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O o P B I S S ot il sdp el oei et WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALERRTON, -« < = INDIANA. T ————— S ———— S ——— FAILURES FALL OFF. FAVORABLE SHOWING FOR THE PAST YEAR. : Famous Albany Hostelry DBurned— l Supt, Byrnes Springs a Sensation of ; His Own—Close Call for Railway Offi- l cials—Guatemala Must Begin War. [ Last Year's Business. ;! R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of | Trade says: | Commevrcial failures in 1894, already re- ; ported, number 14,202, against 15,242 | last year, with liabilities of $163,238,404, j against $346,770,889 last year. l"rum] these accounts, banks, bankers, financial and transporting companies are excluded. Manufacturing failures number 2,750, ~ against 1,422 last year, but liabiliges are ~ only §04,491,287, against $176,982,001 !@hflt year. The trading failures number g&“’%&fl, against 11,512 last year,, but liaM are only $87,800,657, against $130,002,333 last year. The statement | by sections shows a decrease of about two-thirds in defaulted liabilities in thel middle and central northern States, onehalf in the west and southwest, and a l third in other sections. Holiday trade | met expectations. Purchases were nu-’ merous, but smaller than usual in amount [ | #nd more confined to needful articles, | thus anticipating ordinary trade. ; | Byrnes as Quit., i | Saturday night the Lexow Committee | adjourned at New York subject to the | call of the chair. Just as he was through | answering Mr. Goff's questions, Sup(-r--i intendent Byrnes handed a letter to! Chairman Lexow and said that it was a ; copy of one that he had sent to Mayor- | elect Strong early in December. It was t his resignation from the force, of which | he has been a member for the last thirty- i two years. The superintendent said the | department was honeycombed with | abuses, which had been growing for | thirty years and they could only be reme- | died by radieal legislation. local pulié-i ticians, he claimed, were the curse of the | department, and as long as politics was | a factor in the force such a state of things I would exist. i Mexico Deesn't Want to Fight, | The topic of conversation at the City | of Mexico is President Diaz’ speech, | which is universally applauded in all circles. The general opinion is that Guatemala must be made to satisfy Mexico. A prominent official says that Mexico wants only justice, and if Guatemala wants war it will have to declare it. What is most to the point in Diaz' speech is i that he says no useless delays should be | allowed in the discussion, and that existing treaties should be respected. The State of Jalisco has now fallen into line l arq offered all its resources to the IFederal | v asa-of guar yyith Guate | Rend Roasts Burnas,

Tfie railroad coal operitors and minees ] of the Pittsburg district had a joint convention at Pittsburg to decide on a uniform mining rate. The business of the meeting was lost sight of in a sensational attack made by Col. W. . Rend, of Chicago, on John Burns, the English so- ' cialist, and Editor Stead, who wrote a book about Chicago. Under ordinary circumstances the Colonel's remarks would have been applauded, btat as Mr. Buras had been invited to a seat in the convention as a courtesy the matter was smoothed over. Escape Thronugh the Car Windows, General Manager W. P. Robinson, General Attorney M. A. Reed, Superintendent A. M. Morey, Engineer I. Howe and Attorney Cessna, all of the St. Joseph &nd Grand Island Railway, had a narrow escape from death near Edgar, Neb., by the burning of the general manager's private car Nemaha. The fire was caused by the explosion of an vil stove. Every one as the officials was nearly suffocated and had to be taken though the windows of the car. All their clothing and the car | were destroyed. } Declavan House Gone, ! The candidacy of the several men for i the speaker of the New York Assembly | received a startling baptism of fire Sunday night at Albany, for the Delavan House, that famous hostelry known from Maine to California, the Mecea of politicians and the center of all big State political events for forty years, was cowmplete- - ly destroyed. Several persons were fatal\y injured. . BREVITIES, ~ Peter Costeno shot and killed himself _at Toledo, Ohio. Despondency was the { " Eanse, ' e | #T he inquest at St. Louis showed that ' MJohn MceKillop, 16, died from drinkin;.::; whisky. 1 Twenty-five bakers in Cincinnati have | reduced the price of bread from five to | three cents. l John Fitzgerald, ex-president of the | Irish National League of America. died at Lincoln, Neb, He was 66 years old. ‘ Texas will be 50 years old in the spring | of 1806, and preparations have n}n-:nly‘; been commenced for a celebration of 11;(\% birth of the State. i atenry O. Lewis, of St. Louis, Mo., t aged 20, a student at the Massachusotts | Institute of Technology at Boston, class | of ‘O6, committed suicide, l‘ Leadville, Col., local detectives loeated l} Gertie. Reims, a 16-year-old girl, who ran away to go on the stage. She worked in Denver and Kansas City and finally went to ILeadville. Here she donned boy’s clothing and got a position as call boy at a big mine, and it was there the detectives located her. Vice Chancellor Green has decided the boycott of the Newark (N. J.) labor organizations against the Newark Times for using plate matter to be illegal, and has issued an injunction. Mayor IDustis at Minneapolis has signed the resolution authorizing the issuance of $200,000 in bonds for work on the reservoir system. Burglars broke into the home of Ilenry Fecker, at Piqua, Ohio, and carricd off his savings, amounting to $4,750. Bradstreet's reports a decrease of H4,000 bushels in the availuble supply of wheat in the United States and Canadir.

