Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1899 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN I OEO E. MARSHALL .Publisher. it ■ • NSSELAER, - • INDIAN-.

MARCONI LEAVES US.

BEitlS TELEGRAPHIC SYSTEM WILL H |S|p NOT BE USED. Hbnited States Government Abandons It | Experiments with It-Can Only Signal ■ E9O Miles by Water or 12 by Land— E I Activity at Duluth. H I Far the present, at least there will be inn attempt to experiment with the MarH»»n! prices telegraph in connection signal service system of our lips® General Greely, chief signal ofH gßS'Bays as much. It is given out that ■ brought by Signor MarEl Kjjl-to this country is unsuited to greater than twelve miles by land and WmMxty by water. The signal corps can H afcerate its own system a distance of H l|irelve miles, and so there would be no iHK«*fcal use in experimenting with the ISt system. This is said to conclude the ||Pp|gotiatk>ns, which have been in progiifhs for some time. Signor Marconi has Id for England, and in this cooneck is said that Great Britain is oos to try wireless telegraphy in its paign in South Africa. This report k given much credence in army and f circles, however, as the signor Id hardly be able to reach the Transin time to do much service. CVATOR FALLS FIVE STORIES. Persons injured by the Sudden * Dropping of the Cage. ie elevator in the Phoenix building, of the largest structures in Minuets, fell five stories when filled with engers. Ten persons were injured, ral of them seriously. The injured O. B. Trafton, L. Armstrong, GarDonaldson, J. H. Tallmadge Sr., W. Place, Arthur Fredenburg, Edwin kohl, Charles B. Martin, J. H. Tallge Jr., and an unidentified- woman, cause of the accident was the giving of the cable in the socket attached to car, and when the carriage dropped ■ ■■to heavy weights, detached from their BHptenings at the eleventh story, fell on |fljjt| crashing the occupants of the cage in Si Bpe?l»a*ement. The most severe injuries j|HMr broken legs, and it is thought that all ||§to victims will recover. The elevator iHas inspected a few days ago and reportiKto be in a first-class condition. I M, COUNTY RICH IN MINERALS. 1 1 fDoal and Gold Said to Exist in the Land HI I;.. of the Eskimos. 1 ||J. A. Osborne, editor of the Fort FranHjßudson Bay country and went clear into i pie Eskimo land beyond, where the In- ■ pßane live. He says the stories printed a I pSew weeks ago of the riches of Unguva | phmd ore correct. It is a great counwy. §H« has a specimen of coal from a mine I Hiring opened and will soon be shipping. | Hpg * -quality of anthracite, with very | Bight specific gravity and a very high I !*percent»ge of carbon. He thinks it will I jCnd a large market. Work on the gold 1 lißelds is very active. I | BNGLAND NEEDS BIRCHWOOD. 11 Duluth May Ship Lumber Abroad sot | - Spoolmaking. I Ipßnluth lumbermen have been receiving enquiries of late from England as to I ilrirchwood for spoolmaking, to be deliv--11 ered at the seaboard for export. It is lEjiaite probable that later a business in lEpris class of timber may be developed. lltCedar and spruce lands are also in big I nriuod, the former for railway ties and lEjjthe latter for pulp wood, and a large IBppMr of each is being shipped. It is 11 expected that at least 40,000,000 feet of lumber will be shipped east and IMgMhMst from Duluth the coming winI Feat of the Holland Boat. I I Under the waters of Petopic hay, on I Bpnng Island sound, a marvel was aceomwhich the naval officers who witiHjpned it say is destined to revolutionize la-pa Val warfare. From the Holland subUpMcrhie boat, at a depth of ten feet, a 1 BpFhßefoead torpedo was discharged with|BbUt causing so much as a ripple on the |Kprfaoe of the bay. The test was witIphwucd by the board of inspection and I Btore Is rnrned. pjn Kansas City half a million dollars’ ininirth of property was destroyed by fire lEthat started in Jones Bros.’ big departig; iDeat store and spread to half a block of lljpllier buildings. The aggregate insurance I K|§ estimated at $375,000. Jones Bros.’ valued at $300,000, was totally dejgipjs I ; <Otar D’Alene Miners Guilty. I EjM: Moscow, Idaho, the jury returned a I L verdict Of guilty in the case of ten and I Kt guilty in the case of three of the I iSpbeur d’Alene miners who have been on I K**> * n the United States Court on a * jefearge of conspiracy and stopping a I plaited States mail train at Wallace on |§'Ajttil 29 last. I §: Dreyfus’ Accuser a Convict. I IdlUaj. Count Esterhazy, the reputed auI Bpijk Of the bordereau which brought I Mplfc/ the conviction of Capt. Alfred 1 on the charge of treason, was IBpriitenced at Paris by default on hie mpl Christian's charge of swindling to g/pluee.years’ imprisonment and to pay a | Wjfpumm Honeck’e Life Is Spared. I pßichaxd Honeek. who pleaded guilty to 1 Plt',i* Bar^er of Walter F. Koeller, was to life imprisonment by Judge I anker of Chicago. He declined to say I gprthiSf before sentence was proNcgrtt* and Miners Riot. EHKjibt becarred at Bevier. Mo., between P Striking miners an<l 'bc^nea a * ,

