St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 49, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 29 June 1895 — Page 6

Jnbcpcndcnt. W. A. EXDEKY, PubfiMher, WALKERTON, . - . INDIANA. FUN IN KANSAS CITY; LIVELY WAR THREATENED IN CUPID'S COURT. Pennsylvania Train Collides with a Trolley Car— Capt. Blanche Co* Kcfuses to Pay Her Fine Half a Ton in Virgin Silver. Get Married Cheaply. A matrimonial fee war is threatened ill Kansas City, and marriage ceremonies may be performed cheaper than now. The justices of the peace are dissatisfied over the manner in which Probate Judge Angle is handling the matrimonial end of his court, and they threaten to give a “dull season” rate to all men who are brave enough to take unto themselves bet-

ter halves. The justices claim that the probate judge is violating the code of ethics of the profession by soliciting trade in the matrimonial line. They claim that when they send men who are determined to marry to the court house after the necessary license they seldom return to have the ceremonies performed. They assert that Judge Angle solicits the prospective grooms to permit him to tie the knots and that the judge, with his fine persuasive powers, almost always succeeds in getting the job. A justice stated that in order to bring the probate judge to time there was talk among the justices of reducing the price. They will first reduce the fee to sl. and if that does not have the desired effect they will perform ceremonies for a while for nothing. Five Persons Hurt at Sharpsburg, Pa. The fast meat train on the West Pennsylvania road collided with an electric car on the Sharpsburg and Citizens' line Sharpsburg, Pa., Tuesday morning, and five people were injured. There were about thirty passengers in the car and the accident occurred at a crossing. Just as the electric car reached the railway tracks the trolley came off, leaving the car in darkness. The engineer of the approaching train, which was running at a high rate of speed, did not see the car until he was quite near it. Ue applied the airbrakes. but could not prevent the collision. Most of the passengers on the street car were able to get off before the accident occurred, but the motorman stuck to his post and will probably forfeit his life. She Goes to Jail for Preaching. Capt. Blanche Cox of the Salvation army at Colorado Springs, Colo., an intelligent and refined lady, has gone to jail for thirty days for preaching in the streets. She would not pay a fine imposed upon her nor allow her friends to pay it for her. Capt. Cox was in Chicago with Mrs. Maud Balliugton Booth last year and took part in a series of services conducted by Mrs. Booth. She attracted great attention because of her eloquence and earnestness, and was considered extremely intelligent. She is said to belong to a rich English family, and gave up her position in social life to join the army -and work with it. Iler appearance is that of a refined, educated and extremely in-

telligent young woman. Fortune in One Lump, From Peach Springs. A. T.. comes the story of the finding of a nugget, or bowlder, rather, of pure silver, such as therehas been no record of in the history of mining in the West. The bowlder weighs about half a ton. and its value is anywhere from SB,OOO to SIO,OOO. It was found by William Tucker and John Doyle, both prospectors, and they have kept the facts to themselves heretofore because of the chance that there was more silver where this lump came from and they desired to get the best location for themselves before letting the rest of the world into the secret. Increase of 15 Per Cent. The Johnson Steel Company at Lorain, Ohio, posted notices of a 15 per cent increase in wages to the men in the converting mill, dryhouse and machine shops, in all about 200. The men in the shape mill had their wages raised last week. The increase is entirely voluntary on the part of the company. There will be an advance in all departments. The mill is rushed with orders, and every branch is running to its fullest capacity. Mob Rules in Ingalls. News from Ingalls, east of Perry, Ok., states that a big tight occurred there Sunday evening, and John Haynes was shot. He will die. Tom Stone and three other men were either shot or ent terribly. The men fell out over something that was said about Bill Doolin. The mob which gathered Sunday evening had charge of the town for hours, and much damage was done.

