St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 40, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 22 April 1893 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT WALKEBTON, . . . INDIANA ZANTE AGAIN SHAKEN. AN EARTHQU/KE DESTROYS LIFE AND PROPERTY. Chicago Again Ruled by Carter Henry Harrison-Mrs. Budner's Good Start in Her Maternal Record—Fiity Years Married to His Third Wife. Killed by an Earthquake. /'Athens advices say that the Island of Zante, one of the principal ones of the lonian group, was visited by a most destructive earthquake Monday morning,’ resulting in great loss of life and property. The shock appears to have been most violent in the .city of Zante, the greater part of which was destroyed. Thus far the bodies of 'twenty persons killed by falling walls have been removed from the debris, and It Is feared that many more dead are still in the ruins. The number of persons injured^runs up in the hundreds. Everything is in confusion and the work of searching for bodies and for the injured cannot bo pursued systematically. The greater portion of the inhabitants have fled to the plains back of the city, where they wander about in a dis tracted manner bewailing the loss of their homes and property. The city presents a scene of desolation, and it is doubtful If it ever recovers from the series of misfortunes that have befallen it within the past three months. Tho shock occurred at 7:30 in the morning. Advices from the interior show that tho - whole island has been 'devastated. I Many villages have been destroyed, and it is thought that the loss of life has been very great. x Harrison Steps In. Carter Henry Harrison took dinner Monday evening with the Mayor of i Chicago. All his meals for tho next ’ two years will be eaten in the company of the same distinguished official—though hereafter he may dine alone. The ceremony which transfered the ex from his name to that of Hempstead Washburne took place Monday evening in the Council Chamber. Eight hundred men and half

as many women paid»a dear price for the privilege of seeing it. Their clothes were torn and their bodies bruised and battered*in the struggle at the doors. Once within they looked down upon a marshaled army of floral designs between which the smiling faces of City Councilmen shone with a reflected luster. Red roses set the keynote of color in the room. They spelled 'Our Carter”* on flowery wheels standing on either side i the Mayor's desk. They rigged the I white spars of half a dozen ships of state, and they looked down over all in , the^shape of high-perched floral roosters | crowing for Aldermanlc victories. The induction of the new mayor and oouncilmen into office was accompanied by most imposing ceremony. NEWS NUGGETS. An incendiary fire at Milwaukee damaged the Stadt Theater about $25,000. . ^ mcn Clark & Co., gromade an assignment. The ■^^abilities are $150,000 and assets SIOO,000. Charles Longfellow, son of the poet, died after a lingering sickness at the old family mansion at Cambridge, Mass. The Duke of Veragua attended mass at the Cathedral in New York, and was especially honored and welcomed by Archbishop Corrigan. Juiige Kelly, at St. Paul, Minn., has decided that a dentist does not have a lien on a set of false teeth 'on a gold plate,after they have been attached to 1 the mouth and the dentist has" parted ■ with the possession thereof. A citizen of Burlington, lowa, who ’ !a trying to regain possessisn of his children has introduced in court his certificate of cure at a Keely Institute to show that he is a sober man and competent to care for the children, John Schardt, cashier of the Merchants’ Savings and Trust Company at Nashville, Tenn., is short between $40,000 and SBO,OOO in his accounts and the company has made an assignment. There is a report that Schardt has committed suicide. Mrs. John Bedner, of Beaver Brook, near Blairstown, N. J.,'has given birth to four children. Two of the babies are boys and two girls. Mrs. Budner is ' is the wife of a young farmer and is but 16 years of age. The mother and children are doing well. A party of immigrants were confined in a car for two. days with a case of small-pox among them at Port Arthur, Que. The people would not let them come into the town and the railway company would not take the car back*to Fort William, whence it “started,- Relief was finally brought to them and

. they were liberated. Feed Willis wm dcnounc^t mo • 'wir© a lew days ago at Waltham, Maas,, ; for’robbing the American Watch .Company. He had disappeared from home. She named as his accomplice a fellowworkman named W. B. Brooks. The police arrested Brooks and found concealed in t6e two house's materials u^ed in making watches valued at several hundred dollars. John W. Crisfield, of Princess Anne, Md., claims to the only man In the country who has been married to ! his third, wife for fifty years. Friday ! evening the aged couple celebrated the ; fiftieth anniversary of their marriage, j and among the guests^waa an old friend I who had been Mr. Crisfield’s best man i at his first wedding. Mr. Crisfield mar- | vied his third wife March 12, 1843. He ; is 84 years old and in .vigorous health., j The costly Chapel of the Sabred ' Heart, erected in the grounds of George- i town University by Mrs. John Vinton , Dahlgren of New York, formerly Miss ! Drexel of Philadelphia, as a memorial I to the memory of her first child, a son, ' who died in infancy, was dedicated Sun- : day morning. George W. Smith & Sons, lumber dealers, also under the firm name of tho Niagara Manufacturing Company and of Vincent Cycle Manufacturing Company, bicycle manufacturers, Buffalo, have made an assignment. Liabilities, $100,000; assets unknown.

