St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 25, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 January 1893 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, ... INDIANA HAS BEEN A GOOD YEAH TRADESMEN HAVE NO REASON TO COMPLAIN. Tried to Dig Their Way to Liberty— Crooked Banker in the Law’s Grasp —SIO.OOO of Confederate Gold in an Old Hollow Tree. Trade Has Been Booming. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: The most prosperous year ever known in business has just closed with strongly favorable conditions for the future. From near all points comes the report that the hollo iy trade was the largest ever known, and, while wholesale trade is not usually active at this season of stock taking, it is now exceptionally large. Foreign trade ms oen smaller than last year in the volume Os exports, at New York 17,800,000 less in value for the last four weeks, and at I cotton points about $10,000,000 less, but imports at New York have been larger, and the month still shows a great excess of exports. For the year the excess of merchandise exports lias been not far from $70,000,000, with the largest total of exports and imports ever known In any year. The Body of His Victim Never Found. A. J. Hudspeth was executed at Harrison, Ark., for. the murder of Wa<kina ^Hudspeth was gis&p o;ui

County. One morning in the spring of 1887 Hudspeth and Watkins went to town. Since that morning Watkins has never been seen. Hudspeth was arrested on suspicion of. murder. Mrs. Watkins was afterward incarcerated, charged with being an accessory to the taking off of her husband. She was taken fatally ill, but before dying confessed that Hudspeth killed her husband to get him out of the way. so he could marry her. Prisoners’ Tunnel Is Discovered. Wabden Nobman at the Frankfort, Ky., prison, discovered and foiled a plan for an outbreak of prisoners. A hole had been cut through a workshop bench and led under the f oor to the mouth oi a tunnel that had been dug fifty feet in length and to within ten feet of a big sewer just outside the prison wall. The men, who climbed through a window into the shop and did their work Sundays, were evidently working toward Ihe big sewer. This, once reached, fifty men could have walked single file down to she river bank, half a mile below the town. Fairfax Bank President Arrested. Since the Bank of Fairfax, Minn., closed its doors rumors have been flying around the city concerning the liabilities of the bank, but the assignee would not give out any information, and it is felt that they are larger than at first supposed. A sensation was caused when the Sheriff of Renville County arrested J. A. Beard, President of the I^"^ nn d F*a. Gray, Cashier. NEWS NUGGETS. A woodman who died in Northern Maine confessed an his deathbed to having been the companion of a man who murdered a woodman by the name of Walker two years ago. Walker was killed for his money, sooo. William Mobeland, of Portland, Ore., came to Kansas City looking for Jennie Semond, sometimes known as Josie Earle and as Nellie Sherman, wiio is heir to an estate of $36,000 now being held by the Public Administrator in Portland. J. M. Bacon, a wealthy resident of Sioux City, lowa, committed suicide at a sanitarium near San Diego, Cal. Melancholia was the cause. He had been there a week for despondency. He got a pistol from a night watchman’s eachel and blew out his brains. One hundred masked men gained entrance to the jail at Greenville, Ala., and took John Hipp and Charles Kelly out and hanged them. These men were charged with the killing of tax Collector Armstrong. They were found suspended from the balcony of the County CourtHouse in the morning, Armstrong was robbed of SI,OOO. The Rev. S. H. Buchanan, a Cumberland Presbyterian minister who recently defaulted as Treasurer of the Arkansas i Insane Asylum, wrote a letter to his church acknowledging his guilt. He says he is short $5,200 and that he used the money in church work and in the building of the State Cumberland Presbyterian College, located at Clarksville. The Legislature will doubtless order । criminal proceedings against the min- I ister At Lincoln, Neb., Lieut. Gov. Majors, ! who is making an active canvass for the United States Senatorship, had a personal encounter with Dan < h**''’ ; I an Independent., poWtieinn, m-9k g e <1,,, LitfprS lokCb 101 <lll 111 011 lvi c*> •’un/ that Majors was implicated in the allene 1* State institution corruption, lie struck Custer a severe blow in the face, but the latter did not respond in I kind. A reconciliation followed soon after. Sam Leggett, a Denison lexas> , , .. into the woods on । woodchopper, w onv t .i. uiu^ of Choctaw to cut a large ,cd oak. After cutting into it for a few I moments, a cavity was reached which extended to the ground. The tree was chopped down, and Leggett discovered a box made of bois d’arc. Ihel ox was tenured by nails and wrapped with wire. When it was opened it was found to contain about $10,00(1 in money and a silver watch and gold chain. It was ‘undoubtedly secreted during the days of the rebellion. Two sons of William Smith, of Dallas, Tex., aged 7 and 8 years respec- | lively, went rabbit hunting and got lost. | The| family and neighbors became alarmed and continued searching for - —Them until they were found locked in each other’s arms. It is supposed they froze to death. Mi q Nellie Brundage, of Seattle "Wash., wife of C. N. Brundage, a real estate man, committed suicide in the room of S. R. Clute, an attorney, at the Gran I View Hotel. Clute, on realizing what the woman had done, made an unsuccessful attempt on his gave life.

