St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 51, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 8 July 1893 — Page 6

D B TS AT ABIJAH'SE FOURTH OF JULY. W Abijab Stone strolled off alone | While yet the morn was hazy; | The nelghbors’ boys made such a noise, j < They almost drove him | 5 crazy. s «I love my country well,” he =aid, y “But think it isa sin, sir, To spoil July’s sweet jubilee A By making such a din, sir!» 80, in a nook -beside a brook, serenely sound asleep, sir, Abijah lay the livelongz dnv. ' Curled in a T SPIHGE little heap, S R —k sir; 5 ;2.‘ LSRR t Z RS E ™ e *: B e gI N S G pr o lx’ﬁéji:k%””\ﬁ' While in the town the brass Laad brayed, And cannons boomed their thunder, S Until a very smxll boy made A most tremendous blunder For, just at dark, he droppel a spark Where sparks are very worst, sir; A A blinding flash—a G\, frightful crash— e- by A powder keg hud burst, = N e sir! ? Samd @ Abljah found but scat- “igmeg “. ' tered shreds g ‘When he returned to town, sir, &nd pervple standing on their heads tWWhere tlhev had just come down, sirl e - eSB w S L®3 LU) & —JucK beanety in St. Nicholas THE4TH AT THE FAIR | “Hurrah for the Fourth of July, | George Washington, Christopher Co- | lumbus, and the great World's Fair !” ] Timothy John Putterbaugh uttered the words in a ringing cheer as he en- ‘ tered the grounds of the Columbian Exposition on the morning of July 4. He was the most patriotic celebrator in America, the happiest man in the whole world, for Revolutionary blobd ran in his I((>iya.l veins. Timothy and his family had come to the Fair to celebrate, and they were determined to make a gala day of it. . There was Betsey Jane, the wife,

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proud as & geacock in her new red gown, Caleb Aminadab with pants solemnlg lonesome about the ankles, little Tke with pockets bulging with firecrackers and doughrnuts, and pretty Matilda, slightly [“miffed” because her father had sent her beau adrift as “not §ood enough for a family that had rought Plymouth Rock over with them!” “Betsey Jane,” announced Timothy, /4"{,--rﬁ[m Jr AR /f’:/f,l;:ﬁ\ 5 - NS E U Y e j.a ¥on e o L T T 3, ‘ m g%’;u“ | Nl | #(1 . 7- E ﬁ iTN *&l@j‘h ?:/ f ,-\ /l' . ] :’{- y f:’"i-'.-.-. S NG\ i ;&-\ LN 7, R -~ > f 4 / V) \\> O ,/ . ‘ 1!"7 e ~ IKE WAS ON FIRE, BT e et et ——— pratorically, ““here’s the World’s Fair, the great and gelorious aggregation of architectooral magnitude that hhnws\ what a big country we've got. To hum | the crops are booming, and money’s no object for anything you want, from gea.nutq to pop. We've come to celerate. Your old dad will set’em up. ‘Whoop, by gosh!” and Timothy lit an enormous firccracker. l “Here, old man, no firing off young | ecannons allowed,” called out one of those promiscuous young men known as | Columbian guards. | “No firing! No snap, boom, bang on the glorious Fourth! What have I gkorucﬁ? An alien shore, or the rockund coast of my native land?” degnanded dimothy, with pathetic ircny. #You stop me? Timothy J. Putterdaugh is prohibited from letting off the gotfﬁed-up fizz of patriotism swelling in {8 bosom. Gosh all hemlocks! ‘s this the land of Washington and pumpkin {e? Suffering Cornelius! think of '76! ff the firing had stopped then where would we be?” Just then a dapper youth snatched the remainder of the pack from Timothy, and applied his cigarette to the fuse. . Pop—bang—boom! A small cyclone seemed to rend the spot. “Didn’t I tell you not to fire any more rackers?” roared the guard, rushing zmk and drawing his cheese knifo. “I dldn’t fire ans more crackers,” grinned Timothy, “I'm busy speechify-

e B ARR SR B D SR N R R B i 2 5 SRR S e ing. Reckopn they went off by s ‘tagopus‘- con?busﬁizn! Young telgz-?’-’ | to the weal culprit, “shake! You've saved the countty, and if there’s a ‘for ‘ drinking purposes only’ barrel handy, | 111 fill wou up free.” ] The 'gutt,erbau‘ghs wandered on, but Timothy was not subdued. | “Betsey Jane,” he remarked, “they’ve spiled tho fun, but wait till night.” | “What’s going to happen then?” % “Fireworﬁs, they say. Then you' shall hear from me! I came prepared.” | And Timeothy tapped a mysteriouslooking parcel he carried. i “What you got there?” asked the per- | | plexed Betsey. | “Never you mind—you’ll know when celebration begins. I'm bilin’ over with enthusiasm, and it's got to bust out somewhere! Look, Betsey, there's | the genuine, original and only liberty | bell that rang out the independence of | this great country over a hundred | years ago!” . : As they passed relic after relic of revolntionary