St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 15, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 November 1895 — Page 6

£l)c .Independent. AV, A. ILADIuE V, Publisher, WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. HAI) TOO MUCH LAND, PENNSYLVANIANS DC N'T WANT ONE MAN TO OWNTHE EARTH. Insurgents Gaining Ground —5200,000 Fire Loss at Springfield—Awful At reck on the Missouri Pacific —Brit* ish Troops Moving—Dies at the Stake Burned H.'lb Buildings N\ illiam Thorpe, a wealthy railroad contractor oi New York, recently purchased fourteen hundred acres of hind in the lower end of Luzerne County. Pennsylvania. lle erected a number of buildings. planted trees and built fences. The buildings have been destroyed by incendiaries, tile trees torn up and the fences •Yektroyed. Detectives are now at work on the case. It is alleged that people living in the vicinity said after Nir. Thorpe iiad made ins purchase that fourteen hundred acres of land was too much for one man to own. Bud Wreck in St. Louis. Tuesday night at 11 o'clock the two Kirkwood accommodation trains over the Missouri Pacific Kailroad collided at King's Highway and Manchester, just inside the St. Louis city limits. Both ensowers were killed, and their bodies hor*’oly uuiukH. The tiremen. too. were buried in the. wreck. autl fatallv r us*he<l. io dead are: Wiifiam Catrin, of St. Louis, engineer of the v «st-bound train; .John Harper, of Webster Grove engineer of the west bound train. The fatally injured are: George Dunbar. o f Webster Grove, fireman of the westbound train: George True, of St. Louis, fireman of the east-bound train. Others injured: J. H. Baylis, brakeman. Kirkwood; Henry A. Davis, lawyer. Webster Grove: Harry Feldott, conductor: Patrick Hanley, passenger. St. Louis: Burt Taylor, passenger, Webster Grove: W. A. Williams, conductor. The west-bound train was laden with suburbanites return-, ing from theaters. The two trains crashed into each other around a sharp curve, and the engines were ditched by the tearful force of the collision. Hongolosongo Reported Destroyed. A dispatch from Madrid says that Lieutenant Generals Marin and Macias have bt en ordered to Cuba. Santiago adv ices report that I longolosongo was burned by the rebels. The inhabitants fled to Santiago for refuge. Prom Bayamo conns the report that a tight occurred near Baire. Kobi, the rein 1 leader, being repulsed and left twelve dead on the field. Several new bauds of insurgents are reported to have been seen near A uelta Abajo. The insurgents have burned the buildings of the Jinaguaybo and Sau Rafael sugar estates, and American property near Remedios. Great Northern Men May Strike.

A ■«— 11 1 r ^- “*“** - r »~>ft!Si?s'‘' the Aiuvncan Ra Hw a;. Union went to Devil's Lake. N. D.. Io revise the schedules for submission to 1 resident Hill. The main ground tor contention is that a low-paid man with a gnei am e is entitled to as much consideration ns a high-paid man without a grievance. 4s further cause for complaint it is claimed that Mr. Hill, ever since the union won the great strike m ■ ■ m s been systematically violating the aglee ment made at that time. NEWS NUGGETS. Henrv Hillard, a negro who assaulted and then murdered young Mrs. Bell Mondav night near Tyler. Texas, was captured Tuesday, taken to town. and burned to death in the public square. A large crowd of citizens witnessed his (lying agonies. At Huntington. W ' a., twenty guests at the Adelphi Hotel were taken siiduenlv ill at 1 o'clock Monday morning. le doctors said that the symptoms indicated poisoning. Several were seriously ill during the night, but at 9 <> clock all wen pronounced out of danger. Dr. Orlando G. Bradford, the New York dentist who was arrested with the Brockway gang of countertenors, found guilty of having m b n> plates fm'printnmlnHfused ’y",;'' irJX asserting that he had ^'.‘o ke'.l'oi’h the gang for the purpose of n sealing their plans to the secret service officers. The Lagonda Hotel at Springfield. Ohio, was destroyed by lire Tuesday evening. Proprietor Connell and his wife and a Mrs. Thompson, one of the guests, barely escaped with their lives. All the other guests were warned in time and made a hasty exit from the building. The

