St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 19, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 24 November 1894 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. u— _ ... ■= I WALKERTON, - _ _ INDIANA. IIIS IMPERIAL TOMB. REMAINS OF ALEXANDER 111. LAID TO REST AT LAST. After Long Funeral Services They Are ; Placed in the Vault of the Cathedral of . St. Peter and St, Paul—A Permanei ' Strike Commission. Great Show of Grief. The entombment of the remains of the late Czar Alexander 111. took place at St. Petersburg Monday in the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. l’aul. A thick fog enveloped the city, but the populace was astir at the earliest possible hour, and at the same time the troops detailed to take part in the funeral ceremonies commenced moving toward the positions ; assigned to them. The cathedral was packed with people, including representatives of all the imperial and royal families of Europe. The Czar and the Grand Dukes and the members of the royal families present took up positions on the right of the coflin, and the many military oflicers in attendance were grouped behind the bier. On the left were the foreign ambassadors and ministers and their I staffs, while grouped around in different ‘ parts of the cathedral were countless delegations from Russian cities and elsewhere, including the numerous delegations from France. The Czar, the imperial family and the royal mourners were received at the door of the cathedral by the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and by all the members of the Holy Synod bearing crosses and holy water, I The imperial party formed in a solemn procession, which marched up the aisle until the Czar and tin' other mourners reached their appointed places. A Strike Comtulsslon. Considerable interest attaches to the stand which the President will take in Isis message to Congress regarding the strike last summer. The appointment by him of a commission to investigate the occurrence, the report which its members have submitted to him, and the severe criticisms which have been passed upon his action by Gov. Altgeld of Illinois, will afford a text for referring to this important event. It is expected that the President will recommend the appointment of a permanent strike commission. This has always been a favorite idea with him,, and as long ago as ISSG. in a message to Congress relative to the Missouri Pacific troubles, he suggested voluntary arbitration as the best means of settling disputes. Mr. Cleveland also argued in that message that such a permanent commission would, by its very existence, prevent strikes, would have ample power to enforce its decisions, and it could be easily engrafted upon the Bureau of Labor by the addition of two commissioners. It is thought that in his approaching message he will reiterate the views which ho expressed eight years ago, in which case legislation by the present congress is not unlikely. Winnipeg Ilas a liaptlsm of Fire. At Winnipeg, Man., the Western Ca- i nadian Block was destroyed by fire, and the stores underneath, occupied by Wright Bros. & Mitchell, druggists, burned out. Loss, $85,000. The Grand Union Hotel, Princess street, was swept out of existence, in addition to several stores and houses adjoining. The fire then crossed the street and consumed the warehouse of Merrick, Anderson & Co., which was filled with valuable stock. The loss in this connection will exceed $125,000. Hit by a Sand Storm. A simoon of sand raged in Oklahoma Territory four days. It was not only ; furious in its gait, but it turned to a cold wave, and that, with the sand, made existence a burden. Many rickety wooden buildings were toppled over, but no lives have been lost. The storm was a wonder to the people of Oklahoma. Stocks of dry goods and other merchandise have been literally covered in dust, and human be- i ings all looked like red men. The mercury fell fifty degrees in a very short time. NEWS NUGGETS. A Jersey City baker has reduced the • price of bread to 3 cents a loaf. The steamship Corean, of the Allan : Line, is four days overdue at St. Johns. Ten members of the family of Martin Gasse, near Vandalia, 111., have been poisoned by eating cookies. Turkish rugs are now being made in 1 Belgium. Girls employed in the work receive from 20 to 25 cents a day. Mexico is hurrying troops to the Guatemalan frontier and war between the two countries is thought to be imminent. Escaping natural gas overcame many members of the congregation of a Methodist church at East Liverpool, Ohio. Charles T. Parsloe, the old-time actor f who won fame and considorablo fortune own smcKen with paralysis at .sew lorn. United States Attorney Jackson has ' been threatened with death should he make any further attempts to extenni- i nate the Cook gang of train robbers ami L highwaymen. Pennsylvania anthracite coal operators have begun to cut prices and consumers ' may be able to rejoice. Coxe Bros. & Co. i announce a reduction of 40 cents a ton and other operators are likely to follow ■ suit. An attempt was made to hold up a Yazoo and Mississippi Valley train near ■ suspicions were aroused by the manner 1 in which the signals were given and he I would not stop. A volley was tired into the cab, wounding the fireman. In making an arrest Officer Kellar, of i New Orleans, was shot in the head and instantly killed. An unsuccessful attempt was made to lynch the murderer. Dr. A. E. Aultz, a prominent physician ' of Montgomery, AV. Va., and ex-member of the Legislature, was found dead. It is ; supposed he was murdered by revengeful j miners. The Dallas (Texas) Typographical J Union has passed resolutions denouncing j the action of the International Union in submitting a political program for the ] consideration of subordinate unions and j deny its right to do so.

