Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1899 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. Wj&i&M ■■= "■twwzt' . ' 060. B. MARSHALL, Publisher. MMKwfrg, "' "• - 1 1 BBeNSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

LEAGUE WILL APPEAL

M'KINLEY WILL BE ASKED TO INTERFERE. - ■■ ■ Labor League at Philadelphia Op* poses the Making of Army Clothing by Sweatshop Labor Salaries of Naval Officers Are Newly Equalized. ? The United Labor League of Philadelphia has taken up the cAuse of the 3,000 ; seamstresses, mostly solders’ wives, wid<rws and daughters, who complain that the Government has soldiers’ clothing made by contract, taking from them their means of livelihood. It is said about $1,000,000 ‘ worth of contracts are to be given out, and of so the seamstresses will have no work at all. President Chance and Mrs. Dev's creux of the league assert that the contract work is done in filthy sweatshops. The league proposes making a prompt-ap-peal to President McKinley to stop the •ward of the new $1,000,000 worth of adI vertised contracts and let the 3,000 women do the work at the United States arsenal in Philadelphia. DEWEY’S PAY IS $13,500 Navy Department Fixes Salaries Un | \ der the Personnel Bill. The Navy Department has issued a circular fixing the salaries of navy officers . under the naval personnel bill. Admiral Dewey will receive $13,500 whether on duty at sea or on shore. The senior rear ; admiral's pay is fixed at $7,500 at sea and $6,375 on shore. Rear Admiral Schley is in this list, but only receives the minimum I amount, as he is assigned to shore duty. ‘The junior rear admirals receive $5,500 ‘ while on sea duty and $4,077 on shore. Rear Admiral Sampson is in the junior list, but having a command at sea receives ■ the maximum pay. Should Schley be givra an assignment at sea he would receive $2,000 more a year than Sampson, but as it now is his pay amounts to but $875 > more. Captains receive $3,500 at sea and C 52,975 on shore. WAR CLOUD IN ENGLAND.

Active Preparations for Emergencies in Sontb Africa. Commander-in-chief Lord Wolseley has l>een busy several days and evenings at the war office In London preparing for possible emergencies in South Africa. The effective lists of the first-class reserve lave been prepared and transportation for rhe First army corps has been provisionally arranged. The officers on leave have been warned to hold themselves in readiness to return to their regiments. The general trend of news, however, is more pacific. Race for the Pennant. The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ... .36 11 Cincinnati ...23 23 Boston 32 14New Y0rk...21 26 Chicago 28 20Pittsburg ....20 26 Baltimore .. .26 19 Washington. 17 30 Philadelphia. 26 19 Louisville ... 14 34 St. Louis... .27 20 Cleveland ... 8 36 Following is the standing of the clubs In the Western League: W. L. W. L. St. Paul 22 18 Milwaukee .21 20 Minneapolis. 23 19 Columbus ...19 19 Indianapolis. 22 19 Buffalo 17 22 Detroit < .... 21 19Kansas City.. 16 25 The World’s Wheat Crop. The Mark Lane Express, in its weekly wop report, says Belgium, Holland, Italy md parts of Austria-Hungary promise average wheat crops. In France, Germany, Spain and Poland the crops are fair and there are hopes for a full average crop. In Russia the drought is too prevalent to allow a hopeful yield of either wheat or rye. In Roumania, Servia and Bulgaria a short wheat crop is regarded as inevitable. Pleasure Party Ends in Death. A party of twenty young people who were enjoying a pleasure ride in a catamaran on the river at Stockton, Cal., were precipitated into the water by the overturning of the boat. A desperate struggle for life followed and for a time it was reported that many had been drowned, but ■ll but two of the party were accounted Trust in Chewing Gum. r Announcement was made in Chicago of the final organization of the American jhicle Company, the chewing gum trust,” with a capital of $9,000,000. .mong the principal manufacturers allied with he new combination are the Beetan, White, Tutti-Frutti. Adams & Sons, California Fruit and Kis-Me gum comanies. To Make Better Shots. With a view to increasing the efficiency f the artillerists manning the batteries fotecting the Chores of the United States, istructions have been given by the War Jepartment for additional practice with ie great guns. J St. Paul in 1»O1. . The head camp of the Modern Woodpen of America has selected St. Paul as Bie place of meeting in 1901. The vote mas 199 to 163 for Grand Rapids, the only bther candidate. (Robber Killed at His Work. |-A man who bore letters on his person to “Bishop Jennings, Decatur, K.,” was shot and killed by Policeman ptylor while robbing the room of Assessor Dilts at Guthrie, O. T. Injured in a Wreck. faA aerious wreck occurred on the Kansas Mty, Pittaburg and Gulf Railroad near ■rand view, Mo. Over forty people were K(. Spreading rails the cause. A'" Sails for the Pole. |fThe Stella Polare, with the Duke of AbKmH, nephew of the King of Italy, and Eb polar expedition on board, sailed from ■Mftiania. The expedition was given an Ebusiastic farewell by the crowds asKbied and was saluted by the forts. Assault with Razor. Walter Hopkins, who has been serving Bpltence in the Harvey County, Kan., lareeny. made a murderous assault ■ik a razor on Deputy Sheriff Herman ' IssJSlsaHfW?/ “

