St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 10, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 September 1895 — Page 2

®!jt independent. W. A. ENDLEY, I’ußll^lior. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. SLIPS AWAY TO CUBA’ STEAMER CARRIES ARMS AND DYNAMITE BOMBS. Three Ships Lost in the Upper Lakes —Better Pay for Miners — Britons Get Cash from Nicaragua — Butte City Officials Discharged. In Aid of Patriots. There is intense excitement among the Cuban residents in Boston over information that the most formidable expedition from this country has succeeded in getting out to sea safely, and that, if all has gone well, it will be on hand to materially aid the fighting Cubans in their next big battle. The vessel's cargo includes 2,500 rifles, M<M> rounds of ammunition and GOO Besides , this each man has his"’A*soual arras, and there are 400 pounds of dynamite, with the material to manufacture death-deal-ing bombs. The most unique bomb is the Flecha, or arrow, which is to be fired from a bow over the heads of the most forward of the enemy's ranks, and, exploding in the rear, creates consternation and havoc. Rescued from Death. The schooner A. W. Comstock Capt. William McArthur, foundered off Stannard Rock, Lake Superior, at i 0 c ock Monday morning. Her crew of eight men took to the lifeboat and were tossed about in the tremendous seas until 10 o'clock, when they were sighted by the steamer John J. McWilliams. Ihe McWilliams immediately went to their rescue which was a most difficult matter. A heaving line had to be thrown to the lifeboat from the steamer, and the men hauled from the lifeboat to the deck oi the McWilliams one by one, through the boiling sc?. Capt. McArthur was bad y hurt, having one leg and three ribs broken. The Comstock had on board .’Lu bushels of wheat from Duluth for Chicago. She was n new boat, having been in service but three months. She was built by Smith A Sons, of Algonac, Miem, measured 778 net tons, was worth $40.000 and was insured tor nearly that amount. The schooner Queen City went to pieces on Hog Island Reef Monday. Her crew were rescued by the Beavei Island life-savers, after a terrible night in the rigging. Report Favors the Miners. The committee of ten, consisting of live coal miners and five operators of Western Illinois mines, appointed to decide the question of an advance in the scale of miners’ wages in the Belleville distort, met at East St. Louis and made a report favorable to the scale asked for by Jhe miners, providing that the using of top scales" at the mines is ignored. Miners met and agreed to accept the couferemo report. It is said that the adoption of the new scale will raise coal - cents a bushel. Duel in the Midway. A wounded lazador in the Mexican village and n prominent Atlanta man lying at the point of death in the Grady Hospital are Tuesday's results ot two sensations which developed some time during the night in the misty mazes id tlm Mid way at the Atlanta exposition. W omen were, of course, at the bottom < f it all. Both men had been badly cut -one in a regulation duel with swords, the other in a common, every-day cutting scrape. NEWS NUGGETS. At Shamokin, Pa., the seven Reading mines have been put on full time until further notice. Five thousand employes will thus receive $25,000 additional wages. Barney Lantry. of Strong City. Kan., railroad contractor and Democratic candidate for Kansas State Treasurer last year, has had a stroke of paralysis and recovery is doubtful. Near Kansas City. Mo., a Missouri Pacific repair train was wrecked by striking a steer, instantly killing Engineer 11. C. Ferguson and seriously injuring Fireman Charles Hart. .Tames Francis Ruggles, a well-know n New Yorker, was found dead at his home. He was one of the commissioners who laid out Central Park and was a member of the leading clubs. A car of whisky on the Big Four Road caught tire and blew up with terrific force, dangerously injuring Conductor Murphy and Brakeman Muldoon, who were trying to extinguish the flames. Cuban leaders have elected Bartola Masso President of the Cuban republic; Marquis of Santa Lucia. Minister of Interior; Tomas Estrada Palma, Representative of the Government in the Exterior. and Maximo Gomez, General-in-

Chief. The Executive Committee of the New York Chamber of Commerce SoundMoney Committee has figurt-d that on the money question the next House of Representatives will stand: For silver, 88; against free silver, 216; doubtful or views not known, 52. All except $2,500 of the $> i.otMi which Great Britain exacted from Nicaragua | in May last for the expulsion of Consular । Agent Hatch and other citizens of Great Britain who had been accused of intrigues hostile to the interests oi the republic has been paid over to the men who were expelled. At Butte. Mont.. E. O. Dugan, exMayor, and Philip L. Miller, ex-Assistant City Clerk, accused of forging city warrants, have been discharged. the prosecution practically admitted that they had no case against the two men in the absence of ex-Clerk Perrin Irvine, who has not yet been apprehended and who is reported to be on the Pacific Ocean on his way to China. Harry Wright, the veteran baseball manager and umpire, is dangerously ill with pneumonia at Atlantic City, N. .1. At Wabash, Ind., the Logansport ami Wabash Valley Gas Company and the Wabash Steel Company have begun rate cutting to gas consumers. The former has cut 50 per cent, f r domestic and business use. Maurice Block, of London, has been married to Caroline, daughter oi A. M. Forbes, of Chicago. At Atlanta. Ga.. Kirby S. Tupper, Deputy Customs Collector at Charleston, S. C., shot and mortally wounded himself.

