St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 16, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 November 1894 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. HEAVY FIRE LOSSES. PITTSBURG, AKRON AND ST. LOUIS SUFFER. Argentine Strikon by a Fearful Earthquake El Mahdi Unfurls the Standard of the Prophet— Japs in America Contribute the Sinews of War. Feathers in a Flame. What premised to bo an ugly fire broke out at Pittsburg, Fa., Monday night in the wholesale millinery and trimming goods establishment of J. J. Porter M Co., Liberty avenue. The loss to the firm is total, estimated at $200,010, and damage to the building, which is owned by B. F. Jones, will increa e the loss by $150,000. When the alarm was turned in the performanea at the Academy of Music next door was in full blast. A panic followed, but nothing serious resulted. The Seventh Avenue Hotel is three doors above Porter & Co.’s place, and the guests were inclined to be panicky. The hotel people, however, succeeded in quieting their fears. At Akron, 0., a large brick grocery owned by George G. Schaeffer and also occupied by the meat market of John Buttinger burned I Monday morning. Mr. Schaeffer and j his family escape 1 by jumping from the second story windows. Loss, $22,000: insurance, $12,000. Thousands Die by Earthquake. La Ricja, capital of a province of that name in Argentine, lost churches, schools, public buildings, and many dwellings Sunday night by earthquake. The first shock was lelt at 4: 0 o’clock in the afternoon, and thereafter was a succession of shocks, some lasting 1 wenty-six seconds, The people ran s reaming from their homes, women dinting by the score. It is estimated that 2,000 persons perished in the province, as the disturbance was widespread. At several points the earth opened and hot water and boiling mud flowed'over the country. The village of Del Arbardon d sappeared in one of thefs-ures, and other town; report destruction that makes 20,000 persons homele s. The general government sent medical at endame, tents, and provisions and laborers to clear away the ruins of collapsed towns and variou; cities are contributing largely to a relief fund. Tr e wave ap ears to have Eased oat to sae near the mo.;th of the <a Plata. South of Buenos Ayres no Turnage is reported. BREVITIES. Runs on the “discretionary pools” at Pittsburg have ceased. Newark police refused to permit Herr Me st and his company to present “Die Weber.” Twenty-one men have been forced to leave Newport, Ark., under suspicion of being incendiaries. *TTeutenant of General Ezeta who was released from the Alameda County, Ca'ifornia, jail on an order from Sec- 1 rotary Gresham, hai take r passage on the steamer San Jose for Acapulco. According to the best figures- ob-. tainable the University of Pennsylvania has seventy more students this year than in 1892-’9f. The total of 189d-'94 was 2,172. This year the attendance in all departments sums up to 2 282. A LARGE Hungarian boarding-house at Laurel Run, Pa., was blown to atoms by dynamiters at 3 o’clock Sundaymorning and three of the inmates killed outiight, four fatally injured, and a half-dozen seriously hurt. Robbery was the object. Advices from Kassala state that the mahdi has proclaimed a holy war against the Italians. The Governor of Mas sow ah has ordered the Fifth bat- : talion to be in readiness by Nov. 1. when the Italian troops at Ka sala will i numbei 7,0U0 and the mahdi’s army | 12,000. Japanese residents of the Pacific i coast have recent’y remitted to the War Department at Tokio SIO,OOO, do be used in the present campaign against China. Another $10,003 will be sent next week, and periodical remittances will be sent as long as the war lasts. Six weeks ago Mrs. Emma Wohl- j hueter's hcuse was burned at Akron, ■ Ohio. She made a statement that three negroes had fired the premises a'ter । assaulting her and throwing her into ' the cellar. The colored peo le began j an investigation which resulted in the j arrest of the woman on a charge of arson. Another step in acknowledgment of woman’s rights has be m taken at Milwaukee, where Adolph Scholz has begun suit for $30,030 damages fcr i breach of promise against Kath Tine > Pilger. Scholz sold out his banking | business in Germany and journeyed to I the C. earn City to wed Kat e - ine, but she refused to'keep the engagement. AT Indanapolis, Ind., Judge Brown sustained the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias in its suit against Koerner Lodge for property. Koerner Lodge ; seceded because the Supreme Lodge i ruled out the German ritual. It sur- I rendered its charter but held its property. The case is a test and is re- ! garded as important in that it w II bo f llowed by other suits throughout the United States. An appeal will be taken. There was a heavy snowstorm lasting eight hours Sunday in Nebraska. Live stock is said t) be suffering greatly. Driven frantic by Hubert Alle f snoring, John Hoffman shot his t rmentor and then put a bullet into his own head. Hoffman will die. Frank Kline, son of ex-City Marshal Kline, and Otis Savage, whose father was Circuit Judge for years, nave been arrest d at The Dalles, Ore., for the Pacific Exp ess robbery of $14,003. All but SIOO was recovered.