fame, Timothy got warmod up and a battle-scarred flag evoked a terrific strain from ‘“Hail Columbia. ” | Timothy was frowing enthusiastic, wheéh shrieks and firecrackers mingled s in a sudden and exciting chorus. “Land o' Goshen! What's broke | loose?” gasped Timothy, grabbing up | his youngest scion. Ike was blubbering, and Ike was on fire. Some mischievous boy had sligped a léghted match into his pocket, and ‘‘set off two packs!” “Dad! you won’t wallop me, will you?" he sniffled. “T would remark not!” cried Timothy, | smoothing out about a foot of charred ! cloth. ‘A glorious salute at the very | baptismal font of liberty! Come to my | arms, my son! I'm Fl'oud of you!” | At dark they followed a crowd to | where some elaborate fireworks were ! to be sent off. | “Timothy, what are you going to do?” | said Betsey Jane, alax'med%y, as the old | man made a spring for a platform. | Stripping the covering from his mys- | terious parcel, he waved it at the throng—an old rusty musket. “Foﬁmv-rcltizons," declaimed Tim- | othy, “I wish to speak a few words. I'm Timothy Putterbaugh — biggest farmer in Grundy County, law-abiding citizon, direct descendant of Captain Oziah Putterbaugh, who fought, bled | and died for his country at Lexington, and served later in the war of 1812." | “Good for Oziah!"” sang out a chair- | pusher. “In my hand,” muttered Timothy, | excitedly, “I hold what? ~ A gun.

When you gaze at the great Krupp cannon, the fifty-shots-a~minute rifles on exhibition here, and see how casy it is to have a whole war over and done inside of an hour, do you consider that our noble forefathers had no sueh—no such——" ‘ * Cinch,” suggested a bystander. | “Cinch 'll do. Neo; they had. a gun like this. This very gun. Yes, fel-low-citizens, this identical gun was at the battle of Bunker Hill. My grandfather fired it. I loaded it this morning with a royal old charge. Thoy've squelched the old man all day. Amid all this grandeur of all nations, scenes showing how great nur belvoed country has become, with the gun that celebrated in 1776 I fire a salute to the grandest Fourth of July the world has ever seen—lß93!" ‘‘Hera, none of that!” cried a guard approaching. ‘ He spoke too late. Bang!!—l,Bo3 distinct reverberations seemed to follow a flare like a cannon, & report like the explosion of a powder magazine. Children shrieked, women fainted. | The gun kicked and knocked the irre- | pressible Timothy flat, flew from his | hand, whacked the guard over the | head, and fell in the midst of the crowd. | “I arrest you——" began the officer. “No, you don't!” retorted Timothy. t “Betsey Jane, 'tend to the kids; your old man’s got to hustle.” ‘ ~ “Stop! stop!” A hundred voices | sounded the warning, as the spry Tim- | othy leaped to an adjoining platform. At that moment the fireworks had begun, and the reckless Timothy had landed squarely into a fiery, hissing nest of them. They saw a hundred ! Fm-, |- bl 8 i F R o ((’, ‘z\\ll'l {"@" 'q"o‘ 7 7 I\, sk 1/ WY 7 | QA WVY = £ | it T\ [BLEA, }@ 7 oL i 2 - S 1 g\ ""' J .',/ YZ“ AP “‘ i Vo W~ Wit =5 = ,////,':"‘jf’ ) : jB N A A i/ ik TR A TEEs NG /N | iR el ) i //‘J ) | ‘ il‘g\ I\ 75| /# et - Il &/f ! .2: ',:f:!, — ~ \I "{‘ L ! ; T W\ AN Y | ~—"“ ‘ \\\-\ ' "‘\\\‘?‘\ Y 4 \\\“, l .3%0Z 2 \ § ) : ‘ . *:./ 2'4 \'\! ='! : , 12 |g) V7o | = - ', | ], y \ ' l IN THE EMERGENCY HOSPITAL. ] B pin-wheels encircle him with their ) spittin% tongues of flame—they saw a | spurt, of Raman-candles strike his hat and rlddle it. They saw Timothy John ' [{Putterbaugh aur"eoYed with a circle of - | blue, red and green lights like a phee-

R SR T T R BASDT OS SR RTR R T ntx, and then he uttered one rousinmg ] yelf of triumph amid a whole battery i of explodin{ro‘okgts. ' ‘ “E pluribus uvnum, sta lod | banner,hurrah for the Fourth of J’ﬁyl" | sereamed the grand old patriot. “Betsey | ~ Jame, on thg grand and glorious l occa——" When they got Timothy John toa 'tank and put him out, and to the | emergency hospital and greased him " all over, one ear was missing, one eye . was olosed and one arm wu.sfn a sling, ! But a happier man never left the | World’s Fair grounds. A happf couple | lingered bf-hind—-ﬁretty Matilda and { her “compaay,” who happening to be . snooking around, had found the . old revolutionary gun, and Timothy , took him to his arms literally for re- . storing the time-honored relic. ; “Betseg' Jane,” chuckled Timothy, as ! he lookad back from the elevated rail- | Way train at the glare of the World's ' Falr grounds, “I did my duty! I fired . the grand national salute, 1 went up in -a blaze of patriotic glory, and 