St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 52, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 20 July 1895 — Page 2

ei)c independent AV. A. EADL.EY, I’liLlislier. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. DEATH CHAIR WAITS. WOMAN MAY PAY THE DREADED PENALTY. Nicaragua May Cancel Canal Conces* eions Because of Delay—Nebraska Desperadoes May Have Been Lynched —Oregon Stage Held Up. Maria Barberi Sentenced to Death. Maria Barberi. who murdered her lover, Dominico Cataldo, at New A'ork, because he abandoned her. was found guilty of murder in the first degree, and will, if the verdict is allowed to stand, be the first woman condemned to death since the passage of the law making electrocu- ’ lion the death penalty. The case will be taken to the Court of Appeals, and if that court does not order a new trial the Governor will be appealed to to commute the sentence to imprisonment. The Recorder’s charge was unfavorable to the defendant. He said in conclusion: “You must exemplify justice by your verdict. A jury has nothing to do with mercy. The law knows no distinction of persons. The law does not hold woman less responsible than man. The female sex is sometimes used as a clonk for most horrible crimes.” Threatens the Big Canal. A private letter to a New Orleans gen- , tieman from Managua, Nicaragua, eon- , tains the following, which is given with every degree of authority: “The conces- ( sion granted several years ago to the , Maritime Canal Company by the Nic- s araguan Government for the construction s of the Nicaraguan Canal is for the sec- ( ond time in great danger of being can- । celled, and if annulled will be otherwise , disposed of. This second trouble is , caused by the promise to build a canal at । a point called Tipitapa, which would eon । nect Lake Nicaragua with Lake Managua. When the concession was granted ( it was agreed that in return for the con- ( cession a canal would be built at this । point within three years after the begin- ( ning of the work on the main line of the j Nicaraguan Canal. The time limit placed ( upon the completion of this waterway ( expired in October, 1892. As the com , pany has made no steps toward carrying 1 out its contract the Nicaraguan Government threatens to annul the concession, and the threats come in the form of a resolution on the part of the I’resident and his Cabinet, which to all appearance is final." Short Work of Nebraska Rustlers. There is a general belief at Butte. Neb., that a party of rustlers captured by the vigilantes Sunday have been lynched. The men captured were: Louis Zouadlaud, a resident of Spencer, Neb.; S. C. Clark, C. S. Murphy and C. H. .Jackson, who lived west of Spring Ab w. Nearly one hundred head of cattle were found. But few citizens think the rustlers reached Spring View, as the vigilantes are old ranchers ami seldom bring a rustler back when they have a good chance to 'nuke away with him. Others believe that because of the publicity given to the affair the men in charge will not dare to make away with them, but will turn them over to the authorities at Spring View, when other parties will take them from the officers, and they will likely share the usual fate of rustlers. Two Bold Hiuhwaytncu. The Wilhoit Springs stage was held up by highwaymen at Howard Hill, about nine miles from Oregon City, Ore., Thursday. Henry Mattoon, the driver, and one passenger, a Portland man. were robbed of their money, amounting to about SSO. The incoming stage had passed that point but fifteen minutes before. It had three passengers, two of whom had been out hunting and carried their guns in plain view, which probably prevented a repetition of the recent Klamath Falls double robbery. NEWS NUGGETS. The steamer Ariel, reported sunk in the James River with a crowd of colored excursionists. arrived safely at Petersburg, Va. It was delayed by the storm. Relatives of persons killed in the collision at Craig's Road. Quebec, have sued the Grand Trunk Railroad for damages exceeding in property loss $150,000. A railroad and wagon bridge is to be constructed across the Missouri River at Yankton to connect the Great Northern with the Yankton and Not folk Railroad. The Comptroller of the Currency has declared a 10 per cent, dividend in favor of the creditors of the insolvent Evanston (Ill.) National Bank. Also a 10 per cent, dividend to creditors of the Oregon National Bank of Portland, Ore. The I’resident has issued a proclamation stating that as Spain has extended to American citizens the privileges of copyright as contemplated by our copyright act. Spanish citizens are granted the ( privileges of American copyright. ( Mrs. N. K. Fairbank, wife of the well- 1 known Chicago capitalist, died nt her i home at 11 o'clock Monday morning, ^l' l ' i 1 bad been suffering from peritonitis for . several weeks and underwent ait opera- , tion a month ago. which proved unawtil- I ing to save her life. The claim of Capt. Lamothe. of Alton. 11l , to the site of the city of London, i Ont., which he says was leased in 1798 by | an ancestor, only excites ridicule thvi* . There is no such lease as be speaks ol in the local archives. The first one on record dates back only to 182”. The controversy over the leasing of Indian lands on the Omaha and Winnebago reservation took a new turn when the District Court enjoined the Indians’ agent, Beck, from making further evictions. It is not believed Beek will obey j the injunction and more trouble maj follow. Within the last two weeks the average of deaths at Chicago from gasoline stove explosions has been three a daj, as reported by the health department. Never before has the slaughter been so great, and the only explanation which the coroner has to offer is that it is the beginning of the gasoline season, and that ail of the fools are not dead yet. A bill for a receiver of the Hotel Richelieu, Chicago, was filed in the Superioi Court by 11. V. Remis, proprietor of the hotel. Judge Payne appointed M illiejn C. Hugunin. The bond was fixed at $2.>,000, which was furnished.

