St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 7, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 September 1895 — Page 2

£|jc JnDcpciibcnt. AV. A. EHBLE Y, Publliilion WALKERTON, • • ■ INDIANA. BOOM IN IRON TRADE ORE OUTPUT OF 1895 WILL BE GREATEST ON RECORD. Lake Steamer City of Louisville Disabled in a Gale, but Makes Port Safely— Two Ocean-Going; Vessels Have a Troublesome Time. Every Iron Aline Busy, So far as lake shipping is concerned the ore trade at the close of the present season will undoubtedly surpass all previous records. The tonnage, it now seems undoubted, will exceed even the banner year of 1892. To meet the demand for ore which has been created by the revival of the iron and steel business every mine in the Superior region—except a few which are temporarily prevented by special causes, such as strikes —is being pushed to the limit. To carry the product to market all the available vessels of a largely increased fleet have been pressed into service. Responding to this condition of affairs lake freights have leaped upward. Iron ore has advanced the equivalent of $1 per ton. The supply of the higher grades is insufficient to meet the demand. Yet despite all this, the year 1895 will not be. relatively, a prosperous one for the lake ore carriers so far as profits are concerned. Their harvest will be reaped in 1896. The same to an extent may be said of the ore producers. They will make more money next year if the present prices of ore keep up. Stopped in Mid-Lake. Passengers aboard the translake steamer City of Louisville, St. Joseph to Chicago. spent an hour of horror Tuesday night in midlake. A gale was blowing from the southeast and the waves were rolling almost to the deck. The engines had stopped and the stanch little steamer was rocking at the mercy of the waves for a little more than an hour, while Capt. Simons and Engineer Brown repaired an accident to the engine's eccentric. Capt. Simons assured all that the steamer would withstand the struggle and weather the storm in spite of the accident to her machinery. As a result of the accident the steamer, which is due at her docks at Chicago at 10 o'clock, did not reach the landing until after midnight. Then about 150 persons poured forth from the gangway, all suffering from sea sickness such tis they had never before experienced. Steamers Meet the Earthquake. At Philadelphia Captain Hendrickson, commanding the Norwegian steamship Guriy, reports meeting with the earthquake at an early hour Sunday morning. At the time it was “dead calm," and suddenly the sea rose up and the ship dived down deep into the water. rhe waves flooded the decks and the sea bubbled up in a furious manner. All hands were terrified and the commotion lasted for - —fuil^thirty infinites. The American Line steamship Belgenland arrived from Liverpool with 158 saloon passengers, having passed through a terrific cyclone. All the passengers were badly frightened ami many of the women went into hysterics. For hours the seas leaped completely over the vessel from all sides, but she escaped injury. Claims a City’s Site. William H. Grant, of Trenton, N. J., has written to a lawyer in Oakland. Cal., to secure information about an old deed to the tract of land upon which Rahway. N. J., is now situated, which was found in a pile of waste paper in Oakland two months ago. The document is dated April, 1753. and purports to convey from William Morris to William Grant the land mentioned. Grant writes that he believes that the grantee was his grandfather, from the fact that his family was the only one of that name in New Jersey at that time. Held Up by Twelve Robbers. Twelve masked highwaymen held up a carriage load of men in a suburb of Omaha. Neb., early Wednesday morning and secured several hundred dollars. The robbers stopped the carriage a short distance from Benson anil ordered the four inmates out at the muzzles of revolvers. The victims lined up without resistance, and while they stood on tiptoes, -with hands high in air, one robber searched them and took everything of value, even to their hats and coats. Destructive Fire in Petersburg, Ind. Fire Tuesday morning broke out in Fleming's livery stable at Petersburg, Ind., and it was soon completely’ destroyed. Twenty-five horses were cremated and many vehicles burned. The opera house building and the Read Hotel and contents were also turned into ashes. Losses aggregate $50,000; partially’ insured. NEWSNUGGETS, 1 Hand A Goshorn. retail Cry goods, failed at Charleston, W. Va., for $63,606. The annual convention of the lumbermen of the United States opened at Buffalo, N. Y. Judge Henry F. Eluedy. who went to Arizona with the first set of territorial officers in 1863. died at Prescott Monday night of nervous disease. Judge Fleudy served as secretary of the territory and also as acting governor during the early history of Arizona. At Green Brier, (thio, J. P. Johnson, an old soldier, was swindled out of $35 and gave his note for SI4S. payable to the United States. Two men drove to his house in a carriage drawn by two white horses. They represented themselves as United States detectives and threatened to take him to Cincinnati and put him in jail because, as they said, he had obtained his pension by fraud, unless he paid what was demanded. Fire destroyed the valuable cargo of the steamer Bawnmore, which went ashore on the < )regon coast. The Farmers' Bank at Ladonia. Mo., is again open and ready for business. The attorney general, bank examiner, receiver and attorneys met in Mexico and the matter was settled. The directors of the bank have fully complied with the law. The nobles of the Mystic Shrine will meet next in Cleveland, Ohio, the third Tuesday in June. 1896. The Banque du Couple will probably resume Oct. 1 at Montreal. Que., with a capital reduced to $660,660.

