St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 43, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 18 May 1895 — Page 2

@Jjc JirtependenL • -A • TX 1 > JL4I-C X”, J *lll>ll shci’, WALKERTON, INDIANA. PROOFS NOT LACKING. TERRIBLE EVIDENCES OF ARMENIAN MASSACRES. Commissioners of the Great Powers Discover and Examine the Pits Into Which the Bodies of Scores Os Victims Had Been Thrown. Butchered and Burned. The commission which lias been investigating the atrocities in Armenia traversed the devastated villages and arrived at Jellygoozan, where 120 houses were found to have been burned. The people were sheltered in miserable huts. Ample proof was found of the truth of the stories told regarding the massacre of Armenians and the fact that their bodies were thrown in large numbers into a wit, where the Turks endeavored to conceal their crime by pouring barrels of petroleum upon the bodies and setting tire to the oil. The flames, however, failed to consume the mass ami a stream was dammed and diverted from its course in order to wash away the halfburned bodies. But even this failed to obliterate the terrible evidence against the Turks, and the local authorities were compelled to remove the remains piecemeal. The villagers had removed the bulk of the bodies and interred them in consecrated ground before the arrival of the commission at Jellygoozan. Lake Hashed to Fury. Lake Michigan unleashed itself Monday night in one of the worst storms known for years, and only most fortunate circumstances prevented a repetition of the series of wrecks and disasters that occurred May 18, 1894. The list of boats lost is a large one, and in all thirteen lives are known to have been sacrificed. The shipping list follows: Quiekstip, wrecked off Racine; Willard, from Alpena; J. B. Kitchen, wrecked at Middle Island; A iking. driven aground with three consorts at Sand Beach, Mich.: unknown steam barge, ashore six miles north of Sand Beach; steamer Unique, wrecked at St. Clair; three schooners, wrecked off East Tawas, Mich.; schooner Reindeer, reported stranded at Black River; unknown schooner, wrecked off Racine: three-mast-ed schooner, wrecked near Milwaukee

Explosion and Fire. At Sleepy Eye. Minn., shortly after midnight Tuesday, an explosion occurred in the new $24,000 school building, and in an instant the structure was in flames from foundation to tower. In the basement was the village electric plant. The loss was $32,500; insurance, $23,500. 1 he cause of the explosion is a mystery. The engineer left sixty pounds of steam on nt I Pressure is being brought to bear on the Dornlmon^wernmont to take steps to prevent, if possible, the construction by Americans of a waterway from Lake Michigan to the Ohio river. In the House of Commons George Cockburn, member for Toronto, asked the Government to act with the Chambers of Commerce in Cleveland and other American cities in protecting the interests of the lake dities. John Haggart. minister of railways and canals, stated in reply that the Government would protect Canadian interests in every wav possible, and would communicate with the United States Secretary of Waton the subject. The syndicate of capitalists living, in Haverhill, Mass., who bought the Good Hope mine, near Riverside, Cal., nearly a year ago for $250,000, have come to the 'conclusion that they have paid too much for the property. They now desire the courts to aid them in throwing off SI(M».000 from the purchase price. The Eastern men claim that when they bought the property they were duped outrageously by means of the old device of “salting. An effort is to be made to organize a district of the Knights of Labor in Portugal. A. E. Swasey, of Galveston. Texas, who is now on his way to that country on private business, has taken with him an organizer's commission and proposes to make an effort to induce the wage workers of Spain and Portugal to interest themselves in the order. Bishop Gulstan Ruperts has arrived in San Francisco from Honolulu, en route to Rome, where he is going to induce the pope to send more missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands to care for the lepers. lie will also visit France on a similar mis-

sion. He says 1,200 lepers are on the island. Rudolph Schuaube't. accused of throwing the bomb at the Haymarket riot May 4. 1886, has, according to a San l-'raneisi a paper, been spending a year at Vallejo. Cal. He disappeared a few days ago and it is said is now on his way to Brazil. The report of another outbreak of cholera at Mecca is confirmed from official sources. Cholera prevails at Mecca and in the villages frequented by the caravans of pilgrims in El Hejaz, “the land of pilgrimage.” A Tacoma. Wash., dispatch says: Facts have come to light which indicate that the late Paul Schultze’s defalcations amount to nearly $500,000, making his total embezzlement the largest ever known on the

