Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1901 — Page 6

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. 4B»WJjga " '■■=■ " QEO. B. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER. INDIANA.

YOUNG GIRLS STEAL.

WORK AS SERVANTS AND ROB THEIR EMPLOYERS. Etta Berry and Mary Tice Incarcerated in a Chicago Police Station on Many Charges—Dun Keporta Uninterrupted Confidence in Business. Etta Berry, 15 years old, who until May 1 lived with her grandmother, Mrs, Collins, and Mary Tice, 17 years old. who also left her home on May 1. both of Chicago, have been looked up at the police station under charges of larceny. The girls have confessed to many thefts, most,of which were of diamond rings and jewelry. Many complaints have been received against the girls, and although they confess to having stolen the goods they are unable to explain why they did it. They say they had good homes and did not need money, but after making the first theft it was followed by many more. The girls, it is said, would hire out as domestics, and after working a short time would steal what jewelry and money they couffi find and leave. The police have recovered about fourteen rings and considerable other jewelry which, they say, was stolen by the girls, but for which owners cannot be found.

GENERAL BUSINESS IS ACTIVE. Damage to Com Not Thought Sufficient to Seriously Affect Trade. General business continues its even course, with all the leading industries well employed and with eonfidenee expressed on every hand. Bountiful crops of wheat seem assured, and the damage to corn, while considerable in some directions, does not promise to be sufficiently general or serious to at all impede the progress of the country. Labor troubles are in process of settlement, and speculators have been responsible for most of the unrest which lias been reflected in the markets. The foregoing is from the weekly trade review of It. G. Dun & Co. It continues: Steel mills are actively employed, and there is a distinct improvement in the demand for finished products, while quotations are without alteration. In bars for use by makers of agricultural implements there is a brisk movement. Plates are taken readily and there is no sign of diminished purchasing in structural material. Rails are ordered freely, with notable pressure for trolley and other light weights. Failures for the week numbered 208 in the United States, against 196 last year, and 27 in Canada, against 24 last year. PROGRESS OF THE RACE.

Standing of League Clubs in Contest for the Pennant. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...42 26 New Y0rk...32 29 St. L0ui5....40 29Boston 30 33 Philadelphia 37 31 Cincinnati .. .29 39 Brooklyn ...37 33 Chicago 23 50 Standings in the American League are as follows: W. L. W. L. Boston 40 22 Washington. 27 30 Chicago ... .45 25 Philadelphia. 26 37 Baltimore .. .33 26 Cleveland ...26 41 Detroit .... .38 31 Milwaukee ..23 36 Drops Her Charge in Court. When called to substantiate her charge that seven young-men, two of whom had already beep sent to prison on her testimony, had assaulted her, Miss Georgie Davis, aged 18, told Judge' Lelfler ’at Muncie, Ind., that her stories heretofore, have been false. She said she had not been assaulted and that she would rather go to prison for perjury than send any more innocent men there. The judge sentenced her for ten years. Body Boiled in Caldron. The body of Lee Wing, a Chinese who was murdered last March by highbinders, was boiled in an iron caldron at San Jose, Cal., by order of the county authorities. This process was considered necessary in order to obtain the sixteen bullets which were fired into the man. They will be used as evidence in the trial of Look Lee, alleged to be one of the assassins.

Ohio Jnrlst Kills Himself. A sensational suicide was discovered at the Palace Hotel in Cincinnati. The self-slayer was D. A. Russell of Pomeroy, judge of the Circuit Court and a bank president. Nothing whatever is known of the cause. He left a sealed letter addressed to his wife upon which was a special delivery stamp. He killed himself with a revolver. Mr*. Ida Bonine Is Indicted. In Washington the grand jury after several weeks’ investigation returned an indictment for murder against Mrs. Ida Bonine for the alleged killing of James S. Ayres, the young census clerk. Iron Worker*' strike Ordered. Negotiations between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Tin Workers and the United States Steel Corporation ended in disagreement und a general strike wil ordered. ( Mob nt Kanaail City. A mob at Kansas City, gathered to lynch negroes suspected of assault, inarched through streets rioting and beating blacks. Big Fire in Oklahoma Town. A fire at Mountain View, Okln.. de •troyeil an entirp block. Loss sb.">,ooo. About fifteen business houses were burned up. Collision Near Weatherbjr. South-bound passenger train No. 1 on the Kansas City Northern connecting railroad came into collision with an extra Rock Island meat train nt the crossing one mile north of Weatlierby, Mo., killing one man and injuring six other persons. Chicago Population Increase'.. Chicago has a population of 2.0H0.000, and is bigger by 70,000 persons than a year ago, If the basis upon which the Chicago Directory Company has computed the census is correct.