R. P R I 3 S PR RGO 538 EASTERN. A shortage of $90,000 has beea ¢ lis- * | eovered in the Kings County, New York, treasury. Fire at Burlington, Vt., (10!"-“‘0)'0‘]}1- i 3 | Bootlh's lumber yard and W. & G. L. Crane’s mill. Loss $125,000. ‘ Harold . Butt was arrested for em- | bezzling $16,000 from his employer, Samuel Hammerslough, a New York clothier. I Mrs. Charles Cornwall, of Brooklyn, {left her three childven alone and, the [ house taking fire, they were burned to i death, Ringleaders of the gang which robbed ' David Slocum aud wife, of Erie, Pa., of i$10,(>()0 after torturing themn, have been ; captured. During a wedding cercinony at Boston l Christmas day, the groom, Chas. Hughes, | of Louisville, Ky., died at the altar from ! apoplexy. ! lEx-Senator Platt has left Dr. Park- [ hurst’s church because the latter from his [ pulpit called him a boss and arraigned [ him as a devil in politics. J Edward R. Carter, transfer and coupon clerk in the National Bank of Commerce, New York, has confessed to stealings of $29,000, which cover a period of twenty years. , Dennison Wheelock, Indian Director o the Indian School, and Louise La Chappelle, a Chippewa girl, were married at Carlisle, Pa. Wheeclock is a graduate of ; the school. Mrs. Emily Robbins Talcott, of West Hartford, Conn., celebrated her 104th birthday. She was 0 years old when President Washington died. She has four children living. At Poughkeepsic Harry Menier, the English bridge-jumper, leaped from the top rail of the Poughkeepsie bridge with a parachute, striking the water, 212 feet below, in eight seconds. Petitions of the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company of New York, as trustees, to have separate receivers appointed for the Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway Company were filed in the United States Circuit. Court at Boise, Idaho. 3 Dwight Miner, of Miner's Bank, Dunkirk, N. Y., who defaulted in 1883 for islm,()uu. returned and gave himself up - Wednesday. e was admitted to bail in the sum of $3,000. The bank has real!izml about $85,000 on his estate, and s ithe principal witnesses against him arve l dead he may go free. .~ Harry Menier, the ISnglish bridgejumper, leaped from the top rail of the Poughkeepsie (N, Y.) bridge with his parachute. The parachute worked successfully, and Menier struck the water in cight seconds after he started. TPoughkeepsie bridge is 212 feet from the base of the rail to the water, which is sixty fget deep. The Lexow Committee, scorned, Jaughed at and considered a huge joke when it first began its work, has sccured its first great victory in the New York criminal courts.. Police Captain John L. Stephen son has been sentenced to three years and nive months in the penitentiary at Sing Sing and to par a fine of SI,OOO. The laughter that first greeted the Lexow Committee ceased long ago, but Wednesday marks an epoch in the history of its | labors nevertheless. 1t is the consummation of its first great case, and now no one can «doubt that an almost endlecs ’ number of convictions, with their accom-