Pacific coast. George Culp, who celebrated his 80th birthday at Goshen, Ind., is the father of ten children, grandfather of 105 and greatgrandfather of 100. Capt. J. W. Morris has started from San Francisco on a tour around the world in a boat forty-five feet in length. The German Government met with another defeat, when the reichstag rejected the whole of the proposed tobacco tax bill. Spanish General Salcedo is reported to have been killed in a battle with Cuban rebels. The insurgents claim that the Spanish loss, killed, wounded and missing, was over one thousand. The Tammany Society of New- 5 ork has elected ex-Recorder Frederick Smyth grand sachem. .1. Edward Addfiks has been elected president of all the gas companies comprising the Bay State combination.

EASTERN. August Teffer, married, shot and killed Clara Herbold, aged 26, and then killed himself at Philadelphia, Pa. She would not elope with him. Manuel Fuentes, the New York World correspondent, has been ordered released by- the Cuban authorities on condition that he leaves the island. It is reported at New York that the Pullman company, in order to escape hostile legislation in Illinois, will incorporate under New Jersey laws. The Senate at Albany has defeated the New York police reorganization bill. This action is said to be the result of a deal by- which the “Greater New York” bill is also to be killed. Dr. Buchanan, whose execution has been twice deferred, may remain at Sing Sing some time longer. His attorney claims that he is legally dead and cannot be electrocuted, the time set for his execution having passed. The Pennsylvania Commission Company, one of the largest bucket shops in Pittsburg, suspended. The proprietors, Spunler & Frazier, give as a reason for quitting business the rapid and continued rise in all the speculative markets. On the western division of the Erie three miles west of Hornellsville, N. Y., at an early hour Sunday morning, a fast freight was thrown in the ditch by- a broken wheel and ten cars were piled up in a confused heap. Three men wore killed and two hurt. Eleven horses also were killed. A special meeting of the executive committee of the Newsdealers, Booksellers and Stationers’ National Association was held in New York for the purpose of formulating a plan to protect booksellers of the United States against attacks by department store keepers in regard to the cutting of prices in books. Two sons of Ralph Agnew, of Beaver Falls, Pa., having a burning desire to become contortionists and perform in a circus, set about making their little frames supple. Some one told them if they drank a concoction prepared by boiling angle worms, they might tie themselves in compact knots or stretch out even as does the worm. They gathered a tomato can full of worms, boiled them over a bonfire and drank the resulting elixir. They have taken on the form of a knot most of the time. The doctor says they nearly died from poisoning, but now they are out of danger and have given up the circus idea. WESTERN. The lockout of union painters at Indianapolis has ended, the men having accepted the terms offered by the bosses.

Through the death of Mrs. Lewis, of Coldwater, Mich., the magnificent $300,000 art collection of her late husband, Henry C. Lewis, is mar at the disposal of the University of Michigan. The east-bound freight No. 124 on the Lake Erie and AVestern was wrecked one mile west of Celina. Ohio. Ten cars were smashed into splinters. Two men were instantly killed and two seriously hurt. Fanners., .in. j U : Thursday Av as Ih# bgttest Mxj day which Chicago has ever seen. The tem-"pef-rtarg t> the morning to 90 degrees at 4 in the afternoon. One case of sunstroke was reported. Two masked road agents caught a stage load of San Franciscans on their way to the summer resorts of Lake County and stripped them of their valuables. The robbers secured about $1,30<» front the passengers and looted the A\ ells-Fargo treasure box. The mystery of the disappearance of Charles S. Smith, bookkeeper for McGlaugblin & Co., of San Francisco, who engineered the late Senator Fair s $3,000,000 wheat deal, is clearing and the firm now asserts that the young bookkeeper is an embezzler. Suit has been begun against Pn.. !ent Joseph AA'. Reinhardt, of the Santa Fe Railroad, by Mrs. Matilda AA allace. of Philadelphia, for $50,000 damages. She charges that Reinhardt falsified the company’s statements, thereby misleading betas to the value of its securities. Newton Blagg, a farmer residing near Chatteroy, AVash, came home just in time to save his 2-year-old child from a horrible death. His wife, driven insane through religious frenzy, had built an altar in the woods near the house, upon which she had secured the babe, preparatory to roasting it alive. Four men killed and two injured is the result of the explosion in mine No. 10 of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, at Sopris, Colo., Friday morning. Foul gases ignited from a miner's lamp. The company never had any- report of gas in any of the mines in the district, ami therefore never adopted any precautionary measures.