EASTERN. Richard B. Kimball, a distinguished literary man of New York, is dead. James Dunlap, the notorious Northampton bank robber, has been pardoned by Gov. Russell, of Massachusetts. William F. D. Stokes has asked for a receiver for the Hoffman House at New York. He charges Edward S. Stokes with mismanaging the property. A church, six stores, seven dwellings, and three barns wore burned at Wyoming, N. Y. Nino families are homeless and the money loss is SIOO,OOO. The trustees of the estate of Asa Parker have filed an execution of $50,000 against the Coplay Iron Company of Coplay, Pa. The sheriff has levied on the proper.y. Commodore William M. Folger, Chief of the Ordnance Bureau, has,arrived in Pittsburg for the purpose of inspecting the armor plate department of the Carnegie plant at Homestead. The first and final account of the estate of the late Congressman Samuel ■ J. Randall has been filed. It shows that ho left property valued at $789.74, while the fees of undertakers and phySlCians who attended Him were $1 194 15 Dynamite exploded in the yards of the New York and Long Island Tunnel Company on Fourth street, between Vernon and Jackson avenues, Long Island City, L. I. s So far as learned three persons were killed outright and a score of others injured. The yards of ihe New York and Long Island Tunnel Company are surrounded by tenement h'u -Jr ***<? „’" * '£' stores. -11 1)orod^ i tty? l

irai uepov, ana a mite is used. Tuesday dynamite froze. In thawing ITT" out the men placed it too near | the fire, causing it to explode. The ! three people killed were all in their homes, which were contiguous to the scene of the explosion. O’Brien, one of the killed, had his th oat cut from ear to ear and his face was badly mutilated by falling glass. O’Brien was lying on a sofa when the explosion took place. A pane of glass was smashed directly over his head and a large piece acted as a guillotine. Some of the residents of the tenements had to be carried out by the firemen. Those in the vicinity at the time of the explosion say that the shock which followed was like an earthquake. The tenements 21 to 29 Jackson avenue, were shattered,with the stores and offices below. The postoffice was in 27. The mails are buried beneath tons of runs, and they are certain to be ruined by water if not consume i by the flames. The explosion set fire to the buildings adjoining the tunnel company's yard and shattered every pane ot giass in the buildings for blocks around. The entire fire department ot the city was soon upon the scone, but so soon did the flames burst out after the explosion that it is not certain whether all the residents of the adjoining tenements escaped or are buried in the debris. WESTERN. The Fairfax (Minn.) Bank has closed its doors and the oflli ers have disapi peared. Ex-Governor B'LDWin, of Michigan, in Brewing weaker, and may die at any moment. Judge John R. Shaki-stein, of the 1 Supreme Court of California, who was ‘ stricken with paralysis on Mondav, is ' dead. A Chicago firm is reported to be trying to buy 18,000 pair of jack rabbits and 5,(00 pair of^pfalThr dogs for exhibition at the World’s Fair. Suit has been commenced for the dissolution of the Edison Electric Light and Power Company at Minneapolis. The indebtedness is $200,000. Attorney General Mi .leu has ordered the discharge of “Bill'' Dalton, the Indian Territory desperado, who has been made a deputy United States Marshal. B. T. Whipple, a Kansas City capitalist, has been sued for $2.50 for not voting. The action is under a charier provision, which fixes the penalty named for a failure to vote. । Mayor Noonan, of St. Louis, declines to accept the resignation of City Treasurer Foerstel, holding that the latter’s retirement in the face of the pending trial would be improper. John Hbocks, a wealthy