St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 25, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 January 1892 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, . . , INDIANA MONEY IS CHEAPER. CHICAGO RATES DECLINE ONE PER CENT. There Will Be No War with Chili—A Flouring; Mill to Adopt Electric Power —A Foolish Nurse Kills Three People. Will Take to Electricity. A revolution in manufacturing will be begun in St. Paul next month, at which time one of the largest flour mills ( in the Northwest will be operated by । electricity. It is claimed that this move will be as great an improvement in flour ; making as was the introduction of the gradual-reduction system ten years ago. 1 As was the case then, the improvement ’ will now be brought about by fire. c

'There the great Minneapolis mill explosion occurred, practically wiping out the milling system of that city, every mill was using the old millstone process, which so heated the flour as to destroy its color. In rebuilding the mills the world was ransacked for improved methods, and the result was the introduction of the Hungarian roller or gradual-re-duction system. About a year ago the St. Paul roller mill was destroyed by j fire and rebuilt on a larger scale. It | will now be operated by electricity, j without fire or steam about the plant. Break in Interest Rates. There was a sharp break in interest rates at the Chicago banks. For a long j time rates have been held up to 6 per j cent, with great firmness in spite J of statements showing usually heavy surpluses and a light demand. The rates broke, however, and several institutions freely let out funds on call at 5 per cent. The banks around the Board of Trade have had the best demand, and they still protest that they have no money to loan below 6 per cent., but there was considerable money borrowed on Dearborn street at 5 per cent., and there is much more of it to be had. Chili Gives It Up. Says a dispatch from Valparaiso: It i is said that the Chilian Government I has cabled orders to Minister Pedro Montt at Washington to make a sincere apology to the United States for the unfortunate and deplorable attack upon the Baltimore sailors Oct. 16 last. The apology is unqualified in its character. Other matters which have been in dispute i between Chili and the United States are I to be speedily considered by the new j administration. It is no secret here I that many of those who cherish ideas of war between the United States and Chili are friends of Balmaeeda. Went to Bed tc Keep Warm. Peru, Ind., has eighteen gas wells । r

■■■■HHP^WWW^^urstandtore a great gap in the earth. The gas was turned off when the thermometer stood 5 degrees below zero. Boxes, boards and worn-out furniture were used to keep the people from freezing. But in many gas stoves wood cannot be burned and hundreds of people went to bed to keep warm.

Attempted a Foolish Trick. The night nurse of a sick man in Mrs. Jones’ lodging-house, at Hanford. Cal., attempted to fi'l a Kerosene stove with oil. The wick must have been smoldering, for an explosion followed, which led to a general fire that destroyed the lodging-house, Methodist Church and two dwellings, and burned to death Elmer E. Shafford, of Chester, N. H.; B. F. Tucker, of Sacramento; and E. L. Foster, of a concert company. Colored People Want Better Coaches. The railroad companies of Alabama have thus far failed to comply with the statute requiring them to provide firstclass coaches for colored passengers. In view of this fact the colored people are planning to hold a State convention next month to devise measures for compelling the railroad companies to carry out the provisions of the law. A Train Runs Off a High Trestle. The tram of the Kentucky and Indiana Bridge Company, while rounding a curve, was derailed at Louisville, Ky., and ran off the bridge. The last car fell from a trestle thirty-five feet high. Conductor Frank Mahan was crushed to death under the car, which fell on him, and a passenger named Paccon was injured. Aid for the Anti-Parnellites. Dr. J. F. Fox, the famous member of Parliament from Kings County, Ireland, is in St. Paul in the interest of the antiParnellites. He is invoking American aid through branch organizations in the large cities of this country of the National Federation and hopes to be able to organize a strong branch in St. Paul. Reward for a Murderer’s Capture. The murderer of L. W. Marsh, of Seymour, Ind., is still at large, despite the effort to capture him. The City Council and the County Commissioners each offer a reward of SSOO for him. Found Dead in His Bed. John M. Derby, a prominent land attorney, was found dead in his bed at Duluth, Minn. He complained of having been sick for several days and took a whole bottle of a patent consumption cure. By a Mob of Negroes. A mob of negroes engaged in a riot near Pine Bluff, and burned the railroad depot. Highwaymen Rob a Montana Stage. Three highwaymen hold up a stage near the Idaho line, not far from Bon- i ner’s Ferry. They made a rich haul, , securing about $6,000 worth of jewelry. ! The robbers also got about SIOO in cash. ' There were four men and two women in • the stage, which was set on a low sled. I Robbed the St. Louis Postoffice. Slye, the suspected Glendale express robber, has been identified in St. Louis as a participant in a postofiicc robbery in that city. -