Dr. J. D. Robinson, who performed the ’ first amputation in the war of the rebel- ( lion, died nt Wooster. Ohio, Friday evening. 'l'Pc tact that Dr. Robison was entitled to the distinction was recognized by ( the Government. 'Die operation was per- | formed upon .James E. Hanger, a Confed- ! crate soldier, who was wounded at the j battle of Phillippi. W. Va. Dr. Robison ; served through the Mexican war as a sur- i geon, and during the war of the rebellion ■ established half a dozen hospitals, at one i • time having charge of the national hos- I pital in the Patent Office at Washington, i D. C. He was born in Wooster April 23, i * 1820. t The loss of the Cayuga caused a good ’ deal of consternation among lake undere writers in Chicago. Following so closely on the heels of a large number of heavy

losses the sinking of the Cayuga and the probable loss of the entire cargo was a severe blow to the insurance business. Among the practical marine men it was believed the steamer could ultimately be got afloat again, but it was thought the expense would amount to nearly all it was worth. The work must be done with pontoons, and will be a long, tedious job at best. If the Hurd was at fault for the collision the Lehigh Valley line will not got much out of it. The total loss on the Cayuga and cargo is about $300,000. The liability of the Lake Superior line is limited to what the Hurd is worth after the collision, which may be $5,000 or $6,000. April 23 a stranger giving the name of L. C. Rogers rented a box in the Stillwater, Minn., post office. He commenced sending postal orders to various business houses in St. Paul and Minneapolis, the amounts being usually sls. He sent one to Dunham & Eastman without announc-