FOUNDER OF NEW SECT MOBBED. Elder Higgins la Tarred and Feathered by Maine Citizens. In the hamlet of Levant, ten miles from Bangor, Me., George W. Higgins, an evangelist, was called from his home at midnight Monday by a crowd of masked citizens, dragged on his back over a rough road for a quarter of a mile, stripped and covered with a thick coat of tar and feathers and then ridden on a rail to a neighboring village, two miles away, and left to his fate. Higgins made his way back home dressed in his coat of tar and feathers and a pair of stockings. The trouble grew out of a new religious sect which has come into existence there known as “the Holy Ghost and United States congregation.” Higgins succeeded in making a number of converts. It is the rule that converts must give up all their earthly belongings, turning over their money and property to the leaders of the movement, and depending upon Providence alone for everything they need to support life. Prominent citizens ordered Higgins to leave town, but he did not go. and Monday night’s work was the culmination of their efforts to stop what they call a “fool religion.” TWO SWINDLERS GET $5,000. Shrewd Men Victimize Louisville German Insurance Bank. The German Insurance Bank of Louisville was victimized out of $5,000 Monday afternoon by two well-dressed young men. Just before the hour for Closing the banks the assistant cashier of the German Insurance Bank was rung up by telephone and asked if he could accommodate the Citizens’ National Bank with $5,000 in currency. On being answered in the as- . firmative the inquiring party said he would send two young men around to get the money. Shortly afterward two young men appeared at the bank with a check for $5,000, bearing the supposed signature of the cashier of the Citizens’ National Bank. The assistant cashier counted out the money to the young men. When the check reached the clearing house it was discovered to be a forgery.

LAKE BOAT BURNS, Passenger Steamer R. G. Stewart Destroyed by FlamesThe trim passenger steamer R. G. Stewart, from Hancock to Duluth, is an unsightly bit of charred wreckage on Michigan Island, one of the Apostles group. The hull of the boat struck at midnight Saturday, and, while the vessel was pinned fast, flames assailed her and she was burned to the water line. The fire broke out Sunday morning at 10 o’clock, and the passengers and crew barely had time to escape with the clothing they happened to have on. One of the crew was drowned in escaping from the burning boat. The rest, with the three passengers, were saved. DEBARAS ARE CONVICTED. Baron and Baroness Used the Mails to Defraud British Subjects. Baron Edgar de Bara and wife were found guilty in Chicago of twenty-five counts in five indictments for using the mails for the purpose of defrauding residents of Great Britain. The postoffice inspectors have had a nine months’ chase after the pair, and finally located them in St. Augustine, Fla. Nine months ago the British consul in Chicago called the attention of the postoffice officials to a swindle being enacted of British subjects. With difficulty the crime was traced to the De Baras. The couple had their mail sent to Connecticut, and lived in Florida. PREACHER, THEN TRAIN ROBBER. Jacob Fagley, Once Respected Citizen, Found Guilty by a Jury. Jacob Fagley, who has been on trial at Hartville, Mo., charged with complicity in the robbery of a Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis train at Macomb on Jan. 3 last, was adjudged guilty. The jury fixed his punishment at twelve years in the penitentiary. Fagley was a farmer. Before he turned train robber he had been justice of the peace, had been three times foreman of the Wright County grand jury, had been chairman of his party county committee and had been a preacher of the gospel.