Bohemian farmer, living west of Beatrice, Neb., after tying a string to the trigger of a . double-barreled shotgun, placed the muzzle aga’nst his body and pulling the I gun forward received the contents of the charge in his breast, killing him instantly. At 2 o’clock Wednesday morning a bomb wag thrown into the main building of the Soulh Side plant of the Milwaukee Street Railroad Company. There was a tremendous explosion and in a moment the inter or of the building was in a blaze. In a f< w minutes the , fire was beyond control. andl m ; v entire plant xxas con- । than an hour the <nmo i Burned, entailing a loss ot O(. A Hailey, Idaho, spe dal says: A I snowslide Saturday swept away the en- ' gine house at the Narrow Gauge Mine । at Deer Creek, and wrecked a concen- j trator mill 500 yards below. Henry BIOSS who was in the engine home, was instantly killed. A teamster named Ai‘, < onneil was caught and his team ’ killed, but he was dug out alive. Snow in the mountains is very heavy and j slides are frequent. Mid the clanging of bells, the hiss of escaping steam and the wild shrieks of suffering and tortured humanity four ■ lives were crushed out and a dozt n people were frightfully injured in a collision I between an outgoing Fort Wayne train ! and a street car at Forty-seventh street i and Stewart avenue, Chicago, early I Thursday morning. The street car was i crowded with laboring ‘men going to their work, and of the sixty or more i 1 passengers scarcely one escaped injury I , of some sort. The M illiam Becker Leather Company’s big tannery, together with that I of Conrad Bros., located at the foot of Sherman street, Milwaukee, burned ; Tuesday morning. Like all the big i , fires of late, it was attended with fatal- ' ‘ ity, two firemen being killed. The plant I of the William Becker Company was valued at $500,000, and that of Conrad Bros., as stated by the senior member of the firm, at $400,000. Both were fully insured. The building was filled with firemen working on the Becker buildings. So quickly did the flames

spread that those at work ih the unn P / story were cut off. Many of the lire men jumped from the windows The origin of the fire is unknown, but is believed to have been incendiary. Chicago’s wondrous growth and the magnitude of her business is shown by figures relative to the outgoing mails compiled up to the middle ot December by Superintendent Montgomery. j nqt 175,528,496 pieces of first-class mail were handled, 92,317,657 pieces of circulai mail, 9,236,192 pounds of third-class 1 and fourth-class matter, and 30,921 972 pounds of second-class matter. In 1891 only 24,271,597 pounds of second-class ; mail were handled. The increase is I 6,650,375 pounds, or 554,108 pounds i monthly. pounus j Peter Sutter, a retired wealthy farmer, living in Des Moines, lowa, killed his wife with a hammer, Thursday morning. He gave himself up to the police, and said he was anxious to die himself. The couple quarreled frequently. The woman had been Sutter’s housekeeper, and they were marrie I about a year ago, he supposing she was a widow. Afterward a living । busband was heard from in Ohio, and fiom this time on life was anything but pleasant lor either of them. Orange Judd, editor of the Orangle Judd Farmer, a man whoso name is la household word in nearly every rural home in the country, died Tuesdafr morning at his home in Evanston. Illi" of hemorrhage. Although over seventh years of age, Mr. Judd was, apparentlLl up to last week hale and hearty, doiA^ a great deal of work both in ChieiA. and Evanston for the publication >”^2 ing his name. Mr. Judd was born in 1 T-s near Niagara Falls, and his boyhood ^br marked by the hardest kind of Ulf .n a •"* aw

