Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1899 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. QEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. WmuiiiM-K--■■■ —-- RENSSELAER, - - INDIAN-;

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p' ■ — ' CANADA IS MAKING EFFORTS TO OBTAIN IT. Deepening of St. Lawrence Canale | Will Be Completed by SeptemberMinimum Depth oT Fourteen Feet Assured— Suicide at Minneapolis. The work of deepening the St. Lawrence canals, which has been going on ■ for many years, is now übout completed, and it is announced that by September, at the latest, there will be a channel fourteen feet in depth from Lake Ontario to Montreal. Heretofore some of the canals were only nine feet deep, and for this reason the lake freight steamers have had to transship at Kingston. With the deeper channel they will be able to come through direct from Port Colborne on Lake Erie, the head of the Welland canal, to Montreal, and there transship their cargoes to ocean-going steamships. At Montreal, it is said, the Government has decided to erect, as a public work, an immense grain elevator. As the reward for all this capital outlay, running high up into the millions, Canada expects to deflect a large amount of grain from the Erie canal. NOTED CHARACTER IS SLAIN. Doable Mnrderer of Appanoose County, lowa, Himself Meets Death. Wells township, lowa, was the scene of another murder one day recently, i which resulted in the death of Brazil D. * Courts, a notorious character who has to his record two murders within the last fifteen years and for one of which he served a term in the penitentiary. John Frazee is guilty of the crime of killing Courts. The men had long been enemies and, meeting in the highway, Frazee, after a few words, raised a shotgun and killed Courts instantly. The shooting was but a few hundred yards from where Moore killed Shearer last December. * Frazee gave himself up. While Courts was a notorious character the sentiment of the people is against his slayer. SOLDIER MAY HAVE BEEN SLAIN. Mangled Body of Discharged Volunteer Found in South Dakota. The mangled body of Howard 11. I Craig, sergeant of the Sixteenth company of United States volunteer signal corps, was found on the railroad track four miles east of Jamestown, X. D., with strong indications of murder. The crime was evidently committed for the purpose of robbery, but the man’s discharge papers were still on the body, by means of which he was identified. He was a native of St. Louis. Howard H. Craig was a telegraph operator. He was 24 years old and enhsted in the army from St. Louis. SUICIDE'S BODY IDENTIFIED. Man Who Shot Himself at Minneapo11®, Minn., Is B. C. Hinnant. f-' The identity of the man who shot himself through the heart at Lake Harriet, near Minneapolis, was disclosed by Mrs. F. L. Hanna, who recognized the body as that of B. C. Hinnant, one of her boarders and cashier of the construction department of the North western Telephone Company. Hinnant came from Texas two years ago. About six years ago he married a Miss Clarke of Hillsboro, Texas, and it is said that family trouble drove him to suicide.. Race for the Pennant. The standing of the clubs in the National League rac" is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ...53 24Cincinnati ...36 38 Philadelphia. 47 27Pittsburg .. . .35 40 Boston 48 28New Y0rk...33 42 Chicago .....43 30Louisville ...30 44 Baltimore .. .43 31 Washington. 25 51 St. Louis... .44 32 Cleveland ...13 63 Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Minneapolis. 43 30 St. Paul 36 37 Indianapolis. 39 30 Kansas City. .34 39 I Detroit .... .37 35 Milwaukee *. .33 39 Gnd Rapids. 36 35 Buffalo 30 43 Brutality of White Cap Baud. James Irwin, a half-witted individual, has incurred the displeasure of a gang of * toughs at Black Springs. Ark. He was !, stripped, rubbed with lye soap and shaved from head to foot, being badly lacerated in the fiendish operation. He was then brutally beaten and finally placed in a rain barrel and churned up and down until consciousness left him. Several arrests have been made. Feuds Result in Murders. Another feud has broken out in Clay County, Ky„ by which five men lost their lives. These fatalities resulted from a pitched battle fought near Little Goose v creek, three miles from Manchester. The feud dates back nearly two years. Arrested for Counterfeiting. Frank Cody, Sam Towns and George Smith were arrested in Evansville, Ind., ‘ charged with counterfeiting. They admit- . ted making dimes, quarters and dollars , and said they threw their molds into ' Pigeon creek. ! Fatally Stabbed in a Saloon. At Zanesville, Ohio, Joseph Riley, a woodworker, with a wife and six ehillibbed in the abdomen Return to Work, rers at Conneaut hare out on a strike all he dock company aeind of the strikers. [ Paper Plant, e purchased the exJessup & Moore Paladelpfiia, the Drexel entire capital stock petition of the plant ictically the same in St. Lonis. of Sommers Broß., irse collars and legras totally destroyed is estimated*at $75,-

