St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 20, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 December 1895 — Page 2

3nlrepeniient. • A_. I*u I>l l^licr a WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA, HEGIRA OF SWEDES. fVIAMMOTH EXCURSION TO THEIR NATIVE LAND. i — fcncle Sam’s Liabilities—Astonishing Achievement on the New York Central — Indianapolis Has a Severe Scorching—lnterested in Camphor. Scandinavian Excursion. h A thousand Scandinavians equipped •With bundles, bales and boxes left ( hieago over the Nickel Plate Road Monday afternoon for their annual Christmas excursion to their native lands. lorty buses, piled high with luggage and packed full with excursionists, conveyed the party to the depot. A Swedish brass band was stationed in the depot. During the wait for the special train the band played patriotic Norwegian, Danish and (Swedish airs, while the entire crowd joined in the .choruses. A gang of pickpockets followed the excursionists to the station, but were captured by detect hes and hurried away before they secured any valuables. Halvar Christoffersen was the only one in the party who was left. lie. was weary with celebrating the event and sat on his tin trunk on the platform dreaming of birds and a midnight sun while the train rolled out of the station. j, Price of Camphor Is Advancing. The price of camphor has for some time been tending steadily upward. It is now aold by wholesale druggists at 64 cents st pound, and will probably go much higher, though wholesalers do not look for it to reach sl. Several things have combined to force up the price of this commodity. All the camphor for the trade comes from Japan and the Island of Formosa. The latter has lately come under the Mikado’s dominion, and there is a Forestry Commission in Japan which regulates the cutting of the camphor trees, from which the gum is obtained. The gum is extracted from the wood by cutting the trees into small pieces and boiling out the gum. It means the destruction of the trees, and the Government has limited the cutting. Stevenson & Co., Chicago vyholesale druggists, say ihe demand has been greatly increased lately by the manufacture of smokeless powder, of which it is a constituent. It is also used in the manufacture of celluloid. Another thing that tends to send prices skyward is the buying of all raw camphor iu sight by a London syndicate. Half Million Loss. ! Seven of the largest wholesale establishments in Indianapolis, Ind., were destroyed by the tire Tuesday. The loss is $500,000. Two firemen, Frank Sloan and Patrick Murphy, were caught by falling walls, and the last-named will probably die from his injuries. The firms burned out are Schnull & Co., wholesale grocers; Ward Bros., wholesale druggists; Fairbanks, Morse & Co., scales; Eekhouse Bros., wholesale liquors; Woodford & Pohlman, wholesale liquors; Mil- | debrand Hardware Company, wholesale ■ hardware; Indiana Coffee Company, i The seven buildings destroyed were most- i ly four stories high, and were tilled with goods. The estimated value of the ' buildings destroyed is $113,009. 'l'he es- | timated local vr.hie of stock* destroyed is ; $372,000. The insurance lempcim* will have to bear about S3soin‘<) of the j loss. r rhe Dus are distributed among , more than ■ computin' . Fastest Train in Cue World. The New York Central Kallio.’. 1 has demons;rated its rddlo;. to rm: up m its . road the fastest r 'ular train hi the ; world. Up to six months rg.i the ’.. tin ' known as the Empire State Express had ■ the world's record as a regm if train fir fast running. The London Railway <f i England, running from London t-’ Aber- 1 deen. began to r;:n a trifle faster than the Empire State’s n <erd oi’ fifty-one miles an hour. Monday the Central began a new schedule for this train which necessitates an hourly run of iifty-rhree and one-thinPmiles. two miles at hour faster than the English rival, t — : — — ' BREVITIES. A schooner plying between Rockport, Texas*and Mexico in the fruit trade is believed to have been lost with her crew. The two upper stories of the Hogan Printing Company’s extensive establishment, St. Louis, Mo., burned. Loss. $40,000; fully insured. Private Watchman Neuman is missing and eight men were considerably injured. At a negro cake walk in Roseborough place, near Texarkana, Ark., the negroes ate at their banquet supper a good portion of a hog that had been fed by its owner on strychnine and twelve have died and a half dozen others are in bed. 4 * The monthly treasury statement of the public