St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 16, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 November 1895 — Page 6

Cljc Independent. AV. A. 1:> on EY, rubllNlwr. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. WHALEBONE HIGHER. UNSUCCESSFUL SEASON CAUSE OF THE RISE. Bad Day for Democracy—Great Rush of Grain to Eastern Elevators—Two Bank Failures in Washington—Dote ble Murder in Baltimore, Tightest Catch in Years. Five more of the whaling fleet arrived nt San Francisco from the north Tuesday. They were the steamers Narwhal and Urea, the brig Hidalgo and the barks Alice Knowles and Lydia. With the arrival of the Orca, the last hope of a catch in the late season dies. The losario brought news that the whalers had gone to the westward and there was yet a chance for the blubber hunters to redeem themselves. According to Captain Mcto^iMsor there were any number of whales to fAe westward, but they were inaccessible on account of the ice. McGregor says this ends the worst year he ever experienced in the Arctic. He caught but one whale. The catch of the Arctic fleet amounted in all to twenty-six whales, the smallest known in many years. The yield of bone from the catch will be about 40,000 pounds, which means that whalebone will be high this year. Bone is now selling for $2.75 a pound, and it is estimated that the price will be advanced to $5 before the sale begins. Two Ranks Go Down. The BeMingham Bay, Wash., National Bank has closed its doors by order of the directors, being unable to meet the county treasurer's demand for the county's deposit. The cashier reports the liabilities approximately at $105,000, of which $77,000 is due depositors. The suspension of the Bellingham Bay National Bank precipitated a run on the Bennett National Bank. The directors held a meeting and adopted a resolution not to open and directing the president to wire the comptroller of the currency to place the bank in the hands of the examiner. Republicans Win All. Mississippi, Utah and possibly Kentucky were the only fields of victory for the Democrats in Tuesday's election. | Though Tammany captured New York ' City. the State went solidly Republican, i Even New Jersey and Maryland went i with the crowd. Results in lowa. < >hio, | Massachusetts and Pennsylvania were ( never in doubt after noon. The Republican ticket was also successful in Chicago. Pingree. Republican, wins hi fourth term in Detroit. NEWS NUGGETS. The W. J. Rainey Coke Company has been absorbed by the Carnegie interest. The price paid is said to have been $2,250.000. The Southern Pacific “Sunset Limited” train has made the trip from New Orleans to San Francisco in three days two hours and forty-five minutes, the fastest time evt made in the history of railroads over an equal distance. At Omaha. Neb., the case of the Central Loan and Trust Company of New York City against the St. Joseph and Gram! Island Railroad for a decree of foreclosure for $7,000,000 mortgage bonds was decided by Judge Sanborn and the decree 1 granted. The Buffalo elevators are becoming blocked with the great flood opgrain now j being shipped from Lake Superior. Close j to 2.000,000 bushels of grain is there, and , a large fleet is due. The Erie elevator j had five boats Tuesday waiting to unload, and not a ear for shipment. Many of the elevators are full, and vessels are experiencing serious delays. The Paris Figaro Monday, commenting on the Venezuelan affair, says: “The dispute between England and Venezuela is worth watching on account of the proximity of the British and American fleets. Prudence recommends that they should ; not be left too long together, for the intense hatred of the Americans toward the old country is appalling.” The four great mills of the C. Nelson and Cloquet Lumber Companies have finished their season's run at Cloquet, Minn. The present season has been one of the best in the history of Cloquet mills, and they have sawed 95,000,(3)0 feet. All ; firms at Cloquet are carrying larger stocks of lumber than ever before, amounting to 120,000,000 feet. The President has appointed James B. Angel, of Michigan; John E. Russell, of Massachusetts; and Lyman E. Cooley, of Illinois, to be commissioners to make inquiry and report upon the feasibility of a deep-water canal between the great lakes and the Atlantic Ocean under the act approved March last. The President also appointed Patrick 11. Kirwan, of Olivia, surveyor general of Minnesota. The Cunard Line steamship Campania, from Now York to Queenstown, reports that on Monrtay, in latitude 45 and longitude 48, she saw a burning three-masted wooden vessel. The Campania bore down upon her and found she had been de- j serted. It is supposed that the crew had already been picked up by a passing vessel. The passengers of the Campania say that the burning ship presented a grand spectacle. Captain Frederick Lang twid his wife were murdered at their home on Franklin avenue. Garden rille, Baltimore, Monday night. Their skulls were crushed as they lay in last and the house was ransacked. I t is supposed that robbery was the incentive of the double murder. Captain Lang was a Baltimorean. H" whs about fifty years old and very wealthy. He owned a great deal erf property, including a num- )»<•<• trf oyster vessels. At San Francisco Judge Troutt has a>nnulled the nrerwiago of C. W. Saunders a*id Mrs. Sadie Maunders, nf East Boston. Mass., on the ground that Saunders was a minor when the ceremony was performed. Raundmt*. who is a son of (Hirer H. Smm Uric of Boston, testified that be raanied the woomn against bis w<Hl, ami Juia not seen her sinde. Brooklyn gas oompMiiew bare hwi consolida+od, with a combined capital of S3O,Seven stadents of the German Theologknf Seminary. of BlomfieM, N. J., have been eKUelled fw baring h ■ - .

