Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1899 — Page 2

Keeklv REPUBLICANS , ■■■ GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher RENSSELAER, INDIAN

COAL IN KLONDIKE.

' S&w • ’ SCARCITY OF FUEL NO LONGER FEARED. K~l» ,C<f§r V. jKSuormous Deposit Discovered Within Sixty -five Miles of Dawson Railt*Md Built to It—Circus Rider Stabs Hie Father-in-Law. News brought from Dawson, Alaska, « by Captain T. W. Draper, late of the regiment, United States engineers. states that the Yukon fuel probf Jem has been solved by the discovery of an enormous coal deposit sixty-one miles •. from Dawson and a mile and three-quar-v ters back from the river, which the North American Trading and Transportation is developing. Draper says: “The company has constructed a railroad j* from the river to the mine, which carlies two veins, one of eight feet and the P Other fifteen. While on this property I conducted a series of scientific tests, I which were highly satisfactory. StrangeC. ly enough, we found the coal still frozen at a depth of 250 feet It is so hard that | it has to be blasted out. One ton of the : coal is equal to two and a half tons of | Cordwood. Undoubtedly there is enough | coal there for all the river steamers and t to make the use of cordwood a thing of I the past. The Canadian Government ' took 250 tons of the first consignment, which was selling at S3O a ton when I H CIRCUS RIDER USES A KNIFE. B.Mrneat Melville Stabs George Heffner, His Wife’s Stepfather. Ernest Melville, a famous circus rider, is in jail at Orange, N. J., for stabbing bis wife’s stepfather, George Heffner. > Heffner and the Melvilles have lived, together since last spring, when the latter returned from Europe. The two men / have not been on friendly terms for some ftime. After some words Heffner accused || Melville of spying on him, and proceeded | to knock the latter down and sit on him. s Melville grabbed a carving knife from the dinner table and stabbed Heffner three times as they struggled on the floor. r RAISE PAY 3F LAKE ENGINEERS. Give a Higher Increase than Asked-Others Get More Wages. As a result of a meeting of the executive committee bf the Lake Carriers’ As|J aociation at Cleveland, the wages of near- . ly 16,000 men employed on the vessels of the great lakes will be raised from 10 to g2O per cent This includes 2,000 engineers, who demanded an advance of 12% per cent and threatened to strike. The ?: engineers will receive an advance of 20 ■? per cent; first and second mates, 20 per gpieent; all other members of crews, includP ing firemen, wheelmen, lookouts .cooks, I deck hands, 10 per cent. FIRE FOLLOWS A HURRICANE. Flames at Montserrat Burn Structures Left by the Storm. Plymouth, capital of the island of ’ Montserrat, W. 1., reports the destrucI' tion by fire of many buildings, which had I escaped the recent hurricane and most of ' the remaining ruins, greatly intensifying I the distress of the populace, which is ILgrowing demoralized over the tardy and inadequate relief. The laborers refuse to unload the relief cargoes unless paid dou- *• Race for the Pennant, The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ...92 40 Chicago ....70 66 Philadelphia 87 51 Louisville ...69 70 Boston 83 53 Pittsburg ...67 71 Baltimore ..78 55 New Y0rk...55 79 St. L0ui5...77 62 Washington. 49 88 . Cincinnati ..76 63 Cleveland ...20 125 Miss Horlocker Taken to Hastings. Miss Viola Horlocker, charged with at- £ tempting the life of Mrs. Charles F. T Morey, her former employer’s wife, by S sending her a box of poisoned candy, has been taken to Hastings, Neb., from the t Oaklawn Sanitarium, in Jacksonville, 111., | for trial. eix Dead in a Train Wreck. Six passengers were killed and five injured in a collision on the Denver and Bio Grande Railroad a half-mile west of 4 ’Florence, Colo. The Phillips-Judson exfx curaion train from the east ran into an east-bound freight. K-' Another Gasoline Disaster. r‘.- Nine persons were badly burned at a 0 fire in a lodging house in the south end of Boston. The fire was due to the ex- ¥ plopion of gasoline, with which a woman was filling a lamp, mistaking it for kero- £ ■ • Earling Elected President. | Albert J. Earling has been elected t president of the Chicago, Milwaukee and jjt Paul Railroad to succeed Roswell Milnewly created position of chairman orttiP4aQard of directors. Americana Lose a Vessel. The insurgents have captured the UnitStates gunboat Urdaneta in the Orani river, on the northwest side of Manila officer and nine of her crew Leases Many Mills. The Duluth-Superior Elevator ComBMjte&.haa leased for one year all the ele£t|ors Of the United States Flour Milling at the head of the lake. * Wreck on Lake Shore. One man was killed and four others injured in a wreck between two ; Shore passenger trains at FourFinds a Long-Loot Fortune. , Mrs. JoJ’ia Benbeard, a widow, living . a t ..Wichita, Kan., in looking over some BMiletters, found a deposit certificate for which her brother. W. L. Richtttarwl in the Hniik of r l'r€ jnh Trenton Tenn to her credit Jan. Hni" t‘ia g Collision

