St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 17, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 12 November 1892 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, . INDIANA. JUST SAVED HER BACON A STEAMER ALMOST LEFT WITHOUT STEAM. Fatal Crash, on the Wabash—Canadians Intend to Fathom the Diseased Cattle Question — Barney Is in Great Luck—. The Tolbert Feud. Burned Nearly All the Woodwork. The steamer City of Belfast reached New York on Monday night in a terrible condition, after battling with the storms for two weeks. The steamship left Colombo Aug. 26 with a cargo of sugar, it had favorable winds and weather and reached Port Said Sept. 29th, and Gibraltar Oct. 12th. After leaving Gibraltar it encountered terrific storms. This heavy weather continued with but short intermissions of fair weather for two weeks, and the coal ran low as it got within five or six days’ sail from this port. The coal finally gave out entirely four days ago and the boat was stripped of everything in the shape of wool about its decks for fuel. The crew’s quarters were torn out and burned. The fore and main top mast were next sent down and thrown into the furnaces. The bowsprit and the derricks next went, and with this the steamship was finally able to get into port. A Train Runs Into a Rock. Passengers to San Antonio from the City of Mexico were delayed twelve hours by a -wreck of the north-bound passenger train on the Mexican National i Railway. A large rock from an over- I hanging cliff near Banconda fell upon the track. The passenger train crashed । into the obstruction, throwing the en- ‘ gine and three coaches off the track.| The engineer and fireman were badly 1 injured and twenty passengers seriously wounded. In the King's Highway Tunnel. In a tunnel under King’s highway, just cast of Forest Park, St. Louis, a construction train and a freight train, both of the Wabash system, met, de- j molishing twelve cars at a loss of $25,- j ( 00, tearing up the track and injuring ; Bob Carmody, fireman, ribs broken with internal injuries, fatal; E. I . Hill, | brakeman, numerous cuts and bruises; John Murphy, engineer, badly cut on the head. Carmody died at the hospital. N EW SNUG GET S. Minneapolis had a violent snowstorm and biizzard Monday. A Minden (Mich.) girl, aged 16, has eloped wiih her sixty-year-old uncle. The novelist, Alexander Dumas, has sold his Paris house and will leave the gay capital. Major E. S. Bailey, one of lowa’s most prominent lawyers, is dead at his home in Clinton. One person was killed and eighteen wounded near Galveston, Texas, during a violent windstorm. Theodore Child, of the Harper : Brothers’ publishing house, is reported dead in Persia from cholera. The young Cleveland embezzler, Stanley M. Austin, was sentenced to "serve ten years in the penitentiary on two counts. Barney Dunning, for twenty-two years an inmate of the poor farm at Pittsburg, becomes heir to $300,000 left by a brother. «•. Ives, a foundry man of Montreal, has called a meeting of creditors. He owes about’sloo,ooo, but his assets are expected to exceed that amount. Not more than half a peanut crop will be made in Virginia. The failure is due to dry weather in August. The crop is also said to be very short in North Carolina, The noto ious Tolbert feud has broken out in Kemper County, Missisippi, and as a result three men now lie dead. They are Tom Tolbert. Sr., his ycungest son, John, and Thomas Cole, one of the sheriff’s posse. Friends in Boston of Miss Sophia G. Hayden, architect of the Woman’s Building at the World’s Fair, officially deny that the young lady is insane or otherwise suffering from poor health. She is now visiting friends in Michigan. Stanley M. Austin, of Cleveland, 0., was sentenced to serve seven and three years respectively in the penitentiary on two of the counts for embezzlement to which he had pleaded guilty. He falsified the pay-roll of the Upson Nut .Company and embezzled upwards of A sensation has been created in the Mexican state government circles over the discovery by Gov. Juan Ahumada, the new executive of the state of Chihuahua, that Gov. Boderquois, his predecessor, has pawned the revenues of the state to the amount of SIIO,OOO, and that he had also contracted a floating indebtedness of $116,000. At Beverly, Mass., a fire in the large wooden shoe factory owned by Myron Woodbury caused a total damage of about $50,100; insured. Fire did $50,00.) damage to C. G. O’Brien’s paint shop and tenement building at Pittsburg. In jumping from the third story Mrs. Shuett was kille 1, and Mrs. Edwards, her mother, fatally injured. It is understood that the Dominion Government has decided to ask the British Government to send out experts to investigate the condition of Canadian cattle and quarantine and report to the Dominion Government, in the hope of awakening the British authorities to repeal the embargo recently imposed on cattle from Canada arriving in England. Lord Melrose, the largest St. Bernard dog in the world, has died at Melrose, Mass. He was valued at SIO,OOO. Twenty-two buildings were burned at Brooklyn Saturday night and fifty families were made homeless. The financial loss is $500,030. The Chaldron Congregational Academy at Chaldron, Neb., has been destroyed by fire. The loss is $15,000. It is reported that th? Yaquis Indians are preparing for a war of extermination in the western part of Mexico.

