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

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. taken by the banks NEW BOND ISSUE CONLMANDS A BIG PREMIUM. Swindler Balked at Alliance—New ‘ldea in Steamships—Ugly Stories About an Indiana Failure —Steamer Indiana Safe. All Goes to a Syndicate. Secretary Carlisle has decided to accept the Stewart syndicate of bids for the entire new issue of $50,000,000 5 per cent bonds. The figure offered by the syndicate was 117,077. The following official statement concerning the acceptance of the syndicate’s proposal was made at the Treasury: “The Secretary of the Treasury has accepted the proposal of John A. Stewart, president of the United States Trust Company, and his associates to purchase the entire issue of 5 per cent bonds, amounting to $50,000, at 117.077. and accrued interest from November 1. The proceeds of the bonds under this bid will i be $49,517.62 greater than they would be I if the other highest bids were accepted. . A very important advantage to the Government in accepting this bid is the fact that all the gold will be furnished out- I side, and none drawn from the treasury. I It is also more convenient, and less expensive to the department, to deal with one party rather than with many.” Neals Arrested After Failure. Neal Brothers, the heaviest millers in ; Eastern Indiana, gave notice that they I had suspended business, and the members I of the firm, Wallace and Burton Neal, are under arrest charged with embezzlement, j The failure probably reaches SIOO,OOO. with no assets of any consequence. Os ; the thousands of bushels of wheat stored in the mill, it is said, not a pound is left. Every grain dealer in Portland and those at Decatur, Berne, and Ridgeville were caught in the crash. Raised a Check from $9 to $950. S. F. Hurley presented a draft for $950 at the First National Bank at Alliance, Ohio, Oct. 10, issued by the People's National Bank of Washington, Ind., on the United States National of New York. The draft was sent to New York and the money returned. Hurley called in ten days, but when asked to identify himself he disappeared. The check was issued for $9 instead of $950, it is learned. To Revolutionize Navigation. Baltimore parties interested in the ar-row-shaped steamer Howard Cassard said that a New York syndicate had been formed to complete the necessary improvements to the engines of the vessel and prepare her for another trial. Mr. Freyer, the inventor, says the steamer will revolutionize ocean travel. On the first trial her engines did not work well. NEWS NUGGETS. The Cunarder Lucania arrived at New York a day and a half late, delayed by itorms. Princess Bismark, wife of Prince Bismark, died at 5 o’clock Tuesday morning at Berlin. John Linthicum, a Chicago live stock dealer, has been granted a divorce at Indianapolis. The overdue steamship Indiana from Liverpool reported at the Philadelphia breakwater Monday night. Major General O. O. Howard, recently retired, has arrived at Portland, Ore., where he will spend the winter. Division Superintendent McKee, of Little Rock, has been arrested and accused of the murder of Conductor Brown. Surgeon General Wyman reports that 52,803 seamen were treated by the marine hospital service during the year ending June 30. The wedding of Nicholas IL, Czar of Russia, to Princess Alix of Hesse-Darm-stadt took place in St. Petersburg Monday afternoon. The Indian Office has ordered that all Indians implicated in the recent murder : at Pine Ridge, S. D., must be turned over j to the civil authorities. Prof. E. G. Mason, of Manhattan. Kas., who disappeared from a train at Mirage, Colo., Nov. 16, was found dead , on the prairie near Mirage. K, Y. Schenck, editor of the Caddo, | I. T„ Banner, shot and mortally wounded George Willis for circulating rumors derogatory to Schenck's wife. Fire destroyed the business part of Ma- I rion, N. C., causing SBO,OOO loss, with $12,000 insurance. The jail was burned, twenty-seven persons confined therein narrowly escaping. What was believed to have been evidences of an eruption on Mount Tacoma now appears to have been simply a cloud of vapor. There are no signs of an erup- I tion having taken place. The famous omnibus injunction against j E. V. Debs and GOO others was brought in Circnit Court at Los Angeles, Cal., on a I plea of pro confessa to complaint. Judge ' Ross made the injunction perpetual. A new church has been organized in St. Louis in which belief in a deity, in the divinity of Christ, or