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

CONFESSED A LIST OF CRIMES.

Supposedly Respectable Kansas Man Horrifies His Neighbors. Facts have come to light in the case of Isaiah Hiatt which are causing considerable interest in Kingman and Pratt Counties, Kansas. Hiatt lived in Kingman County and Liberty Township, alternating back and forth between the two. lie was a man of some means; was married and counted ordinarily respectable in the community in which he lived. A few days ago he fell ill, ani his doctor informed him that he would soon die. He became frightened and made a confession of his past misdeeds. Among other things he confessed he was living under an assumed name. He said he had murdered his first wife in Kentucky; had killed a neighbor and hid the evidence of his crime, giving the name of the man and recitiug the particulars. He also told of robberies, house breakings and numerous felonies and petty offenses. Soon after making his confession he died and the person narrating the circumstances said his neighbors were so horrorstricken that they refused to allow him a Christian burial, bin instead chose a secluded spot on his farm, dug a hole and dumped him in without a single pang or regret. CLOUDBURST IN MONTANA. Budden Flood Inundates Corbin and Great Damage Results. A Helena, Mont., special says: “O deluge of rain amounting to a cloudburst washed away nearly the entire town of Corbin, twenty miles south of Helena, and the Big J?eck concentrator there, according to messages received in Helena. So far as is known, there was no loss of life. The tracks and trestles on the Northern Pacific and Great Northern were washed out. Nearly all houses were washed away and practically all the concentrator was carried off, a mass of debris. A great mass of Water poured from the hills upon the town and struck the buildings with terrific force. The concentrator alone is worth thousands of dollars, and to this loss is added the dwelling houses and other buildings of the town.

STUMBLE INTO BOILING MUD. Tourists in Yellowstone Park Parboiled in Famous “Paint Pots.” Mrs. W. W. Wylie, who has just arrived at Helena, Mont., from the Mammoth Hot Springs, tells of a frightful accident befalling two women, mother and daughter, who were traveling through Yellowstone Park. Mrs. Wylie did not learn the names of the women. They were inspecting the famous “paint pots’’ at the Thumb in the National Park, when they fell into the caldron of boiling mud, waist deep, and were parboiled before they could be dragged out. The tourists accompanying them wrapped the sufferers up and conveyed them by boat to the Lake Hotel, where a physician dressed their burns, but gave no hope of thei.recovery. Starts New “Boxer” Move. A new “Boxer” movement is being started, according to Chinese intelligence from Sian-Fu. Pu Chun, the heir apparent, with other members of Prince Tuan's family, has gone to join Tuan on the borders of Mongolia and there are strong indications that Prince Tuan is preparing to march against the foreigners With" the tacit approval of the Empress Dqwager. . Crazy Man Confesses Crimes. Mrs. Ammenia A. Bullis, 60 years of age, was stabbed to death on a highway in the outskirts of Denver, Colo. Jessie Kinport, 14 years old, was assaulted and terribly mutilated with a knife at her home, and may die of her wounds. Carl Jensen, alias Johnson, aged 25, who is in custody, has confessed both crime*. He is believed to be crazy.

