St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 45, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 June 1895 — Page 6

<T!jc Jndependent. W. A. ISJX Uluia V, Publisher. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. ED. F. UHL THE MAN. FOR A TIME HE WILL BE SECRETARY OF STATE. Devil’s River a Raging Torrent, and Many Lives Lost—Steamer Colima Goes Down with Nearly 200 I’eoiile —For Ohio's Governor. Talk of a Successor. It is intimated in official circles at Wash Ington that Secretary Gresham’s successor in the cabinet will not be named for several weeks, and that in the meantime Assistant Secretary Uhl will perform the duties. Grave international problems are pressing for solution, but the President has always taken such a deep interest in every detail of State Department affairs that a Secretary is not a strict necessity of the moment. Many names figure in the calculations as reasonable probabilities for Secretary of State. Don M. Dickinson is easily at the head of this, having declined the office at the commencement of the administration; William C. Whitney occupies a place in the minds of many, while not a few believe that Bayard may be transferred from the court of St. James to his old post as chief adviser to the President. Awful Disaster in the Pacific. R. S. Schwerin, superintendent at San Francisco of the Pacific Mail Company, Monday night received word that the Colima had b<>en wrecked. Nineteen of those on board were saved. The Colima carried about forty first cabin passengers and the same number in the crew. The Colima was commanded by Captain J. P. Taylor and was an iron vessel of 2,906 tons. Sho was built in 1873 by Roach & Sons, of Philadelphia, and was owned by the Pacific Mail Company. The wreck occurred between Manzanilla and Acapulco. The Colima carried a very heavy cargo of general merchandise. The ship’s boat containing five of the crew and fourteen of the passengers arrived at Manzanilla Tuesday. Assistant Superintendent Avery of the Pacific Mail stated thart the Colima carried 192 people and only nineteen were saved. Most of the cabin passengers were bound through to New York. Flood in Texas. In the terrible flood that visited the Devil's River country in Texas last Thursday four persons met their death by drowning near Ozona. Two others belonging to the same family were drowned, but their bodies have not been recovered. The victims were Georg" Velasco's wife and the hitter's two brothers and three sisters. They lived on the bank of Devil’s river, which rose thirty feet within thirty minutes and swept their house and the whole family into the raging torrent. All the houses on the Prosser ranch, between Juno and Comstock, were swept away, and several families, numbering in all about twenty persons, are believed to have been drowned.

Judge Is Too Drunk to Hold Court. Judge W. R. Norwood, one of the judges of the Superior Court elected last November, has been indicted by the grand jury at Lumberton, N. C., for drunkenness. Last week was court week for the county, and Judge Norwood came Monday morning under the influence of liquor and continued drinking until, at the hour when court should have been opened, he was too drunk to hold court and remained in his room all day at the hotel. He continued in that condition all week. Perhaps He Wanted to Drown. City Collector S. G. Sharp, of Lexington, Ky., has been found $15,253 short in his accounts. It is believed that the money was taken by W. P. Welsh, his old deputy, who was drowned last summer. Sharp’s bondsmen are holding back his salary. ExCollector Davidson’s books were found to be $16,000 short a few months ago. Welsh was also his deputy. The total shortage now foots up over $35,000. Poster Causes a Fatal Runaway. At Kokomo, Ind., a distributer of circus dodgers attempted to throw a poster into a passing wagon Monday. The paper fell under the horses’ feet, causing them to run away. James L. Straughn, wife and daughter, of Alto, were thrown out and terribly crushed. Mrs. Straughn and daughter are believed to be fatally injured. Mr. Straughn will recover. Bushnell to Lead. Gen. Asa S. Bushnell, of Springfield, was nominated for Governor at Zanesville, Ohio, Monday night by the State Republican convention. Though his name W> not formally presented, he received j votes on the first ballot and gained steadily until the sixth, when he received 95 votes more than were needed to nominate. BREVITIES. The body of an American, literally cut to pieces, was found at Juarez, Mexico. He had evidently been murdered by robbers.

