Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1899 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. |>ENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

THIEVES ARE CAUGHT

| POSTOFFICE ROBBERS ARE IN CUSTODY AT OMAHA. | Two Men and Two Women. Wanted for Theft at Boulder, Col., In the Law’s Clutches Frame Buildings Burned at Coney Inland. After a long chase the Government secret service men have jailed the gang that robbed the Boulder, Colo., postoffice last ■ month. The prisoners are George Bomboy. )tto Noffka, alias “Kid” Mason, and two women who traveled with them. The property stolen amounted to nearly SSOO. The robbers were traced to Omaha, and from there it was learned they departed for Kansas City. “Kid” Mason and one j woman returned. That night their house g was raided. Mason and the woman were taken to the City jail, where they told the •tory of having gone to Kansas City with Bomboy and the other woman. They described the house where they stopped and : told the officers many facts connected with ; the robbery. The officers started for Kansas City, taking the Bomboy woman along to point out the location of the house. The Woman made a clean breast of al] the facts connected with the robbery. AH of the parties will be taken to Denver, where I the three men have already been indicted by the United States grand jury. g| FIRB AT CO.NEY ISLAND. ? Seven Blocks Burned Over, Damage Amounting to $350,000. Fire started in Buschman’s pavilion, if Coney Island, N. Y., and spread rapidly until seven blocks of frame buildings had been destroyed. A conservative estimate of the loss is placed at $350,000. Police- ; man Thomas Lynch and Firemen George Taggart and William Aldrich were pain- * fully but not seriously burned w hile rousing the sleeping occupants of several g threatened buildings. Richard Downs ? and William Durkin, 18 and 15 years, re- > spectively, who were asleep in the Zaza Hotel, were severely burned about the body. The police believe the fire was of incendiary origin. ’ SUICIDE BECAUSE OF DEBT. Architect William F. Hackney of Kansai City Shoots Himself. William F. Hackney, architect to the Kansas City Board of Education and one of the aity’s foremost men of his profession, committed suicide in his office by | blowing ouXhis brains. He left a note to ’ the newspapers stating that he was hopelessly in debt, that his income was not ’ sufficient to maintain his family as they should be kept, and that he had decided “to quit business.” He leaves a widow and one daughter. Mr. Hackney went P there irrlßß7 from Des Moines, where he Was married and where he was one of the | architects of the lowa State Capitol. Bace for the Pennant. The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ... .24 10 Baltimore ...18 16 fit L0ui5....22 11 New York... 12 20 g Boston 21 12 Louisville ...12 21 Philadelphia. 20 ISPittsburg ... .12 21 Chicago 20 14 Washington. 11 23 | Cincinnati ..18 13Cleveland ... 7 23 Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: ’ • W. L. W. L. Milwaukee ..16 11 Indianapolis. 12 12 fit Paul. ... .14 HBuffalo 10 13 Minneapolis. 14 12Columbus ...10 13 Detroit 14 12 Kansas City. .10 16 ' Sues the State for Falary. | J. M. Allen, a member of the House of Representatives from Athens County, 0., has sued the State for S6OO, the amount of his salary for a year. The Auditor of State and Speaker Mason, who refused to sign the voucher, are made defendants. The Auditor refused to issue the warrant on the treasurer because Allen holds the place of confidential clerk to his fatherin law, the Columbus pension agent, at a •alary of $1,600 a year. SIOO,OOO Loss at Cleveland. B Fire started in the Ohio Sash and Door Company’s big factory at Cleveland. The flames repeatedly communicated to nearby buildings. Beyond a severe scorching, however, nothing was destroyed except the Ohio Sash and Door Company’s plant •nd lumber piles. The total loss is about SIOO,OOO, partly covered by insurance. Nebraska Boad I» Sold. [ The Sioux City, O’Neill and Western ' Railroad was sold by Special Master in J Chancery E. S. Dundy of Omaha to RobL ®rt E. and William S. Tod of the firm of J. Kennedy Tod & Co. of New York, which holds $2,340,000 of first mortgage bonds against it. The purchase price was $1,750,000. The road extends from Sioux City to O’Neill, Neb., 129 miles.