Street Car Line Sol'l. The directors and stockholders of the Hamilton and Lindewald Electric Transit Company have transferred the street car property and Lindenwald Park over to the Ohio Southern Traction Company, which runs from Cincinnati to Dayton, Ohio. The purchase price is said to be $250,000. Cards Lead to Fatal Duel. Harry Daley of New York, a health seeker, and Julius Aria fought a duel with revolvers in J. E. Lacome’s saloon at Santa Fe, N. M. Aria wns killed. Daley was fatally wounded and died a few hours later. They had quarreled over a game of cards. Live Wire Kill* Chicagoan. Ed Nelson of Chicago was killed by a live electric wire running into the barn of W. G. Wagner at Cameron. Colo.. at whose house he was a guest. Not knowing that he was entangled in the wire, Nelson turned on the current and was literally cooked. Blame Mafia for Murder., Dominico Antonio Salamando, 35 years old, who kept a drug store at 1271 Prospect place, Brooklyn, was found dead lying in the street a short distance from his home and is said to have been a victim of the Mafia. Fire at HI Paso, Texas. An explosion in the engine room of the El Paso, Texas, smelter started a fire. The fire was confined to the furnace department, and shippers having ore at the smelter will lose nothing. The damage cannot yet be estimated. Double Crime in Arkansas. A double murder occurred four miles from Turner, Ark. James Johns and a 17-year-old niece were murdered anil their bodies placed in a burning building. There is no clew to the perpetrators of the crime. Younger Brothers Fred. The Younger brothers have been released from prison by.the Minnesota pardon board after twenty-five years’ imprisonment. They must not leave the State.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.15; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $6.20; sheep, fair Jtq choice, $3.00 to $4.15; wheat, No. 2 red, 62c to 63c; corn. No. 2,46 cto 47c; oats, No. 2,29 c to 31c; rye, No 2,48 cto 49c; batter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh 12c to 13c; potatoes, new, 85c to 95c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.30; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.97; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,62 cto 63c; corp. No. 2 white, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 w,bite, 29c to 30c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.85; hogs, $3.00 to $6.00; sheep, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,59 cto GOc; corn. No. 2, 48c to 49c; oats, No. 2,32 cto 33c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 52c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3;00 to $6.15; sheep. $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2. 64c to 65c; corn, No ; 2 mixed, 47c to 48c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 32c; rye. No. 2,55 cto 56c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,65 cto 60c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 46c to 47c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; rye, 50c to 51c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 64c to Gsc; corn, No. 2 mixed, 47c to 48c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2,49 e to 51c; clover seed, prime, $6.50. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern. 63c to G4e; corn, No. 3,46 cto 47c; oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; rye, No. 1,47 c to 48c; barley, No. 2,54 cto 55c; pork, mess, $1<5.70. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers. $3.00 to $5.90; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $6.35; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50 to $4.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $6.25. New York—Cattle, $3.75 to SG.OO; hogs, $3.00 to $G.65; sheep, $3.00 to $4.30; wheat. No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2, 50c to 51c; oats, No. 2 white. 35c to 36c; butter, creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs .western, 13c to 15c.