EASTERN. Max Schoenthal, a New York hop And malt dealer, has failed. His liabilities aggregate upward of $250,000. Consul General Domingo Kutz of Ecuador, accused of forging notes, was acquitted by Justice Byan in New York City. General Samuel Wylie Crawford, who commanded the Pennsylvania Reserves at the battle of Gettysburg, is dead. Samuel J. Seligman, son of James Seligman, of the well-known banking house, was married to a Miss Lisso in New York.

The Western Union Telegraph Company has filed its certificate of increase of capital stock with the Secretary of State at Albany. The sugar trust has placed a contract with John Bailey, of Philadelphia, for 5,060,060 bags, in which all sugars will l hereafter be shipped. i An American woman in a Philadelphia j hospital has every symptom of leprosy. The patient is 67 years old, and always lived in the Quaker City. The scenery and costumes for the | Wilson Barrett eni agement at the Park i Theater, Philadelphia, are held in the ! steamer for payment of duty. Western and Southern railway securities, belonging to the estate of the . late Charles Stewart Parnell, were sold at public auction in New York. । At Point Breeze, near Philadelphia, a loss of $200,000 was sustained by the burning of several vessels and a large section of wharf property. Jane E. Kellogg, wife of George Kellogg and mother of Clara Louise Kellogg-Strakosch, the singer, died in New York of neura’gia of the heart. Charles A. Howes, the forger who victimized banks in all parts of the United States, has made a full confession in New York of his many crimes. Numerous incendiary fires are reported at Beaver Falls, Pa., and the citizens have formed a vigilance committee to run down and punish the firebugs. In special term of the Supreme Court Judge Parker appointed the Binghamton, N. Y., Trust Company permanent receiver of the Iron Hall funds in New York. The temporary receivership of George E. Clines, of New York, was set aside. The fund thus placeds in charge of the trust company amount to about $200,000. It is said that all the agents of life insurance companies in Binghamton recently ha I a meeting, at which it was decided to take legal steps to restrain the movement or the reorganization of the Iron Hall in the city under the Baltimore plan. The Schuylkill River at Point Breeze, the extreme southern point of Philadelphia, is always covered with a scum of oil from adjacent works, and since the oil fire there more than the usual quantity has been floating on the surface. William Miller, Albert Krumbach, and Warren Hilt started from the eastern shore in a rowboat to cross the river. When 150 feet from the shore one of the men lighted his pipe and tossed the blazing stick into the water. A burst of flames shot up, and instantly the surface around the boat was biazTng- fiercely, The men plunged into the burning and tried to swim ashore. Hilt gauk T blazing surface and was seen no more; but his two companions by repeatedly diving and swimming beneath the surface succeeded in reaching the shore. Both men were horribly turned. The wrecking steamer Maryland caught fire and was damaged to the extent of $15,C00. ' WESTERN? St. Paul enjoyed a snow-storm Tuesday. The Milwaukee relief fund for fire sufferers now amounts to $150,060. Three prisoners broke through the wall and escaped from the Lima, Ohio, jail. The bank of 0. M. Hollenbaek at Auburn, Cal., failed Monday. Liabilities, $64,000. One thousand five-tael cans of opium were seized on the schooner Oregon from Portland at San Francisco. An alleged horse thief, Dean McVeagh, was shot and killed while resisting arrest by Fred Drees at St. Henry’s, Ohio. It is believed that the big steamer reported foundered near North Manitou is the W. H. Gilcher, of Cleveland, Ohio. Six drunken Indians were burned to death in a cabin in Okanagon County, Wash., during a debauch on Monday night. Judge John K. Crarens, a wellknown jurist of Missouri, died at his home in Kansas City from malaria fever. An unknown victim of the recent disastrous Milwaukee fire has been found by the workmen while removing the debris.

