St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 40, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 27 April 1895 — Page 6

Cljc Independent W. A. EXOLEY, WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. SUPPLY OF FOOD FISH NATIONAL COMMISSION IS ENLARGING ITS WORK. Millions of Esgs and Small Fry Are Being Propagated for Distribution All Over the Country—Cuban Rebels Too Active in the United States. Fish for the Lakes. The Fish Commission expects this year to almost double the work of last year. In 1894 about four hundred million fish were distributed. This year the division of fish culture hopes to exceed that figure by at least two hundred million and probably three hundred million. The work of the spring distribution is now at its height. From the Ohio and Michigan stations the commission has already taken about one hundred ami twenty million whitefish and about eight million or ten million lake trout will be taken in the next ten days. In the neighborhood of four hundred thousand brook trout will be taken from the Colorado station. These fish will be planted in the great lakes and the surrounding inland lakes. The Cut-

in-Bay station has just reported the collection of some two hundred million pike and perch eggs from Dake Erie. These will be distributed in the lakes and also in the public waters of Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois and lowa. the work of distribution will be begun at Duluth in ten days. A month ago the marine work of the Government was completed. The total output of cod for distribution along the Maine coast was 70,000,000. The lobster and flatfish work is also in preparation in the Fast. Last year the commission handled 80,000,000 lobsters. This year it is believed the number will be almost doubled. Shad is now one of the most important food fish and the number distributed will be increased irom 50,000,000 last year to 100,000,000 this season. Debs May Go Free. A report from Washington is to the effect that the Supreme Court will in its decision of the Debs contempt case reverse the decision of the lower court made by Judge Woods, and grant the writ of habeas corpus asked for Debs and his associates. relieving them of imprisonment for contempt in disobeying the orders of the court. It is understood that the court stands either six to two or five to three in favor of Debs. It was the strongest argument used by the attorneys for Debs that a man cannot be punished twice for the same offense and not without trial by jury. In this instance Debs and his associates were enjoined by the court from interference with the mails, and on complaint that they had failed to obey this injunction they were not only arrested and indicted under the statutes but hauled into court for contempt and sentenced to imprisonment on that ground. Judge Lyman Trumbull and Clarence S. Darrow, their attorneys, argued that this was a sort of double barreled shotgun justice—punishing a man for a crime for which he had been indicted but before he was tried. Senator Voorhees, of Indianapolis, says he is in possession of information which leads him to the conclusion that the .Supreme Court will reverse the decision of Judge Woods. ’ Want a Big Waterway. In the Illinois House Mr. Ellsworth introduced a bill looking to the construction of a ship canal from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi river. The bill declares it to be the policy of the State of Illinois to procure the construction of a trunk waterway through the State from Lake Michigan via the Desplaines and Illinois rivers to the Mississippi river of such dimensions and capacity as to form a homogeneous part of a through route from the Atlantic seaboard via the great lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. By its terms the Governor is authorized to appoint a commissioner of waterways, who shall be a civil engineer of recognized standing on the waterway question: such commissioner to report to the next General Assembly data and recommendations. BREVITIES. Navigation is open at Montreal. The body of Edwin Forrest is to bo removed to a mausoleum at the Edwin Forrest Home near Philadelphia. General Antonio Maceo, the Cuban revolutionist leader, is reported to have committed suicide. Almost the entire business portion of Duquesne. Pa., was destroyed by a fire of supposed incendiary origin. The loss is variously estimated at from SBO,OOO to $150,000. Frank Howard Poor, serving a sentence for forgery at the Massachusetts Refo.matory at Concord, has fallen heir to about $16,000,000 through the death of Frank Howard, a Nevada mine owner.