SAVES MANY LIVES IN PERIL. Wife of a Nebraska Farmer Prevents Accident to Train. The lives of about fifty people were probably saved by Mrs. Frank Zurcher, a farmer’s wife, living near Osmond, Neb. She stopped the train leaving Sioux City over the Pacific Short Line bound for O’Neill, Neb., before a short bridge that had been on fire and was unsafe. After fighting the flames with her son until they were extinguished the woman ran down the track and flagged the passenger with her apron. On the east side of the bridge there is a deep cut and a curve and it would have been impossible for the engineer to see the danger ahead in time to stop his engine and avert an accident. FiVK MEN BADLY INJURED. Fie ih Scraped from Their Bones by Breaking Plate Glass. Breaking glass at the plate glass works in Kokomo, Ind., inflicted frightful injuries on five of the ten men who were carrying the sheet upright from the annealing oven to the grinding table. The plate, which measured 122 by 190 inches and weighed 2,200 pounds, broke and came showering down on the heads and shoulders of the workmen. The victims’ scalps were cut from side to side and the flesh was literally scraped from the bones of their shoulders and arms. All five will lose their arms if uot their lives. Dowieites Invoke Force. A pitched battle in which 3,000 persons took part resulted from the invasion of Evanston, 111., by a band of Dowieites attended by one hundred Zion guards in uniform. Bad eggs, decayed fruit, stones and dead cats were thrown at the exhorters. The guards undertook instantly to punish those who had done the throwing. A wild riot resulted, in which the Dowieites were defeated. Judge Decides Against Picketing. At Hamilton, Ohio, Judge Fisher issued an order perpetually enjoining the striking machinists from maintaining pickets around the plant-of the Niles tool works. He held that the obvious purpose of picketing was lawless intimidation. Familr in New Jersey Incorporate-*. The Hyde family of Plainfield, N. J„ lias incorporated itself. Hereafter the $3,000,000 estate left by Charles Hyde will be known as the Union County Investment Company, with his widow, his four sons and his daughter as the six stockholders. Pnosengers Hurt in Wrec’.c. The New York express train on the Pennsylvania Railroad was run into by a switch engine and a cut of cars at the entrance to the Columbift, Ohio, union depot. Two coaches of the passenger train were demolished ami about twenty-five persons hurt. Mnrderel His Wife and Child. Sylvester Greeu of McDowell County, W. Va., fatally stabbed his wife nnd beat out the brains of his child with a rock because the wife refused him money with which to gamble. Green escaped to Kentucky. _ Suicide of Ambassador's Son. Frederick D. White, son of Andrew D. White, United States ambassador to Germany, while femporarily insane, shot and killed himself at his home in Syracuse. N. Y. Mr. White was 38 years of age. Did Not Want to Live Alone. Sylvester Brackler of Lima, Ohio, committed suicide with a razor after being served with divorce papers of his wife and going home and finding her gone. Ohio Democratic Convention. Ohio Democratic State convention refused to indorse Bryan and the Kansas City platform. Kilbourne was nominated for Governor,

BUMPER WHEAT CROP. Estimated at 682,003,000 Bushels of J- printt an > Winter. Figuring on the basis of the government report, there is a bumper wheat crop this year. 399,000,000 bushels winter and 283,000,000, bushels spring, a total of 682,000,000 bushels. Corn is estimated at 1,966,000,000 bushels, a decrease of 134,000,000 bushels from last-year. The oat crop is short 117,000,000 bushels from last year, and is estimated at 692,000,000 bushels. Returns to the statistician of the Department of Agriculture on the acreage of corn planted indicate a reduction of about 400,000 acres-, or .5 per cent from the area planted last year. Of the twenty-two States having 1,000,000 acres or upward in corn in 1900. twelve show a decrease of about 1,300,000 acres, while in the remaining ten an increase of about 900,000 acres is shown. Of the twentythree States and territories having less than 1,000,000 acres in corn in 1900, only six report smaller acreages than were planted last year. The average condition of the growing crop is 81.3 V as compared with 89.5 on July 1. 1900, 86.5 at the corresponding date in 1890, and a tenyear average of 90.3. The condition in Nebraska is 88, in Illinois and lowa 87, in Kansas 74, in Missouri 70, and in Texas 64. In each of the twenty-two States first above referred to, except in Mississippi, Virginia, and South Dakota, where the conditions represented by SB, 92 and 89, respectively, correspond with their ten-year averages, the condition is more or less below such averages. TWO KILLED IN WRECK. Big Four Passenger Train Collides with Freight Cars. One of the worst wrecks on the Lake Shore road in years occurred in the center of Nottingham, Ohio. The southwestern limited on the Big Four from St. Louis, Cincinnati and other western cities, which goes on to the Lake Shore tracks at Cleveland, was ditched through collision with a portion of a freight train. Just what caused the wreck is not definitely known, but it is thought a part of a freight train that had broken in two had rolled on to the passenger tracks. No passengers were killed. The engineer of the passenger train and a postal clerk were killed, and three train men and two tramps were injured. When the front end of the engine plowed into the ground of the gully it became disconnected from the coaches that went over the embank; meat and turned sideways so that it pointed in the other direction. The mail car, crashed into the tender.