in 1847 and entering the Yale agrie^BP 1 ural department in 1850 were devote ”Mo teaching, lecturing on science, anil a partial study of medicine, which proMession Mr. Judd had thought of entering, until the important new departure! in the application of science to AL ericnlture began to take shape rider the lead of Liebig, Bous igault, and other scientists of Eurif pe. From 1855 to 1863 Mr. Judd held the position of agricultural editor ot the New York Times. During 1863 s . he served with ihe United States Santt ary Commission at Gettysburg, and t non with the Army of the Potomac from the Rapidan to Petersburg The g eat financial panic of 1873 was the bti jinning of Mr. Judd’s misfortunes. , "he mismanagement ot those left jin charge of the business and the scheming of others to get J>ossession of it caused him much trouble. Heavy financial losses followed and in 1883 Mr. Judd suffered from a sunstroke and was for months inc&|bacitated for business. During this time the last of his property was swept away. After recovering from his sickness he went to Ch cago with h's sons, thinking the West the best place for them to begin their life work. He was successful, and in 1890 presented the Orang.' Judd Hall of Natural Sciences to his alma mater—Wesleyan University. Hcalso- [ published the alumni record of Unt university, n volume which has proved so useful that the trustees have provide I for a series ot decennial editions In 1859 Mr Judd bought up the plaL^imi copyrights of nearly nil the an t horticultural books of the Country, and, destroying some, took the better ones as a basis, and established the chief agricultural book publishing house ’ in America, a corporation still continued under his name. In 1857 he was sent to Europe, and imported n quantity of sorghum seed and distributed it free. TniS-Seed was the foundation of the sorghum* indtflTj- in this country^ SOUTHERN. Governor Nobthen, of Georgia, refused to interfere in the case of wifemurderer Northen. Charles Dutton, Auditor of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph i ompany, has 1 een arr( sic I charged with misappropriating slll of ths company's money. The company alleges the total amount of his various peculations during the past ten years will I reach $25, 1 00. The sugar mill on the Darrington I plantation in Fort Bend County, Texas, was burned, with its contents, causing a loss of $700,000. Fire at Omaha destroyed the Orchard Block, with its contents, altogether valued at $500,0C0. The Delaware County Court House at Muncie, Ind., was burne 1. Loss $300,000. I The authors of a fiendish scheme, of which the first indication was discovered! the other day, when the body of a bojJ 5 years old was found with 257 bites! and burns, have been discovered City of Mexico. They are the uncle o® the child and his wife. The father oil the toy was transported some veapa ago to Yucatan, the mother rcmaininJ in MEXICO in charge of Ihe ehifilreni Sho died some months ago and the or-g 1 phans were left in charge of an uncle, who cruelly maltreated them, chastisi ing them with the utmost barbarity and almost starving them to death. On being arrested he confessed to having i punished the child in question, but <iei nies having done so with the intention of killing him. The three other orphans ■ left in his charge arc not forthcoming, I and he is supposed to have made away with them also. POLITICAL. 1 I The official count of California’s! vote shows the election of eight Cleve- I land and one Harrison edector. The Supreme Court has decided ' against the Republicans in the WyomI ing elc tion contest, thus insuring a ■ ' Democrat! • Legislature to cleet a suc- : cessor to I nited States Senator Warren. ' — — FOREIGN, Nav g ition on the Rhine, Moselle, ■ i Neckar and Main Rivers has been stop- ; ped by floating ice. Paris advices say that Sarah Bernh irdt has announced herself as p candidate for legisla’ive honors in 1893. The Hamburg Senate has forbidden ; hotel-keepers in Hamburg to receive as : ' guests travelers coming from Russian I Galicia. The younger members of the St. Petersburg cholera commission are In- i dignant at the farcical pro edure of tne commission. The steamship Noordland, of the Red Star Line,which was towed into Queens-

