Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1901 — Page 6

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. OfiO. E. MARSHALL. Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

PARDON FOR HUSBAND

WIFE SECURES PRISONER'S RELEASE FROM PENITENTIARY. Man's Ravines anil Her Womanly Curiosity Get Both into Seriona Trouble— Bradstreei'a Makes Very Favorable Report on the Grain Situation. Mrs. Ryan the other day bore to her husband in the State penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, Gov. Nash’s pardon, and the two left immediately for Maysville, Ky., where they will make their home. The wife’s devotion had atoned for the trouble her curiosity had grot Ryan into. Ten years ago in Columbus a young man was killed in a saloon melee by Ryan, who escaped to Maysville, Ky. There he married and had earned an honorable reputation. While suffering from typhoid fever last fall and in a delirium he talked about the killing. His wife, to whom he had not imparted the secret, had her curiosity aroused and after he recovered wrote to the Columbus postmaster, asking about the matter. The postmaster placed the information io the hands of the police and Ryan was arrested, tried and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment Mrs. Ryan never ceased her efforts for his release, and finally convinced the Governor that there was grave doubt that her husband fired the fatal shot BHADSTREET’S GRAIN REVIEW. Crop Situation la Knconrasing—Keplanting: of Cotton Necessary. Bradstreet’s report on grain is as follows: “Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 5,100,703 bushels, against 4,537,022 in the corresponding week of 1900. From July 1 to date this season wheat exports are 176,916,238 bushels, against 166,035,602 last season. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2,371,892 bushels, against 3,411,015 in this week a year ago. From July to date this season corn exports are 157,015,436 bushels, against 173,203,075 last season. The crop situation at present is quite encouraging. Warm, sunny weather is helping corn and cotton, and wheat maintains a generally good condition, notwithstanding reports of damage by insects in the Southwest. Cotton crop advices are fairly good, and an increase in acreage is still foreshadowed, despite much replanting having been necessary in Alabama, Georgia and in Tennessee, where the scarcity of seed for this purpose remarked.’’

PROGRESS OF THE RACE. Standing of League Clnbs in Contest for the Pennant. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: W. L. W. L. Cincinnati .. 7 3 Boston 4 4 Brooklyn ... 6 4 St. Louis 5 ti Pittsburg ... 6 sNew York... 3 5 Philadelphia.. 0 0 Chicago 5 8 Standings in the American League aVe as follows: f W. L. W. L. Detroit 8 3 Philadelphia.. 3 5 Chicago .... 7 4 Boston 3 5 Washington. 5 3 Cleveland ... 4 7 Baltimore ... 5 3 Milwaukee ..3 8 Fire Sweeps Easiness Street. A destructive fire occurred at Kalida, Ohio. As a result almost the entire business section of one side of Main street is a heap of ruins. The fire started in Richards’ billiard room, which was. consumed, together with F. C. Lee’s drug store, Joseph Neinberg’s hardware store, the Signal printing office, Hicks’ storeroom and Kimmerle’s residence. The loss is $20,000. Destructive Fire at Dallas. In Dallas, Texas, lightning struck the new six-story block owned by the Southern Rock Island Plow Company. The building was rated a fireproof warehouse structure, but in less than an hour it was a total loss. It was filled with wagons, buggies and agricultural machinery. The value of the stock is estimated at from $300,000 to $400,000, and the building ; at approximately SIOO,OOO. ~' 1 Ru<li for Indian Lands. Thousands of men are pouring into southwestern Oklahoma and camping in and about the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache, and Wichita Indian reservations for the opening scheduled for some time in August. It will be possible for the government to hare the land ready for settlement much sooner than Aug. 0.