Frank Honeck, a native of Missouri, has forwarded to Secretary Gresham a claim for $50,000 damages tgainst the Hawaiian Government for false imprisonment ami expatriation. The first open rupture in the much-talked-of sheep men’s and cattle men's war in Routt County, Colo., has occurred and four men are badly wounded, two of whom may die of their injuries. Recent elections in Italy resulted in an overwhelming victory for Premier Crispi. Latest returns show the election of sixtyone ministerialists, fourteen constitutional oppositionists, four radicals and five socialises. Frank R. E. Woodward, an American correspondent, is reported to have been killed by the Spaniards in the battle at Bocadedos Rios, Cuba. Gov. Hughes, of Arizona, is said to be slated for removal on charges of nepotism and irregularities in connection with public moneys. Ex-Gov. Zulich is named as his probable successor. The Michigan Senate defeated the antitreating bill, believing it an infringement of personal rights. Rumors that Marti, the Cuban rebel, was not killed have been set at rest by the exhibition of his body at Santiago. v' "■ I,

EASTERN. Henry Disston & Co., saw and file makers at Philadelphia, have notified their 1,700 employes that their wages will at : once be increased 10 per cent. ■ Conaftiandcr Ballington Booth nnd his : wife, of the Salvation army, have received their final naturalization papers, mak- , ing them citizens of the United States. Tinsey McMillen, alias Mrs. Mack, is now in prison in Buffalo, where she will be tried for forgery. It is possible the United States courts will not consider counterfeiting stamps a forgery, and Mrs. Mack cannot be tried on any other charge than that upon which she was extradited. Levi Paddock, aged 84, was married under romantic circumstances at Rochester, N. Y. Me arrived at Niagara Falls at midnight Thursday, and at break of day applied to the police station for the Mayor. Upon Mayor Cutler’s arrival the octogenarian was united in marriage to a young woman named Ethel E. Clark, of Wheeling, W. Va. Paddock has been a number of years a widower and said he always intended to remain so until he met Miss Clark. “Life would be miserable without her,” he said. The old man gave his bride a rich gift of lands. He has a daughter old enough to be bis present wife's mother. The miners of the Pittsburg district have practically given up the strike for 69 cents per ton, and will go back to work at the operators' terms of 60 cents. The strike will not be declared off, but will be allowed to die a natural death and the I strikers will try to get their old places back. This is upon the statement of some of the district officials. The tight will be kept up, however, against the Now York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company, and the Pittsburg and Chicago Gas Coal Company, who have their men under contract for eight months at from 45 to 60 cents per ton. All the mines on the Panhandle Railroad resumed and a general resumption is expected. WESTERN. The wheat boom drove up the price of bread in Kansas. Gen. John B. Hawley, general counselor for the Northwestern Railroad, died sud denly at Hot Springs, S. 1)., of heart disease. Temporary organization of the Pueblo and Silver Cliff Railroad Company was effected at Pueblo, Colo. The capital will be $500,000. The Governor of Santa Cruz, the largest of the Virgin Islands, West Indies, cables that nothing is known of the reported insurrection on the Island of St. Thomas. A serious condition confronts the millers of Kansas. Many of the small mills throughout the State are shutting down ' because they cannot get wheat, owing to ■ the recent rise in price. Earth from the tomb of Juarez, the Mexican hero, will be mixed with earth ! from the tombs of Washington, Lincoln I and Garfield, in which the school children ' of San Francisco will plant a liberty tree. I The Nevada Supreme Court has sustained the decision of the District Court in the case of Mrs. Hartley, who killed State Senator M. D. Foley, in her studio at Reno, and who was sentenced to eleven I years’ imprisonment. Peter Barr anil Jim Stewart, under ur rest at Leadville, Uolo., are believed to