for whom Poor was nameS. ) ■ At San .Tose, ('al., Albert Anderson stabbed and killed Alice T. Blair, wife of < George 11. Blair, a prominent citizen of 1 Woodland. Anderson then drove the knife through his own heart. For carrying concealed weapons exMayor .1. 11. Davidson was sentenced at Lexington, Ky„ to ten days in jail and to pay a tine of SSO. Isaac La Forge, aged 74. of Pine Bush. N. Y.. killed himself with a shotgun, pulling the trigger with the great toe of his right foot. The Dime Savings Bank at Willimantic, Conn., closed Tuesday. The last bank commissioner's report shows that the savings bank had Oct. 1 2.577 depositors, $626,591 on deposit, and a surplus of about $23,000. Obituary: At Rondout. X. Y.. Prof. Edward A. Spath, 75.—At Elgin. Hi.. P. C. Gilbert. S2.—At Des Moines. lowa. Captain F. R. West, 82.—At Braz.il, Ind., Dr. ,1. M. Price. Alice T. Blair, wife of George 11. Blair, a prominent citizen of Woodland, Cal., was stabbed to the heart by Albert Anderson at San Jose. Ex-Congressman George W. Fithian is said to be the first choice of the free silver Democrats of Illinois for Governor. Colombia has laid an export tax of $2 per sack of 125 pounds on coffee. Import duties hw- been increased 15 per cent.

EASTERN. Earthquake shocks were felt at Modus, Conft.; Bullington, Vt., and Montreal. Sevill, Schofield & Co., proprietors of the Economy Woolen Mills at Manayunk, Pa., have assigned, with liabilities of about $350,000. Judge Gildersleeve at New York denied the application for alimony in the pending suit of Mrs. Cutting for separation from her husband, ex-Congressman John L. Cutting, of San Francisco. “Doc” Minchon is on trial at Rome, N. Y., charged with aiding the escape in April, 1892, of Tom O’Brien, the bunko man, now held in Paris, France, for killing Reed Waddell, the gold brick swindler. A New York syndicate has agreed to furnish $12,000,000 for the Minnesota Ca nal Company. It is proposed to open two hundred miles of canal and river front at Duluth for navigation am’ power purposes. Andrew Carnegie has donated SIOO,OOO to build a monument to Mrs. Mary E. Schenley, of London, England. The monument is to be erected under the triumphal arch at the entrance of the park of 460 acres which Mrs. Schenley presented to Pittsburg. The international convention of the Young Women’s Christian Association in session at Pittsburg, elected these officers: Mrs. Grace Whitney Evans, of Detroit, president; Mrs. W. Messer, of Chicago, and Miss Mary B. Stewart, of Detroit, vice-presidents; Flora Shank, of Indiana, and Carlotta Colding, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., secretaries.

Robert Center, club man, man of leisure and one of the best known sportsmen in America, was knocked off his bicycle anil crushed under the wheels of a coal wagon while riding at New York Wednesday evening. He died three hours later. The tragedy occurred almost under the windows of the Colonial Club and before the eyes of the president. J. 11. Underford, and half of the members, to whom Mr. Center was personally known. WESTERN. Gov. Mclntyre of Colorado and Senator Teller are leaders in a movement already started to push the organization of nonpartisan silver clubs in the West, in ac cordance with Gen. Warner's suggestion. Mrs. Katherine Jackson died at Terre Haute, Ind., a maniac ns the result of the disgrace caused by the arrest of her son on a charge of theft. The son is in a precarious condition from an attack of epilepsy. A. Schleiter, one of the wealthiest and best known business men of Ida Grove, lowa, shot his wife and then killed himself. Mrs. Schleiter cannot live. Indications show that he hud been planning the tragedy for several days. Mrs. Adams Darling, the poetess, charges that her son, Irving I. Darling, the musical composer, was poisoned by his wife and Dr. Francis Xavier Sponger of Detroit. Dr. Spanger and the widow have married since young Darling’s death. At the G. A. R. encampment nt Macon, Mo., ex-Senator Ingalls made the principal address. He expressed the belief that in the future the West and South would be joined together by common ties of business and political interest ami would be invincible. At