I TO CSS MARCONI SYSTEM. -f . Aatrlcia CompanyOWm Connect Five Hawaiian Islands. Telegraphic communication by Sig. Marconi’s wireless system is to be established between five of the Hawaiian % Islands by a company of Americans. Frederick J. Gross, of the firm of Catton, Neill & Co., engineers of Honolulu, has closed a contract for the American company in Hawaii. Although many engineers regarded the connection of the live islands by cable as impracticable, because of coral reefs, on which a cable is soon covered with coral growth, breaks are frequent and repairs exceedingly difficult, the American company had about decided to attempt it, as the needs of telegraphic communication had grown most urgent. Then they heard of Sig. Marconi’s achievements, and Mr. Cross was sent to this country to view the workings of his system. He found that the Marconi system would cost much less and be more practicable in many ways than a cable. Regular telegraph business will be done by the company installing the wireless system. The distance over which communication will be established will vary from eight to sixty-one miles. MURDER AND SUICIDE AT HOTEL.. Railroad Detective Kills His Wife and Blows His Own Head Of£ Andrew H. Patterson* a railroad detective, shot and instantly killed his wife and then blew the top of his head off at Bartl’s hotel, State and Harrison streets, Chicago. In a letter written to Night Clerk Elliott, Hitterson explained that he was tired of living such a life and added that jealousy had caused him to commit murder and suicide. Three shots were fired by the desperate man, two into the body of his wife and the third into his own head. When the sharp reports of the revolver rang out from Patterson’s apartments nearly every guest rushed from their rooms to learn the trouble. Clerk Elliott battered down the door leading to Patterson’s room and found husband and wife dead. It is thought that he put the barrel of the weapon in his mouth and fired, as the head was nearly blown from the shoulders. DEATHS dub to gunpowder. Two Employes of a Factory Fatally 1 nrnod Through Dust on Clothing, While five workmen in the Fontanet powder mill near Terre Haute, Ind„ were sitting in the electric power house a burned-out fuse threw a spark on the hat of Sam King, one of the men. The hat was impregnated with powder dust, as was also his clothing. In an instant he was ablaze. As he ran for the door he brushed against Alsa Mcßride and Burt Overby, both of whom blazed up from the contact and ran after him. Other men pulled off the blazing clothing and hurried the men to the wash-house, where they were drenched. King and Mcßride died from their injuries. ENTIRE CLASS (SUSPENDED. Capital University Sophomores Refnse to Make Public Apology. The entire sophomore class of Capital University, east of Columbus, Ohio, where young men are prepared for the Evangelical Lutheran ministry, has been suspended for refusal to make a public apology. The class petitioned for permission to spend a day in the city, but, being refused, the boys went regardless of the faculty. They were given the alternative of making a public apology or being indefinitely suspended. They did not apologize. Other students have erected a monument at the head of a mound of earth, inscribed: “In Memoriam, Class of 1902.”