debt shows that on Nov. 30,‘ 1895, the debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to $948,477,011. an increase for the month of $2,046,503. which is accounted for by the decrease of $2,511,G1L in the cash in the treasury. This amount, however, does not include $052,!)8«,6 • 3 in certificates and treasury ndl s which are offset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury. Not often does a Commonwealth furnish an instance of a portion of its territory performing the act of secession, but seventeen townships of Cass County. Minnesota, have sloughed off to swell the domain of Crow M ing, the neighboring county. As soon as the intent to secede was discovered the county officials of Cass County hastened to issue $1;>,009 of bonds, which have been sold to N. W. Harris & Co., Chicago. The bonds are dated Dec. 2, and the secessionists probably cannot now escape their share of ihe taxation. Thomas Tobin, who was a conductor on the Grand Trunk excursion train which was wrecked with great loss of life at Battle Creek. Mich., during the world’s fair, died at the asylum in Toledo, Ohio, Tobin was not in any way responsible for the accident, but his mind gave way gradually under Ilie intense mental strain. A part of the crew of the sponging schooner Shamrock arrived at Tampa. Fla., and reports that while at Saint Martins Reef a heavy northwester capsized the schooner. Six negroes who were below the hatches were drowned. ■ *

EASTERN. Rev. Julius Feicke, of Jersey City, has left the pulpit and opened a saloon. Worry over involved financial affairs caused James B. Skehan, a New York ■ broker, to commit suicide. ' General Charles H, T. Collis, an active anti-Platt Republican, was appointed commissioner of public works of New | York, vice William Brookfield, resigned. I By the breaking of an axle on a car ' of a cable train in the Cambria Iron Company’s mine at Johnstown, Pa., eleven miners were seriously injured and one fatally. Mrs. Delia Stewart Parnell, mother of the late Irish leader, is lying dangerously ill in Trinity Hospital, New York City. She has been failing sin< e the brutal assault was made upon her at Bordentown, N. J., last spring. Notice has been served upon the Central Trust Company of New York by counsel for a Connecticut bondholder of the Chicago gas companies to show cause before the attorney general of New York why suit should not be brought, against that institution to prevent the attempted consolidation of Chicago gas properties. Four persons were drowned in the Monongahela River below Brownsville, Pa., Saturday night. They were returning from Brownsville to Wood Run in a skiff. They got too close to the steamer James G. Blaine, which was coming upstream. and the waves upset the skiff, throwing them all into deep water. Nothing could be done to help them in the darkness. The men’s bodies have been recovered. An accident, resulting in the loss of thirteen or fourteen lives, occurred at the mines at Tilly Foster, near Carmel, N. Y„ Friday afternoon. Foreman Murtha was descending into the pit to take the time of two gangs of laborers, numbering thirty-five men, who were working at the bottom, when a vast weight of earth and rock slid with the force of an avalanche from the mouth of the pit to the bottom, a distance of 300 feet. The earth crashed over the men with tremendous force. Out of one gang of eleven men only five came out alve. and three of the men employed in another gang were taken out dead. WESTERN. William McGorron, of Chicago, private secretary to the State treasurer, was dangerously hurt in a foot-ball game at Decatur. Reports reached El Paso. Texac of a big Yaqui outbreak in Northeastern Sonora. A number of citizens, including Americans, are reported killed. Forty-six people killed; three hundred and thirty-six wounded. This is a part of the price in human life and limb the city of Chicago has paid in eighteen months for the privilege of rapid transit b.v the trolley system. Judge D. D. Rose, president of the Curryville, Mo., Bank, has been hi< coughing constantly for the last week, and although several doctors have attended him they can do nothing for him. His death is hourly expetced. A San Francisco local paper prints a letter from Arizona signed Jolin Doe, in which the writer .says hi mmilt< the murder for which Garland Slender ami Louis Murcno w< re lym-hed by a mob a! Yreka, ('al.. last August. Tuo uthi r men I were lynched at the same time. । The suit of negro residents of the Chn<> kee nation to establish their rights as ■ citizens has been compromr•-•!. flit setI tlement male < th ■ m ? os । -ti/em of 'he i | Cherokee nation and enti:s then $1 I 300,000 of the money received from the I • strip and their Interest in m. •”!