Ing what it was for, and next day wrote them it was a mistake, asking t^ em s o send a check for the amount, whi<fh they did. He raised this check to $645 4 nt j got the money from the Northwestel n x-., tional Bank, Minneapolis. He aleL ed the firm’s name on the buck. N®Lq\ , lie presented another forged chU*, lay $465, purporting to be from Dunj? " for Eastman, receiving the money, iff* 111 & the Security Bank next day for fried when payment was refused thcW?’ «nd vanished. The last time he gave hi follow as Coyne. Is name 'Three highwaymen made a dgWg effort shortly before 1 o’clock Tlfeuerate morning to rob John AV. MoorstiuLda v ware dealer, No. 369 West Madiso L hardChicago. For ten minutes he I street them and so vigorously that o Bought they stabbed him three times Ithough them off before they succeeded in lelbeat him. One thrust of the daggerjt fobbing ed his heart by a sixteenth of an st missthe County Hospital it was said jSch. At wounds, though serious, are no that the sarily fatal. Mr. Moore was | necesLeke and May streets while on passing home to 44 South May street, wlf way men tried to “pocket” him, onejs n three side and the other in the rear. H? u cne h ed to run, but was tripped and a ‘j startfore the robbers could take advar ’ „ this he was on his feet. A sent one of them to the ground but the others closed in on him and p^T «''a i,: a arms. Then the third man his watch. Moore struggled ajjiolvntly that they could not secure’pe-Wssion of it, and again the plucky merqinnt was knocked down. This time he dal not try to get up. lie drew a revolver from his pocket ami fired twice. The shqoting attracted a number of pedestrians. Two of the highwaymen ran away. The third drew a dagger from Under his coat and stabbed Moore three times—in the right arm, in the right shoulder and in the chest. AA'ith the pedestrians came half a dozen policemen. They gave cause, but failed to catch the fleeing desperadoes. SOUTHERN. The Louisville city court has declined to hold Fulton Gordon, who killed his wife and Archie Brown. Mrs. Heyward 11. McAllister, wife of the son of the late AA’ard McAllister, has tiled a suit for absolute divorce at Savannah, Ga., on the ground of desertion. The sensation attending the Gordon double killing is not over yet by half, says a Louisville dispatch. The prosecution will attempt to prove that Arch Dixon Brown’s death was due to a deep-laid plot to assassinate him; a trap, as the prosecution believes, fostered ami pUnned by one who, for reasons best known to himself. was afraid to do the work and used Gordon as the tool to carry out his designs. These statements come directly from the prosecution. James A. Scott, the Frankfort attorney employed by Gov. Brown to prosecute the ease, said: “Gov. Brown is now firmly conviw^u that a well-planned trap was laid for his son ami that information was furnislutH of coming by some one in Fmnkfwf aII . other man in Louisville, who, |fo r 80 me motive, advised ami actively ajLi«i ( ~i in what Gov. Brown। constdws nW****""” ” ,^L|t<uffn<T and Cupt. XVinGim” iMnr>t,^Rof the engineer department, have bevujpw tin ted a commission to report.ujwu.dßfr.H-t <.f theopmHng of flic Cliffy nran^ige oanal on the lake and harbor levels. I AVashington dispatch: Comptroller Eek els reports a healthy improvement in busi- j ness in all quarters, a condition that is reflected in his advices from the banking interests in every State in the Union. Evidences of revived activities are not confined to any line of business or any dozen or twenty lines. They are general and far-reaching, as reflected in the demands for banking accommodations. Tens of thousands of men who have been lying ! low during the period of depression are ■ coming out of retirement ready and anx- ' ions to embark in new enterprises or ex- ■ tend themselves in fields already occupied in perfunctory, half-alive fashion. i The inquiry for funds is especially active ! from manufacturing interests, thus con- | firming what has been said about g genI oral revival in the industries—a declnra--1 tion that is often received with open skepl ticism. but which, nevertheless, has sub- | stantial foundation in facts. Merchants ' are preparing to spend money in enlarging their tpade and in increasing their facilities in every way. Construction projects that have been held in abeyance for a ' couple of years are being dragged into I FOREIGN, A dispatch from Shanghai says the • Chinese emperor has written to the czar and President Faure asking for financial assistance to meet the war expenses, and promising to grant special commercial advantages to Russia and France in return , I therefor. A dispatch from St. Petersburg states । that up to Smiduy-k was believed that Jamin would refuse to give mjXW'Tt Ar

.J it [HI 11 u -nim * ' thur. Orders were given to mi^fze 110.- ; ()OO troops in the Irkutsk and - imsk dis . and a credit of SkffiKUO Rubles was opened. It was in view o^^pm attitude of Russia that Japan immediately yielded to the demands made by Russia, Frame and Germany. I’he end of the Cuban war is at hand. 'Die rumor is confirmed in all well-inform-ed circles. The chiefs of the insurgents have abandoned their cause in despair. Capt. Gen. Martinez Campos has ordered that the work on the port of Santiago be . begun at once. Railways and telegraph i lines are to be built, rebuilt and improved, , through Manzanillo, Bayamo' Puerto Principe, Santa Cruz, San Lui^ and Soriano. 'Die republic of Brazil is having an experience in finance much like that of the I huted States. Senor Mendonca, the Brazilian minister in Washington, has rei ceived copies of the recent decfee for tin internal loan of 190,000,000 edntoes, or $50,000,(MM). Part of this was taken by the people, in the form of a popular loan, much as Senator Sherman urged as the most dtvirable manner of floating bonds. Os this $10,000,000 was at once used in redeeming paper money, and $15,000,000 more will be used for the same purpose. The important feature of this step is that Brazil has begun to strengthen her gold reserve and reduce her paper money, with a view to bringing her two forms of cur-rency-gold and paper—to an equality. It will not be bimetallism, as Brazil has little silver except for subsidiary coin, but it will inaugurate the unique system ; of gold and paper circulating side by side ■ on an equality. ■ A dispatch from Managua, Nicaragua, says: There is no longer any doubt that i