EASTERN. Chauncey M. Depew assisted Gon- : eral Booth in entertaining the Salvation Army in Carnegie Hall, New York . The meeting was a success. . The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has permanently enjoined the Standard Oil Trust from gobbling up the Producers and Refiners’ Company of * Pittsburg. Frank Devlin, the Pittsburg man- j lager of the American Syndicate of ■ Chicago, has been arrested in the former city in connection with the discretionary pool raids. The postoffico at Foaring Spring's, ■ Fa., was lo tad by thieves. The office 1 safe was blown open with dynamite - and $13,C00 in stamps and cash, and money orders amounting to $45.; st >len. At Buffalo, N. Y., John S. Johnson smashed the world’s record for a mile । over a straightway course Wednesday. lio covered the distance in 1:35 2-5, which is fourteen seconds faster than it was ever made before by a single rider and six secon s faster than the tandem record. Johnson s time is onetenth of a second fa-ter than that of Salvator, 1:35-. which i; the worlds rec rd for a running horse. The ] rice of coal is not going down. Recent dispatches from Philadelphia ! indicate the anthracite pool hud been broken up and that a cut-throat war waj about to begin. But Thursday Chicago ccal dealers received telegraphic rdvices to advance -the price of antK. acite in car-load tots irom $5 to $5.2 j. The ieasons for the advance in the price of c al are many Purina the summer labor troubles and the stri ,o among the s ft coal miners | many operators of anthracite fields, I fancying they foresaw a short market, mined sufficient hard coal to glut the market in the late summer and early autumn This kept prices down. In the early portion of the season lake rates on coal were as low as 25 cents and rail rates fell from $1 to $3.50. Since then lake rates have risen to 70 cents, and while rail rates have not changed, an advance I to $4 is expected within the next lew 1 days. Also, the cold weather is beginning and examination of stocks on hand shows Chicago deale s that the supply is by no means as great as it was thought to be. Further. Small dealers with outputs of a million tons have placed their product in advance of that of the big dealers with outputs ! of four millions. And these a o the reasons the ccal men give for making the public pav a little more for winter fuel. WESTERN. The Inspector of Boilers at Pueblo. Colo., has been arrested for issuing a certificate on a boiler he never saw. SOCIETY ladies at Saginaw, Mich., have decided to employ no man servants who will not surrender latch keys and premise to be “in” by 10 p. m. Sensational cha ges were made against the Cincinnati police 1 y Rev. Mr. Lockwood, who delivered an address 1 efore the Evangelical All ance 1 on the sub ect. “Is Parkhurst Needed ; in Cincinnati.-” Prof. Wylie Mellettf, son of exGov. Mellette, of South Dakota, and 1 instructor in the mechanical depart- ■ ment of the Agricultural College, cut—his throat with aiazor. he was dead. ■ 'T “■^^s^aid^hat^^^T' J jail at St. Cloud, Minn., on a swindling passengers on the Great a Northern tra’ns, is a step-son of Mill- 1 r ionaire I ? aidwin, the San Francisco , f streetcar magnate. | v J. J. Riethman, of Denver, who has ' made an assignment for the benefit of + his creditors, says that his liabilities • - will probably amount to $ 50,003 anil his creditors are amply secu ed. His j . assets are estimated at $2,00 i,( 00. The business section of Ashland, I B Wis.. was invaded by a deer and a ' j hound in c ose pursuit The animal c enteied a dwelling through a window, i c climbed the stairs and was killed by ' i jumping through a second-story win- ; \ dow. I E Two hundred and fifty members > 4 of the Woman s Christian Temperance i 1 Union, of Anderson, Ind., passed a } resolution to go to the po Is and at- | 1 j tempt to vote in order to aid in testing ! , . the constitutionality of the Indiana ( I State law. Lebanon, Ind., adi p .th says, is at 8 ■ the mercy of an organi. cd gang of rob [' bers. The posto fice was robbed of : 1 I $l,O )1 in ca-h and