eastern. Burton Mansfield, of New Haven, has been confirmed as Insurance Commissioner of Connecticut, vice John S. Norfolk, who resigned to ^P Ittholpited 1 ttholpited States Patent Commissionership. James Ryan, serving a ten yearseentence in the Rhode Island State Prison nt? « e, 2 W 4 ay y obbor Y, made a desperate “•ttempt to break jail early Monday ning, and in his capture received three bullet wounds. Heavy rains have quenched disasrous forest fires that have been raging in the mountains of Pennsylvania during the last week. In Somerset County the losses will be more than SIOO,OOO. ■*n Blair the burned area is thirty-five square miles. The Rev. Morgan Dix, of Trinity Church, New York, declines to bo named for Bishop of Massachusetts, | saying in his letter, “There are insuperable obstacles in tho way of my accepting a call to a Bishopric anywhere in the church.” There appears to have been an alarming increase in sickness in New dork City during the last week, as well as in the death rate over the preceding week, which was unusually heavy for this season of the,, year as compared with previous years. This project to build an underground railroad in New York City hasreeoivod a serious setback, counsel for the rapid transit commission having declared the scheme unconstitutional. New legislation will be necessary, which cannot be had before tho meeting of the General Assembly text winter. For the first time since the greater New York bill was defeated at Albany, the Commissioners of the Consolidation | Inquiry met. Tuesday, when it was de--1 cided that nothing further could be done with tho bill in tho present Legislature, and flat agitation should continue with a view to influence in the ‘ next session. In a case involving $10,886, assessed । against tho Pennsylvania Railroai Company, under the corporation tax law of New York, the Court of Appeals has rendered a deoision of great interest, declaring the action of ex-Comp-troller Wemple void upon the ground that the sole business of the Pennsylvania Road within tho State of New York is commerce between the States, and that a tax upon such commerce is

uneonstitutidnal. WESTERN. A blizzard raged at F.llendalo, N. D., Thursday. The Wisconsin Assembly has voted down the bill to repeal tbe local option law. Among President Cleveland’s callous ■ Tuesday was Governor McKinley of ' ! Ohio. Henry D. Kelly, a Chicago commercial traveler, was found dead In bed in a Dubuque hotel. The funeral of William Ingram Kip, Episcopal Bishop of California, was held 1 at San Franciscx Between forty and fifty earthquake i shocks have occurred at Pico Cany-m, ; Cal., since last Tuesday. Insurance rates have been advanced 20 per cent, at Des Moines because ot inadequate fire protection. The Missouri River is on a rampage, i and at present is higher at Sioux City than for years at this season. Capt. Guthrie, in his official report ' to the War Department on the Choctaw trouble, regaids the situation as serious. Wm. Spence, a sailor from the lost ehip'King James, swam athoreon Santa Rosa Islands, Cal., and was found by sheep herders. There is tucomplication at Cleveland, Ohio, the* Republican Council refusing to recognize Robert Blee, the Democratic Mayor-elect. In the Michigan Legislature the Committee on the University reported favorably on a bill to erect a woman’s gymnasium at Ann Arbor. John E. Mcßride, of Ohio, wa* reelected President and Patrick Mcßride Secretary-Treasurer of th’e United Mine-workers of America. The Chinese registration law is giving the revenue officials in Colormlo i trouble without end, and with all their * efforts scarcely any registrations have * been made. The Santa Fe Railroad is completely I blockaded with stock. There are fully i 5,0'0 hi ad of cattle and 25,000 head of I sheep being held at San Angelo, Texas, ‘ awaiting cats. The winter wheat in Central Illinois was badly’ damaged the hist winter, and j the farmers are plowing much of it up. j i An unusually large acreage was sown * * last fall, but fully three-fourths of it is I so poor that the fields will be planted • in C3rn. Lup Chue, a (hi nam an, arrested at j Cleveland, Ohio, for violating tbe reg- 1 istratiou law, has been discharged by

