Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1899 — Page 2

■p 1 - ■pteKLY REPUBLICAN GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. Rensselaer, - - Indian .

RAPID CITY GROWTH.

irOWN IS TO BE BUILDED IN J TEN days. pßonderfut Effects of a Kailway Ter* nillaiit in Oklahoma—Business Meu to Locate—Utah Lawyer Re* ptelra an Infernal Machine. ■pgte ? S, The Bock Island Railroad is building a road from Enid, Ok., east. The glprtniaus will be in the northern part of BlpSt County, at which place a town prill be built. The exact location of the ■sewn and its name are not known, but pitizens of Perry have secured a charter land bank fixtures, and have lumber cut Par a bank building stored near whore the pew --town will likely be. They propose 18l have a building up and to be in busiihess within twenty-four hours after the Hint town lot is surveyed. Saloon men shave already secured a license, and are pMdy to start in business as soon as the P&wn is located. In ten days the new ipttlement will have 1,000 inhabitants. BANK THIEF TAKIiN IN CUSTODY. PMVyUiam Barrett Arrested at Mil wan* c kee, but Hia Accomplices Escape. ? William Barrett, one of a trio of bank thieves, was arrested at Milwaukee for |fipmpHcity in an attempt to snatch $l,lOO Ppm the counter of the First National Hjfank. Martin Nessler was in the bank Ipreparing his deposit and had $1,120 in gold, silver and bills piled up in front of prim. He was accosted by a man who bad his arm done up in a sling and requested to make out a deposit slip for [Walter Waliber. Nessler turned from Iris own pile of money and started to Intake out the deposit slip for the injured : snan. As he did so a confederate who stood- near reached and grabbed at Nessler’s money. Barrett was captured. His Confederates made good their escape, but secured only S7B. ' RACE FOR THE PENNANT. Standing of the Clubs in the National and Western Leagues. The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as follows: 'W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ...74 35 Chicago 57 56 Boston 68 42 Pittsburg ...55 57 Philadelphia 70 44 Louisville ...49 61 gjWtimore ..65 43 New York.. .49 61 plhcinnati . .61 49 Washington. 38 73 iL Louis... .64 52 Cleveland .. .19 96 I Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: |a;- W. L. w. L. Indianapolis 67 39 St. Panl 52 59 Detroit 56 53 Kansas City. .45 64 jGrand Rap.. 56 55 Buffalo 45 66 INFERNAL MACHINE RECEIVED.