EASTERN. B. H. DOUGLASS &SONS. confectionI ers, New Haven, Conn., asked for a receiver. Assets, $150,000; liabilities, SIOO,OOO. Martin V. Strait, of Elmira, N. Y., shot his wife to death, shot his sister-in-law, and fired three bullets into himself. | Andrew Carnegie has reached j Pittsburg, and it is said he will remove Managers Schwab and Dillon of two of his mills. Edwin Booth’s memorial portrait was formally presented to the city of | Baltin.ore. Critics pronounce the de- > sign and execution perfect in every de- । tail. It delineates Mr. Booth iii his great impersonation of tho character : of Hamlet. The brilliant life of Dr. James MeCosh, tho venerable ex-President of Princeton University, came to itsclo e Friday right at Princeton, N. J.. as peacefully as the sun sets at evening. .He had been in no great pain during h's recent illness, increasing weakness being the only indication of approaching death. Ho was conscious until death. JUDGE COLE overruled tho demurrer to the indictment against Messrs. McCartney and chapman, New York stockbrokers, who refused to answer questions put by the Senate committee which investigated tho sugar trust. The court held that tho indictment was all right, and tho committee had authority to ask tho questions. WHILE the inhabitants of the village of Blindtown, Pa., slept Tuesday night an organized gang of coble s swept down upon them and stole horses, hogs, sheep, and fowls. The army of thieves slaughtered tho hogs, sheep, < hickens. etc., before carrying them away. The raid was made at a given signal. It is believed the robbers carried their booty to caves in the mountain , Recently, Postmaster Laning and Col. Dubois wore in a store at Bridgeton, N. J., when Laning told tho Colonel he would give him $lO if he would keen quiet for half an hour. The Colonel complied, and Laning refused to pav the money. 'Then Col. Dubois sued him, and Justice Myers gave judgment in favor of Dubois. Both sides have spent more than SIOO already, and tho case will be appealed. Harry Morton Buckingham, a member of the “Tako a Light" company, died at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. in Baltimore, Md., from burns received in the theater. Mr. Bucking-! ham was in his dre-sing-rm m getting • ready for his part, when his clothes 1 caught lire from a stove, and he was fatally injured before his burning clothing covid be torn from him. He was formerly known as Harry Mortimer. The situation among the striking New Yo k cl akmakers is do-pe ate. They started t ut with strong faith in the outcome. This confidence was justified empirically by the sapineness of the manufacturers in the past. But the linns, which had suffered from many such difficulties all the year, finally determined by co-operation to make a tight. In a short time tho strikers had nothing but hope, based on the chances of the o do- for a oheral garment makers strike. W hen | this lai ed and tho firms still hold out । the workingmen were reduced to charity, an 1 that, is their sole reliance now. Affiliated unions have sent them some aid, united labor general y will raise something lor them at ma*smeetings soon, and business men saloonkeepers, and other.- are supplying some food and promises of clothing. Such action will not help long, and as the strikers are disp sed to hold out it is probable that .o><i or K'.oOi able- 1 bodied men a .d w< men, with a skill for which there is no market now, will be thrown on the charity of the community before the winter is over. WESTERN. — At Sumner Postoffice. Ok., R. Youree, Postmaster, and M S. Gardner were claimants for the same tract of land. Gardner attempted to do some work on the land, to which Youree objected. A fight occurred. Passenger train No. 2. on the Mis- ! souri, Kansas an 1 Texas Rai road, was held up and rob ed four miles north of Muskogee, I. T.,by Bill Cook and four- , teen men. The robbers clean d out the express car of its entire contents. Friends of tho young des; era io. I d ! Morgan, of Massillon. Ohio, who