BREVITIES. Northern Colorado coal mine operators have formed a combine. Maurice Barrymore was injured in a bicycle accident at his summer home on Staten Island. Rev. A. C. Hirst. D. D.. pastor of Simpson Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church at San Francisco, has received a call to one of the leading churches of Chicago. Edmund Heurstel, a New York lawyer, was arrested on a. warrant charging him with forgery. The specific charge is the alleged forgery of a check for $7,900. although the amount involved is said to reach many thousand dollars. The Alpine tunnel on the South Park Road near Denver, said to be the highest railroad tunnel in the world, was reopened. It has been snowed up the last five years. The tunnel is at an altitude of 11,600 feet, is 1,776 feet long and was bored nine years ago at a cost of $260,000. Duncan, Hollinger & Co., grain brokers of Omaha, have suspended in consequence of the embezzlement of $20,000 by AV. €l. Beach, manager of their Lincoln branch. John B. Speaker, doing business as Specker Bros. & Co., wholesale dry goods, at Cincinnati, has failed. The assets are placed at $750,000, with liabilities somewhat less. A new filibustering expedition against Hawaii is reported to have been unearthed at San Francisco. David Oldham, a deacon in the Methodist Church at Ukiah, Cal., has been arrested for robbing a stage.

EASTERN. Police Inspector McLaughlin of New York has been sentenced to two years and six months’ imprisonment in Sing Sing. One week’s time is allowed him in which to settle up his affairs. The police commissioners Tuesday night reinstated McLaughlin to his rank in the police force from which the board dismissed him upon the finding of the jury that he was guilty of extortion in office. Aug. Theis wrote Gov. Morton of New York that unless he at once inspects Theis’ patent machine for the healing of the nations ami the abolition of death he w ill hold the Governor personally responsible for the deaths that ensue henceforth in New York State. A month ago Theis attempted to gain access to the Governor and present the merits of the machine. He is a crank. E. I*. McDonough, of Boston, who has just returned from a lengthy stay in Cuba, has no doubt that the Cubans will be granted home rule as an outcome of the present insurrection. Mr. McDonough also said he was informed that $10,000,000 of American money is now at stake at Santiago through lack of American war vessels. McDonough also declared that he knew Marti was dead beyond a shadow of doubt. He was killed on the

west bank of the river at Ranaugaunos. a point between Santiago de Cuba and Bayamo. Frank E. Grover, foreman of the Rochester, N. Y., Gas and Electric Company, Friday leaned against a dynamo at the lower falls power house, where he is employed, and fell writhing to the floor. Ue had received a heavy charge of electricity, and was apparently dead. A physician and assistants worked over his body fortyfive minutes before there was a sign of life. Then natural breathing began, and in half an hour more the man opened his eyes and recognized those about him. In Mr. Grover's leg a deep hole was found, and on his side a burn seven inches long. AVhen the machinery was stopped his clothing and flesh were burning. Between 2,000 and 3,000 volts of electricity passed through his body. The current is considered three times that necessary to kill in a State prison. A very long step forward was taken by the new woman at New York Thursday. Mrs. Catherine’ Mellvaine took it. She keeps a stationery store and her husband, Alexander, lives with her. She is a handsome woman, well developed ami muscular; he is wizened, subdlied in manner and talks in a treble voice. Mrs. Mcllvaine had her husband before Police Justice Ryan charging him with ill treatment, failure to support her and drunkenness. “What have you to say to your wife's charges?” asked the judge. “It’s aii because I wouldn’t do the cooking ami washing any longer,’’ answered Mellvaine weakly. “She made me do the washing. She stood over me with a horsewhip. I did a whole week’s washing Thursday, and or Friday and Saturday she threaten- ' ed me with that whip unless I did the ironing.” Mrs. Mellvaine said her husband was a loafer, and lie was sent to prison ; f or a month. WESTERN. Harry Hayward, who was to have been hanged at Minneapolis Friday, has been granted a respite for thirty days pending argument for a new trial. Mrs. Springer, who, with tier ho on 1 husband, was accuscd^-i murdering her first husband, H -B. Idling. by slow poison, died at a resort in Santa Cruz mountains of diabetes.