EASTERN. Central New York reports a heavy snowstorm Thursday. Bill Nye was treated to a fusillade of over-ripe eggs at Paterson, N. J. . Fire at Dauphin, Pa., caused by a ■ spark from a locomotive, destroyed 4,000,OtK) feet of lumber worth $75,000. ' Gotham society is in a flutter because Invitations to the Marlborough-Vander-bilt wedding are advertised for sale. At Jamestown, N. Y., Charles Douglass is under arrest charged with the murder of Mrs. Winslow Shearman and daughter in December, 1804. At Clarksville, Tenn., Henry Baker was killed and one white man injured in a fight with a negro mob. Two negroes were badly injured. Two students have been expelled from the Pennsylvania State College, fourteen more have been indefinitely suspended and wholesale criminal prosecutions may follow—all the result of hazing. Cnlye & Co.. King & Co., and Treskow & Krellin, coal-stripping contractors at Hazleton, Pa., have been forced to suspend operations owing to the severe drought. Twelve hundred men have been thrown out of employment. The Bardwell Evangelical Church at Tunkhannock, Pa., was wrecked with dynamite Thursday night while a gospel meeting was in progress. No one was injured. The motive is ascribed to the bitter warfare growing out of the transfer of the church pnqierty from the followers of Bishop Dubs to the BowmanEsher people. The Mexican National Exixmition anil Lund Company has been incorporated under New Jersey laws. Its purpose is to hold an international exposition in the City of Mexico in 1898 under grants from the Mexican Government. The capitalization is to be $1,000,000, divided into 10,000 shares. Besides bolding the exposition the company will build tramways and hotels, grant concessions, establish a permanent amusement park and erect buildings. 11. A. McCausland, n traveling salesman for the Michigan and Ohio Plaster Company, either threw himself or fell from a third story window of the Osborne House, at Auburn, N. Y'., Wednesday morning. Although conscious when found, he died four hours afterward. It was impossible to secure from him a connected statement. Twice he said that there had been persons in the hotel room with him, but as the door was found to be locked, with the key inside, all thoughts of foul play were abandoned. McCausland was about 30 years old and his home was in Saginaw. Mich. H. H. Holmes was convicted nt Philadelphia Saturday of the murder of Bin jamin F. PitzeL “This man of steel and heart of stone," as the District Attorney described him to the jury, does not evince in the slightest any outward signs of breaking down. With death actually before him now, he is the same cool and callous Holmes. The prison regulations prevented any one from interviewing him Sunday, but a message was sent out that he slept well and was feeling com sortable ami still confident his innocence would vet be established. Extra care has been taken that the man shall not frustrate the efforts of the prosecution by committing suicide. A double guard has been placed on his cell and will remain there until he lias paid the penalty of his crime. WESTERN. Jack Dempsey, the well known pugilist, died at his residence in Portland Thursday morning of consumption. At Janesville, Wis., the wife of George Van Etta, one of the wealthiest men In the city, eloped with n horse jockey named Goldie. | Ida M. and Ella R. Nelson, ot ('hi- | cago, who are trumping their way to Jacksonville, Fin., on a wager, spent Sun- ■ day in Lexington. Ky. ; Rufus H. Smith, physician of the Gn at I j Northern Railway at Seattle, Wash., lias | I resigned to become physician and surgeon at the Lake View Hospital. Chicago. George O'Brien, who claims to be a son of Martin O'Brien, a wealthy Chicagoan, is in jail at San Francisco, charged with forging a cheek on the Anglo-California Bank. Mrs. Laura Hudson, of Winnebago, aged 77. became the bride of John Bentley, an old time resident of Freeport. 111., who gave his age to the officiating magistrate as SS. The Lincoln monument at Springfield, 111., is fast crumbling to a ruin. It is found to be a pile of rotten brick, with a veneer of stone. It will be razed, and a suitable shaft erected in its place. The Frank Bros.’ Implement Company at Portland, Ore., Mayor George P. ' Frank president, farm implements and carriages, has made hu assignment. The firm has bwu in business for twenty years. Thomas M. Patterson, proprietor of the Rocky Mountain News, has been arrested at Denver for criminal libel for charging that the Denver Tramway Company corrupted juries. The damages are laid at I $200,060. At Duluth, Minn., the Masonic Temple Association assigned to George N. Lavaque for the benefit of its creditors. The liabilities are about $1!35.000. The assets are the Temple Building and insurimce oil the <qx*rii house destroyed m few wwkr. ago. At Santa Barbara. Cal.. Mrs. Wheeler i ha* been arrested on a charge of inaanity. When the officers went to arrest her | she stood at her door with a revolver and j told them to stand back if they valued their lives. For eighteen hours she kept them back until she became overcome by hunger. Ilie City Council of Tacoma. Wash., has removed City Treasurer McCauley frotn oflice because of his failure to furnish an additional Ismd of SIOO,OOO, which the council aeked. Frederick T. Olds, one of the oldest and best-known । business men of Tacoma, was elected to ' avrve out the unexpirisl term. ' The Wallace, Idaho, mining troubles are ended for the present. Ninety-fivo of the non-union men who were threatened at । Mullen have enlisted in the Stair militia. 1 and others are being enrolled. They have rifles and ammunition sufficient for pres- ' ent needs. John Eklnn‘l, who was beaten ■ into insensibility at Gem Sunday, left ’ Wallace. Although the beating was wit- • nessed by a dozen persons, none oould be 1 foun^ "•}«» dared to testify. The Pottawutomib Indians in cotmcil ng Perry, O. T.. passed resolutions declaring: “We believe the stringent rules of tiie interior department regarding leases are nut conducive to our interest*. , It would be better^for the Indiun, better for the white ma«n, and better for the 1 (gxiMuuuity tUtU Mm; Indian ahouM hine

greater control over his land in the wav of leasing, at least for limited periods of say, five years. Give us more autonomy and less red-tapeism. The excessive pote/ tlm IS <U the govprnnien t tends to dwarf ° P rj eUt " hich ia necessary to O nV- 8 Bplf ’ B y«’l )or t>»R and which \an < attained only by imposing upon the Indian greater personal responsibility.” One of the most disastrous wrecks thnr ever occurred on the Baltimore and Ohio Road happened because of a broken wheel at io o dock Sunday morning at Elm (.rove, a suburban station five miles east of M heeling on the Wheeling and Pittsburg envision Mrs. Mirana Hare, of Kittanning, 1h,.. and Lawrence Bartley’s infant sou were killed. C. J. Garvey an ml operator of Marietta, Ohio, and'Ell» lance, ot Wheeling will die. Thirty three others were hurt. Three ears were smashed into kindling wood and the parlor car caught tire. The flames were extinguished, however, by two of the passengers before they gained much headway. Ihe railroad officials say the accident was one of those unaccountable oceurrences that may come at any time. 1 he broken wheel was given the usual test before the train left Pittsburg, am] appeared to be perfectly sound. William T. Burgess, who was admitted to the bar of Illinois fifty-five years ago, died Thursday afternoon at Chicago., from the effects of an unsuccessful surgi-t cal operation. Mr. Burgess is said Rk have been second only to Judge LymtiP Trumbull in point of length of priu^igL before the Chicago bar. In the tion of special courts in Nort® Mr. Burgess was one of the w Inent participants. William 1. was born in INDI at MsgrH, t’uuada. parents were among the earliest settlers? of Northern America, where his father engaged in trading and mercantile pur-’ suits. Mr. Burgess was educated at pri-; vate schools in his native city, and at the age of 19 crossed the lake to Buffalo. After spending several months in the East he came to Western Illinois. He first settled st Rockford, and transacted legal affairs for the residents of several counties. His eligibility to the bar of the State of Illinois dates fram Oct. (J, 1840, when Illinois was still unexplored and infested with Indians. SOUTHERN. Safeblowers