fire was not controlled until damage । amounting to $200,000 was done in the , heart of the city. Fifteen business places were burned. Just us the department store ol Siegel. Cooper N Co., at Chicago. was being closed Monday night Mrs. Marv Walsh, of 5115 Princeton avenue, leaped from the third floor of the rotunda in the center of the building and was dashed headlong to tin* tiling below, a distance of thirty feet. Death ensued in a few minutes. The skull was terribly crushed and the jaw bones fractured. She had been suffering from dementi:! and her act was one of premeditation. A correspondent in Rio, Brazil, telegraphed Tuesday to Buenos Ayres. Argentina. that news has been received from the Governor of Para confirming the report of the passage of British troops through that territory. A correspondent at Havana of an English news oaner received orders from his paper to

j I ivi I' ' ’ ' • embark at once for Venezuela, in anticipation ol the demonstration Croat Britain is expected to make at La Guayra to enforce the demands of her ultimatum. TheSouHi Dakota Supreme Court handed down a decision, the effect of which is that the Western I nion Telegraph Company is not compelled to receive a mes>a„(, for transmission unless it is written bn^a blank of the company. It was on a test case involving the reasonableness of the demands of the company on the printed blanks. Obituary: At London. Dr. Robert Brown (“Campterianus"). 53.- At Bloomington. 111.. Flavins .1. Briggs. 84.—At Metropolis. 111.. ex-Judge Robert W. McCartney. At Burlington, lona, < harles Whit Smith.

EASTERN. Senator Thomas Henry Carter Wednesday, issued this call for a meeting of the Republican National Committee on Dee. 10 in Washington: “Headquarters Republican National Committee, New York City.—The Republican National Committee is hereby called to meet at the Arlington Hotel, Washington, D. C., at 2 p. m„ Dec. 10, 1895, to designate a time and place for the meeting of the national convention in 1896, and to transact such other business as may demand consideration. “THOMAS 11. CARTER, Chairman. “.JOSEPH H. MANLEY, Secretary.’’ The option was given to Chairman Carter to choose one of two dates, Dec. 3 or 10. At the urgent request of some of the committeemen who live in the extreme M est, and to accommodate Joseph 11. Manley. < hairman of the Executive Committee. Mr. Carter decided on Dec. 10 as the date of the meeting. In either case it would mean an early convention, beginning about June 1. while it would-be within the interpretation of the sixmonths rule to hold the convention the last week in May, as Gen. James S. I larkson, \\ illiam M. Hahn and Joseph 11. Manley desire. In a rear-end collision at Hyde Park, eight miles from Boston, on the Providence division of the Consolidated Road, Thursday night, a brakeman was killed, two passengers fatally injured and nineteen others seriously hurt. The New London express, on time, running at a speed of fifty miles an hour on a down grade, came in collision with the rear end of the Dedham local passenger train, descoping a combination and a passenger ear in which were about 100 persons. The rear brakeman was so badly crushed that he died in an hour, and two passengers. one a woman, were dug out from the burning debris and removed to the Massachusetts general hospital in a dying condition. Among the passengers who were within four feet of death ami who escaped from the wreck through car windows were J. Montgomery Sears, the \ wealthiest man in New England, whose hoMiugs aggregate $76,666,660, and Congressman Elijah A. Morse, of Canton, the property Ws to th o railroad COmpany will exceed s3O,ix>o ( j H , accident loss through injuries will without doubt be close on $300,666. Music Hall in Baltimore was packed to the doors at the closing exercises of the National .c.T. F. convention Wednesday night. Hundreds of women were unable to get inside. The meeting was both pathetic and enthusiastic. The womanly character asserted itself in alternate tears and smiles. I landkerchiefs were waved frantically one moment and the next used to wipe away the tears. I he inciting cause was an address by I' rances \\ illard favoring a resolution admitting ( atholie and Hebrew women to active co-operation in W. C. T. U. work. One of the delegates suggested it might b , e G"’? 0 ^insistent for the “Women s Christian Temperance I'nion” to ask Hebrews to affiliate. She laid special emphasis on th<> word “Christian." Miss M illard with a good deal of feeling said: they have extended the hand of sympathy to our organization and our raiisc. We should invite them to co-operate. I want to welcome them to us if they want । to come." A dozen or more i ;

