Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1899 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. CEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

FAILURES ARE FEW.

I NOTICEABLE DECREASE IN FIRST HALF OF 1899. I Unlimited Demand for Iron and Steel p Continue* Large Foot and Shoe t • Shipment*—Organisation *f a Match Trunt I* Nearly Completed. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “Failures for the second quar- ■ ter of 1899 have been 2,080 in number, against 3.055 last year, with liabilities of $20,259,000. against $36,602,252 last year. For the first half of 1899 failures were 4,852, against 6,706 last year, with liabilities of $48,711,000, against $71,246,783 last year. Nearly half of the June liabilities are due to one failure. The demand for iron and steel seems to have no limit. Tin is stronger at 26 cents and copper at 18 cents for lake, but lead is dull with hope of an end to the Colorado strike. Boot and shoe shipments from the East exceed those in any other month of any year for four weeks. Wool sales, 36,179,900 pounds, of which 29,865,900 were domestic, reveal a speculation scarcely less obtrusive than in 1897. Cotton mills are doing well in spite of the fall in cotton. Failures for the week have been 181 . in the United States, against 254 last year, and 22 in Canada, against 15 last year.” MATCH TRUsT NEARLY FORMED. Big Combine Will Control Nine-five Per Cent of American Production. g ’Hie completion of the mew match trust deal will give the Diamond Company control of 95 per cent of the match output of this country, it is claimed. For all factories in New York, Michigan and Indiana excepting the Continental, owned by the Gould company, cash will be paid. A new issue of stock amounting to $4,- ’ 000,000 is to be made to buy in independent companies. Of this Gould will be paid $1,000,000 for the Continental and about the same sum will be retained by the Diamond company as working capital. The Diamond is capitalized at sll,000,000. The net earnings are expected to be increased $2,500,000 per annum by . the new deal. CASHIER SHOUTS AT BURGLARS. Daring Attempt to Blow Open Vault of Firat National Bank. Five burglars made an unsuccessful attempt to loot the First National Bank at Wilmington, 111. Men had broken into the bank and were drilling the big door to the vault when Cashier Whitten, who lives across the street, fortunately awoke and discovered what was going on. He started across to the bank, when one burglar, doing sentry duty, commanded him to bait. Whitten re-entered the house and from a window opened fire with two revolvers on the robbers, who dropped their tools, jumped into buggies and made their escape. Several thousand dollars were in the bank. Deserted on her wedding day. St. Loui* Girl Attempts Suicide When Abandoned by Her Affianced. On her wedding day Miss Carrie Crusy of St. Louis received a note from her affianced husband, Harry E. Baker, saying that the wedding would never take place and that he had left the city. After this tragic denouement to her romantic dream ‘Miss Crusy became frantic and attempted to leap from a window and die. The timely interference of friends saved her. Race for the Pennant. The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ...45 19Cincinnati ~.32 29 Boston 40 23New Y0rk...30 33 Chicago 38 24Pittsburg ....29 32 Philadelphia. 37 24 Louisville ...23 40 Baltimore ...35 26Washington. 18 47 St. Louis... .36 29Cleveland .. .12 49 » Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. f W. L. Minneapolis. 34 25 St. Paul 29 29 Indianapolis. 32 25 Milwaukee .. .29 33 Columbus ...31 26Kansas City.. 27 34 Detroit 29 29 Buffalo 24 34 Covered with Molten Iron. The portable blast furnace used in welding rails for the Indianapolis street car company exploded. The explosion was accompanied by a destructive pyro- | technic display, followed by a hail of molten iron that covered the street walks and buildings within a large radius. Six j persons were more or . less seriously burned. Jilted at the Last Moment. | John Hile of Norwood went to Hart- ,• Ville, Mo., and got a license to marry Miss Julia Cole. Then Julia changed her mind t and notified another lover, Ben Smith of i Fontana, Kan., to come and claim her as his own. Smith came and they were mar ? ried, much to the chagrin of Hile, who *, witnessed the ceremony. Drowned in Missouri River. E, William Woodrum, dry goods merchant and president of the Commercial Club at ® Jefferson City, Mo., was drowned while f' swimming in the Missouri river. Authoress Passes Away. Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth, the p Authoress, died at her residence in WashJ ington, after an illness of several weeks. Hollinger Doomed to Die. K Emil Bollinger, the Chicago wife murX derer, has been found guilty. K’ Omaha Show Open. * , The Greater America and Colonial exi position has opened its gates at Omaha. Labor Trouble* at ft. Loui*. H Four non-union men, who had taken t the Union iron e attacked while by four strikers, r used, and Gus shot through the nTestead. ugurated at the Pittsburg. The at the plant is

