Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1899 — Page 2

, - WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. p OEO. B. MARSHALL, Publisher.

LAY TOO LIGHT RAILS

I ERROR IN BUILDING SIBERIAN RAILWAY. ot Heavy Enough for the Traffic that la and Will Be rer It—Ohio Horae Thief ded. iron, manager of the Sareering Company's locomotive ijni Novgorod, Russia, which iploys 10,000 men, is visiting Paterson, N. J. “The indusssia,” said Mr. Dixon, “are The Russians are a slow>le, but they are steady and 6 Transsiberian Railroad is ted from Moscow to lrkootsk, f about 1,800 miles. East of e road is in operation In it were. That is to say, it been connected all the way Vladivostok. An unfortunate the building of this road is fht rails have been used, and > too wide apart. When its was begun nobody realised ity of the undertaking. The jeen greatly in excess of all t, and I fear that the road »nd the wear and tear. It an enormous sum to rectify at this late date.” TEAMING A SIDE LINE. irmer Landed in Jail After n Years of Crime. to his own story, Frank was taken to Xenia, Ohio, in jail on the charge of horse s had a remarkable criminal ■ claims that his mother is l resides in Paulding County, it he has for some time been farming, and for the last ten ated, he has been engaged in ses as a side line. He said he ight or ten horses at different lad never before been appreis work. He said that one of rses was recently killed by nd, as he needed another s place, he left his farm in r and went up to near Xenia, e animal belonging to John tow when he was arrested, a plea of guilty to the charge aling and was sent to jail in 500 bond. FOR THE PENNANT. f the Clubs in the National Western Leagues, ling of the clubs in the Nairn race is as follows: ..00 28Cincinnati ...45 42 ..53 33 Pittsburg ... .45 43 1.51 35Louisville ...38 48 ..50 36New Y0rk...35 50 ..50 36Washington. 34 57 ..46 40Cleveland ...15 74 is the standing of the clubs :ern League: i. 51 33 St. Paul 39 46 . 50 37Milwaukee ..38 45 ..45 39Buffalo 37 46 ..44 41 Kansas City..3s 52 farmer Attempts Suicide. iUer, aged 50, residing near Ohio, tried to kill himself by throat and then setting his Miller would have died soon, tily rescued him, and, by the sician, may save his life. He r farmer, and gave no reason i act. reck in Wyoming. gine going west on the Union ded with an overland passene and one-quarter miles west Wyo. Fireman Koneld was ineer Walter Marsh of No. 4, S’ a resident of Laramie, was fatally injurRped, dying a few minutes after being pickup. Both engines and mail cars were 1 demolished. Killed and Hurt in a Wreck. It ' Erie passenger train No. 7, west bound, Rdnshed into a freight express which had Ipiieen derailed a mile east of Laekawaxen, s' | Pa.. and was wrecked. Four cars, inllpiuding two sleepers, were burned. Two persons were killed and twenty-one in-gF-Jured. The wreck was caused by a land- _______________ I | Her Body Cut to Pieces. m The aged wife of John Pritzke was If I; found dead at her home in North Little | p Rock, Ark. The body was horribly mu- | (Bated, having been chopped to pieces i-j | with an ax. Near the body sat John | Pritake, the husband, in a dying condiL|;tion from wounds inflicted with an ax. | IpThe house had been robbed. S; Hold-Up Crowded street Car. | jpA. trolley, car, loaded with eighty pasp|;*engers, mostly women and children, was g held up by four highwaymen in BrookPfrUja. The conductor was beaten nearly to death and' robbed of all the money in his H||m9Mes6ion. The robbers were captured. | . Couple Killed by Lightning. \ |"B. H. McConnell and his wife, an aged ; E||ouple, were killed by lightning at their UMJie near Cottage Grove, Tenn. Both r ■■fed their clothing burned off. ■■■■■ - ' | Chase Sprague Dead. ; |||Krg, Kate Chase Sprague died at Edge- | her country home near WashingI Pint in her fifty-ninth year. [ Two Die in Electric Chair. I ;v Louis Pullerson and Michael McDonald j; Hjffij* pat to death by electricity in Sing I Woman Shoots a Persecutor. I |;Miss Fannie Goodwin, milliner at Fair- | ilpv?, Ky., shot and mortally wounded Iflin Allegree. She charged that he IWieoWl#i#rltons notes, made remarks,