Man Drowned at La Crosse. In an attempt to change seats in a crowded skiff on the Mississippi river five young men, students at a La Crosse, Wis., business college, were precipitated Jnto the water, l’eter Klauss, aged 23 years, of Wabasha, Minn., was drowned. Five Arsenals Abolished. Secretary Root has issued an order abolishing the following arsenals: Kennebec, Augusta, Me.: Fort Monroe, Fort Monroe, Vu.; Allegheny, Pittsburg, I’a.; Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Ind.; and Columbia, Columbia, Tenn. Fire in Chicsuo Stockyards. Armour & Co.’s l»eef house, one of the lairgest buildings at the Chicago stock yards, was partly destroyed by fire, en tailing a loss of SIOO,OOO. CshlfOsh High fchoot Burns. The hii(b school building, a four story brick structure, was destroyed by fire at Oshkosh. Loss $70,000, insurance 000. The origin of the fire is unknown. Seven Die in Flames. Seven persons were burned to death and seven injured, three probably fatally, in a fire in a rickety tenement-house in South Chicago. The fire department was cut off from the tire by trains on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway. David R. Francis Chosen. The board of directors of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company held its fliwt meeting and organised for business. Bx-Gov. David It. Francis was unanimously elected president of the board. irapliiMt;■ % ' r ‘" ‘

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

ROBBER CAUSE OF A SEPARATION Couple, Startled by Thief, Engage in Quarrel Which Mystifies All. Mrs. Addie. Clark, a bride of four weeks, is the victim of a very mysterious robbery, which incidentally caused her to also lose her husband during their honeymoon. Mrs. Clark, whose home is in Evansville, Ind., answered the matrimonial ad of Asa D. Clark of St. Louis. He went to Evansville and married her, afterward telling her that she was only his fifth wife. The couple went to St. Louis, the bride taking over SI,OOO in money and jewelry with her. They stopped at the residence of Mrs. Martha Gill, who claims to be Clark’s sister. While at supper Mr. and Mrs. Clark were startled by a scream, and rushing upstairs found Mrs. Gill on the floor. She said a masked burglar had ransacked Clark’s room and had knocked her down. During the police investigation which followed Clark had a violent-quarrel with his bride and for protection she ran to the police station, where she slept over night. Mrs. Clark now says she will return to her former home in Evansville. The police are greatly mystified over the robbery. STRANGE CURE OF PARALYSIS. Surgeons Removal Fragment* of Alfred Lehr’s Backbone. 4-lfred Lehr, a young man whose home is in Joplin, Mo., has undergone a rare surgical operation at a hospital in St. Louis. On March 20 he fell from a step-ladder, and in a short time paralysis of the lower part of the body set in. For six weeks he was unable To move a muscle below the arms, and local physicians, unable to help him, sent him to St. Louis. An X-ray picture showed that the spinal column was shattered. An jncision six inches long was made, exposing the backbone. The fragments and splinters, which were pressing against the spinal cord, thus causing paralysis, were removed, and immediately pulsation was observed in the cord. Lehr will probably recover. WILL GET $6,000,000 EACH. Fair Estate of $20,000,000 to Be Divided Among Three Children. The California Supreme Court has rendered a decision in the Fair will case. The chances of an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States are small. The ruling of Judge Slack of the lower court is upheld and the trust declared by the will of Senator Fair is- void. This means that, after the payment of special legacies, the remainder of the estate will be divided among the three children— Theresa Oelrichs, Virginia Vanderbilt and Charles Fair. As the remainder of the estate, after the payment of special legacies, is valued at $20,000,000, each of the three children will get more than $6,000,000.

Poisons Her Child and Herself. Mrs. Fannie Frieberg, wife of Arthur Frieberg, a medical student, committed suicide in St. Louis by taking whisky and cocaine. Alma, a 5-year-old daughter, to whom a similar dose was given, is dead. The mother attempted to give another daughter named Emma, -7 years of age, a dose of the poison, but she became suspicious and refused to take it. Mrs. Frieberg was jealous of'her husband. , 4 Invents Powerful Light. In St. Louis Alidas R. Farmer, a machinist, made a test the other night of an invention of his, which he calls the “twentieth century volcano light.” He went to a vacant lot and turned on the light, which shot up clear and white into the air to a height of 150 feet. The city was illuminated brightly for a mile around. : Wife Accuse! of Murder. Mrs. Josephine White is in jail at Brantford, Mich., on a charge of having caused the death of her husband by strychnine poison on April 14. The verdict of the coroner’s jury said: “That White came to his death by, strychnine poisoning, which we suspect was administered by bis wife.” Rich Girl Weds Coachman. Miss Louise Johnson, who is prominent in society as the adopted daughter of L. M. Bowers, the manager of the Rockefeller interests on the great lakes, has caused a sensation in Binghamton, N. Y., by marrying George Thayer, Mr. Bowers’ coachman.