C. 11. Fennimore, of New York, is under arrest at Detroit, charged with being one of a gang of directory or “business men’s guide” swindlers. The chief gang is said to be in Chicago. The Missouri river is rising rapidly, the June rise having commenced in earnest. The water rose three inches Wednes lay, and one and a half Thursday. The water has been advancing gradually for some time. Ex-Congressman Richard Bland, of Missouri, has returned to Denver from his lecturing tour through the State, and is ill. He is unable to see callers. His weakened condition is the result of an attack of la grippe. Ex-Congressman W. A. Harris, of Kansas, has been sued by Barney Murray, a Topeka hotel keeper, for $20,900 damages for alienating the affections of the hitter’s wife, who secured a divorce and married the ex-Congressman. Lieut. Milton F. Davis, now stationed at the Presidio, has brought suit to obtain a divorce from his wife, Blanche Bates, the actress. The wedding, which took place a year ago, was a great event in San Francisco society, but, after living with her husband three months, Miss Bates deserted him to return to the stage. Prosecution of the men suspected of complicity in the attempt to cheat the city of Chicago by means of fraudulent payrolls in the street cleaning and pipe extension departments was begun by the arrest of four foremen and two timekeepers on warrants charging them with conspiracy to obtain money by false pretenses. O. Dunbar, editor of the Phoenix. A, T..

Gazette, has been found guilty of criminal libel. The plaintiffs were Gov. Hughes, C. M. Bruce, secretary of Arizona; Francis J. Honey, ex-Attorney General of the territory, and United States Marshal XV. •I. Meade. The suit was based upon an editorial printed two years ago which severely scored the plaintiffs. Fifty Cincinnati women with brooms swept Colerain avenue from A’irginia avenue to the corporation line Wednesday. The residents had been complaining about the neglected condition of the avenue without any evident result, so the women took a hand themselves. Armed with all sorts of implements, house brooms predominating, they went at the job with a will. It was a long and hard task, but by sundown the roadway presented an unwontedly clean aspect. Rainy Lake City, Minn., is intensely excited over a daring and successful robbery of the bank late Friday evening by two masked men, who, after a desperate struggle with the cashier, in which he was finally beaten into insensibility, secured $30,000 and escaped through a crowd of bewildered citizens who had been attracted to the bank by the struggle and pistol shots. Several posses have taken up the search, and there is some hope of overtaking the desperate robbers. The Creek Supreme Court has decided that the recent South McAlester, I. T., session of the council, being called for the specific purpose of adjusting the rolls, had no power to pass an act suspending the chief, treasurer and auditor, and that these officers are still in office. The decision of the Supreme Court being that payment can be no longer tied up, Treas-

urer Grayson expects to begin payment at once. There will be about 18,500 enrolled citizens, and the per capita will be about sl4. For many months new Chinese arrivals at Cincinnati have been swindled out of all their money by their own countrymen. The scheme of the sharpers is to strike up an acquaintance with the new arrival and tell him any kind of a story to get his money. So numerous have been complaints at tin* legation at Washington that Dr, J. C. Thoms went to make an investigation. It is claimed that as much as $40,000 has been secured by two or three Chinamen of the city from their unsuspecting countrymen within the last two years. At South Bend, Ind., Jonathan Creed, an old citizen and one of the most prominent attorneys, was shot several times Friday morning by Daniel L. Mease, proprietor of a cider mill. The wounds are not believed to be serious. The men had business relations, and were about to discuss matters, when Mease covered Creed and began firing from a distance of a few feet. After the revolver was emptied Creed ran. Mease then picked up a bar of iron and would probably have murdered Creed had not the latter been more fleet of foot. Mease will be arrested as soon as found.