EASTERN. Bishop Loughlin, of the Roman Catholic diocese of Long Island, is dead. Edward M. Field seems determined to starve himself to death, and still refuses food. Angello Petrillo, a murderer under sentence of death, made an attempt to commit suicide in the New Haven, Conn., County Jail. The Prudential Fire Insurance Company of Boston has wound no its affairs and reinsured its risks in the Home Insuance Company of New York. The Clearfield (Pa.) Hotel livery stable was blown up with dynamite, and the debris and eight houses were destroyed by the fire that followed. Du. Heber Newton, tho pastor of A 1 Souls' Protestant Episcopal Church, of New York City, who has been dangerously ill from a grippe, is better. Henry E. Titus, the New York sto k broker, who was alleged to have mysteriously disappeared, is in Washington adjusting his accounts with his creditors. George M Nycelv, fireman cn the Chicago limited, was instantly killed at Lilly. Fa. He was leaning out of the, cab window when he was struck by the mail crane.

James E. Cooper, proprietor of the Adam Forepaugh shows, died at his residence in Philadelphia, Pa., of inflammation of the stomach. He was born in Philadelphia Nov. 4, 1832. Two hundred and twelve laborers employe! on the fortifications at bandy Hook have been laid off I ecause money to pay them is iot forthcoming. Unpaid wages amounting to $15,000 is duo them. Ax explosion of gas took piace at Hamton Mine, near Wilkesbarre, Fa., operated by the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company. The only person injured was John R. Davis, a tracklayer, who was fatally burned. The following threat is contained in a recent letter sent by the latest of the army of dangerous cranks to Jay Gould: “I know how to get near you, and if you don’t send me a few thousand dollars I will certainly throw my hat full of dynamite under your carriage the next time you take a drive. The dynamite will explode without failing and blow you all to atoms. A. B. 33.” It has worried the millionaire and the members of his family more than any of the other alar Jng epistles which form the largest pan of the daily mail. The great barrel works of the Stindard Oil Comp ny, at Constable Hook, N. J., t urned down, and the loss is estimated at from 81,000,000 upward. The fire start 'd in the heading-room of the barrel works. The building was filled with barrels, loth completed and unfinished, there being hundreds of thousands ot them. There were also gieit stacks of. cut lumber ready to be converted into I arrels. It is estimated that there were between cne and two million barrel heads in the building and from ten to fifteen million barrel stav^i^^^ - AM go j ng Ob '

J, mil 11. .-I .'ll'lll mtVoi for some time. Jay Gould may miss his daughter, but heT gain a good son-in-law, and he needs one. What do you suppose he will give us for a start?” This and some more statements of the same sort made up a letter received by John F. Bassford, of New Yora, the dav after Henry L. Norcross demam cd $1,200,000 of Russell Sage and threw the bomb that brought death and destruction to the millionaire's office. The letter was signed I'rince Von Michaels, and Mr. Bassford recognized in the writer a man whom he had once befriended through pity. In effect the writer asked Bassford to assist him in an attem; t to kidnap the eldest daughter of Jay Gould.

