St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 13, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 13 October 1894 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - INDIANA. DEATH IN A RAIL MILL TERRIBLE ACCIDENT IN THE ILLINOIS STEEL WORKS. Ex-Postmaster o? Wiclilta Cleared of a Charge for Which Ke Went to Prison— Awful Calamity In Nicaragua's Capita] —Gibbons on Suffrage. Blown to Eternltv. By the explosion of a steam pipe in the rail mill of the Illinois Steel works at South Chicago, three men lost their lives and four others weve terribly injured. The recovery of one of the four is impossible and of the others improbab e. The steam pipe was one of the large main feeders running through the entire plant. It passed through the rail mill in Its c urse and the ex- » plosion came at a point in the middle of this def artment.. More than fifty men ' were working near the part of the . room in which the explosion took place. It came without warning. The report was deafening and gave the employes the 1 rst intimation of danger. Many were slightly in ured an 1 were able t > run from the shop. Escaping st am filled the io>ms and the cries of the injured and the al - fence of many of their comrades warned thoe who had gained safety that the explosion had been followed by serious and probably fatal results. Innocent After Twenty Years. Twenty-two years ago J. T. Holmes ■ of Witchita, Kas., wheat that time! was Postmaster, was convicted in the j United Stites Court at Topeka of stealing regLteied etters and was sen- I tenced t > ten years in the penitentiary. ■ Eighteen months 'ater Holmes was set I f ee at the intercession of friends, I who pail the shortage, and whoso i e.dngs almost convinced the an j horiii vs that be had been wrongfully I convicted. But during all these years ■ Holmes had been unable to disprove | the charges of ihelt. Monday he ro-I ceived the proof in a letter written from the 1 ansing. Mich., penitentiary : by i ing Irice whit h completely ex- j onerates him. Price was a clerk in the oft co at Wichita at the time, I and his letters iecite how after I losing money in gambling he first I robbed the money drawer of the post- ‘ office and finally stole the registered j packages. One night while gambling j Price heard a post oflu e inspector was i in the city and he fed to Texas and I was never heard of again. A few ye irs ! ago he drifted into Detroit and there I he became connected with a gang of I counterfeiters, was captured, and is I now serving a sentence for counter- i feiting in the Michigan Penitentiary. Explosion in Grin<ula Kills 200. A DISPATCH to the Panama Star and Herald from Granad t. A icaragua -ays: “The military barracks have been blown up and a whole quarter of the city has been badly damaged. The ‘ number of dead is estimated at IOA । The number of bounded is mu h ; greater, but no exact estimate j is yet obtained.” Granada is a I city' of Nicaragua. It is the cap- ; ital of a province of the same name, ’ and is located on the northwestern shore of the lake. It is well built, j having hands' ms streets and pub ic I edifices' the latter comprise several fine churches. It is the s at of a Hour- ; ishing trade in cocoa, indigo, wool and hi les, which are exported in boats by । the River San Juafl to Greytown. It is a noted seat of the manufacture of gold wire chains. The pop. lation is io, tO J. BREVITIES. Blizzards raged in North and South Dakota and in Northern Minnesota. The snow fall at Hu on was heavy, j lasting three hours. The Mechanical Rubb r C mpany, | of New Jersey, has filed in the County Recorder's office in Cleveland, Ohio a trust deed for $2.560.0<;0 to secure the issue of bonds for a like amoun“. Jesse T. McClure, a postoffiee in- * specter, was knocked down in Kansm City, Mo., by a masked carnival reveler Thursday night. Ftiday ho died. The man who struck the blow became lost in the crowd the moment McClure dropped. Four oil paintings, valued at $15,000 to $18,0)0, stolen from the residence of ; the late L. Ames of Boston in 1885, have been returned to the family, indirectly. by one of the thieves who stole them, who secured the standing' reward of $1,50'. William M. Price, a Phapix, A. T. newsbov. men had had an altercation over a game of poker. Shurbert is a nlaster- : er by trade and has a small family. He formerly lived in Chicago. Cardinal Gibbons preached a strong sermon at Baltimore on “The Glory of W< manh >od and the I uties of Christian Women,” declaring the hope that the day would never c me when woman would have the ballot urging her to give her time and attention to her home and family. Every day fresh information reaches Key West, Fla., from the Keys relative to the loss of life in the recent hurricane. Fourteen of the crew of the British bark Brandon, of Quebec are supposed to have been lost The Norwegian ship Theora was lost off Turtle Harbor, but all were saved. It is likely that the number of lives' lost will never be known, as communication with the Keys is difficult. 1 HE national convention of the nonparvsanW. C. T. U. will be held in Washington, Pa., Nov. 13 to 16. Fear of a sentence to State's prison drove Gottlieb Traub, an Indianapolis saloonkeeper, to suicide. He was under indictment for shooting a young w man on July 4. Capt. Charles A. Sawyer, Port Townsend, Wash . is dead. He commanded the Orpheus twenty years ago when it collided with andjsunk the Pacific, entailing a 10.-. s of 40J lives and 1 $1,060,00J in gold dufi.

