St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 12, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 8 October 1892 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT? WALKERTON, - - . INDIANA CAST UP BY THE SEA (WRECKED ON NORTH CARO* LINA’S COAST. Michigan Lands Revert to the GovernJnent —Fatal Collision Between a Fire Engine and Locomotive—Portland, Ore., Has a Bad Blaze. Error on Land Patent Discovered. In the matter of the adjustment of the grant under the acts of June 3, 1856, and March 3, 1865, to aid in the construction of the railroad from Little Bay de Noque to Marquette, in the State of Michigan, i Secretary Noble has Instructed the I Commissioner of the General Land Office to direct the publication of a ! notice preliminary to the opening to ' settlement of the 12,000 acres found to : have been erroneously patented to the State for the purpose named. The Secretary further directs that the lands be opened to entry at the earliest day possible. Fire Costs One Life. Fire destroyed the Cary-Ogden paint manufacturing plant, Chicago, causing a loss of $150,000 to its owners. Four ' tenement houses were totally destroyed ■ and three others badly damaged The blaze was also att nded by the fatal injury of one fireman and the serious injury of two more. Engine No. 3 was crossing the Chicago and Northern Pacific tracks, when it was struck J by a passenger train. The gates at the crossing were not closed. Destroyed the Entire Block. At Portland, Ore., a fire occurred in the Kamm Block, a four-story brick structure, inflicting a total loss of ' $50,000. John G. Gray, a carriage- | maker, was burned to death and Doc Huston, a fireman, was seriously in- | jured. The United States Signal Office, i located in the building, sustained sev- 1 eral thousand dollars loss in damage to ■ Instruments. Six Seamen Found Floating. Wilmington, N. C., dispatch: A lot of wreckage and the bodies of six seamen have floated ashore near Cherry Grove fishery, between Little River and Lockwood s Folly inlets. There is nothing to indicate to what vessel the men belonged.

BREVITIES. Tennyson, the poet, is seriously ill. Minister Lincoln is about to pay a ehoi t visit to this country. The Humane Society will prevent bull-fighting at the World's Fa r. Thbee valuable trotting horses and twenty-five hogs of good breed were killed by a freight wreck near Waltham,

At New York, Burton 0. WeTrster, the murderer of Charles E. Goodwin, was sentenced to nineteen years in the penitentiary. Fire at the Union Stock Yards, Omaha, burned the sheep sheds and smothered about 900 head of sheep. Loss, $13,000. Fully insured. It is asserted that the Ohio Wholesale Grocers’ Association has adopted a rate-book equality plan which is, in fact, a wholesale grocers' trust. Lord Walter S. Beresford, alias Sidney Lascelles, the noted English forger, was sentenced to six years’ hard labor in the penitentiary, at Rome, Ga. The Rinkin Islands, in the Pacific, were devastated by a cyclone. Four hundred people were crushed to death, thousands of houses destroyed and crops ruined. The British steamer North Flint had a collision with a passenger steamer in the Bosphorus. The passenger steamer | was stove in, and had to be beached । near Constantinople. The New York Chamber of Commerce | cholera emergency fund is probably the ' largest fund ever collected in that city in so short a time. The fund is now practically $200,000. Fohr of the Homestead strikers ar- ; rested on a charge of treason gave bail and were released. One additional arrest has been made, but most of the ac- I cused are in hiding. Lavaca Bay, Texas, was swept by a hurricane, the most severe since the j one of 1880. More than twenty-five ; boats were badly damaged, and several buildings were wrecked. According to the latest announcement of the marriage of Prince Ferdinand of Roumania and Princess. Marie, daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh, will take place on Jan. 10, at Sigmaringen, ' Prussia. Dr. H. C. Beale, of San Francisco, is charged by his landlady with having murdered forty new-born babies in ten months, the bodies being either burned or thrown into the bay. The Doctor is held in $5,509 bail. Germany is said to be making strenuous efforts to have the government of San Domingo withdraw from the reciprocity treaty with this country, and Italy and England are said to be using their influence in the same direction. James Hughes, Master Workman of the Garmentworkers’ Union, Knights of Labor, has finally been sentenced by the Court of Oyer and Terminer at Rochester, N.Y., to one year in the penitentiary. Hughes was convicted of extortion in 1891, and the case was affirmed on appeal. Lotta, the well-known actress, is so sick that she has been obliged to cancel her engagements. It is announced that the international monetary conference will bo held in Brussels, beginning Nov. 22. Eighteen powers will be represented. It is said that Labor Commissioner Peck is ready with another lot of statistics. Fire destroyed the Metropolitan Hotel Block at Pine Bluff, Ark., the loss peaching $35,000,

