St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 11, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 29 September 1894 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, . - - INDIANA. FIGHT TO A FINISH. JAPAN REFUSES OFFERS TO COMPROMISE. Young; Farmer Attempts sx Daylight Hank Robbery—*4o,ooo,ooo in Ore in Sight— Topeka Women Will Wear Trousers— Shirt Makers Strike. Mikado Won’t Concede a Thing. A Tokio, Japan, dispatch, via Fan Francisco, says: China is willing' to agree to a compromise, according to well authenticated rumors, but Japan insists on war. A great fleet of transports, carrying 40,vC0 troops, is to sail from Japan.lts destination is a carefully guarded secret, but there is a rumor an attempt will be made to march direct to Pekin from some convenient point on the Chinese coast. The Emperor has started for Hiroshima, in the inland sea, the new war headquarters. All news relating to movements of the army or tho navy is rigidly suppressed here. but troops ore marchiug night / and day to tho various rendezvous and a military railway system connecting tho principal arsenals and forts is be-

- ing built hurriedly. Jesse J imo» Up to Date. 1 William Konkling, a beardless i farmer boy of 20, attempted single- i handed to rob tho bank of Bloomfield, 1 Skiles& Co., in Mount Sterling. 111., at ' 10 o’clock Monday morning. He had a black mask aid a double- > barreled shotgun which he was ' not afraid to use. After scaring ; ' the cashier nearly to death he got a । package of bills and attempted to escape. Ho did not escape, but he had a great run, a chance to shoot at peo- ! pie and be shot at, and he was finally ; hit under t e fifth rib by a b ick and , disabled, and then captured by a man j with a lig revolver. Nearly all the people of the town joined in the ch se, and formed a triumphal procession which he led lack to* the County Jail. He is now meditating on the vicissitudes of crime. The lone robber, with his head full of yellowcovered blood and thunder literature, went at it in the Western bandit style, with all the nerve and dash of the heroes of whom he had read in dime novels. Young Konkling, the robber, lived with his parents on a farm, a . mile and a half northeast of Mount : Sterling. BREVITIES. The Bev. Father Thomas E. Fitz- | gerald, S. J., of St. Ignatius College, I Chicago, has been appointed provincial of the Missouri Province of the I Society of Jesus. General Master Workman James R. Sovereign, at a meeting of Dis- i trict Assembly No. 49, K. of L., held I at New York, boldly declared himself to be a radical S cialist. T. V. Powderly, ex-labor leader, was formally admitted to the bar of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. \ He has about determined to oj>en a law office in New York City. Mrs. Ebenezer M. Byers, wife of ’ —millionaire iron and steel manufacturer, has petitioned the Pittsburg courts for the appointment of a commission to inquire into his sanity. The grain elevator of E. S. Tuttle, I of Norwalk, Ohio, was totally destroyed by fire. The building was valued at $3,000, with insurance of $1,500. Tut- : tie’s loss on contents is $7,500, insured i

lor $5,000. The tire id supposed to > have started from spontaneous combustion. The Hebrew-speaking shirtmakers of New York, 3,0(0 strong, went on strike Saturday and 200 shops were de- I serted save by the employers. The demand is for an increase of wages to a former scale, which is exactly double the rate at which shirtmakers are now paid. The schooner Colonel Cook, which, thirty-four years ago, ran down and sank the excursion steamer Lady Elgin on Lake Michigan, by which nearly 300 lives were lost, was abandoned on Lake Erie in a sinking condition. For a number of years she has been engaged in carrying stone. William E. French, Charles E. Scoville, Samuel G. Evans and He rman Engle, all business men of Evansville, Ind., have sailed for London to testify against Col. Jaquess, who is estimated to have fraudulently secured in the neighborhood of $300,000 from American claimants of the mythical Townley estate in England One hundred suffragi t women of Topeka have entered into a written agreement to wear a costume consisting of Turki-h trousers covered by a skirt reaching to the fold, a clo e or loose waist, as the wearer may prefer, and cloth leggins to match the trousers. It is the intention of the Topeka women to organize into relief squads so a number of them may be on the streets all day, and thus the community will become familiar with the reform. J. H. Pender, who has just finished an examination of the La Plata g >ld j district near Duarango, Cal., for an Eastern syndicate, says the Baker contact, which is about to be worked on a large scalo, i- a body' of gold-bearing ore 700 feet thick and 2,000 feet long, with every indication of extending downward to a great depth. Mr. Pender says at a low estimate there in sight seven million or eight million tons of ore that will average at least $5 a ten Police Officer Peter Dillon, of the Alleghany, Pa . force, caught hold of an electric light wire and was killed. Fire Sunday night destroyed len stores on the west side of Main street, Tomah, Wis. Loss, $50,000: partially insured. A sensation has been cawed in Rome by the discovery that two officia’s of the Ministry of War recently offered to sell to a foreign power plans of the documents referring to the mobilization of the Italian forces.