stamps Monday I ( night. and the residence of nearly ' ' every prominent man in the vicinity i 1 has Been raided. j r Akron, < hio, is shrouded in a k thick cloud of smoke f om the burning ; j ; Copley swamp, and it is impossible to I , I see more than fifty feet in any direc- I s | ti- n The fiio has been horning for t more than a month and has covcre I a t territory embracing GOJ acres. ; t Fitzroy D. M oncrief, fcr eighteen < years a private in Com; any E. Nine- £ teenth Infantry, stationed at Detroit, received n tice from relatives tn Scotland the other day that $100.10) had I een left to him. The next day he , was found dead in hi< bearding house, j The Wisconsin Supreme Court has । ‘ set aside the verdict against ex Banker i Koetting and ordered a new trial. | Kcetting wa; rearrested at Milwaukee j • recently on a corrected charge. The ( decision will also result in the arrest of I 1 the officer; and directors of the Plank- 1 inton Bank. s The Northern Pacific has completed ’ arrangements with the Tacoma I (Wash.) Land Company for the latter to build a 2,‘ 00,000-bushel wheat ware- | house, 753 by 203 feet, two stories j high, to be cimpleted at the comI mencement of next season’s grain- < shipping business. The Cook gang in Indian Territory is headed for the mountain ; in the western part of the Nation, with the Indian police,lndian sheriffsand United States marsha’s in close pursuit. As heavy rewards are offerol for the ’eaiers of the gang, deal or alive, it is believed that they will be captured soon. A fearful fire swept over the south to n pait of Cherry County and the northern part of Grant County, E eb. The fire has burned over a strip of country fifty miles in width and de stroyed hay slacks, homes, and in some instance; stock. Two men, names' unkn wn, have perished in the flames. Tfie hay of a number cf stockmen was

I *"’ — ' ■—-> burned and a large space of ra SIX, /'“.W 6 5 -wSns Mdl- ' further north. The destpfiction of property is great and a nn& of stockmen will be ruined financially^ The Rev. Simon Saagstadt, pioneer minister of the Lutheran Church in Minnesota and a little band of eighty ing a new Norway among the British Columbia mountain and fjords so ft to ^those of their native 4 land The T\o, wegians purpose engaging in mixed farming and development of the de!n sea fisheries. They are the take advantage of the British Colum bia Government’s new terms tc^'set/T/nro* 1 ^ 01111105 or the Hiawatha (Kas.) Pullman Co-operative Company have been adjusted and a charter has been applied for. The capital stock i 3 S<.),O3J. Ihe workmen take $ 5,003 of the stock and pay for it in work Eighteen families and thirty-two men will arrive at once from the Pullman works. The superintendent of the Hiawatha manufactory will be D. R i Vanna>sche, said to be*one or the finest I workmen employed by the Pullman ' company. The new works will not now manufacture cars, but will make furniture and coflins and anything* there is a dema ;d for. A DESTRUCTIVE fire raged tor air hour Friday morning in a large IhrtW story brick warehouse belonging tr the Wm. Deering company, n ar ' cago. The fire started in a rooewt-TK with hemp, out of which twine for.thd binders is made. The stuff burned like tinder and the whole warehouse । was soon in Hamo;. Beside the In tnp the building contained much machW ; ery and it was almost totally destroyed.! The loss on building and contents will probably reach $50,( <)0. No cause has I yet been assigned for the origin of the ! fire, but even a spark in the hemproom could have caused it. The the-; cry cf spontaneous combustion was advanced by many who knew the surroundings. The Farmers' National Bank of Malvern, Icwa, was wrecked and looted by robbers about 3 o'clock the other morning. The vault and safes inside of the vault were blown to pieces, the concussion completely wrecking the inside fixtu es of the building. Three distinct explosions were heard, the third awakening residents in the neighborhood, who arose and repaired to the scene, but did not arrive until the robbers had lie J. Some of