St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 2, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 29 July 1893 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT WALKERTON, . . . INDIANA DETROIT’S NATAL DAY MICHIGAN’S METROPOLIS MAKES MERRY. California's ex-Governor Represents Her in the Senate—Another Fire Scare at Jackson Park—Four Held for the Ford Theater Disaster. Detroit Celebrates. MONDAY, the 200th. anniversary of Detroit’s birth, was celebrated, and in honor of Antoine de la Motte Cadillac, the French explorer, who first settled there, the day will hereafter be know as Cadillac Day. A few weeks ag< the Historical Pioneer Society of Wayne County decided that this year of celebrations was a good one to iSegin commemorating Detroit's birthday. And it was decided to properly observe the date of Cadillac’s arrival. They were assisted in the work of arranging for the event by the Lafayette and St. Jean de Baptiste Societies. The celebration began with a parade and ended with a march to the Auditorium and addresses by the Mayor, ex-Govs. A. S. Felch, Cyrus G. Luce, the Rev. Father Joseph Menard. John Logan Chipman, William Livingston, Jr., and others. Fire at the Fair. At 1:30 o’clock Monday afternoon five broke out in the north end of the Transportation Building at the Fair. It was extinguished before much damage was done, but for a few minutes the crowds in the building were almost ] anicstricken. They made a great rush for the doors, evidently having yet in mind the horror of the cold-storage warehouse fire. The rtlsh of engines and patrol wagons and the clanging of their gongs greatly alarmed the people on the grounds, and it was reported that a great conflagration had broken out. lappily this was not true. Col. Ainswprth Is Indicted. The Grand Jury at Washington hi found a true bill against Col. Fred C. Ainsworth, Chief of the Record and Pension Division of the War Department; George W. Dant, the contractor emploved to make the excavation for the electric-light plant: William E. Covert, superintendent: and F. Basse, holding them responsible for the old Ford Theater disaster in June last, in which twenty-three persons lost their lives and a large number of others were injured. Perkins Gets the Plum. Gov. Markham, of California, has appointed Ex-Gov. George C. Perkins United States Senator to succeed the late Leland Stanford. Mr. Perkins lives in San Francisco, and is a member of the firm of Goodell, Perkins & Co., general agents of the Pacific coast steamship company. He served three years as governor ot California, being elected ■ upon "the adoption of the new Stat J constitution in 1879. BREVITIES, M. J. Dowling, editor of the Renville Star, Minn., a man with neither legs nor hands, was arrested by order of the Village Council for not working out his poll tax. A SLOOP yacht in which were five young men was capsized in Boston harbor, and three of the men were drowned. All of the parties were employes of the Boston Globe. Henry Singleton, a life convict in the Mississippi Penitentiary, has been indicted for the murder of a fellow convict within prison walls, and may now be hanged for it. Forest fires are raging in the mountains of Wyoming, and much of the choice timber in Johnson and Sheridan Counties has already been destroyed. No. rain has fallen there for nine weeks. Charles Huffman, aged 23, of Columbus, Ohio, while at Zanesville on an excursion, went in swimming and, being taken with cramps, he was drowned before the eyes of a hundred persons. SINCE the Ist of January nearly 200 national banks have closed their doors, ’ against less than fifty during the like period last year. Os the failures this | year five have been United States de- i positories. General William Vandever, who was a member of Congress from lowa before the war and Colonel of the Ninth lowa Volunteers, died last week at Ventura, Cal., where he has resided by a severe wind ana ram storm. ' Buildings were blown down and un- j roofed and other damage done in nearly j every city between Portland, Me., and j Haverhill, Mass. Dr. Herman Hirschberg, Columbus, Ohio, shot and killed Theodore K. I Meisse, butcher. Hirschberg went to collect a professional bill. He says he ] was assaulted by Meisse. No other I person was present. M. IVANCOVICH, a prominent business man of Anaconda, M*ont., was fatally assaulted by a Chinaman - with a hatchet, having admitted the celestial to his house. The assailant escaped. His motive is unknown. The reported failure of the International Trust Company at Denver is untrue. The company, as trustee under a second mortgage, has simply been made a formal party defendant in the suit for a receiver for the Pueblo City Railway. Edward Trout, a farmer living near Brazil, Ind., was drowned while bathing in Eel river. The office of the United States Express Company at Perrysville, 0.. was entered by burglars and about $2,500 of express funds were taken. No clew. The Omaha Division of the Order of Railway Telegraphers has filed charges to impeach Grand Chief D. G. Ramsey, Grand Editor A. D. Thurston and Grand Executive Committeman George C. Flegel. The charges include incompetency and dishonesty.