■; 1a;,.;-;. Rev. A. lb nrich and his wife g- . .. . ei'- e; ' " ! >”• fr- m Lon.-Hile, xy., ;v. :al jiurs j be u m ii^d. The R< v. P-. I. M. W. \ I_■ .• . ' rabbi of the I'lr.m Stive; 1 । < I cinmiti, Ohio, is resp.,m-il.!e im- this i i statemev.t. 1! • In' -- l>< c:i <-ui. i r : r , almost forty two j ~rs. Nm lew •: i.. •: i It•,OS) Jewish weihi: _s Ivv,- ... .er: -.! • , the city during tin:, time: among ail tin sc only three divorce suit.- w. r ■ tiled. In all. : wives sued th” husbands. The history of crime in St. Lead M<> . ' last week was an unusual one, an avi-rag.' ' of one murder a day and several cab- ■ kings and shootings of ale- s <!an”- r.n: < nature being the rectsl. The lith^i \i. ' tint was Harry Porter lend, « ■.ad i of a wound inflicted by George C iw-> ford, also colored, who shot 1‘ >rter f.,r i, । fusing to buy a can of beer. On Thanksgiving Day morning the sexton of Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland. Ohio, discovered that the grave of Mrs. Mary' Malloy hail been robbed and the I body taken. He placed the rase iu the | hands of the police and Friday two de- 1 tectives found the body in the dissecting- I room of Wooster Medical College. They I arrested Henry Griffin, the janitor of the college, a button, apparently from his overcoat, having been found beside the grave, Peter McGeoch, one of Milwaukee's oldest and best-known citizens, shot and fatally injured himself at his home Wednesday at noon. Hit; wife had only a few days” before brought suit for divorce. incompatibility of temprr being flic ground stated in ihe complaint. It is supposed that brooding over this led MeGeoch to take his life. His connection with the famous lard deal several years ago made his name a familiar one all over the country. He was married eight years ago to a Mrs. Libby, of Kenwood, a suburb of Chicago. Near Cynthiana. Ky.. Orville Eals. i farmer, killed John Fields. Willi his wife Eals escaped and took refuge in a cabin. A posse was organized and located him Saturday night. Sunday i morning an attack was made upon the cabin. Eals resisted the attack by a fusillade of shots, which was returned. A man named McCombs, of Browningsville, was killed, and two others. Herbert and Wells, fatally shot. When the firing from within ceased the posse forc<'d an entrance and found the dead body of Eals and the murdered body of his wife, who had been butchered with a hatchet, probably before the arrival of the posse. Manager Eden, of the Great Northern Hotei, Chicago, and twenty-eight barbers were ordered committed to jail Friday evening by Justice Lee because they refused to satisfy the Court with proper bonds in the eases where they had been convicted of violating the Sunday law. Bonds were furnished by each defendant, to the amount of S3OO, but the foe of $1 in each case was refused on the ground Judge Windcs had ordered the Justice to collect no further fees until the ques-

tion of the writ of prohibition which had been asked for had been passed on. The i defendants also demurred to what they called extortionate fees, claiming Justice ( Lee had no authority to exact more than 35 cents in each case. Justice Lee declared if the fees were not paid he would commit them all to jail, and on their persisting in their refusal milimuses were” issued. Inquiry at the Northern Pacific steamship office at Tacoma, Wash, reveals thirt no tidings have been received front I{ij^ missing stea mer Strut hnevis,which cleared for Yokohama Oct. 12 and left Victoria Ihe next day. Second Officer Smith, the steamer Tacoma, says: "I have a4t given up hope that the St rat hnevis will yet turn up all right. It must have run short of coal and put in some port in Ilie Aleutian Islands. There is plenty of condensed milk and flour on board. If <‘apt. Pattie did put his vessel in there it cun be picked up all right by a British, man-of-war sent out from either Victoria or Yokohama, but if the Strathn-wts is disabled and drifts much south of ihe track followed by Oriental steamships and other sailing vessels the men are liable to die of starvation before being picked up. If the steamer finds a snug anchorage in the Aleutian Islands it j.x likely to lie there all winter, making Yokohama in the spring. With passowgers and crew the number of persons ofn board was about 150.” At noon Thursday the ears of Col. IJP