the m rey was found n the street and some bills and securities were found in the debris by the bank officials. It is estimated that the robbers got between $10,GO) and $20,000. The country is being searched for miles around for the robbers. The bank officers state that the depo itors will l.se nothing, the bmk sustaining all the less. The prairie fire-; which prevailed in Grant, Gherry, Sheridan, and Thomas Counties, Neb , for several days have assumed vast proportions. They started in Sheridan County, and have thu»l fir burned over a section of country | I forty miles wide. The damage to lay [ ranch property, and cattle is enormousd but nothing like an accurate estimate is yet possible. Many lives are suit posed to have been lost, and thousanoL | of tons of bay have been burned, leaf ; ’rattlemen destitute. Hornet .XibMAIMtK were also burned,

and otherccHUTOeY^WTr^Ui^me^ta, raging. Those cattle were sent then? from the southern part of the S'a q where trie dr ught has been felt st* heavily, to graze for the wint >r. It F feared a large proportion of these cal t o have perished. Monday night's program in the grans | carnival of crime which is now holding the boards in the Indian Territory consisted of the wholesale robbery of several small towns in genuine des--1 erado style by Mr. Bill Cook, supported by a strong and desperate company of eight or ten followers. Four men rode into the town of Watuva early in the evening, making their approach known by a promiscuous discharge of tireai ms. The bandits terrorized the inhabitants, and visited every store in the village and ran the merchants awa; with Winchesters and ' revolvers. They took from the stores | all the money they could find and i everything else they wanted. The Watova p stofficc was robbed of about j S6O in cash and $55 in stamps. From i Watova the gang rode on to Tala, ten miles away, where they repeated their 1 depredations. Every store in the place was visited and the proprietors com- ] elied at the point of revolvers and Winchesters to ta n over their cash. The post-office wa; also robbed of stamp s and a small amount of money. It is believed it was the bandit,’ intea l tion to rob the Missouri Pacific i assengertrain No. 231 at Tala. While they were holding up the postoffice the ! train pulled into the stati n. The trainmen were noticed of the presence of the gang and the train was started at once. SOUTHERN. Diphtheria is epidemic in SoutheHyj Illinois and Kentucky. Forty deat-bfl are reported during last week Caseyville, Ky. , FIFTEEN masked m n entered the j ail at Fort htockt n, Texas, a few' days ago a: d kidnaped Victor Ochoa, the Mexican revolutionary leader. It : is presumed they have taken him । a rose the boundary and shot him. He ! was an American citizen and could not I be extradited. Jose Maria Herrera, a sbeepherder, discovered forty mites west of Durango, Mex., a cave in which he found a box filled with gold coins and ornaments, the whole worth si.o,<oo. It is sup। oed that the treasure is a part of the ill-gotten gains of the brigand Benito Nariz, who operated in that section abo t thirty years ago. WASHINGTON. A decrease of $14,281,596, of which $10,L00,000 is in the item of pensions, i is shown by Secretary Smith's estimates for the next fiscal year. The War Department has referred to the Attorney General for decision the roque t of the Interior Department for ttoops for use as a posse comitatus in Indian Territory. Tne department holds it would be illegal to use troops to cha e train robbers, and j

