Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1899 — Page 2

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OWNS HIS OLD HOME.

PRESIDENT BUYS THE M’KINLEY COTTAGE AT CANTON. '•• • ■ ■ P* Is the House Where He Took Hia iWlfe Immediately After 1 heir Mar-p*taffe-Illicit Distilleries Raided by Braitcd States Revenue Officers. V,-v ! • * ' McKinley has purchased the Hbmons “McKinley cottage,” at the corHk, of North Market street and Louis Bivraue, Canton, Ohio. The consideration pras $14,800. The papers have passed. Hp will secure possession under the oonHact and deed in October next. The Kroperty was not in the market. It was Bfeteared to President and Mrs. McKinlliy as their first home, where they beSlran housekeeping, and by tender mem■iries of sorrows there. The front veranfjda Bhows the most wear from the historic Campaign of 1896, when the noted home liras the political Mecca for nearly 1,000,pOO people. Before leaving Canton for llhe inauguration President McKinley Bfied to buy the home made doubly dear P him. It is not believed that Mrs. Hilartes would have sold the place to any|«ne else. It is believed to be the PresiEpent’s intention to spend a part of each Ipunmer in Canton. pBIGRAIDON MOONSHINERS. ptevenne Men Destroy Two Illicit Stills Near Chlckamanca Park. KtJnited States revenue officers raided Itwo illicit distilleries, operated within pHtree miles of Ohickamauga Park, Tenn. | Both establishments did a land-office buspness last year in supplying whisky to soli pliers at Chickamauga Park and had deEped arrest, the soldiers aiding the moon- ' shiners in keeping the officers off the Brack. Both stills were in active opera|JSon when raided. Thg first distillery Raided was conducted by Moses Long. ISPwelve hundred gallons of beer and thirfSr gallons of low wine were found and gfestroyed. The second still was about a Smile away, operated by G. W. Lanham.

| RACE FOR THE PENNANT. PBtandins of the Clubs in the National and Western Leagnea, The standing of the clubs in the NaEpfonal League race is as follows: W. L. • . W. L. • Brooklyn ...61 31 Cincinnati ..50 42 ; Boston .....58 34 Pittsburg ...48 46 IPhiladelphia 56 38 Louisville ...40 50 ißaltimore ..54 38 New York... 36 53 PSiicago ....51 41 Washington. 34 61 |St. L0ui5....52 43Cleveland ...17 80 | Following is the standing of the clubs pn the Western League: B|i; W. L. W. L. . Indianapolis 54 32 St. Paul 42 49 gPetroit 47 43 Buffalo 40 50 H&rand Rap.. 45 44 Kansas City.3B 55 YOUNG MAN SAVED. " He Attempts Suicide by Hanging, but Hia Sister Cuts the Nope. ' While temporarily insane Robert Law, pK young farmer near Yankton, S. D., took a clothes line and walked into a wooded ravine near the house. His sis--5 ter Ellen followed shortly after and was horrified to see her brother hanging from a limb and apparently dead. Terror lent bravery and power to the young girl, and she secured a knife from her brother’s pocket and cnt the rope. He was nearly to death, but owing to the prompt treatment he received he will reI cover. , CASE OF VENGEFUL ARSON. Ranchman on the Cheyenne River Vic|v, tim of a Malicious Relative. A. E. Rich, a rancher on the Cheyenne river, about fifty miles northwest of Pierre, S. D., has lost over $5,000 the I past ten days from incendiary fires. He ’ had just completed and moved into a fine dwelling, when it was burned, and . later a large barn and contents went up In smoke. The incendiary is alleged to be a relative who has a grudge to settle with Rich. , Colliaion at Tekanah, Neb. I A north-bound passenger train on the St. Paul and Omaha road was wrecked .at Tekamah, Neb. A switch had been ' left open and the train collided with a agravel train standing on the side track. E. C. Olesen of Sioux City, fireman of the gravel train, was fatally injured and two traveling men were slightly hurt.