LYNCHED BY A MOB IN ALABAMA. Will Hill Shot to Death Soon After His Capture. Will Hill, claimed to be the accomplice of his brother, Alex. Hill, in the murder of Mrs. Rufus Hubbard and the attempt to murder her husband, in Bibb County, Ala., was lynched. After being captured Hill was shot to death by a mob of fifty men near the Hubbard home. Hubbard, it is said, fired the first shot. BURGLARS COMMIT MURDER. Enter House for Valuables and Kill a Woman. Masked burglars entered the home of Daniel F. Gott, Norris City, 111., and in their efforts to secure money and valuables shot Mrs. Gott through the head, causing instant death. Gott was also attacked and left for dead. They secured $l4O and a gold watch. Death on the Trail. The steamship Laurada is in port at Seattle, Wash., from Wrangel, Alaska, with detailed news of the terrible suffering that has been the lot of American miners who tried to reach the Klondike gold fields over the all-Canadian route from Edmonton. They say that not less than 200 prospective miners have lost their lives by drowning, starvation, exposure and freezing during the last winter. Dewey Will Come to Chicago. Admiral Dewey will attend the laying of the corner stone of Chicago’s new Federal building on Oct. 9. President McKinley is authority for the statement. The chief executive so informed Senator H. C. Payne of Wisconsin. Liquid Air Company Formed. The Liquefied Power and Refrigerator Company of Boston, with a capital of $lO,000,000, has been incorporated. The company is to use liquid air and to do away with ice for domestic purposes, also to cool places of amusement. Steamer Paria Is Abandoned. James P. Wright, Jr., second vice-pres-ident of the International Navigation Company, said that the company had definitely abandoned all plans to save the steamship Paris from its position on the Manacles. Burning Oil Kills Her. Effie Davis, aged 14, near Heevee, Tex., poured oil into a stove from a can. The can exploded, scattering burning oil over the house and setting fire to the girl’s clothes. Girl dead; house in ashec.

SHUT OUT REFUGEES.

AUTHORITIES FORBID THEM TO ENTER MANILA. American Officials Take This Precaution Against Famine and IllnessFireworks Factories Near New York Are Destroyed-Kansas Crops, A thousand refugees who are attempting to come to Manila are being turned back by the authorities, who are fearful of the city becoming overpopulated, causing pestilence and famine. There are frequent sights on the country roads of men, women and children staggering along under loads of household effects. The refugees are hungry, but not starving. The American officials are issuing rice to them for their present needs. Many of the refugees tell of being forced to give up their supplies to the insurgent army. They are afraid to jeturn to the enemy’s lines on account of possible attacks. The insurgent government is to issue an order for all the military forces to discard their uniforms and wear ordinary white in order to deceive our army. Communistic societies have been formed in northern Luzon for the equal division of property. FIREWORKS IN A BLAZE. Two Factories Near New York Go Up in Smoke. Scorching rays of a red-hot sun ignited explosives in two fireworks factories in Greater New York. Hundreds of lives were endangered, both plants being almost entirely destroyed and the property loss is not less than $250,000. The factories were the Pain works, Brooklyn, and the Charlton Fireworks Company’s plant on Staten Island. In the first plant 200 persons, men, women and children, were employed, but all were rescued by the firemen and police. At the Charlton works, where thirty-six buildings were destroyed, sixty girls employed there promptly executed the fire drill, preventing a panic and saved their lives. FINED EVERY MAN IN TOWN. Kentuckians Pay One Cent Each for Contempt of Court. Princeton, Ky., has had the unusual experience of the arraignment of every man in it for contempt of court. It happened that a petition had been signed by all the men in town asking the grand jury not to indict the insurance companies, and no indictments were found. The commonwealth’s attorney moved to proceed against the signers for contempt of court. After considerable argument the judge fined each signer 1 cent and the decision was applauded by the defendants. CONDITION OF KANSAS CROPS.