be two of the men who recently robbed the Wells-Fargo express office at Cripple Creek. The third man is supposed to bo Jimmy McDonald, who shot Detective Moore in Denver. Indian Agent Beek has commenced the ejectment of settlers oecu[)ying the lands of the Flournoy company, on the Whine bago reservation. O. E. Anderson, Peter Bloome and William Berg, residing in the vicinity of Wakefield, Neb., were removed by sixteen Indian police. Ca]>t. Be< k ha* served notice that other settlers must go. Twelve men were injured and one killed at Alpine tunnel, near Denver, Colo.. Friday evening. The tunnel limi-been closed for five years until Friday. The first ear j through, in descending the steep grade ! on the eastern side became unmanageable. The passengers and crew jumped for their lives. Charles Michaelson was kill- 1 cd and twelve others were injured. Thursday was the most notable day in the history of the Chicago w heat pit. < >ver 250,(XH>,tKH> bushels were traded in, ami the price touched 82 cents. The country crowd have won the market, and all es forts of the professional traders to hold them back have failed. John C. Schwartz failed during the day. Over sl,tmo.ooo 1 in margins was paid in. Strong foreign ’ buying orders assisted the countrymen to j keep the price up. Catholic missionary workers at Cleve- j land, Ohio, are about to start a Salva tion Army movement, except that some of the old features of the \ Salvation Army will be omitted. The , missionaries have the indorsement of ' Bishop Horstmann of that diocese to the : plan of street work, and meetings will | Soon be begun on the street corners ami i curbs. A national organization will be i formed, and the work extended to all the j great cities of the country. By a sudden death that occurred at Denver, Colo., an imposture practiced for weeks upon army officers there has been exposed. The man who died said he was Liept. Lacey of the Seventeenth United States Infantry. His record during the last two weeks was such as to exclude him from the army set at Fort Logan. Papers

found in his room now prove he was a ( member of the Seventeenth merely as a ' private, who was discharged before the I regiment was changed from Fort Russell, j Wyo., to Columbus, O. George B. Gallon, a bookkeeper in the ’ office of the auditor of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company in Topeka. Kam, an Englishman, in a hasty moment referred to the American flag as a “dirty rag,” and made other uncomplimentary remarks about the national colors. His utterances were made the subject of a warm discussion in Lincoln Post. G. A. R., and resolutions were adopted requesting the receivers of the railroad company to discharge him. Copies of the resolutions were sent to George IL Peck, general solicitor of the company, and to each of the receivers. C. W. Winthrop, assistant superintendent of Laurel Hill Cemetery, San Francisco, was arrested in connection with . the mysterious death of Mrs. Jennie Matthews last Saturday. Mrs. Matthews died very suddenly while decorating the grave of her child. Her little daughter, I by whom she was accompanied, said Winthrop gave her mother a pill, but he de- , nied this statement. A chemical analysis r of the woman’s stomach, however, developed the fact that it contained strych-

nln*. Evidence la said to have been found now that Mrs. Matthews had her life insured for $2,000 a few days before her death, and that Winthrop is deputized in ; the policy to hold the money in trust for her daughter, Minnie, a child of 5 years • The opening of the Kickapoo reservation was in progress all day Thursday, people pouring in nt all hours with little refeience to the restrictions laid down in the opening proclamation. At a few ponts on the south line the intending settlers lived up to the letter of the proclamation and made the race in strict conformity with the rules. Those who did make the run found every claim occupied bv sooners, and in some instances by crowds of pleasure seekers, who had converted them into picnic grounds. The rush that came nearest to being a well-regulated horse race started from a point on the border four miles north of Choctaw Two miles over the line is an eighty-acre bottom claim that was not allotted to the Indians. All the land surrounding it is taken up by the Indians or is reserved for school purposes, so that the only prize left for the 350 horsemen who started from this point at noon was the eighty acres, which is conceded to bo the most