■Hitnins Burns a Towboat. ■ a heavy thunderstorm the H: towboat Advance, which had He extensive repairs at MiddieHts, Pomeroy. Ohio, was struck Hing and consumed by fire. The ive escaped with great difficulty. Fatal Fight with a Moonshiner. ; Deputy United States Marshal J. A. ' Blair was shot and fatally wounded in |»Morgan County, Ky., while trying to arC rest L. F. Lewis, an alleged moonshiner. Blair killed Lewis after receiving his own desperate wound. K;, / James Baker Is Acquitted. I At Barbourville, Ky., the jury in the 1| ease against James Baker for the mur|r der of Wilson Howard returned a verdict of hot guilty on the first ballot. The ipElaker* say the feud is over on their || Millionaire's l>ive Is Fatal. J Walter B. Duryea. the only son of a Blew York millionaire, hazarded a dive was paralysed from the neck down. Will Fight the Wire Trust, mammoth new wire mill is being Ifjfeilt at Cuyahoga Falls, 0., incorporated a*Uhe Henry Wire Co. The plant, tons per*day and is designed to fight the — Cuts a i’oung Girl's Throat. '' -r- - iK *» I 11l J t i ... ,

FIRST REVOLT A FAILURE. phominican Revolutionists Did Not Intend to Kill Heureaux. Owing to the efforts of the Government of Santo Domingo to suppress news and Information about the recent assassination of President Heureaux and the reported revolution in Santo Domingo, the tacts in the case are difficult to obtain. But a dispatch received by a messenger who has passed through Hayti indicates that the assassination of President Heureaux was not on the program, the purpose of the revolutionists being to capture Moca with the president, thus decapitating the Dominican Government at the first blow, the insurgents not possessing the means of prosecuting a protracted conflict. The premature departure of President Heureaux threatened to frustrate this scheme, whereupon an enthusiast, who was watching the president’s movements, committed the act. A subsequent stack on Moca being repulsed, the insurgents withdrew into the fastnesses between Moca and Porta Plata, hoping to Secure sufficient accessions of men and arms to attack Porto Plata and prosecute the movement in spite of its initial failure.

SAYS BOUNDARY 18 MARKED. Miner Bays Russian Line Is IJeflned by Monuments. John Zachert, a mining expert of San Francisco, claims to possess information which he believes will have an important bearing on the Alaskan boundary dispute. Zachert declares that the old Russian boundary is defined by monuments placed at short intervals, and that inclosed in each is a chart of the Russian possessions. He is of the belief that the duplicates of the charts are on filg at St. Petersburg. Zachert says that an expedition would have little trouble in finding and following up this boundary line of monuments, and that the charts would prove of inestimable value in settling the dispute between this country and Canada.

TOWN BEING DEPOPULATED. Court Refuses to Enjoin Movement of Buildings to Rival Village. In a fight for prestige between the towns of Miller and St. Lawrence, on the Northwestern road in Hand County, S. D., Miller was victor, and so many buildings were bought and moved from St. Lawrence to Miller the former town is about wiped out. To prevent any further removals an injunction was sought on the ground that the value of obligations incurred by St. Lawrence was being impaired by this reducing of taxable property. Judge Gassy held this not to be good grounds for action and denied the relief asked.

GIVES POISON TO HER BABES. .Then Mrs. M. Stevenqon Tries Suicide— Six-Year-Old Daughter Dead. Mrs. Mary Stevenson, aged 25 years, of Detroit, gave morphine to her two daughters—Ella, aged 6 years, and Emma, aged 3—and then took a dose herself, with suicidal intent. The mother and both children were found together in one bed. Ella was dead and the mother and younger daughter were unconscious. Sol Stevefison, the woman’s husband, left her last spring, after some domestic trouble, and it is understood he is living in Chicago. It is thought she was driven to desperation on account of her inability to support herself.

