St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 50, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 July 1895 — Page 6

JnbtptnbenL XV. A. JEJNDX^JSV, Publisher. WALKERTON. - - - INDIANA. BOOM IN IRON TRADE. BIG CONCERN RAISES WAGES OF ITS MEN. Chicago Jurist Ignores a New Law— Germany’s New Tariff Measure Oper-ative-Death in the Electric Chait — Precocious Young Georgia Murderer Thousands Get Better Pay’. The increase of 10 per cent, in wagos recently announced by the Illinois Steel Company went into effect Monday. Over seven thousand men will bo benefited by the change. The advance has been made at the South Chicago works, the North Chicago rolling mills and the plants at Milwaukee and Joliet. All classes of employes are included in the advance, with the exception of the tonnagemen, who work on a sliding scale. That is, the rate of wages of those paid according to the actual amount of manufactured ma-

terial is regulated according to the market »price of the material they are employed in making. When the price of steel rails, for example, advances, the wages of those employed in making steel rails advance in proportion. When the market price of steel rails declines the wages of the workmen decline with them. All this class of workers are not interested in the change, but all who work at a given account per day will be benefited. Judge Goggin Rebels, Judge Goggin of Chicago doesn’t think the* Fletcher prison parole law, passed by the last Legislature, constitutional, and Monday refused to sit in the Criminal Court and try cases according to its provisions. He discharged until further notice the jury which hud been selected, and declined to hoar any of the cases on his call. The witnesses were also dismissed, and so far as his branch is concerned Judge Goggin put a stop to criminal court business, declaring the law was unconstitutional, and that to try cases under it was a wuste of time. The law which made the Judge strike provides that, except in murder and treason cases, the jury can only return a verdict of guilty or not guilty without fixing the length of sentence to the penitentiary. Under its provisions a prisoner will be sentenced to the limit of the law and the question of reducing the sentence'rests entirely with the warden and the prison board, who are to reward him according to his good be* havior. The jury has nothing to do with fixing the time of sentence. The new law went into effect Monday. Imposition of Retaliatory Duties. The new tariff measure passed by the German reiehstag early in May went into effect Monday. The most important provision is that authorizing the government to impose retaliatory duties whenever other nations discriminate against German products. Discriminating duties on goods now on the free list are, however, limited to 20 per cent, ad valorem. The measure also raises the duty on ix'rfumes containing alcohol from 200 to 300 marks, and imposes a protective duty on Quebracho wood, which is used for tanning.

Dr. Robert W. Buchanan Electrocuted. Dr. Robert W. Buchanan, the wife poisoner, was electrocuted at Sing Sing. N. Y., Monday forenoon. Mrs. Buchanan made a last effort to induce Governor Morton to commute the sentence to life imprisonment. The woman sank on her knees before the Governor and pleaded for her husband’s life, though her grief almost prevented her from speaking. Governor Morton was plainly overcome by the woman’s pleading, and tears stood in his eyes as he lifted her to her feet and told her thathe could not grant her request. Eleven-Year-Old Boy Kills a Child. Information received from Harris County. Georgia, states that Henry Thomas, an 11-year-old negro boy, had just killed his second victim. He was hired by his uncle, Jasper Thomas, to care for a child about a year old while the father and mother were in the field working. Henry grew’ tired of acting as nurse and took his uncle’s pistol w’hile his uncle and aunt were in the field and shot the child dead. Henry then laid it on the bed and fled to the. woods. He has not been seen since. This is the second child he has killed. Under the Wheels. The Cumberland accommodation on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ran into an open switch at Laughlin Station near Pittsburg and collided with a switch engine. The crew r of the shifter all jumped except Harvey Louther, a brakeman, who was instantly killed. Fireman Mcßeth, of the accommodation, also jumped and was seriously injured. A number of passengers were bruised and cut by broken glass.