looted the First National Bank of McGregor, Texas, semiring between $10,0(10 and $12,000. The liabilities of Bamberger, Bloom & ('<>., who leeently failed at Ixmisville, tire $1,250,000. It is not believed the assets will realize over 25 per cent of this amount. The Executive Committee of the Texas Live Stock Association has adopted resolutions declaring that the Importation of Mexican cattle along the entiru border from Oct. 22 to Dee. 31 of this year will not exceed 100,0110 head, and consequently will not In the least affect prices or in any way prove detrimental to the cattle interests of the State. By the wreck of the north-bound passenger train on the Missouri, Kansas ami Texas Rond Sumiai near Waxa ■ hm hie. Texas, Mike Murphy, the engineer, was killml. In addition twentytwo |M ople were injured, thirteen of them more or less seriously. Five conches were derailed and two turned completely over by an open switch. WASHINGTON. 4 The ram Katahdiu, the latest ndditio^ to the new navy, was given an olhcit^^ trial Thursday. The result of the triiW »s not ntitionnced, but it Is said the rm' qtiired seventeen knots an hour were mure dnin maintained under unfavorable con uitiors. The report that Capt. Isaac Bassett, the veteran doorkeeper of the Senate, is dying at Washington is not confirmed. He is suffering from stomach trouble, but his physician any* he is not danger* ously ill. ('apt. Bassett is 7(5 years of nge, however, nnd quite feeble, and the physician does not think he will be able ! to perform his duties much longer. A Washington disjmtih says: Armenian students will hereafter find the I 'nited States has stretched out its strong hand to protect them against the attacks of the Turks. The American representative at ('onstantinoplc. Alexander W. Terrell. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, has suddenly been given a lively boost from Washington, and as a result telegraphed the State Department Wednesday he would demand of the Turkish Government full protection for tin* missionaries and students. This was due to the determined stand taken by the Rev. Thomas D. Christie, President of the St. Paul's School at Tarsus. Dr. Christie complained to the State Department of the indifference of Minister Terrell to the outrages on the Armenians. As a preliminary step came the recall of Admiral Kirkland, who had criticised missions and missimmrii's in an unfriendly manner. Minister Terrell was sent a sharp reprimand as well, and instructed to give instant attention to the complaints of the missionaries ami follow this with a threatening protest to the Porte against the continuation of the outrages. It is understood that finally Minister Terrell was given to understand if he did not take rigorous action at ouce his resignation would l-e accepted by cable. Minister Terrell's relations with the department are strained, and it would not be surprising to hear of his recall or resignation. Il wms Hpunish woxth<*r at Wasbuigtou । Thuroday night, but the sympaUGaerti ' with the Cuban pat riots who gathered in ' Metzerott'a Hull made the old building i shake as they cheered to the echo every j declarntion of the eloquent speakers in behalf of Cuban liberty, and the granting by the government of the United States of belligerent rights to the patriots who are fighting the tyranny of Spain. The first hard storm of tho season had but little effect upon the enthusiastic crowd which gathered at the hull in response to the invitations issued by the Citizens’ Committee. Ths speeches were full of eloquent pleadings for the cause of the Cuban patriots, but it was a partk’nlnriy noticeable fact there was not the slightest exhibition of intemperate zeal. Ths luaniigers of the meeting were I distinctly informed the Spanish Minister | hud entered an informal protest against i the gathering, claiming a meeting of thia i kind at the capital of the Upited Blates would be misunderstood abroad, and might possibly be taken as representing the official sentiment of the government. It was also understood the Washington meeting would certainly l>e quoted abroad in any event, and for this reason those hi charge of the gathering made their arrangements »o the declaration* were a dignified protest against Hpauinh tyranny, and a no less dignified but emjJiatlc demand ter this country to nsoguiza tiie Cuban insnrgewt»s as beHig«*eufs and not as guerrillas or pirates. The treasury siatenwut ot receipts imm! disbursement*! fur Qutvber and the first

