St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 48, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 22 June 1895 — Page 2

e e LT | 3 Che Independent, W. A, ENDILLEY, Publishenr. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA, e ——————————— e —y— SPAIN MUST CASH UP UNCLE SAM WANTS SETTLE.- . MENT OF THE MORA CLAIM. Yaidlaw Given $47,000 Damages—- - Omaha'’s Treasurer Has a Big Shortage—Two Murderers Swing at St, Thomas—Canadian Soo Contracts. Calls Spain to Time. A Washington dispatch says: The State Department has taken steps according to the forms of diplomatic intercourse to exact from Spain the payment of the longstanding Mora claim, a claim admitted by Spain in 1888 to be entitled to payment, and which Spain promised to pay in December of that year, $1,500,000. Minister Taylor has been informed by telegraph of the insistence of the United States upon prompt payment of the indemnity and has been directed to press for settlement and immediate payment. ‘The expectation is that there will be a ~ prompt and satisfactory settlement and | payment at once. Exireme measures will | follow delay. Good Thing for Ryan.. In the investigation before the public accounts committee at Ottawa, Ont.. concerning the Canadian Sault Ste. Marie contracts, the following facts have beeun | elicited: Four tenders were received for | power pipes. Ryan got the contract at $55,000, notwithstanding the Central| Bridge Company tendered for $42,000.] The lowest tender for lock gates was the Hamilton Bridge Company, at $64,000, but the Government insisted on their unwatering the lock and as the company ‘could not do this the contract eventually “want to Ryan at $67,000, and he received $70,000 additional for the unwatering, which the Government wanted the bridge company to do for nothing. Bolln a Defaulter, \ Henry Bolln, eity treasurer of Omaha, Neb., is said to be short in his accounts many thousands of dollars. He was apprehended Tuesday, after a day’s absence, when it was thought he had committed suicide. His bondsmen, when they started to investigate his books, found a letter dated May 7, written by Bolln, where he stated he preferred death to dishonor, and if any trouble came he would seek refuge in a suicide’s grave. He directed that his life insurance, amounting to $37.000, be paid to his family. He added a postscript Tuesday morning. Below the former linea was written: “The hour has come.” He | appears to be crazy. | Scores Big on Sage. ' Every time the suit.of William Laidlaw | | against Russell Sage is tried at New York | | the heavier grows the amount of damages assessed by the jury. Tuesday the jury gave the plaintiff $40,000. On the first | Laidlaw was nonsuited. On the second | trial he was given a verdict of $£25,000. On the third trial the jury disagreed. An appeal was taken each time. 'The suit is based upon the allegation that Millionaire Sage used his clerk, Laidlaw, as a shield when Norecross threw the bomb with intent to kill Mr. Sage. Instead of Mr. Sage being killed, Mr. Laidlaw | was seriously injured. | Calls an Extra Session. Notwithstanding that the Illinois Legislature adjourned within the week, Gov. Altgeld on Tuesday issued a call for an extra session to convene the following Tuesday. The call recites that the tax levy made by the Thirty-ninth General Assembly is inadequate in view of the appropriations made; that the revenue sys. tem of the State needs revision; that the jury system needs reforming, and that the prison labor problem needs the attention of the Legislature. BREVITIES, A Boston syndicate has purchased the entire town of Morse, Wis,, payving in the neighborhood of $2,000,000. 1t is proposed to establish a $5,000,000 tannery plant and run the town on the Pullman model. Representatives of twenty-three firms of Tacoma, Portland and Mount Vernon, which ship 80 per cent of the shingle output of the Pacific northwest, have organized the Pacific Lumber and Shingle Shippers’ Association. Thunder storms and lightning occurred with fatal results in different parts of Austria-Hungary. Two persons were killed near IFFunkereichen, and two girls were killed and ten persons and 135 head of cattle destroyed between livkus’ and Caska. A number of Stockton, Cal., people are on the qui vive over the reported tind of of over $1,000,000 of treasure on the Island of Cocoa, near Veragua, Colombia.