In a quarrel at St. Louis, Ida Boughina s ruck Gertie Lee with a soda water buttle, cutting the latter’s jugular vein, killing her. Between $6,000 and $7,000 worth of smuggled opium, consigned for Chicago, has been seized by customs officers at Detroit. Christopher Henderson, arrested for being drunk, was shot dead by Policeman Kolonbersk, in Minneapolis, while trying to escape. The first production in English on any stage of “L’Ami Fritz” was given recently in San Francisco by Alexander Salvini. It proved a success. Officers from the Uintah Indian reservation, in Utah, express considerable anxiety at the temporary removal from Fort Duchesne of a portion of the United States troops. It is said the Indians are now indulging in drunken orgies. Ed Oleson, aged 27, and Joseph Whitton, aged 18, were drowned in Devil’s Lake, N. D., while crossing Grand Harbor Bay in a small boat accompanied by Miss Buisso and Miss Oleson. The beat capsized. The women clung to the boat, drifting ashore unconscious. San Francisco customs inspectors made the second seizure of contraband opium on the steamer Oregon, from Portland, 1,005 tins of the drug being

found concealed in barrels of salmon. The value of the opium seized on the steamer aggregates $27,000. William Kitrick, a wealthy San Francisco lumber dealer, committed suicide by cutting his throat on the street. A card was found on his body on which was penciled a brief statement that he had been hypnotized. A. G. Green, a well-known real estate dealer, was found dead in a hotel at Oakland, having taken a dose of laudanum. A Cincinnati horse doctor undertook to cure a girl of consumption after the family physician had given her up. He first boiled all the flesh off her legs by steaming them over a tubful of hot water and timothy seed. Then he wrapped the maimed limbs with bandages, which he soaked with horse liniment. The poor girl died in agony, and the father is hunting for the ignorant brute with a gun.

A large panther has been terrifying the people about St. Joseph, Mo., for a week no farmer leaves his aooryard without a rifle. Since it first made its appearance it has killed a number of calves and hogs and in one instance a fullgrown cow, which it dragged over a mile. Wednesday nght a farmer named Haynes opened his door to allow his dog to enter, when he was confronted by the panther. He closed the door just in time to escape a blow from the animal’s paw. The dog was torn to pieces. It is supposed tho animal escaped from some menagerie. Tahlequah, I. T., dispatch: Ned Christie, the notorious outlaw who killed Dan Maples, a United States official, a year ago, is dead. He was surrounded about daylight Thursday by sixteen deputy United States marshals led by Dick Bruno and A. G. White. Christie had fortified himself in a cabin, but the officers resorted to dynamite and succeeded in blowing down part of the house and setting fire to the ruins. While Ilie blaze was at its fiercest Christie was seen to emerge from under the floor and start to run. He was riddled with bullets, mutilating him terribly and knocking him down. He lived to regain his feet, but another volley settled him. The officers then turned their attention to the burning building and discovered Chai lie Hare trying to escape. He was terribly burned, but was able to run. He was arrested. The body of Wolfe, who had been wounded early, was burned to a crisp in the build ng, which was entirely consumed. The females of the Christie family were allowed to retreat at the beginning of the fight. One month ago the officers attempted to make a prisoner of Christie, but were obliged to abandon the attempt, not being acquainted with the location of the place. SOUTHERN. Thomas A. Gleason, a well-known cotton buyer at New Orleans, has been arrested, charged with forgery. The amount involved is SB,OOO. Two brothers named Burgess, who were in jail at Lebanon, Va., charged with murder, were taken from their cells by friends of their victim and hanged. The supreme military council has confirmed the death sentence passed upon Colonel Nieves Hernandez, charged with treason in failing to capture Garza, the revolutionist. Judge Speer, of the United States District Couit nt on, tin., inoperative on the ground that they are unconstitutional. Near Oliver Springs, Tenn., the house of Mrs. Lewis was completely destroyed by fire. A crowd of miners marched into the town and openly set the house on fire. Mrs. Lewis was kind to the soldiers, and that is the cause of the miners’ deed. A report was at once made and a reply received from Nashville that Capt. Roach has called for volunteers, and 100 responded and are ready to march at a moment’s notice. At Asheville, N. C., Ella Lytl q a 12-year-old white child, was dusting the mantel when she