St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 4, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 17 August 1895 — Page 6

independent. Publisher, WALKERTON. - - - INDIANA. WffL HELP RE VENUES WHISKY surplus believed to BE EXHAUSTED. Wyoming Rustlers Are Active—English Tourists Treated Like N agrants — Death of J. R. Irwin—Desperadoes in Prison Cells. To Replenish the Treasury. Washington dispatch: It can be stated as a positive fact that there has as yet been no conference between treasury officials as to revenue recommendations to be submitted to the next Congress. In a general way they have discussed in a tree and easy, casual manner the things that might be taxed to raise whatever additional revenue may be required. Ihe trouble is they do uot know now nor have they any really intelligent idea what the deficit is going to be for some time to come. The new fiscal year is only six weeks old. and at least two months must

pass before substantial data will be availnble on which io base estimates for the Fuf9 >■<•« t*. < 'ustotHs tire increaa" injr. and whisky men who rinit thf internal revenue bureau report that the tone of the whisky market is hardening, a circumstance convincing to experts that retail supplies are at last running low and that a heavy fall trade is assured. Well-Known Vessel Owner Expire*. J. R. Irwin, vessel-owner and agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at k airport. died at his home in Paiyesvillc. Ohio. Apoplexy was the immediate cause of death. Mr. Irwin was a man of great stature, remarkable for his appearance, but had suffered a general breaking down in health since January last. He was interested in tugs, shipchandlery, warehouses, and in fact everything in b airport. and the growth of the place as a lake port during the past ten years was large y due to his energy and enterprise.

Thousands of Cattle Stolen. ‘ By the alteration of brands it has been 1 discovered that thousands of head of cat- ] tie have been stolen in Wyoming and mu ; north into Montana, wherg they have ( been sold. In some cases two-thirds ot , the herds have disappeared. Small own- . ers are the worst sufferers, and some ot 1 them will have to go out of the business. ( Stealing amounting to $30,060 during the . last three months has already been made j certain of. and the amount is expected to ( be greatly increased when all reports are ( in. < An Unparalleled Criminal Record. Rufus Buck. Sam Samson. Meoa Ju-ly. i Luck - Davis and Albert Stake were lodg- * ed in the United States jail at Fort Smith, > Ark. All are young men who have in ten days made a criminal record for them- • selves which is almost without parallel m > the Indian Territory. They murdered John Garrett, a negro deputy marshal, about ten days ago. They are charged ■ with assaulting four women, robbing two 1 stores and holding up three individuals. They robbed a stockman named Calahan and killed a negro boy who was with him. j Tourists at Work on Chadron Streets. < Edward Clegg, Coleman Nickolds and Henry Cartstensen, British bicycle tour- ’ ists, were arrested at Chadron, Neb., for ' fast riding, and were fined $1 and costs, a total of $5.70 each. Although abund- i antly supplied with money they refused i to pay their fines and were committed to hard work on the streets. They would 1 not work, however, but instead sat down ■ under a load of hay. They will Claim the ; i protection of the English Government. | NEWS NUGGETS. A New Orleans linotypist has established a new record by setting and correcting 81.041 ems of agate type in eight consecutive hours. Frank M. Pixley, the veteran editor of the San Francisco Argonaut, died Sunday night after a lingering illness. He wont to California forty years ago and was one of the most prominent men in the State. Alonzo J. Whiteman. the Duluth banker who was recently sentenced to the California penitentiary for forgery, declares he has been sent to prison as the result ol a conspiracy between his sister and her husband, a man named Gibbs. C. E. AValts, alias F. E. Wilson, the Pueblo. Colo., forger, gets five years in the