EASTERN. Normal College girls at Now York are up in arms against Trustee Git ard, who charges that by the rules of tho college they are required to study 1 “filthy and debauching literature. | This they deny. I Justice Lawrence has appointed Charles A. Peabody guardian of the children of William Waldorf Astor, in the action brought by tho executors of the will of William Astor for a Unai distribution of the estate. By a compromise, in which the mon yielded their opposition to tho mint- ; mum scale of wages and the contt ac • ors conceded tho demands ns to other ; points, the strike of cloakmakers at Newark, N. J., has been settled. j MRS. W. K. Vanderbilt lias ordered the famous marble palace at Newport put in order for occupancy. This is believed to bo for the purpose of establishing the statutory residence . necessary to divorce proceedings. Acting upon the instructions of the Clothing Trade< Council, No. 2, the garment-makers of Boston to the number of 2,000 struck work. It is expected that there will not be a clothing contractor able to continue business and that 3,510 operatives will 1 e idol. This action is the result of the lefusal of a number of contractors to concede to the demands of tho union for the abol- > ishment of the “.umping” and "sweat- ! in^r ” m-* ard tho in t» oil net ion of 4. f weekly system 'J'lio operatives j are also desirous of estab ishinga working day of nine hours with fixed I wages.

»» VO. ON Wall street Tuesday whisky trust certificates sold at 9 cents per share, the lowest price on record. The resignation of Nelson Morris as a director was regarded as an interesting I incident, but opinions differed as to what it indicated. He has been re- I garded as the chief spirit in the manipukition of the certificate *on the Stock Exchange. A banker said. Mr. Morris' resignation will be a benefit to the company. He holds a few hundred thousand of tho million dollars in bonds issued by the company. The interest on these bonds is not duo until Decern- ; bor. The company now has $289,( 0I : in bank in Peoria, so that the payment > of this interest is practically assured.” i There was some disposition in other circles, however, to look on his resignation as indicative of coming disaster. Mr. Morris was on Wall street, but could not be seen. It is said he in- ; tends to sail for Europe. President ! Greenhut of the Distilling and Cattle i Feeding Company received at Peoria ’ the resignation of Nelson Morris of Chicago, who has been a member of the Hoard of Directors ever since the formation of the company. Mr. Green- ■ hut did not discuss tho resignation, and stated that Mr. Morris assigned no I reason for his action. At headquar- ! ters all knowledge of the ca.se of the heavy decline in the stock of tho company was denied. WESTERN. Twenty-five children in the district school at Hazleton, lowa, were poisoned by eating colored candy. Daniel Woodson, first Secretary of I the Territory of Kansas ami acting Governor of the Territo;. in H57-S, is lying critically ill at Coffey.llie. Estimates on the vintage from this . year's California graj>e crop are from fifteen to eighteen million gallons of wine. This is below the average. Women at Columbus, Ind., voluni teered to pay a saloonkeeper the value of his stock^and on these terms ho I closed his saloon and went out of bu-i---ness. At Nevada,Mo.,William Mossbnrgor. aged 90 years, an Adventist minister, while shingling a house, slipped and > fell fifteen feet, injuring himself in- ’ tornally. so that he will die.