1 never - had and I never vill have a_Fourth of " July equal to the Fourth of July, 18931 DBe Wise in Time. 3 A recent letter to this paper—l doubtless many others have received 'a copy of the same—contains what i purports to be a recipe for patting up fruit without bheating or sealing. The pretended recipe is as folows: - [ 1t in common three or four gallon jars, and press it down what you can without injuring it. Take two ounces Comp. Ex. Salyx, which you ~can get from any druggist, dissclve it in four gallons of boiling water, ; when cool, pour on enough so cover the fruit.” i The letter goes on to give a very flattering testimonial of this method, closes with a woman’s name and a postoftice address. As many of our readers may see the letter in full in some other paper, a word of caution - or exp'anation will be in place. This ilB the “blind recipe” game. The - housewife will call on “any druggist” for the article named. He has not got it and does not know what it is, | although he miay have something of | a similar name. Then she writes to | the address given in the published | letter, and receives in reply an offer | to sead the stuff on receipt of a cer- | tain sum of money or is told where |to send for it. Anxious to try a new ( and easy method of keeping fruit, | the housewife sends her money. In i return she may receive nothing, some i worthless compoun:, or possibly some { preparation of salicylic actd, an ung- { wholesome and dangerous article to | nse in food. The innocent-looking i letter is an attempt to get free advertising from a paper and swindle lits readers. Don't take a hand in | the “blind recipe” game; the cards | are marked and you are certain to ! lose.—Farm and Fireside. [ Curlositlies of African Slavery. ! One of the curiosities of domestic | slavery in darkest Africa Is that, | while the native slave owner can, by custom, compel his slaves to fight for him, and possesses other extensive | powers over them, he cannot “legally” icompcl his slaves to work for hin. On the Congo and itsafluents, native ! (not Mohammedan) slave owners pay ! wages to their own slaves, whenever the latter are required to transport ' Ivory and preduce to the coast Even { Tippoo Tib pays his numerous slave i soldiers under such peaceful circum- | stances, i The explanation of this anomaly | seems to be that war is a far more ancient and primitive institution than lalior. When domestic slavery was “first introduced” into Africa regular labor was unkncwn; the right to monopolize the slave's labot was therefore never incorporated among the slaveholder’'s privileges and prerogatives. It iswhite men who have really introduced and acclimated the idea of work of *“labor” in Africa. Whaen Pharaoh compelled the children of Israel to “work” for him he was considered a dangerous revolutionist by Egyptian conservatives. The Spaniards first introduced labor slavery in the Western world. Professional Foisoners in India. A band of pcisoners is believed to be at work on the railways in the Northwest Provinces, says a loecal paper. According to a correspondent, “there have been during the last few months a large number ot deaths in carriages awmong the native thirdclass passengers traveling on the . East India railway. 7The bodies arel ' handed over by the railway author- | ities to the police, who dispose of | ' them as expeditiously as possible. ' In most cases there is little or no | property found on the bodies, not ’even railway tickets, and generally ' they are found in an empty carriage. - These facts do not appear to have awakened the suspicions of the police, or perhaps they have recognized their incompetence to prevent or detect such crimes. As, however, | the native passengers contribute over | 90 per cent. of coaching re ceipts, itis time some efforts were made to pro- ‘ tect their lives and properiy.”— Bom- | bay Gazette. | GEORGIA is to be re-enforced bye, | large colony of Mohammedans. They i have, through an agent, seccured { twenty-flve thousand acres of land | in that State and the option upon ag { much more. Does Uncle Sam expect | to drive out the heathen and encourage the Mohammedans to come? i JoanNyY—“Did you hunralmut,tbatl boy who has been missing for 4! | week?” Aunt Mary—*“No, tell me ' | about it.” Johnny—“Oh, there ig g nothing to tell, except that he is now | at the foot of his class.”—Boston Courier. l Tor Columbian fly is with us and has six improved legs with double- ‘ power suckers on his toes.—Chestep News. 1 S S—- | PEOPLE speak of the face of a note, l when it's really the figure that interesté them.—Sparks.