EASTERN. The Attorney General of Now York has begun suit to prevent the American Tobacco Company from doing business In the State, holding that it is an illegal combination. Electric Lineman Harry Sherman, of the Brush works, Rochester, N. Y., received a shock of between 1,000 and 2,600 volts. lie was picked up apparently’ dead, but after hard work was resuscitated. The directors of the Metropolitan Traction Company, of New York, have resolved to extend the underground electric system now in operation in Lenox avenue to all the lines owned by the company in the city. William Gaillard, of Palestine Commandery. No. 6, Knights Templar, of New London. Conn., dropped dead from apoplexy at Boston. He was returning to headquarters after parade apparently’ as well as usual when the fatal attack seized him. At Pittsburg James Getty, an ex-coun-cilman and a wealthy liquor dealer, was shot and killed by Alexander Hutchinson, formerly proprietor of the Merchants’ Hotel. Getty was the owner of the Hotel Willey and the murder was the result of « dispute over the leasing of the hotel to Hutchinson. Hutchinson gave himself up. The coroner's jury at New York which has been inquiring into the cause of the fall of the building in West Broadway’ on Aug. 8, by which fifteen workmen were killed, were charged by the coroner that it was the changing of the concrete from 18 to 12 inches that caused the collapse of the building. The ironwork on the pillar, while it was not of the best, he held, could not be held responsible for the disaster. R. T. Allen, of Omaha. Neb., shot himself on a New York Centrail train a few miles out of Buffalo. He was traveling from New Jersey en route to Omaha. The startled passengers, hearing the pistol shot, found Allen weltering in his blood. He was taken to the Buffalo accident hospital, where it is said he will recover. No explanation other than temporary insanity can be given. Allien and his wife recently went East to place their daughter in the New York Conservatory of Music. They afterward went to Lindenhurst, N. J., where he temporarily acted as organist in one of the churches. Mrs. Allen is still at Lindenhurst. WESTERN. It is reported at El Reno, O. T.. that Capt. Baldwin. U. S. A., acting agent at the Kiowa. Comanche and Apache agon ey at Anadarko, was murdered by Indians. The report lacks verification, but Federal officers credit it. The home of Paul Alonski, Cleveland. Ohio, was destroyed by fire and his 5 yearold daughter. Polly, perished in the flames. In attempting to rescue the child Alonski was severely burned, and while looking for the body in the rooms ('apt : McKenzie, of the fire department, was ; injured by falling into a hole filled with burning debris. Theodore B. Gillum, of Indianapolis, supreme organizer of the Oriental League, was stabbed in the neck and in stantly killed by James Burnett at Louis ville. The man who committed the murder attempted to gain admission to an entertainment without a ticket and had been ejected by Mr. Gillum. The murderer escaped. Coroner Castor, of Marion County, Indiana. is in possession of the premises where the bones of young Howard Pitzel were found at Irvington. An examination of the bones by the coroner showed that the large ones, which could not nt first be classified, are parts of the pelvis. Holmes will be indicted in Marion Conn ty for murder, but no effort will be made , to take him there, as evidence against j him elsewhere is thought to be suth< ient to convict him. When the Painesville. Ohio, Savings Bank collapsed four years ago among the assets found was $250,000 worth of stock in a Western mine. At that time the mine was thought to be worthless, but it now ' ' apiK'ars to be valuable. The mine is paying a fair dividend, and the stock is nearly at par. The indications are that the depositors in the wrecked bank will be paid a good dividend, with the pros peets that ultimately they ‘may receive 1 their deposits back in full. 1 A large number of prominent residents of cities along the projected route of the canal from Michigan City to Toledo were in Cincinnati tor the purpose of effecting a permanent organization. The principal plan so far mooted contemplates a ship canal from Toledo to Lake Michigan by way of Laporte. South Bend, Elkhart and Goshen. There is another projected route through the Michigan peninsula, but it is contended by geological experts that this would be impracticable. The thousands of people at the