EASTERN. Th® Baltimore & Ohio Railroad shows for June earnings, $2,157,366: increase, $61,727; expenses, $1,475,416; decrease, $91,500; net, $681,750; increase, $152,231. ' Samuel Spencer, of New York, was appointed co-receiver of the East Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railway and controlling lines on motion of the Central Trust Company of New York. At Jersey City, N. J., honest Judge Job Lippincott refused to discharge the Grand Jury, and arraigned the jurors in scathing terms for ignoring the lotteries which flourish there in defiance of law. Russell Sage has been sued for SIOO,OOO damages for betrayal under promise of marriage. The plaintiff is Delia Keegan, who worked in the Sage household in 1868, when, it is alleged, the offense cccurred. Sage claims that it is a case of blackmail. An explosion took place in No. 4 shaft of the Kingston Coal Company at Edwardsville, Pa. The shock tore away the timbers, smashed mine cars, and horribly burned three men and one boy, who are not expected to recover. The mine is very gaseous, an explosion having occurred in the same place about three weeks ago, in which several men were badly hurt. Them: was a g-reat flurry in wheat Tuesday morning on the Board of Trade. London opened from three to four points off, and this caused New York to be very weak. Then the unexpected flurry in Western banks caused a fluctuation on the Chicago Board and wheat broke from 69 cents, Monday night's close, to 66i cents the first hour Tuesday morning. The first drop was to 685 cents and later to 67i cents. Then there was a rise to 67f cents, and the next drop came down to 66i cents. For several days, says our correspondent, the feeling has been heavy and the pit has j been filled with “long” wheat. Still there was a feeling also that the financial stringency would not last long and that there would be a general rise in a short time. But when the news of so many failures began to come in from the West, every “long” sought cover. WESTERN. One thousand boiler makers at St. Louis have struck for a nine-hour day at ten ’hours' pay. Ex-City Treasurer John West, of Grand Island, Neb., is in jail charged with embezzling $12,000 of public funds. Miss Helen Lipman, of Milwaukee, 20 years of age, was drowned in a swimming school, being seized with cramps. FROM information received at Atlanta there seems to have been a big deal in Wisconsin in bogus Georgia land titles. The Standard Oil Company lost 200,000 gallons of refined oil by an explo Bion and fire in its Whiting (Ind.) refinery. The Burlington recently announced a rate of s3l from St. Louis to Portland, Ore., via St. Paul, effective immediately. WILL H. Morton, formerly manager of the Columbia Theater in Chicago, has been sent to the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum. Growing crops, fruit trees, and window glass worth $500,000 were destroyed by a recent hailstorm in Cedar County, Nebraska. The third trial of M. D. Curtis at San Francisco, Cal., charged with killing Police Officer Grant, was continued until July 31. The receiver of the Central Insurance Company at Toledo reports that the concern has $227 of assets to meet $110,985 of liabilities. In a dispute over money, at Metropo- ; lis, 111., Richard Shoemaker shot and : killed George and Richard Lukens, and i seriously wounded their father. F. T. Day. the missing Milwaukee j banker, has been located in a Michigan j sanitarium, but cannot be taken back , to Milwaukee until his condition im- i proves. Vice President Stevenson and; party drove through Golden Gate Park ; at San Francisco, Thursday, and ; lunched with Adolph Sutro at Sutro : Heights. John M. Conyers stepped on a, j match in his store at Lebanon, Ind., ; and a disastrous explosion followed. It I is supposed the room was filled with : natural gas. At Portland, Ore., the United States Grand Jury returned sixteen indictments against parties alleged to have been connected with smuggling opium and Chinese. E. L. Gunn, insurance and loan agent 1 stated that it will take fully $25,000 to j pay oil Ills indebtedness and straighten I out his transactions. : There is a serious landslide in prog-! । ress on Browne street, Cincinnati, which is gradually destroying numer- , ous houses. The houses most affected ■ have all been deserted. The 2.000 miners at Aspen, Colo., have sent a letter to General Master Workman Powderly imploring him to unite the laboring men of the country in favor of silver legislation. The anti-scalpers law went into effect in Minnesota Wednesday, but the brokers at Minneapolis continued i to do business. The railroads have arranged to comply with the law. It is announced that the Cherokee strip will be thrown open for settlement not later than the 10th of Sep--1 tember, thus adding 8,000 square miles I to the available area of Oklahoma. An incendiary fire almost wiped the : : town of Ewing, Mich., out of existence i ’ The loss is between $150,000 and | $250,000. It is reported that a man su?