Great Britain will receive her smart money on time. The £15,000 to be paid by Nicaragua to Great Britain has been raised by popular donations. Three GerronnA/?,erca,ntil ° ,irins have Siven about x-,600, nnd the whole amount will be ready to be paid in London in a few days, m G P” 81 "* tho money, however, lias only increased popular feeling in Nicarnffua against Great Britain, and the feeling s now very bitter indeed, more so, if itCornt 'Vm" 1 ' 011 the Britssh landed be C t > H n le genernl opinion seems to will form Central American republics against c °™ bl P a t lon - Posoibly secret, 1 G .^ nt Britn in. and that evervng possible will be done to exclude British goods from Central America. This c?ni' nS - Probably result in commern»l ? the United States. There iq no doubt, however, that the action of thq roe German firms in subscribing so liberally to the indemnity fund will prove a good stroke of business to them. IN GENERAL The Manitoba Legislature has adjourned until June 13 in order to allow the < anadian Government to act on the school question. During the last year the American Bible Society issued 1,581.128 Bibles and Testaments, of which 735,221 were circulated in foreign hinds. Obituary: At Colorado Springs, I’rof. Newton S. Fuller, of Ripon, AA’is., College, 36. —At Fort AA'ayne, ex-Congress-man A. 11. Hamilton, 61. British Columbia canners have petitioned the Canadian Government to place salmon on the free list, to enable them to meet American competition. Antonio Bem and Louis Budinich, two Hungarian students, who are walking from Buenos Ayres to Chicago, have reached Piedmont, Mo. They have traveled 10,365 miles on foot since Aug. 7, 1892. The Amalgamated Association of Tin, Iron and Steel AVorkers and the Merchant Bar-Iron Manufacturers' National Association have entered into a combination to secure for the iron workers of the country better rates of wages and for the manufacturers fair competitive conditions against the mill operators of the Pittsburg district, who have been working their employes at low wages. Between 2 o’clock Friday afternoon and 6 o'clock Saturday morning the temperature in Chicago fell 43 degrees. The highest temperature of Friday was 86 degrees. One man was prostrated by the heat. The fall in temperature of 32 degrees in twelve hours at Fort Robinson, Neb., brought on a snowstorm Friday morning, which lasted half an hour and made the hillside white. R. G. Dun A Co.'s AA’eekl.v lieview of Trade says: “The event of the week is the demoralization of foreign exchange, caused by enormous sales of bonds abroad. Besides a sale of SIO,O6O,(MHi Manhattan and other railroad bonds through the syndicate large purchases on foreign account have been made for some weeks, so that the aggregate probably exceeds $50,000,000 since tho sale of governments. Safety for the summer means muehjta uit bussiCrop prospects also bnve unptly improved and this is of still higher importance, ns it will do mill'll to determjnc the char- i aen-r ami volume ot all business after j summer uncertainties are over. In addi- ' tion business is reviving, although the i gain in great industries is retarded by ' i many strikes.” Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: Per Clubs. Played. AVon. Lost. cent. Pittsburg ....IS 12 6 J»67 Chicago 19 17 .632 Boston 15 9 6 .600 Cincinnati .... 19 11 8 .579 Cleveland ....16 9 7 .563 . Baltimore ....13 7 6 .538 । Philadelphia ..15 S 7 .533 New Y0rk....15 7 8 .46, 1 Brooklyn ....16 7 9 .438 St. Louis 21 7 14 .33;’. ' AVashington ..15 5 16 -333 । Louisville ....16 5 11 .313 । Following is the standing of th? clubs in the Western League: Per Clubs. Played. AVon. Lost. cent. Minneapolis ..10 8 2 .800 Indianapolis ..10 । 3 .700 Grand Rapids. 11 6 5 .54;> Toledo 11 5 6 .455 । Detroit. 10 4 6 .4**o Kansas City.. 10 4 6 .400 Milwaukee .. .10 4 6 .4f>O St. Paul 10 4 6 .400 MARKET REPORTS, Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, . $3.75 to $6.50; hogs, shipping grades. [ $3.00 to $5.00: sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 62c to 63c; corn. No. 2, .iOc to ;>lc; oats, No. —Be ' to 29c; rye. No. 2. 6le to 65c; butter, choice creamery, 15c to 17c: eggs, fresh, x. 1•> . ....4 LitKi upr Imsl'icL