penitentiary, his sentence on the four charges to which he pleaded guilty being concurrent. M alts recently completed a term in the Kansas penitentiary for forgery. H • has recently operated in Denver, Laramie and Pueblo. A San Francisco paper says the heirs of Jose* de Jesus Noe will soon bring suit to recover a vast tract of land near Golden Gate Park, known as the San Miguel rancho. The property involved is estimated to be worth $24,000,000. The suit , will be based on the alleged illegality of ] the transfer of the land by Noe to William J. Horner in 1853. ( Constantinople dispatch: Die N ali of Salonica telegraphs that a Bulgarian band, numbering about 1.600 men, attacked the village of Janakli. in the district of Kirdjali. ami burned 290 houses. The Bulgarians are also said to have killed twenty-five of the inhabitants of Janakli. The Vali of Adrianople has sent a similar dispatch, but thinks the accounts of the affair tire probably exaggerated. Demetrius Kallias Bey and his bride, who was Mrs. P. T. Barnum, have arrived at Bridgeport. Conn., accompanied by Faure Tmont. of the French Embassy. Mr. Kallhis went to the Union Metallic Cartridge Company ami placed a large order for ammunition for the Turkish Government. Acting tinder order of the Sultan, Mr. Kallias inspected the improved machinery used at the factory. Simon Wormser, head of the great New York banking firm, died intestate. The very lowest estimate places his estate at something less than 83.G00.000. Miss Jennie Lewis, ti domestic employed in the famfly of Rev. George Moar, of Oakland, Cal., was shot and fatally wounded by a man supposed to be Louis F. Muhlner, a jilted lover. Mrs. Carrie Boub committed suicide at Cullman, Ala., by boiling a box of matches and drinking the decoction. Frank Patty has been arrested at Helena. Ark., for the murder of William McVicker, in St. Francis County, in 1884.

EASTERN. The will of the Duchess of Castellucia, just tiled in New York, contains this queer paragraph: "Having already given my husband, Edward L. Dwyer, at various times, money and other property, I hereby give to him the sum of $lO, and no more.” She left an estate worth $319,000. Early Friday morning fire started in the lumber piles of the Skillings, Whitney Barnes Lumber Company at Ogdensburg, N. I. At G o’clock the department from Prescott, Ont., arrived in response to an appeal for assistance, but from ten to twelve million feet of pine lumber was destroyed. It is valued at $500,000. Judge O'Brien, of the Supreme Court, nt New York, appointed Courtlandt C. Clark receiver of the Lockwood Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of builders’ hardware at South Norwalk, Conn., in a suit brought by "William P. Foss, for a dissolution of the corporation. The liabilities of the corporation amount to $280,000. Wilmington, Del., is fairly flooded with counterfeit silver dollars. About ten days ago one was presented at the Farmers’ Bank by a depositor and detected. Since then the banks have been on the lookout and dozens have been found ami turned down. They were presented by innocent depositors, who had accepted them in the course of business. The spurious coins are thicker than the genuine dollars, but of lighter weight. The composition of which they are made is soft and can be

readily ent svith n knife, ton (Huitatn'b mtyra: r l'L^ J*hihi(h*lphia (.\muuit tt'f has begun its work. Senator Quay Ims evidence in his possession strong enough to send to ■ the penitentiary fifty of the men who are lighting him hardest in the Quaker City J under the banner of reform 'Die bulk of this evidence relates to frauds in con- 1 nection with the construction of the new 1 city building, which has already cost $20,000.000. and to the aqueduct and other contracts. It will show how contractors 1 have been obliged for years to make out bills for double the amounts actually earned ami pay over the stolen half to members of the ring now clamoring for reform. 1 A telegram from Bailey's Island. Maine, announced Wednesday the sudden death ot George Frederic Root, whose home for many years hud been at Hyde Park, 111..