WESTERN. Mike Perino and two other Italians were overtaken near Silverton, Colo., by snowslide which carried them 200 feet down the mountain, but they extricated themselves. John Dieted, who has been on exhibtion in Cincinnati at a museum as a fat giant, died from an attack of the grip. His waist measure was given as Bi feet and his weight 763 pounds. An Indian named Half Cat, of the Sisseton Reservation, Minnesota, was struck on the head with a neckyoke and killed by an Indian named Red Bird. Half Cat was too attentive to Red Bird’s wife. United States Commissioner Charl- ' son and a party of twelve deputy mari shals had a fight with moonshiners in Arkansas, in which Marshal Jackson was mortally wounded and two moonshiners were killed. At Minneapolis, Minn., Mrs. Martha Moore committed suicide by pouring kerosene oil over her clothes and then setting them on fire. She had been suffering from melancholia, caused by the death of her husband. The Chicago and Colorado Springs vestibule train was run into by the Chicago and Denver “flyer” at Burlington, Colo. The rear platform was smashed and the engine of the Colorado Springs train was badly damaged. The brutal assassination of two men near Wilburton, Choctaw Nation, was developed by the arrest of George L. Loneley at South McAlester, I. T. Three men traveling in a wagon were seen going into camp near Wilburton The next day two stock hunters found the bod os of two dead men near the camp, their faces horribly mutilated. The wagon was followed and the arrest of Longley whi e trying to sell the wagon and team on the streets of South McAlester resulted.

Two young ncn near Los Angeles, CaL, arc rapidly making a fortune slaying coyotes. Last April they were not worth SSO, but now they have $3,700 to their credit in bank, and they are adding about $l5O a week to their dep sit. They have fifty traps sot, and with these and their rifles are rapidly thinning out the coyote; in Los Angeles and San Bernard no t ountics At $5 a scalp there is more money in hunting coyotes than growing grain or fruit In St. Paul, at 11:55 the other night, the interior of the Casino presented all the characteristics of a saloon and music hall. At 12:05 it presented all the features of a well-organized prayermeeting. The transformation was as complete as it was sudden. Arrange-

ments had been made with the saloon management by the Young Men’s Christian Association to hold service in the bar. The meeting was crowded and orderly, and at the close of the service coffee and sandwiches were served. By the arrest, of Albert D. Sly, at Los Angeles, Cal., for the robbery of an Adams Express car at ( lenda’o, Mo., Nov. 30, it is believed that the ringleader of the gang that robbed tho American Express car at Western Union Junction, Wis , Nov. 12, has been captured. Whether the latter belief is correct or not, Sly's complicity in the G endale robbery is almost positively known, as the watch of the express messenger who was on tho car at tho time of tho robbery was found in Sly s possession when lie was arrested. The Joseph Jefferson Comedy Company is now playing an engagement at McVicker’s Theater, in Chicago. The Jefferson Comedy Company includes some of the best known players on the stage, such as Mrs. John Drew, Louis James, Viola Allen, J. H. Barnes, Fannie D. House, W. F. Owen, Maud Monroe, Geo. M . Denham, Fitzhugh Owsley, Joseph \\ arren, H. W. Odlin and Joseph Jefferson. Those who have not seen Mr. Jefferson’s creation of Bob Acres should not miss this opportunity of seeing the greatest living comedian in his best role. Near South Bend, Ind., Edward Spohn ami Miss Seig, were engaged to be marlied. M ss Seig left the house and went to the gate to meet her lover, with whom she was to spend the afternoon. The two stopped to discuss what should be do e during the afternoon They stood in front of an eight-inch brick wall twenty feet high, and which is said to have been out of plumb and dangerous. A strong southerly wind was blowing and forced itself back of the wall, and without a second’s warning about ha f the structure toppled over. Miss Seig was instant y killed, her brains being dashe I out and scattered over the brick. Spohn was fearfully mangled, but lived about ten minutes after he had been taken from under the mass of bricks and mortar.

A warrant wa; received at St Joseph, Mo., for the arrest of C. L. Wi'ron, a local insurance agent, on the charge of swindling Andrew County farmers out of various sums of money. Wi son was indicted by the Grand Jury at the last term of the Andrew Countv Court, at which time several of his victims made affidavit that ho had represented himself as being an agent of the Home Insurance Company of Chicago, and had written s: ores of policies for farmers, colie ting the monev for the same, and telling the farmers that their policies would be sent to them ater on. As he offered to insure anything the farmer possessed at a rate that no other company could touch, he did a landoffice business until one of his victim-, becoming suspicious at the turn-arrival of his policy, wrote to the office at Chicago and received a reply to tho effect that there was no such man in the employ of the Home Company. SOUTHERN.