was i shot by Marshal Louis Just at Bam- ! hill, assembled under the leadership of : the boy s father to avenge his death. । Thirty deputies were put on duty to protect Just Serious work is feared. Harvey and Arnold, the murderers of Mayor Marsh of Kinsley, Kan., I pleaded guilty to the cha-ge of mur- I ! dec in the first degree. The sentence i imposed was imprisonment in the State ' penitentiary until such time as the Governor shall decide that they shall ' be hanged. At Hubbard, Ohio, James Mahauay j sh >t John I^*^^-, f^pr\vtthMarfin ryoui'i butchering ho s. I Ttostaech, rsKu a quarrel with HostJ sech, in which Mahoney was badly 1 i whii ped. The latter went home, got j ; a revolver, and, returning, shot Rich- I j ards in mistake for Rostsech. ; Mary Leilson, 25 years old, of Philadelphia, while dining at Norwich, Conn., in response to a toast, laughingly drank a glass of carbolic acid l with suicidal intent and died soon I afterward. Not one of the party susI pected that the liquid was poison until ■ its fatal effects were seen. Grief at ■ the death of her husband led to the I act. Frank Monroe has been arrested j at Denver for attempting to cash acer- . tificate issued by the Crocker -Wool- । worth National Bank, of San Francisco, : which had been raised from sls to $1,500. M nroe acknowledged he had , rai ed the check. He says he is a maj chiuist and his home is in Lowell, Mass. The police believe he is a pro- ■ fessional check raiser. Italian laborers on the Idaho State i wagon road are in a state of anarchy. I Contractor Costello narrowly escaped with his life and lied to Spokane. The I trouble arose from non-payment of wages due. Several hundred Italians । are now in possession of tho road. ' Trees ha\e been felled and thrown acro.-s the road, bridges blown up, and ।

traffic made impossible. The StahlL hi take measures to have the settled at once. Alonzo G. Kenney, 22 yearJßci died at St. Mary's hospital, apolis, Minn., as a result of injurii?\ reived in a cane rush at the StatJW-ii versity one year ago? At that ti^t J6 was one of fifteen sophomores^tt'Ao withstood nineteen freshmen inOch e first cane rush the university ever® id. At the end of tho rush ho was bottom of the heap with both hands iD the stick. He was taken sick not lon J after and has been in the hospital IP', nearly a year. The annual cane ml? at the university, in view of Kennel- 1 late, was abandoned. At Chicago, two hundred and twi-p ty-four small-pox patients were mitted to the pesthouse during^., months of August, September, and tober, this year, as against ei^htel? admitted during the same i eriod l^i year. Such was the statrm mt maL by Dr. Cazier to the Public HeaPh Committee of the Civic Federati^ A member of Dr. Cazier's family w A *s stricken with small-pox last monH. and Dr. Cazier went with him to Ue pesthouse and remained there u»UI lecovery. It was in a report of wW he saw there of the conditions management of tho small-pox hosnj^ 1 that this statement was made. tradicts mo t emphatically the’pwerally believed opinion that snujffixn has been about stamped out in^Rloa- l go. It shows th.it there uro-^K,lve times as many’ new cases now m there were a year ago when small-po x w?s supposed to lie epidemic. Chart.es E. STRONG, manager of He Chicago Newspaper Union and of is branches in Hmix City and Fq-t Wayne, died Wednesday’ morning it his residence in Chicago. His fatil illness dates from tho time of his attendance upon tho recent, meeting »f tho Typothet e in Philadelphia, Sept. 18-21. I o several days after tills meetfng he was unable to return io Chicago, and sine > then had not I eei able to attend his offee regularly. Wednesday, Nov, 7. he was a wor^ but that n g t wa- compelled to retin to his bed. For several days tho groat ost concern was felt, but M. nday a-1 Tuesday he seem* d improving. Ilk physician, who had be -n in c nstait attendance, remitted in his watch, am the members of his family retired i| tho evening. About midnight, however. tho crisis came, and