~ There are some thirty citizens who think | they have an interest in the millions of | Spanish doubloons supposed to have been hidden on the island. John Hendershot and W. B. Welter, convicted of the murder of William Hendershot were hanged at St. Thomas, Ont., Tuesday morning. The crime was committed to realize upon insurance which the uncle had placed upon the life of his nephew. John Hendershot is alleged to have planned the murder, which Welter committed while he and his cousin were alone felling trees. Instructions have been issued from the Canadian marine department ordering the release of the tugs and scows seiged on the Niagara river while dumping dredg- | ings in Canadian waters. All the expenses incurred, however, must be paid before the vessels are released. This means a fine of about S2OO against the owners, in addition to the penalties exacted from the men arrested. Five trans-Atlantic steamers, which reached their piers in New York Tuesday brought in the aggregate 1,844 steerage passengers. The Werra, which sailed from Naples, contributed 709 of these: the Alastia from Genoa, 464; the Fulda from Bremen, 312; the Iriesland from Antwerp, 360, and the State of Nebraska from Glasgow, 59. At Victoria, Colo., Christian Pells, son of the manager of the famous Maxwell land grant, shot and killed himself in the Vietor mine. He had forged the name of his brother and the superintendent of the mine and wound up a spree by suicide.

. A ) S RS TRS 18 EASTERN. Near Simpson, I’a., the forest fires are dangerously near the wells of Urquhart & Lavens, and that it will be difficult to save the property from destruction. Wednesday a force of 150 men had a hard fight with the flames near Lafayette Corners. Nearly 2,000,000 feet of lumber at W..D. Johnson's mill was destroyed, entailing a loss of $15,000. The lumber was partially insured. The mill was saved. Another fire near Taintor's destroyed a large quantity of wood for Hamlin & Knowles. Fires are reported from various other parts. J. Pierpont Morgan's prize collie, RosIyn Wilkes, deliberately committed suicide at West Point, N. Y. The animal was bought in England and is reported to have cost SIO,OOO. The dog came over decorated with many prize ribbons. When Bob Armstrong, the kennel keeper, took the dogs out for exercise Roslyn Wilkes went to the pond for a bath, but when the others came out the prize winner wouldn't. 'Then Armstrong walked into the water. When the collie saw him coming the would-be suicide dived and staid under until dead. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, of Philadelphia, who married Miss Cordelia R. Bradley, of Pittsburg, P’a., presented to his bride as wedding gifts, besides jewels of great value and a check for SBO,OOO, tontine insurance policies on his life written | in her favor to the amount of {500.000. | ‘Mr. Biddle takes this means.of providing ;..E’-am ? mnfi&‘t&fi sh o~7AV el DOSSESS §ny 2 of the principal of her husband's fortune, which was inherited {rom the Philadelphia banker, Anthony J. Drexel. It is suggested as an advantage of this method that should marital bliss prove a will-o'-the-wisp Mr. Drexel can let the policies lapse and save the premium, which amounts to nearly $12,600 a year. IPour persons were killed and half a score were injured by the explosion of a new boiler in the Langley harness shop at Fall River, Mass., I'riday morning, while the building was completely wrecked. The boiler was in the basement of the building, which is a four-story structure. The entire end of the building was blown out, allowing the upper floors to settle into a mass of ruins. There were about sixteen persons at work in the shop when | the catastrophe occurred. The flames l communicated with the ruins soon after the explosion, and they began to burn briskly. The firemen made heroic efforta to rescue the imprisoned work people. Shrieks from the girls in the ruins were mingled with the agonized cries of tlwir’ friends, who had hurried to the scene when the first news of the horror spread. ! Ambulance calls were sent out hurriedly, | and every physician who could be reached ‘ was sent at once to the scene. The offices | and the houses in the vicinity were turned ! into temporary hospitals. " ! WESTERN. i The Illinois Legislature has referred to l the Court of Claims the bill appropriating | $30,000 to Mrs. John A. Logan, W. W. | Wiltshire and Isaac R. Hitt for sm'\'i«-vsi in getting a refunding of the direct tax i to the State of Illinois. % Captain F. S. Ingalls, United States | deputy surveyor at Yuma, A. T., receiv- i ed instructions to resurvey the Yuoma i Indian reservation for the purpose of | uponin:: it to settlement. The Colorado | River Irrigation Company’s great canal passes through this property. l W. H. Huff, recently removed from the | office of secretary and treasurer of