The belief is border that Garza is being supported by a strong secret following Overproduction of cotton is to bo ' considered at a convention of planters and dealers in Augusta,'Ga. Trouble is brewing between the East Tennessee, Virg’nia and Georgia Rail- ' road and its telegraph operators. W. S. Hale, State Treasurer-cleet of Kentucky, will not qualify because the sa'ary of the office is only $3,000 a year. Ex-Confederates have decided to j urge the passage, by the Tennessee Leg- ; islature, of of a bill bestowing a yearly ' pension of SI,OOO upon the widow of Jefferson Davs The grip has caused the death, of Al- 1 fred Cole, of Springdale, Ky., at the age > of IL> years. He had been an acquaintance of Simon Kenton, the famous Kentucky pioneer. A cyclonic storm wrecked many farm buildings and did much other dan - age in the vicinity of Texarkana, Ark. The homes of C. J. Wells and John Morris were destroyed, eight persons being buried in the ruins, but none seriously hurt. .1 he best business blocks of the city of Nashville, Tenn., were destroyed. Three firemen lost their lives by the collapse of a building. The loss will reach $600,000, with the insurance almost as great. The Rosalie flats burned. ' at ( hicago, and many of the occupants had narrow escapes from suffocation.

The Mexican Government has offered a reward of $300,000 for Garza’s head, but they will hardly get him. So far the Mexicans have killed over 100 men on suspicion of being revolutionists, and this has tended to drive other poor ranchers to join the revolt. At Pueblo the populace revolted and every priest has been placed in jail. At Austin, Tex., Dr. AV. J. jeves, Superintendent of the State Luna ic Asylum, was shot and almost instantly killed by Henry Purnell, who had recently been discharged from the institution. He had been under treatment for lunacy and was discharged, the supposition being that he had been cured. Purnel. used a shotgun, and fired on the Doctor without a word of warning. The Durango, Moxi o, Government is inaugurating a crusade against religious persons living in communities, as illegal. A district judge ordered the arrest of nine monks and the detention of two priests of the Profesa Church and the eviction of six monks and the detention of the p: iest of the Sacred Heart. The police are searching for monks, and it is r ported will arrest the passionists at Tacubaya, who are Americans News was received at San Antonio, Texas, and confirmed, that General Garcia, in command of the troops in the field in the northern zone of Mexico, with headquarters at Mier, had been murdered by his command and that the ent re force, numbering several hundred men under his immediate command, had gone over to the side of the revolutionists, cross ng over into Texas in a body at a point between Koma and Carrizo The private soldiers in the Mexican army are nearly all convicted criminals who, instead of being given a term in prison, are sentenced to servo with the military. They arc desperate characters, and are nearly all secret sympathizers of the revolutionary movement. Gen. Garcia was one of the most prominent and efficient officers in the Mexican army, and

his death at the present time is a serious blow to the government. POLITICAL. Bishop W. Perkins is the Kansas Senator who succeeds to the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Plumb. The appointment is made and the commiss’on begins at once and runs until the Legislature, which meets tho second Tuesday of next January, sha'l elect a Senator to fill Plumb's unexpired term of two years from the date of such election. Roswell P. Flower was inaugurated with pomp at Albany, N. Y. The ceremony was attended with more glitter than any that has taken place in a number of years. For the first time in ten years the affair was heightened by the presence of women at the receptions. The inauguration took place in the Assembly Chamber, which was profusely decorated with American flags. Bishop Doane, of the Episcopal Cathedral, offered the prayer. Then Gov. Hill congratulated Mr. Flower in a short speech. FOREIGN,