ami who had composed the music for more than a score of the most popular songs that have ever been enshrined in the hearts of the American people. His death is a tremendous blow to the musical cir clcs of the entire country, but it is the whole people who will mourn his loss is a national calamity. On the field of bat Ile his war songs of "Just Before the Battle. .Mother,” "Tramp. Tramp, Tramp’’’ “Glory, Glory. Hallelujah!” ami “Rally Round the Flag, Boys,” have nerved the weary feet of marching thousands and turned victory into defeat in many a hot charge. The report of the Fall River, Mass., mill returns for the July quarter shows it has been prosperous. Thirty corporations representing $19,170,000 in capital paid reguiar dividends amounting to $358,475. an average of 1.87 per cent. The average for the April quarter was 1.72 per cent. The Border City mills paid an extra dividend of 10 per cent., SIOO,OOO, ami the Sagamore mills an extra dividend of 8 per cent.. 872.000. from the surplus funds. The Annawan Manufacturing Company. Barnaby Manufacturing Company, and Stevens Manufacturing Company passed their dividends. The Bourne mill paid dividends amounting to 4 per cent. The Troy paid (i per cent., the Union 3 per ■ cent., and ten corporations paid 2 per cent. each. Three persons were killed and two seriously injured in Philadelphia Friday morning. A wagon driven by William Hasson was struck by a Pennsylvania Railway locomotive on the outskirts of the city at a grade crossing. The vehicle was smashed and Hasson was instantly killed. * Edward Miskell and John Hass .a. a ' younger brother of William, were serious- ' ly injured internally. They were taken ’ to a hospital, where the physicans say their condition is critical. About the i same time, in another section of the city, | Martin Ervin, while crossing the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, was struck by a locomotive and instantly killed. Willie 11. Stanley, 6 years old, was ground to pieces under the wheels if a fast-flying trolley car near his home u West Philadelphia. WESTERN. William and Andrew Thatcher, father and son. the latter 17 years of age, were arrested at Kansas ( ity. Mo., for safe blowing. Thatcher, senior, is an old offender. John Sprackley. one of the best-known farmers in Washington County, Ohio, was struck by lightning while riding on a mowing machine. One of his horses was also killed. At Denver. Gustav Krause, an expert accountant, wiio has been examining the books of the City of Highlands, reported a deficiency of $73,000. Some of the officials objected to his methods of figuring. Ex-Alderman Kooken referred slurringly to Krause’s ancestry and Krause struck him. Krause was arrested for carrying a revolver. Vinton D. Pierce. who is believed to be one of the cleverest forgers in the conn | try. was arrested at Tipton, Mo., at the [ instigation of a Chicago firm which he I had almost victimized with a fraudulent , issue of bonds. Pierce was endeavoring i to escape from detectives he knew were 1 on his tracks and went under the name of Charles T. Soli man when apprehended. At Kansas City, Justice of the Peace Hawthorn, before whom Dan Lucas, the Main street barber, who took the lead in fighting the new law against Sunday shaving, was tried, decided that the law is void, because it does not give defendants the right of trial which is guaranteed by the constitution. It is likely that Sunday a large number of the shops will be again opened. Thomas Phelan, who at o e lime was one of the loading attorneys of Albuquerque, N. M.. bus been held to the grand jury on a charge of perjury. His arrest V, as made upon complaint of his brother, James Phelan, of Fargo, S. D., who alleges that lie made oath that their father left no will, the oath being received before Thomas' appointment as administrator of the estate. The three skeletons found west of Waukomis, O. T., three weeks ago. have proved to be the remains of two Fowler boys and their brother-in-law, wiio were killed by the Indians in 1875. The remains were identified by an ankle brace which was found near the remains. Relatives ox the Fowlers are wealthy residents of