The novel defense set up was that the | State could not prove what constituted ! a Chinaman. Senator Vilas, whose daughter died a week ago at the family residenoe in Madison, Wis., was found to have extended his fishing trip so far into the everglades of Florida, beyond the reach*, of telegraphs, that a special tug was : chartered to communicate with him. Suit has Deen begun against the ! i Standard Oil Company by the city of ; I Toledo for $1,000,000 damages. The > city has been trying to construct a mu- ' nicipal gas pipe line and barges the ; | defendants with conspiracy to prevent ! the issue of bonds, constructing plant, j etc., by securing injunctions in the ' I courts. i W. Flood, for twenty-seven years I cashier of the Donohoe-Kelly Banking i Company, in San Francisco, was arI rested Monday night on a charge of | embezzlement preferred by Vice Presi- । dent Howard Havens. It was disj covered some days since that there was i a serious shortage in Flood’s accounts, ■ said to be as much as $25,000. | There are grave apprehensions en« . tertained at Omaha by those who have I property interests over north of Cut-off । Lake on account of the high water and i a report brought an that the river is Imi tie to cut through from Florence Lake ' to Cut-off and' destroy the numerous

railroad tracks and ice-houses. More, than $1,000,000 of Omaha property is threatened. At tho first election of tho new Chamber of Commerce of Cleveland, H. R. Gross, of tho firm of Childs, Gross A Co. ,was chosen President; Jacob Perkins and C. H. Bulkley, Vice Presidents; and Ryerson Ritchie, Secretary. The membership of tho Chamber is now nearly 1,000. Thursday broke the record for the arrival of immigrants in Chicago. Bo- j fore daylight twenty-one carloads had : arrived from various points in the cast, i Dr. Anderson met 184 foreigners, Dr. Cameron 331 at Plymouth, Ind.; Dr. May 215 at Valparaiso, In !., and later in the day Dr. Wiborg met 315 who came in on the Nickel Plate line. This made over 1,000 immigrants who arrived in the city left re noon. All were found to have clean bills of health. । Again on Wednesday night cyclonic storms swept over wide areas, inflicting incalculable damage to property and deplorable loss of life. A singular thing is that that there wore throe welldeveloped storm centers simultaneously. In Washtenaw County, Michigan, the disturbance was local, and after almost wining out the thriving Httle city of Ypsilanti, subsided. Several people were hurt, but none fatally.J At Condray, Mo., only three houses^® ™ loft standing, nine people were Wther and fifty injured, some fatally. town« In tho Stain HufTorotl RrnaO'", in isolated inataneoa lives word Nebraska and Illinois also came iiF for a share. The damage’to farm property is something stupendous. SOUTHERN. John F. Wisenbaker was shot and I killed by a burglar at his home near Valdosta, Ga. The North Carolina Ralliood Commission has issued an order for the more careful handling of baggage. The North Carolina Railroad Commission has issued an order' for tho more careful handling of baggage. Gen. Manuel Gozales, ex-Presi-dent of Mexico, died at the City of Mexico Monday. He was 73 years old. The Rev. Dr. E. T. Perkins, rector of St. Paul’s, at Louisville, Ky._, for twenty-five years, has resigned, owing to old age. The cyclone which destroyed Robinson, Miss., caused the death of seven- * teen persons and the fatal injury of thirty others. The