thirty mini utos later all was over. Tho immedi ate causr> of his death was heart fail ure. induced, no doubt by asthma from which ho had been for years t i groat sufferer. i Henry Miller, of San Francisco j Cat, Deputy United States Marshal ' left San Francisco Thursday with Hen ry Smythe, acc ised of using the mail to defraud Chicago mor. bants. Mon day afternoon, at, Little Rock, Ark. Smythe di-ai p-arod from the train s< mysteriously that Miller has n il ye;| recovered from tho shock. Smythe d wife discolored that her husband wad to bo taken, and she got a | ass for heril tolf and her daughter. "When wlj reached Texarkana.” said Miller. “Mr-*| Smythe made coffee and prepared t « meal. An hour and a half afterward d was almost overcome by a drowsy feel I ing. Niy head felt as though it was in tj vise. None of the others were takoO sick. The inference is obvious. Wbja tho t ain pulled into LilUa ib Hf/lj walked along tho platform near the ’ front of the ear. When the train was I about to start I got on b ard, and did not see Smythe. While Il ad been on tho platform, water m -n ha I unlocked the rear d or t> supply tho drinking tank, and Smythe had evidently skippci by them. Smythe is charged with using tho mails' to dofra .d A. Colter A Co., of Chicago, and others. SOUTHERN. The faculty of the Kentucky University denies there ha e been throe deaths from typnoid fever among tho i students. James Cahill, of Chattanooga, I Tenn., is under arrest, charged with [ robbing his mother of S2,OW in certificates of deposit. Tin: Texas and Pacific Railroad wharf at New Orleans, with over twenty-five thousand bales of cotton, was burned. Lo s, *500,000. D L. Marsh; who killed de so Honaker in Owen County, Kentucky, two years ago, has been convicted for : a third time and again sentenced fcr I life. T.ie Rev. Richa d Carroll, a pr m- ( inent Baptist preacher, hung him elf । near Maynardville. Tenn. He was MJ years old and had been preaching ! I sixty-live years. As a consequence of tho long ■ drought, forest tires are raging all around Poplar Bluff. Mo., and reports re eived from various p ints indicate | that farmers have lost fences and out- । houses. ; D:’. J. L. Marsie, who killed Jessie Honaper in Owen County. Ky., about two years ago. a .d who has had two tria s. at each of which he has received i a life sentence, has been convicted for : pealed. Generat. Casstus M. Clay, ofl.exj ington, Ky., despite the efforts of his । children, succeeded in ma rying pretty i 15-year-o d Dora Rich irdson. The ceremony took place in the presence I of only the farm-hands and the girl's relatives. Spuire Douglas performed the ceremony. M illiam McKinnon, a prominent young Athens, Ga., man, loved Miss Hattie Sailors. Miss Hattie was, however, chary of him because of his t ad habits, and when he asked her to marry him she refused. Ho grew de- ' spondent a ,d took a 1 t of morphine and. hurrying to her home in East Athens, died upon the doorsteps. < >]•’ all tho many tragedies that Nashville, lenn., has experienced the most apj ailing o curred Wednesday. Chancery Court Clerk George K. Whitworth shot and killed instantly Chan1 Ce i, Allison. The Chan- I ; cellor had ju-t adjourned his court ; ! and left the rot m. entend the l all I ; and was about t > desce id tho stops’ | I V- nitworth, who was i i the hall, said- 1 O, Judge,” and as he turned fired at 1 him. Joseph Acklen, who witnessed tho tragedy, rushed to him, and as I ne did so heard two shots behind him. I lu ning, he saw that Whit orth had . shot h self twice with a pistol. I l \\ hitworth was cool and collected ! during the shooting and abo after the । affair, and expressed no regrets, but