Poor Outlook for Wheat, but Corn Is Doing Well —The Percentages. A bulletin was issued by the Kansas State Board of Agriculture showing condition of wheat and corn. It shows that 39 per cent of the wheat acreage is a failure on account of the unfavorable winter and spring. The condition of the remaining 61 per cent is given at 55, some counties reporting an average condition of 70. In most of the corn territory, or the eastern three-fifths of the State, the situation and prospects are very encouraging and an improved acreage is reported. Car Load of New Wheat. A car load of new wheat, the first of the crop of 1899, was received in St. Louis Wednesday from Waco, Texas. It graded No. 2 red winter and tested sixty-one pounds to the bushel. On being auctioned off on ’Change it brought 90 cents a bushel, 15 cents more than cash wheat was quoted. Family Struck by a Train. In a railroad accident at Hamilton, 0., Chief of Police Peter A. Clair was instantly killed, his little 3-year-old daughter Margaret dying an hour later and his wife badly injured. Her life is hanging by a thread. The chief, his wife and daughter were struck by a train. Flames in a Georgia Town. The largest fire in Augusta, Ga., for many years burned over the same district that was swept seven years ago. Several buildings that escaped at that time are now in ruins. The losses aggregate $250,000. The fire started in the drug store of Davenport & Phinizy. Wants X-Ray Damages. Edward E. Miller, a student of the University of Vermont, has brought suit 'against Allison W. Slocum, professor of mathematics in the university, for damages in the sum of SIO,OOO. Miller says that he sustained an injury of the leg as the result of taking X-ray photographs. Will Reduce the Herds. Notwithstanding the objections of the United States Government, the California fish commissioners have decided not to abandon the work of reducing the seal herds and operations will be continued at the rookeries not under Federal control. Fitzsimmons Knocked Out. James J. Jeffries has become champion heavyweight pugilist of the world by knocking out Robert Fitzsimmons. The battle took place at Coney Island, New York, the knockout blow being administered in the eleventh round. Terrific .Heat in New York. This is without doubt the hottest June month New York has ever known. Prostration and fatalities are numerous. The hot wave is general over all the country east of the Mississippi. Manager Daly Dead. Augustin Daly, the well-known theatrical manager, who, with his wife and Miss Ada Rehan, arrived at Paris a few days ago, died there of heart failure, following pneumonia. Actress Lashes a Manager. Marcus Mayer, well known as a theatrical manager in the United States, was horsewhipped on the liner St. Paul at New York by Miss Ilda Orme, an actress. May Lose Charters. Trusts received a stunning blow in Indiana when the Supreme Court unanimously held that the courts can take the charters from the offending companies. Railway Postal Clerks. Two hundred delegates were present at the opening of the annual convention of the National Association of Railway Postal Clerks at Indianapolis. Philadelphia Editor Dead. Vincent McLaughlin, publisher and editor of the Philadelphia Times, died at his home there Thursday morning.