ENTIRE TOWN ORDERED BOLD. P*as Lake Intruders Aimed A tin Final Government Action. Secretary Hitchcock has finally dlsposgof the Casa Lake, Minn., controversy. e announced that the Government would sell in parcels the north half of section 15, which comprises nearly the Whole town of Cass Lake. The 500 or more intruders are located chifefly on this half section and on the northeastern part of section 16. They will have to move from section 16 as soon as possible. The lecision of Secretary Hitchcock closes the controversy over the proposed ejectment of the intruders from the Cass Lake Indian reservation lands. Senator Nelson, who subsequently left for Norway for the first time since he left the land of his birth, was present when the announcement was made, and expressed his satisfaction. This places the 320 acres of lands open to aU for purchase. The half section wiU be advertised for sixty days, and probably fifteen days more will be allowed before the sale, when the intruders must take their chances in the purchase of the lands or remove from them. TRIES SUICIDE IN DENVER JAIL. Chicagoan from the Klondike Cute Hie Throat While Insane. With the sharp edge of a tin can T. J. Swansborough, formerly of Chicago, tried to cut his throat. He was at the time confined in the city jail at Denver, Colo., where he had been placed because of actions indicating insanity. He made several bad gashes in his throat, but was Been, overpowered and taken to a hospital. Swansborough arrived in Denver from Seattle, Wash. He gave the clerk at a hotel several hundred dollars and a watch, but got them back and insisted on giving them to a policeman in the street. The officer locked him up. During the night Swansborough raved continually about a murder he thought he had committed in Chicago. He recently returned from Alaska. The hardship of mining in the Klondike and the effects of the altitude of Colorado are believed to have unbalanced his mind. He was on his way to visit relatives. FIRE CAUSES PANIC IN A HOTEL. Sixty Girls Narrowly Escape Death in Flames in New York. Fire caused a panic in Smith & McNeill’s hotel at New York. Hundreds of guests were in the restaurant when the alarm was given, and they stampeded to the street. When they found that the fire was confined to the roof they returned to their meals, but on the upper floors the police , and firemen were busy saving sixty pqjiic-stricken servant girls. The fire started in the laundry, where twenty girls were at work. Many of them attempted to jump to the pavement, five floors below. Seven had to be carried out through the smoke by the police and one cook was terribly burned. She was taken to the Hudson street hospital. The property loss is $50,000. AMERICAN FARMER FOR TURKEY D. A. Kent of lowa Will Be tbe Sultan’s Advising Agriculturist. Prof. D. A. Kent, late of the lowa State Agricultural College, has been selected as an instructor in farming to the Turkish Empire. The Sultan of Turkey needed a man who could make the soil of the Ottoman empire blossom with wheat and corn and fruits as well as with roses, and he had his representative at Washington look out for the proper person. All American farmers looked alike to members of the Turkish embassy, and they appealed to Secretary Wilson, who recommended Prof. Kent. And the lowa city man has signified his willingness to accept the mission. ESTIMATE ON GOLD YIELD. Conani at Dawson Saya the Klondike’s Year’s Total Is $10,000,000. Information from the Klondike has reached the State Department at Washington from United States Consul McCook at Dawson. The consul says that $10,000,000, instead of $20,000,000, in gold will cover the product for the last twelve months. He adds that reports from Alaska indicate that more gold will be found there than ever will come out of the Klondike. 1 Quarrel Ends in Killing. Matt Stanford shot and instantly killed Preston Carson near Washington College, Tenn. He then went to Carson’s home and fired five shots into his house. The shots hit two of Carson’s chUdren. Stanford fled, but was caught and lodged in jail. The men had quarreled over a cornfield which Carson was working oh shares for Stanford. Fortune for “Joe” Womack. “Joe” Womack, the discoverer of Cripple Creek camp, which brought fortune to scores of people but failed to do anything for him, is not to be forgotten. A pioneers’ society has been organized at Denver with the express purpose of arranging for the endowment of the old prospector with a little fortune of SBO,OOO. Claim Agaiuet the Transvaal. R. E. Brown, an American citizen, has filed a claim with the State Department for $2,000,000 against the Transvaal Government. Brown was engaged in mining in the Transvaal and the title to his claim being questioned it was thrown into the courts. Bny a Big Antimony Mine. Charles L. Taylor and John M. Fulton of Reno, Nev., have bought from Samuel Hunt, Orin Bennett and S. D. Thacker the largest antimony mine in the United States, there being over 20,000,000 pounds of high-grade ore in sight. The mine is in Humboldt County, Nev. Telegraph Messengers Go Back. The strike of Western Union telegraph messengers at Pittßburg is ended and the boys are all at work again. They claim the company has promised to concede their demands, but this is denied by the officials. Frame of Steel Collapses. By the collapse of the steel frame of a new building being erected for the Westinghouse Electric Company at East Pittsburg, Pa., Charles Fister of Kingston, Md., was killed and five men injured. Hail Takes Calamba. An expedition comprised of troops from San Pedro Macati, Pasig and Morong, under Brig Gen. R. H. Hall captured Calamba, an important trading town on the south shore of Laguna de Bay. fan Domingo Ruler Main. Dominican renubiic was assassinated at