EASTERN, The Hubbard House and other buildings in the business section of C^ton, N Y were burned; loss about $70,000. Tliere were forty guests in the Hubbard House, all of whom escaped. Mrs Lena Roeseuer, of Pittsburg, hanged herself to a closet door, aft* she had hung up two of her children in a- - room. She had been sick for a long time, and it is supposed was insane. The furniture of Mrs. Katharine Chase daughter of the late chief justice, and former wife of the late Senator Sprague, of Rhode Isl: ', has been seized lor debt and is about to be disposed of at auction in Washington. Cadet Roberts, a member of the “plebe” class at West Point, is said to have been so badly hazed a few days ago that he fainted. Cadets Robert Jayne Maxey and Wallace Bryan Scales were placed under arrest, charged with being the offenders. Rev. Dr. F. Ernest Hauser, who for eight years had been professor of Hebrew in the German Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Bloomfield, N. J., has been deposed from his position and from the ministry and expelled from the church for bigamy. Mr. and Mrs. James Britt, who live at Haldeon, N. J., reported to the Bloomfield police that they had been held up by two footpads who ’•ode bicycles on the Paterson road in Brooklyn and lobbed of $1,700 in cash, besides some jewelry. After the robberv the thieves remounted their wheels and escaped. Rev. S. 11. Phillips, of Durham, Pa., died of blood poisoning. Six weeks ago Miss Cope, one of his parishioners, for a jest pricked him with a hat pin in the leg. Blood poisoning followed, and to save his life the leg was amputated, but he failed to survive the ordeal. The young woman is almost crazed with grief. The social session tendered by Atlantic City, N. J., lodge to the visiting Elks at the Baltic avenue Casino ended in a disaster in which fully 100 persons were seriously injured. The .ession had just opened and only one >f the speakers had been heard when, without the .lightest warning, the building, which had not been used for several years, collapsed and fully 1,000 persons wece thrown to the floor beneath. Uno hundred and six acres, adjoining the grounds of the Chautauqua Assembly, nt Chautauqua, N. V.. have been s-'cured by the American Brewing Company of Chicago, Milwaukee, and Toronto, and it | is the reported intention of the company i to erect a beer garden and brewery there- ! on. Mrs. Kate Hunt, of Buffalo, who j owned the pr< party, will receive s.'>o,ooo. The assembly tried to puD'htse part of the property this spring, off-ring $15.””” for fifty lo res, but Mrs. Hunt refused to sell a part. Great indign itbm is felt । there over the sale. WESTERN. Lena Groh and So Ha Sehhinde' ktT. young girls ..f Cleveland, (thio, were inn । down and killed by an electric motor. Law and order people of New Holland. < thio, administered a 'at of tar ami feathers to n young woman iiaumd Minnie Taylor and then drove her out of town. ,1. K. Hudson, editor of the Tq>eka Capitol, was arrested a second titU" charged with erimiminy libeling .ledge Foster, of the United Slates District I Court. The insurance men of Oregon. Washing ton, and Idaho have formed an ug'inizn t ion called the Northu est 1 irniir ame A e cintion. to control ins trance rates in the Northwest. The fifty-first annual sessi. n of the national division Sons of Temperance openid in Cleveland. Tim principal business of the gathering consists in the mi<-'ti of the constitution. Near Kaysville, Utah, Thomas Boyn ton. a wcll-to do farmer, was literally chopped to pieces while in bed. by Nephi Blunders, his stepson. The ’wo men had a slight jangle the previous evening. The Minnesota Supreme Court has granted a stay of execution in the < use of Harry T. Hayward, under sentence of death foi the murder of Catherine Ging. until after the appeal can be heard in the October term. It was developed in court at Cincinnati that AV. D Bender, who is in a sanitarium, had some weeks ago actually burned up s4s,(h>” in cash and $13.25” in , United States bonds. Some w<vk< age - Bender became ill and is now partially | insane. War between the settlers of Jacks >n Hole, Fremont County, in Wyoming, and the Bannock Indians is imminent. The dispute has already reached