BOND ISSUE INVALID. Famous Sny Island Case la Settled ta Supreme Court. The holders of $350,000 worth of bonds issued by the Sny Island distinct of Illinois in 1872 cannot recover their money from the present owners of the land, according to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals decision rendered at Milwaukee. The suit has been in the courts since 1878 and was considered of such importance that Justice Harlan of the Supreme bench went from Washington to sit in the case. According to the court’s ruling the act of 1871 authorizing the district to issue bonds was invalid and the numerous transfers of the land since that time left the creditors with no claim on those who now hold the property. More than 1,000 land owners were named as defendants in the action and the amount involved was over $5,000,000. GREAT FLOODS IN TEXAS. Colorado River and Tributaries Swollen by Heavy Floods. The Colorado river and its tributaries are the highest they have been for years, and great destruction of property lying in the path of the floods has already resulted. The water is flowing over the great dam at Austin, Texas, to a height of twelve feet. The dam was constructed at a cost of $1,600,000, and the great flood is apparently having no effect upon it. Behind the dam extends a sea of water eighty feet deep, forty miles long and one mile wide. At Kingsland a rise of eighteen feet is recorded. Marble Falls has been almost washed away. The bridge at that place and two other bridges in the vicinity have been carried away and the water works power house is a total wreck. BABIES IN CARRIAGE KILLED. Train Crushes Out Lives of Children in Sight of Mother. The two children of Mrs. Carl Dettloff, aged 1 and 3 years, were run over by a freight train and horribly mangled at Poplar Grove, 111. The mother had gone into the depot at the village, leaving the children in their carriage on the platform outside. A gust of wind started the baby carriage, and it rolled off upon the track directly in front of the through freight, running twenty-five miles an hour. The mother got out in time to witness the accident, and made a desperate effort to rescue the little Ones. She is crazed with grief. Nineteenth Infantry Lands. The transports Meade and McPherson arrived at New York Monday. The Meade brought from Ponce, Porto Rico, the Nineteenth infantry, consisting of about 650 men under command of Col. Simon Snyder. The troops go to Camp Meade, Pa., and after being recruited to full strength will go to the Philippines. Strangled and Robbed. Martin Meier, an aged Swiss resident of Chicago, was found bound, gagged and strangled to death on the pantry floor of his home, where he had been left by his murderers after they had thoroughly ransacked the cottage for the wealth it was supposed to contain. Date Is Changed. The date of the Chicago Civic Federation’s conference on trusts, which was called for June 26 to 29, has been changed to Sept. 13 to 16 in response to a general demand for more time made by many of the public officials and organizations invited to participate in the meeting. Eight Days to Dawson. The tracks of the White Pass Railway will be completed to Lake Bennett in a few weeks. The schedule time from Puget Sound ports to Dawson will then be about eight days. Declares Them Forgeries. Articles on expansion, bearing Senator Foraker's name, which were sent to the Century Magazine and North American Review, have been declared forgeries by the Senator. Frost in June.' The temperature in Salt Lake valley Monday night dropped down below the freezing point, and Tuesday morning the ground was covered with a white frost. Olympia Leaves Hongkong. Admiral Dewey’s flagship Olympia sailed Tuesday from Hong Kong for Singapore, returning to the United States. Noted Railroad Man Dies. Frank Thomson, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, died Monday evening at his home at Merion. Pa. Reed’s Resignation J-'ent In. A Portland, Me., paper says that Speak•er Reed’s resignation has been sent te Gov. Powers.

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 $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2,33 cto 35c; oats, No. 2,23 c to 24c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 58c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 •> $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2 white, 33c to 35c; oats. No. 2 white, 29c to 30c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 76c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34c; oats. No. 2,23 cto 25c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 59c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 34c to 36c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 27c 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 $4.75; wheat, No. 2,77 cto 78c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c, oats. No 2 white, 28c to 29c; rye, 62c to 64c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 74c to 76c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2,57 c to 58c; clover seed, new, $3.70 to $3.80. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring, 74c to 75c; corn, Nq. 3,33 cto 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 30c; rye. No. 1,57 cto 58c; barley, No. 2,40 cto 41c; pork, mess, SB.OO to $8.50. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping ste< lu . $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $7.00. New York—Cattle. $3.25 to $5.75: hogs. SB.OO to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 81c to 82c; corn. No. 2,40 cto 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 33c; butter, creamery, 15c to 20c; eggs. Westera, 14c to 16c-

LOSS OF MANY LIVES.