I 12c to 13e; potatoes, car lots, per misnei, I 50c to 60c; broom corn, per lb, commcu I growth to fine brush, 4c to ic. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00^0 $6.00; hogs, choice light. s3.t)o to $4.75; sheep, common to prime. $2.00 to s4mo: wheat. No. 2- 64c to 6.ic; corn, No. 1 white, 50c to 50*X>c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to .’“Pm-. St. Louis-Cattle, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs. $4.00 to $4.75: wheat. No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 2. 48c to 40c; oats. No. 2, 29c to 30c; rye. No. 2,63 cto 69c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75: sheep, $2.50 to $4.7;>; wheat. No. 2,69 cto 69%c; corn. No. 2 mixed. .55c to 57c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 3114 c; rye, No. 2,62 cto 64e. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $4.75; sheep. $2.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 67c to 68c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 50c to 51c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c: rye. 65c to 67c. Toledo—'Wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to GSc; corn. No. 2 mixed, 51c to 5146 c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 33%c; rye, No. 2,66 c to 6Sc. Buffalo —Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.<10 to $4.75; wheat. No. 1 hard, 71c to 72c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 54c to 55c; oats, No. 2 white, 35c to 36c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 64c 1o 65c; corn. No. 3,50 c to 51c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; barley. No. 2. 48c to 51c; rye, Xo. 1,64 cto 65c; pork, i mess, $11.75 to $12.25. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, i $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; ‘ wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 70c; corn. No. 2, 56c to 57c; oats, white Western. 38c to , 41c; butter, creamery, 12c to 18c; eggs, t Western, 12^c to 1314 c.

WOMEN’S NEAV BIBLE. RUMOR DISTURBS THE THEO. logical world. Many States Suffer from the Cold M ave-Nebraska Farmers Now Able to Help Themselves-Gen. Harrison to Retire from the Law. mi Th ^ Womun ’ B Sensation. lie theological world is thoroughly stirre (I by the announcement that Elizabeth Lady Stanton and nearly a score of colaborers, in the persons of distinguished women, will undertake a revision of those portions of the scriptures dealing directly or indirectly with the relative position’s of inaii and woman, and will publish the rosy Its of their labors in a new Bible Jo be known as “The Woman’ll Bible. Mis. Stanton has declared that the greatest obstacle which has retarded the advance of woman’s cause is the inferior position aeeorde.i her in the scriptures as now translated, and that she can attain the full measure of her self-respect and equality with man in which God created her only wln-n the Bible is correctly retranslated. This work, she holds, should be done by women, as man has, in every translation, declined to do her justice. Damage by Frost. The colil snap of Monday night was one cf the most general ever experienced at this time of year, extending is it does from Nebraska to the Atlantic coast. The aggregate damage to crops and fruit will be enormous. The grape-growing section of New York State was one of th • heaviest sufferers, the injury to that interest alone being estimated by one of the largest growers at $2.00(1.(100. Snow fell in AVisconsin at several points, which report killing frosts and much damage. Michigan practically was under snow, nearly every dispatch received reporting a more or less severe fall. Crops and fruit were considerably damaged in many places. The peach belt may not have been so hard hit. Indiana got a touch of the snowstorm, several places reporting light flurries. From lowa comes a story of damage to fruit about Boone which amounts to total destruction. Potatoes and grapes were destroyed in Greene. Calhoun, Carroll and Guthrie Counties. Many other places send similar reports. In (thio, throughout the central portion, vegetables were killed, and fruits met a like fate in the northern part of the State. Damage to wheat and corn is not believed to have been great. Corn, fruit and garden vegetation sustained considerable damage in Minnesota, but the main <riq»; were not affected except in a few inManves. Garden stuff and fruit in the northern tier of counties in Missouri were nipped, but the damage in other parts of (lie State was inconsiderable. Nebraska Requires No More Aid. G*>v. Holeornb Friday,. autity,uzed the IqLouipg statement: I have been advised h^fhe State relief in the hands of the treasurer of the commission sufficient funds to care lor any isolated cases which may arise. In making this annoiimvmeut 1 desire to acknowledge on the part ot the people our gratitude for the evidences of kindly interest which I ave come from almost every State in the Union in the form ot generous donations to relieve the distress of our unfortunate drought sufferers, and to the railroads ami express companies which have transported these contributions in many im-tam es free ot charge. Like His AVhite Brethren. Friday was the time set tor the cxeeation of Johnson Jacob, a full-blooded i Choctaw, at Caddo. I. T„ for the murder . of his wife last fall. Since his conviction ! he has been permitted to go where lie I pleased, ami he tidopted the white man's j tricks and left for parts unknown. NEWS NUGGETS. Captain Bartholomew Diggins. ot AVashington. declares that the story that Admiral Farragut was tied to Ilie rigging of lite Hartford dining the battle of Mobile Bay is true. He says he did the tying himself. The Mary Lee Coul and Railway Company's propt rty at Birmingham. Ala., was sold to satisfy a decree in favor ot the Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company of Baltimore, Ml. The bondholders bought it in for $ itI.COO. Mrs. Margaret Bach died at Dayton. Ohio, as a result of the fumes inhaled fn tn ammonia placed in a tub of hot water. Another woman in the neighborhood, Kate Leichtler. using ammonia in the same way for washing, was badly injured. A number of Baltimore musjeians and clergymen were present at the test of a chime of bells which has just been com-