- ' pected of being the firebug was lynched. Ex-State Treasurer McFetridge J of Wisconsin will have to pay the State | $4,000 more as interests on deposits, his i books having been found mutilated so . ' as to conceal a portion of the account. Bogard, the St. Louis real estate man alleged to have defrauded the members of several building associations of which ho was secretary, has

________ been arrested and placed under $1,600 William P. Winters, aged 23 and one of the bestrknown young men in St. Louis, has been arrested charged with the forgery of two checks on his SS) 6 a "’’ ‘ J ‘ P ' Br ^ on » ^r Miss Emma Garrett, in charge of the Pennsylvania blind children’s exhibit at the World's Fair, leaped^? her death from a fifth-story window of the Briggs House. She was unbalanced by overwork. , The First National Bank and the Kent Bank at Cheyenne, Wyo., have failed. The First National has a paid up C f^ a ^ of The liabilities are $602,000 and the assets $725,000. Both banks will probably reopen. The committee sent from Dubuque with relief for tornado sufferers at Pomeroy, lowa, found there was about $35,000 cash on hand and $40,000 tornado insurance to oome in soon; also that plenty of supplies were present. The most frightful accident occurred in the Ohio oil field at the Village^f Prairie Depot, six miles from FostoWg' Ohio. An oil well just began to and as usual in such cases the grqjK'l was saturated with oil. A frigj^® 1 ! explosion occurred, killing two, iP'‘ fatally injuring four. j The failure of the nation? 1 .Denver m clOHiDg l H number of private concerns. T^W-e who have made assignments, with liabilities when given, are: M. S. NaAh, furniture, $16,000; Albert Nelson, restaurant, $96,725; Engle & Harrisl general merchandise. $4,664; Hyrhan & Cohen, shoes: McWhirter & Dripps, mantels and tiles; John Mouat Lumber Company; Luther J. Wyant, tiles and grates, $14,870; Evans-Littlefield, confectionery. The excitement over the Duerr murder at Day ton, 0., has intensified instead of lessened, and the jail was surrounded Friday night. The police had hard work keeping the crowds back. The stonemasons had been drinking all day and were joined by men of other trades. The Sheriff called upon the militia, and Company G and Company I, of the Third 6. N. G.. went to the jail prepared for any emergency The greatest danger is apprehended after the funeral, when the sympathy for the dead man's family will arrive at its height. The Commercial National Bank of Milwaukee has mad.? an assignment. The assignee appointed in the assignment papers filed is A. B. Geilfuss, the cashier of the bank, and his bond is placed at $1,200,609. The entire fund of Milwaukee County, amounting to $310,624, was deposited in the Commercial Bank. The newly organized Milwaukee Electric Railway Company was a depositor to the extent of some $260,000. The last statement of the bank showed demand deposits amounting tb $557,748.22 and time deposits $528,915.22. The bank had a capital of $250,000. Marshal Palm, of Circleville,Ohio, guarded the jail Friday night against a mob seeking the life of his brother's murderer. A false alarm of firc^as sent lii anti iUy amdgrJied the crowd, but they refused to deceived and still besieged the prison. Win. Strong had been drinking all dav and about 6 o'clock went into Baldwin & Palm’s saloon and demanded a drink. He flpurished a pistol, and. when Palm tried to persuade him to drink no more, ahned the weapon at Palm's breast and pulled the trigger. Palm fell with a bullet in his heart, dying almost instantly. During the afternoon Strong had chased people with his revolver and a dirk. SOUTHERN. G. W. Akers, of Gainesville, Tex., who has been doing a large business as solicitor for Cherokee claimants, was l arrested charged with swindling. Frances Cerainka, a 12-year-old : giM. was brutally murdered near Fort ; Worth. Tex. An unknown negro is i locked up charged with the crime. Ax organized gang of firebugs who