TORNADO SWEEPS MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN. Town of New Richmond, Wis., Wiped Ont—Fire Completes Storm’s WorkDamage at Hudson, Wia.—Mnch Stock Killed—ipamage to Crops. A great storm swept over eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin Monday evening. It broke over St. Paul at 5:57, over Hastings at 6:03, over Hudson, Wis., at 6:12 and over New Richmond, Wis., at 6:20. The tornado spent its fury at the last-named village. The business portion of the town was swept away and all telephone and telegraph wires went down. Latest reports from points near New Richmond state that the town is gone south of the Highway bridge and that the estimated number of killed will reach 150. Many of the houses were consumed by fire after the cyclone, and many other .people were killed while attending the circus which was showing there. A dispatch from Winona says: “Minnesota City is almost wiped out of existence. At Stockton the damage is fully as bad. The damage is appalling in the country surrounding these places.” J. A. Carroll, a traveling man, who was in the Nicollet House at New Richmond when the storm broke, arrived at Stillwater, Minn. He saw the funnel-shaped cloud as it came up the principal street, and took refuge in the basement of the hotel, which was completely wrecked, to gether with every other business house in the city. In terrible sheets of rain following the cyclone Mr. Carroll and his comrades sug? ceeded in recovering the proprietor, Chas. McKennon, wife and one child from the debris, and they also removed the laundry girl, who was fatally injured. They also removed two men named Barrett and Newall, who were very severely injured. Mr. Carroll drove to Stillwater for relief, and a train with doctors left there at midnight. Mr. Carroll says fire followed the cyclone, and that what was left is being consumed. Many people are killed, and the damage will run into hundreds of thousands of dollars. One of the most terrific ’cyclones ever witnessed in that vicinity passed through St. Croix County, Wis. It formed in a water spout four miles so*uth of Hudson at Lake St. Croix. It was twenty rods wide and destroyed everything in its.track. The first building struck was that of F. C. Mattison, whose barn was destroyed, the other buildings being left unharmed. H. S. Mattison’s farm was the next in line. The family saw the storm in season to take refuge in the cellar. The cellar , door had just closed behind them when the crash came. Not a building or tree was left standing. Strange to say, none of the family were injured. Many cattle and horses were carried away and have not yet been found. Proceeding, the storm destroyed the barns of Ed Daily, Julius Berse, Dave Heffron and all the buildings belonging to A. Lacy, north of Burkhardt. Mrs. Heffron was killed and Mr. Heffron badly injured.

A courier from near Boardman reports that village wiped out, with many injured and possibly some killed. At Minneapolis the storm was very severe. For fully an hour midnight darkness fell over the city and the sky had all the appearance of a tornado. There was very little wind, however, but an immense volume of water fell, the gauge showing 2.34 inches. Little damage other than the flooding of basements and floating of pavements resulted from the storm. Bridge square in the lower part of the city was afloat for a time and was passable only in boats. The storm came from the south. The worst rainstorm in seventeen years swept over La Crosse. Nearly five inches of rain fell. All railway communication except the South Dubuque and Southern Minnesota division of the Milwaukee line was cut off. Fifty families in North La Crosse were compelled to desert their homes in boats. Over 100 head of live stock were drowned. Nearly every bridge in the La Crosse river valley is gone. There were no mail trains on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, Chicago and Northwestern or Chicago, Burlington and Quincy roads to La Crosse on Monday. The storm swept away dams and bridges on all the water courses near Winona. Minn., including a dike and stone arch bridge built to protect South Winona. The entire south side of the city was under water, and many families were carried out on rafts. Henry Schultz of Stockton was struck by lightning and killed. From all sections of country visited by the disturbance come reports of great damage to crops and the killing of many head of live stock.

DUPUY MINISTRY RESIGNS.

The Dreyfus Scandal Is *1 bought to Have Caused Its Downfall. The Dupuy ministry at Paris has resigned, the result of an adverse vote in the chamber, and President Loubet at once accepted the resignation. In doing so, however, he requested them to retain their offices until their'successors are named. The overthrow of the cabinet was caused primarily by alleged “police outrages” on socialists at Longchamps and in the Rue de Montmartre, but the Dreyfus affair undoubtedly caused the upset. The interview between M. Dupuy and his colleagues and President Loubet was brief but cordial. There are already many surmises as to the composition of the new cabinet, but it is pointed out that as the Dupuy ministry did not fall on a question involving the political complexion of the ministry it is difficult to see on what basis the new cabinet will be selected.