Chicago Property Burned. Buildings at 39-43 West Washington street, Chicago, were consumed by flames. The first floor of the burned building is occupied by the Empire steam carpet cleaning works and M. McGregor & Co., manufacturers of machinery. The second floor was occupied by Frank Swett & Co., saw manufacturers, and the third by the Becker Brothers, electrical engine manufacturers. The property of these companies is almost a total loss. Prefers Death to Marriage. At Greencastle, Ind., Warren Kahley made an unsuccessful attempt at suicide. Kahley wrote a note to his mother, bidding her and his friends goodby, saying that he preferred death to matrimony. Kahley fired two shots, one going wild, the other making a wound near his heart. After the shooting the fact developed that Kahley was to have been married that evening to Miss Laura Watson of North Greencastle. Colossal Combine Under Way. One of the greatest financial combinations of the century is in process of formation. The organizers of the Continental Telegraph, Telephone and Cable Company, recently incorporated in New Jersey, have obtained control of all the independent telephone companies in the United States and aim to combine these with the great telegraph companies and the five Atlantic cable companies. Angry Girl Wounds a Boy. An 11-year-old school girl named Owens, returning from school at Mortonville, Ohio, had some trouble with the other children. She ran to her home, secured a musket and deliberately fired into a group of children, fatally wounding a boy named Bebow. Blows Men to Atoms. A terrific explosion occurred at Aetna, Ind., in the Aetna powder mills, in which two men were killed and one man injured. The explosion was in the dynamite mixing house, the cause not being exactly known. Princely Gift to Harvard. Maj. Henry Lee Higginson of the class of ’65, who gave Soldiers’ field to Harvard University, has given $150,000 to be used for the erection and equipment of a building suitable for the uses of the Harvard University Club. Two Killed by a Train. A passenger train on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway struck Mrs. Nickota Andrydjcxak with her 4-year-ojld child in her arms, at South Chicago and killed both instantly. Art Ftndent Murdered. Frederick Hardy, Jr., art student and an of Tennessee milliou .Ire, found murdered in New YorL. Evidence of desperate struggle. Probably killed for his money. _____ T Die Under Falling Walls The collapse of a six-story building on West Lake street, Chicago, and its subsequent destruction by fire, killed four peitons and caused a property loss of $200,000.

SUNK BY RUSSIANS.

JAPANESE SEALER SENT TO THE BOTTOM. Is Caught Poaching by the Gunboat Alexia and Fired Upon While Attempting to Escape-Whaler Takea Many Whalea and Much Ambergris. The whaling bark Charles W. Morgan, which has arrived at San Francisco from Japanese waters, brings the story of the sinking of a Japanese sealing schooner by the Russian gunboat Alexis. The schooner. which carried a crew of twenty-one men, was caught poaching on Russian sealing preserves. It was almost dark, and the sealer tried to elude the gunboat. A shot was fired across her bows, but she kept on her course. Then the Russian captain ordered his guns trained on the schooner. Three of her men were picked up by the Russian boat, but the rest were drowned. Two Japanese schooners were on the forbidden grounds when the Alexis appeared. Both schooners tried to escape and separated. One of them was sunk, but in stopping to pick up the survivors, the Alexis allowed the other to escape. It was this schooner which the Morgan spoke and from whom the news of the accident was obtained. WHALER’S GOOD LUCK. Took Fifty Wales and Secured Sixty Pounds of Ambergris. The whaling bark Charles W. Morgan, which has arrived at San Francisco from the Okhotsk Sea, during her year’s cruise secured 1,400 barrels of sperm oil, 2,600 pounds of bone and 60 pounds of ambergris. The latter was an especially good find, as it will bring from $250 to S4OO a pound. The ambergris was landed in Japan, and has already been sent to the owners of the vessel, J. and W. Wing of New Bedford. The Morgan caught in all forty-eight sperm whales and two right whales. bHi ors AND KILLS HIS BROTHER William Wilson of Pike County Receives Ballet Meant for Another. John Wilson shot and killed hi* brother, William Wilson, at Oatsviile, Ind. Wilson quarreled in a church with Joseph Wiggs. He was asked to come outside, and began shooting at Wiggs. After he fired three shots his brother, who was standing near Wiggs, fell over dead, having been shot in the heart Wilson is a son of one of the wealthiest citizens in Pike County and was recently married. Palace for a Japanese Prince. T. Katayama, architect in chief of the imperial household of Japan, is at Tacoma, Wash., en route home. He has been in the East for the last two months letting contracts for material and equipment to be used in the erection of a grand palace for the Crown Prince of Japan. He says the materials alone for the palace will cost $500,000.