Umatilla Fqnattera Must Move. Special Agent A. D. Thorpe of the Interior Department at Spokane, Wash., has received orders from Washington to visit the old Umatilla Indian reservation and take such steps as may be necessary to remove squatters. The reservation was ceded back to the Government and most of it has since been patented. Some of the undesirable land was not sold and this has been squatted upon. Copper Discovery in Alaska. C. G. Anderson of Fulton, 111., leading a party of twelve prospectors, has arrived at Dawson, Alaska, with sensational news regarding a copper find at the headwaters of the White river in American territory. Anderson and his companions are said to have found chunks of pure copper, ranging from the size of a hen’s egg to pieces weighing twenty-five pounds. Tramps Defy a Whole Town. : Fifty tramps took possession of the little town of Poseyville, Ind., and for three hours the officers were unable to do anything. They marched through the main streets of the town terrorizing the inhabitants and looting the residence of Mrs. Florence Duff. t

I Jamestown Chautauqna Anniversary. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Chautauqua assembly at Jamestown, X. Y., was celebrated the other night, and an anniversary ode by Miss Mary A. Lathbury was read by Prof. S. X. Clark of the University of Chicago. Buys Coking Coal Land. The Federal Steel Company, which recently sold over 1,100 acres ojf Fayette County, Pa., coal land to William J. Rainey of Cleveland, has purchased nearly 6,000 acres of coking coal land in the same county at a price approximating $2,500,000. Big Purchase of Coal Land, i Pittsburg aud Eastern capitalists have just purchased 4,000 acres of coal land in Westmoreland County, Pa., the consideration. it is reported, being $1,400,000. It is the intention of the new company to make coke of the coal and to begin operations at once. Kills Three Children and Himself: Charles Yager, aged 40 years, of Brandt, Pa., murdered his three small children by cutting their throats and then committed suicide by the same means. There seems to be no doubt that the father had gone insane during the night. Soo Canal Traffic Breaks Record. July freight traffic through the Soo canal at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., exceeded 4,000,000 tons, smashing all previous records, and surprising every one by its magnitude. Funeral Cortege in a Wreck. Two carriages filled with mourners in the funeral cortege of Mrs. Harry Smith were struck by a Consolidated Traction car In Pittsburg and nine persons were! severely hurt.

FOR A CUBAN CENSUS

PREPARATIONS ARE NOW BEING , MADE IN WASHINGTON. It la Intended to Complete the Work Prior to the Assembling of the Next Congress—Disguised Cattlemen Kill Colorado Sheep. The President fyas directed that the census of Cuba be taken as soon as possible. The matter has been energetically taken up by the War Department with the expectation of completing the work and furnishing the principal results to Congress at the opening of the next session. Gen. Brooke, cpmmanding the department of Cuba, has appointed five superintending enumerators, who are now on their way to Washington to receive instructions and to familiarize themselves with American methods of insuring accuracy in the data to be obtained. The last Spanish census of Cuba was taken in 1887. While its accuracy was in many respects doubtful, as a whole it was conceded to give a fair idea of the conditions then existing. The population was said to be 1,631,687, of whom nearly 65 per cent were white. Army officers who have been connected with the Cuban administration since the American occupation began estimate that this total has fallen, to about 1,300,000.

BALLOON CARRIES UP A BOY. Aeronaut’s Presence of Mind Prevents Him Being Dashed to Pieces. During a balloon ascension at Fremont, Ohio, thousands witnessed a thrilling sight not down on the program. The guy rope holding the balloon became entangled about the arm of 8-year-old Lester Miller just as the balloon shot up in the air, carrying the boy with it, suspended by one arm and shouting for help. A thousand feet in the air the aeronaut saw the boy and used heroic methods to save him. The parachute was cut loose, the hot air was allowed to escape and after nine minutes in the air all struck terra firma safely. The lad’s arm was displaced. The aeronaut was" severely bruised when he came down.