PORTO RICO FORESTS.

ISLAND IS ALMOST DESTITUTE OF TIMBER. Not a Sufficient Quantity There for Uae aa Fuel Duty of the United Btazea in the Matter—Will Marry Fnnaton’a Men. The Agricultural Department at Washington will soon issue in bulletin form some notes recently made on the forests of Porto Rico by Robert T. Hill of the geographical survey. Hill says that comparatively little of the original forest of the island remains. He estimates the remnant at not to exceed ten square miles. The principal part thns left is on the summit of the practically insurmountable mountain peak of El Yunque, the highest point in the Sierra Luquillo mountains. The evidences of original forests are plentiful, and Mr. Hill suggests that one of the principal problems for the United States is to reforest the island. This, he thinks, will be comparatively easy. The soil and climate are well adapted to tree growth, and maturity will bp speedily attained. For the present, however, there is not sufficient timber to supply the needs of the island even for fuel. TWENTY PERSONS ARE HURT. Pennsylvania Railroad Train Badly • Wrecked Near Allegheny. Twenty people were injured in a wreck on the West Pennsylvania Railroad at Herr’s Station, a few miles above Alleghany City, Pa. None of the injured is likely to die, but a number are quite badly hurt. The accident happened at one of the roundhouse switches at Herr’s Station. As the Apollo accommodation train going east came into the yard a switch split, throwing the passenger train with terrific force against two side-track-ed engines. The smoker and middle coach of the accommodation, which were crowded to the limit, were literally smashed to splinters. How the passengers escaped death is a miracle. ANCHOR LINE CHANGES HANDS. Company Formed to Acquire Interests of Original Owners. The, ownership of the Anchor Line of steamships plying between Glasgow, New York and many other ports has changed hands. The long-established partnership of the well-known ship owners, Henderson Brothers of Glasgow, owners of the Anchor Line, has terminated, and a company has been formed to acquire the entire business of the firm. The company has been incorporated with a capital of £575,000. FUNSTON’S MEN OR NONE. Marital Agreement by Clubs of Girls in Southern Kansas. The girls clubs of several southern Kansas towns have resolved never to marry a young man unless he served with the famous Twentieth Kansas. They say they are determined to keep their agreement and that soOner than marry a man who staid at home they will remain single all their lives. They intend to give the boys of the regiment a big reception when they return. Want to Be Annexed. The natives of the island of Kusale, in the Carolines, want to be annexed to the United States. The king, high chiefs and prominent men on the island to the number of seventy-two have forwarded a petition to that effect to the President. Germany having bought the islands, the petition is too late. Ashtabula Strike Ended. The ore handlers’ strike on the M. A. Hanna dock at Ashtabula, Ohio, is settled, and the men have returned to work. The men gained every point they demanded. An arbitration committee of three persons was appointed, which will engage and discharge all employes and settle all differences. Pnt Poison in Coffee. At Carmi, 111., Mrs. George Crabtree, 1C years old, confessed to having put poison in coffee with deliberate intent to murder her stepmother and father, Walter S. Warthen. The result of the act was that her brother was killed and her parents and a neighbor were made deathly sick. Embezzler Commits Suicide. Harry W. Fontaine embezzled money from Dreyfuss & Co. at Denver, and shortly after the discovery of his crime committed suicide by taking morphine. About fifteen years ago Fontaine lost $15,000 at roulette and on the Chicago Board of Trade. His father had been a wealthy liquor dealer of Toledo. Murder in Chinatown. San Francisco’s Chinatown has had another murder. The supposed wife of Lem Sang, a Chinese laundryman, was brutally murdered in a room occupied by the pair. The mutilated body was found by the police, when they broke in the door, hacked almost to pieces. Taken for a St. Louis Murder. Detectives arrested John Connors at the Dittenhoffer shoe factory in Cincinnati and charged him with a sensational murder that occurred a year ago in St. Louis, Mo., when Charles A. Brant, a stenographer, was held up by three men and shot to death. Ten Injured in Train Wreck. Ten men were badly injured and a large number of others bruised and cut iu a collision between a work train »n the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad and a shifting engine near Mingo junction, O. Both engines were demolished. The accident was caused by a misplaced switch. . ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ Good Wheat Crop in France. Official reports show that the condition of winter wheat is very good in nine departments of France, good in 67, fair in eight, and bad in one department. Spring wheat is very good in four departments, good in 30 and fair in 13. Frohman Buys Daly’s Theater. Daly’s Theater in New York—that is its eight years’ lease and renewal, with all Its furnishings, scenery, properties and costumes—has been purchased by Messrs. Klaw & Erlanger for Charles Frohman. The price was $100,006.

