the rear cars of the express were telescoped and the first car of the extra train was also wrecked. The passengers in these cars were terribly mangled, many being killed outright, while others had limbs and bodies maimed. Word was at once sent to Reading and a special train with physicians and nurses was sent to the scene as quickly as it could 'possibly be put in readiness. According to the account of the passengers the engine of the second train plowed through the rear car of the first train, then through the parlor car and half way through the third car. The first car on the second train was also telescoped. The passengers on the second trahi were-most-ly from Norristown. Some say that the signal man. neglected to display the proper lights. He claims, however, that he had the warning signals up, but he thinks on account of a curve the "engineer did not see them until too late. United States Senator Boies Penrose and Gen. E. Burd Grubb were .passengers in the Pullman car of the wrecked train. The rear end of the car in which they were riding was crushed, Hut they were uninjuzed.

ROSWELL P. FLOWER DEAD.

Great Politician and Financier Passes Away Suddenly. Roswell P. Flower, millionaire and former Governor of New York, died Friday night at the Long Island Country Club, Eas tp o tt, L. I.

R. P. FLOWER.

for a long time, with every dow and then an acute attack. For a month or two past he had been a regular visitor at the Eastport Country Club in the hope that he would find some relief in the outing. Mr. Flower had become the foremost figure in the speculative financial world. He was born Aug. 7, 1835, at Theresa, Jefferson County, N. Y. His parents were poor and his father, a poor woolcarder, died when Roswell was 8 years old. The son at 16 graduated from high school and began teaching. Then he became clerk for his brother-in-law and later went to Watertown, where he became deputy postmaster and clerk in a store and managed to save SI,OOO. Then he bought his employers’ store and got married. His brother-in-law, Henry Keep, a rich New York man, got sick and sent for Mr. Flower to come and take care of him. Mr. Keep died and Flower took up the management of the estate. Mr. Flower was once a seeker for the Democratic presidential nomination; was twice member of Congress, twice Governor of New York and for nearly two years a leader of New York financiers.

ADULTERATION OF FOOD.

Startling Testimony Given Before the Senate Investigating Committee. The senatorial pure food investigating committee, which has concluded its sessions in Chicago, heard some startling testimony ifi regard to adulteration, of food products. Prof. A. S. Mitchell, chief chemist of the Wisconsin Dairy and Food Commission, made the sworn statement that nearly every butcher in Illinois used preserving liquids on scraps of meat which they laid aside for the manufacture of hamburger steak. This liquid, known as “freezine,” Dr. Wiley, the Government expert, said he identified as practically the same chemical which was used during his experience at a medical college to preserve cadavers and was now occasionally put to service in disinfecting houses where smallpox patients resided. Prof. Mitchell said that the stuff had been used extensively jjy farmers to keep milk and butter. J. J. Berry, manufactures of jellies, preserves and syrup, testified that fruit was one of the least considerations in the modern jelly of commerce. Currant jelly, as • rule, has nothing in it that ever saw a currant bush. Jelly, Berry said, is 50 per cent glucose, 10 per cent sugar, 40 per cent apple juice and a few drops of coloring and add to make it firm. Prof. C. S. N. Hall berg of the Chicago College of Pharmacy, testified that alum in baking powder changes to hydrates in the process of heating, but he could not say what the latter becomes in the acids of the stomach. He insisted, however, that alum proper is an irritant poison. Maurice H. Scully, ot a syrup company, testified that three kinds of* “maple” syrup are made, one of which io 40 per cent glucose.

News of Minor Note.

Capt. T. J. Jewell has been chosen to command the cruiser Brooklyn. Germany wants a law requiring automatic couplers on all cars. Juan Caballera, bandit chief, was executed at Mayari, Santiago de Cuba. Part of the building being eredjd for injured.

Heart failure, superinduced by indigestion, was the cause of death, which came suddenly. There were present his wife, his daughter, his physician and the nurses. Mr. Flower had been a sufferer from gastritis

The most famous Jefferson banquet occurred in Washington April 13, 1830. At this banquet Gen. Jackson—“ Old Hickory”—then President of the United States, was the « guest of honor. His toast created an enormous sensation at th® an d hks never been forgotten - It was: “Our Federal Dion '> It filff fllP ml'" Must Be PreservJf Ji ed ‘” South < -' aro * IP i*lf / lina was in th* “ v ' throes of nullificaandbew jackson. tion. The doctrine of State rights was being preached in Congress and out of it. The historic debate between Webster and Hayne had just taken place. Sturdy old Andrew Jackson determined to do what he could to turn the tide the other way. His toast was followed by that of John C. Calhoun, then president of the Senate and recognized defender of the doctrine of State rights. Calhoun proposed: “The Union: Next to our liberty the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States and distributing equally the benefit and burden of the Union.” Gen. Fred Funston won his wife in much the same dare-devil spirit that he won Calumpit. He simply took the fair young Californian, who went to gaze at the •troops of the Twentieth Kansas in camp at the Wife Presidio field, by storm. w W Soon the general was A'er' / spending his evenings at the girl’s home, and the engagement followed. Then love’s was suddenly shattered W MT by orders for the regi- *w.JCFL “ ment to sail for Manila, mbs. funbton. The brave girl determined to become Mrs. Funston at once, and did so. No officers’ wives were allowed upon the transport, but she dressed up as a bugler, and was soon safe on board. But Gen. Otis discovered the trick and ordered her to leave her husband at Honolulu. She did so, but followed her husband in the next ship for Manila, where she has lived since. The measures taken by the Government against Edward Atkinson in seizing the pamphlets he was sending to the soldiers the Philippines are much less severe jl than those which ■■ President Lincoln tEL adopted in dealing with . Clement L. Vallandigham in the ’6os, and who was charged with similar ” offenses. Vallandig- * ham, in 1863, made a speech in which he VALLANDioHAM. declared the war to be “cruel and unnecessary.” For making this speech he was arrested and sentenced to imprisonment in Fort Warren, but President Lincoln commuted the sentence to deportation beyond the Union lines. Accordingly Mr. Vallandigham was taken South and turned loose in the enemy’s country. Alfred and Mrs. Crawford, the Georgia farmer and his wife, victims of the negro Sam Hose, who was burned alive for his crimes. Louis Gathmann, whose gun cotton shell was tested at Sandy Hook, has been long known to army men over all the world through his great inventive genius as the deviser of high \ s pressure guns and powerful explosives. « i {Oi Mr. Gathmann is aMxwTkX German who English with a slight accent. He is 56 years old, and left his ' tive Hanover thirty-' fW'S, f * twa years ago to “ come and live in gathmann. America. The officers qf the American army believe that m an inventor of ordnance Mr. Gathmann has no equal in the world. The experiments with his cannon have been in progress at Sandy Hook for two years. Among its mgny other distinctions Kansas is the only State which has sent an • American Indian to Congress. The repreesentative of the red man is Congressman Charles Curtis of the Topeka district. Mr. Curtis is au Indian of the Kaw tribe. He was born in Shawnee County, went to school in Topeka, studied law, > and was elected county attorney. He has served three w- terms in Congress CHAKLKBCUKTJB. for the fourth. Naturally Mr. Curtis is lhe most conspicuous “friend at court” of “the noble red man.” Miss Margaret Dunn, Springfield, Mo,, a cool-headed professional nurse, fought with a burglar who entered the room of 1 the woman she was nursing, and almost W a overcame him. She knocked him down \ twice, and bears on her body many of the desperate Kii, till fl Mi Hnt nrrww