| Judge Power* of Utah Get* a Box of Dynamite by i-xpress. | At Salt Lake, Utah. Judge Orlando W. I Powers, formerly of Michigan, the leadII jug criminal lawyer of the West, receivp by express a box containing about five I pounds of dynamite and giant powder. I The box was so arranged with matches, i>jlandpaper and caps that if an attempt f bad been made to open it in the ordinary way a terrific explosion and death to those near would have been the inevitaI ble result. The judge did not open it, but liJianded it tb the police, who discovered r its nature. | Wed Beside Rasing Torrent. | Near Perry, Ok., John S. Perry, a ; cowboy, and Miss Emma Moyer were wedded while standing on one side of a ewollen stream while Rev. Mr. Carlock, I who performed the wedding ceremony, Stood fifty yards away on the opposite jside of the stream. The clergyman could | pot get across the stream to the bride’s, home, the place appointed for the marriage. gjj Dying Man Confesses Perjury. ' Thomas Padgett, formerly of Duluth, but now of Minneapolis, who was the t principal witness in the suit brought by R Ella Mendenhall against Luther Mendent hall, president of the Duluth Street Railt way Company, for divorce, announces ■ that he committed perjury. He is dying ; of cancer. Dog’s Bite Kills a Woman. I Mrs. H. T. Concannon, aged GO years, • a well-known and wealthy woman of v Leavenworth, Kan., died with all the |/ symptoms of hydrophobia and convulsions. Mrs. Concannon was bitten by a pet dog nine weeks before. fe y Fouth Dakota’s Growing Wealth. Final figures furnished by the State Auditor give the assessed valuation of South Dakota at $158,722,701, an increase of $40,142,208 over last year. In y the total abont $13,000,000 is corporate K property. fife Die in a Convent Fire. |H St. Anne’s convent at Sparkill. X. Y., |flrss. destroyed by fire, and a number of ifpersono, mostly cbildren, were burned to p death. There were upward of 500 oceuy pants in the building when the fire broke Chicago Coliseum Collapses. 1 The iron framework of the new ColiKum in process of erection in Chicago ; collapsed, burying many workmen in the iyy'nins. Nine men were killed, nine were If Injured and five reported missing. Old Clay Mansion in Ashes. The historic old Clay mansion, near / Paris, Ky., was destroyed by fire. All the contents, including numerous pieces -.v of valuable bric-a-brac, were destroyed. Fnnston Will Quit the Army. S A letter received from Lieut. C. G. 5 Warner of Fort Scott, Kan., who is aid ija fen. Fred Funston’s staff, states that Fututcn is in Manila awaiting orders to Ijlail for home with the Twentieth KanRi** regiment. The letter states that FunWill retire from army life Wa* a Descendant of Colnmbus. ;A The only direct descendant of Columpbusin America—Mrs. Mary Harriet Pinson—died at Sandusky, Ohio. She IlHiil year* of Age. Her maiden ’junu* v ploiuua.