Rich Mine Near Victoria, W. 8. Harris, manager of the Harvey mine of Granite creek, B. C., reports that at about the 70-foot level, 120 feet in the tunnel, the mother lode was struck, showin* about two feet of rich galena. The claim showed assays as high as $5,580, and on several occasions the assays have gone from S4OO to $2,000. K Treaty Ratified by the Creeks. ,/ The official count of votes cast by the Creek fiation of Indians at the February ; election shows that the treaty proposed by the Dawes commission is ratified by a majority of 485. sfe'' Rosa Bonhenr Xs Dead. Rosa Bonhenr, the greatest woman Minter of the age, died at Fontainebleau, Kse -■ Explosion Kills Two, ' One man was instantly killed and an- ' other so badly injured that he died soon . after by the explosion of a steam drying cylinder in the dyeing and finishing mill of James Martin & Co. at Philadelphia. KThree others were injured, one probably Labor Riot at Buffalo. In a fight between Italian and Polish laborers on the Central docks at Buffalo I JLouis Hemlock, a Pole, was shot in the hack and Castigalia Calejero was cut on

DETERMINE TO DIE TOGETHER. Towns Man Kills Himself, but the Girl Loses Nerve and Faints. Balked in their plans to get married. Miss Lulu Ford and Benjamin Wilhite of Dade County, Mo., concluded that life was not worth the living, so they sought death together. Wilhite was 18 years old and Miss Ford a year younger. The couple had been sweethearts from childhood, but tbeir relatives considered them too young to marry. W’ilhite called on Miss Ford. In order that they might confer without interruption he proposed a drive. “If we cannot marry let us die together,” Raid Wilhite. The girl assented. He had a revolver and proposed that each commit suicide. They drove to a lonely spot, left the b.uggy and went to the side of the road. He kissed her for the last time and while his arms were still about her neck, he raised the pistol and sent a bullet through his heart. Miss Ford picked wp\ the weapon and turned it toward herself. The trigger refused to act and before she could try again she fell in a faint over the body of her lover. She did not recover consciousness until picked up by passing farmers. NEW WALL COLLAPSES. Three Laborers Severely Injured by Accident at New York. The wall of the new building at 126 West Eleventh street, New York, caved in, severely injuring three laborers. Their names are: John Donlon, fractured skull; Louis Gosso, fractured skull; Frank Forisso, lacerated chin and internal injuries. The cause of the accident is unknown. The men are employed by Contractor Joseph Cody. The men were in an excavation. Old buildings had been torn down and the men were digging for a new building. A sustaining wall, 35 feet long and 10 feet high, fell and buried nine workmen.

Each Loved the Other One. The double wedding of Frances and Mary Dipcomb, sisters, and daughters of Henry Dipcomb, a prominent citizen of Malinta, Ohio, to Davis Rendice and Geo. Lafiam, his chum, has brought out a little romance which is decidedly out of the ordinary rum Some weeks ago Miss Mary Dipcomb became engaged to Davis Rendice. About that time her sister and Geo. Lafiam also decided to marry, and it was proposed to have a double wedding. Great preparations were made and nuffierous invitations sent out. The boys were almost daily visitors at the Dipcomb home, and all seemed to be going merry as the proverbial marriage bell when one afternoon the young men found Miss Mary quite disconsolate. Her sister questioned her, and, to her amazement, learned that while she was engaged to marry Rendice she loved Lafiam better. Mutual confidences were passed, and Miss Frances also admitted that while she was engaged to Lafiam she loved Rendice better. A consultation between the four ensued, with the result that there were mutual releases and mutual pledges anew. The double wedding came off at the Dipcomb home. The guests were at a loss to understand the situation until the mother of. the girls madd full explanations. Alaskan Travel to Be Easy. R. P. Elliot, an extensive mine owner of Dawson City, Alaska, is stopping in St. Louis. Mr. Elliot has just returned to the United States after an absence of nearly a year and a half, which he has spent in the gold fields of the Klondike. He is full of enthusiasm over the new country. He left Dawson City in March and will return late in the year. He said: “The Yukon and White Pass Railway is now completed from Skaguay to the summit of the pass, a distance of about eighteten miles, and for a distance of about twelve miles farther the roadbed is ready for the rails. The grading is being done right up to within a few miles of Bennett, and by July 4 the management expects to have trains running between Skaguay and Bennett, where passengers can take a steamer to White Horse rapids, thence by the tramway around the rapids, about four miles in length, to the other side, where he can take a steamer direct to Dawson. When these connections are made the trip from Seattle to Dawson can be made in from ten to twelve days. It will be trip.” 1 Vessel Burns at Her Dock. The German bark Ariadne caught Are while lying at the Standard Oil Company’s pier No. 2at Bayonne, N. J. The flames spread to the pier, which was destroyed, together with about 600 barrels of oil. The Ariadne was burned to the water line. The loss on the Ariadne is estimated at $25,000, on the pier SIO,OOO and on the oil $2,500.