Cleveland. Alexander Turk, 23 years of age, called at the residence of his sweetheart, Miss Julia Fallon, and fired three shots into her body. He then turned the weapon upon himself and ended his own life. Jealousy is supposed to have caused the deed. The regents of the California State I niversity have been informed by the executors that the bequest of the late J. t'. Wilmerding of a trust fund of $400,000 for the building and maintenance of a school of trades for boys is about ready to lie turned over to them. Charles Coles, the driver of the stage that was reported to have been held up by two men on the plains between Norman and Princeton, Cal., has confessed ■ that he is the one who looted W ells-Fargo ; Company’s treasure box. He named Charles M. Myers as his accomplice, and both are now in jail. R. F. Ludlow, superintendent of the Springfield, 0., malleable iron works, was shot at three times by D. Z. Gardner, a I prominent attorney. Ludlow met Gard ■ ner on the street with his wife when the shooting occurred, none of the shots tak- , ing effect. Ludlow's wife had recently : sued him for divorce. A mass meeting to boom the Detroit | plan was held at St. Louis, Mo. Judge j Stroher was elected president and George ; C. Worth secretary. Different property | owners sent in tenders of real estate = aggregating over seventy-five acres of j ground for the use of the association. Another meeting will be held to get the de- ■ tails of the scheme in working order. The controlling interest in the Chicago | Times-Herald and Evening Post was pur- I chased Saturday by 11. 11. Kohlsaat. who will direct the policy id' the two papers hereafter. The new management I says the policy of the Times Herald will J be wholly independent of party ties, striv- j ing for that which is best for the nation, . heedless of the dictates of mere partisan- j ship. In national affairs, while avoiding alliance with any party, it will always , advocate the doctrine of protection to 1 .

American industry. E. L. Spalding, a Salvation Army loader, was arrested at Butte, Mont., on the charge of counterfeiting. It is said Spalding put in circulation the stuff after it was coined in a secret tunnel near the city by a gang of ten mon. several of them with a national reputation as counterfeiters. A young man named Haidlow gave the information, but he has disappeared, ami the officers believe he hits been made away with. A request has been sent to Washington for the assistance of a secret service officer in ferreting out the counterfeiters. The North Dakota Milling Association of Grand Forks, X. I)., owning and operating twelve flouring mills in North Dakota and Northern Minnesota, made an assignment Thursday afternoon to William F. Honey, of Park River, X. D., ns assignee for North Dakota, and A. D. Stephens, of Crookston, Minn., as as signee for Minnesota. The officers of the association are: President, Hugh Thompson, Crookston, Minn.; vice-president, John M. Turner, Grand Forks; secretary and treasurer, George F. Honey, Grand Forks. It is said the assignment was caused by an attachment levied upon the association for SIOO,OOO by the Mandan Roller Mill Company, to secure the payment of a note given for that sum by the association, through General Manager Turner. Other debts amounting to $26,000 tire pressing, of which $20,000 is open accounts and $6,000 due the First Na-

tional Bank of Mandan. Approximately the assets are $700,000; liabilities, $400,(XM). This association is organized under the laws of New Jersey. It owns and operates mills at Mandan, Bismarck, Casselton, Mayville, Park River, Northwood, Minto, Milton and Grand Forks, N. D.