THOUSANDS WILL NOT WORK. Many Porto Ricans Prefer to Live Upon Charity. President Hoff of the board of charities at San Juan, Porto Rico, has tabulated statistics received from the superintendents of the various districts throughout the island regarding the effects of the recent hurricane. The figures are as follows: Population, 916,894; indigent poor, 291,089; sick. 11,858; dead as the result of the hurricane (first reliable figures), 2,619; number of men working for food, 11,713; rations issued each week, 293,147. Surgeon Smith has returned from Yabucoa, which was the region that suffered most from the hurricane. His official report says that thousands of men are drawing rations and refuse to- work. The planters are grumbling because they cannot get men to work, and the surgeon advocates stopping the issuance of Government supplies. Many surgeons and superintendents in other districts make the same reports. Governor General Davis was interviewed on this subject. He admitted that thousands of undeserving persons were being fed, but said if the Government shold stop giving out food, other thousands of deserving persons would starve. He intends to enforce stringent regulations on this point hereafter. temporary clerks barred. Attorney General Griggs Gives an Opinion of Importance. The Attorney General at Washington has given an opinion to the State Department which is of great interest ,to the large army of Government clerks in that city who are on what is known as the temporary roll. The officials of the State Department decline to permit the publication of the opinion, but from other sources it is ascertained that the Attorney General holds that the amendment to rule 8 of the civil service rules, recently made by President McKinley, applies only to those persons holding temporary appointment in the Government service at Washington, who were certified by the civil service commission for such temporary appointment. The effect of this opinion is to completely shut out from possibility of transfer to the permanent rolls of the departments all persons holding temporary appointments not certified by the civil service commission.

SOCIETY WOMAN’S DEATH. Mrs. Henry Oliver, Lincoln, Neb., Not Saved by Christian S cience. Mrs. Henry Oliver, wife of the owner of the Oliver Theater, and prominent in social circles in Lincoln, Neb., died suddenly after having received Christian science treatment. Mrs. Oliver refused to consult a physician until a few hours before her death. Then she was in such a condition that the physician could do nothing for her. She died at the home of a professional Christian science healer, having been taken there at her own request and against the wishes of her friends as soon as her illness came on. She grew steadily worse and was in a semi-conscious state when first seen by a physician.

SPANIARDS GO AS DEADHEADS. ■— lA — — - Twenty Leave Chicago on Tickets Purchased for Five. Just before the Santa Fe train reached Wichita, Kan., the conductor noticed a movement under some seats occupied by five Spaniards ticketed from Chicago to Galveston. Upon removing coats, blankets, rugs, etc., he found a woman. Close investigation disclosed five women and ten children. They could speak no English. Three of the women had Spanish silver coins braided into their hair. After a brief parley the matter was adjusted and the party resumed its journey. The scheme worked from Kansas City to Wichita. The twenty passengers left Chicago with only five tickets. ILLINOIS CAR WORKS ON FIRE. Planing Mill at Hegewisch Destroyed with a Loss of $150,000. The planing mill of the Illinois Car and Equipment Company at Hegewisch, near Chicago, was destroyed by fire, and for a time the entire plant of the company was threatened with annihilation. The loss, it is estimated, will reach $150,000, the greater part of which is on the machinery. This was only recently placed m position and is of the latest and costliest pattern. The property was fully insured.