J ert G. Ingersoll must have burned his heart must have palpitated. If 1 great agnostic were a believer in lueu^pl telegraphy he must certainly have received numerous messages from people whom he had never had the pleasure of meeting. At 12 o'clock 3.IMM) supplications went up from the Cleveland Christian Endeavorcrs to ihe throne of grace in behalf of the salvation of the soul of Col. Ingersoll. There was no general meeting of those interested in the Colonel's salvation, but the effort was an individual one on the part of the members of the Christian Endeavor societies of Cleveland. Al the meeting of ihe Salvation army a fervent prayer was offered for "Pagan Bob,” and ouch member of the great army decided to send the Colonel a personal appeal to see the error of his way and to embrace the faith of the Christian church. This action was taken amidst great enthusiasm, and it is likely that the mail of Col. Ingersoll will bo materially increased tar several thousand letters from his ii,Xv friends in the Forest City. The Christian Endeavor societies of Canada have been requested to unite upon a day iu prayer to God for the conversion of Col. I ngersoll. SOUTHERN. Ex Congressman Bland did not deliver his lecture at Savannah, Gm. only one ticket having been sold. John J. Overton, aged 9S, of Fort Smith. Ark., has been consoled of forging utfidavil.s in support of his application for a pension. 11. C. Babcock, pi sident of the Ch<r >- kee Mannfai turinc Company, was found in his office at Dalton, Ga., with a bullet wound through his heart. No cause is known for suicide, as his family relntimi.s were entirely Irippy. Ai N o’fbn k l Ju- IColnnsoh and < »zi: > ni grors. were taken ' ffoin lh< jr.il nt I 'jyetlev die. Tenn., by a ! ’•>!• lompoo ! of c->pl" :i<m Lincoln and Ma.-hall Couuties and banned. The , negroes had ben taker from V | to Ja-wisburg. Marshall Comiiy. triis! for ■ assanli. ci.nv ti toil, ami seutenei d to the full penally of the law. The vast yield <»f > r boots in Ne- | :atL'Gi ,• on. Ki He has > i-,.d letDvugh', ill ; Alban.. N. Y . X. v. York i , Citi; Baltimm •; Wim h -.ir, li L; ami ' ■ Pit: sbnrg. !c. AH the writers express j j gre. t sympatliy n.r him. His Httlv cot- ' tage was about to • • - Jd for taxes and i the morn i he r. • eived wa < pai l <>vei to ti e Sherif t-> k ■■ । a r ...f ai. ve hi- head. । A movement :s on toot, started l>y a I votnut lawyer <•> l.exim:' >n, to give him I a benefit nt th ■ opera house in tl - az | future. WASHINGTON. According to E. C. Benedict. Pr< sident i Cleveland would not accept a third uomij nation for the Presidency under any cir- : cumstanees. | The Director of the ?>iint reports SS7.- ' I 482,082 of gold deposited at the mints ! and assay offices during the last fiscal year, of which $22,320,022 consisted of redeposits. The value of the silver deposited during the same period was $15.714,365. all original deimsits except $479,665. The mints coined during the year $43,933,475 gold; $3,956,011 in silver dolf lars; $5,113,469 subsidiary silver coiusS $712,504 minor coins; total, 553.71 (iold bars to the value of $10.3 11.515 « A manufactured. Investigation Ibror.ghout the executive departments at Washington as to stam^ thefts has resulted iu an ending eveh worse than was first expected in the Treasury. Autograph fiends, too. have been at work among the files. The signatures of many great men. long since dead, especially Presidents of the I'nited States, affixed to papers in the land office, have been stolen. 'l'he papers have been in many instances rendered practically valuless by this mutilation, which is a very serious matter. ’l'he office of road inquiry of the Department of Agriculture has completed an interesting investigation relating to the common roads of the Tnited States. Returns have been received from about 1,200 counties, showing the avrage length of haul from farms to markets or shipping points to be twelve miles, the average weight of l>ad for two horses 2.002 pounds, the average cost per ton per mile 25 cents and $3 for the entire haul. Estimating the farm products at 219,524,227 tons in weight anil making estimates on other articles carried over the public roads, it is calculated that the aggregate expense of this transportation in the United States is $946,414,665 per annum. Reports have been asked from the I’nited States consuls abroad of the expense of hauling where the roads arch good, so as to render possible a calculation! which will show how much of this vast* outlay is due to bad roads. The estimate!