great labor union. Movement to Unite 500,000 Employe* in New York City. The organization of a great union of 500,000 workmen in Greater New YorK has been begun by a committee appointed by the Central Federated Union. William A. Perrine, secretary of the iron molders’ conference board and one of the leading members of the committee, said: “This new union will be the biggest local central labor body on the face of the earth. All the unions in the five boroughs of New York City will join. It will be more powerful than many great national and international unions, and will have more influence in one city than any labor organization which has ever existed. The business of conducting the big bodies which now exist independently will be greatly facilitated. Employes will also benefit by the centralization of central labor unions in New York City. Strikes are bound to become fewer in number year after year through the influence of the great central organization. The principle of arbitration will triumph at last. For twenty years the bricklayers’ unions have had no strikes, because all bricklayers have been in one union.”

MAN>DEAD AND MONEY GONE. Mysterious Corpse in an Emigrants* Camp Leads to Five Arrest*. One man, William Johnson, and four women, making up a party traveling in emigrant wagons, have been arrested at Brazil, Ind., pending an investigation into the mysterious death of James Ayers of Lexington, Ky., in their camp. When the body was discovered it was given out that the man had died of heart failure, but later investigations gave ground for a theory of murder and robbery. Ayers had been seen in the afternoon with a large roll of money and when the corpse was searched by the coroner only 5 cents was found. In one of the wagons was a bottle of carbolic acid, from which a small quantity had been taken. The sheriff and eight deputies immediately went in pursuit of the travelers, but they had broken up camp, and it required a long chase before they were captured. The emigrants admitted that Ayers had convulsions before his death. BLOW TO CITY OWNERSHIP. Detroit’* City Railway schemes Are Tabled by the Council. Municipal ownership schemes were given a serious setback in the Common Council at Detroit. Two ordinances were turned down, and the outcome in the future is problematical. It all hinged on the question of fare. The joint committee reported that no bargain could be made with the railways if 3-cent instead of 5-cent fares were inserted in the security franchise, and considering the lack of legal authority for proceeding to a special election to determine popular sentiment on ownership by a commission in the city’s behalf, the litigation and the other contingencies, the committee unanimously declined to recommend any steps toward city ownership at this time. Minor amendments to the security ordinance were submitted, but the Council decided to table the report, and street railway ownership is left in the air.

WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH. Mr*. Margaret Woegler Found Ablaze by Husband, Expires Later. Mrs. Margaret Woegler of Chicago died from burns. At 2 o’clock in the morning her husband was awakened, hearing her screaming with pain. He ran to her room and found her lying on the floor with her dress on fire. He. extinguished the flames, but his wife was burned so badly that she died within a few hours. It is supposed that Mrs. Woegler dropped a lighted match in her clothing while lighting the gas. A coroner’s jury returned a verdict of accidental death. Labor Trouble in Detroit. A complete lockout is in effect in Pingree & Smith’s big shoe factory at Detroit, employing upward of 600 persons. Three weeks ago the factory started new machines in the shoe turning department, which are operated partly by boys in place of men. The Shoemaker’s Union decided that unless higher wages were paid in that department the upward of 100 men employed in the turning and welt department should quit. The company announced that if these men went out the entire factory would be shut down. Indiana Lady Beaten and Bound. At Osgood, Ind., while Albert Shaw was absent two men entered his house, struck Mrs. Shaw a blow that rendered her unconscious and dragged her downstairs. They then tied her hands fast to her knees and put her on the floor while they searched the house. Failing to find anything of value, ’they departed. Efforts to capture them have failed.