EASTERN. A train of seven vestibuled cars on the Pennsylvania Road made the run from ! Jersey City to Philadelphia, ninety-four miles, in ninety-eight minutes. . At Ogoutz, Pa., Mrs. Moorehead, wife • of the superintendent of the Northwood Cemetery, Oakland Station, and her daughter were killed by a train. At the semi-annual exhibition of the Merchant Tailors’ Society' in New’ York the most startling innovation shown was dress suits of plum color, with velvet collar. Winfield M. Starr, George D. Starr, and Mrs. W. M. Ennis, of 'Wilmington. Del., have been notified that the estate of their uncle, Joseph B. Starr, valued at $58,000,000, is ready for distribution among them and three other heirs in Philadelphia. During a heavy storm near Clearfield, Pa., the scale house of the Clearfield Fire Brick Company’s mine at Bigler was struck by lightning, killing Boyd Hummel, a miner, and stunning three others, Charles Gearhart, Ralph Radifer and George Smeal. Supt. Kretz has commenced the coining of the double eagles from the millions of dollars in gold bullion now stored in the vaults of the mint in Philadelphia. The press has a capacity of 18,000 pieces a day, amounting to $300,000, which by working to its full capacity will give an output of over $10,000,000 a mouth. This course will be pursued by the Superintendent as the reserve gold fund in the institution is now- quite low and because of the weekly shipments to New lock aud other cities, it is desired to replenish it. For Secretary of State John Palmer For State Treasurer A. B. Colvin For Attorney General. .. .F. E. Hancock For State Engineer C. W. Adums For Judge of the Court of Appeals, Uelora E. Martin The New York Republican State convention met at Saratoga Tuesday and nominated the ticket prepared by the party leaders. Governor Morton’s candidacy for President of the United States was formally announced aud it secured the unanimous indorsement of the con vent ion. The platform scores the administration for failing to defend the rights of American citizens in foreign countries, and for permitting foreign encroachments on the western hemisphere. The tariff and deficiency questions receive condemnation. A sound and stable currency is indorsed. Governor Morton’s administration is indorsed and his candidacy for President formally launched. WESTERN. At Chicago, Sunday night, Robert Becker. < >tto S -hweiger. Arthur Huber. William Elliott and Geo. Emdel, the two hitter boys, were drowned while bathing. The Indiana Supreme Court has sustained the decision in the McDonald will case which found the will a forgery, aud Senator McDonald's heirs will share his estate. The extreme heat which for two weeks had scorched a wide area was dispelled Sunday night by a gale which swooped out of the West. Th<' change was pin nomenal. Within an hour the mercury dropped from !M> degrees to TO. By morn ing it registered .’>2, Milton 11. Barr, Edward J. Clifford and Uliff B. Ruhmer, member* of Com pany G. First Regiment, N. G. C.. of San Francisco, started out from Oakland, Cal., on a trip across the conti nent, their destination being Atlanta They are going to make the tour in a wagon. Specials to the Detroit. Mi< h., Evening News tell of a cyclone that passed over a portion of the State Tuesday night. At ; Charlevoix a house was demolished and ! fences, tries and outhouses scattered pro ' miscuousiy in the path of the w ind. w Inch I covered but a small urea. No one was ’ hurt. The steamer schooner Sunohl. which I left San Francisco for Oregon ports, re turned for repairs. After leaving port she collided with a sixty foot whale. The leviathan's tail got tangled up with the propeller, breaking the blades and leaving the vessel in an almost disabled condition. Three deaths from heat were reported : at Chicago Friday and several prostrations. The day was one of terrific heat throughout till thw middle Northwest, at the same time snow was falling in Montana. In the corn belt ripening progressed phenomenally rapid; but pastures and stock suffered. Since Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hartman, of Scribner, Neb., had been missing and an investigation resulted in the discovery of Mrs. Hartman dead in the lower room of their residence with a bul-let-hole in her neck, and Mr. Hartman hanging to a rope in an upper room. The entire matter is a mystery. The report sent out that the St. Louis Car Company and the American Car Company will consolidate has been confirmed by the officers of both companies. The consolidated concern will be known as the St. Louis-American Car Company. It will be capitalized for $1,000,000, with a proviso that the capital stock may be increased as found necessary. It is the in-