Porter Held for Trial. George W. Birchett, a colored porter employed by the Adams Express Company, was arraigned in police court at New York and held for trial on a charge of stealing a money bag containing $6,000 in gold from the company’s office. Birchett confessed the theft, and said he had taken the gold out of the company’s office in a bundle of wood. Cass Lake Town Rite la Sold. The Cass Lake (Minn.) townsite on the Chippewa Indian reservation, over which there has been a hard contest for a long time, was sold at the St. Cloud land office. The site went in four parcels, the total price being $17,994.38, going to Sidney L. Wright of Philadelphia, the Eastern Minnesota Railway and the A. Sauk Lumber Company. Bryan Meets with Mishap. In order to meet an engagement to speak at.Ravenna, Neb., W. J. Bryaik was driven across country from Loup City, twenty-two miles, three relays of horses being employed. When about five miles from the start the carriage was upset over an embankment and Mr. Bryan and the other occupants were thrown out. All were more or less bruised. Big Steel Plants Purchased. John E. Searles of New York, president of the American Cotton Company, has closed the purchase of the Bessemer steel plant at West Superior, the Ironton steel plant, and the big car works in Duluth. The cost of the purchase and the putting of the plants in shape to operate is $2,000,000.

Whipping of Prisoner* Illegal. The Supreme Court of Tennessee lias decided that no work house, city, county or State prison keeper has a legal right to whip "a prisoner therein. The court sustained a judgment for SSOO returned by a lower court against the keeper of the Knox County work house for whipping a colored woman who was unruly. Thomaaville, Ala., t-nffers from Fire. A disastrous fire started at Thomasville, Ala., in the office of N. B. Boyle’s large store, and every business house in town except H. Morningstar & Co. and J. P. Turner & Sons, was burned. Very few goods were saved from any of the buildings. Tinplate Mills to f lose. The Pittsburg plants of the American Tinplate Company are preparing to shut down indefinitely. They will be idle, probably, after Nor. 15, and just when they will start up again, if ever, is a question in which some TOO workmen are much interested. Mine Operator Burned to Death. Mrs. Frank E. Tyler of Kansas City received a telegram from Alpine, Colo., stating that her husband had been burned to death in his cabin near his property there. Tyler was a well-known mining operator. Won by Jeffries. James J. Jeffries retained his title of heavyweight champion of the world after one of the hardest battles ever fought by big men in this country. He fought Sharkey in New York. Confeeae-* fie Stole $6,000 Sherwell Kershaw, formerly cashier of the Detroit Copper Company of 239 Lake street, Chicago, surrendered to the police in St. Louis. He confessed to having embezzled $6,000. Fatal Kxplosion at Sheffield, England. A boiler Explosion at the steel works of Southern & Richardson in Sheffield. England, killed four and injured twenty persons.