pleted for St. James’ Catholic Church, Chicago. There are twenty bells in the chimes, the largest of which weighs 1,150 pounds and the smallest 1->O. Iheir total weight is 40.000 pounds. It is the largest musical chime of bolls ever cast in this country. The Morrison will case went to the jury at Richmond. Ind., immediately after the close of ex-President Harrison's speech Friday afternoon. The court room was packed to hear Harrison speak, and hundreds were denied admission. It is pronouaced one of the great efforts ol his life. It is officially announced this is the last speech he will ever make to a jury, having determined to retire from the practice of law. The Bank of Montreal has shipped $109,000 in gold to its branch in St. .John’s, N. F.. by the steamer Bonavista. State Senator Peter R. Morrissey was shot and instantly killed at St. Louis by Maud Lewis. The woman has been mentally unbalanced, according to the statements of her neighbors, and is supposed to have been insane at the time. Gail Hamilton, who was reported to be seriously ill at \\ ashington. is impio.ing. Gomez, the Cuban rebel leader, is re ported to have won a decisive battle at Boreyey. killing and capturing more than a thousand men. The Tennessee House rejected, 60 to 30. the bill appropriating $300,000 for the Tennessee centennial exposition. A motion to reconsider was made. John Flood, ex-cashier of the defunct Kelly Bank at San Francisco, accused of embezzling $167,000, has been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment.