SUICIDE OF JAMES H. TURPIE. Jumped Head Foremost from a Third Story Window. James H. Turpie, one of the bestknown residents of Lafayette, Ind., committed suicide at 2 o’clock on a recent morning by plunging headforemost from the third-story window of the Hotel Lahr. His body struck the stone pavement on Fifth street. Mr. Turpie registered at the hotel at midnight and was assigned a room. He had completely disrobed before making the plunge from the window. There is no known reason for the act. Mr. Turpie was married and leaves a family living in comfortable style in the aristocratic part of the city.

SHEEP WAR IN COLORADO. Disguised Cattlemen Kill 130 Animals and Cripple Others. Northeastern Colorado is the scene of a war between shfeep and cattle men. .Four horsemen, carefully disguised, rode into some large flocks of sheep belonging to the Warren Live Stock Company of Cheyenne, which were, being grazed along Two Mile creek, about twentyfour miles from Sterling. The men were well armed, and shot and killed 150 sheep and badly crippled twenty-five more. It is reported also that two sheep herders were badly beaten.

Inventor Called to Washington. J. W. Ratcheller, a gunsmith of St. Joseph, Mo., has been summoned to Washington by the War Department officials, who desire to make experiments with a new device invented by him for boring out guns. The device will be tested at the navy yard. It is for choke-boring guu barrels, large and small cannon, and for cleaning guns when they are rusty. Drowned While Fishing. Walter Carr, a painter, was drowned in Lake Michigan off Jackson Park, Chicago, while two companions, Samuel Dingman and William Johnson,* were rescued by the life-saving crew. The men were fishing from a small boat when Johnson and Dingman attempted to change places, with the result that the boat was upset.

Aeronaut Falla Into a Lake. J 5. M. East, an aeronaut, made an ascension at Walker, Minn. The wind bl.-w him into the south arm of Leech la'.ce. A steamer went out after him, bht failed to find him. It is supposed that the parachute did not work and in attempting to cut himself loose he became excited and fell into the lake. Discover They Are Brothers. Two men named Connors, sojourning in Kingston, Ont., learned the other day that they were brothers. One was from Belleville, Out., and the other from Syracuse, X. Y. One, a chiropodist, showed his patient a picture of his mother, which the other promptly recognized, and the identification was complete. Ptorm Devastates Towns. Elizabeth, X. J., and Carrabclle, Fla., sustained considerable injury by a recent violent storm. In Elizabeth three churches and two theaters were badly damaged. Carrabelle was almost completely destroyed. Child Paralyzed by Cocaine. Frederick W. Pope, the 14-year-old son of Charles A. Pope of Columbns, X. J., is paralyzed as the result of an application of cocaine by a dentist. He has also lost the power of speech.

Double Tragedy in Cleveland. In Cleveland, a teamster named John Schlebnber shot his wife four times and then sent a bullet through his heart. The woman died an hour lqter. The tragedy was prompted by jealousy. Fonnd Dead In a Bath Tub. Charles F. Autenrieth, a wealthy retired Philadelphia banker, was found dead in a bath tub in his house. He had shot himself. No motive is known for the suicide. Fire Started by Lightning. The power house and car sheds of the North Jersey Railway Company in Newark, N. J., were destroyed by causing a loss of $300,000. Nearly eighty cars were destroyed. Abductor Jones la Arrested. Clyde Jones, alias Clyde Johnson, the

VAT EMPTY NEBRASKA PRISON. Legal Technicality Expected to Free a Majority of Convicts. The State of Nebraska has been cited to appear before the United States Supreme Court and show cause why one Henry Bolin should not be released from the penitentiary on a writ of error. Bolin is serving a nineteen years’ sentence for embezzling city funds as treasurer of Omaha. He was prosecuted on an information. The attorneys for Bolin in their brief set out that to prosecute without a grand jury indictment is illegal and in support of the proposition quote from the enabling act, under which Nebraska was admitted to the Union, as follows: “No person shall be held to answer for a criminal offense unless on presentation to a grand jury.” In 1885, in spite of the above, the Legislature of the State provided for prosecution by information. This is the first time that it has been tested and many other criminals are said to be prepared to sue for their liberty in the State if Bolin’s contention is sustained.

