St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 49, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 24 June 1893 — Page 6

rfALKEBTOH INDEPENDENT? Walkerton, . . . raDIAlu OPEN EVERY EVENING. fair cates will not close UNTIL 11 P. M. Single-Handed Philadelphia Burglar Dwvfles a Small Army— Frightful Death of a " orld s Fair Mechanic — Queen IJ'y Wants «> Sell Her Throne. To Accommodate the People. Gratified with the attendance in the past and wishing to accommodate the people who desired to visit the Exposition evenings, the Council of Administration have decided to keep the World’s Fair open every night hereafter. Hitherto the Exposition has been opened Tuesday, Thursday. Saturday, and Sunday nights only. The council in its order savs: -‘lt will be expected that visitors will promptly leave the buildings at 10 o'clock, and also promptly leave the grounds util o’clock: and in order to facilitate their exit from the grounds it is ordered that promptly at IP o'clock each evening the

wagon gates at the several exits shall — ■‘“‘-be opened for purposes of exit: and it is further ordered that while the Exposition will be open every evening- of the week. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday evenings shall nevertheless be regarded'as special evenings and characterized by special features of attraotion and entertainment. ” Held a Hundred Armed Men at Bay. W. P. Disert, a Philadelphia burglar, held 100 armed men at bay all night at Cheswick. Pa., and only surrendered when fifty determined men burst open the doors of the building he was in and overpowered him. For ten hours a steady fire was kept up on both sides, and when captured one of the robber’s eyes had been shot out and his left arm was disabled by a bullet. Disert is supposed to have been implicated in fifty robberies in Western Pennsylvania during the last two weeks. He holds a prominent position in the main office of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at Philadelphia, and is generally known as a quiet, hard-working man. About five weeks ago he began to act strangely, and it is supposed his mind was as- I fected. Fell One Hundred Feet. John Thornly fell one hundred feet from a scaffolding in the Manufactures Building at the World's Fair and was instantly killed. Thorn! v was one of a gang of painters engaged on the interior of the building, and while busy with his work lost his balance and fell

from the scaffold with fatal result NEWS NUGGETS. George Drier, a Polish Jew^who murdered Miss Fannie M. Fadden at Cape Charles, Ya., Oct. 16, 1891, was hanged at Eastville, Va. The steamer Falcon sailed from St. Johns. N. F., to Philadelphia to take the Peary expedition to Greenland. It carries coal and provisions for the whole party for eighteen months. United States Deputy Marshal LATBERTH arrested a man named i Chaney in the Indian Territory who is J believed to be one of the desperadces< l —mtliQ-uioblted the Bentonville, Iwik. I at Brazil. Ind.. Jas. HarJ of a shotgun intp a crowd of young men. The police on arriving discovered a number of blood stains, but no wounded man i could be found. Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii has : made a proposition to the United States ; to relinquish her claims to the throne for a cash consideration and has made Paul Neumann.her agent to conduct the negotiations. The provisional government has hoisted the national flag over the palace at Honolulu and taken for- ’ mal possession of the building. A Government powder magazine a j few miles from Athens, Greece, ex- I ploded Friday. Twenty persons, in- i eluding officers and soldiers, were ; killed, arid great damage was done to | surrounding property. The Crown ' Prince went to the scene to aid the { sufferers. The loss is estimated at ' 3,000.000 francs. The magazine was ; located at Scaramanga. Os 215 members of the German : Reichstag known to have been elected June 15, 101 will vote for the army bill and 114 against it: and new elections ' will be required for a balance of some ? 182 members, giving the Government ; great hopes of success in the outcome. • the strength of the opposition being t now. it is thought, practically meas- ! ured. The iron manufacturers of the Mahoning Valley will not sign any scale ■ until after July 1. If the future looks : no brighter when the mills close June i 30 they will not light up again for two ! or throe months. A Youngstown, Ohio. | iron manufacturer said: “The unsettled | financial condition of the country, with j the low iron market, has caused* manufacturers to decide on a shut-down while they can pay 100 cents on the ! dollar.” Ex-Gov.Rodman M. Price, of New ' Jersey, having at last obtained recog- ! nition of his claims against the United ! States for money advanced the Govern- j ment as a public officer in California in tbe early days of I^4o-50, a restraining ; order was issued by the Chancellor of i New Jersey, pending a settlement of claims which others had against Price for a portion of the money: arid for disregard of this order the venerable exGovernor spent Sunday in Hackensack jail. Nearly every town and mining camp on the Mesaba range, in the upper peninsula of Michigan, has suffered from forest fires, and thousands of persons are made homeless. There has been no loss of life reported, but the property loss will, it is said, amount to $1,000,000. William Rapply shot himself in St. Louis, Mo., because a woman had jilted him. He will probably die. Mrs. J. T. Ford, the mother of Bob and Charley Ford, died at Richmond, Mo.. from a rat’s bite.