panying sentences, will follow, The reform movement has gained fall headway and will sweep everything before it. The last hope of the corrupt police has gone, and they know, one and all, what they have to expect. It will also make the work of the committee casier. 'There al: ready have been some confessions aned it cannot be doubted now that there will be more. It is likely to be a ruce to see who can tell all he knows first, and in that the victory is greater and more far-reach-ing than would appear from the mere statement that Stephenson has been sentenced. Capt. Stephenson was about the first man of any importance to get caught in the Lexow net, and when he was turned over to the Court of Oyer and Terminer aud found guilty by a jury there was a quaking all along the line. WESTERN. St. Louis Democrats have decided on a Lexow investigation. Robert Smith, alias James O'Connor, a notorious forger, escaped [rom the county Jail at Racine, Wis. ~ DMirs. Maggie W. Ferguson, a milliner !of Jackson, Mich., has been robbed of jewelry worth £1,600. i Rich gold-bearing ore was discovered - during the sinking of a well on a farm near Brownville, Neb. Henry Kinnett, a farmer living near Preble, Ohio, was bunkoed out of $3,000 by the tin box scheme. A Leadville justice has decided that there is no law in Colorado to prohibit a man from burning his own house. Three thousand five hundred jack rabbits, the result of the annual hunt, were distributed to the poor of Denver. A complete outfit for making counterfeit coins was found in the office of Dr. A. B. Cady, arrested at Kenton, Ohio. Muskogee, 1. T., is in fear or o ad from the Cook gang. Marshal MeAlester received a defiant message from the outlaws. Emery Brough was stabbed to death by his cousin Ray, near Peru, Ind., while returning from school. Jealousy was the cause, Mrs. Phoebe A. IHearst, widow of the California Senator, has presented the town of Lead, S. D, with a SIOO,OOO library. | In a sermon on gambling in a church | near Winchester, Ohio, Rev. Mr. Warden gillnsn'ntml three-card monte with a pack ! of cards. \ Charles Roceo was shot and robbed on ‘n freight car near Houghton, Obhio, by | three tramps, who then threw him from { the train. i The Clliff House, near San I'rancisco, i was burned, causing a loss of £20,000. It l will be replaced by a steel and stone structure, to cost $1,000,000. | Harry Hayward, charged with instigat- ‘ ing Blixt to murder Miss Ging at Minne- ' apolis, has tried to bribe the Sheriff to allow Blixt to commit suicide. ‘ A. C. McLaughlin, special agent of the | United States Treasury at San I'rancis- | co, has been arrested, charged with mur--‘ld.-mus assault on two laundrymen and -1 a strect-car conductor. ‘ While impersonating Santa Claus at | Columbus, Ind.,, the cotton on the Rev. ' | Gilbert Dobbs caught fire. Ifriends threw I him to the floor, but the flames were not | extinguished until he had been badly f | burned. I Despite the scemingly conclusive fact

that Matson, hushand of of the woman murdered at Topeka, Kan., was in Ca ifornia when the crime was committedf witnesses testified he was in Topeka g £ the time. B Monday afternoon at St. Paul, Minn{® Park three students at St. Paul Colleg broke through the ice while skating on th river and were drowned before help came® One lost his life in an attempt to resew | the others. ¥ At Leadville, Colo., Justice P. M. Walll in the case of the People vs. Ryan fi | ‘ arson has rendered a decision dismissing Ryan and holding that there is no law i } Colorado prohibiting a man from burning his own house. 1 In a collision between two Big Fouf freight trains near Lafayette, Ind., Engi neer Elijah Campbell, of Indianapolig was instantly Killed, a tramp, Georgg Spence, from Canada, was dangerousl hurt, and Charles Henry, a brakeman was injured in the back. Col. 12. W. Tatloe, Inspector Genera of the Utah National Guard, has made his oflicial report to Gov. West on the recent invasion of Utah by the Coloradd Ute Indians, saying the Utes had decided to return to Colorado after being threaty ened with military foree. A Just_after sunrise Tuesday morning s A 3@‘&3»&‘ \ aho‘g’l%" - 3 T eedlits banks for a distane thirteen miles, Wittt i Port Huron. Sarnia, acrosS the riveg was very clearly pictured in the sky, witlg the ferryboats plying between the tw cities. The islands in the river below th city, the town of St. Clair, and the Oak land Hotel, twelve miles away, also werd'! clearly seen. The phenomenon laste nearly an heur. The warchouse of the Pioneer Pape § Stock Company at Chicago was burned) Thursday evening, entailing a loss off. 350,000-—-540,000 on building and $15,0008 on contents. The building was a fived! story brick structure. The roof ands floors fell in and only the wall on thef west side is standing. When the souths wall fell out it wrecked two one-storyf frame cottages and two families were}! rendered homeless, From the cottagesf twelve people had been taken by policel officers just before the wall fell. ] - Near San Irancisco, Cal.. the Clifil House burned Tuesday night. Adolph}] Sutro’s big bath-house, recently completed at a cost of $500,000, was threatcened. The CLff House had a world-wide reputation, as it overlooked the seal rocks and was part of the possessions of Adolph Sutro, San Francisco’s Mayor-elect, 'l'l,u}i| buildings of the Cliff House were frameq ! structures and were used us x‘('slmn‘«lms. i saloons, and curio shops. In additions! there were wide balconies from \\'hi('h' the seals could be viewed. The Cliff}| House buildings were built thirty yvears l ago, and no visitor ever went away from San I'rancisco withont first going to lho' CLiff House and looking at the seals. l The box office at Pike's Onera ”nll,\'v.!