1 r ' - Canton, Ohio, to which place the remains will be taken for burial. IVithin the next few days Chicago time warrants drawn in anticipation of the tax levy of 1895 will be placed ou the financial market in Chicago and in New York. The first issue will be for $500,G00 and is expected to sell at par. If the result is satisfactory and in conformity with the financial policy of the adminstration warrants to the amount of more than $2,000,000 will be advertised from time to time and sold to the highest bidder. At Lockport, 111., the postoffice, opera house, newspaper, jail, school house, K. P. Hall, and several residences were destroyed by fire Saturday. It was caused by a careless tinner upsetting his charcoal stove upon the roof of Mayor McDonald's building. Joliet and Chicago sent aid, which saved the town. The total Ibss was $200,0(10; insurance light. Fire in the plant of the General Stamping Company at Newark, N. J., Sunday, caused a loss of $530,000. Insurance, $200,000. Following is the ticket nominated by the lowa Democratic convention at Marshalltown, Wednesday: Governor W. I. Babb, of Henry ; Lieutenant Governor g S. L. Bestow, of Lucas] Superintendent of Public Instruction.. ■ L. B. Parshall, of Jackson® Railway Commissioner G. L. Jenkins, of Dubuque^ Judge of the Supreme Court K. T. G. Harper, of Des Moine® The platform advocates license for th«L liquor trade, reform In State chajjtidK* and opposes free silver. i 'Fho Mfjatuto on V hl. h if U* a> V* r ^^L. tl»o .DfiKiKioK Houth Treasurer, would be RentenciMl for twenty® years is found defective and two years w will be the maximum. His bondsmen I and himself turned over to the State I Treasurer $1O(»JKM» in checks and drafts 1 as agreed upon, and also a list of prop- I cities in which the defaulter held equities or owned prior to his skipping to I South America. The value of the prop- I ertivs will be assessed by the State Board, j amt the amount agreed by them and the 5 SItHiJKMi will be credited to the deficit. ? The bondsmen will make up the balance. [ A boom in lake shipbuilding is on the cards for the coming fall and winter. I’iiday the Chicago Shipbuilding Coin- l pany closed a contract with a Cleveland syndicate for the construction of a steel ‘ schooner of the (>JMM)-ton class. The now boat will be an exact duplicate < f the two steel schooners which will be built at the Calumet shipyards for the Minnesota ' Steamship Company, the lake branch of ' the Great Minnesota Iron Company. ■ The schooner will be 352 feet keeel, 365 feet over all, 44 feet beam ami 26 feet depth of hold. Her cost will be about sl7s,<H>o, and the new boat will be ready for business at tlv> opening of navigation next spring. "There will be no whaleback nor straight-back, nor any other kind of back,” Mr. Broun said, in speaking <»f the new boats, "but it will be a common everyday ship built on the old lines, after the models, with no newfangled ideas, except modern improvements in the way of towing engines, electric lights and that sort of thing. The channel construction will be followed, of course.” With his body nuked and torn, his breast bone broken in two places, eight ribs fractured, three of them in two places, his skin black and blue, a gash his forehead ami the cavities of ins ihest ; and abdomen tilled with blood from itf^[ ternn) hemorrhages, (Jeorge I’ucik. or Kudizick as he was entered on the books, died at the Dunning. 1111.. insane asylum. Before reaching there lie had l»een a patient in the Alexian Brothers' Hospital, was sent by the physicians there to the detention hospital for the insane, whore he was taken into court and committed to Dunning. All this time, covering a jM" riod of four days, not a single physician at any of the institutions discovered his condition. When he was dead an examination of his bodj was made, ami then the fearful bruises and broken bones were seen. Attendants George Goff and Anderson, of the Dunning asylum, after repeated denials, admitted to Supt. Morgan that they had beaten I’ucik in order to control him. They are alleged to have said that they did it to save their own lives, the patient first attacking them. President Healy, of the County Board, will call the attention of the Grand Jury to the charge. WASHINGTON. Statistics received at the Indian Bureau show that 30JHHI Indians are now engaged in farming, stock raising and other civilized pursuits. During the year they raised over 1.373,000 bushels of corn, and other grain u7>d vegetables in proportion. They own 20G,000 head of cattle and 1.254.000 sheep. About 22,000 Indians voted at the last election. It is estimated that 30,000 out of the total Indian population of 247.0t)0 are church members. < bit of the 247.000, 159.000 are self-supporting ami 35.000 pay taxes. There has been received at the navy department a sample of steel, three-fourths of an inch in thickness, which had been pierced by a rifle bullet of a caliber less than that of the present army rifle, or about .30. The sample is interesting in that it shows the torpedo-boats may be rendered useless by good shots from such rifles. The distance from which the steel sample was pierced was about two hundred feet. A torpedo-boat armor, her boiler and explosives, might easily be pierced nt this