the | IFlorenee, Colo., Oil Company, has ln-vng held in $5,000 bonds for trial on the charge l of secreting valuable papers, mortgages, ; bonds, money, ete., belonging to the com- | pany. Huff claims that he was not le- | gally removed from oflice. ‘ The Ohio Prohibitionists have nominat- | ed the following State ticket: United | States Senator, R. 8. Thompson, Spring- | field; Governor, Seth H. Ellis. Spring- | boro; Lieutenant Governor, J. W. Sharp, | Mansfield; Attorney General, W, (. : Bates, Columbus; Audijtor, A. 8. Cuton, { Coshockton County; treasurer, J. W. | Hawkins, Jefferson County; Sil[ll‘n'lllc'; court judge, John T. Moore, Jackson | County; supreme court clerk, David Spey- | or, Richwood: board of public works, * James Benjamin, Zanesville. | The jury in the Scott case is being im- | paneled at Butte, Neb. A commniittee of citizens waited upon the Attorney Gen- | sral and urged him to dismiss the case on | :he ground that it would unjustly entail | 1 heavy burden of expense upon the tax- | ‘ payers of Boyd County. Gen. Churchiil | nformed the committee that he was aet- | ng under the instructions of the Govu- | srnor and both branches of the Legisla- | ture, and had wno choice but to go ahead | with the case. 1t is thought that the | work of securing a jury wiil consume sev- | ral weeks. | An alarming state of affairs exists in the Coeur d’Alenes, in North Idaho, owing | to trouble between the miners’ union and | ,tlw law and order men, who have organ- | ized to protect laborers in their rights to work if they can get employment. A man who incurred the enmity of the miners’ union was killed there recently, and thci coroner’s jury returned a verdict of sui- |

cide. Gov. McConnell has secured several hundred stands of arms, and over 200 volunteers are drilling at DBoise. to prepare for coming conflict, which sm'mS\ imminent. Idaho has no State militia. The excitement over the gold find in “G7 and Washita Counties, Ok., increases daily, and over 8000 people are now digging in the new fields. An assay shows that the gold will run 828 to the ton. All the ore found so far has come from the surface gulches, but three mining companies have already been organized to put in plants and mine for the yellow metal. The appearance of the mining camps resembles scenes in the Colorado mineral recions or early California days. The towns of Arapahoe and Cloud Chief are i absolutely depopulated, and everybody has joined tk~ rush. . : Two hundred pupils of the East Side school, at Main street and Iforest avenue, Evanston, 111., were driven into a panic Wednesday afternoon by the fall of a section “of ceiling plaster in one of the rooms. Several children barely escaped instant death beneath an avalanche of mortar and old lath, three were badly bruised and cut, scores iere partially blinded and choked by the great clouds of lime and dust that filled the rooms and corridors after the crash, and many of the bewildered pupils, stampeded by the foolish ery of fire, would have been trampled to death by their more powerful companions but for the heroic efforts of the teachers to restore order. It now scems probable that there will be war to the knife in the coke regions. W. J. Rainey, of Cleveland, the largest coke operator in the country, has defeated the

S efforts of the coke operators to combing for the purpove of advan, prices. | Rainey says: “Yes, it is true that 1 haws | refused to join the syndicate, whose gb; is to raise prices. In the ““; : not believe in syndicates. I beliey ‘every one lfgfimnz on. hhi«'_ tion. 1 am opposed to the vorking nen combining for the purpase of defeating operators and am likewise opposed to the operators combiniig for the purpose ¢ defeating the men and to advance prices, I am a firm believer in fair competitioh. The other operators have gone ahead in the past without me. They can put the price up to where they please, but it will not make much difference to me.” The first shot was fired in the whisky war at 1 o’clock Monday , a force of men, armed to the teeth, made an attack upon the Shufeldt distillery. Under the cover of night twelve men royed up the Chicago river and tried : fi at the distillery doors and gain possessiop of the big plant by surprising the depufy marshals on guard. Just as the hoaks were nearing the shore they were discoyered by the guard. The men were wari ed off, but gave no heed to the marshalfs threats. Immediately the attacking pargies opened fire. The marshals returned & but without effect. Twenty-fi?e;ff‘ ‘ were exchanged, but no one was injure@ %‘l};le men who made the at ’** ol ited States troops are in readiness #§° a er anv. calls for -hath that wdvil 4 o ERSRRtOTOOE Bt Mentes o talE NLt o e *», : sl U I s 0 DD RO - W. W. Tavlor, ex-State Treasurcielf South Dakota and fugitive from justigh | these many months on account