Koreans Smash Street Cara. There has been a big riot at Seoul, the Corean capital, in which the ten cars owned by the electric railway service recently established there were smashed and burned and several of the tramway employes were killed. The cars had killed several children since the service was opened in Seoul. Carriage Propelled by Wind. John and David Howard of. Beaver County, Oklahoma, have invented a horseless carriage w’hich is propelled by wind by means of sails like a ship. These men have ridden from their home in Fulton to Beaver City in this strange vehicle, and at times traveled fifteen miles an hour. Alderman la Assassinated. Aiderman C. H. Griffiths, a prominent citizen of Weatherford, was murdered by Dan Ashby. Ashby had been drinking and started down Main street with knife in hand, saying that he was going to kill somebody. He met Griffiths and without warning plunged the knife into his body. Chinese Sack Custom-House. A dispatch from Saigon, describing the anti-foreign disturbances that recently occurred in Mengtsu, province of YunYan, says that the Wong-tse custom house, which was in charge of American officials, was sacked and destroyed. Perished in Siberia. Harry Douglass o{ Nevada City, with twenty-five other pieied miners from various counties of , California, who- left June 2 last year for Siberia under the leadership of John T. McCall, have perished from privation and cold. Penn's Crew the Best. The eight-oared shell race for the in toecollegiate championship of America, at Poughkeepsie, on the Hudson, was won by Pennsylvania in 20:04. Wisconsin came in second in 20:05%.

TUG MEN IN COMBINE

BIG TOWING COMPANY FORMED IN CLEVELAND. Trust Include* All Tug Companies Between Buffalo and Chicago and Duluth—Flour Trust Acquire* Firmer Hold on Milling Property. The Great Lakes Towing Company was organized at Cleveland, Ohio, with a capital stock of $5,000,000. The papers of incorporation will be filed in New Jersey within a few days. This company will be in the nature of a trust, and will embrace all the tug and towing companies between Buffalo and Chicago and Duluth, as follows: Dunham Towing and Wrecking Company of Chicago, Barry Bros, of Chicago, Lutz Towing Company of South Chicago, Parker & Maxom of Milwaukee, Milwaukee Tug Line, Escanaba Towing Company, White Line Towing Company of Duluth, Inman Towing Company of Duluth, Thompson Towing and Wrecking Company of Port Huron and the “Soo,” Toledo Harbor Tug Line Company, Nagle Tug Line of Toledo, Huron Tug Company, Hand & Johnson Tug Company of Buffalo, Maytham Tug Company of Buffalo, Erie Tug Company, Conneaut Tug Company, Ashtabula Tug Company, Fairport Tug Company, Cleveland Tug Company and the Vessel Owners’ Towing Company of Cleveland.

GOES INTO THE TRUST. Additional Milling Properties in Minneapolis Obtained by Purchase. The United States Milling Company, popularly known as the flour trust, is now certain to acquire a much larger interest in Minneapolis milling property than has hitherto been thought possible. A. C. Loring, J. B. Gilfillan and John Martin, who hold a majority of the stock of the Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company, have agreed to sell to Thomas McIntyre, president of the trust, the six smaller mills which they control in that city. The figure is understood to be in the immediate neighborhood of $1,800,000. The capacity of the six mills is 11,000 barrels a day. The company is capitalized at $2,250,000, of which $1,000,000 is in preferred stock. The trust now has a total Minneapolis capacity of 1,400 barrels daily.