MURDERED IN A CHURCH. Principal of a Texas fctaool Shot Down by the Head Janitor. While services were in progress at the First Christian Church, at Dallas, Texas, Prof. Lipscomb was shot down by John T. Carlisle directly in front of the pulpit from which the preacher was speaking. The wounded man attempted to grapple with his assailant, but was mortally injured and sank into the arms of friends. He lingered unconscious for an hour and expired in his wife’s arms on the altar. Carlisle was turned over to the police, who had been summoned by some of the panic-stricken congregation. When seen at the police station he appeared to be under the influence of liquor. He refused to make any statement. Prof. Lipscomb was principal of the Central high school, and went there four years ago from Nashville, Tenn. Carlisle until recently was head janitor of the high school. It is believed that his removal actuated the shooting. He attributed his loss of position to Prof. Lipscomb's influence. MOTHER AND CHILD REUNITED. Boy Kidnaped Twenty-five Years Ago Finds a Lost Parent. F. O. Getchell, an insurance agent living in Cleveland, who was kidnaped when an infant twenty-five years ago, and his mother have been reunited. The mother, Mrs. Emma Smith, came from Birmingham, Ala., where she was located after a long search and was met at the train by her son. The meeting was an affecting one, the mother, who is GO years of age. being accepted by the son without question. The story Mrs. Smith tells of the kidnaping is to the effect that the infant was taken by a relative to New Orleans and there placed in an orphan asylum. The boy remained there until he was 15 years of age, when he came North, and after living in various places he went to Cleveland. He is now married and has two small children.

DEIGNAN PUTS HONORS ASIDE. I lowa’s Merrimac Hero Declines Naval Academy Appointment. Secretary Long at Washington has received a letter from Osborn F. Deignao declining the appointment to the naval academy offered to him in accordance with an act of Congress'. Young Deignan’s declination is due, it is said, to his belief that he would find it extremely difficult to pass the examination for admission. With a view to aiding him in every possible way the Secretary offered to permit him to enter the academy without the usual entrance examination; but, while appreciating this concession, the young man deemed it expedient to give up altogether his dreams of a career in the service. NEW WHISKY TRUST FORMED. Dlstillinsr Company Incorporated with $125,000,000 Capital. The big whisky trust, with $125,000,000 capital, w’hich has absorbed the old whisky trust and its principal rivals, filed its articles of incorporation at Trenton, N. J. It is the third in point of size of the immense industrial corporations in existence, two greater being the Federal Steel Company and the lead trust. The companies absorbed by the Distilling Company of America, as the new corporation is called, are the American Spirits Manufacturing Company (the old whisky trust); the Kentucky Distilleries and Warehouse Company, the Spirits Distributing Company, and the Standard Distilling and Distributing Company.

TWO BRITISH SHIPS LOST. Crew of One Perished Twelve Men from Other Missing. The British ship City of York has been wrecked off Rottnest Island. Seven of the crew were saved, but the captain and eleven men are missing. The City of York, Captain Jones, sailed from San Francisco for Fremantle, Australia. She was built at Glasgow in 1869 and was of 1,167 tons net register. The British ship Carlisle Castle was lost in a storm off Rockingham. The crew perished. The Carlisle Castle, Captain Lindsay, of 1,344 tons net register, left the Clyde for Fremantle, Western Australia. She was built at London in 1868. Brings a Klondike Fortune. The Alaska flyer Humboldt reached Seattle with 150 Ivlondikers and about $500,000 in dust. The richest man on board was C. A. Voskeller of Chicago. He shipped $183,000 by the river before leaving Dawson, and brings the balance of a $200,000 output with him. He has been in the Klondike for three years, and got all of his gold from one Bonanza Creek claim.