eastern. t Ex-Labor Commissioner Peck, of Kew A ork, indicted for destroying public papers on which his report on wagos and labor was compiled, is reported to have forfeited his bail bond and sailed for Europe. The members of Old Farnham Post, at New York, recently expelled from the G. A. R., have decided to appeal to the National Encampment of the Grand Army, which meets at Indianapolis in September. The Viking ship, now at Newport, R. 1., is high and dry upon the bar at the lower end of the torqxxlo station, being- cleaned. It has been entirely stripped of its sea rigging, and when it is floated the crew will begin rigging in the true Viking style. A deficit of between SIB,OOO and $20,000 has been discovered in the treasury accounts of the Order of Unity. Charles A. Kimpton, Supreme Chan lor, through whose hands all the money passed, is missing fnin his home in Somerville, Mass. A DEFICIENCY of 870,000 has been discovered in the funds of the Irving Savings Institution at New York. Pre - ident Clarence 1). Heaton and Secretary j William H. Buxton had made ever- i drafts of $845 ard §25.000 respectively, and after making the amounts good !

were forced to resign. The paying teller, 1). D. Tompkins, is said to nave stolen SIB,OOO. This sixaatory brick building at 10 and 12 Montgomery street, New York, proved a death-trap at 8:30 Tuesday morning, when a fire broke out, precipitating a panic among the 200 men and women employed in the “sweater” shops on five of the six floors. Five persons are known to have been killed and a number- injured. The bodies of the killed were so horribly mangled that it was a difficult matter to identify them. One body was that of a woman about 30 years old, another that of a man 40 years old and a third that of a man 45 years old. All of the occupants of the building were Polish Hebrews. The lire started on the first floor of the building, it is supposed from a stove used for heating irons. ' The stove was near the stairway, and in a few seconds the flames shot 'up as far as the second and third floors, cutting off the escape of many of the unfortunate inmates of the building. When the alarm of fire was'Bounded m the building there was a wild rush of the men, women and children who I worked in the different sweater shops. All got out safely except those rejiorted killed and half a dozen who were injured. One woman jumped from the first-story window and fractured her legs and a man received a severe scalp wound by jumping. Many people suifereil slight injuries in scrambling dowh' the fire escape. WESTERN.