Kli xoioti u<»\vn. *h Miss Willm-d skillfully prevented the eon- I vention getting into a religions discus sion. Finally the convention enthusias- ) tieally adopted the resolution, and Miss ( Willard said she thanked Go 1 for this net of the convention, and that she eon sidered it an honor and a pleasure to extend the hand of fellowship to ( atludic and Hebrew women. WESTERN. Tin' properties of the Raven 1 nmx l and Mining Company, on Raven Hill, at ( ripple Creek. Col., one of which is the Raven mine, which Ims produced over $200,000, have been sold to C. G. Hathaway. Eben Smith, and D. 11. Moffatt. The price is understood to be more than slo.tH>o. At Alexandria. Ind., a receiver was appointed for the Artificial lee Company. At Gothenburg. Neb., the State Bank closed; assets. $25,000: deposits. SS,OOO. At Cincinnati George C. Miller A Sons, carriage makers, have arranged with then creditors. At Winona. Minn.. Rlmubei u.i Bros., dealers in dry goods..;;r" iu "e' • sets $27,000: linldioh -. so.mm. ThecxP* no, ’he tug T.T. Morford ci,:, ago River, resulted in .11- di'itb of John Erickson, fireman; John Ferguson. captain, and Charles Dick, engineer. The Morford had in tow the grain steamer lonia. The tug is a total loss-SIB,OOO. Destruction of the Morford deprives < hicago harbor and Lake Michigan this winter of the protection afforded for the last eleven vears to storm-tossed and w ie< ked vessels by that remarkable product of the shipbuilder's art. On Lake Michigan there is no boat to take her place, either in the "bucking" of ice or in the power to steam through ice to the rescue of a disabled vessel. A mob. composed chiefly of faimeis, stormed the Seneca County jail at Tiffin,

Ohio, earlv Sunday morning in an effort to lynch I.ee F. Martin, the murderer of Marshal Shultz. The Sheriff’s jail force fired on the mob. instantly killing two men. Several more men wrre shot but not fatally wounded. Sunday was the day of Shultz’s funeral, ami the sentiment against Martin broke out with redoubled fury. The mob was composed mostly of neighbors of the murdered marshal, ami the marshal’s brother acted as leader. Martin was a prominent Dunkard. and killed Shultz while resisting arrest tor a trilling offense. The militia was called out to guard the jail. Two more members of Seth Wyatts Oklahoma band of desperadoes have anHwred for flmir deeds of lawiessness. They art dim Umbra and “Mexican John,’ two Mexicans who have been enga'’ed in cattle stealing and other lawless enterprises. They were lynched by inraged caMler en, who have suffered greativ a: their hands. T.ic two men had

stolen filly m a > belonging to B. F. ( bapman. am! his cowboys gave chase. '1 hey tlosed in on th. desperadoes fifteen miles from Cantonment and after a fusillade of bullets 'he bandits surrendered. The cowboys identified the cattle, and taking a rope pulled the two men up to the first tree. A label was attached to their clothing warning other members of the band to quit this work or suffer the same penalty. Kankakee marsh, the famous hunting ground in Illinois, was swept by a prairie tire Saturday, and trees, brush, and grass were all burned to the ground. The roar1 ing blaze, headed so as to include towns and farmhouses in its destructive sweep, 1 had its course (hanged by a fortunate shift in the direction of the wind. This b gave the homes of the farmers on the border of the marsh a chance. 'l'bis