For a time Thursday night it looked ns though a lynching would be bad in St. Louis. “Lynch him!” “Brain the vil-J lain!” “String him up to a lamppost!”! and other equally threatening shouts arose I from all sides of a crowd gathered aroum^ a Salvation army detachment. An ieoK man named Kerns tried to drive hiHM wagon over the Salvationists while they were on their knees in prayer, and fils conduct was resented by the crowd. Kerns was arrested. Just before the iceman hove in sight the steward of the Nicholson House had ordered the porter to turn the hose on the men and women and drive them away. A smart young num who plays practical jokes with little regard for the safety of human life was abroad in the alleys near the "Paris laundry, Chicago, early Wednesday morning, and with a white mask ever his face, his form enshrouded in a white sheet, he assumed a ghoat-like walk am! delighted in frightening the young women employed on the night shift of the laundry. So realistically supernatural were his antics that three girls were thrown into hysterics and became unconscious. Falling like logs on the floor, the girls first screamed with terror, then writhed in paroxysms of hysteria, mid finally when exhausted, succumbed to unconsciousness. Physicians who were summoned by a policeman who discovered the serious work of the stalking sheeted youth worked three hours to restore consciousness. It was not until some time after the frightened girls had been removed to their homes that they recovered their faculties ami nervous equilibrium. Developments of n most sensational character in the investigation of the fraudulent Chicago payrolls may be expected within a short time. Former city employes are falling over one another in their eagerness to tell what they know of the peculiar methods used in manipulating the payrolls. A. J. Kowalski, ex-superin teudent of the water pipe extension bureau. has made a statement to Commis- | sioner of Public Works Kent and Chief | of Police Badenoch. telling how the payrolls were loaded with the names of ward t heelers sent to him bv his superior vflb L cvis. Uis testimony, for such in >n his statement is. indicates that men t<|KH stood very high know that men who neve did a day’s work for the city were on t|>e payrolls as laborers and drew pay as «u< ii, !

while their time was taken up in political j work. The fact that Kowalski has told j all he knows is most carefully concealed I by the officials making the investigation, but it is a fact, nevertheless. SOUTHERN. Physicians report Gov. Atkinson, o! Georgia, is holding his own. and are hopeful of his recovery. Lightning struck the Orphans' Hom, building at Galveston, lex., killing Fred i Seifert, a young man employed on th- ; building. At Houston, t. relief train was made up at 1:30 a. m. Thursday to go to Eureka, Texas, where the north-bound Missouri, Kansas and Texas passenger train was in the ditch, five coaches being overturned. Near Mount Gilead, Montgomery County. N. C.. two brothers. Andrew and Mann Rhodes, quarreled about some family matters. Sarah Rhodes, their mother, seized । ' and held Andrew while Mann, with a knife, ripped and cut him open, killing him. Sarah and Mann are both in jail. i There is talk among the negroes of lynchI ing the mother and son. Circuit Judge M. C. Saufley, <>f Lani caster. Ky.. proposes to try a novel suit i before a novel jury. It is an action for | breach of promise brought by AV. C. Stiv- ■ i ers. a Lancaster widower, against Miss ' Katherine West, a young school teacher, ■ । and Judge Sautley says that the jury be- ■ ; fore which it shall go must be composed ■i of women. I nder the new constitution i they are eligible for jury service. The ■ ease will be interesting in other respects. for Stivers threatens to have Miss West's letters read in court, and her friends say

that if he does there will be trouble. Miss West has engaged AV. O. Bradley, the Republican nominee for Governor, to defend her in the suit. FOREIGN. Mr. Gladstone has practically withdrawn his support from Lord Rosebery's cabinet by retiring from the pairing agree- > meat with Right Honorable Charles P. \ illiers, M. I'., because he wishes to be “regarded as having an open mind on the Welsh church disestablishment bill.” According to the Hungarian crop report, cereals have suffered from the rust. It is estimated that the yield of wheat will amount to 37,000.000 meter centner. The yield of rye is estimated at 9<>00.000. barley at. 11,000,000 and oats at 8.000.0(H) meter centner. Rape seed is being harvested; the yield is light. In January, February and March, 1894, the total British exports of tin plate was 80.SS1 tons, valued at £1,009,329, of which 48,616 tons were exported to the United States. During the same period in 1895 the total export was 93,672 tons, valued at £1,097.655. of which 60,570 tons were sent to the United Slates. The boiler of one of the steam launches of the United States cruiser Columbia exploded at the Kiel parade Friday. The cylinder head was blown off and carried , overboard with it the smokestack and other portions of the launch. Four persons were’ injured by the explosion and ; | were taken to the naval hospital. I Lord Rosebery tendered his resignation | to the queen Saturday evening. He ad- ; vised the queen to send for Lord Salis-

