St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 37, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 April 1895 — Page 6

Jn dependent. w A> E.XIJI.EY, Publisher. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. GRESHAM WILL STAY. NO TRUTH IN RUMOR OF HIS RESIGNATION. Republicans Sweep Chicago City—St. Charles, 111., Loses Heavily by Fire— Mexico and Guatemala Settle Their Difficulties—Express Co. Robbed. Gresham Not to Resign. Washington dispatch: Washington is in the midst of an era of “fakes.” The latest is that Secretary Gresham is about to resign from the cabinet to engage in the practice of law, and as usual there is just enough truth in it to carry a whopping and unpardonable lie. The element of truth is that Mrs. Gresham is not and never has been in love with Washington, and has never been at the slightest pains to conceal the fact from her friends. This fact has been seized upon as a basis for the unfriendly resignation story. There is absolutely nothing to the story, and it is scarcely less absurd than would be a report that President Cleveland was going to resign. The relations between the President and his premier are most cordial, and ever have been. General Gresham is closer in the confidence of his chief than any other cabinet officer, and it would be difficult to imagine a condition of affairs arising between them that would cause ap official separation before the expiration of the President s term. Win in Three States. George B. Swift defeated Frank YY’enter in the Chicago mayoralty contest by a plurality of 41,008 in a total of over 257,000 votes. The entire Republican ticket, with the exception of a few gang aidermen. was successful. Wisconsin chose Moore, Republican, for supreme judge; and the Michigan State Republican ticket, with the Third congressional district, is safe. In Wisconsin and Michigan municipal elections no very startling results are noted. BREVITIES, The United States steamship Yorktown has arrived at Nagasaki, Japan. Dr. Peter J. Dwyer, of St. Paul, choked to death on a piece of meat at his own table. Commercial organizations of Memphis are arranging a national convention of financiers to discuss banking and currency. The terribly mutilated body of “Old Shakespeare,” a colored woman, was found at New Y’ork. Police believe the murder was the work of voodoos. L. N. Bailey, deputy county assessor, and his companion, J. B. Brackett, who were supposed to have been lost on the Yuma desert, have arrived at Coyote Wells. The long overdue British ship Moreseby has arrived at San Francisco, 241 days from Liverpool. She met a succession of gales and had to put into Montevideo for repairs. John Fisher, aged 20, was shot and killed at Cincinnati by Policeman Barney Degnan, from whom he was trying to escape. Fisher had been arrested for abusive language toward the officer. Jesus Vilprando and Feliciano Chavez have been found guilty at Santa Fe. N. M., of murder in the first degree. They killed Thomas Martinez, who had caught them stealing cattle, and burned his body. Julius Schwabacher, son of the millionaire distiller, who a year ago was caught robbing the residence of Mrs. Frank Bell at Peoria, 111., has been found guilty and sentenced to five years in the Joliet penitentiary. Senator Squire, of Washington, is interesting himself to secure for Puget Sound builders, if possible, the contract for some of the new naval vessels provided for at the last session of Congress for his State. Two men. supposed to be John Brattia and Thomas Grogan, were drowned by the upsetting of a boat at Pittsburg. There were three other men with them, and a drunken row is thought to have caused the accident. A Washington jury has declared General O. P. Gooding to be insane. General Gooding is a West Point graduate, and wrote a book in which he talked of removing” the President, who, he asserted, was at the head of a conspiracy against his life. Robert C. Harding, clerk, and Clarence ■Warbeck, porter, in the United States express oilice at Jersey City, have been arrested charged with stealing packages. The thefts have been going on for several months. The largest loss was that of a package containing $7,000 worth of diamonds, which disappeared at the holiday season. The Guatemalan boundary question is settled. President Diaz of Mexico has formation ot the Guatemalan settlement was given in the president’s message before the semi-annual opening of congress. Fire started in the pump room of Stewart Bros.’ grist mill at St. Charles, 111., and for a time threatened to wipe out the entire town. Fanned by a stiff breeze from the northwest, the flames spread ran idly down the river, where they attacked the bridge, and thence eastward on Main street destroying many business houses rhe fire is believed to have been of incendiary origin. The total loss will reach nearly $60,000, with insurance of $35 000 I he one fire engine was useless. John Fisher was shot ami killed at St Bernard, 0., by Policeman Barney Decnan. who had arrested him for personally abusive language. The long overdue British ship Moresby has arrived at San Francisco. Cal., 211 days from Liverpool. The cause of its detention was a succession of stormy ••■ales in the South Atlantic. Gen. Sir George Tompkins Chesney, K. C. 8., member of Parliament for Oxford, died in London. Forest fires are raging in Western Kentucky and Southern Indiana. Six lives ■have been lost in the former State.