Killed His Abusive Father. Elijah Hall shot and killed his father, Henry Hall, in Pike County, Kentucky, for abuse of his mother. The father was a preacher, but was very quarrelsome and abusive toward his wife. The son interfered in one of these scenes, and receiving some abuse from his father, in a moment of passion shot him dead and fled. Paints and Oils Feed Fire. Fire almost destroyed the six-story brick building at Nos. 35 to 59 North Jefferson street, Chicago. The great promptness of the firemen’s response and the number of engines placed the fire under control within half an hour after the first alarm was given. The building is owned by J. Harley Bradley. The loss on the building is SIO,OOO.

Admiral Monte jo Punished. Rear Admiral Montejo, who commanded the Spanish naval forces in the battle of Manila bay, and who has been on trial before the Supreme Court at Madrid, has been condemned to retirement without the right of promotion. Massachusetts Democratic Convention The Massachusetts Democratic convention nominated a State ticket headed by Robert Trtat Paine, Jr., of Boston for Governor. George Fred Williams heads the State delegation to the national Democratic convention. Hatfield la Sentenced. Elias Hatfield, Jr., who was convicted of murder in the second degree, was sentenced to t,welve years’ confinement in the State penitentiary by Circuit Judge Doolittle at Williamson, W. Va. Gift of 9300,000. Through the beneficence of Edward Tpck of New York the endowment fund as Dartmouth College in Hanover, N. H., has been increased $300,000. Greet Drydock Begun. Active work on the construction of the new $1,000,000 drydock for the Newport News, Va., Ship Building and Drydock Company has been begun. College Building Burns. The Culpewer-Shannon College building at Lebanmi, Mo., that was built at a coat of $75,000, burned. The fire caught from a defective flue.

FUGITIVE IS KILLED.

A MINNESOTA SHERIFF BRINGS DOWN HIS MAN. Cfficer Was Too Quick for Daughters, Who Would Have Killed Him—Washington Man Takes Terrible Revenge for Breaking Up of His Home. Deputy Sheriff Freese of Cass County, Minn., and another deputy named Fullerton recently brought into Bemidji from Lakeport the dead body of Nelson Daughters, who was shot by Fullerton. Daughters was a fugitive from justice, and had taken to the woods at Lakeport. Deputy Fullerton came on him unexpectedly, and demanded that he surrender. Daughters, iu reply, pulled up his rifle and drew a bead on Fullerton, but the latter was too quick for him and shot him through the body. The train, coming along at the lime, he was carried to the station. He was put aboard in hopes that his life might be saved, but he died on the train. END? THREE LIVES. Washington Man Kills His Wife and Brother and Commits Suicide. At Walla Walla, Wash., O. B. Ryland killed his wife and his brother, Grant, and then committed suicide. He arrived there from Pomona, Wash., in search of his wife, who had deserted him, and had been living with her mother and Grant Ryland. He first shot his brother. Then he chased his wife into a vacant lot and shot her in the back. She fought desperately, but after becoming exhausted she fell and the infuriated husband shot her in the face. He then lay down beside his wife and shot himself, blowing the top of his head off. AMERICANS REPORTED KILLED. Thought to l ave Been Murdered by o Yrqui Indians. The Yaqui Indians continue their depredations in Sonora, Mexico, and roving bands are now r scattered through the mountains along the upper Yaqui river. Americans have begun to suffer at the hands of the savages and if reports be true seven men from New York were murdered Recently in the Sahuaripa district. Many other prospectors have been driven out and their mines wrecked. Hunting for Buried Treasure. For several days H. B. Merrill has been digging for buried treasure in an old orchard on his farm, seven miles south of Painesville, Ohio. While making some repairs to the roof of his farm house he found hidden under the rafters a leather pocketbook containing a paper stating that a chest containing $4,500 in silver was buried in the orchard. Spain's Cuban Debt. The decision by the Spanish cabinet that the interest on the Cuban bonds must be paid by the Cuban Government is a virtual announcement that Spain will not pay the interest, and ■ that the bonds are valueless. The United States refuses to recognize any responsibility in the matter.