^ and at Moorehead. Crookston and Fisher’ Minn. The attachment and mismanagement are causes of the assignment. The assignee will continue the general offices in Grand Forks until the affairs of the association are closed up. SOUTHERN. Adolpl^ Seheueriek, a member of the Boyland protective police in New Orleans, shot and killed Mattie Francisco, wife and four children. The woman leaves four children. She had deserted her husband. R. A. Blanford, who, after being fourteen years a fugitive from justice, surrendered to the Austin. Texas, authorities, has been discharged, there being no evidence against him. He was accused of embezzlement. Ex-Senator Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia, father-in-law of Senator Stephen B. Elkins, while in New York, declared that his son-in-law would positively not be a candidate for the Republican nomination for the presidency. A sheep herder has discovered a horrible charnel cave full of human remains near the village of Queehultenango, Mexico. Over a hundred skulls were countj ed, piled with their bones in one greats heap. It is supposed the remains arc th< ghastly souvenirs of one of the numeroiM! attacks made on travelers and whol^j^^® vans of freighters In past decades Nothing but a thread intervened th® other day to save WiDinm Marquette,lo <’hattnnoogn, Teun., tailor's apprentice^' from horrible death by means of an infer-1 nal machine which was sent to him through the mail in a small box marked ‘■Dominoes.” Imbedded in two ounces of the loose explosive was a dynamite cartridge provided with a match head, fuse and cap. A wooden block turning on it pivot lay behind the cap and bark of the block an improvised steel trigger was strung forward and held by common pins stuck through a bit of wood. This was connected with the sliding lid of the box by a thread so delicate that the slightest jar would set off the explosive. Seven common rubber bands drawn taut held the trigger with the tension of n hair spring. The string worked out of its poor fastenings while the boy was unwrapping the package, thus averting the tragedy. An electric railway conductor had threatened the boy's life, it is alleged, because he had discovered a crime on the part of the conductor. Dwight Moody, the evangelist, was conducting a meeting at Fort Worth, Tex.. Sunday. All of Texas has been in great need of rain, so Mr. Moody called upon his audience of 8.000 Christians to pray fervently that the floodgates might be opened. This was at 3p. m. At night, while the tabernacle was crowded by 10.immi people from Fort Worth and surrounding cities. Mr. Moody announced that word had come from several |M)int* that rain hud fallen. A few minutes later the storm burst on Fort Worth ami torrents of rain fell. Then Mr. Moody gave thanks to God mid mik'd upon the congregation to join in singing “Coronation.” The song had surged forth from ton thousand voices when a cracking I noise was hoard and then the roof sankJl the rafters gave way. and the heavy tim^ bvrs and boards ouitihl wuli uu Rrmvint i nmr* down «»n n F congregation. Several were fatnlly hurt and forty were less seriously injured. - === WASHINGTON. Secretary Morton ami Statistician Rob ertson have not yet had nn opportunity to considet the recommendations made by the various representatives of the «ommoreial organizations which recently pre sented plans looking to more accurate crop reports by the Department of Agrii culture. While the suggestions of the I commercial men may be taken into con- ! sideration, nnd some of them adopted, the j department Ims already considered plans for improving the service and has found that the trouble lies in the fact that there is not sufficient money to carry out any method of reform that would greatly ! improse the service. Statistician Rob j ertson says that it would not be best to i abolish the State agents while there are j still but a limited number of reporters in I I each county. He thinks it well to in- [ I crease the number of reporters, but this is | ! something that the department had under 1 I consideration. Secretary Gresham has laid down some : doctrine touching the rights of merchant ' steamers in foreign ports to afford asy- ; him to refugees that may be of great imI portance to commanders of vessels. This j was called out by a letter addressed to the Slate Department in December. 1894. ■ by C. I’. Huntington, president of the Pn- ' cine Mail Steamship Company, asking for an exact definition of the powers»of cap- : tains of merchant steamers in this rei spect. The Secretary responded that the i so-called doctrine of right of asylum hav- | ing no application to merchant vessels in j port, it follows that a shipmaster can I found no exercise of discretion on the (character of offense charged against the refugee. 