INSTANTLY KILL 9 HIB EMPLOYE. William Waiuacatt f'hoots George A. Tnnke at t- pringfield, 11L William Wainscott, a gardener, shot and killed George A. Tunks, hi* hired man, at Springfield, IIL The murder was committed at Wainscott’s home, which was also the home of Tunks and his wife. After the shooting Wainscott walked to the police station and gave himself up. He claims he did the shooting in self-de-fense. The shooting was the culmination of differences that had existed between Wainscott and Tunks for the last week. Tunks, with his wife and child, had been living at Wainscott’s house and Mrs. Tunks was doing th ehousework. Wainscott is a single man and he paid Mrs. Tunks for her services. Wainscott discharged Tunks a few days ago and ordered the latter and his family to leave his house. This they refused to do, as Tunks claimed Wainscott owed him for labor. TO LOAN MON NY ON CATTLE. Company Formed at Pt, Joseph, Mo.— Chicagoans Are Interested. The St. Joseph Cattle and Loan Company of SL Joseph, Mo., has been organized. The officers are: President, J. P. Lyman of Hammond, Ind.; vice-president and treasurer, Gordon Jones, St. Joseph; directors, P. J. Lyman of Hammond, A. H. Veeder of Chicago, John Donovan, Jr., general manager of the St. Joseph Stock Yards Company; E. L. Lindsay of St. Joseph and Gordon Jones. In addition to the above directors the names of G. F. Swift and Edward Morris of Chicago, are among the incorporators and stockholders. The company is capitalized at SIOO,OOO. It will invest in ranches and loan money on cattle.

IOR KILLING A HERMIT. Two Chicagoans Sentenced to the Penitentiary for Life. In Chicago, Sigmund Brosch and Emil Swart were convicted of the murder of Martin S. Meier last June and sentenced to the Joliet penitentiary for life. MeieT, who was 70 years old and wealthy, lived the life of a hermit. He befriended the two men while they were out of employment, and they, in turn, tried to rob him. After securing all the money in the house they tied Meier hand and foot and gagged him with a potato. Meier choked to death. The men were finally captured in Michigan. They denied intent to kill Meier. .Engineer White Is Drowned. The telegram from Castillo, Nicaragua, saying Engineer Clark and a party belonging to the United States canal commission had been drowned turns out to be incorrect. El Commercio published a dispatch saying that it was Engineer White, and not Engineer Clark, and two of the party belonging to the United States canal commission who were drowned. Fire at Mng Sing. The new administration building at Sing Sing, N. Y., prison, built by convict labor under Warden Sage, and considered to be one of the handsomest structures of the kind in the country, was half destroyed by fire. The loss is about $50,000; uninsured. Train Hits Trolley. Dense fog was the cause of a collision between a local passenger train on the Wabash Railroad and an electric train in Chicago. The trailer was demolished, the motor car was wrecked and three persons were hurt. Ferry Landing Breaks. The lauding stage of the Waesland railroad ferryboat, on the left bank of the Scheldt, Belgium, broke in two on the arrival of the first train. Many persons fell into the water and fifteen or twenty of them were drowned. Corpse for a Captain. The schooner yacht Chiquita was cast on the beach of Lake Michigan off Miller’s Station, Ind. The corpse of a man was found on the deck, the rest of those on board having evidently been washed overboard. Alvin .m Dead. Ex-Gov. Alvin Saunders died at Omaha. His daughter is the wife of Maj. Russell Harrison, son of the ex-Presi-dent. The infirmities of old age caused the ex-Governor’s death. Mother and Daughter ‘lain. Near Hancock, Mass., George Herman, a farm hand, shot and killed Mrs. lihoda and her daughter, Eliza Jane, and attempted to commit suicide. 1 cKinley at a Launching. At launch of torpedo boat Shubrick at Richmond. Va., President McKinley spoke of development of United States. MARKET QUOTATIONS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 69c; corn, No. 2,30 cto 32c; oats, No. 2,22 c to 23c; rye, No. 2,50 cto 62c; butter, choice creamery, 23c to 24c; eggs, fresh, 17c to 19c; potatoes, choice, 25c to 35c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.50; sheep, common to prime, $3.25 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red,, 66c to 68c; corn, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c. Bt. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 73c; eorn, N0."2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2,24 cto 25c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 56c. .... Cincinnati —Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 26c; rye, No. 2,61 cto 63c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2,69 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c. to 28c; rye, 60c to 62c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 69c to 70c; com, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats, .No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2,57 c to 58c; clover seed, $6.70 to $6.80. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 68c to 68c; com. No. 3,32 cto 33c; oats. No, 2 white, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 1,54 cto 56c; barley, No. 2,45 cto 47c; pork, mesa, SB.OO to $8.50.