MOBBED BY MINERS. Coenr D’Alene Labor Agent Fatally Wounded at Cripple Creek. David Connell, formerly a deputy marshal at Gold Field, Colo., was shot and probably fatally wounded by an unknown man at the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad depot at Cripple Creek, Colo. Connell had been soliciting miners to work in the Coeur d’Alene country, and seven recruits whom he had secured were with him when he was shot. They were surrounded, hooted and stoned by a large number of men, and it is said they drew their guns and threatened to shoot. At this some one in the crowd fired two shots, one taking effect in Connell’s side and the other taking off a portion of a thumb of one of Connell’s companions. No arrests were made. Connell had been warned to leave the camp by a committee said to represent the miners’ union.

ESCAPE FROM FEDERAL PRIBON. Three Inmates of Tort Leavenworth Gain Their Liberty Jack Holly, L. Priest and Will Bobo, prisoners at the Federal penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., ferociously assaulted with shovels Guard F. Knief, and after beating him over the head and neck, almost severing his head from his body with the crude weapons, made their escape. Jack Holly, the leader of the trio, attempted to board a fast-flying Santa Fe train, missed his foothold and was cut in two. Plays His Former Partner. M. J. Real was shot in his saloon at Keokuk, lowa, by Aid. Timothy Hickey. There were no known witnesses. Hickey went to police headquarters and gave himself up. Real died from his wounds later in the day. He was married and had a family. . Bank Panic in Montreal. The uneasiness engendered by the announcement of the Jacques Cartier bank suspension at Montreal had the effect of causing a sharp run upon the other French banks. The banks met all demands and confidence was rapidly restored. Hebrew Cadet Forced Out. Sigmund S. Albert, son of a prominent Hebrew merchant of Lancaster, Pa., has resigned from West Point military academy, having literally been driven from it by the persecution to which he was subjected by the cadets on account of hia religious faith.

Indians Kill Stock and Game. The Canadian Cree Indians who have been infesting Montana since late in the winter are killing game and stock, and neither the State authorities nor the Federal Government seems able to suppress them. Another Car la Blown Up. Rioters resumed their disturbances at Cleveland by blowing up a car with nitroglycerin in Jennings avenue. None of the passengers was injured. The car was badly damaged. Many Drowned in Alaska. Dr. A. L. Lee and Gideon Kratzer of North Baltimore, Ohio, who left for the Klondike, were drowned at Crook’s Inlet, together with twenty others. Yaquis Kill Settlers, Several Americans and Mexicans have been killed in towns in the Yaqui river valley east and southeast of Ortiz, Mex., by the Yaqui Indians. Heureanx’s Slayers Executed. Two of the assassins of President Henreaux of San Domingo have been captured ahd shot.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, SB.OO to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, SB.OO to $5.1)0; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 70c; corn, No. 2,30 cto 32c; oats, No. 2,19 c to 20c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 53c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.75; aheep, common to prime, $3.25 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 68c; corn, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c; oats. No. 2 white, 23c to 25c. St. Louts—Cattle, $3.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,68 cto 70c; corn, No J 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2,21 cto 23c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 59c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75* wheat. No. 2,68 cto 69c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33k to 34c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 57c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats. No. 2 white, 25c tq 26c; rye. 53c to 55c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 32c to 34c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 18c to 20c; rye. No. 2,52 c to 53c; clover seed, new, $3.80 to $3.90. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 69c to 71c; torn, No. 3,31 cto 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 26c; rye, No. 1,52 cto 53c; barley, No. 2, 39" to 41c; pork, mess, $8.50 to $9.00. Buffalo —Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.00; bogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $6.75. New York —Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs, vh«t.NS, No o ?,' creamer 80 '15^to mSo** 0 ’

PLUNGED TO DEATH.