swamp fire is responsible for t . Trunk disaster near South Ben^ urday, in which eleven persons . jured. The cause of the wre<; weakened culvert, which was bu J which owing to the dense sn>/\ILJ j swept across the tracks was • from the view of the engineer. Point, Hammond, and Kouts, li| X threatened by the fires. Kouts* closest call, and was saved onl. extreme efforts of the citizens, wh , t the flames until the wind aided tl—changed the course of the flames. “""j ened and weary the men who mal^/Lj for twenty-four hours the unequ ' j against the tires, which were fai*"^, a wind that at times blew almost ■ .o| lenee of a cyclone, retreated in disi^&j r SOUTHERN. ** C — Jofr President Lane of the Southern Growers’ Association has just r" from a tour of the South, and sayftr cotton crop will be six and one-halfij a , ion bales. He predicts January will sell for 10 cents a hundred. r Advices from Fort Bend, Texal other sections give gloomy aceouT o f this year’s crop of sugar cane. The-i^.. of last winter seriously damage he cane stubble, causing it to inatdtsML and hard. Land in Fort Bend which last year produced twenty turfy tons of cane this year produclhly three to ten tons. The cutting Xbe finished in thirty days, whereas it l ^. arily takes a hundred. One of the results of the great g:A ing of Western men in Vicksburg*, dental to the waterways convention. been the organization of the ViH®J National Military Park Assoc if whose character is now in course o:L) a rat ion ami whose incorporators ar<S men as General Lee. General R. A. » r General John B. Uordon, ex-Got® Hoard, of Wisconsin; Colonel Fr® Grant, and many others of equal pi a . cnee in civil life or the great eonflit. tween the States. The object of ti. ganization is to foster the foundafij® a national military park there simiS those at Gettysburg and Cbickan® ' Park. Augusta, Ga., was visited by the laL fire in years Friday afternoon. ThoL her mill of Jesse Thompson & Co.® , largest in the South, was burned । ground, with 2,000.606 feet of lumb^ the yards. The loss to them is s7l® one-third insured. The lire then s® * for two blocks. Forty-two dwelling^ ‘ enpied by operatives were entirely], sumed. Three hundred are homeless.S . loss on these buildings is $ 10.000, wit*. , tie insurance. The entire fire depnrti* was called out. but owing to the dists . from water and a gale from the . nothing could be done. The tins stopped when everything in line s burned. WASHINGTON. Washington is planning to have Lntional exposition in 1900. General Thomas Ewing faintedJiile making an argument before the l»ral Supreme Court. Lx I nited States Senator Vnn ®'k. of Nebraska, was stricken with juißiii at *

lanta. has been abandoned. ’ n '' At Hamilton, Bermuda, a hurriea^l^^M reported that caused great daml^| ■ *O property, but no loss of life. Rev. Dr. John G. Fee, founder of Be tea iKyl College, has resigned his pastor Ite and joined the Campbellites. The appropriation for the loss on Be reeoinnge of worn and uncurrent sil fei coin for the current fiscal year is exhm ed and the work will be stopped. ' Secretary of the Treasury will not te sume. fo'r the present at least, the eAnage of silver bullion purchased under Ine "Sherman act." The Neu Orleans n«ut will be closed, but the Philadelphia snd San Francisco fnints will coniine to ■•pm gold. The treasury now holds of silver bullion purchased under the "Sherman act" 137.0**000 *ine ounces. It is not thought that the coinage of silver dollars will be tesnmed nt the mint until there is s ..me m ti<m by Congress on the cur rem y question. FOREIGN. At London Sir Robert Teel has compromised with his creditors at 50 per cent. Mrs. Langtry, Who. it was rumored about a month ago. was contemplating marriage with Sir Robert as soon as she obtained a divorce from het husband, was among the persons to whom he was indebted. He owes her about £4,500. Joe Aronson, a brother of Rudolph Aronson, the well-known operatic manager of New York. was found dead at the foot of the stairs of the lodgings which he occupied in Warwick street, London. His neck was broken and it is supposed that he fell downstairs while suffering from an affection of the heart. Fierce disturbances, accompanied by sei mis bloodshed, are reported to have

taken place at Erzingjan. Sixty Armenians are said to have been killed. Jno Turkish Government has sent a circyTr note to the representatives of the pow” » and to its representatives abroad m uneing that the outbreak was provok^H by the Armenians. Madrid dispatches via Havana allege that President Cleveland had promised the Spanish minister to veto any action by Congress favorable to the Cubans. A ' Washington dispatch shys: It can be stated positively that no such promise has been made, and that such a promise would be so irregular and unprecedented as to be beyond the range of probabilities. William Blaisdell, a capitalist and promoter of Honolulu, has been in Cleveland. Ohio, engaged in interesting Cleveland capitalists in a vast scheme to obtain control of the best sugar-cane producing land in the Sandwich Islands. A number ot wealthy gentlemen have taken hold of the project’ and a company will at ........ „..,i obelized at $3,000,000. Ihe

once ami capiiaozeu ... . land in question consists of acres located fifteen miles from Honolulu. The nineteen men of the burned A' ll ®*’' ican ship Parthia have reached A adp. - raise, Chili. The Parth.a, < apt. with a crew of nineteen, was bound from Liverpool, which port it left June U>. to San Francisco. It burned in the I acihc Ocean Oct. 1. The crew landed at Juan Fernandez Island, all safe. The ship belonged to Haughton Bros, of Bath. M, and was a double-decker of _ 31 1 ton , 250 feet in length and 44-foot beam, it was built four years ago. Reports of a asperate battle in the San Juan coffee-growing valley, between Hob guin amt Barajagua. were confirmed by dispatches received by the Cuban junta at New York. The forces engaged were led by 4 General Antonio Maceo, with