NEWS NUGGETS. The Eureka Tobacco Works at W ashington operated by A. Beck & Co., Chicago, has been notified by the postoffice department to cease sending through the mails bags of smoking tobacco, or to remove from them certain cards that offer a prize to the purchaser of those containing a given number. The department holds that the scheme is practically a lottery. Sigmund Frietsch & Co., Cincinnati pork packers, assigned to Moses Ruskin, who estimates the assets at SIIO,OOO and the liabilities at $58,000. Mr. Frietsch says the assignment is only a suspension, caused by the high price of hogs and the low price of lard. Among the creditors is the Merchants’ National Bank for $20.000. The firm has always had a favorable standing. The house of Trotter Holliday, a prominent rancher, who lived near Gridley, Cal-, burned, and Holiday' ami his niece perished in the flames. Two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, the July interest on the bonds of the State of Tennessee, were paid Monday. The State Treasury has on hand $923,000. Miss Minnie Wilkinson committed suicide in a Richmond (Va.) church because her lover proved faithless. J. Lamb Doty, United States Consul at Tahiti, is charged with deceiving a native girl with a mock marriage.

EASTERN. William Pickhardt, a wealthy Importer of New York city, died at Cologne, Germany. The employes of the Pennsylvania • Wheel Foundry at Altoona have received " al2 per cent increase of wages. The largest lens in The world has just been completed at the Clarke establishment in Cambridge. It is for the great Yerkes telescope and weighs 500 pounds. A two days’ session of the university convocation in the interests of higher and secondary education met at Albany, N. Y., Thursday. Among the participants were Presidents Harper, of Chicago University; Eliot, of Harvard, and Shurman, of Cornell. Louis M. Cornish, a New York broker, was found dead in the library of his home. There was a bullet hole in his right temple. No motive for suicide was advanced. His physician is said to have remarked that financial difficulties led Mr. Cornish to commit the deed. The American Watch Company of Waltham, Mass., closed its works Friday for three weeks, in accordance with its usual custom of giving its employes an annual vacation. Last year the works were closed for four weeks, but owing to the increased demand for the company’s output it was necessary to curtail the vacation this summer.

WESTERN. Mrs. J. J. Corbett, wife of the pugilist, has joined the Fargo, N. D., divorce colony. At Seattle, Wash., three boys were drowned in the bay while playing on a boom of logs. The alleged lynchers of ex-County Treasurer Barrett Scott have been acquitted by the jury at Butte, Neb. ‘•Rainmaker" Frank Melbourne has confessed to a Cleveland reporter that his performance in the West several years ago was a humbug. Charles Taylor, a colored burglar, was caught in the residence of T. M. Hydoek, a South Omaha, Neb., citizen, at midnight, Saturday, and after a desperate struggle was shot and killed by Hydoek. At Greeley, Colo., Deputy United States Marshal Lovell arrested John P. Klug, of Box Ehler, charged with having fenced in a portion of the public domain embracing about ten thousand acres. Klug claims that he either owns or leases all the land which be has fenced. The steamer Chilcat from Juneau to Port Townsend, Wash., brings news of the disappearance of the steamer Chehalis. She sailed out of Juneau headed south, but inquiries at the ports on the way down failed to bring to light any news of the vessel. Much anxiety exists concerning her whereabouts. At Idaho Springs, Colo., George B. McClelland has resigned as cashier and director of the First National Bank anil I has turned over to his bondsmen all his ; property. His brother has also deposited ( collateral sufficient to protect the bank. ■ ' Mr. McClelland had borrowed money largely to carry on mining deals in which he had paid options to the amount of । SIOO,OOO. L. A. Condlee, a constable and detec- { tive for the Ritzville, Wash., Cattlemen’s Association, was found dead in the road i with three bullet wounds in his body. Condlee arrested Alfred Simes and started for Ritzville with him on horseback. Simes, who is known as "Jesse J aim's.” is supposed to have overpowered Condlee 1 and taken his pistols, as signs of a strugge 1

