St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 18, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 23 November 1895 — Page 6

Wl)c Jnbepcnbent. A* MNDLjEY, JPhLHlrlioi, WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. FAST MAIL DITCHED. NEW YORK CENTRAL HAS A FRIGHTFUL WRECK. Engineer and Two Tramps KilledTrain Was Running “5 Miles an Hour —Work of Wreckers New KI Dorado in Southern Colorado. Dastardly Work of Train wreckers. Train wreckers ditched the New York Central fust mail a few miles west of Rome, N. Y., Tuesday morning. Engineer Frank Hager, of Albany, ami two tramps were killed. Fireman Chris AY ugner. of Albany, and Mail Clerks Porter and M. J. McCarthy were injured. When the crash came the engine was thrown from the track into the ditch and completely submerged in the mud, only the driving wheels on the left side being above the earth. The forward mailcar was thrown two ear lengths ahead of the Engine, and rolled down the bank so that "it lay lengthwise toward the rails. The second car. in which the mail clerks were* working, was thrown onto the tender of the engine and demolished. The third ami fourth ears were also wrecked, the ends of both being broken. The first sleeper was thrown from the rails, rolling completely over, so that the trucks were a long distance from the rails. The second car was simply turned on its side, while the rear sleeper did not leave the tracks at all. Engineer Hager went down with his engine and must have been instantly killed. The fireman, Chris Wagner. was badly injured about the head, ami it is feared that he is internally hurt. Three Big Fires. Fire in the Parker Block at Ixswell. Mass.. Tuesday morning caused a loss of $350,000. The building is five stories in height, partly occupied by the Appleton company, and contained $400,000 worth of finished cotton goods. The building is owned by the heirs of Col. J. M. G. Parker. The losses are probably covered by insurance. Fire at Dallas, Texas, destroyed a building 200x50 feet, three stories in height, which were occupied by the Texas Paper Company and by the Deering Harvesting Company of Chicago. Loss on building, $50,000: insurance. $40,000. Loss of the Texas Paper Company, $50,000; insurance. $34,700. laiss of the Deering Harvester Company, S2S,O(Xh fully insured. Purcell. 1. T.. was visited by a disastrous tire which almost wiped it out of existence Tuesday morning. The tire started in a grocery store owned by Paul Ghiekeman. who is strongly suspected of applying the torch, ami he was at once arrested by a I nited States deputy marshal. Twenty business houses were burned, the aggregate loss being about $100,000; insurance, S4O. (too. New Gohl Region. Major W. S. Peabody has arrived at Denver from Archuleta County, Southern Colorado, bringing specimens of ore taken from the largest vein ever discovered. The vein as described is 1,000 feet across. The ore averages on the surface $8 to the ton. If the discovery sustains the claims of those who have been upon the ground a new gold-bearing region has been found which will eclipse anything known in the world. Senator Teller recently made a quiet visit to the region, and is tilled with enthusiasm on the subject. He says it is “a big proposition.” NEWS NUGGETS. T'he Nawab of Basoda. India. MohamXned Omar Ali Khan, is in New York. It is reported that Prince Henry of Battenburg has decided to join the staff of the commander of the expedition to Ashantee. 'fhe report of the mutiny of 170 convicts and 300 volunteers on the steamer Catalonia during her last voyage from Madrid to Havana is officially denied. C. R. Meeker, assistant engineer of the Southern Pacific Railroad, ami formerly an officer in the I'nited States navy, committed suicide at Oakland. Cal. Michael 11. Maher, who is wanted at Leadville. Colo., for the alleged embezzlement of about SI,OOO from the Dold Pack ing Company last February, has been ar rested .at Los Angeles. Policemen T. F. Brown ami B. S. Farrow were dangerously wounded and W 11 Ward, colored, fatally wounded while the officers wen* attemptiMg to arrest the latter at Little Rock, Ark. The British steamer .lames Turpie, Captain Smith, which sailed from Genoa on Nov. <> for New York, has arrived at Gibraltar seriously damaged. having been in collision with the Vulcan off Cape Geta, Spain. The Vulcan sank ami two of her crew were drowned. Peter W. Breene. president of the defunct Leadville, Colo., Savings Mind De- . Bank. is missing, and creditors of the institution are anxious to meet him and learn what sort of settlement be expect'; to make. Mr. Breene borrowed over S7O.<MH> from the bank. • ’ Frank Wayland, of Marion. Ohio, received a letter from a Baltimore attorney, asking him his relationship to William Wayland, who moved to Ohio years ago. lie was his son. The attorney now writes । him that he is heir to the Wayland es- ; tate in Maryland, valued at a million. Fire in the six-story factory building -it 98 Clinton street. New York, caused a panic among the working people, who numbered about two hundred. The basement, in which the flames started, was occupied as a candle factory, and the tallow there caused the tire to spread rapidly, cutting off egress byway of the stairs. Several men jumped from the root and from windows to the tops of adjoining buildings. After the building had been gutted the firemen set about searching for bodies, tine, which has not been identified, was found. Albert Neville, a carpenter, was murdered at San ITancisco by two masked robbers. The President has appointed John L. Peak, of Kansas City, Mo., Uniter! States Minister to Switzerland, to succeed Minuter Broadhead, resigned, and Otto Mumhmeyer as I'nited States Consul at San Salvador. ' Charles Schaefer, of Chicago, committed suicide in New York because he had lost his employment and money. The residence of George A. Kessler, on sth avenue. New York City, has been robbed of $40,000 worth of jewelry.