CLEARS UP MURDER MYSTERY. Charles A. Brunt Was Killed at St. Louis by Robbers. The mystery surrounding the murder of Charles A. Brant, who was shot and killed in St. Louis July 25, 1898, has been cleared up. John Connors, who was arrested in Cincinnati by a St.. Louis detective, made a confession to the effect that he and two pals, Harry Morris and Edward Hellman, held up Brant for the purpose of robbery and shot him upon his making a desperate resistance. Morris and Hellman are now serving long terms in the Jefferson City penitentiary for burglary. These two men, it now turns out, had admitted their complicity in the crime to the St. Louis police officials and had implicated Connors. The capture of the latter and the confessions of the trio clears up a murder mystery that has baffled the police for a year. Contrary to the idea held by many at the time, the murder was prompted solely by a desire for booty and not by private hatred or a desire for revenge. EXPRESS COMPANY WINS CASE. Cannot Be Forced to Tell Its Business to State Warehouse Commission. Judge Otis of th. District Court at St. Paul filed a decision in the case of the State railroad and warehouse commission against the United States Express Company. The object of the suit was to compel the express company to report the volume of its business to the commission in order to make the company pay a gross earnings tax and comply with the other laws of the State regulating common carriers, and particularly their rates. The court finds that the express company is not a corporation, but a partnership, of which any one owning shares becomes a member. The court holds that the company cannot be compelled to furnish information concerning its interstate business, over which the State commission has no surveillance or control. JEALOUSY PROMPTS MURDER F. Thever Kills Miss Dorothy McKee and Mortally Wounds Himself. F. Thever, a cobbler, 50 years old, shot and killed Miss Dorothy McKee, aged 24 years, on the beach at Long Beach, Cal. Thever was jealous of the attentions of a young man named Baker to Miss McKee. Thever attempted to shoot Baker, but missed him. He then shot himself through the eye. He was mortally wounded. Paraded in Men’s Attire. At Moorhead, Minn., a woman giving her name as Mamie Brown was found masquerading in man’s clothes and was fined $10 and ordered out of town. It has been learned that she is the eldest daughter of a highly respected Baptist minister who lives in a southern Minnesota town. Not to Pardon Mrs. Maybrick. In the English House of Commons, Sir Matthew White Ridley, the home secretary, said that he was unable to hold out hope of exceptional treatment of Mrs. Maybrick, and added that he was not aware of the existence of any reason for royal clemency. Aeronaut is Kilted. W. A. Thayer, the balloonist from Collins. Mich., was killed in sight of many persons at Streator, 111. He fell from the parachute when the balloon was up 200 feet, landing on his back on the railroad track. His back, neck, both legs and both arms were broken. Reformatory Ship Burned. The Roman Catholic reformatory ship Clarence was destroyed by fire at Liverpool! The boys on board worked with the utmost discipline until they were forced to leave the ship with the officers. No lives were lost. Well-Known Soiritualist Dead. The death is announced, at the Manhattan State hospital for the insane in New York of Lottie Fowler, who, twen-ty-five years ago, was a well-known spiritualistic medium. Two Perish in Flames. The home of D. H. Knupp, at Black Mountain, thirteen miles east of Asheville, N. C., was burned. E. Fogote, an architect, and an' Englishman, whose name is, unknown, perished in the flames. Kills Three and Self. At Denmark, Ind., Charles Wolfnagel chopped his wife and two daughters to death, then cut his own throat and died on the floor by his wife’s bedside. He is thought to have been insane. Killed by Lightning At Napoleon, Ohio. Daniel Howe, aged 19, was instantly killed by lightning.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2,31 cto 33c; oats. No. 2,23 c to 24c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 54c; butter, choice creamery, 16c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13c; potatoes, choice, 2oc to 30c I>er bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime. $3.25 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 09c; com. No. 2 white, 33c to 34c; oats. No. 2 white, 27c to 28c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2,21 cto 23c; rye, No. 2,53 eto 55c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2,68 cto 70c; com, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 26c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c: rye, No. 2,57 cto 59c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; rye, 53c to 55c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 71c to 72c; com, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 24c; rye, No. 2,52 c to 53c; clover seed, new, $3.90 to $4.00. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 70c to 72c; com, No. 3,32 cto 34c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 27c; rye, No. 1,52 cto 53c; barley, No. 2,39 cto 41c; pork, men, $8.50 to $9.00. Buffalo— I Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $6.50.