TR S GRS VRSN e- A SERN . NPT REE SRR Cincinnati, Ohio, where Col. Breckinridge lectured on Thursday night, was the scene of an exciting fight. Attorney Gus Meyer, who represente’ Madeline Pollard, had a Dbill of $45 against Col Breekinridge. There had been rumors of an attempted attachment and the box ofice was barrieaded. Constabie Kin ney went up to the window as if to pu chase a ticket, At that instant Constablgs: Volker gave him a lift, a shove, and iKis ney was propelfed c¢lear thrdtigh, kno ing down the ticket-seller, overturni the cash register, and breaking a pictur on the wall. Then began an exciting struggle for the possession of the money, which had rolled from the smashed register. INinney managed to pick up about 1 £6O. Col. Breckinridge and his son Desha § rushed in. “You robbing—-" shouted § the Colonel, while Desha yelled: “You }§ come down to the Grand Hotel to-morrow and give me satisfaction.” Kinney declined the invitation to a duel, and, after counting the money he Lad seized, returned sl3 to Manager Ballenberg., Col. Breckinridge immediately after the fight delivered his lecture on the “Era of American History.” There was nnthin:l striking in the discourse, and it met wit®3 a chilly reception. There were exaetl 4 200 in the audienes, twenty-four of whou™ were women. SOUTHERN. ] A drunken brawl at Wrightsville, Ark resulted in the killing of two negroes. ; A man named Myer got the wrong boj tie in a Holland (Ark.) drug store and & dead. e The Georgia race war is over and tis State militia has been withdrawn. Sevil, negroes were killed. kI'ive white boys were terribly burned g a suburb of Richmond, Va., by the efs plosion of gunpowder. 2 %‘ Joseph Thornton, of Montgomery, Ala. ‘ while driving was killed by the accidentolle discharge of his shotgun. 3 lEthel IFowler, aged 5, died of hydroprobia in Little Rock, Ark. She was bit-8 ten last October by a pet pug. As a result of conferences with political™ friends Judge Nathan Goff is likely to lk; come a candidate for Senator from \\'c,l,‘;' S -l

Virginia. "‘;' 3 Late advices from Brooks County, G&}l are to the effect that only two nege "'i were killed il‘| the rioting there, iusfm b seven as at first reported, : i.; A. W. Alton, a craik from New J\-x‘uhi.l salem, Texas, has been arrested at Newd Orleans. Ile says he was on his way t"% i - Washington to kill the President. ‘:1 ‘ The authorities of the cotton Stntov'] and International Exposition at Atlan= " ta, Ga., have received advices that the?»: Argentine RRepublic has :mpmpriutcd% | £15,000 in gold for a display next fall. The jury in the New Orleans bribery case against Councilmen William J. Kane and IFrancis B. Thriffiiy was called inte court and a mistrial entered. The jury f stood eight for conviction and four folks acquittal. - It is said on good authority the attod : neys for Madeline Pollard coutemplas following Congressman Hrv('l\'im'i(lg(- : his lecturing tour throughout the countn in an effort to attach the receipts in pa ment of Miss Pollard’s verdict for breac of promise. This will be done, it is spida¥ by filing a transcript of the judgment hales in Washington in each place the Colon lectures and basing a creditors’ bill ups that. T A serious wreck occurred near Waxu§d hachie, Texas. The Katy south-boun and the west-bound Houston and Texas Central collided at a crossing one mi north of the city. The trains were bot heavily loaded with passengers. | seems quite miraculous that more wet | not injured. Seventeen are reported | have been hurt in the wreck. Itis thoughs | two of the passengers will die. The @ gine of the “Katy” ran into the reg coach of the IL. & T. C., striking it abo¢;