EASTERN. W. F. Winnee, the St. Louis and Kansas City “promoter,” has been indict, d in Pennsylvania for fraud in connection with one of his railway projects. An agitation has been commenced at Bing Sing. N. Y., in favor of changing the name of the place on account of the general association with the State prison. Effie Shannon, of the New York Lyceum Theater Company, has brought suit for divorce from her husband, ■ Henry Guy Carleton, on statutory grounds. A public reception was given to Lieut. Peary, Mrs. Peary, tne members , of the expedition and of the relief party J at the Academy of Natural Sciences in j Philadelphia. Thomas B. Kingsland, who was for i many years publisher of the old New ; New York Evening Express, under the : management of the Brooks Brothers, is ' dead, aged 58. I Five new cases of cholera have been yeported on the steamer Bohemia. Four

' of the patients were children, and one ■ of them died soon after coming down With the disease. The New York Board of Alderm n has granted the Metropolitan Traction Company of Philadelphia permission to construct street car lines on the overhead trolley system. James Scroby, the agent for Genesee County, New York, for the Amerii can Bible Society, has just completed a tour of the county. He found 155 families who had never seen a Bible. George Franklin Comstock, exJudge of the New York Court of Ap- ' peals, is dead, aged 81. He was a solicitor of the Treasury Department under the Fillmore administration. No new cases of cholera are reported at New Yoik. A thorough investigation of the epidemic at Hamburg makes it apparent that it has been largely due to the filthy condition of the city’s drinking water. | The Grand Jury of Orange County, ; N. Y., reported that they had not in- ! dieted the Port Jervis lynchers of Bob ( Lewis, because the Port Jervis people had failed to give the evidence necessary to indict. Schock and Hirst, maT wagon drivers in Philadelphia, have confessed to a series of depredations upon the mails extending to several years. Two other men are impiica ed. The losses are estimated at $10,003. By the explosion of the boiler of a locomotive on the Buffalo. Rochester & Pittsburg Railroad near Grove Sum-

mit. Pa., the engineer, Levi Wise, an 1 the fireman, Charles Flynn, were killed, their bodies being blown to pieces. A well-founded rumor is in circulation in Homestead that the big plant of the Carnegie Steel Company will shut down in all departments. The 23ineh armour-plate mill has been indefinitely closed down and the men paid off. The officials of the company refuse to talk about the matter and their evasive answers to questions make it appear

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania assembled at Pittsburg Friday r the October term, and its firsc act was to issue warrants for the arrest of the members of the Advisory Committee of the Homestead strikers on the charge of treason for setting up in defiance of the constituted authority of the State a traitorous and rebellious government of its own in Homestead in July last. WESTERN. Steffen Zecha, living at St. Elmo, Minn., murdered his sweetheart, Mary Mendlick, of whom he was jealous, and then killed himself. Bellingham, Minn., was almost wiped out by fire. Nearly all the business houses were destroyed, and fifty families are homeless. Frank Sweeney has been deposed as Grand Chief of the Switchmen’s Mutual Aid Association, John G. Wilson, of La- | Crosse, Wis., having been elected to i succeed him. j The entombed men in the Norrie Mine at Ironwood, Mich., have not been ' rescued yet, but some of them are alive, as they have answered the signals of the relief party. The contract for building the Puget ' Sound dry dock has been awarded to ' Byron, Barlow & Co., of Tacoma, Wash., ' the lowest unconditional bidder. The | firm’s bid was $491,465. I The boomers on the Cherokee strip have started prairie fires in all direcI tions because of the slowness with which