in a future state is not required of its members. Its avowed design is to meet the social, industrial, intellectual, moral and spiritual demands of liberal and progressive minds. As a result of taking a liquor habit cure Walter E. Hall, a court stenographer at : Denver, has lost his mind. He has a wife and family, but believes himself a ; single man. What would have been a I bigamous marriage was stopped by his j friends Saturday just as the minister was | beginning the service. The Controller of the Currency has au- ; thorized the Farmers' and Merchants’ National Bank of Eldorado, Kas., capital I $50,000, to begin business. County Treasurer Westley O. Barney, ' Defiance, 0., found short in his accounts | for the third time, resigned. His bonds- I men had to put up $6,500. Mrs. Matilda Gerst, of Allegheny, Pa., ; supposed to be the “Mrs. John Harris’’ I who deposited funds of the bogus Penn- i sylvania Land and Lumber Company in I Chicago, Toledo, and Cleveland banks, ’ has eluded the detectives and escaped. j

EASTERN. — A trust in plate glass industries is being formed in Pittsburg. The forthcoming bond issue of $50,000,000 has all been subscribed for by New I York banks. Mrs. Jeannette McWilliams, an aged ! lady living at Brinton, Pa., was so frightened by a train whistle blowing a fire alarm that she died. The New York Retail Grocers’ Union . has appointed a committee to draft reso- | lutions denouncing the selling of groceries I in department stores. During a quarrel William Sheehan, a saloin-keeper at Croton Dam, N. Y., was shot and killed by his sister Mary. Sho claims to have acted in self defense, A fight between McAuliffe ami Zeigler on Coney Island was stopped by the police because of its severity. During one of the terrific rounds McAuliffe’s wrist was broken. The tramp who secured access to a bed chamber in John Jacob Astor's residence and was routed out of his downy couch by the police has been engaged as a dimemuseum freak. Frank Godfrey, assistant instructor In the Young Men’s Christian Association gymnasium, while attempting a double somersault in Boston, fell and broke his neck. New York bankers have subscribed for all of the latest bond issue, and have dropped their scheming (o raid the gold already in the -easury in order to pay for tile bonds. .’he threat to reject ail 1 their bids accomplished this. Lemons in the New York market are 1 higher than at any time for ten years, partly owing to earthquakes in the Messina District, which have closed the packing bouses and brought about a stampede from the country. In a suit brought in Boston by the family of George H. Corliss, inventor and builder of steam engines. Judge Coit United States Circuit Court,decided the family of a dead person can not control tho reproduction of photographs of that person. The body of General John C. Fremont, the "pathfinder,” the first candidate for President on the Republican ticket, which has lain in a receiving vault in Rockland Cemetery on the Hudson for many years, is to be buried at that place Thursday, under the direction of the Associated Pioneers of tho Territorial Days of California. The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is up in arms against President Cleveland. J. G. Haynes, President of the society, says: “A President of the United States who finds great pleasure in tho shooting of squirrels is quite capable of the inhn-' manity of having his horses’ tails docked. But if he has done so 1 shall make it my business to see that justice is meted out to him.” But investigation proves tho falsity of the story. WESTERN. Judge Winters, nt Indianapolis, has granted Failey $50,000 for services as receiver for tho Iron Hall. The Illinois Supreme Court has been petitioned to annul its decision declaring railroad ticket scalping “illegal." Owing to i.i: epidemic of diphtheria in Detroit two of the large public schools and a couple of smaller parochial schools have been closed. Pullman Conductor Browne, of the Arkansas Valley Road, was killed and thrown from his train at McKay, I. T. A negro porter is suspected of the crime. Heirs of the late Nehemiah Hulett, of Duluth, have settled with Mrs. Lucy A. Pomeroy, who claimed a third interest in the estate as Hulett's common-law wife. Four members of the local board of mediation of he American Railway Union at Los Angeles, Cal., wen* convicted of conspiracy to obstruct the mails. General John A. McClernnnd is seriI ously ill nt Springfield with a malignant carbuncle on his neck, nnd