Tennessee Senate has organized as an impeachment co,urt for the trial of J. J. Duboise, Judge of the Criminal Court of Shelby County. Ed Newcome, one of the Caney bank robbers and confederate of Henry Starr, surrendered to deputy ’United States marshals at Nowata, Ark Hunter Fudge, H. A. Blooker, and Alexander Walker have confessed at Orlando, Fla., to the murder of an old man named Morot at Grasmere. A. W. Qfarrier and Miss Ella Young went boat riding at Charleston, W. Va. They did not return and it is supposed both were drowned. The young lady's home was in Missouri. F. C. Heath, in charge vs a tie aU stave camp at Yorktown. Ark., has । missing several days. He left Pto< Bluff on horseback with a large sum at money with which to pay off his hands. All the bucket shops in Nashville, Tenn., will cease business on account of the prohibitive tax imposed on deal- ■ Ing in futures by the Legislature. The ! bill imposed a State tax of $50,000 per ( annum on all dealers In futures aad brokers dealing in futures. Governor Brown, of Maryland, has j signified his intention of instituting j legal proceedings against the various ! banking houses in Baltimore holding , securities placed with them as collateral tor money advanced on notes to Stevenson Archer, ex-State Treasurer, i now serving a term in the Penitentiary ; .for embezzlement. The amount in-{ volved is over SIOO,OOO, exclusive of interest. WASHINGTON The President on Tuesday sent the following nominations to the Senate: ; State —Eaward H. Strobel, of New York, to be Third Assistant Secretary of State, vice William M. Grinnell, resigned. Treasury—Daniel N. Morgan, of Connecticut, to be Treasurer of the ■ United States, vice Enos H. Nebeker, resigned; Conrad N. Jordan, of New York, to be Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York City, > vice Ellis H. Roberts, resigned. Jus- : tice—Henry V. Johnson, of Colorado, to | be Attorney of the United States for | the District of Columbia; Charles B. j Bellinger, of Oregon, to be United States District Judge for the District of Oregon. William K. Reid, of Utah, to} be Judge of Probate^in the county of San Pete, Territory of Utah. Interior —Daniel M. Browning, of Illinois, to be j Commissioner of Indian Affairs; Frank C. Armstrong, of Washington, D. C„ tc i be Assistant Commissioner ot Affairs. roKEIGN, The remarkable summer-like weather which Paris has been having for nearly i a month still continues without sign of ; 1 a change. The lire in the mine at Pont-y-Pridd, i Wales, was quenched Wednesday and ' ' the pit was so cool that three exploring parties were able to descend and go } some distance into the seams. They ; found three dead men, but discovered no trace of the main body of miners who were cut off by the flames from es- ! cape. Fifty-three corpses have been i taken from the pit. Tur. strike movement in Belgium is spreading. Three hundred miners en- ; gaged in the stride perpetrated much : wanton damage at i v ueragnon in the Province of Hainut Wednesday. The strikers made an attack upon the sheds about the mouth of a pit, and smashed ! every window in them. There were i many men working in the pit who I had refused to join the strikers, and j the mob’s efforts were directed i against them as much as against the ! owners of the pit. All sorts of rubbish, } old boards, stones, and dirt were thrown into the shaft, the intention of the l strikers being to imprison the men in ; the mine. Assistance "was asked from the gendarmes. The latter at once ordered the rioters to disperse, and upon their refusal to do so attacked them , with the Hat sides of their swords. The