SAYS WAR MUST GO ON

REPORT OF THE PHILIPPINE COMMISSION. Members Unanimous in Declaring that the United States Should Remain In the Philippines—Are Not Ready for Self-Gsverment. The preliminary statement of the Philippine commission was handed to President McKinley Thursday. An unanimity of opinion favoring the retention of the islands, the intimation being made that it will be a long time before the natives can govern themselves, add that government of the islands by the United States is the archipelago’s only salvation, are the main features of the document. No advice, however, is given as to the proper course to pursue in the premises, and the statements made tend to lay all the blame on Aguinaldo for existing hostilities. The historical events leading up to the rebellion of Aguinaldo against American authority.are succinctly recorded, including a statement of the grievances that led to the uprising of the natives against Spain in 1896 and the responsibility for the existing condition of hostility between the insurgents and the American forces is clearly placed on tjie shoulders of the rebel leader, whose aim is shown to be not the advancement of his fellow countrymen, but solely the gratification of his personal ambitions. In the language of the commissioners, instead of being a patriot, a great champion of freedom and a second George Washington, Aguinaldo is pictured as a miserable, shifting, tricky, treacherous, murderous upstart, whom Gen. Otis and other Americans would be unwilling to even associate with. One conclusion the commissioners reach relates to the capability of the Filipinos for self-government. According to their idea the people are not ready for it. The report of the commission makes it plain that at no time could the abandonment of the position taken when the American flag was raised over Manila have been seriously considered as compatible with the honor of the United States or its duty to the vast population of the archipelago placed in its hands by the treaty of Paris. The gist of the report specifies the need for American occupancy and urges the necessity for maintaining the army, • Among the more prominent suggestions embodied in the statement are references regarding the good conduct of the Americans now there and the bright future for the isiuuds under the domination of Spain’s successor. Concluding it says: “Our control means to the inhabitants of the Philippines internal peace and order, a guarantee against foreign aggression and against the dismemberment of their country, commercial and industrial prosperity and as large a share of the affairs of government as they shall prove fit to take. When peace and prosperity shall have been established throughout the archipelago, when education Shall have become general, then, in the language of a leading Filipino, his people will under our guidance, ‘become more American than the Americans themselves.’ ” The report is signed by J. G. Schurman, George Dewey, Charles Denby and Dean C. Worcester.

WOULD BRING ON WAR

To Interfere by Force with Practices Among the Sains. Prof. Schurman of the Philippine commission says the treaty this Government made with the Sulu Sultan is the same in effect which the natives had with Spain. Before the United States troops stopped at Jolo, Prof. Schurman paid the Sultan a visit and talked at great length with him. The Sultan is most anxious to

SULTAN OF SULU.

be friendly with the Americans and he believes they mean to treat him and his people fairly. The religion of the natives is Mohammedan and they are both ignorant and fanatical. Polygamy is a part of their religion and slavery in the shape of a sort of feudal bondage exists. The men on the islands are powerful and strong and they are desperate fighters. They consider death, in the cause of religion, the easiest and surest way to heaven. Prof. Schuraan says if the United States tries to interfere with rights and customs in the Sulu islands it will provoke a long and Moody war.

HERRON FORCED TO RESIGN.