town, had broken her shaft. The accident happened last Thursday, and for a time the passengers feared the vessel would founder. Cholera continues to claim new victims at Hamburg, and though those attacked belong to the lower classes the feeling of dread that warm weather will herald the approa h of another season of epidemic grows daily. The list of new cases and deaths is small, but it : betokens that the disease is only quiescent and needs only favorable conditions to again ravage ihe city. IN GENERAL Robert T. Lincoln, United States Minister to England, has sailed for London from Now York. The engagement of the Earl of Craven to a daughter of Mr. Bradley Martin, of New York, is announced. The private banking firm of IV. W. Trull & Co., Toronto, Ont., has suspended, with liabilities at $20,000. It is alleged that the Suez Canal Company has determined to retain Ferdinand de Lcsseps and his son in their present positions in the company’s service. The Executive Committee of Lane Seminary have r^" that they have perfect contmen te MEBWiN Mabie Snell, private secretary to Bishop Keane, of the Catholic University at Washington has withj drawn from the cdiurch. e leansng . cently married, and ‘ tO ^ V r^olumn article the Nev

K .... —-r-l PX3 HM " ,on 9 ■ I4AKI iH P lUUII pH >• ’ pended over $2,060,090 in bribing American legislators. The article says: “There is an American end to the Panama scandal. Two million five hundred thousand dollars was sent to this country, ar.d no explanation has been given ot what use was necessary or was made of this vast sum.” Mrs. Sam McCloskey, of Staunton, Ind., has just learned through a small newspaper advertisement that she is heir to $75,000 left by an ancestor at Albany. Mrs. McCloskey can be counted among those who have profited by the reading of advertisements. There are a number of advertisements in this paper, and, while wo can’t promise that the reader will find by any of them that h< is heir to a legacy, we can say that he will find much that will interest him. Yellow fever has become almost epidemic in I.a Guayra, the mortality in Caracas continues to increase, and in sn filer towns down the Puy valley it is spreading in every direction. In the capital not only Yellow Jack but typhoid fever is prevalent, and the monthly death rate has for months past i doubled that of births. But. as one of the local papers remarks, what else < an ‘ a city of GO,(KM) souls expect as long as they remain wholly without a qity sew- , .erage eystem and .make no efforts toward public cleanliness. An action for libel has been instituted nt Montreal which promises to lead to strained feelings between Canada and the United States, according to a dio| ateh. About two mouths ago <'ol. I Nicholas Smith, American Consul at . Three Rivers, sent to Washington a re- ! port stiongly condemning the sanitary conditions of Three Rivers and pointing out the danger that cholera might obtain a foothold there. The Council of the city promptly passed resolutions absolutely contradicting the Consul's report and demrinding his recall. Col. ^SmiUi has now instructed his counsel to enter an action for $40,000 libel against tlie city. The cold snap extended over the eni tire country. While in New York City I it was only 14 above, still that was con- ' sidered cold. South along the Atlantic i coast and throughout the Atlantic states i weather unusually severe is being exI perienced. Ten inches of snow lias fallen in Norfolk. Washington, too. is having frigid