PEACE MEET IS OVER

• WHAT WAS DONE AT THE HAGUE CONFERENCE. The Foundation of an Arbitration Plan the Only Important Achieve-ment-No Specific Proposition Looking to Disarmament Adopted. The Czar’s international peace conference at The Hague has concluded its work. A fair estimate of what has been accomplished cannot be made until the propositions agreed to have been published in full. But no proposition looking to the disarmament of nations was adopted. The signatory powers agreed to use all their efforts to insure a peaceful solution in international differences, but it was provided that the good offices or mediation of a third, power shall exclusively have the bearing of good counsel without compulsory force. Offers of mediation in any given case shall not cause the suspension of war preparations or the interruption of war. Special forms of mediation are recommended, but only recommended. Differences which may be made the object of local injury, and which do not involve the honor or vital interests of the powers concerned, are to be submitted to international committees of inquiry, but the reports of these committees are not to have the character of an arbitration award, but are to leave the powers concerned at liberty to act as they feel best. Arbitration is acknowledged to be the most efficient and most equitable mode of settling differences, and the signatory powers agree to organize a permanent court of arbitration accessible at all times. It is optional with any power whether it shall take any particular case before the arbitration court or not. Article 27 declares: “The signatory powers consider it their duty, whenever an acute conflict threatening to peace occurs between any of them, to recall to the latter that the arbitration court is open to them.” The American delegates took exception to this article, and insisted that the language be so modified that the United States may in no case be obliged to interfere in European affairs, or Europe in American disputes. Declarations were adopted prohibiting the use of asphyxiating projectiles or expanding bullets, which Great Britain and the United States declined to accept. Nothing has been accomplished as to disarmament, and little more than a declaration favorable to the principle of arbitration has been accepted by all the powers. The questions that relate to a nation’s honor have not been legislated upon, and nearly all questions that pre-i cipitate war do relate to a nation’s honor. Even if a court of arbitration is established on the plan marked out, no nation is bound to accept the plan. Certainly iu the United States the scheme will have to be approved by the Senate. The proposal to declare the inviolability of private property during war on land and sea, and the proposal regulating the question of the bombardment of ports, towns and villages by naval forces, were referred to future conferences. The United States has especial cause for gratification and pride at the outcome of the proceedings at The Hague. Arbitration is a policy that this nation more than any other has been instrumental in inducing the world to adopt. In its principles and main 1 provisions, though not in details, the plan agreed upon at The Hague is in apeord with the propositions submitted by the Americans, which called for a tribunal, with voluntary arbitration, the award to be morally binding upon both parties after they have joined in an application for arbitration. In the dominating force of its ideas the United States has won recognition as a world power in the best sense of that term.

NEW LIGHT ON A TRAGEDY.

Woman Supposed to Have Killed Heraelf Evidently Waa Murdered. Near Libertyville, 111., the body of Mrs. Bertha Krueger, who was supposed to have killed her mother on July 16 and

GEORGE KRUEGER.

and taken to the county jail at Waukegan to await the action of the grand jury. On July 16 Krueger, bleeding from wounds, told his neighbors his wife had shot and killed her mother, Mrs. Yoss,

and then shot him. At the coroner’s inquest he swore his wife had met him at the door and shot him in the arm as he was about to enter the house. Undertakers discovered the second bullet hole in the back of the head, and it was at Coroner Knight’s

and State’s Attorney Heydecker’s orders the body was exhumed. It is claimed that Krueger and his wife had quarreled regarding family matters and the ownership of certain property.

LAKE OF BOILING FIRE.