| CHICAGO'S CHURCHES | STRON G CONGREGATIONS AND - HANDSOME STRUCTURES. Bl et No Los "_‘ _«_"j nd Antique Cathedral Edifices, but A ;m Models of Modern Architectural } aty—About 513 Houses of Worship in the City. . ~ Many Denominatlons. Chicago correspondenee: The church societies and structures ; 0%, Chieago are well worthy the atten- { tion tﬁ evexg visitor to the World's Fair city. The lake metropolis dees no possess such lofty and antique cathedral edifice as give importance and mr to older places, but modern toric asscciations of a character likely to endear ttllle same to the people are connected with many of its houses of worship. The bx-a{'o but gentle at. 3qutues Marquette was prob‘ably the first priest appointed to the Illinois mission, and earlier than 1675 éig a pioneer religious instiution, but it was not until 1822 that baptsm is recorded as having been adminf§tered, the Rev. Stephen Badin, the first Roman Catholic priest oraigld in the Unitod States, performing pha ‘,obmmo:*hon the son of an | Indi 3‘-,{‘ ree yeoars later cag® the Rev. Isaac McCoy, a | Bagliet clergyman, but no church was [ro N“% founded until 1833, when J; ' followed in quick succession a Roufan Catholic, a Presbyterian and a Bapfist church. From this comparatively recent start the religious interests of the city have so kept pace with its commercial growth that at the present time Chicago has about 513 churches, of which 85 are Roman Cath- i olie, 68 Congregational, 96 Methoedist Episcopal, 37 Presbyterian, 3% EpiscoB&lim, 36 Baptist, 3 Universalist, :ll nitaricn, and 16 Jewish synagogues. The vicitor designing to view one or more of these churches for their architectural beauty, or designing to hear this or that particular }:rm:vzn'-r, may, by consulting the Saturday newspapers, | learn the location, theme of discourse, | and hours of worship for the ensuing | day. The casual tourist, however, who desires to take in only a ;:a-nvrul! view of the situation, can at odd times | of leisure, or on different Sundays, visit 1 8 representative church of each important denomination, and thus glean a | very fair idea of the artistic, musical, | oratorical and social elemonts that go to | make up the surface attractiveness of a ! great metropoiltan house of worship. The most noted Episcopal church of | Chicago is the St. James, located at the 1 corner of Cass and Huron streets, in the North Divisiog, and within casy | walking distance n? the center of rh:~’ eity. This structure is noted for {tx} fine architecture, the beauty of its location near the lake, and its favorable and peaceful surroundings. In its vestibule will be found a monument memorial of those parishioners who | wer: killed in the war, stained \\'iz:-! dOWS and mural hl‘ll.‘r-u*-i_ AV ery supe- : i i : i g ; N 4 isy - an Eadp. T A AR e \"*i\‘ ; Lr'w‘.i > ‘ TN | ’ ,3.‘\ a:’ :_:Y‘, ol ““'.f L i , ,/’:; g: o . !%ﬁf;"‘j\ 1 - \“Q' ] ’~ .-==N ﬁ? 1 ;&h < | 1. 3\f ; o "L s R Ukl . : oy Sy ; % (¥ < \;l‘f? Be, f"‘%g ‘ﬁl eo I —:.‘“ > -E._ -": ; 3;g ‘ b‘ S P;‘ ~.._:»t?-\ '3"} o = lad iql 3 ‘V-_, WP\ & 04 N Rk A "‘, b=t ey :“k‘ ">AU 0 B | a" gt U STEET B "g :’: ‘ oR- ; A VAI e e Q-S\‘.?x' .