the stage ' where one of the Indians has been killed and several others imprisoned, and their ’ friends are threatening revenge. The trouble was occasioned by the Indians from Idaho, who, finding game scarce in their own country, organized a maraud- : ing expedition into Wyoming. Railway men now declare they know j why Calvin S. Brice bought the Pittsburg, Akron and Western Road a short time ago. They claim to know with certainty that he is forming a great rail road system, which will be the shortest route between Chicago ami New York and have ramifications to many of th great business confers The line "ill between the Vanderbilt system "U the) north ami the Pennsylvania on the south, ami will cross the Erie in several places. There was an unusual number ot fatal ities ami serious accidents in ami near Chicago Sunday. Sewn people were killed in a variety of accidents ami sev । oral of the nine injured will die as a re- | suit of injuries received. The deadly ■ trolley got in its work as usual ami helped ; swell the list of killed ami injured. There were one or two suicides and several accidental drowuings. Probably the most pathetic of the fatalities was the drowning of two brothers, John and Andrew Lipner, ageil 17 ami 15 respectively, in Lake Calumet. They went there to catch fish, but, growing tired of the sport, decided to take a swim. While in the waI ter a short distance from their boat one !of the boys was taken with a cramp. He railed for help ami his brother tried to save him. An hour afterward both bodies were recovered tightly clasped in each other's embrace. The boys' mother is prostrated with grief. Trains on railroads from the north due in Grand Rapids, Mich., early Wednesday evening did not arrive until after midnight, having been delayed by forest fires at various places along the lines. On the Chicago and West Michigan road the little towns of 'Wallin and Clary, between Thompsonville and Traverse City, have been entirely wiped out, and the residents have taken refuge at Thompsonville. The wires are down, and full particulars are pvt obtainable, but passengers arriving

there report that no lives were lost. On the Grand Rapids and Indiana the village of Morley is threatened, and fires have been ranging along the track between Manton and Mancelona. The summer resort, Oden-Oden, was surrounded by forest tirea and was in danger of being burned. Wallin consisted of one hotel, one store, a saw-mill, warehouse, coalkiln and about twenty houses. People are without clothing or food. One child is missing. Many were overcome by the heat. Already a number of farmhouses have been burned and the people are coming into the towns with tears streaming down their faces, because, as they declare between sobs, they have lost all the property they have on earth. From the ports along Lakes Michigan ami Huron come messages that the smoke from the forest fires are proving a aeriOJS menace to navigators. SOUTHERN. Dr. Edward Jones, of the Eastern Kentucky Insane Asylum staff, was found dead beneath his window. It is thought he leaped out. Fears are entertained at Little Rock, Ark., that an overflow will result from the present unprecedented rise in the Arkansas River. William Walker, a notorious colored desperado, who has been robbing and terrorizing the people of his own race near* Memphis, was killed by William Walton, colored, a member of a posse wlrch had besieged Walk t in his own house. v At a meeting of coul .nine operitorsl controlling seven-eighths of I be coul otdM put of Alabama, and representing oved capital, held in Biruiiughniin^ the formation <>f a gljtautlc coal was practically completed. The pui|>ot(e of the pool, a leading operator says, is to put an end to ruinous competition, bj; securing belter freight rates and the realization of such a profit on their product ns will enable them to pay their miners good wages. It is the purpose of those in the pool to extend it so as to include all the mines in Tennessee and Kentucky. WASHINGTON. Ainsworth R. Spofford, for over thirty I years librarian of t'ongress. has not rendered satisfactory accounts to the Treasury Department for the hist two quarters of the fiscal year just endi'd. and as a consequence his accounts are being investigated. Six magnificent stenm yachts, such ns I could be owned only by the lucky possessors of many millions of dollars, will *»e : built by the navy during the current fiscal year, mid nlthioigh they are to bo fin- : er than similar vessels of their class, they i promise to be nil around the most useful ships belonging to the 1 uit<*d States Govj ernmetit. By net of Uongreso, approved March 2. l‘'Hs, provision was made for the construction of six light draft, com* ■ posite gunboats, the individual construe- . tivc limit of . .t being 523”.’