RECALL of thurston. Hawaiian Government Finally ceivea that Much-Talked-esMM issiei y e . lla « a,ian advices from Honolulu Mbd S tf r demandin g the recall of S to I th? lUrStOn ’ iS there aEd has beea efis It hm T e session (,f the ^uncus. It had been to Hong Kong It Th" S J lbnolalu ia a ^ith others. he fault lies with the post office at San to ThnrT gr ° Un<l ° f tbe ob i^tion iction Th” IS ff Co,lfi " ed t 0 a Bingle trans - » i 1 hC . offcnse al >eged is that Thurston, at the legation, showed to reporters private letters to himself from Honolulu. Gresham spoke to the Hawaiian minister about the matter. Thurston said that he regretted it very much; that in the hurry of handling a big mail he had shown this letter with others without any special in- ’ ‘yretary Gresham thereupon aski tha JL the apology be submitted in writing. 1 hurston declined to do this. Gresham's letter is dated Feb. 21 last, and states that Thurston is no longer personally acceptable to the administration at Washington as Hawaiian minister It is definitely settled that Thurston will not return to AVashingron. He has resigned, his resignation to take effect " when 1,,„ sne-essor has Won appointed, rso retaliating measures will be taken by the Hawaiian Government so a cabinet officer states, ami Minister Willis will remain in Hawaii so far as anything the officials on this side may doi or say to him. A REMARKABLE COLONY. Sixty-Right Bank Officers# Confined in the One Penitentiary. 1 here are now in the Kings County, N. Y„ penitentiary sixty-eight prisoners, who, at one time or another, were officers of banks—some tellers, others presidents, and others still cashiers. Tbe Kings County penitentiary is one of five penal institutions which are under contract with the Federal Government to keep in confinement all prisoners convicted of felonies by United States courts, and hence the large number of former bank officials, as these have been gathered from a wide extent of territory. Speaking of his boarders. AA’arden Hayes of the penitentiary says: “I have here in my population as able financiers and expert accountants as ever lived. They came from all over the East and Southeast. AA’e have them from Louisiana to Maine. If there should be a striko of tellers, casbjers and clerks in any one of the banks of greater New York I could furnish a complete staff on one hour's notice. Yes, I could fit the bank out with a president and a full force down to, but not including, the janitor. It is a remarkable fact which I have verified by looking over the records, that although there have been confined in this prison since it began to receive United States prisoners, twelve or fifteen years ago, a total of 130 bank officers and clerks, we have never yet had a janitor or watchman or runaway messenger.” AGAINST •‘COIN ” Referee Vincent So Decides in the For- ssS Issue. Mr. A'incent decided against “Coin.” The bet came about In this way: ExMayor Hopkins, AA'illiam S. Forrest ami Sigmund Zeisler were engaged in a discussion on the money question. “From 1792 to 1873,” said Mr. Hopkins, “silver was the unit of value in the United States.” “AVhat is your authority?” demanded Mr. Forrest. “ ‘Coin's Financial School,’ ” replied the ex-mayor. “Uli bet you any amount of money at 2 to 1 that ‘Coin’ lied,” said Mr. Forrest. “I'll take $lO of that,” said Mr., Hopkins, and the S3O was put up in Mr. A’incent’s hands. Mr. Forrest being called away, he left Mr. Zeisler to draw up the wager. Mr. A'incent holds that two units of value were expressed from 1792 to 1873. AA'. 11. Harvey, author of “Coin,” says Judge A’incent’s decision is a farce. AA'. R. Smith, superintendent of the Botanic gardens in AVashington, has held the place for forty-three years. The Secretary of the Navy has appointed Herbert Howard, of Port Huron, Mich., a cadet at the naval academy. Senator Gear, of lowa, with his health in part restored after a desperate fight for life, will return home in a few days. Prof. J. T. Rothrock is authority for tbe statem.ut that 15,600.000 acres of land in Pennsylvania were sold for non-pay-I ment of taxes last year. I /’ L’« .iroiiorn 1 nr flirt

Gen. Stanton, paymaster general oi uio army, has received from Fort Washakie, Wyo., a magnificent war bonnet made by the Shoshone Indians. Private Secretary Thurber says ths statement that the President is writing a book on economic science, or on any other subject, is absolutely untrue. The reclassification of employes of the customs service has been completed and the rules for carrying iuto effect all the changes made will be promulgated at once. The six new gunboats for which plans have recently been approved by the Sec-retary-of the Navy will be known by numbers until they are named by the Seen retary. The action of the Pension Bureau in construing the legal meaning of “dependence” under the act of June 2i, 1890, has been reversed by Assistant Secretary of the Interior Reynolds, who says that by “adequate means of support” the law means a comfortable maintenance during the remainder of life. Secretary of State Gresham continues to improve steadily.. He takes food in sufficient quantities, secures considerable sleep, and the pleuritic attack, while still the source of some constant pain, is running its course naturally and satisfactorily. Secretary Carlisle has directed the Federal authorities at Tampa, Fla., to communicate to the State quarantine authorities his opinion that the Lnited States laws do not warrant the detention of th* Spanish cruiser Infanta Isabella on a reported violation of the Federal q^aVantine laws.