The Chadton-Chicago-uowlwy race is on. with nine contestants. Large swarms of locusts have put in an appearance in Pettis County, Mo. J. R. Harris, aged 60. was murdered at Minneapolis by two num supposed to be burglars. The Ohio Democratic State Conven tion is called to meet at Cincinnati Aug. 9 and 10. Frederick Tillman, a wealthy merchant of La Crosse, Wis., died I Luuiu sunstroke. i LOREN B. Olds of Helena, Mont., an i °P<wator in minhig prop^xma, .Uas uisr apjwwrFod, a f Ea ving- realized large sums on false representations. The Michigan Board of Agriculture has instructed the Commissioner of the Land Office to withdraw all Michigan college lands from the market. Fire at Cleveland burned the plant of the Meriam A Morgan Paraffine Company and the Ironclad Paint Company's shops. The loss is §250,000. , Fouiiarmed and masked meu stopped a Missouri Pacific express train in the suburbs of Omaha, but were scared off before they had secured anything. William Z. McDonald. State Inspector of. workshops and factories in Ohio, has been suspended by Gov. McKinley because of a shortage said to be $4,661.31. Sontag, the California bandit, is. by his true 'name, John Contant, 32 years old, and was born in Mankato, Minn., where his stepfather keeps the Sontag Hotel. Two San Francisco banks have discovered themselves swindled by checks ; cleverly raised from S3B and $55 respectively to the denomination of $3,800 and $5,500. The Coroner's jury at Decatur has s returned a verdict implicating three j men in the lynching of the negro Bush, i They are Charles Britton, William ' Vest, and Thomas Atterberry. Ira W. Atkins, a youth of 19 years, ' who committed suicide at Dubuque, • ; lowa, had been suffering from inju- * ■ ries received by being hit on the head ■ i with an icy snow ball last winter. The Rev. O. B. Aylesworth. of j Des Moines, lowa. Prohibition candidate for Governor, has been formally . asked by the Board of Trustees to re- ' sign as President of Drake University, i Charles White, alias “The Bear," , a notorious negro thief and ex-convict, : was shot through the heart and instantly killed at St. Louis by Bart Davis, a first mate on the steamer Ben- ■ ton. i During a trial trip on the sliding ice railway in Midway Plaisance at Jackson Park, Wednesday night, one of th® cars lumped the trestle and fell fifteen feet, killing one and injuring five passengers. Bessie Hanson, the G-y ear-old daughter of Lewis Hanson, at Racine, died of brain trouble. It is alleged , ■ that the child had been locked in a . । dark room by her school teacher and ’ I frightened half to death recently. i Jesse B. Roper, the outlaw who . I murdered Sheriff Al Byler, of Baxter ; County, Arkansas, last June, has been j I captured at Muskogee, I. T. There is ! I a reward of $1,500 for his delivery to ' the Baxter County authorities. Pub- ! lie feeling is»very intense and mob vioi : lence is feared. , ' Henry Starr, the notorious Indian Indian Territory train robber, is sur-

rounded by deputy marshals and a sheriff's posse at a point on Hog Creek ' about twenty miles from Nowata, the . bandit’s home. Unless the bandit ( weakens, Starr will be taken either , dead or alive. The reward of $15,000 is the cause of the active movement against the bandits. J. R. Harris, of Minneapolis, President of the Stahl-Harris Lubricating Company, was murdered Friday morning in his residence. Mrs. Harris was awakened by the light from a bull'seye lantern and saw two men close together peering at the face of the sleejiers. When she opened her eyes one of tike men said: 'We want money.” The lower portions of the murderers’ faces were covered with handkerchiefs, and Mrs. Harris thought she recognized in the forms those of her Iwo youngest sons. Sha laughed at tlie demand for monev. “We hare no money, boys; but how you frightened me. ' Is it time to get up?” While she was speaking she caught a letter glimpse <-f the men, and it dawned upon her that the men were not her eons, who were playing a practical joke, but burglars. Mr. Harris, who. up to this time, had been sleeping soundly, was awakened by the intense light which । fell on his face. He grappled with the t men. As he clinched the men fired ; । twice, inflicting fatal wounds, and esI caped. Gov. Nelson and Mayor EShis 1 have each offered a reward of sso®rf<»'; the arrest and conviction of the if slid doners. The Kentucky House defeated a.mu i t > move the capital to Louisville, <Pho ; fight for removal has been going on for i many years, but this result 1.