Stock Yards Fire. Several persons were injured and property valued at $275,000 was destroyed in a fire which swept over a large area of the Union stock yards in Chicago. The stock yards hospital, Dexter Park pavilion, several horse sheds and two residences were destroyed, and twenty horses perished in the flames. Carried Away by a Kite. Charles, the 7-year-old son of Andrew Lewis of Mount Morris, N. Y., while flying a giant kite was carried over the edge of a cliff, the top of his father’s farm house and a high stone wall by a fierce northern gale catching the kite just as it mounted to the end of the rope Marriage License Fee SI,OOO. The Chickasaw Legislature, in session at Tishomingo, I. T., passed a bill raising the fee for marriage licenses from SSO to SI,OOO. The measure is aimed at white men who would marry into the tribe to profit by the annuities and lease money drawn by women Chickasaws. Sheep Camp Maided. Masked men attacked the sheep camp of the Warren Live Stock Company, twenty-five miles northwest of Sterling, Colo., beating the herder, a young man named Crain, nearly to death, shooting about 100 sheep and scattering 1,500 more. Fire Cannon Into a Train. The contents of a cannon fired during a soldiers’ reunion at Ceredo, W. Va., passed through a coach of a Huntington and Big Sandy train. More than a dozen persons were injured by flying missiles and broken glass. Woman Whips a Leopard. Locked in an iron cage, Mlle. Morrelli fought with an enraged leopard at the Philadelphia exposition grounds. The little French woman conquered, but now lies in the University hospital with severe wounds in her left arm and breast. New Leather Concern. The organization of the American Hide and Leather Company has been completed in New York. The properties of the several constituent companies have passed into the control of the new company, which will hereafter operate them. Girl Is Burned to Death. At Terre Hante, Ind., Miss Laura Boldt, 22 years old, was burned to death by the explosion «of a gasoline stove. All her clothes, even to her shoes, and most of her flesh, were burned off. Will Meet in Chicago. The supreme lodge of the Knights of Pythias, in session at Indianapolis, elected Louis Ingwerson of New York supreme chancellor. The supreme body will meet in Chicago next year. Molten Metal Explodes. By the explosion of molten metal at Schoenberger’s steel works at Pittsburg, four men were dangerously-injured. The explosion was caused by the overturning of a ladle of hot metal. Thirty Persons Injured. An electric car filled with passengers and running at a high rate of speed, jumped the track at Prince’s curve, one mile from Carthage, Mo., over on its top. Twenty persons were injured. Captain Dreyfus Is pardoned. The council of ministers! at Paris has decided to pardon Dreyfuk in principle. The pardon will take effect in a few uAys* y ’

GLASS PLANTS IN TRUST. Ibe American Company Now in Con* » trol in Indiana. The American Window Glass Company tas come into control of the leading wiudow glass plants in the Indiana gas belt. Deeds of the Elwood Window Glass Company, the Indiana Window Glass Company of Pendleton, the Clyde Window Glass Company of Frankton.'the Victor Window Glass Company, and the Anderson Window Glass Company of Anderson and the Frankton Window Glass Company’s property have been recorded in favor of American Window Glass Company. The amount paid for the Elwood Window Glass Company was $13,000; the Indiana Window Glass Company, $22,500; the Clyde Window Glass Company, $22,500; the Victor Window Glass Company, $15,000; the Anderson Window Glass Company, $25,000, and the Frankton Window Glass Company, .$5,050. These values are but nominal, as the assessed value of the Victor plant is $55,000, and the Anderson $115,000. The other plants are worth more than the prices named. CHICAGOAN BADLY WOUNDED. G. L. Russell of Hammond Company Stabbed at Birmingham, Ala. George L. Russell of Chicago, traveling auditor of the Hammond Packing Company, lies at his room in the Morris Hotel, Birmingham, Ala., seriously wounded from stabs inflicted by a knife in the hands of W. L. Lockhard, local manager of the company. Russell has been there for several days checking up books in Lockhard’s office. It is said he found the accounts correct, but he and Lockhard became involved in a quarrel. Lockhard, it is said, was seen to take some money from the cash drawer, and Russell asked him whose money it was. Lockhard replied that it was his own, and if he thought it was the company’s he could check up his cash accounts and ascertain. Lockhard became offended at what he regarded as Russell’s meddlesome course, and a quarrel and fight resulted. BRIDGE GAVE WAY. Four Dread and Three Injured at Windom, Minn. Engineer Carl Rasmussen, Fireman F. E. Roberts and an unknown man were buried under three engines, twenty freight cars and much bridge wreckage in the Des Moines river at Windom, Minn. A double and a single headed train went on the bridge at the same time and broke down a span. Fireman Stratton was removed alive, but died a few hours later. Engineer C. P. Yeomans, Fireman Fews and Fireman George Merrills were injured. - hot Hie Father’s Assailant. A shooting occurred at Greenfield, Ohio. Hervey Greaves, colored, an employe at a livery stable, owed a small bill at Dye’s restaurant and the proprietor called for his money. A quarrel followed, when Greaves knocked Dye down. Vai Dye, son of the restaurateur, borrowed a revolver and shot Greaves, making a wound which the doctors pronounce fatal. tadler Confirmed as Governor. The Nevada Supreme Court has rendered k decision in the governorship contest. By the decision Reinhold Sadler, the silverite, wins the case by sixty plurality, an increase of forty votes over the original count. Three Killed by a Train. While Jasper Beebe, his son, a daughter and two grandchildren were crossing the railroad tracks four miles east of Albia, lowa, a passenger train crashed into their vehicle. Three were killed and one of the children was fatally injured.