bury, the former Tory premier. By a technical ruse almost impossible to explain to American readers, because of the totally different procedure in parliament as compared with our Congress, the new ministry will avoid declaring itself before parliament and may force dissolution and a general election within the next three weeks. The imperial yacht Hohenzollern, with Emperor AVilliam and the princes on board, entered the western water gate of the Baltic and North Sea canal at 3:45 Thursday morning in order to formally open it. The gate was magnificently decorated and the Hohenzollern passed through amid ringing cheers from the military associations, students’ delegations and musses of the populace, the bands playing the national anthem, and accompanying the music were the voices of the crowds assembled, who joined heartily in the chorus. His majesty stood on the deck of his yacht and bowed his thanks with visible emotion. At 4 o’clock the Hohenzollern severed the threads stretched across the canal and commenced the passage of the new waterway. Ihe defeat of the Government in the British House of Commons Friday evening has occasioned a serious crisis, and may result in the dissolution of parliament. It was quite unexpected. The motion was that the war secretary’s salary should be reduced by £IOO because Ae declined to state the quantity of reRcrves and ammunition at the command Ms the War Department in case of emerH»ney. The announcement of the vote Kas received with great applause by the ■MKgJtion, and the war secretary instantIK wrote out his resignation, which he rewarded to the prime minister to pre^nt to the queen. An informal cabinet meeting was hurriedly summoned by Lord Rosebery, but no decision was arrived at as to whether the Government should dissolve or ignore the defeat as being the result of a snap vote. IN GENERAL The Manitoba Legislature has voted to refuse to re-establish separate schools. Nearly one hundred buildings were burned nt Tottenham, Ont., Tuesday. Loss, $150,000. Mexico and Guatemala have extended until May 1, ISiMi, the time when the new boundary treaty shall go into effect. NV. 11. Keyser, of Chicago, has been appointed superintendent of construction of the Government temporary building at Chicago. Obituary: At Creston, lowa, William Groesbeck. At Woodstock. Vt., J. Smead Purple, formerly of Chicago.—-At Louis villv. 111., John C. Etchison. At Bruceville, Ind., William D. Piety, 88. F. W. Lowry ami Charles Simpson, two American mining engineers, who left Jiminez, Mexico, about three weeks ago on a visit to mines in the Sierra Madre mountains, 100 miles southwest, became involved in a quarrel with the Mexican servant who accompanied them. The Mexican shot and killed Simpson and in turn was fatally shot by Liwry. Lowry and Simpson went to Mexico from New York. Ovide D>rrain. a boy aged lit, was stabbed to death during the progress of a dramatic entertainment at Champlain school, Montreal. He took the part of the brignpd in a play entitled “The Young Cnp^xes." M. Desjardins, about the same ” Ft< »i »ll> stock n dngaer into Is»r Kuti’s neck while taking part in a fight '■ .Hi or : 's T'e j:: >r Wn a■- set erta) and the victim only lived long enough to receive the Just rights of the church. Following is tin- standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: Per Chibs. Played. Won. Lost, cent Boston 47 30 17 .63 s Pittsburg ">1 •'«! 