distance, or before she i could make her projectile dangerous to a ' ship. The bullet was of steel and point- । ed. It made a remarkably' clean hole in i the steel. Secretary Morton lias issued a special ord -r regulating the importation of sheep and Limbs from Canada for immediate slaiiglilor. These will be adnlitted into the United States hereafter when accompanied by certificates having the following new and more liberal provisions: “A certificate from the official veterinary inspector of the port of export or district in which the animals were raised or fed, stating that no contagious disease affecting sheep has existed there during the hist three months. An affidavit from the owner ol - importer that such animals are from (he district covered by the certificate; that they were not elsewhere during a period of three months preceding shipment, and that tvhen not driven they have been shipped direct to the port of import in clean or disinfected cars.” The Navy Department has determined to give the cruiser Atlanta a thorough overhauling next winter if Congress can be induced to appropriate the necessary funds. It will cost about $300,000 to do this, but if the plans in contemplation are carried out the old Atlanta will be jiractically a new ship when she emerges from the hands of the workmen. She will be given new boilers, perhaps some of them of the tubular type, new triple ex-

pansion engines, and with twin screws instead of the single screw she now carries. The result will be to make the vessel a sixteen-knot ship where she is now capable of only thirteen, to increase her horse-power from 3,000 to 5,000, and in addition to increase her coal capacity by at least 100 tons. The changes will not stop here, however, for the present battery will give way to rapid-fire guns of the most modern type, making the Atlanta as good a fighting ship as any of her size in the navy. FOREIGN. Sixty lives are believed to have been lost by the sinking of the steamer Catterthun off New South Wales. Lord Rayleigh and Professor W illiam, Ramsey, of London, have been awarded the slo,ooo’Hodgkins prize by the Smithsonian Institution awards committee for the best treatises on discoveries iu air. Consul General Karel, at St. Petersburg, furnishes the State Department with a review of the crop prospects in Russia. The report is that while in some regions there is a good crop, in others the outlook is very poor, owing to bail weather, lute sowing ami other conditions. Mr. Karel says that lx»th winter and spring wheat have suffered, as has also the rye crop. llavana dispatch: Gen. C’ampos could j eijjy muster about six hundred men on arUrtv>ojr"ni Hayn mo out of the 1.500 that lio r <-iahu«Ml to have had at the fight at Perul- । vjos. General Gania Navarro, who went ‘ from Santiago to Manzanillo with 1,504 ' mou and joined General Ln Chambre, rekrturned a few days later minus 500 men, ■Most of them hud died of disease, prinMpally of dysentery and yellow fever. It Sn understood that Gen. Campos has ca^■cd home advising the government to be ^Wepared for important and unfavorable advices in the near future. General Sal®eda has been ordered back to Spain on ^sick leave.” But the real reason was Ks massacre of unarmed Cubans. LearnSng that sixteen young Cubans had left Santiago to join the revolution, he had them intercepted mid summarily shot. It I is well-known also that he executed Cuban prisoners. IN GENERAL The United Typothetaeof America has elected E. R. Andrews, of Rochester, N. Y., president. I President Cleveland has agreed to press the button which will start the ma- > chinery of the Atlanta exposition. ; The Dutch oil tank steamer La Campine, which arrived at New York from Antwerp, picked up two French fishermen adrift in their dory on the Banks on Aug. 4. When resemd the men were < x hausttsl, having been adrift for fortysix hours without food or water. They lost sight of their vessel in a fog. R. G. Dun A- Co. in their weekly review of trade say; Business continues unusually active for midsummer, and though there is perceptible relaxation there are no signs of reaction. The <ne change of great importance which the last week has brought is eminently helpful the amicable settlement between coal miners ami employers in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. It is said that about lIMI.OtHI men will have their wages,increased after Oct. 1 by this ad.tustmeut, ami while tin- enlargement of ■purchasing power is of eonseqinmce it i acems even more important that a chronic ' cause of controversy has been removed by the new agreement as to company stores. There is no important change in crop prospects ami at this time no m ws is eminently good news. The following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: Per P. W. L. cent, i Cleveland 95 58 37 Jill ■ Baltimore 8(i 51 35 .593 I Pittaburg 91 54 37 .5!»3 j Boston St’> 50 3G .581 | Cincinnati >s 50 ::s .SCS Uhirago 9’5 54 42 .5(i3 Philadelphia ... 