j have been terrorizing Greenville. Miss., i started a fire which destroyed the five j leading business blocks in the city, ■ causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. At Atlanta. Ga., the attorney for the | Central Trust Company filed a bill to I forclose a $14,500,000 mortgage on the I Georgia Pacific Railroad. This is a part of the reorganization scheme. The Commissioners of Agriculture i of the Southern States, in session at i Atlanta. Ga., decided that there should be a uniform system of control and regulation of the manufacture and sale of commercial fertilizers. John Erskine, white, and Dave Williams, colored, were crushed beneath a derrick in the Fayette Corpty , Jail, Ky. It fell from a floor abive. I Thev cannot recover. Four negfov,.: wuro On tUv selves by'jumping. James M. Dowling. cashier c* , I I nitod States mint in New OrleaW; >■ i been arrested on a charg-e of embezzlement. there being a deficit of some $24,000, which, it is alleged, he sought to cover by charging up that amount to loss by fire in one of the mint vaults a few weeks ago. At a dance at Quintana Village, Texas, Robert Earl, aged 16. was shot by J. K. Cash, a farmer from Sandy Point Depot. Earl died. Cash had been amusing himself by making people dance in the road. Earl had danced until tired and tried to escape when Cash fired. The Sheriff started after Cash. WASHINGTON. The chief of the bureau of statistics reports that during the month of June there arrived at the ports of the ' United States from the principal foreign countries, except the British North American possessions and Mexico, 67,726 immigrants and in June, 1892, 73,120. During the twelve months ended June 30. 1893. the number of immigrants was 497.936 and during the corresponding period of the preceding year 619.320. Os the number arrived during the j twelve months ended June 30 last 96.- j 313 came from Germany, a decrease of j 34,309; from Italy, 72.403, an increase i of from Sweden and Norway, ’ 53,872, a decrease of 3.281: from Russia (exoeot Poland), 43,657, a decrease j

o f 40,631, and from the United Kingdom, 108,716, a decrease of 8,352. Comptroller Eckels says his dis. patch to the Denver banks embodied his^general policy. He says that - banks which have been managed or conducted upon sound business principles, and whose assets would have been sufficient to sustain j them through ordinary business -periods, have been driven to assignment by unprecedented runs, arising from needless fright on the part of the people. The Government will be as lenient as the laws will permit in such cases, the appointment of receivers will be deferred and the Government will co-operate with such ! banks in giving them time and other- ’ wise assisting them to realize upon as- s sets and to resume business. But < banks which have failed through mis- < management or reckless speculation or 1 use of funds by bank officials need expect no mercy. ( FOREIGN, Information has been received < . from Pekin to the effect that China lias taken measures to support Siam as against the French. Siam has for many years paid tribute to hlna rwOjr n.s h mpttsr of usage and convenience. - 1 1 apparent that China is determine" 0 ^ assist the Siamese against French encroachments upon their territory. The interference of China will add a most interesting feature to the Franco-Sia-mese dispute and will probably result 1 in a modification of some of the demands of France as contained in her ultimatum. A warehouse fire in London, the other night burned over an area of over 1 1,5610 yards before the flames were extinguished. Thirty buildings we: e en- ■ tirely destroyed, fbe c buildings were occupied by more than twenty-five ' firms, who de alt in stationery, clothing, tea, wines, furniture, imported goods, etc. The porters and their families living on the premises had narrow es- ■ capes. Many of them rushed to the street in their night dresses. It is ex- ■ pccted that the loss will reach £1.500,000. The burned district is but a short distance to the eastward of the Bank of England, the Royal Exchange, and the ! Mansion House, the residence of the Lord Mayor. In his evidence before the court- ' martial in the case of the battleship Victoria, Capt. B nirke said that he ' : became aware of the danger of a colli- ‘ j si'on almost directly the A ictoria began - ( to turn. Hb did hot think that Staff ' Commander Hawkins-Smith had ever • been consulted by Vice Admiral Tryon ] in regard to the