is ventured, however, upon information in the office concerning the loss of time in reaching markets, the enforced idleness and the wear and tear to the live stock and hauling machinery caused by poor roads, that two-thirds of the cost might be saved by an improvement of the roads. FOREIGN, It is reported that (’hili is about to .raise a loan of $30,000,600. Senor Cyrillo Machado has been appointed Portuguese minister to the I nit- ■ ed States. General Maceo, the Cuban insurgent leader, is reported to have been killed in battle. Count von Taafe, the Austrian statesman, died at Ellishau, Bohemia, Friday morning. The sugar and peanut crops of Zambesia have proved almost total failures because of the ravages of locusts. There is great distress among the natives. At Berlin Dr. Foerster has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for lez.e majesty in the publication of an article in his paper, the Ethische-Kultur. A formidable expedition against Hayti is being organized at Kingston, Jamaica, by Boissond Canal, it is reported on trustworthy authority. Canal is being assisted by a well-known Philadelphia firm. The expedition is to sail early in December. Jfhc plan is to scatter munitions of war at various points in the black republic during the coming elections. Honolulu advices say: The Hawaiian Government will make a strong effort to bring the annexation question before the next Congress. Another commission will be sent to Washington. It'is probable that President Dole, W. C. Wilder, president of the senate, and Cecil Brown will bo members of the commission. They expect to sail from Honolulu Dec. 9. IN GENERAL Edmund C. Steadman has declined an offer of the new Billings chair of English literature at Y’ale College because he is too old. Canadian students at a Toronto college tore down an American flag hoisted by the American students, and a pitched battle followed. Obituary—At Now Orleans, Solon Knight, of Kankakee. I!].. 63; at Milan Mo., Dr. J. E. Nelson; at Elkhart. Ind., Harrison Zeigler. 71. Jabez. S. Balfour, the Liberator Society swindler, has been sentenced to fourteen years' imprisonment. The two men convicted with him get nine and four mouths each. And now Joseph Jefferson is authority for the statement that President Cleveland will not accept a renomhiation. A.cording to tin' veteran a«for. Mr. Cleveland is planning to make a trip around the world after the close of his present term. In the foot ball games Thursday at Chicago, Ann Arbor defeated the IHiversity of Chicago by a score of 12 to It. The Boston and Chicago Athletic clubs played a tie game. I to 4. At Phihidel pliiii. Pennsylvania beat Cornell. 4G to 2. At Prtjvidenee. R. 1.. Brown University defealed Dartmouth 10 io I. At Washing, ton. Columbia Athletic won from Columbia University. I1 to 12. \t Louisville, Louisville \lhletic defeated Dcpanw University 12 to 10. At Lafayette. Ind.. 'lllinois Uaiv< :<ity lost to Perdue. G to 2. The retnrus |.> the department of in ternal affairs of tl steam railroads operating in Pennsi h siba -how that I Wi .In.-e P- 5. ofth-' ■k.!• d tin ntvnmc v< g | ■ • ; ' '7 • np! .• -. a: d R. G. D . U V. R. iew . f j •ptiu lb - >•: ;: pci- • v id. h a ter th” i xtra- i-Haari I i.i n ■ f the .-'im-im-r and ear y !: !! a ma ! <b rca • w; ; I inevitable. • t it ; ■ let ; o early in j most bram hes of on ine— to judge imw far the future va- avi: 'p led in ptir- . bases. R. st..eU ai” -till r qs.r'.-d full in nearly ml ic: m h. -. with delayed distribtr.ion in many on aecount of»unfavorable weather. The movement of crops is only fair, b ah cotton and wheat being largely kept ba. k in th” hope of higher prieami there is a prcval nt feeling th:i rAoj-fjen imports will fall off.'' MARKET REPORTS. Chicago- Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to S3.h'l: hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 t>> $3.75; slu-ep. '.air to .Yob e. $2.50 : to $3.7.5; wheat. No. 2 roil, .56.- to 57c; corn. No. 2. 26c to 27c: oats. No. 2. 17c t > INc: rye. No. 2. 