tention of the company to establish branch works in the East. Rumor says there have been negotiations for the purchase of the Gilbert Coach Works at Troy, N. Y. Alarmed at the recent startling discovery of crookedness in three trusted employes of the National Bank of Illinois and the Merchants’ Loan and Trust Com- : pany, most of the other Chicago banks I are examining their books to see if their own clerks have been led astray. The news of the shortage in the accounts of Tellers Van Bokkelen, Jones and Wilson has caused much excitement among bankers and their first impulse has been to look for similar discrepancies among their own men. It is said that the recent wheat Hurry on the Board of Trade tended to make the bank employes east longing eyes on the gold that passes through their hands and it was this ti mptation that caused the downfall of the three tellers who have been found guilty of embezzlement. Passenger train No. 2, on the Wisconsin Central Road, Conductor Whitney and Engineer Blaine, was held up by armed men at 9:15 Thursday night in a swamp three miles west of Waupaca, Wis. The I engine and baggage car were ditched by : pulling spikes. Ties were piled on the ■ i track. The passenkers were not moisted | by the robbers, only terrified by bullets j Which were fired through the coaches, j Twelve sticks of dynamite were exploded on the safe without getting any booty. Conductor ’Whitney says there were ten or a dozen men in the gang. Twelve attempts were made to blow open the safe ■ at least that number of sticks of dynamite was exploded, and the passengers occupy -

' ~ 'fSe Yr ing two sleeping ears were in a demo ra L ized state. The cannonading in the' ex ’ press ear made a frightful noise. With a maximum temperature||g 91 . degrees at 3 o’clock p. m., joined t®waleful and persistent excess of humidflL the weather Thursday was, perhaps, tl® ,n ost extraordinary that has been inflict<w u pon the city of Chicago this season, ® "as deadly weather, but the list of deaSis n }nl prostrations gives no adequate ide^f its effects. The health department's Jyorts of child mortality will also be aWkAor. The list of victims Thursday numb|^ One of the paradoxical features Ji) 1 H le continental weather report was ■ telegram announcing that two inchesmpnow fell at Calgary, in the British NaK®"’est Territory. It was the first snowstorm of the season, and yet small eonsolMlon to the baked citizens of this count ryWW’eary of paying tribute to a bandit ntnMWheric "low” that seems to hang eontinuaW over the uninhabited region around MWtana, occasionally coming a little farthff east, and sucking all the hot air of theßropics into its yawning maw, letting it simp and broil mankind as it rushes ou its May. Close on the heels of Receiving Feller Van Bokkelen’s $35,000 defuleatl® from the Merchants’ Loan and Trust CMpoany of Chicago, comes the discovery Vit two trusted employes of the National Bank of Illinois have disappeared, leavingS'shortage variously estimated from s» ( »m> to $40,000. Who the guilty men President George Schneider and Moll refuse to disclose. All theX * naj coti cor t» i j»OFS is that one was receiving teller, other n paying teller, and that the amoajh they have stolen is SIO,OOO. They euVted bank’s service nt tile foot of th*ladder and readied their positions step M step, as their merit warranted. The f&iiving teller had been with the bank seOnteen years. The other had worked ther«^' e i re when the shortage was dlkS^ered. Whether he intended to return ojnot is not known. He was trusted in «cif|y by his superiors, and it was oul rfwhen glaring irregularities were discos Bed in liis accounts during his absence t |At the