'were visible in the road. Indian Agent Beck, nt Pender. Neb., notified the reservation settlers that they must come before him and make new leases secured by bond or cash or vacate ; their farms and lose their crops. As , every one of the renters has already given i notes for rent to the Flournoy company, it is not likely they will make new leases or yield peaceable posse >i<>n without an I order from the courts. On petition of stockholders in the B. ' and M. Packing Company of Denver. | Judge Butler has appointed George W. Ballantyne receiver of the company. The assets are valued at S93,O(K>; liabilities. $98,009. It is alleged t! Andrew J. Campion, Henry 11. Mills and Barnabas : Huber gave their notes to the company for $137,000 worth of stock and have paid ! only $26,000 of the amount; also that they i have converted to their own use large j sums of the company's money. At the conference between the iron man- ' ufacturers and the Amalgamated Associa- ! tion conference committee at Youngs- I town, Ohio, it was finally agreed that the ■ scale adopted nt the recent Cleveland ! convention should be accepted. This in- ■ eludes a $4 a ton rate for puddling on a ! card rate of 1 1-10 cents, the increase to be | 25 cents for each one-tenth increase in the I card rate up to 1% on the present minimum, which would make the rate $5 a ton at a 1% card rate on selling price per pound. It has developed that Harry T. Hayward, now in jail at .Minneapolis under । sentence of death for the murder of Catherine Ging, has made formal application to the New York Life and Travelers' ' Accident Insurance Companies for the :

^'"'tle is siipPoSOTi lb mite ihken this action to bear out his claim to innocence The executors of Miss fling's estate will I, bring action to have the assignment of the I policies to Hayward set aside as fraudu- , lent. j Volcanic disturbances are again reported in the Cocopah country of Lower California. George Neal, a mining man. | has just returned to San Diego, Cal., from, that region and says that on Sunday he । saw smoke ascending from the central j peak of three mountains that rise several | hundred feet above the desert. The smoke ascended high in the air and was accompanied by sounds like distant cannonading. The Indians told Neal that mud volcanoes, gas fissures, hot springs and fire volcanoes were at work more actively than ever. Six firemen dead and others seriously injured, with a property loss of $190,000, ' are the results of a tire at Minneapolis, Minn.. Thursday night. The dead are: ' Joseph Hay, Walter Richardson, Frank ■ Rulaine, John Horner, Bert Thomas and an unidentified man. Several others were I seriouslv injured. The property loss cons sisted of the entire destruction of the ' building occupied by McDonald Bros., 1 dealers in crockery, chinaware, glassware, silverware and gas fixtures. ’I he total • loss will aggregate over $109,000; insure ance unknown. Secretary’ John L. Moon, ot the Kansas t Life Insurance Association, has been in - Kansas City in conference with the officials of other companies interested con-

