Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1900 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN, OEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. '~'i. ' - --*** l ' ■ .-^--=^=Tt<BS»7ffST RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

WRECKED BY A TEAM.

FLYER THROWN FROM THE RAILS IN PITTSBURG. Two Men Are Killed, bat Passenger* Fortunately Escape Unhurt Horse TonNt Bits—-Aaa and Son Slake Voyage from Gibraltar in Open Boat. The Pittsburg and Lake Erie flyer was partly wrecked in Pittsburg by striking a wagon. The accident resulted in the instant killing of two men and badly injuring another. None of the passengers was hurt. Harry Johnson was driving a heavy wagon and the horses became frightened by the train and ran on the track. Shafer and an unknown man ran to assist Johnson in getting his team off the track and the train struck the three rums. hurling them several hundred feet. One of the horses was literally torn to pieces and it was a piece of his flank becoming wedged between the track and a bridge girder that-derailed the rear portion of the train. >».*' i LONG VOYAGE IN' AN OPEN BOAT. Cipt. Johansen and Hl9 12-Year Old Son Cross the Atlantic. There arrived at Puuta Gorda, Fla., the Other day a small open boat that had Hpmpleted one (rs the most remarkable voyages on recoYu. The occupants of the j small craft were Capt. Peter Johansen Ohd his 12-year-old son Peter. They had \:j»ade the voyage from Gibraltar to Punta llSbrtta simply for the novel experience. The boat is an open craft, twenty-nine feet long, beam seven feet six inches. ; They left Gibraltar with 180 gallons of wate»Mind provisions for sixty days. They made the trip in exactly fifty-nine days. Capt. Johansen reports that they ' had a remarkably pleasant voyage. 'They usinie by way of the Canaries, the north - .coast of Santo Domingo, Porto Riyo and . landing only at Boca Grande. - OPEN SWITCH CAUSES WRECK. .Freight Trains on the Lake Erie and Western Collide. M ,'Three engines, a number of freight cars Sivrecked and a section of track torn up jpare the results of a collision near St. IpMary’s. Ohio, on the Lake Erie and iNyy.stern road, caused by ah open IfTbe west-bound local freight was in -switch when an east-bound double-header fast freight train came around a curve ’ ? and crashed into it; Xo one was injured, the engine crews leaping.

Dead in Kach Other’s Arms. R . Harry Bettis and Daisy Bly&enbnrg, L prominent young people, were found dead £ looked in each other's arms, seated on a I’ 1 bench in Corry Park, as Corry, Pa. They h'.* were lovers, and it is supposed to have been a ease of suicide. The girl was shot through the breast and the young ® naan through the head. He still held the i revolver in his hand with two chambers | empty. j-;' Train Wreck Barely Averted. Section hands saved the regular pasft senger train on the Bismarck. Washburn and Great Falls road, in Js'orth Dakota, from serious wreck. They discovered a ’’ pile of ties fastened to the rails at the .. entrants- to a cut, in such a fashion that, it disastrous wreck would have been inev--1 liable. Tramps are suspected.

Elmer E. Wing Kills Himself. i ! .Captain Elmer E. Wing, manager of the Welsbaeh Lamp Company, committed suicide in San Francisco by inhaling gas. Business troubles caused' him to f take his life. His wife and daughter reside in Delaware. Ohio. Fifty Killed on a Boat. According to the St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Daily Express, fifty persons were killed and mail}# others terribly scalded by a boiler explosion on board the steamer Eugenia, runt ling between Tomsk and Barnaul. Decapitated by Wheels of a Train. •Tames Xelsop, a sporting man, while alighting from the rear platform of the last car on the Chenango train oil the West Shore road at Syracuse, X. Y., slipped under tiie wheels. He was literally decapitated. Move Big Plant to America. A- Diekstod of Sheffield, Kflgthe largest manufacturers of «*rnsteel in Great Britain, are preparing fqKthe removal of their plant to the TTlied States. An option lias been taken |ton & site near Wheeling. W. Va. ' Robert Buchanan Paralyzed. TSHKobert Buchanan, the English novelist. -jHarKad a cerebral hemorrhage, which was ioilowed by pftralysis of the right side and complete loss of speech.