New Bonanza Silver Mine. A letter from Durango, Mexico, says that Fred L. Morris, secretary of the Missouri Valley Trust Company of Kansas City, and H. E. Ellison of Abilene, Kan., who have been prospecting for some weeks In the mountains, have struck a bonanza silver mine that promises a fortune. They claim to have $200,000 in sight. Havoc of Storm in Nebraska. A heavy windstorm struck Hastings, Neb., and did much damage. A long row of railroad sheds on the south side of the St. Joseph and Grand Island Railroad was demolished and fifteen or twenty small houses of laborers were blown down. So far as known no one was injured. Wrecked a Colorado Mine. Four Italians have been arrested for alleged participation in the destruction of the Lasal mine in Colorado. Two hundred pounds of giant powder was exploded near the mouth of the mine. The mine is owned by a Michigan syndicate. The men were recently discharged. Feven Men Killed. A terrible explosion occurred at the military laboratory at Copenhagen. While workmen were engaged in filling shells some of the latter exploded and killed seven men. and severely injured a noncommissioned officer and two workmen. Suicide of a Wealthy Cattle Buyer. The body of J. J. Travis, a wealthy cattle buyer of St. James, Mo., was found In a room at the Hotel Pine, St Louis. The room was full of gas from an open jet and the windows were tightly closed. Woman Indicted for Perjury. Marie M. Burroughs, who filed suits amounting to $1,000,000 for damages against the cities of Toledo and Fremont Ohio, has been indicted by the grand jury for perjury. Filk MUI Burns. Nightingale’s silk mill at Paterson, N, J., was destroyed by fire. The factory was a three-story frame structure and contained 200 looms. The loss is estimated at $50,000.

YOUNG CHILD STOLEN.