e is no evidence the Indians have uered. A. crank, one of note, called on Dr. Joseph Bryant, 52 West 36th street, New York, where President Cleveland was stoppinsq and demanded to see the 1 j^side nt. The ir an is Richard Roeder, 14 We , s t stb street. He is tl o ... t < l ran ^ who, some years ago, J? E mperor William of Germany challengn g him to a duel. Rcewent up to Dr. Bryant’s house bell Vin? 6 He ran ^ th e doorresnondA l d n ? y ’ an , d , when toe butler land On l? d ' demanded to see Mr. Cleiet ant i but *er told him quietly but ^een ’ V Pr % idei V“ c °Md not be Oder was fina'ly argued, into J^g a That Fre^idelt Ctove- । land is not surrounded by a throne of private detectives is shown by ”he ^P 13cd e of the morning. None of them a” the 01 Cr ““ k i«» POLITICAL. Chauncey M. Depew idlressed a mixed gathering at the Windsor The- ! ater on the Bowery, a d met with an ■ enthusiastic re :e; tion. Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, stood on a pine board platform in front of the . Exchange Building at the Chicago Stick "lards and spoke to 2,000 stockmen and cattle herders. One-thiid of his audience wore men on horfoback, ^but men and ponies maint lined a respectful silence hud listened to tho words of tho Yankee statesman I .Vice President Stevenson was accorded a hearty welccmi by the people oi Joplin, Mo. He addressed a larue crowd from a platform erected at ■ the intersection of two of the principal I streets. He attributed tl e ills from ■ which the count;y has been suffering to the legi lation of the 1 eed Con- ' gross, declared that the Democratic ‘ party has kept faith with tho people, i i and predicted that pros; erity will come I under the adoption of the' new tariff act. FOREIGN. The American Line steamship Paris, just arrived at Southampton, ran down and sunk an unknown ship. Later <is atches from the Yalu River show that in the battle fought between the Chinese a;d Japanese 3, 00 C hinese troops of all arms were ' utterly routed. Nathan Strauss, who at one time j signalized a willingness to be Tamma- ' ny’s candidate for Mayor of New York City, has given up the contest and sailed for Bremen, Germany At Brest one of tho boilers of the J French cruiser Arethu e exploded while the vessel was lying in harbor. Six of the crew were instantly killed and twenty more were more or less seriously injured. Chancellor von Caprivi has han ed his resignation t > the Emperor. I Count zu Eulenb rg, President of the Ministerial Council, has also reI signed. Dr. Mi.uel, Prussian li- , nance Minister, has been appointed President of the Council, and Prince von Hohenl Le-Shillingsfuret. Govern >r of Alsace -1 orraine, has been offered the chancellorship. Ee- ! i fore offering the chancellorship to ' I Fringe Hohenlohe, Emperor Will- j * WAU. tho envoys ^gmß^adW^Wnrtembe g, Sax. Qy,j

^RmmJ^H^omor^^l^nier^h^omee owing to his age. The I mperorhas summ ned General Waldersee, the - i olitical soldier who was conspicuous j in the final intrigues against Bismarck. I The general inference is that he in- . tends to make him ( aprivi’s successor. | IN GENERAL Ex-Premier Mercier, of Quebec. is rapidly nearing his end. The Amo i an Type Founders' Company ha; turned out the old manage- । merit and elected a new board of diiee- 1 tors. Miss Anna Gould returned to New I York from Europe, ami the rumor that ■ she is to mar.y W. B. Harrimjn is ievived. Mobray, the socialist leader now in England, is headed for the United States, and, it is said, there is a general exodus of anarchists and the like for America. Receiver McNeill, of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, has under conside ation a pro ect for the establishment of a steam hip line be- ‘ tween Portland and the Orient. MARKET REPORTS, CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3 75 @6 25 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4 0) 6* 5 0 > Sheet — Fair to Choice 2 00 3 60 Wheat—Xo. 2 lied 51 di 62 Corn- No. 2 to nJ 61 ; Oats—No. 2 27 S W Rye—No. 2. 46 @ 47 BfTiEit—Choice Creamery .... 12 @ 22^ Eggs—Fresh 17 : $6J 18j£ tOTATOhS—car-lots. ].er bu.... 65 70 Indianapolis. Cattle—Shipping 3 op @ 5 75 Hogs—Choice L gbt «... 4 (X) ir? 5 to • bHEEP—Common to Prime 2 00 @ 3 Oo Wheat— No 2Re i 48 © 43 * PT LOUIS. Cattle 300 66 675 । I Hogs 300 ®GS I ; Wheat—No. 2 Red 48 w 4J ! COBN—No. 2 46^(3 47‘4 ■ OA.S—No. 2. 