St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 7, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 September 1894 — Page 6

WALKERTON, - - . INDIANA. CASH DID NOT COME. WHISKY MEN COULDN’T MOVE THEIR GOODS. President Cleveland Dissatisfied with the New Law—Senator Gorman Needs Best— Japanese Wild for Aggressive Operations—Denounce the House of Lords. Couldn’t Raise the Money. In the end speculation won the day, and in reasons host known to only one or two can an explanation of the present deal in whisky stock be found. It had been an ounced that the whisky men had secured $5,000,000 cash, anil were going to take advantage of the old revenue law. But the money did not come and Peoria distillers are feeling _ decidedly bitter. There is stored in Peoria warehouses somethin^ nr- —t an(i i ^ Ot P aid ■ ' nr ...tno condition. Distillers do not hesitate to declare that the result was the conclusion of a stock jobbing deal of unusual magnitude, in which some one made a great deal of money. The disappointment of Peoria distillers is all the more severe, coming as it does at a time when it Icoke 1 as if everything had been settled. Grover Didn’t Sign. The tariff bill became a law without the signature of Grover Cleveland. The President’s explanation of his failure to sign the bill was given to a ; correspondent by an official ve y close Io him. He said: “We came here to i fight for tariff reform. We did not : come to be the tools of monopolies. The ' hill as pa sed is, under the ciroum- ; ttance^ surrounding its passage,, not I t ch a bill as the people had a right I 1j expect. F. r the President to sign! it would be to approve it. His approv- ’ al would mean that he believed that ; tariff reform had been accomplished, j In that event what would become of I our battle cry: ‘tariff reform”? What ' banner would there be to fight under? । As it is we have an unaccomplished i mission to accomplish. We must ac- I complish it. And we shall press on in | the fight with a tariff reform banner - to guide us.” BREVITIES. Smali.-pox has made its appearance j at Atwood, near Bourbon, Ind. Philip Peters, colored, was hanged ; at Helena. Ark., for killing his wife. Lightning killed Mr. and Mrs. j Hillyard and two horses near Colum-! bus, Tex. A mass meeting of 70,000 persons in Hyde Park. London, passel resolutions i demanding that the House of Lords be । abolished. Mrs. L. B. Christ, living south of i Forest City, .together vGW-W dead. He is sup- 1 posed to have fallen irom a fence and i ’ broken his neck. Firebugs have burned thousands of dollars’ worth of property during the last three nights in the vicinity of Hall’s Station, Mo , on the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs . Railway. While. T. J. Gadwell, a Toledo (Ohio) pawnbroker, was at dinner ‘ thieve; cut through the ceiling, descended a i ope ladder, and looted the place of several hundred dollars’worth of gold watches. IN the Martin Blow poisoning case I at Lapeer, Mich., the boy te.-tified his J uncle. Sherman Blow, gave him the , aconite with which to poison his I father’s stock, and paid him sls on the j account of SSOO. The United States Ci edit System Company cf Newa k, N. J . which insured me chants against bad debts is ' in the hands of a leceiver, its capital having recently been impai -ed to the ■ extent of $290,000. Senator Gorman’s physicians advise him to leave for Europe at the ear iest possib’e day, not only for the benefit of the voyage but for the purpose of taking treatment at one of the German springs. His health is declared to be in a very precarious state. The war feeling at Yokohama is growing more intense eve y day, and there is a great popular demand for the transfer of the warlike operations from Corea to China. It is suggested that Japan should unite all her avail-, able troops and march upon Pekin immediately.