EASTERN. Bank Examiner Van Vrauken has closed the First National at Fayetteville, N. Y., after an investigation into its affairs. The officers are censured for carrying credit slips instead of currency and for having loaned considerable sums to officers of the bank without security. Ar Now York, on application of Walter Stanton, of the firm of Coffin & Stanton, bond brokers, Judge Lac mbe, in the United States Circuit Court, appointed Newman Erb receiver of the firm. The liabilities are placed at $3,600,001). The assets are believed to amount to this figure. One of the most violent college rushes on record took pl ice Wednesday at the University of Pennsylvania. Freshmen and Sophomores fought until their clothing was torn to tatters. The terrific violence planned and in part carried out was illustrated by twenty or thirty Freshmen leaping bodily from windows overlooking the capwus down upon the heads of a group of struggling Sophomores. The instant killing of two large draught horses in Newark, N. J., the other d..^ can only bo accounted for by electrolysis, although there were no outward signs to support the theory apart from a slight shock which two men who were near by felt. Much uneasiness has been caused by the affair, for the people who occupy the block, which is in the center of the city, have claimed for some time that the ground all ab mt it is charged with electricity. The big power-house of the Electric Light anil Power Company is in the middle of the block, which is netted above and below the ground with electri' light, telegraph, telephone and other wires. From time to time persons working in factories and printing offices adjoining have been thrown off I their feet by electric power, but from what source has never been ascertained. I A driver backed hi> horses to one I of the rear doors of a hardware store I on Mechanic street to deliver a load o! j sheet iron tewer pipes. As soon as I the lines were thrown on the horses’ ! backs they began to tremble an 1 i wheel© I toward Mechanic street.where j their fore feet struck a pile of iron pi jol I Both animals droppea dead, neither i moving after it struck the ground. I The driver was thrown to the ground : also. Van Houten and William Argus, I assistants were thrown to the ground ! and felt a severe stock. The men j were sure they received a charge of powerful electric current. The ; horses died with their eyes wide I open. Ti e city engineer has ex- ' amined the locality and declares the ; water an I gas pipes are full of । electricity, and that in damp weather ! the electricity charges the ground, i The p ssibilities of wholesale death, 1 he says, are terrible. WESTERN. — Citizens of l a Grange, <)hio, turned out en masse on a man hunt for the murderer of John Hoehne. A rille I club joined in the chase. I Minneapolis millers have been noI tiffed that the American flour trade ! worked up with Cuba under the reei- : procity treaty IS at an end. ( A GAS-WELL shot at Knightstown, , Ind., produced oil which within live minutes rose over 70J feet. The flow i is estimated at, 400 barrels a day. Prof. Harry B. Hutchins, asso- : date dean of the Cornell l aw School. { has a cepted the position of dean of ■ the University of Michigan Law School. Mrs. Charles Spelling, wife of a San Francisco capitalist, eloped with a • street car conductor, taking KnOiH in I cash and deeds to property worth sl*o,o 10. I ’ North and south bound pass mger i trains collided in front of J. S. CoxeyQ 1 residence at. Massillon, Ohio. Eight {persons were seriously injuied, but none fatally. The twenty-ninth annual convent on of the Army of the Tennesse* was held at Council Blufis Governor .lackson and Mayor C leaver delivered addresses of welcome. James Morton, agen O', an inmate 1 of the