810 COMBINE IN VIEW. Flan to Unite Dry Goods Stores Under One Management. Arrangements are maturing in New York for the organization of a $50,000,SOO dry goods corporation to control and operate dry goods and department stores throughout the country. The Mercantile Reorganization Company has been incorporated in Trenton, N. J., as a preliminary to creating the big corporation, Men weir known in the dry goods trade have been working on the plan for six months, and, it is said, have interested financiers who will back the enterprise. It is expected that the corporation will be launched in time for the fall trade. The parent store will be in New York as the base of supplies for the branch stores. Expenses of traveling salesmen will be eliminated, and the promoters of the enterprise believe their system will avert the evil of bad debts. It is proposed to control the output of certain mills, and all purchases will be made in immense quantities. WHITE CAPS WHIP POSTMASTER. Florida Man Is Beaten Because He Employed a Negro Clerk. Editor W. C. Crum of the Florida Republican was beaten by whitecaps at Pack Suburbs, Fla., where he is postmaster. Some weeks ago he appointed a colored assistant and a mob made the negro give up the office. Crum was going from the office to his house when he was halted by fifteen masked men armed with guns. They took him from his horse, tied his hands and feet and stripped him. He was then beaten on the back until the flesh was deeply cut. His face and shoulders were badly bruised by kicks administered by the assailants. They threatened to kill him if he ever placed a negro in office again. Carbolic acid was applied to the wounds and he was allowed to go. Mr. Crum closed the office and his resignation has been accepted. MISTAKE CAUSED TUFT’S DEATH. Lake Shore Engineer Thought Switch Waa Open and Jumped. Simon Tuft of Cleveland, a Lake Shore engineer, was killed by jumping from his cab while the engine was running at a high rate of speed. Tuft was the engineer on a fast west-bound freight. When at Milbury Junction, near Toledo, Tuft saw a light ahead which led him to believe that a derailing switch was open. He hurriedly reversed the engine and did everything possible to bring the train to a stop. Then he jumped and was instantly killed. The man In the switch tower saw the train coming and turned the switch just in time to allow the train to pass safely on the main track. RETURN OEVKLONDIKERS. Two Hundred, Including Cy Wurman, Come Back on Humboldt. The Humboldt has arrived at Seattle from Alaska with about 200 Klondikers. J. O. Hestwood of Seattle brought down 500 pounds of gold dust, one-third of the clean-up of mines owned by an Eastern syndicate of which Mr. Hestwood is manager. Among the Humboldt’s passengers was Cy Warman, the author, who has been in Alaska gathering material for sketches. Wreck at Circleviile, Ohio. A Circleviile (O.) dispatch tells of a serious wreck on the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley road by which five persons were seriously injured. The east-bound passenger train, belated, was running at a high rate of speed in the edge of the city when a misplaced switch turned it into a siding on which stood a locomotive. The two engines were wrecked. Vault Door Is Smashed In. An unusual scene occurred in the city hall at Kansas City when, at the instigation of the board of election commissioners recently appointed by Gov. Stephens, a locksmith smashed in the door of the vault containing the records of the office and ballot boxes of the city. Former Election Commissioner J. H. Harris had refused to surrender the key of the vault. Fatal Boiler Explosion. A boiler exploded at the Ahwiekert Planing Mill at Appleton, Wis., killing two men and seriously injuring eight others. The entire factory was wrecked and windows in the vicinity were broken by the concussion. The end of the boiler was carried through the engine-room roof and fell 100 feet distant. The loss is estimated at $50,560. Boers Order Cartridges. A firm of Birmingham, England, has received an order for 14,000,000 Mauser cartridges for urgent delivery to South Africa. Secrecy is being observed as to the exact destination of the cartridges, but it is said that the Boers alone use Mauser rifles in that territory. Senator Mason's Nephew Dead. Clayton C. Mason, a nephew of Senator Mason of Illinois, died at Washington from an overdose of morphine taken hypodermically, presumably to ease pain due to kidney trouble from which he had suffered for some time. Mr. Mason was an employe at the capitol. Live !■ tock Record Broken. All Kansas City cattle records were broken the other day, when the receipts at the stock yards were 18,300 head, or 265 head more than on Sept. 20, 1898, when the previous record was established. Two Killed by Electricity. Two negroes were killed outright, two were painfully burned and shocked, and eighteen others severely shocked while engaged in the reconstruction of the St. Cftiarles avenue electric car line in New Orleans. , Tragic End to Love Affair. The bodies of John Lauda uer, a cigarmaker, aged 25, and Josephine Engel, aged 15, were found in a lot at River avenue and 115th street, New York. Both had been shot through the heart. In Landauer’s right hand was a revolver. To Fight the Beef Tract. Owing to the increasing price of meat and the falling off of trade in consequence the St. Louis butchers are organizing to fight the so-called beef trust, which, they say, is responsible for the higher prices. , ’ Earthquake Felt at Concord. At 4:30 o'clock the other morning an earthquake was distinctly felt in Concord, N.- H. So great was the shock that people all over the city were awakened. The disturbance seemed to pass from southeast to northwest. - •