Blanchester, 0., fair missed the best part of the balloon ascension. Prof. Tolbert, the aeronaut, had a narrow escape from being gored by a bull in the field in which he descended with his parachute. The beast descried his red tights and the parachute before he reached the ground. As soon as the professor alighted the bull 1 charged him. Tolbert flew for his life, 1 and scrambled over the fence just in time to escape the horns of the bull. Tim 1 aeronaut says he was never worse fright 1 ened in his life. Three little children of a Sullivan. Mo., widow named Jenkins went to a place near the barn to gather eggs. The place was rather out of the w ay and dangerous, owing to snakes, which are numerous in that region. Ono child thrust its hand into what it supposed was the hen's nest and quickly withdrew it. exclaiming that I the hen pecked it. The other two children put in their hands with the same result. | The mother ran to the assistance of the three ehildren. who had been bitten by a rattlesnake. During the excitement her little babe fell into the well and was drowned, and the three other ehildren also died. Harry Brown, the well-known comic opera comedian, whose home is in Portland, Ore., after years of ill-luck has obtained a fortune in a peculiar manner. While filling an unprofitable engagement in (’leveland he cured a hitherto incurable melancholia patient, the young son of wealthy parents. The boy was afflicted with suicidal mania and accidentally saw Brown ami laughed for the first time in his life. Brown became young Kei- । logg's physician and cured him. When . Mrs. Kellogg died recently she bequeathed a comfortable fortune to Brown. , Brown will go to San i'l^mcisco and to the south of France, where he will spend the winter. Thirteen minors in the Sleepy Hollow mine, Central City, Colo., were working Thursday afternoon in the drifts, when ’ suddenly a torrent of water came stream- - ii»g down the shaft, and, sweeping debris before it, choked up the entries and pus-

sageways. intombing the workmen. Two Italians working above were caught ini the mighty rush of the flood, and they, too, were sacrificed. The season has been unprecedented in the amount of rainfall. The hills have been soaked to repletion,and the giant pumps of the big mines have had a difficult task to perform in beating down the waters. The disaster is due solely to greed of the operators. The' danger was not unforeseen, but the mine is in litigation, and the operators would not spend money enough to properly equip the plant with pumping apparatus. The Illinois State Board of Live Stock Commissioners issued the following report of cattle inspection at the Union Stockyards, Chicago, during the last week: j Number cattle inspected 175' Passed in the yards 102 Held for post-mortem exam‘nation.. 73 Passed on post-mortem examination. 26 Condemned as being unfit for food । and ordered tanked The board reports that an official ii** spection of the outbreak of Texas fever* at Mount Sterling, Brown County, showtk the disease to have been brought into nois by cattle shipped from the stocW yards at St. Louis, the cattle coming fn* the southern portion of Missouri. sent to Chicago were thoroughly exantn incil nnd five head of cattle were colV item nod with the fever upon them. The' disease is under control nt Brown CountC and no further fear is felt. At Cleveland James Beekmeister fell five stories, from the top of the World building to the sidewalk, and was instanty killed. The body of the falling man struck John Nickson, who was walking along the sidewalk, with terrific force, breaking the back and both legs of the latter. and he is dying. Beekmeister was engaged with a number of other men in placing a large sign on the building. The accident was caused by the slipping of ropes supporting a swinging scaffold, i Two other men named Lewis and Cormier, who were on the scaffold with Beck-1 meister, had a desperate struggle for their lives, which was witnessed by horri-j lied spectators in the street. Lewis was] thrown from the scaffold nnd caught with, his hands the narrow coping under the windows. He managed to work along till he reached the tire escape and was then easily rescued. Cormier clung to the rope for some time and was finally rescued by a man In tin- building, who stepped on the window ledge and swung him into the room with one hand. More peaches came into Chicago Wednesday by boat than on any previous day this year, nnd it is claimed that the record of any previous day in the history of the fruit trade was also broken. Shipments were not confined to any one partie-1 uhir point on the cast shore of Lake Michigan. but every peach orchard from the Indiana State line to the pine regions of the north seemed to be represented. St. Joseph and Benton Harbor were, ns usual. the heaviest contributors, the City of Chicago bringing in an immense load, while the Puritan was well filled. By shipping points the receipts u ere ns follows; Place - Fifth bu. Half bn. Bit. St. Joseph 21,400 23JMM) South H.