poor farm at Kingston, confirms ; the st >ry of .1. F. 1 ien e, of Heck Springs, Wyo . that hi- wife was a , daughter of Jay Gould. The representatives of the various ■ wheel companies who have been meeti ing in Indianap lis, Ind., have completed an organizat on which will practically give them the monopoly of the : wheel business in the country. The i name of the new organization is the Commercial Wheel Company. Domestic troubles and fear of ex- { posure and punishment as an embezzler caused th? suicide of Harry S. ; Mapes at his home in Chicago 'J hurs- j ' day mo ning. His body was not found ! until Friday. For eight yea s ho had been the trusted cashier ad credit 1 vrb ui ’ paint u At Detroit, Mich., a de d was closed I by which natural gas from Canada is ]. to be pumped t > the city through pipes i i laid un erneath the Detroit River, j This is belie e l to be the first imp ! tion of gas into this country, and will I j probably come to the attention of the i Treasury Department. According to the arrangements made, about 5,0 4),0J0 cubic feet per day will be pumped into the city. As a special west-bound freight train on the Wabash l oad was leaving St. Louis Thur day night, it crashed^into and demolishtd a car of the Suburban Electric Street Railway at Union avenue in the western suburb . Th? cir was struck squarely on the front end i and smashed into kindling wood. Six i people were hurt. Os these two । women and the motorman will probab.y die. All are badly bruised and cut and have broken limbs and the two women are injured internally. Six MEN were killed and many tediously injured at Detr it Friday morn- ! by the falling of a wall of the ■ burning building occupied by Keenan ! & Jahn, furniture dealers. * The tire Ca 'ted in the engine-room near an ele- | x ator shaft and burned so rapidly that I when the firemen arrived every part j of the structure was blazing and nothmg could be saved. Ti e front wall gave way, falling outward. Toe loss is estimated at S6O,O'JO on stock and $2.,,0U0 on the build ng. The insurance I is said to ba ample. A lERKIBLE tragedy occurred near

Lancaster, Pa., in which a three-story brick dwelling house was blown up by dynamite and the occupants, Mr and Mrs. A. J. Leim, were instantly killed. A servant named Jackson was seriously injured and may die. I eim was a wealthy and prominent citizen, residin r near Leimville, and was an extensive quarry v . Sevo, al days fgo he had trouble with his employes, consisting of agansr of Italians, and it is believed that they placed a large quanity of nitro-clvo-erino, med in blasting reck, under the large building while Mr. and Mrs. Leim were at dinner, with the above result. The Army of the Tennessee closed its reunion with a banquet at Co incil Bluffs Thursday night. These officers were elected: President, General Greenville M. Dodge, Iowa; Vice Presidents, General James A. Williamson, lowa. General Robert N. Pearson, lllin is: General Charles C. Walcott’ Illinois: Major E. C. Dawes, Ohio; Colonel J. D. McClure. Illinois: Major Henry L Morrell, Mis.-ouri; Major Joseph W. Paddock, Nebraska: Mu or George F. French, Minnesota; Major F. I*. Muhlenberg. Michigan; Captain George W. Rnhmond, Wisconsin;. Major Hoyt Sherman, lowa: Corresponding Secretary, General Andrew Hickenlooper; Recording Secretaia^, Col. Cornelius Cadle: Treasurer,! M. F. Force. | Block coal operators who cm per cent, of the 1,250,000 tons anrm. I output ot this quality < f Indiana coal , have entered into wl at is practie- I ally a partnership with the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad < om; any. The operators were | losing t heir trade in Chicago because i they were forced to pay H. 10 a ton ! freight. The basis o' the new relatk n ‘ is for the operator tofix a