Tornado Hits Texas Towi). A tonßldo struck about half a mile west oflfodi, Texas. One house occupied by colored people was destiojed. six people being killed outright. Air Henry .Miller, a neighbor of Horace Greeley, Is dead at Chappaqua'* N. Y„ in bis eightieth year. He was the inventor of the steawi and air brake. Unlocked Switch Causes Wreck. An unlocked switch flew open under a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern train in Chicago rind caused a wreck in which eight exeursioßiist.s received injuries,. Sherman I» No More. John Sherman died at his residence in Washington of what the attendant physicians called brain exhaustion. Brian oil’s Bond Is Wiped Out. Tile force or rurales that started from Orizaba, Mexico, in pursuit of the nolorioiis CrUtolml Pedrnza and his baud of brigand* several Wfeks ago encountered lliV outlaws in their monptriiu stronghold and succeeded in killing Pedroza and capturing the ten members of His band. discover Gold in Labrador. '< A gifld country which rimy rival the A Klondike aiyl Cape .Nome regions bn# » ltet.fi overed by the Harvard cxplorwho spent the last summer in LiihrawLulmW’Wi;? ,:W *

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

GREAT FIRE IN OSHKOSH. Lnmber and Mills Burned, Loss Being" Nearly $300,000. Fire broke out in the sawmill district at Oshkosh, Wis., ai-.d in three hours it destroyed nearly $300,000 worth of property, mostly lumber stock. The tire spread over an area of nine acres, the district burned being between Black Hawk, Osceola and Pearl streets and. the rirer. The Diamond Match Company ifj the heaviest loser, its loss being placed at $175,000. The company had-between/ 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 feet of match splint lumber, valued at from $25 to $35 per thousand. This was nearly all destroyed. The fire started in the dressed lumber shed of the Flollister-Ames Company and spread with remarkable rapidity throughout the lumber-yard. The Hoi 1 ister. Aines Company:places itsdoss at SBO,OOO. Jn the same block as the Diamond Match Company the Chailoner’s Sons Foundry Company suffered a loss of between $15,000 and $20,000, its wood pattern-shops and several small store buildings in which'were stored finished ice machines and shingle machines being destroyed. ...n : - i_PROGRESS OF CENSUS WORK. Enumeration Work.on Twelfth Count of People Is Completed. The twelfth census, so far as the enumeration work is concerned, is completed. There were 53,000 enumerators and 297 supervisors. The cost of the enumeration will be about $4,200,000. Most of the enumerators have been paid. The factory work also is about finished. All of the special field agents in the manufacturing and industrial lines will complete their work and be paid off by Xov. 1. The cost of this work will be about $250,000. The entire force in the census bureau in Washington is now engaged in tabulating the statistics gathered. Tht report of the census bureau, when completed, will occupy eight volumes of 1,000 pages each. Although the work of the present is heavier by several million inhabitants than ever before, Director Merriam thinks it will be ready for the public six weeks earlier than heretofore.

AWED BY STRANGE CALLERS. Woman at Brookdale, N. J., Is Victim of Persecution. Masked men, spooks, midnight visitations and mystery are mixed up in a story which Jacob Gilman, farmer of Brookdale, N. J., has told to the police. Gilman says his place has been visited in his absence by armed masked men, who threatened to blow his wife’s head off unless she signs a paper which they have presented to her. He says she was too frightened to note the contents of the document. After three visits Gilman aroused his neighbors, and the country about his- place was scoured, but not a trace found of the mysterious strangers. Gilman hired a man, but when he went tojhe barn to look after the live stock the masked men again visited Mrs. Gilman and threatened her. He then hired a negro for n body guard, but they again put in an appearance and fired three shots at her. Gilman will employ detectives.