maneuvers. Indeed, ] nobody had been consulted. When ] A ice Admiral Tryon hoisted his flag on the A’ictoria. it was customary to ] use a 30-degree helm. A*ice Admiral ; Tryon altered this to one of 28 degrees. < Lord Gilford. Flag Lieutenant of the ] Mediterranean Squadron, was the next witness. He testified that after the collision Admiral Tryon said to him: “It was all my fault.” ] IN GENERAL ‘ . i vlato glass trust has practically I , LxADginj^d. , PRINCE Max. of Sax my. who recent- ’ ly retired from the army, has entered 5 a monastery. President Oakes denies the rumor , that a receiver is to be appointed for i Northern Pacific. The village of St. Anne de la Perade, * near Quebec, was completely destroyed s by fire. Sixty families are made home- I less. Eugene Kelly, trea-urer of the Na- ’ ■ tional Federation of America, has; cabled $5,000 to the Irish National party in Parliament, making a total of ] $31,000 sent during the present session. | Following is the standing of the clubs of the National League: W. 1.. 1?C. W. 11. ??c. | ; J'hlladelp'iaAu 25 .64S Cincinnatis 3S .465 , ; Bostons. . 46 26 .639 St L0ui5....32 17 .463 1 ■ Clevelands. .87 28 JC2 Xev>- Yorks .32 40 .444’ | Kttsburgs. .41 31 .561 Chicncos... .31 39 .443 • I Brooklyns.. .36 35 .507 Washi'gt’ns.2.) 43 .403 i I Baltimores..33 87 .471 Lonlsvilleß..22 89 .367 The following deaths were recorded • • Wednesday: At Milton. Masa. Charles: j Breck, aged 95, the oldest Mason in ; ! the East. At Lenox, Mass.. Colonel j | Richard T. Achmuty. At Panama, • i Nathan Crowell, a well-known Ameri- 1 ; can engineer. At Montgomery. Ala.. I : Gen. James T. Haltsclaw. aged 60. At Racine, Wie., Jackson Wright, aged 101. At Brownstown. Ind.. Win. Ben-' ton. aged 91. At Glens Falls. N. Y., ' I ex-Congressman Frederick A. Johnson, ; i aged 65. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle —Common to Prime.... $3 25 @ 5 50 Hogs—Shipning Grades 300 @6 25 ; Sheep—Fair to Choice 4 <0 @ 5 00 Wheat —No. 2 Spring 62 & 63 I Corn—No. 2 3.8 @ 39 Oats—No. 2 26 & 27 Rye—No. 2 49 <a? 51 I B riT.T l? 17, , .C.b.'G,'”* Cronnion’ 19?^^ 20 G ' : Potatoes-— New. per bit i Av’''?;; -'.it’'- . INDIANAPOLIS. Uattt.e—Shipping t»s.'i <a> s w -"fHogs—Choice Light 9 w eoo 1 ) Sheep—Common to Prime 3 IX) iff 4 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 58 @ 59 I Corn—No. 2 White So & 40 > Oats—No. 2 White 83'6© 34^ ST. LOUIS. t Cattle 3co ©5 00 I Hogs 300 @6 00 ! Wheat—No. 2 Red 57 © 58 i Corn—No. 2 36 @ 37 Oats—No. 2 24' 2 <« 25 Rye—No. 2 42 © 44 CINCINNATI. ! < Cattle 300 ©4 75 j Hogs 3co © 6 w Sheep 3co ©5 00 ; V. heat —No. 2 Red go © ’ Corn—No. 2 4i*i© 42> 2 : Oats—No. 2 Nixed 33’4 6 3P4 Rye—No. 2 49 © 51 S j DETROIT. Cattle 3 oo @ 4 75 Hogs 300 © 7 00 Sheep 3 00 © 4 co I Wheat—No. 2 Red 65 © 66 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 41 © 42 OAIS—No. 2 White 341 2 @ 35’i TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 €3 © C 4 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 41 © 41's , Oats—No. 2 White 31 © 32 Rye 51 © 53 BUFFALO. CATTLE—Commo Ito Prime.... 350 @5 50 j Hogs—Best Gra es 4co @6 60 1 < Wheat—No. 1 Hard 73 © 75 i No. 2 Red 68 © 69 1 J MILWAUKEE. ! < Wheat—No. 2 Spring 62 © 63 I , Corn—No. 3 39 ; >© 40’6 | Oats—No. 2 White 33W© 34'2 • 1 Rye—No. 1 50 © 52 | 1 Barley—No. 2 54 @ 56 Pork—Mess 18 00 @lB so 1 NEW YORK. ! . Cattle.. 3co @5 25 । Hogs...? 3€o ©6 75 1 ( Sheep 300 @4 75 | Wheat—No. 2 Red 72 © 73 1 Corn—No. 2 48 @ 49 ! Oats—Mixed Western 35J£@ 36J6 Rutter—Creamery..... 19 © 21 ( Pork —New Mess 18 00 @lB 75 1

RUSSIANS AROUSED. AFTER SEALING POACHERS WITH « A SHARP STICK. France and Slam Watching Each Other Like a Couple of Bulldogs—World’s Fair Closed Tight on Sunday—To Succeed Senator Stanford. Gunboats Ready for Seal-Stealers. At Port Townsend, Wash., the schooner William L. Beebe, from Petropaulovski, Siberia, reports two Russian men-of-war in port awaiting the approach of the sealing season. The commanders of the gunboats informed Capt. Roder of the schooner Beebe that unusual precautions had been adopted this year to prevent pelagic sealing in Russian waters. All the vessels captured will be confiscated by the government. Tne sealing schoon- , er s .C. H. White. Willie McGowan. ! Rosie Olsen and Aerial, captured last I August, have been confiscated and sold j by the government. All the Russian | officials stated that no mercy would Im? shown the sealers if captured. During i the Beebe’s voyage through Behring : Sea not a