valuable claim not allotted in the reservation. All started well together, and a more exciting race was never run. Many of them reached the coveted eighty nt the same time and put in their Btake^muitaneously, but ahead of the swi®* 1 °, them was the ever-present “soon«p nni ! nt night half a hundred claimanti^|| n I M ‘d on the claim. A townsite boom was|tarted on tin- southern border and it spread through the camps with lightning rapid- | ity. The result is the city of McLoud, located on 320 acres of land on the lino of the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Radroad, six miles north of Dale. Thursday night it had a population of 5,000, with a mayor and full complement of officers and all the attributes of a typical frontier city. _____ SOUTHERN. Capitalists of Alabama have formed a SIOO,OOO company to mine gold along Santa Creek. Bill Fields, a mule driver, and Neal Brandie, a miner, were killed in a mine accident at Birmingham, Ala. Ihe Texas Board of Education has adopted a rule forbidding the employment of nuns as teachers in the public schools. A letter from Rodney, Miss., savs that the town jail was tired by a band of lynchers, and that a negro perished in the flames. The Jefferson County grand jury nt Louisville. Ky., lias refused to indict Fit! ton Gordon for the double killing of his wife and Arch Brown. Will Lane, a section hand on the Cotton | Belt road, nml an ex convict, shot nnd i killed Samuel \soolfork, at Wabbaseka. ' Ark., because the latter demanded pay i I for work done. Mrs. Victoria Machen, widow of United i States Senator Willis B. Machen, commit- । toil suicide at the residence of her sister, i Louisville, Ky. Her health had been bad : and suffering had unbalanced her mind. • Senator Machen was appointed by Gov. Leslie and served one term. The seventh annual session of the ; Scotch-Irish Society of America will bv I held in Lexington, Va., commencing Jium i 20, with President Robert Bonner, of M« - York, presiding. I lie congress w composed of representatives frou^.^»e local Scotch-Irish societies from alT®*tions of the United States and Canm^ The sound money convention which W‘*t { in Memphis was a lunch bigger point of attendance than the nutt la guine of its projectors had I There were thousands of visitors in th« I city, nnd the Auditorium, with its setting capn« ity of S.IMM, was overtaxed to accommodate the croud seeking admission. Report- of n storm in Southw. st Texas show that at Rockport forty houses were . blown from foundations and that St. i Mari's Catholic Chunh and the U.unmvr- ! vial Hotel wen- wrecked. Vessels in the bay dragged anchors and three drifted ’ ashore. The Rev. Scarborough, of the Methodis: Chunh. was internally injured. Half a dozen boats were blown ashore at I Corpus Christi. Crops are utterly ruined ' along the Kerrville branch of the Aran- is l‘u»- road. Two brdg -- on the Aransas Prss. one near Yoakum and the other at । Kerrville, were washed away. WASHINGTON. Assistant Secretary Reynolds, pf the Interior Department, has decided in a, pension case that the war of the rebellion ended in .1 lily. 1865. ( It is reported on what is apparently . ; good authority that Secretary Carlisle is ‘ determined to make a hot tight for th> 1 Senate. 11 is intentim. a Washington correspondent says, is due to an expressed i wish of the President. ' Secretary of Agriculture Morton and | Dr. Salmon, chief of the bureau of animal industry, are very much exercised over the ' I attack made upon the effectiveness of the I ; meat inspection service. The inspection j ■ provided for under the act was to meet the j I demands of foreign governments to which I ! our meat was exported, but the authority given the Secretary was insufficient and Mr. Morton has tried to induce Congress to cure the defects. While the inspection separated the healthy from the diseased meat and prevented the exportation of the latter, the Secretary was not clothed with the power to compel the destruction of condemned meat, and ibis could be sold in tile domestic markets. If the Legislatures , of the States had taken steps to co-operate j I with the department by providing for the i destruction of carcasses condemned by Federal inspectors the inspection would I have been rendered effective. But this i was not done, and the Secretary appealed 'to Congress. Last