Fcore of People Hurt. With a shock like that of an earthquake and a report that was heard for two miles a premature explosion took place in the quarry of the Artesian stone and lime works in Chicago, which was followed by a shower of stone, injuring a score of persons, breaking hundreds of windows and creating a panic among the inhabitants of that district. Chicago Thief Sent to Prison. Philip Lambete, alias George Schey, of Chicago, charged with taking SIO,OOO from the desk of the paying teller of the Metropolitan National Bank June 22, pleaded guilty in Boston and was sent to the State prison for a term of not less than two and a half or more than three and a half years. Kills His Wife and Himself. Frank Tepley, a well-to-do Bohemian farmer tea miles from Stanton, Neb., killed his wife with a carpenter’s hammer and then committed suicide by taking poison. He objected to his wife visiting a disinherited daughter and son-in-law. Grocers’ Trust Is Organized. The combination of wholesale grocers of Illinois, lowa and Missouri, for the purpose of. purchasing goods in large quantities, took definite form when the Western Brokerage Company was incorporated at Des Moines, with a capital stock of SIOO,OOO. Smelters Compelled to Close. One thousand men employed at the Omaha and Grant smelter at Omaha are idle as a result of the closing of a number of furnaces. The company saya it is due to the coal famine incident to the .strike of Illinois and lowa miners. Will Build in England. It is announced that the Westinghouse flectric and Manufacturing Company of ittabnrg will build works at Manchester, ngland, and employ 5,000 men. All Unite on Taylor. '< 1 W. S. Taylor was nominated for Govern op by .acclamation by the Republic**' ptate convention at Lexington, Ky. <

CASHIER IS MISSING.

HAS SIOO,OOO OF BANK’S MONEY WITH HIM. His Peculations and Flight Cause the Closing of a SupposeMv Solid Financial Institution—V cm: i Paid a Supposed Gambling l)eu in Missouri. The Middlesex County Bank of i’erth Amboy, N. J., has closed-its doors. Cashier Edward M. Valentine is reported missing with SIOO,OOO of the bank’s money. The president of the bank, U. B. Watson, informed the police of Perth Amboy of the condition of affairs and reported that Valentine had not been seen for three days. The details of how the money was converted or misappropriated are not known. Cashier Valentine has been in the employ of the Perth Amboy bank for several years. He was considered a man of steady habits and lived with his family in Perth Amboy. His family consists of his wife and two or three children. He is under 40 years of age. On the day when he was last seen Valentine cashed checks amounting to between $3,000 and $5,000 at the Park National Bank, with which the Perth Amboy bank transacted business. The police say that Valentine’s peculations had extended over a period of several months, and that he managed to cover up the shortage by false entries in his books. WOMEN RAID A GAMBLING DEN. Kingston. Mo., W. C. T. U. Determined to Close Alleged Obnoxious Resort. For several weeks the W. C. T. U. at Kingston, Mo., has been making war on the “White Elephant,” which is said to be a saloon and gambling resort, in addition to a drug store. The city refuses to grant a liquor license. Two of the women learned the sign of admittance to the poker room —three knocks and a scratch on the door with the fingers. They got in. One found her father, the other her sweetheart. There were others, but they jumped twelve feet to the ground. The W. C. T. U. held a meeting and determined to make a raid. They marched up the street in a body to the “White Elephant.” The occupants of the place learned of the intended visit and before the women reached there not a soul was to be found in the poker room, while the bar was also deserted. The women held the fort and refused to go until induced to do so by Mayor Prickett and several citizens.