'While no general rule can be laid down as a comprehensive principle. ■ a merchant vessel in a foreign port is i within the local jurisdiction of the country with respect to offenses or offenders : against the laws thereof, and an orderly j demand for the surrender of a person aeI eused of crime by duo process of law, ■ with exhibition of a warrant of arrest in the hands of the regularly accredited otlicei of the law. may not be disregarded or resisted by the master of the ship. Arbitrary attempts to capture a passenger by force may call for a disavowal when the resort to violence endangers the lives of the innocent and the property of a friendly nation. FOREIGN. Great Britain has rejected Nicaragua's proposition to arbitrate the differences between the two Governments and insists 1 on the demands contained in its ultimatum. A Jamaica dispatch says the American steamer Barnstable, from Boston for Port Antonio, was tired on off Grand Ague by ; the British cruiser Canada. It is said I the Barnstable stopped and was boarded by British officers. , Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt was married j Thursday to Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont. in London. About a month ago > Mrs. Vanderbilt secured an absolute di- ■ vorco from Mr. Vanderbilt, and was given . the custody of their three children. i Upon his return home at Massillon. 0.. Anthony Howells, consul to Cardiff,

Wales, snys that some sort of epidemic has secured foothold in this country which leads countless numbers of persons to write to him about supposed fabulous estates that have no existence. It keeps him too busy to answer such letters. United States Minister Bartieman at Caracas has been negotiating with the V enezuelan Government to secure the reopening to American commerce of Ihe mouths of the Orinoco, all of which were closed, with one exception, by decree. The matter was brought to the attention of the State Department through the seizure of the steamer Bolivar of an American line for entering one of these forbidden passes of the river. The Venezuelan Government has taken the ground that the closure of the other passes is necessary to prevent the invasion of the customs laws, but at last accounts it had offered to establish a port near the Gulf of Paria destined tor the entry of foreign freight. Ihe St. James's Gazette, commenting upon the latest developments in the dispute between Groat Britain and Nicaragua, says: “There is wonderful ignorance of diplomacy upon the part of the American journalists. Why should we want to bombard Greytown? It Nicaragua has been so foolish as to refuse to pay the indemnity. which, with the knowledge of the United States, we demanded, we shall take such steps as the American Government was perfectly aware of at the time of asking. The Monroe doctrine has been a doctrine for sixty-two years and has not been acted upon yet. When Great Britain has serious differences to settle with South American republics it । will ««>t be prevented from doing so by । anything but settled international law.” / The new Spanish minister to the United ' States, Senor Depuy de Lome, has arrived in Havana. At Santiago Si'imr de Lome । personally investigated the stories told of the firing upon the American steamship Allianca by a Spanish gunboat, securing nil the important facts in the case for transmission to his Government, and in order to guide him in his negotiations u ith the United States, looking to a settlement of the complications which grew out of that affair between the United States and Spain. When interviewed regarding the result of his investigation into the firing upon the Allianca, Senor de Lome remarked that he had no doubt that the negotiations between the two Governments in regard to the Allianca affair would have an outcome satisfactory to both parties. IN GENERAL Frozen salmon are being shipped from Vancouver to Australia. Oliver Curtis Perry, the insane train robber who <s<-aped from Mnttenwan Asylum, has been recaptured at Weehawken. Obituary: At Gainesville. Fla., Dr. John P. Hall, of Tampa At New York. Granville Perkins, the artist. 