REUNITED TO WIFE.

CHICAGO MAN PREFERS SPOUSE TO A LEGACY. Son of a Millionaire Returns to the Woman He Married, Thongh It Costs Him sss,ooo— Cowboys Kill a New Mexico Cattleman. Jack Van Schaack, son of the millionaire druggist, Peter Van Schaack of Chicago, has regained his wife. At the same time by returning to her after a long separation he will lose a legacy of $55,000. Mrs. Fione Van Schaack and her husband met by chance at Bath Beach, ■N.; Y., when for the first time for more than a year they came face to face. The immediate result of the recognition will be the discontinuance of the suit for divorce which Mrs. Van Schaack began last January. Mrs. Van Schaack always declared that her father-in-law, Peter Van Schaack, was responsible for the trouble between herself and her husband. Two years ago she obtained from a Brooklyn jury a verdict for $64,000 against him for the alienation of her husband’s affections. This nmney was never collected, but about six months ago the suit was compromised by Mr. Van Schaack, Sr., settling $25,000 on her only son Calvin. AVENGED BY COWBOYS. Wealthy Cattleman Killed for Attack* ioa His Housekeeper. W. J. Spradling, a wealthy cattleman, ' controlling stock interests in Chloride, was killed by cowboys near Fairview, N. M. in revenge for his murderous assault upon Miss Nellie McKinstry. Spradling, without provocation, made a threatening remark to the woman as he was riding by, both being on horseback, and followed it up by firing a revolver at her pointblank. The shot took effect in the woman’s neck and she fell from her horse. Cowboys near by started after Spradling, who emptied his revolver at them. A fusillade from Winchesters in the hands of the pursuers brought Spradling to the ground with six bullets in his body and head. He died almost instantly. The injured woman came from Marion, Ind., to act as housekeeper for Spradling. She will recover. No cause for the trouble is known. DOUBLE HANGING AT MUSKOGEE. First Legal Execution of Whites Ever Held in Indian Territory. Cyrus A. Brown and Matthews Craig were executed at Muskogee, I. T. It was the first legal hanging of white men ever held in the territory. Brown killed Daniel Cuthbert, an aged white man, on the Arkansas river near Webbers Falls, I. T., in October, 1896. Cuthbert lived in a houseboat and had cared for Brown when the latter was ill. When he recovered Brown shot his benefactor in the back, threw the bAdy into the river and made off with his boat. Craig killed United States Deputy Marshal Joseph Heinrichs at Tahlequah, I. T., last March. Heinrichs arrested Craig for selling liquor in the territory and took him to his own house for the night. While the deputy was asleep Craig shot and killed him with a revolver passed in by a confederate. Political Tragedy in Texas. At a Populist camp meeting near Bruceville, Texas, J. B. O’Brien, editor of a Democratic newspaper, made a speech in favqy of expansion. Dr. J. B. Harris, chairman of the Populist committee, took O'Brien to task. A shooting affray resulted, Dr. Harris being shot in the head and left breast and O’Brien in the right side. Harris is dead. O’Brien’s wound is not considered fatal. Appeal to Diaz for Redress. The recent torture inflicted upon six Mexican prisoners confined in the Hidalgo County jail by officials of that Texas county in an effort to extort confessions has become an international affair. Four of the prisoners claim to be citizens of Mexico and have appealed to President Portirio Diaz for aid and redress. * Dend Child Heir to Millions. Juanita Teresette Terry, aged 13 years, who was killed with her half-sis-ter and nephew by a train at Seabright, N. J., was the only daughter of the late Juan Pedro Terry, the Cuban millionaire, and would have inherited between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000 from his estate. To Raise Price of Writing Paper. It is reported in New York that both the American Writing Paper Company, the corpora** oll recently formed by consolidation of many writing-paper manufacturing concerns, and the independent mills, will Before long raise the price of paper. The advance is attributed to the increased cost of raw materials. Mob After Street Car Men. A Big Consolidated motorman and conductor were threatened with violence by an angry mob at Cleveland. The Broadway car was running at a rapid rate and struck a spring wagon, throwing the four occupants on to the pavement. The police, coming on riot call, had great difficulty in protecting the street car men. Two Killed in a “Crap” Game. News comes of two men killed and four wounded at Parsons’ camp ground, near Russellville, Ky., in a fight over a game of craps. A dispute arose and about thirty shots were fired. John and Jay Sanders, colored, were killed, and four other negroes were wounded. ? Eleven Vessel* Are Wrecked. Thirty persons are known to have lost, their lives along the North Carolina coast, and the beach is strewn with spars, masts and other wreckage. The sailors say that eleven vessels are ashore on the coast between Hatteras and New River inlet. Serious Fire in Milwaukee. The yards of the Uhrig Fuel Company and of the Forest Lumber Company at Milwaukee were badly damaged by fire. The total loss amounts to about $150,000. . i f Calls on the Mayor to Resign. The City Council of Sonth Omaha, Neb., has adopted resolutions calling upon Mayor Ensor to resign, under threat of impeachment proceedings. Emperor of China Is Insane. The Shanghai Mercury publishes a communication from Pekin to the effect that the Emperor has developed symptoms of insanity. ■