Kobhera Start a Fire. In Ashtabula, Ohio, robbers blew open the safe in the store of Richards & Merrick. Fire quickly,, broke out after the explosion of dynamite. The Richards & Merrick building was totally destroyed, as was also an adjoining business house, the losses aggregating $20,000. Bolt Causes a Panic. During a fierce electrical storm light: ning struck the Ozark apartment building ip Chicago,' injuring a score of the occupants and causing a panic among the 400 or more who occupied apartments in the big structure. From Governor to Senator. Gov. Dietrich of Nebraska has resigned and has been succeeded in that office by Ezra P. Savage. Gov. Savage's first official act was the signing of the senatorial commission,for Senator Dietrich. New Holiday for Canadians. Sir Wilfrid Laurier announces that the Canadian government had decided to make the 24th of May a permanent public holiday. It will likely be known as “Victoria day.” Thirteen Barges of Coal Sunk. The towboat Raymond Horner stink thirteen barges of Pittsburg coal in collision with a pier of the Henderson, Ky„ bridge. The loss in coal and barges will reach $45,000. Fire at Kenaett, lowa. - * The village of Kensett, lowa, was destroyed by fire. Fourteen buildings were burned, and the total loss is estimated at $20,000,000.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.80; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.87; sheep, fair to choice, $3.06 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn, No.’ 2,48 cto 49c; oats. No. 2,26 c to 28c; rye, No. 2,50 cto 51c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c;- eggs, fresh, 11c to 12c; potatoes, 34c to 42c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.80; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corh, No. 2 white, 45c to 46c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.85; hogs, $3.00 to $5.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, No. 2, 43c to 44c; oats. No. 2,27 cto 28c; rye. No. 2,54 cto 55c. Cincinnati—Ca'ttle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.80; sheep, $3.00 to $4.45; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 76p; corn, No. 2 mixed, 46c to 47e; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 2,56 eto 57c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.90; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 76c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 31c; rye, 54e to 55c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 27e; rye, No. 2,51 c to 52c; clover seed, prime, $6.30. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 3,43 cto 44c; oats. No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 1,52 c to 54c; barley, No. 2,55 cto 56c; pork, mess, $14.70. Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $5.95; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50 to $4.50; lambs, common lto extra, $4.50 to $5.30. New York —Cattle, $3.75 to $5.85; hogs, $3.00 to $0.15; sheep, $3.00 to $4.80; wheat, No. 2 red, 80c to 81c; corn, No. 2, 52c to 53c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; butter, creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, western, 13c to 14c.

JUVENILE COUPLE 3IARRIED. Alice Snow, 13 Years Old, Is Wedded to Arthtar Milligan, Aged 14. In Pittsburg Alice Snow, who has reached the mature age of 13, was made the wife of Arthur Milligan, who exceeds her in age by one year. The father of the bride performed the ceremony. The couple are said to have been lovers from “early childhood” (or infancy), and are old schoolmates. They-bad declared that they would elope if their parents would not consent to their marriage. Rather than have this happen the guardians of the pair consented. When asked if he did not think them rather young to marry, Mr. Snow said: “I believe when young people want to marry the best thing is to let them do as they wish, so I have offered no objections.”

STABLES AND CARS BURNED. Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company Loses Heavily by Fire. Fire consumed the car stables and 200 cars of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company at Flushing and Nostrand avenues, Brooklyn, N. Y. A tenement house in Hopkins street, in the rear of the stable, was also destroyed and several families who occupied it are rendered homeless. The loss is variously estimated, but is conservatively placed at $200,000. There were no deaths, but several firemen were overcome by heat and smoke and Thomas Macale, a watchman, suffered a fall which broke bis arm. Police Charge Girl Strikers. The American cigar factory in Passaic, N. J., started up after a lapse of one week, caused by the strike of employes. The police charged the strikers, who gathered at the mill. The girls resented the rough treatment. Several girls were dragged along the streets by the hair and the strikers have gained sympathy by the police brutality.