HARD WOOD PRICES RUN HIGH. Wisconsin Supply Is Very Rapidly Being Wiped Out. Hard wood lumber has advanced during the past year at an exceedingly rapid rate, and the price is now higher than ever before in the history of the trade in Minneapolis. The high prices are due to the shortage in the supply of northern grown hard wpod and the rapidly increasing demand. The Wisconsin hard wood forests are gradually being exhausted, and it is asserted on good authority that the local trade will in a few years have to depend almost wholly upon the southern forests for a supply. Prices now are from $4 to $7 higher than last year. Every variety of hard wood has been asJeoted and all have gone up above the previous maximum. GOOD OPENING IN RUSSIA. Field for American Capital* Machinery and Business Methods. Herbert H. D. Peirce, first secretary of the United States embassy to Russia, says: “The relations between the United States and Russia were never on a more cordial basis than at present, and the friendship which is traditional between the two countries finds constant expression in Russia, not only among officials, but also among the people of all classes. There is a great opening in Russia for American capital and for the introduction of American machinery and methods of doing business.” WEALTH FOR PENNILESS MAN. Miner* Whose Life He Saved Years Ago, Leaves Him ssoo*ooo. According to a Letter received by Chief of Police Bishop of Springfield, Mo., Robert M. E. Cooper is heir to $500,000 in Cripple Creek mining property and Texas real estate, left by Captain Crego, a frontiersman, who died recently in Cripple Creek. Cooper formerly edited a paper in Springfield and was at one time prominent in Missouri politics. He became penniless and has for years lived in St. Louis. Years ago in Texas Cooper saved Crego’s life. . Booms Municipal Ownership. Municipal ownership of Detroit street railways has taken a' fresh start, in spite of the recent adverse decision of the Michigan Supreme Court annulling the appointment of the street railway commissioners. The Common Council by a vote of 19 to 14 has passed the so-called security franchise ordinance. Test a New Explosive. Officers of the ordnance department, U. S. A., conducted three tests at the proving grounds at Sandy Hook. The tests consisted of the throwing of high explosives. the firing of a new high explosive and tiie testing of a steel tower and range finder. All were accounted successful.

Tbree’Die in Freight Wreck. Three tramps were killed and five others were seriously injured by the wrecking of a freight train on the Chicago and Alton road near Glendale, Mo. The wreckage consisted of ten car loads of merchandise, hogs and cattle. The train left the track on a sharp curve. Ft. Louisan Fhot by Wife. George W. Holladay was shot and probably fatally wounded by his wife, Annie, at their home at St. Louis. Mrs. Holladay declares that she acted in.selfdefense. Murderer Surrenders Himself. Edwin J. Brogan of Fulton township, Pa., 43 years old, with a wife and three children, has surrendered himself to the -district attorney on the charge of murdering Mariop Wiley. Lockjaw Epidemic in Gotham. . Nine persons have died of lockjaw in New York and vicinity within thirty-six hours. Nearly all are cases resulting from wounds received from pistols on the Fourth of July. Paymaster General of tbe Army. The President has appointed Col. Alfred 83. Bates paymaster general of the army to succeed Gen. Asa B. Carey, retired.

COLORADO TRAIN HELD UP. Express Officials Declare that the Robbers Got Nothing. The south-bound passenger train on the ■ Colorado and Southern Railway was robbed by four men five miles south of Folsom, N. M. After the train had been brought to a standstill and the crew had been intimidated by guns, the robbers used dynamite with good' effect/ blowing open the sides of the express car. Superintendent Webb and the Wells-Fargo express agent, Glover, both declare positively that nothing was secured by the robbers. As soon as the robbers had searched the express car they mounted horses which were hitched near by, and firing a few shots to alarm the trainmen and passengers, fled without any attempt to go through the mail car. Parties who claim to know say there was a large amount of money in the express safe, as well as valuable express matter. TERRIBLE FOREST FIRE RAGES. Monntaing in Montana Covered with Leapine Flames. A terrible forest fire has been raging in the mountains west of Anaconda, in the vicinity of Mount Haggin, Mont. It started six miles west of Anaconda, near the base jof the mountains, from the camp fire of two boys picnicking above Vineent’s ranch. Before sundown over 1,500 cords of wood owned by three poor woodchoppers, the work of a year, was consumed. So great was the volume of smoke and its altitude that it was visible more than 100 miles away. At midnight the flames covered several thousand acres. The mountain sides are heavily wooded. The forests are dry and the fire must burn its way out, to either perpetual snow or to the timber line.