EASTERN. £7?'-* Nearly one thousand New York eab- ! drivers are on a strike. H. E. Addison, of Chicago, has been chosen class orator by the Harvard • seniors. Brooklyn gas companies,have been consolidated, with a combined capital of $30,- ’ 000.000. H. H. Holmes, recently convicted at Philadelphia of the murder of B. F. Pitseel, bus appealed fora new trial. Mrs. Helen M. Gougar has lost her suit for $2.>,000 damages for libel against ( ongressman Morse. of Massachusetts. Ihe Rev. S. F. Smith, the venerable authored ‘’America," died suddenly in the Neu York and New England Depot Saturday afternoon, at Boston, of heart disease. A large sloop, painted white, was seen to capsize off Rockaway Beach. N. Y„ about a mile from the shore. Thursday morning. Four mon were scon clinging to her, but were washed away later. The sloop, the name of which could not be ascertained. drifted away. Fire which broke out in the wire nail factory of Philip Townsemi A Co., Philadelphia, Wednesday morning destroyed the building, stock and machinery, entailing a loss of $150,000, partly covered by insurance, There were ninety-six nail machines, ranging in value from SSOO to SI,OOO each, and spike machines worth from $3,000 to $5,000 each in the building. A number of new machines were to have been installed at once. About 200 persons were employed. Eben D. Jordan, head of the great Boston diy goods firm of Jordan. Marsh A Co., died Friday morning at 0:50 o'clock. Eben D. Jordan was born in Danville, Me., Oct. 13, 1822. When only I years old he was p’aced with a neighboring farmer because of his father's death without mean# After ten years of labor on the farm le arrived in Boston with $1.25 in his p.-cket. After working on a farm in Roxhtry for two years be was employed in it dry goods store. The firm of Jordan, Marsh A Co. was founded in 1851 with a cash capital of $5,000. WESTERN. The sugar trust is reported to have notified jobbers ami dealers that if they sell the refined product of Nebraska beet sugar factories the trust will decline to sell them the cheaper grades. John R, Tanner, chairman of the Republican State Central Committee of Illinois, has resigned his jiositmn and announced his candidacy for the Gubernatorial nomination in WHi. Ferdinand Kennett, ex Chief of Poli e. of St. Louis, who killed Detective A. B. i Lawson, was sentenced at Los Angeles, Cal., to ten years in State prison. The case will be appealed to the Supreme । ('ourt. Wednesday was Thurman's S2d birth day anniversary. The "Ohl Roman" was in receipt of a number of testimonials of regard. He continues to improve and now converses with friends. The Thur man club of Columbus sent him a beautiful basket of flow el’S. Annie Elliott secured a divorce in Judge Woods' court at St. Louis, Mo. She tes ! titled that her husband was cruel to het. ! She kept a heavy veil over face through- ' out the trial. It developed that she was I Barnum's bearded lady ami her husband i an india-rubber man by profession. The term “Trilby" was before Judge Hollister, of Cim-innati for judicial inter pretation. In the Moxey murder case one woman was asked io compute dis tame by feet ami answered: ”1 am no judge of Trilbies." Iler answer was stricken out us being impertinent and indefinite. The Findlay, Ohio, team won it' third > successive game of loot ball Friday, the I Fostoria Athletic Association being ‘he victims. The score wae 56 to <l. While | running with the ball Tom Shafer, one of the Findlay players. was tackled by three of the visitors, and in the scrim mage that ensued his right leg was bn iken. In ’rying to capture Clarence White, a desperate criminal, who is wanted for many robberies, operatives ot the Bet t v detective agency at Chicago killed his brother. Frank While, who was seated in a buggy with him. White was killed , in an exchange of shots, after the dete< lives commanded the o< • up;.tits to stir render. Arthur Johnson, nt Leavenworth. Kan. went coon hunting with his um le. John i Peleg, with a pack of hounds just re j reived from the East. When they tried i game Johnson climbed the tree io shake down. He slipped and fell and the dogs pounced on him by mistake. It was , dark and his uncle, being dent and mH ' hearing his cries, instead of taking the ; dogs off, encouraged them. Johnson's life was saved by a neighbor coming along and taking off the dogs. His friends tear he may not recover. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi ! neers has decided to offer a large reward and employ detectives to assist in cap taring convict George Roberts, win is caped a few weeks since from Jeffersonville. Ind., and was not caught despite all efforts made to catch him. Roberts' crime consisted in wrecking a Big F<-ur train near Terre Haute during the late coal strike, killing Engineer Merriman and his brakeman. Roberts was em ployed ns n trusty around the prison stables. amt takin« iwlvantage <>f ibis man aged to get away. « Mayor Sutio of San Francisco has received a rambling fitter from Cincinnati, signed by Alexander Russ Kenshaw, M. | D.. in which the writer says that he aeei- : dentally came into possession of facts that he claims lead to the discovery of the murderers of Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams. He says that two professional gamblers committed the crimes, but fear of death at their bauds seals his i lips. He would be glad to give additional information if he could c< me to California in safety. The police look upon the letter as the work of a crank. An attempt was made by four men to rob the Monroe County Bank at Woodsfield, Ohio. They drilled several holes in the vault, destroying the time lock, but failed to get in. Just before they begun operations Sheriff J. P. Keyser had occasion to go to his stable in the rear of 1 the bank building, and while walking down the alley the four cracksmen । ptium ed upon him. bound and gagged him I and robbed him of s<>o and a gold watch. * Then they placed him in the stable, where 1 he was found in the morning. There wa,s a large amount of money in the bank vault. ■' I’he Rev. Madison Swadener, of N >. 18 Elizabeth stneet, Cincinnati, Ohio, the other night found a man emptying the pockets of the coats in the hall. The burglar ordered the Rev. Mr. Swadener , • tu hold up his hands, w hereupon the rev-

erend gentleman knocked the Ipirglar I senseless, then revived his man, and kicked him out. Half an hour later th* doorbell rang. Mr. Swadener opened the door. There stood the burglar. He had <‘ome for his hat. As the preacher turned to it the burglar knocked him down. Then the expounder of the go% pel lost his temper for the first time and thrashed the fellow soundly and threw him into the street. Francis Schlat ter, the so-called healer and Messiah, disappeared from Denver Wednesday night, and a warrant for his arrest has been issued from the I’nited States Court. He had been summoned to appear before the United States commission as a witness against persons arrested on a charge of using the mails to defraud by pretending to sell handkerchiefs blessed by Schlatter. The accused claimed they could prove that Schlatter had really blessed a bale of handkerchiefs for them, and in that case he was liable to indictment. He left a note simply saying: "My mission in Denver is ended. Good-by.” Over 3,(XK> people assembled Thursday morning expecting to receive treatment from Schlatter. A wreck on the Cleveland, Lorain aiLj heeling Railroad at Warwick, Oh»l Wednesday morning resulted in the deaffi of two men. The engineer of a freight train stopped and whistled for a tlagm J to be sent out. The conductor, Charm Ernst, and brakeman, John Adams, w<X asleep in the caboose and did not bYir the signal. A second section ran int^Ae first at the rate of twenty miles an iw’ ,r - Both Ernst and Adams were killed^^f^ 0 money loss w ill be SIO,OOO. Fou^Hf 8 * w hich were being draw n up a steep on the Delaware, Lackawanna and WWstern Railroad, near Short Hills, N. *J., broke away from the loeomot've and ran back at great speed, crashing into the locoinotive of a newspaper train which was moving forward at a good rate. Reuben Tindall, engineer of the newspaper train, was killed and his fireman, Hiram Rush, badly injured. The people of Cleveland. Ohio, stood appalled Sunday when they realizanl the full horror of a terrible accident which occurred Saturday evening on the big central viaduct. It was the worst accident that had i-vit happmml in that city, and the story of how the motor car. loaded with men, women and children, had plunged through the open draw, straight down 100 feel into