cerning information that has come to them to the effect that Dr. Fraker, for whose supposed death the companies are under obligation to pay $41,000 next August, is alive. The person who furnished the information says that Fraker is under surveillance and will be delivered up on assurance that the $20,000 reward which has been offered will be forthcoming. Mr. Moon declines to say where Fraker is supposed to be. William Murray, who has a mine at the junction of Kosh creek and Pitt river, about sixty miles northeast of Redding, Cal., brings news of having discovered the richest mine in the country, and says it is the original “Lost Cabin" mine, which has been searched for during the last thirty years. He has discovered a lode 800 feet wide and 400 feet high, impregnated with iron ore, which bears gold and silver to the value of from $75 to $l5O per ton. The range where this mine was discovered is a continuation of that upon which is the great Lost Confidence mine, or what is generally known as the Iron Mountain. It was recently sold to an English syndicate for $300,000. A big fire at San Francisco, Cal., was got under control at 0:45 o’clock Thursday night, after consuming $2,000,000 worth of property, including many largo manufacturing plants and the little homes of scores of families. The fire thn att ned the entire city and was replete with sensational and exciting episodes, includUV a powder explosion which scattered ci Jb*'-'* far and wide. Mrs. Gilroy was the explosion of a lamp in her hoijseßL‘, she was trying to save her bouschol^^B’ds from destruction. Help from neigbuSng cities assisted in subduing the flames, ithe fire ate its way to the high brick waff of the deserted Southern Pacific offices, which acted as a barrier over which the flames could not work. I nder the head of revenue legislation a bill will be introduced in the Illinois Senate within a few days, which will cost the business men of Chicago who occupy the docks, wharves and slips along the lake shore between $5,009,000 and SO,000,000 annually. This aims to transfer the management and control of all submerged lands between the Indiana and " isconsin State lines to a board of commissioners provided for in the act, who shall lease such property on behalf of the State. The plan revolutionizes the method of holding such lands which has been followed in Chicago ever since the incorporation of the city, and will no doubt raise a mighty roar of protest from the interests affected. Almost the entire police force of Denver I was employed Thursday night in guarding the houses of eight aidermen who feared violence from their constituents. A bill for an ordinance granting a reduction of only 15 per cent on the schedule of water rates now in force passed the Council by a vote of 8 to 6, and this aroused the anger of the people, who attended the Council meeting in force. The measure which caused so much indignation has a clause which makes the rates thus fixed a burden on the people for fifteen years. Besides, it is claimed that the reduction of 15 per cent is not one-half what the puldie is entitled to under the company’s contract, which calls fur a reduction this year to the average rates charged iu Chicago, Si. Louis and Cincinnati. Discouraged by her failure to pass the examination given her class, heart-broken I because her father's mild < h’dinvs^ind I unable to dispel the intense belief t)*W the teachers of her school wen- eonspirnrA to ; defeat her plans for a high scholarship. ( 19-year-o!d Minnie Lynch, of Chicago. j drank carbolic acid Friday morning and 1 ended her life. Sho had spent the night in tears, sobbing her keenly felt misery ! and moaning over her father's inmmin- ; lions that perhaps het failure to pa*s the | final examination was due to her lack of : diligence and perseverance. The thought that she had combated against a eonspira- ; cy to defraud her of her examination | mark preyed heavily upon the young girl, । but she appears to have grieved over the i parental reproof until her sorrow grew ' into a suicidal melancholia. R. C. Tandy, occupant of the Bcllefon- | taine farm, on the site of old Fort Relle- ■ fontaine, six miles from the mouth of the Missouri river, has found a beer bottle ■ containing a rather sensational note writ- ■ ten in lead pencil in a good hand. The i bottle was picked up on the river bank by his son. Ju. note, which was turned over to Chief Harrigan es St. Louis, is as follows: "6-12, '93 To whoever finds this bottle: We have been kidnaped by a gang of cut-throats and thieves and are held I on an island iu the I'latte river, near Omaha. Neb. They are not only thieves, but counterfeiters, and have their head quarters in Omaha, near the Douglas street bridge. Come to our rescue and you will be liberally rewarded. Go to the mouth of the Elkhorn river and stop at the third island down stream. For God's sake, come quick." The note is signed A. I’. I’ilford ami John Buckmaster. The Omaha authorities will be notified to in- : vestigate. The authorities at Spokane have arrest- ■ ed two of the most daring car thieves op- j crating in the West. Their plan was to I spot a freight car they desired to pillage. ' spring the door at a station and board the ! train, ami when it was in motion throw . off what they wanted. When the slowed up they would drop ofl a time ago two lin n nvm store and offered to dispose of a Idl of { goods they had concealed a few miles feast of Spokane. The second-hand dealer tommunicated with Chief of Police Mjrtz, and was directed to go ahead and buy the goods. The thieves went to the pace with a wagon and secured S3OO wort* of dry goods, boots and shoes and stated back to town. Officers were stationd on , the road and placed them under arest. ! The thieves have also been operatici on ■ the Great Northern. It is thought hey are a part of an organized band, as a legram found on them bore the inforim on that a car loaded with silks was comi . ; SOUTHERN. —. , , L ’ At Huntington, M. a., Charles I was indicted by the grand jury I murder of his two children on the 01 j March 18. ■ _ 1 P. W. Hardin, who stumped Keiwcky I for free silver, has been nominated the Democrats of that State for Goxsraor. i He won the contest over Cassius M Clay. Jr., on the first ballot and goes before the | people as a 16 to 1 man on a gold pl at ‘ form. A fire occurred at Latonia, Ky„ in the stable occupied by Talbot Bros., of Lexington, Ky., and three untried two-year-

oids, Ben Brace, Dickson and Hazel, | valued at SSOO each, perished and tihe sta- j ; hie burned to the ground. Amojng the ; j horses saved were Leaflet and Elslket. is not known how the fire was started. The second international convention of I