Wholesale Evictions at Burt Lake. The Indians of the Indian village at Burt lake. Michigan, are homeless. The land which they lived on was sold for taxes two or three years ago rind on Oct. 4, 1899, they promised to go away in the spring if the writ of assistance granted by the Circuit Court was not served and they were allowed to stay. A few of them went away. The remainder have beem evicted and their homes burned down. United States Yield of Potatoes. The potato crop of the United States, according to Orange Judd Farmer’s final report at the practical completion of harvest, approximates 239,000.000 bushels, or nearly 5,000,000 bushels less than last year, and a fairly good yield compared with the average of the past ten years. Extremes in climatic conditions were responsible for holding the crop within bounds. The average yield is eightythree bushels an acre. Vast Shipyards Planned. Former Mayor Herman Walker of Guttenburg, N. J., with Hamilton V. Meeks, another rich land owner, announces that they have formed a syndicate of millionaires to establish on the Hudson, just above Guttenburg, one of the largest shipbuilding yards in the country. The plant, these men say, will give steady employment to 100,000 men.

Many Injnred in Collision. A I.ake Erie and Western switch engine struck a Brightwood car at Thirteenth street. Indianapolis. There were twenty-one passengers in the car at the time, and of this number fifteen wore more or less injured. The engine struck the front end* of the car, reducing it to kindling wood. Three persons were fatally hurt. Oil Thrower Ruing Tan Coat. The St. Louis police are looking for a man who is known only as “Jack, the oil thfower.” A yt?ar ago he ruined scores of women’s dresses by squirting oil o.v them, apparently from a syringe. His first victim this season is Mrs. Ida Schwartz, whose tan coat was ruined. Prince Appointed Regent. “King Oscar’s illness,” says a dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Stockholpi, “has developed into a serious inflammation of the lungs. The crown prince has been appointed regent.” Eight Perish in the Flames. > Eight people were either burnjtd to death or suffocated in a fire partially destroyed the three-story-a nd-nttic frame double tenement house 35 hnd 45}4 Hester street. New York. / * Coal' Strike Is Over. J A copference at Philadd phi-.J resulted in an agreement to nccedt* to dtAnands by the mine workers’ convention, which BUMuis end of the big jftrikle.

MARKET QUOTATIONS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.65; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.82; sheep, fair to to $4.10; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2, ,38c to 39c; oats, No. 2,21 c to 22c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eg§s, fresh, 15c to 18c; potatoes, 27c to 32c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.60; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $4.70; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, 'No. 2 white, t 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.80; hogs, $3.00 to $4.65; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, Nq. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2,21 cto 22c; rye. No. 2,51 cto 52c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.80; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 77c; corn, No: 2 mixed, Ac to 42c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye. No. 2,57 cto 58c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.35; hogs, $3.00 to $4.90; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 77c; corn, No. 2 yellow,. 42c to 43c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye, §le to 52c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 41e to 42c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2,52 c to 5.3 c; clover seed, prime, $6.00 to $6.75. Milwaukee—Wheat. Xo. 2 northern. 74e to 75c; corn, No. 3,39 cto 40c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye. No. 1,51 c to 52c; barley, No. 2; 57c to 58c; pork, mess, $13.00 to $14.50. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.70; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $5.05; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.00 to $5.85. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.60; hogs, $3.00 to $5.45; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2, 46c to 47c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; butter, creamery, 19c to 22c; eggs, western, 19c to 21c. GIRL MURDERS FOUR HUSBANDS.