December Congress I passed in a modified form an amendment proposed by the Secretary to punish persons selling this condemned meat for food. The amendment does not go into effect until July 1. Meantime, however, the department objects strenuously to the in- । timations thrown out that the inspection as at present conducted in no wise protects the domestic consumers. The Secretary, without the definite authority of law, insists that he has accomplished much with reference to trichinae in pork. FOREIGN. The Russian thistle lias gained a firm foothold throughout eastern Colorado. Thousands of acres are covered with the pest. Exports from the Argentine Republic during last year were valued at $102,000,000, or $9,000,000 in excess of imi ports. Word comes from Constantinople of a ■ disaster from an earthquake in the town

of Paramythia, in the province of Eplrus which is a part of Albania. Nearly all the houses in the town were destroyed, and fifty persons were killed and 150 injured. The Paris Journal dos Debats makes a violent attack upon the importation of! American lard into France, saying that it is sold as pure lard, defrauds the treasury and customs, injures pig breeding, de*ceives the consumer and is injurious to' health. The Mexican minister denies that the export duties proposed by Mexico on silver and gold are discriminating against American capital. He says the scheme is to distribute equally between all the silver producers of Mexico the present taxes, which now lie on some classes of miners. ’ The London Standard has further advices from Athens of the recent earthquakes, from which it appears that'their most disastrous effect was felt in the southwest portion of Epirus, which is a portion of Albania, in European Turkey. Intelligence has been received at Athens of the destruction of seven villages in this locality and fifty deaths are already reported. IN GENERAL The Presbyterian general assembly at Pittsburg repressed the movement to secure biennial or triennial sessions of the assembly in place of the present unnuut meeting. It wan decided to raise an anniversary reunion fund of $1,000,000 to liquidate the debts reported by the various missionary boards of the church, and a committee of twenty-five was appointed to carry the resolutions into effect. Bigamy in the United States by Canadian citizens is one of the subjects to bo grappled with n’ Toronto by the National Council of Women of Canada under the presidency of its founder, the Countess of Aberdeen. It has lately been decided there that a married person who is n British subject resident in Canada, and who goes to the United States or any place out of Canada and there goes through a form of marriage with another person cannot bo convicted in Canada of bigamy. This is the ease even when no divorce has been obtained in the United States. The countess and the Indies affiliated with her upon the executive committee of the National Council are bound to have the law nmemlod if possible. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: Per Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. cent. Pittsburg .28 20 S .711 Cincinnati 30 20 10 .667 Chicago 30 19 11 .633 Cleveland 29 17 12 .586 New York 25 13 12 .520 Philadelphia 25 13 12 .520 , Boston 24 12 12 .500 I Baltimore 22 11 11 .500 Brooklyn 20 10 16 .3*5 iSt. Ixmis 30 11 19 Washington 26 9 17 .346 LouGville 25 5 20 ,2uo wr-Tunx t r we. Following is the standing of the e’nL’ of the Western League: Per Clubs. Played. Won. L^st. cent, i Indiana[xilis 22 17 5 .773 j Mhim«n|K>Hs 21 13 8 .619 Grand Rapids.... 23 13 10 .5G5 City 23 It 12 .47* I Detroit ... 21 IO 11 .170 Tuhdo... 21 10 11 .117 Milwaukee 23 9 11 .391 St. Paul 21 7 14 .33.3 R C Dun A- Co s W ■I ’ H. vi.o ■ f ■ Trade -ays: If wheat Im- been so greatly 4 injured bj the snows and frosts in May I that the sudden rise of 12 cents in two weeks la justiNed, the calamity will nffeet all bn-suv-s pn»V'' t*. The mark. - di* not believe it, for stocks do not collapse, iron. bntivT, ami hides still rise, nnd no j holders of wheat would sell at so .