Injure the Cotton Crop. It is estimated that 50,000 acres of cotton will have to be replanted in Tennessee. The first planting on plantations in the delta unprotected by the levee is valueless on account of the overflow, and on many farms in the highlands seed maturity was precluded by rain and cold. Five Killed in Explosion. Five miners were killed outright, seven others were burned, and one is missing, the result of an explosion at the coal mines at Anderson, I. T„ owned by the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad and operated by the McAlester Coal Company. Cive-in Follows Explosion. A boiler explosion in the Wells of the King County Oil Company in South Park, Wash., caused a cave-in, which buried August Trombley under eight feet of earth, causing his death. Engineer Loomis was thrown thirty feet into the air, but he was not fatally injured. Fire Gives Aid to'Robbers. At Arlington, Mass., fire was discovered in the attic of the town hall, and while the attention of the firemen and the police was directed to putting out the blaze robbers entered the office of the town Clerk and secured $1,200. Kivrht-Hour Law Is Invalid. At Tacoma, Wash., Judge W. H. Snell has sustained the demurrer of the city to the complaint of the former city employes who have been suii)g for overtime. This decision knocks out the eight-hour law "passed by the Legislature of 1899. Bnffnlo Exposition Is Open. The Pan-American Exposition, incomplete yet very interesting and beautiful, was opened at 8;30 o’clock Wednesday morning without ceremony. Blr Blaze in Bessemer, Ala. Fire destroyed half a block of buildings at Bessemer, I Tv, causing a loos of $76,000.

ELOPERS WIN A MERRY RACE. Pnrsned by Angry Papa, hut Escape Through Assistance of Train. There was a merry race on the road from Elizabeth, N. J., to Newark between Cupid, who was in the lead at the start, and an angry papa, who was a close second for three-quarters of the distance. Papa was showing a great burst of speed for awhile, and the odds, if there had been any, would have been in his favor, but Cupid and the eloping couple whom that individual was guiding, finally won out through the-opportune intervention of a train. The morning train from New York brought the pair to Elizabeth and they at once took a cab and started for Newark. On a later train the angry father appeared, and securing another cab, told the driver he would give him SIOO if he caught the elopers, and $25 if he failed. A hot chase followed and for a time the father gained steadily, but just after the cab containing the couple crossed a railroad track a train came along and remained in the way long enough to allow it to get sufficient headway to escape. The father at the girl, who gave his name as It. Gardiner of Olcott, N, Y., said he would find his daughter if it took all the police in New Jersey. MYSTERY LIKE JESTER CASE. Disappearance of a Young Kansas Farmer Puzzles Authorities. All the efforts of the authorities to clear up the mystery of the disappearance of Frederick Kinney, a young farmer of Jewell County, Kan., who has been missing since last August, have failed. Henry Freeman, aged 20 years, is in jail at Wichita, suspected of having murdered his friend to obtain h's money and team. Kinfiey was last seen alive near Beloit, Kan., traveling with Freeman, and later is known to have sold Kinney’s outfit. The case in a way parallels that of Gilbert Gates, who suddenly disappeared while traveling in Kansas more than twenty years ago, and for whose murder Alexander Jester, an octogenarian, was tried and acquitted last year.