-iven. .15.000 550 400 Saugatuck . . ..12.000 1(H) 150 Glenn 5.200 150 500 _ Total 56.600 23.500 2.350 This mnkes n grnnd total of 82,750 has kets. or 25,(110 bushels. It is doubtful if receipts of peaches will exceed these tig urea again this season. SOUTHERN. Lampton, Crnue A Ramey, deniers in paints, oils and varnishes at D>uisville, were burned out. Loss. sloo.oon. The breeding establishment 11t Castleton. Va . of James R. A F. P. Keene was burned t<> the ground. A number of valuable horses, including the imported Knllierntes ami Hyderabad, perished in the flames. Loss about $70,000. Near Texarkana. Ark., Jim Thomas and Bishop Lam- quarreled over u guitar on a train. The train was in motion and Thomas drew a pistol ami shot Lum- as he was running to escape to the next couch. Lane fell between the curs and was horribly mangled. Albert Dean, 29 years old, has been landed in jail at Hudson, Ky. He was urrested at Canaan, Conn., charged with being instrumental in attempting to abduct little girls, lie was identified by one of the little girls, and her father. Herman Preusner, attempted to kill him. but was restrained by the officers. There was almost a lynching in Newport. Ky., Wednesday night. Billy Timberhike. a white man, aged 50 years, was charged with attempting to assault. A crowd of millmen chased Timberlake for twelve blocks, but he fell into the hands of the police and was quickly jailed, out of the reach of immediate vengeance. The Secretary of the Treasury extended the time for filing sugar bounty’ claims from Sept. 1 to Oct. 1, 18’35. According to the regulations issued to govern the payment of the sugar bounty appropriation, all claims were to be filed by Sept. 1. but the time was found inadequate and Secretary Carlisle therefore granted the extension of one month. The city of Philadelphia received judicial consent to send the old Liberty’ Bell to the Atlanta Exposition. President Judge Thayer, of the Common Pleas Court, delivered a decision dismissing the bill in equity recently filed by a number of prominent citizens. In thin sin injunction wsis asked to prevent the proposed trip on the grounds, among others, that it would be putting the bell to other than its proper and legitimate uses. Judge Thayer in dismissing the bill characterized this proposition as preposterous. An excursion train on the Southern railway carrying the Knights of Pythias excursion from Macon, Ga., to Indian Springs for a picnic left the track between Holton and Pope's Ferry. The baggage ear and two passenger coaches turned over. The killed are: Mrs. Hancock. Americus. Ga.; T. A. Kennedy, Macon. Ga. Almost every person in the two coaches was hurt more or less seriously. Several of them are likely to die. There is no way of accounting for the accident, as it is said the track was in perfect condition. FOREIGN. The Moscow Gazette is informed that Japan has consented to accept 30.000,000 taels as indemnity for the relinquishment of the Liao Tung peninsula. Li Hung ('hang has been appointed imperial chancellor of China, by imperial decree. in place of viceroy’ of the Province of Chi Li, which office he formerly held. Official advices received at Paris are to the effect that the Chinese Government has granted the French missions in the Province of Szc Clmen an indemnity of 4.000,000 francs. According to a Kingston dispatch Capt. Gen. Campos has wiitten a letter declar-