Indian Slays White Spouses to Prevent Them Learning a Secret. Mrtilie Fox Water, a pretty half-breed Osage Indian woman, has been arrested and placed in jail at Tulsa, I. T., on charge of having murdered during the past ten years her four husbands. She admitted having been the cause of their death, but claimed she did it in self-de-fense. Hers is a strange story. She is the descendant and only child of Fox Water, an old Osage warrior who died years ago. To her lie left the secret of a lost gold mint*; which she has since vis-' it£d secretly and carried from it enough gold to live in princely style and travel abroad. Ten years ago she was married for the first time, and a few jnoftths later her husband disappeared in some unaccountable manner. Since then she has been married three' times, her last husband having ibeeD discovered dead beside the road one day not long ago. His stomach was found to contain Slow poison. She was arrested on suspicion of having killed all four of them, and. to the surprise of the officials, admitted that she did. She claims that her selfish white husbands were not content with having what gold she gave them, but that -they wished her to reveal the secret, of the mine. This she would not do. They then attempted to follow her, and she poi-' soned them.

ROBS THE MAILS OF $15,033. Burglar Steals from a Postal elation in New York City. Tempted by the knowledge that thousands of dollars were within his grasp and fortified by an intimate acquaintance with postoffioe methods, some one robbed the United States mail of the entire receipts for the day of station H, the "second general postoffice,” at Forty-fourth street and Lexington avenue, New York. Such an occurrence is unprecedented in the annals of New York. Subordinate officials place the loss at from $15,000 to $40,000. ■ Ten Killed Over One Girl. George C. Beveridge, a resident of San Francisco and one of the owners of the famous Dolores jnine of Mexico, brings news of,a horrible tragedy enacted in the vicinity of his mine. A handsome young girl was abducted from her home by a man who was enamored of her and kept a close prisoner in a cave for three months. During that time ten men were killed because of her. Carloads of Oatmeal Paved. John Bruce ran a locomotive into a flame-sheeted shed,of the American CeA real Company’s plant at Chicago, where his conductor, Edward Kitchen, coupled the engine to five ears loaded with oatmeal. A minute Jater the cars, with flaming roofs, were pulled out into the open, where they were saved by firemen.

Shot by an Actress. Zorah Card, an actress, shot and probably fatally wounded Joseph Pazeri in Chicago. Taxon is a theatrical agent and is said to have written several letters reflecting on Miss Card. In answer to a note she called upon him. A quarrel resulted, during which the shot was fired. Wisconsin PoatofHce Robbed. At, Fond du Lac, Wis., the postoffice \ynh entered by burglars*and a large amount of stamps, motley and registered letters taken. The burglars used a “spreader” to remove the dial from the vault door, and dynamited their way through the second door. 1 Florida** Orange Crop. A conservative estimate of Florida’s orange crop this year placed the yield at 1,000,000 boxes. 'An extra large yield will be bad in Manatee. Hillsboro and DeSoto Counties. . Thanked by Chinese Emperor. Emperor Kwang Hsu, ruler of China, has sent to President McKinley his personal acknowledgment of the high services of this nation toward the restoration of peace in the flowery kingdom.

BUTLER STEALS CASKET OF GEMS. Servant of Mrs, Charles Pfizer Replaces Jewels with Large Nalls. Some of the splendid jewels with which Mrs. Charles Pfizer dazzled the frequenters of the New York horse show last winter disappeared 'from her summer home at Bernardsville, N. J., recently, and with them her model butler, known to her as David Richard. When Mr. and Mrs. Pfizer went to New York, Airs. Pfizer gave her jewel casket to her maid to keep. The maid secreted it in her room. David Richard went about in his silent fashion, ears and eyes wide open, mouth shut. “Going to church, David?” asked the maid on Sunday. “I think not, today.” said David. The silent butler stole over the house to see if everything was in order. He or some pne employed gobbled the jewel case of his mistress and substituted an equal weight of nails, xhe casket had contained a diamond necklace %orth $2,000, two handsome diamond rings, four dianfond sunbursts and a number of other pieces of jewelry, the whole valued at $20,000.

ESCAPES FROM GREAT PERIL.