WHITNEY’S RESIDENCE BURNED. Magnificent Long Island Home of the Millionaire Destroyed. The magnificent country residence of William C. Whitney on Wheatly hills, two miles from Westbury, L. 1., was destroyed by fire and one of the three big barns in which Mr. Whitney keeps his thoroughbreds was burned. Mr. Whitney was not at home, having sailed for Europe a few weeks ago. It is understood that most of the furniture, personal effects and handsome fittings were burned. The loss on the house alone will be $50,000. Wealthy Girl Js Missing. Miss Ida Carr, aged 26 years, daughter of David Carr, one of the wealthiest men in East Tennessee, disappeared several days ago from her home at Old Town, and no trace of her has since been secured. It is rumored she was kidnaped by two men, but her family do not believe it. They think she committed suicide. Coal Breaker Burns. The No. 12 coal breaker at Plymouth, Pa., owned by Haddock & Shonk, was destroyed by fire. The loss js $90,000. It is supposed it was struck by lightning. About 450 men and boys are thrown out of employment until the breaker is rebuilt. Granite Quarry Combine. James G. Batterson, Jr., vice-president of the New England Granite Works, confirms the report that a combination of "various Eastern quarries is under There are about fifteen properties which will be included in the combine, which will represent $12,000,000 capital. Kansas City Packing House Closed. Schwarzschild & Sulzgerger’s Kansas City packing plant was closed by the local management rather than grant a second advance in wages to its 200 butchers and their helpers. One thousand men are out of work. 1 hoshoncs Make Trouble. Advices from White Rock, Shoshone Indian reservation, say there, are prospects of disturbances on that reservation in connection with the Indian school, and that the fourth attempt to burn the school building has-been made. Another Body Recovered. The body of Captain Brown of the wrecked steamer Olwell was found by the tug Daisy near where the body of his son had been found earlier. The corpse, which was badly decomposed, was taken to Lorain, Ohio. Alger Decides to Quit. It is announced from Washington that Secretary Russell A. Alger's resignation of the war-portfolio is now in the hands of President McKinley. Five Fatally Hurt in Fire. Fire in a crowded five-story tenement in Monroe street, New York, resulted in fatal injuries to five persons and the overcoming by smoke of eight others.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3,00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 73c; corn, No. 2,34 cto 35c; oats, No. 2,24 c to 25c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 56c; butter, choice creamery, 16c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; potatoes, choice new, 40c to 50c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 white, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 76c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2,25 cto 27c; rye, No. 2,62 cto 64c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 28c; rye, No. 2,59 cto 61c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 sto $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep. s2.st> to $5.25; wheat. No. 2,74 c to 76c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye, 59c to 60c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 37c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 24c to 26c; rye, No.. 2,57 c to 58c; clover seed, new, $3.90 to $4.00. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 3,33 cto 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; rye, No. 1,56 cto 58c; barley, No. 2,41 cto 43c; pork, mess, $9.00 to $9.50. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3,00 to $6.00; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $7.00. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 79c to 80c; corn, No. 2, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32cj butter, creamery, 15c to 19c* eggs. Western. 15c to 16c.

BROOKLYN CARS RUN.

Traction Lines Are Operated Under Police Protection. The second day of the great street car strike dn Brooklyn found the situation unchanged. The Rapid Transit Company has been able to run a few cars on all of its lines, thus avoiding a complete tie-up. On some of the main lines about a third of the usual number of cars have been run. There were a few demonstrations by strikers and their sympathizers, but none was of a serious character. At Liberty and Rockaway avenues a crowd stoned a car, but the police were quickly on the scene in force and the mob was easily dispersed. Several arrests were made. Obstructions were placed on the tracks in a dozen places, some of the trolley wires were cut, but the company was prepared for acts of this kind and soon had gangs of men at work repairing the breaks. The police have had the situation well in hand. Gov. Roosevelt at his home in Oyster Bay was kept promptly informed of the progress of the fight, so that in case of emergency he would be able to act at once. The first serious effect of the strike on the public came Monday morning when the thousands of persons who, live in Brooklyn and work in Manhattan had to start for the ferries and the bridge. The elevated roads run every train that they could put together and man. Every train was crowded to the doors and so were the few trolley cars which were running. Thousands walked rather than risk waiting for cars, while other thousands rode to Manhattan on their bicycles. The people generally took the inconvenience good naturedly. The sympathy of the public is with the men. The strike leaders claim that if it is necessary they will tie up the elevated roads in Brooklyn. The Broklyn “L” engineers reported grievances to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Both sides claim to have made gains, and have been firm in their respective positions. The State Board of Arbitration was on the scene, but was not able to accomplish anything.