owing to his advanced age it is feared he may not recover. Four thousand people, many of them prominent in Chicago’s social world, welcomed General William Booth, of the Salvation Army, at tho Auditorium Thursday evening. Engineer Jim Root, who ran a train i through the Hinckley forest fires, has ! outlived his usefulness as an “actor,” I and has gone back to his engine on the St. j Paul and Duluth line. At Kansas City, Mo., Mrs. PhaJinda Loving, an aged colored woman, lay I down on her bed and wont to sleep with I her lighted pipe in her mouth. The pipe I set the clothes afire and the old lady was i burned to death. At Wellsville. Mo., « young man named j Thomas Portercheck went suddenly in- | sane, and killed his mother, brother and | sister with an ax, then fired the house I and cut his own throat, all bodies being burned to a crisp. At Shelbyville, Ind., the low-pressure natural gas mains, which furnish the domestic supply, were chrged from the high-pressure reservoir, and about midnight many stoves KMited. Prompt alarm saved the town. Three houses I were burned. j At a ministers’ meeting in Cincinnati I resolutions were offered that the minis- । ters take immediate steps to secure In- ' gersoll’s arrest on the charge of blasphe- ; my. There was some opposiMen to this course, and after exciting discaiaiosn the meeting adjourned without action. A fire that destroyed the Knox and Dupont flats at Chicago Tuesday afternoon rendered more than fifty families homeless, most of whom lost all their household goods and not a few everything they had in the world except the clothes they wore. In the Dupont were fifty-two flats, i forty-one of which were occupied. In the | Knox there were twenty, sixteen being ' occupied. The tenants all had furniture | ranging in value from SBOO to $2,000 each. Engine No. 16, pulling a train on the I Chicago Alley L road, blew out its crown I sheet Tuesday evening. The explosion ' jarred all the houses in the neighborhood, I i caused a stampede among the passengers, ; who crowded the front cars of the train, I and started a frightful series of rumors iof many people mangled and killed. All ' the reports simmered down though, it apI peared that only one man bad been hurt, j This was the fireman, William Aldrich, I who had his clavicle and right arm fracj tured by jumping from the cab. Only j the cool action of the train guards pre- [ vented many from leaping to the ground. The Portland, Ore., Savings Bank fail- | ed to open its doors Tuesday morning. I The lack of public confidence and with-

tfrawal of deposits are given as reasons of the closing of the bank. O. N. Denny has been appointed receiver, and the bank will go into liquidation. The assets of the bank are given at $1,650,000- liabilities, $1,430,000. The closing of the bank was doubtless precipitated by the death of Frank Dekum, the President about a month ago. The bank first closed its doors in the panic of 1893, but resumed in May of this year, under an agreement with tho depositors that they were to draw out quarterly 10 per cent of their deposits. Four students and the dean of the medical faculty of Cottner University at Lincoln, Neb., are under arrest, charged with grave-robbing. Wednesday, Otto Albers, aged about 45 years, died. On Thursday the body was buried in Wyuka Cemetery. Friday Supt. Byer discovered that the grave of Albers had been rifled and the body varied away. Detective Malone was placed on the case, and he rounded up a party of medical students nt the lecture room at Cottner Universiy. Dean Alexander was about to illustrate his lecture by a practical exhibition of dissection, and had applied the knife to the cadaver of Albers when Malone placed the men named under arrest. The prisoners were released on bonds of SSOO each to appear for trial. The English capitalists who have been dealing in South Dakota paper during the past few years have been investigating the validity of their holdings and find in nearly every instance they have been swindled throngrh J. Ij. M. Pier/**, »»» Englishman, who has been living during the past three years in London. Fresh evidence is dully accumulating, but enough Ims been gathered to indicatethat Pierce has realized fully $1,000,000 in five years through fraudulent and forged papers, school bonds, tax deeds, certificates, mythical township bonds, etc. The firm of Pierce, Wright A Co. has offices in Yankton, in London, in Holyoke, Colo., and in Spokane, Wash. Discovery of the frauds was delayed thus long by