Volcano of Manna Loa Presents a t- pectacle of Grandeur. ’ The main crater in the volcano of Mauna Loa, Hawaii, has ceased to belch forth anything but smoke, but the new crater, two miles down tbe mountain side, continues to feed the great lake of liquid fire which is steadily flowing toward the town of Hilo, which will undoubtedly be destroyed. The scene is one of such grandeur that words fail to describe it. Daring tourists tell of great stones of white heat heaved hundreds'of feet into the air, only to fall back with a terrible hissing roar Into the lake from which they were vomited. Besides the large lake, there are Dorsey"' Clagg.tt, n wHI Deino-

then committed suicide, was the other day exhumed and a bullet wound found at the base of the brain, showing that she was murdered and didnot commit suicide. Her husband was arrested on the charge of murder

MRS. KRUEGER.

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Mr. G. D. Ferris of Mexico, Mo., 1» a prominent business man who holds the nterests of his town above everything

charge wished to secure some special at? traction to draw the crowds. They went to see Mr. Ferris and he came forward with a proposal which has at least the charm of absolute novelty. If the committee will raise SSO to be given to the brass band of Mexico Mr. Ferris Agrees to build on top of the court house dome a scaffold sixteen feet high. On top of this scaffold Mr. Ferris agrees to stand on lfis head between the hours of 2 and 3 o’clock each afternoon during the fair. W. L.. Dunlap, the newly elected commander, Indiana department, G. A. R., is 59 years old. He was born in Franklin,

Ind., and entered the Seventh regiment—the first one to leave the State, the one to lead the first charge in the four years’ war, the first one to have a soldier killed. He participated in the forty-one battles in which the regiment took part. He was near John Smith of Shelbyville

when he was killed. He was the first man killed in the Union ranks in recognized warfare, though four Massachusetts men been killed in the Baltimore riots. He was with the Seventh when it led the charge against the stone wall at Winchester —the charge which gave Gen. Stonewall Jackson his first defeat. He was in the charge at Phillippi June 3, 1861 —the charge that opened the war. He was at Gettysburg and on the other great fields of the North. There died a few days ago in Terre Haute, Ind., ah unassuming man who left behind him a diary covering fifty years of

ANDREW WALKER.

guided his engine over 1,000,918 miles of track, and that during all that time no train of which he was the pilot met with an accident of a serious character. Only once did Mr. Walker leave his work on the railroad. That was in 1862, when for a few months he tried farming near Indianapolis. >With that exception his service was continuous. * • • Civil service reformers, who are disturbed by President McKinley’s recent order, first gained national recognition in

1871. In that year Congress passed a bill authorizing President Grant to appoint a civil service commission. The members of this first .commission were George William Curtis, Alexander G. ‘ Cattell, Joseph Medill, D avidson A. Walker,

B. B. Ellicott, Joseph

H. Blackfan and David 0. Cox. In 1860 competitive examinations of applicants for certain positions were begun in a'limited way, but it took twenty years of agitation to induce Congress to act. In England free, open competition throughout the public service was established in 1870. The civil service commission of 1871 adopted rules governing the examination of candidates, which were in force until Congress refused to make an appropriation for the work, and President Grant declared them temporarily suspended in 1875. George Bruce Cortelyou, who has been appointed secretary of President McKinley during the indefinite absenee in Bo-

G. B. CORTELYOU.

ot bachelor and master of laws and his extensive experience amply fits him for the present position.

College News Notes.

Lafayette will erect a new library building. Baddiffe Alumnae Association now ban I Only five of the 300 members of the senior class of Yale failed to graduate. : Wells College Alumnae will try to raise an endowment fund of SIOO,OOO. | mow vi tffiCrß*

else. He is not only the owner of the ‘Mexico Qpera House Sand other valuable .-property, but is an .athlete who goes in ; his shi.rt sleeves in ’ the depth of winter. • A street fair is to bn [held in Mexico and ■ the committee in

w. L. DUNLAP.

active life. The book would not make exciting reading, because it tells only the simple story of a man whodid his duty faithfully and without fault. It is the . daily record of the I life of Andrew talker, railroad engineer. .It shows that during his fifty years of active service Mr. Walker

G. W. CURTIS.

rope of . Secretary Porter, was mad* assistant secretary in 1888 and for the past few months has been filling the principal post and conducting affairs at the Whits House. Mr. Cortdyou is a native of New York and is a lawyer of ability. He has the degree