I Ada .lones, a young society woman , of Seymour, Ind., after a short inter- > view with her lover, in which their ' marriage was declared * ff, procured a 1 revolver and shot herself dea l. Because Patrick Mcßride would not take back a balky h< rse which: he had j imposed upon William George in a trade the latter shot Mcßride fatally, both men are farmers near St. Joseph. Mo. While trying to board a moving train at Bucyrus, Ohio. John Powna 1. a one-armed man. ca ght his ho >k on i the handrail, but missed hi- hoting. and was dragged LIMO feet. lie will die. Fraudulent bonds purporting to I have been issued by the School Dis- ! trict Commissioners in Vernon County, : Mi s. uri, have made their appear-, I ance in several bond markets o. the I country. i The war between the sheep and cat- ■ tie men in Garfield County. Colorado, has been ended by the sheep men ship- | ping all their stock to Eastern markets, leaving the country free to the ! cattle men. All records for long-distance heliograph signaling have been broken by the United States Army Signal Corps, i a message having been sent by sun flashes from Mount Uncompahgre, j Colo., to Mount Ellen, Utah, a distance of LG miles, by Captain Glassford, j 1 chief signal officer, United States . I Army, 1 epartment oi Co’orado, and 1 1 hi- assistant-. The best former record i was 105 miles. Mirrors eight inches square were used in transmitting the message, which was read by the sigi nal corps on Mount Ellen, in Utah: i then Hashed by heliograph 90 miles to ■ ; Thompson's, Utah, and from there sent ' by telegraph to Washington. Murry Nelson, President Chicago National Elevator and Dock Company i > and one of the oldest and best known , ■ members of the Board of Trade, was ! suspended for an indefinite period by ; t the Board of Directors at their > regular weekly meeting on Tues- , day afternoon. J. B. Wayman, Secretary and Treasurer of the ' ' company, was also sus] ended for thirty s days. The action of the board in : suspending such a prominent member, j ; and for an indefinite time, created great surprise in Board o' Ti ade eir- ■ cles. The specific charge against Mr. ■ I Nelson was “an act of bad faith and I dishonorable conduct” in failing to ren , duce elevator storage rates after ho - i had executed a written agreement to V ’ do s - s I A Peoria, 111., dispatch is authority >- , for the statement ihat it is the belief • of those who know something of the

inside workings of tho . a 1 I that a crisis is rapid!? S lsky and that some of P it/ o S | p P reßuh not care much if u 9rs *i^ OU “ into tho hands o J? This belief Is heightens m presence there of tlm offie/, i American Distributing c ® of 1 New York, who have comL'i npa *7’ ° f investigation of the safety ^“heS bate vouchers. Thev hmdv consultation with Haru Wooln beO v new distillery, the l?r£w f ’ wl \T world, will be ready for o^.< in m >ntb, and which alone oan supply uJI the demand in tho present condltion of the trade. It is possible, the n snatch ! sa s, that a deal mu/ bo m-dewi h him and the tru t left out. U AN Emmetsburg, lowa, dispatch 1 says: A terrific cyclone passed over this section Eriday evening. Many ruined houses and several deaths tell its sad results. Tho Foley R OII n : u demolished. A daughter 1 8 dead I and father, mother, and son are 1 frightfully wounded. Mrs. Alox. Golden I is dead, and Mr. Golden is not expected | to live. In the little town of Cylinder, six mile ’ east, there are two or three hon es blown down and several persons : injured seriously. Several others are I missing and many are supposed to be i killed or wounded. in Great Oak Township, five miles southwest, the storm was severe. Many buildiW* blown di^vn. From the l hi ^*»f^s?arned Western^, ailway on cials it iajT iav . that tho storm struck O rtv ’ ; Town doing great daimig*' to pfWt 01 tj , mid a.s doctors wore < alied there from Riceville it is thought many people have been injured. The litt o vil- ; lago of Lowther, Minn., is re- ’