lat the struggle against the Cuban ' WWMI Nctjon is hopeless and that the con- ® IIOS plutonomy is the only’ means by yean avoid losing the island, tilcid Hong Kong that all »li 6 liers of the Ku-Cheng eommisin an Rd good health, and it is said that i Chinese officials are assisting activeand thoroughly in the investigation bemu/le into the recent massacre of isionaries. Ten Vegetarians, it is ledjhave already been convicted, and * tnnl of others is proceeding. There Sftid to be no danger of any fresh dis“oances in that district during the sitR of the commission. The Paris Estafette protests against tements made In some of the American >ers relative to the sentence and imprisment of ex-Consul Waller, saying that Frenchmen sold arms to the enemies the United States. Americans would ver tolerate any interference on the rt of the Cabinets of Europe. “Morero j I■er, our line of conduct should be clear.jr'y Harked,” continues the Estafette. “We ■ * Heed'-Dot pay any attention to the idle mI •muplaints of these American papers. Innare«l. Waller ought to have been imme- / l<itely shot for his glaring treason.” IN GENERAL pp •w Marie Burroughs, the actress, has been « divorce from Louis F. Massen. Torpedo-boat, No. 14. capsized in the i Y\orth Sea. Thirteen persons are report11 fed to have been drowned. ’ The steamer Bertha. Capt. Hays, ar- ! rived at San Francisco from Ounalaska Jand Bering Sea, bringing one of the most ^valuable cargoes that ever came into harIbor. It is composed of sealskins, furs, t’halebone, and gold dust, and it is estilated to be worth $1,000,006. The pas?ngers report the almost utter failure of the whaling fleet. i The official report on emigration of the | English Government for the month and • j,the seven months ending Aug. 1 show that (the movement of wageworkers toward the I nited States is on the increase. For the month of July departures for the new . v world frmn England. Ireland and Scot'lnnd aggregated 9.560. an increase of 3.000 over the same month of last year, while 6,600 emibrnnt:-i from continental countries embnrkvil at English ports. The ■ total British emigration during the last ■ ^even mouths to the United States was <1.31-1, ns against 49.791 for last year's corresponding period. To Canada during ' July, the total British emigration amount- : cd to 1.557, of which only one-tenth were I Scotch and Irish. (R. G. Dun A Co.'s weekly review of trade says: Improiement in markets and ? prices continues, and whereas a few months ago everylsidy was nursing the I faintest hopes of recovery, it has now I coine to be the only question in what bramlws. if any. the rise in prices and the increase of business may g<> too far. A strong conservative feeling is finding 1 expression m>t yet controlling the markets or industrie.. but warning against too rapid expansion and rise. In sotue directions the advance in prices clearly cheeks future business, but encouraifing features have great pouer. Ex|*orts of .gold eontinm-, but are met by -y n<licnte I -i^^liosits end are expecti-d to cease soon. Anxieties about the monetary future no longer hinder. Crop prospects, ex< ept for cotton, have somewhat improved. Important steps towards the reorganization of great railroads give hope to investors. Labor troubles are for the moment less threatening, ami some of inqsirtunce have been detinitely settled. The industrials are not only doing better than anybody had *-xpected. but are counting upon a great business for the rest of the year. The following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: Per 1* W. L. cent. Baltimore ......KU 67 37 .614 Ulevelrtnd Hl 71 43 .623 Philadelphia . , .I<»6 61 45 .575 Boston ........ 166 60 16 ,sii6 Brooklyn Ins 61 17 .565 Pittsburg 169 59 50 . 541 New York 107 57 50 .533 Chicago 109 57 52 .523 Cincinnati 106 55 51 .519 Washington ....10l 33 68 .327 St. Louis. 109 35 71 .321 Louisville 107 27 ^6 .252 wiistfkv T.F.AGt’E. The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: Per P. W. L. cent. Indianapolis ....167 70 37 .654 Kansas City.... 110 64 46 .582 St. Paul 167 61 46 .570 Milwaukee 110 53 57 .482 Terre Haute. ... 111 56 61 .456 Minneapolis .... 111 49 62 .438 Detroit 117 5o 67 .427 Grand Rapids...lll 36 75 .324 MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades. S3.Q() to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice. $2.50 to »3.75; wheat. No. 2 red. 62c to <k{e; rye. No. 2, IO"’ to 42c; Imtter, ^ce dreamery, tile to 21c; e^gs, fresh. ( 'hoLo 14c; potatoes, per bushel, rille to y~' ■bi-ooni corn, common growth to hue '" ,t ill, 3c to sVjc per pound. “ rr Mianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to bogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.75; she Jb' common to prime. $2.00 to $3.50; wheM, No. 2. 