MISTAKEN FOK A BURGLAR.

Charles Waltz Shot and Instantly Killed at Barberton, Ohio. Charles Waltz was shot and instantly killed by John W. Edwards, a Barberton, Ohio, photographer, being mistaken for a burglar. Waltz, with some friends, stopped at Edwards’ house during the night and demanded admittance. A window was broken and Edwards fired through the opening. No further sound wag heard, but later a policeman found Waltz dead, shot through the heart. Insanity Law Is Useless. The grand jury at Indianapolis that has been investigating the insanity trust reported. It failed to return indictments against the parties involved because there had been no evidence of criminal intent. The report says: "‘There has been no violation of the laws of the State of Indiana, hut we are also of' the opinion that the law has been abused.” Kansas Crops Almost Destroyed. Kansas farmers will lose $100,000,000 because of the drought which during the last three mouths had almost ruined the corn crop, destroyed all hope for oats and seriously damaged fruit, hay and vegetables. The heat and lock of moisture have caused greater injury to vegetation than was ever before known in the State. Night Watchman Slain. Ole McMillan, a night watchman, was shot and killed by J. Metzuer while the latter was resisting arrest at Humboldt, lowa. McMillan’s body was riddled with a charge of buckshot. Metzner is said to have been intoxicated and was abusing his family when the officer attempted to arrest him. Child Ts Killed by a Bomb. A bomb or huge torpedo thrown into the yard at 2021 Curtis street. Denver, killed Esther Oliver, 5 years old, who was sitting on the porch. The child’s lower jaw was entirely torn away, and she lived but thirty minutes after th« explosion occurred. Kittretlge Is Senator. Alfred B. Kittredge of Sioux Falls, has been appointed by Gov. Herreid to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of James H. Kyle. He will serve until March 4, 1903, the date when Senator 1 Kyle's term would hnve expired. American Robbed in Paris. The residence of John Munroe, 1 Rue Do Longchamps, Paris, has i>een robbed of jewelry valued at 80,000 francs. The robbers entered an open window on the ground floor in the absence of the family and while the servants were at dinner. Treasurer Confesses Ar»nn. Treasurer E. Norlin of Kearney County, Neb., has confessed to robbing the treasury and partially burning the court house to conceal his crime. Of the $lO,000 stolen. $6,000 has been recovered. Hnntsvllle, Hi., Destroyed. Fire during the night destroyed th* business portion of Huntsville, 111. Four stores, a blacksmith shop and five residences were burned. Total loss, $20,000; partially insured. Bin Fire n t-prinaHeld, Mo. In Springfield, Mo., fire totally destroyed the three-story jobbing and manufacturing plant of the F. C. Herman Saddler}" Company. Lom, about $50,000,

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Forced to Bell to the Trust—Queer Way of Deserting a Bride —Farmer Ends His Life-Bees Rout Mourners at a Burial. C. J. Hurrle, owner and manager of the Hurrle Glass Company, an independent twelve-pot window-glass concern at HartfoAl City, which for more than eight years has been a thorn in the side of the several window-glass combines in existence during that period, has at lust been compelled to quit the business. All the combines and the two labor unions concentrated their forces and it is alleged that through his inability to secure a set of workmen for next year he was forced to sell. The plant was sold to James Clelland for $15,000. The factory was operated until the last of June in opposition to the labor unions to which the workmen belonged.

Wires Wife He la Head.