20 .IMS Baltimore 15 20 19 .<>7 S Cleveland 52 30 22 .»7i Chicago 51 31 23 .57 1 Brooklyn 40 20 23 ..>.'.l Philadelphia 49 20 23 .531 Cincinnati 48 2.» 23 ..>2l New York s<» 20 24 .520 Washington 48 21 2. .438 St. Ixiuis 51 17 34 .333 Louisville 48 । 41 .140 WERTEIIN T.EAGVB. Following is the standing of the clubs of the Western League: Per Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. cent. Indianapolis 45 29 1 0 .044 Kansas City 48 20 22 .542 Milwaukee 49 20 23 .->3l St. Paul W 24 22 .522 Detroit 44 22 22 .500 Grand Rapids. . . .47 23 24 .489 Minneapolis 45 22 23 .489 Toledo 44 17 27 .380 MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $5.00; sheep. fair to choice. $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red. 70e to 71c; com, No. 2,48 cto 49c; oats. No. 2,28 c to 29c; rye, No. 2. 62c to 03c; butter, choice creamery. 17c to ISe; eggs, fresh. 11c to 12c; potatoes, new, per barrel. $2.50 to $3.00; broom corn, S6O to $l2O ton for poor to choice. a^lianapolis —Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to sr.^O; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.75; sl^ep, common to prime, $2.00 to $4.00: wheat, No. 2,82 cto 83c; corn. No. 1 white, 50c to 52c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 35c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red. 75c to 76c; corn. No. 2,46 cto 47c; oats, No. 2, 28c to 29e; rye, No. 2,67 cto 69c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $3.50 to $5.75; hogs. $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,77 cto 78c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 48c to 49c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 32c to 33c: rye, No. 2. 61c to 63c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.00 to $4.25: wheat, No. 2 red. 73c to 75e; corn, No. 2 yellow, 49c to 51c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 35c; rye, 55c to 57c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 47c to 49c; oats, > No. 2 white, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2,61 c I to G3c. Buffalo Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs. I $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, s3j)o to $1.50; | wheat, No. 1 hard, 76c to 77c; corn, No. ; 2 yellow. 52c to 54c; oats, No. 2 white, 34c to 35c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 3. 49c to oOc; oats. No. 2 white, 30c to 32e; barley. No. 2. 49e to 51c; rye, No. 1,62 cto 61c; pork, mess, $11.50 to $12.00. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs. $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $ e25; wheat. No. 2 red, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2, 54c to 55c; oats, No. 2 white. 34c to 35c; butter, creamery, 14c to 19c; eggs. Western, 12c to 14c.