desired to know if he had killed his man, saying nobody who had treated , him as Allison had done could live in the same country with him. The cause of the tragedy was the failure of Allison to settle or secure a lame-. sum due from him to Whitworth for a money loan, said t • be about $25,00J. WASHINGTON. ►^Secretary Carlisle late Tuesday afternoon issued his call for bids for $50,000,000 5 per cent, ten-year bonds, intere t to be paid in coin, which is interpreted to mean gold. The only material changes made in the present call from that i sued Jan. 11 last are the omission of the upset ir minimum price which would be accepted and the notice t at the proposals for the present issue must be sealed. It is confidently asserted at the Treasury Department that an amount will bo realized considerably in excess of that received on the February i sqe. This expectation is based on tho fact that there are exceptionally large amounts of money now lying idle and seeking investment in the money centers of the country and upon the further fact * a >. e February issue is now quoted at 5-118.. 0, or about 2 per cent, above the price, which would yield 3 per ^gnt. l-romthe last issue there was reaTUrd SSB, < iOO.'J! 7. t-a, and of this । amount $52,850,251.21 was in gold coin, $5,810,120 in gold certificates, and $23,1.39 in other in noy which the subtreasuries were compelled to take in n aking change. POLITICAL. The personal campaign expenses of John W. Goff, elected Recorder of New York, were 75 cents. The official vote in tho Seventh District of Kentucky gives Owens, Dem., a plurality of 10l votes. Tho total vote east Owens, D- m , 1.’’,057; Denny, Rep., Di,s7< ; Johnson I’o.e, 2t>2: I innel, I’ro., 551. It is raid that Denny has employed attorneys to begin a contest. foreign, There have lieon violent shocks ot earthquake along the northern coast of Chili and in Bolivia. Ono hundred people ha o been killed by t o seismic di-turbam es within a indiu- of forty miles from Lapaz. The ol.eials of the Chinese Government have made the apologies demanded by British Gove nment officials for the outrage eommitt d by Chinese sol-dier-on board the British steamship Ch ,ng King, in August last. Tho Chung King was saluted by the guns of tho Tak i forts ami tho io uired apology was ma e to t -- British Minister. On ict l‘\ a dispatch from shanghai announce 1 that an ultimatum had l>ecn so t to tho \ ico oy reI garding thot hung King a air. It demando I that within seven days thoTaotai Sheng be d smiwsed and degraded, that tho thing King b? saluted with twenty-one gun* from the Taku Sort- and that a m >noy indemnity be paid to the owners ol the Chung King. U these demands wore not complied with within the specified t mo' tho i officials threatened that tho ; r the e mma d of Admiral l^vmantlo would make roprisu s. and ’it was believe 1 that stops had been I taken to occupy the important island of Chusan, whb h command the lino of communication by ><-a I et w--en tho port orn and s mthern pr vinces of China. 'Die British occupied this i-1-an I in I*ll. dur ng tho first war b•tween China and rng and. Eventually tho Chinese < overr.ment succeeded in recovering Ch;;san by giving up Hong Kong in excha ge. IN GENERAL Judge McDougal, at'Toronto, Ont., refused ovidenc ■ that Aid. St -wart solicited b; ib.-s from a contractor, McGuire's Stock Farm in Janesville, Ont., a subu bof Ottawa, burned. El ven th- roughbred horses from Kentucky were cremated. John 11. Russell, of Russ-Il's Comedians, an I h'isban I of Amelia Glover, is suffering with brain trouble and has gone to a ?anitarium. The United States loan of ’50.000.i 0 0 is hunted after every where by Loni don linani iers, who are desirous of ! taking a p rtion of it. The stock market will be only too plea* dto take any amount of it. Many in ui ies have i been made at the Morgans ba king I house. The Dig loan will b most w--l- --| corned by the investors who have idle : money. Th- Rothschild* informed the | Associated i re-s they are most cor- ! dially supporting the issu - and that they have cabled to the Belmont bank- ; ing ho so to sub-cribe to the new kan promptly in their name. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common, to prime $3.75(06.50; hogs, shipping grades, s4<qs; $3.75k'G.50; hogs, shipping grads, §4615; sheep, fair to choice, $2(113.75; wheat, N^ 2 (ad, 55frz5Gc; corn. No. 2. 