2SLasS> 29 S Rye—No. 2 40 61 CINC.N ATI. 1 Cattle 3to @5 50 I Hogs 400 475 i ; Sheep 200 @ 3 oj ' Wheat—No. 2 Red 49'625 10'4 : Corn—No. 2 Mixed to & 52 1 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 30 di 31 Rye—No. 2 61 © 61 DETROIT. Cattle 2 50 5 no Hogs 4 00 @ 4 75 Sheep 2 00 @ 2 75 Wheat—No. 2 White 65 © 66 Corn—No. 2 Yellow ..... M) & 6054 Oats—No. 2 White 3154© 82,4 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 52 @ 53 Corn—No. 2 YeLow 61 di 62 Oats—No. 2 White 31 is# 62 Rye—No. 2 48 & 60 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 White 67 @ 68 No. 2 Rid..... 64 118 65 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 65 di 66 Oats—No. 2 White 34 di 344 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring... 651 g I Corn—No. 3 62 di 624 Oats—No. 2 White 81 di 32 Barley—No. 2 63 di 6f Rye—No, 1 43 (<5 10 Pork—Mess 11 75 @l2 25 NEW YORK. Cattle 3 00 @ 6 60 Hogs 3 so & a 60 Sheep 2 to & 4 00 Wheat—No. 2 Red £64<g> 674 Corn—No. 2 68 di to Oats—White Western 35 @ 40 Burier—Creamery 23 di 24 j Eggs—Western 19 di 2u

NEW WHISKEY TRUST GREAT WHITE SPIRIT COMPANY ENTERS THE FIELD. Mysterious Bank Robbery at Omaha Sixteen People Perish by Fire at Seattle —Biff I’reigbt Depot Burned—Murderous Work by Dynamiters. Il Union Is Cash. Tapers were li ed in the Se retary of State's office a’. Trenton, N. J., which indicate the so mation of a new whisky, trust. The papers comprise tne articles of incorporation of a cance^n - to lc known as the Great White bPirt Corpany, the total authorized h ™ lte d by the charter to SoO,OJO,OOj. The ob'ects for which the company is formed are sta ed in the ai tides of incorporation to be to make, buy. and sell, and deal in spirits v. 11( l ucr3 of ail kinds and sorts, and to buy sen. arr j deal in anv and all material f. om which spi its of anv kind i; ay be made, and all material ne ess ary and incidental to the business of distil ing, aid in general to carry on the busir ess of distillers in ail its bcanches, and any businass ineidenta' thereto; to purchase, refine, sell, coal in. and manufacture molasses ancl g U g ari o f all binds, and all products ot the sugar cane, in dudino- tho acquisition by purchase, by manufact uro. or others is-, of all n ate .ials. supplies; machinery, and other articles necessary or convenient for use in con nect on with and in carrying on tie business herein described. Rank Vaults Robbed. The fact is made public that a large | sum of money has I een mysteriously i taken from boxes in the safety vaults of the Omaha Nat onal Bank. The princ i al loser in the ca e is William Gladish, the retail druggist. Last March ho placed in his box the sum of $2,70 I in gold. He ciscovered Oct. 5 about $1,203 of the am unt was missing. Ho notified Mr. Millard, and the investigation commenc d. Another party who claims to have lost money from the vault is Blanche Wilson. Sho claims three sloi bills have Ie m abstracted from her box and that she has no means of knowing how the money ■ was lo.t. The discovery of the losses । has overwhelmed the Cm iha National ! officials \yith perplexity. They place । every reliauci on the pa ties who have any connection with the management ■ of the vaults, and are thoroughly in | the dark as to how the losses could . have occurred. Tne vaults are conj structed in the basement of the bank building. Tho pr v te boxes are surrounded with every safegaurd the ingenuity of science can devise. The individual boxei, cf which the e are several hundred, are inside a burglarproof x ault, constructed of the best hardened steel, and supplied with double time locks. Esch private box has a strong leek, which cann >t be oj ened without the use of two diffe ent keys. Holocaust at Seattle. Sixteen persons—ten men, three women and three children—were j burned to death in the West Street : Hotel Seatt e, Wa li.. Saturday i morning. Thirteen bodies have I been identified. The financial : loss is less than $20,000. well i Insuredly, The Are was uuleubted