TRAINMEN SLAIN BY TRAIIpS. Two Brakehtea Killed and Thrown Ua* der Moving Freight Train. Three tramps stealing a ride on a Chi- > Chicago Great Western freight train | and killed Brakemen J. E. Wilson and | Oonney Matthews and threw their bodies ' nnder the wheels. The train had proceeded about two miles from Marshalltown, lowa, when the two brakemen discovered the tramps and ordered them from the train, which was moving slowly. Instantly the tramps drew resolvers and fired. The brakemen fell, wounded, but did not roll from the train. The tramps threw the wounded victims under the moving train and their bodies were terribly mangled. At Melbourne the conductor missed the brakemen and a search was made, and the bodies found along the track. The murderers escaped. Wilson lived in Marshalltown and Matthews in Des Moines. Both were married. ENDS LIFE IN BURNING HOUSE. Ohioan Shoots at His Foe, Fires Hia Own Residence and Kills Himself. An attempted murder by a man aged 87, followed by his suicide and the burning of bis house, startled Newtown, Ohio, the other day. Jacob Christman, who has been living alone, saw L. D. Drake, a farmer with whom he has had much trouble about money matters, standing across the street. Christman rushed out and fired a shot at Drake, but missed him. He then went back into his hopse, from which a pistol shot -was heard and simultaneously flames burst out and the house was consumed. It is thought that the old man supposed he had killed his enemy and preferred death to the penalty of the law. HEAVY DAMAGE*TO WHEAT. Fully Twenty-five Per Cent of Crop in Oregon Hnrt by Continned Rain. While reports of damage to the wheat crop have been exaggerated, it is now estimated that fully 25 per cent of the wheat of the Willamette valley of Oregon has been rendered unmerchantable by the wet weather and that only a small portion of the remaining 75 per cent of the crop will grade up to the number and standard. Reliable reports indicate that the damage in Columbia basin is also heavy. Big Fonr Grants Demands. The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis (Big Four) Railroad announces that it has met the demands of the engineers on the system by agreeing to increase the pay of passenger engineers from $3.15 per 100 miles to $3.25, and the wages of freight engineers from $3.75 per 100 miles to $3.80 per 100 miles. Fire Alarms the Prisoners. Fire caused a panic in the Kings County penitentiary, New York. With 250 prisoners in an uproar the guards were insufficient and 200 police reserves were ordered to the prison double quick. Within twenty minutes after the police and firemen arrived the fire was out. Attempts to Murder His Wife. After making a futile attempt to kill his wife, Hugh Herr, living at Cleveland, sent a bullet into his head. There is little hope for Herr’s recovery. The cause for the shooting was that Mrs. Herr did not want to live with her husband. First Blow Proves Fatal. Henry Marron, 60 years of age, was killed near his home, seven miles southwest of Ponca, Neb., by a blow of Forris Casey’s fist. The murder was the result of an old feud. Casey gave himself up to the authorities. Rides a Wheel 1,200 Miles. After riding a bicycle 1,200 miles to attend the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republican and to meet old comrades of the civil war, A. Rappe, aged 84 years, of Marinette, Wis., lias arrived in Philadelphia. S ultan Signs Treaty, The Sultan of Sulu has signed the treaty presented to him by Gen. Bates, acknowledging the supremacy of the United States Government over the entire Sulu archipelago. Forces Indians to Retreat. Mexican troops under Gen. Torres defeated the Yaquis in three sharp engagements before Vican. Two Mexicans were killed and 22 wounded, while the Yaqui loss was 40 killed. Train Kills Three Persons. Three persons were killed and three' injured at Seabright. N. J., while driving by being run down by a train of the New Jersey. Southern Railroad.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 13c; corn, No. 2,32 cto 33c; oats, No. 2, 200 to 21c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 56c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, choice, 25c to 300 per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 tQ $6.00; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $5.00; sheep, common to prime, $3.25 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2 white, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 230 to 24c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2,71 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2,22 cto 24c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 59c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2,56 c to, 58c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye, 58c to 00c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2,55 c to 56c; clover seed, new, $3.95 to $4.06. Milwankee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 72c to 73c; corn. No. 3,31 cto 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 1,54 cto ,56c; barley. No. 2,41 cto 43c; pork, mess, SB.OO to $8.50. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steels, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, common to choice* $3.25 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $4.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $0.25. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.50: hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 79c; corn. No. 2, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29e; hotter creamery, 17c to 22c; eggs. Western, 12c to 10c.