65. At ShelbvvUle. Ky., ex-Gov. R. <’. Wickliffe At Nashville, Tenn.. Rev. G. W. Winn. 1 he Standard Oil Company is engaged now in the most stupendous operation ever undertaken in its career to take from the pockets of the Amcrfi sn people, through the medium of oil. n sum of money the immensity of which is not reallzed by the mere expression of it in figures; to acquire ns part of its posses nlons the desirable oil producing territory of the United States cast of the Mis ■souri river, nml tn »<• doing to constitute Iltself supreme nnd absolute owner of an Bjudispensnbh l lighting and fuel material I in this country ns it is now dictator of its tlistribution, B? the nlrnnn's mnd,Hlnr iu the price of refined oil the Standard : has addial !C><Uto the value of the ’ product il absolutely own- and w ill sell i to the people. That I- to say. that is the Standard's profit, but probably not all that has been made up to this time out of the frenzied nd vanee in crude oil. which, unless the best information is incorrect, it hns mntiipulnts'd. R. G. Dun A f'o.'s weekly icimrt of trade snys: “In every specuhitive depart ment business is growing, but this is really the least satisfactory feature of the situation. Cotton, oil and wheat climb above the ex[x>rt price, so that the mur I keting of products abroad must !><• check cd, nnd money is absorbed which ought to 1h« emptied in productive industry ami in distribution of products to consumers. Everylsidy know s oil has mu risen 2(XJ l»er cent. Iweause it is intrinsically more j valuable, nor is wheat actually worth more than it was two or three weeks ago. । but the expansive and uplifting force has i fortunately taken to speculation rather I than to production, and so we have higher i prices in all speculative markets without ' a large demand for consumption. Stories of combinations between the Standard Oil Company and Russia as to partition of the oil-consuming territory by no means account for recent prices of petroleum. which appear io be entirely fu titious." MARKET REPORTS, Chicago—Cattle, common to prime $3.75 to $6.50; hogs, shipping grades. $3 to $5.50; sheep., fair to choice, $2.00 to $5; wheat, No. 2 red, 57e to oT’^c; corn. No. 2, 45e to 46c; oats. No. 2. 2Sc tc 29c; rye, No. 2. 59e to 6Oe; butter. cUbice creamery. 20c to 21c; eggs, fresh, to 12c; [lotatocs. < nr lots, per bushel, to Hoc; broom corn, por H». <-omm<>D g 4w th to tine brush, 4c to O^c. jkliaiinpolis—Cattle, shipping. $3 to hogs, choice light, S 3 to $5.2.i; shewp, common to prime, $2 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 55c to 56c; corn, No. 1 white, 45c to 46c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 33i/ 2 c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3 to $6.25; hogs. $4 to $5.25; wheat. Xo. 2 red. 55c to 56c; corn. No. 2. 4_'- to 43c; oats. No. 2,29 c to 30c; rye, No. 2. 56c to 00c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $3.50 to s<’>.2s: hogs, $3 to $5.50; sheep. $2.50 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2,61 cto 61^c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 46^e to 4714 c; oats. No. 2 mixed. 31c to 32c; r ye. No. 2. 66.- to 68c. Detroit— Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs. I $4 to $5; sheep. $2 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red. 59c to s!> l />c: corn. No. 2 yel.'ow. 45c to 46c; oats. No. 2 white. 33c to 34c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 red. 59c to oOu^c: corn, Xo. o yellow, 45c to 46c; oats. Ao. 2 white. 33c to 33V>c; rye. No. 2,54 c Io 56c. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs. $3 to $5.75; sheep, $3 to $5; wheat. No. 1 hard, 66c to 67c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 49c to 50c; oats, No. 2 while, 35c to 36e. Milwaukee- -Wheat, No. 2 spring. 5Sc to 59c; corn, No. 3,47 cto 4Sc; oats. No. 2 white. 32c to 33c; barley. No. 2, 52c to 53c; rye, No. 1,59 cto 61c; pork, mess, sl2 to $12.50. New York—Cattle, $3 to $6.50; hogs. $4 to $5.75; sheep. $3 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 64c to 65c; corn. No. 2,50 cto 51c; oats, white Western, 36c to 41c; butter, creamery, 14c to 21c; eggs, Western, 12c to 13c.