: A : rnTtlT" Ul ° ro ““’“W Vh," cent, who was unable to attend Twentv i mornTg ' with 3 ]"! 8 bad arrived Thursday' th dele R«tes from every State ■ and territory in the United States. court C at°r im rt » \ n Jußtice Lavender’s • u e1 ? Ark " Inst winter is court of finnl" by a”” 1 de K rcCß t 0 the ed is that b° rt ; Thc <l’mstion involvea is that of a husband’s liability for his de?/a P 7T^ Judice Irnven bility bit in F th eV p- the . bußband of H «- Mariin reve ted It Tu' 1 t CoUrt Judse was fiW "' Tuesday a motion prob»hl2 ? t,ial> and the ca sc " ill stvle n/tn 0 to tbe Supreme Court. The UMK? SU V s F ' J' Y ««»« vs. Mrs. The i mf 8 and hcr husband, J. 11. Ki es Keis d whiri' 0 ^* 1 " aS cont, auted by Mrs. widow ' lo a ll ® "as unmarried and a Ji t J g ° la,tin h01(ls that "here a "omnn contracts a debt when no lecal ,s a uhty exists the common law liability ?hi H n i S r nt ? l , ° husb aud is responsible for well n bIS Wife traded before as we . as after marriage. This suit is likely to become a cause celebre. WASHINGTON. A Washington report has it that Dr. ( hauueey M. Depew* is soon to wed an $8,000,000 heiress. ” The Morgan-Rotbschihl syndicate has made its finnl payment of gold on the $62,400,000 bonds bought from the Government last February and the gold reserve Wednesday jumped to $107,447,855. 'llie assignment of agents in the new system of gathering crop statistics has been completed, save for two districts. The new plan practically does away with the State agencies, as the States are grouped into districts which only one State agent will supervise. The present । system of county reports will also be sup- | planted by one providing for a reporter in ■ every township, and the two systems will be used conjointly, each acting ns a < heck ! on the other. The country will be divided j into twenty-one districts. IN GENERAL The Austrian corvette Donati arrived in i New York Thursday morning. She has been cruising in the West Indies and left ' Martinique on June 2. The Donati is an i old type of war vessel. She carries a crew of 350 men and mounts fourteen guns. Replying to Henry Labouehere, member for Northampton, in the House of Commons Weiimsday, Rt. Hon. Akers Doug las, the conservative whip, said his party was anxious for a dissolution of parlia- I ment at the earliest i>ossible moment and ■ ho|»ed to be able to make a statement on the subject Monday. Mr. Balfour's address to the electors of East Manchester says that this is not a fitting occasion to P ro posed policy of the union- j The Canadian Government has received - a draft of the bill for Pa. ifi seal fisheries ; read for the third time in thc imperial parliament. Sir Charles 11. Tupper, min j ister of justice and ex-minister of marine. , says the Dominion ’Government will enter strong objections to two clauses of the ■ | bill. One of these empowers Russian ■ I vessels to search ’’anadinn scalers and ; I the other exacts the extreme penalty of ! | forfeiture of the ship and equipments for i i Infractions of the regulations. The Do j ' minion Government will forward a strong ! protest to the Imperial Government. FoJlowim.- •. the stamiing of tbo clubs ’ I of rhe A.,:, mal Baseball 1.. ague: Per ' P. W. L. cent. । (Boston st» 32 18 .’Uoi | Baltimore If* SO 19 .612 1 i Pittsburg 56 34 22 .t>o7 | ’’hoeland 56 33 23 .383 j Chicago GO 35 25 .383 ; I Cincinnati 53 29 24 .317 ; ' Philadelphia .. . .52 2.8 21 .538 ; | Brooklyn 53 28 25 .32S J | New York 53 2G 27 .491 ■ Washington 53 22 31 .113 : St. Louis 57 17 4<> .298 i ( Louisville 52 8 44 .154 WESTEIIX I.EAGI K. Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: Per P. W. L. cent, 1 Indianaitplis 31 32 lit .627 Milwaukee 51 29 25 .537 ; Kansas City 53 28 25 .528 : Detroit 50 26 24 .520 ; St. Paul 50 26 24 .320 ' Minneapolis 49 24 25 .490 ' Toledo 30 22 28 .440 ; Grand Rapids. .. .53 23 30 .434 MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prim’', i $3.75 to $6.00: hogs, shipping grades, I $3.00 to $5.25: sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 i to $4.30; wheat, No. 2 red. 69c to 70c; corn. No. 2,47 cto 48c; oats. No. 2. 25c ito 26c; rye. No. 2,61 cto 62c; butter, choice creamery, 16c to 18c; eggs, fresh, ! 10c to 12c; potatoes, new, per barral, j to $2:73: broom corn, common • growth to fin? brush, 4e i ®.r pp l c 2, mm °n 2” prime. $2.00 to S4.O(P wl l ^ a ’ «e" 0 ~' to ‘ ’’ c: col 'n. No. 1 : lute, 4Sc to 49c; oats, No. 2 white 33 c to ,>4c.