M\ | midway, tearing the seats up and scattep- { ing the coach fixtures about promiscu- | ously, I Train No. 1, Louisville and Nashville through passenger train to New Orleans, was wrecked Tuesday night near Brent- - wood, mnine miles south of Nashvillo, : Tenn. The train ran into some coal cars which had run down the grade from Brentwood because of an open switch. The engine was demolished and D. @. } Shugart, engineer, and his fireman, both . of Nashville, were found in the wreck i badly scalded and unconscious. The bagI gage and express car caught fire and were ! demolished. 'Te baggagemaster was l hurt, but not seriously. The passenger cars and sleepers did not leave the track, but the passengers were badly shaken ujp, though none were hurt, WASHINGTON., Secretary Carlisle declines to be a candidate for United States Senator for Kentucky. Congressman Gear is rapidly recovering from his recent attack of cerebral hemorrhage. President Cleveland has returned to the White House, apparently much benefited | by his shooting trip. : Congressman Springer will probably be appointed to the Court of Claims bench when Judge Weldon is retired, President and Mrs. Cleveland, it is announced, will this winter take part in no 1 social function not demanded by prece- | dent. | At Washington, D. C., Congressman | | John H. Gear, of lowa, was stricken sud- J i denly at an early hour Tuesday morning f with symptoms of apoplexy at his apart- | ments in the Portland, and for several | | hours it was feared it might result fatally. He is now recovering. FOREIGN, . Brazilian troops burned a hospital at | San Gabriel and cremated 120 wounded | ‘and sick rebels. j The porte has agreed to permit foreign | § delegates to examine witnesses before the , § Armenian commission, | ! Ten thousand Chinese, who defended ; Hait Cheng, were worsted by the Japan- | ] ese after a four hours' battle. i The Sultan of Turkey has declined 1o \ allow an American representative to accompany the Armenian inquiry x~u»1:1!~.lis’-§ sion. ] A hundred persons are now believed to | { have perished in the storm which swept ! | Great Britain. Many vessels were i wirecked. ( I The steamer Guerley, from Port Mor- | ant, Jamaica, loaded with bananas fnx" Philadelphia, narrowly escaped being swamped by a waterspout off Cape Hatteras. i The telegraph lines in the northern part of Great Britain are still down and tha

full amount of damage by the storm iy | | not known. It is estimated, however, l‘ t_ht\t from 50 to 100 persons lost their lives in various manners during the pro | ] gress of the gale. { At Constantinople the Sultan Monday | | evening made a final reply to the application of United States Minister Terrell for | permission to have Consul Jewett make | { an independent inquiry into Armenian | f g _W!’bk‘fl. The Sultan positively declined ito n"f’w_ the Consul to accompany the | | “""“”‘“HH"H. The refusal was not unex- : i Pected 'r}! Washington. The l'vlm-_t%-'x%{('-k-‘ ‘ the agitation in the United States in fnvani of intercession on behalf of the Armenis | ans in Turkey has attained. i ] IN GENERAL i 1 While drunk, George I". Ashford, of | . Yancouver, B. C., killed his wife and one i child and fatally wounded another. L, Eleven more fire insurance companies ‘t have given notice of their intention tnl withdraw from the Pacific Insurance Un- | ion. { | A. K. Linderfelt, Milwaukee's default- i ing librarian, who embezzled SIO,OOO of 1 the library funds, has been located in | Paris. Mme. Leon Grandin, who has set down her impressions of America in a book, ,says New York is a pygmy compared to + Chicago. } '/ Andrew Carnegie has made a demand ‘ M on the Government to be reimbursed for /1 the $140,000 fine imposed by the l’r(\.\i~| | dent in connection with the armor-plate | P frauds. \ i| Now that it has been finally decided ‘4 to hold the next international convention | il of the Christian Endeavor Society ini’ - | Boston, owing to the fact that the rail- l roads have persisted in refusing to grant | b1 ates to San Francisco,the place named by } Bl the last convention, the committees ap- ' B pointed to make the preliminary arrange- \ L | ments have gone actively to work. The | E | convention will assemble in July, and en- ‘ Bl thusiastic members of the committee of | thirteen already put it that 75,000 Chris- ‘ ' tian Endeavors will be in attendance. 1 o | MARKET REPORTS. 0 | i . Chicago—Cattie, common to prime, # R LR L P o glf L eB T e 9=D