ported wipe 1 out, not abu Iding being । left standing. At Ho Moine; the dam- ' age done by rain and hail was great. Nearly three inches of water fell. The flood - mine 1 thou-and ■ of dollars' ' worihof carpet and furniture in the Do Moine • club rooms. The caviug-in ! of the roof pushed out the walls h> that they are a'so ruined. The c’ubbouse c j t $30,00). SOUTHERN. Four ex-postmasters of Jefferson County. Alabama, have been indicted by tho Cnikul States Court for embez- ' j zling postoffice funds. THE dwelling of Marshall Corey, near Owensville, Ky,, was struck by lightning, and Corey, his wife and 18- | year-old daughter were killed. । Early in October a steam-hip load i of negroes from New Orleans, Birmingham, Mobile, and other । olnts in the South will migrate to Liberia. Indictments for violations of the anti-trust law have b en returned to the grand jury at Waco, Texas, against representatives of various cotton-seed . and oil mills. Tuomas Moses, who lives in McDowell County, W. Va., was shot by Gus Nida, a ne'ghbor, and instantly killed. Nida then wont homo and shot his wife. Sho cannot recover. Jealousy was tho cause. Desha Breckinridge, son of tho defeated Kentucky Congressman, at- I bmipted Friday, at Ixsxington, to ' । pick a quarrel with Judge Kinkea l, who did so much to def at Col. Bre k- | inridge. Yountr Breck nridge stabbed ' th * Judco, aiming at his heart, but! the Juuge grasped the weapon, suffering only a tearful cut uu his iX»ht hand. 1 > ! Col Breckinridge issued a state- ! I ment at 1 oxingt m regarding tho situ- , I ation in the Ashland district. His position is that there Is no doubt as to ! his nomination, but ho agrees to abide by the decision of the district eommit- ■ toe in whoso hands the mutter rests. > i The document is particularly severe on cTtain clergymen and “purists,” as he calls them. POLITICAL

Republicans of the Third Minno- । sota District have nominated Editor ■ ‘ Joel I'. Hoatwo’e for Congress. Bl< Yi i.es were u-ed with great suc- • ces- in Louisville Tuesday to bring in returns of th • primary elections. Reports from country precincts were brought in by p.ckid riders in last । time. S<>uth Carolina Democrats have j nominate i John Gray Evans for* Governor, W IL Timmermann for Lieutenant Governor. W. T. C. Bates for Treasurer, *». W. Euchanan for Attornov tenoral. ai d 1> H. Thompkins for Secretary of State. i C nxi? Tici T Republicans nominated the following ticket Wednesday at Hartford: Governor, O. V. Collin: ' Lieutenant Governor, L. A. Co ike; i Secretary of State, W. A. Mowray; ; Treasurer. George W. Hodge; Contr 4- • ler, Ben.amin P Mead. New York Republican-, in State ' convention at Saratoga Tuesday, j ■ named the following ticket: : Governor Levi P. Alorton I Lieutenant Governor Charles 1.. Saxton I Judge Court of Appeals Vibert Haight j Congression ai. nominations: Fourth Ii wa Di trict S. A. Alle ■, Democrat; Fourth Nebraska, s. s. Alley, Democrat: Eighth Pennsylvania, W. S. । Kirkpatri k, Republican: Twenty-first ' Pennsylvania. W. M. Fairman, Democrat; Twenty-seventh Few York, Charles H. Perkins, Prohibitionist. ; The simultaneous appearance im 80-ton and No.^Y* rk newspapers of an article ingeniously urging the availability of sknator Hill a; a candid ito for tho Presidency is accepted by i the political managers"of both parties in Washington as a clever move on j the part oi the Senator to sound Demoi cratic sentiment on the chances of his ; success. The Ohio Democratic State Convention at Columbus, Wednesday, nominated the following ticket: ! Secretary of State...? Milton Turner Supreme Judge James D. Ermieton I Member Board Public Works H. B. Keffer i School Commissioner Dr. J. A. Ijeach The convention declared for the free coinage of silver at the Hi t > 1 ratio, ; indorsed the Cleveland administration, , adopted a. plank favoring the nomination of United States Senators bv the । State conventions, and developed a strong opposition to Senator Brice. FOREIGN. । Shanghai advices say an imperial ; edict has been issued depriving Vice- ; roy Li Hung Chang of his three-e^ed i peacock feather because of his mismanagement of the Corean campaign.