SHOES FULL OF DIAMONDS. Louis Bush Has Plenty of Jewels, Although Claiming to Be Bankrupt. Louis Bush, a New York City Jew, was arrested at the Brush street depot in Detroit, with $19,075 worth of diamonds (his own valuation) concealed in his shoes. Less than a year ago, or Nov. 18, 1898, Bush, who used to run a clothing business at 13 West 102 d street, New York, petitioned to be declared a bankrupt, making affidavit that he was not possessed of the necessary $25 fees to accompany the petition. His liabilities in his petition were said to be $11,879, his assets nothing. LIQUOR LAW KNOCKED OUT. South Dakota Court Sustain* the Saloonkeeper*’ Contention. Judge Moore, eighth circuit, decided the thirteen liquor cases of Sturgis, S. D., in favor of the demurrers. The grand jury recently brought indictments against the saloon men of Sturgis for violating the liquor law and the defendants demurred, raising the question of the validity of the law. Judge Moore’s decision practically leaves that part of the State without a liquor law of any sort. Death* Due to a Mad Dog. Preston Oglesby, aged 11, died at Wildwood, N. C., of hydrophobia. He was bitten by a dog ten weeks before. The dog bit a horse, hog and ox at the same time, and these died within three weeks. The horse was bitten through the nose, and chickens which ate out of his trough had spasms and died. A chicken owned by a negro was killed by the dog. The family ignorantly cooked the chicken and all of them died from eating it.

Shot Mayor and Self. Mayor James Balbirnie of Muskegon, Mich., was shot and killed by ex-Poor Director John W. Tayer, a discharged official. After firing the fatal shot the bold assassin pulled a bottle of carbolic acid from his pocket, drank the contents and then turned the still smoking revolver to his own breast and pulled the trigger. He is dead. Woman Stabbed and Burned. Sadie B. Matthewson, 26 years old, was murdered by Sampel Rowens, 57 years old, at Foster, R. I. Both were drunk. Owens knocked her down with an ax, stabbed her twice, and then, pouring kerosene oil over her, set her on fire while she was still breathing. Her body was burned to a crisp. For Young Negro Criminals. C. P. Huntington has bought a tract of land of 1,350 acres in Hanover County, Virginia, where, at his expense, a wellequipped building, with the latest modern improvements, is to be erected for the confinement of juvenile offenders of the negro race. Five Laborer* Drowned. Five men were drowned in the Mississippi river a mile above Clarksville, Mo., by the overturning of a skiff. They were laborers engaged in river improvement work now going forward in that district under the direction of the United States assistant engineer, Capt. S. Edwards.

Wed Under a Shower of Roses. Gustavus A. Ulman of Chicago was married at Richmond, Va., to Miss Genevieve Raab. During the ceremony a shower of roses from a canopy descended upon the bride and groom. Ten Lost in Lake Erie. The steamer Margaret Olwill, from Kelley’s Island for Cleveland, with limestone, was sunk off Lorain, Ohio. Four sailors were rescued. Ten persons went down with the steamer. Goebel I* Nominated. William Goebel was nominated for Governor on the twenty-sixth ballot by the Kentucky Democratic convention at Louisville. Three Negroe* Are Killed. Three negroes are dead and one is fatally injured as a result of a riot between the white and negro miners at the ore mines near Cardiff, Ala. Czar’s Object Defeated. The peace congress at The Hague has decided that the Russian disarmament proposals are unacceptable.

BOY FORGER BENT TO PRISON. Young Greenwood to Serve Fourteen Months in Stillwater. ' In the District Court at Rochester, Minn., the case of the State vs. E. L. Greenwood was very unexpectedly closed by the defendant breaking down just as the case came to trial and changing his former plea of not guilty to guilty. The trial of young Greenwood for forgery has excited much interest in that part of the State, where his grandfather, Stephen Greenwood, was one of the early settlers and very highly respected. Ernest Greenwood, the defendant, was brought up on a farm, but two years ago drifted into life insurance business and spent money so freely on the luxuries of life that he was obliged to have recourse to forged notes, using the names of both relatives and neighbors. His father, a man who stands high in the community, at first protected this forged paper, but the volume became too great and the son was indicted on four counts by the grand jury at the December term of court. Judge Snow imposed a very moderate penalty, sentencing Greenwood to Stillwater for fourteen months. DISCOVER A SMALL FORTUNE. St. Louis Police Officer* Find Wealth Belonging to an Insane Woman. In a dingy, stuffy room in the rear of 2211 South Third street, St. Louis, Officer Hanrahan found concealed in a dirty trunk and a valise more than $15,000 in government bonds, gold and bills of large denomination. The police think that this small fortune is the property of Mrs. Walberger Wackerle, an aged German woman, who is now a patient at the city insane asylum. But little is known by the neighbors of Mrs. Wackerle. They say that for years past she had been living in that neighborhood, but was always reticent and eccentric. » Zinc Mines Close Down. Fully 95 per cent of the zinc mines in the Missouri-Kansas district have been closed down, in accordance with the request of the Zinz Miners’ Association, and it is thought the remaining plants will be idle in a few days. The smelters are now paying the association schedule to get ore. It is generally believed that the mines will be in full operation again in a few weeks, and the fight between the smelting trust and the ore producers will be settled.