brushed a box of dynamite caps into the stove. The caps exploded and threw the girl down, tore a hole in the ceiling, and shattered the window panes. Pieces of the exploded shells were found all over the girl’s body, one piece imbedding itself two inches beneath the skin. Tho girl is dangerously hurt, but there is a slight chance for her recovery. WASHINGTON. The public debt was decreased $689,087 during October. Gen. W. S. Rosecrans, Register of the Treasury, is unable to complete his annual report on account of illness. After a dry spell of many weeks Washington, D. C., caught a light rainfall the other night as the alleged result of the series of explosions which tho experts of the Agricultural Department have been causing across the river. But the cost of the experiments have been too great in the sacrifice of nerves and comfort to make the plan entirely popular with Washington people. Their patience was exhausted when after midnight Thursday night there was a roar that shook every house in the city, after which a slight rain fell. Ono army officer who observed the experiments because he could not sleep asserts that tho first two shocks brought down smart showers which settled into a steady Tain, but this was suddenly stopped by the last two explosions. FOREIGN? Governors of Austrian provinces have been requested to prevent emigration to America. Thus far twenty-one bodies of persons drowned in the Roumania disaster have been recovered. M. Deveaux, director of tho Ottoman bank at Constantinople, has committed suicide by drowning himself at Corfu. Catherine Booth and Mrs. Clibborn, daughter of General Booth of the Salvation Army, have been arrested at Geneva. The signal man at the point where the train disaster in England occurre 1 says he fell asleep an 1 neglected to turn the signals. Vessels r^i the Mediterranean coast are prevented from entering the harbor of Marseilles or Toulon, on account of the prevailing gales. Mrs. Deacon’s suit fcr divorce against her husband on the ground of

alleged cruelty, has been dismissed Uy the tribunal of the Seine. A false alarm that the stoepie of a church in the village of Vinagora was collapsing, caused a panic among the congregation, and twenty-five persons were trampled to death. Daily reports of suspected cases of cholera in Hamburg will no longer be issued on account of the rapidly disappearing plague. Only genuine cases will be reported in the future. The Liberator Building Society, which recently failed at London, owes its shareholders and creditors £3,313,000, whiie, accorcing to the official receiver, the real assets ; mount to only £50,000. At Sydney, N. S. W., Francis Abigail, Director, and Manager MacNamara, of the Australian Banking Company, who were charged with issuing false balance sheets for the purpose of defrauding shareholders of the company, have been found guilty. Abigail was sentenced to five years and MacNamara to seven years’ penal servitude. A railway accident occurred early Wednesday morning near Thirsk, in Yorkshire, Eng., by which ten persons were killed and several injured. The express train which leaves Edinburgh every evening for London was running at full speed as it approached Thirsk, when ahead of it appeared a heavily laden freight train. The engineer of the express reversed his engine and put on the brakes, but it was too late. The wrecked carriages caught fire and were destroyed. A large number of persons from near-by places were so?n at the scene and did everything possible to extricate the dead and injured. Tho burning cars greatly hampered their efforts, but had it not been for their bravery the loss of life would have been much greater. The scene at the wreck was pitiable. Some of the bodies had been burned beyond all semblance to humanity. The clothing had been destroyed, and in some cases the jewelry worn had been melted by the intense heat. This will render the identification of the dead in some cases extremely difficult, if not altogether impossible. IN GENERAL

A mass of forest growth resembling a large island, an 1 supposed to have broken off tho American continent, is reported floating in the Atlantic. Exclusive of specie, the total exports from Now York for the week ending Nov. 1 were $8,755,780, against $7,277,759 for the corresponding week of 18J1. Limit of weight for packages of “samples of merchandise” for AustroHungary has been increased to twelve ounces, through an agreement entered inti between the two governments. The Bureau of American Republics is informed that a company has been organized to mine the sulphurs in the craters of the volcanoes of Popocatapetl, which is now said to be in a quiescent state. The general directory of tho Industrial Brotherhood of Canada, in annual session, passed a resolution