EASTERN. James Mcßride murdered Mrs. David Rockford at Springfield, Mass. John Bigelow, an actor, killed Amy Thill and himself at New York. Officials of the Brooklyn trolley roads have been acquitted of violating the tenhour law. The Victoria Hotel at New Y’ork is in the hands of an assignee. The liabilities are SBO,(XX). New England coast was visited by a hurricane, the wind attaining a velocity of seventy-five miles an hour, and doing much damage to shipping. Harvard orators won the contest with Princeton at Princeton. N. J. The Cambridge men argued against the necessity of a property qualification for voters. The Nashua Savings Bank, the third largest in New Hampshire, has closed because of not being able to realize on YVestern investments. It had deposits of nearly $3,000,000. The entire business portion of Canaseraga, N. Y., and thirty dwellings were burned. The fire started at 12:40 Thursday morning and spread rapidly. A strong wind was blowing and the village had only the most primitive means for fighting the flames. Not until a special train had arrived from Hornellsville with two companies of firemen and a steamer was the progress of the fire checked. Half of the population are homeless. The total loss will be about SIOO,OOO. The insurance will not more than half cover it. No lives were lost in the fire, but several persons were injured. WESTERN. lowa was swept by dust storms, which partially obscured the sun and hindered railroad traffic. A rain is badly needed throughout Southern Arizona. The ranges are dry and in some places the cattle are suffering greatly. George A. Corwin, representing himself to be the head of a Chicago detective agency, is alleged to have deserted his wife and daughter at Toledo. The Michigan Central Railroad is preparing to remove the headquarters, roundhouses and shops of the YVestern division from Michigan City to Niles. The Third Regiment, Kansas National Guard, threatens to disband unless Kansas City business men subscribe sufticent funds for its maintenance by May 1. Chris Y’on der Ahe, the St. Louis baseball magnate, has been held to the Grand Jury for shooting a negro whom he suspected of stealing from the baseball park. Cora Smith, formerly a resident of Des Moines, but who has lived in Omaha since last September, was arrested there and takpn to Dos Moines Friday morning. SMp confessed to having assisted in murdering her father, Mike Smith, at Des Moines last May. S. L. Severance, of Cleveland, Ohio, j representing the creditors, has purchased I the plant of the Akron, Ohio, iron com- I pnny at Sheriff's sale. The purchasers paid $200,200 for the property, $87,660 for the real estate, and sll3 for the assets. The plant will be started with a full force soon. The direct inheritance tax levied by the last Ohio Legislature was on Friday declared unconstitutional by the Circuit Court, which held it was in the nature of an excess tax upon the right or privilege ot succession to property; also, that it was not uniform in its operation. The i State will lose much revenue under this ; decision. Receiver YV. H. Campbell of the Com ; mercial Bank at < 'inciimati. Ohio, was before the Insolvency Court to testily i on deposits received Wednesday after- | noon after the clearing-house had re fused to honor cheeks on the bank. Ben < jamin Dale for himself and clients depos- ; ited over $14,000 at 2p. m. that day. He sued to recover it. Judge McNeill formally ordered the checks turned over to Mr ; Dale. The fervor of Carl Browne as a munici- ! pal reformer has led him to attack many I public-spirited Massillon (Ohio) citizens. As a consequence he is in extreme dis- I favor. The result was that Friday [ night, while making an unseemly attack upon a local firm, a shower of decayed , eggs was directed at the "great common- i wealer” and the meeting dispersed. Ow- ; ing to a miscarriage of plans the target ; escaped and likewise the assailing party, but the excitement is hot and ail sorts I of things tire likely to happen. The Commercial Bank, at Cincinnati, Ohio, the oldest institution of the kind in the city, assigned Wednesday afternoon, YViliiam 11. Campbell, cashier, being named as