Deed of a Jealous Wife. At Port Huron, Mich., Mrs. Judson Harrendeen fired three shots at her husband from a revolver and then killed herself with a shot in the head. Harrendeen may recover. The woman’s jealousy caused the tragedy. Trains Collide Near Kansas City. A passenger train, north bound on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad, collided with a freight train fifteen miles southeast of Kansas City. Four persons were killed and four others more or less seriously injured. Drowning of a Chicago Man. Al Robinson, formerly bookkeeper of the Chicago Gas Light Company, was drowned on way out of the mountains of Wyoming, where he had been fishing and hunting during the past summer. Hundreds Are Killed. • There was a disastrous earthquake at Aidin, Asia Minor. Hundreds of persons were killed in the Valley of the Mender. MARKET QUOTATIONS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $1.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2,34 cto 35c; oats, No. 2,22 c to 24c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 58c; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 17c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime, $3.25 ‘to $4.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 67c to 69c; corn, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2,, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 58c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25: hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to S4.UO; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 25c to 26c; rye, No. 2,62 cto 63c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25: hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. -2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c; rye, 59c to 61c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; rye, iNo. 2,58 c to 60e; clover seed, $5.15 to $5.20. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 69c to 71c; com, No. 3,31 cto 33c; oats. No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 1,58 cto 59c; barley, No. 2,45 cto 47c; pork, mesa, SB.OO to $8.50. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers* $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, common to choke, $3.25 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $6.09. New York-Cattle, $3.25 to $6.5* hogs, $3.00 to $5285; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 77c; corn. No. 2, 89c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; ! butter, creamery, 18c to 24c; eggs, werttrn, IS*? to 200.