A FUND of SIOO,OOO has been sub- ' scribed by the citizens of Sac amento fo.' the purpo e cf erecting a suitable । monument over the graves of Privates ( Dugan, ('lark, Byrne, and Luberding, j of the Fifth Artillery, who lost their j lives Julv 11 last on the rail oad tres- ’ tie near the city, though the act of the striking train-w eckers. A terrific explosion occurred at Kramer's sawmill, in Frankfort, Ind., | at 9:30 Friday morning. The killed are: John Vermillion, engineer: William Jackson, sawyer. Half a do^en others were ser ously injured. A section of the boiler weighing 1,800, pounds was hurled 400 yard ’, crushing through the roof of Classmyer's coopershop and nearly killing Charles Eartow, a workman. Maj. Gen. J. M. Schofield, U. S. A., and Mrs. Schofield and Capt. T. 11. Bliss are in Halifax, N. S. Anderson Boyd, alias Jacob Huitz, colored, has been committed to jail at Knoxville, Tenn., on the charge of murdering Ed Uhl in Marion County, Ohio, ten years ago. Hugh Lyon, who killed a peddler on Sanary Island, was hanged at New Westmin ter, B. C. Miss Mary Dean Bradfield, aged 82 years, was killed by taTng down a stairway at Kokomo. Ind.

puotmwM uy Commissioner Topakyan to the New York j Park Board. , Twelve children and three mon were buried in the ruins of a building ! being torn down at Worcester, Mass* Seven of the children were severely ’ j injured. Stratton, the convict arrested in ■ Chicago for breaking out of prison in ■ . Colorado, is, the Pittsburg (Pa.) police say, Elmer Beck, wante I there for , murder. Baltimore and the towns along the . eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay are a Ilic. ted with a pest of mosquitoes. The insects come in such clouds as to obscure all lights at night. Mrs. Adele Lorillard Ronalds of New York, a widow, 75 years of a^e and worth $1,030,000, has married Charles, Frank Fiancklyn Reglid, an actor, 27 years of age and pennilesfi. Frederick Hilton, son of Judge Henry Hilton of New York, died in Carlsbad of inflammatory rheumatism. He was the reputed backer of Della Fox in her present theatrical venture. Union veterans in session at Rochester passed a resolution to petition i Congress to make June 17 a national i ' holiday to bo called Veterans’ Day, in I ’ Ij™ l meinoration of tllQ ba ttle of Bunker t Heirs of Hawley D. Clapp, a wealthy New-Yorker, have begun active legal proceedings for the possession of 7,000 acre s of land near Sioux City, which it is.claimed were wrongfully disposed by a former executor of Clapp’s will. The chcir of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church at Baltimore is out on strike. Dr. Liutz, the clergyman, forbade a chorister to sing because of misbehavior. Under the choirmaster’s orders the boy sang and was ordered from the ' chancel by the minister. Then the leader dropped his books in the middle j of the service and was followed by the choir. WESTERN. ’ Lieut. John R. Rathbon, P, S. A., committed suicide at Perry, Ok. Benton Harbor, Mich., is installing aa electric plant by which it expects I to save half the money now paid to a I private corporation tor light and power. Mary Meyer, 14 years old, was kidnaped in Cincinnati, presumably by her own mother, who has been deserted for another woman by the father, Gottlieb Meyer. The freight depot of the Big Four Road at Cincinnati was burned, together with a large number of Wairner sleepers and passenger coaches, entailing a loss of $357,U09. Henry R. Pearson, who is supposed to have a brother in Chicago, killed himself in Kansas City. He was ! , short in his accounts with the Plano | Manufacturing Company. | At Marshalltown, lowa, a section hand named Peter Johnson was run j over and killed. A search of his i clothes revealed Nolhiug i known of his home or relatives. sw-' 1 ereign has been sued at Des Moines 1 on a note for money borrow’d in 1884 to start the Argus, a socialist anti- ‘ Blaine paper, which only Used a few ' months. Wm. R. Blanford, for two years a ! fugitive from Terre Haute, Ind., where | he embezzled $14,009 from D. M. Or- ' bone & Son. has been captured in Colorado, where he was working as a farm hand. Indians have fired the grass in i Kickapoo County, Kansas, in the hope I of keeping white settlers out in October. In many of the valleys the j grass was five feet high, and terrib e . • tires are raging in consequence. The i reflection can I e seen forty miles. Miles upon mile ', of the Kickapoo country are on fire in Kansas, the re- | ! flection of which can be seen for forty miles. The grass in s me places along I the valleys was five feet high, and the ■ blaze is terrible in consequence. It is j ! said the Ind ans set the country on tire ! I purpo. ely with a foolish hop? of kea;.- : ing out white se.tiers at the opening in I ; October. Five thousand hungry and determined Poles and Bohemians gathered at the Rock Island crossing and Archer avenue, in Chicago, early Tuesday morning and demanded work. “Give | I us work or bread!” was their cry, and 1 armed with picks and shovels they j I looked as if they w uld tight for the privilege of working. Superintendj ent Drake, who has charge of the preliminary work for the elevation of the Boek Island track, said he needed but a few men and could do nothing I for the crowd which had gathered. I He telephoned for the police and LieuI tenant Barrett with twenty-five police