assignee. The bank was compelled to make good $50,000 in bad paper and this precipitated the crash. There was a hurried meeting of the board ' of directors, the clearing house situation | was discussed and assignment decided upon. The assets and liabilities are unknown, Lot on good authority are said to be sl,- , I^o,ooo each. The paid-up capital was $318,000, the average deposits $700,000. The bank had been rediscounting its own paper for two weeks, and bad management is alleged. I’riees of all kinds of meats will be higher in Chicago this summer than they have been so" ten years past, says a dispatch. Even the high prices which were made by some dealers during the YY orld s Fair period will be exceeded by the figures asked for roasts, steaks, and chops from now on. I’rices have already advanced about 25 per cent., and an additional advance of about the same proportion is alt mauers to raise prices to consumers. - W hde the prime cause of the advance is the scarcity of choice beef cattle, all kinds of moats have gone up partly through the sentiments of the speculative ; market ami partly on account of the im creased demand. All kinds of beef, from ■ porterhouse to hash moat, are being sold I th™^ “ t 0 5 CPnts a pountl h >Kher Ml onnHr” ’ r BO ’ pork products of i .til qualities, from pigs' feet to hpad ^ Sf '’ "m r"?’’ consi derably more than thej could be bought for on the first of the month. Anton C. Hesing, president of the Uli- ^ taa ts-Zeitung Company and for y ears a prominent and affair- h f7n- ln ,h ° l ”' blic and Political narn^ ( i,n<l the WeSt died of n i Sunday morning at his home, m Ins seventy-third year. There is no reason to doubt his death was partly due I to excitement and indignation caused bv t ie passage of the Commercial Heat anil lower ordinance by the City Council. Mr. Hesing was greatly wrought up ov<. r the adoption of this measure, and express cd his disapproval of it in strong language to many of his friends. The last act of his life as editor of a newspaper was to write a signed article intended for publica- | tion on the editorial page of his paper

Monday morning denouncing the aide L men who voted for the ordinance as banditti and appealing to the jieople to preserve their rights by force if need be. T1 e article was written before he went tor-bt d Saturday night, but the effort, it seem), exhausted his vitality. The manuscript was found on a table in his room. Passenger train No. 54, Iron Mountain Road, which left Poplar Bluffs at 10:35 o'clock YVednesdny night, was held up at YY'illiamsville, a station about twenty miles north of that place, at 11:30 o’clock. As the train neared a lonely spot a short distance north of YY 7 illiamsville some one pulled the bell rope and the train came to a halt. Two men, one of whom had a red handkerchief over his face, and the other a mask of black material, forced the porter at the point of revolvers to uncouple the engine, mail, and express cars from the train, and compelled Engineer Mattis to run a short distance up the track with them. The robbers then proceeded to the express car and ordered the messenger to open the safe. The messenger informed the desperadoes that he could not open the through safe, as he did not have the combination. He opened the local safe, but there was no money in it. Meantime the alarm had been given and the citizens were arming themselves. The robbers, becoming frightened, jumped from the train and r in through the woods. Before they^ k L however, they secured Conductor YY’eb '» gold watch. It is believed that the ho dup was the work of farmers living in Ine vicinity. Sheriff Hogg summoned Ya posse and started in pursuit of the bers. ; -f»i i Mrs. Charles Henrotin, oWSghiJp’ knows now what a riot Home for Juvenile < do Mrs. Caroline Holt Harvey, fellow trustees o*that institution where young girls are ta^ht the error of their ways and given a ne w start in life —according to the piamw nd specifications on which the home 'Was founded. Mrs. Henrotin will not sp^elilv forget her experience. “The place was suddenly shrouded in darkness,” said she, in describing the function of Thursday night, “and the breaking of glass