CROWDS CRY FOE WAR

PEACE MEETING IN LONDON ALMOST A RIOT. English-Boer Demonstration in Trafalgar Square Brings 50,000 Crying War—Maeses Back Up lhamberlain, Approving Hia South African Policy. Trafalgar square, London, was the scene Sunday of a meeting which will become historic as showing the strong drift of the masses in England toward war. A peace demonstration had been advertised to be held in the square, where Nelson on the top of his monument has looked down on many a gathering significant of popular opinion when the tide of feeling runs high. The leaders of the peace party were to make one last, supreme effort aud demonstration to influence public opinion. The radical press during the past week gave conspicuous place to notices of the coming meeting, while the other papers were ominously silent, though a suggestion was dropped that a counter demonstration was not unlikely. Acting upon this hint, Britons of both persuasions were present Sunday, but, as events soon showed conclusively, the war party was overwhelmingly ’in the ascendant. Only one speaker essayed to plead for peace. What he said is matter of conjecture, as no sooner had he begun than on the outskirts of the crowd of 50,000 people some one started “Rule Britannia.” The chorus soon rolled over the square and swallowed up all other sounds. Nevertheless the speaker continued his address with an earnestness and determination fully as British as that of his hostile audience, but not long. Soon missiles of various kinds—decayed apples, aged eggs and whatever else came handy —rhurtled through the air; rushes were made upon the stand, soldiers who happened to be present were carried on the shoulders of the crowd and only the appearance and prompt action of mounted police enabled the speaker and his friends to escape with their lives. What was intended to be a protest against the drift of events toward war was turned into a demonstration that showed unmistakably that the tide of English feeling now funs too high in the Transvaal affair to be stayed by public discussion. Not only from the Trafalgar square meeting, but from the general tone of the English press and t>f the people, wherever the latter have given expression to their views, it is clear that the nation is back of Salisbury and Chamberlain and that it is only among scholarly statesmen such as Morley, or writers such as Frederic Harrison, that peace finds advocates. Even those seem to recognize the futility of their attempts to stem the current. Press comment is altogether partisan, the Government organs approving the crowd and the opposition claiming it was a preconcerted movement. Johannesburg advices report a wholesale dislocation of the Rand mining industry. All the mines are closing; all the Boer defenses are being strengthened. War seems the only possible outcome unless Kruger takes heed of the coming storm and bends before it.

ODD FELLOWS’ JUBILEE.

Celebration of the Sevent.v-fiffk Anniversary of the Ord-r. The diamond jubilee of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows was recently celebrated in Detroit. A public welcome was extended at the Detroit Opera House by Mayor Maybury and Michigan Odd Fellow officials. Representatives from every State and territory and the Canadian provinces were present. Alfred S. Pinkjprton. grand sire, responded to the welcomes, after which’ the sovereign grand ledge representatives proceeded to Harmonic Hall, where the first business session was held. It was estimated that 10,000 persons connected with the various divisions of Odd Fellows were in- the city. The passing in review of 4,500 Odd Fellows and their sisters of ’the Rebekah order was the finest and largest procession seen in Detroit since the great G. A. R. parade in 1890. Fully a score of bands furnished the music. Brig. Gen. Martin, commander of the Michigan department of the Patriarchs Militant, led 1,000 members of the military branch of Odd Fellowship, all in full uniform, carrying drawn swords. Ohio sent six cantons of patriarchs, Indiana three, New York- three, Pennsylvania three, Massachusetts three, Michigan three and St. Thomas, Ont., one. Lodges vied with each other as to turning out the greater number of men uniformed in some striking manner. The representatives of the sovereign grand Ibdge occupied respective carriages, designed by shields hung thereon, bearing the names of the States the- occupants represented. Propositions to make membership in both the Patriarchs Militant and graqd encampment compulsory for representatives of the sovereign grand lodge were defeated in the session of the sovereign grand lodge. A proposition to hold biennial sessions instead of annual was also voted down. Richmond, Va., was chosen as the place of meeting in 1900.

LAKE CRAFT IN PERIL.

Vessels Caught in the Storm Have Hard Rnn« to Reach afety. Chicago was the center Sunday of a storm area whose strange influences made night of early afternoon and transformed Lake Michigan from Evanston to South Chicago into a sea almost as troubled as the Atlantic off the dreaded Hatteras during the autumn gales. The wind attained a velocity of forty-seven miles an hour and wrought havoc with pleasure craft in the harbor and along the shore. A number of yachts were capsized in the* basin. The life-saving rrews were kept busy afternoon and evening answering signals of distress and going to the assistance of imperiled boatmen. • . - Two cars on the Brooklyn, N. Y., elevated railroad were burned while on the way to Coney Island. The cars were filled with passengers. The fuse in the motor blew out, which fired the cars. The passengers became panic-stricken. Some of the women attempted to climb out of the windows, but were prevented. ■ ■ .1 Louis Lapiner, Chicago, father of little Gerald Lapiner. who was kidnaped, is bankrupt Liabilities $24,000, no assets. . , Bob Roberts. dtvalry, wasJkillod

BUSINESS SITUATION.