DIGS UP A KETTLE OF GOLD. Laborer Makes Second Such Find on Ohio Farm. Joseph Myers, employed on the old Oscar Osborne farm near Akron, Ohio, dug up a kettle containing $3,(500 in gold. It was found near the barn. This is the second discovery of gold made on the place, making a total of more than $5,000. Osborne’s relatives have always contended that there was $20,000 hidden in various places. Edgar Johnson is nowserving a life sentence in the Ohio penitentiary for the murder of old man Osborne. It is said the killing of Osborne was the result of his refusal to tell Where the gold was hidden. EVIDENCE OF A GRIM TRAGEDY. Father Ts Believed to HaVe Drowned His Fonr Children and Mimself. William Eosenfield is believed to have thrown his four children, ranging from 2 to 7 years of age, into the river frbra the Marshall avenue bridge in St. Paul, which is 200 feet above the water, and then leaped in after them. None of the bodies has been recovered, but the police say they have almost conclusive evidence of the tragedy. Itosenfield. who had for some time been separated from his wife, is believed to have become insane from brooding over bis domestic troubles. Historic Woman Resigns. Mrs. Margaret T. Coleman, who was a servant in the family of Secretary of State Seward, when the attempt was made to assassinate him the same evening that J. Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln, and who was credited with saving the Secretary’s life, has resigned the place which she has held in the Treasury Department in Washington for twentyseven years. Rush in Wyoming Oil Field®. Placer claims in the new Wyoming oil fields are being filed at the rate of 190 a day. The field covers nearly all of the southern part of Uintah County from the north branch of the Muddy river to the Uintah range of mountains. The Standard Oil people have already filed some 200 claims. Japan’s Cahinet Is Out. Marquis Ito’s ministry in Japan, of which so much was expected, has resigned. All the ministers tendered their resignations with the single exception of Viscount Vatanabe, minister of finance. Marquis Yamagata has been asked to form a new cabinet. Morgan Bny» the Levland Line. The first step in the direction of the consolidation of some of the biggest transAtlantic shipping interests bus been accomplished by the purchase by J. Pierpont Morgan & Co. of the I.cyland line of steamers. A deposit on the purchase money has been paid. Comes Direct from Hnwai!. The first American steamship to come direct from the Hawaiian Islands to Philadelphia with a cargo of sugar was the steamship Californian,' which arrived the other night from Honolulu and Hilo with 7,920 tons of raw sugar, grown in the new American possession. Boat Blown Out Thre; Mile*. A crew of fishermeu picked up a small rowboat containing three boys three mile* off shore opposite Chicago. The boy* started out from the pier in a small boat with only a board for a paddle. The strong west wind carried tjjae boys fqr out into the lake. Rlglit Perish.Jin > ire in France. In a fire at the nrtillqry camp in the vicinity of the village of St. Jean. France, eight artillerymen jvore burned to death and several were injured. Michigan Congressman Is Dead. * Congressman Rosseau E. Crump, Representative from the Tenth Congressional District, died at his home in West Bay City, Mich., from heart trouble.

AWFUL ACT IN CHINA.

STORY OF MERCILESS SLAUGHTER OF MISSIONARIES. Victims Remain Calm and Preach to the People Till Executioner Strikes Thirty-three Protestants and Twelve Roman Catholics Are Beheaded. A late mail from China brings a thrilling account of the murder of the missionaries at Tai Yuan Fu on the 9th of last July, which was taken down in writing by Dr. J. A. Creasy Smith from the narrative of Yung Cheng, a member of the Baptist church, who was an unwilling witness of their martyrdom. Yung Cheng is vouched for as a Christian of excellent character and absolutely trustworthy. He says that he was taking treatment in the hospital on the Baptist Society’s premises at Tai Yuan Fu, when on the Bth of July he saw Rev. Mr. Pigott, his wife and child, John Robinson, Miss Duval and two young women named Atwater brought into the town. The two gentlemen were handcuffed and escorted bjF 7 a company of soldiers and followed by immense thi-ongs of natives. Wherever they stopped to rest Mr. Pigott and Mr. Robinson preached to the people, who gathered around them and were very much astonished, saying: “You are going to be killed for preaching,"'and yet you continue to do so.” That night the party were placed in prison with a. number of other missionaries and their wives and children, including several Catholic priests. The next-morning they were all executed. “The first to be led forth,’ Yung Cheng says, “was Mr. Farthing, a Baptist minister. His wife clung to him, but he put her aside gently, knelt down without saying a word and his head was struck off by one blow of the executioner’s knife. He was quickly followed by Pastors Hoddle and Beynon, and Drs. Lovitt and Wilson, all of whom were beheaded with one blow by the executioner. Then the governor, Yu Hsien, grew impatient and told his bodyguard, all of whom carried big beheading knives, with long handles, to help kill the others. Pastors Stokes, Simpson and Whitehouse were next kill ed, the last by one blow only, the other two by several. “When the men. were finished the ladies were taken. Mrs. Farthing had hold of the hands of her children, who clung to her, but the soldiers parted them and with one blow beheaded their mother. The executioner beheaded all the children and did it skillfully, needing only one blow; but the soldiers were clumsy, and some of the ladies suffered several cuts before' death. “Mrs. Lovitt was wearing her spectacles and held the hand of her little bby, even when she was killed. She spoke to the people, saying as near as 1 remember: ‘We all came to China to bring you the good news of salvation by Jesus Christ; we have done you no harm, only gotxl; why do you treat us soV’ A soldier took off her spectacles before beheading her, which needed two blows. “When the Protestants were nil killed, the Roman Catholics were led forward. The bishop, an old man, with long white beard, asked the governor, Yu Hsien, why he was doing this wicked deed. I did not hear the governor give him any answer, but he drew his sword and cut the bishop across the face one heavy stroke; blood poured down his white beard, and he was beheaffed. The priests and nuns quickly followed him in death. “Then Pastor Pigott and his party were led from the district jail, which is close by. He was still handcuffed and so was Mr. Robinson. He preached to the people till the very last, when he was beheaded with one blow. Mr. Robinson suffereil death very calmly. Mrs. Pigott held the hand of her son, even when she was beheaded, and he was/killed immediately after her. The lady and two girls were killed also, quickly. “On that day forty-five foreign people in all were beheaded, thirty-three Protestants and twelve Roman Catholics. The bodies of all were left where they fell till next morning, as it was evening before the work was finished. During the night they were stripped of. the clothing and other things, such as rings and watches. Next day they were removed to a place injjde the great south gate, except some of the heads, which were placed in cages on the gates of the wall."