and crockery ware was heard in every part of the dining-room. I began to comprehend that the girls had again broken out in riot and it did not make me relish my position at nil. Lizzie Smith and some of her girl companions managed to get the matrons and Mrs. Harvey and Mrs. Holt, with myself, into a corner and protected us from the more vicious of the frantic girls. Nothing could be heard in the room above the din and roar of breaking wood and falling glass.” The numerous matrons and other employes were powerless, anil after a few feeble efforts to restrain the hysterical young rebels, they were allowed to continue their work of destruction until they | quit from sheer exhaustion. Finally thiee patrol-wagon loads of policemen forced their way into the establishment , just as the three trustees were on the j verge of hysterics. They were glad to i see the officers, and under their protecting । wing were conveyed to places of safety. SOUTHERN. 'The smallpox scare at Hot Springs, Ark., is said to be over and business has ■ assumed its usual activity. Fire destroyed forty-five residences and stores at St. Augustine. Fla., rendering I<mi families homeless. Neu Orleans authorities are blamed by the coroner's jury for not taking mens I ’ ores to prevent the recent labor riots. Mamie Dean, a schoolgirl of Harmony, j Md., was found with her throat cut. ; Lx m liers are hunting for the murd^vr. Weakly N Bros., carpet and furuW re i dealers at Nashvile, Tenn., have as signed. Liabilities about $48,000; assets, ; $55,000. , Henry Redding, colored, for causing ; the Miller Hotel fire at Lancaster, Ky.. : New Year’s day, in which Edward Pas- i i coe and two others were b irned to death. ■ ■ was sentenced to the penitentiary for : life. Near Jackson, Miss., three young la- I I dies en route to an entertainment in com- ; pany with their little brother were over- j I taken by an unknown negro, who request- j Icd a ride. They declined and he under- ! : took to force himself into the vehicle, hut i they beat him off. Arriving at the enteri tainment they told what had happened - and a posse was organized. The posse found the negro and riddled him with i bullets. Six men who tried to rob a fast through । passenger train on the Cincinnati Southern Road, near Greenwood, Ky., at 2 o'clock Wednesday morning, made a mis- ’ take which three of them did not have I time to repent. Their intentions had become known to the railway officials, so I when the attack was made the three I armed men stowed away in the express I car opened fire with rilles and without j unnecessary delay, and at the first volley I three of the robbers fell. The three oth- i ers took flight, though they are supposed i to be wounded. The attempt to rob the train was made at the south end of wha; is known as tunnel No. 9, which is a mile north of Greenwood. The signal tc stop was given and the engineer, actingunder instructions, obeyed it. As soor, as the six robbers were in sight tht fusillade began from the express car. where T. R. Griffin, superintendent oi police of the road, was concealed with two of his men. The officers did not wait for any explanations. They turned loose with their rifles and one man fell; dead, another was so badly wounded that

I he died in Greenwood an hour later, and a third lies at Greenwood without hope#, lof recovery. The thi e other men shc^ that hardly a passeng^^m) taken place until the exeeu t ionwaT^j^ J he train was delayed only ten minutes, and reached ('hattanooga on time. f FOREIGN. ki i£ a 7.'° bus been' Killed in a duel at Paris. The overdue bark Colusa, from Taeo-I ^m£S" ,sl d/i-of * l * VPKt igating the murdei of a British sailor bv Spanish sen nes at Havana, ami international com-’ plications may result. Colombian rebels are reported to have been defeated at Boyaca. The govern o.tKO having dropped off throng! fatigue or disease during the march, and of the re naming 1.000 which gavfc ban] rebels 700 were killed. At Washington it is understood on from M' driT‘ V tb< \ vomm ’«nieation Horn Madrid regarding the Alliama incident made known, in advance of its pub- I heation. the fact that Lieut. Ybarra the ' ofhcer m command of the Spanish gunhe A mri ‘ de ? , liadito - " Inch tired on I . the Ameucan s.earner off Cuba, has been '