weather for a city that takes pride in the mildness of its climate. At Vicksburg the temperature is 18 above. Texas, Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee are having a good imitation of cold weather. In the Rocky Mountains it has not been -o cold and is snowing lightly, hansas has a blizzard which extends on ail i sides of the state and which interrupts i traffic. The wires are down and the snow so drifted that travel along the I roads is out of the question. Great I damage to stock is anticipated and cat- ■ He on the track arc freezing to death. MARKET REPORTS) LcatTLE-Common to Prime.... $3.25 f.->5 •rHoGS —Slilpptne; Grades 3.60 6.75 i I Sheep—Fair to Choice 3.00 @5.60 i ■Wheat—No. 2 Spring 71 & .72 WP&BN—No. 2 40 @ .41 I ■OATS—No. 2 30 @ .31 ' Rye—No. 2 PMa® .60)j Butter—Choice Creamcrv 29 @ ,3u ®GGS—Fresh 25 @ .26 Potatoes—New. per bu 60 @ .70 L INDIANAPOLIS. • ATTLE—Shipping 3.25 @5.25 Mogs—Choice Light 3.50 @7.00 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 @ 475 Wheat-No. 2 Red 65V>@ @ -39 ^ATS No. ..... & S 5 Cattle s.oo @5.50 Hogs 4.00 @ 6.75 1 Wheat—No. 2 lied ecds® .67’j Corn—No. 2 36 & .37 Oats—No. 2 32?s@ .33 Rye—No. 2 49 @ .51 CINCINNATI. i Cattle 3.00 @ 5.03 i Hogs 3.00 @ 6.75 i Sheep 3.00 @5.25 1 Wheat—No. 2 lied 68K>@ -69’4 ! Corn—No. 2 43 @ .43’3 ; Oats—No. 2 Mixed 34 @ .35 j 11YE No. 2 r>s @ .57 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.30 । Hogs 3.0 > @ 6.50 ( Sheep.... 3,(0 @ 4.50 j a HEAT —No. 2 lied 72 (a^ .73 ; Corn—No. 2 Yellow 42 @ .42’3 I Oats—No. 2 White 36 @ .37 * I , TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 71\@ .72’2 Corn—No. 2 White 41 *@ .41’2 (Jats— No. 2 White 34 l i@ .35'j kYE 54 <3 .56 I BUFFALO. • attle- Common to Prime.... 3.00 @5.00 | Hogs- Best Grades 4.00 @ 7.00 " heat- No. 1 Hard si @ .gj Corn—No. 2 47 @ .48 - ... MILWAUKEE. ” heat—No.2 Spring f.r, @ ,g- ! < op.N—No. 3 37 (a. 38 ' Oats-No. 2 White 34 @ .35 Hye-No. 1 rc @ .57 I Barley—No. 2 , 70 PORK-Mess i.-. 75 ^ 1623 „ NEW YORK. : •JUGS 3<o (<z 7.00 i SHBSP 3.00 @ 4.75 1 ; H£ai No. 2 Red 7s’.. a ORN-No. 2 .’ .50 2^~ Mixed Western 36 @ .38 JU ttek—Factory. . 15 >3 1 übk—New Mess u.ou @16.50

APPLIES THE SCREW. I SIGNIFICANT ACTION OF THE WALL PAPER TRUST. Dr. Brig-gs Acquitted of the Charge of Heresy—The Ocean Raeer Umbria Safe in Port—Expensive Lightning Rod Points. All’s Well That Ends Well. “Umbria” was the name the signal lights of a large two-funne'.ed, threemasted steamship flashed to the tower on Fire Island a little after midnight Friday. ft was indeed the long overdue Cunarder, and the operator । in the tower lost no time in I i sending the good news to New Y’ork | City. Then he took another look 1 j through his glass at the belated steam- ; ship. There was no mistaking the black ! hull and clean outlines of the Cunard ; racer. There it was sharply defined in the clear moon ight. Smoke was I rolling from its enormous red fnnne'.s, I and it was plain that Captain McKay ha 1 carried his point and was bringing . the Umbria into port under its own . steam. It was steaming directly for j Sandy Hook, leaving a long white wake j , as its screw drove it on toward its des-J 1 tination. The newswa^jM^g®i^B!^" I cabled T** I*-^^liKliana 1 * - ^^liKliana Farmers I>upe«l. | ' F'-jkua u,‘r elsM llgMnlnß-rw 1 P"'” 1 ’- 1 . ’ YmiU ^240 10l t © 4-z^.zl tn ho 11 . i He signed a paper pro ved . 1 rec* ipt, but whu h sub - on i y I tobe a contract, ni - ^xvind’ers. I victim of the practices of • vin b CC n g several other fanners 1 • in duped for various dollars, w the whole several