four months of the current fiscal year affords some comparisons which will interest business men. The October deficit was whittled down during the last ten days from $10,500,000 to $(5,161,000, which reduces the total shortage for the four months to $1(5,045,(MX), or $4,000,000, which is the almost exact average monthly deficit during the thirty-two months of the Cleveland regime. The October receipts footed up $28,000,000 nnd the disbursements $34,000,000. The governmental income and outgo for the first four months of 1805-1896, as compared with the corresponding period of 18 801 fortl ‘ " i,l ‘ KOU “-‘ detail in the following tabulation: RECEIPTS. This Last r. , fiscal year. fiscal venr Fnlermu re v’ 40 Total r’cpts.Jl 13.473.820.80 .$! 16 087 414 51 „ EXPEXIIITTKES. Civil and ndwcelluueous .$ 32.300,671.41 $ 35,508,880 07 ” !,r 22,101,074.05 20.135.ti51.3U N«vy 8,1KM>,383.21 11.070,143.01 Indians 3.071,075.01 2,095,051 60 Penslous .... 47,656,374.50 47,880.105 03 Interest 14.588,104.88 13,441,446.22 ’Total expend 120,510,548.46 $131,341,273.29 Excess expenditures over receipts . ...» 16.045.722.06 $ 14,353.858.*5 I ho October receipts, however, arc sl),(100,000 greater than for the c<>rr« spouding month of 1804. Internal revenue receipts are now rnnnlnir S2<M>.HOO or $.”00,000 a day heavier nnd customs rcceipts a very little heavier than last year. -^o REIQ .U The King of Ashantee has rejected the British ultimatum, preferring war to a protectorate. Great activity prevails among the Russian tgoopa on tho Austrian nnd Armenian frontiers. It is reported that two army corps are concentrated around Rowuo. M. Bourgeois has formed a new ministry for Franco as follows: Bourgeois, Minister of the Interior nnd President of the Council of Ministers; Ricard, Justice and Worship; Cavnginas, War; Ixjek roy, Marine; Berthelot, Education; Doumer. Finance; Guyet d'Essaigne, Public Works; Mesureur, Commerce; Combes, Colonies. A dispatch from Sophia announces that Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria will have the infant Prince Boris baptized in the Russian orthodox faith. Prince Ferdinand in a strong Roman Catholic, like his mother. Princess Clementine, of the Orleanist house, and his wife, I^ichess of Purina; but in this instance ho has allowed his political ambition to get the best of his religious sentiments. This uuovu vu the purt of the Bulgarian prince will du much to secure his recognition by Russia, mid hence by the other European [lowers, as the legitimntc sovereign of Bulgarin, of which principsllty he Ims hitherto been merely the de fcicto ruler. IN GENERAL Bill Nye has canceled his lectun* engagements and will rest until February. Jesse Coxey. son of (he common winder, wired his mother nt Massillon. Ohio, that he sajled for Cuba Ttwaday on the Adri nn. It is believed he will join ths Cuban insurgents. Obituary At Hot Springs. Ark., ex Mayor J. N. Givin, of Ethnaham, 111.; nt Jacksonville. 111., Rev. J I'. Dimmitt; rat T.ovell. Ind.. John N Sanger. nt I Btoumington, 111 , Mrs. Michael Finnan. 63. At tho conference with President Jeffery, of the Rio Grsnde Railroad, the heads of lalxir organizations stated that the cumpany was justified in discharging the telegraph operntor whose case had been the cause of the meeting, but asked thnt he be reinstated on account of extenanting circumstances. This President Jeffery agreed to. Information has reached Washington that the im iubers of th ■ Nicaraguan Canid Commission have signed their rejs>rt un the Inspection of the proposed route for the waterway ami sent it to the State Department. It is generally Is liertsl (hut the report is favorable to the construction of the canid under < loverntnent inunnge tneut. It is thought the cstmmte as to its prospective cost will be ntxiut $l( M >,( KM 1.