In deep mourning, Mrs. Minnie Callahan, of Evansville, a bride of six months, went to Wheeling, W. Va., in response to a telegram announcing the death of her husband. She made all arrangements for, a burial place at Evansville, hut when she came to get the remains she found no corpse. The police investigated and ascertained that Callahan himself, for some purpose unknown, sent the message. He has completely disappeared. The woman Is almost heart-broken. Callahan left home a short time ago to work at Washington, Pa. Remorse Leads to Suicide. George Shaw, 32 years old, a farmer near Dublin, committed suicide by shooting himself. Shaw recently had a fight with William Heck, his friend, in which the latter was almost killed. Shaw has since been considerably worried as to the outcome of the affair and the other night he heard Heck was about to die. He went home at a very late hour and retired, but arose later and accomplished the deed. He told his wife he could not stand the suspense any longer and that he would be the first to die. Bees Cause Panic at Funeral Bees broke up a funeral at Salem graveyard. With Undertaker Dimmitt, of Kokomo, in charge, a child was being buried. As the body was being lowered thousands of bees attacked the mourners at the graveside. The attendants fled panic-stricken, anad it was not until after dark that the sexton could return and fill the grave. Mysterious Case at Muncie. William Roberts, a respected Muncie colored man, was called to his door about dusk on a recent night by a gang of five colored men, one of whom struck him with a hatchet or ax, fracturing his skull and fatally wounding him. He never regained consciousness. The gang fled, leaving Roberts weltering in his blood iu his own doorway. seek a Farmer’s Riches. When Ira Smith, a rich Terre Haute farmer, was instantly killed by lightning in his cornfield a few days ago he had not disclosed to his family the hiding place of from $12,000 to $15,000 which he was known to have in cash. The members of his family have been searching for it over the farm night and day since. He had $1,300 in cash on his person at the time he was killed. * f State News In Brief. Nick Stroble, prominent farmer near Batesville, shot himself for no known cause. Mrs. John Hartwell, 54, Columbus, was run down and killed by a Panhandle freight train. The Seth Ratcliffe at Russiaville was destroyed by dynamite. Ratcliffe was the chief witness in a Russiaville saloon fight. D. W. Wood, law firm of Wood & Ellis, Anderson, was killed by a Big Four train. He visited a elient, and took a short cut across the Big Four yard's back to his office. Rev. D. J. McMullen, who has been at the head of the cohgregation of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, at Richmond, for the past thirty years, resigned on account of failing health.

Oliver Willard Pierce, Indianapolis, was re-elected president of tAe Indiana j Music Teachers’ Association and ap- j pointed a committee of five on the elevation of church music.Charles Buchanan, a 15-year-old Rusie, in Albion, broke his arm. a few days ago, delivering It curved ball. The ami cracked like a pistol. The wrench on Ihe arm in curving the ball broke it. Mrs. Charles Prahl, of Chicago, aged 20 years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Shelden. of Goshen, wns found unconscious as the result of nn overdose of morphine administered with snicidal ( intent. Her recovery is doubtful. J. L. Weems, Vincennes attorney, nnd Mrs. Kate Slaughter, Los Angeles, are to be married. They were lovers twentyfive years ago at Hanover, Ind., but a rival won Kate Blythe from Weems and he also married another. Their respective spouses have died and they huve re- ' newed the love of their youth. John Moore, of Philomath, lost a fine Jersey cow in n rather peculiar manner. For some reason the cow seemed to crave drink, and finally died. Moore was de- | termined to know what the tow died from, so he cut her open. When he did ao a big black snake six feet in length ( crawled from the stomach. He killed it with a club. The snuke was probably taken into the cow’s stomach several years ago and has since lived tq grow to Its full size. The cow had given Its usual quantity of milk until recently, when she became sick. A Big Four locomotive fired wheat fields belonging to Emanuel Itensberger and William Shoup, two miles south of Goshen, and thirty acres of grain wore destroyed. Benjamin W. Briggs and Miss Clara M. Miller, daughter of Mel Miller, well ■ known J., M. A I. conductor at Madison, eloped and were married in Jeffersonville- i Mrs. Edwin T. Brow, Evans* ills,! drowned herself in Pigeon creek. About! fifty suicides hgve been committed in this creek. The body of Nora Kifer, mur-1 dered by Joseph Kleth, wss found in it.*

KAISER THE GUEST OF MRS. ANDREW D. WHITE.

