St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 24, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 January 1896 — Page 6

e The Independent. ‘l W. A. ENDLEY, I"ublisher, ! e e ee e . WALKERTON, - - « INDIANA. P————-—-ﬂ———-————————— RELIEF FOR ARMENIA 4 I & Ail e ———————————————. MONEY iS THE MOST PRESSING NECESSITY. Younisville and St. Lounis Express Trains Come Together with a Crash —Wichita Society Women Take o Ride in the “Hurry-Up"” Wagon, To Help Armenians. The national Armenian relief committee appeals to the people of the United States for immediate and generous contributiens to relieve the needs of 350,000 Armenians who are destitute. Justice Brewer, of the Supreme Court of the United States; is chairman of this comuittes, which includes Archbishop (.‘“rrig;m,! Chauncey M. Depew. John 8. Kennedy, | Alexander 1. Orr, Bishop Potter, Jacob Schiff, Everett P. Wheeler and Spencor Trask. The committee announces that the imnu\diﬂ“- necd is for money, which should be sent to the treasurers, Brown Ty ros. & Co., I'hiladelphia and Boston. the Ce, should bhe forwarded without previoas cammunicaiion with the cominittecs. Two Killed, Ninc Hurt, | THe Lonisville express, west-bound, and the St. Louis express, east-bound, on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern col- ' lided about 7 o'clock Monday night near | Sekitan, Ohio. Two unkunown men were ’ killed and nine injured, five of them fatal- | Iv. The trains met on a curve. 'he west I bound train was going fifty and the eastbound thirty miles an hour. After the engineers saw each other so great was the speed of the trains, they did not have time to whistle for breaks, 'The triains came together with territic foree, the engines rushing against each other and rearving up, end to end, forming an acute angle with their pilots toward the sky. Two empty express cars on the St. louis train crushed together and broke the | force of the shock., The express car. a'& contbination smoker and baggage ear, and twe coaches on this train piled up in [ & confused mass all badly shatterved., The five cars of the Louisville express \\«rc‘l heaped together beside the track. There were several doctors on the wrecked ! trains, and these, together with physi cians from Sekitan and Delhi, attended | the injured, who were taken into private | houses near by. ’ Innocent Pastime CGnt in Wichita, l Mrs. J. Sam Brown, wife of a national banker; Mrs. Hamlin, wife of a merchant; § end Miss Laura Blincoe, principal of one | (vs ﬂl(‘ 1)!!])““ ,\z'h(uﬁl\ bhantered cach other ‘ to take a ride in the “hurry” wagon {rom | the Union depot in Wichita, Kas., to | the city jail through the mam thorough- | fare of the city with a policeman. Mr. | Brown, the husband, not only consented, | but secured the wagon from the chief of g paices <Fhe thing was unkpown to the | public, and as the wagon dashed through , the street with Mrs. Brown, who is a society queen, it caused a great sensation. Five hundred people followed them to | the jail. i Great Fall of Rock at Niagara. g Sanday mbraing at 6 o'clock seven tons | of rock broke away from the ciiff oi the | Niagara gorge, near the Buttery elevator, ’ and fell with fall force upon the building ‘ used as a photograph gallery and wait I ing-room near the water's edge, 200 feet below. The building was smashed Ite splinters by the weighty mass and the tracks of the gorge trolley line were torn up for a short distance. Had the fall occurred later in the day there is little doubt but there would have been a loss of life, as the elevator is the present ter | minal point of the gorge road. | BREVITIES, i The St. Petersbung correspondent of tl Yienna Freie Presse telegraphs that Rus- | sia and I'rance have actually pron i diplomatic snpport to ¢ United Ntates in the Venezuelan trouble ud that R ' is prepared to facilitate the United States loan with her own gold reserve t The Missouri State University Glee and | Banjo Club was held at Atchison, Kan., | for a board bill. The club played to less ' than fifty people Thursday night, :::-‘I! could not leave for the next stand at Mi. Joseph at noon, as intended, because of the lack of funds to pay their hotel bills, The Baltimore, Md.. grand jury will be | asked to investigate the disaster at the ' Front Street Theater. 1t is learned that, | In addition te the mutilutions practiced | on the women who were killed in the anic in order to obtain their jewels, the i on office was robbed of the entire night’s = receipts. e : ‘ ;*;W‘ﬁﬁ'mhﬂ" Who cujeys thedis- :

" tinction of having suceessfully condneted a week of bull fighting at Cripple Creek, Colo., despite the opposition of the local authorkies and the Governor, had too much confidence in the marksmanship of & Hos Springs, Avk.. friend, whom he requested to shost a snowball from the top of his head. The ball of a 22-calibre re volver penetrated the scalp, making a complete circuit of his head and coming out behind. The Pittshurg towbhoat Harry Brown ran aground at Glasshouse RitHe, Brunnot’s Island, Monday morninz. The pilot attempied {o back into deeper water to release the fleet, when a heavy cable part&d, the ends striking Jonathan Wood and & deck hand known as “Whitev.,” The latter was instantly killed and \ﬂ"..,.\ WS ‘ seriously but not fataliy injurcd. '!‘\.\n‘» coal boats and one bavee, w-'nt::iu'\n: \'.'L»w 000 bushels of coal, are at the bottom of the river as a result of the accident and the channel is blockaded. fHhe sunken beats will be blown out with dynaudite by the Government. The loss will be very heavy. - The young Duchess of Marlboronugh is sgeriously ill in Rome with typhoid-fever. The fever was coutracted while she was in Spain. William Evergat shot and killed Arthur Jones, aged 15, near Bainbridge. Ohio. liverzat het Jones e could shoot his hat off his head without hurting him., Jones won ihe bet. S Mayor Oakley, of Fort Wayne, Ind.. ardered the Empire Variety Theater closed Justice Brewer. of the United Statcs Supreme Court, has been tendered and has accepted a place on the Yenezuelaw commission.