officials of the bank grew suspicioi* Half a million dollars in buildings and merchandise went up in flames anogmoke Wednesday morning as the resuliof one of the most disastrous and Htubbtpn fires in the history of Indianapolis, ard parts of several blocks, including someßf the finest buildings in the city, aie iw-uins, or badly damaged. Valuable sloiUs hud to be flooded with water, to an eßßrmous loss, to prevent their total destruction and a wider spread of the fire. Two million dollars in cash stored in the vaults of the Indiana National Batik, who^ building was totally destroyed, was inJianger, but the vaults withstood the flames intact. The tire started at G o’clock ou the third floor of the five-story stone and brick building on Washington street, betwecu Meridian and Pennsylvania streets, owned by A. B. Pettis and occi^iied by Eastman. Schleicher & Co. It sfion had great headway, and all the resources of the city fire department were *t once called into play to combat what fas certain to prove a disastrous blaze. In spite of the quick work and hard fighting of the firemen the flames spread rapifly, and it was several hours before they wore sufficiently under control to quiet fe»rs that the entire business district mijht be burned. J J A SOUTHERN. At Wiiichester. Ky.. B. Fulton French has been indicted for the iuurdvr of Judge Combs. At Birmingham. Ala.. Robert S.. Wal t< r 1... and James Skelton, brothers, have been a< quitted of the murder of Robert <’. Ross, a banker, in February. 1593. At Charleston, W Va., Mrs. M. M Thompson, secretary of the State HistorI ieal Antiquniiun Society, fell down the ; elevator shaft in the capitol and was . kilksl. A portion of the walls of the old Colon- | nade Building. Nashville, Teun., which is being torn down, fell. Six workmen were buried under the debris and all were more or less injured, but none is thought to be fatally hurt Lying ujstn a cot in la>okoui Inn upon historical Lookout Mountain is Governor Wm. 11. I phain. of Wisconsin, suffering with a fractured leg. the result ofhis heroic action Thursday in saving the lives of his w ife, daughter and the latter’s female companion. Major I phum and some friends elected to climb Lookout in earriages over the old mountain roiul. to avoid the heat of the crowded cars. M hen part way up the horses acted ba^ty and threatened to hurl vehii le and oecupauts down the cliff. Major Upham sptjng out to check the animals, and in ijpng so tripped over his daughter's d-ats and broke the small bone in his leg. 1); S. B. Plummer, declared that Major ■uhatu's I injuries were serious, sc’ the faMetured bone and prescribed absolute Mst for three days and crutches thereaftmfor as many weeks.

Friday, the last day of the exeKses at ! Chickamauga Park, was the moS spec- ; tacular in its events of any dur^g the dedication week. It was the fir® time j that the center of interest has bee ft* a the city of Chattanocga itself, ' oped the first opport unity ot tangible idea of the crowds the#'have been attracted thither. It atforAd the first opportunity the people of Clattanooga themselves have had of m ■ding their guests en masse, and neithef#uests nor hosts were disappointed in thtf meeting. The parade in the morning wps witnessed by at least 190,000 people. So large a number were never before ip the town at one time, not even during the military operations which were being commemorated. The parade moved at 10 o'clock, and it had all the elements of a pageant in the great number of military organizations, and the larger number of notables who took part in it. Vice President Stevenson presided over the closing exercises. Speeches were made by Mayor (>chs. Senator Ball of Tennessee, Gen. Grosvenor of Ohio, and othets. , 1 hen the exodus began, and the celebiation was over. Nowhere and at no time has there been such fraternizing between the blue and the gray as Wednesday on the battlefield of Chickamauga. At Brotherton's house, which marks the point where the Lnion center was broken, the First and Sixtyeighth Georgia Regiments, Confederate States of America, held a reunion. This 1 was made the rallying point for all the ■ Confederate veterans. Dinner was served for thousands, and Union veterans were ’ made as welcome as Confederate vetl erans. At the dedication of the Illinois » monuments an ex-Confederate soldier spoke on Snodgrass Hill; at the dedicaI tion of the Ohio, Michigan and Minnesota . monuments there were hundreds of exi Confederates in the throng. And so it - was everywhere. All over the park parties composed of ex-Union and ex-Con- ■ federate veterans were hunting for relics - or discussing the varying fortunes of the