«»”, exclusive <>f the cost of armament. Recent di‘-cu--ion n the press of the ; gold reserve in the treisiry and the ac- ! tion past mid probable of he MorganRothschild b<.nd syndicate r< enlled to n | Washington man laiHiiinr with most of j the insid- history of the <'b . eland nd- I ministration th- tint that < ’znr Abv inder . 111. of Russia otoe ofTerial to loan the i United States all 'he gold tie s«ary to j maintain th< r<“er'« at any figure dctiroi i 'I he fri"lidlv tmider was deelim d bv tl>>4 Dr.-■!< nt. 1.. m o-. ft.-r ..util s..D'< considerutioi> and deljh-Ttition, ami tele- i j graphic cmr< m-ou dem e bm k and forth ; j between Washington and St. Petersburg, ‘ i it was di ci<led that the I’resident had not । the authority to issue Kinds or otherwise ; incur indebtedness on Itelmlf of the gov* I ) rnn eiit. Since then the power of the President mid the Secret ary of the Tren«- ' nry to issue liomls has been determined, ; I mid if th< offer were re;i>'.ite)l by the pres- I ent ilus a.in ruler *t might be accepted, i The story of the proposition made by the i । Czar and the way it was received by the President am! his n-Lisets was one of the : la st-kept secrets of the White House, j Although the incident occurred some two 1 years ago no hint of it > ach d the pubI he until now. FOREIGN. The New A'ork Herald's 'orr< spondent in Kio de Janeiro. Brazil, telcgr tphs that it is impossible to print the let.uls of the finding ot the bodies of those x.ho fell after Admiral Sahlhana da < lama’s death. There is a profound sensation in Rio de Janeiro at the reeitul of the barbarities j practiced The Spanish foreign of’i has cabled : to the Spanish Minister in Washington, Setior Dupuy de Lome, -oncerning the leported interview of Ambassador Eustis in the Paris Figaro with a view to having the Minister ask the State Department to disavow the reported itterances of Mr. Eustis. । The Red Star Line st ■ itn t Westmland sailed for Antw»Tp Wedn- sd.iy from New A’ork with ’he second Am?ri '.in national pilgrimage, under the auspices of the , Fathers of Mercy, to the European ■ shrines. Tin' first pilgrimage took place last year and the present one was organized at the request of the Pope. Aellow fever is increasing alarmingly in the West Indies. The w-.k Uiditig June 2!» recorded twenty-eight deaths in Santiago, while there is an average • 1 । five deaths daily at Pm rt” Prim i|>e. a ! city of 45.””” persons. Dn're are I 1 ’” j cases in the military hospital r t San I Juan. Island of Porto Kio, and the <lisi ease is rapidly increasing. It is the btiief among officials in A ashington that .lap.m will use a large part of the war indemnity which China is to pay her for the purpose of materially increasi ing her navy. The fni'incial resources of I Japan will be very abundant during the I coming year, as she will receive over I before next May and thereafter about $20,000,000 a year for five years. This will be drawn entirely from China and will bo in addition to Japan's usual receipts from customs and internal revenues. The customs receipts promise to be very large, as the new treaties which Japan has effected with leading nations will bring about a readjustment of tariff duties, so that much greater returns will bo realized. It >s owing to the assurance of an ample treasury that American ship building firms have turned their attention toward Japan. The stringent relations of Germany regarding the importation into that country of American nroducts have again been brought to the attention of the Agricultural Department in a report by European Agent John Mattos, Jr., on American evaporated or dried fruits in the German empire. Shippers of these fruits are given warning of the severe restrictions imposed by Germany, which the department views us commercial rather than hygienic, and merely intend 'd to .-hut out American trade. The report cites a recent court trial at Frankfort-on-the-Main to determine whether these dried apples