TROLLEY CAR DISASTER NEAR BRIDGEPORT, CONN. Hurled from a Trestle and Fifty Feet Down a Ravine—Thirty-five Pereone Killed and Twelve Injured—No One on Board Escapes. Forty-three passengers on a trolley car on the Shelton street railway were dashed down a ravine at Peck’s mill stream, five miles from Bridgeport, Conn., at 3:13 Sunday afternoon. Twenty-six were . killed outright and two died at the hospital. Over Peck's mill stream is an iron bridge 650 feet long. The distance from the top of the structure to the bed of the stream is fifty feet All of the water was drawn off a few months ago to permit the buttresses for the bridge to be laid. The street railway line was opened to the public the previous Thursday for the first time. The car jumped the rails on the trestle over the stream and plunged down the embankment fifty feet below, where it was buried in the mud. The motorman, George Hamilton, saved himself from death by jumping on the trestle as the car plunged into the abyss. The alarm was given and hundreds tof farmers from the vicinity were soon on •the scene. Other cars that were following the fatal one arrived, and in a short time hundreds of volunteers were at work. The work was retarded owing to the difficulty of gaining a secure foot passage in the narrow ravine. Farmers and their wives and daughters came with blankets and woolens, and all of the physicians in Bridgeport and Stratford who were available were summoned. The ,car was soon separated, the bottom portion being lifted off. The top wai buried several feet in the mud and the bodies of the dead and dying were strewn about. The seats were smashed to splinters. Strange to say, few of the bodies were badly mangled. All of the persons killed sustained fractured skulls. John aqd Daniel Galvin of Ansonia, as far as is known at present, were the only ones except Motorman Hamilton who escaped being hurled into the ravine. They were on the rear end of the car, and when it left the rails they took no chances, but jumped and landed safely on the trestle. The cause of the accident is uncertain. The car is too badly wrecked to give an indication of possible defects of its wheels. South of the trestle is quite an incline, on which the car ran down at a very high rate of speed. After it ran on to the trestle for about ten feet the trucks left the rails and the car continued on the ties for about seventy-five feet, when it went off the trestle and dropped into the ravine below, overturning completely and up-ending. When the car struck, the motor, which weighed four tons, aiyl the heavy trucks crushed into it, instantly killing many of the passengers.

SCORE ARE DEAD.

Maine Excursionists Near Bar Har* bor Drowned by Collapse of a Pier. Twenty or more excursionists from various parts of Maine were drowned and forty-one others were injured at Mount Desert ferry, eight miles from Bar Harbor, Me., Sunday morning by the breaking of an old and weak slip. The Maine Central Railroad ran excursion trains from all over its line in Maine to permit of people visiting the warships of the North Atlantic squadron, which had arrived in the harbor from Newport, R. I. The trains were switched of the Boston and Maine road to the short line of the Maine Central, which at Mount Desert ferry connects with the small steamer Sappho, which plies between that point and Bar Harbor. The first train brought 1,300 persons, and as the croWd had been told by train hands that the steamer could not accommodate one-fourth of the number there was a rush for the ferry slip as soon as the train stopped. About 200 gained the decks of the steamer and as many more were on the slip, when with a crash that sounded like the explosion of a boiler the weakened stricture broke in two in the center and the people were swept off each end into the water. It was high tide at the time and the 200 people were penned into a box-like area of 20 by 30 feet and beyond the assistance from the people high above them on the wharf. Their only means of escape was by diving down five feet under the side wall planking and swimming to the shore. Few could do this, for the crowd was qanic-stricken, and the members of it fought like wild animals for their lives. The people on shore for several minutes kept crowding forward, forcing some fifty more upon the struggling mass of humanity in the water below. Forty-one of the rescued were so seriously injured that they required immediate medical and surgical attention, and they were removed to a hotel close by.