BOLD KIDNAPING AFFAIR IN NEW YORK. Nurse Girl Eupposed to Have Taken the Babe Away to Obtain Money from the Parente—New York Customs Officials Suspended. What appeared to be a bold case of kidnaping of a child was reported to the New York police the other day, and a score of detectives were at once sent out in an endeavor to arrest the offenders. The missing child is Marion, the 18-months-old daughter of Arthur Clark, an employe of a publishing firm. She was taken, the police say, by a nurse named Carrie Jones, who was hired by the Clarks through an advertisement. The whole thing seems to have been a cleverly laid plot. The child was taken out by the nurse and the empty baby carriage was found by the police in Central Park. Soon afterwal'd, Mrs. Clark received this letter*. “Mrs. Clark —Do not look for your nurse and baby. They are safe in our possession, where they will remain for the present. If the matter is kept out of the hands of the police and newspapers you will get your baby back safe and sound. If, instead, you make a big time about it and publish it all over, we will see to it that you never see her alive again. We are driven to this by the fact that we cannot get work and one of us has a child dying, through want of proper treatment and nourishment. Your baby is safe and in good hands. The nurse girl is still with her. If everything is quiet you will hear from us Monday or Tuesday. (Signed) There is evidence to show ‘that the nurse girl wrote this letter. VALUE OF NEW POSSESSIONS. Customs Receipts of Porto Rico, Cuba and Philippines. Assistant Secretary of War Meiklejohn has made public a statement of aggregate receipts at all Cuban, Porto Rican and Philippine ports. The statement embraces the first four months of the present year. Cuba —Total receipts, $4,443,999; coastwise vessels entered, 2,627; foreign, 1,425; amount of coastwise tonnage entered, 452,101 tons; foreign, L 585.009 tons; coastwise tonnage cleared, 430,760 tons; foreign, 1,444,620 tons; vessels cleared, coastwise, 2,689; foreign, 1,420. Porto Rico—Total receipts, $481,128; coastwise vessels entered, 1,163; foreign, 478; coastwise tonnage entered, 51,773; foreign, 532,272; vessels cleared, coastwise, 1,100; foreign, 426; tons cleared, coastwise, 51,058; foreign cleared, 463,324. Philippines—Receipts by ports for four months: Manila, $1,545,269; Iloilo, $85,374; Cebu, $70,957; total, $1,701,600. The port of Iloilo was not occupied by the forces of the United States until Feb. 16, 1899. CUSTOMS OFFICIALS SUSPENDED. Twelve Inspector* of New York-Found Guilty of Takinc Tips. In the cases of the twenty-two customs inspectors at New York who were recently suspended upon charges of neglect of duty and of accepting tips from incoming steamship passengers the collector and surveyor of the port who conducted an investigation into the charges have reported that as to ten of the men the charges were not sustained, and as to the remaining twelve it was found that the facts warranted their suspension from duty and pay for thirty days. These recommendations have been approved by Assistant Secretary Spalding. CLEANED UP $12,000 IN 30 DAYS. Output of Golden Star Mine in Seine River District, Minnesota. Thomas A. Mergitt and Edgar Holman of Duluth arrived there from the Golden Star mine in the Seine river district, with $12,000 in gold bricks. It represented one month’s clean-up at the mine with a tenstamp mill and beats all previous records for the same length of time by SIO,OOO. The stock in the mine jumped from 65 to 85. The stock of the Emma Abbott mine, owned by Chicago and New York parties, which is supposed to be on the same vein, advanced 5 cents also. White-Cappers Kill a Negrro. Tom Linton, a negro, at Camp Creek, six miles north of Fayetteville, Ga., was killed by masked men, who burst his door in with an ax and shot him twice. Several negroes were whipped by White-cap-pers in that vicinity and it is believed that the mob intended dealing likewise with Linton, but that he opened fire on them and they shot in self-defense. Reviewing Stand Gives Way. A private viewing stand at Maldedn, Mass., on the route of the parade in celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the town and which was occupied by a number of Senators and Representatives of the Massachusetts Legislature and their guests, collapsed and several of the occupants received severe injuries. Big Fire Loss in St. John. Fire did enormous damage at St. John, N. B. A leading underwriter estimates the loss at $500,000 and the insurance at $300,000. The district burned contained many tenement houses, and probably 1,000 persons are homeless, a majority of them laboring people. Two deaths are to be set down to the fire. Will Not Accept Refusal. The Russian minister at Peking, M. de Giers, has notified the Tsung-Li-Yamen that Russia is unable to accept the Chinese refusal of a railroad concession and that she will send engineers forthwith to survey a line to connect the Russian Manchurftfn Railroad with Peking. War’s Cost in Deaths. Adjt Gen. Corbin has prepared this statement of the number of deaths which have occurred in the army since the beginning of the war with Spain: In Cuba, 1,899; in Porto Rico, 287; at Honolulu, 45; in the Philippines, 606; in the Uifited States, 8,872; total, 6,209. Princess Born in Cincinnati. A Japanese princess was born at Cincinnati at the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Wilson. The father, M. Ingaki Sugimoto, is a well-known resident. His wife traveled from Japan with Mrs. Wilson to Cincinnati. Extra Session in New York. The New York Legislature, called in special session by Gov. Roosevelt to amend the Ford franchise tax bill, met at Albany and listened to the reading of the Governor’s message.