-cuts, a | lower price than had been known nt this sen-m for thirty years jrior to 1593, if current reports w« re credited. Some in jury has nmioubtedly been sustained, but ' our own dispatches do n< t show that it lis really seriovs The temper is to buy. : regardless of visible ri quiremonts, in the j faith that pri. ■■■ .ire sure to ri-o. West- | cru re<-eiptsof win nt for three weeks Lave I been larger than i;v~: year in spile of ; storms mid frosts. But the rise has practically -topp. d buying for export, as the si nilar rise did in April, IS*4,1 S *4, which was frjlowed by about the lowest priei s then I c»«r known. Wi ether grain has been I grr-miy injured or imt, foreign markets I uhl take early occasion to fortify themooives fi .tn other sources. Tim week's ; Mies at New V.rk m:>'.anted to 17.5,<wm.. f*Mi bnshels, nml accunts of damage by I I frost and by insects are so mixed up that ■■ some traders infer the bugs must wear | । overcoat-." MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, comm n t > prime, $3.75 to $6.25; hug-, shipping grades, I to $ 1.75; sin p. fair to choice, 52.50 | to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 r< d. 7<U to 7«l 1 o<-; | corn. No. 2,52 cto 53e; oats, No. 2. 29<: | to 30c; rye, No. 2. 66c to 67c; butter, i choice creamery, 17.■ to !*>■: eggs, fr.-sh. i 12c to 13e; potatoes, car lots, per bushel, 45c to 60e; broom corn, per lb, common growth to fine brush, 4c to 7.-. Indianapolis—('attic, shippimr. $3 00 to st>.OO; hogs, choice light. S:!.to 5q,...; sheep, common to prime. $2.00 to $l..»O; wheat. No. 2. *Oc to MiUe: 1 , white. 55e to 55’a.-; oats. No. 2 white, „4c to 31 ] 2C. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, *54.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red. 82c io j 83c; corn, No. 2,53 cto 54c; oats, No. 2, 29c to 30c; rye. No. 2. 67c to 69c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $3.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,84 cto Ssc; corn. No. 2 mixed, 54c to 55c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 32c 10 32^0; rye. No. 2. 74c to 76c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red. 79c to 81c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 54c to 55c; oats, No. 2 white, 34e to 36c; rye. G9e to 71c. Toledo—Whcirt, No. 2 rod, SOc to Sie; corn. No. 2 mixed, 54e to 55c; oats. No. 2 white, 33c to 34c; rye, No. 2,69 c to 71c. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50: hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 1 hard, 83c to Ssc; corn, No. 2 yellow, 59c to 60c; oats, No. 2 ohite, 36c to 37c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 76c to 77c; corn. No. 3. 53c to 55c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; barley, No. 2, 49c to olc; rye. No. 1, G7c to 68c; pork, mess, $12.00 to $12.50. New York -Cattle, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, $4.00 to $5.25; slice]), $3.00 to $5,25; wheat, No. 2 red. 79c to SOc; corn, No. 2, 58c to 60c; oats, No. 2 white, 36c to 38c; butter, creamery, 13c to 19c; eggs, i Western, 13c to 14c

TO PROTECT SALMON. — I ALASKA FISHERIES IN DANGER OF EXTERMINATION. ’ 1 Prceeina Necessity for the Pasains । of Legislation that Will Give Protection to the Fish in Reaching Their 1 spawning Grounds. Government la Concerned. The rapid inroads which fishing mid packing companies have made upon the supply of salmon in the Alaskan rivers is giving great concern to the Government. It has recently been brought to the attention of Commissioner Lamoreaux. of the general land office, that the salmon companies are acquiring much land at the mouths of the rivers and promoting strategical points of future commerce. Consequently the commissioner has detailed ex-Gov. J. p. Swineford, of Alaska, who is now an inspector of the Interior Department, to make an investigation of the matter. The present <lovernor of Alaska, in his last report, called attention to the inroads being made upon the salmon and the same subject was treated in a report to the Fifty-second Congress by Fish < oinmissioner McDonald, who recoinmended vigorous nieanureM to protect the fish. Dr. Hugh Smith, one of the experts of the fish commission, believes that the extinction of the Alaskan fish is inevitable if the present methods continue unchecked. More than half of the salmon [>aek of the United States and nearly half of the world's supply now comes from Alaska. The capital invested in these fisheries amounts to more than $3,iMHi,000, and the value of the season's catch, not including the ninnufaeiured products therefrom, comes to about $2,000,000. Oue Chinaman