TEXAS FLOOD LOSS $10,000,000

Weather Bureau ays the Rains Were Like C oudbursts. A special bulletin has been issued by the weather bureau on the recent flood in the Brazos river district, Texas. The report was prepared by I. M. Cline, in charge of the Texas service of the bureau. Mr. Cline’s report says: “The flood moved southward very slowly, and it was fourteen days from the time the crest of the flood was noted iu central Texas until it passed out into the gulf of Mexico. It must be said that, after allowing for all the conditions, We still have a (host serious difficulty in accounting for such rains, which are analogous to so-called cloudbursts, about which almost nothing is known. The damage to crops has been very great. All crops on the immediate river bottoms from McLennan County south are a total loss. Farming implements, stock and many of the small tenement houses in the bottoms have been washed away. The total losses, judging from press reports and other available information, will aggregate nearly $10,000,000.”

FEW SOLDIERS SICK.

American Army at Munila Is in Good Condition. The general good health of the American forces at Manila is shown by the hospital report for the past week, issued by the medical department, The report shows a total of 1,889 men under medical treatment, of whom 1,378 are in hospital and 511 in quarters. This gives- a sick rate of less than It per cent, and it is also to be noted that more than one-fourth of the men reported sick are not in such condition as to require' sending them to hospital. These conditions compare very favorably with the experience of other countries in the tropics. At its highest sick rate lias not exceeded 12 per cent, and the serious cases have never exceeded 6 per cent. The total number of Americans wounded in action to date ns 1,586. The number killed in action and died from wounds is 374. The losses of the rebels have been about five times those of the Americans, notwithstanding the fact that the rebels did most of their fighting from intreneliments.

ELEVEN DROWNED NEAR ATLIN.

Party En Route to the Klondike I’er* ishesSn Lake Kfeunett. A party of eleven men and women going from Atlin to Dawson were drowned iu Wind Ann, the dangerous portion of Bennett lake. News of the disaster reached Victoria, B. C., on the steamer Tees, but details were lacking. The party had spent the winter in Atlin, und, becoming disgusted with that country, organized to try their fortune in the Klondike. Passengers on the. steumer say that John Wilson, ex-Mayor of Coolgardie, "West Australia, and party, arrived in Dawson early in July from a long trip via the Edmonton route. The party, consisting of nine Englishmen and Canadians, left Edmonton about July 1,189 S. Last September it arrived at Rat river and was frozen iu at "McDougall’s pass until June 5 last. Four or five men of different parties died at Rat river of scurvy. (

RAILWAY TIE-UP IMMINENT.

Strike Pending that Will Involve 15,000 Men in New England. A strike that will involve from 12,000 to 15,000 men and promises tp tie up both the Boston and Maine and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads seems tlie inevitable outcome of the labor troubles at Boston. The Order of Railway Telegraphers is responsible for the present phase of the situation in seeking the adjustment of what the members consider grievances. The employes of other departments also have grievances, though, and will probably aid in a general movement to put the railroad employes of New England in a more favorable situation.

NEW TREATY IN EFFECT.

Mode of Conduction Affairs with Japa-i Chanced. Monday the new treaty between the United States and Japan went into effect. It does away with treaty methods in use nearly half it century uiid substitutes* a wholly new inode of conducting affairs'. At the some time new treaties between Japan and nearly all the countries of Europe and,, several South American republics also went into force. The treaty with this country was made Nov. 22, 1894. in Washington.