। ^ nally dispersed, fearing if sort to°th S A k 1 ’ lhe « cndarraes would resort to the keen edge of their weapons king Alexander has arrested the regents and the ministers of Servia. He *! ? at Le has attained majority and has assumed the governby l ’the‘“regents® ^nd® Affairs hnH “ an state officials. 1 £« FF" try a woukTl hiCh * he re Bents8 ents and min£ i try would bo ousted without opportun- * ity for opposition. A grand 1 ano not I I King Alexander s success in nassinff : 'studS ln r !On P roscr l be d for Servian i a“l Xia “swspectingly the-regents 1 knd S o T at t ended the banquet, I selvo n J hey ? V ' r ° them-; Pa la co detachments' of soldiers and bodies of police took 1 os- । session of the ministers’ houses and! occupied the government buildings- Atl midnight, while the festivities were i still in progress, King Alexander proclaimed that Ke had, attained his max jority and that he had aßsumod, with 1 the skuptehina, the government of tho ; country. As a matter of fact ho had 1 not attained his majority, being about a year short of it. When the deposed regents and ministers heard the proclamation they were dumfounded. IN GENERAL The Tanners’ Trust will begin business May 1 with a capital of $75,000,000. The scheme of New York capitalists to secure all the rolling mills and furnaces in the Mahoning Valley for $7,000,000 has been perfected. American insurance companies have given up all hope of hearing from the missing steamer Naronic, and are paying losses on the vessel and cargo. The total earnings of the Whisky Trust for the year ending March 31st were $2,432*688, out of which $1,267,158 has been paid in dividends and expenses. The Canadian officials will 00-ope-rate with those of the United States in their efforts to keep the scourge of contagious disease from getting a foothold in the country by importation. On steamers which arrived at Victoria, B. C., and Tacoma, Wash., were ''bl*! Chinese. Treasury officials at Facifle ports have been warned to be vigilant and to prevent the exclusion law from being violated. Peru has taken steps to make reparation for the outrage committed on the I nited States consular agency by a mob at MoHendo. The sub-prefeet ot that department has been removed and regrets expressed for the o< <urrenoe. The Government crop report makes the average condition of winter wheat on April 1 77.4, against 81.2 last year. The averages of tne principal wh- at States are: 0hi0,.87; Michigan. 74; Indiana, 82; Illinois, 72; Missouri,76; and Kansas, 62. The consolidation of the vast iron interests of the Mahoning Valley, including all the mills of Youngstown and those at Girard. Pomomy, and Warron. will no doubt be comrlote.l within the next fexv ■ ays. The transfer or these properties will involve between $7,000,1*00 and sli'.‘ otuHxi. The. star- and stripes which for two months have floated from tho government building nt Honolulu have been •hauled down. The remaining forces from the Urfked States cruiser Boston hive been tent abroad. Nothing !n---aieative of American authority remains in Honolulu save Minister Stevens and Commissioner Jam s H. Blount, of Georgia. The latter sits in his easy chair at his cottage cogitating no one knows what. April lin the presence of a crowd numbering probably 2,(H*O peri sons L. T. Draper, marine officer of tho Boston, blew the Rotes of the retreat i from his bugle and “Old Glory" sank from the sight of the throng and was replaced by tie* colors of the Hawaiian monarchy, which still re- , mains the Hag of this land. It created at first among the American i party a feeling of consternation, oueen i Lily immediately called her followers together, expecting, it is said, to be at j once restored to her throne. But su h was no* Mr. Blount's purpose. He deI signed simply to place the provisional government in a position where it could act unhampered, and assured President Dole that while the United States would not establish and maintain a protects irate over the islands upon the lines favored by Minister Stevens, neither would any foreign interference with governmental affairs be tolerated. MARKET REPORTS CHICAGO. Cattle —Common to Prime....s 3.25 @ 6.00 Hogs—Shippins Grades 3.50 LSO Sheep—Fair to Choice 4.'» & 6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 77 @ .73 ' Cobs—No. 2 40 <3 ai Oats—No. 2 27< 2 @ .28i£ Rtf.