cost ; ri. e for I his co 1 on the ca sat the mine, while the rai road company wi I fix a cost fieight rate, which is said to be considerably lower than sl.lO, the two to constitute the cost, price in Chicago Th ■ amount of the selling price in excess of this will be divided e pially between the tailroad com] any and the operator. Theo; orators whoc< ntrol the r< maining 20 percent. < f the output at e to sell where c • they please, and it is reported perhaps the Dig Four and Mon m wi 1 cut rate, for their lame it. For several m< nths the bock coal miners have had not more than two days wor,. a week. It is expected th s ag cement will put m w lite inti the industry. I'RiiF. Swing, the eminent Chicago theologian and pren her, passed away Wednesday afternoon at 5 minutes after 5 o'clock. Hi- death was peaceful, but, notwit' siandine all warnings, sudden, ho basing te n ill but little more than a w<ok. Theca iso of death i was gastric fever. Throughout his lite no had suffered more or less from thi- trouble. In the latter part of Augu-t ho made a visit to Ohio. The water of the region ho visited was imd la'causo of a drought prevailing, and though he remained but a short time, it aggravat'd his malady. Treatment after his return seemed to restore his health. But an accident a few days later, in which he was thrown from hi- carriage at hicountry seat a! Lake Geneva, br ught ; on his gastric trouble again A week before death his illness boeutue ie rioiia, ami he. grew giadually worse until the end came. Prof. Swing’s trial for heresy before tho Illim is Svnod was an o.x-parte affair, and after his acquittal U-fore the presbytery he was summoned to appear Is lore the synod, whither Dr. Patton l arrb d the emo, but he never answ red the mandate, and his conviction was hail without his having interposed either defense or explanation. SOU LHERN. Duties paid in at the Baltimore Custom House on tinplate Monday । am. unted to ?.■!.” st, the largest sum. ever paid. A CRUSADE against gambling and other game.- of vice is being organized i in Richmond, Va.. with the Rev. W. ; A. Christian at it- head. While the Port-mouth Baptist As- ! sociation was in session at Chun bland. Va.. the i rganist. Mus Maud • Grimes, ; died nt the organ from a congestive I chill. The Farmers’ National Congress b> i gun a four-days' annual session at! I i arker.-bm g. W. \a. Many deiega- ; tions from ew England and the West ' were p: esent. S Ai l. el- etions took place in Ilorida , i without conflict between the deputy, 1 sheriff' and the military. The latter ’ ha t been warned that it would Io a serious matter for the n to int rfere. A special from Key West, Fla., says: More than fifty human bodies have been washed up along the reefs near lie e in the last two days, most . f । them being badly decomposed. They i were buried where they were found. A TERRIBLE cyclone struck Little ' Rock. Ark., at 7:30 Tue-dav evening | portion of .he city. Several persons! were killed and inuied. The main! port'on of the business center, ; J bounded on the south by ; d , street, on the north by river‘front, on the west by (. enter street and on I the east by Commerce street, is prac- ! tically in ruins and the amount of uamage is incalculable. The total property loss w.ll probably approximate $1.(JOO,000. The cyclme was accompanied by a terrific storm and the st ceks of goi d ; in those busine -s how-es which were unr. ofed, though not otherwise wrecked, are destroyed by water. - J WASHINGTON. The public debt increased $7,226,7 98 during September. 11 is said that Captain Howgate, ariC'ted for swindling the government out of thousands of dollars, owns 40,000 acres of land in Florida. . Some time this month President ! I lex eland will issue a proclamation opening to settlement the unallotted lands on the A ankton reservation in South Dakota, containing over 100.0J0 acres. POLITICAL. IHE New York City Populists have nominated Dr. James McCollum for Mayor. John Swinton refused to run. -D ixie Gaynor, in a letter made public Friday night, formally declined to run on the New York State Demo-