Gen. Booth, the head of the Salvation army, is holding successful meetings in Madras. Prince Christian continues to improve and is assured of recovery from the effects of the loss of his eye The condition of the King of Sweden is serious and the Crown Prince has been given provisional charge of the Government. A famine bazar in the Imperial Theater of Moscow, over which the Grand Duchess Elizabeth presided, netted $60,000 for the relief of starving Russian peasant. It is unofficially stated in Berlin that Dr. Yon lio leben, at present German Minister to Japan, will succeed the late Count D'Arco Valley as Minister tj the United States Joseph J. Ashworth, the Brooklyn Royal Arcanum Loan Associati m Secretary, who embezzled 820,000 from the organization, has been surrendered for extradition in London. The City of London Fire Insurance Company has, it is reported, decided to withdraw entirely from business in the United States. This is due to the fact that during the la t five years business lias been l ad. and there has probably been a los-. The .Meriden (Conn.) Fire Insurance Company, a large concern, retired altogether. reinsuring its risks in the Koya' The Meriden's capital was $200,000: surplus, SBI,OOO. IM GENERAL The fatal wreck on tho Southern Railway was caused by a laborer who maliciously sawed off one end of the track stringer. The British steamer Southgate arrived in New York from Alexandria, Egypt, with 4,900 bales of cotton. .inA liUliHuiilil। to bo

^■B^^^^^^^Wra^nihegulf, near Quebe •, Advices have been received from I Samoa to the effect that another native war is imminent. Two hundred of King Malietoa’s warriors are said to be ad- | vancing upon the village of Lumu with. I the object of expelling the Mataafite ini surgents. It is alleged by the newspaper organ of the Kansas Farmers' Alliance that the National Union Com] any of New York, with a capital stock of $-.'0,000,- ’ OJO, which has been trying to obtain I control of Alliance stores under the pre- : text of cheapening commodities to con- : sum rs, is but another name for the : Jute Bagging Trust. Ihe most astounding development s [ are daily being made in connection with the boodle transactions of the late government of Quebec (Can.). It is now alleged that Bremier Mercier himself went to the Treasury’ Department for letters of credit in favor of certain railroads, and, having them in his possession, demanded a consideration to hand them over. Eighteen contraband Chinamen were captured in Seattle by the deputy sheriff and the customs inspectors. The Chinamen were landed early in the morning before it was light in the woods north of the city. A citizen seeing them getting off a mysterious sloop in i the bay notified the officers and they । raided a Chinese wash-house in the edge 1 of town. The sloop escaped down the । bay. v ...... I

MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. 0 attle—Common to Primo $3.50 & 6.00 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.54 @ 4.MJ Sheep—Fair to Choice 3.00 @ 5.'<5 Wheat—No. 2 Hod 91 jy Corn—No. 2 39 @ 30 ® .32 । ^O. ~. 36 @ .88 butter—, hoice Creamery 26 @ .28 i Cheese—Full Cream, flats 12 @ 13 ; Logs—Fresh 23&@ .24 1 6 1 oiALOEs—Car-1 ads, p=r bu... to @ 40* j . INDIANAROLIS. i Cattle—Shipping 3.25 @ 5.25 i H <; s Choice Ligct 3.50 © 4.25 | Hheev—Common to Pi Imo 3.00 ©4.50 1 Wheat—No. 2 Rod 02 @ .93 1 Corn-No. 1 White 41 © .42 Oais—No. 2 White 34 & .35 ST. LOUIS. Caitle 3.50 @ 5.25 H0g5....... 3.50 © 4.00 Wheat—No. 2 r.od 91>$@ .92>j Corn—No. 2 36?£.© .37'2 i Oats-No. 2 30 & .32 i Rye—Nq. 2 83 © 85 CINCINNATI. | Cattle 3.50 @5.50 : Hc«s 3.10 © 4.00 I Sheep 3.00 @ 500 Wheat— No. 2 lied 03 © .95 i CORN—No. 2 43 © .44 Oats-No. 2 Mixed 34 @ .35 1 „ DHTJiOIT. ; Cattle 3.00 @ 4.75 Hogs 3.00 © 4.00 Shi ep 3.00 @ 5.00 W HEAT—No. 2 Red 94 @ .95 Corn—No 2 Yellow 42 @ .43 Oats—No. 2 White 34 @ .35 TOLEDO. Mh at—New 94 @ ,f 6 CcBN—No. 2 Yellow 41 © .43 Oats—No. 2 White 33 @ .35 Rye 88 @ .90 BUFFALO. Beef Cattle 4.00 @5.75 Live Hogs 3.75 @ 425 Wheat—No. 1 Hard..... 1.04 @l.Ol Corn—No. 2 55 @ .57 MILWAUKEE. V. HEAT—No 2 Spring 85 @ .87 Corn—No. 3 36 © .38 Oats -No. 2 White 32 © .33 Rye—No. 1 86 © .83 Barley—No. 2 57 & .58 Bork—Mess 10.75 @1125 NEW YORK. Cattle 350 @ 5.25 Hogs 3.C0 @ 4.50 Sleep 3.50 @ 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.07 @ 1.09 Corn—No. 2 51 @ .53 Oats—Mixed Western 38 © .41 Better—Creamery 20 @ .30 Pork—New Mess 9.75 @10.25