é‘{ 83.70@0; hogs, shipping grades, <S.OU | i (@4.70; sheep, fair to choice, si@4; @i wheat, No. 2 red, 54@bd4t4e; corn, No. 2, .é? 45@46¢; oats, No. 2, 20@30c; rye, No. 2, 48@51¢; butter, choice creamery, 23@ | Ei 9314hc; eggs, fresh, 18@19¢; potatoes, car i e lots, per bushel, 50@60c. | &7 Indianapolis — Cattle, shipping, s3@ 'a 't\ 5.70: hogs, choice light, [email protected]; sheep, ! ¢| common to prime, [email protected]; wheat, No. | 'E» 2 red, 52@553c; corn, No. 1 white, 43@ | £ | 431 c;: oats, No. 2 white, 33@34c. \ e St. Louis—Cattle, s3@6; hogs, [email protected]; | =1 wheat, No. 2 red, Bl@H2c; corn, No. 2, | £ 43@ddc; oats, No. 2, 291,@30%¢; rye, No. ‘ \‘ 2, H3@ss¢. { Cincinnati—Cattle, [email protected]; hogs, | | 54@5414c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 43@e; ] 8| oats, No. 2 mixed, 32@33c; rye, No: 2, ‘ : D 4H6e. | ; Detroit— Cattle, [email protected]; hogs, s4@ | 4.75: sheep, [email protected]; wheat. No. 1. white. ! t | 65@@H6e; corn, No. 2 vellow, 44@44%c; | oats. No. 2 white, 33@34c; rye, No. 2, l Dl@H2c¢. foledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 54@55¢; | B€ corn, No. 2 mixed, 46@17c; oats, No. g 2 white, 33@34c; rye, No. 2, HOEIH2e. | Buffalo—Cattle, $2.5065.50; hogs, 4@ - ol 5: sheep, [email protected]; wheat, No. 2 red, DT E L @bSlhe: corn, No. 2 yellow, 4604 TVqe; oats, No. 2 white, 35U@3614c. | 2 t Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 1.’»?3"1 b | B81l4e; corn, No. 3. 41@e42c; oats, NO. = 1 swhite, 31@@32¢; barley, No. 2, Hs3@so¢: i ryve, No. 1, 40@oH0¢; lml‘l{, mess, sll.::\'_'l p| 11.75. | b | New York—Cattle, [email protected]; hogs, $3.50 it l @5; sheep, &[email protected]; wheat, No. 2 red, 62 l @63c; corn, No. 2, B2abde; oats, white, ? Western, 38@41c; butter, creamery, 220 e, 21c; cges, Western, 21@23c¢.

FORTY DIE IN FLAMES | l » T ' e e FRIGHTFUL CALAMITY IN AN OREGON VILLAGE. lelpless Victims Penned in a Death Trap—lixecution of Two Sticks, the Murderous Sioux Brave—Buffalo Has a Heavy Fire Loss. Fearful Tragedy in Oregon. At Silver Lake, Lake County, Ore., while a large pariy was attending holiday festivities, a lamp exploded and set fire to the building. IPorty-one persons | were burned to death and fifteen injured. ‘ A large crowd had assembled in Christman Brothers’ hall to attend the festival. ‘ While the merriment was at its h(-x;?'ht | some one climbed on a bench, from which point he expected to get a better view of what was going on. In doing so his head struck a lamp hanging from the ceiling, | overturning it. "The oil immediately caught fire and everything in the room being dry and of an inflammable nature the room was socn & mass of flames. Some one shouted: “Shut the door and keep quict; it can be put out.” By this time the confusion was 80 great that people Legan ferambling in a wild endeavor to reach the door. Women and children were trampled under foot, and as there wis enly one exit to the hall and the fire being between the majority of the crowd and the docr many rushed headleng into the flames. Silver Lake is a village of , abaut 100 inhabitants, and it is 150 miles | i from the neavest telograph oflice. NEWS NUGGETS, Francs 11, the late King of Nanles, died Thursday at Arco, in the .‘.nstrisn! Tyrol. { John Burns called Andrew Carnegie ’ . “a professional philanthropist” in his | i speech at Pittshurg, i | et Coy. soy many years a pictur- | { esaue figure in Indiana polities, died at | | Lis home in Indianapolis. | i 1 | To avert o tariff row with the United | E States, Spain is considering the granting ' l of partial home rule to Cuba. i | College presidents of Indiana at a | | meeting in Indianapolis decided to forbid o } Intercollegiate foot-ball ganies, f [ The German Covernment has modified | sia . . | { its prohibitory decree acainst Aerican j nmeats so as to admit canned meats. | Austria, it is said, proposes to join Ger- ] | many in retaliating on the United s\'t:l(l‘.\" |if the sugar duties are not modified. l : Colonel Mickael Frank, the father of | | the free school system of \\'isvnnsin.t died at Kenosha at the age of 90 years. | { o | I'armers and robbers engaged in a des- | perate fight near Salem, Ohio. Two nf‘ e e R R RSN S 1 A . -7 .