WADES TO HER DEATH WOMAN DROWNS HERSELF AND A LITTLE BOY. Admiral Meado’o Squadron Sails for Troubled M aters—Government Finances Must Be Overhauled—Retirement of Gen. McCook - Curzon-Leiter. One More Unfortunate. A woman—whose identity has not been discovered— committed murder and suibi the sight of two witnesses at 1-.30 o clock Monday afternoon nt the foot of Forty-eighth street, in Hyde Park, Chicago. She walked to the hike shore leading a boy 5 years old by the hand. At the water's edge she took the child in her arms and waded out to a point 200 feet or more from laud. Here attention was attracted to her movements by the cries of the child. James Wallace and Frank Morgan were fishing on a breakwater near by. They hoard the boy’s screams and saw the woman push him under the water and hold him there. They shouted to her t<> stop and ran to the rescue. When the woman saw them coming she waded still farther out, and still holding the boy she let herself sink below the surface. M allace and Morgan waded out us far as they could, but the woman and child had drifted beyond their reach. The bodies were recovered. Deficit of #40,00 ,000. The lieeision of the Supreme Court in the income tax case necessitates a recasting of the estimates of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, and from the best data obtainable it is believed that the deficit for the year will amount to $46.000>. The amount of the deficit to date is $47,251,241. with indications of a further increase before the close of the present month, but the income tax receipts, it is expecteil, will materially cut down this amount during the remaining ten weeks of the fiscal year. Receipts from customs ami from internal revenue sources continue to increase, but not at the pace expected, and with fully one-half of the anticipated receipts from the income tax cut off it is doubtful if the close of the year shows a deficit of less than SlO.DtMtjW. Faith iti British Honor. A telegram received at the Navy Department announces the sailing of Admiral Meade’s Kpiadrmi from Colon. All the vessels started, tile Minneapolis going to Kingston. Jamaica, nml the New York. Columbia. Cincinnati, Atlanta and Ra leigh heading for Key West. The isthmus will not long be left unprotected, for Seeretarv Herb'-rt says that one of the ships will mhiii be detached from the squadron ami sent buck to Colon, but the movement of Meade’s squadron is regnrded as showing that the administration has absolute confidence that in the Ni<aragmm affair the British Governnmnt will take no steps in:mi< al to Aucti«au interests, and will not indirectly seek mi acquisition of territory through its claim for imicunity fur the expulsion of < 'onsubi r A gent Hat h. Cuniul i Waris that $425,000. Iu the House oi Comm ms at Ottawa. Ont.. Mr. Costigan. Minister of Marine and Fisheries, stated the Camiditin Government had be. n promised by the Im|>erial Goveiument aid f"ward recovering | the av. ard of S42s.(*Mt agreed upon as i the prop'r amount to be paid by the United State , as a ompeii-a t ion to British Columbia sealers. The Imperial Government will at once, he said, communicate with Washington on the matter. I.ioii Cannes a Punic at a Circus. \I Evansville. Ind., during the perform:i ae of a circus Munday afternoon the riding lion became unmanageable, tore loose from its keepers, and rushed furiously about the tent. The audie. became panii -striekem Women tainted, and one lady was knocked down and had two ribs broken. The animal was finally captured. Dannie Nugent Cine 1 at Dayton, Ohio. Dannie Nugent aid his wife were brought before the police judge at Dayton. <L. charged with being known ami reputed thieves. Dannie and his wife took matters coolly nml pleaded not guilty. The judge lined I>a nnic $25 aml costs. The woman wa< dis: s d. NEWS NUGGETS. The gram! floral festivals < 10-ed at Los Angeles ami Santa Barbara. Cal. In the first named place there was a big street parade, in which the Chinese presented a unique appearance. Thornton Parker, colored, was hanged at Winchester. \'a.. for assault on Mrs. Melton. Frank Fuller, also colored, was hanged at New Orleans. La., for murdering Henrietta Gardner. The wedding of the Hon. George Nathaniel Curzon. M. I’.. ami Miss Mery Leiter was celebrate 1 at St. John's Epis- j copal cherch st Wa.-;i::>g'ton at noon Monday, amid seem s of such brilliancy hihl in tin* preM'iH <• «>f sn« h n «Kst iprruisi)- I ed << lubki^e cabinet ollicors. dipioniats. GOwruurs and l>isho'<s as give the event the character of a public ceremony. General Alexander McDowell McCook, the most distinguished representative of the famous fighting McCooks and who was recenfly promoted to the rank of major general of the I nited States army, goes on the retired list, havin.-r reached lis tilth year. lie is the eldest of eight brothers who have borne arms for their country, and has been in the army tor forty-two years, although during the war he served witli the volunteers. Otis Skinner, the well known actor, announces b.is marriage to Mirs Maude Durben. leading lady of his company, at Corning. N. Y. Miss Trmlic Barnes, of Wheeling. IV. \a„ has brought suit for S2'l.'HK» fol breach of promise against J. <'. McGregor, (•ne of tlie best known business men in the State. Representative Cog.-wcil of Massachusetts has been seriously ill. but is improving. Sam Nolan, aged D. of Fort X\ orth, Tex., committed suicide iccause his mother teased hiri. Scaling nun pi'ophesy that the catch will be very light this year, the prediction being based upon the bad luck ot s ’hooners so far. Catherine Scott, aged 103. the oldest woman in Brooklyn, is dead. She was born in Ireland and came to Brooklyn ' seventy years ago.