TO BENEFIT FARMERS. GAMBLING IN GRAIN INJURES LEGITIMATE TRADE. Senator Washburn Replies to Mr. Counselman in Reference to a Bill Introduced in the Senate—The Pernicious System of Short Selling.

After Grain Gamblers. Senator W. D. Washburn, the author of the option bill introduced by him in the Senate last month, in an interview in Chicago the other day, said: “I have just finished reading the interview with Mr. Counselman in which that gentleman sevely criticises the bill introduced by me to prevent grain gambling. lam not surprised at that gentleman’s hostility nor at all disturbed by the sarcastic reference to my philanthropy in the premises, for any effort directed toward a curtailment of the great evil known as ‘short selling* can be expected to call down the wrath of all dealers in illegitimate or fiat grain. But Mr. Counselman wholly misunderstands the situation when he assumes that this bill is put forth as a perfect bill in all its details. I recognize the extreme difficulty in drawing the line between what is hurtful and what is helpful to the producer, and I introduced it early to draw out criticism and suggestions from all quarters. I already see places that I think are weak, and before the discussion is over I may see other places that should be improved. “The future selling of real grain is perfectly legitimate, and should not be interfered with. In fact, to prevent a man from contracting his grain for future delivery would be ruinous in its effects on the producer, and no one is seeking to encompass that. “M hat I want to do,” said the Senat r. is to stop this thoroughly pernicious and demoralizing practice known in gambling parlance as .short selling,’ where a man can go on the board without a kernel of grain, either real or prospective, and sell millions of bushels, thus depressing the market tho same as if so much real grain had been dumped on. Why, Mr. Pillsbury, tho largest buyer of real wheat in the world, tells mo that there are men in Minneapolis with their offi -es in their hats vho sell more wheat in a year than he buys, and that there are days in Chicago when men sell more than he* will buy in a whole year, anti yet these men have the audacity to claim they are helping the market.” Referring to a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce at Minneapolis for a conference with the Senator, Senator Washburn said:

“Os course the Board of Trade folks . up tnere occupy the same position as j does the Chicago Foard, they claiming I to believe that the Lill means the utter ' demolition of trading i.i futures, but | they will find their mistake when tho bill formally becomes a law and goes into < fleet. 1 was especially surprised at the statement made then by President Sawyer, of the Sawyer Elevator Company, when he said that not over 1(1 i pt r cent, ot the sales made on the boards ot trade in tlie coUMUy were of the ( ga ial>i iI ■ g eii arn ote v

th, mat- . • tor up that a quite different state of i affairs exists. No board furnishes any ( | data to make a comparison from except I the New lork lh ard, which is small j co npared with the Chicago Board, but । even then the figures are startling. i “Here is a wry interesting tablethat । I came across the other day. It shows that during ten 'lays of the summer of Ibfl.i the real and bogus sales of wheat were as follows:

FaHa of r.c- Opt’n Bales teal wheat, of fictit'ous Ihitel .0. Lus. wheat, bus. : G3UtO 18 4)0,01)0 1 'D'O J 54.0(0 2,03),04) Al’rHH 1,8)0 10,' 80,000 i 6,00) 44,00u,00) i t? ’’J - i 1 HtO 8,003,000 1 C'’’l* , 32 0 0 6.1; ,OXI i yG’L !•> 62.103 7.24'3.000 i ” 1 ’.OOO 4,' 00 OHO ' £ 64,000 3.0i1),1 00 i Oct. 24 85,000 4,603,0,0 Tot'll 337,.-0 > 125,720 OJO “The facts are that during the days । named, for each bushel of wheat sold, New York market-wreckers sold । 372 bushels of fiat grain, and that it ! would require but thirty-six days for them to sell options equaling in amount j an average wheat crop. “An expert, writing on the subject, : says: ‘lt is not unusual for as much i fiat wheat to be sold in a dav as there is i of actual grain received in a year. For instance: On the 14th of April, 189(1, New York speculators sold 41,000,000 , bushels of fiat wheat, probably more ' than twice as much as reached that city j during the year. While the “offerings” in a single day, at either Chicago or New York, are said to often exceed 300,000,060 bushels, such offerings having the intended effect of depressing prices.’ ” “What would wheat have been worth had it not been for the board of trade methods?” “Well, I think that every bushel would be worth 20 cents more to-day. In fact, all Europe is astonished that it is getting our wheat to-day for the ridiculously low price considering all the circumstances. They expected to pay more, and it is an outrage upon the producer that he should thus be sacrificed to the i relentless greed and disreputable deals of the ‘short seller’ on our Boards of : Trade. Yes, sir, in my opinion, some > kind of relief will be granted our producers in a restrictive law that will preserve all the good features in future | dealings and eliminate the bad. By taking up this question, and drawing in the views from all sides, a great service i will be rendered to the people of the Northwest. What we want is intelligent, honest investigation, and something good will come out of it.” The Boss Bandit. Garza must be a non-professional revolutionist. A professional would have been caught and shot long ago.—Buffalo I Enquirer. Garza is only a bandit -with a few hundred followers, yet he is givin" the two big republics a heap of trouble. — Quincy Whig. The training Garza had is at lastjrexer.leu. He vas a sewing machine agent in .Mexico and lexas before he embarked in the revolutionist business.—Philadelphia Ledger. G arz a must not be promoted to the rank of hero till he ha-; tackled American troops. His victories so far have been over Mexicans only.—New York Commercial Advertiser. From the rapidity with which Garza I skips from one side to the other of the ' Rio Grande, it is a little difficult to tell i just whose bandit he is.—Detroit Free ’ Press. ,

PEOPLE’S PARTY OF MICHIGAN. Knlglits, Farmers and Prohibitionists Adopt a Platform. One hundred and eighty-five delegates from the labor organizations of Michigan met in conference at Lansing to form a political federation. The Patrons of Husbandry; National Citizens' Alliance Industrial Party, Farmers’ Alliance. People's Party, Patrons of Industry, knights ot Labor, and Prohibitionists were represented. wa ® decided to name the party the I copies Party,” and the following p atiorm was adopted: Abolition of national banks as banks of issue and for the issue by tho Government of full legal tender notes. Increase of the circulation not to exceed 150 per capita. Free and unlimited coinage of silver. Abolition of all monopolies, trusts and combines, and the most rigid control of all corporations, and that all telephone, railroad, telegraph and express companies that cannot be controlled be owned by the Government. liepurchase of lands held by foreign syndicates, and the reclamation by the Government of all lands granted to corporations in excess of those actually used and needed by them. That one industry should not be built up at the expense of another, and that all revenues sAa.ll be limited to the necessary expenses of the Slate and nation honestly and economically administered, and that all duties on the necessities of life be abolished. That a per diem pension be given all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors. That a graduated income tax be had. Equal suffrage, equal pay for equal service, and that all children under sixteen years of ago be removed from tho treadmill to the school-room. MUST REMAIN MAN AND WIFE. Young People Married in Fun Cannot Be Separated. Judge M ithrow, of St. Louis, eave his decision in the divorce case of Sarah G. Darrow against Constantine C. Darrow, the young < ouple from New York, who were marr ed on a banter and who now wish to be separated. Judge Withrow rules that the marriage cannot be dissolved and that the parties must remain man and wife. Mrs. Darrow is a hands me young lady 17 years old, and is the daughter of Judge Gaskell, of Lockport, The circumstances of the marriage were that the young lady, while not yet 16 years old, had several admirers. Among them was Constantine C. Darrow, a young law student. Darrow was jealous of the other men, and it was stated that he challenged his sweetheart to prove that she was not married to some of the other young men by going to a church and marrying him. She took the banter, it was stated, and they