the foriner were shot and one of the latTer. i Ex-Secrctary of State John W. Foster | ¢ has consented to ga to Japan to aid the | Chinese representatives in bringing about | - peace, : Joseph Bidwell and William Findley, | farmers of Union County, were killed | near Columbus, Ohio, by a Pan-Handle e At New Orleans the cases against Lavigne and ethers connceted with the con- | test in which Bowen was killed were dis- | | s RAMMMN N At e 4 in Lexington, %(_v.. wis lotrTaenn, wuewound seeming to be impossible of seliinfliction. f six thousand Tonghaks were defeated | by the Japanese in a four hours' fight at Lai-Jurin. The rebellisn is practically at an cnd. The body of Stephen Glass, stolen from the cemetery at Greenwood, Ind., was found in the dissecting-room of Indiana Medical College. Three burglars broke jail at Montgomery, Ala.—Thomas Martin of Buffalo, | I'rank Leroy of Brooklyn, and Thomas | King of New York. ‘ In an address before the American Economic Association Carroll D. VWright ! declared the A. R. U. strike to be an epoch-making event. The Government bond syndicate has dissolved after disposing of but 35 per cent. of the issue. The new currency plan is alleged to have caused liquidation by holders. Six horses and two mules were killed Thursday morning in Philadelphia by { coming in contact with the deadly elec- | tric light wires, which were blown down ‘ by the storm. \ Annnal meetings of the Associated Historians of America, the American \ Folk Lore Society, the American Society L of Church History and the Jewish Historical Society were held in Washington. s Two Sticks, the noted Sioux Indian murdever, for whose reprieve many efforts have been made in vain, was hanged at Deadwood, 8. D., on Friday. The crime for which Two Sticks was hanged was the murder of Emanuel Bennett, Rodney Royce, James Bacon and Will- | jam Kelley at Humpl)‘r:oy & String?r’s

cattlie ranch, on the Sioux reservation, Feb. 4, 1803. \ . Pire destroyed the three-story brick block at the northeast corner of Broadway and IFilimore avenue, Buffalo. The building was owned by John Bingham- ' ton. and occupied by Eckhardt & Co., - Oswald Tinkler and Charles Weisman as ‘ stores. The fire spread over the whole | block and across Broadway to the threestory brick block extending from IFillmore avenue to Gibson street. The loss will | reach SBOO,OOO. Owing to frozen hydrants it was thirty minutes before the firemen could turn a stream of water on 1 to the flames. Despite the secemingly conclusive fact that Matson, husband of the woman mur- ‘ dered at Topeka, Kan,, was in California when the crime was committed, witnesses \ testified he was in Topeka at the time. The St. Louis Grand Jury has returned over fifty indictments for election crimes. Among them is one against Sheriff-elect | Henry Troll for election bribery. ' Gtov. Fishback, of Arkansas, has proclaimed Feb. 18 as memorial day for ! George PPeabody. J Union Pacific employes agree to accept 4 the Denver wiages seale if receivers will | ! retain the present force. I The women's council of the Nineteenth ‘ | Century Club, of Memphis, Tenn., voted | ‘to boycott Congressman Breckinridge’s i lecture. l The American Loan and Trust Comi pany of New York has asked for a sepairnte receivership for the Oregon Short Line and Northern Railroad. |