cattle are being removed. It is probable that many cattle will be burned to death. Mrs. Grover Cleveland was defeated in an action tried atOmr^afor the ejectment of a tenant, the fact being shown that the defendant had been granted an extension of time in which to pay up his arrears. Mascot, the Buffalo pacer, paced a mile at Terre Haute, on Thursday, in 2:04; in the same race Flying Jib, did a mile in 2:05J, and Guy, the famous Mississippi stallion, covered the same distance in 2:06^, taking the third heat in that time. The next five heats were all made below 2:07, and the Mississippi horse won. It was the greatest race ever held. At Coldwater, Mich., Nora Standish was thrown from a buggy and fell on her head, dislocating her neck. It was thought she was dead. The physician summoned two strong men; one seized her by the feet, the other by the head, and at the word pulled as hard as they could. The bones sprang into place with a snap, she soon recovered consciousness, and will live. Harvey Plattenburg, a brother-in-law of the Jatc'Ma'or John N. Edwards, the well-known newspaper writer, shot James McDowell through the head at Lexington, Mo., killing him instantly. Police Officer David M. Gray attempted to arrest Plattenburg, and in the scuffle that resulted was shot in the left breast and fatally woundd. Plattenburg was afterward lodged in jail. Off Marshfield, Oro , Capt. O’Brien and William Holmes were rescued Tuesday from the wrecked whaleback steamer Wetmore after being on the steamer ten days. The men were almost dead from exposure and hunger. The wreck

lies within a lew hundred yards of the shore, but the sea has been running so high the life-saving crew could not reach it. The steamer will undoubtedly be a total wreck. Three men were killed and three seriously injured in a wreck on the Vandalia line near Greenville, 111., Tuesday evening. The west-bound express dashed into a hand-car on which were six section men and hurled it from the track. Three of the men were instantly killed and the others seriously injured. A sharp curve prevented the hand-car being seen by the engineer until too late to stop his train. SOUTHERN. Engineer John Elmore was killed and three others injured by the explosion of the boiler of a locomotive at Coalburg, Tenn. The Adelphia Theater, of Baltimore, sometimes known as the Mud Theater, is to be razed to make way for a modPHn building. It was the first theater in the United States illuminated with gas, and was opened Dec. 9, 1a22. The Reman Catholic Diocese of Dal-

j las is to be made an arch diocese. The j । suffragan sees of the new province will probably embrace Galveston, San Ant tonio, the vicariate apostolic of Brownsville and the vicariate apostolic of In- , dian Territory. M. A. Freeman, a farmer who is in very moderate circumstances, in Montgomery County, Tennessee, received a letter from William Lord Moore, a lawyer in London, informing him that a 1 suit had been decided in his favor which ■ will net him $2,R00,000. The Buckingham palace is located on the ground in • question. The estimated value of the . whole estates is $8,000,000. Freeman’s friends advise him not to advance any money until the matter is fully investigated. । At Rome, Georgia, Lord Walter S. ( ; Beresford, alias Sidney Lascelles, the English forger, was sentenced Friday , to six years’ hard labor in the penitentiary. Beresford pleaded with the court for clemency if he could not consistently grant him a week to endeavor to appeal his case. He spoke in broken sentences, and at times broke 1 down completely, crying like a child. Judge Henry assured Beresford that he had sympathy for him as a fellow-man, but in justice to the laws of the State, j he could not grant him any further j time, as his case had been thoroughly tried, and the same affirmed by the ' Supreme Court. After sentence had been passed on him Beresford stood like a statue, with head drooped. Captain Amos Sarian, of the schooner May Gibbon, from Portland, Me., August 15, for Demerara, with a cargo of staves and white pine and a crew of five men, arrived at Galveston, Tex., Tuesday evening, from St. Michaels, on the steamship Acme, and reports that August 21 the schooner was struck by a hurricane, which raged with fearful intensity for two days. The 22d the vessel was struck by a huge wave, which knocked it flat, washing overboard William Bowers, C. Bowers, Douglass Bowers, and Theodore Wolf, four of the crew, all from Fort Madison, N. S. John G. Brace, the other seaman, had his leg fraetufcd. !