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

At the State Department it was denied that any official information had been received of the intention of the Canadian Government to send"" mounted police to the Porcupine region in Alaska. The Canadians would not, of course, officially notify this Government of their intention in the matter, but if the policemen could have been sent without publicity there is no doubt they would have gone ts the disputed region. The intimation received was considered as a threat, and this Government promptly said troops would be sent to Pyramid harbor, which undoubtedly will cause the Canadians to abandon their intention of ordering armed men into the disputed territory, and force a denial from both governments. There is considerable confusion as to the location of the Porcupine region, and the general impression is that it is in the vicinity of the Porcupine river, near the arctic circle, 1,500 miles from Lynn canal. This is erroneous, for the Porcupine region is located south of the Klaheena river, east of the Porcupine creek and west of Kluckwan, an Indian village a few miles from the Lynn canal. The extreme western point of the Porcupine region is only twelve miles from Lynn canal. This region is rich in gold, and 2,000 American miners have located there. The territory is claimed by and is in the possession of this Government, which does not propose to turn it over ta the Canadians.

It has been found advisable, on account of information received by the Washington authorities, to arm Government transports used in the carrying of troops to the Philippines. These ships have not carried any means of defense and are at the mercy of the smallest craft equipped with one rapid-fire gun. The latter would be able to sink the largest of the transports, which is nothing but a“*shipload of people, whose weapons would avail nothing in an attack at sea. The authorities decline to confirm the rumor that the War Department has had advices of a plan of the Filipinos to establish a small navy for depredation purposes, as a means of getting materials of war lauded at convenient ports, and as a system of attack upon our army transports. They admit the transports are to be armed at once, and the equipment will be furnished with such promptness that the navy will be called upon to supply the , guns and ammunitibn. It i* planned to place one or two six-pounders on each transport, and these will serve to resist the attack of anything the Filipinos are likely to bring against the ships.

Commissioner Evans has been vindicated of the charges made against him by the investigation of his bureau by the pension committee of the Grand Army. Everything iu the nature of a complaint has been Inquired into and the committee found that the commissioner had not only executed the laws relating to liis bureau, but had been liberal in doing so. While the committee is entirely satisfied with the work of the commissioner, it makes no concealment of the fact that it will endeavor to have the Secretary of the Interior change some of his rulings and amend the rules of practice. All the diplomats are quietly laughing at the State Department and a ludicrous blunder it made. Ambassador Tower at St. Petersburg notified the department of the death of the Grand Duke George.by cable, and it devolved upon the StateDepartment to send a reply in the name of the President of the' United States. This was done, and a cable to “His Imperial Highness Alexander III.,” instead of Nicholas 11., the reigning sovereign of all the Russias. Alexander 111., as every schoolboy knows, has been dead several years, and how the State Department came to make such a blunder is beyond the ken of ordinary mortals. President McKinley has decided to postpone his Western trip until the early part of October, unless Mrs. McKinley’s health permits him to leave earlier. ThePresident has made a positive engagement to visit Chicago to attend the ceremonies attending the corner stone laying of the public building, which will take place Oct. 9. As'his Western trip is postponed until fall he will simply extend his journey from Chicago to St. Paul and Minneapolis, where he will welcome the returning volunteners. If he should he able to leave for the West in August, he might go to the coast, but there is little likelihood he will start during the heat of the summer.

An old soldier whose patriotism has not dimmed with age wants to help reimburse Uncle Sam for the $20,000,000 paid to Spain on- account of the Philippines. He draws a of $72 a month and desires to Contribute 25 per cent of it for thnt purpose. Secretary-Gage received a letter from the old soldier in which was enclosed a check for 25 per cent of his last quarter’s* pension. The check was returned to the soldier with a personal letter of thanks from the Secretary of the Treasury. There will be two sons of former Presidents fighting for the flag in the Philippines, for in addition to Brig. Gen. Grant there will now lie Lieut. Col. Hayes of the Thirty-first infantry. Webb C. Hayes, sou of Grant’s snceessor, has ulready won his spurs in the Spanish-Ameriean war. He began as major of the First Ohio infantry, and went with Shatter to Cuba. He was wounded during tl;e fighting of July 1, and his horse was killed.

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Eugene Noroff, New York, after squandering a 1 fortune, killed himself. Mrs. Julia Brooks of New York committed suicide, Seabright, N. J. Edward Mullander, 14, Carthage, Ohio, injured by a July 4 pistol, ds dead. Mrs. Josephine Keith Spalding, wife at A. G. Spalding, died at Seabright, N. J. A warrant has Ween issued for the arrest of President Angus M. Cannon of the Mormon Church, Salt Lake City. He's charged with polygamy.