(MM). R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review <»f Trade says: “The rapid recovery in cotton, and the rise in sterling exchange to the point at which the last exports of gold were made, have not increased confidence. There is a little better demand for most manufacturing products, and retail distribution is fairly encouraging and the closing of many works is less significant nt this season than it might be at others. It is a time of waiting, and uncertaintj may naturally continue for some weeks.” MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice. $2.5«) to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 58c to 50c; corn. No. 2,29 cto 30c; oats. Nn. 2, IS<* to j»e; rye, No. 2. 3«e to 88c; butter, rffoice creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, fresh. Ale to 19c; IHitatoes. per bushel. 18c to • broom corn, common growth to Ifcmv breen hurl, 2c to 4c per pound, .^udiunupolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to »,>.2,>; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.tM); common to prime, $2.00 to S4.(M); wjeat. No. 2,64 cto 66c; oorw, No. 1 wLite. 30c to 32c; oats. No. 2 white, 21c to 22* c Bt. Lmis —Cuttle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to S4.IX); wheat. Nn. - red. 58e to We; corn. No. 2 yellow, 26e to 27c; eats. No. 3 white, 17c to 18v; rve. No. 2, 37e to Kki. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 bs $5.00; her*. S3.(M) to $4.25; sheep. $2.50 to $4.00; ’'Leat, No. 2, 6<ic to ()7r; iwn, No. 2 ■died. Hie to 33c; oats. No. 2 mixed. 20c to 21c; rye. No. 3,40 cto 4?y. Detroit —Cattle. $2.50 tn SSAA; houm. S3.IM) to $4.25; sheep. $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, Nq. 2 nd, 64c tn (Wie; nwn, No. 2 yellow, 33e to 34e; oats. Nn. ? white. 21c to 3J’e; rye. Hlk- to 41c. 'Jiulrdie—Wheat, No. 2 r»d, OlV* ft» OTc; eera, No. 2 yellow. 31c tn "Se; oats. No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye. Nn. 2, 40? to 42e. Nnffalo—Cattle, s2.so» ft h I $3.00 to S4.(XI; sheetg $2.50 to SM.A»t; vheat. No. 2 rod, Ofic to own, N*x 2 yGlow, 86e to 38c; oata. No. 2 whrto, 23v to 24b. Milu aukee Wheat, No. 2 spring. ;77r te Brie; cwan, No. 3. 20c to 30r; eota. No. 2 white, 2(B' to 21e; Harley, Nn. 3, ffkle Us 38c; r 4 ve. No. 1,39 cto 40t; jrork, tn<».««, SIS.tK» to $8.50. New York —Cat tie. $3.00 to hope. SB-4)0 to $4.30; sbmqi, .$2.00 tvi wk*»a4, Ko. 2 ted. 68c to eew>. No. X 87« to HOu; oata, No. 2 white. 230 to 25c; butu>r. ereamery, 16« to 2404 egg®, Woatwu, 18t io 21<4.

EUGENE FIELD DEAD. SUDDEN DEMISE OF THE FAMOUS POET. Awful Crime in Omaha—Exploring nn Inland Unknown to White Men—Disastrous Blow to Decatur—Long and Successful Chase for a Criminal. Death Claims a Shining Mark. Eugene Field, poet, litterateur, one of Chicago’s brightest men, died while asleep Monday morning, of heart disease, after a brief and slight illness. Newspaper circles and clergy of the city, and the whole poetry-loving, English speaking world, is profoundly touched with sorrow ut the demise of this best-loved of men. Thu loss does not come alone to men and women. Children’s eyes all over the hind will flush with tears ami childish hands forsake their play because the touch of death has fallen upon tho lips of him who sang their sweetest lullabys. What child is there in a home worth the calling who has not “sailed away in the wooden shoon” with Wyuken, Blynken ami Nod, or gazed with swelling throat and overflowing eyes upon tho deserted tin soldier, sturdy timl stanch, ami the other toys, awaiting the return of Little Boy Blue, ••since hu kissed them and put them there?” Ami not one of till these little folk but will know a new grief when they learn that this friend of furies and children, this dreamful and gentle-souled jester, Inis gone to look for his Little Boy Blue. Whether in the West or the East, in America or in England, the most authoritative critics have paid Field their praises as a [»oet who sang the simple songs of the human heart with a faultless melody and touched bis lyre with an exquisite delicacy. Young Girl Murdered. Ida Gaskin’s mutilated body whs found in a small outbuilding at Omaha, in the business district, at 2 o'clock Monday morning. She bad been assaulted and murdered. Within an hour George Morgan. Ed