51<7(.52c: rve, No. 2, 47(<z50p,, e^X steamery. 24i/Mlf2s^e; I lotk ;>«>r Indianapolis — Cattle, shipping, s3@ '’•7s; hogs, choice light. s4^ls; sheep common to piinie, $2(03.25; wheat, No. i 2 red, 50@50’^c; corn, No. 2, white, 51@ I 52c; oats, No. 2. white, 32@33c. St, Louis—Cattle,s3(o6; hogs, [email protected]; wheat, No. 2 red, 52(y53c; corn, No. 2, 45@$6c; oats, No. 2, 30@30^c; rye, No. I 504/52c. Cincinnati—Cattle. [email protected]; hogs, sheep, [email protected]; wheat, No. 2 red. oi H@ss%c; corn. No. 3. mixed, 45(046c; ?ats, No. 2 mixed, 32^33c; rye, No. 2. 1 -*l l ^<ds2lsc. Fktroit— Cattle, $2.50(05.50; hogs, Slfg sheep,[email protected]; wheat. No. 1. white, °°%@s6i£c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 50@51c; oats, No. 2, white, 33@34c; rve, No. 2 wgule. Toledo— Wheat, No. 2, red, 53@54c; No. 2, yellow, 51@51%c; oats, No' j “■' vl iite, 32^32^0; rye, No. 2, 494t51c. | C’cffalo—"Wheat, No. 2, red, 57@5Sc; S orn > yellow, 57^@58 1 / ^c; oats, No. ■ wlijfe, 36413< j r -Milwaukee..-'Wheat. No. 2 spring. 57@ । corn. No. 3, 494/50c; oats No ° ^e^ 33 ® 33 ^: barle y> No - 2. 534/56c'; i 12.5() 1 ’ 50f -t-Jlc; pork, mess, sl2@ I Ne W iork-Cattle. $3@G; hogs, $3.50@ red ^’<2s; wheat. No. 2, o-its % G1 c; corn, No. 2, Go@6o%c; erea’m^H^^^ 37 f 42C; bUtter ’ ! 22c. । Lag-be; eggs, Western, 17@ ,

,CHAB. E. STEONGDEAD I manager of the newspaper UNION PASSES AWAY. The Well Known and Highly Esteemed Head of the Largest Auxiliary Printing Establishment in th o World Succumbs to Heart Paralysis. Sketch of Ills Life. Charles E. Strong, general manager of the Chicago Newspaper Union and its branches, died at his home in Chicago early Wednesday morning, paralysis of the heart being the immediate cause of death, although his illness dates from the time of the annual meeting of the Ty--1 pothetae at Philadelphia in September. While in attendance there he contracted ' a severe cold. This aggravated a complication of heart and bronchial troubles from which he had long suffered, and on : Nov. 7 he was obliged to take to his room, i there were no particularly alarming symptoms, not even on the day and even- | ing of his death; in fact, his jovial spirits j had given the anxious ones hope of final | recovery. At midnight, however, Mrs. I Strong was awakened by unusual restlessness on the part of her husband, and before the physician could be summoned n / V -/ pt CHAKbUS E STH INO. death had come peacefully and painlessly In tho presence of his devoted wife and daughter. Tho deceased leaves a widow and two children, George and Emily, the former In his capacity as manager of the Newspaper Union’s supply department being well known to the newspaper fraternity of the Northwest. After a touching funeral service In Chicago, the remains were conveyed to Milwaukee Friday by special train. Nearly one hundred devoted employes accompanied the body to its last resting place, and by the side of the open grave In Forest Horne Cemetery mingled their sorrow with that of the grief-stricken family, and paid tribute to the memory of one whom they all loved. Story of His Life. Charles E. Strong was born in Union । City. Mich.. March 28. IH4I. IHs pa- - rents were among the early pioneers of that State, having located there in 1836. In 1850 they removed to Milwaukee, Wis., where, at the age of fourteen years, their eldest son, Charles E., was apprenticed to S. M. Booth, then publisher of the Daily Free Democrat, to learn the printer’s trade, with whom he remained for four years. Afterward Mr. Strong was engaged in the different newspaper and job printing offices in Milwaukee until the year 1860, when he entered the office of the Evening Wisconsin as compositor, and two years later was made foreman of that establishment, which position ho held until October, 1870, when he was sent to Chicago by his employers to establish and put in operation the Chicago Newspaper Union, which has become, under his management and direction, the largest auxiliary printing