R ———— v cess 522 o7 PeprE———— e S . EASTERN. ==y - R. L. Higginson, of Boston, has begun suit for divorce against his wife, who eloped to Italy with James W. Smith. At Mamaroneck, N. Y., the home of Thomas I. Oakes, ex-president of the Northern Pacitie, at Orienta, was entoered by burglars and silverware valued at several thousand dollars was stolen. The silverware included many heirlooms that were highly valued. ~_The four-story iron front building at | Baltimore, Md., owned by the A. 8. Abell estate and occupied by the firm of Oehm & Co. as a clothing store, was destroyed by fire shortly after midnight Thursday. The adjoining buildings, also occupied by Ochm & Co., were badly damaged by water. The establishment is known as “Oehm's Acme Hall,” and is one of the largest in the c¢ity. A rough estimate places the loss on stock at $200,000 and on the buildings at £IOO,OOO, fully covered by insurance. The fire is supposed to have originated from the clectric light wires. WESTERN., | Otto Hilmer, of Chicago, committed !suicide at Atlanta heeause he had made a failure of a concession at the exposition, At Denver John H. lusted, worth $500,000, committed suicide through an insane fear that he as abont fortune and that i visfifed with poverty. 1e had uo taugible ""‘“\gm for the apprehension except that ~emrering from chronie illness that spondency. ' in Tutt, a colored Baptist minis. | ter residing at Clark, Meo., was |;|kv'|‘ from a train at Sturgeon, Mo., td given a severe beating for using insulting lan | guage to some white women on the train. ‘ He would no doabt have heen tarved s feathered but for the timely arrival of the police. He is now in jaii The body of Harrvy I'. Hayward, who l was executed at Minoeapolis for the mur- 1 der of Catherine Ging, was shipped to | Chicago for cremation at the Graceland | cemetery crematory. His relatives have | been in fear ever since the hanging that the body would be stolen from Lakewood and used for scientifie or exhibition purlm,\'t‘.\‘. i Three persons were shot and a whole train-load of passengers were thrown into a panic by the attempt of Special Detective David MeQuaid of the Monon Road to arrest John Weinhardt, an alleged lunatic, who, according to MeQuaid, started in to elear out the Monon exnress which left the PPoik strect depot at Chi cago Tuesduy night. None of the in jured will die, The IKansas City Times prints an in terview with Gevernor Morrill, of KKan sas, in which the Governor announces 'llir~ conclusion that the prohibition law of Kansas is a failure. IHe states farther that he does not advocate the open <aloon as it existed befor prohiihition was tried, but that he is now a couvert to the plan of Ntate regulation of the liquor traflic on ! thezeneraltlines of the Tillman disponsary t law now in foree tn South Caroling., ‘ The Porter Bros, Company, San Fran }('i«‘-n. Cal.. the larpest dealers in dried t fruits on the IPacific coust, announced i'l‘h.:r\'r'.:u‘ it &as unable to meet its pas ! ments and asked its creditors for furtl o1 L& Bl e San 0 e abla 3 “H!l". Fhe firm is It i o Sttt 1114 | amount of liabilities aund assets, bhnt o i the l‘\'lnpltll)-\ buciness durving the pres ent year amounted to SLAMX.OOO the amounts are probably large. Investments in fruit lands and warechouses ore sk to be the causes of the suspension, The most destructive fire that M | Leaasboro, 11, his ever known breke out | Thursday merning about 3 o’clock. The | three large geueral store budldings of Asher & Ledbetter, Jl. L. Reobinson and | T, G. Berridge & Co., with their con- | (t'lll\', Il?i‘} ”'l' l’v'.‘-i*f! nee of J Hu!n\!‘_'« T, ; were burned. The loss will exod .‘:? AN, 000. 'The large brick bailding occupied | by F. W. Robinson, druggist, and I'. 