condemning the present financial policy of Canada, and stigmatized it as a farce, in so far as it purports to benefit the masses. Canadian cattle shippers are much excited over the report that the English J^Mil Hfa (Wririiliu»A>^ Tieuu ml catUv, lanaea at Dundee num Canada, to be slaughtered, on account of the existence of pleuro-pneumonia among them. Anticipating tho largo vo'utne of mail and the value of quick transmission during the World's Fair, the United States Rapid Transit Company of Chicago has submitted the details of an elevated road to the Pootoffice Department at Washington. The plan is to erect this system between the Exposition grounds and the Postoffice, and by means of an electric cable placed high enough to clear all buildings along the route, attain a speed of 200 miles a minute. The full-size model of the Union cruiser Kearsarge, which was one of the most attractive features of tho Grand Army display in Washington, will soon disappear from the white lot where its hull, masts, and spars have been a pleasing addition to tho landscape. It will be taken to pieces and transferred to Indianapolis, where it will be rebuilt in time for the Grand Army encampment next year. Permission was secured from the Secretary of the Navy to remove all parts of the vessel belonging to the Government, all expenses to be borne by tho Indianapolis managers of the encampment. MARKET REPORTS, CHICAGO. Cattle —Com men to Prime.... $3.50 @5.75 Hogs —Shipping Grades 8.50 & 5.75 Sheep— Fair to Choice 4.00 @5.50 Wheat— No. 2 Spring 70 @ .71 Corn— Na 2 41 @ .42 Oats— No. 2 80 @ .31 Bye- No. 2 49 0 51 Bu tter —Choice Creamery 27 @ .29 Eggs —Fresh 21 @ .22 Potatoes —New, per bu 65 @ .75 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle— Shipping 3.25 @ S.CG Hogs— Choice Light 3.50 @ 0.f.0 Sheep —Common to Prime 3.00 @ 4.00 Wheat —No. 2 Red 65 @ .66 Corn —No. 2 White .39 @ .40 Oats —No. 2 White 34 @ .35 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.(0 @ 5.u0 Hogs 8.(0 @ 5.50 Wheat— No. 2 lied (55 & .66 Corn— No. 2 Ss&@ .3.04 Oais— No. 2 29 @ .30 Rye— No. 2 52 0 .53 CINCINNATI. Cattle s.oo @ 4.75 Hogs 3.t0 @5.75 Sheep 3.00 @ 4.75 Wheat— No. 2 Red .(6 @ ,CG*i Corn— No. 2 43 @ .43 Oats— No. 2 Mixed 32 0 .32hi Rye— No. 2 "5 @ .67 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.50 Hogs 3.00 @ 5.25 Sheep 8.00 @ 4.50 Wheat— No. 2 Red 70 @ .71 Corn —No. 2 Yellow 43 l i@ .14’j Oats— No. 2 White 36 @ .37 TOLEDO. Wheat— No. 2 70 @ .71 • Corn— No. 2 White 41 @ .411a i Oats— No. 2 White 31J6@ -321 j ■ Rye 53 @ .53^ BUFFALO. 1 Cattle— Common to Prime.... 3.(0 @5.25 Hogs— Best Grades 4.00 @6.25 , Wheat— No. 1 Hard 81 @ .82 Corn— No. 2 46 @ .47 I MILWAUKEE. ’ Wheat —No. 2 Spring 65 @ .65^ i Corn— No. 3 4” @ -41 | Oats —No. 2 White 35 @ .36 : Rye— No. 1 r >2 @ .53 ; Barley— No. 2 66 @ .63 i Pork— Mess 13-00 @13.60 NEW YORK. Cattle 3-50 @ 5.75 Hogs 3.00 (tji 6,00 Sheep 3.00 & 5.25 i Wheat— No 2 Red 76 @ .77 ! Corn— No. 2 50 & .51 OATS—Mixed Western 35 @ .37 Butter— Creamery 29 @ .30 Pork —New Mess 13.00 @13.50

Oil! GIVE THANKS! ANNUAL PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT. Business Thrives Notwithstanding' the Campaign—Kentucky Will Probably Bo Represented at the Fair—Rain Falls Throughout the Southwest. Commence to Fatten the Turkey. President Harrison has issued the annual Thanksgiving Day proclamation. It follows: The gifts of God to our people during the last year have toon so abundant and so special that the spirit of devout thanksgiving awaits not a call, but only the appointment of a day when it may have a common expression. He has stayed tho pestilence at our doors; He has given us more love for the free civil institutions in the creation of which His directing providence was so conspicuous; He has awakened a deeper reverence for law: He has widened our philanthropy by a call to succor the distress in other lands; He has blessed our schools, and Is bringing forward a patriotic and God-fearing generation too'eeute Uis great and benevolent designs for cur country; He has given us great increase in material wealth, and a wide diffusion of contentment and comfort in the homes of our people; He has given His grace to the sorrowing. Wherefore. I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, do call upon all our people to observe, as we have been wont, Thursday, tho 24th day of this month of Novemte ■, as a day of thanksgiving to God for His mercies and of supplication for His continued care and grace. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and ca used the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this 4th day of November. 1892, and of the independence of the United Statestho one hundred and seventeenth. Benjamin Harrison. By the President. John W. Foster, Secretary cf State.