FACE DEATH IN LAKE.

Passengers Spend a Night of Terror on Lake Michigan. Two hundred passengers on the steamer City of Grand Rapids, which left South Haven, Mich., for Milwaukee Saturday night, faced death through the long hours of the night in a violent northeaster, which caused .the leaking boat to nearly founder and which threatened to rend the vessel from stern to bow at any moment. With the water in the bold within two inches of the fires The captain put about for South Haven and after a desperate struggle with the waves and water the steamer reached that port at 6 o’clock Sunday morning almost in a sinking condition. One force pump of all on board was serviceable and this lone pump alone saved the passengers from what seemed certain doom.

Sparks from the Wires.

A K. of P. lodge will be instituted at Havana. John L. Sullivan, ex-champion pugilist, will open a saloon in New York. Iron mills at Harrisburg. Pa., will increase wages of puddiers 25 cents a ton. Lynn Kespezewski. 14, was killed by a train at Scottdale, Pa. Was asleep on the track. ’ < Inn

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

In view of the present strained relations between Canada and the United; States ever the question -of the Alaskan! boundary, the accompanying photograph' is interesting. It was taken at the ex-! treme summit of the White Pass, at the; point where the boundary line between

ON THE BOUNDARY LINE.

the possessions of Canada and the United States is at present fixed. On either! side the line is erected a tall staff. From one floats the Stars and Stripes and from the other the Union Jack. The men grouped around the flags are officers of the famous Canadian Northwest mounted police. Congregational Church circles are considerably stirred up in the West over the alleged heretical writings of Rev. Dr. G.

REV. DR. GILBERT.

of the Old Testament, and claims that its writers were imperfect men, incapable of reflecting the divine mind. He claims that we have, by our acceptance of their writings, reflected their views, and that, as a consequence, we now have a religion of rejection. Boston has a new crusade and a new crusader in Miss Lillian Jewett, who is 24, rather above the medium height and

of very magnetically attractive ways. She is fighting against Judge Lynch. She has been referred to in Boston as the new Harriet Beecher Stowe, sent by heaven in answer to the prayers of the colored race. The colored people of Boston simply

adore her. They think she Is the first person who has taken up the cause who is gifted with the divine inspiration. The Rev. Mr. Ferris of the church in which a mass meeting was held, in introducing Miss Jewett, said that when God had some great work to perform he touched the heart of a woman. One year ago Mrs. Bloodgood, a noted contralto add stage beauty, the wife of W. D. Bloodgood, an aristocratic broker

MRS. BLOODGOOD.

in a suit for divorce In the New York courts. Mr. Bloodgood was, however, unsuccessful in his suit, the complaint that his wife sold kisßes in public being deemed too trivial. But the South Dakota judges have taken a different view of the matter.

Captain Greene is the army officer whohas acted as press censor under Gen. Otis. It has been his duty to read the

reports of newspaper correspondents and to see that nothing was forwarded which might hamper military operations in Luzon. He has charge of the signal division, and is the controller of the Manila cable to Hong Kong. It is said he has made

more marks with a bine pencil daring the last few months than the dty editor of a big newspaper would make in as many years. ft

Notes of Current Events.

The trust has decided to increase the M.nOD, Vi... Kjj Amti Stov Ulled by *** * 0n ‘ in ' Jaw * AUBUU »

H. Gilbert of the Chicago Theological Seminary faculty. Dr. Gilbeit is esteemed most highly as an earnest, scholarly and highminded Christian gentleman. He occupies a chair at . the seminary and ; draws a salary from th? church as a professor of New Testament Greek. Dr. Gilbert sets aside the authority

MISS JEWETT.

of New York, startled society by appearing at a children’s fair in St. Louis and with an avowed charitable intention, Belling her kisses to the highest bidder. The 'prices ranged from •SIOO to SSOO. Her 'husband remonstrated with his wife and the numerous quarrels that resulted culminated

CAPT. GREENE.