Tin Plate Trust Banks Fire*. The tin plate trust is banking fires in the big plant in Anderson and Elwood, Ind., and at all other points, preparatory to a complete shut-down. Ten thousand will be thrown out of employment in Indiana by the failure to adjust the scale for the ensuing year. Two Dead from Scalding. The steamer St. Paul blew out the flues of her boiler about twelve miles north Of Alton, 111., badly scalding five of her crew, four negroes and one white man. The vessel was safely landed and the injured men sent to St. Louis. Two of them died after reaching there. Riots at Saragossa, Spain. Anti-budget riots have been in progress in Saragossa, Spain. The troops fired on the mob in the Plaza de la Constucion, killing one person and seriously wounding two others. Many persons were injured. Seventeen persons received dangerous wounds. Vessel Burns in the Atlautic. The steamer City of Macon, which arrived at New York from Savannah, reports that she passed the burning wreck of the steamer Pawnee forty miles from Cape Henry. The Pawnee’s crew escaped. The Pawnee was bound from Brunswick, Ga., for Boston. Callaway Found Guilty. Frank B. Callaway, who has been on trial for murder in St. Louis for several weeks, was found guilty in the first degree by the jury. Callaway slot his wife on April 10 last in a large department store where she was employed. To Raise Sngar in Hawaii. The Makawell Sugar Company has been incorporated in San Francisco with a capital stock of $5,000,000, of which $1,500,000 has been subscribed. The company will do business in the Hawaiian Islands. Insurance Law Is Invalid. The insurance law passed by the last Kansas Legislature has been declared unconstitutional by Judge J. H. Skidmore of Columbus, Kan. Chili’s New Cabinet Formed. A liberal ministry has been formed in Chili, in succession to the conservative cabinet which resigned June 2.

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 $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 74c; corn. No. 2,33 cto 35c; oats, No. 2,24 c to 26c; rye, No. 2,61 cto 63c; butter, choice creamery, 16c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, choice new, 40c to 55c 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 $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2 white, 34c 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 $5.00; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2,26 cto 28c; 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. 2,72 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c 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 $5.50; wheat, No. 2,78 cto 80c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 36c; oata, No. 2 white, 30c to 31c; rye, 58c to 60c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 74c to 76c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 34c to 86c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2,59 c to 61c; clover seed, new, $3.95 to $4.05. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 72c to 74c; corp, No. 3,84 cto 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 1,59 cto 61c; barley, No. 2,41 cto 43c; pork, mess, SB.OO to $8.50. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $7.25. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 81c to 82c; corn, No. 2, 40c to 42c; oata, No. 2 white, 32c to 34c; batter, creamery, 15c to 19c; eggs, Western, lie to 16c.

SHOOTS THE MAYOR.