1. | Chapman, groceries and notions, was damaged to the extent of $3,000. The in surance is about $33,0000, i Four thousand pounds of dynamite, stored in a little frame shed bess than one thousand feet from the Chicago drainage | cannal at Ron ' CXI doed it 4 o clock | Friday mon and the ter ; cumsceribed by a c¢ivele forty miles 1 ¢ ametcr. Lvery syuipiom n powerind POWE T Gae. it tand in districts miles awa w i t Birara <ame near the suriace ol earth., houses were perceptibly jarred, dishes rattled, elocks stoppoed and the ongy pouring of startled people caused alarm in the neighborhoods. No one was hurt, but much damage was done to window glass in surroundiug towns, [ WASHINGTON. i PORSE ’ Coungressman Dingley of Maine intro duced in the House Thursday a bill degigned to increase revenues $40,000,000 per year, by a horizontal increase of 15 } per cent. upon the present tariff schedule 22k esrdibiingiofeel-and Inmber (o the |

dutiable list. D The House Thursday passed a taviff ; bill, the operation of wiich is lwmited to 1 two and a half years, and which is de- : signed to raise $40,000,000. The vote on the passage of the bill was much confused. aud no debate was permitted. The vote stood 227 to Kl, | An order issued by the Secretary o{,l War Thursday reminding army officers | . that it_is extremely impolitic to publicly | discuss the possibilities of war is construed by the friends of Major General Miles as a roundabont thrust at that officer. Geperal Miles has recently writ- l ten an article over his signature regard ing the possibility of war with England ax ‘ ‘ f result of the Venezuclan affair. & i Some excitement was caused in Wash- | { Ington by the discovery that the navy de- % |l»‘u}:imrn\ ‘llli'\.llv‘( ',..‘;. d to I‘.‘. contracts for | arge quantities ol projectiles for which ﬁ:')o;ll"l‘\i‘.‘,‘:;-‘;l'.lllAf‘:.‘,],tf,“, \.u en ‘l‘.-.:}'!‘«: by Con \ SjafaErne Lk COMMTACIN oo reon oXN | 000 have been awarded \.\'hhin”ll;w ‘];:\:l » | two days to the ( ‘arpenter Steel Company | and to the Wheeler-Sterling Steel Com- | | pany, and these will ne followed by others, l which ils expectex to bring the total ! | amount up to something like $600.000. | | The department bas observed some se- | | erecy about the matior, the contracts already let having veen awarded without the usual pubiic advertisement. ‘ FOREIGN, : The targe three-masted vessgel seen on Tuesduy fiving signals of distress in s | Kingstown Bay, Ireland, #arns out to be i | the Russian bark Palme, Captain lEriksen, ] e | from Liverpool, Dec. 18, for Mobile, Ala. i As cabled at the time, a lifechoat which | went to her assistance we copsized and

L e e her erew of sixecen men were drowned, and a second lifeboat which attempted to assist the Palme also capsized and returned to the shore \\M%ghfm&?dif_ ficulty. 'The crew of the Palme cut away her masts, and eventually all on board cighteen souls in allyawvere r ' : B % ‘resened by a passing - steamer, ; The re *"W people m'(-}udqd L?lxt' ('z‘l)':'l,ly_s \\““fﬁ%ﬂ}n‘m’ child. Jl.l(“(‘f‘lﬂb'(‘l' K“’N"ﬁllj&vsm of the warships captured from. Ching by the Japauese during the recent waw, v wrecked on the Peseadore Islands Saturday. Nearly all her deck otlicers and six1y men are missing. The British steamer Bellerophon has been in collision with and has sunk the I'rench steamer Lmile Nelsise at the en trance of the harbor at Algiers, Thirty passengers of the Idmile Selsise, inehinding twenty-five natives, were drowned. Oficinl confirination has been given to the London runtor that Osear Wilde was quictly removed fromn WormwoodSerubbs, the Government prison in which he has been confined since his eonvicetion, to the jail at Reading. The removal was ordered by Home Secretary Ridley as the result of representations from the phy =i cinns in attendance on the prisoners at Wormwood-Scirubbs, and is in the nature of an act of clemency. It is understood that Wilde will not he compeled to do ,:my labor in his new quarters, bat will be allowed an abundanee of veading matL tebdaaiiallg s (1o privilege of exercigifhis a cases in the jailydrd, when the wenther datitiat iler, 5 Nieving that the Cnited States S efer mined to tight, is now willing to :n'ln!l';xw; with Venezucolas and wishes to !1“‘11"0] diplomatic relations