WIFE OF AMBASSADOR WHITE,

Mrs. Andrew D. White, wife of the United States ambassador at Berlin, entertained the German Emperor at a dinner the other evening. Mrs. White is one of the most popular of American women at legations in foreign countries. Her diplomacy along social lines is as great as her husband’s along political/ ones. Last summer Mrs. White closed the embassy at Berlin with a grand reception.

RAISE PYTHIAN RATES.

Will Make Good Lou Incurred by John A. Hinsey. The Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias, ended its special convention at Chicago after adopting a resolution empowering Supreme Chancellor Feathers, the board of control of the Endowment Rank and General Counsel Hardy to institute civil and criminal proceedings against former officers of the Endowment Rank, who are charged with mismanaging affairs of the order. The resolution, it is said; will result in the prosecution of John A. Hinsey, expresident of the Endowment Rank; H. B. Stolte, ex-seeretnry; W. D. Kennedy, publisher of a Pythian journal and business associate of Hinsey, and a number of others who will be charged with having participated in the scheme by which the order was depleted of its insurance funds. General Counsel Hardy, who has had charge of the legal investigation, announced that the proceedings would be instituted as soon as the case can be arranged and the board of control decides who are to be made the defendants in addition to Hinsey, Stolte and Kennedy. The shortage of $225,000 will be overcome by a raise in the insurance rates, which was decided upon. A new table of monthly payments was drawn up and approved by the Supreme Lodge, to go into effect Sept. 1, 1901. The average increase in the rates for all ages is 44 per cent, and the officers of the Supreme Lodge hope to overcome the deficit before the next convention of the Grand Lodge, which will be held at San Francisco in October. 1902.

Few-Line Interviews.

F. A. Druehl of Salt Lake City—Americans will soon own Mexico. Not only are Americans and American money going in there freely, but an American suburb is being completed in the eastern part of the City of Mexico near the Chapultepec cas--1 tie. The residences are of American architecture, nnd the streets and everything else there is of the same national stamp, so the Yankee visitor feels quite at home. Senntor Mnrk Hanna —Great man, J. P. Morgan. No telling where he’ll step. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that he Was getting up a syndicate to buy the British empire next. It isn’t safe as long as he’s over there. From what I hear, j the British are on to that, too, and they I are keeping pretty close watch on him. Must be scared to do that. I tell you, I Morgan’s a grept man. Charles S. DeHart of Carthage, Ill.— The building in which Joseph and Hyrum Smith met their fnte at Carthage still | exists. But it is no longer a jail. It is 1 used as a private residence by an old I couple who are very accommodating to I visitors who call to sec the interesting relic. The bullet holes still remain in the door of the room where the two unfor- , tunate men were confined, and it is claimed blood stains can yet be traced in the flooring. , Henry H. Eliel of Minneapolis, after a trip to the South—l think this tea growing experiment in South Carolina will l prove the opening wedge to a new and great industry in the South. The affair has gone beyond the experimental stage. The tea grown there is superior to any Japanese tea I ever drank, and as good os the better qualities of China tea. Col. • Sheppcrd employs colored people. He pavs them fair wages for picking the tea, 1 anil also looks after their keeping and education. Rev. G. H. Tower of Milwaukee—The time has come when it is no longer necI essary for a woman to marry a man solely to obtain his support. When a woman marries she can do so as nn independent being, from the noblest and purest mO- * tives. I am glad that women are finding places in offices nnd are placing themselves in positions where they do not depend upon any man for bread and butter. When women nre pleasure loving, foolish and frivolous it tends to make them man's slave. ChaFjts H. Ailen, Governor of Porto Rico— Civil government is established in Porto Rico. Much haa been accomplished and every day marka progress. If the people can be relieved of their agitators I nnd allowed to work out their own salraitlon. and American capital, with the ■thrift and energy which follow it, be dlgrected toward Porto Rico with the assur- | ance that it will be welcome and given 1 adequate protection, then Indeed will J come prosperity and development which I every American citizen hopes for and evI ary dweller under the American flag.