| went to an Epis opal church at Lockj port. N. Y., and were married. The young lady returned to her parents, and । young Darrow resumed his law studies, and noth ng was said about the marriage. Darrow came West about a year ago and began the practice of law in Buchanan County, Missouri. After his d‘parture from the East, the minister who performed the ceremony informed Mrs. Gaskell, the young lady s mother, and s cps were taken to secure a le^al t separation.

'J 1 a e. A D 1 LY. Both Sides of the Border Guarded by Many Soldiers, The Garza revolutionary troubles not only continue but are intensified, for it. is known that Garza's band has been materially increased, says a San Antonio ( lex ) special. The wide territory and the revolutionists’ d an of dividing their forces in pursuit and yet to be easy of concentration make the suppression of the revolutionists very difficult Then again one party of the revolutionists will engage and harass the authorities while another faction is gaining their point and plunder. The face is the United States forces on the borders are unable to protect and two or more troops of cavalry have been sent to the border for service there, and additional State Ranger- a e on th * field. It is said that if necessary the War Department will send all tho troops under Gen Stanley to the borders to prevent further infringement of the neutrality laws Tho Mexicans are massing troops on that side of the border a- d are making great efforts to protect ne citizens an t repel insurgent invaders, but scouts and guides are wanted, and these are difficult to obtain. A courier has at last reached Fort Ringgold from (apt. Hardie, who reports that a l is wed and that Hardie has two trusty Me; i ans with him He is searching the ranches for Garza and those who are sustaining him in his revolutionary scheme. He has al-o detachments in other directions, and hopes to be able to make a vital coup.

destroying our forests. Ex-Senator Edmunds Writes a Letter on Tills Subject. Assistant Secretary Willits, of the De--1 partment of Agriculture, presided at the meeting of the American Forestry Association. Ex-Senator Edmunds sent a letter expressing his regret at his n - ability to be present, in which ho said: Ihe subject is of unusual importance to the future welfare of ail our countrymen. I have seen in Europe much of the evil of the stripping of the hill and mountain sides of their forests, and I have seen In our temperate and well-watered climate of Vermont how great has been the loss from timber and wood cutting merely for the timber and wood, without reference to the inevitable consequences in reference to floods, washing away of soils, drying up of springs, and turning the face of otherwise bountiful Nature into deserts. The devastations of a dozen years can hardly he repaired in half a cent try, and so every energy of reason and persuasion ought to be brought to bear upon the public intelligence to avert the evils that so seriously threaten large parts <>f th- republic from the destruction of the foreits. To weld two rols of ir n together so neatly that an export cannot discover the weld is done in the following manner. first chamfer the ends, then weld them together, and then stave them up until they are considerably larger than the other part of the rods. After that take another weld and draw to a uniform size, and the job is neat and complete.—Machinery Market, London. Renowned Young Men. Charles James Fox was in Parliament at 19. The great Cromwell left the university at Cambridge at is. John Boh.hi was not at any school a day alter he was 15- years old. Gladstone-was in Parliament at 22, and at 24 was Lord of th 1 Treasury. Lord Bacon graduated at Cambridge at 16 and was called to the bar at 21. ’ Peel was in Parliament at 21, and immersion was Lord of the Admiralty