or “rl ——————— oils t apples” were impure and Injurture it * P u ^* c health and subject to seizlaw M cr ^e provisions of the pure food theyi Government experts testified that tate "’f ro sprinkled with a tinge of aceand >Hz inc to K‘ ve them a bright color so sp?^. re inviting appearance. Apples dig. :■ 'iakled, they claimed, brought on initinM^T 1 ’ dyspepsia, and in children vomWe rJ add diarrhea. The Am Tienn goods Thordered destroyed as unwholesome. \ V j s | ^porters are advised that if they now 1 to increase the trade with Germany, assuming large proportions, they zinJiia be careful not to dry the fruit on caul frates, but to use grates nade of arePW I'he department officials say they (hiclCfenlident that if any zine is introly ferein the fruits the amount is infinitedeiJK^H and cannot be injurious. It is drjfed that the practice exists here of G«ing fruit on zine plates, as claimed by tlrrmany, and the warning to discontinue iif® galvanized iron trays used for drying is intended to do away with the possigfity of introducing the zine, and thus oping opportunity for foreign criticism that score. IN GENERAL Lytton Taylor, United States attorney or Alaska, Ims resigned io go into the / mining business. *^Mrs. Coleman Drayton has sailed for Surope, ami it i» said she is to become Rconcilcd to her husband. Jit is not anticipated that the Wimlow ■TDnsH Workers’ As'XM iation will atliliute ^L n, ”h the Knights of L ibor. 1 he German Htumef Norstrand loaded tons of Alabama coke at Mobile for 11 Mexico. It will be tested in one of the furnaces of the Mexlean I pany. - The exiHirts from A’nneouver Island to the United States for ’he year ending jJune 30 amounted to S2.S(MIJ*U. The value of coal exported amounted to sl.iPO0,(l00, while gold bulli >n comes next with a total of s32s.<m>”. I’. IL Fitzgerald, of Indianapolis, organizer of the soldiers’ colony, "Inch is ; to go to Georgia from the N trthwest 1000 strong, has arrived in Atlanta to close the contract for JOJtOO acres of Georgia fanning lands. Mr. Fitzgerald says the colonv will start South in the fall. R, D. Dun & Co.’s weekly review ol trade says: “A buxines* flood so xtrotu and rapid that the conservative fear i may do barm is out of scnxou in July But the seasons this year lap over an< cmwtl each other. May frosts nn< frights, it is now evident, kept back much business that would naturally have been finished befoff midsummer, nnd the dehnyi'd necumulntion of one season gets in the wny of efforts to begin another on time. But the volume of business, however. it may be nsmred. is remarkably large for the month, wen for n good year. The cx.igirer.i'< •! fears about crops have pnss’Hl, the syndicate is believed both able nnd determine)! to protect th)' treasury, nnd th*' tin i- draw* near when the marketing of new crops will turn into a rational b.'ilnm#' if -pecej.ition do> s rmt hinder. The week Ims been notable for n FOhsntiiitml fall in wheat of s cents in | two flay s, fidloued by re< overy of ."> cents, j though nvith» i’ afford" any interpretation of the quiti« ilisri'i:::Dietl Government re ! port. l'h) smbD-H drop n prices wa ; ’be Lp-suh of -pe. illative rather than commer loal inlhielli)'*. though exports not hall I ns htrue as last year, 2.”*,i7.”1.'> bii'diels I ’flour ineludedl from Atlantic por’-. for I tn<> weeks of July, against 1.227.‘J15 Inst ! yenr. bad their i ffn't. a* 11 ns AA extern re< ip*, of 1.1’37.471 bushels, igninst 2.15’1,',’is hist . nr." Following is the sti.iidiiig <>f the < labof the National Base ball la ngue; Pet 1» AV. L. vent ; Baltimore 5'J 37 22 ‘>27 i Boston ’ll 3D 2.> .fd” Pittsburg ,lS "J 0 - s t'hieiigo 73 41 32 5H2 I Cincinnati fk> 37 29 . >’>l I Cleveland 7” 39 11 .V>7 , Brooklyn ’UI 39 30 . 545 : Philadelphia ... .’•3 34 29 .54” ' New York 94 32 32 ,5iH» Washington .... O’ 2 1 3’> .4”” \ St. Louis 7” 24 MA .343 I^ui-.ille ’H 12 52 .ISS W! STERN I l AGt E. In the AVestern League the dubs close the Wei k in the folio" ing order: Per P. AV. L. cent. Indianapolis ....’