house in the world. He had probably done more to advance the ready print newspaper system than any other man in the i country, and was the pioneer in practical ; work pertaining to that business, his first experience in making up what is (termed “patent inside” forms dating I back to the spring of 1864. Probably no i man in Chicago had a larger or more agreeable acquaintanceship or was held in greater esteem among the country publishers of the West than Charles E. Strong. NEW DIPHTHERIA TREATMENT. Berum Greatly Reduces the Death Rate, but Is Very Costly. Among the reports coming to the State i i Department upon the new serum treat- I ment for diphtheria is one from Consul ■ General Charles DeKay at Berlin, exI hibiting the efficacy of the new treatment iby comparison. He says that the establishment at Schering, near the Jungfern Heide, has forty horses under treatment for the production of serum, yet the de- I ma ml has been s<> jgre'U Ui-A-we-Hospitals ■ . ran out of it in September, x --'7 a | oI r .. , - - “ death rate, which in children under four, the most difficult j age, had sunk to 11 per cent, before the ; exhaustion of the store of serum; it rose ' during October to GO per cent. । Hie serum is costly, because estabhshments for its production are few; it takes a long while to prepare and must be had comparatively fresh. It takes at 'east nine months and sometimes a year ,to get the animals—all under three years . old—into condition. One animal does not ( furnish much blood at a time—say two quarts. It must be carefully fed between I dates of tapping, and as in time the s strength of its blood as a means of cure gives out, it is necessary to go over again the process of cultivating the bacillus Absolute certainty is not ascribed to the cure, and cases in which other diseases are present should not be considered a fair test of its virtues. Sparks from the Wires. nCA project is to establish teleS rthevT^ betweeu and the Netherlands. “ Wild'run’^m a8 "’ aS Bhot an<l killed b y T ? „- d 7. lu , rn er at Middlesboro, Ky. It was the result of an old grudge nh.i; U h tOmB ? utborl tks at Cincinnati, 2^ ’ the lu T° r t«l wedding ney ° f Arthur Stem . the wealthy attor- j -William Mosley Hall, n New York promoter who had a hand in many great railway entexorises, is dead, aged 83 vear» ”

TRADE IS PICKING UP GRADUAL IMPROVEMENT IN ALL LINES. Insurance Companies Unearth a Big Conspiracy — Waitress in a Kansas Hotel Earns Fame—Death of a Famous Massachusetts Man—Southern Tragedy. The Trade Review. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: ...j^riy all branches of business grad- । uul improvement, a, pears, and toe hopeful feeling observed last week continues. It "ill take time to lift business from the depression, and the progress made, If less > than tue sanguine expected, Is at least encouraging. The decision to offer 550,OOO.UUO bonds for the replenishment of the i treasury reserve was. by banker, generally, approved. It is generally assumed that the bonds will be taken at once. The i reported Importation of gold from London. 1 with a loss on its face of W.SOJ at the present exchange rates, Is presumably meant to affect bond su i script! m~. There have already been some withdra ’ ais ot gold from the treasury by redemption of notes to make payments for bonds, and . goods rather than gold are likely to come j from Europe. Resumption of w rk and ‘ increase of working lime have been more i conspicuous In tlie cotton industry than I in others, but no incrensotl detnaad tor I goods appears. Bruve Mau i S h-rmeih rn. The Patterson Hotel at Harper, । Kan., was buri ed to the ground about 4 o'clock Fi id y mo ning. Nearly ; ty guests were in the house ;.t the time, an i but foi- the b very of a you g girl many of them m ist h ve lost the r lives As it was. ms: of the n t scape I with only thei ■ night । lothes and some of them hid to be d agged < ut by the stronger ones. The ihe onio of the occasion was Maud Schermerhorn, a wai iessonly 16 years old. who