the liver, was told over an?t over again. Fifteen bodies in all were recovered and identified. Thousands of people remained by the river bank all night, and thousands more were there early in the morning. August Rogers. the inotorman who has been held as a witness, was charged with manslaughter. This action was taken by Chief of I’olice Ho.'hn after lie had investigated the accident. After the charge had been placed uiiainst him nobody was permitted Io see ||i>p'i» The diver sm reeded in fastening a chain to the r.inks of the motor ami thev w ere raised f rom the river. The bis! of the stream was then dragged, but no mote bodies were found. Emir pers, ns are still missing, howe'er, ami it is jirobtible tbftt theh bodies have tfi-.ite I down the river. WASHINGTON. At the request oi the Interior Deport- ■ ment. General Wheaton, commanding ; the depart men! of Colorado, has ln>en in ' strutted to hold a troop of cavalry in ; te«ditl<‘ss to be dispat, bed. ts msessarv. [ to the scene of the killing of Iwo Indians : at the Southern Ute agency. Cofi-r.sio. IHiieial eumpduUolis ol the Colh'®>r of Customs transmitted to the TretisufL De- I partment amply demonstrate ihoTiapid . rate at which seal herds of Belirinf S. .1 | are being slaughtered. In the last thn’e I months 1.‘.U1 sealskins have Iss ti brought j into js»rt. of w hich numlM-r 4.<J50 are ' females. This number of seals represents scarcely cnea i-lith of the North l'a> Hb catch. Secrelui' Smith, at Washing’oU, de- : < ided that the eastern terminus of the I Northern l’aeitie is nt either Thomson. Minn .or Superior. Wis instead of Ash land, Wis.. ns has always been claimed I b. the company. About eight himdred j thousand acres of kind is involved, which ! is lost by the company. The secretary 1 does not undertake to say whether the ' grant begins at Thomson or Superior. ; but directs all »ele.linns for indemnity between these points to be held for fnr j ther eonsideration. He does declare that i the grant of the Northern Pacific does ■ not extend east of Superior City. He 1 also says that he is aware that the lands . east of Superior were the basis for the j 'election of a large quantity of lands from : the indemnity belt of the company’s grant in North Dakota. These selections having been made some time ago. many, if m>t all, have perhaps been sold by the company. The secretary has directed that the company be allowed sixty days within which 10 specify a new basis for any of its indemnity selections voided by this decision Secretary Motion has his annual report about completed. The Sisri-tary will take up the system of government inspection of meals and will point out some of the defects in it as it now exists. The fact that the system fails to [•rotect American consumers while it guards the health of foreign purchasers of our beef has often been jiointed out. The k.w permits the Federal authorities Ip condemn but not destroy, and thus stamt^ in the way of an effectual intertiTeneo on the part of government officials prevent the consumption of diseased ujat in j this country. Mr. Morton aekmg^'dges [ this imperfeclion in the law ami i h.,nTi's,;"b Ue says, how ever, that I here is a p>medy •nr Ilie defect, w hich is to be foutie in appealing to the owners of diseased stock or in co-operation with the State goverumonts and he urges that steps Ik? taken looking to the extension of the national goiernment's prerogative iu this lireitio 1. Washington dispatch: Among the matters- likely to come before the next Uongrexs will be a proposition to reorganize the judicial system in vogue in the District of Columbia. The very worst form of tyranny prevails here. Judges are appointed for life, from the meanest to the higliQ't, and independence of public opinion 1. js bred abuses that would not be tolerate 1 for a minute in any other cotimun y in America. Lawyers are prating fir a change, but they are afraid py move- for fear of being ruined in the r pract ,e. and the people have been slow to tags' the initiative. The judges are despotic in their rules and have the pe<>ple in a state of terrorism. They can do all manner of outrageous things am] laugh at protests, for there is no appej.l in a majority of cases. As matters now stand no suit against any of the loen! corporations can be prosecutes! successfully. Every jury drawn has from one to twelve “friends” of she corporations, and one of the judges makes it a practice ,to try corporation cases without a jury,