‘■■■•■l U. I i lamp m the kitchen. The pro- ! pi ietor s son was arou ed by the noise I of the explosion about 1 o'clock, but 1 befo.e he con'd investigate the flames ha I spread all through the house. 1 The corrugated iron sheeting kept the | flames hid until re ;rly the whole in- ; terior was a iurna e. The thin partitions were of resinous pine covered with cheesec oth and burned furiously. Looking Up Chinese Fr iuils. Special Agent M. F. Hereley, of Chicago, has been on the Pacific coast i Incognito so? several month 1 , engaged iln investigating Chinese certificate ; frauds. He intimates there are fully 4.000 fraudulent certificates in California. They have not all been used, but are for sale by Chinese and white agent l . The agent is trying to discover the person in the government who has been in collu-ion with the venders of fraudulent certificates. The Deadly Grade Crossing. A WAGON containing a party returning f om a dance was struck by a Big ■ Four train near Lebanon, Ind., Sunday morning and five of the merry-makers ■ were killed. Th 3 dead were Gertrude | Davis, Grace Davis. Tenna George, Carl Gowans, May McDaniel. NEWS NUGGETS, Bandits ra’dol Gibson Station, I.T. Hog cholera is reported in some paits of Illinois. All hope for the safety of the whaling ship Falcon has been aba dened. Mrs. Cleveland has consented to ch listen the steamship St Louis on ' Nov. 1A Governor Matthews is reorgani - Ing the Indiana militia by weeding out I the late nillionaiie banker, A. ^l. ; Saxton, of St. Joseph, Mo., is deal of old age. She was over 102 years of age at her death The East St. Louis freight depit of ; the St. Louis Transfer C mpany t aught fir a about 11 o'clock Sun lay ni ht and was almost totally destroyed with it > contents. 'The 1 ss is a out iso(‘,ouo. Eleven miners were eatombed by a cave-in at the fourth let el of shaft No. 1 at the Pewabic mine, Ironwood, Mich. A daughter of Squire Hause, of Jeffersonville, Ind.. who has married 3,001 eloping couples, eloped with Roy Howard. Secretary’ Carlisle has held that whisky in a customs bonded warehouse <annot be lelea ed on payment of duties and deposited in a distille y warehouse, the.eby extending the bonded period eight years. The trial of the members of the mob who lynched six negroes near Millington, Tenn., Aug. 31, has begun. A DISASTROUS wreck occurred on the Pennsylvania Ra’lroad near Cory- ' don Station, Fa., in which three men j v ere killed and a score or more injured.

BURNED IN A HOTEL.’ SIXTEEN PERSONS PERISH BY FIRE AT SEATTLE. £hnt Up in a Fire Trap, They Are Suffocated and Cremated Without Hope of E 4cape —Women and Children Among the Victims—List of the DaacL Caused bra Lamp Explosion. Sixteen persons- ten men, three women, and three child en—were burned to d ath in the West Street 1 ote at Seattle, Wash., early Saturd*y morning. The Killed, w.th names so far a known, are. F. 80l man, M. Me oJey, Agnes Mixon C. Wilson, —- Anderson, Andrew Otferson, Mrs. I Ctierson and her mothe ■, Mrs. Huffi man and little son and daughter, four men, one woman, and one child, unidentified i ecognition impossible. she \\ est htre et Hotel occupied the upper floor of a two-story corrugated building that covered a quarte ■ of a block of ground at Columbia and \\e>t streets, one block from the ■ ; i °rjhem Facific Depot, an i near the ( i business center of the city. The baildt > ing was a me e shell et w od covered ! w.th non. There were several exits , to the street, but they wer narrow, s I be halls were narrow and tho ro mi : i mail. Wholesale business ho„s s oc--3 cuniel the ground loot-. The hotel, •el ig near the railroad depot and a i cheap but s eputable house, was much s ! r'» tron \ zed by country people. The Hie was undoubtedly caused by the explosion of a lamp i i the kitchen in tne re ir of the house. The propriet r s son was aroused by the noise of the explosion about I o’clock but be- , fore he could investigate the fames r spread all through the h use. The corrugated iron sheeting kept the fames hidden until nearly th • whole ’ interior was a furnace. The thin par--1 titions were of resinous pine, covered with cheese cloth, and bur ied furiously. It was not until the flames were seen burning in the windows by । eople in the streets that an alarm was turned in. When the tiremin ar ived the tre did not present an alarming aspect The people at the windows were re-cued with ladders and boards, some