>3 4” 23 .’>3s Kansas City OI 3’l 2S 5’13 Detroit ’ll 35 29 517 Milwaukee ..... .’>7 3’5 31 .537 I Grand Rapids... .’» » 35 31 .530 . St. Paul 03 33 30 .524 I Minmaisdis ’’>3 2S 3o .111 Terre Haute 04 20 38 .t”* : MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. $3.75 to s’’>.2s; hog*, shipping grades. $3.00 to SV3”. slwep. tail- to . lioiee. to !':wk‘No.'2,'2;;c cor s' l 'to- -• 52< ‘ to 54c: butte L ’7 “ ' Veamery, 10c to 17c; eggs, fresh, choice th3 c . potatoes, new, per barrel, «.> .>- tO i $2.75; broom corn, common ~ V* brush, 4c to 014 c per lb. ' I,,'qiJj^polis—Cattle, shipping, $3.”” to s'. 3”; luKs. choice light, $3.00 to $5.25; Hhecp, < rnmon to prime. $2.00 to $4.0”; wheat, Nb. 2. 03c to 65c; corn. No. L white, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30e. St. Louis Cattle. $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $4.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red. Gsc to 67c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 40c to -lie; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye. No. 2,46 c to 48c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs. $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2,66 cto 68c; corn. No. 2, mixed, 48c to 49c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 28c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 51e. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs. $-1.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.00 to $3.i5; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71e; corn, No. 2 yellow, 44c to 46c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32e; rye. 47 c to 49c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red. 70c to 72c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 46c to 4ic; oats, No. 2 white. 23c to 25c; rye. No. 2. 48e to 50c; clover seed, prime, $5.50 to s;>.6O. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50 ; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; "heat, No. 1 hard. 73c to i4c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 51 to 52c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 33c. Milwaukee— Wheat. No. 2 spring, 67c j<> 68c; corn, No. 3,47 cto 48c; oats, No. - hite. 2ic to 28c; barley. No. 2,47 cto o'?)’,.!' 0 ’ * s ' 0 ’ I* 53c to 55c; pork, mess, $ll.OO to SH.So ^’’'v York— Cattle. $3.00 so $6.00: hogs, sheep. $2.50 to $4.00; ■'n 1 ? ->’’ ~ r^f 73c to 74c; corn. No. 2, c”c to o_c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c; en 15c t 0 18c: eggs > West ’ ei lac to 14c,

A JUVENILE BORGIA? AN INDIANA GIRL GIVES HER FOSTER PARENTS POISON. Dead Bodies of Pitzel’s Missing Daughters Found-Rifles for Cuban Insurgents— Bloody Deed of Peter Ilascr—Mora Millions in Sight. Ghastly Discovery at Toronto. Fleming Sarver and wife, of Uniontown, Iml., had an adopted daughter, Dollie Belknap, aged 14. The couple are (X) years old each and well off. The girl has been keeping company with Hays Robins, the son of one of the wealthiest farmers of that section. Saturday morning Mr. ami Mrs. Sarver were taken ill. Poison wots found in the coffee-pot. It was learned the adopted daughter had purchased a package of the poison a few days before. She finally confessed she had placed a teaspoonful in the coffee-pot !■ riday evening. Whi-n questioned as to why she committed the crime she pro-

•luced a letter signol by her lover—Hays Robins—in which he tells her if she would make away with her foster parents she would )-ome into possession of all their property ami they could then get married ami have “a good <>l<l time.” Dollie says she took the letter to Josie Derringor, aged IG. and her sister Mary and b‘t them read it. ami they advised her to purchase the poison. Mr. Sarver died Monday afternoon. AVhen Mrs. Sarver heard of her husband’s death she took a relapse and is not expected to live. Since Sto,’ ' l -~*!,o^ -'Jr. Sari. r the girl savs she I did not intend to kill them, but vnlj. •wanted to give them enough so they would think they would die and make her a dee<l to their property. She also says she )loes not believe Robins wrote the letter, but that it was written by the tdder Derringer girl.