relieved and his case referred for courtmartial proceedings There is much feeling among the Spani..rds in Havana against America and Americans. They seem to think the United States is desirous of a chance to take the island. A prominent merchant says if an American man-of-war appears at the mouth of the harbor it will be blown out of the water. There is undoubtedly a deep sentiment in favor of knocking a chip off Uncle Sam's shoulder. It is also an undoubted fact that it would be the signal for anarchy and bloodshed all over the island. A dispatch from Tokio, Japan, Friday, announced that the Emperor of Japan had decared nn unconditional armistice. At the same time, advices from Hong Kong, China, announced that the Chinese were bombarding Tai-YY’an, the capital town of Formosa. Advices received at St. Petersburg from Tokio say that the decision of the Emperor of Japan to declare an unconditional armistice was greatly due to the extreme indignation aroused by the attack upon Y’iceroy Li Hung Chang. The news that an unconditional armistice had been declared by the Emperor of Japan was confirmed at the Japanese legation at YY’ashington, where it is stated that a cablegram to this effect had been received from the home Government. China made the offer of the armistice, and the peace plenipotentiaries of Japan were empowered by the Emperor to accept it without condition. This was done in view of the "unexpected event” that happened, viz.: The attempted assasination of Li Hung Chang. Ihe armistice. Minister Kurino, of the Japanese legation, said, will be effective until the peace negotiations are concluded. As the military power of Japan has during the war outstripped the civil and as the army is flushed with victory, doubt is freely expressed of the Government’s ability to enforce the armistice. To meet this emergency a change of army commanders was recently made. IN GENERAL 1 he I nited States has contracted for a torpedo-boat of the Holland type at a cost of $150,000. As a result of the row over Manitoba schools Hon. J. ('. Patterson, Canadian minister of militia and defense, has resigned. The British bark Cupica is overdue at Astoria. Oregon, being 189 days out from Liverpool, and it is feared she has foundered. Obituary: At Kansas City. James Kellan. a famous confederate spy.—At Ithaca. N. Y’., Prof. James E. Oliver, of Cornell University. 66. Nearly $160,000,000 is invested in Canadian wood manufacturing industries, ; which have hii annual wage list of $30,000.000 and an annual output valued at $110,000,000. The President of the company whi'-h manufactures cellulose received a cablegram from Paris to-day announcing th it news hail been received there that at the battle of Yalu the Japanese battleshin Matusima was pierced by a six-inch shot, but the ship suffered only slight damage because the cellulose in its cofferdams quickly expanded and closed the broach. ; This is the first time cellulose has been tested in a naval battle. The Cincinnati Price Current summarizes crop conditions for the past week as follows: "There has been some relief to the wheat crop by rains, in portions | of Kansas and. to a limited extent, else- ■ where, but most of the area, is suffering ! more or less from insufficient moisture. ' The planting continues generally backI ward. A full restoration to a normal con- ' dition is improbable over a considerable part of the area. The general average I condition was furl her lowered during the ' past week. Ample rains would soon shape the outlook more favorably. There have I been but small interior offerings of wheat ! and fair offerings of corn. Oats seedI ing is delay d. The week’s packing of hogs amounted to 250.