came hurriedly to the re-cue. -The police charged the crowd and drove it back without violence. The men were , nearly all ignorant and could not un- ■ derstand that the railroad company had no work for them. I Thirty-seven miners of mixed na- । tionalities were killed Friday after- । noon by an explosion in the Oregon ' Imp.ovement Company's coal mine at Franklin, King county, t irty-four 1 mi’es southeast of Seattle. The miners were trying to save the mines from destruction by fire when the explosion occurred. Those who rushed to the gangway when the fire was disicovered escaped. Several of tho e ! caught were not instantly killed ar d a i desperate bat futile attempt was at j cnce made by their comrades to rescue 1 them from the flames. The entire ! mining community of Franklin aided to flood si pe 62, in which I the bodies of the miners lay. ; Franklin is in the mining disti ict into which colored Eastern miners were brought two years ago, resulting in a running fight with the strikers and several deaths. Negro and Swede ' miners predominate among tho e killed. Most of them have families. | Timbers, coal dumps and large chunks of coal were hurled m all dire tions by the force of the explosion. I Just before returning from Chicago . to Springfield Tuesday night Governor

the . strikers at Pullman. He also aS dressed a letter to the County Commissioners, calling their attention to Hie suffering in Pullman and urging them to furnish immediate assistance. The letter to the* County Commissioners is expected to secure food en ugh to keep the strikers alive until responses to Governor Altireld’s proclamation begin coming in. The appeal to the people was not made until the Governor had satisfied himi self that the Pullman Company i ^ ould . do nothing to relieve | t lio distress. Ibe Governor engaged during the day. in a spirited correspondence with Mr. Pullman, but could get no promise that officers of the company would help starving tenants. “As you refuse to do anything to reheve the suffering in this case,” the Governor wrote to Mr. Pul’man, in closing the correspondence, “I am compelled to appeal to the humanity of the i eople of Illinois to do so.” SOUTHERN. The United Brothers of Friendship, the greatest negro organization in the country, began its triennial natidhal convention at Little Rock. M^ny । prominent educators were preset"' j Quartius C. Rusk, a veterai^ 0 ^ the I Mexican and civil wars, angSb^h o claimed to have killed General Zc3 ,d ' coffer in the battle of Perrysv^Sr'--in 1862, was thrown from hH bud W near Indianapolis and killed. Near Hazel, Ky., an express twin on the I’aducah, Tennessee and Ishihama Railway struck a wagon, killing five of the occupants—the Misses Hhrmon, Moset Jennie, Lillie and Tobias Ray. John Ray was thrown .100 feet and severely injured. The Memphis grand jury has returned <36 indictments against ex- : county officials. It is claimed that the State and county have been defrauded out of nearly $2,000,010 of revenue during the last eight yea s by criminal carelessness and neglect. Col. J. M. Winstead, President of the 1 iedmont and People's Savings Banks at Greensboro, N. C., jumped from the tower of the Richmond City Hall to the pavement. 160 feet below, and was instantly killed Thursday morning. He entered the tower alo .o a d after removing his shies climbed through a narrow window, stood a moment upon the balustrade, and made a plunge downward. The cause of his suicide is a mystery. His banks are reported in g od condition. He was 10 years old. As the north-bound express train of the Paducah, Tennessee and Alabama Bailway was nearing Hazel, Ky., la'e Wednesday afternoon it struck a wagon loaded with people, killing file of the occupants and wounding oni. The killed are: The Misses Harmo*, two sisters; Moses Jennie, Lillie Rar. aged 16; Tobias E. Ray. John Rqy was thrown 190 feet ami severely hjnred. The party was crossing tm track as the train came thunderi® down on them, and the team bce< mh>g frightened at the alarm of the whiswi ran int > a rattle guard. The train wa» s I opped and thu bodies mkrn i. . H«^,l - imii ji i wwrriT^u ryl Vpartmen t o 111 cia l s tb^ | no appropriation has been made