HEAVY ARCHES FALL

COLLAPSE OF CHICAGO'S NEW COLISEUM STRUCTURE. Crash Comes Without Warning to Workmen, and Mani Are Caught Beneath Heavy Rnins-In Addition to Nine Killed, Thirteen Are Injured. Iron girders creaked: there was a shout, “Look out! it’s falling!” a wild rush of men on the ground; the agonized cry of thirty bridge workers as they were hurled sixty-five feet through the air; and the framework of the new Coliseum, Wabash avenue and Fifteenth street, Chicago, Monday afternoon at 5 o’clock was a wreck, and under its ruins nine men lay dead, thirteen injured, many of them fatally, and five were missing. Workmen of the Pittsburg Bridge Company, the firm which did the iron work, were tearing down the traveler used in building the twelve great arches. During the lowering of the first section the structure was noticed to tremble, and complaint was made by several of the men. Then came the taking down of the massive beams that formed the second section. A rope thrown over the third arch from the south wall was used to steady the pieces of lumber as they descended. One was poised in the air and Engineer McCabe waited below for the signal to lower. Suddenly the engine gave a snort, the arch tremblgd, began to sway. Then came the shout of alarm, the race for safety and the collapse of the building. Men on the ground ran through the arches, now beginning to creak like breaking laths, and most of them had time to reach the street or the alley, but their unfortunate companions on the arches came slowly down to injury and death. The movement of the arches was at first so slow it seemed as if minutes were consumed before they swayed far enough to touch each other. When they came together there was the sound of vending iron girders and braces, the breaking of rivets and trusses, and the whole structure came down with a crash, while the doomed men shrieked out their last prayers as they were dashed against piles of unused braces or fell under portions of the broken arches. One of the falling columns overturned the boiler and the escaping steam covered the wreck with a blinding veil, white clouds of dust rose from the earth to baffle the search foT the wounded, some of whom called ouf piteously. Columns and arches lay piled on one another, broken and shattered as though they were staff; heavy timbers, two feet square, were twisted and splintered as if they were twigs, and beneath this mass of iron and wood and stone human beings were writhing in pain or were lying cold in death. Fire added to the horror, the overturned engines kindling the woodwork near them, but these incipient blazes were soon extinguished and the whole attention of firqmen, policemen and citizens was given to rescuing the victims and taking out the bodies of the dead. There were hundreds of willing hands to help drag the iron beams from the crushed and battered fragments of men and to carry the bodies tenderly to the ambulances. The living were first taken from the ruins, but at times the rescuers found it difficult to determine whether or not the mangled forms they carried so tenderly still retained the spark of life. Nine men were dead. Their bodies were taken out mutilated almost beyond human semblance by the blunt edges of the ponderous metal beams. Twelve other unfortunates, still alive, but shrieking and writhing with the pain of cruel injuries, some of them legless, others making piteous appeals with the stumps of what were once arms, were removed, and more dehths may follow. It bas not yet been decided where the loss, which may reach $30,000, will fall. The work of the Pittsburg Bridge Company was just finished, the last arch having been placed Saturday. The men were placing the bolts and rivets Monday and removing the traveler and scaffolding used in doing the work. Members of the firm were congratulating themselvek that they had had no accident, and the work was done. But the work had not been accepted by the Coliseum company and tlfe question of responsibility for the loss on the building rests unsettled. The exact cause for the collapse seems to be unknown, at least those supposed to know hesitate to put themselves pn record. Many theories are advanced, bill it may require an official investigation to bring out the truth and properly place the responsibility.