-g' :J 5 f bl » G RY 50l AA gl R e il B o % SOUTH CONGRECATIONAL CHURCH " rior chime of bells, which can be heard | at quite a distance even amid the turmoll of the city, is located in the belfry. The choir is a feature, and perfect service and eloguent discourse add | | to the popularity of a church in which many high social-religious events are celebrated with dignity and splendor. The Catholies of Chicago have some magnificent churches. Perhaps that of the Holy Family, nsually known as “the Jesuit Church,” at the corner of West 12th and May streets, comprises most perfectly the elements of numerical strength, massiveness of structure, and the general characteristics that go to form an influential community. This, with the associated college and sodality i buildings, is a noted institution. The church proper has a pinnacle, the finest probably in the ecity, old in style, but remarkable for its beau’y and prominence. To watch the throngs attending services Sunday. is to gain a faint mea of the many thousands who ac- | Ynowledge this place of worship as their central source of religious instruction. " The Centenary is a typical Methodist church, and is located on West Monroe street. Its architectural pro-. portions are fine, the interior udom-‘ ment chaste and attractive, and the pastor a leading light in his professlon. A more modern structure of the same denomination is the new South | Park Avenue Church, situated nw:'\'i the lake in the South Division of lhcl city, and emboedying in its solidity, | tower adornment and general appearance the latest ideas of perfect church ‘ architecture. It is difficult to decide which of the | various Baptist churches is the h‘sti‘ known and most profitable and >:~.ti~'-| factory for visitation on the part of a pm‘sﬁﬂ whose time is lh.nitml.. A truly rcprosnnmti\'u institution of this denomination, however, extensive In g ’ scope and congregation, modern in its | charitable and evangelical \vn!kin;:s.t and dear to the great masses of the yeople, is the Second Baptist Churcix. corner of Monroe and Morgan atreets. The edifice is severely plain, being a direct copy and in fact partly built of the original material of the old pioneer First Baptist Church. Within its capacious walls on Sunday glat.hcr l many hundreds, often thousands, to carry out a printed program mn}n:acing a sermon by the eloquent Dr. Willjam Lawrence, popular exercises and ‘ gpinging of an attractive character,

The Sunday school is one of the largest | in the city. ‘ Plymouth Church, Michigan boulevard, between 25th and 26th streets, in the South Division, and the New En. %ls.nd Chureh, Dearborn avenue and laware_place, North Division, are fine, massive structures, devoted to the Congregational mode of worship. The South Chur:h, at Drexel boulevard and 40th street, is perhaps the finest building of this denomination in the city, but at all three services are regularly conducted by eminent preachers 't"f’ large and fashic nable congrogaiors. A centrally lccated Presbyterian church is the Third, at the corner of Ashland and Ogden avenues, accessible by the Madison street cable line. The church society embraces many pioneer members, who have seen their temple of worship driven further and further west by the encroaching waves of business progress. The Sabbath services | in this church are of a particularly pleasing and peaceful character. ) The Uniti' Church, Unitarian, is located on Dearborn avenue, opposite Washington Square, a site of rare beauty: the First Universalist Church is situated at the corner of Prairie avenue and Thirty-first street, and the Sinai Temple, = Reformed Jewish Chureh, is a commodious and unique e T SIS, i \ e ~ '\".“ o /_//:./\ 52 B S s - — 'I ‘—\‘ ::"v‘ St - ~+ Al £- * N A T ‘ 4 REER B RO | A A RATERRS T S ! : - ) RN | "‘ﬁ‘ “L"’\ ¥ ¢\J | i ot ’ '!E NS, i‘h‘}.‘[’f\\# ARG e 1 ) /HJ'”‘N SR 2 LT e o S gg o {’h'L,'{‘J‘é}' = TR SOUTH PARK \VENUE M. E (HURCH { Structure at Indiana avenue and Thirty- I | first street. Minor denominations are | likewise well represented in the city, I ‘ and inquiry will enable the stranger to | readily locate any particular church he I may desire to visit. { Outside of the regular church socie- | ties occupying church structures, there gm-u some notable independent institu- | tions. One of these controls the affairs of the People's church, a detached Methodist Episcopal organization under the ministry of the popular and %!