in TT^ noffßmun?xß up oi poyaAuoa Su 1 'YT.TT7.< i . aTICIUi eiv " «nuauk These appe r later in the form of negotiable notes and the victim has no redress. T<» Increase Its Capital. The big trust formed by the prominent wall paper manufacturers and I known as the National Wall Paper | Com] any, < ontemplates an increase of $18,(M)0,(100 in its capital stock, which will make the whole amo int $38,000,0(M). A cir< ular letter has been sent out from tin comi'apy s headquarters to all the ■ interested manufacturers, calling a : meeting to discuss this plan. The trust was incorporated last August, unfertile I laws of Pennsylvania, with an authorI ized capital of $20,000,090. I’rnf. Briggs No Heretic. Prof. Charles A. Briggs has been acquitted by the New Y’ork Presbytery of the i harge of heresy. That body, sitting as a court Friday afternoon, returned a verdict in his favor on every one of the six charges by ma’orities ranging from six to twenty-one votes. BREVITIES. The London Standard’s Y’icnna corr. spondent says that the first installment of the gold loan to be placed upon t the market will be 6,000,000. Miss Eliza Brower, who died in ’ Newark, N. J., Thursday, was 100 years I old. She remembered very vividly the funeral services of General Washingi ton. “Deacon' S. V. YVhite, the New I Y ork broker who failed some time since, i is paying off his creditors in full with ( interest. The entire amount of his lia- > bilities is SBOO,OOO. Miss Mary E. Garrett, of Balt'.- | more, lias given $300,001 to Johns Hopi kins University, to complete the $500,I 000 necessary to establish a department I for the higher medical education of 1 women. Emperor William is reported to j have held a conference with Chancellor : Von Caprivi, the Minister of YVar, and I the Chief of the Military Cabinet, in ’ ' referen e to possible concessions on the army bill. A r a meeting of a number of the leading citizens hold in Montreal it was de- . elded to form a Canadian National ; League to promote national sentiment. i A large number gave their support to i ' the movement. I'm finance ministers of Austria and Hungary met Albert de Rothschilds and other bankers with reference to the new "old item, the proposed amount of which is 200,000,000 florins. No decision was reached. The failure of YVayland, Trask & Co., the New York stock brokers, is said to be due to the secret speculations of Theodore Baldwin, one of the partners, who is reported te have lost $150,01 0 of ; the firm’s money. I mon cmployezl on the W’HkeS- । barre and Eastern Railroad, near Tani nersville, Pa., were thawing dynamite i for blasting purposes, four of them, two I white and two colored*, were instantly killed. One of the number was a gang boss. J. S. Harrison, the Chicago man who was jilted by his betrothed at Harrodsburg, Ky., because he got drunk, is now wanted for murder. Harry L. McGreevy, whom he cut with a knife on AL ndav night, has since died of his wounds. The jury in the damage suit of Rufus A. Clark against the Cotton Belt Read at Little Rock, Ark., has given a verdict in his favor for $20,030. The jury Mas< ut but a few minutes. This is the fiist of a series of suits grow ng out of the Crooked Bay disaster, the amount ; ela’med aggregating about half a milli ion. Onesime Mathieu has been arraigned i before United States Commissioner 1 Fiske at Boston charged with concealing smuggled opium at his hotel and aiding aid abet ing the smuggling. Alter several Fren h w.tnesses had testified, the prisoner was held in $2,500 for tne grand jury. The Swiss tar'ff on cycle-, nickdi plated articles, baskets, cigars and cigarettes, imported from France, have been doubled, while the tariff on many I ' Fiench articles, such as cotton, silk! goo’s, clothing and cheese have been . , trelded, and in some cases quadru le 1. I | Three new cases of typhus fever have I ! b; en discovered in New York. I The general sales agents of the an- j thracite coal companies in New York j have fixed the output for January at 2,- | 750,(109 tons. For January, 1892, it was I 2,50 ^,o^o tens.