87 46 41 .529 Brooklyn 8s 4<5 42 .523 New York 88 4(1 42 .523 Washington 82 2S 54 .341 St. Louis 93 29 G 4 .312 Louisville 88 22 G 6 .25(1 WESTERN I EAG I E. The following is the standing of the clubs iu the Western League: Per P. W. L. cent. Indianapolis NS 54 34 .GJ I St. Paul 90 52 3S .578 Kansas City 92 .”>3 39 .576 Minneapolis 89 47 42 .528 Detroit 92 47 45 .511 Milwaukee S 9 41 4s .4(11 Terre Haute 91 34 57 .371 Grand Rapids. .. .91 32 59 .352 MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, ■3.00 to $5.00: sheep, fair to choice, $2.5u So $4.00: wheat. No. 2 red. 67c to 6Se: Worn. No. 2,39 cto 40c; oats, No. 2. 20c Jh 21c; rye. No. 2. 43c to 44c; butter, s*h> ice creamery. 19c to 26c; eggs, frosh. to 13c; potatoes, new. per barrel, to $1.30; broom corn, common ^ou th to tine brush. 4c to G’nc per lb. Wndianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 tn $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to 85.00; sheep, common to prime. $2.00 to $3.75: wheat, No. 2. 64c to Gsc; corn. No. 1 White, 39c to 40c; oats. No. 2 white, 27c to 2Sc. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.00 to $6.00; hogs. $3.50 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2 red. 68c to 69c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 36c to 38c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 42e to 44c. Cincinnati—(’attic. $3.50 to $5.50; hogs. $3 00 to $5.00; sheep. $2,.>0 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,69 c to 71c; corn. No. 2. mixed, 43c to 44c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2,46 cto 48c. Detroit—Cattle. 82.50 to $6.00; hogs. SI.OO to $5.25; sheep, 82.110 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 72<- to 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 41c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 22e to 24c; rye. 45c to 47c. Tohslo —M heat. No. 2 red. 72c to 73c; corn. No. 2 yellow, lie to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye. No. 2,50 cto 52c. Bn ft:; lo—Cattle. $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep. $3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 1 hard. 74c to 75c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 44c to -16 c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c. Milwaukee —'Wheat, No. 2 spring, 67c to 69c; corn, No. 3, 40e to 42c; oats, No, 2 white. 25c to 26c; barley. No. ?., 45c to 47c; rye. No. 1,44 cto 4Ge; pork, uiess, $9.00 to $9.50. New York —Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, S4.W to $6.00; sheep. $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2, 46c to 47c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; butter, creamery, 19c to 21'c; eggs, "Western, 13c to 15c.

PHILADELPHIA FIRE. FOUR HUNDRED THOUSANDS GO UP IN SMOKE. Congress May Be Called by Cleveland — Some Astounding Revolutions in the Cuban Revolution — Ominous News for Spain. Fire in the Quaker City. A Philadelphia tire, which did damage amounting to between $350,000 and $49(1,000, started Monday morning in the five-story building occupied by Brown <!c Bailey as a paper-box manufactory, ami before the flames had been got under control the big gasfixture establishment of Buck & Co., adjoining and a dozen dwellings which surrounded the two factories were laid in ashes. The fire originated on the first floor of the building occupied by Brown & Bailey, at 412 Franklin street, at 8:30 o'clock, but it u as nearly 9 o'clock before an engine bad responded to the alarm. The delay proved disastrous, as the inflammable matter in the box factory was a mass of flames before the firemen arrived. The principal losers are Brown & Bailey and Buc k «Sir Co. The former's loss will reach 817>0,000, with an insurance of ^IOO.OO* 1 ; Boek At Co.'s loss is bet ween SIOO,OOO and $125,000, with an insurance of betwee.i $75,000 and $89,(100. Yeager & Bro., coal dealers, place their loss at about 821 >.< M 10, while tile loss on Ilie burned dwellings will reach in tlie neighborhood <>f $50,000. Several firemen were injured, but none fatally. Campos Gives It Up. A Havana dispatch says: Campos has resigned the Captain Generalship of Cuba. It is generally believed that he stron.