the prompt payment of the interest coupons at the New York office. SOUTHERN. Mary Stevt nson, eldest daughter of the Vice President, is critically ill nt Asheville, N. C. Gen. John G. Morgan has been renominated for the Semite by a joint caucus of Alabama Democratic legislators. Lancaster Bros., sawmill owners nt Pine Ridge, Texas, have tiled a deed of trust preferring local creditors to the amount of S36,(MM). W. M. Robertson is named as assignee. The American Skewer Company, n trust in the manufacture of this article of butchers' supplies, bus clos«*d down the works at Grurm, Ohio, nnd Muncie, I ml., and removed to Jackson, Tenn., where timber is more plentiful. The Knights of laibor general assembly at New Orleans unseated tho miners’ delegates, who arc friends of Powderly, by a vote of 37 to 24. It is believed Mr. Powderly will petition for an injunction to prevent the present officers from continuing in control of the order and its funds. At Waco, Texas, Jolin D. Rockefeller and fifteen of his Standard OH business associates have been indicted by the Grand Jury for entering into a conspiracy to control the coal oil market. Gov. Hogg has indicated his purpose to L n requisition uu tho Governor of New York for llie parties. A most appalling mine disaster occurred Tuesday nt the Blanch coal mines on the Pan Handle Railroad nt Collier's Station, W. Va. A new miner, an Italian, shot off an oiescharge blast which ignited the coal dust in the mine, and n frightful explosion followed, currying death and destruction in its path. There were forty-eight men in the mine nt the time, and so von are known to be dead. WASHINGTON. President Cleveland is said to be perfecting a pl»n whereby civil service rules will apply to practically all tho departments. Rusts of Vice Presidents Stevenson, George M. Dallas, and Elbridge Gerry have been pin -*! in the Vice Presidential niches in the Smote gallery al Washington. The National Fish Commission will hereafter furnish gold fish only to State Commissions, to juirks, nnd for public uses generally, nnd will refuse private applicants. Congressman-elect Howard, of Alabnmn, author of "If Christ Came to Congress,” says he is going to introduce a resolution investigating President Cleveland's source of wealth. FOREIGN, Denmark has placed an embargo on American entile and fresh meat. The Columbus relics, in charge of the officers of the cruiser Detroit, hare arrived at Madrid. China has sent an officer to Japan to negotiate terms of peace. It is said she offers $175,000,000 indemnity. A London paper asserts that as a result of the understanding between Russia and England the Dardanelles is likely to be opened to all warships. Kate Field has been made an oITuIGITF public instruction by the French Government, the highest distinction the Department of Public Instruction can bestow for service rendered to literature and art. “Lord Ashburton,” otherwise known as “William Griffith,” alius “Griffin,” alias “Graham,” alias “Cliarles Bertrand.” alias “St. Elmer Donaldson,” alias “Big Griff,” alias “Griff,” the notorious international swindler, has been run to earth by Scotland Yard detectives and is in prison in London. Emperor Nicholas is suffering greatly from insomnia, and is consequently very much depressed in spirits. The Czarina has become very much emaciated as the result of her vigil at the bedside of her husband, and the subsequent tax upon her physical strength imposed by the journey to St. Petersburg and her participation in the various ceremonies over the body of the late Czar. Anton Gregor Rubinstein, the celebrated Russian pianist and composer, died of heart disease at Peterhof, near St. Petersburg. Rubinstein was born at Weichwotynetz, on the frontier of Roumania, Nov. 30, 1830. As a child he was taken to Moscow and studied the piano under Alexis Villoing. His first appearance in public was made when he was only 8 years of age. Rubinstein visited the United States in 1872-73. Tokio dispatch: It is learned that the Japanese Government has sent its reply to the note of United States Minister Dun asking whether a tender by the