for that reason, '}’zmi ' Venezuelin Goverstmaont, while di‘l'h;d":" to speak officially regavding this ruwor, I admits that Venezoolu cannot now renew g negotintions ar réceivs any communicea ‘ tion excent threwgh the United States, | 5 s . i Plicre s great oxciteme it over a dispateh E eabled 1o the London Times, and every: | | one demands the expulsion of the Fimes | i correspondent, Charles AKors. The { American Minister said ih sn interview tthat such action woenld be bapradent at | {”"" muncture, and his counsel was g l Copted, The socioty Tor the defense of i Venezuelan terrvitore has eolected Clevef land and ¢ e honorar: pre sitlents ! % offers the Govermment SO 000 men roady i 10 war. ' IN GENERAL g S Willinm Waldorf Astur ix reported (o he engaged to Lady Randolph Churchi’l i A nest of counterteitors hns |t tlis P coverad making bogus nickely in the Ken 1 tue Ly penttentiary 'he Maniteba Goverument has replied | to the appeul of the Dominion Gove mient for @ compromise on the parochal | =chonl question, deslaving that W ‘55,11 le the matter ssell amd resist I_ It is now I 1.2% 1% X vk % | tory, whicl d trom luglee for Haves de Liraee i g “O R ddi| #Ro, With oig : 11 5 i ] Y from I? by 154 ] { PPort b | i | | _ &4 I The i o W { i ! Frank S ! thi iy, WAN Valined ot 84 HEd I Fames: BEdmand ooy o ' { T noaa., !3.;;;. lin* EFL AR i whose # w«y—i},-w:“'.g ~t“ e ¥ i have bheen considerabio, particulnriy 4 ;.‘, 0 :ax...:"'i\ i ) 1 ¢ 2 el Dy hig i sheians to v Among sportiag men (he g L rent that James 4, Corbet by dha quitting the prize ring 2t i% poad that ! 8 LAY sICHi s La sl L ! » ing nil that <} i e "N or the rine Ne wanld be 8 “mark™ o i v oclnss heavvweight, Ao o | { ' v ,'_..9\ !,‘ " i e .1;’1“» iy 5 . Ch ; \ 1 W\ W\ i : l _ , ! 1 k 3 \ { i fs ! t Wy wtmeyel “LARY BEXDRY SOMILS MARKET REPORTS. | ! ('h ago—A . Con i { i 18, i [R3.3) to SH.OO: g DhHit ! | $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, 250 | to R 345; wheiat, No. 9%ad, e to o | Corn. 80, 2 250 1o e oats, No. 2. lue | to 1&‘; frée Na O o3e to 34 ‘buit Jhoiee oren e PG i O pron Frolhy. ! ']. ”(‘ ‘.nr..t- ‘l.!‘.‘y' o %t s »—i .A ;‘l’ :

e {o Z2oer polaxtoes, por bushel, 20094 BO¢T DEGHIT TOTT, a0 T e m—— poor to choice. £ il Indianapolis - Cattle, shipping. 533?0_}},0 $4.50; hogs, _ylw_ig;; (l'?f'ht, 55.00 to s:‘-‘,_;': : sheep, commot 16" hifiee, F 2.00 (o $3.050: wheat, No. 2, 62¢ to Bic; corn.. I\n‘.’ 14 white, 26¢ to 27¢; cats, N0..2 white, 21¢ tg 290, s Al S An Lt St. Louis - Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00: hogs, | £3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 6Z¢:to } Gic: corn, No. 2 vellow, 220 to 200 n:a'ts. | . . . -e * Ry % i No. 2 white, 16e¢ to 17c; rye, No. 2, gle P | to J3¢. . l Cincinnaii—Cattle, §3.50 to $1.50: hogs, - £3.00 ta 82.75; sheep, 20U 10 Sopv: wheat, No. 2, Gle to-Gbe; corn, No. o mixed, 20¢ to 27¢; onts, No. 2 mixed, 20¢ to 21¢; rye, No. 2, 38¢ to 40c. } Dreticoit ('attle, g:-.10 so $3(,()7 llu;:.k‘, | F 3.00 to $3.75: sheep, $2.00 to $5.00; wheat, No: 2 red, Bl to Goe: corn, No. = : | yelow, 26Gce to 27 “OHTy. Ng 2 \\'hill", 20¢ ‘ “ to 2lcorye 3Go to 986 1 | Iv‘?'-'l_-l W heat, No. 2 red. Gle to (Ho: | corn, No. & yellow, 27¢ (o 296 ants No. | 2 white, 19¢ to 20 rye, No. 2 86Gots Q 0 \ clover seed, 5410 1o $4.20 ¢ Nraiul g pteaa()s : L ’_ ‘!.l\.'.\A|l\ ¢ ‘\\lz.\;,(' Na. 2 spring. hic | o Goc; corng No. &, 95 ta 0= | o i = 0. =t QRIS N 0 | Sy hite, ABe te. 308; haslev, Ko TR o 'f'__‘"'_ P¥E: NGO She to 3607 e e S 0 10 ST 050 S l‘l’m'i _ Buffalo- Cnltle SO 50 so Bas ‘vl ‘ R3.UO to $400; shipen @sk ooy i flear Iy S2OO to g 3 n); | wheat, No. 2 red, 68¢ o Tle: COry \'u.‘ 2 yellow. 32¢ 10 33¢s onte, Ny, © velite, 22¢ to 2de, g Sl ‘ New York—Cattle, $3.00 1, ¢= o=. Logs Qo UU i *1 o= . & Perose) ] ITOLS 'l o wee BGR $2.00 to $:3.50% wheat, No. 2 red, ¢7e Qo o T €d5648:10. 680: corn, No. 2 d3a¢ to oo pats No. 2 i . : | ’ S Mol O 1 Sdig butter, treaniery, 20¢ ¢, lOCT Ll X eat l ern, 20 to 22¢. BB |