1 To Purchase Discarded Arms. , Junies M. AA’ebb. of Brooklyn, has re- i turned from AA'ashington, where Im has , bi en trying to secure some of the small arms which are being replaced by the new ] magazine rifle for use in the army. If the । Captain’s m-gotiations with the AA'ar De- 1 partment are successful the condemned rifles will find their way into the hands of the Cuban revolutionists. That is admit’eil by AA’ebb and the local representatives of the Cubans do not deny it. The Captain says: “It may not surprise our Spanish friends to know that small arms int“n<ie<l for Cuba are being sent out of Brooklyn and New York at the rate of about 5.””” every week. None of the laws । f this country is violated by the shippers, but the arms get to the revolutionists in due com*nevertheless. Chicago Man’s Crime. Tir< 4 of life and disgusted with threat- ) iiiml divorce proceeding-:. Ihder l’aser trmd lo kill his wife .Momlay. and. thinking he had don)- so. cut his own throat il'-aiilv through with a big sharp knife end his worhlly joys and sorrows were forever nt end llas) r was a member of n planing mill firm and was quite wealthy. His murihio'is and suicidal orgy was held at 8:3” o’> bu kin the morning. Isis wife will bear several vicious scars as a | r- sult of lb.- eio oiinter, but she may discontinue her divorce proceedings, for I laser is well <lcad. The woman was stabbed several times, but her injuries " ill not cause her <lcath. Haser cut his throat and died an hour later. To Divide the Mora Money. As soon as payment of the celebrateil Mora claim can be made by the Spanish Government and the attorneys for the i laimnni< have deilucted their share of the Sli.iits: which Spain lias agreed to pay at once, Antonio Maximo Mora and his son, of Chicago, "ill divide among themselves what is left of the the money. I ’f the sum to be paid by th)' Spanish GoV)-tnment I” per out. will be given to a syndicate ill New York which is ( composed of the attorneys who have been , Working in the interests of the claimants. Crime 'ls Laid Bare. The bode s of Alice mid Nellie Pitzel, ' the two missing daughters of Benjamin I’. Pitzel, were found at Toronto, Ont., buried umh-r the cellar of a house. I’he - children are believed to have been suffocated by gas by H. 11. Holmes, the man • who is supposed to have killed their father in Philadelphia. A third child, Howard. > aged 8. is thought to have been murdered 1 similarly in another city by Holmes, the desire being to rid himself of three beings who might rise to convict him of the otb--1 )t crime. I — I ; Japs to Put Dow n Formosa Uprising. ; A force of 7,000 Japanese troops has left Tuatula to attack the black Hags at Tai-AA'an-Fu, Formosa. A strong naval form will co-operate with the land force of the Japtnase. Reports received from/ the southern part of Formosa sho" that nil is quiet tln rm brevities. Stephen AA’ebb, colored, shot and killed Emma Harris, 20, at Baltimore. Md. The Arkansas Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Lower Court and ordered a new trial in the case of State Treasurer Woodruff, who was $150,000 short in his accounts, and was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. Judges Lurton and Taft, at Cincinnati, held the Nichols State law valid and sustained the State Auditor. Treasurer ami Attorney General, the State Board jf Appraisers, in the assessment for taxes made under the act on telegraph, telephone and express companies. This law has been contested in the State and lower courts, mid is now settled by this decision of the United States Court of Appeals. It involves large assessments from the companies to the State. Chmli s B. Keehn. who with convicts Donovan and Briquelette escaped from Jackson prison Oct. 29. 1891, has been captured at Lamar, Mo. The Governor of AA'yoming was implored by settlers to send troops to prevent an Indian outbreak, which is now feared on all sides. Fort Washakie is the nearest military post. Texas fever is de< lm - eil to be carrying off the cattle in Henry mill Jefferson Counties. Kent m ky. J. T. Ebbs. I’. D. Tabie, and A. F. Reed were arrested at Kansas City, Mo., for swindling farmers. Joshua Powell was arrested at Elwcod, Ind., with counterfeit coins in his possession. He says he got them from New York. Twenty-eight freight cars were thrown down an embankment at Carey, Ohio. An oil tank exploded and the cars were burned.

DRAKE IS THEIR MAN. IOWA REPUBLICANS NAME HIM FOR GOVERNOR. Six Ballots Were Necessary-Parrot*, for Lieutenant Governor— The Plat-form-One Thousand Fall with an Atlantic City Convention Hall Floor. The Ticket. ?. ovornor Francis M. Drake. sinrlm an | G o ™™ 01, M att Parrott Su t p\u" Josblh Givcn bupt I übhc Instruction. .. .Henry Sabin Railroad Cem George W. Perkins The lowa Republican State convention met in Des Moines for the purpose of nominating candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Judge of the Supreme Court, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and llailroad Commissioner. There were 1,242 delegates., ’equiring 622 to nominate.