‘.iﬂqllunt H. W. Thomas, D. D., wori shiping in MecVicker's Theater. The | Central chureh is another independent l lnswviatinn. of Congregationalists. It | | is under the ministry of the famous | l orator, Prof. David Swing. The congregation, probably the largest in Chicago, worships in Central Music Hall, corner of State and Randolph streets. i This church is the most popular in the | | city, and many visitors spending Sunday in Chicago are gratified at an opporl tunity to hear the cloquent preacher. l BOUND FOR THE POLE. | Lieut. Peary's Vessel, the Falcon, Sailsg from New York. ! At 6 o'clock Sunday afternoon the whaling steamer Falcon bore Lieut. Peary’s expedition away from New York harbor for a two years' stay Jin j the unexplored arctic regions. Lieut. Peary left, feeling sanguine of gaining new laurels as an explorer. The party on the Falcon includes fifteen persons. Thirteen of these belong to the expedition, the two others dis- ‘ embarking at St. John's. Besides Lieut. Peary thece are Mrs. l’c:x‘r‘\'. her maid, Mrs. Cross; S. J. Entrekin, of Winchester, Pa.; Eivand Astrup, of Nor- | way: Dr. Edward Vincent, of Springi fleld, Ill.; J. W. Davidson, of Austin, | Minn.; E. B. Baldwin, of Nashville; | | George H. Carr, of Chicago; Hugh J. | | Lee, of Meriden, Conn.: George H. } | Clarke, of Brookline. Mass.; F. W. | | Stokes, of Philadelphia; and Mrs. | | Peary's negro servant, Matthew Hen- | | son. " Tho men are all under 30 years [ }nf age, vigorous, and well educated. | | Several of them were on the previous | | trip. W. J. Swain, of Indianapolis, | i joined the party Saturday and will act l | as secretary to Lieut. Pour\}'. R | The full list of the provisions aboard | | the whaler includes lard, baked beans, | | flour, sugar, pickles, whisky and ‘ brandy (for medicinal purposes), canned. | | tomatoes, thirty-two Dbarrels army ' bread, seventeen barrels hard tack and three tons of pemmican. There 1 | were more than 100 applications from | { all over the country from young men who wished to go. : { It is the belief among many scien- | tific men that the north pole }g'ublem is more likely to be solved by the present expedition than by any pm{ect now proposed or by any which has been set, on foot in the past. The purpose of | this expedition is to determine the ex- ! P AL | { b et == | RS TR\ } A T N 1974, .“"A‘!Q.l‘_&\\ 3 ‘ * "?.7-7 il LR 2 | AR \\\\ A7 Gycan “.‘h [ﬁ’ "‘i{“‘\-\ 2 ’V’ | {ESL el A7) -~ S e = e Tge e e | SRS T = ! _—rresa— =~ l l THE FALCON, 1 | tent and nature of the mcdern arohi-] pelago which Peary has found to lie | north of the mainland; also to survey | the wholly unknown ccast between In- | | dependence Bay and Cape Bismarck, ! { the most northern point on the east | coast of which we have knowledgae. t By carrying out this survey Peary will | l complete the outlining of the entire northern and northeastern coasts of | Greenland. | SR e ! INQUIRY at the Treasury Depart- ‘ ment discloses the fact that about sls.- | 000 remains for the enforcement of the ’ several Chinese acts. On July 1 the new appropriation of £50,000 becomes available, so that the aggregate fund available for the carrying out of the Chinese exclusion act, including the Geary law, on July 1, will be $65,000. SIMON WADE, Joshua Calvin, Sam Jefferson and Primus Brown have been sentenced to be shot by the Choctaw court for murder.