President of the United States of Ms good offices In the interest of restoring peace in the East would be agreeable to Japan. Although the friendly sentiments w Inch prompted tho Government and people of the United States were deeply appreciated, the success of tho Japanese arms bad been such that China should approach Japan directly on tho subject. Salvador branch, tho chief conspirator in the bomb-throwing plot which resulted m the death of thirty persons nnd the wounding of eighty others in the Lyceo theater in Barcelona, Spain, a little more than a year ago, was shot to death there at (5 o'clock Wednesday morning. He rejected energetically the efforts of the priests, who sought to persuade him to turn his mind to his approaching death, and expressed scorn and contempt for those persons who believed that his reJ'^nt pretended conversion was genuine. Ihe prisoner showed no fear. His meals Were eaten with a good appetite and were apparently relished. It was several times found necessary for the military to charge upon and disperse the crowds which hail collected about the prison in the hope of seeing the execution. Franch cried, “Long live anarchy!” ns he was being led to the place of his execution, and scoffed at religion to the last. The Pall Mull Gazette publishes an interview with Herbert Bismarck in Berlin. Referring to the health of bis father, Prince Bismarck, the Count said: "You slmuW not forget that my father’s age is hoyond the allotted time of the Bible. He hn](~weathered many storms nnd has had leisure in life. But his h ardest trials have come within the past four years and at a time of life when he should be spared every aggravation of anxiety. Add to this his active, ever busy intellect, his deep concern for every important question of tho day, and more than nil his concern for Germany’s prosperity, to which he has devoted his life, to say nothing of the dentil of his friends, and 1 question if any other man has braved life's tempests with better results. But he Is fast getting old. He suffers from no ! organic disease. He is weakened by time, nnd cannot, even with the greatest precautions, continue much longer. We, of course, are very anxious about him and he is scarcely ever out of sight. Os necessity we nre prepared for God's will.” , A letter from Muyrojeni Bey, the Sublime Porte's representative at Washington, to the New York Herald regarding the reportisl Turkish outrages in Armenffl, says: “I have been, 1 admit, very much surprised, I will not say with tho j nnfnirn<MS, but with the hastiness of tho New York daily press' criticisms nnd publications of wild reports nbout tho disturbances created by certain misguid- ' cd Armenians in some parts of Asiatic i Turkey. “The assertions published by , the Lmdon Daily News lire entirely incorrect. The facts are ns follows: Armenian brigands, having in their possession arms of foreign origin, in connection with insurgent Kurds, burmsl and destroy<>d Mussulman villages near Sassoun. In order to give im idea of the ferocity displayed l>y these Armenian bauds, the example, among many others, may 1h» given of the burning alive of a Mussulman after his being forced to swallow some explosive matters. Regu- , htr troops were sent with instructions to I protect peaceful inhabitants, and notwithstanding the calumnies which were published against these troops, the truth 'hut they have not only protected all *«’. -abiding subjects, including.of course, nnd childivn, but also restored ■^cv to the sntisfaetion of all. It Ims been said that the Kurds hud stolen nfi the furniture and cattle of the Armenian fugitives. It is not so.” IN GENERAL Montreal is to have a world's fair, to b held from May 24 to Oct. 31, 1896. The international gas pipe between j Detroit nnd Windsor, Ont., has been completed. The National Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention completed its session at Cleveland and adjourned. A letter fi-om Lieutenant Peary, tho Greenland explorer, has been received at Dundee, ^xtUmi. it was brought by a whaling vt^s^l and was dated Cape York, May 29. The Anthracite Coal Company of Canada, it tj n.mored, will erect large coal bunkers at Vancouver, B. C., and ship extensively ip San Francisco and Puget Sound. Obituary: At Caldwell, Ohio, George Washington Bro^ n. S 9; at North Adams, Mass., Judge Jaiu’s ’7. Robinson, 72; at Bloomington, 111., Ms. Napolcon B. Heafer, G 6; at T.jpeka, Ind., Norman Latta. 49. Obituary: At McG’egov, lowa. Gregor McGregor, aged 50.—Al Jacksonville, Fla., United States District Attorney Owen J. Sumner, 34.—At M.jlesus, Tenn., Mrs. Susan B. Hudson, 2.G2.--At Queensville, Ind., Thomas Allwjll, 96. —At Escanaba, Mich., Carl Rathfon, 40.