37c to 3Sc: butter, choi e . r. amer.v. 22c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 19c to 21c; potatoes, per bushel, 2<>e to 30c; broom n»ni, < ommon groivth to choice green hurl. 2” to b pt r pound. Tmlianapolis Cattle. ,sliipping, S3.ini to $5.0(1; hogs, choi.-e light. $3.00 to s4.OOsheep, common to prime. $2.00 to s3.3t‘; wheat. No. 2. 62c to 64c; corn. No. 1 white, 27c to 28c; oats, No. - white, 21c to 22c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $.5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $3.75; wheat-. No. 2 red. 62c to 64c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 2 Ie to 25c; oats. No. 2 white, 17c to ISv; rye, No. 2,32 c to 34c. Cincinnati —Cattle. $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2. 66c to 6Se; corn, No. 2 mixed, 3Oc to 32c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 21c to 23c; rye. No. 2,41 cto 43e. i Detroit Cattle. $2.50 to $.5,2.5; hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. S2.<MI to $3.7.5; wheat, No. 2 rod, 64c to 66e: corn, No. 2 yellow, 2Se to 30e; oats, No. 2 white, 2.1 c to 22c; rye. 37e to 39c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 red. G4c to 65e; corn. No. 2 yellow. 2Sc to 29c: oats. No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; rye. No. 2,38 cto 40c; clover seed. $4.40 to $4.45. Buffalo- Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; bogs. $3.00 to $1.00; sheep. $2..50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red. GSc to 79,-; corn. No. 2 yellow, 35c to 36c; oals, No. 2 white. 22e to 24c. * Milwaukee- Wheat. No. 2 spring. .5Se to 59c; corn. No. 3. 27c to 2Sc; oats. No. 2 white, 19c to 20c: barley. No. 2. 34c to 36c; rye. No. 1,37 cto 38c; pork, mess. $7.75 to $.8.25. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00: hogs. $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; > wheat. No. 2 red. 6ie to 6Sc; corn, No. 2. I 3»«c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white. 22c to 24c; | bu‘ter, creamery, 16c to 24c; eggs, WestIl eru, 21c to 24c,

BUNCOED THE BANKS. thieves find in st. louis a " SOFT SNAP,” Betrayed to His Death by a Jealous NVoman—Congress in Session—Government’s Financial Needs —Rich Gold Field in New Region® Banks Are Badly Victimized. A dozen St. Louis. Mo., merchants and five or six banks have been victimized for hundreds of dollars by mail box robbers. The Fourth National Ba^k is out of pocket $640: the German-American is out $325; the Internationa! was swindled out of $195, and several other banks are known to have been worked for like sums. 'lhe method is to extract letters from the mail boxes and open them, and if they are lound to contain ihecks the checks arc raised, indorsements forged, and the checks are presented for payment. So far as known none of the boxes have been broken open, 'l'he letters are either extracted with a wire or the locks have been picked. Every stolen check has thus f <>r been promptly paid. Cost of One Year’s Rule. 'l'he Secretary of the Treasury tran*tnitteil to Congress the estimates of upproprlatloiiH re<mirc<l for tbe fiscal year ending June 30, 1897, as furnished by the several executive departments, which aggregate $418,091,073. The appropriations for the present fiscal year amounted to $412,753,264. The estimates for the fiscal year. 1897. are recapitulated by titles as follows, cents omitted: Legislative establishment.. $3,880,581 Executive establishment.... 20.103,242 Judicial establishment 923.920 Foreign intercourse 1.649,05 S Military establishment 24.526.968 Naval establishment 27.583,675 Indian affairs 8,750,45.8 Pensions 141.384,570 Public works 28.574.028 Postal service 5.024.779 M iseella muus 36.635,631 Permanent annual appropriations 119.054,1<>0 Grand total $418,091,073 Ends Life to Escape Arrest. Charles Willier. bookkeeper of the Cincinnati Abattoir Company, suicided to prevent arrest for embezzling several thousand dolkirs from his employers. He absconded with s2.Otto from the safe six weeks ago and eloped to Chicago, leaving his wife and five children. Becoming reconciled with his family, he had quietly come home to take them with him to Chicago. The woman with whom he had eloped in a t of jealousy gave the tip to the officers. When the officers surrottnded his house at Camp Washington he escaped to the garret and shot hintself through the heart as they pursued him. Solons Again Busy. Congress is again in session. Promptly at n<«m Monday the Senate and House were called to order in their respective chambers amid the usual scenes of animation ami excitement. 