am^TeT Captain was thrdwn overbo^ I ‘ but caught in the rigging and succeed- [ ( ed in keeping the vessel afloat until ho I , and Bruce were rescued Aug. 23 by the steamer Vega and landed at St. Michaels. The May Gibbon was owned by B. C. Morse, of Boston. WASHINGTON — William P. Canady, formerly Ser- | geant-at-arms of the United States Sen- ’ ate, committed suicide owing to financial | difficulties. Justice Lamar, of the United States Supreme Court, suffered a stroke of paralysis and is confined to his home in Washington. Secretary of State Foster has been informed of the enactment of anew tariff act by the Government of Hawaii, which took effect Aug. 13. An order has been issued by Postmaster General Wanamaker to establish a free delivery service, commencing Dec. 1, at Decorah, Iowa; Shelbyville, Ind.; Louisiana, Mo.; Oklahoma, Okla.; Bucyrus, Ohio; Peru, Ind.; Troy, Ohio; Michigan City, Ind.; Bellefontaine, Ohio; New Whatcom, Wash.; Yankton, S. D.; Ironwood, Mich.; Stevens Point, Wis.; Mason City, lowa. If any of the cities fail to comply with the regulations in regard to posting the names of streets, or as to numbering of houses, etc., by or before Nov. 30, the estab- , lishment of the free service shall be postponed. POLITICAL.. The Michigan People’s party has nominated William Newton, of Flint, । Supreme Court Justice. Gen. Wheeler has been renominated for Congress by the Democracy of the Eighth Alabama District. The South Carolina Republicans put an electoral ticket in the field, but made j no nominations for State offices. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has rendered a decision which practically overthrows the second Democratic reapportionment. Michigan Republicans have placed fn nomination F. A. Hooker for Justice of the Supreme Court and John W. Jochim for Secretary of State. The official figures of the Maine gubernatorial vote at the last election, ; every city, town, and plantation in- ; eluded, gives Cleaves (Rep.) 67,585, ; Johnson (Dem.) 55,073, Massey (Pro ) j 3,781, Knowlton (Labor) 1,660, Batei man (People’s) 3,095; scattering, 17. i Total, 129,629; Cleaves’ plurality, 12,i 512. The complete ticket placed in nomi- । nation by the Massachusetts Democrats is as follows: Governor, William E. Russell; Lieutenant Governor, James B. Carroll; Secretary of State, Charles S. , Hamlin; Treasurer and Receiver Gen- [ eral, James S. Grinnell; Auditor. Irving ' B. Sayles; Attorney General, Charles F. Lilly. FOREIGN, Cart. Andrews, the American navigator who crossed the Atlantic in a dory, has arrived at Huelva in his little craft. Mrs. Kate Parnell, formerly Mrs. O’Shea and widow of tho late Charles

Stewart rawieii, is repoited to be serW ously ill at Worthing, England. $ ** Tre Guion line steamer Alaska, con«| cernlng which there was much anxiety! because of her delay in arrival ats Queenstown, has reached that port. It is intimated from French sources that the Dahomeyans were supplied with arms from Germany to use in their battles with the French troops. A St. Petersburg correspondent describes the horror of the annual sacrifice to the God of their tribe by the Tartars of the Malmuck district as recently witnessed by him. A peasant was hanged up by his feet and his head half severed from his body. The breast was then opened and the heart plucked out, and used to besmear the face of the god. The Pacific Mail steamship Peru brings Japanese news up to Sept. 16. The gale which swept over So.ithern and Central Japan last month inflicting such terrible damage in the Tokushima prefecture, also devastating the Rinkin i Islands. A report from Okinawa gives the iollowing figures: Four hundred persons crushed to death; missing, 24; boats blown out to sea, 23; houses completely overthrown, 1,500, and 1,100 ' partially wrecked; outhouses blown down and injured, 