<i60, against 220,I 01)0 for the corresponding week a year i ago.” R. G. Dun & <’o.’s weekly review of : tiade says: “Signs of improvement are all the more ' satisfactory because neither accompanied 1 nor apparently produced by a specula- ! tive craze. Dealings in stocks, cotton I and wheat are not diverting all the interest and capital from productive industry and legitimate trade, though these products tire all a shade stronger. But railroad earnings, bank clearings and industrial indications are more encouraging. It is a remarkable feature that the lift- ; ing this year begins at the bottom, so to , speak: raw materials are raised before ■ tl < re is any larger demand for tin ir fini ished products, a thing not often done j with success. Hides rose, then leather. I and then shoes; cotton rose, and afterj wards some common goods; coke was adi vanced. and afterwards Bessemer pig. । In all these eases it is reasoned that the I larger demand for consumption, though । yet wanting, must come when it is se m that prices are going up.” MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. $3.75 to $6.75; hogs, shipping grades. $3 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $5; wheat. No. 2 red. 54c to 55c; I corn. No. 2. 45e to 46c: oats. No. 2. 2Cm to 30c: rye. No. 2. 55c to 56c: butter, choice creamery. 20c to 2614 c; eggs, fresh. 1114 c to 12R>c; potatoes, car lots, per bushel. 75c to 85c. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3 to

» |C2S; hogs, choice light. $3 to sheep, .^kirnmon to prime. $2 to $4.75; wheat, PNo. 2 Ted. 54c to 55<". corn. X<< t ' v fells, 34e. No. 2 red. 54e to 5.'. -■ 42c to 43c; oats. No. 2. 3<hto 31c; rye. No. 2. 57e to 5Se H Cincinnati— Cattle. $3.5(1 to $6.25; hogs f $3 to .$5.25; sheep. $2.50 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2,59 cto title; corn. No. 2 mixed. 48c to 49c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 31^0 to 1 S2%c; rye. No. 2. 59c to tile. Detroit—Cattle. $2.5(1 to $6.25; hogs. $4 to $5; sheep. $2 to $4.75; wheat. No. 1 white, .>Sc to .59c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 48c to 49c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 32^c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 red. 57c to 58c: corn, No. 2 yellow, 45c to 46c; oats I No. 2 white, 33c to 3314 c; rye, No. 2,52 c to 54c. ! Buffalo— ^Cattle. $2.50 to $6.50: hogs. $d to $5.25: sheep. $3 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2 red. 60c to (iOt^c: corn. No. 2 y. 1 c "- 49c to oOc; oats, No. 2 white, 3.5 c to 36c. AlHwaukee-W.ieat, No. 2 spring. 56c oic; corn. No. 3, 46e to 46U-: oats, ro* “ white, 32c to 33c; barlev. No ’’ mesJ°^o ; r r’ Xo - J ’ to 57 <3 D »k. mess, .sl2 t o $12.50. $3 to $6.75; hogs. ' to $->.,>o : ^ sheep. $3 to $5.5(1; wheat, 7 red > ,; 2c to 63c: corn. No. 2. 5Ge 41c O hntt OatS ■ " hit€ * Westt, m- 37c to die. butter, creamery. 14c to 22c; e'gs '' cstern, 121/^ to lßy,c

GRESHAM IS TO QUIT RESIGNATION OF THE SECRETARY IMPENDING. Reptiblicane Win in Michigan's Elec-tion-Frightful Accident in a YVoburn, Maes., Tannery—Successful Result of a Mother’s Search. Further Cabinet Change. Another vacancy in the cabinet, it is rumored, may occur within the next few weeks. Secretary Gresham is the official who is slated for voluntary retirement. The report comes from several of his close friends, to whom it is said he has more than once expressed his desire to return to the practice of law, if not to the bench. Judge Gresham, it is stated, has not found the State Department as congenial to his tastes as he had expected, and Mrs. Gresham has not been altogether pleased with the breaking of home ties, made necessary by her removal to YVashington. Both the Secretary and his wife have told intimate acquaintances of their mutual desire to return to Illinois. The rumor of Mr. Gresham*« retirement, however, is not based alone on these utterances of confidence, but on more direct statements regarding his intentions within the near future. Killed by an Explosion. Just before 7 o'clock Monday morning, one of the boilers in the Conn Tannery in YY oburn. Mass., exploded with terrific force, killing tive and injuring six others. There had been trouble with the boiler for some time, and early that morning John Parker, foreman of the plant, was called to the boiler room to see if it could not be fixed. It was found that the water supply could not be satisfactorily adjusted. but this was remedied. By the time the tannery opened for the day it was thought that the boiler was all right. YVhen the