Is Barred Out. The Supreme ('ourt of the United States Monday affirmed the constitutionality of the Geary Chinese exclusion act in the ease of Lem Moon Sing, the California Chinaman who left this country and was refused admission. Justice Harlan in the opinion said that the statute intrusted to the collector the [tower of passing upon the facts in the case. Lem Moon Sing contended that he had acquired a domicile ns a citizen of the United States before the passage of rhe exclusion act. The justice said that if the courts were to review the decisions of the collectors in such eases it would bring great numbers of ’ho eases before the courts ami defeat the intention of Congress to have the law enforced by exeeutivo officers. The only r”medy <>f the appellant was an appeal to the supremo officer of the collector, the Secretary of th<- Treasury. Justice Brewer dissented. Wants to Race u Locomotive. Frederick W. Burns, of the Varuna B <at Club of Brooklyn, has Iwim in corres[)ondcu<e with Vice President Frank Thomson, of the I’mmsylvanin Railroad, in the interest of Chaiies Murphy, the erm k New York bicyclist. Burns and a number of bicycling enthusiasts are of opinion that Murphy, paced by a locomotive, can ride a mile on his wheel in a minute. Vice-President Thomson has been nskcii to grnut permission to Murpbj '» friend* for n public trial on any of the divisions of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the New York division preferred, allow ing one <>f the railroad's fast !o<-omo- i lives to pnee the rider. The idea is to lay n b. cl tric k on which Muqihy will projm4 his wheel follow ing in the wake of the bxstmotive. He is confident of bis ability to accomplish the feat.

GrcHhinn 1•. tlead. Walter Quinton Gresham, Secretary of ; S:nte, died nt Washington of pneumonia Tuesday morning, as the result of a relapse which occurred just after 5 o'clock Monday afternoon. From 6 o’clock until the end came the attending physicians had m>t a word of hope to offer, and their only efforts were to fight death by hours, th' U mmnti-, then seconds. Powerful restoratives and stimulants were injected hypodermically in the vain hope of pre- I sen ing life. Funeral of Hugh McCulloch. The funeral of Hugh McCulloch, ex- ! Secretary of the Treasury, was held at 1 Ro. k Creek Church, Washington. D. ('.. ! Monday morning. The Treasury Depart- I ment was represented by Assistant Seere- I tary Hamlin, Treasurer Morgan, Con- ! trolhr Eckels and Assistant Treasurer I Jordan. Byrnes Allowed to Retire. Police Superintendent Byrnes. of New York, has made application to the Board of Police Commissioners for retirement. The board grunted tin? request. NEWS NUGGETS. English capital will buy the Rawhide mini- in Sonora, ('al. A few moments before 7 o’clock Friday night fire broke out at the Kansas penitentiary at Lansing. Before it was got under control it burmnl the wash house, laundry house, storehouse and kitchen. At Defiance, <»., the plant of the Light am! Power Company burned; loss. $lO.-1 (MIO. At Huron, S. !».. C. I>. Houghtons stables burned, with many valuable horses; loss not known. At Gosport. Ind., Park Hotel, owned by Mrs. A. A. Rogers, burned; loss, $10,000; insurance, $3,000. A stranger giving the name of Lampson tried to buy a farm of Assessor Andrew Page, of Alexander, N. Y., and during the deal a third man came on the scene with the three-card monte game, in which all took part. Page finally got possession of $5,000 of their money, but was forced to return it at the point of a revolver. John Carey, of Chicago, confessed his connection with the murder of Police ()fficer Duddles on the night of Jan. 3 last. His statement exposes John Roach as the actual murderer, with William Magee and Carey as his accomplices in the felonious act of burglary which preceded the murder and from which the murder was a reasonable and anticipated consequence. Oscar Wilde’s lovely locks have been shorn and he is now reveling in a striped suit. Imports of sugar at Philadelphia since Jan. 1 amount to $207.759. During the same period last year they were $207,789. The recent trolley strike at Brooklyn cost the Knights of Labor Assembly $16,739. The United States Supreme Court has denied the application of Eugene V. Debs, the strike leader, for a writ of habeas corpus. This is a victory’ for the Government.