battle and the positions they respectively 1 occupied at different times during it. It i was a great day for the survivors of that . famous field. It was a great day forth ! thousands of the younger generation which can now realize so vividly the valor that was so conspicuously displayed, as it is enabled to do by the monuments and tablets that have been erected. It was a great day for Chattanooga. FOREIGN. Seven Chinese implicated in the murder of missionaries have been executed at Ku-Cheng. Geoffrey Perkins, an Anierican who represented himself to be a lawyer and journalist, has been sentenced at London to ten y urs at penal servitude on the charge frying and collecting blackmail. -x Brussels firm doing business in the est Indies has received a cablegram rfrom one of its employes saying an immense quantity of rifles, swords and cartridges, intended for the Cuban insurgents, have been seized on the Island of Andros, where they had been secretly brought from New York. Andros lies about 150 miles north of the Island of Cuba, The Spanish cruiser Barcastegui was wrecked at midnight Wednesday by coming in collision with the merchant steamer Mortem in the cnunl at the entrance of the port of Ifavnnn. Marine General Delgado Parejo and three other officers and thirty of the crew were drowned. General Parejo's body Las been recovered. Captain Ybanez’s body was also recovered, but in a badly mutilated condition, indicating that he hud been crushed in the collision. The cruiser Barcastegui had been employed in going on government business between different ptirts of the Island of Cuba. IN GENERAL The sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fei- ! lows has adopted an amendment to the constitution barring out saloon-keepers, bartenders and professional gamblers. At 1 o'clock Thursday morning the Netherlands American Steamship Company’s steamer Edam, from New York, bound for Amsterdam, collided with the steamship Turkistan about fifty miles southeast of Start Point, Eng. The collision occurred in a dense fog. The captain, crew aud passengers of the Edam took to the boats immediately, and within two hours the Edam went to the bottom. The boats were taken in tow by the trawler Vulture, of Brixham, and the Vulture and boats were then towed into Plymouth by the steamer Beresford. ’ None of the passengers or crew was in- i jured. but they lost all their effects. R. G. Dun A Co.'s weekly review of trade says: "In spite of gold exports wheat advanced for some days, in all nearly 2 cents, mainly because a single speculator bought. Corn rose ami fell in sympathy with a» little reason. Good reports of foreign crops, weakness of ! flour in Minnesota, ami large exports of ■ corn from this country all work against ! a rise In wheat, though scarcity of eon- ; tract grades may help a speculative ad vnnce. Pork prodin ts have been reasonably yielding, with prospects of a largi* crop, but M,,r M Un; glose had a stronger , tone. The eotton liiuTtoT; , falling a fraction each day alternately, : shows no settl' d tendency. Ihe surpris I ing iiiereuse in production and advance j in prices of iron cm to be bringing a ; natural check, ns prices have gone so , high as to eause some purchases from Europe, both of pig and finished prod- ■ nets, and have also caused a distinct । shrinkage in home demand." The following is the standing of the ' clubs in the National League: Per P. W. L. cent, j Baltimore 121 *2 42 . ( ".i Cleveland 128 S't 45 MIS j Philadelphia ... 12G 77 49 .UH I Chicago 12G 70 5G .550 ‘ Boston 12'» 70 5G .55G Brooklyn 120 07 59 .532, Pittsburg 127 t'o OO ..j2B New York 12.> *>f til .;>l2 Cincinnati 123 G 2 01 .