Cubans, and Genital Rehague, with 1.800 Spaniards. The greater portion of the J Cubans were not actually engaged, acI cording to the report, but continued the advance toward the west after the batH'. r” i ,nvalr - v defended the rear of the Cuban army and kept the Spaniards from advancing About 000 of the Spanish troop were killed. A special dispatch received at London from Constantinople says that a plot has ; L e( ‘“si'overed among the officials of the • u tan s palace. In consequence, it is added numerous arests have been made, and the residences of the ministers are r fcmT’ ard r <1 by troops ' Vi(,n » a advices ,^Dom Constantinople say that the liberal . nmvement among he Turks is spreading • Seditious placards have been discovered J Posted tn different parts of the city ami n the disappearance is reported of several soltas and other notablities. The governp ment is making military preparations in anticipation of trouble. It has been learned that the repro- ontatncs of the Spanish Government in this country have discovered what is said to be a new plan on the part of the sympathizers with the Cuban insurgents to ship ammunition from the Vnited States -to their compatriots in Cuba. The Spanish Government’s representatives heard oi the scheme some time ago and emRWBjiCd_Ji<l< > f<‘clive agency to investigate it. The fncnTs of the insuTiT'TifS, according to the story, have sent large consignments of toys to Havana. These toys -consist mostly of large and unusually heavy dolls. Their weight is accounted for by the detectives by the assertion that each doll contained a dozen rifle cartridges. Prussia has just published the result of the recent census. The entire population June 14, 189;>, was 31,491,209, an increase of 1,53;>,928, or .7 13-166 per cent, since December. 1890. The males increased 773,051 and the females 762,577. In Berlin the increase of females was two and one-half times that of men. One of the surprises of the new census was the small increase of Berlin's population, all the more startling owing to the unprecedented increase of Berlin for the years between 1870 and IS9O. It was only 36.288, or 2 2-10 per cent., for the last four ami a half years. The census shows a continuance of the movement towards । , cities from the country, in which BerH- f had not its usual share , Tues < W. T. Stead had a long, ftimster Ga- ’ day afternoon in the. V.. ri „,, the course t “higlisLen would . do well not to belittle the significance of < the ebullition of American sentiment on < the question of the Venezuelan frontier I It must be taken with the usual discount and is no doubt due to the s>s’tm J Which foreign affairs are discussed bj bawling journalists rather than s’ 1 diplomats: but it is serious nevertbeie. .. Its gravity consists in two facts, n^her of which have anything to do with the merits of the question in dispute. In tue first place, for the first time since the civil war. the Americans have I nit a ntnj of which they have some reason to be proud and which sooner or later they w ill use against somebody. In the second place, it is equally significant that the American - press assures the Vnited States that the Munroe doctrine has been informally adopted as a national faith by the Amen enn msmle and the dispatch sent to the

run I”• ... New York World t referring to the report ; ; - . a ) nrobabh g i WO ing tlie departure of a fleet of nineteen Russian warships from A ladivostock for Chemlupo and Fusan, Corea and the dispatch from Hong Kong, announcing that Russia has obtained the right to anchor her fleet at Port Arthur and construct railroads on the Liao Pung Peninsula, have caused intense excitement in official circle- in London as well as in those having commercial relations with the far East. These most important statements are looked upon generally as being a sudden reopening in an unexpected quarter of the far Eastern question in its widest sense. The Shanghai dispatch added that the Japanese fleet in Formosa waters had been recalled, that several British warships bad been ordered to Corea and that preparations for a struggle were visible on all sides. The Hong Kong cable message caused the Loudon Times to remark, editorially: "Russia can not possibly imagine tiiat the great powers will view with indifference such a destruction of the balance of power, which is almost unparalleled in its audacity." It is admitted here that the situation presented, is so grave that should the news prove true, it would make war in w hich several nations will take part more than probable. It should be added that there is every reason to believe that the story from Hong Kong is authentic ami all sources of information agree that the powers interested in the far East will find themselves confronted by a condition of seriousness which can not be overestimated. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. $3.75 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $4.00: sheep, fair to choice. $2.50 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red. s!»c to Goc; corn. No. 2. 31'- to 33c; oats. No. 2. 18c