'Die greatest interest. of course,*.<entered in the House, when- so many old and familiar members are roplaci d !>y new men. and in the I orc:’ nizat nni nt t lie popular bram.li. Nir. ! Rei 1 was cle< led Speaker. That was a > foregone eom i ; J.m, He received 231 ’ ‘ votes of the total of 33f>. Mr. Crisp had 9.5 v<dcs, Ie 11 6 and < ’ulberson 1. , Horse’s Keeper Liable for Kicks. The general term of the New York : Court of Conii’ton Ph as s u tained Jin. - Kate Lawler’s wn!! i of s2,7>t’4 against । ‘ Mnrmger T. Henry Urcm ii. 'l’he plain- I ! tilt’s husband was employed by French at i the Americau ।h< ■ rnsa it. :e hand, . ' < Iby ti hor cu id in the pi. tv “The Prodigal . I i'„: -iaer.” >5, : , Ibu <;7. ;s v. hich lie j I cied. The C art finds “That, in action i ! for injury by a vicious auinml the keep- j 't .• :iu ~ . uH is i l, ■ r.-'i onsiblc ; ::rty.” NEWS NUGGETS. | A Cripple (T'-k miner was caught with | nine ptmnds ore worth $lO a pound in i bls pockets. The owners of the mine bei lieve they have lost $25.9111) by this sort ' of stealing during the last few weeks. I A new com:'. rfeit $2 silver certificate j has been discovered. It is of the series ; of 1891. cheek loiter C. plate iimnber 41. ; J. Fount Tillman, Register, D. N. Morgan, Treasurer, portrait of Windom, ! small scalloped seal. note is much smaller in every way Ihan the genuine. It has just lenked out there was a daring, yet mysterious, robbery at the Chicago, Burlington and Qnhicy Depot at Albia, lowa, recently, and the zvdams Express Company is loser to ibe amount of S2J)iH» cash. The package went over the Des M ones branch and was consigned to the Last. Walter McCreary, n hermit, known as “Old Walt,” was found dead in bed in his little home, three miles southwest of Granville, Ohio. In the fit's McCreary was prominent in Democratic politics, but for forty years has been a recluse. Disappointment iu love caused his retirement from the world, and he never married. He was 85 years old. Miners who are familiar with all that is being done in Ihe development of the vast gold fieds of Colorado predict that the mining sensation of 1896 will center in Summit County. It is estimated that that county has yielded in the past $50,600,000 in gold, and not 1 per cent.of the placer grounds have been worked over. Syndicates have secured thousands of acres of rich placer grounds in the neighborhood of Breckenridge and next spring exploration will be begun on a gigantic scale. Snmlay afternoon a cold wave struck Sr. Joseph. Mo., with a stnuig northwest wind, 'l'he wind increased during the night, and Monday morning at 7 o'clock the thermometer registered 4 degrees below zero a temperature unusual for this time of year. No snow fell, and unprotected stock suffered from the cutting north wind. Julian Hawthorne has won the Sli).<mui first prize in the New York Herald's prize story contest. A Jeffersonville woman found a diamond the size of a pea in the craw of a turkey she was dressing for dinner. Senator David B. Hills lecture tour in the Northwest has proved a failure, ami all engagements have been canceled. Joshua S. Helmer, president of the wrecked Merchants' Bank of Lockport, N. Y.. has been convicted of willfully de- ' ceiling the bank examiner.

YELLS AND GOALS. BIG THANKSGIVING DAY FOOTBALL GAMES. Michigan Beats - Chicago in the Annual Battle—Chicago Athletics Play a Tie with Boston Athletics—Big Attendance at All the Games. Results of Battles.