- final, made so by the Constitution. Rafael Izeaza ba L, Lieutenant Governor of S -nora, Mexico, has been arrested at Guaymaion the charge of emIwzzlement of public money, arid of illegal proceedings in the discharge of . official duties. Col. Louis Ochoa was aiTested by i the authorities of Brownsville. Tex., upon the charge of robbery and desertion from the Mexican army. When arrested about §16,590 belonging to the army was found upon him. South Georgia was swept bv a furious rain and wind storm Thursday afternoon. Many houses wore Mown ■ down at Valdosta and Thomasville. At Valdosta the fire department belltowers and a Baptist church were liadly damaged. Wesley Shaw, at Buchanan. Ga., ordered an old woman, believed by the negroes to be u witch, off his land. ! She followed him to "pick up hts tracks.'’ He, to prevent being bewitched. attempted to cut her “witch vein. Instead, he struck her jugular vein and she is dying, and he is in jail. The Rev. W. D. Morgan, jiastor of Guilford Avenue M. E. Church, and one of the leading ministers in the Baltimore Methodist < '<inference, hie- left the ministry and the Methodist Church, and applied to Bishop I’an-t for orders iis a priest in the Protestant Episcopal Church. Ho was quietly confirmed by Bishop Parot. WASHINGTON A Washington rumor say^ that Judge J. W. T. Sneed, of Mejhphi^ , will succeed Mr. Blount as Mil .1 er to ‘ Hawaii. ] Til). Comptroller^ t he at Washing um ha’ t-Asuvri the I stockhoiaerp of the defunct Capital National Bank at Lincoln, Neb., f<Ma full 1 assessment of SIOO on each sham In, this way $300,000 will be realized. The accident of last week in Washington having emphasized the need of greater precaution in several of the Government buildings, tae Interior Department officials are taking prompt action, under an order of Secretary Hoke Smith that henceforth such weighty books and papers as constitute ' the permanent records of the department be kept in the basements of the buildings. At present the most of them are stored away on the top floor. FOREIGN. Dr. Edward McGlynn, on his way to Rome, was the guest in Ijondon of Cardinal 'Vaughan. Dr. McGlynn, according to a Rm e dispatch, lias been cordially received by the Pope and has effected a complete reconciliation. It is believed in Paris that the cm - dition of President ( arnot is much more serious than is stated in the official report regarding his illness. The British House of Commons has i finally passed the third clause of section 1 of the home rule bill, which has been under debate since May 30. Thomas Sex'd »n has reconsidered ■ his intention to withdraw from the British House of Commons, the Irish members *having rescinded the resolutions retiring him from the Freeman’s Journal Board of Control. Cardinal Langeneux. Bishop of Blois, Chartres, Moaux, Orleans, Versailles, and Rheims. ha- been appointed Archbishop of Rennes, and the Bishop of Bayeux has been promoted to the Archbishopric of Lyons. The failure of the green crops |n many districts in France, owing to the intense heat, promises to cause a fodder famine during the winter and prices arg rapidly rising. The Minister of Hur iHiiiUi y has ordered the Frefee^^ | of the different departments to report to the ministry with the utmost dispatch the sources of grain and fodder in their respective districts, and whether any supplies are available for the relief of the districts more sorely tried by the long drought. Great numbers of cattle are being slaughtered, and the cattle market there is glutted. The opinion is that : American fodder would find a splendid market if sent quickly. A Berlin dispatch says: Returns from seventy districts indicate that thirtysix have been carried by parties opposed to the army bill, fifteen have been carried for the parties favoring the bill, and nineteen are in doubt between the Government and the opposition parties, with the chances in the majority of thejn strongly in favorof the Government. The Government parties < have lost three of* their former seats, j In Berlin not a single candidate pledged I