B T S NMRATS MSO St CONGRESS IS CALLED. TO CONVENE IN WASHINGTON, AUGUST 7. The Action of the British Government in India Brought Matters to a Crisis—Ele- ~ vator Men in the Northwest Sell Stored Wheat. ‘ President Cleveland Aects. President Cleveland has issued a proclamation convening the LLIIId Congressin extraordinary session on Aug.T, and the State Department has sent to every Senator and Representative an official _notice of the extra :session. According to a special dispatch the announcement caused a profound sensa- | tion in Waskington. The lobbies of the hotels were crowded with Congressmen and politicians discussing the unexpected turn of affairs. On avery hand the deep significance of the President’s action as affecting the }n‘esent financial situation was elt. The Cabinet wa: in session for three hcurs. The gravity of the financial situation was = discussed freely from every standpoint. 'o.l‘vheorzieslidzgt and his Cabinet had been C elmed with messages ureing Immediate session. \Vh'ﬁe ltl.lllgi'gawigls general acquiescence in the President's viqws at the Cabinet meeting and no objections advanced to the calling ot the extra session, the sentiment was not entirely unanimous that it was strietly necessari. A few members of the Cabinet have held th> opinion that the circumstances did not justify an extra session earlier than September. Secretary Lamont was strongly in favor of calling the session immediately. Before the Cabinet meeting adjourned the President requested his advisers to observe secrecy regarding the proposed proclamation. Even while the President’s proclamation was being prepared denials were semi-of-ficially given out. The depariure of the Presldent for Gray Gables increased the belief that nothing would be done, I so that the first bulletin of the proeclamation caused nothing short of a sensation. The action of the British Government in India, the dispatch says, brought matters to a crisis. Previcus to that startling event Mr. Cleveland had manifested a firm determination to adhere to his plan of calling Congress together in September. After the suspension of silver coinage in India the President resolutely declined to speak further about his intentions until he shculd be prepared te act, and each of his Cabinet cfficers maintained similar silence. It may be stated, however, without violating confidence, that { from the day when the announcement of the action of India was made the President took steps to keep himself forewarned through the press dispatches of the slightest approach to panic in the money market, prepared at any moment to take the course which he has now adopted. When he found telegrams on his table not only from Eastern and Middle States, but also from the South and even from | some of the silver States, urging that i Congress be called together at the | earliest day possible to end the unecertainty, he determined to delay no longer. SELL STORED WHEAT. How Many Warehousemen Speculate in Grain. It was reported at Minneapolis that an indefinite quantity of wheat, represent by some as high as 2,600,000 bushels, has been surreptitiously shipped out of the elevators of Buluth, leaving holders of warehouse receipts with nothing to show for their property. The country elevator capacity in the Northwest back of Duluth and 2Xlinne- | apolis is about 30,000,000 bushels. The ; production ¢f these States as officially | estimated at Washington ranges from | 90,000,000 to 110,000,000 bushels, but in- | asmuch as receipts at the principal ’ spring wheat points run over that limit, it is safe to assume that the esti- ; mate is 20,000,000 to 30.600,00 C { bushels short. Wheat raising is i the great industry of the North- | west. It is the one crop the } farmers rely on for cash returns. From Sept. 1, which is usually the beginning iof their harvest, until the end of the vear it is a rush and a scramble to get I the wheat under roof. Railroads are overtaxed and warehousemen have mcre than they cun attend to. The whole crop is rushed to market. The usual thing is for the farmer tobring his wheat to the nearesu elevator station and either sell it outright toa representative of the big milling and elevator combines, or to putthe grain in store, taking therefor the receipt of ‘ the warehousemen. Theoretically, the wheat remains in store until such a time as the holder of | the receipt may decide to cell and ship it, but 1t dcesn’t. The warehouseman, ;a. Minneapolis dispatch alleges, selis | the farmer's grain the minute he gets it into his warehouse, making contracts to deliver it in Chiecago, Minneapolis, and Duluth at some fu- ' ture time. If his elevator gets full ! he forwards the grain to one of the three points mentioned, and fills his bins with fresh wheat, going through the same process of issuing receipts for it and collecting carrying charges and insurance on the property. . Many warehousemen are satisfied with the profits resulting from collect- | ing storage charges on ths capacity of ’ their elevators, but others, more avari- ! cious and less careful, not only sell out their customers’ property. but “short™ the market an amount equal to the quantity represented by outstanding | certificates. Then when the property | is ordered sold by the people who faney they still have it to sell, the ware houseman reduces his short line to jus. that extent. Not all warehousemen ’aro addicted to these practices, but | it is alleged that many of them in the l Northwest are. i Brieflets. | _ THE liabilities of Shelden & Co., m { New York, now foot up to $360,000. i The assets are less than $150,000. GOTTLIEB MUELLER shot himself at St. Louis, Mo., leaving a note saying that he was tired of life and willing the $2.30 on his person to the man who should find him. ANDY MULDOON, an oil well shooter, was hauling 200 quarts of glycerine to Guffey Station, Pa. The wagon was overturned and an explosion ensued, which left nothing of Muldoon and his horses but shreds of flesh.