whistle was blown to start the works, instantly there was a fearfnl explosion. The big iron smokestack on the boiler house was blown high into the air and fell across the roof of the shop, and the tall brick chimney fell in a thousand pieces, crushing the engine room beneath it. YVhen the smoke and dust cleared away a scene of wreck and ruin was revealed. It was found that one of the two boilers had been blown to pieces, completely wrecking the boiler house and demolishing several sheds near by. The head of the boiler fell 300 yards from the tannery and the boiler tubes were seat tered in every direction. Found Her Stolen Child. After a two years’ search, extending from coast to coast. Mrs. Lidie Opie, of Salina. Kan., has located her child, kidnaped by her divorced husband in 1893. ( Soon after the decree separating the couple was granted Opie ran away with the only child, a 3-year-old son. whose custody had been given by the court to the woman. Mrs. ()pie immediately started in pursuit, and during the last two years has traveled almost the length and breadth of the country, finally tracing the boy to Kansas City, where Opie had recently returned to make his home. Opie has been arrested. In her most unwearying search for her child Mrs. Opie has ruined her health and spent $3,000, practically all she possessed. Michigan Goes Republican. A dispatch from Detroit, Mich., says: The Republicans have carried the State. I but by a HHluced majority from last fall’s i landslide. The returns came in with provoking slowness from the interior country. but show that not more than twothirds of the normal vote has been polled and that the apathy has affected more Republicans than Democrats. Returns indicate that Judge Moore for justice of State Supreme Court will have not less than 30,600 majority. The old Third district. so long represented in Congress by Julius C. Burrows, elects Lieut.-Gov. Milnes. Republican, by nearly 1,800 maiority over A. M. Todd, fusion. NEWS NUGGETS. The Italian parliament will be dissolved soon. The elections will take place in May. YVayne County. YY’. Y'a.. is excited over a supposed discovery of silver in White's Creek. Robert Thomasson ami Hugela Noe were killed in Broadhead Bros.’ mine, Trinidad, Colo., by falling coal and timbers. Extradition proceedings have been instituted to get J. C. Coleman, the diamond robber recently arrested in Canada, from the authorities and take him to YVaynesboro, Ga., for trial. The Canadian Department of Agriculture says the forest wealth of the Dominion shows an invested capital of SI(NIJ)6O.<MH); a wage list of S3<UHMUM>». । and an output valued at $1 HUNNUMHI. Representative Mustard introduced a bill in the Delaware House providing for the erection of a home for old maids. The bill further provides that the money to support the home is t<> be raised by a tax on bachelors. A Y’azoo and Mississippi Valley freight train pulled out of Memphis. Tenn., for New Orleans with a shipment of cotton, e' ‘ consisting of 10.5'21 bales, all billed through to Liverpool. The largest previous shipment was 6.175 bales. Postmaster General Wilson has issued I an order restricting second-class matter j to a< tual subscribers for journals entitled to the pound rate, and directs that hereafter postmasters will see that the publications offered for mailing have a legitimate list of subscribers. The Detroit. Mich.. Council adopted a resolution providing for an investigaton of charges of dishonesty against members of that body. Hanley E. Webster late postmaster at Brockport. N. Y,. pleaded guilty to the embezzlement of $1,372. lie was sentenced to pay the amount and to spend eighteen months in jail. The twenty-one national banks of Chicago report total individual deposits ot SGii.i h m i.i h m i. The death of a girl at New Y’ork after an injection of anti-toxine serura Ls being investigated bv the coroner. Seymour Jackson, cashier of Godbes’ Bank at St. Ensenada. CaL. has been arrested on suspicion of having robbed the bank of 812,500 March 26. The Bristol Tenn., Rank and Trust Company has gone to the wall for the second time. Assets. $50,159: liabilities, $24,<20; due to depositors, $16,90u.