->of Washington ...123 40 83 .32i St. D.uis 125 37 88 .200 Diuisville 127 34 93 .2bS WFSTEUX T.EAGCK. The Western League season closed Monday with the teams in the following positions: Won. Lost. Per cl. Indianapolis 78 ' 43 .<>!.> St. Paul 74 50 .597 Kansas City 73 u 2 ..>S4 Minneapolis Go GO ..>2O Detroit 59 GG .472 Milwaukee 57 07 .4>M Terre Haute 52 <2 .427 Grand Rapids 38 86 .306 All the clubs made money. MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, | $3.75 to s6.tmi; hogs, shipping grades. i s3.no to $4.75; sin ep. fair to choice, $2.50 Ito $4.00; wheat, No. red. 59c to corn. No. 2,33 cto 34c; oats, No. 2,19 c to 2Oc: rve. No. 2. 3Sc to 39c; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; potatoes per bushel, 25c to 35c; broom corn, common growth to fine brush. 2Mjc to 4c per pound. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. s^O9~to ! $5.75; hogs, choice light. $3.00 to s4.<->; I sheep, common to prime. $2.00 to $3.00; ■ wheat, No. 2,60 cto tile; corn. No. 1 white, 31c to 33c; oats. No. 2 white, —e to 24c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $3.50 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red. 59c to 61c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 31c to 32c: oats, j No. 2 white, 18c to 29c; rye, No. 2,38 c i to 39c. Cincinnati Cattle. $3.59 to s<>.oo; hogs, , $3.00 to $4.75; sheep. $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2. 65c to <>«><•: corn. No. 2 mixed. 32c to 34c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 2_e to 24c; rye, No. 2. 41c to 4Jc. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs. ' $3.00 to $4.75: sheep, $2.00 to $3.i.»; i wheat, No. 2 red, tile to 62c; corn. No. 2 , yellow, 35e to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c [ to 25c; rye. 42c to 44e. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to G4c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 34c to 3.»c; oats. No. 2 white. 20c to 21c; rye. No. 2. 42c to 44c. Buffalo—Cattle. $2.50 to $6.25; hogs i $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 65c; corn. No. ; 2 yellow. 38c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring, me to 58c; corn. No. 3,31 cto 32c; ® at ®’ 2 white, 22c to 23c; barley, No. 2,41 cto 43c; rye. No. 1,40 cto 42c; pork, mess, $8.75 to $9.25. New York-Gattie, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep. $2.;>9 to $4.00, wheat, No. 2 red, 62c to 63c; corn. No. 88c to 39c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 2oc; butter, creamery, 15c to 22c; eggs, W estI era, 16c to 17c.

। CASH FOR A HUSBAND BUT HE MUST TAKE A CHINESE BRIDE. Big Raid on Chicago’s PopulationBoard of Trade Men Win-Williams Sinks with All Hands — Startling News Cornea from Cuba. ________ < Rich Chinaman’s Offer. Hip Sing Lee, a wealthy Chinese merchant of San Jose, Cal., offers a halfinterest in his extensive merchandise business and $5,000 in cash to any rep- * utable young American who will marry ( his daughter, Moi Eee. Hip Sing Eee is the wealthiest Chinaman in the valley and his fortune is estimated at from SSO - 000 to SIOO,OOO. Lee h as become thoroughly Americanized, and as he is getting old it is his wish to see his daughter happily married to some good American who will look after and care for his business and wealth. Lee's wife died about a year ago. and as several attempts have been made to kidnap Moi he is afraid that if Moi does not marry soon the highbinders may succeed in abducting her. Denperute Battle in Cuba. Mews of n battle, iu wHU-li tlie HpatiGK I were defeated by the Cubans and lost 300 men, was received Monday, at New York. It came in a letter written Sept. 14 by’ Pedro Rovira, a Spanish private who descried to the Cuban ranks at Pera Lego when Campos was defeated. In a later engagement Rovira was captured by the Spanish, court-martfilled and shot. The Spaniards were greatly incensed against him, as he had killed I three of their men before being captured, j | The Cubans had no cavalry, but made ‘ effective use of dynamite bombs, which. ’ I the letter says, struck terror to the ene- i ; my. In the engagement the Cubans' loss I was forty men wounded and killed. The j Spaniards lost over.'RMi men, forty horses 1 and a large store of provisions and munitions of war. Startling