St. Louis-Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs $4.00 to $5 00; wheat. No. 2 red. 71e70 ( r e. (-orn. No. 2 j vl i oW( 43c fy 44 oat< No. 2, white. 24c to 25c ^• SO t 0 bogs. "h<at. No. )OC to 77c; corn. No. 2 ’ v 4S >‘ ; ° atS ’ Xo ' - mised > to 30c; rye, .No. 2. 61c to 63c.

hogs, 2 72c to 74c; corn. No. 2 •odon. 4 <c to 49c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to .>3c; rye. s<c to 59c. t Toiedo- Wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 74c--2 wl'O' 0 ’ y m Lxed, 47c to 49c; oats. No' clover to 27c; rye. No. 2. 61c to’fikBuffalo- nnme, $5.60 to $3.70. $3.00 to $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, wheat. No ' , a '’r?oP, $3.00 to $4.00; i 2 yellow, o„c o 78c; corn. No. I 33c to 34c. vvhpa t. No-No- 2 white, i Mihvaukee-^heat^ I to 30e; barley. No.” 70e J 50c ry4 No. L ^c to 61c; pork,* X

i siiiod to t 0 $0.00; hogs. New York W 1 ’ §2.50 to s3.it>. 1 $4.00 to corUi No. 2. wheat, No. - red. 10H to 33c; 52c to o3c; oa 19c; eggS) v cat butter, creamery, ern, 12c to 14c.