LIGHTNING’S WORK IN TEXAS, One Man Killed in Erath County-The Wind Wrecks Buildings. The severest electrical storm known in many years created havoc in the northern part of Erath County, Texas. Lightning struck Mount Pleasant Church, near. Lingleville. The church was crowded with persons at the time, and a panic ensued. William Kauffman was struck dead, and nine other persons were fatally injured. The church itself was partly wrecked. At Stephenville many bouses were damaged. The Cumberland Presbyterian Church was unroofed. The Methodist Church at Alarm Creek was demolished. A report says that eight persons were killed or injured. Heavy damage was done all over the county. THIRD OP A MILLION BURNS. Brisk Blaze In Brooklyn Destroys Twenty Buildings. Fire of unknown origin started in a building in Freeman street, Brooklyn, used by Velis Brothers as a planing mill, and spread rapidly until nearly an entire block was destroyed. The total loss is estimated at $350,000. The flames extended to Eagle and Kent streets, destroying a number of houses. The property destroyed included four factories, a planing mill, a blacksmith shop and fourteen dwellings. 1 nd of Big Lake Strike. The grain shovelers’ strike at Buffalo has been settled. An agreement, signed by a subcommittee representing the strikers, of which President Keefe of the ’Longshoremen’s Association was a member, and by Contractor Conners, has been approved by the full committee of the Grain Shovelers’ Union. Four Men Killed in a Mine. A special from the Rossland, B. C.,,mining district says that W. F. Schofield, A. Honeyford, James O. Palmer and Thomas A. Neville were killed in the War Eagle mine there. When the men entered the cage at the 300-foot level a bolt of the starting lever flew out, and the men were precipitated 350 feet. Oxford Hall Is Burned. In Philadelphia, fire of unknown origin destroyed the Oxford Hotel building, including Oxford Hall, once famous for political meetings held there, and the Oxlord stables. The loss is estimated at SIOO,000, partly insured. Policeman Robman was injured while rescuing horses from the burning stable. Three Texas Men Lynched. r' Three white men, James Humphries and his two sons, were lynched near the village of Aley, an isolated neighborhood, devoid of telegraph, telephone or railway connections. The Humphries were farmers. They were suspected of harboring a murderer and assisting him to escape.

standard Gets Coal Lands. The Standard Oil Company has acquired not only the Russian title, but also a mineral patent from the United States, for the famous coal lands on Cook Inlet, Alaska. A corps of engineers, under Alfred Ray, the Standard company’s manager at Seattle, has left for the north. Kills Husband Number Five. Mrs. Charles Hutchinson, aged 26 years, of Arcada, Ind., and five tiines married, shot and killed her husband. She is now in jail. Mrs. Hutchinson claims that the killing was done in self-defense, she having been attacked by her husband, armed with a huge knife. Ten Thousand in Quarantine. A case of smallpox was discovered in the almshouse on Blackwell’s Island, New York harbor, and as a result of the subsequent investigation by the Board of Health officers the entire island, on which •there are about 10,000 persons, was put under quarantine. Nitroglycerine Tank Explodes. A hitroglycerin tank at the Aetna powder works, Aetna, Ind., exploded the other night, blowing the building in which it was located to pieces and killing three men. No trace of the bodies could be found. Married in a Circus Ring. . During the performance of a wild west show at Perry, Ok., Fred Meeks, a cowboy belonging to the show, and Sadie Spenny of Perry were married in the circus ring, in the presence of a big crowd. Strike at Tiffin, Ohio. Kerlin Brothers struck gas on a farm at Tiffin, Ohio, the yield being over 500,000 feet a day. It is one of the largest strikes in years.

[?]ET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choioe, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2,32 cto 34c; oats, No. 2,26 c to 27c; rye, No. 2,61 cto 62c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, choice, 27c 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 $5.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 white, 33c to 35c; 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 $5.50; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 78c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2,27 cto 29c; rye, No. 2,62 cto 63c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5150; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 2,64 cto 66c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.75; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 77c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c; rye, 62c to 64c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35C; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2,59 c to 61c; clover seed, new, $3.65 to $3.75. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 3,32 cto 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 1,60 cto 61c; barley, No. 2,40 cto 42c; pork, mess, SB.OO to $8.50. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steen, . $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.50; iambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $7.00. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 83c to 84c; corn, No. 2,40 cto 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 35c; butter, creamery, 15c to 19c; eggs, Western, 15c to 17c.

DEWEY AT HONG KONG.