Will, • -7 to 19c; rye, No. 2. 38c to 39c; butter, choice creamery. 10c to 21c: eggs, fresh. ! 16c to 18c; potatoes, per bushel. 18c to 25c; broom corm common growth to choice green hurl. 2t^c to 4c per pound. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to prime. $2.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2. 64c to 66c; corn. No. 1 white, 30c to 32c; oats. No. 2 white. 21c to 22c. St. Louis Cattle. $3.00 to $5.50: bogs, $3.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red. 63c to 64c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 2ic to 28c: oats. No. 2 white, 17c to 18c: rye. No. 2,36 c to 37c. Cincinnati Cattle. $3.50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $4.25: sheep. $2.50 to $4.00: wheat. No. 2,65 cto 6ie; corn. No. - mixed. 31c to 33c: oats. No. 2 mixed. 19c to 20c; rye. No. 2. 40e to 42c. Detroit—Cattle. $2.50 to $5.50: hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep. $2.00 to s3.:>o: wheat. No. 2 red. 66c to 67c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 33c to 35c; oats. No. 2 white —e to 24c; rye. 41c to 43e. _ Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 red. t.ic to (De. corn. No. 2 yellow. 34c to 30c; 2 white. 21e to 23c; rye. No. 2 41c to 4.. C. Buffalo-Cattle, $2.50 to $om0; hogs. $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to s4.;>o; wheat. No. 2 red. 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 36c to 38c; oats. No. 2 white, 23 c to 24c. rc Milwaukee-Wheat. No. 2 spring, »8c to 59c; corn. No. 3. 31c to 33c; oats No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; barley. No. 2,40 cto 41c; rye, No. 1,40 cto 41c; pork, mess, SB.OO to $8.50. New York-Cattle. $3.00 to ^-<‘o; hogs. • $3.06 to $4.75; sheep, $2.00 to -^-00, wheat. No. 2 red. 70c to 71c; corn. No 2, 39c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white. 23c to 25c, . butter, creamery, 16c to 24c; eggs, n estI ern, 18c to 21c.

! A GIANT MONOPOLY. SYNDICATE BUYS ALL ELECTRIC t STORAGE PATENTS. New Revolution in the Black RepubMe—Fresli and Horrid Outrages by 1 nrks in Armenia—Missouri School Superintendent’s Cowardly Attack. Storage Battery Trust. The storage battery patents of this country have passed into the control of a trust. The trust’s official name is the Electric Storage Battery Company. It is capitalized at $10,000,000. Its headquarters are in Philadelphia. W. W. Gibbs, <>f gas trust fame, is its president. The backbone of the trust is the Widener-Elkins-A erkes combination. Hamilton pisston. the saw manufacturer, is heavily interested in the deal. This combination controls not only the patents of the I mted States, but has bought the American rights to the Tudor patents, probablv the most valuable of the foreign inventions in this line. It is an open secret in the electrical world that great improvements are expected in the storage of electricity and its transportation and use. It is suspected that these improvements are already in sight, ami that the trust has read the future more clearly than any one else. Armenian Villages Pillaged. Another terrible massacre of Armenians is reported to have occurred in thcBaiburt district, between Erzeroum am] Trebizond. According to the news received at Constantinople a mob of about 566 Mussulmans and Lazes, the great majority of whom were arnu-d with Martini-Henry rifles, made an attack upon the Armenians inhabiting several villages of that vacinity. and set fire to their I houses and schools. As the Armenia’ j ’ fled in terror from their dwgjlinr cap- I t were shot down as they rap.i, were fas- < ber of men and wou>f rue d alive. The i tured by the iiotc*.} lo into the hands teued to st^’ ^ nlso asserte d. were brueH^nvateil ami mutilated. The imMiTigers applied for protection to th< Governor of Baiburt. who. alter hemin? their complaint, sent three the scene of the massacre at< the slaughter was emle.l. The 1 nrkish o J .. inN it is claimed, know the rmglemb i s of' the outbreak, but apparent y no have been taken to arrest tlum. number of Armenians massacred at 1.5... The Turks, it is statcil. h.i'i • ed the Armenians in th ■ district of .m mushdagh. mar Trebizond. and have slaughtered many of them. Hippolyte Proclaims a State of' News has been reemvi dat Niw ■ of a revolution in Hayti. I’res.deu Hur „elite it is said, has retired to his pah < P wt no Prim e, where he is guarded bv the armv which he brought down troni IX I Legitime. Commercial houses in - Yo?k which do business in Hayti have i IH e U expecting this outbreak tor sete; 1 1 weel < When dispatches dime saying I .i.-./niooelite had proclaimed a state ot