in spite of protests. Os course, his decisions ate being constantly reversed, but he doesn’t mind that. Eighteen of his eases were reversed in one week, it is said. ’I he whole system is rotten and full of rink abuses. The only way to get rid of the offensive material is by a complete reorganization of the judiciary branch of the municipal government. Something of that sort is on the tapis. FOREIGN. Eighteen suicides are reported at Paris as a result of the financial Hurry. St. Petersburg dispatches declare that there is no foundation for the reports concerning the ill health of the Czarina. United States Consul Dean at Naples lopoits that the Italian orange ami lemon crop will be less than last year, or twothirds of the average, and the same is true of all citrous fruits. Between Oct. 13 and Oct. 26 there were 1.490 cases of cholera and 616 deaths in the Province of X’olhynia, Russia, and thirty-eight cases and twelve deaths in the Province of Kieff. A steam launch belonging to the British cruiser Edgar is reported to have been lost in Japanese waters and forty-eight men who were on board of her are said to have been drowned. A siM'<inl dispatch from Shanghai says it is positively stated that China has agreed that Germany shall occupy one of the IslnndH near the entrance to the seapdrt of Amoy for thcVpurpose of estnb lishing n naval yard and a coal dei>ot. It is added that it is feared this step will be followed by international complications, as France a.nd Russia are certain to seek similar privileges. Rev. Joseph M. Koudelka. of Cleveland, lias just returned from a visit to Rome. In regard to the Pope’s health lie said: “I was shocked to Sind how he is broken in health. Ho has to be carried into the room in a chair, for lie could not walk, and his form and face are much emaciated. His mind and sight are as vigorous an ever, how ever. lif course it is impossible to tell how long he may yet live, but 1 confess I should not be surprised to hear of his death at any time." A school building at Grenada, Mexico, in which 150 children were present, caught fire and before anythng could be done the whole building was ablaze ai>d in spite of the heroic efforts of the people the building was destroyed. 'Thirtyone charred bodies, including the teachers. were found. The tire is believed to be of incendiary origin ami two boys who had been severely punished by the teacher mid suspemled from school are believed to be the authors of the crime. They have been arrested, but so far have Hot confessed. IN GENERAL Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson has sailed f >r Samoa, where she intends to reide permanently. An English syndicate Ims purchased the four principal breweries iu Halifax, pay ing S.'smi.<h«>. Rev. R. A. Tor rex, of Chiiago, has resigned ns president of the International I Christian Workers' Association. Rev. ■ Russell 11. <'unwell, of Philadelphia, was elrtisl to succeed him. Obitmirx At Atlanta. Ga . Renick S. i Matthews. 23. son of Governor MatI thews of Indiana; at Milwaukee. Dr. I Jacob Mendel; at Washington. Marquis Manfredi Lanza di Brolo; at Denver. I Ai,-I» Baton, a nephew of ex-President I Harrison; at Oakland City, Iml.. Editor ; William 11. Evans, mi; at Valparaiso, j Ind , John D W ilson, 66; nt Rodyford, HI.. Mrs. Morton Russell. Si; at Chesteri ton. Ind . Mrs Bartley Coyne. 73. R. G. Dun A Co.'s Weekly Review of I Trade says " The scare about gold exj |H>rts had no renl significance, anti al- > though S_“.V.'.ii.tMHi more went out Saturday. the stock market < outinm s strong. I 'There was and is a substantial cause of j dtrticult) in the fact that exports of prod- | mis ha'e been too small to meet the I greatly im reastd imports of merchan ; disc. The « olhipse of Kathr speculations ! abroad has forced many to realize on I Americans held, mid the impression that I our Government may have to borrow j again also operates to our disadvantage, i But there is no fi> al disturbance of ' money markets." The international convention of the Women's mid Young Women’s Christian 1 Associations elei ted these officers: Presi- : dent. Mrs. R. A. Dorman, New York: First Vice President. Mrs. C. N. Judson, j Brooklyn; Second \ co President. Mrs. .1 B l.earmont. Montreal; Corn spending Secretary. Mrs. John Duncan, Louisville; Recording Secretary. Miss M. F. True. Chicago: Assistant Secretary. Mis - E. B. Stew art. Baltimore: Treasurer. Mrs. Levi T. Scofield. Cleveland. Mrs. Leander Stone, of Chicago, was elected one of the State Vice Presidents. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago- Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $5.25; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to SI.OO; sheep, fair to choice. .52. Ml to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red. 56e to 5Ke; corn. No. 2. 28c to 30c; oa^. No. 2. ISe In 19c; rye. No. 2. 36c to 38c; butter, choice creamery. 21e to 23c; eggs, frosh. 19c to 21c; potatoes, per bushel. 20c to 30c; broom corn, common growth to choice green hurl. 2vi.c so 4c per pound. Indianapolis ('attic, shipping. $3.<M) to I $5.00; hogs, choice light. $3.00 to s4.o<>; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.M>; I wheat. No. 2. 62c to (sic; corn. No. 1 St^Louis ('attic. s::.im to $5.00; hogs. $3.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red. 62c to O4c; oirn. No. 2 yellow, 24c to 26c; oats. No. 2 white. 17c to 19c; rye, No. 2,33 c t< 3-ic. Cincinnati —Cattle. 53.50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; sh,—p. $2.50 to $3.50wheat. No. 2. 66c to TSc; corn. No. 2 mixed. 31<- to 33c; oats. No. 2 mixed. 2K to 22c: rye. No. 2. 39c to 4fe. Detroit—Cattie. $2.50 s o £5.25: hogs. S3JA» to $4.1 Ml; sheep. $2.00 Io $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red. 63e to 05c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 29c to 30e: oats. No. 2 while, 22c to 2’se: rye. 40e to 41c. Toledo —Wheal. No. 2 red. 64g to 65<-; corn No. 2 yellow, 29e to 30c; oats. No. 2 w hite, 19c to 2ie; rye. No. 2,39 cto He; dove r seed, $4.25 to $4.30. Buffalo— -( a 11le. $2.50 to $5.50; hogs. $3.0(. to $4.00; sheep. $2.50 to $3.75; whorl. No. 2 red. 68c to 70c; corn. No. 2 ye!J >w. 35c to 37c; oats. No. 2 white. 23c t > 24 e. Mil waukee- W hen I. No. 2 spring. 56c to 58. : corn, No. 3. 2S<- io 29c; oats. No. 2 wh:-;e. 19c to 21c; barley. No. 2. 35c lo 37e;_ ;ye. No. 1,37 cto 38c; pork, mess, $7.75 lo $8.25. New York—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.50: hogs, $3.00 to $4.M>; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheal. No. 2 red. 66c to 67c; corn, No. 2. 36c to 37c; oats. No. 2 white. 23c to 24c; butter, creamery, 16c to 24c: eggs. West21c to 2-lc.

OUTLET TO THE COAST CANADIAN PACIFIC SEEKS A CHICAGO TERMINUS, Assembling of War Fleets Has a Good Effect on the Porte-Two Hundredth Anniversary of a Philadelphia t hureii—Oklahoma's Claims. New Line to Coast. Chicago is to have a ucw line of railroad conuecting it with the Pm-ifie coast. Ihe Canadian Pacific is building a line into the city from the Northwest to connect with its Soo Line at Lake Superior, and by that line with its main system. 1 he construction of its new branch has already been eommenceil. Grading, putting down ties and laying iron are now in progress, and the work will be pushed to completion with all possible energy. These operations are being conducted in the quietest manner and in a wax not to it--11 act attention. The work is being done apparently under other auspices than those of the Canadian Pacific, and in such a xvay as to permit the management of that road to deny diplomatically all <<>ll- - with the new enterprise until it is ready for actual operation, and even then it is lik< ly to beoperattsl tinder a different corporate name ami organization. All the same, the <'anadiim I‘tieitic is back of the enterprise anil will furnish all the means necessary t<> l.uild it which cannot lie obtained in other directions or in away which will not interfere with the Canadian Pacific's control of the property when it is ready for operation. Sultan Will Urge Reform. It is understood in xvell-iuformed circles at Ixihdon that the assembling of the British and foreign fleets in Salonica Bay is having a good effect upon the Turkish Government, and that the Sultan has finally determined to make earnest efforts to put a stop to the bloodshed in Asia Minor. The following telegram from Constantinople was received Monday