single seal had been seen. MUn, City. Not a wheel turned in the World’s Fair grounds Sunday. Every gate was double locked and barred. Buildings wore closed, exhibits covered, the electric launches and gondolas tied up. the intramural raihvay shut down, restaurants closed, the piers deserted, and about the broad walks of the Exposition grounds there could be seen only an occasional man or woman to break the solemn silence which had settled over all. Even Midway Plaisance, the chattering magpie end of the Fair, the side show, where voices in every tongue known continue day and night, seemed to have lx?en chastened by the rod of silence and blinds were drawn over windows which had not been darkened since the Fair was opened to the peoples of the earth. War Cloud Lowers. Monday’s dispatches say Siam’s reply to France’s ultimatum is but a concession of the least important of the six demands made, and that war appears to be inevitable. It is rumored from Paris that the French Government has directed Admiral Hanamm to 1 at once blockade the ports of Siam. ■ The Siamese warships at Bangkok were I anchored one mile from the French boats, crowded with men, steam up. all ready to ram the Frenchmen if bombardment commences. The latter are steamed up, chain armor placed about boiler-rooms, and only the word from home is necessary to precipitate the conflict. The German gunboat Wolf has arrived. Whaler Badly Crashed in the Ice. Information of the whaling fleet ; north states that the Belvidere was i caught in the ice while cruising after ■ whales and badly crushed. As it was i in need of repairs, a trip to Unalaska : was made and at last accounts it was ■ mill there. It had pounds of bore, i Steamer Karlink was reported as htiv- | Ing captured four right whales. From a private letter also received in San Francisco from Captain Vincent of the whaler Grampus it was learned that whalers at the mouth of the Mackenzie River are having a hard time of it. Only three whales had been captured since the last report. Bearing Up Well. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: This week the country has stood surprisingly well an extraordinary strain. The failures of many banks and firms have i come despite the relaxation hi Eastern and in some Southern and Western money markets. Denver banks were overthrown largely by the crazy wisdom of tbo people, but In most cities statements show the banks in a healthy condition, and there has since been noticed more readiness to e \tend accommodation. Under all the conditions it is astonishing- that business has been so well maintained with so little evidence of unsoundness. Successor to Senator Stanford. San Francisco papers state that Gov. Markham has decided to appoint Irwin G. Stump to succeed the late Senator Stanford. Stump is prominent in politics, but has never held office. He was Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee during the last campaign. He is a wealthy man. has large mining interests. End is one of the executors of the estate of the late Senator Hearst. NEWS NUGGETS. Charles Greeton, a 17-year-old bicycle rider, was killed by falling over an embankment with his wheel near Lebanon. O. The negro who assaulted the young daughter of Carr Elliott at Branford. i 'ltt.. « j.:byamob numLx?:-i n*r about 3po men. 1 mi u j 11 doubt butthat the nine condemned c hcctaw Indians will be shot, according to the sentence of their national court. Commissioner Lamoreux asked the Secretary of ’Wav that the forest reservations in the West be policed in order to protect them from wanton depredations. Frederick Loefler, who shot Miss Lena Linder at the Luthere . Church at Norwalk, 0.. a short time ago in a fit of jealousy, was bound over to Common Court in the sum of $2,000. A FIRE at Susanville. Cai., July 19. burned sixty buildings and caused a loss of about $250,000. E. H. Taylor, Jr.. & Sons, one of the oldest, largest, and most extensive whisky distilling firms in Kentucky, have made an assignment. The wife of a farmer named Vauerchck. living near Rutledge, Minn., was held up bj’ two masked men and robbed of S4OO. They shot and slightly wounded her and shot at her son. The robbers are hemned in in the woods bv a posse of enraged farmers. A FREIGHT train at Bristol, Kan., ran over Monroe Bonebrake, a prominent Coffey County stock-raiser. He died. The Rev. Qharles A. Briggs, who was disciplined by the Presbyterian General Assembly, has declined an offer of a testimonial of $50,000.