2,900; trees blown down, 3,500. Crops were also greatly injured The above figures do not include the devastation wrought in the smaller islan Is. IN GENERAL The St. Lawrence fisheries are a failure. “Billy ’ Edwards, of New York, bet SI,OOO to S9OO on Harrison’s election. The ports of Nicaragua have been closed from fear of an invasion of cholera. Two men wore killed and five injured by the explosion of a boiler at Embrun, Ontario. A young woman fell from the upper suspension bridge at Niagara, but clung to the guyropes until rescued. The annual report of the Union Pacific shows the earnings of the entire system to be $19,978,293, and the expenses $13,494,501. Mme. Camille Urso, the violinist, suffered an in jury to her wrist by being i run upon by a bicycler that will disable i her for some time. A strong party is reported to have been formed in the Rio Grande do Sul for the purpose of proclaiming Dorn Pedro’s grandson Emperor of Brazil. There was a neavy wind and snowstorm on Mount Washington the other night. The roads up the mountain were rendered impassable, and wire communication with the hotels was cut off. A design for the World’s Fair coin has been accepted. On one side is the i Lotto head of Columbus, and on the other two globes. It is proposed to mint 1,000,000 of these coins the present year. At the opening of the Union Theological Seminary the directors, in announcing the course of instruction for ' I 4-Vin4- 4-Lin** I

would persist in the Wies of biblical ; cr»ticism for which Dr. Briggs is now i undergoing trial for heresy. It is reported at Ottawa that the seiz- : ure of British sealing vessels by the Russ ans is for the purpose of assisting , the United States and prejudicing the j claims of England before the arbitration I commission. As a consequence there i is considerable war talk at the Canadian capital. The second legal assault upon the Reading combine made in Chicago was commenced Tuesday. State’s Attorney Longen eker filed an information in the Circuit Court seeking to restrain the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company from selling anthracite coal in Cook County, on the ground that the defendants maintain an unlaw- I fnl combination. Some time ago numbers of cats were ' sent from Halifax and other places to Sable Island to destroy rats, which were killing rabbits there. The cats, after destroying a number of rats, played sad havoc with the rabbits. The cats becoming numerous it was decided to send a number of foxes to the island j to thin them out. The foxes did the work too well. They not only mowed down the cats, but killed all young birds and destroyed thousands of eggs. This fact has been brought to the notice of the Government with the view , of having the foxes cleared off the island. MARKET REPORTS) CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime $3.50 @ 5.75 I Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.50 @5.75 i Sheep—Fair to Choics 4.00 @ 5.00 I Wheat—No. 2 Spring 72 @ .73 CORN—No. 2 43 @ .44 Oats—No. 2 31 @ .32 Rye—No. 2 55&@ .56)6 Butter—Choice Creamery 23 @ .25 Eggs—Fresh 1312® .1914 Potatoes —New, per bn 50 & .60 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle —Shipping 3.25 @ 5.25 Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 @ 6.75 Sheep—Common to Prime 8.00 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 69 @ .6912 Oats —No. 1 White 45 @ .46 Oats—No. 2 White 34 @ .85 ST. LOUIS. i Cattle 3.c0 @ 5.25 Hogs 8.50 @ 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 69 @ .70 Corn—No. 2 41 @ -42 Oats—No. 2 2912® .30’4 RYE—No. 2 64 @ .65 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.60 @ 5.00 Hogs 3.00 @ 5.75 Sheep 3.00 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 71’4@ .72J4 Corn—No. 2 48 & .4814 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 8316® .3414 Rye—No. 2 60 @ .62 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.50 Hogs 3.00 @ 5.25 Sheep 3.00 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 74 @ .75 Cobn—No. 2 Yellow 46t4@ .4714 Oats—No. 2 White .36 @ .3614 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 74 @ .74’4 Corn—No. 2 White 45 & .4” Oati—No. 2 White 32J4@ .3314 Rye 56 @ .57 BUFFALO. I Cattle—Common toPrime.... 