putting into effect the income-tax pro- ( visions The collectors of interna’ i revenue can do nothing under these circumstances in the direction of preparing to collect the tax. Representative Amos J. Cummings, chairman of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, presented to the House tbe preliminary report upon the investigation of the armor plate and billets furnished to the government by tlie Carnegie Steel Company. The investigation hi s been in progress for weeks, ami during its com se testimony lias been given by the principal officials of the Carnegie C mpany. by workmen anil by government < fficials. The committee finds that charges of fraud have been sustained, scores the company severely and recommends that fifty-nine suspected plates in use should be tested as the only method of proving their fitness o? untitn ss. It finds also that the government inspection was negligent. POLITICAL. Joshua R. HaRVILL is the Republican nominee for Governor of Delaware. Congressman Dave Mercer has l been renominated by the Republicans in the Second Nebraska District. Connecticut prohibitionists have n minated De\\ itt C. Pond for governor and Edward Manchester for lieutenant governor. Mr. Oteri, the Japanese minister at Seoul, is reported to have been as-as-sinated. The stories in circulation as to the manner of his death are con--1 flicting.

' EX-CONC RESSMAN E. N. MORRELL Republican candidate for Governor of Kansas, is out with a letter in which 1 e declares that he is in favor of the free coinage of the silver product of , the United States at 18 to 1. I The Nebraska Republican Convention, held at Omaha, Wednesday, nom- | inated the following ticket: For Governor, Tho i as J. Majors; Lieutenant i Governor, R. E. Moore; Secretary of j State, J. A. Piper; Auditor, Eugene I Moore: State Treasurer, Joseph S. ; Bartley; Superintendent of Public Instruction, H. R. Corbett; Attorney ; General, A. S. Churchill; Commis--1 sioner of Lands and Buildings, H. C. Russell. FOREIGN, The attempt of thej Chinese government to float a loan of 1.000,000 t(iels t to । be guaranteel by Chinese merchants, , has proved a flat failure. It is reported that England demands an indemnity of SIOO,OOO in the case of the schooner May R. that was loot d by Killian pirates near Mel ilia. I General Eseta, of Salvador, and i his fellow-refugees were arrested by United States marshals on board the i United States ship Bennington, and > taken to San Francisco. A dispatch to the London Times