*;ly urges the home Government to grant the Island of Cuba self-government. As an outcome of his recent telegrams to Madrid the Ministers of War, State. Foreign Colonies, etc., have been holding long conferences, and although they could not make public the subject of their deliberations they have admitted that they will have some astounding revelations to make soon. Gen. Campos, while besieged in Bayamo, had such fears for his life that in order to disguise himself he had his long goatee shaved clean, hence his objection to showing himself in public. Maynri is said to have fallen into the hands of insurgents, and the Provisional Government of the Cuban republic is reported to have been established there. Santo Espiritu and Trinidad, in Las A’illas. arc said to be in possession of the rebel forces. AU telegrams from Madrid clearly show that not only the Government over there, but also the people, are greatly alarmed by the developments in I aba. and that Gen. Campos' report to the Cortes must be unsatisfactory. Talk of an Fxtrn Session. Talk of an extra session of Congress is again hvard upon the streets of Washington. Politicians who have heretofore < 'Utended strenuously against the idea are now beginning to admit that the President may issue a call if the withdrawn! >f gobi from the treasury continues. Without the aid of the Belmont-Morgan-Rothschild syndicate the onslaughts upon the r».serv( will, it is claimed, compel the President either to issue bonds or call i ('ingress in extraordinary session. The ; >ni-nii'A upon the bem h of the Supreme I Court, which meets in (ictober. is urged •is another reason for an extra session of the Senate, as with the exception of Marshal! no justice ever assumed his seat tipon the bench until confirmed. Marshall Field's Men Are Put Out. A: Deii\er. <'olo.. Marshall Field tri"il I to get possession of the dry goods store' i f Z. Solomon. The assignee repre- ! senting local creditors and the First Nntiomtl Bank on a mortgage resisted the constable in tho morning when the store was crowded. The police were summoned to guard the place. Every suspicous-look ing customer was ordered to get out forthwith. Finally the store closed and a sign annottm ed thex were taking stock. Cully Re-elected. Mr. William C. Gully, member of Parliament for Carlisle, was re-elected Speak er of the House of Commons without opposition. BREVITIES. The worst street car accident in th< history of Indianapolis occurred Friday afternoon. There were no fatalities, but from twelve to twenty people were painiiilly injured. Harvey Merritt, recently.pardoned out <>f the Georgia penitentiary, has entered suit for heavy damages against the penitentiary company. Merritt recites a horrible story of inhuman and cruel treatment as the basis of his action. He was in f<>r twelve years, but was pardoned after serving nine years because he was no longer useful to the lessees. The favorable utterances of leading American papers regarding the annexaCuba t<> Mexico are attracting attention at the City of Mexico, and the newspajHis are reprodut-ing the senti- I moots of the American press. Annexation would be preferred by Spain to selling Cuba to the United States, and the Mexicans would welcome Cubans to their union. Capt. Sproule, of the British steamship which landed the survivors ol the Prince Oscar disaster at Philadelphia, hat! another startling story ’o tell. It concerned »c alleged murder of Capt. I’etcr Ste ger. of tlie American bark Edward Sk:nner. by four unknown seamen near a South American port. Tlie supposed murderers escaped on a stolen vessel, and it is believed perished in a lire which destrojed the ship near Rio Janeiro. A terrific explosion occurred Monday a 11erm s>n at the Ixmpson canning factory. at Longmant. Colo., The injured are: John Baker, Albert Hanson, George Blair. Frank Printy. Herbert Vaughn. One of the steam vats used for boiling peas exploded while the factory was in full blast. Seven men escaped only by a miracle. At the war department the Bannock Indian scare is considered an episode of the past. General \ im-ent said Monday that nothing further was expected from General Coppinger until the final report IVKS received. Iza Dooley shot her lover, James E. Doyle, and herself at Pueblo. Colo., because he refused to take her to Denver with him. J. S. Judge, a freight agent for the I nion Pacific Railroad Company at Sacramento, committed suicide by hanging | himself to a bedpost with a shawl strap. '