Taotat Sheng It is reported, L Intriguing against Ll Hung Chang throulS the Emperors favorite teacher enforcements for the Chinese troops t i the num Wo 60,000 are said to be be tween Ping Yang and Yalu, I Dispatches received from Shanghai state that the total number of the ( hlnese fleet engaged In the battle 1 fought off tho mouth of tho Yalu Hivewas twelve warships and four tornedS oats. Ihe Japanese 11 es it Is needed was composed of seventeen ship? ‘S of which wore small war vessel. The Chinese claim to have sunk the Jan aneso warships Abushimaand Yoskina and a Japanese transput which hud been converted into a cruiser d 1 S'gL 1 ?” 1‘ 1» ■■■■ported atransport Toonan was sunk i landed her troops; but I this is thought to bo probably incor,Au Oit ;Cial dispatch received in j lokio from the headquarters of the | -apanese fleet says that the Utter mot i elevon ( hme>o warships and six torpedo bats thirty-five miles north- ■ thX 1 ° f u * ) ung Tao with the result that four of the Chinese ships wore sunk and ono j burned. The dispatch adds that the I Japanese fleet sustained no damage. Tho particulars received in regard to the battle of I'iug Yang show that tl»c Uupuucse lohh In only about eleven ofth-erSiWounded and UGO soldiers killed. TFl’ o Japanese army is marching on Wi.u. Neither the Chinese nor Japanese I egution at Washington has receivod any advices as to the great naval engagement off Yalu. The Chinese Minister decline* to disI cuss the recent battles or any phase of the war. In rosvo se to an iniuiry he

rent word that no advices had been received and that he was very busy. Field Marshal Count Yamagata, commanding the forces in Corea, is marching with 15,0 0 troops on Moukden from the southeast. The trea-ure capture at Fing Yang amounted to $3,0J0,00 J. IN GENERAL The Continental Match Company, an opposition to the trust, has been organized with Edwin F. Gould as President. W. C. Coup, the circus man, wishes it under-tood that he is in no way connected with the W. C. Coup uuder’arrest at Shelbyville, Ind., charged with v ounterfeitu g. The Oregon hop crop, which is now being picked, is estimated at 30,000 bales, which is over 10,00 > bales less than tho crop of last year. Home yards will not be picked oil account of the low price of hi pi. Jesi.pii Mi RKAY,Fish Commissioner for Alaska, who has just returned from a trip to that country with Assistant Sec otary Hamilton of tho Treasury Department, says thut unless some steps are taken there will shortly bo no furbearing animals in Alaska or seal in contiguous sea. The adventurers who flo k m there are rapidly exterminating the animals. The clubs of the National and Western Leagues stand as follows in the championship race: * NATIOMar I.UUVE. V r rrj W. L. c«nt. W. L. cvnt. Baltimore st .e* Pittsburg, el M .ea New York S 3 .659J'hlcwv . M 74 .4.C Boston HO 46 68 H'indunatl 41 72 .415 Pbirjsip’UTo Bl Louie 41 7s UH Brooklyn C# 4? .M 4 Washinct n 49 83 .«ba i Cleveland 64 t>« .B2v|l^>ulsvtlla..