DIE ON THE DIAMOND. THREE FATALITIES AT SUNDAY BALL GAMES. The Rev. Dr. Hall Talks o f His come-Bijj Deficit in the National 1 reasury - Crops Threatened, but Business Continues Good. Three Killed Accidentally. Ihree thousnnd people assembled at bteele s 1 ark, Decatur, Ind., Sunday afternoon to witness the opening ball game o the season. The game was between the Martons and Decaturs. At the end of the first inning Harvey George, pitcher for the Marion team, dropped dead w’hile pitching the ball. George was 21 vears old and had played with several league teams. He was married and lived at Gas City. His mother is now prostrated at news of her son’s death. Morris Davis, !•>. was killed Sunday iu a base-ball game in I nylor Bottoms. Ky., by being hit on the head while batting by a pitched ball. XX illiam C. Dewees, a paperhanger, was In a scrub game of base-ball at Philadelphia. Special Policeman McDonald pitched a ball which hit Dewees on the head. e fell as if shot, and died from hemorrhage of the brain. Bi» Income n Mytb. The Rev. Dr. John Hall, pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, has written a public letter in which he denies the circulated stories regarding the great fortune he has accumulated, his big income, and enormous wedding fees. Bivause he gave SI,OOO to the Board ol Home Missions, stating that others might well do the same, as the expected income ! tax would not be called for, the inference I was drawn, he says, that the SI,OOO doi nated was the income tax he had expected 1 t" pay, and that therefore his income I must be over $50,000. “I have no such j income ns is thus inferred,” writes the doctor, “and the donation involved some self-denial.” Because of the stories. Dr. Hall says, persons ail over the world are continually writing him begging letters. His reputed salary of $30,000 or $75,000 ! is, he declares, much beyond the reality. ■ To an editor who once announced that Dr. Hall owned $1,000,000 of real estate, the clergyman says he made an offer to give him SBW,(MM) worth of it if he would find it. The offer was not accepted. Answering a statement that in less than one year lie had pocketed more than $30,000 in marriage fees. Dr. Hall says that figure । Is far in excess of the total amount of ( marriage fees he has received during the । entire forty-six years of his ministry. Firemen Perish in the Flames. A lire in the rag shop of the Hubeley Manufacturing Company in Worcester, Mass., early Sunday morning, caused the death of two firemen and injured eight others, and caused a financial loss of ills'Ut $4.’MM>. The victims belonged to Hose No. 4 and Hose No. 9. Hose No. 4 was one of the first pieces of apparatus । to reach the tire, mid attacked it in the top floor. Without warning the floor col- ! lapsed, carrying the two floors underJ neath it into the cellar. The men went : down with and were buried under the J ruins and bates of rags. Lieut. Boyle’s ■ back was bnaken under the crush of the ■ timbers and W. F. Brigham was smoth- ■ cred under the piles of rags. The rest of I the men escaped with their lives, but it took the rescuing party three hours to get , them and remove them from the debris. 1 tule Sinn Short of Cash. The fiscal year of the government has ch Msl. The defn it is about $ la.rsKl.iioO. S -i-rotary Carlisle's estimate last December of the probable deficit was $20,900,00(», but he expected S2.<nK).(Mh» from the income tax and $6,(KM),000 from sugar dutiesthathavenot been received. The recoipts from customs will aggregate about $152.000,(KM»„ or SS,(MIO,OO’) less than Mr. Carlisle expected. This is the estimate which included sugar duties. From internal revenue the receipts will reach 5142,im0. and this sum is $23,000,000 less than the Secretary estimated. This is the estimate which included the income tax*. The revenue from miscellaneous sources will exceed the estimate by $2,qoo.ooo and aggregate about $17,000,000. Outlook for Trade. IL G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “Business is better, although the crop outlook affecting prospects beyond the near future is a little less distinct. Ther^ is more ground for doubt about winter wheat and cotton than a week ago, and thrashing receipts are com* ’ paratively low, though the prospects for spring wheat are exceedingly good. The price, a quarter of a cent lower for the week, is beyond mistake too low, if the latest impressions of injury to winter wheat are correct." BREVITIES, Specials from western Minnesota and North Dakota report a light frost Thursday night, damaging potatoes and garden struck in low places to some extent, "’^^’'^rino^eb^ was'drowm*d^rTsnake river at Glenns Ferry. Idaho, while swimming his horse to clean him. He was with a party from lowa and his two broth-

gon' tla ' cbnff '' teams to locate in OreSt. Louis city employes in the various departments are bAg sifted over and scores who have failed to register and vote are being dropped from the rolls for their negligence. The policy of the present administration is to retain no one who shirks Xe r ct. POI,S ‘ Oiliti “ S ° f Citizens, ‘ i P iu this

The annual report of the deput v master of the British mint shows that the total mintage for the last year was £6.65-1 441 a decrease of over £4,009,009 compared m 3 9^ preceding ’ v , ear - I)a ring the year £663,068 was expended in the purchase of in JpJ, 44 -‘ ‘I? ing valno of the-same be . nr £ r r 1-V' lUS netUns the Government a profit of 4a.b per cent. Advices from Shanghai say that persemition of foreigners in the Chinese pro--mce of Sechuen has ceased and that an imperial decree has been issued or d erin 2 that the damage done to the propertv of missionaries and others be repaired. ‘