—At Coldwater, Mich., Mrs. E. F. Ray. MARKET REPORTS, Chicago—Cattle, common io prime, hogs, shipping grades, s4@s; sheep, fair to choice, $26/3-75; wheat, Nd 2 red, 53@54c; corn. No. 2, bOOblc; eatlrNv. y, g»i<i2Uc; rye, No. 2, BOfftolc; "wflStiier, choice creamery, 24^j@25^c; eg^s, fresh, 20%@21%c; potatoes, car lots, per bushel, 60@70c. Indifyiapolis — Cattle, shipping, s3@ 5.75; hjgs, choice light, s4@s; sheep common to prime, [email protected]; wheat, No. 2 red, 50@50^c; com. No. 2, white, 51@ 52c; oats, No, 2, white, 32@33c. St. Loq,is—Cattle, s3@6; hogs, [email protected]; wheat, No. 2 red, 51@52c; corn, No. 2, 44%@451/a'; oats, No. 2, 30@30^c; rye, No. 2, 52@53c. Cincinnati--Cuttie, [email protected]; hogs, s4@s; sheep, $2^3.25; wheat. No. 2 red, coni, No. 3, mixed, 44@44%c; oats, No. 2, mixed, 32@32%c; rye, No. 2, 53@55c. Detroit—Cattle, [email protected]; hogs, s4@ 4.75; sheep,[email protected]; wheat, No. 1. white, 56@57c; corn, No. 2. yellow, 48@49c; oats, No. 2, white, 33@34e; rye, No. 2, 49@51c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2, red, 55%@56i4c; corn, No. 2, yellow, 49@50c; oats, No. 2, white, 32@32y 2 c; rye, No. 2, 49@50c. Buffalo —Cattle, [email protected]; hogs, s4@ 5; sheep, [email protected]; wheat, No. 2 red, ■ 58@58i^c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 57@58c; i oats. No. 2 white, 36(g87c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 59@ 59%c; corn, No. 3, 47%@4S^c; oats, No; 2 white, 32^33c; barley, No. 2, 58@55c; rye, No. 1, 49@51c; pork, mess, sl2@ 12.75. New York—Cattle, s3@6; hogs, $3.50@ ' 5-25; sheep, s2@3; wheat, No. 2 red, 59^ @6o%c; corn, No. 2, 58y^59^c; oats, white Western, 37@41c; butter, cream25@26c; eggs, Western, 23@26c. >

ANEW REVENUE PLAN LAGER BEER MAY CONTRIBUTE MILLIONS. Harvard Loses to Yale—Shoe and Leather Bank Looted of $300,000 —Bin Liner Missing Filibusters Headed for Hawaii. Tax on Beer May Be Increased. A New York authority upon matters in I the spirit and beer trade siys if any attempt is made at the coming session of Congress to raise revenues it ir, probable an increase in the tax on beer will be made. Under the present law a barrel of beer, thirty-three gallons, is taxed sl. If it were taxed on its alcoholic contents, under the sl.lO rate, the tax would be $2.50. An increase in the tax from $1 to > $2 would not be more than one-fifth of a cent to the glass in the price of beer, J but would give the government an an* | nual revenue of from $30,000,000 to $35,000,000. Trade Gains Slowly. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: There is some change for the better. The gain is slow mid in some directions not very distinct, but the signs of it tire a little more definite than last week. The most important of them is j larger employment of labor, answering a | better demand on the whole for manuI factured products. Much of this is due I to the unnatural delay of ordersfor the j to the unnatural delay of orders for the i winter which resulted from prolonged unI certainty, but it means actual increase in earnings and purchasing power of the millions, and so gives promise of a larger demand in the future. Prices of J farm products in the aggregate do not improve, but tho prevailing hopefulness is felt in somewhat larger transactions. Moves to Reduce His Own Salary. At the session of the Knights of Labor at New Orleans a resolution was adopted I protesting against the issue of new bonds | by the United States Government. A ! resolution favoring the amalgamation of j all brewing associations into-one organij zation was referred to the Executive Board and a recommendation that surface railway employes of New York be reunited in one body of the Knights of Labor was adopted. The next convention will be held in Washington in November, 1595. Previous to adjournment General Muster Workman Sovereign moved that the salary of the General Master Workman be reduced from $3,500 to $2,500. ' The motion was unanimously carried. Indiana May Be Lost. The American liner Indiana, Captain Townsend, from Liverpool and Queens- • town for Philadelphia, with a crew of seventy men and 140 steerage passengers, is six days overdue. Captain Hunter, of the British steamship Calvin, which reached Girard Point Sunday morning from Porti. says that on the 2olh inst., while weathering m terrific gale, they obsened on the crest of a wave a part of a passenger vessel's life raft. It was painted snow white, and the figure “2” was plainly visible on one end. Pilot Schel- J linger says that the raft closely resembles those carried by the American line boats. Close to the raft was floating a • wooden btmy. Cush in Mrs. Harris’ Strong Box. The Strom: box in the