of a s %}g‘% age of $5375,000, was in Chicago Sutu day and Sunday, but kept so closely umg der cover that only his intimate & saw him. He left for Pierre Sundas | night to surrender himself to the State authorities. One of the reasons ascribed | for keeping Taylor concealed was that the State of South Dakota had offered a large reward for his arrest, and it was feared some oflicer or privare detective might attempt to arrest him and lay claim to the reward. It is understood that the terms of the settlement arve taat Taxlor return to the State SIOO,OOO, surrender his property to his bondsmen, who will pay the remainder of the deficit, and plead [ guilty to a charge of embezzlement. There l is said to be an arrangement for a short sentence and a pardon before its expiration. Tayxlor, who is a young man, bas a wife, but no children. The Distilling and Cattle Feeding Company, known throughout the length of the [ land as the whisky trust, was Thursday | struck dead by the hand of the Illinois | Supreme Court, The court affirms the i(lw'isinn rendered by Judge Gibbons in ' the quo warranto proceedings instituted !:a;::linst the trust by Attorney General | Moloney, declaring it to be illegal and : void and ousting it of its franchise. A | sweeping and emphatie denunciation and ' condemnation of trusts, monopolies and I('«»mhinvs is contained in the decision. - Opinions upon the immedinte effect of the | decision as expressed by the attorneys of, | the different parties in interest differ - widely. Al that seems certain is that a é(-lun«l of fresh litigation must follow in | \\;l}ix-h the leading features will be a pe- | tition for a judicial sale to be filed imme- | diately by the reorganization committee, %:uui actions by the former owners and | present lessors of property making up the { aggregation of plants in the truoet | small army of deputy marshals went iPJ l gervice to resist any forcible attempt o { the part of the lessors to seize plants, lmti { their effocts will be made through the Ecnnr'ts_ A bill to recover the $£504,000 | | lost in speculation and alleged to h:n‘v! | been paid by the trust was filed by Receiv|l er MeNulta against Greenhut, .\lm'ris‘ and other t}irm'!nr\fi | SOUTHERN. ! e . ‘ | | Senator John W. Daniel denies the re- | | port that he is to stump Virginia for free i silver, « { Lorenzo Dow Covington, the American ‘ pronounced a dangerous lunatic and con- { fined in an asylum for threatening to { throw vitriol over Cardinal Vaughan, ig | a native of Kentucky. | A fishing party from Stuttgart, Ark., | consisting of a Mr. Thompson and another { man, their wives and three children, eamp- | ine on White river, five miles below St. Charles, were attacked Saturday night by toughs, their tent shot into, one woman i and ehild killed, and a man and a boy seriously wounded. John Kewp, one of the | toughs, was killed by Thompson. Great P indignation prevails. There is no knowr cause for the outrage. | The mail car on train No. 4, Interna- [ tional and Great Northern, arrived at ! Palestine, Texas, Thursday night withi out a postal clerk. A masked man crawli ed into the car just after leaving Tucker | and at the point of a revolver demanded the safc !\-.‘_\ 8. When told he was not in the express car, he demanded the l‘(':_"ia" [ tered mail keys. Upon their surrender he | ordered the clerk to jump out. Clerk Or- { rin Davis was badly hurt by the jump, { being Dbadly bruised. Eight registered | packages are known to have been taken. 1 R A i FOREIGN, | T

The New South Wales Assembly has abolished the import duties of 1891, prae,| tically establishing free trade. shatic \ A St. Petersburg correspondent of the Loudon Times telegraphs it is almost cer=tain Russia will take no action to compel \ reforms by Turkey in Armenia. Chili is to coin 10,000,000 silver dollars per annum and issue gold in §6, 810 and {2O pieces. Silver is not to be a legal ten- | der in amounts above s£so, but the mint | will exchange gold for silver. A dispatch from Simla, India, says news has been received from Cabul that the Ameer of Afghanistan has imprisoned ‘ Uwmra Khan, thereby removing the re- | proach that the ameer was receiving lEngland’s enemy as a guest. A letter received by the Manzanillo \ agents of the Pacific Mail says that two women and one man, Americans and Col lima passengers, landed at Naraganzastilla, fifty miles southeast from Manzan- : ‘ illa, on May 29, and have been nursed by ‘ | the Indians. The story is corroborated : by A. Daana Martima, the customs col—‘ | lector at Manzanillo. | : Seventy people gathered I'riday in the . | death chamber of a young man at Ros | vigno, a seaport town of Austria, on the | Adriatic. The flooring of the chamber ‘ l collapsed and all fell to the ground fleor. L | I'ourteen of the mourners were killed and - | thirty injured. The unhappy young woms| an who had been the dead man’s fiance was found dead in the ruins in a position , | close to the coffin. : A dispatch from Shanghai to the Lon- » | don Times says the English, French, Ca- » | nadian and American missions were