61c to 62c; corn. No. 1 whitje» 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, s3.st^to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red. 63c to 64c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 18e to 19c; rye. No. 2,38 c to 40c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $3.50 to $5.50; bogs. $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,63 cto 65c; corn. No. 2 •nixed. 35c to 37c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye. No. 2,41 cto 43c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to s(‘>.oo; hogs, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; "heat, No. 2 red, 63c to 64c; corn, No. 2 Jellow, 39c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c 34c; rye, 41c to 43c. foledo—Wheat. No. 2 red, 64c to 66e; ’ ‘"‘h . No. 2 yellow, 38e to 39c; oats, No. ~ " hite, 19c to 21c; rye. No. 2. 43c to 44c. ,Buffalo —Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, •,,.oo $5.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; n ioat, No. 2 red, 66c to 68c; corn, No. “ ’’How, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, to 27c. -yijwaukep—Wheat. No. 2 spring. 61c 6-c; corn, No. 3,35 cto 37c; oats. No. ~ ^ hite, 22c to 23c; barley, No. 2, 41e to - s '°- 142 c to 43c; pork, mess, to $9.25. m:i Yor k—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, •UI.OO t 0 $5.75; sheep. $2.50 to $3.75; p," No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn, No, 2, '2 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; ’'i h-F creamery, 15e to 21c; eggs, WeStUe to 16c.

NEW WOMAN SCORED. SAID BY MRS. BOOTH TO BE A REVOLTING CREATURE. Chinese Soldiers Forced to “Beat” Their Way Home—Capture of Life Insurance Swindler Fraker—Excursionists Run Down by a Wild Engine The Mannish Woman. The address of Mrs. Ballington Booth before the Salvation army encamped at I inhibition Park, L. 1.. on “The New Woman” is attracting considerable ati tention. Mrs. B,oth said in part: “The 1 revolting creature, gaudily attired in > man s clothing, possessed of strange no- - tions about the home, wifehood and - motherhood, scorned and shunned bv the • men. is not my idea of the new wo'man. } 1 In- new woman, according to the popular acceptance, speaks of children as brats, says they tire and aggravate her, nnd so she bestows all her love upon some ugly little pug-nosed dog, which she carries in one of her mannish pockets. She is also a man-hater, and in going forth to i seek emancipation and n world-wide rule . for her sex she declares it to be her mis- . sion to down anJ belittle him. As for religion. it is too simple for her strong mind. She is entirely independent and a free thinker. I believe in the advanced woman. I believe she is capable of making as good a mother and wife as though she had never stepped upon the platform nor been admittvd to the bar. Let the education of women go on. only, while you are training the mind do not forget to develop the heart." Work of Disbanding Soldiers. Chester Holcomb, who has just returned from China, after twenty-one years service in the American legation at Peking, says the recent massacre is traceable to the result of the recent ChinaJapanese war. "At the commencement of the recent war between China and Japan, said he. "it was generally feared the lives of foreigners in China would be in great danger as long us the war lasted. As a mutter of fact, there was practically no danger as long ns the war lasted, and it is only since the hostilities ceased that the danger has commenced. W'e have proof ot th<> fact in the recent massacres, nnd 1 think 1 can explain the reason. In the first place, the great mass of Chinese are disappointed with the result of the war ami are taking revenge on all the forfigners whom they can kill with impunity. In the second place, the killing and pillaging receive groat encouragement by reason of the depredations commit toil by ; hordes of disbanded soldiers all over the , eountry. The Chinese Government has a peculiar method of disposing of its troops nt the close of a war. When the soldiers tire no longer needed they are dischttrged from servos* at the plaei l where they happen to be nt the time. The fact that an army may be several hundred or a thousand mites away from hone* when it is । ilistm itded, nn<) the faet that the sehliers may not possess any means of getting home, does not interest the government in the least. That they should pillage and commit depredations is therefore natural, and tranquility will not reign in China for some time to <‘ome.” Ernker Is Not Dead. Gt orge I'raker, of Topeka, Kan., who wits supposed to have been drowned in the Missouri River