S O S SSB 15 R R T e, e e—- — OF CHRISTMAS. AMERICA SPENDS MORE THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY. Prasents, Trees, Dinners and Other Things Totaled up. in All About $10,000,000. America spends more on Christmas than any other country. This, says Foster Coates, was the gist of what a veteran market man told me—a very Carroll D. Wright when it came to statistics about game, provisions and the capacity of - the American people to cozsume ‘thcrse and other things. What is more, he figured out results that ‘ made me open my eyes, to say the least. T had no idea that the Ameri\c:m people had such an appetite, even at Christmas. | First he started in with turkevys, There being over 60,000,000 people in the United States, the number of families might be set down at near to 20,000,000, Allowing that cne-half of these families had a turkey, the number would be 10,000,000 turieys consumed—not an extravagant gstimate. Some of these will be Firgo, some small, but eight pounds per turkey will be a good enough average, and that makes 80,000 000 pounds of turkey, or more than a pound for each man, woman and | child in the United States, providing it was all eaten at one meal, and noy kept on hand and picked at for a couple of days. Ten cents a pound say, and good turkeys will bring more, and you see that the turkey will foot up $8,000.000. My informant said that turkey | was the biggest item in the Christ- ' mas bill, for the reason that Ameri- ! cans who do not ecare much for turkey | eat it as aduty at Christmas time. | Os course, a good many eat chickens | and a great minority can afford game. | The man of figures puts the outlay | in this way down at $2.000,000, and ' said the figures were low. | “*Cranberries you want to figure ; on, too,”” said iny statistician, ‘‘and - you're safe to figure on a pound for [ each family. Some of them will take a good many pounds and some of them none. Figure ’em at eight cents a pound.”’ I did and footed up $1,600,000 as the cranberry outlay. Verily figures were mounting up and I wondered how all this was to be accomplished in the way of eating when money is so high.

“'.l‘h'eq there’s the mince pie,”’ the stal‘xs?xcnan went on. ‘‘Every one doesn’t eat mince pie, but I'll venture anything that 10,000,000 ot them will be baked. They are not so popular in this city, but in the country disiricts they make shelves upon shelves of them. That’s where the 10,000,030 come in.- If vou—— bought these pies in the city you would have to pay twenty cents and more apiece for them. Made in a farmhouse, with cheap labor, put ’em cents and the bill for Christmas trees ran up to $5,000,000 more. It looked too big. The tree merchant remarked that it was not and that this was a biz country. He wenton tosay that the other greens, holly, ivy, mistietoe and all that sort of thing would foot up a million or two more. I put down $1,000,000 and gazed once more in awe at the swelling total of Christmas cost. Christmas toys! To be sure they must not be forgotten. Ten million at least of little ones fizured in this. The head of a mammoth toy house ' pondered when he was asked what ' the Christmas toy trade amwounted to % in the whole. . “‘Well, you might put it down ab \ about a dollar a family on the aver- | aze. Some spend SIOO and some ten cents, so it is hard to estimate the amount of the total expenditure.”’ 1 did not put the figure at a dollar a family. I put it at fifty cents. iv looked more modest, and even at that I got a total of some $10,000,000. | Next I sawsome big dealers in jewelry and novelties, such as are in vogue as Christmas presents, and again the figures were astonishing. IPutting the various estimates —the | stnallest ones at that—together, and | then adding them. I could not get the | total below $10,000,000. | | Betrayed By His Chivalry. ‘ A bit of the seamy side orfi

DI . I T o T I e iy WIS 2eo ey o S, gt - A o showed itself one morning last W’{fe on a train going down into Virginite, The car was erowded. Just across the ™ aisle were a bride and groom going over to see Alexandria, but destined for the next few days to see nothing but each other. Behind them were two giggling school girls,’and in front of them sat a well-dressed young woman and her little girl, a beautiful little creature of d or 6. The seat in front of me held two men. One was a tall, gaunt, tired-looking Georgian, with an indefinable air of authority about him. IHis companion, also a Southerner, was much tanned, and a ragzed beard hid the lower pars of his face. His soft felt hat was !lmllml(lmvn over his eyes, and his hands were hidden by a long bundle, ' done up in newspapers, which lay | neross his lap. When the train ‘ stopped at Alexandria, the bride and | groom, {he school girls, and the moth- { or and child rose to leave the car. f As the little one passed the two | Southerners, a sudden jar of the { train threw her down. The man in | the slouch hat leaned forward sudldcn‘.y, as if to help her rise. The bundle fell from his lap. There were | handcuffs on his wrists —[Washingi ton Post. i There are 8,000 students at the I University of Michigan this year,