1 he auditorium of Calvary tabernacle, the scene of the convention, was plentifully decorated with flags and bunting, and when the chairman of the State Central Committee, J. E. Blythe, called the convention to order at 10:54 every seat was filled, There were 2,000 visitors in addition to the delegates. Senator Allison appeared on the stage and the entire assemblage arose and inited in a series cheerß - Senator Allison bowed his acknowledgments, v>«t maintained silence. Chairman Blythe name® I J. R. Lane, of Davenport, as temporary Mr. Lane's speech was short, out Its delivery « aa u v 7 AJ -ed by almost Incessant applause. The Mon. Lase Young was made permanent chairman and made an exceedingly brief but epigrammatic address. AVhen the chair announced that ballot-

ing for Govern ar was in order there were no nominating speeches nor presentation of candidates, and no changing of rotes while a ballot was in progress. Thisfacilitated matters greatly, and the six ballots required to decide the nominee for Governor were taken in about two hours. There was intense interest manifest throughout the tiresome ordeal. Gen. Drake made a ten-minute speech accepting the nomination. The convention then proceeded to the nomination of Lieutenant Governor, and a ballot was taken resulting as follows: Dungan 34^ Parrott * 606Ormsby 211 Kamrar 80 During the second ballot Dungan’s name was withdrawn and the nomination went to Parrott. Stare Superintendent Sabin. Supreme Judge Given and Railway Commissioner Perkins were quickly ?enominated by acclamation. The resolutions were read and adopted and the convention adjourned sine die. Platform Adopted. The platform m brief reaffirms the fealty of the party in lowa to the national party, congratulating the people upon the evidence of returning prosperity, labor reestablished on a prosperous basis, all of which is attributed to the prospoctix-e return of the Republican party to power. It deplores the destruction of the reciprocity agreements by the Democratic party, affirms the declaration of the Minneapolis national convention on ’.he currency question, quoting that plank entire, and urging an international agreement on the silver problem; welcomes the honest and industrious immigrant <nd declares no other should be permitted to come; favors liberality to the nation’s defenders in the way of pensisons; congratulates the people that the State will be represented in the next Congress by two Republican Senators and eleven Republican Congressmen, and “with especial pride remembers the services i f our senior Senator, whose long and honorable record entitles him to full confidence end enduring affection, and hails with satisfaction the universal desire of the Republicans of the State to continue him in his present field of usefulness tmtil called to the larger services of rhe nation." FALL WITH A FLOOR. Two Hundred People Maimed at a» Elks’ Social Session in At antic. More than 100 men and women were seriously hurt at the social session tendered by Atlantic City, N. J., lodge to th®visiting Elks at the Baltic Avenue Casino AA'ednesday evening. The session had just opened, and only one of the speakers had been heard, when, without the slightest warning, the building, whichhas not b>en used for sever.-il years, coiI lapsed, and fully 1.””” persons were thrown to the floor beneath. Many women. the wives of the visiting Elks, went down in the ruins. Fully 200 persons who were on the first floor of the building, and immediately beneath the banquet hall, were crushed beneath the limbers, and lay helpless. One man was killed in the crash and many were desperately wounded. The fact that all the electric lights went out at the time the buildinggave way. added to the confusion. An alarm was immediately turned in and the city's force of 200 firemen and every available police ofli ter in the city were calle 1 to the scene is a hospital corps. The police ambulance and carriages of every description were utilized to convey the injured to .heir hospital and to the hotels. AVhen the police and firemen arrived on the scene the excitement was intense. AA'ithin ,i few minutes they succeeded in clearing rhe space in the immediate neighborhood of ’he building and placed ropes around to keep the crowd back. In the meantime ihe firemCn had set to work to extricate the wounded from beneath the mass of timbers. atM they were aided in their work by the hotelkeepers and residents near the scene. Every house was thrown open for the reception of the injured and every available conveyance was pressed into service to ca'Ty them to their hotels. Telegraphic Brevities. The excise law was rigidly enforced* in New York. Brazil is said to be again on the verge of a rebellion. Dr. Kester, of Hammond, Ind., ended his life with chloroform. Thomas R. Mieksell, the murderer of Phil Metsinger, at Milton, Ky., has been captured. Receiver McNulta. of the whisky trust, has been authorized to offer the property in St. Paul for sale.