TWO SHIPS GO DOWN. AT LEAST TWENTY-SIX LIVES ARE LOST. British Vessel Prince Oscar Strike* an Unknown Boat—ln Ten Minutee Both Go to the Bottom—One Entire Crew and Six of Another Lest. Horror in Mid-Ocean. The British steamer Capac, from Valparaiso, brought to Philadelphia. Thursday night seventeen shipwrecked mariners and the news of a terrible disaster that occurred on July 13 a short distance south of the equator. The mariners are the survivors of the crew of the British ship Prince Oscar, which wa» sunk after collision with an unknown vessel, which also went down, but with all hands on board. Six of the Prince Oscar’s crew were drowned soon after they left the sinking ship by the capsizing of the small boat into which they scrambled. From the size of the unknown vessel it is thought she carried a crew of at least twenty men. The seventeen survivors wore huddled into one small boat, with neither food nor water, but were fortxnmtely picked up by the British ship. Dhanvar, from Melbourne, Australia, for ' London. From that ship they were transferred to the steamer Capac and, without money or clothing, they were landed. Captain Clipperton, the Knglish consuls will care for them until they can be sent to their homes. Midnight Disaster. The disaster occurred shortly after midnight in latitude 9:30 south, longitude 28:20 west. The Prince Oscar, which was bound from Shields, which port she left May 27 for Iquique, laden with coal, wasgoing at a clipping gait on the port tack before a brisk wind ami with all canvas set. It is estimated by the crew that she was making about six and a half knots an hour when suddenly there loomed updirectly under her bows a four-masted vessel. The mate asserts that the stranger hail no lights burning, and after she was sighted it was impossible to alter the course of the Prince Oscar. The iron hull of the latter struck the unknown full amidships, knocking her almost on her beam end and crashingthrough tlie woodwork until her prow was more than half buried. The stranger went over almost on her beam ends as the Prince Oscar backed away from the rebound. As the crew of the Prince Oscar stood peering through the darkness they saw the stranger partly right herself and then she rapidly began to sink. They listened in vain for some signs of life, but not a cry for help nor a word of command came from the stricken vessel. Three Days of Hardship. Both boats hovered about the scene of the wreck until daylight came, when they hended they knew not where. Twentyfour hours later a heavy sea struck theboat commanded by the mate and capsized it. The occupants, eight in number, were thrown into the sea, and the already overcrowded craft which Captain Henderson commanded put quickly to the rescue. They were successful in getting four of them aboard. The rest were drowned. There were now seventeen men in the | small lifeboat, with nothing to eat. nothing to drink and barely room to stretch their weary limbs. The sun was broiling hot, and their hunger and thirst were almost unbearable. Toward evening of the second day one of the crew discovered a smiill cask of fish oil stowed away in the boat. This was dealt out to the survivors in small doses, and they used it to moisten their parched lips and tongues. SUPREME JUDGE DIES. Justice Howell E. Jackson of Tennessee Passes Away. Howell Edmunds Jackson, AssociateJustice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died at his residence at West Meade, six miles west of Nashville, Tenn., at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon in the G4th year of his age, of consumption. Judge Jackson was appointed by President Harrison in 1890. He had been in failing health for the last four years, but it has been only in the last eight or nine months that the progress of the disease began to cause his family and friends uneasiness. Quite lately he seemed to improve slightly. He went to "Washington. JUSTICE Ho n ... ' ‘ S J^ to sit in the s«?ond hearing of the income tax cases. He stood that trying trip only fairly well, and after his return home aj»peared to lose strength rapidly. Judge Jackson was twice married, the first time to Miss Sophia Malloy, daughter of David B. Malloy, a banker of Memphis, who died in 1873. To this union were born four children, as follows: Henry, Mary, William 11., and Howell Jackson. Henry Jackson is at present Soliciting Freight Agent of the Southern Railway, with headquarters at Atlanta, Ga.; AV. H. Jackson is IHstrict Attorney of the Chesapeake ami Ohio Railroad at ( incinnati; How«*ll E. Jackson is manager of (he Jackson cotton mills at Jackson. 1 enn. Iu IS<6 Judge Jackson married A.iss Mary E. Harding, daughter of Gen. William G. Harding. Hans Hanson was sentenced in Ihe United States Court al San Francisco to bo hanged Oct. 18 for the murder of Maurice Fitzgerald, mate of the bark Hesperia. Hanson and Thomas St. Clair killed the mate as the first step in a mutiny. St. ( lair will die the same day aa his companion in crime. Dr. ( lifford J. \\ right, a young physician of Covington. Ky., a member of one of the wealthiest Kentucky families and prominent in society, died in convulsions. | The attending physician said the trouble । was due to the excessive use o’ cigarettes.