cratic ticket for Judge of the Court of Appeals. Congressional nominations: Thirteenth Ohio District, S. R. Harris, Republican; Fourteenth Ohio, T Y Mc?v r L- y ’ - Twenty-first Pennylvania, D. B. Heiner, Republican, IHE Ohio State Democratic Executive Committee has issued a manifesto declaring that the issue of the present campaign Is money, not tariff. The ba! ? crcat ed a sensation, and will have an important effect upon tho campaign throughout the c ountry. FOREIGN, The London Evening News pub Hshes a statement to the effect that the cabinet council was called to consider a dispatch received from minister O’Connor in 1 ekin, in which it was stated that Russia was intriguing to assist China against Japan in return for the cession to Russia of certain ports of Corea. If this is true, the Evening News adds, ■ it will be a question of sending first- i class British men-es-war to China to i thwart Russia’s intentions. There Is no confirmation of these statements i from other t our. es. fiotn Hankow, dated wMH, that as a consequence , of tho itni erial ^Rbir.ce ha- been doTiirbuL'ut nteb-i liavi' * X'l-al pointe that ^^^■^■Tities a e powerless to cheek | theW'' Europeans are alarmed, aud the British Consul has advised that ail ’ women and children bo .ent to Shanghai, which is c< ns ide rod tho infest । place. This will l>o done as soon as possible. The men, with the traders and officials, ha o termed a volunteer ! corps to protect then.selves. The \ iceroy fears that the mobs will break out in arnu d icbellion He is having fortitications thrown up at Woo Chang, on the other side of tl e river, to be ready in case an attack on the city is at tern pU d. A special cabinet council was called at Lon ion, and the members of the ministry who were absent from the city were hn riedly summoned to return. Telegrams were sent to Sir William \ ernon Uarco irt, who had started for Italy, and others of the ministe s in the country. Sudden new development ; rowarding the tolations Pet w- ne Gre;F Britain and France are, wit ho t dou t th > reason for the hasty summoning of the ministers. The Daily >ew. say- "Rumor is always wrong when applied to cabinet meetings, and wi e me i pay no attention to its wanderin s. The change of tho French Amba- a lor, ihoC ar’s health, and the war in the Fa-t a 1 suggest anxiety, but no alarm. There are several questions at issue b- tween France anil England, but tho o are no questions of opposing into o-’ comparable in tho remotest degree with those which set Fran e and 1 rus-ia to antagonism in IN GENERAL TriyttiXo queen Alix, 2:031, anc. ; trotthw king Direetum, 2:051, huvo Uee»~v to l uwfor 5.’,500 a side. Six/A’ilernieu of T-route Ont., arc ailcg^-l to have d ‘m inded a brils' of $12,0^0 from hi elect io light < umpan . CHAMPION CuuiEi r issues a challenge in which he agree- to meet all comers next July, on each night until all arc disposed of. BEFORE tho State Bo rd of Equalization, a representative of the BuUman Company denied statements made by Gov. Altgeld. < JPEN hostilities have been declared between the Deering Harve ter Company and the Cordage Trust. The former is alleged to have broken the contract. Six of Toronto's aldermen are alleged to bo implicated in an attempt to extort money from the Toronto I : Electric Light Companv, which put in a tender for street lighting conduct. Work on the I’anama Canal has been resumed with picks and spades at a point eleven miles from tho Pacific and thirty-six miles from the Atlantic Ocean, i welve hundred men are ?m---i ployed. The Dominion Government, as well as the 1 Tovinco of puebe '. is >aid to be in financial trouble. Mr. Foster, Finance Minister, sails Satuiday for England to negotiate a new loan of several millions, it is believed he will trv to borrow nr re than he did in 1892 ■ HJjJOOpU’. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle Common to Prime.... $3 75 ft 6 25 Hogs— Shipping Gra les a 00 @ 5 75 Sheep —Fair to Choice 2 uo ” a 50 WHEAIr-No. 2 11- .! 61 24 62 Coax— Xo. 2 62 — 63 Oats- * - 2* ® 20 p'F -^-Choice Creamery 24 ® 25 ' ' Fresh 16 18 - wveAtOEs—Car-lots, per bu.... 60 75 l , ■ INDIANAPOLIS. I CATTLE—Shippimr 300 @ 5 75 Hogs— Choice Light 4 oo 6 00 । bheep- Common to Prime 200 350 I MHEAI^No 2 Red 47 47^4 v°‘ - } VhU e 54 eS 64' a Oais Ao. 2Mhite 31 eD 32 ! Cattle ST ’ LOUls - w E 300@ 5 50 I GIG tQs “s utE-Xo > 29 30 Kit AO. _ 4 - 4tJ _ CINCINNATI, Ho” LE 3 50 ® 5 23 cheep 400 ® 6 00 ! WHEATLxojVBed.::;;::"";;; 249 ! COBN-No. 2 Mixed 54 Qj 55 WVF S 5^°'9 2 MiXed 31 32 LIE-AO. 2 61 @ 63 „ DETROIT. Hogs 2 60 ®* 10 <<o CS6 0O v^teNmiwhiie-.:::”:::-Corn-No. 2 Yellow j ea ,5 m Oais— No. 2Mhite 82G® 33^ ; „ TOLEDO. VVheat No. 2Red 51 @ 52 cohn-No. 2 leliow 62 53 Oats—No. 2 White 31 32 I Rye— No. 2 48 @ | v buffalo. Wheat-No. 1 White 58 pa 59 v^?', 2 ? 61 * 66 & 67 Cora— No. 2 \ellow 57 57^ Oats— No. 2 White 34 @ 35 , ir „ XT MILWAUKEE. rorx A V‘V 2SpiiUK 50 @ 50l » CORA AO. J 5J (j f . 2 Oats— No. 2 White 31 --r. 32H Babley-No. 2 j 62 IT Rye— No. 1 4S Pork— Mess 12 5o ^l3 00 NEW YORK. Cattle 3 oo @ 5 05 H° GS 3 50 <-( 6 00 Sheep... 200 @350 Wheat— No, 2 Red...- 55 (t® js Corn— No. 2 57 59 ; Oats —Mixed Western 35 o io Butter —Creamery., 25^-3 26^ Eggs— Western 18 20 ’

CROOKS R AN THE FAIR STAID OLD OHIO TOWN TERRIBLY SHOCKED. Death of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes—--1 ennsyJvunla*s VI ar Governor Is Gone I^ngineer Itoot Reapt tlis Rcw.trd of Fame-Business Is Heviv n^. Religious People Were Amaz *d. The forty-seventh annual fair at Delaware, Ohio, closed Friday night, after a big week. In past years the people ha e claimed that, the reason the fairs there were not m ire succesfill was the fact that no premiums were given to outside parties. This year everything was accepted and fortune ; wheels and other allurements ran galore. The ooap racket was worked, crap shooting was indulged in, all in , open play. The residents of the city, i the seat of one of the greatest religious j colleges in the woild, w. re paralyzed 1 with ama ement and are up in arms. It has created the greatest sensation j ever known there. It L probable that the peop'e will be satisfied with their old accustomed fair in the future. O. W. 1I«» 111 Im Dk. Oliver Holmes, the truest friend, the kindliest man. the sweetest singer, and the quaintest humorist < f all that brilliant coterie which made Boston and New England fun.oui wherever the English language is spoken, is dead. He slipped away from th • aims of his loved ones early Sui dav rm ruing and joined his many friends in the great beyond. Almost his lust word was a est. not light nor irreverent, but kindly and easy, to soothe tho pain of his dear ones: to make th m feel the pain of parting was all: that he left the world which he bad ?o honored and so loved, and of which he had been such an ornament and such a joy, without one pang or one regret, as one who : “folds tho drapery of his couch abaut him and lie-down to pka'tmtdreams.” The tear-bedimmed eyes of his children and his old-time friend hardly perceived when theend came.and it was only by the setting of the still-smil’ng Ups aud the cessation of 'the ught b eathing it was known that the father and f. iend was no more. I>eath of