—No. 2 ' 40 & -51 Butter—Choice Creamery’ 27 @ .2s 1 Epos—Fresh 15 .13 4 l*v’-»TOES Ney. per In. .. , -So & rpJSFTLE—bluppmg?. 3.25 aM HOGS—Choice Light 3.50 @7.50 -i?SEP —Common to Prime X 00» @ 5.(5) I Wheat—No. 2 Red >’.s @ .65 i CORN—No. 2 White 42' @ .42*5 Oats—No. 2 White .35^ ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.G) @ 5.00 Hogs. @7.50 W heat—No. 2 lied ; 67 @ £3 I CORN—No. 2 ^6 @ ^7 f Oats—No. 2 .31 @ 3s B«-No. 2 M @ ! CINCINNATI. nnc TLE a - r¥) ® 5 25 • hogs. 3 ^OS i cofco^ 2Red @ B’B-N0.2 @ .60 i Cattip DETROIT. i HOGS 3.00 @ 5/e : Sheep Wire. ;' .." 3.00 a.UU @ - 73 ■ 2 ^ ellow 40 @ .41 ■ OATS-No, 2 White 36 @ .37 Wnri'n'* x’ TOLt,l>U. HEat-No. 2 Coßn- No. 2 Yellow 'lo^^ I’lA oats-no. 2white.:::: a -56 n SUf’l’ALO. YiL'c to Prime.... 3-50 5.50 Gla(le WSEaT—Txo. 1 hard st Al No 2 Red 76 @ 77 WEEvr v „ MI BWAUKEE. - r No. 2 Spring •’,< @ COBS-No. 3... ” . n i > .14 OSTS -No. 2 White.’ ” , T ' • l rie-No. 1-. - 4 y:;. J | barley—No. 2 .4 4. .63 poßK—Mess IG.LJ @17.00 NEV,’ YORK. Cattle 5.50 @ 5.30 I HOGB 3.00 @ 8.25 SHEEP. ■ •■■■v;-- 3-"0 @6.25 WHEiT—No. 2 Red 7y .so COBN—NO. 2 . 51 @ .52 O A t>—Mixed Western 37 @ .30 ^‘rEK-Best 25 © .23 ' poßS—New Mess 13.00 @18.50

ROADS TO THE RESCUE. LAST MILLION OF THE WORLD’S FAIR BONDS TAKEN. Farmers Didn’t Retarn the Sacks—Many : Valuable and Noted Animals Terlsh-I | XV heat Prospects Discouraging in Parts* of Miciiigan and Illinois. Sold to the RaHways. Twelve of the trunk line railways : having termini in Chicago have just ■ j subscribed for practically the last i $1,000,000 worth of the $5,000,600 of । bonds issued by the Exposition Company to furnish the work of building j the Fair. By the action of the railroads \ ! all the shoals and the shallow places in i j the matter of financing the Exposition ! have been passed. When efforts were ! made three years ago to raise $5,000,- i * 000 by subscription, these same twelve ■ i railroads came forward and subscribed ! । $530,000 worth of stock. Next,* when i ; the Exposition Company could loos I 'to no . other sources for money, lit asked. these roads to subscribe i for bonds equal to double the amount : ' of their stock subscriptions. This was । done in every instance except one. It ! . is a notable fact that in the financing of tho Exposition nearly all the funds have ; come from Chicago or corporations ao- ' Ing business in Chicago; $5,500,000 have j been subscribed there in capital stock; । $5,(100,000 were given by the city of Chicago; when it became necessary to ! put $5,000,000 worth of bonds on the ‘ market, forty-four Chicago banks subscribed for $2,314,000 of the issue; private citiz< ns took nearly $1,300,000, and twelve railroads with terminals there took another $1,000,000, making practi--1 cally $15,000,(00 raised in Chicago. The I Government has contributed $2,500,000. List of Valuable Mares Uurncd. Following Is a list of the brood mares destroyed by the fire resulting from lightning at Fairview farm, near Nashville, Tenn.: Algebra, bv Highlander, dam Algeria. , Annie, by Mr. Pickwick, dam Bonnie Wood. Bar-Sinister, by Prince Charlie, dam Mrs. I Campo. ' Dame Durden, by Forester, dam British Beauty. Careful, by Forester, dam Caretaker. Daylite, by Tremont, dam Fair Lady. Elaine, by Highlander, dam Helen, by Vauxhall. Glcnloch, by Flood, dam Glendew. Her Highness, by St. Blaise, dam Princess. Hannah, by Glenelg, dam La Favorita. Brownie, by Pickwick, dam Holmdel. Disagree,’ by Pickwick, dam Jury. Josephine, by Longtaw. dam Bradamante. Jumna, by Estcrling. dam Tigris. Sacheris. by Rayon D’Or, dam L'Argentine. Santilla, by Rayon D'Or, dam Liatunah. .Merry Cliristnias. by Zealot, dam Christmas. I Box Roodee. by Forester, dam Mary Ann. Pisa, by Parmesan, dam Mrs. Wolf. Pretend, by Forester, dam J*retcnse. Pungent, by Pickwick.dam Pique. Sovereign, by Pickwick, dam unt-ess. Tesswiek. by Pickwick, dam Countess. Siberia by j^uscovy. *lani Vibrate. Malice, by Longtaw, «lam Slander. 