Business Good for the Period. R. G. Dun & Co. say in their weekly review of trade: Even in the last week before a Presidential election business continued active; indeed the volume is far beyond any precedent fora similar period. The election has plainly diminished business in two ways; multitudes have been diverted from trade to political activity, and many more have chosen to postpone transactions until the political uncertainty lias been removed. The fact that even under such circumstances trade has been of enormous volume shows how powerful is the impetus toward activity and expansion. The people are clearly buying more goods than ever before, and in some branches manufacturers are realizing a slight advance in prices. Money is closer at some Western points, but nowhere is stringency seen, and there is no apprehension as to the immediate future. Will Be Settled in n Few Weeks. Since Gov. Brown of Kentucky called in question the constitutionality of the bill appropriating SIOO,OOO for Kentucky’s exhibit at the World’s Fair the State Commissioners have dilly-dallied and refused to take any steps to test the question. It has looked very much as if Kentucky would not be represented ’at Chicago, but the weak-kneed commissioners have braced up and submitted an agreed ( ase to Judge Montfort of the Circuit Court. He will decide the case at once. t will then go to the Court of Appeals, and the matter will be settled in a few weeks. It is believed that tho appropiiation will bo sustained. Steady Kain for Twenty-Four I Fours. El Paso, Tex., dispatch: The drought broken, rain falling almost steadily for twenty-four hours. It has come too late to be of benefit to grass, unless a warm spe l follows, as the grass has already cured and water will rot it. It has served another purpose, however, in filling all the water holes. New Mexico stock has been and is being shipped and driven into Utah and Nevada in great numbers. The loss has been great from the want of rain. BREVITIES, A steady rain fell near Camden, Ark., for twelve hours, accompanied by a cold wind. Great damage will result to the cotton in the fields, as it will rot in the boll. The Secretary of the Interior has approved the allotment of lands to the Indians on the Devil’s l ake Reservation in North Dakota to the number of 85 u . By the terms of the general allotment act these Indians are thereby declared to be citizens of the United States and entitled to all the rights, privileges, and immunities of such citizens. Jesse W. Elliott, a lawyer of Vinita. I. T., was killed at Catoosa, fifty miles southwest of Vinita, last night by T. J. Thornton. The two men had several fights before the fatal encounter. FinaTy Elliott mounted Thorntm’s horse and rode up and down the street. He was followed by Thornton and taken off the horse and his head nearly cut from his body with a knife. The remains of Lieut. Schwatka were taken to Salem, Ore., and consigned io their last resting place Friday. The funeral services were of a simple and unostentatious ch<racter. Many residents of Salem and a large number of people from Portland, together with the immediate friends and relatives of the dead explorer, surrounded the grave as the casket was lowered into it. A horrible story is reported from Deep Fork, Oklahoma, in the Pot'awatomie country. Two weeks a?o the wife and baby of a settler mysteriou ly disappeared. The other day the 1 ead of the child and portions of the b dy of the mottc were disc ivered in the lair of a panther in the wo?ds several miles from the house. The woman and child had been carried off and devoure I by the ferocious bcist Fifty armed men are hunting for the panther. The steamer Chelkat at Tacoma, from Ala ka, brings n ws that four men were found in camp at Point Parry, Cuprenoff Island, wi h their h ads cut off and all their cl thing stripped from th ir bodies. The crimes are supposed to have been committed by Indians. John R. Rupp, the yardmaster of the Read'ng Railway Company, who was held by the coroner’s jury as responsible for tia > recent fatal collision at Manayunk, Pa., has been arrested. The steamship Ontario, nine days out from Montreal to Liverpool, cattle laden, put in at St. Johns, N. I'., to repair its disabled machinery. It encountered severe weather, and was for some time on its beam ends. Its decks were swept and fifty head of cattle drowned.