Radical Lecturer Give* Up the Fight in low* College. In accession to the wishes of the trustees of the lowa College at Grbmell, Prof. George D. Herron has handed in his resignation, which was accepted at a session of the trustees called for the purpose. Prof. Herron says k had become evident that his presence was hurting the school. The endowment of $35,000 by Mrs. Rand of Burlington is now certain to stand, the attitude of Prof. Herron now making no difference concerning its acceptance.

Drawbacks of Life in Kimberley.

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IN THE PUBLIC EYE

There is something of a parallel between the action of Admiral Dewey and that of Patrick Henry. The latter re-

PATRICK HENRY.

wrote a letter to the Virginia statesman Oct. 9, 1795, in which he offered him the State portfolio, but it was refused. Three months later Washington tendered him the Chief Justiceship. But Henry preferred to remain in retirement. When Adams became President Henry was offered a nomination as Envoy to France, but the Virginian refused this as he later did one as Governor of his State. Finally, in 1799, he was elected to the State Senate, but refused to take his seat. Princess Stephanie of Belgium, whose betrothal to Count Lonyay of AustriaHungary has recently been announced,

la the second daughter of King Leopold 11. of Belgium, and her dowry will prove quite an important accompaniment to the hand with Which she will honor her future husband. Stephanie | was born May 21,, 1864, and on May 10, 1881, she was

married to Archduke Diede Rudolf, son of Emperor Francis Joseph, and heir to the imperial throne. When her husband died in January, 1889, the chance of the archduchess to be empress passed away and she has lived in quiet ever since, The future wife of Count Lonyay is 35 years old and quite pretty.

When the English Parliament opened the other day a queer old eustom, which has come down since 1605, was observed

GUY FAWKES.

histories tell, the vault under the House of Parliament was filled with barrels of gunpowder and Guy Fawkes, though by no means the chief conspirator, was caught while getting ready to light the fuse which would have blown Lords and Commons alike higher than the top of the tower. Fawkes and a number of his fellow-plotters were executed after they had been tortured to make them confess, and the day of the discovery of the plot, Nov. 5, was proclaimed a holiday. James Logue, the notorious bank robber, who died in the county almshouse in Philadelphia recently, spent more than

half his life in prison. His stealings are said to figure into the millions. He was sent to the reform school in Philadelphia at the age of 10 years, and ever since until within the last dozen years the Pinkertons have been constantly on his trail. He was considered the most skillful bank robber of the century.

Three of the greatest bank robberies in Philadelphia have*been traced directly to him. During the latter years of his life he had been living on charity and was too feeble to work, although only 02 years of age. The capital of Colorado, having no fall festival or Dewey celebration to make things exciting, has come to the front

BIGGEST PEACH.

measures four and a half inches in diameter and weighs twenty-one ounces.

OLD WORLD NOTABLES

President Kruger, sleeps ten honrs each night. The Duchess of Leeds is author of half a dozen books. President Kroger knows nearly half of the Bible by heart. Three English lords are members of th? bar—Lords Coleridge, Colin and Robert Cecil. The Emperor of Austria’s salary Is $2,500.000 a year. The Duchess of Bedford has the finest collection of cats in the world. The Empress of Germany gets from 400 to 500 new dresses each year. Adelina Patti was born in Madrid, but riie seldom visits her native land. Paris has a new beauty. She U Mile, de Vere, a writer on Gil Bias.

fused both the {State portfolio in Washington’s Cabinet and the Chief Justiceship, of the Supreme Court of the United States. It is true that these are not so great offices as that of ‘President, but Henry had only to raise his hand to take them. President Washington

STEPHANIE.

as usual. While Parliament Y&>ted its officers searched the vaults below Parliament House for an imaginary Guy Fawkes. Not once since the gunpowder plot of 1605 was discovered has the search been omitted. At that time, as the school

JAMES LOGUE.

with a new claim to supremacy. It has placed on exhibition in the State Capitol building what it proudly announces is the largest peach ever grown in the world. The peach, which was grown on a farm in lAontezuma County, Colo.,