to support the army bill has gained even the barren honor of a re-ballot. The prospect of a Government majority appears to lie vanishing. Roughly speaking, the Socialist vote shows a great increase everywhere. The Radical vote has diminished greatly, chiefly, it would seem, because the better class of the Radical party voted for the anti-Semitic candidates.' Not 10 per cent, of the votes cast in Berlin were given in favor of the army lull. Sel- ■ dom has the city spoken in such emphatic tones. The provincial returns appear to l>e equally emphatic in the same direction. The great success of the Social Democrats lias caused a pro* | found sensation. IN GENERAL The whaling bark Sea Ranger of San Francisco was wrecked May 24 off Kyak Island, coast of Alaska. The vessel and cargo are a total loss. The United States steamers Ragner, i Mohican and Corwin, and the British ■ man-of-war Petrel, are at Sitka awaiting orders before proceeding to Behring Sea. A fisherman at Canso, N. S., claims to have found a bottle containing a note ! saying that the steamer Hugga sank i ! Juno 12 with 217 passengers on board. ’ i The story is discredited at Halifax. ; The directors of Union Theological , i Seminary have voted to retain Pro- ! Charles A. Bt :ggs in the chair I ^jl lteal history in spite of his con- i Am for .heresy by the General As- | The National Republican League i has decided upon Chicago as its headquarters. .Several ether cities made a hard fiy ht for the honor, but Chicago . won handily. The vote was: Chicago, | lo; St. Louis. 4: Washington, 3: New ' York, 1. Leandro Cabalf.ro, chief of the ; police of Leon. Mexi<m. lias mysteri- 1 J ously disappeared, and is Udieved to ' I lie in hiding in the United States. An investigation of his official record show- that ho left the city to avoid punishment. Canadian Presbyterians have a heresy case, charges having been preferred against Rev. Dr. John Campbell, Professor of Church History in the Montreal Presbyterian College. Dr. Camplxdl recently delivered a lecture in which ho attacked the infallibility of the Old Testament. Followin'; is the standing of the clubs of the National Ix?ague: W. L. pc. W. L. pc, Brooklyn. 2 B .c,4.Clere!»nfi is 17 Rot on .' Bi .€2S Ctil?MO. IS 23 teo Phllfelelp'lL S 15 .627 Wuhlnffton 18 22 Pltttbura is .Ml Cincinnati 19 24 4?J New York 2-2 20 st Loula 15 24 .wj Haltin.orc . 22 2J %24 Loulavillc .. 8 2f The Viking ship was me’ by hu'dreds of persons in row and sail boats on her arrival at New London. Conn. Captain Anderson said he shaped his course to pas- < ’ape Race, the southeast point of Newfoundland. Hi- papu's read “from Christiania. Norway, to Chicago, via New Lmdon and New York." He said he encountered south-we-t wind- and some heavy gales, but the vessel behaved well and the Ca|s tain had everv confidence in her ability to weather tne gale- -afely. The Viking carries a master and crew of thirteen. is Beventy-cight foot long, four feet draught and carries 2<*> yards of ! canvas. I The Pennsylvania. Michigan! entral, | and the Big Four Railroad com- | ponies have at last decided to run ejour*L»»»'« Ui Jac-kHou Park, l«nd1 j-c i-o • ■ n.-.-r- in th.’ ♦ormina! -ration in He; southwestern portion of the grounds. This arrangei ment is on now, and has beer brought about after correspondence and <• 'iiG reuees between the managers of the roads and Mr. Holcomb. Masterof Transporter ion at Jackson Park. It is hojed that the actioi of these roads will bring alwiut likt arrangements on the part of Western railways. The rate to Is- charged i- . one fuvuJjor the round trip, -umethiur the Expisition Company ha- been asking for months. The Pennsylvania lines will bring excursionists at the one fare rate from points east of Dayton. Ohio. The Michigan Central will, for the time being, carry excursionists from Michigan City and intermediate points. The Big Four will take visitors at the half-fare rate from Cincinnati and intermediate points. These excursions are in the nature of experiments and it is announced that they would lie run daily until it was ascertained whether or not the public would take advantage of them in such numbers as to make it advisable to continue the daily excursion trains. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... fl 25 @ 5 75 Hogs—Shirping Grades 3 oo & 6 5) Sheep—Fair to Choice 4 -0 (<7 5 25 Wheat- No 2 Spring 66 67 Cobs—No. 2 41 @ 42 Gats—No. 2 30 (3) 31 | Hye—No. 2 4H cj so i Ucttek— Choice Cr< amery I 1 1!; s’ 21’2 Eggs—Fresh 13 @ 13-3 Potatoes—Old, per bn E0 00 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 325 @5 50 Hogs—Choice 1 igi.t 3 ‘0 @ 6 75 Sheep—Common to Prime 3 > 0 @ 4 50 Wheat—No. 2 Red cl @ cßj Corn—No. 2 White 41 @ 41 2 Oats—No. 2 White 31 35 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3 00 @ 5 00 Hogs 3 00 6 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 62 @ 63 Cobs—No ■?. 37 38 Oats—No. 2 29X>@ 30 Rte—No. 2 40 @ 31 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3 00 @ 5 30 i lioos 3co y <> no SHEEP 3 00 & SLO Wheat—No, 2 Red c-2 64 CottX Nd. 2 37 @ 37^ Oats—No. 2 Mixed 82 @ 33 Rye—No. 2 06 @ 58 DETROIT. Cattle 3 co @ 5 00 Hogs 300 @7 50 ' Sheep ,2 3oi @425 j Wheat —No. 2 Red ... 65 @ <6 Cans—No. 2 Yellow 38 ® 39 OaTs— No. 2 White 34 @ 35 ' TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 65 @ 66 i COBS—No. 2 Yellow 40?e@ 41^ Oats—No. 2 White 30 @ 31 Ites 52 @ 54 ! i BUFFALO. I Cattle—Common to Prime... 350 @5 50 Hogs—Beet Grades 40J <<'. 725 ; Wheat—No. 1 White.... 70 <gj 72 No. 2 Red CO @ 71 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring C3l«@ c-pj Coen—No. 3 ss @ 39 ' Oats—No. 2 White 34 @ 35 Bye—No. 1 so @ 52 Barley—No. 2 57 @ 59 1 Pork—Mess 1J 75 @2O 25 NEW YORK. Cattle 3 co @ 5 00 Hogs 3 00 @ 7 75 Sheep 3 co @5 00 W h jat—No. 2 Red 73 @ 74 Co mN—No. 2 50 @ 51 Oats—Mixed W’estern 33 @ 40 Butter—Creamery 18 @ 21 I Pork—New Mess 21 00 @2l 50

WILL SELL TO FRANcS PRODUCE MARKET TAKES ON A LIVELY SPURT, Mining Towns in Minnesota and a Chicago Buuness Block Burn—Rio Grande Valley Has a Cyclone—A Tough Missouri Olnideu. Prlocs Looking Up, i iIERE was great excitement on tl>e Chicago Board of Trade for an hour or s > the other morning. The day before nobody seemed to want auy wheat, corn oroats; their only anxiety was to get rid of what they already had. All that was changed by cable reports. A deafening shout shook the rafters of the building and the only intelligible sound from the mingled voices "I’ll buy!" “I’ll buy!” The uninitiated were asking each other । what it was all abt ut. The fact was the j French Government had removed the I duty on hay and is preparing to take the j duties off oorn, oats and barley, which 1 means that the worst that has been rei ported about the damage to the French . crops from the year's drought is true, ! and they will need all we can spare of j corn, oats and other feeding stuff to ' keep their horses and cattle alive, j What is true of the situation in France ‘applies with equal force to Germany I and England, w'ere dry weather was । equally protract M. Gale Blew a Freight Cur Sixty Feet. A HEAVY storm struck Laredo, Tex., ' at 1 o’clocfk Friday morning, with an ' electric display that made the city as 1 light as day for more than an hour. It ' was almost a genuine cvclone, being I about two hundred yards wide, and | skirting the northwe-tern part of the ‘ city. Roofs of some small houses on ! the line of the International and Great ■ Northern Railroad track, about two j miles out of the city proper, were blown , away and great trees uprooted. A freight ear was blown about sixty feet ■ out on the prairie. The Liredo cotton : gin and mill and two large sheds in the lumber yard of George Pfeiffer X- Co. v.ero unreefed. The gale then struck tb.e Laredo