j that Hippm.vv .m^^K-ore not m>effect that several of the lending men of Port an Prince had been arrested, as well as many who had come in from the country to help swell the army of tin: revolution. Hippolyte proclaimed the state of seige on Wednesday, and inline- f diately ordered out :• certain number of j his prisoners to be shot. 1 hough the old friends of Legitime are concerned in the present movement it is said, that Gen. Mauigat is not at the head of it. The armv of Hippolyte has been concentrated about his palace ami he intends to make his final tight. Flogged a Beautiful Young Woman. Prof. A. K. Atkinson. Superintendent of the public schools at Rushville. Mo., was placed under arrest Monday on the charge of brutally flogging Miss Angie Van Hoozier, a beautiful young woman. 20 years old. who has been a pupil of Atkinson's. Certain rules of the school are alleged to have been violated by the girl and Atkinson, arming himself with a hickory stick, assaulted her in the school-room. She fled and he followed her through the halls and out doors, where he inflicted wounds which are considered dangerous. The pupil is under a physician’s care. 1 Ribot Ministry Steps Out. Titc t rench cabinet resigned Mondav ns a result of a government defeat in the Chamber of Deputies during the debate on ’ho South* rn railway scandal. President Faure has accepted the resignation of the ministry. The ministry which has just resigned was formed on Jan. 20 by M. Ribot, after the fall of the Dupuy ministry. BREVITIES. i : As the result of an agreement entered • into between American manufacturers of

। window-glass and importers of the same I product there will be an advance of 21s per cent, in prices. The importers have agreed to no longer handle the foreign product. The “Coochee-Coochee” is under the ban in Georgia. The House of Representatives passed a bill making it unlawful to perform the dame in the State. The bill was introduced last year by Ed Jones, a society voting man. who witnessed the dance a‘couple of years ago. < 'onsiderable sport was made of its author at the time, but the fact that the "Streets ot Cairo are now conducting the business on the exposition grounds so shocked the members of the Legislature that their first action was to take up Mr. Jones bill ami rush it through by an almost unanimous vote. A destructive tire raged in the oil regions south of Toledo. Ohio, but is under control. One estimate places the loss at $150,000. Cuban day at the Atlanta exposition has been postpm "d because of President Cleveland’s objection to public expressions of sympathy for the insurgents at this time. 'Hie population of lowa is 2,057.250. Patrick Callahan, of New York, known as “King” Callahan, jumped from the highest point of Poughkeepsie bridge. 212 feet, and was so badly injured that he died a few hours later. At Uniontown, Ala.. Frank Metzger committed suicide because he was not allowed to take the place of a brother in jail accused of murder. At Mesa, Ariz., Dr. Rose was shot and killed by Sheriff L. H. Orme. Rose was caught in the act of attempted murder, and refused to throw up his hands. _