&s sy .382 WKHTRRSi LSAfIUI. I’sr Per W. T. c«i,t W. L. rent 1 Sioux City 73 5 .txi Gr'd H’yldaHl fl .<«va Kaness C y.SJ 16 -M2 Tndl’n'p'llx.'J f t .4'2 : Toledo St »» lletrolt . 6 ev4 .444 Minue'p'lin S 3 61 .In Milwaukee JO 73 .407 The Now York World has published a detailed statement from hundreds of Western towns, -bowing a heavy shortage in the corn crop. The World says: l‘be btirgeet crop raised bv n single country is Indian con. and tbo I nited States is the ! country that rni’- « ft. In a ktoo i vear the Il nito-1 States produ< es 2, bushels ol this etai !<■ and h« s produced more. A» the nv»race market prlco. this (pisntlty Is wort! w.aO. or about ten times as much as the gold production of the whole world for c yt ar. Tho reports corer tho Stat s of Ohio, i Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, \\ i-< < nsin, Minn- sota. lowa, Missouri, Kan as, Nebraska, and South Dakota. The Government r<qx rt make- ths vie Id this year 1,10 »,0 kijhk* bushels, but most al! of th • corn authorities say this is too low. These reports indicate al out two-thirds of an average crop, or i i the neighborhood of 1,300,fjoupOj bushels. The greatest reduction has been in the States west of the Mississippi, and their loss has been heavy. Kansas, which raises more than” 150,<>00.000 bushels in a good year, j reports only 42,000,(.0J bushels. But the State- east of the Mis-issipii River, where rain is a more certain quintity. bring up the average. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle -Common to Prime.... $3 73 <<J 6 50 I Hogs— Shipping Grades 4 0) gs 6 50 1 SHEEP—Fair to Choice 2 00 @ 8 50 Wheat -No. 2 Red 52 53 COBN—No. 2 63 54 Oats— No. 2. » «o Rye— No. 2 48 40 Butteb— Choice Creamery 24 @ 25 Eggs —Fresh 15 vi 16 Potatoes— New, per bn 70 80 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle— Shipping: 300 @ 5 75 Hogs— Choice Light 4 Ml G o) Sheep —Common to Prime .... 2 o> @ 3 25 Wheat— No. 2 R«hl 48 4» Corn— No. 2 White. se @ f 6 . Oats— No. 2\\ kite 32 @ 33 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3 co 57. , Rogs B'o ^6OO ’ Wheat— No. 2 Red 52 <S> 63 Dobs-No. 2 t... 5: 56h . Uato-No. 2 82 <'4 33 Rye— No. 2 48 @ 49 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3 so @ 5 25 Hogs 4 00 6 50 Sheep 200 <3 3 75 Wheat— No. 2 Red 51 @ 52 Corn —No. 2 Mixed 58 @ 58^ Oats— No. 2 Mixed 31 oJ 32 Rye— No. 2 53 55 „ DETROIT. Cattle 2 50 @ 4 50 “OOS 4 00 6 CO BHEEP 2 00 0 3 25 Wheat-No. 1 White 55 55J0 Corn— No. 2 Yellow 66 C'J 57 Oats —No. 2 White 3J (3 34 TOLEDO. wheat— No. 2 Red 52 @ 5-s Corn— No. 2 Yellow 57 c 6 58 cats —No. 2 White 32 i<9 33 HYE—No. X... 48 0 49 w BUFFALO. WHEAT—No. 1 White 57 & 58 „ No. 2 Red to @ 57 CORN—No. 2 Yellow 58 0 59 Oats— No. 2 White 82 @ 33 MILWAUKEE. 7HE AT—No. 2 Spring 54 & C'UIN—No. 3 58V(<8 64’n mats— No. 2 White 31 it 32 —Na 2 45 (<t 53 ' «YE-No. 1 49 0 50 1 ' «K—Mess ... . . ’3 50 «14 00 NEW YORK. & a LE 309 @ 6 26 । cJu’S 860 &6 50 ; 00 (it 3 60 C O r EAT ~ No ' 2 Ke<l 5- Ml ■ C°EN—No. 2 60 65 61 ■ n^^dxed WeHteni !.. ... .. . 36 efl 40 1 Creamery 23 C? 25 LGGs--Western 16 & 19