i 5 “:“b“‘:'?"rA-'zflVhs-hif’ wrecked at Ching-Too-Foo, KiaT; ' . T T =, - lou, Ping-Shan ang Siniln; é';f,;ff,‘, e onaties are missing, but no lives e ,tfi!“”e been lost. Suifu and chou are threatened. A riot is considg .:Rl_glgat Chung-Tang. All the a Ching-Too-Foo yesterday, A ;20 policy is now more than ever neces- . , - A Berlin dispatch to the London Stand- : '”‘f} the Chinese loan which RusE guaranteed forms a part of the WAL indemnity and was raised in accordanhtheterms of a recently con- £ i?d secret Russo-Chinese treaty. Japan 1 288 agreed that if £15,000,000 is paid ,t?th‘with the remainder may be paid J Within six years. It is therefore likely gy at the whole of the indemnity will be | Bdvanced by French and Russian bank8, only China hopes to induce Russia 3. 10 be satisfied with 4 per cent interest. A dispateh from Panama says: There | i 8 little chance that the Ecuador Govern- | ment at Quito will last much longer. The | Patriots are intrenched securely at Guay- | aquil, and, certain of nearly all the Guay|aß province, are only waiting for Alfaro's ‘arrival to contipue their vietories. The % radical change in the Government which |lB expected renders measures of precaufl_\#fiperative. and the Cauca troops! i”’ '@ instructed to make a special call at jPuena Ventura. Gen. Ulloa, meantime, > tom Bogata. do.all this. 1 oNne detects a cause for »eting that %":xgs’i:mim:p | vene in Ecuado sl dvices con ERE e S oo Eloy Alfaro’s deP T & -IN GENERAL ~ Obituary: At Anna, 111, Captain Hugh | Andrews.—At Washington, Major Rich- | ard Oulahan.—At B:Sdud, By. & M | Nunn, | The Manitoba Government will refuse | to comply with the order to establish | separate schools and has given notice to | | the Legislature of a motion to that effect. ‘ Robert McCallom sailed from New York | for Queenstown Thursday in a nineteenfoot sloop on a wager of $5,000. He has made a side bet of $175 to £2OO that he will make the voyage in forty days. His only companion is a French poodle. The Gloucester schooner Robin Hood, Captain Boine, reports at Halifax, N. 8., that four men went astray from his vessel 100 miles off St. Peters, C. 8., in a dense fog, and nothing has since been seen of them. Their names are John McDonald, Samuel Lowry, Herbert Power and an unknown, R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: “It is no longer a question whether business improves, Not for a long time have our reports from all parts of the eountry been so uniformly favorable. The daily average of bank clearings in June is 24.8 per cent larger than last yvear, though 11.4 per cent less than in 1892, The most potent influence has been receipt of more favorable advices regarding growing crops. Labor troubles are getting out of the way, wages in many establishments are rising, and with the iron industry just now leading there is general improvement in manufactures. The monetary condition also helps. The time draws near when, with good erops, exports will bring gold hither, and though foreign operations in stocks and bonds have been insignificant, the effect of the 4;\!‘--\‘“-“ trausactions has not been exNRWEVER N el ATminiehed Feceite ofmoney from the interior mtlh':nv'hvnvr employment in business, especially at the 1 west, and the volume of commercial loans { steadily rises, and is now fair tor this | season, even in a geod year.” ’ . Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: ‘ l'c‘l‘ i 'lubs, l”l..i.\w}. Won. Lost. cent. El ... 91 .28 15 AR { Baltimore .......39 24 15 415 [ Pittaburg .......46 28 18 409 Cloveland . ... .40 27 10 OST [ {Blcheo .. ...... .48 i 21 63 Itlelanst ... .... 4% 23 2 523 Now Y0rk....... 23 21 23 ey .. ..... 88 B 2 512 { Philadelphia ..... 4} 22 21 0012 { Washington .....42 19 23 452 PN Tonts. . ... . .47 15 32 19 t Louisville .......45 T 36 163 | e l WESTERN LEAGUE v Followinge is the standing of the clubs | of the Western League: i Per i Clubs. Plaved. Won. Lost. cent. t Indianapolis .....39 25 14 641 | Minneapolis e 3 22 17 64 { Grand Rapids....4o 22 18 050 ISt Pau1......... 40 22 18 0b) [ Mllwentee . ... 43 22 2 512 s Gty .. 42 20 -22 AT6 Flels . . ......08 11 21 A4T LoD .. i Y 15 24 385 i MARKET REPORTS. l Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, % 83.7 Dto $06.25; hogs, ship;ri;::_ :1‘31’.:& | £3.00 to $£5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.500 | to %4 90: wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to ISc; : corn, No. 2, 49¢ to .-fiv".'p'n.‘lls. No. 2 206 %t” So¢; rre, No. 2. 6Sc to 09¢; butter, }j{(’lulivl’ ereamery, 17¢ to 18S¢; eggs, fresh, Hilv to. 12¢; potatoes, new, per l-:lrl‘!"-'»}.