Sanford ami Henry Booker, all | young men, were in custody charged with the crime. Ida Gaskin was 11 years old. The little girl was choked to death, her throat showing plainly where the cruel fingers had left their imprint. Booker is a driver of a coal wagon and u friend of the Gaskin family. Morgan is a col-lar-maker by trade, but has been out of employment for some time. Sanford works for the Crane Elevator Company. It is the opinion of the police that tho case is conclusive against Morgan. Big Fire nt Decatur. The Grand Opera House at Dis-atur, 111., built in ISS9, and furnished elegantly throughout by Orlando Powers nt a cost of SIOO,(HM>, was destroyed by fire Monday night, the flames breaking out in the basement from some unknown cause. The tire worked its way into the block north of the opera house and broke out afresh after the roof of the opera house fell in. Great volumes of sparks, flames and smoke rose, and the wind <“’rried them everywhere. The total loss is placed ut SS<K),(M)O. BREVITIES, Shelfield's Walcott mills and the whole town of Minn.. io*h> th'stroyd by tire. The loss is S I Umm ». Yielding to the petition of more than two score of manufacturers and inventors who have entiTvd in the motocyde contest. th«* judges decided to postpone the Chicago motowycle race until Thanksgii ing I >ay. Nov. 28. Judge Buck Kilgore of the Federal Bench in the Indian Territory has written t<> Attorney General Harmon defimdiug himself against charges filed by attorneys. The most serious charge is that “he doesn’t know much law and is tyrannical.” In the Airheart lease of Ihe AmhoriaLeland Conrpany's claim at (’ripple Creek, Cokt., a six-inch streak of bonanza ore has just been encountered at a depth of 232 feet. Select samples from a halfton of the ore assays $27,240.80 to the ton. Sylvanite abounds. The strike is one of the most marvelous yet made in in the gold camp. Running along with this is another seven-inch streak that assays 32 ounces to the ton. Prof. W. J. McGee, chief anthropologist of the bureau of ethnology, left Washington on what will probably prove one of the most interesting expeditious ever sent out by the department. Professor McGee intends, if possible, to visit the stronghold of the Seri Indians on Tiburon Island, a rocky bit of territory in the Gulf of California, nominally a possession of Mexico, but practically a possession of the Seri Indians. It is a spot that has never been visited by white men. Sheriff M. 11. Patterson, of Woodruff County, Arkansas, captured .I. M. Leslie, alias Ryan, alias Lewis, at Okolona, Miss. His chase of the man extended over 2,200 miles, but the crimes warantod the persistent pursuit. Leslie is wanted for two bigamous marriages in Texas and Arkansas, and known forgeries in Omaha, Neb., and other cities, with a Jine of I fie later crimes the length of which is not known. The steamer Joe Peters, plying between Memphis and Vicksburg, sank Sunday night at Island Sixty-three, while on her way to Viekshiirg with a cargo of alumt 120 tons of miscellaueotJM freight. The cause of the accident is not known. No lives wero lost. The captain and owner, Al Cummins, telegraphs that both the boat and cargo are a total loss. The boat was valms! at SIO,OOO and was insured for $6,5(M) in Louisville. The cargo was worth about $3,500 uud insured in shipper’s policies. The Turkish Government has again instructed the Government of Bitlis to pn>te<t the American missionaries at that place. Owing to the disturbances the American missiortaries who InivO been en : gaged in relieving tha sufferings <rf the Armenians at Sassoun have decided to postjione operations and s'x*k safety at Kitlia. At Montgomery, Ala.. lh» Montguniory, Tuscaloosa and Ht. Txmia Railway is given thirty days in which to pay to the Aletrojsditan Trust C-ompany of New York $181.(MX) defeultixl iutereot. If net paid the road will be sold. The C-auadiaji Government is rrports'd to bo establisLjug fortified posts along what they claim fs the Alaskan boundary. At Fort Pa^no, Ala., the steel mill built by the C^al and Iron Company and purehas«d by the Dekalb < 'umpmjy is to lie opurnted in thirty days. It has a eaiaiuity of 1W toils a dgy.