OLD WORLD NOTABLES

Emile Zola’s latest fad is amateur photography. Crown Prince Gustaf of Sweden uses an automobile. King Oscar of Sweden takes delight in fishing for salmon. Henry Labouchere never eats butter, as he prefers oleomargarine. Nearly every member of the Russian imperial family rides a bicycle. Baroness James de Rothschild owns the finest collection of fans in Europe. The Duke of Buccleuch has the finest collection of miniatures in Great Britain. The Princess of Wales tried golf for several months, but doesn’t like the game. % During the summer months Abdnl Hamid consumes enormous quantities of ice cream. Though only 16 years of age, Prince Arthnr of Connaught is taller than his father. General Buller cf the British army nsnally goes to bed at 9 p. m. and rises at 2:30 a. in. The Princess of Wales has sold her game bantams because they were too fond of fighting. - £er v legal adviser *

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

The birthday of William Makepeace Thackeray, which was celebrated recently, recalls the fact that literary England

now owes a double debt to India, which has given it the creator of the Newcomes and the more modern “Poet Laureate of the Anglo-Saxon; Ra c e,” KiplingJ Thackeray w a sl| born in Calcutta! In July, 18111 When he was 51 years old his fath-' er died and the little boy was sent home to England, where his aunt took charge of him. That good woman one day saw the child trying on his uncle’s hat, which proved none too large for him. She was sure that so large a head on so small a child was unnatural and abnorm a 1. Straightaway she took the

little boy in her carriage and rushed off to consult Sir Charles Clark, the famoua physician. He was apparently wiser than the alarmed aunt. Perhaps he waa a fortune teller and could foresee the future. At any rate he told the aunt to take her nephew home and not to worry about the size of his head. “It is a largehead,” he said, “but there seems to be a good deal inside it.”

Dr. Oronhyatekha, a full-blooded Mohawk Indian, was elected ‘president of the National Fraternal Congress at the

DR. ORONHY ATEKHA

Aug. 10, 1841, in Ontario, at the Six Nations Indian reservation. His English education was begun in the industrial school, near Brantford, established for the training of young Indians. Later he went to the Wesleyan Academy at Wilbraham, Mass. Being without money,, he supported himself there by doing odd jobs. When the Prince of Wales visited Canada in 1860 Oronhyatekha, then ilk his twentieth year, was selected by the chiefs of the Six Nations to present an address to the son of their “great mother.” The impression made upon the young prince and his party was so favorable that Oronhyatekha was invited to continue his studies in Oxford under the care of the prince. Oronhyatekha returned to America a full-fledged doctor and practiced successfully until he accepted his position with the Foresters.

The Boston police say that George Simpson is the worst man in America, and they have requested that all the jail*

in the United States be searched for him, as they believe he is concealed in one of them. Formerly a Baptist minister, Simpson has been a burglar, horse thief, incendiary, forger and bigamist, and now j he is wanted for a murder committed at Dover, N. H., eight years ago.

Simpson began his career of crime while he was a preacher, and robbed many houses before suspicion was directed tohim. He then traveled around the coun- v try occupying pulpits in small towns on. Sunday and swindling on week days.

W. F. Powell, the United States minister to Hayti and San Domingo, who has shown decided firmness in protecting

W. F. POWELL. man warships.

Word has reached Hastings, Neb., that Viola Horlocker is in the Jacksonville, 111., insane asylum. Miss Horlocker is-

the beautiful young stenographer who, some months ago, sent poUoned candy to the wife of her employer, Ghas. A. Morey. She was said to be madly infatuated with Mo- ' rey, and saw in his wife the only impediment to their

onion. She is under bond for her appearance in Hastings for trial.

Odds and Ends.

Several houses horned at Talladega, Ala. IX>BB SOU,UUU. Mr,. Anna tan*d ‘ I. N«r I York Struck for higher wagS?

THACKERAY.

recent session in Chicago. Dr. Oronhyatekha came into prominence through his remarkable record in building up the Independent Order of Foresters. The results of bi» work are represented by a membership of 150,000 and a surplus of over $3,500,000. Oronhyatekha was bora

GEORGE SIMPSON.

American citizens, from the revolutionary mobs on the island, has given Several demonstrations of the fact he possesses a cool head and a quick wit. It should not be forgotten that it f was Powell whor saved Port au Prince, the capital of the Haytian Republic, from being bombarded by Ger-

MISS BORLOCKER.