1 Lily IL, J. IL Keene's, by Glenelg, dam Florence. Extreme Penalty of the Law. At Camden. N. J., John Hill, co'ored, aged 19, was hanged for murdering Jos. Dodson, aged 21 years, also colored, OcL 16 last, in a quurrel over polities. Hill at first Implicated two saloonkeepers, Albert Reed and Marwood Derrickson, alleging that they had hired him to commit the d> ed for a compensation of $2.50. but (later confessed that he alone Wa ? >n-iblo for D«kLon ’h death. W intam Bond was banged at Kockville, Md., for the murder of Margaret Cephas Nov. 23,-lS'j]. The crime was a brutal one. Bond was convicted entirely on circumstantial evidence, and persistently asserted his innocence to the last Wh at Field Plowed UpIn many parts cf Southwestern Michigan wheat fields are I eing'plowed up and planted to corn and other cereal crops. The high, drying winds and lack of rain retarded th*' spring growth and the fields are not in as good condition as when the snow went off. Fruit prospects were never better for a large crop. The farmers of Illinois also are now at work plowing under their wheat It is estimated that at least two-thirds of th-* fish’s if gome sections will have to be plowed. The acreage sown was large and the numerous sleet-storms during the w.nter damaged the plants considerable. All Eyes on Gohl. s B. G. Dun as Co.’s weekly review of trade says: The ruling fact In tbe business situation is the outgo of gpid. 33,5'30,000 Tuesday, 5L000.030 and possibly more Friday, with the prospect of a large amount next week. Treasury gold is again reduced below $2,000,000 in excess of the bullion fund, and there is more talk of bond issues, with the old doubt whether these would meet the real difficulty, which is the enormous excess of imports over excess of goods. BREVITIES. - The grain dealers and millers iu Eastern Indiana entered into an agreement not to furnish the farmers, any more sacks in which to bring their grain to market. They claim that it is a loss to them by reason of so many of the sacks not being returned. The agreement goes into effect May. 1. All the leading dealers in that’part of tho The original bill presented to the Mexican Congress, imposing , export duties ‘on coffee, hides, skin, ore and henquen, has met with such remonstrance and diapproval from the progressive element of Mexico, which is interest d Ln building up trade with the I’nited States and other countries, that the Ways and Means Committee of the Chamber of Deputies has withdrawn it for amendment. It is asserted it is possible to devise an import tariff w # hich will materially increase the government’s revenues and render the raising of revenue by export duties unnecessary. The Straits of Macklna • are clear of ice. At the farm of Elias Reiter, near Broken Sword, 0., a C vars calf has been born. It is but twenty-one pounds in weight, measures only twenty inches around the body, and is but nineteen inches* high. Citizens of the Fenhandle distri t of Texas threaten to secede and form a new State. Titey claim that the Legislature has ignored them in th distribution of State institutions and approI By the recent stonu xpouuuLio now foots up $206,000. 1 Robert Louis Stevenson, tbe novelist, who it was reported would arrive at San Francisco on the Mariposa, from Sidney, on his way to London, stopped off at Samoa on account of ill-health I and has given up his proposed trip. !