ON TRAIL OF WIFE DESERTERS.

Minnesota Authorities Would Secure Requisitions for Them. The St. Paul, Minn., county board of control has decided to seek requisition papers in order to secure the return to the State of thirty husbands who have deserted their wives. The last Legislature pussed a law making wife desertion u felony, punishable by Imprisonment in the penitentiary from one to three years, with a provision for a suspension of sentence provided the .delinquent husband shall give a bond to the State to support his wife und family. The deserting husbands are located in various States, and the effort to secure their return will doubtless give rise to some n?tvel complications.

Brief News Items.

J. P. Morgan Co. subscribed SIO,OOO to the Victoria monument. Gold and silver discovered along liaredon creek, near Portsmouth, Ohio. Dry goods firm of D'Olllvier & Co., Mexico City, failed. Liabilities $700,000. John McConaehie,- conductor of Chicago cable car, was deprived of an ear by an irate passenger. The Tennessee Legislature has passed a bill to impose an ad valorem tax on all cars’ owned by corporations other than railroads. United Salt Company, Pomeroy Bend, W. Va., has gone into the hands of n receiver. Judge Lauisen of Cleveland was appointed receiver. Prof. VC’. \V. Goodwin, professor of Greek, Harvard University, will resign on account of old age. Been with the college forty-five years. Verdict of coroner’s jury, New Y<Wk, was that Mrs. Carrie Calms (lied while suffering from epilepsy. Relations insisted that n (log killed her. Nazareth' has now its telegraph office, where au Armenian operator, in ordinary European dress, keeps the viHage community in touch with the great world. Harry Sleight, Paterson, N. J., suing Chus. Myron, 50, for SI,OOO, alleging that he kissed Mte. Sleight twice.

SOUTH CHICAGO HORROR.