e I from Tehgran r ^- ■Btaapoptof n ° n a £ ains * the Persian silver corn into th a z Caucasus and Central Asia. ” ° ° ' + n^?°T E3SOR KOCH has discovered i tnat a lymph cal e.l antitoxino is a sure ) cure fcr diptheri •. Dr. H. M. Biggs r the New York bacteriologist, who ini vestigated the subject ht Berlin, an- ) nouounces that 1h j lymph will cure the > disease in three hours after injection. Advices from Shanghai via London _ state that the Japanese were defeated , by the Chine-e in two engagements at > A ang, and driven back eleven miles, with a loss of over a thousand . The Chinese now hold Chung Ho, and and their fleet is in full possession of । the Gulf of Pc Chi Li. A dispatch from Berlin says that Jso.atcd cases of cholera continue to be 1 reported from diffe-ent parts of East Prussia, especially Landsberg, but the only place where the disease has assumed an epidemic form is in the yil age of Niedzwedzen, where there have been a total of sixty-seven cases and twenty-one deaths. A schooner haj arrived at Colon with seventy refugees from Bluefields Mosquito Territory. They say that Nicaraguans have imprisoned eiijht American citizens and several British subjects, including the British Vice 1 conml. The country is described as - being depopulated and all business is said to have leen stopped. A dispatch to the London Times from Shanghai says that the court of inquiry has established the fact that commander of the Japanese warship Naniwa ordered the destruction of the drowning men from the Chinese tiansport Kow Shing, which was sunk ts Ja P anc 'e- I'he dispatch savs that \ ice Admiral the Hon. Sir E. K r remantle, in command of the British China station, is collecting detailed evidence on this subject. A dispatch to a London news agency states that the King of Corea'has declared himself independent of the Chinese government and has appealed to Japan for assist nice to expel the Chinese from the country. A Tokio eAnrf 3 nf O s ldent that the court of inquiry investigating the circuu stances of the sinking of"the Chinese transp rt Kow Shung bv the Jana: ese warship Naniwa, has rendered a decision holding that the action of the Japanese commander in firing upon the transport was justified and that, therefore, the Japanese government will not be called upon t > make any com; enm- ■ tion for the destruction of the vessel. IN GENERAL i In a yacht race at St. John. N. 8., two boats capsized, and ei^ht men were drowned. Among the number , was Samuel Hutton, forme-ly a noted I oarsman, and a member of tlie fam ms Paris crew. Did Labor Commission?r Carroll D. M right go ought to ( hieagoon a Pullman pass to investigate the Pullman strike? Commissioner Wright, aeording to his own .statement, carries a pass and uses it when he pleases, but he says he didn’t use it in going to I Chicago. Yes. United States Labor Commissioner Carroll D. Wright ! Chairman of t' o special labor commission appointed by Preside t Cleveland t • snv.- mo ro-

forward to question witnesses as to the I condition of affai s in the "model town ” His feelings can only be surmise 1 when the eviden- e G damaging to Pullman, Uis frien 1 an i patron, to whom he is under obligations for many a ride in the palatial sleeping-cars. : Commissioner Wriuht’s piss is an “annual.” It. entitles him to ride free in any Pullman car at any time in any part of the United States. He is not required to put up $2 for a night's re t in a Pullman bunk, as less a. ored individua's without a “pull” must do. The clubs of the National and Western Leagues stands as follows in the championship race: NATIONAL LEAGUE. Per Per W. L. cent? W. L. cent. Boston <8 35 .cco Pittsburg..fl 61 .SOO Baltimore..Cl 36 .610|CUcafiOS.. 47 66 .466 New Yorks. 66 38 .635|Oinolnnati .44 67 .436 PhlFdelpTaSß 42 .571|St. Louis .42 62 .4"4 Clevelands.s4 46 .640iWashinut’n8l 69 .330 Brooklyns..s3 48 .525|Loul8vllle .32 71 .311 WESTERN LEAGUE. Per. Per W. L. cent. W. L. cent. Sioux City.s9 42 .58i Indi’n’p'lls.49 52 .485 Kansas C’y.fO 4'3 ,57S.Grd Bapidsll 54 .465 Minne’p'lls 55 43 ..’CI Detroit 45 56 .418 Toledo 52 44 .512.Milwaukee.32 64 .133 MARKET RE POETS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3 60 @ 5 75 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4 oo W 6 00 Sheep—Fair to Choice 2 00 3 75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 63 @ 54 Corn—No. 2 53)£@ 51)6 Oats—No. 2 30 @ 31 Rye-No. 2 IButteb—Choice Creamery.... 23 @ 23 l 6 Eggs—Fresh It @ 15 Potatoes, New. per bu 70 @ so INDIANAPOLIS. C<TTLE—Shipping 200 @ 4 7.1 . < nvice Light 4 00 i<£ 6 00 SHEEP—Common to Prime 2on <3 8 26