morning by the Anglo-Armenian Association: “The Armenians are being massacred everywhere in Asia Minor, (•ver KMUMMI are dying of starvation ami exposure. The Sassoun work of relief is closed. For God's sake urge the Government to stop the most awful events of modern limes. The Porte is powerless, as all the telegraphs are under the control of the palace officials, who have incited the massacre throughout Anatolia.” A dispatch received from Rome says that advices which have remhed there from Constantinople announce that the agitation against the Christians of Northern Syria is extending ami that massacns hat v oci urn d near Aleppo. Famous Old Church. Famous old Christ Church, at I’iiiladelphia. has commenced the celebration of the 2OOth auniversarx of its foundation. At the opening of the services Rev. Dr. C. Ellis Stevens, the rector, an imuneeil that the women of Christ Church Hospital. England, had forwarded spsi which they desired to form a part of the endowment fund of the church. T’he sermon was delivered by Dr. \\ illiatn .1. Sc.ibury. professor of ecclesiastical polity in the General Theological Seminary of New York, and a great-grandson of Bishop Seabury, first bishop of Conneetieilt after the revolution. The celebrant of the eueharist was Rev. James Alan Montgomery. a lineal descendant of Dr. William White, the fr:eml of Washington and the first bishop of Pennsylvania. # BREVITIES. A report is current in Havana that the insurgent leader'. Gomez and Maceo. hav< be<n bought bx the Spanish Government. Fire at Meridian. Miss., destroyed the Meridian sash and blind factory and the 'itizeiis' compress and warehouse. Total loss. 52511.01H1. A rumor having gained currency that the title |O the Reddick placer on the edge of the city of Cripple Creek. Colo., had bi n invalidated by the Secndary of the Interior, all the ground lias been staked ofi' b\ jumper' who have erected tents or shacks to enable them to hold their ela ims. Sidney < 'larke. ( hairman of < Iklalioma s Statehood Exe«-utive Committee, has called a Statehood convention to meet tit i Shawnee on Dee. 4. IS9o. Ihe convention promises to be the largest and most I important Statehood meeting ever held I in the Territory. A strong delegation xvill I be sent to Washington from Oklahoma and the Chickasaw nation to push the claims for Statehood. Rabbi M. S. Stivitz is heading a movement to colonize several hundred poor Jews of Pittsburg. Pa. A land improvement company proposes to locate the colony mar California. Pa., on the Monongahela River. Some may take up farms and others will be given employment in a factory. A building has been erected, but the original intention to make it a cannery has been changed in favor of a manufactory of clothing. John Detwiler was 011 trial at Arion. Ohio, for stealing potatoes. David Jewett. a friend of Detwiler, objected to a ruling of Judge Kelley, called him a liar, ami was fined 525. Jewett then started 'or the .1 udge. The Judge d< cided promptly if Jewett felt that wax about it he would reduce the line to sl. Jewett sajjLhe wouldn't whip a Jutic" *or n . returm d to its potatoes. Two pleasant Wilmington. Del., strangers enticed farmer Peter O’Neil into a game of cards. The farmer had S2OO. They played for three hours when {he two pleasant strangers left in disgust as the farmer had won S6OO, and left them with SxiMi in his possession. When the farmer reached the bank he found the S.BOO was all counterfeit money. The two pleasant strangers had his s2oo. As Foreman Lennon, of Joliet. HL. started down the Hartz mine, three miles from E igle Pass, Texas, an explosion occurred in sijme unknown manner. It has been impossible for rescuers te enter Ilie mine on account of the gas, but it is supposed that Lennon is dead. Fortunately no miners were in the mine at the time. T he St. Louis Globe D< moi rat and Republic have reduced their prices from 5 cents lo 1 cent a copy. A son has been born to Prince Ferdinand. ruler of Bulgaria, and his wife, Princess Marie Louise. The Holmes ease at Philadelphia took another sensational turn. In open court the senior counsel for the defense. W illiam A. Shoemaker, xvas charged with manufacturing evidence in behalf of the allegisl murderer by bribing a woman xvho knexx - nothing of the case to swear iu his favor.