Merchants’ Storage and Banking Company nt Cleveland, tihio, which was rented by Mrs. Harris, the alleged Pennsylvania Land and Lumber t'ompany swindler, was forced open I by Expert Tracy. The order under I which it was opened was granted by । Judge Stone upon the application of Attorney 1 leHenbuugh. The box was full I I of greenbacks and gold, the former tied | in packages of $5, $lO, SIOO bills, and the gold was in a woman's stocking. There i was $10,500 in the pile. Arms and Ammunition for Hawaii, j The dispatches from San Francisco in- ! timating a probable uprising of the Royalists in Hawaii to overthrow- the present government and place Queen Liliuo- | kalani on the throne receive part confirmi ation in Port Townsend. A well-known I and responsible ship broker made the statement that lie knew of his own personal knowledge that large quantities of ■ firearms and ammunition were being recently shipped clandestinely to Hawaii ou I lumber vessels. Electric Car Jumps the Track, i An electric motor ear became unmanageable on the steep Twentieth street i hill at Omaha, Neb., and after dashing I two blocks at a terrific speed jumped the | track and collided with a telegraph pole, i The injured arc: Motorman Clark, dangeroiisly hurt: Col. A. A. McCoy of Deadwood: ild Hayden. D. N. Callahan. Mrs. . D. A. A. Hart of Omaha, not seriously. * Yale Again on Top. In Saturday’s great football game at Springfield, Slass., Yale defeated Harvard by a score of 12 to 4, though Harvard played the most scientific game. Six men w ere hurt so they had to be carried front rhe field, one having his collar bone broken. BREVITIES. General M’ilHam 11. Gibson died at Tilliu, Gliio. Miss Victoria A. Stein, of Chicago, has sued Clarence 11. Saulpaugh, of Mankato, Minn., for $50,000 for breach of promise. The New Y'ork National Shoe and Leather Bank has been robbed of $354,000. The man accused is Samuel C. Seely. For fourteen years Seely has been a trusted bookkeeper in the institution. For more than nine years, it is now alleged, he has been stealing the bank’s funds methodically and persistently, aided by one qf the bank’s depositors. Both men are missing. A negro was lynched Friday morning at Landrum, S. C. Mrs. W. D. Graham, wife of the Allegheny, Pa., light inspector, committed I suicide. Joseph A. Beck, a leading architect of Toledo. 0., committed suicide. Cause unknown. Dr. Harold Moyer of Chicago w elected treasurer of the Mississippi Va | ley Medical Association. The indictments against the seveutyI five striking miners of Birmingham. Ala., charged with rioting, were quashed. Robert McQuarrie and Alex. Darraugb were killed and two others injured by the explosion of a boiler in a sawmill at | Monticello, Ont. i The failure of Jacobs & Co., Boston I store, at Guthrie, 0. T., is the worst, that j ever occurred in Oklahoma. Assets, $7,400; liabilities, $72,000,

CHINA READY TO QUIT WILL OPEN PEACE NEGOTIATIONS DIRECTLY WITH JAPAN, China Said to Be Willing to Pay an Indemnity of One Hundred Million Taels Besides All Japan’s Expenses —Special Envoy Dispatched. Bears an Olive Branch. De Ting, the chief of the imperial customs at Tien Tsin, who was recently summoned to Pekin in order to confer with i the government as to ways and means for raising money for the war, has left for Japan in order to arrange terms of peace. Ihe departure of the Chinese customs chief for Japan is regarded by officials in IN ashington as the result of Japan’s demand for a direct offer from China. The De Ting mentioned in the cable is said' | to be Dietering, a German, who occupies the position of commissioner of customs. That he should be sent as the peace envoy is accounted for by officials on the ground that an indemnity would, probably be secured on the customs receipts. It has been one of Japan’s contentions that she would expect to receive the customs receipts of the big Chinese ports in case an indemnity was arranged. It is said that the Chinese envoy will probably he the guest of United States Minister Dun at Tokio. Japanese officials have been accorded every courtesy. Although Japan shows no signs of exhaustion, fiscal or military, her Government’ and people ought to be satisfied with the magnificent progress already i achieved in humbling a power ten times 1 more formidable as to numbers and allied I with the most aggressive imperial sov- : ereignties of Europe and Asia. England’ interests are implicated with China’s; Russia’s are complicated with China’s. If Japan can arrange peace