kl.fi() to $2.25: broom corn, S6O to $l2O SN [U}l for poor to choice. @ ludianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to S@Ean hogs, choiee Heht, $3.00 to $4.00; gsheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $4.25; Rvheat, No. 2. S3c to 85¢; corn, No. 1 4Ayvhite, slc to D3c¢; oats, No. 2 white, 53¢ to 35c¢. . St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $1.75; wheat, No. 2 red, Sle to 82¢: corn. No. 2, 47¢ to 48¢; oats, No. 2, 98¢ to 29¢: rye, No. 2. 67c to 69e. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, £3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00: svheat. No. 2. 86Gc to 87¢; corn, No. 2 mixed, D3¢ to ddc; oats, No. 2 mixed, 33¢ to 34¢: rye, No. 2,64 cto GGe. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.00 to $4.50: wheat. No. 2 red. Sle¢ to 82¢; corn, Ne. 2 vellow, sle to H3c¢: oats, No. 2 white, 84de to 36¢; rye, GTe to GYe. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, Slc to 82¢; corn. No. 2 mixed, ble to 53c; oats, No. 2 white, 32¢ to 34c; rye, No. 2,6 Sc to 70c. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $06.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, S3.OC¢ to $4.50; wheat, No. 1 hard. 82¢ to SB4e¢; corn, No. 2 yellow, 55c¢ to Hs7c: oats, No. 2 white, 35¢ to 36c. Milwaukee—\Wheat, No. 2 spring, 7S¢ 18 79c¢; corn, No. 3,50 c to slc: oats, No. 2 white, 81c to 32¢; barley, No. 2, 90c to 52¢; rye, No. 1,6 Se to (9¢; pork, mess, £12.00 to $12.50. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $3.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; l\:hent. No. 2 red, Sle to 82¢; corn, No. 2, oße {6 56c; oats, No. 2 white, 35e¢ to 36¢; butter, creamery, 14c to 19¢; eggs, Western, 12¢ to 14c.

e ——————————— IS SHORT A FORTUNE. e ———————————— DENVER HAS A STUPENDOUS N SENSAT!ON. Frightfully Fatal Accident at Attica, Ind. -- Death Accompanics Fierce Storms in the Missouri Valley—Little Ohio City Gets a Bad Scorching. Another Napoleon Goes Down, Henry J. Aldrich, who went from Bloomington to Denver, Colo., ten years ago after having had an experience in the grocery business to fit him for handling ml}hgns. is missing. He blossomed into a4 “Napoleon of finance” witkin the last few years and was caught in the crash three years ago when the bottom fell out of real estate and left him with more land 1 than money. Aldrich is now supposed to | be in Australia, having had a clean start O‘s five weeks under the pretext of going East for the purpose of effecting a settlement with creditors. It is said that the failure of the Chamberlin Investment Company, which oceurred at Denver three years ago, and presented liabilities of $3,500,000 and assets that afterwards | realized $250, will not te as bad as the e mfipt of the Colorado Securities | Quarter of a Million Lose. |As the result of a fire Sunday night | which started in a stable at the rear of the Winter block, Greenville, Ohio, the large wholesale store of Westerfield Bros. is in ruins, as are the steam laundry, Daily Tribune and Courier newspaper offices, the Methodist Episcopal Churck, Deutsche Umschau, Dr. Matchett's office, the large livery stable of H. E. Davis on the north side of Third street and the home of Mrs. William Sullivan adjoining. The fire was the work of incendiaries, and in the excitement thieves looted the town. Two ineffectual attempts were made to set fire to other buildings in different parts of the city. Two | 'rsons are reported injured. The losses and insurance are about as follows: Mozart store, loss SIOO,000; insurance, $15,000. Westerfield, wholesale grocery, loss, $£30,000; insurance, £20,000; Dr. Matchett, loss, £8,000; no insurance. Methodist Episcopal Church, loss, S.'),fl("i); insurznn-o, $2.000. H. E. Davis, livery stable, loss, $2,000; insurance unknown. Daily Tribune, loss, $4,000; insurance, 83,500, Steam laundry, loss $5,000; insurance, $3,500. Courier, loss, $£2.000; insurance unknown. Mrs. William Sullivan, loss, $3,.500; uninsured. Mrs. Emie Farrar, loss, $2,500; insured. 