Died by Inbaling Gas.

George B. Ward, a St. Louis commission merchant, committed suicide by inhaliug gas. No cause known.

News of Minor Note,

Samuel Insult, Chicago millionaire, will marry Gladys Wifllis, actress. President-elect Hadley of Yale will not be inaugurated into office until October. J. A. Blumer & Co., lumber merchants, Montreal, assigned. Liabilities $229,254. Grand Trunk officials announce that they are getting all the men they need to replace the striking trackmen. Queen Margaret is at Castle Gregario, near Tivoli, Italy, the guest of Princess Brancaccio, who was formerly Miss Hick-son-Field of the United States. • i --.. v ‘ •

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The reported sudden and frightful death of the gypsy Rigo, husband of the Princess Chimay, from the bubonic plague re-

calls the frightful ravages of the same dread disease in previous years. Not since 1879, however, has there been an outbreak of the plague i on European soil. As' far back as the third century there are records of the ravages of the plague in almost all parts of the civilized world. After 1665 the plague was not known as an epi-

demic in England, though in 1664 there were 70,000 deaths from it in London alone, out of a total population of 460,000. In France in 1720 a total of 60,000 people were carried off by the plague. The last outbreak of the plague on European soil was in 1879 in a settlement on the banks of the Volga river. But the plague has by no means lost its terrors, for in 1896-7 it carried off in India 170,000 people. The plague is often fatal in a few hours after the victim is attacked. There has never been an outbreak of the bubonic plague in the United States.

Instead of being Duchess d’Arcos, the wife of the Spanish minister might now be Mrs. Admiral Dewey, which Americans

at least will regard as a prouder title. The duchess, who is American born, was Virginia Lowery, a Washington belle. Dewey fell in love with her, as did the future duke, then Count Brunetti. Miss iLowery’sfather thought Dewey was a bad match, and did not want her to marry the 'count because he was a

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foreigner. She gave the Spaniard a vow to marry no one else, refused Dewey, and years afterward her father relented, when the count was made a duke and was made minister to Mexico.

Viola Olerich has been astonishing Lake City, lowa, people by her precocity.

She was adopted by Prof. Olerich when she was a few weeks old. Prof. Olerich has long cherished the theory that the customary methods of training childrenare wrong, and he has invented a system of blocks, pictures, etc., for home use. Little Viola is the first pupil under the new system.

Though but 2 years and 3 months old, she reads, calculates hard problems and “knows 3,000 nouns.” She “knows” the names of all the States and capitals and “is versed in physiology, botany, astronomy and other sciences.” She is perfectly healthy—as rosy as a rose itself.

Barry McCormick bids ftiir to become the star second baseman of the National League. He is practically a man without

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fourteen games this season he accepted the twenty-four chances offered him. His batting average is .288.

The Duke of Abruzzi has left Rome for Norway en route for the polar regions. His royal highness took leave of the king

and other members of the royal family, who all wished him good lack in his expedition to the north pole. The duke will leave Franz Josef Land for the far ‘ north immediately. The preparations for the expedition have been completed. The royal explorer thinks

his voyage will occupy two years. He has high expectations of the scientific results of the expedition and is sanguine of finding Andree. The home of Walter R. Dinmore, in San Francisco, is suffering from too many relatives-in-law. Mrs. Dinmore has

MRS. DINMORE.

ing her home with the Dinmores, entertained entirely too many visitors, and gave too many pink teas. Then she devoured sentimental novels, and persuaded her sis. ter that she was unhappy.

SHOT BY THE FILIPINOS.

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RIGO.

VIOLA OLERICH.

an error, a remarkable record, taking into consideration the number of chances he has had. In the second game in St. Louis he made a misplay that approached an error, but the majority of the scorers let Barry have the benefit of the doubt and gave the batter a hit. In his first

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brought suit for divorce, and Mr. Dinmore is suing half a dozen relations for $50,000 for damage to his business, and will I ask for another $50,000 for his wife's affections. One sister-in-law persisted in mak-