3.00 @4.00 Hogs—Best Grades 4.00 @ 5.75 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 85 & .8514 Corn—No. 2 53 @ .54 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 69 @ .694 Corn—No. 3 43’4@ .44’| Oats—No. 2 White 34 @ .35 Rye—No. 1 59 @ .61 BaRLEY—No. 2 .68 @ .70 Pork—Mess 10.50 @ll.OO NEW YORK. Cattle 3. r ,o @ 5.00 Hogs 3.00 @ 6.00 Sheep 3.00 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 79 @ .80 Corn—No. 2 52 @ .53 Oats—Mixed Western 36 @ .38 Butter—Creamery 16 @ .25 Pork—New Mess 12.25 @12,75

' I GOOD WORK’S UNDONE, r ■ j INCIDENT IN INDIANAPOLIS LA- ■ BOR CIRCLES. * Get-R.’ch-Quick Scheme of Cincinnati • Contractors—Toronto Nurses Have Small—Luck of a Columbus Farmer—The Commercial Outlook Is Very Satisfactory. ’ Because Non-Unl >n Men Built It. ’ Indianapolis dispatch: A remarkable concession was made by the trusJ tecs of Butler University to the Brick- ■ makers’ Union. Several days ago a ' contract was let for the erection of and j addition to the university building and . the work was begun with union brick- | layers. The workmen discovered that 1 a boiler foundation had been laid some . time ago by non-union men, and they i declared that they would not work on ; the building unless the foundation was t torn down and rebuilt by union men. i After a parley of -everal hours the trus- । tees conceded the point. The founda- [ tion was torn out and the union men went to work. The trustees were anx- . ious to get the building done before i cold weather, and in order to do this had to make the concession. < rop Outlook Improve:!. R. G. Dun & Co. say in their weekly review of trade: Business continues larger than ever at this time of the year, and the commercial sky is without a cloud. Money is everywhere in ample supply, and collections have very rarely been more generally satisfactory. The outflow of money from Western centers L r purchases in the country is larger than usual, and yet there is no embarrassment. Crop reports are uniformly favorable, and the promise is distinctly better than it was a few weeks ago. Generally business is not only large and I healthy, but the cutlook for the coming I month is everywhere regarded with the uti most confidence. Found Dead in a Hotel Koom. At Denver the badly decomposed body of 0. I. Prescott, a prominent 1 Democratic politician and contractor, ■ was found in his room in the Revere । House Friday morning. Mr. Prescott had been missed by his friends for sev- । eral days and it was thought that he , was out of the city on business, but it ! is now evident that he had been dead for over a week. As the hotel is near the business portion of the city much surprise is expressed that the discovery । was not made sooner. The cause of death is unknown. To Prepare .11pan’s Exhibit. G. de Bruyn and W. R. Garrison, dii rectors general of the Japan exhibit at I the World’s Fair, arrived at San Fran- ■ cisco on the steamer Peru. They go to Chicago at once to prepare for their exhibit. This will include forty native houses, which will be arranged like a । Japanese village, and there will be 160 ' people living in it. The exhibit will , also include a theater, in which will be ; given the dances that proved the mo st ! striking features in Paris. The materials and people will reach here next March. Heir to Two Million Dollars. Anton Pilger, a farmer living near i Columbus, Ohio, just received intelligeyee through his attorney, James A.