IS NOW PURE WHITE. The executive mansion no LONGER MUD-COLORED. business Better than Last Year-Smooth Swindler Sells Uncle Sam’s Land-Bnd of the Schooner that Sunk the Lady Flgin. Improving ths White House. The Executive mansion has emerged from its cream-colmed disguise and been me a ‘'white house” in reality through tho finishing touches of the corps of painters w^o have been engaged in giving it a coat of immaculato whiteness. Heretofore the mannon has been painted with a creamy j n l lx ^ uro p'.u e I the appea ance • building somewhat in conflict with its po ular name. Nowit looks fresher, cleamr and statelier than ever before. The work of thorough renovation is progressing and w!U be completed by «k t 15, when the Presi ! dent's family is expected to return. I .. : :— .

Dentil to tanmlntc. r PiIK eutiipai^» in on in good earnest in Chicago. Within the past few days raids, instigated by the Civic I ederation, have beon made upon many of tho largest gaming houses, anil their "layouts” captured i ami burned. Sports and gamblers “out of a job" stand around their old haunts 5 and svvoa at the new order of things. On Sunday a monster mass meeting

was held in Central Music Hall and this gathering declared war against the evil. Rev. H. A. Delano, in his, s o mon, deplored the f act that tho big speculators in grain escaped unBeourged. Rev. William M. Lawrence, of the Second Baptist ( htirch, rated ba gain day patrons a< gamblers. Ti e I irst Methodist Church was crowded with enthusiasts engaged in the crusade against gambling, and many other ministers joined iu the crusiule. Sv’liny Goverum -nt L-ukl. The Interior Department has just passed on a case where a peculiar fraud is being practiced. Some time ago a resident of Tennessee wrote to the Attorney General stating that la t May he saw an advortißement in a Chicago paper offering for sale l(>0 acres of laud in Cove County, Kan. Tho real estate agent lived at I^athrop, Mo., and through him tho land was purchased by the man from Tennessee. It was then found that the government owned the land, although the Lathrop man had furnished a complete deed and abstract of title. Since then the same tract lias been advertised by the same agent. Vlcntv of Enconracrniont. R. G. Dun & CO.’S Weekly Review of Trade says: Ulen.y of lualerlul lor encouragement and also for discouragement can be found by those who seek that and nothing else. But business mon who want to soe »be situation exactly as It Is find accounts so fur conflicting that It Is difficult to strike a balance. In the aggregate, bu. <uess is about a tenth larger thau last year, but still falls about, 25 per cent, below a full volume for the season. NEWS NUGGETS. Residents of Warwick, N. Y.. have been victimized to the amount of is (O> on bogus mortgages. A Larned Kan. judge sentenced a boy convicted of petit larceny t-o six months' attendance on the city schools. Mrs. W. W. Hite, of Loußville. Ky., was robbed of diamonds value I at 81,50 । while tlm family was at supper. Thieves ttole a large amount of clothing, saddling gear, .ewelry and mowy from the Latonia stables ot (’inciuuuti. H. H. Culver, a wealthy stove marufaeturer of St. Lmis, has agreed to acce t the Republican nomination for Congress in the Twelfth District. Labor agents have invaded Alabama and uro hiring negroes for the Massillon Ohio' mining district. Trouble is feared when they reach the mines. The At hison l’r< tective Committee announces that proxies t > be used in ousting the present Board of Dilectors were coming in with inorea ed volume by every mail. The Rev. lather Croquet, of Portia d, Ore., fifty years a ) riest. h:s been made a prelate of the Papal household. This is the first ceremony I of the kind west of the Rockies. While driving near the wharf at Gvuensi o t, R. L, T. P. Grady di c.»vered a piece of gold metal 8 inches thick and 10 inches wide, weighing ■ nearly tweL e pounds. On its surface \ a number of partially melted gold coins were plainly discernible. The Brotherhood of Lee motive I Firemen adjourned at Harrisburg after selecting Galveston, Texas, as the place of the next meeting. The Committee on Beneficiary < laims, recomI mended the disbursement of $ .0,000 in ' benefits. Debs was denounced for his ■ action in trying to induce the firemen ■ to . < iii his strike. The schooner Col. Cook, stone laden, from Kelley’s Island, was abandoned in I 1 ake Eric Sunday in a s nking condi- ! tion. The Cook was a email craft, ! valued at only s^,o 0, but it had a hist ry. About thirty-four years ago on lake Michigan it ran down and sank the excursioti steamer Lady Elgin, causing the loss of nearly 3 >0 lives. Bishop Maes has suspended Hie I Catholic Young Men’s Institute of Cov- ■ ington, Ky., f. r dispensing beer at a i recent picnic. John Mikshiver, Arabian peddler. I was killed and Michael Johns wouuded at Wilkesbarre, l’a.. by two unknown ; men, who robbed them of SIBO. Major R. W. McClaughry, of Pon- ; tiac, ex-Warden of the Joliet peniteni tiary. h»s formally announced his deI termination n t to be the Republic in ■ can iidate fcr Congre-s from the Eleventh District. Frank Hurd, of Warsaw, Ind., was shot in the thigh while raiding the saloon of Lewis James, who was knocked down and badly hurt. Burglars robbed the house of Alexander Hartford, at Ingram, Pa., of j jewelry and silverware and set lire to 1 it, the owner barely escaping.