ethical culture society. Something of the New Cult Which is Gaining Prominence. The movement of ethical culture now so prominent in all sections of the United States and portions of Europe had its origin in New York city, where the first ethical society was founded in 1876. The attitude of the New York socie.ty has been from the first neither irreligious nor anti-religious. In the opening address which Prof. Felix Adler delivered on May 15, 1876, the watchword which he suggested for the new movement was : “Diversity in the creed, unanimity in the deed.” He also emphasized in those remarks that belief in any of the received doctrines of religion should not hinder any one from joining the new organization. Neither FELIX ADLER. should a negative attitude toward the current religious teachings be a hindrance. Those who aspire to become good men should be welcomed to the new fellowship, no matter what their opinions might be on questions of theology or philosophy. Prof. Adler stated at that time. All that was expected was a sincere interest in the moral improvement of the individual and of society, and a willingness to waive points of difference at’.d to come into fundamental agreement with others animated by the same desire. These views had been known by r a number of Prof. Adlers friends for some years prior to the organization of the society. Prof. Adler was at that time professor of Oriental literature at the Cornell university, and when a number of friends of the cause of ethical culture were prepared to form a society he resigned from the faculty of the university and entered the field in which he had long been desirous to labor. It was a labor of love for him from the beginning and still is such. At first the new society was the target for much hostile criticism and even bitter persecution. Like all new movements it required time to be correctly appreciated, and in the beginning it was misinterpreted. The fact that the Ethical society did not affirm any religious belief was regarded as positive proof that its members and its leaders were al heart hostile to religion. But this was a mistake, and as time went on it was perceived to be such. The prejudice which the society at first excited has abated from year to year. Some of those who were its most pronounced antagonistshave become its well wishers aud supporters. The charge of attitude against the society is shown by the fact that the legislature of the State of New York has conferred upon Prof. Adler legal autlioritj' to perform the marriage ceremony. A Smuggling Scientist. A Berlin periodical has the following: In 1805 Humboldt and Guy Lussac met in Paris to pursue their investigations as to the compression of air. The two men of science found ; it necessary to obtain a large number of glass tubes. These were very dear in France at the time, and the enormously high duty forbade their introduction from abroad. But Humboldt was nothing daunted He ordered the tubes from a German glass works, and instructed the manufacturer to close them up nt both ends and affix to each a label with these words, “Deutsche Luft’’ (German air). The air of Germany was an article which did not appear in the tariff, and the custom house officials allowed the tubes to pass, and they were thus delivered free of duty’ into I the hands of the two men of science. A Cruel Wrong Inflicted on Sailors. A sailor on a troopship informs me of a curious grievance from which he and his mates suffer. “The ship’s company is limited. " he writes, “to two parrots for each mess of about twelve men, and if these are not in uniform cages they are thrown overboard.” Tastes, of course, differ, but I should myself have thought an allowance of one parrot to every six men on board a troopship was not an unreasonably small one. “A. B. evidently thinks otherwise, however, and this is not strange, perhaps, when it is remembered on the authority of -Mr. F. C. Burnand’s once popfldar Ivric, thr.b Jack’s “heart is true to his Poll.” Ant Nests in Trees. The ants of Malacca make their nests in trees, joining the leaves together by a thin thread of silk at the ends. The fir-t step in making the nest is for several ants to bend the leaves together and hold on with their hind legs, when one of them after some time runs up with a larva and, irritating it with its antennae, makesit produce a thread with which the leaves are joined When one larva is exhausted, a second is brought and the process is repeated.