North Shore Fisherman Suffers Terrible Hardships in Small Boat. Andrew Tofte, a north shore fisherman of Tofte, Lake County, Minn., has just survived an experience of almost incredible hardship and peril. He went out in a rowboat to work- about bis nets when a northwest gale suddenly arose and blew his boat to the eastward. The tug Dowling started to the rescue and about four miles from shore the sea was so high that her master. Captain Taylor, turned back. It took the tug two hours to reach the shore. Tofte was given up for lost. Thirty-six hours later he returned. coatless and hatless, drenched to the skin and. benumbed with cold after two days and a night without- food. He could not get out of the boat without assistance when be reached the shore and was carried in a fainting condition to his home. Tofte’s boat drifted thirty-five miles to the east across the track of vessels. He 'saw several steamers, but could not attract their attention.

TUG MAXWELL BURNED. Crew of Boat Owned by Booth Packing Company Has Narrow Escape. The crew of the fishing tug William Maxwell had a narrow escape when fire broke out on the boat as she lay at her dock Michigan City dock. They had barely time to get to the dock, leaving all their clothing on board the burning boat. The decks and cabins were destroyed, and (he engine and boiler were badly damaged, but the hull may be saved. The Maxwell belongs to the A. Booth Packing Company. Fever Peonrging Cuba. Alarming news confirming the statements that yellow fever is epidemic in Cuba has been received by the surgeon general’s department in Washington. In Havana it is stated not a single block is exempt from the scourge, while in some as high as seventeen cases are reported. Cable Steamer a Totdl Loss. 11. H. Porter, a passenger on the Nome steamer Lane, reports that the cable steamship Orizaba, which was wrecked on Rocky Point reef,'■St. Michael Island, is a total loss. It was abandoned. The Orizaba was laying a government cable between,St. Michael and Nome City.

Kills His Sweetheart’s Father. Dr. Conda Beck killed William Barton at WH.vmniisville, Ind., because Barton objected to-Beck keeping company with his daughter. Two years ago Beck killed Miss Grace Cohee because she refused to marry him. He .was acquitted of the crime. . Ship Sunk and Many Drowned. News of a marine catastrophe as a result of which thirty-three persons, nineteen of Whom were foreigners, five hailing from the United States, were drowned, was brought by the Empress of Japan. 'The Norwegian steamer Callanda was sunk in a collision. Americans De.eated by Filipinos. A detachment of twenty men of the Twenty-fourth regiment, while engaged in repairing telegraph wires, at a point near San Jose, Nuevo Ecija province. Isle de Luzon, Philippines, were set upon by 200 rebels and were overpowered and scattered. Mrs. Manning Loses Jewels. Mrs. Daniel Manning, while leaving her hotel in Paris, lost a diamoud sunburst valued at $2,500. As a strange coincidence, both lady commissioners of the United States at the Paris exposition sustained a loss of jewels. Lav Claim to Great Fortune. The family of the late John Clark of New York have engaged counsel to try to obtain for them the estate of his brother, I inlay Clark, who died a few years ago in Australia, leaving a fortune estimated at $20,000,000. Arrested on Charge of Child Murder. Henry Howard Stewart, a stenographer employed in the Metropolitan Life Insurance building, New York, was arrested in his employers’ office at the instance of the Cleveland police, who want him for child murder. Dies in a Missouri Fire. Two business houses at New Bloomfield. Mo., linrned. D.\ C. M. Wright, who was sleeping in on» of the stores,* was burned to death. The financial loss is about $3,000. partly insured. Chinn Wants Peace. Minister Conger has forwoi Jed from Pekin an nppon! from China for the hastening of pence negotiations, an,3 an affirmative an>wer has been cabled by the State Department. Jr Dillingham In Chosen S?nntor«Ji Ex-Gov. W. P. Dillingham was alfmed United States Senator by the Vgfiuont legislature. The choice was Js a d# on the third ballot. ,

COAL STRIKE IS OVER.