'The entire loss at a conservative estimate will reach $225,0x). Two Killed by a Bursting Boiler, One of the worst accidents that ever happened in Attica, Ind., occurred through a boiler explosion at the home of Charles Peterson at 4:30 o'clock Monday afternoon. The dead are: Frank Peterson, William Smith, married, leaves no children. The injured are: J. W. Hamar, Alex Hamar, aged 6, son of above; Leonard Stambaugh, aged 28, horribly scalded, cannot live; Henry Shumar. Contractor Perking of Goodland had two men at work drilling a well. While they were 1 Sittien was mown twenty feet away and instantly Kkilled, every bone in his body being broken and his flesh being erushed ‘o a pulp by the awful force. Indians Dance to Bring Rain, The Sae and Fox Indians at Guthrie, Ok., have adopted a new method to get rain. They appointed one day last week for all their tribes to meet at one place ami dance for rain, and at the same time { they invited seéveral neighboring tribes to join the eceremony for much needed showers. Large numbers of Indians met and danced until Sunday’s flood came, and this so buoyed them up that they are still dancing, that more rain may come. Before they commenced their festivities they moved their wigwams from the bot- | tom to the high lands, sayving rains would tlood the low lands. Death in a Cyclone, Three different storms swept over the Missouri valley Monday, leaving death and destruction in their paths. The worst effects were felt at Kenwood, la., and Hartford, Kan. In the former place Mrs. Rose was killed, her husband badly | hurt, and vast damage done to property. | At Hartford six people were seriously injured and one will die. KXansas City was | visited by a deluge gnd two boys were killed by lightning. Nebraska suffered in ' | Richardson County and at Fayette and St. Joseph, Mo., the damage to crops will reach high up in the thousands. NEWS NUGGETS, ‘ An additon covering 35,000 square feet will be built to the transportation building at the Cotton States and International l':'\]"'\:fiw'f, Obituaryv—At DBurgos., Spain, Senor Manuel Rinz Zorilla, the noted republican leader, 56.—At Jeffersonville, Ind., John MeCullough, 70— At Illkhart, Ind., Mrs. Mary A. Brady, 86; Mrs. IF. Truman, 77.—At Burlington, lowa, Selig W. Greenbaum.—At Huntington, Ind., Samuel Moore, 77; David Ream, G 9. The London Board of Trade after examining thoroughly all the reports regarding the sinking of the North German Lloyd steamship Elbe on the morning of Jan. 31, which resulted in the loss of about 370 lives, has ruled that the mate of the Crathie, the British steamer which ran into and sunk the German steamship, was responsible for the disaster. ConsequentIy the mate’s certificate was suspended. M. Svederup. the leader of the Norwel:i;m Moderates, who was asked by King l Oscar to form a new cabinet, has declined the proposition. At New Orlea»s, a boiler burst in the Union cotton press. A number of men were injured, among them being a son of one of the owners of the press. Official dispatches received at Berli deny the existence of a Franco-Russian written alliance. Dr. Todd, of Abbevrille, 8. C., a brother-in-law of President Abraham Lincoln, now 79 vears of age, has gone blind. A fire in the Vietoria warechouse, l’n'?‘lin. destroyeda the buildings and their contents, involving a loss of 1,400,000 marks. The fleet of the liel celebration has cailed from Copenhagen to Ki(:i. ’l‘]}p Qan Francisco, New York and Columbia are in the fleet.