e e e e e e e e e e- - IN THE HOUSE DINGLEY BILL GOES THROUGH WITH A RUSH. Mcasure Forced Through the Uouse‘ to Increase Revenue Ly a Horizontal Increase in the Tariff—Passed by \ a Vote of 203 to 81, | e E With Whip and Spur. ; The House Thursday responded to the i appeal of the President by passing a | tarifft bill, the operation of which isi limited to two and a half years apd which é is designed to raise $40,000,000 for the | relief of the treasury. The vote was on | party lines with two exceptions. The | Republicans all voted for the bill except | Hartman (Mont.), who did not vote, and | the Demoecrats and Populists against it | savoe Newlands (I'op, Nev)), who voted | in favor of the measure. The especial or- | der und® which the bill was brought to | a vote at O o'clock in the evening, after | - AR ) R 7 {_‘;’;"-\/-/ N by | AB3 q s e) . : R N \ ~\\‘§ ) vlB i N NN | s | S LA A e )\ 3 'lf" ‘(."r" ‘_‘ AT \ \t\‘\ }%“\ | L LR\ | I =7 R\ "R (O RN | | T R\ RIS LRN | 2 N Fhis Tl —;qw',v 4 .x-!‘i.\\'-.“ ”Y." PR :‘\,‘.‘;" { 6 1 A A S ! I ‘1'.‘,,5 W '%' i NN R ~&Au\ S i 6 t:‘,‘,\';, i ! AT ~{ wh i L" N\ | AR, : | TN m\ ‘ \ | N . '; " ! CONGRESSMAN DINGLEY, { = { three and a half hours of debate, was { fron-clad in its character and compelled i the members 1o sdopt or reject it without opportunity of offering amendments of { any kind | Although there was the brilliant setting | that usually accompanies a field day in the house. ihe debste lacked 3 Ll Ak gpirit aud vam wi 1 cenerally ¢) a ‘:i- hos Congress Even the prelim t ary skirmish over the adoption of the i rule, wi i ordinarily precipitates the i flercest wrangiing, passed off gquietly i't f gebate itseil o “ 1 nitod n v ' t Jjeddera on both &ides I'be R Vioane } ¢t tha Reui £ +3

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!_rmwury was revenne to supply the con- | tinued deficlency. Every speaker denied : :.h“! the propossd measnre was a Repub- ! Hean pratection bill, 1t was, they claim- | ' ed, an emergency revenue bill on proteci tive lines! The Democrats took the posi- | tion Yhat there was no lck of revenue in | the treasury, and that the passage of a , 3'“3 ln‘i:n h'.!sl'}.".fxgltiv:}' \\uE;M i howise | Lelp the sitnation nor furnish the relief desired by the President and Secretary | oMthe Treasury. Mr. Dingley and Mr. | Dalliver of the Republicans:and MrCrisp | and Mr. Turner of the Democrats carried | off the hovors. The Lill pasfsed repeals the present | tariff law until Aug. 1, 1868, Except for | g a few articles it is the antipodes of Col | | Mygrison's famous “horizontal” bill. 11is | i was a F:\,'.‘.‘_:g\‘ighr“.’" per eent. ad valorem i cut. !;.';s-u;a horizontal raise. The du | ties on o 11he articles in all the schednles ; excopt those covering woeol and woolens. s sugar, and wood and wooden manufa tures are advanced 15 per cent. This is ; subject to the condition that in no case must the duties exceed those collected pnder the McKinley law. BSuagar is left ﬂtil i, at 40 per cent ad valorem. Raw 4 wdol is required to pay a duty equivalent to 00 per cent. of that imposed by the M Kinley law. Most \\----f-':; mannfnctures are regquired to pay G 0 per cent. of the specific daties of the old law, but car pets will have to pay the specific duty of | the old law in addition to the ad yalorem | duty of the present one, Jwmported luin- | ber is taken off the free list and required | to pay €0 per cent. of the Mclinley du- 1 ties. Lumher and wool are the only free ”%utwieswﬁh are made dutiable. Therefore =alt and a number of agricul- 5 tural products are not affected by Thurs- | day's legislation. When the bill was put j upon its passage it was passed 205 to 81, | the vote being taken by yeas and nays. Q There was no demonstration of any kind | on the auncuncement of the votes | se s | £LIND CHAPLAIN CF CONGRESS. l Rev. H. N. Couden Lost His Sightin the Union's Service, The chaplain of the new (‘ongress, Rev. li. N. Couden, of Port Huron, Mich., lost his evesight in the service of his ! country. When