ITS PRESTIGE GONE. little black spider downs •JERSEY’S FAMOUS PEST. Short Shrift for Louisiana Firebugs— Child’s Wounded Vanity Leads to Suicide —Life Imprisonment for a Murderer- City Treasurer Short. J erß cy Muaquito Dethroned. rhe Jersey mosquito has been dethroned by a species of black spider which is now running rampant in that State, and whose victims during the last fortnight are numbered by the score. In three instances its depredations have been attended with serious results. Lawyer G. F. 1 ort, of Camden, while lying on his bed, felt a tingling pain in the foot, anil looking down saw a huge spider. Within a few hours his entire leg had swollen to an enormous size and it was only after confinement for a week that he was able to leave his house. A similar case was that of C. 11. Folwell, of the same city, who was bitten on the temple. Harry Linn, of Williamston, was bitten on the hand, and the pain became so intense that he was thrown into nervous prostration, from which lie has not yet recovered. Lyncbecl u Fii-ebun. Gretna, a small town just across the river from New Orleans, was the scene of a mysterious lynching Sunday night. The victim was John Frye, 22 years of age. Frye belonged to a gang of firebugs. In the gang were Frank Strahl. a nephew of the sheriff; James Whitesides, a nephew of the chief of police, and Gustave Raphael. The gang was caught setting fire to a disorderly house occupied by negroes. They defied the police and did their work right under the eyes of two policemen. Later Raphael. Strahl and Whitesides were arrested and lodged in jail. Frye was captured some hours afterward, and while being taken to jail his captors were overpowered and their prisoner taken from them. That was the last seen of Frye until his dead body was f ound. Goes ITp for Life. At Chicago, Joseph Weiman was sentenced to imprisonment for life in the Joliet penitentiary by Judge Neely for the murder of Genevieve Minnie Dinger. A motion for a new trial was denied and the punishment prescribed by the jury was imposed. Joseph Weiman shot Genevieve Dinger nt Mrs. Anna Ziph's house. 4857 I’aulinn street, Feb. 20 last, in a quarrel over a photograph. The two had been lovers nnd following the shooting of the girl her murderer tried to commit suicide. Weiman is a tailor bv trade and 25 vears old. Suicide for a Shirt Waist. Disappointed because her sister had not bought her a shirt waist. 14-year-old Katie Mi Coy committed suicide at Philadelphia by hanging. The child lived with her sister, Mrs. Mary Baker, who had promised to her the coveted garment on Saturday, but failed to keep her word. Katie was much chagrined when she learned of her disappointment and Sunday night she quietly crept upstairs and. attaching a clothesline to her neck, hanged herself. Bhort $t»,400. City Treasurer Stapf, of South St. Paul, has been nrrested for a slmptage in his a- > mints amounting' t > St*, 100. tin- money 100 ii, k been used by him in his private business. The treasurer’s bondsmen will make good the shortage at once. This was Mr. Stapf's fourth term as treasurer. IJEWS NUGGETS. J. C. Davis, of Rochester. N. Y., arrested for obtaining money from San Francisco, Cal., merchants under false pretenses, was held to the Superior Court. At New York. William Caesar, the West Indian negro who. on March 29. murdered am! dismembered Mary Martin, was sentenced to die by electricity in the week bi ginning July 25. tins Loed ami his wife, Julia, Hebrew peddlers, were murdered in Harlan County, Ky.. by six masked men. Robbery was the only cause. The murderers have not been captured. Judge Simonton, of Charleston. S. C.. has sentenced three dispensary constables to one and two months' imprisonment in jail for seizing liquors imported into the State for private consumption. Col. William Winthrop, assistant judge advocate general of the army, will retire in August. His retirement will promote Lieut.-Col. Thomas Barr to be colonel and Major George B. Davis to be lieutenant colonel. At Colorado Springs. Colo., during an electrical storm, Mrs. Dolan, her children —Morris and Mary—and a group of visitors were in the dining room when a bolt of lightning struck the chimney. All in the room were stunned. Mary, aged 6 years, was instantly killed. Charles P. Libby, president of the Libby. McNeill & Libby Company, died of Bright's disease Monday morning at Chicago. Mr. Libby was one of the foremost of Chicago packers and the first to introduce the process of canning meat, which has since been put into use by all the packing companies of the city. Three Americans. Louis Demond, James Crismore and Hal Jeffry, left Escalon, Mexico, for the Sierra Madre Mountains in search of the famous lost mine. La Fuente, which, according to tradition, contains a vast amount of ore of fabulous richness. The mine was abandoned by the Spaniards on account of the Indians over a century ago, and although many attempts have been made to rediscover it, none has been successful. Farmers of Frontier and Perkins Counties held a meeting at Curtis, Neb., and denounced the stories of destitution that have been sent East concerning them. Lightning killed James Voehaska. aged 2G, at Montgomery, Minn., and a 3-year-old girl named Martin at Glendive. Mont. The girl's mother and two children were injured. Oil is reported from Fin-Hay, 0., advanced two cents, the second time in a week. The walls of the old city hall at Sai: Francisco, Cal., caved in. One man was kilied ami three wounded. A jury at Tucson, Ariz., in the suit against the Arizona Star, Gov. Hughes’ paper, for $25,000 for libel, awarded $1 damages. By the collision of two trolley cars on the Walden and Orange Lake road, seven miles west of Newburgh, N. Y'., nine men were severely injured.