Children's Laureate. The death of Eugene Field is a los» to journalism and to literature. —New York Tribune. Mr. Field was a man of talent and unique character, and he will 'oe missed in the circle xvherc. he made himself eo distinct a place.—lndianapolis Journal. As it is, he xvas a man loved, and by whom the great public was led to seearight. More can be said of no one and of most others less. —Philadelphia Press. His satirical articles on the pretensions of literary and social life in his adopted city made Chicago alternately laugh and wince and delighted the rest of the country.—New Y’ork Herald. The death of Eugene Field removes, from the sphere of earthly activity one of the brightest newspaper men in the country and a poet and humor.'- of much promise. Minneapolis Tribune. His life was a short one. but l;e had lived every day of it and erowdeil into it much of happiness for himself and others. He xvill be misse-i longer than most men.—Rochester Democrat ami Chronicle. ' , He had a wonderful power in tom-hing the fountains of smiles and- tears, and his books, in which he published many exG’n.Mte verses on incidents in childhood. were full of xvit and pathos.—Boston Herald. He had an enormous capacity for work, and xvhih? most of his writings w as of ai» ephemeral character, he has left behind him many articles in prose and verse whiclf are a decided contribution to American literature.—Philadelphia Ledger. YY'onderful indeed was the versatility of this gentle writer, and those who are hopefully interested in the growth of a Western American literature will sincerely mourn the early death of one who has done so much to win for that liters- . ture at. honored place.—Minneapolis. Times. Notice to Great Britain. The United States xvill never consent that Englamhtshall be allowed to settleher rights to Yenezuelean territory in accordance with her own um'ontrolled “grab-and-hvld” policy.—New Y’ork Evening YY’orld. The United States is not. th-nfore^ making any departure from ■omm.m »liplomatic practice w hen it asset-, s the Monroe doctrine, ami no Europ. tn powercan afford to, take the ground that xvehave no businxss in South A.merica. — Buffalo Expri ss. If Great Britain is allowed i-> bulldoze ami terror:z ■ governments which are under the wing of this ountry and which xve are in a measure bound to protect, orat least see that they Lave j :st';<-e ill theirdealings with other powers, this country will lose a great deal of prestige.—Providence Telegram. To stand ph-dgexl before the world to« 1 maintain that doctrine ami suffer a British tory minister to kick it about as a foot-ball subjx ets us to the derision of thewhole xvorld. We must cither openly renounce the Monroe doctrine for ali time to come or enforce it in the Venezuela case. Des Moines News. When the' protest of the United States against European.aggression against the weakest republic on this continent is unheeded. we are the veriest poltroons if xve do not follow it up by deeds commensurate 1 with the dignity of the-leading republic of the earth. (Otherwise we shall become a scoff and a byword and unworthy of the respeeY of any people in the world.—Nebraska State Journal. Durrant’s L'oxm Is Just. The verdict of guilty in the Durrant case xvas a foregone conclusion. Any other outcome would have been universally regarded as an inexcusable miscarriage of justice. -Kansas City Journal. Durrant pronounced guilty ■ :» the first ballot. It has ^een a remarkable trial and a remarkable ease, but those xvho have read the reports of the trial will not question the justice of the verdict.— Rochesfer Democrat and Uhrouic'e. A special providence conM not have I more surely provided that the a of the | murderer 1 Durrant! should tii.d him out, I Infliction of the prescribed punishment will be a fitting close to one of the most sensational casts ever tried in this or any other country.—Detroit Free Press. There is hanging in Ualifornia. It is restful to feel that 1 aving been fairly convicted of murder in the first degree and subjected to the penalty provided by laxv, there will be no danger of Durrant’s being turned loose by “executive clemency” to prey upon the eouimuuity.— Milxvaukee Wisconsin. The Durrant ease xvill go into history as a cause eelebre. The crime was remarkable not only in its atrocity, hut in tb.e deftness which the perpetrator employed to hide his identity, and the conviction of Durrant must stand as a great triumph. Durrant offerxsl what can only be termed a strong deft■) 1 "m.a -ww-muteiuuces. The-man's demeanor Muring his long ordeal stamped him a most extraordinary murderer. —Detroit Tribune. ’ I - Gospel of Wealth. t John D. Rockefeller gives a million with the,ease and grace that a man ordinarily ! bestows a quarter.— Minneapolis Times. Mr. Rockefeller is certainly making a i record as a philanthropist, so far as theChicago University is wmeriied. —Cin- ’ cinnati Tribune. Mr. John D. RockefeHer continues to befriend tin institution xx hi-'h be has already endoxved on a munificent scale.— New Y’ork Tribune. Mr. John D. Roch' feller's rule of action appears to be.,wb.en in doubt give a million or two tof^the (Tucago i mvorsity. - Kansas Uity Journal Mr. John D. Rockefeller’s immense gifts to the ('hicago University entitle ‘ him to the gratitude of ali 1 riends of edu- । cation. New York Recorder. Rockefeller has given the Chicago Uui- ' versify-$4,600,(MH>, and will give it $3.Itioo.OOO more. Thus doc' great wealth become a menace to our free institutions. ( How long would this university be. and other universities be. in acquiring such munificent gifts, and the educational facilities they make possible, if rich men’s fortunes xvere divided up among ne’er-do-weils, to be frittered away in drinks and. cigars?— Portland Oregonian.