MUSKEGON ASSASSIN AVENGES AN ALLEGED GRIEVANCE. Janet Balbirnie Slain by • Disappointed Officeseeker, Who Immediately Afterward Take* Hi* Own Life —Deadly Work of Bullet and Poison. John W. Tayer, former director of the city poor, assassinated Mayor James Balbirnie of Muskegon, . Mich., at noon Thursday and then killed himself. In order to make sure of death he swallowed a quantity of carbolic acid and then shot himself. The shooting took place on the main business street of the city, directly in front of Mayor Balbirnie’s furniture store and undertaking establishment. The Mayor had just descended from his living room over the store and was about to untie his horse, standing near the walk, when he was accosted by Tayer, who said he wished to speak with him. The Mayor thereupon turned and seated himself in a chair in front of the store. A mail carrier approached and handed the Mayor a letter, and while the carrier was still present Tayer shot Mr. Balbirnie, the ball entering his left breast. The murderer then stepped into the doorway of the store, swallowed a quantity of carbolic acid, which he took from a vial in his pocket, and then shot himself in almost identically the same place that the Mayor had been shot. The Mayor staggered to his feet and ran upstairs to his residence above the store. William Burnett, a blacksmith, who has his shop across the street, was a witness to the shooting. He ran after the Mayor and reached the top of the stairs just as Mr. Balbirnie fell. In fifteen minutes, almost before aid could be summoned, the Mayor was dead. After Tayer shot himself he sank to the walk, and later was removed to the city hall, where he died shortly before 1 o’clock. The motive for the crime is supposed to have been morbid despondency. Tayer had been city poormaster. He was removed spring by Mayor Balbirnie. Tayer asked the Mayor for the position of city sexton, and this was refused him. Mayor’s action embittered Tayer, but there was no suspicion that he had been aroused to a murderous state of mind.

LOST IN SHIPWRECK.

Steamer Margaret Olwill Go** Down in Lake Erie. In a northeast gale the steamer Margaret Olwill, laden with stone from Kelley’s Island to Cleveland, foundered in Lake Erie off Lorain, Ohio. Nine persons were drowned. Four members of the crew have been picked up by passing steamers and taken into Cleveland. From the reports of the survivors the Olwill’s cargo of stone shifted while the vessel was laboring in the trough of the sea. Shortly before it went down the rudder chains parted, allowing it to fall off into the trough. As the helpless craft rose on top of a heavy sea the stone slid to leeward, the steamer listed heavily, and sank to the botoni. The rescued members of the crew were found floating on the surface of Lake Erie, clinging to bits of wreckage. Their rescue was attended by exhibitions of great heroism, for a heavy sea was still running when they were picked up. The Olwill lies in fifty feet of water, eight miles off Lorain. It belonged to L. P. and J. A. Smith of Cleveland and had been carrying stone from the quarries at Kelley’s Island to Cleveland for the breakwater now being built. The Olwill was launched in* 1887 and was 175 feet long and 34 feet beam. It measured 554 gross tons.

TO ENFORCE FISHING LAWS.

Newfoundland Warns American* Not to Aid French Violator*. The Newfoundland colonial government has prepared a circular intimating to American fishermen that the bait act is about to be stringently enforced against the French, and warning the Americans that if they assist the French by bringing them bait to St. Pierre the laws will be similarly enforced against them also. The British first-class cruiser Indefatigable, one of the finest ships of the British North American squadron, has been ordered to Newfoundland. It is no doubt the intention of the naval authorities to attach her to the fleet performing fishery service on the French coast.

CONFIRMS DEATH OF ANDREE.

Letter from the Explorer Is Washed Ashore on Norway’* Coast. H. J. Baron, formerly an Eastern newspaper man, has written the following from Wrangel, Alaska: “Information received here confirms the story that Andree, the arctic explorer, is dead. A Norwegian, who was a passenger on the Rosalie, a Seattle boat bound for Skaguay, showed a letter supposed to have been written by Andree. The letter, in a sealed bottle, had been washed ashore off the Norwegian coast. The latitude was given as 74 north and the balloon was somewhere to the westward of .Iceland. ‘I am leaving balloon and provisions.—Andree,’ were the words written.”

SIR JULIAN TO RETIRE.

Ambassador Will Give Up Hi* American Mission Next April. The correspondent of the London Standard at The telegraphs that he has had an interview with Sir Julian Eauncefote, British ambassador to. the United States and head of the British delegation at the peace conference, and been assured by him that tie intends to retire from the Washington embassy in April next. The correspondent says: "Sir Julian will stay in England after the conference until October, unless the Alaskan affair calls him to Washington earlier.

MEETING PUT OFF TWO MONTHS

International Commission Will Meet at Quebec in October, A special from Ottawa says that the meeting of the international commission, which was to have taken place Aug. 2, .at Quebec, has been postponed until October. The exact date has not been fixed. Roosevelt Not a Candidate. Gov. Roosevelt of New York declares that he is. not a candidate for the Republican nomination’for President in 1000.