which, first, shall completely detach Corea from China; which, secondly, shall give no ' new footing to Russia on the northeast ' nor to England in the ports and mines of Corea, Japan will prove herself not only a war power of distinguished rank, notwithstanding her insular insignificance and her comparatively small numbers, but she will have outwitted the entire array of European diplomatists who have been hovering over the contest like vultures expecting to prey on both contestants. China will bear watching in all states ; of negotiation for peace. Shameless in tree aery, recreant to pledges, savage to captives, barbarous in all respects in which she has not been partially civilized by force, her diplomats will not hesitate to cheat even their own agent in the uegotiations, KILLED LIKE BEASTS, Two Thousand of the Unprotected People Butchered in hs^un. A dispatch to the London Times from Vienna says that a letter has been received there from Smyrna reporting that Zeki Pasha, a Turkish marshal, with a detachment of Nizams and a field battery, massacred 2,000 Armenians at Sassun. The bodies of the dead were left unburied and their presence has caused an outbreak of cholera. Many Christians are reported to have fled by secret paths : across the Russian frontier. So far there has been no official confirmation of this news, but if it is true it is time the powers share in the responsibility by their failure to enforce article 61 of the Berlin treaty, which imposes on them the duty of seeing that the Porte takes measures to protect Armenians. The latter declare that they hope so? ' nothing from Europe, but that they still : have confidence in Great Britain. Nu- ; merous appeals have been made by the j Armenians to the British foreign office. The last appeal received says that the j Armenians do not wish to see more of j their territory annexed by Russia, but । if Great Britain is unable to help them they will be compelled to lool^ to Russia, under whose yoke they would be better off than under the yoke of 'Furkey. A disiwitch to the Lohdon Daily News from Constantinople says that the ener-getic-action of Sir Philip Currie, the British Ambassador to Turkey, has caused consternation among the members of the Turkish Government. Everything has been done to keep secret the facts of the I outrages. Information from various I sources tends to prove that the Sassun affair was most serious. A dispatch from Constantinople to the Standard says that in response to the j protest made by Sir Philip Currie, British Ambassador to Turkey, the Porte has unreservedly withdrawn the charge against Mr. Hallward, the British Consul at Van, of inciting the Armenians at I Sassun and elsewhere to revolt. The I charge grew out of the investigation made by Mr. Hallward into the Armen- ; ian massacres and his report to the British Ambassador. The Governor of Bitlis, | who is seriously involved in the outrage, ■ made the charge, it is said, for the purpose of revenge. The Sultan has decided to send a commission composed of three members of his military household and one civilian to Sassun for the purpose of making an im- ! partial inquiry into tho outrages on Ar- ! menians. The latest news is to the es- ! feet that many of the Armenians who were supposed to have been killed fled from the soldiery and are now returning. Brittle ts. Judge J. T. Terrill was shot and killed at Jonesboro, Ark., by Amey Seymour, a stock raiser. Before falling a corpse Terrill knocked Seymour down with a club, inflicting serious wounds. Mrs. Blanche Kaufman, a French aci tress, was sentenced at Cincinnati, Ohio, I to three months’ imprisonment and to pay ' S2OO fine and costs for shooting her bus* I band several months ago. Two more dead, burned in the forest fires of Sept. 1, have been found in the most northerly portion of the burned district. One was Capt. L. Brook, of Pino City, Minn.; the other cannot be identified. The trial of the would-be train robbers, Overfield and Abrams, was postponed until February at Memphis, Mo., because, Abrams is not sufficiently recovered to ap« pear. General McCook has ordered a court martial for the trial of Captain Theophilus Morrison, Sixteenth Infantry, on charges growing »nt of the erratic con^ duct of the officer during last summer's campaign. The body of Sam Sing, the Chineseleper, who lived for more than four years alone in a cell at Snake Hill, N. Y., where doctors watched his disease, helpless to aid him, was buried Monday in .quick lime at Snake Hill. '