" -T^Honal the iat>ew unm-if at rain%>- ot bt - Louis, other 1 n MlNaraguav hX commerce, , he mo „ t ntx*. avigation mW

INDiANA'S FIRST CENTURY. Plans for a Great Celebration Project" ed by the Hooi ier State. The year 1860 witnessed the separation of what is now* the State of Indiana from the Northwest territory and the organiza-

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tion of the territory of Indiana, and it has been decreed that the centennial anniversary of this first step towards Statehood shall be fittingly celebrated by the giving over of a week or more to displays showing the march of progress during the hundred

years of separate and distinct existence. The first step to this end was taken by the recent session of the General Assembly in the adoption of a concurrent resolu-

tion providing for the appointment of a commission, to consist of four members from the State at large and two from each congressional district, which should examine and report to the Legislature at its next meet-

IE. b. MAKTIND XI E some suitable I Uon Os th, ..vent ' A'' UnS the cel<-*a-lo f "he U gUl „ lr ’ e lutions that the celebration should be arI ranged upon the broadest possible basis । and made to include

' protracted exercises 1 in connection with displays of everything indicating the progress that has been made in the first century of Indiana’s separate existence. Pursuant to the resolution Gov. Matthews has announced the following commissioners, the members of the

body being equally divided between the two great political parties: For the State at large—Eli Lilly and E. B. Martindale, Indianapolis; Hugh Dougherty, Bluffton, and DeFoe Skinner, Valparaiso. First Congressional District—Philip Fry, Evansville; James Burket, Cannelton. Second —T. B. Buskirk, Paoli; John Weathers, Leavenworth. Third—Charles L. Jewett, New Alba nd; 11. C. Hobbs, Salem. Fourth—John H. Russe, Lawrenceburg; Will Cumback, Greensburg. Fifth—John W. Cravens, Bloomington; J. L. Irwin, Columbus. Sixth —A. W. Brady, Muncie; James N. Huston, Connersville. GOVERNOR MATTHEWS. Seventh—U. S. Jackson, Greenfield; Charles T. Doxy, Anderson. Eighth—T. J. Mason, Sullivan; Frank MeKeen, Terre Haute. Ninth—Eli Marvin, Frankfort; C. 0. Shirley. Kokomo. Tenth—M. M. Hathaway, Winamac; J. C. Hadley, Logansport. Eleventh —11. B. Smith, Hartford City; E. B. Goldthwaite, Marion. Twelfth—Charles McCullough, Fort Wayne; S. A., Woods, Angola. Thirteenth—James A. Arthur, Goshen; George W. Matthews, South Bend. HARDIN IS THE WINNER. Nominated by the Kentucky Democrats for the Governorship. P. W. Hardin, of Mercer County, was nominated for Governor by the Kentucky Democratic State convention at Louisville Only one ballot was necessary, Hardin receiving 466% votes, against 368 cast for Cassius M. Clay, Jr., his only serious opponent. Sixty-nine scattering votes were cast, three being for Henry Watterson and three for Gov. Buckner, but they were entirely complimentary and thrown by delegates who objected to Hardin’s position on the financial question but did not care to vote for Clay. The financial plank adopted was somewhat of a straddle. It reaffirmed the Chicago platform of 1592 and added commendation of the I‘ro-idryt npd Secretary Catlisle for their wise^ind statSJHHR management of public affairs. The minority report was amended by the silver men to read simply as an indorsement of Chr^ ‘/‘V 0 P! atforiu - Congressman a6 1 \ ' , at be " ° uld not ^pport on any other platform uian tins.

adopting the platform absolutepctilor, saying the State could not a c- o ^ d _ ' A I?,ei " as nominated for Lieutenant Governor.

C ‘ ty ’ a ^urb of St. Louis Ir. Frank Seitle shot and killed Mrs’ Jane Peterson, his sister-in-law n m •stcr, n ol , sl , nd her Brinton. Pa. n tvorks at Snn „

ELI LILLY.