Skirts for Men. We must protest against Dr. Sarak Hackett Stevenson’s proposal for mt n to wear skirts. It is all they can do to buy trousers. —Indianapolis Sent;nel. Dr. Sarah Hackett Stevenson advocates a dress reform by putting men in skirts. This is almost as objectionable as putting women in trousers. —Denver News. A Chicago “lady” reformer declares that men ought to wear skirts. The coming woman is coming with a briskness that almost takes an old timer's breath away.—Kansas City Journal. A Chicago woman doctor suggests that ' men should wear skirts. She will find a field of useful endeavor in attempting • to persuade the women to keep on wearing them.—New York Press. r Harriet Hosmer may call our modern statues “betrousered obituaries,” but ' how does she suppose our statues of Oliver P. Morton and Thomas A. Hendricks would look in short skirts?—lndianapolis ' News. A Chicago dress reform woman wants to shorten the skirts of the women and put the men into petticoats so as to establish the equality of the sexes. The men may wear knee breeches, but they are not to have the advantage of women there either.—Cleveland Plaindealer. Heaps o’ Trouble. Queen Lil and Minister Thurston can commiserate with one another. Like the parrot, they both talk too much.—Omaha Bee. Uncle Samuel’s fist is doubled up in spite of himself. Those foreign fellowe are getting too “sassy” for any living use.—New York Recorder. YVe cannot shoulder Nicaragua's sponsibilities; there is nothing in the Moeroe doctrine which requires anything like that of us.—Springfield Republican. If, to an abjeet apology for their wanton attack upon our merchant steamer, the Spaniards should; prefer recourse to war, they can unquestionably get their fill of it. —New York Sun. Hawaii should give Mr. YVillis his passport. If Minister Thurston is persona non grata v ith the Cleveland administration Mr. Willis certainly must be with the Hawaiian republic.—Cincinnati Gazette. If England were to attempt to absorb the whole of Y’enezaela, in other words, to destroy its government, it would ba the duty of the United States to interfere. To refuse to do so would be to abandon the Monroe doctrine.—Denver Republican. 1 Strong-Mindled Ohio Women. Ohio women are different from Ohio ' men. Four of them have refused nominations.— Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Four Ohio women have declined to be candidates for office. This constitutes a great surprise in Ohio. —Pittsburg Dispatch. The Ohio idea is that women v,ho are brave enough to acknowledge that they are over 21 ought to be allowed to vote for school directors. —Exchange. The women of Cleveland, Ohio, are be- ' ginning to take a genuine interest in their limited franchise. They loudly protest against the rule requiring voters to disclose their ages—Kansas City Journal. Now that the Ohio women are actually । participating in politics the Ohio man will be deprived of the time-hont'red excuse for staying out late at night. His wife will also attend the caucuses. —Exchange. This dreadful question confronts the women of Cleveland: Does the privilege of voting repay us for the humiliation of telling our ages? In about 99 out of 100 cases it has been decided that it does not. To make a woman tell her exact age is against the Constitutional provision forbidding cruel and unusual punishment. — Kansas City Star. Oppressed Cuba. Before Cub a can ever hope to become an annex to the U nited States it will have to cure itself of the revolution habit.— Kansas City Journal. Cuba is probably the most tax-ridden spot on the earth, the “mother country” being solely to blame for the home rule spirit there. —Boston Globe. In sentiment and patriotism it is al- [ most an alien island. Spain cares for Cuba only for the money there is in it and Cuba cares little for Spain.—Cincinnati Enquirer. If the island is for sale there can be f but one purchaser —the United States. And it is very certain that if Spain ever chooses to risk a war with us she will do so with the certainty of losing Cuba for--1 ever. —Minneapolis Journal. i There is no doubt but a majority of the people of Cuba are anxious to put an end to Spanish domination on the island. Lor halt a century Spai^ias^ sisted upon the \ ban industry.— The National Game. The mind that can be kept from care by baseball is not the best kind of mind j to have.—Exchange. r The City Council is getting decidedly j goody-goody when it suppresses baseball. —Atlanta Journal. Politics will have to get a good deal livelier if they expect to keep up with the interest in baseball. —Exchange. Northern baseball players are starting to come South before the wild geese have commenced to fly North.—New Orleans Picayune.. Baseball managers have found out that the player who holds out for a higher salary is something like a woman—he may I be won by perseverance.—Baltimore j American. Our Bricd Apples. This is too much. Uncle Sam could pt rhaps stand Germany’s prohibition of I our beef, but when it comes to stigmatiz- ■ ing the innocuous dried apple of our com- I nierce it is high time to talk to the young ■ kaiser. —Boston Globe. W This time it is American dried apples K that the German authorities find deleter- B ions t<> the public health. How long will I the administration permit these discrim- ■ inativns against American products to | L uutitiaue? —Boston Journal.