Ihe lmbria is in port. SAFE ARRIVALOF THE BELATED CUNARDER. The Long Missing Steamer Now in New Y’ork Harbor—A Broken Shaft Caused the Delay—Story of an Eventful Voyage— Drifting in the Wide Atlantic. All Are Well on Board. The big Cunard steamer Umbria, so long the subject of anxious inquiry, is safe. So much was ascertained shortly after midnight Friday, when her lights were first sighted off Fire Island. The news of her arrival was commu- ' nicated at once to the New Y’ork office of the company, and Y’ernon D. Brown, i the local agent, accompanied by a number of newspaper men, boarded the ’ company’s harbor tug and set out to in- । tercept the steamer. I The ride out occupied an hour, says I a New York dispatch. At 1:20 the tug drew up a’ongside the gangway and the party filed over the side. Every pas- : senger on the steamer old enough to be allowed out at that hou^RT^j^^ew*" I readytowelcjyj^iißW*’*^ - **^^^ Astir days of an«ct y and ’ IhVManhans tt d avs reported that ^ p i±Xng in I from Swansea, anl P raising a heavy gale \ g d , he rmbria angry st as, she ha „ sea and , laboring in the trougn v ’ I drifting before the gale. Ihe ur^ 1I — " ——

dice recently. ■p™ ... THE UMBRIA. was in charge of the Manhansett at the time and his practiced eye made out that all was not well. The vessel lay to the north of the Manhansett,about two miles out of her course, but in a moment all hands were ordered on deek. Capt. Duck and Second Mate Ellis came on deck immediately. The Manhansett went hurrying over the five-mile course at its best speed. Soon the Manhaneett came near enough to her to see that the Umbria was not badly hurt. The captain and the second mate got out the signal book, and the ships began to talk to each other. "Who are you?” asked the Manhansett. The Umbria told him, and said he was out from Liverpool for New Y’ork, and in reply to further questions stated that the shaft was broken and was undergoing repairs, and would be ready to-morrow. The Manhansett asked if any assistance was required and the Cunarder replied: “No. Report me to my owners.” Then the Manhansett bade farewell. At that time 4 Cunarder was about TOO iuUvs east of Sandy Hook, so that she had drifted considei ably before the northwest gale that was blowing. Cunard Agent Y’ernon H. Brown in speaking of the Umbria, said that Capt. McKay had been criticised because ol his refusal to accent all proffered aid, but he certainly showed wonderful sagacity in declining all the assistance that was offered to him. "Suppose, for ■ instance, that he had accepted assistance from either the Galileo, Moravia, or Manhansett; suppose also that > either of these vessels, with the ■ Umbria in tow, the gale which has been I blowing from the northwest for the last , week shifted to the east it would not be j anything unusual if the towhawser parted. Her machinery would be disabled. She would be on a lee shore in a gale of wind, and nothing in the ' world could save her from destruction ' and her passengers from death. Instead of that, however. Captain ’ McKay refuses assistance, lies to 800 miles from shore, where he can drift and drift without getting into danger, and repairs his machinery, so that when he goes near the shore he will have his ship under full control. That is what I consider good seamanship. The Umbria had the whole Atlantic to drift in, and if the storm got too strong for her she could take in her sea-anchors, hoist sail, turn her stern to the wind, and run before the storm. I was thoroughly I convinced that the Umbria was all right, and would come into this port in perfect safety. Capt. McKay has shown himself to be a man of great caution and ability. ACQUITTAL OF DR. BRIGGS. New York Presbytery Refuses to Sustain Any of the Charges. After one of the most tedious trials m the history of the Presbyterian

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the vote on the sixth charge was completed and the Presbytery adjourned shortly before six o’clock. The result of the several ballots was then announced. The result was a great suri prise, for on all the six counts the vote was adverse to sustaining the charges. Notes of Current Evei Thbee new cases of typhus have de- ' velopcd in New dork City. | St. Lovis carpenters petition Con- ' gress to prohibit immigration. i Porn buildings were destroyed by fire at Huntsville. Texas. Loss, SIO,OOO. ' Mbs. Cleveland and daughter are ■ visiting the former’s mother, in Buffalo, i Heed A- Craig’s paper warehouse at Quebec,P.Q-, was burned. Loss,sloo,ooo. Bishop Gray, of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Florida, was consecrated at Nashville, Tenn.

Church, Dr. Briggs, accused of heresy, hasbeen acquitted by the New York Presbytery. Proses sor Briggs was ^arraigned on •s i x specific charges. The vot'ng on the first charge was begun at 4 o’clock, and