ROSEBERY GOES OUT. ENGLISH PREMIER TENDERS HIS RESIGNATION. Lord Salisbury, the Fortner Tory Leader, Called In—lrish Leaders Are Profoundly Disgusted with the Present Turn of Affairs at London. Crisis in Great Britain. Lord Rosebery tendered his resignation to^ the queen during his recent visit to Windsor. He advised the queen to send for Lord Salisbury. The former tory premier went down to Windsor and accepted tlie task of forming a government in the present parliament. Lord Rosebery and Sir William Harcourt announced the resignation of the liberal ministry in their respective houses Monday afternoon. By a technical ruse, almost impossible to explain to American readers because of the totally different procedure in parliament as compared with the American Congress, the ministry will avoid declaring itself before the present parliament and force a dissolution and general election within the next three weeks. Ilf this is successful the real purposes of the resignation of the liberal ministry will be defeated. This was to compel the tories to ■ submit a policy to parliament before going to the country. Whether or not the liberals can checkmate this programme remains to be seen. If they still hive a majority they can possibly do so. Certainly the next few weeks will make an epoch in the parliamentary history of Great Britain, since Lord Rosebery cannot now withdraw his resignation. The Irish leaders are urging their liberal allies to stand firm in demanding a declaration in parliament of the tory program. The truth is, however, that they are profoundly disgusted with the situation. Rosebery’s Brief Term as Premier. Earl Rosebery was offered the office of prime minister by the queen on March 3, 1894, Mr. Gladstone having offered his resignation on account of his failing eyesiglit. Lord Rosebery had occupied the position of foreign secretary in Mr. Gladstone’s cabinet and had been prominently considered for ten years past as the probable successor of Mr. Gladstone in the leadership of the liberal party when the time for the retirement of that gentleman should come. About the only objection urged against the appointment as premier was that the leader of the party should lie a member of the house of commons and that the party cannot be managed from the house of lords. Lord Rosebery, upon assuming the premiership, took the place of first lord of the treasury in the cabinet and called the Earl of Kimberley to succeed himself'as foreign secretary. The leadership in the house of commons was intrusted to Sir William Vernor. Harcourt, who retained his place in the cabinet as chancellor of the exchequer. The retirement of Mr. Gladstone was considered a severe strain upon the government, and many persons looked for the defeat of the liberals and the resignation of the cabinet at that time. RESULTS IN TWO DEATHS. Accident on the Whaleback ChristopHcr Co I Hintons. The result of the accident on the whaleback steamer Christopher Columbus on a voyage from Milwaukee to Chicago Saturday night was the death of two men, fatal injury to another, three seriously scalded and seven slightly burned., The accident was caused by the bursting of a steam pipe. It was the homeward run of the whaleback in its opening summer excursion to Milwaukee. About 350 souls were aboard. Flying Hags, with music and dancing, was the order of the evening. The accident on the Christopher Columbus, according to the engineering authorities. is one of the unaccountable things that occasionally occur in steam plants. A cast-iron pipe eight inches in diameter and three-quarters of an inch thick suddenly cracked around its entire circumference under a steam pressure of less than 165 pounds, after having previously stood a test pressure of 235 pounds to the inch. The stories of the accident being caused by straining in a race with the Virginia are denied by every officer of the Columbus. The circumstances, as related by the boat's officers, were as follows: The cylinders of the engine were entirely new, and it would be destructive and dangerous to run them at high speed until the parts wore down. Two representatives of the engine builders were on board and constantly reminded the engineers not to use speed. Chief Engineer Webster says the speed was ninety revolutions, whereas the boat has made 130 a minute, and steam pressure was 160 pounds to the square inch, while the government allows 170. Captain Robert Smith says that he had reckoned the speed just before the explosion and it was about sixteen miles an hour. The whaleback has made twentyone miles an hour. As further evidence of the fact that there was no race the statement is made that the Virginia had passed the whaleback and was two miles ahead. Newsy Paragraphs. Rich gold fields have been found on Boggy creek, Ok. Comte Paul Chandron de Brialles, head of a well-known champaigne firm, is dead at Epernay, France. John Brown was killed by T. B. Bacon during a dispute abour a team of mules near Emporia, Kan. Jean Grenier, of Minneapolis, Minn., has disappeared at Montreal. He had $2,000 in a belt on his body. Mrs. Mary McCoy was struck by a Burlington train at S . Joseph. Mo., and so badly mangled she will die. The distinguished guests who sat around Chauncey M. Depew’s table the other night should look out for trouble “in their midst.’’ Chauncey himself would take the office if all the other candidates were incapacitated. Freiherr von Bergen, the German minister to Guatemala, has been gazetted German minister to the republics of Central America. Two vandals enter? I the Thaddeus gallery*on Bond street. London, and mutilated a life-size portrait of Gladstone. They escaped without difficulty. Abbott & Katz's brewery at Brooklyn was seized by inter: al revenue officers. It is alleged that revenue stamps were used a second time upon beer kegs. The brewery is valued at $600,600, and before the proprietors can regain possession they will have to put up a bond of SIOO,OOO.