War Ciov^rnor X. G Curtin. Andrew Gre ;g Curtin, war governor of Pennsylvania, died at Bellefonte, Da.. Sunday morning. His end was peaceful, he having been unconscious uuring the last twelve hours of his life All the members of his family were at the bedside when he IH'-eu by. Th> death of exGovern r ( urtin leaves but one war Governor living. Sprague of Kh de Island. Ex. Gov. Kirkwood of lowa was soon followed by his fri >nd Curtin. Mr. Curtins de ith was due to brain trouble , brought on by g neral debility and old age. From Hurti-burg Governor 1 attison isuml a pr< clamation expressing his profound sorrow fi r the death of exGov. Curt n and ] aying a high tribute to lii.a pu-4ic service. I:e ordered all Il gs on public buildings to l>e displayed at ha f-mast and that—Ah ■ deP rtmente f State Gon r ’me it within I'uv ;tive e mtn>l be clo.-e I on the day <d the fune:al. «m* tn Ontnnt. It. G. Di n A: Co.'s weekly review of Trade says: ••a st a the cheap m .ney cro s of tho We t ami South sinking in vtslue it Is not strange that purchases of manufactured products are smaller than Was expected Wheat has tou lied the lowest point over kn >»n for options and cotton the lowest ever known in any form with th ) present clas-iiieatlon, and he accumulation of stocks In both products is discouraging to pur. ha ers for an advance. Producers are compel ed to sell at prices below the ordinary cost of raising crops, and in some Western States there is also a lamentable failure of the corn crop. Under the circumstances it would bo very strange if the demand for manufactured products should be quite as large as In other years. Engineer Root to Go on the Stog'. Jame-; Hdo". tl:c brave urgineer of Hinckley, Minn., who is visi ing at New York, signed a two weeks' contract with the "t ide for Life'’ Company at the Grand (pern House. “It happened just like thi-.” said Root ' "I ditl not corn© East to parade myself, b g that's what they'll ay out home. 1 suppose. AVhat th v call the advance agent of hat shew came to me and said he wanted me. L laughed at the idea, my wi e was indignant. So when i ho asked if I w< u’d g >m v wife said SSOO a week, and he palled out a c ntra t. I had to sign." The St. Daul and Duluth Railroad gave Root a gold watch and chain. N EWS NUGGETS. Two Galveston. Tex., typesetting mm Line operat irs will conu ete agaiimt two Denver operators. The pair -howLliliP the greater speed wins teOA COMMANDER Davie, of the United Stat?s c uiser Montgomery, who i “chape: < red” the In'anta Eulalia du - ing he” World's l air trip, aud xvas at i that time criticised as being a ma"tinet, is row in a war of words with I Mayor Latrobe of Baltimore over questions of naval etiquette. The ship City of Athens has sailed ! from Taeoma, Wash., for th' United ! Kingdom with the first cargo of wheat shipped from that port, amounting to j 1.800 ions. F our larger ships have ar- ! rived te load wheat in charter by Balj four, Guthrie A Co. and Gibson A Kerr, j They are the Androsa. Cape Y'ork, Gleneo. e and Windsor Park. The b filer in Shultz's sawmill, near Parkersburg, W. Va., exploded, killing three men and fatally injuring two others. Gus Jackson, of one of the oldest famines of Waco. Tex., shot and fatally wounded diss Geraldine Livingston. Jealousy was the cause. Naval officers of the Bering Seal patrol report the regulations imposed by the Paris Arbitration Council are of little avail, and, unless better protection is afforded, the seals will be exterminated within live years. Greed and selfishness displayed by Wisconsin fire sufferers is causing much dissatisfaction. The Munroe Manufacturing and Lumber Company, of Lima, 0.. has assigned to M. P. Metcalfe, of Sydney. The company's liabilities are $40,(0 t aud the assets about the same.