Wheat—No. 2 lied 49 & 49J4 W>RN—No. 2 White 55 & 56 Bats—No. 2 Wh.te 32'^0 33)4 I f ST. LOUIS. Cattle 300 @5 oo | Hogs 300 &6 oo i Wheat—No. 2 Red 50 & 61 Corn—No. 2 63 @ 53'4 ! Oats—No. 2 30 & 31 Rye—No. 2 52 © 66 CINCINNATI. Cattle 250 @ 4 75 Hogs 4 oo (st 600 Sheep 2 oo @ 3 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red sO’4@ 51’4 1 Corn—No. 2 Mixed 57b>@ 58>4 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 31 at 32 Rye—No. 2 44 @ 46 DETROIT. Cattle 2 50 @ 4 50 Hogs 4 00 @ 5 75 Wheat—No. 1 White 56 at 57 Cobh—No. 2 Yellow 64 at 55 Oats—No. 2 White 32J4@ 330, TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 53 @ 54 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 58 @ 6«>4 Oats—No. 2 White 32 at 33 Rye—No. 2 47 @ 48 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 White co @ 60'4 No. 2 Red M^Ot 67'4 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 60 @ 60'4 ■ Oats—No. 2 White 35 & 36 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 54 at 55 I Corn—No. 3 55 at ’-6 I Oais—No. 2 White I'4'4<3 3514 Barley—No. 2 63 at 54 Rye—No. 1 50 & 62 Pork—Mess 13 eo @l4 25 NEW YORK. Cattle 3 00 @ 5 co Hogs 3 75 @ 6 25 Sheep 200 @350 ; Wheat—No. 2 Red 69 & 60 : Corn—No. 2 60 @ 61 Oats—Mixed Western 34 at 36 Butter—Creamery 24 @ 25 I Eggs—State 16 @ 18 1

" claim a big rebateT COLOMBIA GETS THE TURKEY' AND NO BUZZARD. Stern Chase After Murderers and Robbers -One Thousand People Killed by a Storm in Russia—Prominent Railroad Man Gone I —Movement of Militia. Claim of the Colombian Republic. A secret has leaked out from diplo- ; matic circles to the effect that our j Government has become sadly entangled with one of the Central America i republics as a result of the reci- । pr. city treaties, and will have a bill to , P. a X which the Bering Sea claims will appear trivial in amount. ■ Ihe country in question is the United | States of Colombia, one of the Central ! American republics which steadily refused all efforts of the State | Department to induce it to tecome a party to one of these । reciprocity treaties. Moreover, when her sister republics and Spain '(as to i ^Aiba and Porto Rico) began to ship . their products duty free to the United ; feta es under the terms of their new I treaties, Colombia claimed the same I exemption for her staples, hides, co - । fees, sugars and moiasses. The State i Doj artment rejected this claim, as it was obliged to do, else the whole fabric of treaties would have fa Ten. Colombia persisted in her claim, and pointed to the treaty of 1840, which । declares that the Colombians shall not , be assessed any duties upon their products imported into the United States higher than on like articles imported j from any other foreign country. * Thev । ^ a Y e never abated this contention; and at last the United States has I been obliged to admit the strength and i I ®® rre etness of the Colombian position. I । Ibis being done, it follows that the i Government must refund to importers the amount they have paid in duties on Colombian products which should have been free, or admitted at lower rates. Just what the total will amount to no one can tell at present, but steps are being taken to ascertain this , from statistics. Gunning; for Fiends. Two COOLLY desperate train robbeis, Henry F. Gordon, alias Griswold, and Widiain Lake, both of Chicago, shot and instantly killed Special Officer Patrick H. Owens, of the ( hica^o, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, IYiday night as he was going to the assistance of Freight Conductor N. Aj Sargeant, who was being held up ar/r robbed in the caboose by the desperadoes. Early Saturday morning, while fleeing from the icene of their first murder, the robbers shot and probably mortally wounded Officer Patrick Me- ' Grath of the Northwestern, who was about to attempt their arrest. The scene of the robbery and the fir. t shooting 1 was at the little station of Deerfield,on the St. Paul Railroad, three and a half miles west of Highland Park. The shooting of McGrath was. at Mayfair, on the Chicago and Northwestern Rail- j road. After the second shooting the I murderers fled west, and their pursuit ! and running gun fight with the police, : their final capture after both were i wounded were m keeping- with the des- ' perate luethodH that t1,.. ..,.1.1 I