the first call for volunl teers was made he enlisted in the Sixth Ohio Infantry, being then 18 years of age, | and when his term had expired re-culisted ] for three vears. IHe was with MeClellan in the West Virginia campaign and took part in the battle of Shiloh. In IPebruary; 1563, he was transferred to the Flirst Mississippi Marine Brigade. Near Austin, Miss., he reccived a charge of small | shot in his eyes, causing total blindness. | After honorable discharge, Mr. Coui dv.n, inding there was no hope of recov- / ering his eyesight, entered the blind i school at Celumbus, Ohio, taking a course of seven years. Afterwgrd he entered a ¢ theological seminary ut‘*(’:umm. Ny l After flling pastorates in that Stfate Ohio, and Massachusetts he moved ¥ Port Huron, Mich., fovr years ago. His lwurk there Las been highly successful, he erccting a handsome Universalist : ’L\u'ch. S Lo

A B ST B S R ARy e e e e e e e e = e o e CRIPPLE CREEK A CRIPFLER. . £ Its Present Gold Mining Beom Eaid to Be a Big Conspiracy. Cripple Creek, “01., has recently sprung into prominence as a great gold mining center. There are probably 200 mines, very few of which have produced ore in paying quantities. T'he great majority of the mines are nothing nore than green - goods speculations with holes in the lgrmmd, with nothing in the holes but paid-for press clippings. Mines hitherto - unheard of have been stocked and listed, l apd mines which have never justified any ‘lng!mr rating than they have had for | Years have suddenly been boomed to a l degree lh:}t reflects on the gullibility of itho A'mvru':m' public. ‘T'he carnings of | the mines which have been worked*have i }mt m:xu-_ri:llly increased, and the promi ises o.f sudden large di'\'m\-n.lx. are found |unl_v in the proecess of organization for months, and it has not been without its l newspaper connections. One New York { paper has boomed the c¢raze to the extent I of predicting the rise in values of this | mining stock, for tie obvious purpose of i induciig Eastern investments, The | i chance to swindle the public in the naine | { of the Cripple Creek mining field \\':\s‘ | foreseen by those havinug the true interesis | !of the region most at heart. In a brochure issued by reputable business men of Colorado Springs as long ago as last i April the following warning was given: { “Incalculable injury is intlicted upon I mining regions of proven merit by the ! floating of wildeat companies, and adver- | tising their lies on a magnificent seale. ; “The greater the merit of a district the i more widely this sort of thing is successl fully carried on. Generally it is wise to leave any mining schemes severely alone that is boomed in the large metropolitan dailies and other newspapers, “Cripple Creek affords many favorable { and attractive propositions for money making, but, up to date, not one of these is included among the number that have been given wide notoriety beyond the boundavies of Colorado. “There is a determination among our prominent mining men to have, as far as ¥ '\l‘l'u‘, ul:‘_\' the facts as 71;!}‘ cxist in regard to the camp spread abroad, and to nuncture all bogus or balloon projects sent Kiting, in an alluring fashion, to vietimize the creduleus., i “Tn a word, and in conclusion, do nat : purchase the shares of any company withI ant first investigating, {or there is nothing so good that it will not keep long enough for this to bhe done.” Many of the mines of the Cripple ("roek | eountry which are capitnlized at from i SHOO 0 (o 5J3.000000 have neyer 'l“'l 10 eents profit since the first spadeful of earth was turned up where they are located, and there 18 no reason to suppose they ever will., Ther r saving in Colvedo Y:’..Z “for every d lar in eEO 8 1 i ver taken out of the ground £1.30 or 32 {is put iato it. This does not wean,' of