LONG HIDING ENDS.

Sister Betray* Alex. Jester, Supposed Murderer of Gilbert Gate*. Through the confession of a sister, who has kept the secret for nearly thirty years, the alleged murderer of Gilbert

GILBERT W. GATES.

murderer. Gilbert Gates was murdered near Warrensburg, Mo., on the night of May 1872, while he was journeying westward by wagon with Alexander Jester. When night cane they encamped on the river bank, and under cover of darkness Jester, it is said, stole toward Gates and shot him in the back. He robbed Gates and then attempted to conceal the crimeby burning his victim’s body. Failing in this, the murderer threw the corpse into the river, whence it drifted down stream, where it was finally discovered in Salt river. A successful chase for Jester followed, and he was captured. A. A. Gates, father of the murdered man, hastened from Chicago to the West at that timeand was one of a party whiclr searched the house of a sister who was then living eighteen miles north of Wichita. There Mr. Gates says he found clothing whidb had been worn by his murdered son. Thit

STONE THAT ACCUSES JESTER.

and other evidence was introduced in thetrial, but before it was concluded Jester escaped. Since then he has been at large, and! efforts to find him have proved unavailing. A few days ago the sister of themurderer, Mrs. Cornelia Street of Shewnnee, Oklahoma, wrote to Sheriff Simmons of Wichita saying that her brother was living in Shewanee under the name of W. H. Hill. He was arrested and has been identified by John W. Gates. Jester protests his innocence. The bodies of George and Lapra Gates, Gilbert’s brother and sister, lie in the plot at Oakwood Cemetery, near West Chicago, and between them rises a marbleshaft ten feet high, on a granite base. The names of the two children Whosebodies lie beside it are inscribed there, and upon another face is this inscriptions GILBERT W., son of A. A. and Mary Gates, was murdered in Missouri by Alexander Jester, January 25, 1871. Aged 10 years and 25 days.

WON BY PENN’S CREW.

To Gallant Wisconsin, However, Doe*the Glory Belong. The honor of the West has been upheld. But for an unfortunate incident the probabilities are that the most exciting and hotly contested boat race known to college history would have gone toetheUniversity of Wisconsin. A crate bobbing on the water directly in the courseof the Western eight made it necessary to veer at a sharp angle from the straight path to avoid also the cluster of boata which crowded close to the channel of the contestants. It was too late then to return to the “live” water, and amid deafening cheers Pennsylvania crossed the line the winner by a scant half boat length. The race occurred on the Hudson river «t Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Pennsylvania won by a scant half length in 20:04, Wisconsin being three lengths ahead of Cornell and the latter leading Columbia by four lengths.

LABOR WAR AT LAPEL, IND.

Union and Non-union Men Walk the streets Heavily Armed. Union and non-union men walk thestreets of Lapel, Ind., armed to the teeth and carrying guns and revolvers without any pretense of concealing them. Several days ago the workmen in the two flintglass factories at that point organized and the management in turn locked them out. Since then the entire community has engendered a bitter feeling against unionism. The union men held a conferencesad were attacked by a mob of citizens. The hotel was riddled with bullets. Notices have been received by several union sympathizers that their places would be blown to pieces if they did not join in’thehostile movement against the unionist*. Sheriff Moore and deputies have’practically established military government. Carl Tasi, 45, and son, George, 19, Norfolk, Va., convicted of circulating spurlou* half dollars. Pat Sweeney, Cincinnati, attempted to eject an unknown man from a theater. Sweeney was shot and seriously wounded. The paper beard mills of McEwan brothers, at Whippany, N. J., were damaged $65,000 by an incendiary fire. John Zigouras, a Greek, was found guilty of killing a'fellow countryman in New York. He will be electrocuted. J. F. Householder and Theodore King, both of Cambridge, Ohio, wfere killed by • train, Cumberland, Md.

Gates, brother of John W. Gates or Chicago, president of the American Steel and WireCompany, has been located in Oklahoma. The news was telegraphed A. I A. Gates, the aged father, at Stt Charles, 111., and he immediately sent directions to Wichita, Kan., which led to the arrest of the