WAR IS ALMOST SURE. ■RENCH DEMANDS TOO HEAVY FOR SIAM. ft hile Many of the Terms of the Ultimatum Are Acceded To, the Most Vital Demand, That of the Concession of Territorial Rights, Is Not Granted. Blockade of Bangkok. There is trouble in the land of the white elephant. According to late cable advices France has technically de-

dared war against Siam, and, if England does not interfere, the kin^ of the little Asiatic country will in all probability be compelled to witness .the annexation of ■part of his kingdom to French domains. The line of boundary is again the cause of dis-

1 Cvwr KING OF SIAM.

! pute. Hitherto a line of mountains lying between the Mekong River and French Annam has been regarded as the western limit of French possession in Asia, but the French it appears have revived B-ntiquated and obsolete claim set up by the old kingdom O1 Cambodia, to which their possession in the eastern peninsula formerly belonged, their immediate object of course being to make the Mekong their western boundary, instead of the mountain range which formerly separated them from that river and its fertile valley. If the Mekong was a straight river, the movement on the part of the French could not affect Siam in the least, however objectionable French encroachments might prove to the English colonies on the west of the Mekong, but. considering that further south after entering Siam proper the Mekong makes a detour east, thus forming in a rough triangle the Siamese province Luang Pruban, there is little wonder that the Eastern King looks on the establishment of this / ft F ssA ) \ O** / \ /r a m I MAP OF SIAM. river as a boundary as the practical surrender of the above mentioned province. The French surveyed the territory between the and tire moilHtains, contemplating a line of steamers on the river. To frustrate this the King of Siam established forts on the Mekong and forbade the French to en-» ter his kingdom. The French commander ignored the order and the Siamese killed a. French inspector of militia in the upper Mekong river district. Then followed the "crossing of the bat" of the Menam by the French gunboats Inconstante and Comete, and the firing upon them by the Paknam I forts. France then gave her ultimatum to Siam. demanding jurisdiction over both banks of the Mekong, an indemnity of 3.000,060 francs, not including that claimed by private parties, and the right, as a guaranty of good faith, to occupy the mouth of the Menam. Failing to accept the principle of this ultimatum within forty-eight hours. Bangkok was to be laid under siege. Siam has made reply to the ultimatum altogether unsatisfactory to France. She considers the demands too heavy, and concedes only the least important of the conditions. Mis Majesty declares that he will grant but half of the indemnity and territory asked. The French minister retires after declaring the blockade of Bangkok. Advices at the time this is written say that the Siamese warships which are anchored one mile from the French are crowded with men ready for action. Their intention is. in case the French commence hostilities, to steam down and ram the French gunboats, attempt to board them in force, and attack the crews with fixed bayonets. In the event of war being declared England. Russia and China may also become involved. Brieflets. Two men were killed and four injured by an oil explosion at Erairie Depot, O. Four men were injured by an expiosville, Pa. Attorney General Olney- has been the guest of President Cleveland at Gray Gables. By an explosion of dynamite in a shanty in Minneapolis Gus Alson was blown into fragments. Louis irchlinger, an aged shoemaker. committed suicide at Columbus, 0.. by taking morphine. John Neumer. a young St. Clair County, 111., farmer, was overcome by heat and has become insane. Monroe Bonebrake was run over at Bristol. Kan., by a freight train. Both legs were cut off. causing death. Reductions by Southern roads are no V^ and the outlook is for a still more extensive cut all along the line soon. The engagement of I>r. Albert Shaw, editor of the Review of Reviews, and aliss Be sie Bacon, of Reading. Pa., is ann- ninced. i ur y a t Fresno, Cal., in the case Oi Richard Heath, charged with the murder of E. B. McWhirter, was unable to agree. 6 hari.es Greeton. a 17-year-old bicycle rider, was killed by falling over an embankment with his wheel near Lebanon, Ohio. The steamer Paris made the westward run fuom Southampton to Fire Island in 6 days 9 hours and 30 minutes, breaking the record.