Dea’h in Its Path. A cyclone swept across the Sea or I । Azov Saturday. It is almost certain at I least 1.9 0 persons perished, some by | drowning, others by being crushed un- I dor falling trees and houses. Excitement i is great among the American colony in i St. I ’etersburg, for it is feared at least i two parties of American tourists were | in the Sea of Azov at the time ; the wind did its deadly work. It I , is said the leader of one of these j parties had proposed a trip a short dis- 1 tance north from Temrink into the land : of the Black Cossacks. Il his i arty i branched off in that way, it ungues- | , tionably perished, for the hurricane I ravaged almost the entire east shore ' of the Sea of Azov. John Nswell Dea<’. John Newell, of Chicago, Presi- : dent and General Manager o the Lake i Shore and Michigan Southern Railway i i Company, died of apoplexy at the Tod ■ House in Youngstown, Chio, Sunday i ifternoon. NEWS NUGGETS. I Dr. L. H. Neurlin, of Vincennes i Ind., has been elected President of the j Baker Institute, Baldwin, Kas. The Brazilian Minister of Finance i has cable! Lond m that Brazil does not intend to float an internal loan. A NEW geyser broke forth in the i Black Sand Basin at Yellowstone Park. । Lorenzo E. Anderson, of St. Louis, was ; badly burned by tbe column of hot । water which rose to a h ight of 150 feet. j ■ Governor Matthews denies the

story that he mortgaged his farm to raise $41,003 to pay the Indiana militia for services during the strike. The money was advanced by Indianapolis banks on the Governor's pars mal notes. ‘ South Dakota Republican ticket: For governor. C. H. Sheldcn; lieutenant govern r, C. N. Herried: secretary of state, Thomai Thorson: auditor. J. E. Hip le; treasurer, Kirk G. Phillips, and attorney general, Coe I. Crawford. The Craft Refrigerating Machine Company, of New Haven, Conn., has tiled a voluntary assignment. Liabilities, €30,000. 1 Jacob F. Filler, of Harrison Co: n- ; tv, Ind., sued John L. Buckles, Sheriff of Knox County, for $5,0J0 damages fcr false arrest. Miss Read and Miss Belle Cham ers | of Baton Rouge, and Miss Eleonore ' Garland of Minden, all young society । ladies, were carried beyond their depth ; by the current in the Ami e River near Baton Rouge and drowned. Millers of Kan as have organized the United Equipment Company, to i operate and lease railroad cars, en- ’ gines and other appliances. The warships Philadelphia and । Bennington have arrived at Ma e , Island. Tho vessels will be docked i and cleaned after their long service.