His Arrival la Made the Occasion of a Great Demonstration. The arrival of Admiral Dewey at Hong Kong was the occasion for a hearty demonstration. All the warships in the harbor fired an admiral’s salute, and the sailors in the British warships manned the rigging and cheered the hero of Manila. The Olympia’s anchor was scarcely down when Aid Scott went ashore and called on Consul Wildman, who returned with him aboard the Olympia. After a brief conversation with the consul, Admiral Dewey went ashore to call on the governor. He got a slight taste of what awaits him when he arrives in New York. The streets were crowded with people eager to see the man who had sailed away from Hong Kong a little over a year ago almost unknown, and who was returning famous. The streets were lined with the troops of the Royal Fusileers, who kept the crowds in check. All English houses were decorated with the British and American flags. Admiral Dewey, accompanied by Captain Lamberton and Flag Lieut. Brumby, was received by the British governor, Blake, with a squad of honor. There was a full military band in attendance. All the prominent British officers in Hong Kong had gathered to congratulate Dewey. Governor Blake invited the admiral to put up at the Government house. Dewey declined with thanks. Admiral Dewey’s health is somew’hat impaired, but he is not seriously ill. A good test will put him in good shape.

HONOR QUEEN’S NATAL DAY.

England Celebrates Eightieth Anniversary of Her Birth. Queen Victoria was 80 years old Wednesday, and all England honored the event. The Queen observed the day at Windsor, where the festivities began at 10:30, with a serenade by a choir of 250 voices in the castle court yard. The serenade with the national anthem was followed by the jubilee hymn and several madrigals. The Queen listened in the breakfast room, where she w*as surrounded by members of the royal family. Later she witnessed a parade of the Scots who fired an honorary salute. In the evening the castle and grounds were brilliantly illuminated. A banquet was served, and later a performance of “Lohengrin” given in the Castle Theater. The Queen received telegrams of congratulations from all colonies, and hundreds of messages from societies and individuals. Among the congratulatory telegrams was one from President McKinley conveying the regards and well wishes of the American people.

BUFFALO STRIKE ENDED.

Amicable Settlement Reached, and Grain Shovelers Go to Work. The grain shovelers’ strike at Buffalo has ended. In the agreement under which the men return to work Contractor Conners conceded practically everything, with the exception of the abrogation of the contract. He agrees over his signature not only to live up to all the previous agreements entered into by the lake carriers, but he agrees also to the appointment of a committee of five, three members of which will represent the grain shovelers, which will have absolute power to determine whether or not any of the men employed by him as scoopers shall be admitted into the new Grain Shovelers’ Union and be permitted to work.

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.

The rainy season has begun. Gen. Lawton, with the main body of his troops, reached Malolos Wednesday. The Oregon and Minnesota volunteers have returned to Manila for a needed rest A typhoon prevented the sailing for the United States of the California volunteers. For some days past the rebels near San Pedro Macati have been engaged in building new trenches. Twenty insurgents were killed and forty wounded in the engagement with Maj. Bell’s scouts west of Bacolor. Brig. Gen. Williston has relieved Gen. Hughes as provost marshal of Manila. Gen. Hughes will go to the Visayan Island. Majors Guison and Mapua, two members of the Filipino general staff, stole through the American lines and surrendered. At Maraquina, the Colorado volunteers had a brush with the enemy, whom they dispersed with severe loss. One Colorado volunteer was wounded. At Santa Rita, west of Bacolorfi Bell’s scouts met a small force of the enemy and drove them to the north after a brief fight. Three of the scouts were wounded. The Spanish newspaper Oceania, which has recently published articles objectionable to the military authorities, has been suppressed. The editor is in jail. A raft, which was being used to transport the Twelfth infantry across the Pasig river, was overloaded and sank in midstream. Five of the soldiers were drowned. Detachments from the Twelfth United States infantry and from Idaho volunteers dashed out from their lines and drove the insurgents away after a fierce fight. Two of the Americans were killed and two wounded. The insurgents’ loss was heayy. During the last month Gen. Lawton has fought twenty-five engagements, lost six killed and thirty-five wounded, two men dying from their wounds. He has taken 1,000 prisoners. Civil government, under his direction, has been established at San Miguel Balinag and San ftidro. Gen. Lawton’s rear guard, consisting of detachments of the Third and Twenty-sec-ond infantry, while escorting the signal corps from San Miguel to Balinag, had a running fight for the whole distance of ten miles. The Americans lost one man killed and one officer and fourteen privates wounded. They captured twenty of the insurgents. Gen. Lawton says he is convinced from evidence found at San Isidro that American prisoners in the hands of the Filipinos, particularly the captured men of the Yorktown, have been subjected to outrageous indignities. The Newport arrived at Manila Tuesday without casualties. The Newport sailed from San Francisco April 20 with fifteen officers and 260 enlisted men of the marine corps of the navy for the garrison at Cavite, also light batteries F of the Fourth and F of the Fifth artillery; eight officers and 228 enlisted men under «mbr«nd of Maj. Tiernon.