oy g s et riosstnn aairers. W course, that there are no paying wines in that couniry--there dve many of theni—but it does wean that more money is spent i annually in mining operations than is : taken ;'.xn in ore throughout the State. ~ Ninety-nine out of every hundred mon | in the 1.:}«-\‘ W ln'» put money into Western ;f"m or silver wining projects have simply paid the eXpenses for dw\.{.,pin;: pros-pect-holes, which ultimately proved vali m~!u-s§. Fhoese «-u-zn';niuns are unchangel | at this time, excopt that the money of the : investors will not go to the development of a4 mine w hich may possibly turn out well, but will be diverted, instead, to the | pockets of unscrupulous stock manipulai tors, " l()nv of the best evidenees that this Crippie CUreek gold mining business is purely pfir > e 255 ISR O % 27 LI = . .7“‘ — ' £5 W 5/) ors ot %ﬁ‘ :’,‘ iuip 1 .1:;:;"!";'\ Lttty ﬂh AW) :4 ) 4,,"",: \ jﬁ.y i (\‘\‘ {'!'\'\’.- YR AN 1 8 "L "“‘\ ' o @\, .l'?\\-«"‘»‘\“g ] \ TS e o ie N - \‘ | -8 1 TN T S \ W HTE W SRR N | /‘4 g b R T { U A b \ VAT Vol U 2 _— \\‘..\. ,}‘ q ,\: \ e l \ | g J fJIM’ NMARSHALL. | [Cripyl: Creek’s Police Chief.] o e S e s ! speculation is the large number of “ex-i('h:mg(-s" in full blast in that region, ! wherein large dealings in stocks are daily made. Stocks are generally purchased by brokers for clients living at a distance and these clients for the most part :n'ei people who are so snxious to get rich quick that they invest their little savings | in these worthless stocks, upon simply newspaper say. There is a conspiracy to defraud and there are behind this eonapiracy some of the shrewdest and sharpest financial experts in this country, and it ] is an undoubted fact that already some . - - VoR . - ] millions of dollars have been taken from the people by them. Told in a ¥Yow Lines. John Russell Hind. the English astronomer, is dead. ; Rev. George W. Dawne. D D died { suddenly at Richmond, Vi I William G. and H. 5. Hopper, Philadelohia bankers, Lhave failed. ’ The Mexican press support President '("h-\'u!umi and deiend the Monroe doctrine. Cokers of Connellsville, P’a.. have received an advance of 10 per cent. in wages. Sneak .thieves carried off a jewelry show case containing $1,500 worth of goods at Cleveland.

e m-—*—h—' WANT TURKISH CAS 5l ‘ b CASH AMERICAN MISSIONARIES TO BE . INDEMNIFIED. Hcavy Damages for Burning of Missions - Horrid Crime sf a Keatucky Mob-—-Woman Is Barned Alive Venczuela Doesn't Lack Aid. Uncle Sam After an Indeminity, Secretary Qluey has directed Ministor Terrell, at Constantinonle, to demand sin indemnity of SIOO,OOO from Turkey for the benefit of American missicnaries who suffered loss of property in the Kharpuat outbreaks in November. Miuister Terrell has also been instructed to inform the Sultan’s Ministers that an additional indemnity will be demanded for the bene£t of Americans who suffered loss of property at Marash a few weeks later. This second demand will be formally made as scon as the exact losses, as sustained by Americans at Marash, ean be officially detrmined. It is not expected that the sum of the indemnity will Le less than SIOO,OOO, and it may be more. The Gorvernment does not expect that the Nultaa will respond quickly to these demands, and in that event, after a reasonable time for compliance is given, an ultimatum will Le fissued to the Turkish: Government.o s Great Britain is said to bLe groatly incensed over this demand. Mob Burns a Woman, Within two miles of Lebunon, RKy. early Sunday morning a relentiess mab burned a woman, who was to hécome a mother, and riddled her gray-laired paramour with builets, The blickened and disfigured corpses of the vietims, Murs, Thomas West and William Doveres, were found in the rvins of the womau's home by the H-year-old danghter of the nurdered man, The murders were amenz the most brutal ever enacted under the grewsoine sway of dread Juidge liyneh. Despite the pleadings for her father's ife of a half clad, frightened <hild and the prayers and tears of the ill and helpless womat, the mob went through with its wark in cohll-blooded, eruel delibereation and only left when eertain that both maa and woman were dead. The affair was the