B:ve l Dead and Many Hurt in a Teuj* , ment House Fire, Seven dead and eight seriously injured is the record of a fire that raged through an okl frame tenement house 'at 9316 Marquette avenue, Chicago, early Sunday morning. While the flames ravaged the structure, • driving the frightened inmates either to desperate leaps for life or overcoming and consuming them in the smoke-laden rooms, succor, although at hand, was of no avail. Barred from the bqrnin& structure, police and fire apparatus stood useless and helpless waiting for th® crew of a long freight train to clear a passage at the crossing. Not until the crew was placed under arrest was this a;compljshed and in the interim human lives had succumbed. Nor was this, the only remarkable incident of the fatal-blaze. John Schmidt, a young boy living next to the burning structure, was on the spur of the moment transformed into a hero. Clad only in a night dress, he cast’a clothesline into the upper windows of the tenement, rescuing five persons from certain death. One of these proved to be a Dowieite, who added to the terror of the situation by refusing to allow medical assistance to go to the aid .of his burned and bruised wife. He adopted the same tactics with his little girl, who was forcibly taken from him during a struggle, in which the burned flesh was torn from her tiny arm by the grasp of her frenzied father. Inexplicable circumstances surround the origin of the fire. On Saturday night there had been a fight between some of the occupants of the structure, and the police had been appealed to. Later quiet was restored. Supnday morning, shortly before daylight, Joseph Zraminski; a 16-year-old boy, noticed flames in the building while passing it on the way home from a dance. The fire seemtd to be under the stairway and was spreading rapidly. The boy shouted loudly, and while the imprisoned inmates rushed to the narrow windows and plunged out or fell exhausted where they stood, the clang of the tire bells was heard. When the firemen reached the Zook tenement there-was nothing to do beyond stopping the further spread of the flames and search the ruins for the dead. Christensen’s injured wife and child were removed to a neighboring house. It was here that Christensen created a scene when an attempt was made to supply medical attendance. Christensen had to be knocked down before the injured child could be taken from him. He cursed liis rescuers, the police and the doctors, and created such a seene that he was finally locked up.

HAWAIIAN HOUSE IS COSTLY.

Members Fritter Time Away in Lavish Expenditures. Despite strenuous endeavors’ of the home rulers and others in the Hawaiian Legislature, Governor Dole has refused flatly to extend tht* present session of the Legislature. He declares that the members have frittered away time on trivial matters and have acted on not a single one of the important measures. He says lie will call an extra session to consider appropriations. The first session of the Hawaiian Legislature, now drawing to a close, has been costly. At the outset $45,000 was appropriated for expenses, a much larger amount than customary, but the whole sum was exhausted by the end of the first mopth, and it is estimated $20,000 additional lias been spent. The members flung away money. They paid $2 a page for typewritten sheets and $3 per day rent for twpewriters in use, making a Cost of the use of each machine SIBO for the session. They paid 50 cents a folio for proofreading, so tlint each bill, by/ the time it reached a third reading, had cost $lO a page. A large amount of stationery, knives, pens, ink, etc., was bought, and one member actually tried to have each man provided with fountain pens. A bill has been passed in the House, giving Liliouknlani $250,000 provided she sign a release of all claims against the crown lands. The only revenue measure which has been considered is one imposing a specific tax of $lO a' ton on sugar. The House spent much time on a bill fixing the price of fish at not more than 10 cents a pound, but it was finally defeated.

The Comic Side of The News

The glue manufacturers are organizing a trust. It probably will stick. A Russian student shot at Pobiedonostzeff. It doesn’t seem as though he could miss that. Reports from Washington indicate a lamentable lack of proofreading on the Logan statue. Of course talk is cheap, but no one would be surprised to see a telephone, trust organized. It seemft strange that those Ynneoim* bankers should commit suicide with Canadn so close at hand. The men who ore standing around the butcher shop In China waiting for a choice cut roust be getting weary. This is the season of the year when a Congressman Is likely to make enemies by sending the other fellows seeds. Women ore gradually demonstrating that they are worthy of the ballot. A Denver woman has just been arrested for illegal voting. The papers tell us that Britain lias “barred American beef.” Cheer up! The ban does not extend to American heiresses. The season is rapidly approaching when many of the towns which possess baseball teams will have jo begin mukirg explanations. The man who sow President McKinley’s train pass through is going to bo pretty numerous before the close of tlrer venial season. Two brothers were arrested in Chicago for passing money mode by their uncle. It was not their Uncle Sam who made it, hence the trouble. The Czar has put on his boiler plate shirt and is wearing a stove lid on his bosom. ' His pantaloons are expected from the foundry shortly. The fiymers will gladly continue to raise the corn if Mr. Phillips will agret to continue to raiae the price.'