A. DETROIT BUILDER. HE TELLS a REMARKABLE STORY OF HIS LIFE. CAME TO DETROIT ABOUT FORTY YEARS AGO. i Levi Elsey’s Experience Worthy Serious । Attention. (From the Detroit Evening News,) Away out Gratiot avenue, far from the din and turmoil of the business center, there are many attractive noines. The intersecting streets are . wide, clean and shaded by large leaf- . covered trees, and the people you meet ftre typical of industry, economy and , ; honest toil. There are many pretty t lesidences, but none more inviting in s its neatness and hcme-like comfort 1 than that of Mr. Levi Elsey, the weiiknown builder and. contractor, at "4 Moran street, just otT Gratiot. Mr. j Elsey is an old. resident of Detroit, , having m ved here ai> nit forty yeara

ago. lie Yxas erected hundreds ot houses in different parte of the city, and points with pride to such buildings as the Newberry & McMullan and Campau blocks, in which he displayed his ability as Superintendent. “I have seen Detroit grow from a village to a city,” he observed yesterday, in conversation with the writer, •and I don’t think there are many

towns in America to-day equal to it in point of beauty. 1 know almost everybody in the city, and an incident which recently happened in my life has interested all my friends. “It is now about e’ght years ago since I was stricken down with my first case of illness. Gne cold, blustering day I was down town, and through my natural carelessness at that time I i permitted myself to get chilled right thr< ugh. When I arrived home that evening I felt a serious pain in my left leg. 1 bathed it that night, but by morning I found it had grown worse. In f ct. it was so serious that I sent for my family physician, and he informed me that I was suffering from varicose veins. My leg swelled up to double its natural size and the pain increased ■in volume. The agony was simply awful. I was laid up and never left my bed for eight weeks. At times I ; felt as though 1 would grow frantic with pain. My leg was bandaged and was propped up in the bed at an angle of 30 degrees, in order to keep tho blood from flowing to my extremities. “I had several doctors attending me, but I believe my own judgment helped mo better than theirs. After a siega of two months I could move around; still I was on the sick list, and had to doctor myself for years. I was never really cured, and suffered any amount of anguish. “About two years ago I noticed an article in the Evening News about my friend, Mr. Northrup the Woodward avenue merchant, in an interview with him he stated that he had used Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, and that they cured him. I knew him very well, having built his house out Woodward avenue, and I thought 1 would follow his suggestion. I must confess I did so with marvelous success. Erom the time I began to take the Pink Pills I felt myself growing to be a new man. The : acted on me like a magical stimulant. The pain departed, and I soon was as strong and healthy as over. Before trying the Pink Pills I ha I used any amount of other medicine without any noticeable benefit. But the Pills cured me, and 1 was myself again. “When a person finds himself relieved and en oying health he is apt to expose himself again to another attack of il ness. Some three months ago I stopped taking the Pink Pills, and from the day I did so, I noticed a change in my condition. A short time since I renewed my habit of taking them with the same'beneficial results which met me formerly. I am again nearly as strong as ever, although I am a man about s'i years of age. I tell you. sir, the P nk Pills are a most wonderful medicine, and if thev do as well in other cases as they did in mine they are the best in the world. I freely recommend them to any sufferer. ” Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People contain, in a condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They a 1 e an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial j paralysis, St. Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rh umatism, nervous htad- ■ ache, the after effects of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and allow ' complexions, and all forms of weakness, either in male or female. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will I e sent post- ■ ‘ paid on receipt of price 50 cents a box, [ or six boxes for $ ’.50 —they are never sold in bulk or by the 100), t?y address- . ing Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Schei n^ctady, N. Y. Street Life in Canton. The st eets of Canton are diyidea 1 into sections of a few blocks each: and ’ each section is shut off from all others 1 by heavy gates, that are closed at S o'clock in the evening. The populace is so turbulent that for many centuries i the authorities have made it a practice . to hold all the people of any section responsible for any riot or tumult in i that section. The' result is that people } have got in the habit of regulating . affairs in their section without any reference to the powers that be. The ’ i electrician of the Canton plant had oc- ‘ casion to see the effect of this in an 3 । instance where a store wanted lights, ' but the wires could not be run. because i ono man objecte.l to having a ho.e cut in his house for securing a pole. The man wanting lights informed his ; neighbors, and a delegation waited on the individual, and soon induced him 1 ; to withdraw his objection. Congregationalists. The membership of the Congregational Church is composed of 188,187 L males and 373,444 females. This is nearly two to one. l ast year the number of deaths of ministers was ninetyeight. The average age of these ninety-eight was t.B years 5 months and 23 days. When a woman has a erood servant girl herself, she is always willing to help another woman get one. But if she is looking for a gR! herself, she is extremely unreliable on the girl quesI tion.