OPERATORS ACCEDE TO THE DEMANDS OF MINERS. Conference of Operators at Philadelphia Arrives at an Agreement—Will Abolish Sliding Scale of Wages and Give an Increase of Ten Per Cent. The conference between the individual coal operators and the representatives of the big coal-carrying companies with a view to bring about the termination of the anthracite coal strike was held in the private office of President Harris ol the Reading Railway Company at Philadelphia. The meeting was secret. The conference resulted in an agreement to accede to the demands made by thetmine workers’ convention. The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company at once issued the following statement: “It hereby withdraws the notice posted Oct. 3. 1900, and, to bring about practical uniformity in the advance of wages in the several coal regions, gives notice that it will suspend the operation of the sliding scale, will pay 10 per cent advance on September wages till April 1, 1901. and thereafter until further notice; and will take up with its mine employes any grievances' which they may have;” The Lehigh Vallqy company, in whose region the sliding' scale is also in operation, will issue a similar notice, as will also the individual operators who were represented at the meeting. This meets all the demands of the strikers and means the immediate ending of the strike.

KINO LEOPOLD

-It is said that Leopold, the gay old King of the Belgians, will soon abdicate in favor of his nephew, Prince Albert of Flanders, who recently married Marie Gabrielle of Bavaria. Prince Albert is the son of the King’s only brother. Prince Philippe, Count of Flan<l6rs, and be has renounced his right of succession, as he is old and deaf, s

EIGHT PERISH IN THE FLAMES.

Terribly Fatal Fire in a New York Ter* ement House. Eight persons were either burned or suffocated in a fire in the three-story frame double tenement house, 45 and 45% Hester street, New York, early Wednesday morning. Of Charles Fass’ fafnily of six, only himself and ljjs 4-year-old girl, Pauline, are alive. Pass threw his child out of a window and Policeman Peter Hunt caught her. Then Fass escaped. Mrs. Anna Horowitz met a horrible fate. Her night robe caught fire and she was burned to death on the fire escape in sight of the'helpless' crowd. Firemen and policemen made frantic efforts to save Jjer, but the flames drove them hack and she had to be left to her fate. Policeman Fitzgerald rescued two persons overcome by smoke. The house in which the catastrophe occurred was a ramshackle frame building which for many years has been a landmark on the East Side.

KILL. AND CAPTURE AMERICANS.

Detachment of the Twenty fourth Regiment Overpowere I by Filipinos. A detachment of twenty men of the Twenty-fourth regiment, while engaged in repairing telegraph wires Oct. 10 at a point near San Jose. Nuevo Ecija province. Isle de Luzon, were set upon by 200 rebels and were overpowered and scattered. Seven of the Americans reached San Jose, but it is probable that the remainder were captured. Tim enemy surprised a party of scouts of the Forty-third infantry at a point three miles from Takloban, Leyt Island, killing three of the Americans at the first volley. Two escaped and gave the alarm, but the enemy succeeded in evading their pursuers. The native police of Takloban had conspired to surprise the Americans. The bodies of the dead soldiers were badly mutilated.

Married After Fifty Years.

The culmination of a romance of fifty years' standing was witnessed in the county recorder’s office at Kansas City, Mo., the other day when Sherman L. N. Foote, aged 72, and Mrs. Lizzie D. Baker, aged 68, were united in marriage. Mrs. Baker wheh a girl of 18 taught school in the East and among her pupils was L. N. Foote, a farmer four years her senior. The two fell in love and became engaged, but a quarrel separated them. Both eventually married other parties and lost track of each other. About three years ago Mrs. Baker’s husband died and a year later Mr. Foote lost his wife. Then Mr. Foote learned the address of his sweetheart of long ago and opened tip a correspondence with the result that they have been < married at last.

Heavy Sentence for a Whisky Seller.