Chicago Correspondence: Genera] business conditions continue to improve. Money has worked somewhat lower, but the market is still far from easy. The call rate has been held close to 6 per cent during the greater portions of the time in New York, and time money has been at about the same level. But up to the present time it is only the speculative element whose peace of mind hasbeeu disturbed by the flurry in money rates. Should money remain tight for any length of time legitimate business interests would undoubtedly be made to suffer to some extent, but the best financial opinion is that there is no danger of that. Whatever stringency exists now is thought to be due largely to demands for funds for crop-moving purposes, and also in a measure ito over-trading by some large stock exchange operators. Trading in grain was dull and sluggish the first half of the week, during which, time there seemed to be little to encourage buyers. The heavy increase of wheat in the visible supply that was announced Monday appeared at the time to approvethe course of those who had been speculating for a decline in the price of that commodity. The previous stock in commercial hands had- been considered oppressively heavy and the large addition, referred to, with a still further increaseexpected as the result of free receiptsthis week, was thought to be incompatible with a rise in price. Reasoning from such promises proved deceptive, as it took no account of the possible accidents that might arise from the too greaf eagernessof sellers to press that condition to their immediate advantage, while holders of wheat had not yet’ become convinced of its permanency; , Short selling of wheat which does not dislodge the holdings of previous purchasers never proves effective in permanently disturbing values, because of the absolute necessity the short seller is under of becoming sooner or latey a purchaser. This theory was proved correct when a prominent Chicago firm that had been conspicuous as a short seller undertook to buy back what it had sold. It found few willing to part with wheat as low as it had done. The failure of that firm in consequence and forced purchases in the market for its account was the principal incident of the week, causing an advance that closed wheat at an appreciation of 2 cents a bushel compared with its value a week before.

GRANT-CANTACUZENE.

President’s Granddaughter Weds w Russian Nob.'eman,* Miss Julia Dent Grant, daughter of Gen. Frederick D. Grant and granddaughter of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, was married in "X. N e wport, R. 1., MonPrince Mi- /AM J ft. chael Can- \;

name is his only ungraceful feature, is 25 years of age and is a lieutenant in the Imperial Guards. His family is one of the oldest in Russia and the young prince became the head of his house not long ago by the death of his father. He possesses vast estates to the eastward of Moscow, where he maintains a magnificent chateau. He is said to be unusually talented and a young man of fine character. A member of the house of the prince was the Russian minister to the United States at Washington not many years, ago. The name Centacuzene in Russia dates from the time of the Byzantine Empire, when Constantinople was the capital. It is now a familiar one in BusRia and Roumania. The father of Miss Grant’s fiance was director of the foreign religions to the minister of the interior* as all faiths outside of the Greek Church —the established church of Russia—are included in the administration of the interior department. Prince Cantacuzene* who has also the title of Count Spera nsky, is related on the maternal side to the late Prince Gortschakoff, who, a quarter of a century ago, was the “Grand Old Man of Russia.’’ being grand chancellor of Russia and minister of foreign relations.

REBEL WORKS ARE DESTROYED.

. Naval Expedition Bombards Olongapo*. on tubig *»y. The monitor Monterey, the cruiser Charleston and the gunboats Concord and Zafiro bombarded the Filipino work* at Olongapo for six hours. 'The town caught fire from .the shells and was consumed. Two hundred and fifty marines and bluejackets landed and occupied the works. The insurgents used a sixteeneentimeter Krupp gun, the shells of which were loaded with guncotton. One American was wounded. The town of Olongapo : is on Subig bay. The fact that .the insurgents were erecting earthworks and otherwise fortifying the place led Admiral Watson to send the naval expedition to destroy the fortifications. It is reported that the insurgents have captured the United States gunboat Urdaneta, in the Arani river, on the northwest side of Manila bay, where she was ? stroking. The United States gunboat - etrel, sent to investigate the matter, returned and reported the Urdaneta beached. She was riddled with bullets and burned. The crew of the'Urdaneta are prisoners, or have been killed. > < » • ■ » •. ■ ■ J The crown lands at Kanauki and Leilehua, Hawaii, will be taken by the Gover&nent tor militarv nurDoses. Thev con* tain 2,584 acres..

tacuzene of Russia. Because of her father’s absence in the Philippines her uncle and her aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago, entertain in her honor. 3 Miss Grant i» J about 24 years old, s and a beautiful brujnette. Her future husband, whose