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

The Rev. Dr. Briggs, the Presbyterian heretic, has been ordained a priest in the Protestant Episcopal Church. He is go-

ing to Europe for a little while, and on his return will devote himself to church work. Some Episcopal ministers are of the opinion that the ordination of Dr. Briggs will be the cause of great harm to the church. Bishop Potter does not agree with them. Whatever heretical

doctrines Dr. Briggs has taught are to be found in his book called “The Introduction to the Study of- Holy Scripture.” The author of that book, says the bishop, has “simply stated conclusions which the best learning and the most devdut minds have accepted before him.” The bishop doesnot accept all those conclusions, but he insists that none of them denies or impugns any fundamental doctrine of the faith.

Senator James McMillan of Michigan, who has thrown down the gauntlet to Secretary Alger, is one of the richest men In

SENATOR M MILLAN.

managing political campaigns, both for himself and for other people. He is at the head of the Michigan Car Company and of a number of other important corporations. He was first elected to the Senate in 1889 and again in 1895. The last time Senator McMillan had the honor of a practically unanimous election, there being but one Democrat in the Michigan Legislature.

A fortune of very ample dimensions is about to fall into the lucky hands of Mrs. E. G. Noble of Kansas City and Captain

J. T. Norris of Emporia, Kan. Three other heirs are to be benefited by a Ger- | man estate, valued at * $2,500,000, each of the recipients probably receiving a draft for $453,000. The estate has been transformed into money/ and the millions arel in the coffers of Ber-® 1 lin’s leading bank,

and have been lying there for years awaiting the presentation of evidence that heirs were in existence. This evidence has been procured, the identity of the heirs established, and Mrs. Noble will quit keeping boarders and enjoy a million or so. Henry C. Frick of Pittsburg, Pa., who is credited with having purchased the mammoth steel interests of Andrew Car-

H. C. FRICK.

steadily, and at 40 he was enormously wealthy and master of the coal trade. In 1882 the Frick Coke Company was organized. Andrew Carnegie then became associated with Mr. Frick in the coal and coke business, and for many years the two have worked together.

William B. Trembley, a private of Company B, Twentieth Kansas volunteers, is the Kansas soldier referred to in she Ma-

nila dispatches as sharing with Private White a great part of Gen. Funston’s credit in gaining for the the American troops the victory at Calumpit. The dispatches say that Trembley and White swam the Rio Grande, carry-

ing a rope to the side occupied by the enemy. By means of the rope the rafts laden with troops were safely ferried over. Trembley is 22 years of age and is the only son of a widow. Miss Nannie Randolph Heth of Washington was appointed sponsor for the entire South at the annual reunion of Con-

Miss HETH.

Spottsylvania to the surrender at Appomattox, and who is now the oldest ex-Con-federate general, with the one exception of Gen. James Longstreet.

Telegraphic Brevities.

Revenue cutter Bear has sailed from San Francisco for Alaska. Gas escaped from a range and suffocated Mrs. B. R. Brovist, Chicago. Mrs. Bertha Newcomb, 30, Waburn, Mass., horsewhipped John A. Hartshorn on the street. Leading citizens of Manila will establish a newspaper named Democracia, which will advocate peace. Boilers in a fruit cannery, Antioch, Cal., exploded. Three men were fatally Injured. Property loss $40,000.

DR. BRIGGS.

Detroit. Born in Canada sixty-one years ago, he came to Detroit when 20 and has since been identified with the great business enterprises of the Wolverine State. He was taught politics by “Zach” Chandler, and has had much successful experience in

MRS. NOBLE.

negie and with having formed one of the wealthiest combines on the globe, thirty years ago was a poor bookkeeper in a Pennsylvania flour mill. He made his start in business by the purchase of a small interest in a coal mine near his home. The business grew

TREMBLEY.

federates, at Charleston, S. C. The post of honor had previously been filled by Miss Winnie Davis. The newly appointed sponsor is the daughter of Maj. Gen. Henry Heth, who was with Gen. Robert E. Leo from the battle of