e T ey e IOWA POPULISTS. Feortmmlnts ! Reaffirm the Omaha Platform Making' Silver an Incidental Issue, ! The Populist State convention of Towa,' which met in Des Moines, followed the middle-of-the-road course and rejected all advances from those who would make silver the only issue in the next campaign. Gen. J. B. Weaver, who led the wing of, the party in lowa who wished to assist in the formation of a silver party, was defeated. The convention adopted a plat-! t‘9rm which calls for the free coinage of silver, but along with that other Populistic measures. When Chairman R. G. Scott, of the State Central Committee, called the assemblage to order there was an attendance of 360 delegates, making it the largest convention for several yYears. Aside from the ddegates 300 visitors were present from outside the city. A. R, Starrett ’ of Hum‘boldt. was made temporary chajre man. The temporary chairman spoke for forty minutes roundly denouncing the twe old parties for their “duplicity on the money question and their subserviency to trusts, corporations and the money power.” He advised the convention to adhere to past party platforms. Ex-Con- | gressman E. H. Gillette, of Des Moines, was made permanent chairman, » .The report of the Committee on Resolu- | tions was received and adopted by an SRR TR e itslonn rea: form; denounc(:e‘s ?fi..-“fi&‘x‘.‘;&“&%"&é"éh preme Court on the income tax; denount | ces recent acts of Government by injune- » | tion in the interests of corporate wealth, > | and the issue of interest-bearing bonds; s | recognizes with satisfaction the expres- | sion of individual opinion, irrespective of | party, in favor of the restoration of silver | to its constitutional place in the coinage of | the country at the ratio of 16 to 1, and extends the right hand of fellowship to all willing to join in the dethronement of the | money power of Wuall street-and Europe | and the emancipation of the producing | classes of the world; declares for the adoption of the initiative and referendum; de- | mands that all banking institutions be re- | quired to give security to depositors for | all moneys received; demands legislation .| for inspection of workshops and factories | where more than ten persons are employ- - | ed for preservation of the lives and heaith . | of the employes; demands reduction of sal- | | aries of officers to a basis to correspond | with reduced prices for products of la- . | bor; favors a graduated State tax upon . | incomes, also a State inheritance tax and - | a State tax of 10 per cent on all contracts - | made payable in gold, to be paid by the . | holder. : A State ticket was nominated, as fol- - | lows: For Governor, Sylvester Crance, of » | Davenport; for Lieutenant Governor, A. RR. Starrett, of Humboldt; for supreme Court judge, F. W. Ivory, of Glenwood; for State superintendent of instruetion, . | 1.. B. Tabor, of Guthrie Center; for rail- . | way commissioner, E. J. Stason, of Wood- . | bury County. S e o . DON'T PRESS LIKE WOMEN, Even If, to Be Different, You Have to : Put On Skirts, . Much comment has been caused during . | the week among bicyclists and in reiigious | circles by the sermon of Rev. Kittredge . | Wheeler, pastor of the Fourtg, ;figgggt‘_ ] éu‘l?};%hmg!:gggmfi were: . . “In discussing this subjeet I shall hardly | | venture to touch upon the bicycle costume, for the reason that if I were addressing a company of cyclists in the iatest and most up-to-date uniform I would be in great doubt as to the sex of my | audience. I will, however, venture a single suggestion to wheelmen who are | males, and not wheelmen who are females. , “Here is the suggestion. See to it that | your costume is as masculine as possible, i Distinguish and emphasize your sex in | some way. Wear a maustache, let your " | beard grow, or sew upon the back of your " | costume three big, red, capital letters, M-A-N. : “You have no right to appear on the f streets in a costume wern by females. If I there be only two costumes suitable for bicyele riding, the single, closed skirt and | the knickerbockers, I say to the men, ‘Be gallant, let the women have the choice, and if they take the knickerbockers, do ' | you take what is left. Be a man and put '| on the skirt.” Make it universal ané let . | the public understand it. This will dis- | | tinguish the sex on the wheel. Remem- ‘| ber, I am speaking only to men. Never " | dress like a woman, not even on the - | wheel.” 3 BN e A ;;‘T:r".; T e £ ".- ,- - | | Yerr s Foms s e o f/é‘!- Eé é ';f o 2;' »‘—-‘:;_:;3~‘- k ¢ or G 2 —'-ge ‘:-\-—*" -2 -3S o o : ’ e- 3 "i - P ; A local uprising in the Province of CorI rientes, Argentine, is reported. ' The manufacture of dolls has been Introduced in the prisons in the Thuringian | principalities of Germany. Prince Bismarck’s health would not | permit him to attend the ceremonies at | the opening of the canal at Kiel. Anthrax, a disease of sheep, is prevalent in some parts of Australia in a most fatal | form. The doctors can find no remedy | for it. : The British steamer Davaar, previously reported ashore on Briggs’ reef, has been | floated, towed to Belfast and safely deck: ed there. | Freiherr von Bergen, the German Min. ister to Guatemala, has been gazetted German Minister to the Republics of Central America. Prof. Dougherty, of Mages College, Belfast, has been appointed assistant under | secretary for Ireland, vice Sir William S, { B. Kaye, retired. A daughter has been born in London te the Countess of Essex, who before her marriage was Miss Adele Grant, daughter of Mrs. Beach Grant of New York. A fire which broke out at Meriny, Hungary, was not under control until 320 houses were destroyed. Several persons lost their lives during the conflagration. Sig. Ferrari, who was recently elected a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, defeating the socialist candidate in his district and who was shot by unknown men, is dead. The Brazilian cruiser Teradentes hae been dispatched to French Guinea. Admiral Gullobel will then proceed to Paris with a view to securing a settlement of the frontier dispute.