OUR FLAG'GOES DOWN MONARCHY’S COLORS FLOAT OVER HAWAII. —Z—- : American Commissioner Blount Paralyzes the Annexationists by Ordering the Flag Hauled,Down and the Seamen Back tt Their Vessel- ’ £ The Protectorate DissolvedHonolulu advices by steamer to San. Francisco say that Commissioner Blount’s arrival was a wet blanket for

the provisional government, but his procedure has paralyzed the leaders, as well as Minister Stevens. By Blount's order the , American flag was \ hauled down and the (' protector ate dI s - ^solved. This event took' place April 1, s*7and was marked by brief and simple cer-

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I emonies. On his arrival in Honolulu*»the United States Commissioner held two audiences with । the provisional government, at the first of which Blount presented a letter from. J President Cleveland introducing the • envoy and defining bia duties. At the । second audience, held alone with President Dole, Blount said that the following day he would lower the American flag, break up Camp Boston, send the American seamen bac k to the vessel, ( and declare the jrpteeforate ended. His ■ reason was that he wanted to put the provisional government on a plane of i independence, so that in his dealings with it there should be no imputation of I coercion. The Provisional leaders were badly surprised, but thej’"spent the night In j drilling their troops and preparing for any uprising that might*follow the withdrawal of the*marines»aud blue jackets. The streets were full of rumors that Blount proposed to restore tffe Queen, and these wil I tales created intense I excitement among the natives. The Queen hastily summoned her follow rs, and the report was glvemout that the i moment the American colors were lowered she would ask the Japanese to declare a protectorate. These rumors, I however, proved unfounded. The mornl Ing of ApriUl’a great crowd assembled jin front of’the Government buildings. | The full force of the Provisional*army i was gathered. At the command from Blount a bugler gave the signal and the American colors came down. The descent oLthe flag was watched in deep silence. Then the Hawaiian flag was m L\ • QUEEN LILIUOKALAXI. hoisted. It received no cheers, foi everyone knew it was not the flag the new Government desired. Holds a Conference. Blount on April 3 had a conference with the^rovisional leaders, at which he assured them that neither Japan nor any other power would be permitted tc land .troops to menace the government. Since^that there-'has been considerable excitement. but nothing.;has occurred to disturb .the peace. The provisional troo?>s are amply sufficient, to guard against any attempts of the Hawaiians to upset the government. Jt was remarked by^many with surprise that no demonstration of any kind had been made when .the Hawaiian flag wai raised. It was afterward ascertained that the queen had requested some of her t peopleto instruct the natives to make no der onstration on the occa-ion. That the royalists, in view of Mr. Blount’s first official act, which was una companied by any word of explanation are greatly encouraged cannot be denied. It is known that Minister I Stevens was not informed of the ComI missioner’s intention to lower the flag * and the provisional government had le s than twenty-four hours’ notice. The chief danger apprehended is that of Japanese interference, either on behalf or at/he application of Japanese subjects, or the Hawaiians themselves. Honolulu, always a town of rumors, was startled on the« same night on which the proposed hauling down of the Stars and stripes became known by a ■ report that the Queen anticipated such j , action and would apply to the captain ; । of tae Japanese cruiser Nanila for pro- ’ : teotion against the provisional governj ment and assistance to restore her to 1 the throne. Minister Stevens, Com. missioner Blount and Admiral Skerrett, consulted over the matter and* it is : stated, agreed that Japanese interference would be an act of hostility to the United States and that American inter- • ests demanded that such be repelled. 5 . । ' WORLD'S FAIR RATES ADOPTED । 5 Western Lines Agree on Fares to the Columbian!’ Exposition. > World’s Fair rates and conditions for the present Western Passenger Asso^ ciation territory, the Missouri River be* Ing the Western boundary, have been adopted. In brief, they are as follows. East.oi the Missouri a rate of fO per cent of double locals is the general agreed basis'on round-trip tickets. In no case shall this rate be^ less than 2 cents a mile, plus bridge»and - other arbitraries. Actual rates shall be as follows: Oneway rate./ Round-trip to Chicago, rates to either dir'e'n, From— Chicago, coat, passage. East St. Lonis J 11.50 $ 6.25 St. Louis (inc.brldge abit.’ 12.00 6.5 c Kansas City, Leavenworth. At-chison and St. Joseph. 20.00 utr Pacific Junction 2&09 Council Bluffs . . 0 J-'J® Omaha fine, bridge ar' it . svo Superior vUIa 12.(7 Ashland... 10.74 Tickets oh S ai e ^eiuidfin^'ii 33 '*^’ ?00(1 for continuous fipal Ifamt Xor . 1893. Cor*e»». r-a-errons are ma<D i-> the rates between K&sas c lrr „ nd other a ^ iouri Biver poma-*.i CT,^ 0 ? 13 * Children bi Jwoenfivean - elvt -^L^heabove rates.