News from Cuba. A dispatch dated Monday, via New York, sent from Havana by steamer four days earlier to a Chicago paper says: “Armed parties of revolutionists are already in the Province of Matanzas and actually within seventy-five miles of the city of Havana. For a long time this will be denied, and as news of other attacks are received they will be either suppressed or twisted into stories of mere predni tory bands of evildoers, having no real I connection with the revolution, until the ■ facts become impossible of further con- j ceahnent. The west end of the island I will soon be the scene of an uprising. This ■ seems improbable, but it is reported on j the best authority. Forty-five Go Over the Road, Four covered wagons were driven into ; the jail yard at Chicago Monday morn- I ing. When the big gates were swung ; I open to allow the vehicles to depart half ; , an hour later the wagons contained for- । ty five prisoners ( >n their war to Joliet ! and Pontiac. This breaks all records at j I the Chicago jail. Never before, accord- j • Ip lite iml nnihorities wna thniw 1 I a jail delivery in n single 'lay. Ihe num- i her to go to Joliet and Pontiac Monday j was originally tix< d at foi ty-sei on. But i ■ Mattie Smith and William, alias “Mut- I I ton," Johnson were wanted as witnesses in <;isi’s set for trial, ami they were not i taken to Joliet. tiles ator Men Beaten. The Chieago Board of Trade won its fight against the elevator men. Chairman [ W. S. Cantrell, of the Railroad and । Warehouse Commission, handed down a decision declaring that the owners of public warehouses must not buy or sell I grain through their own elevators. By ; way of impressing upon the elevator companies the force of the ruling, the com- j j mission issued an order revoking the li- j censes of nine firms who have been violating the law on this point. Lost on Lake Michigan. The schooner E. R. Williams sunk off Escanaba, Mich., in a gale Sunday night, and all on board are supposed to be lost, as it would be Impossible for them to j reach shore in such a furious sea. Folio” ng are the names of the crew so far as known: Capt. Hunton, master of the schooner; home in Cleveland. Maggie ; Bennett, stewardess; home in Cleveland, j Mate aud four sailors; names unknown. BREVITIES, — At Huron, Kan., Mrs. Michael Gallagher threw carbolic acid in her hus- । band's face, disfiguring him for life. ' | At Logansport. Ind.. Frank Kemp wa-s ! sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. He shot his father at Galve’ton. Russians around Topeka. Kan., are re-

turning to Russia to stay. Each one takes from $2,000 to $5,000 in cash with him. At Chillicothe, Mo.. Circuit Judge Broaddus has ordered disbarment proceedings for alleged subornation against Attorney Charles A. Loomis. Terrible prairie fires are raging south of Perry', O. T., and great damage has been done. Thousands of acres have been burned over, and much hay and other crops destroyed. Several people had narrow escapes. In the death of S. Corning Judd, which occurred Sunday, another of the old familiar figures, who, from long association, have been landmarks in Chicago's history. has passed away Ihe ranks of these old-timers who mane history for Chicago before the fire, aye even before the war. too, for that matter, are thinning out year by year, but seldom has such a picturesque figure made his exit from the arena as S. Corning Judd. Sundav J. J. M orrell, editoi of the Jackson, Tenn.. Dispatch, ami his little nephew were severely burned by the explosion of gas. Mr. Worrell and the boy went into a room and struck a match and an explosion followed, the gas hating bet'll turned on without their knowledge. Though severely burned, their condition is not serious. In Atchison County, Kan., R. A. Evans, a farmer, accidentally ami fatally shot himself. At Schoolcraft. Mich.. Genevieve and Stella Burson, daughters of Court Crier Burson, eloped with two strangers. At Wilmington, Deh, the jury in rhe Cuban filibustering ease, after bemg^out | fifty minutes, returned a verdict of “not guilty-” The faro bank In a Spokane gambling club was held up by a lone robber, who captured $520 and a revolver and made his escape.