IT WAS A LANDSLIDE. REPUBLICAN VICTORY NEARLY UNIVERSAL. New York, lowa, Ohio, Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Kansas, and New Jersey Go with the Surj-inu Tide. Results of the Election. Returns from the twelve States and one territory in which elections were held Tuesday carry no encouragement to Democrats. It was a Republican landslide of the most accentuated type. In only two States of the twelve has the Democracy surely triumphed—Mississippi and Kentucky. Everything else is Republican. Even Maryland has turned and joined the victors. New York, lowa, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Kansas and Utah, from present indications, have reverted to their old standard by unequivocal majorities. In New York the Republicans elect their entire State ticket and carry the State by an increased majority. Conservative estimates place the figures at from 50,600 to (50,000. New York (Jity i« c*irrie<l A»y Tnimnauy, but the vote of that city and Hrooklyn shows a loss of about 12,000. The Legislature is solidly Republican. lowa goes Republican by n plurality approximating 70,000. Five hundred precincts showe<l that Drake (Rep.) for Governor, hud run ahead of Jackson (Rep.) 1.860, and that Babb (Dem.) had run behind Boies (Dem.) 7,580. The Legislature will be Republican and all the Republican State ticket will be elected. In Ohio Bushnell, the Republican candidate, Is elected Governor over Campbell by from 80,(MM) to 100.000 majority. His vote exceedeil that of McKinley right through the State. In addition to electing Bushnell anti the rest of the State ticket the Republicans have fully threefourths of each branch of the Legislature, thus enabling them to elect a Republican I successor to Brice in the United States. Senate. Late returns from Kentucky confirm the election of Hardin (Dem.) for Governor, with the entire State ticket, with the possible exception of Judge of the Appellate Court. The returns were meager and unsatisfactory, but there seems to be no doubt of the general result. Hardin’s plurality will not be over 2,000. The indications are that the vote of Jefferson County will decide the race for Governor. Garrard. Bradley's county, gives a Republican gain of 181. Every county from which complete returns were received showed large Republican gains. IV. F. 1.. Hadley, the Republican candidate for Congress in the Eighteenth Illinois district, to succeed Fred Remann (Rep.), who died in office, defeated his Democratic opponent. Edward Lane, in each of the six <*ounties of the district. C. S. Culp (Pop.) received scant support. Hadley's estimated majority is 3,300. In Maryland the Democrats met a veritable Waterloo. The whole State seemingly repudiated Senator Gorman and the indications now are that a Republican will succeed Senator Gibson. Baltimore went Republican by from 5.00() to 10,000. Lowndes' election as Governor by a majority of anywhere from 10.000 to 20.(MM) is conceded by (he J lemocratic committee. While the complexion of the Legislature could not be determined definitely Tuesday night, there is no reason to hope that the Democrats have saved it. Massachusetts Republicans re-elected Gov. Greenhalge by increased majorities. In spite of its being an off year the ticket Hent through with more to spare than it had last year. Returns in at midnight showed that the Democrats elected nothing and are lucky to be in the race at all. New Jersey may possibly join the Republican column. In many of the counties from which returns were received up to midnight Griggs (Rep.), for Governor, was in the lead by substantial majorities over McGill. The State committee, however, claims McGill’s election by about 6,(MM). (>n the other hand, the Republicans claim the Governorship and Legislature on joint ballot. In Nebraska T. L. Norval, Republican candidate for the Supreme bench, is probably elected by 15,000 majority. Maxwell (I'op.) polled less than 60,000, while Phelps (Silver Dem.) got about 25.000. I Mahoney, the straight Democratic candidate, will not r<*eeivc to exceed 10,000. Forty-two precincts out of seventy-six in Omaha gave Broatch (Rep.), for Mayor, 800 plurality. His total plurality is estimated at 2,(KM). Pennsylvania went Republican with increased majorities. The voting early in the day indicated but little interest, and a probable falling off of the votes of both the big parties. In the late hours, however, this was overcome by the rapidly increasing number of electors, who appeared at the pools. The vote was fully up to expectations and the majorities will average 80,000 and better. In Philadelphia alone there was a heavy increase in the Republican vote. The city went Republican bj- 60,000. This may send the toal majority in the State over 100,000. In Kansas the election of David Martin, the Republican candidate for chief justice of the Supreme Court, is conceded In Mississippi the Democrats have swept the State by 50,000 majority. The Republicans carried Chicago and Cook County by pluralities considerably less than those given their ticket one year ago. The Democrats made gains in almost every ward of the city, but their combined gains were not sufficient to overcome the Republican excess in 1894. Farlin Q. Ball. Riqmblican, defeated Richard W. Morrison. Democrat, for the vacancy on the Superior Court bench by 36,098 plurality. For the full term on the same bench Judge Henry M. Shepard, Democrat, was elected without opposition to ' succeed himself. Judge Shepard received ' a total vote of 134,339, which was only i about 2,(MM) less than the combined vote 1 of Ball and Morrison. The Republicans ' also elected five of tL<* Drainage Commissioners. which gives them control of the j new boa nd. What They Earn. A Persian cook can earn $3.22 a niontl^. ! A printer in Peru ‘'an niake $1.25 to $1.50 a day. j A native printer in India earns 40 cents a day. I A mule drlv« in Modk’co earrs 10 cents u day. I Farm laborers in Be'giuin receive 46 cents a daxI An engraver Ui R<io Janeiro can makesl^ a veek.