C^irt in London has decided him to be the sole heir to an estate of $2,900,C00, left by’ George Miller, an English army officer, who died about ten years ago. Miller was a brother to Pilger’s mother and died a bachelor. Pilger is in modl erate circumstances. The Tickets Were Twice Turned In. i The Cincinnati Enquirer prints a story of a swindle by conductors on the South i Covington and Cincinnati Street Railroad Company whereby it says the company lost heavily. Tickets turned in by conductors were to be burned in the furnace of a steam boiler. The story is that by collusion with the firemen punched tickets were raked out of the fire and turned in a second time by conductors. Outlaw Frank Cooley Is Shot Down. Frank Cooley, the leader of the notorious Cooley gang of outlaws of Western Pennsylvania, was shot and killed by Sheriff McCormick, of Fayette County, at the home of his father, while resisting arrest. NEWS NUGGETS, Four persons were killed and ten injured in the gale at New York. The fund for the relief of the distressed people of Hamburg now amounts to $155,090. Railroads will defy the Massachusetts law compelling them to sell interchangeable mileage books. The Chesapeake & Nashville Road has been sold by the sheriff to R. Weber, of New York, for $310,000. The Shereef of Wazan, a great religious functionary, held throng'.out Morocco in a reverence second only to that Shown the Sultan, and the chief Mohammedan authority in Africa, is dead. Thirteen buildings were burned at North Bend, Neb., entailing a loss of $46,000. Among the structures destroyed - were the opera house, bank, postoffice, and North Bend Star office. The port of Colon has been closed against steamers from the United States, i and the Government of Colombia threatens to call on other nations for assistance if Pacific Mail steamers force a landing. The election in South Bedfordshire to fill a vacancy in Parliament caused by the elevation of Cyril Flower to the peerage resulted in the return of the Liberal candidate b' a reduced majority. Many artesian wells have been sunk in Hamburg, and are now supplying pure water. Smallpox has broken out in the General Hospital at Toronto, Ont , the victims being two hospital nurses. The source of the disease is unknown A lone highwayman held up the Creede, Col., stage and relieved a dozen passengers of valuables. Capt. G. P. Buckley and wife, of Danvers, Mass,, were murdered at sea, near Cape Town, Africa, by sailors. Corn has passed the danger line from frost. Several persons were poisoned at Mrs. Anna Vorpahl’s boarding-house, Kansas City, Mo., and are critically ill. Maggie Moore, a dining-room girl who has disappeared, is suspected.

PECK MAKES A REPLY. .The Hew York Labor Commissioner Olv* Bls Pledge of Secrecy. Labor Commissioner Peck was ij court at Albany to show cause why h< should not allow an examination of tht i tariff circulars received from New Yorl city manufacturers, on which the coni' > missioner based his report of the effeo ■ of the tariff on labor and wages. Mr. Peck’s plea was that all corre, spondence conducted by him with em< ployes and employers was under a per> sonal pledge of secrecy, without which no figures could be obtained. The saint CHARLES F. PECK. method prevailed in other States, and the returns he had received were his own property and not that of the StateHence no call upon him for the basis of his reports should be honored. The case went over until a later date. The affidavits on which the mandamus Is asked were made public at the institution of this proceeding at Kingston some time ago, and allege a demand by the relator to see the circulars; that, they are public papers, and that his demand was refused. Feck Makes Affidavit. Mr. Meegan read an affidavit of Mr. Peck, in which he said: The law really specified no details for the performance of my duties or the method to be pursued in obtaining the information it wasdesigned to secure for the Legislature of theState. In order to obtain the information required to make annual reports it was necessary that I should obtain the confidence of both employer and employe, the business men and the laboring people of the State. At thevery outset I was obliged to make a rule, publicly announced by me, that all information was to be received in the strictest confidence as to all correspondents and informants, and no names of persons, employes or employers, except by express permission, should appear in any department report or be otherwise giveneither to individuals or the public, and that no paper containing or relating to information received or used by me in discharge of th® duties of my office should ever be placed on filein my office or be