DEBS ON THE STAND. I I The A. K, U. Chief Tells of the PnIW?W , Strike and What Led to It. Jr® ’ 1 nS C 8 Debs ’ of Amerßß I Lm ° n ’ in hH testimony 1 ^ he commission, now in ses^H | n Chicago, told of having word that a strike in Pullman wan minent and of his coming .to investigate. “1 f ound » he P^ltrnl 116 Y 1 ® 11 Wero working for t®3 I ullman Company at wa^es which they could not live. I found tMW salaries had been cut time and a^ai^H tr kd ed mecha nics were vvorS aXnt not buß town Ts it;', 0 ""” 0 ", '“torer; that tn® town of I ullman with its shoos it® Hmt G mt nd ltS ttOrGS ’ Was 60 Schemr-'jW tliat every penny the workingmeSl mn d J> a sou e d lts way I)ack into the^com-1 panv s coffers. In fact. I found the! I wora in&inen of Pullman in a pitiables dArfi tl h n \w The Btriko fol iowed, or-j derel b, the men themselves. Then! the boycott, ordered by duly! qnA d olegates to our convention, I and then followed the railroad strikes, I ordered by the various local unions, J own”° wb ich had g.ievar.ces of its | “Would the railroad strike have occurred had there been no Pullman uxr asked Commissioner Wright No; the Pullman strike was °the pi ime cause. W e desired to stop PnlL _ man scars and shut off his income thus forcing him to arbitrate B-t the railroad men had grievances of their own. The General Managers’ Association had been organised with the avowed intention of giving aq . sistance to railroads in labor troubles I he evident aim was to drive organi ed labor from existence. No sooner had this a sociation been formed than a systematic reduction of rai road wa^es all over the country began. The cuts were made cn one road at a time and in one department at a time, but the । systematic regu arity with which th*v I appeared was sufficiently significant. The men were ready to strike and felt they had cause. But the troub’e would not have come when it did had it not been for the Pullman ma’ter. ” Mr. Debs then said that within five days after the strike was declare 1 the union had the railroads beaten. “Thev were paralyzed, ” he said, “but just at that time injunctions were sown broadcast and shortly afterward the officials of the American Kail way Union v*oro arrested ior contempt of c urt. That beat us. It wasn t the railroads or the army, but the power of the United States courts that beat us.” In reply to a question Mr. Debs said that the urion had taken every possible mean; to prevent rioting and disorder. “We objected to the presence of the Federal troops, but not to the State troops and police. ’’ RAIN ^aids the crops. Prospects for Corn Are Brighter—Yield of Small Grain Is Good. Reports for the week as to the condition of crops throughout the country and the general influence of th© weather on growth, cultivation and harvest have been made by the directors of the different State weather services to tbe United Stater weather bureau. The repo.ts received by telegraph at Chicago are as follows: Illinois — Temperature and sunshine above normal. Except in central portion nnl ? count ies in northern portion, rainfall below normal and bad!/ distrlh=

plowing progressins siowiy, Wisconsin—Weather conditions are unchanged; hot days with cool nights; no rain except occasional showers; forest and marsh fires continue with increased severity. Corn on low ground will make half a crop. Thrashers report large yield of small grain. lowa —Drought effectually broken In larger part of state, helping all immature crops and putting ground in condition for plowing. South Dakota—Generally copious showers, but too late to benefit crops in eastern portion except late corn, flax, and potatoes in scattered localities. Black Hills crops out of danger. Thrashing progressing slowly; all yields light. Pastures greatly improved. Kansas —Hot week, with but little rain in western halt and central part of eastern half of State; elsewhere good showers have benefited pastures and late corn. I Plowing retarded by dry weather. Corn- | cutting general Stock water becoming very scarce. i Nebraska—Corn cutting for fodder continues general. Pastures improved somewhat, and a few field; of late corn helped Iby showers. A little fall plowing, but ground generally too dry. Ohio—Considerable corn being cut for feed, but generous showers have much improved late corn and potatoes in southern 1 section. Some showers in north parr, but I not enough to relieve drought. Tobacco : has generally an improved appearance, but will be a light yield. Sme Is being ' cut. But little plo’ing has been done. Missouri—But little chance In weather or crops, though showers improved late corn and pastures in some localities. Apples and grapes injured considerably by drought. Plowing for fall wheat retarded. Michigan—Temperature and rainfall below normal, sunshine normal Mith exception of scattered shovers in western counties of northern and central sections the drought remains unabated. In many places corn and potatoes are past help. Buckwheat beans standing drought fairly^ w ell.

Telegraphic Clicks. A gang of incendiaries is at work in Florence. S. C. , A boom has been started in New I York for Henry George for Mayor. Joseph Balls, colored, died at Emporia. Kas., at the age of 114 years. The river and harbor bill has become a law without the President 3 signatuie. Cor. John Arkins, manager of the Rocky Mountain News, died at Denver. A bold thief got S2O) in gold j wat:hes from Scheiber's store at Hunt- ■ ington, Ind. Specimens of the Russian thistle have been found in the northern pori tion of Illinois. R obeRT Mason shot and killed I Hugh McCullom at Crookston, Minn., in a quarrel. Lime thrown into the river at Kala- , mazoo. Mich., killed two tons of bass | and pickerel. Miss L t bbie Brown committed suicide at Norwalk, 0., by taking poison be au-e her lover took another girl to a picnic. The commercial treaty between Spain and the Argentine Republic, 1 egotiations for which have been in progress for some time, has been conclude I.