• OOT-BALL games are over, the season Iv 1! having ended with l Fj/ the contests o f I y’tf Thanksgiving day. A JF' 1 ' It has been by far I the greatest year Tj 11 the college game has. jit known in the West. J || University of MichXyj , igan went East and A lost to Harvard by the narrowest of margins. Then the wolverines returned

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West and found teams that worried them almost as much as had the crimson. This only goes to show that the East and West are coining quickly to a level in foot-I all matters. As a result of her decisive defeat of Chicago, says a Chicago correspondent, Michigan can, with much jnMiw, <i m tne of the West. She has not played tho strong teams west of the Mississippi — Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas—but there is r.ot good reason for believing that she does not excel them, improved as they are along with the other teams of the West. Purdue’s defeat of Illinois after the latter's decisive victory over Northwestern and the close score between theIndiana men and Ann Arbor—l 2 to 10— places Purdue high in the Western plane. The scores at the close of Thursday’s games stood as follows: University of Michigan, 12; University of Chicago, 0. Chicago Athletic Association, 4; Boston Athletic Association, 4. * Purdue. 6; University of Illinois. 2. University of Pennsylvania, 46; Cornel), 2. University of Nebraska, 6; lowa University, 0. Missouri University, 10; Kansas L’nlversity, 6. Brown University. 10; Dartmouth. 4. Stanford, G; University of California, 6® OF INTEREST TO FARMERS. Reports on Winter Wheat, Hessian Fly, and Hog. Cholera. Reports have been received from the correspondents of the Farmers’ e ßeview in twelve States relative to the condition of winter 'wheat, ravages of the Hessian lly, and the prevalence of hog cholera. Winter Wheat. —In Illinois some of the late-sown wheat is not yet up. Dry weather interfered with both the sowing and development of the seed. Some of the early-sown that has come up is weak and small in size. Although the condition I is at present hardly fair, yet there is a probability that gr. t improvement will take place. Iu Indiana the present condition is not good, drought having been the great retarding factor. In Ohio drought has had very harmful effect, j Some of the correspondents report the ] seed rotted in the ground. In other cases !it lias made small growth. Late rains have done some good. Early sown wheat is doing well in localities. In Michigan it is in I :d condition, in some localities the worst for many years. Kentucky reports very poor outlook, the drouth hav- ' ing hurt the i-r- p everywhere. The same ’ causes have oi” ’ated to the detriment of i the ,-rop in Miss«.t:ri. Kansas reports i indicate that the late rains have done soni;- ;.o>sd. but the effects of the dry fall are such that the general condition is . poor. In Nebraska little has been sown, 1 am! the cut! »‘>x is poor to izir. The little sown in lowa i ■ in fair condition. In । AV:-eons:n the condition is \ ry poor, j Hessian Fly.—ln Illinois, Ib-ssian fly lis renorted in only a few counties. Very little injury from this s- urce is" heard of in Indiana,. In Ohio a little is reported in the early s wn wheat, but little harm has been done. In a fev^oca2ities in Michigan the fly is working, but most of the eounti s are free. Almost no damage is reported from Kentucky. The fly is prest A here and there in Missouri, but seems to be of no particular consequence. Kansas reports small ravages of this insect, and the same is generally, true of lowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin. Hog Cholera.—ln Illinois the ravages of hog cholera are causing immense loss to the farmers. In some of the enmities half of the hogs have died, and the disease continues. . In a large number of localities it is the worst for several years. The: h? Ws California strawberries are in the local market, but they are not inrour midst. Ah, that man Campos is*-a fighter! Spain has just sent him 30,000 more men. The Indianapo!(s Sentinel, says that “the big theater hat Is going out.” Don’t give it a return pass cheek. Philadelphia reported, a slight earthquake shock recently. IJrobtviily the same one we had several weeks ago.’ 5 Something is the matter with Nellie Bly. We don’t know what it is; but ska hasn’t broken out in print for nearly a week. ■-« A Washington paper announces that that town is now overrun with tramp*. The new crop of Congressmen evidently is beginning to arrive. Two New York thieves hare been arrested for stealing a copper voof off a lofty building. Some of these days those fellows will steal a well, cut it up and sell it for post hides. A Kentucky father took his gun to a train Iho other day ami intercepted his eloping daughter, it begins to look as if Cupid would better swap his bow and arrows lor a revolver. During a political 'lobate the other day, Kentucky’s Secretary of State indulged in some cutting remarks andtnade a tew incisive arguments with a dirk 'knife. They think the other fellow will live. In a lecture before a Now -York audience the other night Lieutenant Peary frankly a knitted that he failed to dis* cover the pole. So it will be unneees* ! airy to Uirow him down and s<»areh hinx