made a matter of record, or be considered other than the private property of the commissioner for the protection of the senders of communications, and I have never considered it my duty to preserve the same. Every time I sent out circulars asking for information I invariably gave pledges of secrecy to my correspondents, and have done soannually. The practice pursued by me in 1890 and 1891 was no departure from the uniform course of prior years. I found in the law creating my office provision authorizing me to examine witnesses, but with the condition that no “witness shall, against his will, be compelled to answer any questions respecting his private affairs." • This restriction rendered its practically impossible to give effect to the intent of the Legislature unless the confidence yaJltkqjMjginle of, the St^te could be secured and business tnon/Um nesi<tes the vL out each year I have written and sent thou-^^W( sands of letters giving personal assurances tothe writers that ho use v o tld be made of their confidence, and every communication wouldbe held to be sacred and denied to any one, including rivals in the same branch of industry.. By such legitimt. t- means and by such honorable pledges only have I been able to discharge the responsible duties of my office and to render to the Legislature the data annually transmitted to it in my annual report. In twenty-seven States of the Union that have labor bureaus it has been found necessary to give to all peismsthe pledge of security and confidence given by me during the several years of my official life. These pledgesrelate to and cover cases of employers and employes ane labor organizations. The summary which was issued by me in 1892, and about which the proceedings have arisen, was Issued and published by me at the time usual for the publication of reports of other Stateofficers, and about the same time I have published my report every other year, and every year in which 1 have made up a report to the Legislature I invariably published beforehand in or about August of each year a summary as I have published in 1892. I have not deviated from the usual course and practice of my office, nor have I in 1892 departed from any custom of my office with respect to my report. The attempt made to establish the theory that my report was given out to influence the pending election is false, as the compilations were all made before any Democratic nomination was made, and the data were obtained before any one could tell who the nominees of any party would be. The communications and letters upon which my preceding annual reports were based were never filed nor made a record in my office and were never the property of the State, but were private letters, and whatever property exists in them is divided between this deponent as the receiver and the several senders of the letters, and I am advised by my counsel that under the decision of Woolsey vs. Judd and Duer, 379, and other kindred cases, injunction would lie against me if I attempted in any way to make public the matter that I guaranteed should be pn . ate matter and held as secret and confidential. As the head of the department in question I am of the opinion and so represent to this honorable court that the publication of the names and addresses of the persons and corporations who have furnished data upon which my report is based, would be greatly injurious to the public interests. This affidavit fully outlines the defense of Mr. Peck. Notes of Current Even’s. Net earning of the Illinois Central the last year were $'>,221,740. Reuben Hyatt fell in front of a mower at Nashville, Mich., and was cut to pieces. During church services at Bremen,. Ind., a snake crawled fro a the pipe organ. Persistent rumors that Emperor William’s health is failing are circulated in Berlin. Wilhelm von Puttkamer, Prince Bismarck’s nephew, has joined the Salvation Army. Miss McCormick, of Chicago, who is in a New York insane asylum, has an estate of $3,000,00a. The body of J. C. Vaughn, an old resident of Cincinnati, was incinerated In the Cincinnati crematory. The Pan-Presbyterian Council, at Toronto, declared for the unrestricted immigration of Chinese to the United States. There are over 600 cars of grain for Mexico sidi-tracked between Eagle Pass and San Antonio, Texas. Frank Cassell, one of a gang oi Italian counterfeiters in New York, has been arrested. Mrs. Diaz, wife of the President of Mexico, made a religious pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe for the purpose of invoking ths aid of the patron saint of Mexico against the threatened invasion of cholera. She was accompanied by about 100 of the most prominent ladies of the City ol Mexico.