At St. John, Kan., for selling whisky in violation of the prohibitory law, Clias. Steiiibrink hap been fined $4,000 and sentenced to fopty-nine months in jail.%. He cannot, pay his fine and will, under the law, have to serve it out at the rate of c»nt3 a day. making his total jnil sentence practically thirty years. He was ecuvl ted on forty-nine counts. A view’ electric motor for automobiles has jieclt devised which restores energy to the storage battery when the vehicle is running down hilL

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

P. D. Armour of Chicago, “the old man of the markets*" has a contract from the Russian Czar Uo ship 7,000 cattle to that

P. D. ARMOUR.

lem; if not, it wtill be the first the greatest trader in the world ever received an order jehat was too big for him'. The last great coup of P. D. Armour was made in connection with the Loiter w-heat corner in' 1897. This corner was months in maturing. It sent the price of grain soaring. Joseph Leiter was a foe worthy even of P. D. Armour. It is now a matter of common history how Armour wriggled'out of a "squeeze” that would have miant financial death to 999 men out of ITKX). He transported millions' of bushel! of wheat from Dfuluth to Chicago by blat in the winter' season, when navigation was supposed to be dosed, and it to Leiter. It was aa expensive affair for Armour, but in the end it smashed Mr. Leiter. *

George Bruce Cortelyou, secretary to the “President, has achieved a national prominence and popularity in a wry

short time. Cortelyou is especially popular with newspaper men because of his unvarying courtesy . and though tfijlness, while he is no less esteemed by the pufilic men of, the nation with whom he is in constant contact. Cortelyou’s versatility is something! to wonder at.

He is\3B years old and is an accomplished musician, a graduate of the New England conservatory. He is considered the most expert stenographer in the United States, and a marvel on the typewriter, using all eight fingers. He is a lawyer, having graduated from'Georgetown University law school, and took a post-graduate law course at Columbia University.

Police Lieutenant Edward J. Stesie of Chicago, who died suddenly the other morning, took a prominent part in sup-

LIEUT. STEELE.

with his empty revolver. o Lieut. Steele was out for two days and two nights, and nine of the twenty-four members of his company were seriously wounded.

Mme. Kogora Takahira, wife of the new minister from Japan to the United

States, has accompanied her husband to all his diplomatic posts, and is in consequence a piuch traveled Woman. She has discarded the picturesque garb of her native country and is now gowned like a Parisienne. The wife of the new Japanese minister will, it is said

in Washington, have some very fine new carriages, and perhaps an automobile. •

Prince George of Greece, who is about to return to Crete, with the expectation

PRINCE GEORGE.

King George. He saved the life of the present Czar ( when the two were traveling in Japan as youths.

A resurvey of that famous old boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland, known ns Mason "lid Dixon s linev

has been begun. The object of the resurvey is to re-es-tablish the line monuments, and to place monuments on the western end of the line where none have hitherto , existed. The State' of Pennsylvania and the State of

Maryland have each appropriated SI,OOO for this purpose. Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, superintendent of the coast and geodetic survey, is president of the commission that will have the matter in charge.

English statistics show 'that of late there has been a large and rapidly growing importation of tomatoes. Tomatoes were but a short time ago an article of luxury in Great Britain, only used for the rich: but now they have become a common dish on the tables of the working classes. Rich gold strike, in the Seamlta-rucon-tains, New Mexico. Said to assay $30,000 a tom • Wilson Boyd. 10, IteynoldaviUe,, Ohio, killed Oliie DuUey, 14, with a r*—*•

country from San Francisco. It ie easy enough to secure the cattle, but the question of transportation i s an enormous task. There are not boats s enough on the Pacific coast to carry the cattle. Those who know Mr. Armour, however, are confident that he will solve the prob-

G. B. CORTELYOU.

pressing the Haymarket riot, bis being at the head of the column that advanced to disperse the anarchists. His clothing was riddled with bullets and he injured his wrist in clubbing one )f the r i o t e r s seuselbss

MME. TAKAHIRA.

that he will be elected regent of the island, litis been ill in Athens for some time. His present post in Crete is chief commissioner, and it is said that he will urge the powers to allow the Cretans to elect their own form of government. The prince is the second son of

H. S. PRICHETT.