DECISION AGAINST DEBS. Uncle Sam Is Sovereign Over Every Individual and Every Foot of Soil. The United States Supreme Court has denied the application of Eugene V. Debs, the strike leader, for a writ of habeas corpus. This is a victory for the Government. No more important question, with the single exception of the income tax, has come before the Supreme Court during the past year than the attempt of Eugene V. Debs and the other officers of the American Railway Union to secure a reversal of the sentences to jail by Judge M oods for interfering with interstate commerce and the running of the mails in the railway strike of last summer. The history of the case is still fresh in the public memory, but it has importance beyond the question of imprisonment of the American Railway Union officers because there is largely involved the principle of the right of judges having jurisdiction of large interests by virtue of receiverships created by them to prevent labor troubles through the instrumentality of injunctions. The Supreme Court takes the ground that the relations of the Federal Government toward interstate commerce and the mails are those of “direct supervision, control and management,” and that the I adoral arm has sovereign power to de4 w ^2 EUGENE V. DEBS. fend and protect interstate traffic without resorting to the intermediate agency of any given State. Following this declaration is an explicit and forcible statement of the right of the Federal Government to exercise its power in any State, the expression being one which will serve ns a new definition of the doctrine of S' te's rights. The supremacy of national authority over local authority is maintained and the statement is accompanied by a significant hint that the Federal Government will not hesitate to> interpose nml send troops in the defense of its constitutional privileges whenever it may consider that those privileges are threatened. ODD FELLOWS' TEMPLE. Massive and Costly Structure Dedicated in Philadelphia. The great Odd Fellows’ Temple in Philadelphia, which cost $95*),000, was dedicated the other day with imposing ceremonies. This magnificent monument to ( >ild Fellow ship is nine stories high^—— nml is the largest and costliest secret society building in the world. It is situated on Broad street. Offices for the grand officers of the State are on the ground floor, also nn auditorium 118 feet by 65 feet, and 40 feet high, with n seating capacity of 1.200. Directly beneath is a diill hall of the same size, except in height. On the second, third, fourth and fifth floors are 105 offices for rent. The

Aft / ? (if |« g fr{"W © ® Sr * VW's® Wv fto THE NEW TEMPLE. I remaining stories will be devoted entirely ;to the order. Four lodge rooms are upon , each floor. (hi the ninth floor there are i two encampment rooms, which contain many new and novel features for conferring degrees. A roof promenade commanding an excellent view of the city and surrounding country is provided. Delegations of Gild Fellows from all over the United States attended the dedicatory ceremonies. It is estimated there were 2<>,000 the parade. I SS i i Heavy frost throughout Switzerland caused great damage to crops. The Catholic bishops of Davenport, la., and Omaha, Neb., have arrived in Rome. The Nicaraguan Government has contracted for a number of important modern improvements in public works. The Spanish steamer Gravina, with her cargo, has been lost off Capones in a typhoon. Only two of her crew were saved. The Government of Uruguay has given notice to Great Britain of the termination of the Anglo-Uruguayan treaty of commerce. It is officially announced that Mr. Ernest M. Satow, British minister to Morocco, has been appointed minister to Japan in place of the Hon. P. Ie Poer Trench. Much regret is expressed in England at the failure of the negotiations for the federation of Newfoundlan 1 with the Dominion of Canada. * anadt , it is thought, has behaved most liberally. Jabez Balfour, the Liberator Society swindler, was rearraigned in London. The magistrate declined to discuss the question of the prisoner’s extradition, contending it was sufficient for all purposes that* Balfour was there under a magistral warrant.