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“John Oliver Hobbs” (Mrs. Cra!gle> has been elected president of the Society of Women Journalists of London, This Is since her divorce. Inasmuch as the English journalist, George Augustus Sala, recently testified in court that his time was worth to him $25 an hour, and that he had more demands upon it than he could possibly moot, it is somewhat astonishing (says the New York Tribune) to find him selling his library by auction and accepting from the crown a pension of $lO a week from a fund which is usually restricted to providing pensions for poverty-stricken widows and orphans of literary life. The Atheneum records the death of Richard Herno Shepherd, au ecceutrio man of letters, very familiar to London booksellers of ten years ago. “To all ^fi^'tors of first editions, the name of llieikivitl Herne HYiepiierA/* »txy» u. wriv er in the Atheneum, “is a household word. He may be said to have Y vented that class of bibliography Ifo was, perhaps, the last man who regarded a business letter a« a literary composition, aud his briefest note was turned out as if It were a contribution J to the Atheneum.” When S. R. Crockett was a boy on a farm in Little Duchrao, in Scotland, he spoke the Scotch dialect that Burns has Immortalized—even the exact words of the poet, according to Mr. Crockett's statement. Ho has been an author for nine years, and now, at 34, famous on two continents, he is in physical appeamnoe a veritable giant, broad-shoul-dered, and six feet four inches in height. It is cheerful to bear Mr. Crockett's asservation, made to an interviewer, that the Scotch are not thrifty as a race, but, on the contrary, very extravagant One is reminded of the Scot’s complaint against London as an expensive place: that ho had not been there more than twenty-four hours when "bang went sax pence.” William Heinemann, the London pub- । Usher, was born in England, but com- ! menced at an early age to^ lead a cos- ' mopolitan sort of existence. He went abroad and picked up three languages. Then he went to Trubner’s and learned his trade. When Trubner joined partnership with Kegan Paul, he started publishing ou his own account, on Jan. 1, 18S9. On Feb. 1 he published his i first book—Hall Caiue’s “The Bond- ; man.” It ran through many editions, and was a worthy forerunner of "The- | Manxman.” Since then among his suc- ; cesses ~ hQye boen ‘”rb« T 7;~ Twins,” “I ho Scapegoat,” “Ideals,” I “The Groen Carnation,” “Children ot the Ghetto,” “The Naulahka,” “Wreckage” and “The Master.” Saved by a Dog. A large Newfoundland dog saved & boy’s life at Baltimore recently. Tho boy is Howard Connanbaugh, 8 years old, and the dog, formerly a tramp, is now cared for by Edward Lynch. The boy and the dog were romping on tho dock in the mcruing, when the boy accidentally fell overboard. There aro ■ twenty feet of water In the dock. The big Newfoundland saw the boy fall, ; and just as he came to the surface sprang into the dock and swam to the fast-sinking boy. The boy clutched the I woolly hair on the dog’s neck, which kept him afloat, and tlien the dog started to swim with his burden to the other side of tb'e dock. A man rushed to the rescue and, when the dog reached the place, jumped into a rowboat and managed to pull both the dog and the boy out of the water. The dog became a hero in the eyes of the people who i had been attracted to the scene and he i was given a first-class dinner for bls heroism. |The Orchard Oriole. A very pretty little story comes from Hartford, and it is true. A nest of the orchard oriole (improperly called the ' “English robin”) was discovered by the owner of the lot, whose child wanted the young birds, and the child was

duly gra’ified. The nest was taken home, to tho delight of the child and i the grief of the parent birds, and tho fledglings were placed in a cage outside the house. To the surprise of the person who had put them there, he found, one day, that the mother bird had discovered her lost children, and wasofeedlng them through the wires of I the cage. This proof of parental affection in a bird was continued, till at length the person who had removed the nest from its place and put it in the cage was moved to restore it to its place on the tree, with the young birds in It. The unbounded delight of the old birds proved a full compensation for the sense of his—or, rather his child's—loss, by the restoration of the young birds to their mother. Joke by Canada’s Great Premier. Sir John Macdonald was at a reception In the West, and a bishop from Belgium was present. As the party was being escorted by a body of men in highland costume, the foreign bishop, seeing the bare legs and kilts, asked why these men were without trousers. “It’s a local custom,” gravely replied Sir John. “In some places people take off their hats as a mark of honor to distinguished guests; here they they take off their trousers.” “It’s hard to tell just what the public wants,” said the theater manager, with a sigh. "It hasn't struck me that way," replied the treasurer. “It seems paln- ’ fully easy to me. In nine cases out of ten It wants its money back.”—Washing ton Star. The worst suspense in which the law gan place a criminal Is to hang him. j