FATAL DETROIT FIRE. FIREMEN CRUSHED TO DEATH BY FALLING WALLS. 81x Men KUled and Nine Others Seriously Injured by the Collapse of a Furniture Store—Sixty Employes Have a Narrow Escape. Beneath the Ruins. Six dead and a score injured is the record of the fire which destroyed the ft rniture store of Keenan A Jahn at Detroit, Friday morning. Tha dead are: Libut Michael H. Donoghue, Chemical Na 1. Richabd Dell pipeman No. 9. John 1 ig l, pipernan No. 9. Frederick A. Bussey, spectator; died at Grace Hospital. Mike Ball, pipeman No. 9. Julius Cummings of Na a The fire was discovered in the ship-ping-room in the basement at the back of the store at • :30 o’clock. An alarm was prcmptly turned in, but by- the time the engine arrived the fire had gained ccnsideral le headway, having runup the cle,at r shaft, and the entire upper tl, or was a mass ot llama and smo.vo when the first stream was 5 thrown. There were sixty employes - in the building and most of the n had , great difficulty in escaping. Tho building, an old five-story structure, tvas soon gutted and the stock ruined. [ At !> o'clock the front wall of the ; building tumbled into W( odward avenue. It came in the shape of a collapse. and the mass of debris did not s; read beyond the curb. The firemen , working in fro .t o' the buildinz were , warned and retreated as rapidly as {losrible. Si me got out from under, mt a dozen or more we: e unable to do so on account of the piles of brick, glass and burnt timbers. A yell of ho ror went up from the throats of the thousands who Were in the street, and then there v a; a crash like an earthquake. The air was filled with dust aad sheets 0 flame and smoke. Some of the falling wa 1 broke the heavy- electric wires and the trolley wire. A flash of sputtering electric fluid lighted up the scene, and people crowded and surged to get into the stores and down the side streets to escape being shocked. A number of men, ivomen and children were trampled under the feet of the frightened spectators. Rescuers were immediately at work, and the six bodies were so n t^kea out. The aggregate loss on building and stock is estimated at $80,00J; fully insured. WILL VICTORIA ABDICATE? A Sensational Rumor Now Afloat About the British Throne. , A letter from a London correspondent says that gLeen 'Victoria maz abt dieate the throne on November fi." The letter says: Queen \ ictor a s rheuma- . tism is worse. At this present time . she goes up and down stairs in a sort . of litter, and is rolled about her rooms I in a vehicle wji uh imsetubtes an enlarged baby carriage. Specialists say —it rheumatic gout. The caurt eaves- ! dropper says that bn the 9th of No- , vember, the birthday of the Prince of Wales the announcement of her ma esty’s retirement will be made in f favor of her eldest son. who will be acclaimed a5 Edward A 11. Queen Victoria is <5 years old, an age when one cat well understand she might be only too ■willing to free her. elf entirely from all trammels even of such feeble responsibility as a British monarch : 'IE QUEEN VICTORIA I 1 now possesses. The Prince of Wales is 53, and therefo e no longer young, I I and so it is about time that be had i some taste of his natural heritage. Another 1 oint which as ists in giving probability to this possibility of a coming change in the occupant of the throne is that the 9th of November, ■ the 1 rince of Wales' birthday, is also the date which for many centuries has been celebrated throughout Loudon as the Lord Mav< r's Day. the occasion upon which ihe chief magistrate of the city of London ascends the civic throne Upon that day a pageant traverses the city of London escorting. with the assistance of a regiment of cavalry, the new Lord Mayor to his official palace the Mansion House, [ which he is to occupy during the | twelve months of his reign, m 1837, tho year in which Queen Victoria came to the sovereignty, she chose the J th. of November as the day upon which she would make her first formal entry into her capital city, London, and as sovereign of the realm she headed the procession of the sovereign of the city and dined with the Lord Mayor and sherifis. Brieflets. Wallace Schanafelt, 20, shot and killed himself at Akron. Ohio, because his marriage propo^al was rejected. Frank Tarbush, a Chicago boy | whose pa ents had separated, was kidnaped irom a Lima Ohio school, but was recaptured at Delphos. The Bricklayers' Union at Ander- | son, Ind., donated the services of its seventy-five members for three days* work on the Catholic hospital. The Premier. J. B. Patterson, was re-elected in Victoria. Austia ia, but his party and policy did not receive the support he expected and he has resigned. J. L. Thompson, a young farmer living in the southwest part of Sullivan County, Mo., was married, and during a charivari was shot, and instantly killed. It is I elieved to be murder through jealousy.