ontgrowth of the old story of faithless wife and vengeful husband., Deveres had himself killed the husbamd of the wWoman. All to Aid Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, dispatch: Al the Latin-American republies are said to be in a secret league and will aid Venezuola, it is expected, in case of a war against Fughind, Ceolombia has respended o Venernela's request, it is whispered, by promising to contribute SO,OOO {roops an dgreeing to give the British Minister his passports unless England consents 1o submit the Guiana question to arbifration, Brazil is to send 190,000 men, armed and equipped. Mexico is counted upon to aid with a fleet. By cailingsg out its militia Veneznela ean place 250000 e in the field. 'The Venezuelan For- { vign Office is active. It will send immedintely extra envoys to all waeis of the worid. ’ - New York's (‘-r::n‘v j~ 2 o By order of Gen, Hn“:u‘tf’ 1 s president o 0 TerNeREN Vaagie Mon - nment Association, all work upon the great mausoleam on Riverside drive has Leen suspended until the middle of March., This makes a hiteh in the plaus for dedicating the monument on April 21 { next, which is the anniversary of the i rreat commander’s birthday, and it is now improbable that the dediecation will take place until the anniversary in 1837, The usuail exercises, however, will be held ot Jthe tomb next April. Al the monays } ReCOSSAry for the v'ull;;v!riiw'l of the worlk ’lh” been subseribed, but it will be neeesSary to raise a new fund to previde for !n caretaker and keeping the memerial in ; repair. Wish a Carload of Hunery Cats. l IFor lack of a pied piper of Detroit | Swart Brethers, proprietors of the Hetel ’(';ul';ﬂ;g"_ Detroit, Mich., desire a car- | load of cats. 'l“'.l‘_\' desire them imimediately. At present the visible supply of rats in the house is in excess of all de- | mands. They don’t anvoy the guests so N mneh as they seem to anuoy eons another, The back part of the house, where the : suests do not sleep—nor the rats vither is filled by night with noises imbeadng that Radent Cellege and the University bof Mus are playing a serial intercoilegiate | foothall mateh., What is chiefly desired !:':n- cats with ¢ rat appetite, From 19 to {25 cents will be paid—the bigger the cat ,] and his appetite the larger the price. i Bond Bill Passes, g The louse Saturday passed the bond i hill by a vote of 170 to 136, The closing |‘g\ of the debate were hicking iu-fl'il and theve was practeadly no exP CIHTOHIONHT I‘w"’_'\ even vepabit 1S f:.::\ e I lists and leniocr Fwith the £ M if t ! 5-';‘ Texas., who veied for :‘Lu il pires }r-l an unbroken front sgainst tie hill, i NEWS NUGGEFS. wwucwmes ’ « i The sister ship of the new battleskip 'J{v:n's:n':v has been named by Secretary I Ilerbert for the State of Kentueky. ! Alfred N. Tr'pp hanged himself in his !'n::\.‘i: at Peughkeepsie, N. Y. Hve had it | just come into $300Q,000, Jeit Lhimn by his t father. Vineent 'Tripp. The last two months Tripp has been much depressed i:n:«l has said repeatedly there was no | longer any charm in life for Lim. His !wm«'hmzm found himn hanging by a piece | of clothesline from a rafter in the barn ‘ loft. l Two of the highwaymen whe held up ‘" street car Yednesday night at San Francisco and robbed Reuben Clarke of £I.OOO huave besn arvested. The discovery of a pouch containing S6OO, which wis buried in the sand near the ChLHff Housze, led to the eapture. The police left f the sack where it was found and then l!.’:y in wait with Winchesters. ’ Princess Frederick Leop :’- - hile { skating on the ice on the GinebndZsce, '.».:‘r' Berlin, had a narrow coscape ([iroion dvowning. The ice gave way and the Princess was itnmersed in the water until she was rescued with the qul of o ii;!;”.!\ by a passer-by. At I RBeno. O 4. the jury i1 tha case of Engene Hays, charged with Kill ing Constable James Doss last- Mared, has returned a verdict of _‘_ﬁii.;'_', f Llanshinghter in the first degrec. Cais is the first conviction in Canadian Ceunty for wurder,