•I — V J Bha<!<WiCast Before. We will defy it, says Mr. Chamberlain. Let him proceed if he wants a collision. This nation was never more ready for one.—New York Journal. ' 1 he partition of Africa has been act complished, the partition of Asia is being figured out and it is time for Uncle Sam ’ to keep a sharp lookout ovtr all America. - —San Francisco Call. Gieat Britain does not care to discuss the Monroe doctrine with reference to ( Venezuela any more than to submit the boundary dispute to arbitration, and for precisely the same reason. She knows ( she is in the wrong, and that her iniquitous act is best to be accomplished, if at al), in silence and in darkness.—New York Tribune. i It is to be hoped that Venezuela, backed - by our Government, will demand the arbi- - traUon of England’s entire claim, and will t not allow it to be limited to recent en- - croachinents. If our Government does < not take this stand ft will admit the right > of any European power to dismember or take possession of any of our sister republics in this hemisphere.—Atlanta Constitution. 1 here is really but one course open to the Government and that is to insist at the proper time—which seems to be.’A near at hand—that Great Brifnust be submit its claim to ^^fot Y'enezuela to arbitration or ref states as well.— if forcibly gs- “ I Xv 0 l^l States is so fully commit* Lxi to the Monroe doctrine that it cannot afford to give it up permanently. In t o event that circumstances should compel it to forego its assertion for the time being” it would be in duty bound to re urn to the doctrine after it had placed itse f in a position to maintain the theory m the face of whatever opposition might be developed. To do otherwise would be to lose its prestige as a great power.-Den-ver Republican. If our understanding of the matter be correct the United States < h is served notice on Great Britain that the Monroe doctrine will for the future be asserted-and mamtamed-with , i that European promp' itude and ’ • ... . encroachment on zYmerc ;m s ’ ! forbidden; that the Corinto incident will not be repeated, and that the looting of Venezuela must be muefinitely * i r rh<* <>riv <iu€stioii thiit ncvd postponed. Ine r v n< rb lP <]’a concern us. therefore, is 1 ia. 01 ■ • • strict compliance with our program. M e are alwavs glad to hear from England I o^urs;. but we can wait She must i keep hands off in \ enezuela, that is all. YVaslungton Post. ; — '. Exit— Manly Art. . I The Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight sueut cumbed to public sentiment.-I ittsburg i f ZOttO.

said to end prize fighting in America. No Slate will tolerate it. —Minneapolis Tribune. Prize fighters begin to think that th& Governor with the marble heart is just ' about unanimous in this glorious country ! of ours.—Detroit Free Press. Speaking of the Corbett-Fitzsimmona fiasco, does not the result look somew hat like immorality can be legislated against successfully?—Memphis Commercial-Ap-peal. It is a victory over the lower passions of men, a triumph of conscience. For once the better clement in human nature has scored a knockout. —Kansas City Journal. Corbett and Fitzsimmons have made costly nuisances of themselves. But if the curtail) w hich drops on them is never to be raised again on prize fighting they will have been of some use in the worlds —Cleveland Plain Dealer. But .'mother fight was fought and won. It was the fight between the United. States of America and Corbett and Fitzsimmons. and for once the L nited States, came off victorious. It was a bigger battle than even these great names indicate^ H’ur it was a tight between civilization' ana barbarism.—St. Paul Pioneer-Press. 1 he inability ~t wealthy managers oi the I - iorida Athletic ww, to find a lawful battleground for the F'wvMAvFitzsimnmns prize light is proof positive \w av fessional pugilism has received its death. ; blow in this country. Public sentiment is against these exhibitions, not alono because of their brutality, but by reason of the thugs and rowdies w hich make up the greater part of the people w ho support them. No respectable community cares to be invaded by such an clement.—New l York Herald. f

John Sherman’s Book. The tendency of John Sherman’s booK .3 to cause a toppling movement on the part of certain mouuiueuts.—St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. The only moral that can be drawn from the present book is the saddening picture it presents of the littleness of human greatness. —Kansas City l imes. We fear John Sherman has failed to recollect some of the most interesting events in his career. 1 here is his terrific war on the Pullman company, for instance.— Washington Post. Senator Sherman is an able. wise. man. and a statesman of long and ripe experience. but he seems to have forgotten Job’s desire "that mine adversary had written a book.” —Indianapolis Journal. The book is a kind of history of the Republican party, of its periods of success, and of its failures, too. Sherman has tried to be frank, ami once or twice he is abusive of public men. .New York Journal. Those who know Senator Sherman are well aware that he has a long memory for injuries received. He may apparently forgive what he conceives to be treachery to "his interests, but he never forgets. That Indian trait in his eomposotion is displayed in his book. — Cleveland Plaindealer. We have great respect and admiration for Senator Sherman; but, until proof to the contrary is produced, we shall fear that he has made the mistake, in this instance, of promulgating a charge which rests on no firmer ground than suspicion born of personal disappointment.—Milwaukee Sentinel.