two years ago. was • aptured in the woods near Tower, Minn. Croker's life was insured for SSB,(MM), and the heirs brought suit in the Kansas courts to recover. The case went to the Supreme Court, and was one of the most famous insurance cases of the country. The insurance companies were defeated in the final decision, which was recorded last month. It was always maintained by the companies that Ernker was alive, but his whereabouts were unknown. Recently it became known in some way that he was near Tower, where he was known under the alias of Schnell. Attorney Robert T. Harris and Deputy Sheriff Wilkinson, of Topeka, went there and organized a party to search for him. Eraker was found in the woods and his capture was effected by strategy. He was taken to Topeka at once. Fraker went without a requisition. He has been living near I’ower for six mouths. He admitted his identity 'and said he did not leave home on purpose to defraud the companies, but that while he was near the Missouri River he fell in. lie swam across the river and got on land. The next day he read in the papers that he had been drowned and concluded to carry out the deception and allow his heirs to collect the iusura nee. Appalling Disaster at Sea Beach. One hundred persons were injured by tin appalling disaster on the New York Sea Beach Railroad at 3:40 o’clock Monday afternoon. Twenty of the injured are expected to die. A train of seventeen cars <>n its way to ('oney Island bail stopped at Wood hi wn Station. r rha cars were packed almost to suffocation. I p the track there came thundering a wild engine. with no one at the trottie. The locomotive crashed into the rear car, which was broken into splinters. Its human freight was buried in the wreckage. No one was killed, but Brooklyn hospitals are filled with maimed and dying, and hardly a person on the train escaped a terrible shaking up. BREVITIES, A London Chronicle dispatch from Berlin says the Vossische Zeitung has news from Tiflis that 5,006 soldiers and 10,000 Kurds tinder Sako Pasha attacked the Armenian town Kemakh and several villages. They plundered the churches and monasteries and burned the houses. At Hickman, Ky., William Butcher, a desperate negro, was taken from jail and lynched by a mob. His head was shot off and his body riddled with bullets. The Atlantic coast was startled by three earthquake shocks. No serious damage was done, though many windows were broken and a few people were thrown out of bed. AVilliatn Alsup, driver of a hearse, was killed by lightning in a cemetery near Baltimore. Marshall McDonald. United States fish commissioner, died in Washington, lie was born in Virginia fifty-eight years ago. At Rochester. N. Y.. the wholesale clothing store of Sheil, Rosenbaum A Steefel was burned. The total loss is estimated at $115,60. The Circuit Court at l’arkershnrg. W. Va., in a decision held a doctor was entitled to his fee whether he cured or nut.

OLD VETS INVITED. Secretary of War Asks that They Attend the Services at Chickamauga. Secretary Lamont has issued an order outlining the official program for the dedicatory services of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. It is as follows: I uisuant to the act of Congress approved Dec. 15, 1894, the national dedication of the Chickamauga and Chattanoo ga National Military Park will take plan on the 19th and 26th of September proximo. Ihe veterans, those who have been, invited, and the public will assemble at Snodgrass Hill on the battlefield of Uhick amnnga. At noon, Sept. 19, orations will be delivered by Gen. John M. Palmer ->1 Illinois, and Gen. John B. Gordon, ot Georgia. ■•The exercises on the 20th will begin at noon in the city of Chattanooga. ()ra ' B^Ban' r ’” by Gen. William in Bute, of lennessee, ami Charles II - Grosvenor, of Ohio. Thp ev „ nin)ls i both days will be devoted to meetings „t ' ’*“* vet *' ranß o f ’he armies participating s in the two battles. The complete pro . gram in detail will be hereafter an e nouneed. A waterproof tent covering r, seats for 10,0<Ml people will be erected in e Chattanooga for the meeting of the 20th. . and both night meetings. "The participation in these dedicatory exercises has been requested of the Presi- , dent, of Congress, of the Supreme Court and of the heads of executive depart- , ments. and invitations to be present have , been sent to the Governors of the States , and their staffs. Like invitations art hereby extended to the survivors of the ( several armies that were engaged in tin battles of Chickamauka and Chattanooga. It is obviously impracticable for the Secretary of War to issue individual invitations. "The act does not make provisions for , transportation, quarters, or entertainment. In view of the large attendance ( which now seems assured, it is suggested that all who expect to be present make immediate engagements for quarters. । These can be secured through the Chat- । tauooga Citizens’ Executive Committee. ( Gen. J. S. Fullerton, chairman of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Military Park Commission. designated as grand 1 marshal of the ceremonies, and will appoint such marshals and assistants as may be required. “The Land and one battalion of the Sixth Infantry, the band and one battal- ' ion of the Seventeenth Infantry, the band and one battalion of the Third Artillery — all under the command of the lieutenant colonel of the Third Artillery—will en-<-amp on the field of Chickamauga about Sept. 1, proximo, and remain until after the ceremonies. The troops will be used' in preserving order in the park and the protection of public propertv. “DANIEL S. LAMONT, "Secretary of War.” LIVES LOST IN THE STORM. Deaths Caused by Rain, Wind and Lightning—Crops Destroyed. A tornado, accoinpanied by n genuine cloudburst, swept over Bltjoniington. 111., ami vicinity. A ravine one mile southwest of the city adjoining Miller Park, was tilled with a raging torrent, which swept across and filled the valley traversed by the Morris avenue road. Two ladies of Heyworth. Mrs. Riddle and Mrs. Roberts, with their infant daughters, were driving home, and while attempting to ford the stream their horst? and buggy were swept from the bridge ] into the whirling waters. Both the children were drowned. The women Wereheroically rescued by Henry M'eber, whoplunged into the stream after t’tem. When the storm struck the tents of Pawnee Bill's Wild West show at the fair grounds a panic ensued, the S,<X)O people rushing down from the seats. An accident occurred on the St. Glair River, near Marysville, Mich., durirtg a squall and rainstorm in which four persons lost their lives. A. picnic was bring held at Stag Island, opposite Marysville, and Mrs. Michael Derufg. Frank Demfg, 1 her brother-in-law, and three young ladies, Miss Celia Choniski, Minnie Schvenhart and Edith Connors, rowed over early in the day. When the storm was seen- ‘ coming up they started back for home, ■ but when within 460 feet of the shorei the squall struck the little craft and eapt sized it. Miss Schvenhart, a girl of 15, clami bered upon the boat, but the other thret- ■ all got hold of Frank Derufg. For a I while he held on to the upturned boat i with one hand and made a heroic battle > for life, but when one of the women, iis ■ her desperation, got hold of his free h«nd, i he had to let go and all four sank. The ; Schvenhart girl was rescued later by » some boys. Blazing buildings and ruined crops showed a severe storm passed through Rock County, Wisconsin Tuesday night. Lightning caused a dozen fires, while ■ many fields of standing coru were flat- . toned out or washed away by the wind . and rain. Three fires are reported in the . vicinity of Afton, and five are said to haveoccurred about Evansville. Tte HeWs The suggestive remarks about bloomers- - have gone far enough. Cut them short. Before the troops are withdrawn from. Jackson’s Hole we hope they will drive the correspondents back to their reservation. A cablegram says that Nat Goodwin is having a glorious time touring England on a wheel. We are glad Nat left bin skates at home. At Greenwich. Conn., Miss .Anna Mercy and Joseph Justice were married. It isn't often that the law tempers mercy with justice like that. A dispatch from Philadelphia says that Holmes is looking thin tmd dejected. Well, it's enough to wear out any tmuh to keep track of the detectives' clews in tliat case. A Florida dispatch says that a picnicking party down there "was pursued the other day by a snake which in diameter resembled a beer barrel. Perhaps that s what it was. A valued New York cont<>n.:orary which says that “Mrs. Corbett has found I marriage a failure" should guess again. A hundred dollars a week for life doesn’t look much like a failure. Mr. Davis, of New York, lias been fitted $5 and costs for selling a collar button on Sunday. If he had sold a suit of clothes probably he would have been sentenced to the penitentiary for life.