herself sut’ero i dreadful b irns and ther injuries while saving other*. Sh ■ staggered up the stair .. ay and f < m doo • to door calling upon the inmate- to awaken. Before she ha l got f..r the smoke became overpowering and he sank on her knees and hands and in this way crawled through the ] a-ages giving the alarm. Having i ea lied the last door she fell exhausted and lay taere in a stupor, burned and D eeding. The guests had all been aroused and were fleeing from the building. < >ne fortunately had to pass the pla :e where the young heroine lay. and as h • passed her prostrate body he li ted it and bore it to safety. Robert C. Winthrop Dies ar Boston. Robert C. Winthrop died Friday night at Boston at the age of *4 years. Mr. Winthrop was the oldest surviving cx-l’nited States Senat r of Massachusetts, he ha . ing served in 185C-’sl. .Mr. Winthrop was also one of the oldest gra mates of the Boston Latin School and of Harvard College. Ho was the oldest surviving ex-Speaker of the nati nal House of Representatives, having been elected to the Thirtieth Congress. Ho served on the floor only three years when he was elected to the j Speakership. He aLo enjoyed the i di.-tin tion of ha ing persona lv known ( e ery President of-the United States ; with the exception of Washington and Jefferson. Mr. Winthrop was the i chosen counselor of George Feabod v in a number of his benefactions and had bee i, ever sirce 186.. at the head of the I eabody educational fund. Aecineri of >fnrd?r. Thg arrest in Boston of H. 11. Holmes of Chi ago. is, the police claim, tl e prelim nary move in the expose of the biggest insurance swindling scheme ever concocted in this c uiniry The p nice sa. tho prisoner was the ringleader, and that murder was committed in order to secure sb‘,o)o life insurance. The prisoner la* conies ed everything but tie mu.de:’. lie admits that there was a conspiracy tc defraud the Fidelity N utual Life Insurance Association of Fbil tdclphia but as e ts that his partner, on whose alleged death the m ney was ; aid, is still alive. The lai ter s name is Benjamin F. Pitezell. Pick Th“ir Men and K H Th Theke was a pitched battle in the ma n business street of Lula. Mise, on 1- riday, as the result of which two men are dead. J. W. Boyd and his brother I ob s ood in a doorwav until they taw J. W. Harman and A. Lawrence approa hing. Thon the brothers, each armed with a shotgun, step el forth I and op ne i fire on the others. Hari man tired twice at the Boy 's, lut i witKut effect. Each of the brothers ! had his man picked rut. a d at the । first volley b th of the men fell. The I e drr Boyd mounted a horse and sole I away, while the other e caped on foot. The trage y is tho result of an old feud. Harman was Mayor of LulaIves Wins the M>t<h. Frank C. Ives, the “young ? apoloor of billiards,” demonstra ei his right L 2 uue of cuampion billia' dist ol tUo w ria eat rday night, at x ew Y'ork. by defeating Jacob Schaefer, the “W zavd,” by t o score of J.tOO tc • 'JD4 point . Ives ha* been challenged by Edna d Dournil the French expert, to play for SSO ) a side. BREVITIES. H. G. Worden, convicted of wrecking a Southern Pacific t a n ne ir Sacramento, in wTrich the engineer and four Un ted States soldiers were ! killed, was sentenced at Woodland. Ual., to be hanged Feb. 12. W . J. Myers, a boy wa* f mnd guilty j of murder in the first degree at Atj lanta, Ga. The officers of the Lehigh Valiev | Railroad Company announce that on । and after Dec. 1 there will be a re luc- ’ ti »u of lo n r cent, in salaries over sl.000 per annum. Prairie fires in Colorado have done over $1,000,000 damage, but no lives were lost. The burned district contains twenty - uare miles and is just west of Boulder. Bain extinguished the flames. J. W. Kirkbride A Bro., of FindJay, Ohio, drilled in an 8,000 barrel oil well near ilo lersville It is so large al eff rts to control it have fail d and. the oil is Hooding the surrounding country. 'lhe same people la tw ek struck a 3,0€0-barrel well on the same farm.