Manuel Training'. It is perhaps illustrative of the growing interest in the subject of manuel training that an eastern political club has among its declaration of principles this: “Proper manuel training should be made a part of the public school system.” It also declares that “reasonable and constitutional legislation in the interest o» manuel labor should be constantly urged.” There has been a marked progress in public sentiment within a few years, particularly in the east, in favor of making manuel training a part of the public school system and a considerable advance has been made in incorporating it as a part of that system. There appears no reason to doubt that the sentiment favorable to this movement will continue to grow, because the conditions that prompt it are steadily growing. The demand is becoming more and more urgent from year to year for a place in the mechanical trades for American boys, both for the reason that other channels of employment are overcrowded and that the trades offer a better means of livelihood than most other vocations. The market for skilled labor expands with the growth of the industries of the country and the general development, and the intelligent youth of the country are begining to understand that the largest opportunities and the highest rewards are to be found in the workshops rather than in the stores and counting houses. Europe has furnished this country valuable instruction and example in the matter of manual training. Sweden instituted it twenty years ago, in what is known as the “slojd” system, which technically means the different kinds of handiwork used educationally. By this system, which has been carried to great perfection in Sweden, the childrenin the public schools.are taught to be handy with tools from the age of 9 or 10 years. It is simply preparatory, training the hand and eye for higher forms of skilled labor to be taught later in technical schools, which are the natural outgrowth of the system. Manual training schools are general in Germany, and they abound, also, in Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and to a less extent in England. Franco leads all other countries in popularizing industrial education, but it is being extended everywhere in Europe. There is no valid icason why it should not be found as desirable a system here as there, and at any rate the time has come when there must be greater provision made for the industrial education of American youth in order that they may be self-sus-taing and enjoy a larger measure of independence than is possible in tho precarious and poorly paid employments 'nto which so large a proportion of them now drift. The expediency of making manual training a part of the public school system is widely approved, though there are some who object to it. Those who advocate it, however, have an advantage in with equal merit, but nowhere without sufficient success to justify its continuance. Whatever danger there maybe in the possibility of the training being carried beyond legitimate limitations as a part of public school instruction, but this does not present an insurmountable difficulty and ought not to be permitted to stand as an obstacle to the extension of the principle. It Never Fails. “Do you see that gentleman sitting opposite?” said one man in a cable car to his next neighbor. “Yes,” “I can make him pull his watch out of bis pocket and consult the time, without saying a word to him?” “You know him, perhaps, and have it arranged that he shall do so on a certain signal from you.” “No; I never saw him before in my life.” “Well, then, I don’t believe you can do it.” “I have $5 to sav I can.” “1 have five to say you can't” “It’s a bet, is it?” “It is.” The other man waited a few moments until the glance of the man referred to fell on him, and then with much deliberation, drew forth his watch and looked at it. The man across the aisle saw the movement, and instantly lifted bis own watch from his vest pocket. The man who bad bet he wouldn’t handed his $5 bill over without a word, and as the other took it he remarked: “It never fails. Look at your own watch and it’s as catching as yawning. Try it yourself on ^somebody.” —Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Elizabethan “Cooke lie.” If they were as good as our ancestors thought.why do we have chewets no more; or marchpanes, kestons, vaunts, frians, moyses pettieservices,tansies, manchers, Florentines, resbons, and condonacks? “-’pinnedge tarts” wo are quite willing to do without: and we can run our nineteenth century course entirely independent of “black pudding,” made of blood. “Pettie services” were “coffins” filled with eggs, marrow, ginger, sugar, and currants. A Florentine was a pie of veal, kidney, chicken, or pheasant, “which of them you will,” minced with suet, eggs, currants, dates, cinnamon, mace, ginger, and “time,’ and baked in a sweet crust. Ou* tastes are very different. Ginger is limited in its use now; we care not for saffron and do not cook dates with fish, flesh, or fowl: we are not given to the flavor of sandalwood in our danties, and we have a taste in herbs I not of the sixteenth century.—Chau- । tau juan. I Men always admire a woman whose husband is good to her.