Seminary, blowing down a windmill, and from there it struck the Mexici.n side of the river and small frame buildings were demolished. No lives Were lost. W 11 Bcnetlt Trade. R. G. Dl N & Co.’s weekly review of ■ trade -ay-: Concerted action by the banks of New i York has changed the s.tuuti'iu materially. I More failures and a tremendous drain of money to the West 1 & I such an efTect here that the bank< were unanimous In deciding upon the issue of clearing-house certificates. Much tncroicc 1 a< commodutions for the business c mmunlty are expected to result, and doubtless will unless specula- ; t < n is stimulate I to absorb ail thelncrea-e 1 In available resources through undue pref- ■ eren. c fur m.irkc'nblc securities over other assets. The weakness of banks at many j Western jwlnts continues; the wide-spread ; strlnscacy Is having a serious effect upon ■ merchants and manufacturers who are In no way concerned with speculative operations A sharp f ill In foreign exchange ro-move-the chance of gold export at present. but It is du’ to foreign purchases of securities rather than to a change in trado balances. Two Towns in Ashes, Thu towns of Virginia and Mountain Iron. Minn., on tho Duluth. Mo^abaand Northern Road, have Ik-cu destroyed by for- ’ fires. The towns of Mesaba. Biwabik, and MerritC on the Duluth and Iron Range, have been partially destroywl. The villages were al! mining towns and an nave been. I erected within the lust vear, since ; -1 oo Th.- ' buildimrs in ail wore hurriedly erected ; frame structure- and burned'like tin- ! der. The towns lie along in nearly a 1 straight line and the forest fires burn- I ing at right amrlcs to this line reached 1 the towns at Hourly the same time. Chicago Block Burns. h::;: destroyed the J. Q. Adams 1 Building, northwest corner of Wabash 1 avenue and < -Tigre-- street. Chicago. I Sunday morning, and smoldered far ; mtn the night. Careful figure- place 1 the total loss at $3^1.450 and the inpurance at s3ll.'iiK>. The principal I -er i- O, W. Richardi on & Co., exclusive carpet dealers on stock, and J. Q. Ydams on the building. BREVITIES, .Xt Chihuahua. Mex., three private soldiers were tried by a court martial for disobedience of orders and desei - i tion. They were all found guilty and sentenced to be shot. SHEDS belonging to the Louisville and Nashville and Illinois Central Railroads at New Orleans were burned, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. A LONE, masked highwayman held up the lone stage in California and murdered the driver, but got no plunder because the horses ran away. The total number of fourth-class : postmasters- appointed Friday was 114, j of which thirty-six were to fill vacancies caused by resignations and death. ' A HORSE and buggy with two occ; - ' pants fell into tb.e open draw of the Polk street bridge, Chicago, at 8:30 • o'clock Friday night. One of them. J Albert Ulenfeld. 12 years old. was ' ' drowned. The other. Dr. William I Evatt, was fished out uninjured. The { Doctor was driving west on the east . side of the approach. He claim- that । the electric light was out and that he ' did not see the bridge turning. John • Marek, the bridge-tender, declared that he had turned the bridge too far to stop and yelled to the driver of the buggy to stop. Amy Calvin, the female horse thief, of Carthage. Mo., and her partner, i Mary Modsker. dug a hole in the brick ! tvall of the Jasper County jail and et-.- - caped. They let themselves down from 1 the opening, a distance of twenty feet. I by tying their blankets together for a ' rope. 1 At Pueblo. Mcx., a large keg of ! powder wa- exploded in a hardware ! store b\ the carelessness of a workman I who threw a lighted cigarette into it. ( He was instantly killed, being blown to pieces, and' the building was 1 wrecked. George Smith, an inmate of the insane asylum at Dayton, Ohio, was mur- ! dered by some one unknown. It is j claimed by the officials of the institution that the deed was committed by : another patient. Two of the more ra- ! tional inmates state that Smith was killed by attendants of the institution.