escaping with hardly any clothing. Stincksiiff D Hcoverici by rhe I rem -n. The fir. men discovered co pse after corpse, until, at 4 o'clock, they had co nted fifteen. Sub e^uently another was discovered. Most < f the bod es we e left where they lay until day ight i in the hope the prop fetor might idenI tify them by locating the rooms on the | register, for all except two were ( charred beyond possibility o recogniti n. The bodies were taken to the I m rgue in bixes or canvas sacks. The I arrangem nts of the halls oi the hotel । made such a la' yrinth that in the day time o e unfamiliar with the place would have had difficulty in finding his way about without several attem ts, and as the halls were filled with smoke there was little chance for any of them to make their way out tefoie suffocating. S me of the lodg.rs were asleep and were overta en in bed, while others rushed into the halls and were suffocate 1 and burned. BLOW AT UNCLE SAM. German Government Exclude? American Live Cattle and Fresh Beef. The Germ n government his puba prohib-t Qg the imj. pprtati ;n of American 4yc ea-tUe and

1 -esn Io 4 < c lygoes w hkh have just arrived contained 1 everat animas suffering from Texas fever. This action, a Washington dispatch sa s, w .s not cati dy unexpected by Ihe agricultural department, al.hjugh t e officials had h ped up to the list moment that the Ce mans would prove open to leison. The matter will not be allowed to rest where it no^v stands, bit our gocernn ent will cause a thorough investigation t > be made of the cases of the alleged Texas feve •on which the Germun gaveram nt has seen fit to act in bjc i a summary fashion. No doubt is elt here that these allege! cases will turn out tn be founded on a mistaken diagnosis, for if there is any cattle dis -ase that the Gorman ve erinarians know' little or nothing absut, that disease is Texas fever, a purely climatic, non-infectic us fever peculiar to America. That is the opin on of the Agiicultural Fe,a tment experts who have ttudi^d the disease for years and a e aware of the stat 3 of knowl- < dge on the subject in Europe. f the de partmsm al examination's expected, results in disprovi g the exist nee of the cases complained of, o r Government will enter a very vigorous protest f gainst the action of Germany and seek to make it clerr that t e reason i ssigned for the destruct on < f oar meat trade is disingenuously stated. SHORN OF ITS TERROR. Frencli Claim that Diphtheria Is to lio Cured by Inoculation Hereafter. The new treatment by inoc elation | for diphtheria and croup, as practiced I in Fiance, is the subject of a special i report to the State'Department by j United Sta es Consul C.W. Chancel or, ' at Havre. The Consul gives in detail a history of the development of the j treatment by Dr. Pasteur end his as- ' Mutant, Dr. Rpupf.^Jiq have been ex--1 lag it secret until tuey had sausiied ■ themselves of its efficiency and had subjected the animal the" horse 1 I best adapted to transform diphtheritic poison into an an - i-toxine. A trial of • the new treatment at one of the largest j children’s hi spitals of Paris resulted I in 1 educing the death rate from diphi theria from 51.70 per cent to 4.33 per j cent. In addition it is state 1 that children v iccinated with the serum were i protected from the di-e ise even while 1 living inclose contact with diphtheritic patients. As the Pasteur Institute cannot meet the great demand for the i erum movements are on foot in different localities to establish auxiliary stations. In Might c sei one in_ectioa of the serum is sufficient. Our Population. 0. 7 the emigraticn movement of the whole world, two thirds were diverted to the United States, the remainder to South America and Australia. For the United States as a whole there were in IK'.O 1 O.ouo males to 95,2 0 females, so that s me of the males will be unable to get wives if they really n ed th m. The persons of African descent are I cla-sifled tcc >rding to the degrees of • colored blood into U, 337,980 blacks, j 959.989 mulattoes, 105,135 quadroons, 1 and 69,936 oct roons