o am ÜBiiomiv doqs 'iep ‘nROJ ’TJS The Cites an<l Lian Exposition In to H wlntf on Sunday, ot Orarch-Golng People, Bitter Fight Ended. Chief Justice Fuller, of the States Supreme Court, te th^^ United States Court of Appeal has rendered a decision In the World’g Fain case which trpens the Fair on Sundav' The government made a motion to have the appeal dismissed on the ground that the Court of Appeals had no jurisdiction over a case in which the constitutionality of an act of Congress had been disputed. The decision handed down by Justice Fuller first holds that the Court of Appeals has jurisdiction. The second point decjded was on the writ of injunction issued by the United States Circuit Court to restrain the opening of the fair on Sunday. This decision dissolves the writ of injunction. Justices Bunn and Allen, sitting with Chief — -j, Jr j/f CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER Justice Fuller, concurred in the opinion. The at tempt on the part of the Government to enforce Sunday closing followed at once the vote of the World’s Fair directors on Tuesday. May 23, deciding for a seven-day Fair. United States Attorney Milchrist was in Washington and conferred with Attorney General Olney. Returning, Mr. Mil- | christ filed a bill for injunction on May j 28, the suit being entitled “The United States of America vs. The j World's Columbian Exposition, H. N. , Higinbotham, D. H. 'Burnham, Edi mund Rice, George R. Davis, and Horace Tucker.” This is the suit on which the appeal was taken. Without action the suit went over Sunday until argu- < ments could be heard. A decision in favor of the complainants was rendered : by Judges Woods and Jenkins, sitting on the Circuit bench, while Judge ; Grosscup dissented. Application for a : supersedeas, pending hearing on an appeal, was made by the defendants, and Chief Justice Fuller granted the order staying the effect of the Circuit Court decision until an appeal could be heard. The appeal has been hoard and the decision of the United States Circuit Court closing the World's Fair on Sunday is reversed. The Government is declared to have no exclusive right or authority in the control of the World's Columbian Exposition. The Court held that the appropriation of two and a half mi 11ion dollars in souvenir coins could not be construed as a charity contribuj tiom the local 1 possession, and that this fact taTaem recognized by acts of the national : legislature. “Therefore,” concluded i the Chief Justice, “the order of the . Circuit Court is reversed, and the case ; is remanded for any further proceedj ings not inconsistent with this ruling.” The decision means to a certanty that the World's Fair will be kept open on ! Sunday and settles the ease for all time, as an appeal would have to go to ! the Supreme Court of the United States^ i which doe- not meet until October, i whei. the Fair will be ended. lirieflets. The business part of Dundoff, Pa., burned. Loss. $150,000. One of the Booneville, Mo., bank robbers has been captured in Arkansas. Finkley. Dresser & Co.. Boston, stationers, have assigned. Liabilities, $159,000. The Highspire distillery at Harrisburg. Pa., was destroved by fire. Loss, i $200,000. The next meeting of the International Typographical Union will be held in Louisville, Ky. Judgments have been entered at Pittsburg against the Duquesne Iron Works for §350,000. Twenty persons were killed by the explosion of a powder magazine at i Scaramanga, Greece. | A mandarian betrayed French । troops at Camcun. Siam, and several i French soldiers were slain. - Immense beds of asphaltum have | been discovered in the Chickasaw ; Reservation in Indian Territory. I Andkev,- J. Detroit, a student in the Baptist College at Kalamazoo, was ■ drowned while bathinu in Wood's . Lake. , The Oregon and Washington Mortgage Company of Portland. Oregon. । fai.ed. uith small liabilities and small as iets. I Judge A ann ha.- sustained the demurrer in the famous Crounse will case I at Syracuse. N. Y. The estate is valued at $4,000,000. Ellwood, postoffice burglar, has escaped from the Huntington Pa. jail. This is the fifth successful escape from . t le jail within five months. ! Mike Tovey, the famous express i messenger of the Wells. Fargo & Co. i line, was shot dead ,on the box of a , stage coach by robbers near Jackson, i Cal. His picture forms part of the express company's World's Fair exhibit. FRANK Aldrich.until recently sealer , of weights and measures for the Disi trict of Columbia, has gone from Washj ington. leaving debts tehind. it is said, ; amounting to nearly $20,000. A considerable portion of his indebtedness is 1 covered by property which he left. The members of the flour trade in the. New York Produce Exchange are seriously discussing the question of opening option dealings on this article on the exchange. A committee has been appointed to look into the question and to prepare a set of rules, which will come up for consideration at an early date.